Our current Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice along with the First Lady-Elect, Michelle Obama have yet again made statements that this country has moved toward true maturity by electing a person of color. They both have qualified that statement by saying that we still have a ways to go until racism is forever gone from this land. What surprised me was the quality of the debate that followed. I did not hear one mention of Dr. Martin Luther King. Have we moved along the path of political correctness so far that his words, "by the quality of his character and not the color of his skin" have now vanished over the horizon? This is all only a symptom. If you have skin as pale as mine and you question Obama's continued lack of any substantial plan, you will be called a racist. If you wonder if Jesse Jackson will ever get a real job, you are accused of bigotry. Character is ceasing to matter and color is in. Well, today's culture could not be more wrong. Character does matter, regardless of your race, regardless of the circumstances you were born into, regardless of your peer group and regardless of your parents, or lack thereof...character matters. How you speak matters. How you treat your neighbors matters. How you add to the lives of the people around you, rather than taking away matters. Color should have to do with art, not politics.
Of course, this is all wishing upon a star. Bigotry exists and it is growing. Bigotry and racism are not simply the opinion of a white southerner concerning uppity blacks. They also encompass the opinions of blacks concerning whites, Hispanics concerning Orientals, everyone concerning Jews and so on. And, every combination there can be mixed and matched depending upon which bigotry is at the fore. It has been said that the media, that bastion of compassion and fairness, has its own preferred scapegoat, White Christianity. They will of course admit to that prejudice when hell becomes a hockey rink.
Giving preferential treatment to any group is simply wrong. This country, even though the founding fathers did not notice their own failure in this regard, was intended to be a place where fairness prevailed. Programs that give preference to minorities, simply because they are minorities are violations of that principle. Affirmative action only affirms that some people are recognized by the government as having privileges the rest of the population do not. That is bigotry in action. It would be far better to simply hire the best person for the job regardless of what they look like or how old they are. Higher education should have the same criteria. Those who show they have the capacity and the drive to succeed in school should be those enrolled, even if they have pale skin, blue eyes and testosterone.
If you object to this opinion, you are a bigot.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Politics protects Child Porn
A child pornography operation in the Las Vegas Valley was finally dealt a serious blow the other day when police arrested nine men involved in the photographing and distribution of that disgusting material.
Terry Ziegler, Tom Krattenmaker, Paul Smith, Michael Ward, Juan Vega, Hector Gonzalez, Daniel Combes, and Anthony Flores were the ones arrested. The men lived and operated their ring in both Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada. Hoping to keep the level of public anxiety down, the police administration went on to deliver the usual big lie: "after discovering the images and videos on the suspects' computers, police said Tuesday they want to ensure the public that there are no additional victims within the Las Vegas Valley. "
Right, and no one gambles or smokes in Las Vegas either. A close read of the story will show that only those holding copies of the porn were arrested. They still have not gotten a hold onto the ones doing the filming, or did these videos just appear by magic? No additional victims? The ones doing the victimizing still have to be found, you idiot!
It is interesting to note that the story was published in the Las Vegas Sun, a left-leaning paper that in many ways is little more than a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party. The Las Vegas Review Journal, the Republican mouthpiece owned by a publisher, of who it has been said has bragged that he staffs his printing facility with mostly cheap illegal alien labor, is silent on the issue. This is because stories that may cast a shadow on the business community in the Las Vegas Valley are typically quashed. Sex is a huge business in Southern Nevada, and illegal sex even more so. The underground trade in human slavery has been estimated to bring in nearly 2 billion a year in untaxed dollars. A fair amount of those dollars find their way to the pockets of those politicians and law enforcement officials willing to look the other way when it comes to little things like human trafficking and child porn.
I have a friend who expereinced the trauma of child abuse in a horrible, personal manner. His name is unimportant to this, but he was subjected to a failed, prepubscent forced castration attempt back in New York for the purpose of keeping his voice from changing. The stage producers of that day didn’t like spending money on child performers and then have their voices deepen. It gave him a very distinctive vocal characteristic. He is one of those people who just cannot sit by when something wrong is being done. It’s too bad so many others don’t feel that way. Over a year ago, he noticed signs of something “hinkey” going on in his condo community. Because of his theater and film background, and the fact that people associated with the company that used to manage his community had aproached him about the possibility of doing voice overs for child porn fims, “kiddie looping”, he recognized the signs. The trouble was, no one in authority, other than my office, was interested in listening. I made some calls, including to the FBI, but the general attitude I got was, “Yeah, we know, but we can’t do anything about it.” Well, after more than a year something has finally been done. I guess he was right.
My friend now has the unique opportunity to say “I told you so”, and be completly right in his estimation. The law enforcement leadership have had to admit he was right. When they were first approached they refused to believe such a disgusting activity was going on. I have news for them, listen to your officers; this isn’t Mayberry RFD. A number of officers who work in both Henderson and Las Vegas have communicated to me their frustration at what politics has done to their jobs. Far too often they have been called off cases because someone near the top has gotten nervous about what could be uncovered. I have to note that the vast majority of police men and women are caring, civic-minded people who only want to do their jobs and they are frustrated beyond description with the status quo. It will be interesting to find out who these nine name as their contacts in the child porn industry, if the officers involved are allowed to ask.
A final question; if the police department had listened and investigated from the first warning, how many children would have been saved from the trauma and abuse they must have suffered?
Terry Ziegler, Tom Krattenmaker, Paul Smith, Michael Ward, Juan Vega, Hector Gonzalez, Daniel Combes, and Anthony Flores were the ones arrested. The men lived and operated their ring in both Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada. Hoping to keep the level of public anxiety down, the police administration went on to deliver the usual big lie: "after discovering the images and videos on the suspects' computers, police said Tuesday they want to ensure the public that there are no additional victims within the Las Vegas Valley. "
Right, and no one gambles or smokes in Las Vegas either. A close read of the story will show that only those holding copies of the porn were arrested. They still have not gotten a hold onto the ones doing the filming, or did these videos just appear by magic? No additional victims? The ones doing the victimizing still have to be found, you idiot!
It is interesting to note that the story was published in the Las Vegas Sun, a left-leaning paper that in many ways is little more than a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party. The Las Vegas Review Journal, the Republican mouthpiece owned by a publisher, of who it has been said has bragged that he staffs his printing facility with mostly cheap illegal alien labor, is silent on the issue. This is because stories that may cast a shadow on the business community in the Las Vegas Valley are typically quashed. Sex is a huge business in Southern Nevada, and illegal sex even more so. The underground trade in human slavery has been estimated to bring in nearly 2 billion a year in untaxed dollars. A fair amount of those dollars find their way to the pockets of those politicians and law enforcement officials willing to look the other way when it comes to little things like human trafficking and child porn.
I have a friend who expereinced the trauma of child abuse in a horrible, personal manner. His name is unimportant to this, but he was subjected to a failed, prepubscent forced castration attempt back in New York for the purpose of keeping his voice from changing. The stage producers of that day didn’t like spending money on child performers and then have their voices deepen. It gave him a very distinctive vocal characteristic. He is one of those people who just cannot sit by when something wrong is being done. It’s too bad so many others don’t feel that way. Over a year ago, he noticed signs of something “hinkey” going on in his condo community. Because of his theater and film background, and the fact that people associated with the company that used to manage his community had aproached him about the possibility of doing voice overs for child porn fims, “kiddie looping”, he recognized the signs. The trouble was, no one in authority, other than my office, was interested in listening. I made some calls, including to the FBI, but the general attitude I got was, “Yeah, we know, but we can’t do anything about it.” Well, after more than a year something has finally been done. I guess he was right.
My friend now has the unique opportunity to say “I told you so”, and be completly right in his estimation. The law enforcement leadership have had to admit he was right. When they were first approached they refused to believe such a disgusting activity was going on. I have news for them, listen to your officers; this isn’t Mayberry RFD. A number of officers who work in both Henderson and Las Vegas have communicated to me their frustration at what politics has done to their jobs. Far too often they have been called off cases because someone near the top has gotten nervous about what could be uncovered. I have to note that the vast majority of police men and women are caring, civic-minded people who only want to do their jobs and they are frustrated beyond description with the status quo. It will be interesting to find out who these nine name as their contacts in the child porn industry, if the officers involved are allowed to ask.
A final question; if the police department had listened and investigated from the first warning, how many children would have been saved from the trauma and abuse they must have suffered?
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Can Johnny read? Apparently, nobody cares.
As a member of the Nevada Legislature, I was placed onto three legislative committees; Government Affairs, Health and Human Services and Education. Of the three, Education was my favorite. Government Affairs primarily existed to massage the egos of the various municipalities around the state and Health and Human Services was run by a chairwoman so corrupt she makes Ted Stevens look like a Boy Scout.
One of the things a member of the Education Committee gets to do is see how a state administrates its schools from behind the curtain. Here in Nevada, we had and continue to have a real problem in both the lack of evenhandedness of administration and the perception of what the job of a teacher entails. Top administrators in Nevada’s schools can earn upwards of $300,000 or more. A classroom teacher begins at about $30,000 and has to apply for food stamps just to eat. A top Administrator works an average of 45 hours per week, shifting most of the actual hands-on duties to their staff. A teacher will put in over 60 hours with no staff help at all. Administration can retire with nearly no loss in the shift from salary to pension, including all the additional benefits. Most teachers wind up having to take on a part time job after retirement to make ends meet. Teachers are not allowed to keep their Social Security. No, I’m not kidding. That is what happens and it is a matter of law.
Well, you say, teachers only work 9 months out of the year, don’t they? No, that is a media and talk show host lie. Today there are nearly as many 12-month schools as there are 9-month schools, and even if a teacher is contracted to work at a standard 9-month school, it is only the classrooms that shut down in summer. For the teacher, the job continues. There is summer school, lesson planning, meetings, continuing education to keep up with all the changes that happen if every discipline, and so on. Those who say that teachers have it easy and are overpaid for what they do, know nothing. In every single case these commentators are parroting a lie in the hopes that if they repeat it often enough the people will believe it. Unfortunately that is exactly what has happened.
To the vast majority of Americans, teaching is viewed as an easy high-paying job. So, can Johnny read? As far as the American public is concerned, who cares? It is obvious to anyone willing to look that most parents don’t care. Politicians seem only to be concerned about their own campaign and Swiss bank accounts. On the Republican side of the aisle, they don’t want to expend any resources to support the teacher, unless it is for the staff in an exclusive private school their spoiled children are attending. On the Democrat side of the aisle, they are more than willing to raise taxes for schools, but they will only allow the money to go into the hands of the Administration who then let only a tiny fraction of what they have acquired trickle down into the hands of the teacher.
