Political Nevada

Now that the election is over and all the Bullshit has stopped(almost all) we might be able to concentrate on more important matters, like making a living.
It is amazing that politicans can curse each other one day and play nice the next. During their campaigns they have no problems with lack of ethics or morality, but once the election is over, back comes the morality and the ethics, at least that is how they make it seem.
Personally, I don’t see very much ethics or morality in electioneering.
For all the negativity that was thrown around it seems comical that these people have no remorse, and attacked have no anger. Must be the particular type of person who can turn on and off the vicious attacks and the same is true for the person who can forgive the vicious attacks.

Obviously our economy is still in the sewer and will take some serious time to recover. How many will loose everthing they have, including their houses, jobs, even their lives? Who is responsible, and does it really matter when all is said and done, the damage to some lives will not be recoverable.
There are all manner of experts claiming to have the solution for our failed economy, and like anything else these experts can’t agree on any one issue other than the country is hurt.

Maybe we need new experts, or maybe we need a new direction, but we definitly need to move toward recovery, do something instead of nothing. Time to make a decision, right or wrong, might only find out after the decision is made, but right now no decision is the worse thing for this country.

Senator McCain is a War Hero, there is no argument about that, but the ethics and honesty that he seemed to portray all these years as a senator has been eliminated for the chance of becoming president.
Instead of going with issues, he is going after his opponent with half truths and out and out right lies.
The majority of the public has stated that his ads are much more negative and vicious than his opponent. How can a person who claims to have ethics and morals support those types of ads?
Maybe he never had those morals, or maybe the thinks the Presidency is so important that he doesn’t care if he debases himself.
Listening to the political ads that have been inundating the airwaves has given me the feeling that these people running for the “highest office in the land” really don’t “give a damn” for any of us.
I support Obama mostly because he leads a group of people that are willing to push foreward on issues that the previous president had been putting on the side-lines. Also, when McCain speaks about change, he says absolutely nothing about the issues, only what his opponent isn’t or can’t do.
There are rumors that he didn’t choose his running mate, but he is ultimately responsible for for the choice. I believe that had he chosen a more mature, intelligent running mate, and not a “Bush-in-Drag” running mate he might have had an easier time in the election.
At this point anything is possible, McCain could still win the election, but the Republican party better not try to openly steal the election or there could be serious repercussions within this country.
People are tired of the “Bullshit” that has been going on since the “2000″ election when the voters in Florida were “Disenfranchised” by the Republican party and the election was “given” to Mr. Bush>
Recently, there has been complaints by Republicans that the Democrats are “trying to steal the election” because of ACORN.
It is amazing that the party that has stolen so many elections in the past has a problem with an organization that the experts say would have no effect in changing the election. Since the names on the ACORN list are abviously fake and those fakes have no voting. Mickey Mouse would not have the ability to vote as there would be no ballot for that name. Everyone is aware.
In a week all the “bullshit” will be gone and we will have a New President and a new Vice President.
personnally, I hope it is Obama and Biden.

One of the most important subjects in our lives is politics.
The reason is that those that we vote for are the ones who control the laws. So why are people taught that it is not a good idea to talk politics in this country?
I’m not sure when or where I heard that we should avoid discussing politics and religion, but I know it wasn’t at my house. My father and his friends always discussed politics at the house and those discussions were not always calm and passive, but no friendships ended because of differences in political beliefs.
Recently, my spouse and I had a discussion with a educated friend who has decided that she was voting for McCain/Palin even though she admitted that she was terrified that Palin might become President if McCain were to die in office. Her whole argument for her decission was that McCain was more qualified and that he is a war hero. After arguing back and forth for most of the hour, she sat back smiling and stated that she was glad that she was able to talk politics without worrying about insulting any one.
In the rest of the world, politics is argued in the open, usually at the local coffee houses, restaurants, anywhere that people might congragate. Whether they agree or not, they present their views of why their candidate should be chosen.
It really is amazing that in this country, where we only have the two party system, that there seems a general fear of discussion. The whole point of discussion is to share views, whether in agreement or not, specially not, as that is when ideas flow. People seem to take the idea that their Ideas are sacred and must be believed; they know they will never change what they think, so they decide not to discuss their ideas with anyone who disagrees with them. They may be right that their ideas will remain the same but any conversation pro or con will create creative movement in the mind. That movement doesn’t mean a changing of philosophy, it simply allows more knowledge to be circulated.
Knowledge is not the danger, ignorance is the danger. Making a decission based upon knowledge is always correct because thought is involved. It is the decissions made by people that refuse to gain knowledge that create the danger.
Statics is a perfect example of knowledge that will be used pro or con and backs up either argument. Sometimes it can back up more than two arguments and still be right. Ideas follow the same principle.
So, no matter which party you believe in, there should be no fear in sharing your views.
There is one thing that should be realized; if you get into a dicussion with someonen who starts to become violently angry about your views, stop and change the subject, or leave the room, and remember never to discuss anything with that person again, even if you believe you both agree on the same idea.

