and sin not

Let them DO their job

2006-02-18T20:03:00.000-08:00

The other day a Highway Patrol Man got shot and died on a freeway near here at about 4:30 in the morning. This happened, in part, because people 'don't feel safe' getting out of their cars when pulled over. Poor cop doesn't feel safe with you sitting in your car, able to reach for who knows what as he is walking to within point blank range.

You've seen it three or four local cops for a traffic ticket. That is not "Just them cops gettin' t'gether to yack" or "they're so dumb how many does it take to spell speeding". It is anti-litigation procedures. They cannot use the force necessary by themselves so they make policy to have 'sufficient back-up' at ANY cause. Why did the Texas Rangers send one man and have an awesome arrest record? Because they were authorized to use deadly force at their own discretion.

When (or better put if) we come to our senses and give more discretion to our law enforcement it will take a while to 1 get the officers to use that authority fully and 2 for the criminal element to figure out that they need to obey when an officer says hands up. That while will be bloody and the courts need to stand firm, venerate the officers sued and ding the lawyers for frivolous law suits.

When we find a bad egg in the force we need to prosecute fully and put him on deathrow if he murdered someone ... NOT change the law "So this won't ever happen again", nothing will ever guarantee that.

Folks, let your state representatives know you want them to enact laws that will allow the 'Men In Blue' to do their jobs. The unions will have a solution ... Probably something like "two patrolmen in each unit and units running in pairs only".

Back at IT

2006-02-17T12:26:00.000-08:00

I have been gone for a year. With Calif politics back to a rolling boil from totaly nuclear I spent time doing other stuff. now I'm adding back in the blog.

I will not post daily, hopefuly a couple of times a week.

Groningen Protocol = Wake-up Call

2004-11-30T23:03:00.000-08:00

This would be breaking a barrier, at one point, that the whole world is pushing on many fronts. Life is being relative-ized, the destruction of life is being justified, or vilified depending upon the "Cute-ability Factor" of the victim or the destroyer.

A Fetus is a gooey disgusting unwanted lump of flesh unless it is Baby Conner. A woman shoots and kills a man accused of molesting her son In front of the judge, she gets a light sentence and out early. Granted these are both California cases but you all can remember some of the same. It is all over the States. "Hate Crimes" is white men charged others not for cross race violence.

In the US we still officially hold that the taking of another's life is criminal, except in self defense, even Oregon won't let doctors actually do the deed. The state sponsored persecution is covered in 'Law' in China, Saudi Arabia and the like. Even the Palestinian Authority gives minor official lip service to "catching the bomb makers". All of these are wrapped up in something bigger than the individuals involved.

The Groningen Protocol is solely selfish. Power for the doctors and convenience for the survivors.

More later,
Steve

Up-Date 12-2-04 noonish

This is the outcome of relying on the government for those things that we should be relying on God for. We abdicate to government those things that WE are responsible for, like helping the poor, then we cannot recover without a serious struggle.

Folks want 'things' to be easy and it is easy to have the government take care of you. This is the mistake the Israelites made in asking for a king, not relying on God but wanting to rely on a government. As we put government in place of God, it takes on more and more responsibilities to make life easier for it's citizens. The Groningen Protocol says, in effect, "You don't have to make this hard choice, we will make it for you." God is compassion and government has no compassion. Compassion helps people in spite of their circumstances government cannot do that, it can only address the circumstances.

Government has become a god it is not truly governing it is parenting, taking the place of God the Father. God has unlimited resources, government does not. God set things up so that import export taxes would take care of true governing, in order to help anyone government needs to assess other taxes the only place to find more is its citizens. Thus starts the spiral; the more taxes levied the more people that need help and government grows.

More later
Steve

Hard Right into the fray

2004-10-12T19:03:00.000-07:00

This is from a guy I'd trust with my kids, my wife and my life. He was active AF then Active Air Guard for about 20 years. Jim is in the top two brothers in the world.

So, under the current regime:

Massive Medicare benefits package illegalizes competitive bidding for drug companies (BAD!)
GOP House + GOP Senate + GOP President = Record Budget Deficits (Really BAD!)
ADM Poindexter gets hired to run a personal database on the whole country (unnacceptable)

So, what is the first political bumper sticker I'll ever own?