Nevada has pundits on both side of the aisle. It is interesting to note that those of a libertarian bent who continuously denigrate public education, have never had a child in school. The liberals are the same. These fountains of endless wisdom either home school or send their kids to an exclusive private facility. So when you read their rants, read them with the understanding that they are making everything up and have no experiential knowledge whatsoever.
You may scoff at this, but there are far more conservative teachers in the classroom than not. Most of the liberal elitism comes from the School Board, school administration, and union leadership. Many of these teachers have corresponded with me about what they face on a daily basis, and in spite of vast inequalities, these men and women continue to do a job far beyond the pay they receive. Many will purchase school supplies that they give to children in their classroom. I have seen teachers buying cases of paper because their school will not supply it, while at the same time demanding that the paperwork be done. Numerous teachers have detailed additional paperwork being handed down from the administration, paperwork that rightfully should be handled by the office and has nothing whatsoever to do with teaching.
So, it comes down to this question: what would you do to improve education? Should teachers be paid a wage that matches what they do? Should administrators take a cut to help? What about making parents responsible for their kids? The comment box is open.
One of the things a member of the Education Committee gets to do is see how a state administrates its schools from behind the curtain. Here in Nevada, we had and continue to have a real problem in both the lack of evenhandedness of administration and the perception of what the job of a teacher entails. Top administrators in Nevada’s schools can earn upwards of $300,000 or more. A classroom teacher begins at about $30,000 and has to apply for food stamps just to eat. A top Administrator works an average of 45 hours per week, shifting most of the actual hands-on duties to their staff. A teacher will put in over 60 hours with no staff help at all. Administration can retire with nearly no loss in the shift from salary to pension, including all the additional benefits. Most teachers wind up having to take on a part time job after retirement to make ends meet. Teachers are not allowed to keep their Social Security. No, I’m not kidding. That is what happens and it is a matter of law.
Well, you say, teachers only work 9 months out of the year, don’t they? No, that is a media and talk show host lie. Today there are nearly as many 12-month schools as there are 9-month schools, and even if a teacher is contracted to work at a standard 9-month school, it is only the classrooms that shut down in summer. For the teacher, the job continues. There is summer school, lesson planning, meetings, continuing education to keep up with all the changes that happen if every discipline, and so on. Those who say that teachers have it easy and are overpaid for what they do, know nothing. In every single case these commentators are parroting a lie in the hopes that if they repeat it often enough the people will believe it. Unfortunately that is exactly what has happened.
To the vast majority of Americans, teaching is viewed as an easy high-paying job. So, can Johnny read? As far as the American public is concerned, who cares? It is obvious to anyone willing to look that most parents don’t care. Politicians seem only to be concerned about their own campaign and Swiss bank accounts. On the Republican side of the aisle, they don’t want to expend any resources to support the teacher, unless it is for the staff in an exclusive private school their spoiled children are attending. On the Democrat side of the aisle, they are more than willing to raise taxes for schools, but they will only allow the money to go into the hands of the Administration who then let only a tiny fraction of what they have acquired trickle down into the hands of the teacher.
Nevada has pundits on both side of the aisle. It is interesting to note that those of a libertarian bent who continuously denigrate public education, have never had a child in school. The liberals are the same. These fountains of endless wisdom either home school or send their kids to an exclusive private facility. So when you read their rants, read them with the understanding that they are making everything up and have no experiential knowledge whatsoever.
You may scoff at this, but there are far more conservative teachers in the classroom than not. Most of the liberal elitism comes from the School Board, school administration, and union leadership. Many of these teachers have corresponded with me about what they face on a daily basis, and in spite of vast inequalities, these men and women continue to do a job far beyond the pay they receive. Many will purchase school supplies that they give to children in their classroom. I have seen teachers buying cases of paper because their school will not supply it, while at the same time demanding that the paperwork be done. Numerous teachers have detailed additional paperwork being handed down from the administration, paperwork that rightfully should be handled by the office and has nothing whatsoever to do with teaching.
So, it comes down to this question: what would you do to improve education? Should teachers be paid a wage that matches what they do? Should administrators take a cut to help? What about making parents responsible for their kids? The comment box is open.
Friday, November 21, 2008
California's Prop 8, no big deal.
The homosexual demographic in the US is the only group I am aware of that has a sexual activity as its primary source of identity. Blacks use race whereas Orientals use family and Hispanics value their ancestral homeland. Whites seem to be the only group that places what their occupation is before any other factor as an identifier. Within the Caucasian race, the Celts, like Hispanics, use the homeland.
Homosexuality is not a right and it is not a race. It is, in fact, an aberration from the normal template of nature. Any scientist worth the title will tell you that nature’s primary purpose is to propagate itself, in essence, “go forth and multiply”. A homosexual couple can try from now until the sun goes dark, but until one of the chromosomal ingredients changes, no child will be created. Lawsuits can be thrown at society ad nauseam, but that fact will not be changed. Don’t blame society, blame nature’s template. It takes a male and a female to propagate. Adoption is not propagation.
This brings us to the current hysteria over the passage of California’s Proposition 8 cementing marriage as being an official recognized ceremony between a man and a woman. When the counts were tallied, homosexuals across the country went ballistic. Riots erupted and some homosexuals took their anger out on people and property, even to the point of physically attacking an elderly black woman because the Black Church, along with the Mormon Church was one of the larger groups voting for the ban. It is interesting to note that when Christian groups were on the losing side of voter issues, no riots ensued, they didn’t even commit a single act of littering.
I spent some time living in San Francisco and, as a professional artist, had the opportunity to work in fairly close quarters with a number of homosexuals. I have even been hit on by a few. In most cases, I found these people to be gracious and competent, but as a demographic they tend to be far more egocentric than others, even more so than heterosexual artists. Reports of the reactions to proposition 8 tend to support my personal sampling. The passage of the California initiative has been taken as a personal attack. To them, their lives had been irreparably harmed from one day to the next, even though not one physical or fiscal item had changed.
Charges of racism, hate, bigotry and homophobia flew like grapeshot through the media, the airwaves and now the courts. It did not matter that the majority of the people of California spoke and 52% of those voters decided to keep marriage between a man and a woman. Domestic partnersships are still quite legal, and if two consenting adults in California choose to live together, even in a homosexual relationship, they have a right to. And, the law is quite specific; they even have a right to marry…as long as the partner in that marriage is of the opposite sex.
In answer to the charges, it is impossible for someone who disagrees with any portion of the homosexual agenda to be committing an act of racism. A sexual activity is not “race” or even a factor in static physical appearance. Bigotry…possible, but it is stretching the definition of the attitude, and charging homophobia is simply being ridiculous. As a recognized psychosis, homophobia is way down on the list of fears. Arachnophobia, agoraphobia, and many others are far more common. Simply disagreeing with a person’s political position is not being phobic, and it certainly is not an expression of hate. Quite frankly, the way our country’s laws are written, the passage of Proposition 8 happened exactly the way the founding fathers envisioned things. The 10th amendment to the US Constitution states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Thomas Jefferson said, “The States should be left to do whatever they can do as well as the federal government."
We have strayed so far from that ideal that many US citizens are not even aware that the 10th amendment even exists, and yet it does, often as an irritant to the more socialist-minded politicians and community organizers. The Supreme Court Row vs. Wade decision is one glaring example of the Federal Government stepping way outside of its bounds where that portion of the constitution is concerned. The law of the land is not there to cater to every select group that comes down the pike. Homosexuality happens to be an aberration from the natural way of things in the same manner that kleptomania, pedophilia, and compulsive eating disorders are. Should society offer up laws that accommodate every human disorder simply because they have banded into political action groups? If a store owner stops a kleptomaniac from shoplifting, is that an expression of racism, bigotry and hate? The comparison is ridiculous for a point. Giving preferential rights to homosexuals simply because of the way they choose to act is equally ridiculous.
All right, so California has stated that within its boundaries marriage is left to heterosexual unions. That does not mean that other states can choose to rule differently. The US Constitution says they have that right, and because we are a union of individual states, you have a right to move to the state of your choice. You do not have a right to riot. You do not have a right to assault. You do not have a right to commit destruction of property, and you do not have a right to not be offended. The Declaration upheld only 3 rights as being self-evident: Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Happiness, by itself is not a guarantee, only the pursuit of that goal is guaranteed.
There is no guarantee of prosperity. There is no guarantee of satisfaction and there is no golden parachute issued by the government to guarantee easy street to every citizen. The law is supposed to affect every citizen equally, and when it doesn’t, we call that corruption.
Homosexuality is not a right and it is not a race. It is, in fact, an aberration from the normal template of nature. Any scientist worth the title will tell you that nature’s primary purpose is to propagate itself, in essence, “go forth and multiply”. A homosexual couple can try from now until the sun goes dark, but until one of the chromosomal ingredients changes, no child will be created. Lawsuits can be thrown at society ad nauseam, but that fact will not be changed. Don’t blame society, blame nature’s template. It takes a male and a female to propagate. Adoption is not propagation.
This brings us to the current hysteria over the passage of California’s Proposition 8 cementing marriage as being an official recognized ceremony between a man and a woman. When the counts were tallied, homosexuals across the country went ballistic. Riots erupted and some homosexuals took their anger out on people and property, even to the point of physically attacking an elderly black woman because the Black Church, along with the Mormon Church was one of the larger groups voting for the ban. It is interesting to note that when Christian groups were on the losing side of voter issues, no riots ensued, they didn’t even commit a single act of littering.
I spent some time living in San Francisco and, as a professional artist, had the opportunity to work in fairly close quarters with a number of homosexuals. I have even been hit on by a few. In most cases, I found these people to be gracious and competent, but as a demographic they tend to be far more egocentric than others, even more so than heterosexual artists. Reports of the reactions to proposition 8 tend to support my personal sampling. The passage of the California initiative has been taken as a personal attack. To them, their lives had been irreparably harmed from one day to the next, even though not one physical or fiscal item had changed.
Charges of racism, hate, bigotry and homophobia flew like grapeshot through the media, the airwaves and now the courts. It did not matter that the majority of the people of California spoke and 52% of those voters decided to keep marriage between a man and a woman. Domestic partnersships are still quite legal, and if two consenting adults in California choose to live together, even in a homosexual relationship, they have a right to. And, the law is quite specific; they even have a right to marry…as long as the partner in that marriage is of the opposite sex.
