Michael Steele's Lame Survey

I got an e-mail tonight from Michael Steele. "He" told me he was "so very interested" in my opinions about where the Republican party needed to go. The questions were obviously canned...stupid lame questions...(if you are a Conservative). True Conservatives ALREADY believe EVERY thing in the questions. The only people that wouldn't score 100% on this test would be liberals...so WHY bother us with the survey? Oh yeah...there was a plea to donate MORE MONEY at the end. I just cannot be a lady anymore and maintain my composure with these RINO moonbats! My own party was ALL JAZZED that Michael Steele won as the new RNC chairman. Sorry...so far...he LOST me at hello...and he hasn't done a THING to really impress me yet. At least he DID have the grace to leave a comment section (in the middle) of the survey. Go figure...I just couldn't help myself...I told him what I think! Folks...this nation isn't all that far away from another Civil War! Conservatives are PISSED! We aren't going to stand for a leader that cannot lead. Lead, Follow, or GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY! My response to Michael Steele: Mr. Steele...your response that your "whatever" with Rush Limbaugh was STRATEGIC? Are you freaking kidding us? WE NEED A LEADER! We need somebody NOT AFRAID of what others think. Your opinion of what others think is LED by the MEDIA & LIBERALS! WE THE PEOPLE...REMEMBER US? We are pissed, and we are READY TO FIGHT...bring on the fighting words. That liberal said we are a nation of COWARDS. MR STEELE...IF YOU DON'T COME OUT WITH MORE FIGHTING WORDS, AND REAL MEANING...YOU ARE THE COWARD. I don't know if you realize it or not... but this nation is not that far away from another civil war if somebody like you cannot bring this nation back to true principle and the values, laws, and constitutional backbone our nation was founded upon. DON'T BE THAT GUY that allowed another civil war to happen. WE THE PEOPLE WON'T LET YOU REIGN IN POWER if you cannot say it like it is! AND...I see the next question in this poll. ARE YOU SERIOUS? YOU want me to comment on the fact that 25% of people WANT MORE SOCIALISM? If ONE FREAKING PERSON wants socialism...THAT'S TOO MANY! Are you a RINO too Mr. Steele? AS a matter of fact...ALL THESE QUESTIONS seem "canned"...OBVIOUSLY WE'RE ALL CONSERVATIVES...and these answers are a "NO DUH" response. These questions aren't going to tell you a THING about TRUE CONSERVATIVES...we're going to answer ALL these canned questions RIGHT & RED. However...I did say that our troops should fight our terrorists first and foremost...BUT THAT'S BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T GIVE ME THE OPTION IN YOUR CANNED QUESTIONS TO CHOOSE BOTH TERRORISTS AND ILLEGALS POURING INTO OUR COUNTRY! GEEZZZEEZZS Steele...how about a question that supports ENFORCING THE FREAKING LAWS WE ALREADY HAVE before we go and create NEW ones! Are you OK in the head? The REAL QUESTION is HOW are YOU as our RNC leader going to DEAL with it? You need to step up Mr. Steele. Be one of us or get off the wagon and let someone more like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, or the like take over for you. The LAST THING THE RNC NEEDS is a limp minded, no balls, play the ends against the middle leader. Grow a nut Mr. Steele...the rest of us already have them! By the way...I'm one of those "little small business owners". I only employ 22 people...BUT TAKE CARE OF FREE MARKETS AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR ALREADY! The ink wasn't even dry on Obama's bills and my taxes have already gone up!

