SB116 Seat Belt Law Passes Committee

I know seat belts are good for us, I wear one. However...it isn't now, nor has it ever been the government's job to protect us from ourselves. If we aren't big enough to do that on our own, we are not responsible enough to vote. I need to know that I have legitimately done something wrong before I have to worry about police intervention. Making the "suspicion" that one is or is not wearing a seat belt probable cause for said intervention...I have an issue with. Even in a down economy...the city can do better than this for an excuse to raise money through increased ticket issuance. There are bigger fish to fry and money well spent elsewhere. SB116 is proposed Nevada legislature for making the lack of wearing a seat belt a "primary offense" which means a police officer can pull you over anytime and anywhere for the suspicion that you might not be wearing the belt. A ticket I can live with, probable cause to stop on suspicion that I might get a ticket...I don't think so. SB 116 Passes Committee: Makes failure to wear a Seat Belt a primary offense. Report on Hearing and Vote: Thursday, February 19, 8am The Senate Energy, Infrastructure and Transportation, voted at 10:30 this morning 4 in favor 2 opposed to SB116. Schneider, Nolan (the sponsor), Breeden and Townsend voted in favor with Cegavske and Carlton voting no. John Lee was absent. Please thank Senators Cegavske and Carlton for voting NO. With passage from the Senate Committee it will now go to a vote of the whole Senate. In 2007, this bill was defeated in the Assembly, so our next big push will be in the Assembly Committee. Thank: Barbara Cegavske bcegavske@sen.state.nv.us and Maggie Carlton mcarlton@sen.state.nv.us The room was full of “public safety” and medical people, cops, and other bureaucrats testifying in Carson and Las Vegas via videoconference. The bottom line is money. If this law passes the state can apply for grants. Nevadans already comply with 92.2% which is up from 91% 2 years ago--higher than some states that have primary seat belt laws. The education campaign “Click it or Ticket” is credited to the increase. Education works better than compulsory laws! This is a freedom issue. It would allow the police to stop you at anytime for any reason, when you are doing nothing wrong. Testimony presented by Chad Dornsife of the National Motorists Association http://www.motorists.org/ spoke about how in North Carolina the Primary Seat belt law had been use as an excuse for road blocks by police who then proceeded to “check” everything else. They said the road blocks were successful because they were able to pick people up for so many other infractions. Joining Eagle Forum and the Independent American Party in testimony against the bill were the public defenders from Washoe and Clark and the ACLU. What good company! They are concerned about racial profiling, liberty and privacy. We are concerned about “bumper sticker” profiling as well. SB116 makes not wearing a seat belt a primary offense, which means the police can stop you at any time for any reason to see if you are wearing your seat belt. The current law prohibits the issuance of a citation for failure to wear a safety belt unless the vehicle is stopped or the person is arrested for another offense. By removing this provision, this bill allows the issuance of a citation for not wearing a seat belt even if there is no other violation. We are moving towards a police state. Contact by Phone: Northern Nevada 775-684-6800, Las Vegas 702-486-2626 OR Toll Free 800-978-2878 or 800-955-9080 or 800-992-0973, Toll free fax: 866-543-9941

Stimulus By State

I already posted this link...but this format sent to me by a friend seems easier :) http://www.stimuluswatch.org/ You can search by keyword, federal program or by state. People are going nuts seeing what their states are asking for! This is urgent? Oh yeah, Check out Puerto Rico???? Come on people! If the almighty Harry Reid is so omnipotent and so all powerful...you'd think he could have gotten more than 1.5 Billion for Nevada when Puerto Rico landed over 20 Billion :) Find projects by state or territory Alaska (46 projects) Alabama (318 projects) Arkansas (199 projects) Arizona (743 projects) California (1971 projects) Colorado (201 projects) Connecticut (449 projects) Washington, D.C. (8 projects) Delaware (7 projects) Florida (1752 projects) Georgia (266 projects) Hawaii (316 projects) Iowa (51 projects) Idaho (348 projects) Illinois (1031 projects) Indiana (713 projects) Kansas (139 projects) Kentucky (524 projects) Louisiana (433 projects) Massachusetts (266 projects) Maryland (54 projects) Maine (72 projects) Michigan (782 projects) Minnesota (335 projects) Missouri (403 projects) Mississippi (552 projects) Montana (57 projects) North Carolina (319 projects) North Dakota (61 projects) Nebraska (154 projects) New Jersey (261 projects) New Mexico (215 projects) Nevada (163 projects) New York (289 projects) Ohio (847 projects) Oklahoma (223 projects) Oregon (159 projects) Pennsylvania (352 projects) Puerto Rico (340 projects) Rhode Island (116 projects) South Carolina (271 projects) South Dakota (30 projects) Tennessee (103 projects) Texas (1240 projects) Utah (298 projects) Virginia (400 projects) Vermont (61 projects) Washington (368 projects) Wisconsin (358 projects) West Virginia (1 projects) Wyoming (85 projects)

Ken Dalton Retires From Coaching

I'd like to tip my "helmet" to our local Reno icon Coach Ken Dalton and wish him a grand farewell as he steps down as the head coach for McQueen High School in Reno, NV. Ken Dalton has touched and changed thousands of lives over his 40 year coaching career. He is the most winning high school coach in Nevada, and has coached the McQueen High School Lancers for the entire 27 years they've been in existence. He has over 300 wins under his belt and 6 State Championships. I had predicted after his next championship win, he might retire. The Lancers won the State Championship this past season by one point, and it seems my prediction was true. Chris Carr was but a mere pup when Coach Dalton gave him the Lancer Pride. He went on to play for the Oakland Raiders, and this past year played for the Tennessee Titans. When he signed on to play pro during his draft year...Ken Dalton was one of the first phone calls he made. My son Quaid had the privilege to play for Dalton on both sides of the ball for four years. I thank Coach Dalton for the influence, discipline, and skill he brought to my son's life not only as an athlete, but also as a man. The sidelines at Lancer Field will never be the same again Daddy D :) Thanks for the memories. Photos courtesy of LancerFan.com