Let's ask John Kerry

''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,''

F*** HIM! As a guy who supposed to be in Khobar towers, I didn't ever consider terrorists to be "a nuisance". Did the people who died in the African embassies put up with "a nuisance"? Were the Al Qaida guys who tried to blow up the twin towers the FIRST time "a nuisance"?

We're f****d if we ever have a president who regards terrorists as a nuisance, AGAIN.

For the first time ever, I'm a one issue voter.

My first political bumper sticker will be

"9 out of 10 Terrorists Agree - Kerry for President!"

This is why the polessters are wrong, their samples don't count Jim. Jim would have voted anyway but a lot of folks that believe the way he does about the topics above would have stayed home on Nov 2 (Jim's B-day). This anti-candidate vote IS a Life and Death Vote and will increase the turnout instead of dampening it.

Jim, throw a party for your B-day "I Voted" sticker required attire.

Steve

Kerry in Bush inner circle?

2004-10-11T22:55:00.000-07:00

I missed this one the other night

"The point is that there are all kinds of options available to a president to deal with threats and I consistently laid out to the president how to deal with Saddam Hussein, who was a threat." john kerry Thursday, October 7, 2004 with reporters

Kerry has "laid out to the president" Is this like when the junior Senator 'met' the Vice President back to back at the Prayer Breakfast? Has he left out the part that said only the countries that opposed the invasion took millions in "Oil for Food" money for military stuff and high tech goodies and nuclear secretes, or did his running mate miss that briefing in the Intelligence Committee?

Steve

Debate 2

2004-10-08T21:29:00.000-07:00

President Bush won on substance and style.

The liberal could not evan win the Embryonic Stem Cell question (oh but that was after he fell flat on his face over Iran maybe I should cut him some slack...Nah). Kerry stumbled a little not answering how we would win back the good will of the people in the countries that opposed the war [(because they were scamming the food for oil) Oops did I wright that?] on question 4. Poor liberal that mean man kept attacking and Johnny had a hard time getting back up on his feet.

In Kerry's defence, I do understand the liberal positions on some issues better now, so don't be suprised if some of the MSM say he did ok.

President Bush batted 1000 tonight with one walk. That walk was on the Supream Court Nominations if kerry would have had an answer Teh President could have K'd. One grandslam was the draft question, the initial answer was good, but when he shot down Charley trying to give Kerry a pass, youcould hear it splash in McCovey Cove.

Kerry's answers tell some

2004-10-07T22:35:00.000-07:00

Hugh Hewitt asked for analysis of Kerry's responses in the press conference today.

The first answer shows his lack of understanding of our government. Diplomacy and policy are the job of civilians "I will do what the generals believe we need to do" is abdicating the direction the military requires from the CiC. The military would have pounded Al Sadr and his 'militia' into dust months ago, but diplomacy gave that option back to the interim governor, now our allies have greater strength and more authority with the Iraqi people.

General Shinseki stated President Bush's policy on troop strength very well, What troops the commanders need to do the assigned tasks. He also showed the reason civilians make larger policy. To OCCUPY Iraq the way we occupied Germany would take a larger force, that is not what we are doing.

Lebanon was a volatile place when we got there. We went in as a dampening rod with a sever defensive position with a small force. We thought we were breaking up a school yard fist fight and got stuck with a knife. In Iraq we came ready for ANYTHING including chemical weapons. And we have policies to deal with anything as well, not with a French veto hanging over our heads.

Then Kerry says he doesn't know what the situation will be in Jan. but he has a plan that will work. He just intimated that running will be his plan to "make certain that our troops are protected."

With his regard for the Iraqi people " I will hunt down and kill the terrorists, and I will make sure that we are successful" probably means John Kerry will attack WW II style everything in the Suni Triangle. If that were to happen we would loose all the political gains made and loose that much more then we would need the half million troops.

"But we wouldn't let them just fritter away." We had no choice it wasn't our call any more, with France, Germany, and Russia wanting to not have to pay the "Food for Oil" surcharge, and not wanting to spend the extra bucks to hide their shipments, it was just a matter of time before they got enough votes to lift the sanctions over our heads.