Mayors Bob Cashell & Geno Martini Are TRAITORS

As if the Republican Party doesn't have enough on its plate to revive Conservative principle and fiscal responsibility...we in Reno and Sparks Nevada have to hear of this traitorous action by OUR OWN REPUBLICAN MAYORS! We find out, courtesy of the Ralston Flash - that before Republicans even know who their candidate is going to be against U.S. Sen. Harry Reid next year that two Republican mayors - Reno Mayor Bob Cashell and Sparks Mayor Geno Martini - are helping him raise money for his re-election campaign. Check out the invitation HERE "McDonald-Carano-Wilson, LLP and Reno Mayor Bob Cashell and Sparks Mayor Geno Martini and Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell Invite YOU to a recption honoring Senator Harry Reid United States Senate Majority Leader Wednesday April 15th, 2009 5:00pm - 6:00pm. McDonald Carano Wilson Law Firm / 100 West Liberty, 10th Floor / Reno, NV 89501. $500 Suggested Minimum Contribution / $2000 Suggested Federal PAC Contribution. "Checks Payable to 'Friends for Harry Reid' " For more information, please contact Chris Anderson at (218)-340-5564 or chris@harryreid.com" Contributions or gifts to Friends for Harry Reid are not tax deductible. Paid for and authorized by Friends for Harry Reid." Coincidentally, the Cashell/Martini fundraiser for Harry Reid is being held in Reno on the exact same night as the Nevada Republican Party's spring Central Committee meeting in Carson City. I guess the Republican mayors won't be able to make the Republican meeting. I am appalled and disgusted. The "DIS-honorable" Stinky Pinky Harry Reid has already done ENOUGH to screw the nation...and if the bail-outs to the tune of TRILLIONS weren't enough, he only managed to get a mere 1.5 Billion in bail out stimulus dollars for HIS home state of Nevada...most of which were projects and funding for bullshit items. He's a one man demolition crew for the demise of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear project that could raise billions for our state, and he is a socialist encouraging Barack Obama at every turn to wallow all Americans into decades of debt. This man is the scurge of Nevada and your Washington DC. HELP NEVADANS GIT RID OF HIM IN 2010!!!! Harry Reid is to America what leprosy was to the islands years ago. He is a cancerous sore, a gangrene smelling lecherous nastiness to any citizen of this nation. He is the largest embarrassment to Nevada that we've had in years, and his agenda is tainted. Tainted is the kindest thing I could ever say about this moron, and I CANNOT BELIEVE my own Republican leaders, our mayors are supporting him for a MINIMUM $500 donation / SUGGESTED PAC donation of $2000 to attend a function to raise money in Reid's honor. Mayor Bob Cashell, Mayor Geno Martini...your days are finely numbered now. Your constituents WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS...so get your resumes' ready! You're gonna be looking for a new job come re-election time! Your traitorous, and treasonous! And to think...this "honorable reception function" will be held ON THE SAME NIGHT as the Spring Republican Committee meeting in our capitol of Carson City! Since you're SO BUSY that night, we'll all be at that meeting planning YOUR demise :) With pleasure :) The republicans of Nevada equate Mayor Bob Cashell's & Mayor Geno Martini's willingness to spend $2000 for one hour at a law firm with the co-largest moron in the nation (Nancy Pelosi shares that honor) to a blatent punch in our guts, one at a time and each mortally wounded. Bye Bye Mayors :)

R.J. Lloyd Rest In Peace

I've been pondering the news today that Uncle RJ passed, and as I was checking my e-mail...my dear niece Rhonda actually had already done a post :) YES...Uncle RJ at 92 was a great man. So great, that tears don't come as heaven will be such a greater place with him there! This was a man so impressive to me as a child, and so impressive to generations to come as I grew older and had children of my own and watched many generations pass through his life...all I could ever do in his honor would be not to cry...but celebrate the amazing life this man lived! R.J. Lloyd was named that by his parents. Many years ago when joining the service he was asked to give a name to those initials...he said there wasn't any...but the military insisted...so Robert James it was, and he said it on the spot. RJ served during the Normandy tour! (amongst others), but he saw great combat and great loss of life. He had many stories and articles and even a box of photos that I'm sure the likes of Time magazine or Life, or any other publication would have loved to get their hands on...he wouldn't have it. He quietly called it his horror box, he would NEVER show me, and I was VERY close to him for years. I know the box saw the light of day...but ONLY at private Veterans memorials or reunions and I'm not sure even his wife knew everything that was in that box of horror. My Uncle RJ was FUNNY! He had a sense of humor that would leave you just wishing you lived with him just to have one more day to hear his laugh and his take on life. He was a very reasonable man, an honest man, and a MAN that every woman alive would love to have for their own. He loved his wife Mary with the kind of love that is only heard of in fairy tales. He loved her, respected her, worshiped her, and cared for her in a way no person I know personally has ever experienced :) In the dictionary next to love and romance would be his photo :) I never knew a bigger man. He was not great in stature, but his persona and his beliefs, and the way he LIVED what he believed made him the tallest and largest man alive :) He was so kind. He loved this nation and LOVED to have served as a soldier and he served when being a soldier was a split second any moment away from life or death. He survived and no one knows how. He wouldn't tell us, but most of his compatriots around him met horrible deaths fighting for our country's freedom! His life after service was a miracle, and he lived each day of his life thereafter in miraculous form. Karma is a strange thing. I on rare occasion would send a card or letter to him back home. And just last night...I'm not sure if I was thinking of him on my way to sleep or I just dreamed of him...but just this morning...I checked my address book and jotted myself a note to send him a card or a letter and just let him know I was thinking of him. I've been gone from home since 1986. I got the call today while out to lunch that he had passed. He came and said a mental hello to me on his way out, and I'm celebrating his dinner tonight with Jesus :) Uncle RJ used to sit with me in the yard for hours and we would shell black-eyed peas and ponder the world's problems, and he was always funny and always had good answers. He was kind to my kids, and loved both my husbands through the years with grace and humor. I never knew anyone that didn't hold RJ in high regard, especially his wife Aunt Mary. Tonight...if you hear a little raucus outside in the skies...it's a PARTY :) Uncle RJ and Aunt Mary have re-united in heaven, and life is good for the both of them. RIP to the best Great Uncle a gal could ever have. Thanks for your service to this nation, and thanks for the memories and the greatest inspiration on many levels he gave me as a young girl that I was able to carry into adulthood even to my current age of 46 ;) It's a rare person that has so much influence on your life...you need not have seen them in years but yet still carry them with you daily :) I was a lucky person to have known RJ Lloyd, and even luckier to have been related to him :)