What If ? The Liberals Ask Me

I've been asked a lot lately by those who still adore Obama and the "Change" machine..."So, what do you think would be different now, or what do you think would be happening right now if John McCain would have been elected? Do you really think "it" would be any different?" So many in fact have asked, I felt compelled to answer back something at least. I've never said I thought John McCain would have made a great president. I openly stated all through the election that it was a hold your nose and vote year. I openly stated my opinion that I didn't vote for John McCain strictly to uphold my "sacred position" as a Republican, but more so because ANYONE almost would have been better than Barack Hussein Obama. First off, I'd like to say to my liberal friends, relatives, or acquaintances that ask...if you are even inclined to ASK me the what if question...doubt is already seeding itself within you. If your Obama was so great and good, and the change you are seeing is what you thought you were going to get by casting that vote...then you would certainly have the last laugh and you would NOT be asking what if?...you would be saying I TOLD YOU SO :) That's not happening amongst any liberals I see daily. Honestly, we'll never know the true answer to what if McCain/Palin would have won...they didn't. My answer to what if really can't be placed upon the shoulders of McCain, I didn't have a lot of faith in him either...especially with Pelosi & Reid in tow leading a highly liberal Congress, and McCain showing signs of RINO virus from time to time. Oh, he sings a blingy tune NOW, but prior to election...he was a little too willing to go along to get along if you ask me. My answer to WHAT IF lies within all of us. It's an easy answer...it's an answer that bears no light on any party lines, titles, factions, race, creed, or affiliations. It only speaks to one simple philosophy, and that is common sense mixed with the basic first grade math. Two plus two will always equal four, and if it's hot...don't touch it. I'm really sick and tired of everybody playing the blame game. I'm so tired of the media being so high on sensationalism, ratings, and dumb logic that I have to restrain myself on a daily basis from throwing a brick through my 50" 1080I HD widescreen television I worked so hard to finally afford! I'm sick and tired of not seeing color in normal and responsible individuals only to have the media or some whacked out liberal throw race in my face everytime somebody speaks an opinion not favorable to anybody who whines down and out while those same people are exhuming exhorbatant amounts of energy to NOT handle business, morals, or life in general in their own lives so that they may continue to take my money and yours to remain dependant on the government or community programs and not have to just live responsibally! When I slam, dis, talk shit about, or otherwise demean some lazy individual that lives in the slums, barios, or other impoverished neighborhoods...I'm sick and tired of the media and liberal moonbats assuming I'm speaking of or look down upon black, hispanic, blue, purple, or any other race! There's as much white trash living like this as there are people of "color". RESPONSIBLE, HARD WORKING, MORAL INDIVIDUALS HAVE NO COLOR...GET IT FOLKS? Here's the answer to ALL this mess plain and simple. It's easy folks. Shut up, read three documents, LIVE AND DIE by those three documents, speak English, and learn some simple grade school math. NO is a simple word, only two letters, and EVERYONE needs to learn it, embrace it, live it, and accept it without question...all the way from the highest top to the lowest bottom. No means no. DONE...life is good, we all prosper, and America once again becomes the greatest nation on earth in the eyes of the globe. We already know it is...but we're giving it away, throwing it away, and wallowing in unnecessary misery. Shut Up: The media should just report news, plain & simple. Truth is news, speculation and/or opinion is not news. For every bad thing they have to report, they should also find good things to report. True news is not up for discussion, deliberation, supposition, or judgment. State the facts good bad or indifferent and move on. Three Documents: The Ten Commandments - whether you are a Christian, Jew, Muslim, Catholic, Buddhist, Athiest, or Agnostic...it's a good document. Pretend those 10 rules had nothing to do with religion...they actually don't...except it's tied to Jesus bringing it down from a mountain on a tablet. They are good rules, follow them. The United States Constitution - It's a great document and should be left alone - it's not up for debate - amendments do come on rare occasion, but it shouldn't be considered a living document up to the whims of flowing tides or fad phases. The Bill of Rights - this document covers everybody no matter their origination, it stands good as it is if followed. Live & Die: If Americans of all walks of life and all races knew as much about these three documents and cared as much about them as they do the trivial things in life like Survivor, Desperate Housewives, local gossip, their so called entitlements and what's "due them" for breathing, or spending their last dime on what they want instead of what they need...Americans would learn to LIVE and would enjoy life to its fullest. If Americans were willing to DIE to abide by and preserve every word of the three documents instead of being willing to DIE because they are in a gang and someone in the neighborhood wore the wrong color shirt...or willing to DIE before they would take something they hadn't earned then we'd have no bad economy or failing systems. The liberal mentality is a lazy mentality. Only truly afflicted or elderly people should be taken care of and have our wealth on any scale redistributed to them. Those not willing to learn, work, climb, and try should get no hand outs. What you can earn, what you can achieve is measured by what you are willing to do...period. Speak English: No matter where you came from, or where you might go...SPEAK ENGLISH! If you can speak another language at home GREAT! The more languages you know the more doors are open to you and the smarter you are. But, in America...speak ENGLISH. If you came here from somewhere else...welcome friends...sign in, take the test, become a citizen or at least have the proper credentials to be here, i.e. green card, visa, or diplomatic legality...period...no exceptions! Oh yeah...that is a law isn't it...that one doesn't get inforced though...jay-walking on the other hand will land you a hefty ticket on a busy street in a second. Grade School Math: 2+2=4. If you don't have it in your pocket, or in your bank account you can't spend it. If you are given credit and you don't pay the payments...you lose it and don't get to borrow anymore. No pay - No Have. No Work - No Pay. No Save - No Security - No Future. It's your choice. No MEANS NO!: Don't be behind on bills but have enough money to be seen at the local restaurant eating out or at the bar spending $5 per beer. Lenders & Credit institutions should play by the same rules. Don't give money to people that won't give it back to you. IF you do...YOU eat the loss! Not my fault you made a bad business decision. Do it enough times...guess what...out of business plain & simple. Losers must be allowed to lose. There's no shame in having less than the guy next to you. Have what you can afford and be happy with it. If you are a bad business man and can't manage your business, or there wasn't enough business to keep it going...close the doors and hold your head high. Losing is what leads people to win, they have something then to compare it to. This notion that EVERYBODY is entitled to the same things is hogwash! YOU are only entitled to what YOU make for yourself. We all start with nothing...even the rich you think inherited their wealth. At some point, we all have nothing until either someone leaves it to us, gives it to us, or we earn it. You'll be best served to consentrate on the latter :) Folks that get it given to them should get it from someone who made the choice to do so. Government shouldn't be giving anyone anything...it's we the people that give of ourselves to the government...so we the people should be the only ones able to tell them how to spend it! People should give, communities should give, and all of free will and choice. The government should govern not give. Our founding fathers set government up to have a mere three purposes. Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The executive should execute and oversee the other two branches and govern the military. Legislative was designed to make few laws to keep a large nation basically on the same page. It was NEVER designed to control the people, protect the people from themselves, nor have say on the way we live our lives, or spend our money. The judicial is in place to make sure the laws are followed, not to decide loopholes on how we can manipulate the law. Free market principles in business and life are all that will work. If the government would leave it all alone...the markets will correct themselves after the failing and criminal fall by the wayside. It's government intervention and regulation that caused the mess and they want us to believe they are the only ones that can fix it. As an individual when you do business with someone or become friends with someone and they screw you over...you never do business or associate with that person or business again. After a business screws enough people over, they either have to close due to lack of business or they correct their ways and build again. Bad friends either apologize and repent, or they lose friends and end up all alone. Either way, life goes on and good wins over evil. When that natural process is prevented from occuring, good and evil end up in a whirlwind and circular pattern that never gets better, but downward spirals like water going down a drain. Common sense people...that's all we need. The majority of you voted for Barack Obama. You loved him so much, you think his Socialist mentality will save you. Good luck with that, and thanks for screwing the rest of us over that have been carrying all of you for years...protecting YOUR rights...fighting for YOU to have the ability to be whatever you wanted to be. Conservative people get a bad rap because we demand the same from everyone. We fight for you to be FREE to do whatever you want to do...or not do. BUT...if you choose the NOT side...we don't judge you...we just refuse to carry you and pay your way! THAT'S why common sense and conservative values are bombarded in the media and within liberal circles. Conservatism demands effort, self discipline, morality, responsibility, and repercussions. It's that little repercussion part the liberals aren't willing to buy into. When you remove repercussion, then control and dependence becomes easy for your liberal wealthy narcissist power mongers to achieve. The liberals always claim to be on the side of the poor and downtrodden. They elect liberal officials because those officials promised them change and a better way. Yet...with EVERY LIBERAL official without fail...the poor remain poor and nothing changed. But, the words were pretty and you at least conned yourselves into thinking they tried. WHAT IF YOU TRY? What if YOU quit listening to the crap and quit drinking the Kool-Aid of liberalism and socialism? What if all of you hold your government accountable for the lies they tell you. READ the bills in congress! Go online and STUDY what is actually going on. It's all right there for you to read...they don't even HIDE the blatent butt screwing they are giving you. But they make nice speeches on TV about change and crisis and doom and gloom and horror. They tell you on TV that without them...you will die on the vine. You're not dead until the dirt or the fire of the oven hits your cold stiff carcass! There's no doom and gloom. Because THEY preach it to you and YOU believe it...then it's so...and so the markets fail... Have you noticed that on the free market...the true capitalist free enterprise market... that everytime Obama opens his mouth...the market drops a few hundred points? What if you call bullshit on the whole thing and go out and live your life. When a President makes a speech on TV (that somebody ELSE wrote for him) and makes a point to say the word CRISIS over 27 times...that should be a HUGE red flag to anybody. What if John McCain would have won? I don't know. I know I'm not going to lose. I may end up with not much money, I may end up with no business, and I suppose I could end up not owning a home...but I'm NOT going to lose. To quote the common sentiment lately...the peasants are about ready to pick up the pitch forks...hope you have one ;)

