On Friday, Washington legislators agreed on a compromise which for now anyway, diverted a shutdown of the government. However they continue to find it unnecessary to get to the core of our fiscal issues. Republicans are still whining about spending, and meanwhile you have Democrats who want planned parenthood. Still no effective talks about reducing government and cutting spending in the public sector.
If that doesn't sound surprising to anyone, you may be shocked to realize that since the financial collapse of 2008, there have been little cuts on the local, state and federal government levels. Today more than 22 million Americans across the country are employees of the government. In other words, more people are working in public sector jobs with a largely inflated pension fund that tax payers are on the hook for, than people working in farming, manufacturing, forestry or technology industries combined.
People really are depending on the government.
And despite the fact that our yearly deficit is $1.4 trillion and our national debt is likely to exceed $15 trillion in just a few months, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is pleading with Congress to raise the debt ceiling limit, so we can borrow more money from China, without any consideration at all, to simply cut back the bloated bureaucracy of government.
Amid our financial crisis, the government continues to keep hiring. Yesterday, Fox Business released the most recent job openings in the federal government:
- $115,000 a year, to maintain a Facebook page
- $150,000 to $180,000 a year for equal opportunity compliance officers
- $100,000 to $150,000 for speechwriters
How embarrassing when millions of private sector jobs have vanished, yet spending money on positions like this are deemed necessary.
Another fact often overlooked is when the federal government comes out with its ridiculous numbers on the unemployment rate going down, most of the jobs being filled are usually in the public sector. Secondly, they tend to only count people receiving unemployment benefits after they had been laid off, as being legitimately unemployed. When people stop receiving the benefits, I guess the idiocies in the state and federal governments believe that those people somehow went back to work?
President Obama continues to spew this nonsense about becoming fiscally responsible.
When you're the President, or a Senator or a Congressman, and you're not smart enough to write your own damn speech and you end up paying a six figure salary to someone just to write it for you... maybe that is an indicator you should just shut the hell up.
Would that help cut cost on the federal level?
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Ivory Coast leader captured
After months of refusing to step down and thousands of people left dead, forces loyal to Ivory Coast president-elect, Alassane Ouattara, besieged a bunker where Laurent Gbagbo was in hiding and arrested him.
This marks an end to 10 years of rule by the Ivorian dictator and nearly five months of Ouattara trying to run the country since winning the election in November. Up until now, the country had been on the brink of facing, yet another civil war.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling this arrest as an indicator to other dictators who refuse to step down from power, will face serious consequences from the international community.
Because Gbagbo used military and security forces on his own people, there is considerable possibility that he shall likely be tried in the International Criminal Court.
Meanwhile, I'm sure the rest of the dictators in Africa and abroad are shaking in their boots and afraid of an upcoming unrest and overthrow of their governments. The events in the Middle East obviously show the Muslim Brotherhood's goal to start a Caliphate and the real possibility of something similar spreading throughout Africa should be in question.
This marks an end to 10 years of rule by the Ivorian dictator and nearly five months of Ouattara trying to run the country since winning the election in November. Up until now, the country had been on the brink of facing, yet another civil war.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling this arrest as an indicator to other dictators who refuse to step down from power, will face serious consequences from the international community.
Because Gbagbo used military and security forces on his own people, there is considerable possibility that he shall likely be tried in the International Criminal Court.
Meanwhile, I'm sure the rest of the dictators in Africa and abroad are shaking in their boots and afraid of an upcoming unrest and overthrow of their governments. The events in the Middle East obviously show the Muslim Brotherhood's goal to start a Caliphate and the real possibility of something similar spreading throughout Africa should be in question.
Friday, April 8, 2011
A Government Slowdown, not Shutdown
So by midnight, our Federal Government will likely 'shutdown'.
Sounds like a typical scare tactic. In fact, the Federal Government will not necessarily shutdown, people will still go about they're daily lives as if nothing even happened. However, places such as National Parks and Museums will close, the IRS will be unable to process tax returns, the EPA won't be reviewing environmental impact studies and most government websites will be offline.
But the really good news, Congress won't be able to pass any laws.
That should actually make liberals very happy, when you consider that they spew this "we want freedom" philosophy all the time, and should also make conservatives happy as well, since they don't want big government.
And what is President Obama doing about this? Fund raising for his 2012 re-election...
True however, that President Obama apparently met with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to discuss cuts in spending and as usual, neither one of these stupid political parties can find common ground. And it is apparent that neither party really has the consideration of the will for the American people.
