Excuse My Addiction and Those Who Run Our Dysfunctional Government

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Yesterday at work I checked my personal e-mail. I had to go through a special process and filter that gives you a window of time to operate. I checked my e-mail and my calendar because Google is not part of my company. I felt a bit guilty, even though my Google Calendar has my work events on it. Isn't that called my conscience? Don't you assume those you vote into office have a conscience too?

When I watch my elected government officials I wonder if they have even heard of a conscience. Michelle Malkin questions how politicians police and "punish" themselves in Capital Hill's Other Dirty Laundry http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/06/15/capitol_hills_other_dirty_laundry/page/full/. As a teacher I understand that sometimes the foxes can't guard the hen-house. We don't do a good job of policing ourselves. Maybe an independent citizen led group should serve, sort of like jury duty?

Ruth Marcus does a great job of discussing how we view immoral actions. Follow the link http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-rehab-nation-sin-becomes-addiction/2011/06/14/AG0ggAVH_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions . I believe as move away from the ideas of right and wrong, sin and evil, we loose our moral base and anarchy ensues. The most pathetic and dangerous responses to Weiner-gate have been from people who say he's just a man, men are pigs, what do you expect? Same thing my wife expects of me, not to be a pig.

Hahn vs. Huey on No Tax Tuesday 6 14 11 Edition

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This is a gimme. Hahn is a born and bread liberal tax and spend, or is that spend and tax, Democrat who loves to play the "tax the rich" card. Truthfully she wants to tax the living crap out of each and every hard working person with a job and and a backbone. Unless of course you are an oil company in her home town.

Janice Hahn is in favor of taxing pot dispensaries. Very creative Janice, way to think outside the box. What's that? Pass the chips?

She also has vacillated on taxing the rich oil companies. Hahn introduced measure O which would impose an oil severance tax on oil extracted within city limits. Now, she opposes her own measure. It seems the companies in her home town complained that it would harm them financially. Follow the money.

In total contrast to Janice Hahn we have Craig Huey, a businessman who has actually personally provided jobs for others. He understands what it takes to bring businesses back to the South Bay and to help the economy grow. The myth of the green job is nothing more than a myth and an attempt to control business via the government. Craig Huey understands this because he has been there as a businessman. Janice Hahn will vacillate her views according to who pays her the most money. Huey is not asking for money, he's asking for an opportunity to help businesses, not government, provide jobs. 

So, the choice here in the South Bay, will be between old time liberal Democratic values, which are failing the South Bay as jobs leave at alarming rates, and the old American values of hard work and less government. Let the money go to the people without the government getting their  sticky fingers on your hard earned money.

Huey = jobs and more money for working people. Hahn = more taxes and less money for working people. You make the vote.

Weiner Rehabs What?

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I hear that Democratic Representative Anthony Weiner has entered a rehab facility. A rehab facility!? A rehab facility for what?

I mean really, I have heard of rehab for alcohol addiction, for drug addiction and maybe even for sex addiction. But, I didn't know they're was a rehab center for self-absorbed liberal jerks. What's it called, The Wild Bill Clinton Center for Narcissists? Weiner did first start out with a lie and then move to the "people just want me to do my job" deflection made famous by Wild Bill himself.

Many of my liberal friends tried to tell me it is just a personal thing and should have no bearing on his political life. I suppose it was very personal to the women he Tweated. Isn't there a very basic level of morals that should be seen here? Is there no connection between what a man does and who he is? I have been taught that what I did while I was alone was who I really was. 

If A. Weiner is getting treatment, what kind of treatment could he possibly be receiving? Could it be a Crackberry addiction gone wild? Are his thumbs OK? Maybe they have discovered a link between liberalism, Crackberrys and sending Tweats of a sexual nature to women who want to discuss politics with a "politician"? What would they do, show him pictures of himself with electric shock therapy? What medication could you possibly offer someone like Weiner?

What therapy teaches right from wrong? THAT IS WHAT ANTHONY WEINER NEEDS. 

Flush 'em Friday: The 6 10 11 Edition

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Happy Friday and it's time again to offer up this weeks list of flushables.
The following are my list but I would love to have some of your additions!