Facebook Terms of Use / Service

Didn't your Mama ever teach you that ANYTHING you post on the internet is THERE FOREVER for posterity, and you should have MANNERS? I agree with all the news stories that Facebook's "new" Terms of Service clause gave cause for pause! GASP!!!, HORROR!!! EEEKKK!!, yep, the wording and text was egregious! HOWEVER...just because the ORIGINAL terms of service wording gave you warm fuzzies...DID YOU THINK the same wasn't true? People! We're GLOBAL now, and have been for some time! I'm a geek, and I only have teeny little talent...but I can copy & paste, right click, save, pirate, determine IP addresses, and grab most of anything anyone posts on the internet. It's NOT ROCKET SCIENCE! Don't believe everything you read. Believe only 1/2 of what you hear, and believe only 3/4 of what you see and witness! Be GLAD some things remain sacred because they should be. Be GLAD if you are a crazy fool celebrity that everybody that knows that doesn't tell it all! Paris Hilton probably did 10x more than got on the internet...like we care! If you post it THEY will come! Facebook means you no malice! It's ONLY YOU that might post something you DON'T want someone else to find out. YOU posted it...so YOU obviously wanted someone to see, read, or hear it! YOU posed for a photo, or wrote a story, or gave an interview! DON'T BLAME FACEBOOK if you get caught with your hand in some cookie jar or with your pants down! You did it to yourself! Until you registered, made a comment, wrote a note, or posted a photo...FACEBOOK or any other mammal on the planet didn't even know YOU existed. Don't blame Facebook for what YOU chose to be literary content! The World Wide Web is just that...WORLD WIDE. It's like a giant bulletin board and YOU put a piece of paper on it with a thumb tack. They're pointy and hard remember?...those thumb tacks? If you've got so much to hide, THEN HIDE :) Every keystroke you make is cached! If you don't know the meaning of CACHE, Click on this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache I'd worry more if I were all of you what those around you might really KNOW about you. What do your neighbors know? What have those celebrity folks have seen through their windows at home that might come back to haunt them? What did you unknowingly say at a bar one night? WORRY NOT ABOUT FACEBOOK! If you have nothing to hide and you're proud of what you post...then carry on my brothers & sisters...don't let the main stream media scare you once again! We only need be scared of ourselves...or very proud of ourselves. I'm a firm believer of back up what you print even if it hurts :) See my blog for examples sometimes LOL :) If true, back up what others might say about you. We are all human. THAT LINK is but a scratch on a fly's wing of what cache really means. "Caveat Emptor" might also be another good phrase for those upset about Facebook's "terms of service" to Google :) And, caveat emptor to what others might post about us all...it's the honor system and old fashioned decency that needs to prevail. If you post it of others, it's malice...without permission. Or is it? If what you post is TRUE, then perhaps it's free speech? If you post things you don't want others to see, it's self malice unknowingly...don't post it if you aren't willing to eat it, and own it! If it gets posted about you and it's untrue...then sue...if it is true guess you have to explain it and eat it. We all hope that those close to us will keep our secrets near and dear. Don't blame the World Wide Web for your transgressions I guess. The box was dark & deep until WWW.whatever...but now it's not. Don't blame Facebook for covering their corporate ass in a conservative way :) AND REMEMBER, the GOLDEN RULE!!!! DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE DONE UNTO YOU! If the World Wide Web, or the general public would follow those rules, we'd all be a little better. If you do unto yourself by Facebook or general Web posting...then you're on your own :) It's a free country...destroy yourself if you must :) OR...just be HAPPY to have fun on Facebook or any other website and ENJOY what you post and be proud of it! I love Facebook, my other websites, and life in general. I've known for years not to publish something that will bite me :) I've been bitten all the same though...ya can't please everybody and everybody isn't gonna like you. Just the way it is :)

Bailout

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Hillary Confirmed as Secretary of State

Well, the mass media does it again. This time though, I'm gonna give a bit of credit where credit is due...and then slam back on said credit :) Do we not have bigger fish to fry lately than whether Hillary, or Hilary, or Mrs. Clinton dissed her husband in her acceptance speech? Washington, the hill, the White House, OUR GOVERNMENT has turned in to a really bad episode of some lame reality show. Survivor? Lost? Desperate Housewives? All of these top rated and hugely "successful" broadcasts get about as much of my attention as do an episode of my own stomach flu which thank God I haven't had in years! However, today...the "hot news" is that Hillary was "RUDE" to poor Bill in her speech. I'm gonna give the polyester queen a kudo here. Ms. Pantsuit (and what's wrong with pantsuits by the way?) got on national television and actually said something REAL!!! She said (in her acceptance speech for Secretary of State) that she is grateful to Bill Clinton [her husband] for all kinds of experiences [laughter] which have given her an extraordinary richness that she is grateful for and beholding to. ??????? BIG RED FLAG HERE???? I'm giving Hillary huge credit here for coming on TV and giving him a dig. It's NOT like we didn't all know it anyway? Remember the "I didn't have sex with that woman" speech before... or the fact that he doesn't seem somehow to think that a blow job or a cigar in the privates isn't somehow related to sex??? And IF that woman didn't KEEP the dress with semen on it...nobody would have ever known??? I give Hillary huge kudos to have the power she does and come out and remind