August 26, 2008

Today's RGJ, p 4A, quotes 14 year old gang member Emmanuel Torres as explaining why the shotgunned a Sun Valley homeowner who was giving a birthday party for his daughter: "Torres said he thought the man was a rival gang member and shot him because he feared the man had a gun."  Didn't the President of the world's most powerful country use this same language to explain his murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women and children?  The only thing Torres didn't learn from Bush was how to shoot straight.

Well, we discovered this week one of of the most powerful arguments for electing McCain over Obama:  Madonna and other such sluts are rallying to Obama's aid.  

August 18. 2008

We read that Bush is trying to start the Cold war again.  He will have to leave office soon if he can't somehow start a major war with someone.  We asked the Bush administration when Iraq had attacked us and were told that under the Bush policy, we could attack anyone we wanted anytime.  Doesn't matter if they attack us.  Any attack we make is, by definition, a defensive attack. Cause we are good and they are evil. Now Russia seems to be balking a bit as Bush's plan to encircle it with American missiles. Seems like Putin doesn't believe Bush won't use those missiles to attack Russia.  Perhaps Putin didn't see much to like when he looked into Bush's soul. If Bush can figure out some excuse, however flimsy, (remember he used 9/11 as the excuse to attack Iraq even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11) we can attack Russia and perhaps Russia will respond by sending a few missiles this way.  Then Bush can cancel the election, which seems to be his main goal.  These darn elections are so disruptive!   As a footnote, we read in today's paper that Bush's boy in Pakistan has been ousted.  Perhaps he will use that as an excuse to attack Pakistan.  So many bombs. So little time.

August 16, 2008

We were most happy and relieved to learn from today's WSJ that there is a difference between torture as administered by a dictator and torture as administered by George Bush who, should he leave office in January, is something short of a dictator.  We were disappointed however to be left in the dark about just what that difference is.  All we know, as explained at page 9 of toda's WSJ, is that "Cuban state security applied every torture method in the totalatarian handboon -- and even some new inspirations-- to break the prisoners" (being held "in tiny, windowless cells" at Cuba's Isle of Pines) and that this is bad, while Bush's torture of Guantanamo inmates a few miles south is good. We can surmise though, that the reason Castro's torture is bad and Bush's torture is good is that Castro is torturing good people - people who worship the real God and refuse to convert to communism, while Bush is torturing bad people - people who worship an imposter God and refuse to let the oil companies take over their country. 

August 14, 2008 (Record Low Turnout)

Tuesday's primary election saw record low turnouts.  According to yesterday's RGJ, only 20% of eligible Reno voters went to the polls.  Some think this is bad.  We are not sure. Perhaps its just that the voters don't care.  Nevada has the initiative.  Whenever the elected representatives do something the voters don't like, they just reverse it through the initiative process.  This, despite the fact that the Founding Fathers, along with numerous other phrases designed to thwart the tyranny of the majority, put language into the US Constitution which was designed to insure a republican form of state government. A Republic is government by elected representative.  A democracy is government by the people.  Initiative procedures exist only because the US Supreme Court refuses to enforce the constitution's anti-initiative language - on the grounds that the issue is a "political question." Why bother voting for senators and assemblymen when the people can just enact their own laws whenever they want?  When you think about it, elections of state and local representatives are more or less a fraud on the public.  They have no real power.  In a democracy, which we have become, the real power lies with the people, or, more properly, with those who have enough money to convince the ever-so-gullible and increasingly clueless Nevada public to vote for their pet initiative petition(s).  

August 1, 2008 (Olympics)

Those who keep up with this page know our deep disgust with George Bush and his supporters.  Those folks cloak their cowardice and greed in patriotism.  "America is great," they say, while lining their pockets with the public treasury.  "Freedom is great," they say, so long as we can exercise it without risking our lives.  Now, King George is fooling around with the Olympics, meeting with prominent Chinese dissidents just days before opening ceremonies.  He is not content to just let the atheletes compete.  Why not, as the ancient Greeks did, pause our wars for a few days every four years so we can get a brief glimpse of the peaceful interaction the is possible someday between the peoples of the world?  The minds of those who would risk the games for temporary political advantage are small minds indeed.

