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Primary Day is an Important Day to Some
Apr. 4, 2008 Posted in Civic Activity
In case you have not noticed! There is a primary vote this May in North Carolina. This is an opportunity for the political parties to push their candidates upon us. We in turn will pick and choose from the slate of offerings the viable political leaders of the party.
After the serious deliberation and feat of predestination we will safely arrive at the election of the real political leaders of the land. If you are a Republican I realize that this county will be destroyed if Democrats win Congress and the Presidency. If you are a Democratic I realize that this country will be destroyed if Republicans win the Congress and the Presidency.
How can one work with the members of the opposing party after the underhanded methods and out right lies spread during the election campaign? One can't, the winning party engorged from victory will fall upon its foe with rape, pillage and villainy. In losing one party understands that its very existence is at stake. It must never compromise, the fruits of the economy must be poisoned, and rebellion must at all times be fermented.
Our current government is not returning true value for a dollar these days. We pay more and get less! The politicians themselves do not come cheap. Their pay raises are automatic and their pension and medical plans are superior to the public citizens' plans. Their demands for new taxes keeps increasing.
We need to ask ourselves how small a government is necessary to reduce our taxes 30%. Maybe less is more! With fewer politicians less money would be spent on them. There should be a law allowing deceased politicians to run for office and serve. There would be fewer debates and shorter ones at that.
I don't want any wrinkles to appear on your forehead. As an American, one of your rights is not to live in fear. Remember the promises of the these candidates. Surely they meant what they said? They would not lie, or spin falsehoods upon the public. They, the candidates, know what a promise is but I am not sure they know how to keep a promise. As to which one has commander in chief experience the answer is simple. None of them has served as commander in chief.
As to whom I want to answer the phone at 3:00 AM in the morning I realize the answer is again simple.
The President is the official of last resort. When a problem can't be handled by others it winds up on his plate. I want the one that can make a decision as a human being not as a lawyer. Lawyers are up to doing any deeds. If you think I am being unfair or biased towards lawyer. Believe me I am not! I hold politicians in lower esteem than lawyers. When the idea of not working in law strikes a lawyer they run for public office and become politicians. You may find that politics is a monopoly for those of the legal profession.
Voting is important for selecting the scoundrels. If you didn't think your vote counted don't vote and you won't have to think or be counted. A fool and his or her vote are soon separated! If you can't count on yourself why would you be adverse to others deciding for you? Those who do the counting of votes are innocent participants but those who tally the votes they are the guardians of our democracy.
The duties of power are:
- Seize power at all costs.
- Limit the power of rivals.
- Gain civil power by claiming a crisis.
- It is too dangerous to return former power.
- Unused powers are daggers poised at the throat of the ruler.
- Power is it own grace and justification.
- Warfare is the open negotiation of power and terms of rule.
- Those with power make the rule.
- Those with power always form their own religion.
- What good is power if it can't generate revenue hence taxation.
- Those in power are right.
- Those not in power are wrong.
- Those with power are not told what to do.
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It is not in the Mail
Mar. 28, 2008 Posted in Civic Activity
Playing the “race card” is not an issue in the coming elections. First who will believe the claim? White liberals will not believe that racism exists today in any meaningful quantity. Blacks just need to get over what happen in the past.
I am over what happened in the past. Just harassed by dealing with what is happening in the present!
Read article at http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?
That bringing up racism (even with copious documentation) is far from an effective "card" to play in order to garner sympathy, is evidenced by the way in which few people even become aware of the studies confirming its existence. How many Americans do you figure have even heard, for example, that black youth arrested for drug possession for the first time are incarcerated at a rate that is forty-eight times greater than the rate for white youth, even when all other factors surrounding the crime are identical (4)?
How many have heard that persons with "white sounding names," according to a massive national study, are fifty percent more likely to be called back for a job interview than those with "black sounding" names, even when all other credentials are the same (5)?
How many know that white men with a criminal record are slightly more likely to be called back for a job interview than black men without one, even when the men are equally qualified, and present themselves to potential employers in an identical fashion (6)?
How many have heard that according to the Justice Department, Black and Latino males are three times more likely than white males to have their vehicles stopped and searched by police, even though white males are over four times more likely to have illegal contraband in our cars on the occasions when we are searched (7)?
(4) "Young White Offenders get lighter treatment," 2000. The Tennessean. April 26: 8A.
(5) Bertrand, Marianne and Sendhil Mullainathan, 2004. "Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment in Labor Market Discrimination." June 20. http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/
mullainathan/papers/emilygreg.pdf.
(6) Pager, Devah. 2003. "The Mark of a Criminal Record." American Journal of Sociology. Volume 108: 5, March: 937-75.
(7) Matthew R. Durose, Erica L. Schmitt and Patrick A. Langan, Contacts Between Police and the Public: Findings from the 2002 National Survey. U.S. Department of Justice, (Bureau of Justice Statistics), April 2005.
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Ahh Golf!
Aug. 17, 2007 Posted in Civic Activity
The golf tournament is in town. This is fun for some people and hopefully revenue will be generated. Reminds me of city government. They putt around the issues. Wind up in sand traps while driving down the fairways with the wrong club. There are vistas to be viewed and people to be greeted and when it is all over some people have an inordinate amount of fun!
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