What can I say?

     Word came down this afternoon that the reapportionment commission met to rehash and redo the state house and senate maps because the previously submitted maps were unacceptable to the Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court had told the commission that because they had split several counties and cities, even though the constitutional criteria stresses that such splits are to be held at a minimum, they needed to redo the maps.  So, what did they do?  The Dems waited until 10 pm Sun. to submit completely new maps that are so obviously and vindictively gerrymandered, it's unbelievable, and that should have been submitted by Wednesday.  Then - with the help of  the "unaffiliated" chair, Mario Carrera, ramrodded these maps through, 6-5, on a party-line vote..  The chair, who is supposed to be "unaffiliated" has given approximately $9,000 to the Dems this past year - really unaffiliated, isn't he?  The constitutional criteria of communities of interest was totally ignored, especially for Delta County.  It had been split since the last census between Districts 54, represented by Ray Scott, and 58, represented - more or less - by Don Coram.  It didn't make a bit of difference that Paonia and the east end of Delta County have absolutely nothing in common with Aspen - there is no community of interest.  The new district that encompasses the eastern part of the county also takes in half of Gunnison County, all of Pitkin County (Aspen), Lake County and goes clear up to just a little ways south of Boulder!   It was as if the fact that McClure Pass is a physical, economic, demographic and psychological barrier between eastern Delta County and Pitkin and Gunnison Counties didn't even register!  I'd like to see Carrera and some of the Dems try coming over McClure in a snowstorm, just to bond the two communities together!  I can tell them how much fun it is to slip and slide around!  I hope the court rejects the map straight out and insists on seeing a Republican map, since the straight-line party vote also voted not to allow a minority report to go to the court.  I think the court can overrule them on this and I sure hope they do.  I'd even travel to Denver to testify again if I thought it would do any good!  The final decision by the court is to be made December 6, so guess we'll see what happens!
     One note of good news - Barney Frank is retiring from the House of Representatives.  Actually, he's just not going to try for a 17th term.  He's going to be sooooooo sorely missed - my fat foot!  He said he was fairly certain he could win another term, but that it would be harder than in the past as his district had been gerrymandered against him.  Poor baby.  How's it feel to have the playing field leveled, Mr. Frank?  He also made the comment that so much of what he had worked for would be dismantled by a Republican Congress in the future.  We can only hope!  He has done so much to destroy this economy that turning it around may be - and likely will be - extremely difficult to do. 
     Watching Glenn Beck this afternoon was a little scarey.  Mr. Beck is very frightened as to what is coming down the pike, and I have to agree with his assessment, at least to a degree!  Like he said, the violence that took place last Friday, the so-called "Black Friday", over material things, like electronics and toys - what is going to happen when people want and need food and the shelves are bare, or nearly so?  One of Mr. Beck's recommendations - besides food storage - is to be in a community of like people, church, town, etc.  We are fortunate that here in Delta and in the county, we are a fairly close-knit community, especially among the conservatives.  The libs in Paonia are a different group altogether, but most of the county are conservative, many are natives, and have been raised with a code that you help your neighbor.  After living back east for more than 20 years, I'm glad to be back out here in western Colorado.  It's not the dog-eat-dog world that it is back east.
     One last note - saw a post on Facebook tonight that some guy from Denver who was on the lam in connection with a guy's death is suing the Topeka family he had held hostage while running from the cops!  He said they had agreed to hide him in return for money - well, duh, if you were in fear for your life cuz some idiot had invaded your home while running from the cops, you'd probably agree to some idiotic thing like that, too!  The man certainly played in the short end of the gene pool, didn't he?  If the judge lets the lawsuit move forward, he ought to pay for all expenses and any sums awarded!
     Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving - we are blessed, as of right now, to be living in such a wonderful country.  Here's hoping and praying that we are strong enough to take it back and make it back into the shining city on the hill that it once was!
                                                                                                  The Patriot Granny

Shariah law and the US

     I've been thinking a lot about how Shariah law is slowly creeping into American culture and it is something that troubles me greatly.  A couple of years ago, you didn't hear much about it, certainly not in this part of the world.  However, when I saw a couple of (obviously) Muslim women in Sam's, dressed in full burkas with only their eyes uncovered, about that time, I wanted to go up to them, even then, rip off at least their veils and tell them, "This is America, you don't have to live this way."  The more I hear about Shariah law and its brutal treatment of women, I almost wish I had - except they would have had to pay for my behavior.

     Last Saturday evening, Roy and I had the privilege of hearing Nonie Darwish, a woman born in Cairo and raised in Gaza, whose father was killed in a jihad.  She talked about having been raised with the teaching that killing a Jew was the ultimate prize, but she has since converted to Christianity and talked about how Mohammed's God is a god of war and death, but the God of Christianity is a god of love and peace.  It was interesting to hear how Mohammed turned on the Jews after they took him in and gave him protection, but wouldn't convert to Islam, so now they are the sworn enemies of the Muslims.  He recognized that everything he was doing to the Jews and all of the sinful thing he did - pedophilia, the hatred of the Jews, etc., was wrong, so these things immediately were included as things that Allah said the Muslims should do!  Because she speaks out across the country - she was just recently on Glenn Beck - Ms. Darwish has a fatwa against her - literally, a death threat.  