July 18, 2008 (Oil)

Though he had to bankrupt the Western World to do it, George seems to be following through on his promise to his Oil Buddies to get them authority to drill anywhere they want.  George knows the American people for the wimps they are.  Threaten their safety and they throw the constitution in the trash.  Threaten their pocketbook and they let you drill for oil in Golden Gate park.  All the while blaming George, though all he has done is exploit our own weaknesses - own selfish timidity, our own all-encompassing greed.  King George knows us better than we know ourselves.

July 11, 2008 (smoke)

Those who blame the area's smoke on California wildfires are falling for the tobacco industry's line.  We know its cigar smoke, not, as the Democrats claim, smoke from California wildfires.  Until we can ban all forms of smoking, anywhere, anytime and anyhow, we will continue to suffer and die.  The good news is that once we rid ourselves of cigarette and cigar smoke, we can expect to live forever.   

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Those who blame the area's smoke on global warming are falling for the tobacco industry's line.  In truth, Al Gore is causing all this smoke.  Al is sitting in his bedroom burning the smokiest stuff he can find, just to prove his false theory of global warming. That we have never had this much smoke before does not prove Gore right.  No, No! We must never validate Al's Inconvenient Truth.  He is a LIBERAL! 

July 8, 2008 (Bush)

In his last few months in office, Bush is finally acting Presidential.  Which is all the more despicable, as it shows he well knew how to act during the first 7 years of his regime. He is apparently going to spend these months trying to get some kind of a legacy.  Too late, George. You have ruined this country.  You have convinced the world that it must create a power to balance ours, whether China or whoever.  Anyone, as we have shown the truth of that old adage:  "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Too bad.  At the outset of your reign, the world was content to let us show the way.  No longer. No longer. No longer.

June 25, 2008 (smoke)

The smoke around here is terrible.  Perhaps the good people of this state need a new initiaive, banning forests. No other way we know to rid the area of smoke from forest fires. We could pave the Sierras.  Heck, wouldn't be too bad.  You've burned one tree, you've burned them all. We say.

And speaking of smoke, why doesn't someone put out an initiative amending the smoking ban to provide that smoking Nevadans who want to dilute their alcohol with a little food can do so, say, in 10% of the restaurants in any one community.  Do the non-smokers really need to have every single restaurant cater to their non-smoking fetishes?  And while on our high-horse, why doesn't some Youtube enthusiast film two air-tight garages, one with a cigar smoker and a couple of rats in a cage and the other with a new Honda and a couple of caged rats.  Start the cigar and the car at the same time.  See which group of rats lives longer.     

June 19 (too many unwed mothers)

Its getting ridiculous.  One irresponsible boy can impregnate a thousand girls, and that is just what is happening. And of course, the boy can't support his kids, and the girls drop out, and we the taxpayers pick up the bill or, if not, become the victims of those kids when they grow up - as they grow up by themselves, for the most part, and too often become undesirable citizens.  There are those who are still saying "It takes two to tangle," who put equal blame on the boys.  True, it takes two, but if one of those "two" is a boy, as is presumably the case, that same boy can be one of the "two" in a thousand more "twos." Put more simply, one boy can tango with 1000 girls. 

There are at least two extremist groups who purport to deal with this problem:  Planned Parenthood and Abstinants.

Planned Parenthood doesn't understand boys or girls and is primarily interested in getting girls to enjoy the sexual freedoms boys have so long enjoyed.  The sexes are equal, not opposite.  That is Planned Parenthood's mantra.  Planned Parenthood thinks boys don't wear condoms because they forget.  It is Planned Parenthood who forgets that boys are bullet-proof.  Young men are traditionally the fodder for war for the bullet is always made for the next guy.  Sames with AIDS.  HIV.  You name it.  Condoms are for sissys.  And Planned Parenthood gives no real attention to girls either, particularly the great number of girls who WANT to get pregnant, to give their boyfriend a baby with a "young soul."   The Planned Parenthood model works only if there are an equal number of boys and girls who pair up for recreational sex, none having sex with more than one other and with both equally sharing the consequences of sex.  It does not work in the real world, where intentionally reckless boys are doing their best to each put as many notches on their bedposts as possible, and where the consequences of healthy sex are solely born by girls. 

