{"id":2383,"date":"2018-05-22T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2018-05-22T14:46:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T18:46:59","slug":"california-may-adopt-commie-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/22\/california-may-adopt-commie-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"California May Adopt Commie Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii has live volcanoes, but it&#8217;s the California State Assembly that keeps spewing molten ashes of communism into the political environment with the hope that it will solidify into accepted practice by the masses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2407\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2407\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/May-Day-Parade-Russia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russia May Day Parade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this month the California Assembly discussed a bill that would consolidate Abraham Lincoln and George Washington\u2019s February birthdays into a singularly-observed\u00a0 Presidents&#8217; Day.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s nothing too radical other than where to put the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/19\/americas-favorite-schizophrenic-holiday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">apostrophe<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (Presidents&#8217; Day or President&#8217;s Day), or whether to include an apostrophe at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Merriweather','serif'; color: black;\">What made <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">California Bill AB-3042<\/span><\/strong><\/a> controversial was Democrat Assemblyman Miguel Santiago\u2019s desire to make the communist-inspired International Workers\u2019 Day a state-sponsored holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Miquel-Santiago-a53.asmdc_.org_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p>International Workers&#8217; Day is May 1 and is also known as May Day. It has been celebrated for decades in\u00a0 communist countries and drew more than 100,000 Muscovites at this year&#8217;s May Day parade in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders if the communist holiday is celebrated by taking stuff from society&#8217;s producers and giving it to the non-producers.<\/p>\n<p>If so, it would be like Christmas gift giving in reverse. Gifts would be taken rather than received. This may explain why Santiago insists it should be a paid holiday (unlike Presidents&#8217; Day), and why anti-capitalist California is considering the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The appropriations and education committees earlier passed the bill along party line votes but the California Assembly refused to pass it by a 27-22 committee vote last Thursday. Hope springs eternal for Santiago however, after he submitted a motion to reconsider Bill AB-3042 another time.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/video.insider.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5784248606001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">California Republican Assemblyman Matthew Harper pretty well summed up the feelings of the minority last Thursday:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAre we in competition to be the laughing stock of the United States?\u201d he asked on the floor of the State House.\u00a0 \u201cAre we going that far to the left?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He went on to say that the Santiago bill makes it look like California is kowtowing to Cold War Soviet domination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This begs two questions: first, if California added the communist-inspired May Day as a paid holiday, would that be evidence of the long sought Russian collusion Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been seeking the past year?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Second, if Santiago&#8217;s bill passes, would California be charged with misappropriating Russian culture?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Eagles&#8217; song\u00a0<em>Hotel California <\/em>seemingly<em>\u00a0<\/em>sums up the fate of state residents stuck with their current progressive representation: &#8220;<em>We are all just prisoners here, of our own device<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Thanks for reading Dean Riffs. For those who love American liberty, free enterprise, and who believe God has blessed our country, welcome. For those who believe in open borders, safe spaces, and who tolerate everything but free speech and conservative ideals, move on \u2013 there\u2019s nothing here for you to see.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sources: <em>dailycaller.com, breitbart.com, insider.foxnews.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Photo sources:\u00a0<em>www.rferl.org,\u00a0a53.asmdc.org<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Copyright 2018, Dean A. George\u00a9<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii has live volcanoes, but it&#8217;s the California State Assembly that keeps spewing molten ashes of communism into the political environment with the hope that it will solidify into accepted practice by the masses. 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