Isn’t it a shame that in today’s world where people are loosing their jobs, their houses, their very futures that the only thing that the politicians can do is lie and accuse?
Instead of carrying about the country like they claim, they care about their egos and maybe their party’s success or failure in the poles.
The problem is that the politicians are giving the public, us, exactly what we want, at least that is what it seems like.
When issues are spoken, the opposition refuses to deal with the issues, changes the direction of the conversation, or out and out lies to turn the conversation into something else.
We hear that the public wants the truth, that the public doesn’t want “dirty politics” but the reality is that the majority of the voters would rather believe an attack against the “other guy” than to hear the issues discussed. Reading the comments in the local paper, whether by professionals or just the average person writing in, gives the picture of the average person who refuses to look at both sides of an issue. Instead of analysing what the opposition said (or didn’t say) these people, refute the opposition because; “he doesn’t agree with my guy”.
People should study the issues before they vote, but since that will never happen (for most of the voters) we will continue to have elections that are won or lost on the looks of the candidate, on false promises, and on out-and-out right lies.
It really is a fantasy to think that people will concentrate on facts and not put their own predjudices into voting.
The funny thing is that when people vote that way and their candidate wins, then proves to have lied to the voters, those same voters will continue to vote the same way over and over again. They forget that the politician could care less about them and their families. When these politicians claim to be “of the people” many voters really believe them.
There are politicians that do care for the people, but if they aren’t sly enough, mean enough, tough enough, or lie enough they don’t get into the position to help their people. If, and when they have to do those things just mentioned, they risk becoming what they may dislike the most, they become like their opponents.
Looking at the current election, one side is trying to talk issues, the other side is talking “Bull Shit”.
Instead of trading issues, one side is making up lies and false accusations and there are enough “Morons” out there to want to believe the accusations are true.
Politics should not be a gamble, it should be between the two best people and no matter who wins the election the people should know that they do not need to be afraid of the outcome.
The loser in this particular election will be the American people and they are the ones that are willing to allow themselves to lose.

Religion vs the 10 commandments.
That sounds like they should be totally related yet when dealing in the political arena those two subjects are exactly that, two separate subjects.
The Ten (10) commandments are nothing more than a direction toward morality, and morality, contrary to religious dogma does not have to be religious inspired.
During the political campaigns the most important of the commandments are always broken, if not completely than they are heavily twisted. In the political arena, the commandments are definitely put aside.
The main casuality during any political campaign is Honesty. Per se, honesty is not mentioned in the commandments, but “thou shalt not bear false witness” makes a good comparison ;as does “thou shalt not steal”.
The commandment, “Honor thy Father and thy Mother” gets slapped in the face every time the political machine bypasses the issues of the aged especially when dealing with the issue of medicine and hospitalization. When older people are forced to eat dog or cat food because they can not afford to buy regular food, means that our politicans are breaking the commandment to “Honor thy father and thy Mother” by not ensuring that the aged are taken care off. Every aged person is our father or our mother. By the way, the Republican term, “Nanny State”, should not be construed as derogatory when referring to showing respect for our older citizens.
How about the commandment ” thou shall not steal” which has been broken by the political camps each and every time large corporations are let off with “a slap on the wrist”. We have recently seen that commandment broken in a major way with the collapse of the Banking Industry as well as the mortgage crises.
But wait, how about all the concern about the Social Security? Don’t people realize that the Social Security program is not broken because the money isn’t there, it is hurting because the government has been constantly “borrowing” from the fund and can’t(or won’t) pay it back. That is the biggest theft that has been going on against the American public!
“Thou shall not Covet( thy neighbor’s house, thy neighbor’s wife)”. How does that come into play in the political campaigns? Mostly because the campaigns are aimed toward the “don’t share, take”, belief, inother words; “the more you take the better you will be”!
Of course they are not talking about the taking that is against the law, such as robbery, larceny, theft(where the police might enter into the picture) they are talking about a different taking, the “”must have”without sharing with those less fortunate or more likely less sneaky, less mean”". The opposite of sharing.
It seems strange that everytime someone wants to help the needy, cure the sick, care for the aged, they are ridiculed, ostracized, degraded, and defamed usually by those that claim that they understand God’s Commandments.
Remember you don’t have to be religious to follow the 10 commandments and from what I have seen, those that claim to be extremely religious are the first to break the “Ten”!

