May 8, 2015

GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES SHOULD LOVE BERNIE SANDERS...I THINK

The Senator from Vermont who is running the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton has voted for more background checks and to ban assault weapons and magazines of over 10 rounds. But on the other hand he voted against the Brady bill, voted to block lawsuits against gun manufacturers, and voted to allow guns to be transported in checked baggage on Amtrak trains and to prohibit foreign aid from going to any international efforts to restrict gun ownership. Not sure where Sanders stands on open and concealed carry and so far cannot find where he has voted for or against. The latter is a hot issue and is now being voted on in the house to drop some of the requirements on getting a permit. This is my sore spot because there are so many cowboys on the street carrying around a gun in a holster or concealed who have not had one iota of training. Anyone who stands for that does not deserve to be President.

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May 7, 2015

CAN WE SAY REVOLUTION TODAY? BERNIE SANDERS DID

There was a time when to say revolution would have put you behind bars. But then there was the Tea Party revolution and everyone knew the word had become a joke. Yesterday presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called for a revolution against the billionaire class. I predict Progressives are standing in line all over the country to join; I am one of them. And the implication seems to be that Hillary Clinton is in that class. Sen. Sanders is a Democratic Socialist who has been standing up for working families for the last 30 years. Since he won't take the billionaires' "vulgar" money, as he puts it, how can the average person out there not vote for him? If you are afraid of the Socialist label, don't be. Even though he is calling for a revolution, it will be affected by White House and congressional action not on the streets.

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May 7, 2015

TED CRUZ CONSPIRACY MONGER

Anyone remember the movie, Viva Max, with Peter Ustinov, John Astin, Pamela Tiffin and Jonathan Winters? Ustinov, a Mexican General, along with his sidekick Astin, with soldiers march from their country to San Antonio, Texas, where they plan to retake the Alamo. It is a hilarious comedy of blunders from both countries with an eventual outcome...well, you should really see the movie. Ted Cruz, who probably doesn't even know what the Alamo is since he is actually from Canada, thinks the exercise called “Jade Helm 15” is a conspiracy against the people of Texas. The implication is the feds are holding these domestic military training exercises in Texas to implement martial law, seize Americans’ guns, and imprison political dissidents. His lunacy, along with other touched Texans, mimics the antics of Jonathan Winters in the movie, who plays a Brigadier General in the National Guard. The locals bumble through everything they do but the Mexican troops eventually return home. At least Peter Ustinov's threat was real, although a farce in the making. Ted Cruz wouldn't know a real conspiracy if it ran over him.

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March 14, 2014

AZ Gov. Jan Brewer two-faced on SB 1062-What's new?

As usual Jan Brewer makes the move that makes Jan Brewer look good. Although she just announced that she would pass the torch of "leadership" and not try to force another term on the citizens of Arizona. When she vetoed the bill Brewer said that SB1062, the religious discrimination law against gays and lesbians, was bad even though her staff spent hours crafting it with the fanatic Cathi Herrod who now has most of Arizona's conservative legislature in her purse. It's Herrod's kind that has made our state the stomping grounds for hate groups. It makes you wonder about Brewer's plans for the future but whatever it is, hope she does it in another state. And as far as passing the torch of "leadership," that's a complete roll on the floor laugh.

March 6, 2014

Arizona has forgotten its children

Over one third of Arizona children have had bad childhood experiences compared to 2.6 percent nationally.
It is even worse, 44 percent, for ages 12 to 17, that national average 30.5 percent.

The incompetent Gov. Jan Brewer waited until a significant number of Arizona kids had died before revamping Child Protective Services and taking it out of the hands of her political appointee to head CPS, a close crony of Brewer's. The Arizona GOP legislature, sometimes more inept that Brewer, is also guilty of neglecting welfare programs that would help these children.

And many of the voters in this state are equally culpable for electing these fruitcakes.

2014 has to be the year of the progressive.

See Arizona Republic link:http://www.azcentral.com/news/arizona/articles/20140303arizona-childhood-trauma-high.html

February 25, 2014

Arizona grows idiots for its State Legislature

They did it with the anti-immigration law SB1070 in 2010; that's the Arizona conservative GOP legislature with an equally inept Governor. They are trying the same thing again in 2014, same nonsense, different legislators, but also equally stupid. They are proposing SB1062 claiming religious freedom to refuse service to the LGBT community plus others. While the world once again ridicules the state, Gov. Jan Brewer is comatose as usual.

Arizona must have a garden right outside the State Capitol building where they grow idiots that are eventually sent to the State Legislature. It requires no fertilizer.