us all of what she went through and make "light of it". I give her huge kudos for having the brass ovaries to remind Bill Clinton (the other Democratic saviour before Obama the messiah) that he made a mockery of his position as President! However...SOME OF US DON'T THINK IT'S FUNNY! I sadly was a cheater once. I made that error and lost a family over it because of a stupid and BAD AND CORRUPT move. I'm a really decent person and committed an egregious felony that even I never thought I was capable of. I understand human error and downright despicable behaviour! I begged forgiveness, didn't get even a nod. I was with a true conservative in the purest sense. Screw me...screw you! Don't blame him for that...I crossed a line that cannot be un-crossed. I've since remarried, I'm happy and successful, but once, he too slipped and fell into a bad woman's arms or crotch...however you might seem to view it. Really good people have bad things happen to them, some do...some don't...but a lot of us do, and most likely when it happened it was hugely our own faults that caused it. The thing I find appalling is that while most of us just try to muddle through our discretions, learn from them and NEVER IN A MILLION years make the same mistakes again...watch those people come on TV and give a guy a DIG and then say...that someone that bent you over and broke your heart...someone that screwed another while married to you...but...but...you are GRATEFUL FOR THEIR EXTRAORDINARY RICHNESS - AND YOU ARE GRATEFULLY BEHOLDING TO THEM? I don't get that! NOBODY is GRATEFUL for that experience and I've walked both sides of that fence! I think it was funny that she called him on TV...I feel like for any discretion I ever committed I should NEVER be bothered by someone that reminds me of it...but hey...I KNOW the damage it causes others when you commit a personal and emotional crime on them...it's NEVER funny. And to those people that have committed those same crimes against me...I AM NOT GRATEFUL, NOR BEHOLDING TO YOU... I would hope that at some point...enough digs are enough...but hey...folks never forget and Hillary pulled that dig off nicely :) He deserved it, I deserved it, and my current husband deserves it once in a while... You WISH it would go away, you don't WANT to chastise someone else for something you once were guilty of, but you just can't help yourself. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD LEARN FROM THE PEOPLE! Some wrongs can be forgiven, they just can't be "righted". So goes it with Hilary & Bill. We all in life may have made our peace with each other...but I'm neither grateful or beholding to those that transgressed against me...nor do I expect others I transgressed against to be grateful for my transgressions. It would just be nice for once for a politician to come on TV...even a newly confirmed Secretary of State to say something like..."Yeah...Bill fucked Monica...I forgave him because I love him, or I forgave him because we make a lot of money together and we're great business partners and politicians. He's not since that day ever done it again and we for our own reasons decided to learn from that grave error of humanity...and even though he's an asshole, he's MY asshole...And hey...I can be a bitch too, and if I was doing my complete part as a wife...he'd have had enough at home to keep him from straying...we're BOTH responsible for that error, and I'm just happy we got through it and have survived." NOBODY ever comes on TV and says what is REAL! Although I praise Hillary for getting in a bit of her reality...nobody ever comes on TV and states REAL reality. Folks come on TV and state their drama, but they never talk about real reality, or the common sense things that make it better. I hate that about our government, and I hate that about folks in general. We all fail, we all err in our ways...but shouldn't it be OK to admit it? Shouldn't it be OK to talk it all out and DO SOMETHING about it? I've corrected my failing ways, I did that LONG before I met my husband. When you have absolute repercussions...you change and in a hurry. I love my husband and he loves me, despite our human flaws. BUT...we don't hide behind our flaws. We talk about them and we deal with them. So should the politicians...they ARE the humans we so blindly elect to office. They ARE just normal folks. Only YOU and others not thinking make THEM into something other than we. I've met many celebrities in my careers, and guess what...all just like us! So NO...Hillary wasn't RUDE to Bill today...she was just honest for once...until she became grateful and beholding for his bad behaviour. If she wasn't willing to offer up some sort of REASON that Bill might have taken the blow job from the chick in the typing pool...then she was just another person in the limelight continuing to pour sugar on sour grapes. You can pour sugar on sour all you want to, or you can throw sour in the trash when it's too spoiled to survive. Until folks try to deal with WHAT makes SOUR then you're never gonna solve anything, and some folks have to live with NO...or IT CAN'T... All the times in my life when I fucked up so royally (thank God there are few)...NOBODY was there to bail me out. NOBODY was there to say they were "grateful and beholding to me" for my mistakes...they just bailed. Hillary is no different. It's all smoke and mirrors. I'd actually like to sit in a bar with Hillary as a girlfriend...I'd like to change her mind on how she speaks to the rest of us. It's OK to keep Bill after his "episode"...but just DON'T try to tell all of us it's all OK every day with her...it isn't. Rich politicians have the same lives we all do. There is NO FAMILY without a skeleton or two in the closet. It just is what it is and THAT is something we can all understand! If our politicians want us to follow their lead, then THEY need to LEAD in a direction that makes sense. If you screw up YOU PAY and DEARLY. 2+2=4...It's NOT that hard. Don't try to come on TV and make a cute speech while lying to our faces. Bill Clinton DID inhale, Richard Nixon was a crook, and all should just be real.