"If I'd been president, I'd have wanted the same threat of force." This is a bit more of his underlying strategy showing; I want to be able to threaten them and the WILL comply. He mentioned it during the debate of the NBB "that we would EVEN CONSIDER using." stating that he would never even consider using the ones already in stock. This is the strategy of a 'repeating, threatening parent' You've seen them "if you don't stop I'm gunna" ten times in the grocery store, and that is just on aisle one, the poor child gets yelled at but never learns to do what is right.

We didn't need to take down Libya we call Sadam's bluff and Kadafi folded. Iran is showing all it's cards and drawing furiously to in hopes of getting that A-bomb trump in hopes that it will keep American tanks out of the fight. We are fighting with freedom though instead of firepower. It worked with USSR and with a free democratic Iraq on it's border it stands a good chance here.

Steve

FRENCH ARMS MARKET

2004-10-07T15:52:00.000-07:00

Chirac calls for lifting arms ban on China
"adding it no longer reflected present day realities." Yea like the reality that France no longer has a rich client for their high tech goodies, and that we don't want mirage jet's future to be merely a mirage.

And people talk about American Greed.

Steve

VP Edwards-Kerry conjoined

2004-10-06T01:01:00.000-07:00

Edwards could not define himself outside of Kerry. He tried for 90(?) seconds and all he could do was talk about how Kerry no I mean We did las thursday. Is this an admission of how deep Kerry is in the pocket of the trial lawers or is it a demonstration of Sen. Gone in spades?

VP Cheney won hands down.

I hope lots of folks stayed tuned till the end to see the deer in the headlights that a Dem saw from Andrew Sullivan's blog at 2:24 [link broken too late...]

"I missed the roadkill that you apparently saw. I saw the common harbinger to roadkill; a deer in the headlights. That deer in the headlights was Senator Edwards."

Steve

Poles talk about the debate

2004-10-04T23:47:00.000-07:00

This ABC Pole was taken on either side of the first debate. What struck me is 'Most Important Issue Among Likely Voters ' the only appreciable change was 6% from Economy to Iraq. Without knowing which side of the war those 6% are on it makes little sense to try to figure out what that means.

unless you are cynical and believe that next week Iraq will be down 6% and domestic issues will raise by the same aggregate score.

I guess I'm cynical.

Steve

Where?

2004-10-04T21:52:00.000-07:00

and sin not

Where in the [World (no scratch that) Solar System (maybe) Creation (too religeous) Galaxie (still a little restrictive) Universe (yeah there you go) the Spirit World (no, maybe, Gosh I don't know)] other places am I going to have to check this thing out?

Where is John going to have his test ... Mars DMV? Call in the Jedi for reinforcements? Ask the Zylons if it is ok?

" the test that I was talking about was a test of legitimacy, not just in the globe, but elsewhere. "

Makes inventing the internet tame.

Steve

If the base IS busted

2004-10-04T16:00:00.000-07:00

and sin not
If, as I suspect, a sizable chunk of the union vote fails to vote for Kerry GW's victory will be electorially large maybe land slide but his coat-tails will not be proportional. I believe many of the "Red Neck" (which is not all) carpenters may still vote for the congressman and senator on the union flier, but many will leave the Presiednt box unchecked or fill it with an R.

Not to nuke, there is no question.

2004-10-04T13:40:00.000-07:00

and sin not
In talking about the NBB development Kerry said:

"You talk about mixed messages. We're telling other people, "You can't have nuclear weapons," but we're pursuing a new nuclear weapon that we might even contemplate using."

A clear signal that Kerry would not "even Contemplate using" nay of our current strategic nukes.

busted his own bunker

2004-10-02T22:37:00.000-07:00

Kerry may have busted his base right in two. One of the great bulwarks of Democrat base is the union vote. There are many in those ranks that voted for Clinton and Gore just because the union flier said to.

I believe many brick layers, plumbers, dozer operators and plumbers will not vote for a candidate that will lay down America's big guns. These guys fly Old Glory from their dune buggies and have 'Easy Rider rifle racks' in their pick-ups. They grew up watching movies like 'Red Dawn'.

This may not show in any pre-election poles, they won't say anything to any one, but on Nov 2, If they go to the poles the'll pull the lever for Bush or leave the line blank.