March 19, 2013

Just what we need...more guns

In a recent ABC News piece almost half of gun owners listed protection as the reason for having a firearm; "More gun owners want firearms for protection," was the headline. There are already about 300 million guns in U.S. households, 88 per 100 people, almost one per person. the FBI reports that in in Jan. 2013 there were 2,495,400 background checks done through the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, known as NICS. The number was more than 1 million higher than any previous January.

This is madness. If you break the numbers down to guns per household with 32% owning a firearm, each gun bubba's home owns an average of 8 guns. And a lot of these firearms are assault rifles.

The U.S. is already pegged number 11 in firearm homicides worldwide with 2.97 per 100,000 population. In New Orleans gun related homicides are 62.1 per 100,000 pop., followed by Detroit 35.9, Baltimore 29.7, Oakland, 26.6 and Newark 25.4 for the top five.

What we need is protection against the gun fanatics that are turning this country into a shooting gallery. And by the way, the main recipients of this rush to buy guns is firearms manufacturers, backed by the NRA and its leader wacky Wayne LaPierre.

Read more here: link: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/201...rvey-says/ |

March 14, 2013

Watch out for new credit score

Over forty years ago I was involved in the early development of a credit score being conducted by the now defunct Montgomery Ward. Before this and even for a while after, companies did their own risk scoring which was not accurate as was the case with early credit reports. Then along came the Fair Credit Reporting Act enacted in 1971 and later the FDCPA in 1977. Eventually the FICO method of credit scoring was born.

This process is still fraught with problems like the fact that if the wrong and damaging information gets on your credit report, sometimes it is near impossible to remove. In my experience blogging on consumers' personal data, Experian is the worst in dealing with this problem. Trans Union is better, and Experian is actually pretty good.

And now the latest version of the credit report is the VantageScore created by all three credit bureaus. It has some advantages listed in the article below but does not address the primary problem with credit bureaus, that of how to easily contact them to get something done.

Read more here: link:http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/11/pf/credit-score/index.html|

March 14, 2013

Pro gun control groups clone NRA tactics

For years the National Rifle Assn. (NRA) led by wacky Wayne LaPierre has used its money to defeat any candidate that is for gun control. With contributions of nearly $39 million from gun manufacturers since 2005, the NRA spent $25 million in 2012 to elect and re-elect, or to target and defeat congressional lawmakers considering gun control legislation. So it seems natural that the gun control folks would eventually adopt the same strategy but in the opposite direction. They did.

Michael Bloomberg spent over $2 million in an Illinois primary to elect gun-control candidate Robin Kelly. With Bloomberg's deep pockets and his super PAC Independence USA, fighting gun violence will be well financed in 2014.

Another group, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, founded by Shannon Watts had added 80,000 members in just three months with 80 chapters nationwide. There are over 85 million mothers in the U.S. which could become a formidable force in the 2014 elections. The question is just how much money will this group be able to raise to defeat the pro gun bubbas in Congress next year. 70% of women support banning assault weapons, 90% for universal background checks according to Pew Research.

As a congressional candidate, I wouldn't want to be going up against this fired up group, even in conservative states.

Read more here: link:http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/03/06/new-money-will-be-used-to-punish-pro-gun-lawmakers-in-2014|

March 13, 2013

Francis is the new Pope and more reasons why Pope Benedict resigned

Will the newly chosen Pope Francis stop the Church's shrinking? Paul Gorrell is a Ph.D., heads up an executive coaching and leadership development firm located in New York City, and spent five years in the Roman Catholic priesthood. He says the Catholic Church is shrinking and points to the former Pope Benedict as one of the problems in a recent essay for Religion Dispatches. Gorrell said:

The focus of Pope Benedict’s reign has been to draw sharp boundaries that strictly define what it means to be a Catholic, what it means to be a priest, and how the Church should reconfigure itself in order to exile members who are not true believers.

Pretty stringent for some modern day Catholics, many of which want the church to mellow out on issues like abortion, gay rights, sex before marriage, Priest celibacy, to name just a few. Many questioned his interpretations of Vatican II, in comparison with his traditionalist beliefs. Many Catholics did not accept Benedict's claim that:

"Protestant churches are not 'true' churches, judges priests on their identity (gay priests must leave) rather than their actions, stops dialogue on any topics that do not meet the Pope’s approval (such as the possibility of women priests), sheds gay people from its ranks and fights against their rights, ignores the diminishing number of priests and the effects of this shortage on Church communities, and calls on Catholics to form the 'perfect society' resembling the ecclesiology of Opus Dei.

Some have been basically excommunicated in that a number of American politicians were asked to remove themselves from communion lines and, recently, priests have even denied parishioners communion if they vote for a political candidate who favors abortion rights.

Pope Francis has his work cut out for him, a job that many of the Conclave Cardinals interviewed said they did not want.

Read more here: link:http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/1059/the_incredible_shrinking_catholic_church|