How is it possible that the same people who voted for Bush twice, became disgusted with him after the second set of 4 years, are now ready to vote for McCain-Palin?
Why would anyone think that McCain, who has been in the Senate for over 26 years will change anything. He wasn’t the big reformer in the past, he voted with the Bush Whitehouse over 90% of the time, but now that he claims to be the voice of change, people think that he is for change?
At what point will people realize that true change never comes from the old establishment.
Change almost always comes from “outside the box”, which McCain is not. Ms. Palin is no more reformer than our present president. She has lied concerning the “Bridge-to-No where” and She won’t even co-operate with the investigation going on in her state of Alaska. She has stated that the investigation is slanted, that may be true, but since there are 3 Republicans and 2 Democrates on that investigation board, it seems that her argument is fake. The other minor point, her husband believes that Alaska should separate for the United States to become its own country. Think about sitting in the White House. (After 20 years of marriage, they must agree on many things and that probably is one of them)
Our economy is becoming non-existant, and has been heading that way for years, yet people are still planning to vote for the same party that has put us in this situation.
The Republican party is claiming that Obama will raise taxes and that McCain won’t, what a bunch of bull! No matter who gets the White House the taxes will raise, they have to because of the bailouts that have been going on and because of the half-trillion dollars spent on the war. How do people think the Federal government pays to keep going?

Isn’t it amazing that the party that has controlled the White House for the past eight years is now claiming to be the party for true change?
For eight years the Democratic Party with Bill Clinton in the White House gave this country an economy that was in constant growth and had a surplus. For some unexplained reason the people in this country decided that they were unhappy with a growing economy and decided to elect a president who turned that surplus into the greatest deficit this country has ever known. This experience was repeated not once but twice when 59 million people re-elected the same president allowing him and his administration to continue to support the fossil fuel industry at the cost of the American economy. All the time our president was claiming the economy was on the rise, ignoring the facts all around him. He was right about one part of the economy, the stock market was rising.
After eight years of this president it is time for change, coming from the party that gave our economy a surplus, the Democrats.
Listen to the retoric from the Republican Party telling the people how they care for us. All those that lost their houses, all those that can’t get medical care because they can’t afford medical insurance.
Where is the care, where is the concern?
Why is it so difficult for people to understand that medical coverage for everyone has become a necessity not a privilage.
We have two choices in this country, let people who can’t afford insurance die, or grant insurance to everyone and try to improve the health of all. The Republicans love to use the Scare Factor that our taxes will increase and we will have to wait for months or years to get served. How about the facts that today, millions of people not insured are supported by our taxes when they get medical help for “free” at their local hospital.
How about the fact that even if there were a universal health plan those who could afford private care would still be able to go to their doctors.
Why is caring for people considered evil? why is “liberal” considered an evil word? Most of those who scream the term Liberal as if it were a curse word claim to believe in god. If Jesus were here today, would he consider Liberals evil because they care for people? Would he curse those that want to better mankind? What would Jesus do? When these people go to church which god are they praying to? surely not the god of the bible, since we have all be taught that god cares for all people and wants everyone to follow the Ten Commandments.
Perhaps these people should study the Commandments and try to remember what they mean especially when these same people try to deny basic rights to their neighbor.

