phoenixJane

Democrats will do everything Bush has done including increasing the size of the military.  They also have a really naive world view that by taxing Americans they can change the human condition. All that the Dems have in mind is as bad and worse than what the combined Clinton and the Bush administrations have done:

(1) Restrict domestic supply of oil and force Americans into energy sources that they and their lobbyists have invested in heavily;
(2) Slap on a small fine and grant amnesty to illegal immigrants;
(3) Repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell and openly allow homosexuals in the military;
(4) Attach new regulations to the Second Amendment;
(5) Strike down laws that require identification in order to vote or register to vote.

I downloaded and read the 2008 Democratic National Convention Committee platform.  Many already know that Obama and Biden co-sponsored legislation essentially making the US government responsible for a bogus cost of living increase for the planet. What you may not know is that the Democratic Party platform now calls for the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration Goals in their entirety! The Obama-Biden legislation currently on the way to the Senate to will enact UN goal three. However, each UN Millennium goal will bind member countries to other treaties, conventions, and conferences, including:

— Regional and local small arms and light weapons disarmament based on the premise that small arms are a threat to peace and development, to democracy and human rights.
— Stepped up compliance with the International Court of Justice, and
— Numerous bad global warming agreements such as Kyoto which already Bush has wisely refused to sign.

The UN buget is in the neighborhood of $10 billion annually. We need a smaller UN or a non-existent UN, not a bigger one.

According to recallmayorgordon.com, signatures for petitions to recall Phil Gordon are due August 28th. The organizers have given no information about the number of signatures collected so far, which is understandable. But based on little snippets in the news over the past weeks, it sounds like Phil Gordon's measures to thwart the recall have inspired people to sign.

Phil Gordon encouraged city workers to post his election signs in their front yards when he was running for re-election. However, he forbids them to sign the recall petition citing that such actions are classified as political activity. What irritates me the most are the numerous times Gordon labeled his own constituents with racially charged slurs. Then, there are the numerous waste-of-money filings with Federal officials about his nemesis. I know several people turned off by his angry tirades.

Several days ago, I caught a JD Hayworth show when it was described how a volunteer collecting signatures in one of the city's parks was confronted by a Phoenix park ranger. The ranger wanted him to move to a low traffic area of the park. The petitioner declined to move. Then when a person came up to sign the petition, the ranger approached the two and took a picture of the person signing the petition with his cell phone.

The Gordon camp has used all kinds of spiteful tricks to subvert the rights of Phoenix residents. Today, Gordon is in Washington D.C. addressing the Police Foundation at their National Conference. He is representing that he is an example of good public safety leadership, except he has not shown good leadership at all. Phoenix Police are still unable to call ICE on their own when making an arrest. Gordon deserves a great little welcome home gift. Everyone eligible to sign and desiring to recall Mayor Gordon, should go to http://www.recallmayorgordon.com/Petition_Locations.ht
ml and check out all the petition locations. Or send an email to RecallPhilGordon@aol.com, because as of this writing, if you live in certain zip codes, they'll send someone to collect your signature.

You may have heard the buzz speculating that Gen. Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama. I've always felt I would vote for the General were he to run for President. Mostly, I doubt the speculations are true, but I did consider how I would view Powell should he endorse or join the Obama ticket.

In other words, would such a move: (1) lend Obama credibility or (2) lessen Powell's credibility. Well, right now, it's door number two. Powell holds a lot of currency for his part in Desert Storm. He's well-spoken—far beyond Barack. He's not a telePromptee, yet he still manages intelligent and wise impromptu answers. However, if Powell endorsed Obama, I would completely re-evaluate my estimation of him, not Obama. Why? Because although stellar, Powell's military pedigree is not enough to erase the fact that we've already peaked behind the wizard's curtain—Obama—and he's come up really short. Besides, endorsements are seriously over-played anyway. Hopefully, Powell has already seen the problems with an Obama presidency, and will commend Obama as a personal friend rather than as a candidate for President.

There was a blogger with the screen name of something like "kid_with_thoughts." Whatever happened to his blog? Have you heard from him lately? I enjoyed his blog and was going to  link to it but I was not able to find it again?

Do you remember any of his comments on your own blog posts? Sensible chap, good mind,  writes well, but I can't find a thing by him anywhere.

