Maggie's Farm

Kinda-sorta fits. This from our British cousins in Londonstan.

The Sun- UK
By ANDREW PARKER



A SCHOOL was yesterday accused of MAKING teachers dress up as Asians for a day – to celebrate a Muslim festival

Kids at the 257-pupil primary have also been told to don ethnic garb even though most are Christians.

The morning assembly will be open to all parents – but dads are BARRED from a women-only party in the afternoon because Muslim husbands object to wives mixing with other men.

Just two members of staff – a part-time teacher and a teaching assistant – are Muslim.

Yesterday a relative of one of the 39 others said: “Staff have got to go along with it – or let’s face it, they would be branded racist.

“Who would put their job on the line? They have been told they have to embrace the day to show their diversity. But they are not all happy.”

The day aims to belatedly mark Eid, the end of Ramadan.

Sally Bloomer, head of Rufford primary school in Lye, West Midlands, insisted: “I have not heard of any complaints.

“It’s all part of a diversity project to promote multi-culturalism.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article407311.ece

That''s me.......just to the left of the American Flag about three or four people.......

Yeah, makes ya wish Plessy vs Ferguson had never been overruled.

Islamo-Fascist Week was held last week. From the standpoint of having universities be the bastions of "free speech" and the generators of new thoughts, mores and folkways it was a flop.

Most campus's have wholly abandon free speech and a vast number are now becoming open havens for Islamic radicals just as they had been for the SDS and the Black Panthers in the 60's.

The Islamic movement in this country must be stopped. I have suggested a number of times that states should pass legislation defining Islam as an ideology and not a religion, thus removing a good many protections they have from taxation, etc. Also by doing so it should make it easier to deport Islamic students who are here to foment the killing of infidels.

I personally have no difficulty in killing a person whose religion tells them to kill me. How many times does a man have to tell you he's going to kill you before you take action? Once your head has been blown off your shoulders it's a mite late to do much.

In my world Islams are not welcome in this country. I dislike their ideology, their culture, and their being. We have been down this war road with them many times. I do not want to fight them on our own soil ...... say no to Muslim/Islamic immigration ... if you choose not to then be prepared to pay the consequences.

If this makes me a racist then I'll wear the badge proudly.

Yes, lets get some mileage out of this. I've wanted to be an open racist all my life and now the left,commie,Afro.Islams have done it for me.

I realize that as a white male in this country I am THE cause of all misery faced by all mankind...hey I can handle it...just one thing...if you come fcuk'n with me expect to die. I will give no quarter for I have been put on notice by too many factions that being white is being racists..and that my life is in peril for being white.....they look at it as payback .....I recall a Civil War where whites dies by the hundreds of thousands to , in part, allow freedom for all......that wasn't good enough I guess.

That's why I've advocated a tax rebellion. Don't pay taxes owed on the 15th. Have your withholding changed at your workplace to the least amount .
We get 15-20 million people to do that they'll get the message and yes, they'll be Aristotle's "distributive justice" whereby a few are prosecuted but they can never prosecute 20 million people, never.
In the late 1970's in California,Howard Jarvis, got proposition 13 on the ballot t limit taxes. It passed overwhelmingly and California was forced to live a more responsible fiscal life.

We're trapped a bit with PC now because it outside of the PC orbit much of "free" speech has been criminalized as "hate " speech.
This is the part where the rebellion begins in earnest because that is a right that belongs solely to the people and cannot be abridged....the only road to getting it back is through state legislatures or the gun.

Proposition 13 Then, Now and Forever

by Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute.

Political analysts often argue about when the modern-day conservative movement in America began. Some say that it began with Barry Goldwater's campaign in 1964. Others say it began with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. I believe that the conservative, anti-big-government tide in America began 20 years ago with the passage of taxpayer advocate Howard Jarvis's Proposition 13 in California.

Proposition 13 was a political earthquake whose jolt was felt not just in Sacramento but all across the nation, including Washington, D.C. Jarvis's initiative to cut California's notoriously high property taxes by 30 percent and then cap the rate of increase in the future was the prelude to the Reagan income tax cuts in 1981. It also incited a nationwide tax revolt at the state and local levels. Within five years of Proposition 13's passage, nearly half the states strapped a similar straitjacket on politicians' tax-raising capabilities. Almost all of those tax limitation measures remain the law of the land today.

Why was Proposition 13 so overwhelmingly approved in 1978? Few expected it to win. In fact, on two separate occasions, less draconian versions of Proposition 13 had failed. But by 1978 raging inflation had sent property tax bills in the Golden State soaring so high that many families had to sell their homes because they couldn't afford to pay their taxes. Despite a torrent of horror stories from teachers' unions, politicians, newspapers and corporate lobbyists in Sacramento about the potentially devastating effects of Proposition 13, more than 60 percent of the voters took a gamble and approved the ballot measure.

Then and now, Proposition 13 was and is the subject of relentless attack. Money ran a cover story back in 1994 by Richard Reeves titled "The Tax Revolt That Ruined California." The article blamed the recession, the loss of 600,000 jobs and the decline in family incomes in the early 1990s on the cumulative effects of Proposition 13. No mention was made of the fact that in 1991 California passed the biggest tax increase ($7 billion) in the history of any state in the Union. The Pete Wilson tax increase negated many of the positive effects of Proposition 13.

Only in government would a 75 percent real spending hike be considered inadequate and neglectful.

The argument that Howard Jarvis's brainchild wrecked California was recast by a National Public Radio "news" segment earlier this month. Proposition 13 "drained the California school system of money," noted the NPR piece. "Since then California's test scores have gone from near the top of all the states to near the bottom." One former schoolteacher complained that he was forced to leave the teaching profession because the schools had no money to pay him a living wage. Meanwhile, libraries around the state were shut down. Municipal services deteriorated. Paradise was lost.

But what is not said in any of these accounts is that Proposition 13 ushered in a second California gold rush in the 1980s. California's economic surge in the years following Proposition 13 was to become the envy of the nation. In the 10 years after the passage of Proposition 13, incomes in California grew 50 percent faster than in the nation as a whole; jobs grew at twice the national pace. Even supporters of Proposition 13 never envisioned that it would unleash the spectacular entrepreneurial and commercial explosion that it did over the next decade.

Did Proposition 13 really starve state and local services? Hardly. In real dollars, California's budget climbed from $55 billion in 1980 to $97 billion in 1992 -- a 75 percent increase above inflation! Only in government would a 75 percent real spending hike be considered inadequate and neglectful. What about revenues? In the 1980s state tax revenues as a share of Californian's incomes actually rose -- from 11 to 12 percent.

California is not an undertaxed state today. According to the latest Tax Foundation data, the state-local tax burden today in California is 11.7 percent of personal income, compared with a national average of 11.5 percent. Proposition 13 merely moved California from one of the highest tax states in the nation to a slightly above-average tax state.

The major effect of Proposition 13 has been to save the average homeowner in California tens of thousands of dollars in property tax payments over the past 20 years. That is money that would have fueled an even more rapid buildup in California's state and local public bureaucracies if it had been sent to Sacramento and city hall.

Californians intuitively understand this. That is why a large majority of California residents say that they would vote for Proposition 13 again if it were on the ballot this year -- 20 years