     Here in the United States, the Muslims are trying their best to institute Shariah law.  There are currently 22 cases, I believe it is, where the courts have given deference to Shariah law, altho at least one has been overruled by the appellate court.  This was the case where the man had raped and abused his wife repeatedly, she had asked for a restraining order (if my memory serves me right), but the judge refused, saying the man was doing nothing wrong within the context of Sharia law.  Tennessee has become a lightening rod for some of these cases as there is a large mosque and a Muslim school in, I think, Memphis.  This afternoon, Glenn Beck had a lady on,  a Baroness Caroline Cox, from the UK who has been fighting for women's rights all over the world.  She has been in the Sudan, in Asia, Russia - I don't remember where all - to fight for these rights - as well as human rights as a whole.  She was talking about the mosque in Tennessee and said that she felt one reason Tennessee has been targeted by the Muslims is because it sits in the middle of the Bible Belt.  This would follow the Muslims' practice of whenever a country or city has been conquered, a mosque has been built on top of the largest church in the area.  Many say that the reason the mosque at Ground Zero is being pushed is because that was the financial center of the US and since Shariah law is also the financial law for the Muslims, it makes sense.

     Ms. Cox currently has a bill before the English Parliament which will right a lot of the evils of Shariah law in England, which has a large Muslim population.  She freely admitted she could be killed for what she is doing, but she is willing to die for it because she believes in its importance.  The upshot of Ms. Cox's visit with Glenn was that we must stand up and fight against Shariah law now, or our grandchildren are going to have a much harder fight.  This is not to say all Muslims are bad.  There are peaceful Muslims who came to the US to get away from Shariah law.  And they are welcome to come, but they should assimilate into our law.  I wrote a couple, three weeks ago about how the state of Michigan, I believe it was, recently passed a law that no foreign law could be applied in that state, which would preclude Shariah law from being used.  Several other states are contemplating it, Oklahoma has passed it, but there, a liberal judge, thinking she had the right to legislate from the bench, blocked it from becoming law.  We must fight against this and if it means recalling or impeaching judges, so be it.  Our very way of life is very much in danger from this aspect, also.

        Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We need to celebrate and hold these traditions dear while we still can. 

                                                                                                The Patriot Granny

    

This and That

     Didn't realize it has been nearly a month since I last posted.  "Time flies when you're having fun" - or so the saying goes.  What with canning and life in general, it can get away from you quickly.
     First off - a big congratulations to Ms. Kathy (Svenson) who won a seat on the school board.  Hopefully, now we can begin to have some imput and affect on what our children are learning!  Best of luck to you, Kathy!

     Listened to Sean Hannity yesterday while Michele Bachmann was on and was very happy to hear her mention Agenda 21 and what the creeps behind it are trying to do to the United States.  She is adamantly opposed and said she will fight it tooth and toenail.  In addition, Sean asked her to explain just what it was, which, I hope, educated a few people about it.  I recently talked with a manager of one of the coal mines in the east end of the valley and he had never heard of it.  When I explained a little about it, he said he would do whatever he could to set up a meeting with other managers and mine officials to watch a presentation put on by one of our group.

     For those of you not familiar with it, Agenda 21 was originally written up by the vice-president of the World Socialist Party - define that as communist - to ultimately set up a one-world government.  George H. W. Bush (Sr.), signed on to it in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, bringing it into the US, but since it was not a treaty, Congress did not have to ratify it.  The next year, Bill Clinton signed an executive order for the President's Council on Sustainable Development further putting it into place.  Since then, under the guise of environmentalism, it has been spreading across the US.  Those pushing it set a goal of 2021 to have it fully implemented, hence the name of Agenda 21, and one world government in place.  The scary part is, they have succeeded in about 60% implementation in the US.  That's why the BLM and the Forest Service are pushing for roadless areas and wilderness areas.  If you Google Agenda 21, there is a map and it will show that except for a few small places, everything west of the Mississippi is virtually uninhabited.  There will be no mining, no farming, no personal property rights.  We will live in "stack 'em and pack 'ems" - high rise apartments, public transportation (no private cars) - much of what you saw in old Soviet Russia.  This is something we all need to be much more educated on, so study, read about it - there is a book called Behind The Green Mask, written by a liberal Democrat in California, Rosa Koire, who does eminent domain valuation for the state of California.  While doing this, she became aware of Agenda 21 and what is being done and it scared her to the point she has done extensive research and has done a video that lasts about 1½ hours, plus this book.  Here is the link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEHWsdimVO4&feature=player_embedded. When you go to that link, you will also find numerous other Youtube films on this, including a three-part interview of Ms. Koire.  If you also Google Tom DeWeese, you will find out a lot more information as he was a participant in the '92 Rio meeting.  Check it out, get educated and help us fight it!

     Another quick note - a website called Godfather Politics, has a couple of articles about the Tea Parties and Ayn Rand.  Jim Wallis, Obummer's "spiritual advisor" has said that the Tea Party looks up to Ms. Rand's philosophy and follows it religiously.  Sorry, Rev. Wallis, tain't so!  I did think these articles were interesting considering we're going to be watching the first third of Atlas Shrugged this next week.  Check out the website and see what you think!

     That's it for this time - will try to keep at this a lot more often, especially with things heating up as far as elections are concerned.  We will begin vetting candidates on all levels, so join us at our meetings in Delta on the first and third Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. at the Deitch Haus, or in Paonia on the second and fourth Tuesdays at the Ullreys at 7:00 p.m.   We will also soon begin a study of the book, We Still Hold These Truths, by Dr. Matthew Spalding of the Heritage Foundation.  We are fortunate that the Colorado area representative, Michael Jude, lives in Paonia and he will be leading this study.  We will do it by conference call and if you are interested, please go to our website at www.meetup.com/Western-Slope-Constitutional-Patriots/, and contact either Liz Matz or me, as we will be able to get up to 15 books free from the Foundation and we still have some spots open!  Please feel free to contact either Liz or me at the website if you have any other questions or comments.

     God bless America and we all need to pray for Israel!

                                                                                                       The Granny Patriot