In answer to the charges, it is impossible for someone who disagrees with any portion of the homosexual agenda to be committing an act of racism. A sexual activity is not “race” or even a factor in static physical appearance. Bigotry…possible, but it is stretching the definition of the attitude, and charging homophobia is simply being ridiculous. As a recognized psychosis, homophobia is way down on the list of fears. Arachnophobia, agoraphobia, and many others are far more common. Simply disagreeing with a person’s political position is not being phobic, and it certainly is not an expression of hate. Quite frankly, the way our country’s laws are written, the passage of Proposition 8 happened exactly the way the founding fathers envisioned things. The 10th amendment to the US Constitution states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Thomas Jefferson said, “The States should be left to do whatever they can do as well as the federal government."
We have strayed so far from that ideal that many US citizens are not even aware that the 10th amendment even exists, and yet it does, often as an irritant to the more socialist-minded politicians and community organizers. The Supreme Court Row vs. Wade decision is one glaring example of the Federal Government stepping way outside of its bounds where that portion of the constitution is concerned. The law of the land is not there to cater to every select group that comes down the pike. Homosexuality happens to be an aberration from the natural way of things in the same manner that kleptomania, pedophilia, and compulsive eating disorders are. Should society offer up laws that accommodate every human disorder simply because they have banded into political action groups? If a store owner stops a kleptomaniac from shoplifting, is that an expression of racism, bigotry and hate? The comparison is ridiculous for a point. Giving preferential rights to homosexuals simply because of the way they choose to act is equally ridiculous.
All right, so California has stated that within its boundaries marriage is left to heterosexual unions. That does not mean that other states can choose to rule differently. The US Constitution says they have that right, and because we are a union of individual states, you have a right to move to the state of your choice. You do not have a right to riot. You do not have a right to assault. You do not have a right to commit destruction of property, and you do not have a right to not be offended. The Declaration upheld only 3 rights as being self-evident: Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Happiness, by itself is not a guarantee, only the pursuit of that goal is guaranteed.
There is no guarantee of prosperity. There is no guarantee of satisfaction and there is no golden parachute issued by the government to guarantee easy street to every citizen. The law is supposed to affect every citizen equally, and when it doesn’t, we call that corruption.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Palin for President!
The GOP needs to change. This phrase isn’t by any degree new; nearly every conservative and liberal writer has said the same, but I doubt many have said it in relation to what is really needed. The drubbing McCain took in this past election and the ascendancy of the liberal left into every seat of power this country has to offer is a lesson yet to be learned by the Republican heads.
Obama’s campaign team hit a nerve when they continuously attacked McCain’s ties to the Bush administration. The recent developments in this ridiculous bailout scam are only yet another symptom of the disease that riddles the beltway. The ones making these decisions are so out of touch with everyday America that when an issue is brought forward with a common sense solution, they cannot understand what is being said. In many cases the one offering the solution is ridiculed as being naive. This happened to me while solutions were being discussed with regard to my state’s fiscal problems. Now, those who did the ridiculing are being forced to implement what I suggested two years ago. Will any credit be given where it belongs? Not on your life. This is the world of politics after all.
Infighting within the Republican ranks has been escalating since the first ad hit the airwaves for the Presidential elections. This tells us that change is not something the Republican party wants to consider, at least not the change it truly needs. Consider Mike Huckabee’s attacks on Sarah Palin. What they boil down to is what the GOP says about every party member who stands up against the corruption within the party, “She isn’t Republican enough.” Apparently Governor Palin, in order to be a real republican, should have gone along with outgoing Senator Ted Stevens’ corruption, and not stood against him. To many in the party it is better to have a politician who breaks the law on a daily basis than to have them replaced with a Democrat. To the Republican Party leadership change means not having to say you’re sorry.
Governor Huckabee needs to learn the lesson of the electorate. American is not so interested in moving to left as it is interested in cleaning house. Average America wants honorable leadership. They want “Read my lips” to be a statement of truth, not a lead-in to a broken promise. When they are watching their bank accounts dwindle, they do not want to see those who oversaw the demolition of the economy get a golden parachute. They want honesty, even if it inconveniences the wealthy and the powerful. Sarah Palin gets that and so does Mitt Romney.
It is already obvious that Obama’s promise of change only went as far as the occupancy of the White House. He is busily building his staff out of insiders from the Clinton and Carter Administrations. Governor Huckabee apparently believes Sarah Palin’s climb into the spotlight is more dangerous to our nation than what President-elect Obama is preparing to do. Here is why; Governor Palin struck a chord with the American people, and if she had been coupled with Romney rather than McCain, the result of the election may have been quite different. GOP insiders are almost as afraid of what Palin portends as are the liberals.
Sarah Palin, in spite of what my Democrat acquaintances say, would make a great President. What many of them forget is that much the same arguments against a Palin Presidency were also made about Ronald Reagan before he trounced a totally incompetent Jimmy Carter.
Yes, the GOP needs to change. It needs to embrace Middle America and it needs to embrace the truth, even if the truth costs them money. Rather than driving out those members who stand against corruption, the GOP leadership needs to grit their teeth, wave goodbye to the bribe money, and stand with them. America wants representation, not politics as usual. And remember, the news networks have no relation with real America.
Obama’s campaign team hit a nerve when they continuously attacked McCain’s ties to the Bush administration. The recent developments in this ridiculous bailout scam are only yet another symptom of the disease that riddles the beltway. The ones making these decisions are so out of touch with everyday America that when an issue is brought forward with a common sense solution, they cannot understand what is being said. In many cases the one offering the solution is ridiculed as being naive. This happened to me while solutions were being discussed with regard to my state’s fiscal problems. Now, those who did the ridiculing are being forced to implement what I suggested two years ago. Will any credit be given where it belongs? Not on your life. This is the world of politics after all.
Infighting within the Republican ranks has been escalating since the first ad hit the airwaves for the Presidential elections. This tells us that change is not something the Republican party wants to consider, at least not the change it truly needs. Consider Mike Huckabee’s attacks on Sarah Palin. What they boil down to is what the GOP says about every party member who stands up against the corruption within the party, “She isn’t Republican enough.” Apparently Governor Palin, in order to be a real republican, should have gone along with outgoing Senator Ted Stevens’ corruption, and not stood against him. To many in the party it is better to have a politician who breaks the law on a daily basis than to have them replaced with a Democrat. To the Republican Party leadership change means not having to say you’re sorry.
Governor Huckabee needs to learn the lesson of the electorate. American is not so interested in moving to left as it is interested in cleaning house. Average America wants honorable leadership. They want “Read my lips” to be a statement of truth, not a lead-in to a broken promise. When they are watching their bank accounts dwindle, they do not want to see those who oversaw the demolition of the economy get a golden parachute. They want honesty, even if it inconveniences the wealthy and the powerful. Sarah Palin gets that and so does Mitt Romney.
It is already obvious that Obama’s promise of change only went as far as the occupancy of the White House. He is busily building his staff out of insiders from the Clinton and Carter Administrations. Governor Huckabee apparently believes Sarah Palin’s climb into the spotlight is more dangerous to our nation than what President-elect Obama is preparing to do. Here is why; Governor Palin struck a chord with the American people, and if she had been coupled with Romney rather than McCain, the result of the election may have been quite different. GOP insiders are almost as afraid of what Palin portends as are the liberals.
Sarah Palin, in spite of what my Democrat acquaintances say, would make a great President. What many of them forget is that much the same arguments against a Palin Presidency were also made about Ronald Reagan before he trounced a totally incompetent Jimmy Carter.
Yes, the GOP needs to change. It needs to embrace Middle America and it needs to embrace the truth, even if the truth costs them money. Rather than driving out those members who stand against corruption, the GOP leadership needs to grit their teeth, wave goodbye to the bribe money, and stand with them. America wants representation, not politics as usual. And remember, the news networks have no relation with real America.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The Religion of Global Warming
If a teacher admits to praying, especially if it is a Christian prayer, they can lose their job in some school districts. Sarah Palin admits to consulting God in the big decisions and she is pilloried by the press. Some talking heads at MSNBC actually went ballistic over that one. If you say that human evolution is still only a theory and not established fact, you are derided as being absurd, nonintellectual and possibly a danger to modern society. Declare that abortion, whether legal or not is still the taking of a human life, and you are called every name in the book, few of them printable, but not one of the protesters can offer scientific evidence to dispute the declaration.
The separation of Church and State is one of the primary mantras of the left. Before I continue, I have to make a point. By the left, I do not mean Democrats. The left is fairly inclusive and has adherents from every party except possibly the Independent American Party whose plank, by its very nature excludes any liberal thought.
Elitism, such as the left expresses, considers the Christian Church to be the greatest danger America has ever faced. The very idea of a politician even associating with Christianity is anathema to the left. They cannot wrap their tiny little minds around the concept that there may exist a being who is the creator and who may judge their actions. Even discussing the subject causes anger, and in some cases rage. But then comes along Al Gore and the Church of Global Warming, or the GW church.
Christianity’s detractors consistently bring up the Catholic inquisitions and other heinous acts by those who purported to be church leaders. They also consistently forget that Christ himself warned of wolves in sheep’s clothing. So why do these same detractors so avidly follow the church of Global Warming? Archeology has proven many times over that the bible is not a simple work of fiction, but there has yet to be a single scientific proof to the claims of Global Warming’s chief prophet. In fact, in a recent article published in the Telegraph in the U.K., the numbers used by the GW church were based on lies.
Within the article are these paragraphs: “So what explained the anomaly? GISS's computerized temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.
The error was so glaring that when it was reported on the two blogs - run by the US meteorologist Anthony Watts and Steve McIntyre, the Canadian computer analyst who won fame for his expert debunking of the notorious "hockey stick" graph - GISS began hastily revising its figures. This only made the confusion worse because, to compensate for the lowered temperatures in Russia, GISS claimed to have discovered a new "hotspot" in the Arctic - in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice recovering so fast from its summer melt that three weeks ago it was 30 per cent more extensive than at the same time last year.”
The Telegraph article goes on to describe the fanaticism of one Dr. Hanson. Dr Hansen almost single handedly began the Global Warming scare in 1988 with his testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore. Later on Hanson was forced to admit that the Global temperature in the 1930’s was warmer than it was in the 1990’s. In fact, rather than gaining a degree, as the GW church prophesied, the earth has cooled by a third of a degree. But facts do not affect religion. For example, polar bears are actually breeding faster than humans. Those famous photos of a bear on a “shrinking” ice berg, do not show the endless ice sheet a few degrees to the right of the photo. When an elementary school teacher was given a report detailing facts contrary to Global Warming’s claims, she said. “That’s nice, but I know what I believe.” That is a statement of faith, not of knowledge.