And the "abstinence" folks are not much, if any, better.  You can't teach kids not to do that which God made them to do!  No matter the message, no matter its strength, if it interferes with nature's plan, it will be disregarded by young people. As it has been throughout the ages.  A girl and a boy of sexual but not emotional maturity simply cannot be left alone together for long without an unacceptable risk that the girl will become pregnant. That's the size of it. 

The sadness is that the Planned Parenthood and Abstinence folks well know better.  In both cases, there is a political or religious agenda driving the activity when what is needed is money.  Not for condoms.  Not for IUDs. Not for Bibles.  Not for churches.  No.  What is needed is money for chaperones.   Cost?  Yes, cost.  Expense. Too many of our kids are raising themselves.  No parent exists, must less a chaperone.  So, while their mothers are watching Sex and the City, their children are with other kids their age..other kids of the opposite sex.  Alone.  Doing what unsupervised kids have always done.  Before porn.  Before woman's lib. 
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In sum, though, no doubt, we should at least try to get our girls under some kind of control, lets spend most of  our money trying to keep young folks of the opposite sex from being alone unchaperoned.  Nothing else stands any chance of working in the real world.  Sexual irresponsibility is perhaps the most clear and present danger the woman's movement has ever faced.  It was thought, as we now know, that women are as smart or smarter than men, and usually better students to boot.  They have proved themselves.  Best doctors.  Best lawyers.  Best Indian Chiefs. Girls lucky enough to have parents who care for them are using their freedom as intended....to advance their knowledge and their skills.  But far too many, often those who don' t live in the traditional two-parent model home, use their freedom to justify turning themselves into two-bit whores, into, for want of a better word, common sluts, through, frankly, no fault of their own except immaturity.  This cannot continue long if we are to remain a civilized society.

May 25, 2008 (Armed Forces)

It is good to have time to reflect on the bravery and integrity of America's armed forces.  Whether, as now, the country is run by a bunch of incompetent crooks, or whether, as before Bush took office, we were a great nation, the armed forces stick in there and do their job, which is not to decide foreign policy, but to carry it out. Be our foreign policy wise and good, or as now, unwise, corrupt, and evil, they carry it out.  That is, and in this country, always has been their job.  Our service men and women, like the Roman Legions of old are judged not by whether the policy is good or bad, but on how effective they are in carrying it out and they are very good at carrying it out.   Our soldiers are the Roman Legions of today, brave to the core and far more competent than any others, before or since.    They do their job well.  We can ask no more.  We salute them.  And we apologize to them for letting this country get into the hands of Bush and his cronies.

May 20, 2008 (Misogyny)

Those who say Hillary is losing the race because she is a woman may be right, but for reasons they may want to talk about.  At the time the Senate authorized Bush to attack Iraq, Senator Clinton, as well as EVERY other knowledgeable person in the world, knew that Iraq probably didn't have WMD but that Bush would probably strike anyway if authorized to do so by the United States Senate.  And, it is said, the reason she voted nonetheless to give him that authority was because she is a woman and she didn't want to be accused of being weak.  Now, if keeping women from appearing to be weak is important to her, then can we assume that she will attack Canada, if elected, for the same reason?  Certainly, other than turning Shiite Iran's enemy Iraq over to the Iraqi Shiites, its difficult to imagine a more foolish act.  

May 19, 2008  (Hold nose, but vote Democratic)

Well, we're not biting anymore.  The Democrats just finished their State Convention and as usual put a bunch of crap in their platform that turns off most normal Americans.  In the past, we have used this as an excuse to vote for Republicans, who are much more reasonable on social issues.  But, as indicated, we're not biting anymore.  The current crowd of Republicans rode into power on the backs of this Demcocratic foolishness, and then promptly turned on the people, invaded a little country that had never done us wrong, lined their pockets and the pockets of their friends with our tax dollars, destroyed our civil liberties and eliminated the American middle class.  If we have to put up with abortion and queers to stop these Republicans, so be it.

May 16, 2008 (Queer Marriage Decision)


The Calif Supreme Court said yesterday that the State must permit a man to marry another man, but can still prohibit him from marrying two women.  Due, if nothing else, to the unavailabilty of eligible men, millions of women already are denied the ability to enjoy sex with a husband. The practical effect of this is to further increase that sad number.

And the Fed Supreme Court just approved the giving of tax money to religious groups.  Support the Jews or Muslims or whatever or go to jail. Even though establishment of a religion is expressly prohibited by the Constitution.