• The CEA (Council of Economic Advisors) - for having such great ideas such as bailing out banks &  automakers
• New Yorkers who support Anthony Weiner
• Anthony Weiner because it just gets worse and he continues to use the  Bill Clinton "People just want to see me do my job" line.
• Newt Gingrich for shooting himself in his own foot politically
• Texting while driving guy/gal
• People who apply make up while driving
• Telemarketers
• Global warming nut-crackers who, like Al Gore and Thomas Friedman live in pretty huge homes
• Feminists who support Weiners
• The people in charge of the Maxine Waters ethics trail 
• Maxine Waters 
• The Department of Education for being such a money absorbing useless entity 

That's it for this week! 

Who would you like to flush?

A Clear Choice, Jobs or No Jobs in the South Bay

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Everyday we are assaulted by advertising that seeks to get us to give up our money to someone else to purchase their product. Nike, Apple, Miller High Life, Old Navy and the list goes on. But, the crime is the government that seeks to take our income and redistribute it to whom or what they believe to be most deserving. 

Here in the South Bay we have two candidates running for Congress. One is a long time politician Janice Hahn and the others is newcomer Craig Huey. Huey surprised the press by beating out Secretary of State Bowen to be in the run-off. Thank goodness! The choice between Hahn and Bowen would of been like choosing between manure and fertilizer for living room flooring. 

In the newspaper this morning was an article about Hahn backtracking on her push for meters in her hometown San Pedro. If she believed in herself she'd stick to her guns and say making some money is better than none. But, the truth is her idea only makes people want to find someplace else to park, thus hurting business. When will voters learn! The way of the Democrats always hurts businesses and kills jobs. Do you want less business and less jobs? Then Janice is your clear choice.

Now on the other side we have Craig Huey. He has had successful businesses and understands how to provide jobs. Craig Huey pledges to limit himself to 3 terms (six years), and keep NO TAXES and NO PORK pledges. This will be one of the clearest choices between candidates that I have ever seen. 

I encourage you to check out his site. www.CraigHuey.com. If you want to know about Hahn just read the newspaper, they'll be backing her like a 6th grade hanger on.  Who will get your vote? I know who's getting mine!

The Twitter and the Weiner

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Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive... (Walter Scott)

If he just would of said he did it, or even denied it once and them admitted it, but, to go on a TV show blitz to proclaim his innocence? Then he had to host his own Weiner Roast.

To my friends from Japan: Do you have a Weiner? What do you think is the honorable thing for Representative Weiner to do?

Now about this "character flaw". What does that mean? What I think is that if someone lies about one thing they will lie about another. If his Twitter account was for political purposes and he was using his political standing to solicit exchanges sexual in nature over Twitter then he was using his status as a Representative for personal gain/pleasure. But, we will hear many excuses from liberals about why Rep. Anthony Weiner isn't such a bad guy and even though he has bad judgement personally, on company time, he doesn't necessarily have bad judgement politically and his constituents just want him to get back to Twitter, I mean work, and do a good job. He will get re-elected because we are dealing with the east coast version of Maxine Waters. Neither of there voting base cares about the morals of their leadership just as long as the checks come twice a month.

Ron Paul: What's his point?

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Ron Paul, just what is he trying to accomplish? I try my best to keep an open ear to what different candidates are saying.  It was pitiful to watch Newt shoot himself in the foot while trying to come across as a moderate. Sometimes the double speak can be quite confusing. So, after listening to Representative Ron Paul on CNN ( Link to video: http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2011/06/05/sotu.ron.paul.6.05.cnn ) I was pleasantly surprised to not be wondering what he was actually trying to say.  The reporter was asking him about the debt ceiling and the budget. I have to say that a understand and pretty much agree with what he was proposing. 

In response government to the concern about defaulting on loans Ron Paul stated that the problem was not defaulting but paying with junk bonds. He also stated that the government had already defaulted on the American people because so many jobs have been lost. Good point.

When asked if he would support another Republican candidate, like Mitt Romney, Paul said that to mainstream America the Republican party and Democratic party are virtually the same. So, to endorse them he would be going against his supporters. Got it. 


One other thing Ron Paul brought up is that cutting spending only counts if it is for this year, everything else is really meaningless because it just becomes smaller useless "cuts". I hear you Paul. 


OK, so what about Ron Paul. I think he represents much more of America than the mainstream liberal media want to admit.  Personally, much of what he says makes sense to me. His foreign policy leaves me wanting but I find myself agreeing with much of what he says. What about you?