Global Warming adherents are expressing a faith, not facts. Far too many truly reputable scientists have brought forth evidence that nature and the universe, not humanity has had a far greater affect on earth’s global climate. Volcanoes, the sun, meteorites and comets have all left their mark on the archeological record. For those in the Global Warming Church who scoff at this fact, I just have one question. How many SUV’s did prehistoric man drive?
The separation of Church and State is one of the primary mantras of the left. Before I continue, I have to make a point. By the left, I do not mean Democrats. The left is fairly inclusive and has adherents from every party except possibly the Independent American Party whose plank, by its very nature excludes any liberal thought.
Elitism, such as the left expresses, considers the Christian Church to be the greatest danger America has ever faced. The very idea of a politician even associating with Christianity is anathema to the left. They cannot wrap their tiny little minds around the concept that there may exist a being who is the creator and who may judge their actions. Even discussing the subject causes anger, and in some cases rage. But then comes along Al Gore and the Church of Global Warming, or the GW church.
Christianity’s detractors consistently bring up the Catholic inquisitions and other heinous acts by those who purported to be church leaders. They also consistently forget that Christ himself warned of wolves in sheep’s clothing. So why do these same detractors so avidly follow the church of Global Warming? Archeology has proven many times over that the bible is not a simple work of fiction, but there has yet to be a single scientific proof to the claims of Global Warming’s chief prophet. In fact, in a recent article published in the Telegraph in the U.K., the numbers used by the GW church were based on lies.
Within the article are these paragraphs: “So what explained the anomaly? GISS's computerized temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.
The error was so glaring that when it was reported on the two blogs - run by the US meteorologist Anthony Watts and Steve McIntyre, the Canadian computer analyst who won fame for his expert debunking of the notorious "hockey stick" graph - GISS began hastily revising its figures. This only made the confusion worse because, to compensate for the lowered temperatures in Russia, GISS claimed to have discovered a new "hotspot" in the Arctic - in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice recovering so fast from its summer melt that three weeks ago it was 30 per cent more extensive than at the same time last year.”
The Telegraph article goes on to describe the fanaticism of one Dr. Hanson. Dr Hansen almost single handedly began the Global Warming scare in 1988 with his testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore. Later on Hanson was forced to admit that the Global temperature in the 1930’s was warmer than it was in the 1990’s. In fact, rather than gaining a degree, as the GW church prophesied, the earth has cooled by a third of a degree. But facts do not affect religion. For example, polar bears are actually breeding faster than humans. Those famous photos of a bear on a “shrinking” ice berg, do not show the endless ice sheet a few degrees to the right of the photo. When an elementary school teacher was given a report detailing facts contrary to Global Warming’s claims, she said. “That’s nice, but I know what I believe.” That is a statement of faith, not of knowledge.
Global Warming adherents are expressing a faith, not facts. Far too many truly reputable scientists have brought forth evidence that nature and the universe, not humanity has had a far greater affect on earth’s global climate. Volcanoes, the sun, meteorites and comets have all left their mark on the archeological record. For those in the Global Warming Church who scoff at this fact, I just have one question. How many SUV’s did prehistoric man drive?
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The so-call Fairness Doctrine
This column was posted a few weeks ago, but it bears repeating, with an update at the end.
Why is it that the fundamental American way of life is the only thing left on earth that can be ridiculed, offended, belittled and discriminated against with impunity? The world’s best known talk show host, Rush Limbaugh read the regulations our neighbor to the south has in place for those who are not Mexican citizens wishing to build a business or purchase property.
The law is in essence: If you immigrate to Mexico, you have to speak the native language. You have to be a professional or an investor; unskilled workers are not allowed. Bilingual education is not taught in the schools, and there are no special ballots for elections. No government business will be conducted in any language other than Spanish. Foreigners will not have the right to vote or hold political office. Take that Arnold.
Immigrants to Mexico are forbidden to be a burden to taxpayers. They are not entitled to welfare, food stamps, or any other government social program. Investment is a requirement to immigration: an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage. However, there are restrictions on the purchasing of land and where foreigners can own homes. Beachfront property is limited to Mexican citizens, and foreigners must relinquish individual rights to the property.
There is no right to protest. No right to demonstrate. Only the Mexican flag can be flown. Political organizing is forbidden and speaking ill of the administration can land the speaker in jail. Also, entering Mexico illegally is a direct route to prison.
When Limbaugh read those laws as if they were his suggestion for the US, the protests were deafening, and not one of the protesters changed their opinion after it was revealed where the law originated. After all, only the U.S. can be at fault.
The same occurs in regard to the Middle East. The only Middle Eastern country where women hold equal status with men is Israel. Yet because Israel’s constitution closely mirrors that of the U.S. and America has consistently upheld that tiny country’s right to exist, Israel has become a target for contempt right along with fundamental America. Israel is also the only Middle Eastern country where you have a right to worship as you please, as long as you allow Israel its right to exist. The other countries, Islamic to a fault have a real problem with that existence. Neither America nor Israel should be here. Because of them, Islam’s spread has no been as fast, nor as complete as it should have been.
All of the deriders manage to miss the fact that within Islamic countries, women are little more than property and are not even as important as a prized camel or sheep. In many of these countries female children are sexually mutilated in a disgusting ritual disguised as a rite of adulthood. They are, in essence, treated as foreigners within their own country. They are not allowed to own property, achieve anything resembling an education, or even defend themselves if attacked. In fact one of the most common crimes a woman under bondage to Islam can commit is being raped. Where are the feminists? They are amazingly silent on this issue. Could it be that Islamic women, not being able to further the feminist agenda, have no importance to the cause?
Here in the U.S. we jailed a pedophile who claimed to be a prophet. His name is Warren Jeffs. He attempted to use religion as a shield for his crimes. Fortunately for future children who may have come under his influence, fundamental America was there and Jeffs is now sulking behind bars. Unfortunately for millions of Middle Eastern children, the false prophet Mohammed was not stopped. There was no country established whereby all were granted self-evident rights. A minor Babylonian moon god called Allah was given far more importance than the cult deserved and the rest sadly is history.
Now we have a left-leaning majority in power and the first thing many of them want to do is further tighten the restrictions on American free speech. Enter the so-called Fairness Doctrine. What the doctrine says and what it will do are two entirely different things. On the surface, any broadcast medium must have a “balance” of opinion; both sides of a given issue must be allowed equal time. As an example, the FOX network must reformat every single one of their talk shows into a Hannity & Combs clone where both the conservative and liberal opinions are offered up for the listener to digest. The same would have to be done at MSNBC and CNN, but do you really think that would happen? Remember, this would be overseen by the likes of Whorehouse Harry Reid and Nancy “give me your guns” Pelosi. Can you imagine either of them allowing a conservative voice into the diatribe at MSNBC? Not a chance.
What will happen is that the only network left in the world that gives an alternate world view to all of the others will be silenced. That is what the left calls fairness.
Why is it that the fundamental American way of life is the only thing left on earth that can be ridiculed, offended, belittled and discriminated against with impunity? The world’s best known talk show host, Rush Limbaugh read the regulations our neighbor to the south has in place for those who are not Mexican citizens wishing to build a business or purchase property.
The law is in essence: If you immigrate to Mexico, you have to speak the native language. You have to be a professional or an investor; unskilled workers are not allowed. Bilingual education is not taught in the schools, and there are no special ballots for elections. No government business will be conducted in any language other than Spanish. Foreigners will not have the right to vote or hold political office. Take that Arnold.
Immigrants to Mexico are forbidden to be a burden to taxpayers. They are not entitled to welfare, food stamps, or any other government social program. Investment is a requirement to immigration: an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage. However, there are restrictions on the purchasing of land and where foreigners can own homes. Beachfront property is limited to Mexican citizens, and foreigners must relinquish individual rights to the property.
There is no right to protest. No right to demonstrate. Only the Mexican flag can be flown. Political organizing is forbidden and speaking ill of the administration can land the speaker in jail. Also, entering Mexico illegally is a direct route to prison.
When Limbaugh read those laws as if they were his suggestion for the US, the protests were deafening, and not one of the protesters changed their opinion after it was revealed where the law originated. After all, only the U.S. can be at fault.
The same occurs in regard to the Middle East. The only Middle Eastern country where women hold equal status with men is Israel. Yet because Israel’s constitution closely mirrors that of the U.S. and America has consistently upheld that tiny country’s right to exist, Israel has become a target for contempt right along with fundamental America. Israel is also the only Middle Eastern country where you have a right to worship as you please, as long as you allow Israel its right to exist. The other countries, Islamic to a fault have a real problem with that existence. Neither America nor Israel should be here. Because of them, Islam’s spread has no been as fast, nor as complete as it should have been.
All of the deriders manage to miss the fact that within Islamic countries, women are little more than property and are not even as important as a prized camel or sheep. In many of these countries female children are sexually mutilated in a disgusting ritual disguised as a rite of adulthood. They are, in essence, treated as foreigners within their own country. They are not allowed to own property, achieve anything resembling an education, or even defend themselves if attacked. In fact one of the most common crimes a woman under bondage to Islam can commit is being raped. Where are the feminists? They are amazingly silent on this issue. Could it be that Islamic women, not being able to further the feminist agenda, have no importance to the cause?
Here in the U.S. we jailed a pedophile who claimed to be a prophet. His name is Warren Jeffs. He attempted to use religion as a shield for his crimes. Fortunately for future children who may have come under his influence, fundamental America was there and Jeffs is now sulking behind bars. Unfortunately for millions of Middle Eastern children, the false prophet Mohammed was not stopped. There was no country established whereby all were granted self-evident rights. A minor Babylonian moon god called Allah was given far more importance than the cult deserved and the rest sadly is history.
Now we have a left-leaning majority in power and the first thing many of them want to do is further tighten the restrictions on American free speech. Enter the so-called Fairness Doctrine. What the doctrine says and what it will do are two entirely different things. On the surface, any broadcast medium must have a “balance” of opinion; both sides of a given issue must be allowed equal time. As an example, the FOX network must reformat every single one of their talk shows into a Hannity & Combs clone where both the conservative and liberal opinions are offered up for the listener to digest. The same would have to be done at MSNBC and CNN, but do you really think that would happen? Remember, this would be overseen by the likes of Whorehouse Harry Reid and Nancy “give me your guns” Pelosi. Can you imagine either of them allowing a conservative voice into the diatribe at MSNBC? Not a chance.
What will happen is that the only network left in the world that gives an alternate world view to all of the others will be silenced. That is what the left calls fairness.
Monday, November 17, 2008
It Shouldn't be That Way.
NRS 608.160 Taking or making deduction on account of tips or gratuities unlawful; employees may divide tips or gratuities among themselves.