Friends You Don't Shoot

I think we've all heard the old saying about how folks come into your life for a reason, season, or a lifetime. Well...it's the lifetime friends you don't shoot :) Sometimes, you've only known these folks for a few years...but you know...they'll be there a lifetime, thus protected from any bullets :) These lifetime friends have a fade to them in your mind's eye...because they fade somehow from the friendship category into the family category and you hardly noticed the transition whenever that happened. These friends are protected from bullets because you love them so much, they are the ONLY people allowed to give you huge shit and live through it. Who says nobody is spending money? Who says the economy is flatter than a pancake? Conservatives spend money; in fact...they waste good money in order to tell those they love so much just how special they are :) We went to dinner tonight with our friend Ray. Now Ray is a few years older than I (had to throw that in..."Pops"), but age between lifetime friends doesn't matter. He's really a better friend to my husband, that's how we met. We don't see Ray often, but keep in touch with electronics and technology. Imagine my surprise though tonight at dinner when Ray presented me with a beautiful little present...one of those kind that makes a woman giggle...you know the perfect sized little box :) JEWELERY!!! Well, I opened my little special box (nice gold box with sparkly engraving that said "Plumb Gold Piercing Pagoda" on it) that was wrapped so perfectly. Inside was bright tissue paper folded around something small and wonderful :) I began to open my present in front of all...(remember Ray & I are lifetime friends now...we are like minded and see eye to eye on everything...he and my husband too)... With held breath I open my gift...and what is inside? OH...NO...HELL NO...yep...it was this... Somehow in a nice restaurant, only this one word could slip from my tongue... "Fucker!"... followed by many laughs and more great conversation. Only a true Conservative could get away with giving another fellow Conservative this special gift and not get shot :) Love ya Ray!