Going to polititcal functions can be a lot of fun and informative, but the only people being enthusiasticly moved are the ones that already believe.
Recently, at the Clark County political fundraiser, there were several speakers touting our Democratic party and the changes needed to make this country great again. Included with the speakers was Bobby Kennedy Jr.
He spoke with authority and facts concerning the changes that have hurt this country, the economics as well as the social and military changes. He spoke about how much love people in the rest of the world showed toward this country that he saw as a young child traveling with his father throughout Europe. He spoke about the support that this country had from the entire world immediately after 9-11. He compared that with the lack of respect and the fear that people in those same countries now have for us after 8 years of Mr. Bush.
Mr. Kennedy spoke about the opportunities that we have in this country to eliminate the need for Oil, Coal, even Nuclear Power and replace them with Solar, Wind, Geothermal, and Ocean power.
He gave statistics of countries that have eliminated their dependance on fossil fuels. Iceland is now the 2nd richest economy in the world and is total self-sufficient from fossil fuels. Sweden, the 4th richest economy in the world is self-sufficient, he mentioned several other countries and their commonality was they had removed themselves from the fossil fuel domination. These countries and others have gone forward with wind, solar, and geothermal technologies.
Mr. Kennedy stated that this country has massive potential to become totally independant from the fossil fuel power brokers. The deserts of Nevada and Arizona alone have enough potential solar power that only 13% of our desert would be necessary to create enough solor power to completely power the entire United States. Texas has the capacity for Wind Power to accomplish the same.
What we need is to have the existing Power Grid replaced with a grid that is modern and efficient.
He supports the Democratic presidential nominee because Mr. Obama has pledged to update and expand these alternative energy systems.
It was the opportunities to grow beyond the bounds of fossil fuels that peaked our attention.
Kennedy quoted statistics and facts that showed that we can become energy independant if our government stops allowing the fossil fuel powerbrokers to control this economy.
We have always been a country that prides itself on our vast resources, yet we have been squandering these resources by lack of use, or irresponsible use. He listed the names of those cabinet members that Mr. Bush has placed in charge of our resources. With no exception, these people are all ex-lobbiests for Oil and Coal, for the Lumber industry, for the major polluters of the air and the water. All the work that conservation has done to make our country pristine has been gutted within a short time by the current administration. Will the McCain administration do any better?
Senator McCain has stated that he wants the Nuclear Repository to stay in Nevada, but he doesn’t want the transport to go through Arizona. If, as he claims, it will be safe to have the stored radiation at the Nuclear Repository, then why is he against having the transports cross his state?
It should not be surprising that our government has no problem risking the lives of millions of people living in Southern Nevada to the dangers of Radiation Sickness. It wouldn’t be the first time that our government’s decision was based upon faulty information, or in this case denying that any information to the contrary exists. If people become sick from the radiation seepage, they will ignore and deny, if people die from radiation poisoning, the government will deny and pass the blame somewhere else. When property values fall due to that same radiation poisioning our government will deny, plead innocent, or plead ignorant of having had any factual information to the contrary. By the time the cases go through the courts, years will have gone by and people will have suffered and died. Who will be the first to feel the effects of the radiation poisoning, our children and our aged.
In the meantime, Mr. McCain and his group will have lived in the security that their families are not in the danger of Radiation sickness.
I lost a daughter to cancer and I have no desire to bury another.
Mr. Obama has stated that he is against the Nuclear Repository.That is an answer I find desirable.
Isn’t it time that we the voters take action to protect our families, our cities and our country from the Multinational corporations that have no respect, no loyalty, no love for this country?
Look inside the souls of the candidates and see whether they are loyal to this country or are loyal to the monopolistic corporations who are interested only in the money that they can steal from this country by destroying it.
If you love this country then you should defend it. There are many ways to fight for this country, Senator McCain fought for this country one way, today we need to fight for it in another way, by doing all that is possible to eliminate fossil fuels, and nuclear energy plants and replace those with solar, wind, and geothermal. What do you do, you get involved by voting for those who love this country.
It shouldn’t be the Republican Party vs the Democratic party, it should be those of us that love and respect this country vs those who want to see this country used as a “sesspool” of greed, hate and disrespect.