1. It is unlawful for any person to:
(a) Take all or part of any tips or gratuities bestowed upon his employees.
(b) Apply as a credit toward the payment of the statutory minimum hourly wage established by any law of this State any tips or gratuities bestowed upon his employees.
2. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent such employees from entering into an agreement to divide such tips or gratuities among themselves.
Every state has laws that protect working people, and in every state there are those who consider these laws to be inconvenient at best. It is their belief that any law that prevents the employer from being able to take money from those who work for them at a whim is wrong. In plainer language they consider such protections to be “socialist claptrap”, “communist propaganda”, and other assorted descriptions. The fact that such laws exist, are on the books and are enforceable…let’s put it this way, to them it is extremely ill-mannered to even bring them up in conversation.
Terry Graves is one of the board members of the Henderson Chamber of Commerce here in Southern Nevada. I have known him for over 2 years and in all that time, even though I strongly support business and he knows it, he hasn’t forgiven me for introducing AB 357, a bill that would have stopped the violation of the above law.
According to Terry and every other Republican in any position of leadership, any politician who stands against businesses violating employee protection laws is, by definition, an enemy. It is the same mentality union members run into when they refuse to steal from their employer by the various assorted methods their associates have cooked up. It is the same mentality Frank Serpico ran into when he decided to refuse the offered bribe money his fellow cops were taking. It is the reason Sue Lowden, the Nevada State Party Chair said of me, “He’s too honest, we can’t trust him.” The world of politics has become a sewer and the rats are running the system.
Not every politician is dishonest or hypocritical, but damn few aren’t, and it is up to the voter to do the weeding. Unfortunately that requires work and the ability to read. Why do you think politicians talk so loudly about improving education but rarely do anything to do so?
When I stood up and declared my intention to represent all my constituents regardless of their race, age, sex, income or power, I immediately alienated every member of my Assembly Caucus except for two people, Lynn Stewart and Garn Maybe. It should be noted that Garn retired and was replaced by yet another hypocrite NeoCon. The party tried to replace Lynn but lost badly. Sometimes good people actually get a second chance.
Employee protection laws exist because for too long employers considered those people working for them to be little more than just another one of their possessions; beasts of burden at best. Well, the law says different. If you don’t like what the law says, change it through the legislative or initiative process. You do not have the option to simply ignore it…or you shouldn’t have. Two of my fellow Republican scholars agreed with that attitude wholeheartedly, that is until I proposed a law that would have inconvenienced them; immigration reform that would have targeted those employers who knowingly violate America’s immigration laws. It seems they were enjoying the benefits of hiring illegal aliens at a small fraction of the minimum wage and since the people working for them were illegal, they were also profiting by not having to pay taxes, benefits, etc. Isn’t it interesting that folks who call themselves constitutional scholars can so readily violate the constitution when that violation puts cash into their pocket?
The problem is that we as Americans have become so used to our representatives being lying two-faced hypocrites that we don’t know how to handle it when we actually get one that doesn’t fit that mold. The media certainly can’t. They have used the line “We can’t find anything,” meaning scandal, “So they must be hiding something,” and then go to press with the assumption that that individual is guilty before proved innocent. We saw this with the treatment of Sarah Palin. The political parties are very aware of this and will treat those who run for office accordingly. They will decide who may upset those business interests and organizations that donate to the party and work to trash that person’s reputation all for a few more campaign dollars. Whether or not such action is moral or even right is beside the point, its politics.
It shouldn’t be that way, but it is. The sad part is that it has become accepted.
1. It is unlawful for any person to:
(a) Take all or part of any tips or gratuities bestowed upon his employees.
(b) Apply as a credit toward the payment of the statutory minimum hourly wage established by any law of this State any tips or gratuities bestowed upon his employees.
2. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent such employees from entering into an agreement to divide such tips or gratuities among themselves.
Every state has laws that protect working people, and in every state there are those who consider these laws to be inconvenient at best. It is their belief that any law that prevents the employer from being able to take money from those who work for them at a whim is wrong. In plainer language they consider such protections to be “socialist claptrap”, “communist propaganda”, and other assorted descriptions. The fact that such laws exist, are on the books and are enforceable…let’s put it this way, to them it is extremely ill-mannered to even bring them up in conversation.
Terry Graves is one of the board members of the Henderson Chamber of Commerce here in Southern Nevada. I have known him for over 2 years and in all that time, even though I strongly support business and he knows it, he hasn’t forgiven me for introducing AB 357, a bill that would have stopped the violation of the above law.
According to Terry and every other Republican in any position of leadership, any politician who stands against businesses violating employee protection laws is, by definition, an enemy. It is the same mentality union members run into when they refuse to steal from their employer by the various assorted methods their associates have cooked up. It is the same mentality Frank Serpico ran into when he decided to refuse the offered bribe money his fellow cops were taking. It is the reason Sue Lowden, the Nevada State Party Chair said of me, “He’s too honest, we can’t trust him.” The world of politics has become a sewer and the rats are running the system.
Not every politician is dishonest or hypocritical, but damn few aren’t, and it is up to the voter to do the weeding. Unfortunately that requires work and the ability to read. Why do you think politicians talk so loudly about improving education but rarely do anything to do so?
When I stood up and declared my intention to represent all my constituents regardless of their race, age, sex, income or power, I immediately alienated every member of my Assembly Caucus except for two people, Lynn Stewart and Garn Maybe. It should be noted that Garn retired and was replaced by yet another hypocrite NeoCon. The party tried to replace Lynn but lost badly. Sometimes good people actually get a second chance.
Employee protection laws exist because for too long employers considered those people working for them to be little more than just another one of their possessions; beasts of burden at best. Well, the law says different. If you don’t like what the law says, change it through the legislative or initiative process. You do not have the option to simply ignore it…or you shouldn’t have. Two of my fellow Republican scholars agreed with that attitude wholeheartedly, that is until I proposed a law that would have inconvenienced them; immigration reform that would have targeted those employers who knowingly violate America’s immigration laws. It seems they were enjoying the benefits of hiring illegal aliens at a small fraction of the minimum wage and since the people working for them were illegal, they were also profiting by not having to pay taxes, benefits, etc. Isn’t it interesting that folks who call themselves constitutional scholars can so readily violate the constitution when that violation puts cash into their pocket?
The problem is that we as Americans have become so used to our representatives being lying two-faced hypocrites that we don’t know how to handle it when we actually get one that doesn’t fit that mold. The media certainly can’t. They have used the line “We can’t find anything,” meaning scandal, “So they must be hiding something,” and then go to press with the assumption that that individual is guilty before proved innocent. We saw this with the treatment of Sarah Palin. The political parties are very aware of this and will treat those who run for office accordingly. They will decide who may upset those business interests and organizations that donate to the party and work to trash that person’s reputation all for a few more campaign dollars. Whether or not such action is moral or even right is beside the point, its politics.
It shouldn’t be that way, but it is. The sad part is that it has become accepted.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
As long as we're changing, make pot legal.
Paraphrased from a Wikipedia article: “Salvia Divinorum, also known as Diviner’s Sage, or by the genus name Salvia, is a psychoactive herb which can induce strong effects. It is a member of the sage genus and the Lamiaceae mint family. The Latin name Salvia Divinorum literally translates to “sage of the seers”.”
Cannabis Sativa is so far the onlyherb outlawed in the United States. Because of it’s similarity to Cannabis, hemp is nearly as illegal though the only thing smoking hemp will do to you is cause you to smell like burnt rope. Hemp was outlawed because the cotton lobby didn’t want competition. It isn’t fair when hemp won’t rot like cotton. Cannabis Sativa is illegal for a number of stated reasons, but the basic is because it was the favorite drug of blacks, and making their favorite drug of choice illegal was one of the ways to control a populace the powers that be wanted kept at a rung below theirs.
Tobacco contains a drug far more powerful and addictive than Cannabis or rather marijuana could ever deliver, even with laboratory help. Nicotine is so powerful and so dangerous that in other forms it is used as an insecticide. One drop placed into the mouth of an animal kills, and yet cigarettes, a nicotine delivery system are legal and tobacco growers are protected and subsidized by Washington. Talk show hosts continuously complain about the anti-smoking lobby and the damage they are doing to our freedoms. So where are these people when it comes to an herb far more innocuous than nicotine, alcohol or salvia?
Let me tell you about salvia. It is legal in most states and cheap. Some forms of the herb have been engineered to the point where smoking it can produce effects even more powerful than LSD. It delivers a dissociative high that makes marijuana seem like a couple of aspirin. John Kennedy’s father made his fortune smuggling bootleg alcohol and then cornered the market on scotch imports. Isn’t it interesting that JFK was one of the loudest voices in maintaining the marijuana strictures? The thought of regulating and taxing the herb never entered into their minds.
We are missing a bet here. More than enough medical and scientific evidence has been entered into the record to prove that if anything Cannabis Sativa should not be outlawed. It is not even close to methamphetamine as a danger and in fact, alcohol is more of a gateway drug. Tobacco could also be considered as such and yet Washington smiles and cashes those tax receipts. So why not do the same with pot? One sure bet is that our prison system and the courts would become less crowded if the more innocuous drugs were legalized, regulated and taxed the same as alcohol and tobacco. The monies collected could go into giving teachers a much-needed pay raise with perhaps a few billion bucks left over to do some other needed jobs.
There would be a blow back, but not from American citizens. The loudest complaints will come from organized crime outside our borders. Mexico, whose income is largely derived from illegally feeding addictions, would consider it an act of economic war. So would Indonesia. So what? It is high time America cared more for Americans than it did for those who consider us ill-mannered at best. For far too long we have shipped our income overseas and garnered small returns. We had our revolution. Let them have theirs if they ever find out they have a spine. America has long been a nation of free choice. We have the right to be stupid or not to be. We should not, as citizens, be forced to pay for the stupidity of others or the damage they do to themselves. If you choose to get high and then turn yourself into a vegetable, that should be your choice and your cost, not mine.
For disclosure purposes, I don't smoke anything, never have and don't want to. Neither do I like being around people who do. In my opinion the scent is nauseating, but more nauseating is the abridgment of freedom of choice. I outgrew nannies when I was in elementary school. I don’t need one now.
Cannabis Sativa is so far the onlyherb outlawed in the United States. Because of it’s similarity to Cannabis, hemp is nearly as illegal though the only thing smoking hemp will do to you is cause you to smell like burnt rope. Hemp was outlawed because the cotton lobby didn’t want competition. It isn’t fair when hemp won’t rot like cotton. Cannabis Sativa is illegal for a number of stated reasons, but the basic is because it was the favorite drug of blacks, and making their favorite drug of choice illegal was one of the ways to control a populace the powers that be wanted kept at a rung below theirs.
