One Chance Only

Here in Florida, during our election process; Our Governor Charlie Crist decided he wanted to be our Senator, when Senator Martinez stepped down. His first step towards this process was to appoint someone who had no aspirations to hold on to it.... in other words someone to keep it warm for him (I'm surprised he just didn't appoint himself to the position). This made it so Charlie wouldn't have to run against an incumbent. Then our RINO (Republican In Name Only) Governor, announced his candidacy for the Senate seat. However, a young upstart by the name of Marco Rubio (keep your eye on him), announced his candidacy. During the primary Marco handed Charlie a sound defeat. Now here is where my problem is Charlie, announced he was running for Senator as an independent. Now he has already run as a Republican and lost, and he wants another chance? This is wrong, If someone runs for office and his own party doesn't want him that should be it. If he wants to run again, he must wait until the next election, The story has a happy ending as far as I am concerned. Marco beat Crist, and even if Crist received all the votes the Democrat candidate did, Marco would have still won, since Marco pulled in a majority vote (over 50%). Of course all this would be a moot point if my idea of a general primary where every candidate ran and the top two were our choices during the general election. By the way I am still advocating the number two man (or woman) becomes the Lt Governor, and that they both act not only as Governor and Lt Governor, but as the State's two Senators.

Owe Taxes? No Government Job!

According to an article written in the LA Times on September 10th 2010; 41 "Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes -- and they're not alone. We now know that federal employees across the nation owe fully $1 billion in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. 638 workers on Capitol Hill owe the IRS $9.3 million in back taxes. Tom Daschle was the president's top pick to run the Health and Human Services Dept. But it turned out the former Democratic senator, who was un-elected from South Dakota in 2004, owed something like $120,000 to the IRS for things from his subsequent benefactor that he just forgot to pay taxes on. In the House of Representatives, 421 people owe a total $6,524,892. In the Senate, 217 owe $2,774,836. In the IRS' parent department, Treasury, 1,204 owe $7,670,814. At the Labor Department, where Secretary Hilda Solis' husband had some back-tax problems before her confirmation, 463 owe $7,481,463. Eighty-one workers for the Federal Reserve System's board of governors owe $1,076,733. Over at the Justice Department, which is so busy enforcing other laws and suing Arizona, 1,971 employees still owe $14,350,152 in overdue taxes. Then, we come to the Department of Homeland Security, which is run by Janet Napolitano, the former governor of Arizona who preferred to call terrorist acts "man-caused disasters." Homeland Security is keeping all of us safe by ensuring that a brave Dutch tourist is aboard every inbound international flight to thwart any would-be bomber with explosives in his underpants. Within that department, there reside 4,856 people who owe the tax agency a whopping total of $37,012,174."

According to ABC News: "Currently, only IRS employees can be terminated for non-payment of federal income taxes -- a measure Chaffetz wants extended to all federal agencies. The IRS has the lowest level of tax delinquency among its employees than at any other federal agencies, according to the most recent statistics."

This is unreal! and it is a slap in the face of all Americans. Our taxes pay their wages! If they are not going to pay their taxes, they should not be eligible to hold those positions. Elected officials should be ineligible to run or hold office if they cannot pay their fair share. How can they expect us to pay our taxes (the ones they raise all too often) if they don't pay theirs.

Anyone who runs for office, should be audited by the IRS. Their records for the past 10 years should be released for public scrutiny. If they are found to be delinquent, then they will not be placed on the ballot. Anyone already in office found to be delinquent on their taxes (and do not bring their account current within 6 months), will be removed from office; then they will be ineligible to run again.

Anyone who applies for a government job (or appointed to a government position), will have an IRS background check added to their list of qualifying standards. If they are found to be delinquent on their taxes, they will be removed for consideration for any government position. If they are already employed by the government and found to be delinquent on their taxes (and do not bring their account current within 12 months), they will be removed from their position and marked ineligible for rehire.

Government, should set the standard. That's The Way It Should Be.