Obama Warns Against Limbaugh

I'm going to heavily defend Rush Limbaugh here. I didn't write this post a few days ago when I should have...and for the same reasons the "others" attack him. We don't want our "perceptions" to be tarnished in the eyes that hold a majority. I'm learning at a Mach III speed that if we keep that mentality, we're gonna perish and in short fashion. Rush may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I listen...and for the great majority of the time...the man speaks some heavy truth. Sure...some don't care for his seemingly arrogant and bullyish style...but folks...LISTEN, listen BETWEEN the lines. Rush gets off on a "me" tangent once in a while...but he NEVER pretends that YOU must actually change your lives to condone it, or accept him in those humorous moments. He quite frankly just tries to state facts, and in his humorous self indulgent moments encourages anyone that doesn't like it to change the channel! Rush Limbaugh DID NOT wish Barack Obama to fail. He merely stated a very well known fact among we the peons, that given all these policies Obama wishes to pass - and soon - that with the passage of the new change and the new expansion of our new Obama government, we will all fail due to simple math. Therefore, Mr. Limbaugh said...if wishing Obama to succeed would mean that he condoned all the catastrophe coming from the upcoming policy, and that our nation would be burdened with impossible outs that will come from Obama's likely actions very soon...then yes...one could suppose that Obama's success would mean a devastating failure for the USA...and on that premise...he would wish he [Obama] would fail. It's a very legitimate point to make. Then today, I see the headline..." Obama: Quit Listening to Rush Limbaugh if You Want to Get Things Done After I see the headline...I read the story. THEN I see the quote from my new President that promised me hope and change..."I won," he said, according to aides who were briefed on the meeting. "I will trump you on that." The response was to the objection by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to the president's proposal to increase benefits for low-income workers who don't owe federal income taxes. MY PRESIDENT is going to pull the "I trumped you card" when our country is dying on the vine? Are you shitting me? Yeah dude...you trumped me, the next guy, the illegal alien, the single mother, and all you fought so hard for to get their vote! "Trumping US" means you SCREW THEM...do ya get that yet? I see Republicans (strike that...the few Conservatives) trying to stop all the unbelievable crap the liberals are trying to shove down our throats, up our asses, and around our necks! It certainly doesn't take a rocket scientist to see our Congress is in the worst state of corruption and blatant unconstitutional action than most of us can remember in our lifetimes. And yet...Mr. Obama comes out and makes a nice speech that his drama teacher would certainly give him an A+ for...but it's all crap, lies, bullshit, and YOU are going to pay dearly for it and YOU can't get enough of it. The majority of Americans can't get past Survivor, Desperate Housewives and other sundry "reality" scenarios. You'd rather donate your hard earned money to make sure your "real" TV is in tact than you would invest in a 401K. When Mr. Obama takes all responsible people (people that actually have a positive balance in their checking accounts) out of the picture by taxing them to the point they are forced to quit - (small business owners, long term average employees making it, college students wanting to make it, etc...), and then the rich people (the VERY rich) continue to see the stock market ISN'T rising...investors can add 2+2. Even if greedy Wall St. executives cannot...those MILLIONS of people living on somebody else's dole or credit are going to realize WTF! The VERY WEALTHY (which most of your government officials including Obama are) have enough money that losing a million or billion here or there is but one day they have sand in their eye. THOSE people, your Republican nor Democratic government go after...they have enough money to LOBBY (hate lobbyists), DONATE, be philanthropic, and weigh their way into "protection". On the other side of that coin...THEY PAY a whole hell of a lot more of your taxes than anyone else...so yeah...they have a right to a little attitude. Why should this nation penalize someone smart enough and successful enough to make a billion dollars? That's what we all wish we could do. I'd be damn happy to pay the same percentage of tax on my Billion (if I could ever reach even $500,000) that you pay on your Thousand ANY DAY! Charge us all 10%-20%...If I make a Billion...my check might be written for $2 million, and if you make $100...you pay $20. I'd vote for that all day long and be HAPPY to write a large check. I'M NOT HAPPY WRITING CHECKS FOR FOLKS THAT WRITE NO CHECK!!!! Guess what flower, peace, and green folks...when those - ANYBODY - that has two more dollars than you do no longer has those two dollars...the degenerate, the dependant, the folks that lazed around not being aggressive about their futures are going to realize in short fashion what WTF really means. We will no longer have it to give to you - therefore - you'll be shit out of luck. The $20 you could have paid against my $2 million will suddenly make more sense to you! I'm pretty sure that's why Jesus burned in stone...Thou shalt not covet. Don't covet what you don't have when what someone else has is paying your bills. I've spent my entire life so far working so hard to be able to have enough to give back. I've got to tell you something....most of the people I gave back to grabbed it up, took it, and never looked back. There are those though that reluctantly accept some help and cannot wait to give you back some and then some. Those people are the principals of Conservatism. Those people are capitalists and realize that socialism doesn't work. Those people are NOT the people that take advantage of those who love them most but bust their ass to pay a couple of dollars to a person or establishment that will never appreciate it, know it, nor think twice about it. Desperate people always turn to those closest to them for relief...yet never think it important to make those people first in line when the payback comes. How long does a liberal society think this kind of behaviour will be tolerated? At some point - - - Oh yeah... - - - it happend once, it was called the Civil War...the oxymoron of the century, but those that fought had a real beef! The government, and big business, and small bad business along with the entitlement generation take hold of the Americans. But, they make great speeches and tell you how much more wonderful your life will be if you just drink their "ISM" juice. Whatever ism ails you...they have a medicine for it! Soon, you're addicted to the formula and never saw your death coming. For all that think bailouts and loans with no collateral are a good thing to make sure Americans (legal, illegal, or foreign) have just those "God given rights"...be VERY AFRAID!!! Those of us paying for it, and paying for all of you are running out of money too. And when we...we the conservative thinkers, and savers of money run out of ours...YOU HAVE NOTHING! A great majority of people have never even had an IRA or a 401K besides a $10 per week donation or so. For those that do...another majority didn't until they were 30-35 years old, and even then it was $10 per week or so...minimum contributions. For those that took the plunge and put in the maximum...we've lost over 50% of our holdings in this economy. That's 50% less that we (the supposed rich - the ones in the "upper" tax brackets) have to pay in our taxes. Guess what? "We've" all lost so much money this year...we're paying the same 50% less in taxes that we have in our investment accounts. Most of the smart heavily invested folk saw the shit hitting the fan and pulled their money after they lost about 30%... I waited too long to make a move...waited too long years ago to save, and most of the ones now totally uneducated in finance at all that were too busy attending Barack Obama great speech rallies...just left their money where it was...didn't even look at it. With the "upper class" (that's such a joke to me as I know where I stand and Obama considers me to be one of them)...being about 50% down...the tax dollars collected to give all the takers their special benefits are also down! Obama, the RINOS, and the libs want to plunk out another $850 Billion to $1.5 Trillion to make it all better. Again, from my tax dollars and I'm already down 50%. How does that make sense to ANY OF YOU? You all KNOW YOU don't have any money to throw down to pay TARP back, or the next and the next stimulus bill. Nope...those of us that keep on trying to pay our taxes and bills on time will have to give you some more. HEAR ME PEOPLE - WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE TO GIVE EITHER!!!! Wake up and smell the coffee! There can hardly be a person on the earth that hasn't heard the old saying "you cannot draw blood from a turnip". Well...most of us DIDN'T fall OFF a turnip truck and we have no more blood to draw. We're coming after your blood...the green kind...if you don't have it...get out and earn it like the rest of us had to in order to support your sad butts as long as we've had to already! Remember this too...STOP taking everything totally out of context. If you are reading this thinking what a bitch I am to have the gall to speak to you that way...then YOU AREN'T the one I'm talking to. If YOU didn't do it, then YOU aren't guilty! Pay up USA...it's getting OLD! Your government cannot take care of you with an A+ in speech class! Actions speak louder than words...be very afraid...fight back! BUT...if you've been drinking the ISM juice...watch this! It was made ONLY 60 FREAKING YEARS AGO...not much has changed sadly!