Tobacco contains a drug far more powerful and addictive than Cannabis or rather marijuana could ever deliver, even with laboratory help. Nicotine is so powerful and so dangerous that in other forms it is used as an insecticide. One drop placed into the mouth of an animal kills, and yet cigarettes, a nicotine delivery system are legal and tobacco growers are protected and subsidized by Washington. Talk show hosts continuously complain about the anti-smoking lobby and the damage they are doing to our freedoms. So where are these people when it comes to an herb far more innocuous than nicotine, alcohol or salvia?
Let me tell you about salvia. It is legal in most states and cheap. Some forms of the herb have been engineered to the point where smoking it can produce effects even more powerful than LSD. It delivers a dissociative high that makes marijuana seem like a couple of aspirin. John Kennedy’s father made his fortune smuggling bootleg alcohol and then cornered the market on scotch imports. Isn’t it interesting that JFK was one of the loudest voices in maintaining the marijuana strictures? The thought of regulating and taxing the herb never entered into their minds.
We are missing a bet here. More than enough medical and scientific evidence has been entered into the record to prove that if anything Cannabis Sativa should not be outlawed. It is not even close to methamphetamine as a danger and in fact, alcohol is more of a gateway drug. Tobacco could also be considered as such and yet Washington smiles and cashes those tax receipts. So why not do the same with pot? One sure bet is that our prison system and the courts would become less crowded if the more innocuous drugs were legalized, regulated and taxed the same as alcohol and tobacco. The monies collected could go into giving teachers a much-needed pay raise with perhaps a few billion bucks left over to do some other needed jobs.
There would be a blow back, but not from American citizens. The loudest complaints will come from organized crime outside our borders. Mexico, whose income is largely derived from illegally feeding addictions, would consider it an act of economic war. So would Indonesia. So what? It is high time America cared more for Americans than it did for those who consider us ill-mannered at best. For far too long we have shipped our income overseas and garnered small returns. We had our revolution. Let them have theirs if they ever find out they have a spine. America has long been a nation of free choice. We have the right to be stupid or not to be. We should not, as citizens, be forced to pay for the stupidity of others or the damage they do to themselves. If you choose to get high and then turn yourself into a vegetable, that should be your choice and your cost, not mine.
For disclosure purposes, I don't smoke anything, never have and don't want to. Neither do I like being around people who do. In my opinion the scent is nauseating, but more nauseating is the abridgment of freedom of choice. I outgrew nannies when I was in elementary school. I don’t need one now.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Let the insanity and backpedaling begin!
I have to preface this column with a background story. During the 2007 legislative session in Nevada, I was approached by a group of card dealers who worked in the casino at the Wynn Las Vegas. They had written to nearly every single member of the Nevada legislature trying to get one of the Assemblymen or Senators to even listen to them about their employer confiscating a portion of their wages.
Steve Wynn is the owner of this casino. For decades he has built up a network of politicians who owe him favors. One is Bill Raggio, then the Senate Majority Leader and a long-time legislator from Northern Nevada. Raggio is also a lawyer whose law firm happens to have a number of gaming concerns as clients. Can anyone spell “conflict of interest”? I was the only member of the legislature to respond. One out of 63.
In 1971 a state law came into effect that plainly stated the illegality of any employer taking any portion of an employee’s tips. Card dealers, like many other workers in Nevada subsist almost entirely on tips, and a few make a pretty decent living. Apparently Wynn thought his employees were making too good of a living because, in violation of the standing law, he instituted a policy that took 20% of the tips, excluded any of the dealers from being present when the tips were counted, and used those confiscated monies to boost the pay of managers being paid an hourly wage several times greater than the minimum wage paid to the dealers. Because a few of the dealers took home the occasional paycheck greater than that of their manager, Wynn called his policy fair, new, and refreshing. To the people losing 20% of their pay off the top it wasn’t refreshing at all. To the Nevada Revised Statutes it was a clear and direct violation of the law as it was written. But when you have a few Senators, Assemblymen and judges in your pocket, the written law is no barrier, especially when you can get a judge or two to say that the law doesn’t mean what it says.
I wrote a bill that would have forced the state to actually enforce the law. Wynn went ballistic and Bill Raggio shouted at me for 10 minutes about attacking his good friend. It’s amazing how much “friendship” money can buy. Prostitution isn’t an exclusive female occupation.
Now comes the elections and Raggio no longer has his big office, the leadership position or the majority. He is relegated to just being one of the boys in the minority and can no longer tell people what to do. So, what does he do? He issues a press release saying that the Republican Party must move to the middle and abandon the far right attitudes that obviously caused this electoral calamity. As is usual, Bill Raggio could not be more wrong. What caused the problem wasn’t Republican conservative ideals, what caused the problem was years of broken promises, greed and infighting. The party doesn’t need to move to the middle, what the party needs to do is go back to the days of Ronald Reagan and reestablish a set of core principles that benefit all citizens regardless of age, race, sex, religion or income. Then the party needs to stick to those principles even if it inconveniences their leadership or the rich and powerful. Of course, several members of the party would have to step down to do this, because one of those principles would include being principled.
Steve Wynn is the owner of this casino. For decades he has built up a network of politicians who owe him favors. One is Bill Raggio, then the Senate Majority Leader and a long-time legislator from Northern Nevada. Raggio is also a lawyer whose law firm happens to have a number of gaming concerns as clients. Can anyone spell “conflict of interest”? I was the only member of the legislature to respond. One out of 63.
In 1971 a state law came into effect that plainly stated the illegality of any employer taking any portion of an employee’s tips. Card dealers, like many other workers in Nevada subsist almost entirely on tips, and a few make a pretty decent living. Apparently Wynn thought his employees were making too good of a living because, in violation of the standing law, he instituted a policy that took 20% of the tips, excluded any of the dealers from being present when the tips were counted, and used those confiscated monies to boost the pay of managers being paid an hourly wage several times greater than the minimum wage paid to the dealers. Because a few of the dealers took home the occasional paycheck greater than that of their manager, Wynn called his policy fair, new, and refreshing. To the people losing 20% of their pay off the top it wasn’t refreshing at all. To the Nevada Revised Statutes it was a clear and direct violation of the law as it was written. But when you have a few Senators, Assemblymen and judges in your pocket, the written law is no barrier, especially when you can get a judge or two to say that the law doesn’t mean what it says.
I wrote a bill that would have forced the state to actually enforce the law. Wynn went ballistic and Bill Raggio shouted at me for 10 minutes about attacking his good friend. It’s amazing how much “friendship” money can buy. Prostitution isn’t an exclusive female occupation.
Now comes the elections and Raggio no longer has his big office, the leadership position or the majority. He is relegated to just being one of the boys in the minority and can no longer tell people what to do. So, what does he do? He issues a press release saying that the Republican Party must move to the middle and abandon the far right attitudes that obviously caused this electoral calamity. As is usual, Bill Raggio could not be more wrong. What caused the problem wasn’t Republican conservative ideals, what caused the problem was years of broken promises, greed and infighting. The party doesn’t need to move to the middle, what the party needs to do is go back to the days of Ronald Reagan and reestablish a set of core principles that benefit all citizens regardless of age, race, sex, religion or income. Then the party needs to stick to those principles even if it inconveniences their leadership or the rich and powerful. Of course, several members of the party would have to step down to do this, because one of those principles would include being principled.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
They Only Have Themselves to Blame
It is not surprising after the solid butt-whipping the Republican Party received at the hands of the Democrats in last week’s election that a number of stories about party disarray have surfaced. Some of them are bitter-edged recriminations that blame the voters for their lack of trust. Some, like what I have written, hold a tinge of gloat because the neocons who stole the party got what they so richly deserved. As a Republican Assemblyman who was recently defeated by the rigorous efforts of the Republican leadership, I have a personal interest in those stories. My contention is that while there may be some party disarray, this really is the end result of a concerted effort on the part of the leadership to purge the Republican Party of any and all moderation.
I lost my primary in August to a candidate (John Ozark) who did not even live in my district until shortly before primary voting ended. The “ideologues” in my own party wanted me out of this seat badly enough to ask as many as eight people to run against me. Last winter, I received a call from Heidi Gansert, the Nevada Assembly Minority Leader, asking me to step down in favor of Bob Seale, the man who held my seat before me, and I refused. Not one of the eight, including Seale, agreed to run, until they found Ozark, a candidate who has been trying to get into the Assembly through “district hopping” for the past 4 years at least. When Ozark agreed to run, the campaign of lies and deception started. The overblown yellow journalism that George Harris (publisher of Liberty Watch), Chuck Muth (a political blogger and not a Republican) and Ed Vogel( a Las Vegas Review-Journal stringer) cooked up about my forgetting to turn off the contribution page on my website during the special session this summer is a prime example. The story did not once mention all of the other Republican Assemblymen and Senators who, in the intense confusion of a special session being on, then off and then on again, also forgot to turn off their own websites. That incident, along with many other lies and half-truths, was used as a direct attack during and after the primary as a purging effort and to ensure that only the “ideologues’” mouthpiece was elected. The level of hypocrisy shown by these people is staggering. They complain about “ethical challenges,” but a check on the financial disclosures of John Ozark will show an interesting disparity in what he declared and what was spent. Just how much does it take to send out over a dozen high-end mailers in a primary? These “ideologues” ignored their own polls that showed that I had the highest fiscally conservative voting record in the Assembly, choosing instead to back a totally untried candidate, agreeable to anything they said and willing to be led about by the nose, as long as he got to play Assemblyman. But as history now shows, this strategy backfired terribly for them, causing the loss of a Republican seat and a Democrat supermajority in the Assembly.
There are similarities between a number of races race and mine. Many moderate representatives are honest and interested in representing all of their constituents, not just the “pure” Republicans. The problem is, the leadership may not be as ethical or as interested in representation. The GOP Nevada State Party Chairwoman, Sue Lowden said this about me, “He is too honest, we can’t trust him.” And if you go back and check the campaign literature, the Democrat attacks regarding these representatives were along the same lines. They never questioned the candidate’s honesty, but merely claimed he or she couldn’t be trusted. Isn’t it interesting that the GOP leadership never came to any of these folk’s defense? I believe it is because they are statesman, not politicians and where the GOP stands right now, statesmen need not apply.
Because of all of this “cannibalism,” I chose to support Ellen Spiegel, the Democrat Assemblywoman-elect in District 21. This is not because she isn’t a Republican, but because she was the only ethical candidate. Ellen will represent all the citizens in District 21, and not just those who reflect “party purity.” Now Harris, Muth and the assorted members of their cabal blame me for the Nevada Assembly’s Democrat super majority. Perhaps they should look into a mirror to fix blame.