Liberal Democrats want higher taxes for wealthy Americans, failing to take into consideration that once the super rich receive such tax increases, they'll move elsewhere... by the way, hypocrisy from the wealthy in Hollywood who are liberal, but don't want to participate at all in any form of sacrifice. Even if that was the case to impose a higher tax on every single millionaire or billionaire in this country, it would still accumulate to less than the yearly deficit of over $1 trillion and the national debt, which is likely to pass $15 trillion by the end of September.
As it stands right now, the main issue holding up the passage of a budget, is the fact that Senator Reid is whining about planned parenthood. Notice that liberals never seem to want to address abortion and have no problem with it, but they're against the death penalty? Apparently Senator Reid sincerely believes tax payers should pay into a program that supports planned parenthood for women, even though the country is fundamentally broke and can't afford the expense of other nationalized programs. So if tax payers pay for contraception to stop women from having babies, Senator Reid will be satisfied and a budget can be passed.
Sounds like Senator Reid is getting inspiration from Chairman Mao.
Conservative Republicans meanwhile want spending cuts, including military funding. In any case, our armed forces overseas should still receive their paychecks, which liberals again won't give any consideration to. It seems pretty clear that the spending is the actual problem in Washington D.C. Keep paying those ridiculous pensions to 22 million federal workers, and keep those borders open so we can pay billions of dollars each year on illegal immigration.
And finally, to be frank, the Democratic lawmakers both in the House and Senate, have nobody else to blame except themselves on this issue. They had last September, before the election, when they still controlled both houses in Congress to pass a budget. They failed to do so.
So, in my opinion, bring a government shutdown. It will not necessarily shutdown, but rather just slow down the process. And with the exception of tax payers still on the hook either way, I'd like to see this as a learning lesson for these dumb politicians in Washington. Maybe they can see the kinds of problems they've created for years.
Sounds like a typical scare tactic. In fact, the Federal Government will not necessarily shutdown, people will still go about they're daily lives as if nothing even happened. However, places such as National Parks and Museums will close, the IRS will be unable to process tax returns, the EPA won't be reviewing environmental impact studies and most government websites will be offline.
But the really good news, Congress won't be able to pass any laws.
That should actually make liberals very happy, when you consider that they spew this "we want freedom" philosophy all the time, and should also make conservatives happy as well, since they don't want big government.
And what is President Obama doing about this? Fund raising for his 2012 re-election...
True however, that President Obama apparently met with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to discuss cuts in spending and as usual, neither one of these stupid political parties can find common ground. And it is apparent that neither party really has the consideration of the will for the American people.
Liberal Democrats want higher taxes for wealthy Americans, failing to take into consideration that once the super rich receive such tax increases, they'll move elsewhere... by the way, hypocrisy from the wealthy in Hollywood who are liberal, but don't want to participate at all in any form of sacrifice. Even if that was the case to impose a higher tax on every single millionaire or billionaire in this country, it would still accumulate to less than the yearly deficit of over $1 trillion and the national debt, which is likely to pass $15 trillion by the end of September.
As it stands right now, the main issue holding up the passage of a budget, is the fact that Senator Reid is whining about planned parenthood. Notice that liberals never seem to want to address abortion and have no problem with it, but they're against the death penalty? Apparently Senator Reid sincerely believes tax payers should pay into a program that supports planned parenthood for women, even though the country is fundamentally broke and can't afford the expense of other nationalized programs. So if tax payers pay for contraception to stop women from having babies, Senator Reid will be satisfied and a budget can be passed.
Sounds like Senator Reid is getting inspiration from Chairman Mao.
Conservative Republicans meanwhile want spending cuts, including military funding. In any case, our armed forces overseas should still receive their paychecks, which liberals again won't give any consideration to. It seems pretty clear that the spending is the actual problem in Washington D.C. Keep paying those ridiculous pensions to 22 million federal workers, and keep those borders open so we can pay billions of dollars each year on illegal immigration.
And finally, to be frank, the Democratic lawmakers both in the House and Senate, have nobody else to blame except themselves on this issue. They had last September, before the election, when they still controlled both houses in Congress to pass a budget. They failed to do so.
So, in my opinion, bring a government shutdown. It will not necessarily shutdown, but rather just slow down the process. And with the exception of tax payers still on the hook either way, I'd like to see this as a learning lesson for these dumb politicians in Washington. Maybe they can see the kinds of problems they've created for years.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Yale sets up committee following sexual misconduct
Like many universities lately, Yale is having to rebuild its reputation following allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct steaming from its own students involved in fraternities and sororities.
Today, Yale announced it was setting up a new committee following a federal investigation which examined complaints that Yale has a "sexually hostile environment" and falling to respond to the allegations. Mary Miller, the Dean of Yale University said she had received a notice from the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, but had yet to be served with the formal complaint.