Getting excited about the upcomming election is getting harder. The Bull is flying off the airways and facts are not even in the same planet.
The Republicans are telling very little on how they will help the country return to health. WHat they are saying is that God is on their side, (Palin) and that because McCain is a war hero he has what it takes to lead this country. That is their complete program.
Palin’s idea of god is not everyone’s idea, but she seems sure that she should be the one to tell others that she knows best what god wants. For a country that prides itself on separation of church and state, having a vice president that wants god in everyone’s life is a travisty. Believing in god is a personal issue and so should be kept personal, not shoved up everyone’s ass because the person in power can get away with doing it. We, in this country, criticize the Muslim world for allowing their religious leaders to control their lives, which includes murder of daughters, nieces, wives, etc because they broke some law from the Koran. Yet we see nothing wrong with somneone like Palin being against the Gay community, because of GOD’s Law?
We see nothing wrong with someone in power in this country telling us that a woman has no right to decide what to do about an unwanted pregnancy, because “God”.
Whatever is a person’s belief, be it that the earth is flat, only 6 thousand years old, made by an man sitting on a throne somewhere in space, etc. these should be personal and respected, (left alone) but to use the power of government to foster these ideas, or any personal ideas on us, the citizens of this country, is an insult to all those that fought for, died for and live for, this country.
For someone like McCain, who sacrificed 5 1/2 years in a hole to support pushing personal ideas up everyones asses is frightning, and with his choice of Vice President, he is supporting her call that she should tell us when to walk and when to stay.
On Palin, she states that she believes that people should be free to make their own decisions, yet she wants to deny women that same right when it comes to abortion, she wants to deny same sex couples the right to live their own life as they are because she is doing God’s will.
The hypocracy is astounding and what is more astounding is the lack of understanding by the majority of voters. If you believe as she does, then everything is fine, but what will happen if elected and she decides that god wants you to give everything to someone else, or if she fells that since her son is in combat, (assuming that as vice president our government will even allow her son to be in harms way) everyone’s son should also be sent into cambat ?
Read her bio, not bad over all, if it wasn’t for her religious zealousness, she might be a real plus for this country.
Being the governor of Alaska doesn’t qualify for much, and the idea that the people of Alaska get so much money back each year is not new, evey state that has ever had a profit has done that same. She didn’t create the situation that got the extra income, she walked into it.
Give her credit, but don’t exagerate.
Lets hope that the voters understand that the Republicans have been adding to the Central Government, not detracting. They comment that Democrates want bigger government, but the last eight years it has been the Republican party in power that has added more layers, not the Democrates, and nowhere has McCain and Palin showed that they will remove those layers, instead, she has made it quite clear that she plans on adding more laws that will control our lives in the manner that she sees fit.
The future is on its way.

There is a “judge” who is not allowed to sit on the bench, but is currently collecting wages. Guess who is paying for her “vacation”?
Why should someone who is not doing their job be given pay?
In the normal work force if someone is on “suspension” they do not get paid. If that suspension doesn’t hold and they get their job back they also get their back-pay. But in the beauracracy of government when an employee, (police officer, judge, councilperson, etc.) gets suspension they continue to receive pay. That might seem fair until you realize that the pay comes from our taxes, not a private company. We wind up paying people to “sit on their asses” while they get investigated. Is it fair for an officer to be penalized without pay while a board of review checks on the circumstances of a shooting? Probably not, but is it fair that we, the tax payer, must pay the wages of an abnormaly hugh woman with a terrible attitude who has done nothing positive in her position as judge (which lasted less than her campaign) and who is now challenging the same legal system that she promised to support?
Unfortunately, if people like her are allowed to receive pay while they wait out their term of office, then the system is wrong. If a police officer is under questioning for a shooting, the period of time that they undergo the procedure is, at the most several weeks, but in the case of this judge it has been many months.
I don’t feel that is fair to me and you, we are the taxpayer, not “Daddy Warbucks”