South Fulton FD Refuses to Put Fire Out
A family is left without a home and with 3 dead dogs and a dead cat, after the South Fulton Tennessee fire department refused to put their house fire out since the family did’t pay a $75 fee to warrant their services.
The Cranick family, who lives in Obion County, next to South Fulton forgot to pay a $75 yearly fee for for fire service. Obion County does not have a county wide service, so they rely on South Fulton’s fire department to respond to any fires, but only if the homeowners pay a $75 fee each and every year. The Cranick family forgot to pay the fee, so the fire department refused to respond to the emergency call.
The fire department eventually showed up, but only to put out the fire that had spread to the neighbor’s yard, watching the Cranick’s house burned to the ground. “They put water out on the fence line out here. They never said nothing to me. Never acknowledged. They stood out here and watched it burn,” said Gene Cranick.

ARE WE KIDDING??? No, I am afraid not. This actually happened or didn't happen. Were I a federal prosecutor, I would bring the fire chief up on charges under the Rico act. Who runs the South Fulton Fire Department anyway? the Mob? the Mafia?, or the Cosa Nostra? These arrogant thugs have tarnished the brilliant reputation of firefighters everywhere. They might as well quit their jobs as firefighters, and take up careers more suited to their demeanor, becoming Lawyers, used car salesmen, or loan sharks (if those professions will have them).

First of all, the way it should be, is when someone doesn't choose to pay the fire response fee, and they have a fire, they get charged the entire cost of the fire department responding (gas, wages, etc.....). The fact that they stood around tells me they were intimidating the family.

What is next, Police allowing criminals to assault, or kill you, if you haven't paid them in advance?

Before and After

It is said the office of the presidency ages a man these pictures prove it....
My question is "How stressful could the job be if it affords a man 7 vacations in two years?" but, then again maybe that is what is aging him....

Ground Zero Mosque?

No, and not because I am against Muslims. Just as I would disagree with the Klan erect an eternal flaming cross, outside the hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. Mr President can you honestly say that the Klan has the right do so, as you have said it would be appropriate to place an Islamic center, so close to ground zero? What would be the difference? It is one thing, to place a mosque anywhere, in the United States, as they have. But to place one so close to such a location as ground zero.... Consider this many of the foriegn countries who are actually financing this mosque, will not allow a Christian Church, or Jewish Synagogue to be erected on their soil. Again, I say no, No to placing a mosque in such a location, for which the sole purpose is to thumb their noses at us. Would we have placed a monument to the Enola Gay, and her crew in Hiroshima? Or a muesuem dedicated to the B-17 Flying Fortresses of WWII in Dresdan Germany? Should we allow a mosque near ground zero? I don't think so, for the same reason I wouldn't wear a Oakland Raiders jersey at Foxboro station, unless I wanted someone taking potshots at me. Maybe that is what they want.