Nevada Taxation Committee Meets TOMORROW!

It's no secret that we're sadly DOWN in our budgets for the upcoming year. HOWEVER, we CAN cut where needed and still fund many other needed functions of our county or State government. Folks NEED to remind themselves of the VAST distinction of what's WANTED versus WHAT'S NEEDED! Our legislature in Carson City is now a majority of Liberal and spend freak individuals. Marilyn Kirkpatrick is one that allegedly mentioned that on March 5th, Washoe County MUST be represented at the table as (paraphrased) "we're coming after it". When asked just "what" they're coming after regarding higher taxes and spending...in open session in Carson City...she said..."all of it". Our State, like our nation is NOT being represented in the best interest of WE THE PEOPLE! Allegedly, Peggy Pierce ALSO a Lib from Vegas (I can't find the alleged Sam Shad Show interview video to prove it) and also testifying before the taxation committee said that hundreds of her constituents have moved here from California and just haven't gotten the level of services they expected from the State of Nevada and NOW "THEY" are ready for tax increases! Just me, little 'ole Conservative talking here...but how many of those "said constituents" do you think are actually the ONES PAYING into the tax bracket that are providing "said services". I moved here from Texas in 1986 off a cotton farm and with little more than minimum wage to get me here with no help! I moved away in '92 and back again in 1996 ;) I can't say ENOUGH GOOD about Nevada and how the State has performed for me! I AM a constituent! I AM NOT ready for tax INCREASES for ANY service the State of Nevada provided me! I appreciated the discounted vaccination fees I found on 9th street for my children that ANYONE can get, and I'm appreciative of how as a single mother struggling in 1986 my Nevada "services" told me as a casino dealer "I didn't make LITTLE ENOUGH money at minimum wage + tips to GET any help"...and quite frankly when I was down on my luck I'm VERY HAPPY (truthfully) that all this "supposed" "service" from my state DIDN'T exist when I desperately needed it. I'm now a proud Nevada business owner and employ 22 people of which 2 include myself and my husband. I'M PROUD THAT WHEN I HAD NO PLACE TO TURN... AND NO HELP WAS GIVEN...MY NEVADA STATE SERVICES TAUGHT ME HOW TO MAKE IT ON MY OWN! They wanted me to FAIL in order to DESERVE any help. Well...they gave me none and guess what? I beat their mentality and I SUCCEEDED! Screw ANYBODY that tells you they haven't "found in Nevada" the "services" they were expecting from some other state! I've never received ANY service from ANY state, and I've lived on little or less more than one time in my life since I've been an adult. BUT the times in my life that I literally COULD NOT get to the next day...my community and my "stranger" friends DID HELP me. Communities will ALWAYS help those that cannot. Taxes will not change that. We in Nevada need to ELIMINATE excessive governmental intervention into matters that would better be served by our VOLUNTEERISM, our faith based or intellectual based folks & citizens that would take up many of our services in a second! IF we leave the government and our general funds OUT of the equation...we'll find MORE help and BETTER control than we would or should expecting the legislature to MANDATE it! Possible library closures or cut hours are an example. VOLUNTEERS will keep the library's open. Planned Parenthood is another good Nevada example. Since suggesting that governmental general funds shouldn't be a focus there...guess what? Over 3 million of that expense has been taken on by folks that just had Planned Parenthood as "their particular cause". Folks will FUND services...everybody's got their thing...be it the homeless, the down trodden, or WHATEVER, we donate and fund what whatever some folks care about! The government doesn't need to! FOLKS - CITIZENS - COMMUNITIES - IDEALISTS - we all have a dollar or two...WE THE PEOPLE can manage our own STATES! Government just needs to GET OUT OF THE WAY! WRITE ALL OFFICIALS in Nevada NOW about the meeting tomorrow! Many will vote for no increases...but send the SAME MESSAGE TO ALL! Here's HOW :) Kathy McClain -Chair kmcclain@asm.state.nv.us Marilyn Kirkpatrick -Vice Chair mkirkpatrick@asm.state.nv.us Paul Aizley paizley@asm.state.nv.us Bernie Anderson banderson@asm.state.nv.us Morse Arberry marberry@asm.state.nv.us Ellen Koivisto ekoivisto@asm.state.nv.us Sheila Leslie sleslie@asm.state.nv.us Harry Mortenson hmortenson@asm.state.nv.us Peggy Pierce ppierce@asm.state.nv.us Ed Goedhart egoedhart@asm.state.nv.us Tom Grady tgrady@asm.state.nv.us Don Gustavson dgustavson@asm.state.nv.us Richard McArthur rmcarthur@asm.state.nv.us Bob Coffin - Chair bcoffin@sen.state.nv.us Terry Care - Vice Chair tcare@sen.state.nv.us Michael A. Schneider mschneider@sen.state.nv.us Maggie Carlton mcarlton@sen.state.nv.us Mike McGinness mmcginness@sen.state.nv.us Randolph J. Townsend rtownsend@sen.state.nv.us Maurice E. Washington mwashington@sen.state.nv.us