Well apparently, there were earlier complaints from students. In October, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity posted a You Tube video in which its members repeated chants promoting rape and in another incident, undergraduate students were forced to strip naked at a college party.
Fraternities and sororities on college and university campuses nationwide have irrepressibly promoted a hostile environment among their peers. Every year, it seems like there is some kind of new report of a college student either getting humiliated or hurt during a haze. Then you hear from the actual spokesperson of the fraternity or sorority and they completely 'condemn' the bad behavior. What a load of BS.
If you ask me, college fraternities and sororities have, for the most part, been the same group of punks and sluts they've been for the last 100 plus years. They run around promoting this platform that they're all about community service or promoting Greek awareness, when in fact, they're all a bunch of lazy drunken ivy-league morons who believe that they deserve something from everyone else for their barbarianism.
Then you have the sororities, none of these girls have probably ever been educated about safe sex. They'll go to some college party, become completely obliterated and have sex with two or three guys and in a few months, they'll be sitting around crying because they can't figure out how in the hell they got pregnant. So then they'll write letters to a Senator saying that abortion has to be legal because "I got raped on a university campus".
Give me a break.
As for Yale and other notorious universities like USC, I'm curious to know what the regents and chancellors are going to do to protect students that actually want to attend college to complete an education and get a degree, without the hostility from the fraternities and sororities. I'm imagining that little will actually be done. University of Wisconsin La Crosse is a prime example. They've tried to rebuild they're reputation after dealing with similarly "sexually hostile environments".
It all ends the same, they'll continue to promote the same environment in the same manner as before.
Today, Yale announced it was setting up a new committee following a federal investigation which examined complaints that Yale has a "sexually hostile environment" and falling to respond to the allegations. Mary Miller, the Dean of Yale University said she had received a notice from the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, but had yet to be served with the formal complaint.
Well apparently, there were earlier complaints from students. In October, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity posted a You Tube video in which its members repeated chants promoting rape and in another incident, undergraduate students were forced to strip naked at a college party.
Fraternities and sororities on college and university campuses nationwide have irrepressibly promoted a hostile environment among their peers. Every year, it seems like there is some kind of new report of a college student either getting humiliated or hurt during a haze. Then you hear from the actual spokesperson of the fraternity or sorority and they completely 'condemn' the bad behavior. What a load of BS.
If you ask me, college fraternities and sororities have, for the most part, been the same group of punks and sluts they've been for the last 100 plus years. They run around promoting this platform that they're all about community service or promoting Greek awareness, when in fact, they're all a bunch of lazy drunken ivy-league morons who believe that they deserve something from everyone else for their barbarianism.
Then you have the sororities, none of these girls have probably ever been educated about safe sex. They'll go to some college party, become completely obliterated and have sex with two or three guys and in a few months, they'll be sitting around crying because they can't figure out how in the hell they got pregnant. So then they'll write letters to a Senator saying that abortion has to be legal because "I got raped on a university campus".
Give me a break.
As for Yale and other notorious universities like USC, I'm curious to know what the regents and chancellors are going to do to protect students that actually want to attend college to complete an education and get a degree, without the hostility from the fraternities and sororities. I'm imagining that little will actually be done. University of Wisconsin La Crosse is a prime example. They've tried to rebuild they're reputation after dealing with similarly "sexually hostile environments".
It all ends the same, they'll continue to promote the same environment in the same manner as before.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Ivory Coast violence escalates
Remember the Ivory Coast? Maybe you don't, as it has been largely overlooked in the news media ever since the Middle East unrest began in December. I had initially wrote about the Ivory Coast several months ago when its President Laurent Gbagbo refused to cease power after an official election had demonstrated that his rival, Alassane Ouattara, was to become the country's new president.
Since then, Gbagbo has refused to leave quietly. He ordered all United Nations peacemakers to leave the country and refused to listened to recommendations by the African Union and the European Union has imposed sanctions on the Gbagbo government.
But now, the Ivory Coast has broken out into yet another civil war. It is no surprise, the country has experienced these problems for years, and since Gbagbo doesn't want to give up power as President, this has led the opposition lead by Ouattara, to take certain measures against the government.
Sound familiar to what is going on in Libya?
Troops loyal to Ouattara have killed more than 1,000 civilians, many of them beheaded with machetes. Yet he is asking the support of the United Nations to toughen up on 'peace making' to remove Gbagbo from power.
