Political Nevada

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”

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There seems to be a lt of people that use the excuse of freedom of Speach to try and injure someone they don’t like. These people claim that they have a right to voice their opinions. Maybe, however, many times those “opinions” are disquised as factual information. Upon research those facts might have 5 or 10 percent truth. That doesn’t seem to be freedom of speach when the purpose is to destroy someone with outright lies.
These writers, newspapers, etc then get sued and try to hide behind the 1st. Amendment. and many times the law says they can.
At what point should freedom be controlled? Can a man rape a woman and excuse the action by crying Freedom of Expression? Kill someone in the street and claim that they were expressing their feelings?
So far the laws don’t see that as allowable, but those extreme cases are within the possible frame of freedom of speach, freedom of expression.
Seems that if an article is purported to be factual, then it should have at least 75 % fact, not 5 or 10 percent.
If the facts are not there then the article is an opinion and therefore a Freedom of Speach item. But if the writer purports to be writing factual, then the article must be within a certaiin amount of fact data, (75%) if the facts are not there then it should not be considered a Freedom of Speach issue and a lawsuit should be allowed.

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The Medical Mess!
The announcement that there could be as many as 40,000 people infected with Hepatitus reached Europe but with a slight change in content.
They understood that 40,000 people contracted AIDS.
The attorneys in this town have been promoting the fear factor to the utmost. Is there an issue? Yes, but it is becoming more obvious that the infections are not as great as the attorneys would have us think.
An outside source informed me that of the 40,000 people figure, approximately 5% will naturally be infected with the Hepatitus virus(without the help of the clinics’ infective practices).
So far the attorneys have come up with about 100 to 130 infected patients, but the state acknowledges that those showing positive might have been positive prior to coming in to the clinic.
The records for those patients will tell more of the story.
Right now the News talks of associates of the Clinic’s founder as if these people, by association, are as guily as the Doctor who owns the Clinic. Since when is it immoral, or against the law to know someone? Those in the medical profession that weren’t involved with the medical mistakes of the clinics but were in contant with the owners of those clinics didn’t do anything wrong.
We all know someone who has done something illegal, immoral, or just plain bad, does that mean that we are responsible for that person’s failure?
NO!
Watch the news, soon the attorneys will be suing people that were intouch with the Clinic owner, not because they were involved with any medical malpractice, but because they went to dinner,(or lunch) with that person. Mostly because the more people the attorneys can add to the lawsuit, the better chance for them to get other insurance companies to settle, which brings in more money for the attorneys, doesn’t help the people that need the help though!
I am not defending what happened, nor the Doctors and nurses that were involved with this mess, but I am saying that it doesn’t seem to be the disaster that the attorneys want us to believe. If you are one of those people that are on the list of potential victims, get checked, you will probably find you are unaffected, if not, then deal with an attorney of your choice, and stay in control, of your life and your attorney.

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I shouldn’t need a dictionary to tell me what “Term Limits” are, but according to today’s newspaper, many of Nevada’s political leaders do need to read the dictionary to understand that they are “termed”.
According to an article in the Review Journal, politicans such as Barbara Buckley, Mayor Goodman, Mayor Gibson, Dina Titus, and others in Nevada local and state politics had a meeting to discuss their options concerning the term limit amendment passed by popular vote twice, once in 1994 and confirmed in 1996 by 70% of the voters.
The term limit issue is a double edged sword, because there are those in office that can be there forever and the public would see them as an asset. Someone like Mayor Goodman, who treats the office of Mayor of Las Vegas for what it has always been, an office for the promotion of Las Vegas.
Having grown up in Vegas, living here for more than 42 years, I know that this town is not like anyother city in the world. Therefore our mayor should not be like anyother mayor in the world, and he definitely is not like any other mayor.
On the opposite side is someone like Speaker of the Assembly Barbara Buckley; a self promoting, self-serving politician who has convinced many people in the state of her Consumerism and so-called concern for the “downtrodden” in this State. She is also the Director of “Nevada Legal Services” which is a non-profit organization funded by the State of Nevada. Interesting that this so-called advocate has found a way to be paid by our taxes twice, as the Director of Nevada Legal Services and as the Speaker of the Assembly.
If Ms. Buckley really cared for the people the way she has claimed all these years, she would not be trying to undermind the will of 70% of the Nevada voters who voted to have limits placed on politicians.
Just the idea that she feels the need to fight against the will of the people shows that she is after the “Power” and not concerned for the public welfare as she has claimed all these years. There is enough hypocracy in politics, we don’t need more from people like Ms. Buckley.
The purpose of Term Limits is to keep politicians from becoming “Gods” and if it means loosing someone like the mayor who promotes Las Vegas and shows the positive aspect of our city so we are able to eliminate those like Ms. Buckely who believe they are “God” , then I believe the sacrifice is needed. Our Mayor will always be the best representative for this city, and Ms. Buckley will always believe that she alone knows what is best for the rest of us.