Nevada Sales & Use Tax Punished ME

I'm truly offended as a small business owner and regular taxpayer of Nevada. I feel like someone said to me, "Malinda...you're a good girl. Now GO STAND IN THE CORNER WITH YOUR NOSE IN A CIRCLE UNTIL JUNE! You're grounded until June 30th young lady! Thank you for being a good girl." For those businesses that pay their Sales Tax bill early or on time...we've always been given a little smidgen back as a discount or tax cut. On average, it would give back about a $30.00 rebate on a $6000.00 bill. On the other hand...if you're EVEN ONE DAY late...the penalty is about $120.00. Now...I agree that penalties should be stiff for late payers, I've been OK with that standard we have...just thankful for ANY tax cut :) The following was in my Sales & Use Tax bill for last month. "IMPORTANT NOTICE: The State of Nevada has enacted temporary legislation intended to address the current budget issues for the remainder of FY 2009. These measures include a reduction in the Collection Allowance authorized for taxpayers who collect and remit certain taxes in a timely manner. Taxes affected are Sales Tax, Liquor Excise Tax for Sales to Consumers, Liquor Excise Tax, Other Tobacco Products Tax and Cigarette Tax. The collection allowance for these tax types will be reduced from .5% to .25% for the period beginning on January 1, 2009 , and for the period ending on June 30, 2009." Another prime example of punishing the good and rewarding the bad. WHY did they cut my praise for paying on time in half...but didn't increase the penalties for those who don't pay in time or at all? I just don't understand the logic of the government!

Rush Limbaugh CPAC

As much as we all know President Obama is a brilliant man and a great speaker...I never got a "tingle" up my leg as some did when he spoke. That is because I listened to WHAT he was saying. I by accident caught Rush Limbaugh's keynote address to the CPAC conference today, and I must admit...my leg did tingle. As a true Conservative I believe with my life that all of you are free to believe what you want and to side with who you wish. As for me...I WAS INSPIRED! I was reminded that I have a great life! I was reminded that in all my bitching and complaining sometimes over anything that has happened over the last 30 years...I have it good, and I really DO have good people around me :) In my political activism I sometimes get down because I think I have no voice...I DO...WE DO...not everything happens in a day...but right always wins. If you watched that speech or listened to it in its intirety, and then you cannot understand that Conservatism is the backbone of the USA and all of what the founding fathers intended for us... then I'm sorry... We'll never tell you "I told you so"...for we won't have to. When we no longer have anything to give to you...and you cannot believe there is no more...as you sat idly by believing with all your heart that someone somewhere was going to come and save you...then you may sit idly by with all of us when there might be no more hope or change. As for me...I'm going to pick up my bitching butt and go forward. I'm going to remind myself of my own favorite quote that was given to me by the ex-producer of the late great Credence Clearwater Revival band when I dealt cards to him one night across a blackjack table in Reno, and he was of age 80 something. Grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence. It's greenest where it's watered. Stay home and water your grass :) I intend to water my grass and be thankful I have a large yard to water :) Nothing is perfect but some things are damn close, and I choose what's been damn close for over a decade at least in my life, or even longer :) I apologize to myself for ever thinking on a whim or a drink that anything would be any different :) I apologize to myself that it took me this long to give up the past, and know...that it's only right now and what we can believe that matters sometimes. Conservitism IS NOT DEAD...our mistakes die, our idioscryncies may last moments, but our core values and our core people last through anything. I'm gonna go hug mine, my kids, my companies, and my beliefs, and my husband...I'm going to LIVE my life and be HAPPY that I have a good one :) Rush...thanks for inspiring me again to be steadfast and accomplished :) Thanks for inspiring me to realize what I have and NEVER BITCH about what I don't have...for it's ONLY MY choices and MY ACTIONS that determine such.

Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki Speaks - Catherine Cortez Masto Indicts

I attended the Mt. Rose Republican's Women dinner tonight featuring guest speaker Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki. Brian has served our state well and with distinction in varied positions throughout his career. After a humorous thanks to us all (70 attending) for giving up the opportunity to stay home and watch President Obama speak to the nation on television tonight (which I've since seen and viewed it just as it was, a huge PR presentation), he proved to be an entertaining and informative speaker. His explanations of the workings of our Nevada legislature and current and future business, his enthusiastic attitude of how our efforts and involvement as Nevada Republicans can and hopefully will turn the tides in current government, and his forthright and candid explanations of his current legal battles made for an interesting and positive evening. It's no secret that most of the USA wants to see Harry Reid GONE in 2010. WE NEVADANS NEED THE NATION'S HELP TO ACCOMPLISH THIS! I'm new to politics and activism, but I'm slowly learning that what I know and thought about being a politician is sadly spun by many. I'm begining to think that being a politician (at least a good one or trying to be) is like being a soldier in our current wars. You just never know around which corner a bomb will blow or which guy in a little differently colored suit might shoot you in the head. And on top of that in a country currently facing great political turmoil...if you are that soldier or politician, even your boss or chief that you MUST take orders from...or whom might condone your actions might also be a wolf in sheep's clothing...so now...who do you trust? I found Brian Krolicki to be a very genuine person. I know when he was Treasurer and in charge of the Nevada college fund it benefited many, many students. I also know he's a Republican leader in a state we sadly call "purple" now as we used to be hugely RED meaning Republican, and now the Blue Democrats are taking over...but the "other" major city Reno remains mostly Red and all the rural areas are Red...but then...there's Clark County...Las Vegas. As wonderful as Vegas is, the populus and mentality has sadly changed the Wild Wild West of Nevada. Most of the money is there, a lot of the greed and crookedness is there, and we all know Harry Reid is there puking his sad blatent far left liberalism onto each citizen there. Just after Nevada's Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki announced his possible run against Harry Reid for the senate position in 2010...magically news broke that he had been indicited on charges of mishandling funds in the college fund back when he was State Treasurer. GEE... one would THINK that whoever was writing and/or signing the checks at that time should have raised a flag if inappropriate things were going on? Call me crazy...but if I was a bookkeeper, contracted administrating company, coffee maker chick in the breakroom making copies & hearing gossip, or even just a caring nobody blogger like myself...I would have called bullshit if bullshit was happening way back THEN! I believe Krolicki's greatest ally (from a litigation position) and proper defense is the very woman who indicted him and swears that Harry Reid played no part in the decision. Catherine Cortez Masto, the state's Attorney General was officially responsible for his indictment, WAS OFFICIALLY HIS BOSS and signed off on contractual obligations he's accused of frauding, when she herself has been audited before, and accused before for the same kind of thing...but OH...her story was explained away, and Krolicki's explanations aren't good enough? An official audit has been published, only time will tell if what's written there is true or not. Somehow Cortez Masto Democrat Attorney General's story got lost and folded into the garbage :) How can you be somebody's boss and indict them later for something you signed off on? Beats me? But NOW that time has gone by, and now Brian Krolicki is no longer a "measly" Treasurer but #2 in the state as Lieutenant Governor and MIGHT run against Harry Reid...he's now a blatent criminal based on (as far as I can see) very technical alleged contractual formalities, possible bookkeeping errors, lots of crazy impossible to decipher yet seemingly normal expenditures from a business standpoint, possible losses to a fund through investments in a down