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Time to eat crow? Democrats sat on their hands when Donald Trump spoke about what’s happened during his first year in office.
No Democrat voted for the Tax Cuts. Those tax cuts benefit many Americans.
No Democrat stood in unity with Republicans concerning the economy or foreign policy.
What do the Democrats stand for? Seems like they simply stand against. What say you?  DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
What do we know whether the Dreamers are productive, law abiding and speak English.
A majority (74 percent) of U.S. Protestants and Catholics support “Dreamers” receiving permanent legal status, according to a Pew Research Center report released on Jan. 19. Catholic Hispanics overwhelmingly support the Dreamers (92%).
“Dreamers” are persons brought to the U.S. as minors and who have only known the U.S. as their home.
In Arizona, the Dreamers are 4 times more likely to commit crimes than their numbers would suggest.
Younger illegal immigrants in Arizona make up a far larger percentage of the state’s prison inmates than their share of the population would suggest, according to a new analysis.
While illegal immigrants ages 18 to 35 — a group immigration activists call “Dreamers†— are about 2 percent of of the Arizona population, they are almost 8 percent of the prison population. The over-representation by a factor of four shows that younger illegal immigrants in Arizona are far more likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens or legal immigrants of a similar age, says John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.
Roughly half of the Dreamers are literate in English. Persons who don’t speak English are not able to get jobs that will support themselves and their families.
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Aptos Psychologist:  America stopped all immigration for 40 years (1924-1965) which allowed for assimilation of all the millions who had come. Perhaps it’s time again to stop immigration and again assimilate those who are here?  To be successful here immigrants need to learn English and learn skills so they can be productive members. What say you? Comments welcome.
What’s the first thing to do when moving to a new country? Learn the language? Yes.  So, how well have Salvadorans done — those who have moved to the U.S. – in terms of learning English?
What do we know about Salvadorans living here in the U.S.? Roughly a third live in California, the majority in southern California with pockets in San Francisco, Oakland and other cities in northern CA.
Salvadorans do not self-identify as “American”. Only 12% of Salvadorans living in the U.S. identify as “American”. In comparison, about a quarter of all Hispanics – which includes Salvadorans – (23%) self-identify as “American”.
Salvadorans get jobs at about the same rate as native born Americans. And they marry at about the same rate. They do have more out of wedlock children — 44% of women age 15 to 44 who had a child in the last 12 months was born out of wedlock.
Roughly 60% of immigrants from Central America are in the U.S. illegally and roughly 50% are on some form of welfare.Â
Salvadorans living in the U.S. are considerably less educated. Only 8% of those age 25+ have a college education compared to 30 percent of native born Americans. The ‘good news’ is that Salvadorans born in the U.S. achieve a 22% rate of college education.
comment by Aptos Psychologist Cameron Jackson:
Will all the thousands of Salvadorans actually be deported? Commit a crime, get deported seems to be the current rule. Â
Supreme Court is last chance for a couple who built a tree house after told in a phone call that they did not need a permit.  Then the city weighed in and said that they needed a permit to build a tree house. Many thousands of dollars later the couple appeals to the Supreme Court for redress.
If told no, that the tree house must be torn down, the couple must now get a permit to tear it down. Ironic?
Kaspersky Labs no longer operates on any USA government computers. Is it on your personal computer? There are various ways to remove if you choose to.  Here’s one link to remove Kaspersky.Â
From the Wall Street Journal re Kaspersky products:
During hearings on the matter on Capitol Hill, “I thought the most damning example†came from intelligence-community representatives, she said in an interview. “When each of them got asked would you put Kaspersky on your own personal computer and the answer was no, that’s a pretty strong message that maybe we should be taking a look at this.â€
In September, the DHS banned Kaspersky products from government computers, instructing agencies to remove any Kaspersky software and report back on where it was found. The public statement accompanying the ban reads like a declassified version of the intelligence community’s suspicion regarding Kaspersky:
“The risk that the Russian government, whether acting on its own or in collaboration with Kaspersky, could capitalize on access provided by Kaspersky products to compromise federal information and information systems directly implicates U.S. national security.â€
Kaspersky says the DHS ban has had a “severe adverse effect†on its commercial operations in the U.S., with retailers removing its products from shelves and an unprecedented number of product returns. All the focus on collusion and interference by Russia put the spotlight on what the USA can do — and what we as citizens can do — to protect ourselves.