Nevada Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley should send them a large, expensive fruit basket as a thank you for their efforts in the Democrat majority’s victory.
I lost my primary in August to a candidate (John Ozark) who did not even live in my district until shortly before primary voting ended. The “ideologues” in my own party wanted me out of this seat badly enough to ask as many as eight people to run against me. Last winter, I received a call from Heidi Gansert, the Nevada Assembly Minority Leader, asking me to step down in favor of Bob Seale, the man who held my seat before me, and I refused. Not one of the eight, including Seale, agreed to run, until they found Ozark, a candidate who has been trying to get into the Assembly through “district hopping” for the past 4 years at least. When Ozark agreed to run, the campaign of lies and deception started. The overblown yellow journalism that George Harris (publisher of Liberty Watch), Chuck Muth (a political blogger and not a Republican) and Ed Vogel( a Las Vegas Review-Journal stringer) cooked up about my forgetting to turn off the contribution page on my website during the special session this summer is a prime example. The story did not once mention all of the other Republican Assemblymen and Senators who, in the intense confusion of a special session being on, then off and then on again, also forgot to turn off their own websites. That incident, along with many other lies and half-truths, was used as a direct attack during and after the primary as a purging effort and to ensure that only the “ideologues’” mouthpiece was elected. The level of hypocrisy shown by these people is staggering. They complain about “ethical challenges,” but a check on the financial disclosures of John Ozark will show an interesting disparity in what he declared and what was spent. Just how much does it take to send out over a dozen high-end mailers in a primary? These “ideologues” ignored their own polls that showed that I had the highest fiscally conservative voting record in the Assembly, choosing instead to back a totally untried candidate, agreeable to anything they said and willing to be led about by the nose, as long as he got to play Assemblyman. But as history now shows, this strategy backfired terribly for them, causing the loss of a Republican seat and a Democrat supermajority in the Assembly.
There are similarities between a number of races race and mine. Many moderate representatives are honest and interested in representing all of their constituents, not just the “pure” Republicans. The problem is, the leadership may not be as ethical or as interested in representation. The GOP Nevada State Party Chairwoman, Sue Lowden said this about me, “He is too honest, we can’t trust him.” And if you go back and check the campaign literature, the Democrat attacks regarding these representatives were along the same lines. They never questioned the candidate’s honesty, but merely claimed he or she couldn’t be trusted. Isn’t it interesting that the GOP leadership never came to any of these folk’s defense? I believe it is because they are statesman, not politicians and where the GOP stands right now, statesmen need not apply.
Because of all of this “cannibalism,” I chose to support Ellen Spiegel, the Democrat Assemblywoman-elect in District 21. This is not because she isn’t a Republican, but because she was the only ethical candidate. Ellen will represent all the citizens in District 21, and not just those who reflect “party purity.” Now Harris, Muth and the assorted members of their cabal blame me for the Nevada Assembly’s Democrat super majority. Perhaps they should look into a mirror to fix blame.
Nevada Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley should send them a large, expensive fruit basket as a thank you for their efforts in the Democrat majority’s victory.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Africa is a Continent, and Palin knew that.
The other day I had one of my typical discussions on politics with my neighbor Jerry. Jerry is a great guy, a construction supervisor for our school district and he bleeds Democrat blue. One of the things that separate him from the liberal elite is that he is capable of deciding an issue on the facts, not on rhetoric or talking points, except where Sarah Palin is concerned.
Let’s take a look at what the elites have said and are continuing to say about this woman: she must be a terrible mother because her daughter became pregnant. Ok, so Sarah Palin is facing what a vast majority of mothers with teenage daughters is facing or does this only happen in Republican families? She decided to keep her downs syndrome baby, so she must not care about women’s issues. They still talk about that notorious interview with Katie Couric but Ms. Couric deliberately misquoted Henry Kissinger. Earlier than that, ABC News misquoted the Bush doctrine in an obvious attempt to throw off Palin, their chosen scapegoat.
Sarah Palin surprised everyone in the debate with Biden, including those McCain staffers who are working overtime to trash this woman’s reputation, Joe Biden was wrong about that restaurant he claimed to go to in order to learn about the middle class. It closed down in 1986. Biden doesn’t have a time machine nor has anyone in the elite media done a live broadcast from the nonexistent Katie's Restaurant to point out that Joe Biden is just out of touch with reality. On the other hand, Sarah Palin has received just that sort of treatment and unlike Biden she didn’t lie. There were approximately 14 “factual mistakes” uttered by Biden in that debate but the media hasn’t even mentioned one. Let Sarah Palin utter a single malaprop during a private rehearsal and suddenly she thinks Africa is a country and not a continent.
The liberal elite love the sort of libel that is coming from the McCain staffers. They saw that Palin was a far better candidate than McCain could ever hope to be…and she was better in a debate than Obama’s best showing. This woman had to be silenced. So the stealth attacks and the phony leaks began. In one egregious incident Sarah Palin heard that Bill O’Reilly wanted her on his show. Palin called O’Reilly and agreed to go on. McCain’s staffers heard about the call and, behind Palin’s back canceled the appearance. They then told her that O’Reilly had cancelled her appearance, which was a lie.
Republicans, just like Democrats have their own elite snobbery. McCain made the fatal mistake of filling his campaign staff with people of that stripe. If anyone was out of touch, McCain was right there along with Obama and Biden. Sure, he may have had a hard time in Vietnam, but he has spent far more time living the good life in Washington. He has been pampered and coddled to the point where it is the norm. He would no more recognize middle class America than Joe Biden would. For him, eating at a truck stop would now be torture. This is why people like Adams, Franklin and Jefferson instituted term limits. They saw the danger and hoped to prevent its occurrence. For the Republican elite in McCain’s campaign Sarah Palin was a contamination not to be tolerated.
Now, the liberal elite attacking someone like Palin is understandable. The fact that Michelle Obama can make a statement about how important her children are to her and that they will be her chief focus in Washington…the fact that that becomes a point of honor by the media, but when uttered by a Republican woman becomes a concern…we can all recognize and understand the obvious hypocrisy. Biden lies and it is ignored. Obama stumbles during a debate and it is called a “thoughtful pause”. Sarah Palin has a moment of anger behind the scenes about her treatment by the media and she is a shrill, spiteful monster. What really gets me is that so many Democrats are totally blind to the lopsidedness here. Judgments are made about an individual with regard to her home life, her character, her intelligence and even her thought processes and they have never even met her nor done one single bit of research on their own. Here is the capper; they call that “fair”.
Let’s take a look at what the elites have said and are continuing to say about this woman: she must be a terrible mother because her daughter became pregnant. Ok, so Sarah Palin is facing what a vast majority of mothers with teenage daughters is facing or does this only happen in Republican families? She decided to keep her downs syndrome baby, so she must not care about women’s issues. They still talk about that notorious interview with Katie Couric but Ms. Couric deliberately misquoted Henry Kissinger. Earlier than that, ABC News misquoted the Bush doctrine in an obvious attempt to throw off Palin, their chosen scapegoat.
Sarah Palin surprised everyone in the debate with Biden, including those McCain staffers who are working overtime to trash this woman’s reputation, Joe Biden was wrong about that restaurant he claimed to go to in order to learn about the middle class. It closed down in 1986. Biden doesn’t have a time machine nor has anyone in the elite media done a live broadcast from the nonexistent Katie's Restaurant to point out that Joe Biden is just out of touch with reality. On the other hand, Sarah Palin has received just that sort of treatment and unlike Biden she didn’t lie. There were approximately 14 “factual mistakes” uttered by Biden in that debate but the media hasn’t even mentioned one. Let Sarah Palin utter a single malaprop during a private rehearsal and suddenly she thinks Africa is a country and not a continent.
The liberal elite love the sort of libel that is coming from the McCain staffers. They saw that Palin was a far better candidate than McCain could ever hope to be…and she was better in a debate than Obama’s best showing. This woman had to be silenced. So the stealth attacks and the phony leaks began. In one egregious incident Sarah Palin heard that Bill O’Reilly wanted her on his show. Palin called O’Reilly and agreed to go on. McCain’s staffers heard about the call and, behind Palin’s back canceled the appearance. They then told her that O’Reilly had cancelled her appearance, which was a lie.
Republicans, just like Democrats have their own elite snobbery. McCain made the fatal mistake of filling his campaign staff with people of that stripe. If anyone was out of touch, McCain was right there along with Obama and Biden. Sure, he may have had a hard time in Vietnam, but he has spent far more time living the good life in Washington. He has been pampered and coddled to the point where it is the norm. He would no more recognize middle class America than Joe Biden would. For him, eating at a truck stop would now be torture. This is why people like Adams, Franklin and Jefferson instituted term limits. They saw the danger and hoped to prevent its occurrence. For the Republican elite in McCain’s campaign Sarah Palin was a contamination not to be tolerated.
Now, the liberal elite attacking someone like Palin is understandable. The fact that Michelle Obama can make a statement about how important her children are to her and that they will be her chief focus in Washington…the fact that that becomes a point of honor by the media, but when uttered by a Republican woman becomes a concern…we can all recognize and understand the obvious hypocrisy. Biden lies and it is ignored. Obama stumbles during a debate and it is called a “thoughtful pause”. Sarah Palin has a moment of anger behind the scenes about her treatment by the media and she is a shrill, spiteful monster. What really gets me is that so many Democrats are totally blind to the lopsidedness here. Judgments are made about an individual with regard to her home life, her character, her intelligence and even her thought processes and they have never even met her nor done one single bit of research on their own. Here is the capper; they call that “fair”.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
A message to the GOP
Yesterday I heard the talk show host Laura Ingraham complain bitterly about the so-called “moderate republicans” ruining it for everyone. In her estimation, John McCain lost because he wasn’t republican enough. As much as I respect Laura, she couldn’t be more wrong and her attitude is just digging deeper the hole GW and the rest of the party purists dredged out with their 8 years of drunken sailor spending. If you add up all the debts every administration since George Washington and combine them with those of the Clinton administration you will not even come close to the back breaking deficit Bush junior has put us into. Every gutless pundit, every sycophantic talk show host, every liaise fair neo con, all have had their part in both the fiscal crisis we currently find ourselves in and in the distrust the American electorate showed for the GOP label.
Some are saying Obama won more so than McCain lost. In one thing they are right, Obama did win, but not because McCain lost, but because the Republican Party lost. You can’t make promises for 8 years while lying through your teeth and then expect people to believe you when the chips are down. Sure you may have cost a CEO or two a bonus here and there if you kept your word, but you’d still be in office. Sadly, I think this is yet another one of history’s lessons you won’t catch on to.