It is becoming clear that we cannot trust judges.  Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, as the saying goes.  And our decision to give Bush a second term, shows we also cannot trust the people.

The California decision, if nothing else, should renew and energize Nevada's efforts to amend our constitution to prohibit same sex marriage. We best get busy or the court will be soon permit men to marry a chicken (but not two chickens).

May 9, 2008 (bikes on sidewalks)

The purpose, we suppose, of laws prohibiting bikes on sidewalks, is to get bicyclists to ride in the street, where they can better be run over.  Drive West on Moana Lane from S. Virginia street  some Wednesday morning and you will see a busy street and expensive, completely unused sidewalks.  Yet should a bicyclist dare to ride on one of those sidewalks, where he would be safe, he is subject to getting a $250 fine.  Something is wrong here. Why not provide in the law that a biker can, indeed must, use a sidewalk where it is devoid of pedestrians?  And that, if a pedestrian should appear, that the biker must slow to a walk when passing the pedestrian?  Save a bit on hospital bills.  To their credit, it seems that the cops are using common sense here and citing bicyclists on sidewalks only where the biker is recklessly endangering pedestrians.  As it should be.

May 3, 2008 (vote for Obama)


If you think the economy is the main problem, vote for Hillary.  If you think we have to fix what Bush broke in Iraq, vote for McCain.  But if you agree with us that the main thing needing fixed is America's soul, then vote for Obama.  Once we recapture our national soul, once we become Americans again, we can then begin to address our other problems.  That's how we see it.  We can't believe that the current Congress is so timid that it refuses to impeach Bush.  That Congress is content to let that crook walk free in a few more months boggles our mind.

April 28, 2008 (More on Eldorado Children)

Texas is teaching us again the wisdom of Tom Jefferson's admonition that we keep church and state separate. But what to do about the sick notion among some fundamentalists that sex with minors and incest is appropriate? Who is mostly to blame for this?

We suggest that, as usual, we are.  There is nothing wrong with polygyny itself.  Out of every 100,000 white non-Hispanics, at least 5,000 women can't get married or enjoy the benefit of family because there just aren't enough men.  10,000 out of every 100,000 Negro women are forced by our laws against polygyny to suffer the same fate.  That about twice as many men as women claim to be homosexuals increases the number of women denied family further.  That men are much more likely to be imprisoned, on drugs, or addicted to alcohol further increases the injustice to women caused by these laws.

And when we recall that the laws against polygyny were passed to "protect" women from their own weaknesses, a bygone notion for sure, there is little to recommend them.  Surely some women would be benefited by the practice.  And they should have the right choose for themselves whether they want that kind of life.

As shown by the recent placement of some 400 Mormon Fundamentalist children into foster-home situations by Texas authorities based on a trumped-up phone call, the leaders of the Fundamentalist Mormons are telling the truth when they tell their members that society at large is out to get them.  We force them to go underground and conduct their affairs in secret.  Much better would be some sunlight on the sorry situation of these fundamentalists. We could then more effectively and humanely enforce our laws against sex with minors and against incest.  Tom Jefferson was right.  Whenever a government becomes faith-based, that government, as ours in Texas, as the Zionists in Israel, as the radical Muslims in Iraq, turns on those who don't share its view of what God wants.  Violence and tragedy are the inevitable result.

April 11, 2008

It's hard to get reliable information about the tragedy at Eldorado Texas.  The mob-like press is having a feeding frenzy.  We suspect the call from the teenage "rape victim" was placed by some feminazi.  If nothing else, it is becoming apparent that 416 American born children were removed from their American home and are now being held captive in an old Army fort.  Their mothers, having been unable to prevent the removal of their children by getting on their knees and forming a human chain which the manly Texas Rangers were able to breach, have, of course, now left the compound to be as near to their children as the police will allow.  Texas however is having none of it and says that it intends to put all 416 children in foster homes.  This makes clear if there ever were any doubt that the whole operation is being conducted in bad faith.  Simply put, these women are losing their children because of their faith.  If a man raped them, put the man in jail.  One can wonder whether it was more cruel to do as the Nazis did...put innocent women in buses and take them to gas chambers.  Certainly, may women would prefer death to losing their children to some drug infested Texas foster home.  Another thing to wonder:  If these women were, as the press says, "raped," why are they being punished?  Apparently a rape victim is not a fit mother.  One thing is sure.  The women will not be allowed to talk to the press, nor, if they were, would their untold grief so permit. Does our inhumanity to women know any bounds?