And there seems to be yet again, more breathtaking ignorance from President Obama. Here you have a man who refused to address the genocide in Libya for the better part of a week before the UN added sanctions and a 'No Fly Zone', and yet nearly the same genocide is going on the Ivory Coast... yet President Obama is supporting the Muslim winner Ouattara and his loyal military slaughtering more than 1,000 people.
I'm curious to know if President Obama is going to intervene in the Ivory Coast as well?
Since then, Gbagbo has refused to leave quietly. He ordered all United Nations peacemakers to leave the country and refused to listened to recommendations by the African Union and the European Union has imposed sanctions on the Gbagbo government.
But now, the Ivory Coast has broken out into yet another civil war. It is no surprise, the country has experienced these problems for years, and since Gbagbo doesn't want to give up power as President, this has led the opposition lead by Ouattara, to take certain measures against the government.
Sound familiar to what is going on in Libya?
Troops loyal to Ouattara have killed more than 1,000 civilians, many of them beheaded with machetes. Yet he is asking the support of the United Nations to toughen up on 'peace making' to remove Gbagbo from power.
And there seems to be yet again, more breathtaking ignorance from President Obama. Here you have a man who refused to address the genocide in Libya for the better part of a week before the UN added sanctions and a 'No Fly Zone', and yet nearly the same genocide is going on the Ivory Coast... yet President Obama is supporting the Muslim winner Ouattara and his loyal military slaughtering more than 1,000 people.
I'm curious to know if President Obama is going to intervene in the Ivory Coast as well?
Monday, April 4, 2011
Eric Holder is a disgrace
Just moments ago, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington to announce that the dirt-bag conspirators who orchestrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks will be held in a Military Tribunal court, instead of a civilian court.
That's a sigh of relief, as Holder and President Obama have stood by their original plan to hold a trial in civilian court right in Manhattan just blocks away from where the World Trade Center was destroyed.
However in today's press conference, Holder seemed extremely bitter about several things. He blamed Congress for intervening into the Administration's decision, saying that "They tied our hands in a way that could have serious ramifications. In reality, I know this case in a way that members of Congress do not. Do I know better than them? Yes."
Apparently Mr. Holder has demonstrated that he is perhaps the most ineffective, ignorant and non-productive Attorney General in our nation's history. He should know that Congress has every right as representatives of the American people to add their opinion on this particular issue since it was the biggest tragedy in our nation's history and has deeply affected the families of those innocent people killed on that day.
But Mr. Holder doesn't care anything about that. He seemed to ignore the fact that in several of the leading polls, more than 70% of Americans did not want the conspirators tried in a civilian court, much less in downtown Manhattan. And now, since Mr. Holder feels that the damn bipartisan Congress got in his way because they took into consideration the feelings of the American people, he is sour grapes about this.
Moreover, this circus involving Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the rest of these despicable examples of humanity, has been delayed on a number of occasions because the Administration has yet to close Guantanamo Bay and they can't decide on which court would be more appropriate to hold a trial for these scumbags.
It has been almost ten years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on our country, and there is still too much talk and no walk. The Department of Justice could have picked any place to hold a trial, like out on a military base in Montana, or some deserted island south of Tahiti, and now after a year of wanting to hold the trial in New York City, Mr. Holder finally says they'll be held in a Military Tribunal instead of a civilian court and is adamantly angry about it.
Everything this Attorney General does is a complete disgrace. He refused to do anything about the Black Panther voter intimidation issue and refused to even read Arizona's illegal immigration law even though he spent an entire month criticizing it and now he stands by his original plan of trying the 9/11 conspirators in a civilian case, despite the fact that Congress listened to the will of the American people who didn't want them tried here in the first place.
Mr. Holder just go away. Please!
That's a sigh of relief, as Holder and President Obama have stood by their original plan to hold a trial in civilian court right in Manhattan just blocks away from where the World Trade Center was destroyed.
However in today's press conference, Holder seemed extremely bitter about several things. He blamed Congress for intervening into the Administration's decision, saying that "They tied our hands in a way that could have serious ramifications. In reality, I know this case in a way that members of Congress do not. Do I know better than them? Yes."
Apparently Mr. Holder has demonstrated that he is perhaps the most ineffective, ignorant and non-productive Attorney General in our nation's history. He should know that Congress has every right as representatives of the American people to add their opinion on this particular issue since it was the biggest tragedy in our nation's history and has deeply affected the families of those innocent people killed on that day.
But Mr. Holder doesn't care anything about that. He seemed to ignore the fact that in several of the leading polls, more than 70% of Americans did not want the conspirators tried in a civilian court, much less in downtown Manhattan. And now, since Mr. Holder feels that the damn bipartisan Congress got in his way because they took into consideration the feelings of the American people, he is sour grapes about this.