Ronald Reagan never made a campaign promise he did not at least try to keep. That is why he is remembered so fondly. Being a man of your word is not a weakness, my late GOP acquaintances ( I can no longer use the term friends), it is a matter of honor. Because the law says something that may cost your business a portion of its profit margin, that doesn’t mean that you as an elected official can ignore it. As you see, the American people can and will do something about it. Your problem is that if a Reagan came along today, you and yours would pan him as not being Republican enough, when in reality, it is you who have lost your way.
Some are saying Obama won more so than McCain lost. In one thing they are right, Obama did win, but not because McCain lost, but because the Republican Party lost. You can’t make promises for 8 years while lying through your teeth and then expect people to believe you when the chips are down. Sure you may have cost a CEO or two a bonus here and there if you kept your word, but you’d still be in office. Sadly, I think this is yet another one of history’s lessons you won’t catch on to.
Ronald Reagan never made a campaign promise he did not at least try to keep. That is why he is remembered so fondly. Being a man of your word is not a weakness, my late GOP acquaintances ( I can no longer use the term friends), it is a matter of honor. Because the law says something that may cost your business a portion of its profit margin, that doesn’t mean that you as an elected official can ignore it. As you see, the American people can and will do something about it. Your problem is that if a Reagan came along today, you and yours would pan him as not being Republican enough, when in reality, it is you who have lost your way.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Excuse me if I gloat
Excuse me if I gloat.
Anyone who has read my blog will wonder at the title, especially based on who we now have as our President-elect. In my humble opinion Obama is going to administrate an economic and civil rights disaster of historic proportions, especially since he now has a congress and senate amenable to his stated Marxist policies. My friends, America is on the verge of losing its vaunted freedoms and you handed our country over, and that is partly why I’m gloating.
Here is Nevada, I was the target of the Liberty Watch crowd, an odious group of party Purity Republicans who attack anyone who disagrees with a single splinter in their plank. Rather than support a conservative who can cross the aisle to get things done, they published and circulated lies about character, voting records and even what was said in a televised forum, all in an effort to put their puppets into office; puppets who would support their ongoing system of corruption and favoritism. The reason I’m gloating is because that effort here was done against me and it is symbolic of what the Republican Party did for the past 8 years nationwide.
This does not mean that the Democrat Party is even one iota less guilty of the same tactics. One of the best representatives I know is Rosemary Womack, a Democrat. Her own party drove her out of her Assembly office because she had committed the sin of disagreeing with Barbara Buckley, the Assembly Speaker. Rosemary wanted to be an actual Representative, not just another drone politician.
Back onto the Republican side, an obsequious little kid by the name of John Ozark was put in against me by Liberty Watch. Never owning any home in Nevada and not even living in my district when he began proclaiming that he knew my constituents best, Ozark began parroting the lies written for him by the magazine’s publisher. What was published about me would be actionable as libel, fraud and even slander if it were done in any state other than Nevada, but here we do things a little differently. We put our crooks into office…well, not this time.
Ellen Spiegel is woman who reminds me of Rosemary. She ran as the Democrat for my Assembly seat and I supported her. Yes, I supported a Democrat and you Party Puritans can kiss my rosy red rump. Compared to Ozark, Ted Stevens is an innocent man. Ellen was not supported by her party, which tells you something. She is not a puppet and she is actually willing to study the issues that affect the district. We have talked about several ideas and what bills could be used to move them forward. These ideas would make it easier for small business to prosper and remove some of the burden from the economic backs of the taxpayers. Does that sound like Nancy Pelosi to you? To me, it’s a reason to gloat.
I am also gloating because so many of the Liberty Watch crowd got their clocks cleaned in this election. Many of them were Assembly members and Senators who joined in on the lies and corruption I saw behind the scenes in Carson City. Sometimes it doesn’t matter who gets into the office, just as long as who was there is out.
Anyone who has read my blog will wonder at the title, especially based on who we now have as our President-elect. In my humble opinion Obama is going to administrate an economic and civil rights disaster of historic proportions, especially since he now has a congress and senate amenable to his stated Marxist policies. My friends, America is on the verge of losing its vaunted freedoms and you handed our country over, and that is partly why I’m gloating.
Here is Nevada, I was the target of the Liberty Watch crowd, an odious group of party Purity Republicans who attack anyone who disagrees with a single splinter in their plank. Rather than support a conservative who can cross the aisle to get things done, they published and circulated lies about character, voting records and even what was said in a televised forum, all in an effort to put their puppets into office; puppets who would support their ongoing system of corruption and favoritism. The reason I’m gloating is because that effort here was done against me and it is symbolic of what the Republican Party did for the past 8 years nationwide.
This does not mean that the Democrat Party is even one iota less guilty of the same tactics. One of the best representatives I know is Rosemary Womack, a Democrat. Her own party drove her out of her Assembly office because she had committed the sin of disagreeing with Barbara Buckley, the Assembly Speaker. Rosemary wanted to be an actual Representative, not just another drone politician.
Back onto the Republican side, an obsequious little kid by the name of John Ozark was put in against me by Liberty Watch. Never owning any home in Nevada and not even living in my district when he began proclaiming that he knew my constituents best, Ozark began parroting the lies written for him by the magazine’s publisher. What was published about me would be actionable as libel, fraud and even slander if it were done in any state other than Nevada, but here we do things a little differently. We put our crooks into office…well, not this time.
Ellen Spiegel is woman who reminds me of Rosemary. She ran as the Democrat for my Assembly seat and I supported her. Yes, I supported a Democrat and you Party Puritans can kiss my rosy red rump. Compared to Ozark, Ted Stevens is an innocent man. Ellen was not supported by her party, which tells you something. She is not a puppet and she is actually willing to study the issues that affect the district. We have talked about several ideas and what bills could be used to move them forward. These ideas would make it easier for small business to prosper and remove some of the burden from the economic backs of the taxpayers. Does that sound like Nancy Pelosi to you? To me, it’s a reason to gloat.
I am also gloating because so many of the Liberty Watch crowd got their clocks cleaned in this election. Many of them were Assembly members and Senators who joined in on the lies and corruption I saw behind the scenes in Carson City. Sometimes it doesn’t matter who gets into the office, just as long as who was there is out.
Monday, November 3, 2008
America cannot afford Obama
Just as Jimmy Carter was no friend of the United States and crafted his economic policies to favor his European friends, Barrack Obama prefers the Middle Eastern theocracies. He has praised Islamic Terrorist as prime examples of humanity. He has ignored and even sniffed at memorials of the holocaust. While his wife was damning the country that kept her wealthy and free, Obama was doing everything he could to ignore the mutilation of prepubescent girls in the Sudan. His share-the-wealth Marxist philosophy is well known, but the media has worked overtime to hide the true persona of their chosen messiah. His recent comments in regard to coal-fired power plants are a wide open door to the real Obama and his plans for the destruction of the American way of life.
Oh, you think that last bit was overstated? A little too shrill? Unfortunately I may be understating just how bad things are going to get with an Obama administration. He has proudly stated that he plans to put policies in place that will cause electric rates to skyrocket. Under Obama, it won’t matter whether or not you can afford to buy that big screen TV, you won’t be able to afford to turn it on. Obama’s glowing praise of the PLO leadership, his friendship with the founder of the Weather Underground, his calm declaration of how his carefully chose Marxists, Communists, and social activists as his friends all give you a picture of the man behind the media. He does not want you to be able to afford to live as a free citizen. He and his fellow Democrats in Washington want you to have to depend upon them for your very existence. That is why Joe the Plumber has been attacked so viciously. Under any other circumstance, what the Democrats have done to that man would be, quite literally, a felony. If you can afford to go grocery shopping now, pay your bills and have a little bit left over, they consider you to be wealthy.
Obama does not want to just control the American economy, nor even the lives of the average American, he wants to control the world…and he just may have an avenue toward that goal. His buddy, George Bush, the only Republican President nearly as incompetent as Jimmy Carter, has laid the groundwork with NAFTA and the Mexico to Canada super highway. Obama loves the idea and so does Europe If the US becomes nothing more than a portion of a European style union, the last of the superpowers has lost its sovereignty and any hope of preventing a UN domination of the world governments will have died. Israel will be the first to go under Obama’s leadership over the UN. Pleased with that gift, the Islamic nations will pledge fealty to the Obama administration. The few remaining American patriots will have no avenue for protest because the fairness doctrine will have eliminated the FOX network and all conservative leaning publications. Shortly after that any criticism of Obama or his administration will be punishable as an act of treason, most likely punished under the provisions of Sharia law.
This is all speculative, of course. For those of you a little faint of heart, I would council against reading current news and cross-checking it against the book of Revelation.
Oh, you think that last bit was overstated? A little too shrill? Unfortunately I may be understating just how bad things are going to get with an Obama administration. He has proudly stated that he plans to put policies in place that will cause electric rates to skyrocket. Under Obama, it won’t matter whether or not you can afford to buy that big screen TV, you won’t be able to afford to turn it on. Obama’s glowing praise of the PLO leadership, his friendship with the founder of the Weather Underground, his calm declaration of how his carefully chose Marxists, Communists, and social activists as his friends all give you a picture of the man behind the media. He does not want you to be able to afford to live as a free citizen. He and his fellow Democrats in Washington want you to have to depend upon them for your very existence. That is why Joe the Plumber has been attacked so viciously. Under any other circumstance, what the Democrats have done to that man would be, quite literally, a felony. If you can afford to go grocery shopping now, pay your bills and have a little bit left over, they consider you to be wealthy.
Obama does not want to just control the American economy, nor even the lives of the average American, he wants to control the world…and he just may have an avenue toward that goal. His buddy, George Bush, the only Republican President nearly as incompetent as Jimmy Carter, has laid the groundwork with NAFTA and the Mexico to Canada super highway. Obama loves the idea and so does Europe If the US becomes nothing more than a portion of a European style union, the last of the superpowers has lost its sovereignty and any hope of preventing a UN domination of the world governments will have died. Israel will be the first to go under Obama’s leadership over the UN. Pleased with that gift, the Islamic nations will pledge fealty to the Obama administration. The few remaining American patriots will have no avenue for protest because the fairness doctrine will have eliminated the FOX network and all conservative leaning publications. Shortly after that any criticism of Obama or his administration will be punishable as an act of treason, most likely punished under the provisions of Sharia law.
This is all speculative, of course. For those of you a little faint of heart, I would council against reading current news and cross-checking it against the book of Revelation.
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