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Whew! Trump offers relief from Obama-Care’s many requirements  and high premiums.  Trump’s health care proposal [The Wall Street Journal, Friday, Jan 5, 2018] offers millions of self-employed and small businesses freedom to purchase health insurance plans that don’t comply with Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
Time to speak up and say what you think. The new rule will be published Friday in the Federal Register and undergo a 60 day comment period.
The Trump administration also plans to release a proposal to pave the way for more short-term health policies with fewer benefits.
The proposal was praised by the National Restaurant Association and the National Retail Association as a way for small businesses to have the same bargaining power as large companies, leveling the playing field. Self-employed people who don’t get subsidies also heralded the proposed changes in rules.
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Aptos Psychologist Cameron Jackson: Getting rid of the requirement that all Americans must purchase health insurance — which is part of the recent legislation that reduces taxes for 80% of Americans — that was a huge step towards more choice. This proposal means that mom’s working from home as sole proprietors can get health care for themselves and their family. Whew.Â
Do noncitizens vote in California? How many?  Are they removed from the voting rolls?  Are there more noncitizens voting in certain areas such as sanctuary cities, i.e. San Francisco and Santa Cruz CA?
Non-citizens do vote  — according to investigations by Public Interest Legal Foundation — in Texas, Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Public Interest Legal Foundation has built a record case studies uncovering noncitizen voter registration and voting in a growing number of states.
Comment by Aptos Psychologist Cameron Jackson: It certainly seems likely that noncitizens vote in California, a state which makes it relatively easy for noncitizens to get driver’s licenses and access to many government services. Maybe it’s time to find out how good the integrity is of our CA voting rolls? CA’s Secretary of State has not been willing to provide information concerning the integrity of the voter registration system.    Monerey Bay Forum
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Hilary Clinton’s classified emails keep surfacing. 
Some of Hilary Clinton’s emails — found by the F.B.I. on Huma Abedin’s husband’s laptop –  released today Dec. 31 were classified. The classified material was redacted– removed – before releasing the emails.
The conservative group Judicial Watch filed suit against the State Department for all official department emails sent or received by Abedin on a non-state.gov email address.
“This is a major victory,†the group’s president, Tom Fitton, said in a Friday statement. “After years of hard work in federal court, Judicial Watch has forced the State Department to finally allow Americans to see these public documents.â€
Fitton added, “That these government docs were on Anthony Weiner’s laptop dramatically illustrates the need for the Justice Department to finally do a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious violations of law.â€
Safe zones to protect women on New Year’s Eve, 2017, when partying at Brandenberg Gate in Germany.
  Out of fear for a replay of what happened two years ago in the city of Cologne — when groups of migrant men abused dozens of German women celebrating the arrival of the new year – the city of Berlin has decided to create “safe zones” for women at the New Year’s celebration at Brandenburg Gate.
On New Year’s Eve 2015, about 1,200 women became victims of sexual assault in several major German cities, with more than 600 women attacked in Cologne and about 400 victims in the northern German city of Hamburg.
Prosecutors established that more than 2,000 men were involved in the assaults, but only a tiny fraction — about half of them foreign nationals who at the time had only recently arrived in the country — had been identified a year later.
It took months for the full scale of the 2015 assaults to emerge, but when prosecutors released their final estimates, Germans’ attitude toward refugees changed dramatically:
To many, New Year’s Eve 2015 is the night Germany’s welcoming attitude toward newcomers ended. Leading politicians called for tougher deportation laws soon thereafter.
In Berlin on New Year’s Eve 2017, women can go to the safe zones when they are harassed or simply don’t feel safe.
The safe zones are guarded by members of the Red Cross. There will also be psychologists present to help the women deal with the abuse they might suffer.
The safe zones were created at the request of Berlin’s police department. Earlier, the October Fest in Munich experimented with these safe zones, which proved to be very useful.
In addition to creating safe zones, the police have also informed would be partygoers that they are not allowed to bring their own alcoholic drinks to the party at Brandenburg Gate, or even to carry a backpack with them. They can go to the celebrations with their wallet and smartphone, and that’s about it.
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Firenze Sage:Â Â Why go out if you end up in a group therapy session surrounded by the Red Cross?
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Obama’s Trojan horse gift to America’s poor:Â opiods?
We’ve  recently learned from the Politico that Obama’s Department of Justice stalled Hezbollah investigation to secure his Nuclear Deal with Iran.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called for an investigation into the Politico story.
 The Wall Street Journal reports that  ObamaCare, by providing easy access to prescription opiods for all adults (via huge expansion of Medicaid) has an unforeseen result: the lowering of the life expectancy for he average American for the last two years in a row.
More of America’s poorest are dying of drug overdoses. More people are addicted to opiods.