turning economy that nobody could help and he didn't necessarily participate in, bunch of legal mumbo jumbo that makes him all of a sudden seem like the Charles Manson of Nevada politics! And...those "in the know"...most Democrats, and some respected Republicans might say there's some fire coming from the smoke. I don't know...I think sometimes the more I get involved in true politics around here that a lot of folks are smoking something :) That's my evil twin just calling a duck a duck. Much ado about nothing I say...but they say it's to the tune of several million dollars. Indicted Krolicki is...as time goes by...we'll see what the courts say. I say it's a waste of a LOT of money (even mine that I donated to his defense fund) to even have to argue crap like this when there are so many bigger fish to fry...Harry Reid being the biggest fish in the lake! I also know as a small business owner that I have no control over my 22 employees 24/7. We try hard as we may to always have a great business. Honesty and integrety are our main principles. Once in a great while, an employee doesn't repair a vehicle just right...and a customer has to come back. We fix it again and at no charge to the customer. BUT...I would really hate for the world or the community to think that just because we as owners are technically and literally in control...that WE SUCK as people, or that our businesses are unviable or damned because something small went bad on rare occasion. We can't control everything all the time. That's why we have 22 employees...if we could do it all...we'd have 2...my husband & myself. When you consider government even on a state level...GEEZZEES...that's a lot of people to control or oversee when your title governs the nameplate on an entire division! Humans are humans...no one person can control everything perfectly ALL the time. I say just ask Obama...hell...what's a few million in one's opinion compared to the blatent TRILLION Obama wants us all to swallow like jello, strawberries, or chocolate ice cream? What our democrats have done to this country is unfathomable, and yet we watch our populus praise denegration, blatent in our faces mis-management, and certain criminality against our very purses and wallets and call it change. The constitution anymore is but a comic strip in the eyes of the far left. In the meantime, we go out and indict and try to convict really decent people for basically farting in the wind and hope to land said people 30 years in prison. As I said...I'm new to all of this. Brian Krolicki will have his day in court. He swears he's innocent and that his trial/judgment will prove that. However...one of the most likely people to have been able to unseat the Stinky Pinky Harry Reid has now been devalued, and most likely cannot be our candidate for his senate seat because of Democratic partisan condemnation. It's hard to win with a felonous indictment on your record for supposed monetary discretions, but then again...a president that places a cigar into a woman that is not his wife, has a verified DNA sample on said woman's dress and claims he had no sex with that woman is a hero. Go figure American politics and the sound judgment of its citizens! I guess sadly it's truly become to be that who you screw is more important than who you try to help or protect. And with others having evidence of said screwing...once you've been screwed you just don't matter anymore. Brian...at least your moniker or nick-name by the left is Weaselman... (in which each instance I found for the Weasel was a copied & pasted version of left wingers spinning the same old gossip and not much original content beyond original Weasel verbage) somehow I think I'd rather be a weasel than a Stinky Pinky from Searchlight :) Good luck Brian...I'm pulling for you. I don't see true evidence that you intentionally defrauded Nevada citizens, I think you are genuine. I hope I don't get proved wrong. May the justice system work in your favor if you are clean, if you are not...sorry a nice guy got busted. May the karma due the Democratic Left Wing Moonbat club come to haunt them and give payback VERY SOON for our nation can't stand much more lunacy ;) If it's proved that you did participate in mis-conduct, and proven beyond any reasonable doubt, I'll be the first one dissappointed and I'll come back here and climb on my Blah Blah Soap Box and tear you a new one :) For now...I say INNOCENT until trial date. That's why I donated to your legal defense fund :)