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Since the Nevada Democratic Convention, in which there was a declared “mess” a lot of people have been laying the blame on John Hunt and the rest of the officials of the party. Though these officials should take serious responsibility for the mess that occured, lets face the facts, no one expected the volume of people that finally got involved in this process.

Generally, Americans as a group, don’t show much enthusiasm in the electoral process, preferring to wait until after an election to complain about the “new” administration. The citizens of Nevada are a perfect example; Since Nevada became a state one hundred forty-four years ago, there has never been any serious participation in the electorial system.
With this in mind, it is no wonder that the officials of the Democtratic party were caught “with their pants down” in what turned out to be the largest gathering of the Democratic party in the history of Nevada.
It is easy to complain about those that had the responsibility to set up the convention, especially after the fiasco, but in all fairness, how would anyone have been able to estimate, within reliable parameters, the actual count.
For those that are trying to place blame and looking for the “removal of the officials responsible” they need to get off their high horses and shoulder some of the responsibity of making the “process work by assisting in the process and helping those “officials” who are voluntering there time for the the party.

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First, I am not a Republican, therefore I will vote for whichever Democrat is finally “certified” by the Party to run in November.
In making that statement I now have to wonder if the promises that are being made by the two front runners in the party have any substance.
Hillary promises and Obama promises, but what good are promises if they can never become real?
After listening to Mr. Obama who promises to change the way this country does everything from teaching our children, creating jobs, getting out of Iraq quickly, to showing the rest of the world that we, the United States, are the true world leader, I wonder how realistic are his thoughts. He has admitted that his promises sound unrealistic and undoable, but that without dreams things don’t change. That is true; but for us, the voters, when we place someone in power on the promises that they make, it is “we the people” that suffer from the failure of those dreams, not the dreamer.
Is Mr. Obama telling us what he thinks we want to hear, or what he truly believes?
The trouble with that question is that if and until he is in the White House we won’t know how true are his words. A dreamer is difficult to follow, because the dreams are their dreams. For those that follow the dreamer, if that dream fails then that dreamer was a lier, a phony, a fool.
Is Mr. Obama a lier, a phony, a fool, or someone with a dream that will actually go forward and help to change the direction that this country has taken in the past 7 years?
After listening to the politics for so many years, it is difficult to believe that anyone will be able to give what they say.
I used to be a dreamer when dealiing with politics, but after years of listening to the “lines” that come out of the politicans’ mouths I find reality is what I see and dreams are what will not happen.

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This was the first year that I was able to be involved with a Caucus. Was it exciting? Not really, but it felt good to be involved.
Our area of importance involved a total of approximately 135 democratic voters, of that number 51 came out to caucus. considering the difficulty for many people to get away from work, and many others who do not care to vote at all, the percentage was very encouraging.
What was enjoyable was the way our neighbors cared less for who you were caucusing for than that we were taking a stand and getting involved. There was no animosity among the neighbors only good natured comments and jokes, nothing vile or offensive. The entire process lasted about an hour, if you count the time spent arriving , registering and commenting.
As an experience, it was different.
From the news it seems that the major drama in this Caucus was at the 9 hotels that were created for the use of people working in the hotels. That seems to be where animosity flourished. People became animated and heated over debating why their candidate was the best. I found it laughable because we are all looking for the best possible person to take us into the future. Can anyone guarantee that their candidate is willing and able to carry out the political promises that he or she has been making?
Whatever the final tally, the person that gets to run for President is the one that you will support or not support. If you are not happy with the results, stay in the game and keep working for change. If people participate there is a chance that change will go in the right direction. Walking away because your favorite didn’t get first place, means that you really don’t care what happens.
There is a negative part of the Caucus process and that is that there were a lot of people that were not able to caucus because of where they worked or what type of job they did.
The purpose of a caucus may have worked years ago when a community was small and when people could close up a business for a few hours to “go fishing”, but this isn’t Mayberry and people don’t appreciate going to their store only to find out that the staff decided to close up for a few hours for personal, or political reasons.
As Nevada grows, it seems that the time for change is here. Change the Caucus to a primary. Let ever vote have a chance to mean something and let every person who wants to be involved, be involved.