April 8, 2008.  Man's inhumanity

Man's inhumanity to man, or, in this case, woman apparently knows no bounds.  60 years ago he was bussing women and children to gas chambers, 2 or 3 years ago, burning Davidians in Texas and now forceably putting them on busses and taking them to town to be dumped.  The latest outrage against helpless women and children is by the ever-so-brave Texas Rangers, who are bothered that they have husbands who care for them.   The rangers want them indiscrimanately screwing around so that the tax payers can properly support their kids, as with everyone else.  "We just can't have these women and children growing up in these great families," said the Texas Rangers.  "Other kids have to suffer through divorce and single-mother hood. These kids must suffer too.  Plus, we are only arresting the women and children.  We are leaving the men alone."

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

So, according to Maureen Dowd in today's NY Times, Hillary didn't make a mistake when talking about landing in Bosnia under fire....she lied, knowing she would be easily and publicly caught, in order to draw fire away from Obama, who was then being bombarded over Reverend Wright.  Politics!  In any event, Hillary is one tough cookie and Maureen is probably right.....she is doing Obama a favor by toughening him up for the fight against Bush III.    

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 (April Fools).


Appropriate day it is to note that though King George told us he wanted the Patriot Act to catch terrorists, he is mainly using it to rid the nation of Democratic Governors, such as Elliot Spitzer of New York.  But then, is there anyone left in this country who is surprised by Bush lies?  Who cares?

Sunday, March 30,2008


JaVale McGee is not much of a human being.  But then neither are most of us.  In deciding to opt for the NBA draft, he has done nothing other than adopt the general "do anything for money, screw anyone for a buck" mind set that has pervated this country since Bush became president.  That being said, we don't have to like it.  Lets hope the SOB fails and has a miserable NBA career.   And lets start looking again at the draft rules.  We have never understood why the NBA allows its teams to raid the universities in this way.  

Governor Gibbons, according to today/s RGJ, is a fool.  We  second that.  


Saturday, March 29, 2008.


We applaud the Reno jury for sentencing Tamir Hamilton to death for his senseless slaughter of Holly Quick. The courage of that jury is to be contrasted with the cowardice of Pelosi and others in Congress who refuse to impeach Bush for his senseless slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi women and children.

Al Neuharth, USA Today founder, argues that John McCain is too old to be president, as he is over 65 (today's RGJ, p 6D).  Al would give us George Bush and deny us Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower (second term). 

Friday, March 28, 2008
Helpful Resources for Homeowners:

           The Nevada Housing Division offers assistance for homeowners and home buyers while
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    The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) can also help you contact
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    The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) can also assist homeowners who have used FHA
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Problems at the Reno Gazette Journal:

The problems at RGJ reflect the problems in society at large.  RGJ, a reasonably good paper most of the time, has been taken over by corporate interests.  Instead of advertising supporting a basic news gathering and reporting function, the RGJ now uses news to fill in space around advertising.  Its basic purpose is not news, but profit.  And, being a monopoly, it need not be so commercial.  Yet today, it has advertising on the front page, being a pull-off sticker advertising this or that.  Pulling off the sticker invariably destroys part of the front page, including news content.  And then the ever-creeping ad at the bottom of the front page.  And the destruction of the Sunday funnies, depriving the newpaper of any value to kids.  Hiding and moving various sections of the paper, so that one has to hunt through ads to find the news.  Pretty poor.  But then, so is society at large.  Too bad the newspaper is part of the problem, rather than part of the solution.

Our government can be pretty silly:

Arlington avenue, South of the river, runs past Wingfield Park and then past some offices before it get to a residential area.  Yet the city has posted the area in front of the offices 15 MPH, and the area in front of the residences at 30 MPH.  Silly.  Why does government always insist on disappointing us?  Everyone agrees that Arlington, as it passes through Wingfield should be 15 MPH.  Same with the area in front of Mt Rose School.  But 15 MPH in front of offices?  Ridiculous.   It denigrates the whole idea of a 15 MPH zone and, best we can tell, since every thinking person ignores it, exists solely as a revenue source for the city.