Painting The Flag

Folks these days are real down on Conservatives. They say we're racists, arrogant, capitalist pigs, etc. All of the things liberals throw at us...we just let it bounce off because we know in our hearts they are wrong. We are not racist, we are not arrogant, capitalist we are - but pigs we are not. Conservatives know what makes America great and we remember those who fight that fight. We do appreciate others different than us, we thrive on the eccentric that can succeed at doing what has impassioned them and allows them to succeed in their dreams. And so it is with painting the flag...

Barack Obama Inauguration

Well, it's over. We have inaugurated the 44th President of the USA. I'm trying so hard to keep my happy and positive face on and hope for the best, but the facts keep stabbing me like sharp knives and pokers as I sit in a pool of paint thinner. I found a couple of things disturbing as I watched the "festivities" today. Since when during any inauguration is the new First Lady NOT arm and arm with her husband at all times? Am I the only one that noticed Barack Obama had his woman sitting behind him...or coming out before him...and then again behind him...and only with him for a brief moment at the moment of oath? I found that odd and disturbing. I find that odd a lot with Barack H. Obama. He has a knack of always walking into a situation or a place all alone with that overly ME auora about him. I find it creepily narcissistic. I realize he flubbed the oath. The gentleman giving it flubbed too. This observation has nothing to do with that...as I don't judge folks in an extremely emotional moment that get tongue tied and have a goof...we are all human. BUT...as I listened to Joe Biden's oath...it was read by his orator perfectly, and he quoted back the oath as it should be. Is it just me...or did any of you find it odd that Barack Hussein Obama did NOT swear in his inaugural oath to defend this nation against enemies both foreign and domestic. That's like one of the hugest parts of the whole oath! I find that eerie that he ommitted that from his oath and I also find it UNAMERICAN! I guess we'll see. I'm trying to be positive, but this man makes it hard. I do wish him the best, but more than ANYTHING I just hope SOMEONE in the next four years will remember that we...WE THE PEOPLE are still out here waving frantically hoping that someone again might notice US. It's become so all about THEM in Washington...it feels to me like it's THEM up there, and WE down here are just little trolls that meander around cluttering up the countryside while they carry on their own personal agendas on our dime. God Bless America

Pete Parham - A Really Nice Guy

I've just recently gotten involved at Facebook.com. I've been "registered" for some time, but never paid much attention to it. And strangly this last week or so a lot of folks have popped up from my home town in Texas. All grown up living all over the place and it's been cool to stop in and say hey to some faces from long ago. Well...although not on Facebook, but through those contacts we hear today that one of ours...one of our high school mates died. His name was Pete Parham. He was a great guy back in school. One of those kids that has all the looks, all the moves, played ball, was a captain #83, and was ever so popular. BUT, he was also a really decent kid. He always had a smile and something kind to say. His Dad Gene was an awesome man too. Back in the day, Gene had a TV/Appliance repair shop and was an ordained minister on the side. He was the cool preacher though. Gene had an affinity for the young folk, and I say this as someone that saw Gene at the local Dairy Queen up and into my 40's. Gene, like his son Pete was a handsome man and of great stature too...even into his 70's :) Just good people that didn't judge folks, loved all folks, and could for sure bring out the best in folks no matter the circumstance. I didn't know Pete Parham well, except for basic friendly chatter around school, or later in life at a few really good parties...but he was the nicest guy. I think that's a legacy of sorts. I never in all my years in Colorado City ever heard of ANYONE that didn't like Pete Parham. I suppose some might not have travelled in his particular circles...but NOBODY that I ever knew disliked him. He was an icon of my little generation in that little town, and I know he touched a lot of lives. How sad is it today that he has passed on and the many people he touched lost touch with him and never actually told him what a special guy he was. But I think that's how the Lord intended it persay...to make a difference and not make a scene doing it. Pete was certainly that guy. Rest in peace brother, and thanks for the memories :)

Happy New Year 2009

Boy...if 2008 wasn't trippy enough...let's hope 2009 will bring much happiness and prosperity to all. I'm an odd Capricorn :) Christmas is Dec. 25th just when I got over Thanksgiving, my birthday is Dec. 30th, and New Year's falls with the Eve on the 31st and the day on Jan. 1st. Let's just say I get a LOT of partying in during a few days. So...I'm officially 46 now, and wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR! Let's make this year one of history, formed BY the people, for the people and taken to the original levels of what America is all about as given to us by our God, and our founding fathers! HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2009

Merry Christmas - Happy New Year

Boy, have I dropped out of the loop for a bit :) Thanksgiving & then Christmas sneaked up on me quickly :) I hope all of you had a Merry Christmas...and here's to hoping 2009 will be a good year. From mine and ours to you and yours...Happy Holidays!