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With the author’s permission, I copied the following blogs verbatim, from Galactic Poolhall:
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ger·ry·man·dered, ger·ry·man·der·ing, ger·ry·man·ders
To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party or group in elections.

Obama will win Nevada because a judge has decided that gerrymandering is ok by him.

Mr Obama won the endorsement of the Culinary Workers Union, the biggest service sector union, earlier this month. Giving him a major advantage in the Democratic caucus, thanks to a masterful bit of maneuvering senior members of the party.

A decision to create nine new precincts within casinos on the Strip - the main stretch of high-profile casinos and hotels in Las Vegas - was approved by the state’s Democratic Party last summer.
They will be open to any shift worker working within 2.5 miles of the Strip when the caucuses are held.

A failed legal challenge was filed by the state teachers’ union and other groups with ties to Clinton. However, the Clinton campaign has said it was not involved with the lawsuit.

Giving his ruling, Judge James Mahan said: “The Democrats can set up their own rules just as the Republicans can.
“It is not up to some federal judge to come along and say, ‘I don’t like that’.” …..Strange. I thought that’s what judges were supposed to do.

This decision does make a person wonder by what means the judge got elected.

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This is from this morning’s NYT:
Mrs. Clinton scored a clear victory measured in the number of people attending the caucuses on her behalf. But Mr. Obama’s campaign was successful by another measure — in the allocation of delegates to the national nominating convention, a result of a complex formula that gave more weight to votes in some parts of the state.

Let me guess. Somebody told you that your vote was just as important as everybody else’s. They also told you a big fat white dude was going to carry a big bag of toys down your chimney.
Aren’t you kind of old to keep believing this shit?

The signs say Clinton won.
Talk about pure unadulterated bullshit. She got her butt kicked where it really counted. The votes went to Clinton and the delegates went to Obama.

Following a time honored, nationwide political tradition, the Nevada Dems gamed the system.

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Social Security is becoming insolvent!
Sounds very dire. Why is it becoming insolvent, because our government has been taking the money from the Social Security fund for other projects and bills with promisess to pay back. Instead of paying the debt, the Federal Government has decided that there is no need to repay.
Social Security is not dead, the borrower, our government, is defaulting on their promise to repay the loan(s).
If you or I refused to repay a Federal Government loan we would be sued by the Feds, have our taxes taken, our house and personal property liened on, and be continuously harrased until we broke down and made some some so
The Government wants the public to believe that the Social Security Funds are drying up, no they are not, the funds are being taken and not returned.
The Feds should be required to replace the money as well as the interest that should have seen compounded from the first time that money was “Borrowed”

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Has anyone been reading about Lynette Boggs McDonald and her problems with the District Attorney’s Office?
The DA decided that she lied on several issues and deserves to be punished.
The Question I ask is why hasn’t the DA’s office gone after the other politicals over these same issues.
Issue number 1. She paid her babysitter twelve hundred + dollars from the campaign funds to watch her children while she was campaigning. It seems logical that if you are involved in a campaign and need a babysitter for that reason that that should be considered as legitimate, if it isn’t, if it wasn’t, then she should be required to pay it back. (by the way she did pay it back when told that it was not a legitimate expense). Why prosecute for something that was resolved and that anyone could have looked at either way?
Issue number 2. She lied when she said she lived in one location, and was seen in another location outside the “legal zone”
I, and anyone who has been in Las Vegas for more than 5 years can name at least half dozen politicals that have done the same and were not charged with any crime. In fact, when these other names were brought up at the time of their election “the powers to be” could find no reason to doubt the truth of their residency.
Reading about this case that the DA’s office has “puched” through makes this writer wonder if the DA’s office has too much time and money on their hands that they need to waste money and time on a “Non-Issue”.
Lets face it Ms. Boggs Mcdonald’s career in politics is gone. Leave her and go forward with real issues, or go back in time and file against the other politicals that did the same and worse than she did and give justice to all.

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