Right of Last Respects

When you have fringe radical jerks (sorry for that kind of language, but that is just what they are), who come out to protest against America at Military Funerals. Something has to be done. The portion of the first amendment that guarantees free speech, does not in spirit give someone the right to disrespect another human life in such a solemn occasion as a private funeral. The disgraceful actions by Fred Phelps (I will not give this person any credence by referring to him in any way as a man of God) of the Topeka Kansas Westboro Baptist Church. Who uses Military funerals as a spring board for his anti-christian and anti-American stance. He uses the issue of Homosexuality to justify his hate mongering. He is not only Homophobic, Anti-American, Antisemitic and what I would add a False-Prophet (closer to Satanic than Christian). Church members, led by Phelps, believe God is punishing the United States for "the sin of homosexuality" through events including soldiers' deaths. Members have traveled the country, shouting at grieving family members at funerals and displaying such signs as "Thank God for Dead Soldiers," "God Blew Up the Troops" and "AIDS Cures Fags." To make things worse the Judiciary has come to his aid, when Missouri, imposed tight restrictions on protests and picketing outside military funerals (Kudos to Missouri), the courts granted a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of the law until it could be challenged. (Sour Grapes to the Courts).
Phelps, his daughter, Shirley Phelps-Roper, and other church members had protested near the August 2005 funeral of Army Spc. Edward Lee Myers in St. Joseph, Missouri. The married Army Airborne Ranger died while on patrol in Samarra, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee military vehicle. He was 21, and in addition to his wife, he left behind a daughter (I ask "what did this man have to do with homosexuality"). He was later buried at Leavenworth National Cemetery in Kansas. In response to that protest, Missouri lawmakers passed the "Spc. Edward Lee Myers Law," criminalizing picketing "in front or about" a funeral location or procession.
The congregation is made up mostly of Phelps and his family. The pastor has 13 children, and at least 54 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He described himself as an "old-time" gospel preacher in a CNN interview in 2006, saying, "You can't preach the Bible without preaching the hatred of God."
Phelps obviously, has misinterpreted God's message, and in his own way ensuring God's wrath upon himself, as he preaches hatred not Love, Intolerance not tolerance. He does harm to Christianity by twisting the word of God into his own lawyer-istic perverted interpretation.
Sorry for that tangent, but, it is the above situation which spurred me on to put into word my two-cents worth. Every American has the right to peaceable assemble and protest, to say his piece, under the first amendment. However, every American is also granted his right to worship in his own way, and be protected from the prejudiced hate of others. Phelps exercising his right to free speech is infringing on the right of families exercising their freedom of religion. Yes funerals are a religious ceremony a way of mourning the passing of a loved one. When these hypocrites, come out from under the decaying filth of their own hatred strewn deficant, like cockroaches from under garbage (my apologies to the cockroaches), then they forfeit their right of free speech. What if it were the KKK protesting at Martin Luther King's funeral? Would the courts be so understanding? Does the liberal disregard of the contribution of the American Serviceman, justify the disrespect? I say once again every American deserves the right, to be buried in peace, at whatever cost, even the cost of curtailing the right of free speech, during that moment of silence in respect of an American Sacrifice.
Mr Phelps, may God have mercy on you. May he open your eyes to your misinterpretation of his word. May he fill you with the Love of your neighbor he spoke of in Matthew 22:34-40 34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Mr Phelps, I recognize you from the Bible as well in Matthew 7:15 - 20 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
Mr Phelps, remember as Christ said in John 8:3-11 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5 Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9 But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10 Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” So I ask of you.... Since you are so ready to cast the first stone, are you saying you are without sin?
Mr Phelps, as far as your anti-semitism is concerned, remember Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Israel, David, John the Baptist, Paul, Peter, James, the rest of the apostles and even Jesus were Jews, and if you blame the Jews for his Crucifixion I ask you to remember what he said on the cross in Luke 23:34 And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Mr Phelps, you need to study your bible, the whole bible, and if you have missed these passages and the multitude like them, or if your bible does not include the new testament, I recommend you get a new one. Read it, and find within yourself the fault of your current path.
In Conclusion, I say every true American, has the right for that quantity of respect, needed to bury them in peace. At those times, our right to free speech, if not coupled with respect is forfeit.

3 Strikes And You're Out, Make It 2

Some states have a 3 Strikes and you're out law, Florida has the "Three-strike Violent Felony Offender Act" which puts violent offenders away permanently on their third offense. Plus "10, 20, Life" that puts violent offenders in jail for life when they use a firearm in the commission of a crime. Here's how it works 1) a mandated minimum 10 year prison term for certain felonies, or attempted felonies in which the offender possesses a firearm or destructive device 2) a mandated minimum 20 year prison term when the firearm is discharged 3) a mandated minimum 25 years to LIFE if someone is injured or killed 4) a mandated minimum 3 year prison term for possession of a firearm by a felon and it is mandated that the minimum prison term is to be served consecutively to any other term of imprisonment imposed. This drove down Florida's violent-gun crime rates by 30% by the year 2004. This should be expanded or shrunk down to two strikes for sex offenders. Also when someone is sentenced for a crime that sentence should be carried out. 25 years to life means 25 years to life, after 25 years then he could be up for parole, not after 8 years. Too often career criminals get off Scot free. If Judges can't be tough then mandatory sentencing laws must be. I am not saying that we need to get tough on victimless crimes. Non-violent and victimless crimes should not require prison or jail terms. Restrictions yes.... But, reserve the cells for the violent, and those who require separation from society. Drunk drivers who are habitual (more than 2 offenses), lose their driving privileges until they can prove they are completely off the bottle. Also we should apply the use of a car as a "Destructive Device" under the "10, 20, Life" statute; If their drunken driving impacts on innocent bystanders. It is also time for Driver's Licenses that are embedded with a chip that activates a motor vehicle allowing it to start. If the person has their license revoked the chip is deactivated preventing the vehicle from starting. If the driver is in possession of someone Else's license the owner of the active license better be able to prove the unlicensed driver took it without their knowledge. A side benefit would be family vehicles could be set up for only drivers the owner of the car has designated as authorized drivers.