Moreover, this circus involving Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the rest of these despicable examples of humanity, has been delayed on a number of occasions because the Administration has yet to close Guantanamo Bay and they can't decide on which court would be more appropriate to hold a trial for these scumbags.
It has been almost ten years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on our country, and there is still too much talk and no walk. The Department of Justice could have picked any place to hold a trial, like out on a military base in Montana, or some deserted island south of Tahiti, and now after a year of wanting to hold the trial in New York City, Mr. Holder finally says they'll be held in a Military Tribunal instead of a civilian court and is adamantly angry about it.
Everything this Attorney General does is a complete disgrace. He refused to do anything about the Black Panther voter intimidation issue and refused to even read Arizona's illegal immigration law even though he spent an entire month criticizing it and now he stands by his original plan of trying the 9/11 conspirators in a civilian case, despite the fact that Congress listened to the will of the American people who didn't want them tried here in the first place.
Mr. Holder just go away. Please!
Kern County police officers on the other side of the law
As if California doesn't have enough problems already, The Bakersfield Californian reported yesterday on at least thirteen different police officers in Kern County throughout an 18 month period who participated in illegal activity while wearing a badge.
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood, someone that I have been privileged to meet on a number of occasions, is in complete dismay over the actions of these police officers, telling the Bakersfield Californian "If you have to train someone not to have sex with an inmate and if you have to train someone not to pull people over and steal their money, we're really in trouble."
And it just goes to show that some of these officers, who are supposed to serve and protect, are actually stealing and provoking crime:
- A former Kern County Sheriff's Deputy, did indeed, pull motorists over and stole money from their wallets.
- A Kern County Sheriff's Sergeant was involved in an elder abuse case after becoming involved in a relationship with the person's daughter.
- One former Bakersfield police officer resigned after he paid for and engaged in sex acts with local prostitutes while on and off duty.
- Another Bakersfield police officer was under the influence and involved in a hit and run.
- A former Kern County Sheriff's Deputy was in possession of methamphetamine and prescription drugs.
- And, yet another Bakersfield police officer had possession of child pornography.
Perhaps, the most bizarre of them all, were two former Kern County Sheriff's Detention Deputies who engaged in having sex with prison inmates.
The actions by these despicable individuals who are supposed to serve and protect and uphold the law, not to mention who are also paid generously with tax money, is just disgraceful.
Sheriff Youngblood admits that the officers should all be held accountable and to a higher standard. But now the real question that remains: Will the Kern County Sheriff's Department take additional measures to train future police officers from engaging in illegal activity?
Having lived in Kern County my entire life, I can say that we have a very well respected police force. Nothing like some of the other corrupt police departments we've seen in other areas of the United States.
Nonetheless, Sheriff Youngblood has his work cut out for him and will have to take certain steps to ensure the Kern County Police Department's reputation is the same again.
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood, someone that I have been privileged to meet on a number of occasions, is in complete dismay over the actions of these police officers, telling the Bakersfield Californian "If you have to train someone not to have sex with an inmate and if you have to train someone not to pull people over and steal their money, we're really in trouble."
And it just goes to show that some of these officers, who are supposed to serve and protect, are actually stealing and provoking crime:
- A former Kern County Sheriff's Deputy, did indeed, pull motorists over and stole money from their wallets.
- A Kern County Sheriff's Sergeant was involved in an elder abuse case after becoming involved in a relationship with the person's daughter.
- One former Bakersfield police officer resigned after he paid for and engaged in sex acts with local prostitutes while on and off duty.
- Another Bakersfield police officer was under the influence and involved in a hit and run.
- A former Kern County Sheriff's Deputy was in possession of methamphetamine and prescription drugs.
- And, yet another Bakersfield police officer had possession of child pornography.
Perhaps, the most bizarre of them all, were two former Kern County Sheriff's Detention Deputies who engaged in having sex with prison inmates.
The actions by these despicable individuals who are supposed to serve and protect and uphold the law, not to mention who are also paid generously with tax money, is just disgraceful.
Sheriff Youngblood admits that the officers should all be held accountable and to a higher standard. But now the real question that remains: Will the Kern County Sheriff's Department take additional measures to train future police officers from engaging in illegal activity?
Having lived in Kern County my entire life, I can say that we have a very well respected police force. Nothing like some of the other corrupt police departments we've seen in other areas of the United States.
Nonetheless, Sheriff Youngblood has his work cut out for him and will have to take certain steps to ensure the Kern County Police Department's reputation is the same again.
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