Sparks Republican Women

I've been absent for a while...but still productive. I took on the webmaster duties of my local political club "Sparks Republican Women". We are a part of the National Federation of Republican Women, and also the Nevada Federation of Republican Women. While it will always be under construction...the new website is up, and if you are looking for links to honest and GOOD conservative media representation, our links page is phenomenal! Give us a look :) SPARKS REPUBLICAN WOMEN (Click on title for link)

Santa Bailout

Wednesday Hero - CWO2 Christian P. Humphreys

This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Malinda Chief Warrant Officer 2 Christian P. Humphreys 28 years old from Fallon, Nevada 6th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, Task Force 49 November 15, 2008 A funny, nice guy who loved to fly. That's how Christian P. Humphreys is remembered by his friends. "He was a great guy, always happy and had a joke," said Sean Whitney, a flight medic. "We used to play with our paintball guns in the cornfields behind his house." Humphreys flew with the Fallon Naval Air Station Search and Rescue Longhorns from June 6, 2004, to May 5, 2006. He left the Navy and joined the Army as part of the "Blue to Green" program to become a helicopter pilot. Humphreys, along with Chief Warrant Officer 3 Donald V. Clark, 37 years old from Tennessee, was killed when their OH-58 Kiowa helicopter crashed while on a mission over Mosul, Iraq. As a rescue crew chief, Humphreys was in charge of the operation behind the pilots. He made the decisions when to deploy rescue crews out of the helicopter to assist injured people, and he also took care of the equipment. "He was a funny guy, a nice guy, a lot of character," said Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin Schmidt. "The guy was always entertaining, always had something to say, but like everyone here, he displayed the professionalism in saving lives." Chief Warrant Officer 2 Christian P. Humphreys leaves behind a wife and parents. All Information Was Found On And Copied From MilitaryCity.com These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero. We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

Playboy Virgin Mary

I am really sick and tired of whichever side of the over analyzed side of a fence that is continually shoved up my rear end and attempted to be forged into my psyche! I do consider myself a Christian. I believe in our Lord and Saviour and everything that goes along with Him. I also understand the secular side of life. This "so called" offensive Playboy cover shot of a "so called" Virgin Mary, and those coming undone about the photograph are STUPID! It's nothing more or less than any OTHER Playboy cover photo in history. This is merely a beautiful woman wrapped in a white sheet pretending to be some dream gal. Same as any other Playboy cover in history! This woman in NO WAY resembles to ME a virgin Mary, or any other virgin. HELLOOOOO! If your half naked self is on the cover of Playboy...it has NOTHING to do with Christianity. TRUE Christian girls, or those worried about their purity and reputation DON'T wrap a table cloth around their bare breasts as to CONFUSE the PUBLIC! So... the over doers need to STOP making it seem so as do all the OTHER media SPIN folks with the rest of the news. Get a GRIP MEDIA! You aren't fooling ANYONE with your nonsense...even though it's ONLY about the BILLIONTH time you've tried to do so. Hot woman wrapped in an elegant table cloth, or a Wal-Mart sheet DOES NOT A VIRGIN MARY MAKE! WE THE PEOPLE know better...so should YOU! And...since Playboy has made their trillions portraying half naked women willing for money to pose in such a manner...should cue YOU "other" folk into knowing that it is what it is...and if you are offended...DON'T BUY THE FREAKING MAGAZINE! The "rest of us" wouldn't HAVE EVEN KNOWN she... "she...the offensive"virgin" Mary" even existed but for YOU THE MEDIA pushing it in our faces! Smart people are capable and even willing to NOT LOOK and NOT BUY such magazines. HOW DARE YOU THE MEDIA try to tell "US" that a paid hussy is any more than she is! I doubt Playboy Magazine has EVER had a virgin on the cover! Only gold-diggers! AND...if you ask me...Playboy KNOWING what kind of business they are in are pussies (pun INTENDED) for publishing and speaking an apology! If you are in the business of photographing hussies on book covers...then admit it, own it , and be proud of it since that's YOUR business. If WE THE PEOPLE might be "offended"...then so be it. WE HAVE THE CHOICE (at least today) to NOT LOOK, NOT PARTICIPATE!

Wednesday Hero - Jonnie L. Stiles

Spc. Jonnie L Stiles 38 years old from Highlands Ranch, Colorado 769th Engineer Battalion, Louisiana Army National Guard November 13, 2008 Louisiana National Guard spokesman Maj. Michael Kazmierzak said Spc. Jonnie L. Stiles had been serving as a gunner on a Humvee doing route clearance when and IED detonated near his vehicle in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. He said the job typically involves checking roads for bombs and insurgents. Stiles' wife, Launa, said that he was nearly killed last month when a suicide bomber blew up a military vehicle in front of his. She said he was still able to rescue three other soldiers and returned to duty before his 30-day recovery period was finished. "He was strong and really cared for his men," she said. Stiles was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and graduated from Littleton High School in Colorado. He served in the military for 17 years, first joining the Marines and then switching to the Army in 1999. He served three years at Fort Carson, left the Army and then returned as a member of the Colorado Air National Guard in the Summer of 2007. All Information Was Found On And Copied From MilitaryCity.com These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero. We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

Wednesday Hero - Spc. Matthew T. Morris

Spc. Matthew T. Morris 23 years old from Cedar Park, Texas 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment April 06, 2008 "He was a very creative kid, and when he wasn't in a challenging environment, he tried to make life interesting," Glenn Morris, father of Spc. Morris, said. "He excelled in a military school structure and in a team environment." Before enlisting in the Army in 2005, Morris attended the Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, Virginia where he met a history teacher who inspired him to want to become an educator. "After his service, he wanted to go back to school and get a four-year degree to become a teacher," said his mother, Lisa. "He wanted to make a difference and give back to the community." Spc. Morris was killed when his vehicle encountered an IED in Balad, Iraq. Also killed in the attack was Cpt. Ulises Burgos-Cruz. All Information Was Found On And Copied From MilitaryCity.com These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero. We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.