EIEIO Education Bill in Nevada - School Choice

Guest column submitted by... ED GOEDHART This column is offered free of charge to newspapers and online blogs provided it's printed intact and full credit is given. For editing requests, please contact the author directly. Mr. Goedhart can be reached at (702) 682-3339 or egoedhart@asm.state.nv.us School Choice: Less Money, Better Results By Assemblyman Ed Goedhart February 9, 2009 Words: 552 A little-noticed report in the February 7th edition of the Wall Street Journal makes an excellent case for my proposed Excellence in Education and Increased Opportunities (EIEIO) bill to provide Nevada families with the financial means to exercise school choice through new education tax rebates. Take a look: “To understand the problem with the stimulus bill, it helps to focus on specific parts. Take the $142 billion for schools, which is nearly double the total outlays of the Department of Education in 2007. Now consider that much of this cash would go to public-school systems that don't even need the money for its earmarked purposes. The Milwaukee Public School system, for example, would receive $88.6 million over two years for new construction projects under the House version of the stimulus -- even though the district currently has 15 vacant school buildings and declining enrollment.” Now, the interesting part of this isn’t so much the fact that the president’s spending bill is larded up with pork and is earmarked to build schools Milwaukee doesn’t even need. The really interesting part of this report is the reason the Milwaukee school system “currently has 15 vacant buildings and declining enrollment.” As the WSJ explains… “The city is home to the country's oldest and largest school voucher program, which provides public funds for children to attend private schools. Families who participate in the means-tested voucher program receive $6,700 per pupil, while the city spends more than $13,000 per student. In addition to saving the taxpayers money, voucher students graduate at higher rates and outscore their counterparts on reading and math exams, which is one reason waiting lists for the program are common.” Building new brick-and-mortar schools is extremely expensive these days, especially when construction contractors are forced to use union-only labor and pay inflated union wages. So the EIEIO universal school choice program - which would immediately alleviate Nevada’s need to build so many new schools during this current recession, as well as immediately reduce class sizes in existing schools - should be quickly approved and enacted by the Nevada Legislature. Unlike the Milwaukee program, however, EIEIO wouldn’t limit school choice to only low-income families. As long as the government makes education compulsory, then school choice options and funding should be available to all of Nevada’s families, regardless of income. Of course, the teachers union will dispute whether or not students attending private and parochial schools are out-scoring their government-school counterparts, but those arguments are irrelevant. It’s not whether or not one group is performing better than the other; it’s whether parents or school bureaucrats get to make the decision on which school children attend. This is as much an issue of parental rights as it is education. EIEIO tax rebates would provide all of Nevada’s families with the means to exercise their right to select the school they believe is best for their children. They will also reduce the amount of money Nevada’s taxpayers need to spend on building new schools, reduce the amount of money Nevada taxpayers need to spend on education overall, reduce class sizes in existing public schools, and result in improved academic performance in all of Nevada’s schools by instilling a level of competition in what is now a virtual government monopoly over education. Who could possibly be opposed to that?. (Mr. Goedhart is the Nevada State Assemblyman from District 36 and can be contacted at goedhart4assembly@hotmail.com) Distibuted by Chuck Muth & Associates

Liberals Explained

I know a lot of you may not think you have 47 minutes to watch or learn...but THIS VIDEO is well worth watching. It explains the last 40 years perfectly and how Liberalism has changed and has taken over the mindset and psyche of so many millions. AND it comes from a popular comic in Hollywood! Thanks to Aunty Belle for posting it :)

Texas Roadhouse - Reno

It's no secret I'm proud to have been raised a Texan :) I don't get the opportunity often to feel Texas here in Nevada even though Nevada is much like my great home State of Texas :) At the Texas Roadhouse, they fly proudly the American Flag...but the Great Lone Star Flag flies proudly atop the restaurant too :) (See video below!) We ate at the Texas Roadhouse today for lunch in the Damonte Ranch area. It's been around a little while, but is fairly new to this area. I thought it was awesome, the food was good, and the service was impeccable! All of the staff were hospitable, informative, and gracious. Jackie & Beto our servers were OUTSTANDING! Give 'em a raise guys :) If any of you have ever eaten at a Logan's Roadhouse...Texas Roadhouse seemed to be it's clone although no one we asked had ever heard of Logan's :) I have to give credit where credit is due, and I think Logan's both in Redding, CA, and in Midland/Odessa TX have just a slight hand up on food...I still give our local Texas Roadhouse a thumbs up :) The "blooming onion" was great (make sure you order the small one:). Hubby had a Steakhouse Burger and he loved it. The bread (rolls) that they bake every 5 minutes was outstanding...but Logan's famous rolls have 'em beat by a tad :) The bread though was HOT and the butter with a hint of sugar and cinnamon was grand. It's RARE in Reno to get really HOT bread :) I had the "Road Kill" which was a sirloin burger grilled with sauteed onions & mushrooms, and I picked green beans & sweet potato for sides...both awesome. It was really good, I'd have it again in a minute...but locally...that same grilled sirloin dish at either of the Moxie's restaurants does a little better :) We'll be returning guests for sure at Texas Roadhouse. The ambiance was fun, lively, and the food really was very good. It's a great place to take guests or business clients, and despite the fact that I mentioned other venues that I thought were better...I want to take no fate away from Texas Roadhouse. I enjoyed my time there and we will be repeat guests for SURE! You HAVE to check out this few second video! I was SO HAPPY to see a flying Texas flag...I had to take video :) The wind was blowing SO HARD today I could barely stand to take the video :) It appears there is a "roller coaster" type scream at the end of the video...but it's NOT! That was literally a "wind scream" in my Canon G7 camera on video mode :)

SJR2 - VOTE on Judges - NOT Appoint

We would like to keep our judges on the Nevada Supreme Court and District Court ELECTED positions, NOT appointed positions! It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican...THE PEOPLE need to ELECT these important people...not have them appointed by croanies of whichever party they belong! Write your officials NOW...the hearing is Mon. Feb. 23rd at 9am Valerie Wiener: vwiener@sen.state.nv.us Terry Care: tcare@sen.state.nv.us Allison Copening: acopening@sen.state.nv.us Mark Amodei: mamodei@sen.state.nv.us Maurice Washington: mwashington@sen.state.nv.us Mike McGinness: mmcginness@sen.state.nv.us Mark Amodei & Mike McGinness voted NO in 2007 :)

Current Nevada Legislature

Here are bills in consideration during this session of Nevada Legislature. Keep your eyes on them and by all means CONTACT your representatives or local news media if you have a voice. AB1 Prohibits certain demonstrations at a funeral, memorial service or ceremony. (BDR 15-150) AB128 Revises provisions relating to the reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures. (BDR 24-700) AB142 Authorizes the creation of affordable housing districts in certain counties. (BDR 22-87) AB147 Requires local governments to grant preference to local bidders bidding on certain contracts for goods or services. (BDR 27-753) AB153 Revises provisions governing the issuance of drivers' licenses to certain persons. (BDR 43-77) AB157 Provides that the head of a household which receives Temporary Assistance for Needy Families must accept certain employment. (BDR 38-137) AB158 Revises provisions governing education. (BDR 34-205) AB179 Revises provisions governing postconviction genetic marker analysis. (BDR 14-869) AB181 Revises provisions governing charter schools. (BDR 34-550) AB188 Authorizes the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada to waive certain fees and tuition for a child, widow or widower of a person who was killed while serving in the Nevada National Guard. (BDR 34-915) AB189 Revises provisions governing the eviction of tenants from property. (BDR 3-655) AB190 Establishes a moratorium on the execution of sentences of death and provides for a study of issues regarding the death penalty. (BDR S-764) AB195 Revises provisions concerning certain prevailing wage requirements. (BDR 28-506) AB201 Prescribes the requirements for surrogate decision makers to give informed consent for certain behavioral or medical research. (BDR 40-816) AB206 Revises provisions relating to public health. (BDR 40-858) AB209 Revises provisions governing the attendance of certain offenders at meetings of panels of victims of crimes relating to driving under the influence. (BDR 43-872) AB210 Revises provisions governing driving under the influence. (BDR 43-871) AB396* Makes various changes to the provisions governing common-interest communities. (BDR 10-1284) ACR2 Directs the Legislative Commission to conduct an interim study concerning the governance and oversight of the system of public education. (BDR R-301) ACR3 Designates February 11, 2009, as Tissue and Organ Donor Day in Nevada. (BDR R-638) AJR2 Revises provisions governing the approval of certain initiative petitions. (BDR C-883) AJR3* Proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to revise provisions relating to the taking of private property by eminent domain. (BDR C-529) SB52 Revises provisions relating to drivers' licenses and identification cards to facilitate implementation of the federal Real ID Act of 2005. (BDR 43-391) SB117 Repeals the Commission on Nuclear Projects and the Agency for Nuclear Projects and transfers certain duties to the Governor. (BDR 18-589) SB120 Revises the date of the primary election. (BDR 24-370) SB135 Requires pupils enrolled in certain grades in public schools to wear school uniforms. (BDR 34-662) SB136 Prohibits certain persons from using a telephonic device to write, send or read a text-based communication while operating a motor vehicle. (BDR 43-776) SB146* Authorizes the boards of county commissioners of certain counties to levy an ad valorem tax to pay the costs of operating a regional facility for the detention of children. (BDR 31-937) SB148 Authorizes the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada to waive tuition and certain fees for certain members of the Armed Forces of the United States and their spouses and dependents. (BDR 34-198) SB150 Creates the Public Education Stabilization Fund. (BDR 34-664) SCR7 Urges public schools to develop and implement programs for improving academic performance and maximizing learning opportunities of pupils. (BDR R-806) SJR2* Proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to revise provisions relating to the selection of justices and judges. (BDR C-177) SJR3* Proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to revise certain provisions relating to elections. (BDR C-260). BDRs: 555 Revises provisions relating to common-interest communities. 649 Revises provisions governing initiative petitions. C- 665 SJR: Proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to remove term limits for certain public officers. 24- 666 Makes various changes regarding elections.