PJ

Russia attacking the country of Georgia might have moved the price of oil down nearly $5 dollars. I don't care. I want the price of oil to drop, but not this way. This isn't our war. If there is oil in Georgia, so the heck what. Drill here, drill now, fight our own battles. If trade routes are blocked, so the heck what, make our own toys, grow our own food, weave our own fabric, and buy our own cars. If Russia wants a more direct route to Iran, so the heck what, they'll kill each other anyway. Less work for us. Last but not least, I'd love to see a dollar worth something, and I'm tired of lining the pockets of people who bank wars. With talk about American troops leaving Iraq AND Americans finally demanding domestic drilling, our economy stands a chance.

We get pulled into conflicts due to the complicated little back room bets. Well life ain't that complicated. Just say no. We have plenty on our plate, and I'd rather see our troops taking in the fine views along our southern border.

In a recent interview with Dan Saban, Bruce Jacobs was very fair to admit that he does not agree with Arpaio's sweeps. Amazingly, Jacobs asked "why would I vote for Dan Saban when the majority his deputies don't support Dan Saban." Saban answered overall that he inherited a department that was unorganized and such was the nature of his job. Later, a member of the Buckeye Police Association called in to the show and said Saban's answer was absolutely false. The caller said none of the deputies support Saban in anything. Their non-support is unanimous among the members of the association. In fact, the police association was formed in response to the way Saban managed the department. Saban's response: it was a political smear! Link to interview.

The caller added that Saban criticized Arpaio for not filling vacancies, but since 2005, Saban had the budget to fill 15 positions with police officers and he has not done so to this date. Buckeye is now 45,000 residents and 600 square miles with the same number of police officers as in 2005. Saban's response: he inherited a department that was unorganized (even had boxes on the floor). Dan Saban CONSISTENTLY passes the buck and blames others when it's time to take responsibility and has proven his ineffectiveness as a police chief. Dan Saban would be a disaster for Maricopa County.

Bipartisan must be French for "kiss my grits" when Nancy Pelosi uses the term. She should have just gone home today after the House adjourned and let House Republicans say what they wanted post-adjournment. Instead Pelosi shut that down, shut off mics, cameras, and lights while people were on the floor. There is no question about why we have a shallow energy supply: Democrats. I think she should lose her position as Speaker of the House for that stunt.

Now, three banks have been taken over by the government in less than three months, what next? Did your bank close this time? None of mine have, but I'm concerned. One concern is about the failures in general, and the other concern is about what's being hailed as the cause. We all know about the "mortgage crisis," but beyond that. There's talk that a 1977 piece of legislation from Jimmy Carter's term, the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act), made it easy to force banks into loans to unqualified applicants. So now, Indy Mac, 1st National Bank of Nevada, and First Heritage Bank have been taken over by FDIC. I realize not everybody follows news about the banks. But since Bush and the Fed Chairman continually restate their intent to give the Fed control over U.S. financial markets, I've been expecting to see things like this happen. Conceivably, the appearance of collapsing financial markets would open the door for the Fed to takeover. Your insight would be appreciated.

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Oh please, please, watch this video...the first two minutes at least. And ignore the person in the background. I know, at one point it looks like she's got some cigarette paper, but she's doesn't. That's a mirror, she's just getting ready to do her hair or some hair! I'm still laughing and tears are rolling down my cheeks, but not because Mr. isn't right. Although, he could have been more aware of his surroundings. It's just so funny how this man and all like him are portrayed in the media. But here he is, blowing the Obama hype right out of the water in his own style.

Along with others, convicted gang member, Jose Medellin received the death penalty for the gruesome deaths of two young girls in a Houston park. Another gang member, an American, has already been executed. Medellin is an illegal alien from Mexico. At the behest of the Mexican government, the World Court ordered a stay of execution. Then George Bush weighed in and "ordered" Texas to obey the World Court.

That didn't go over well anywhere basically. Even GW's own Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts, ruled that Bush overstepped his bounds. Texas just announced that it's giving the green light to Medellin's execution on Aug 5th and that a foreign court has no standing in Texas.

How 'bout that. A foreign court has no standing in Texas. The experts from Columbia (We love you Mahmoud) University say that decision is going to come back to bite us. Basically, we have a legal obligation to comply with the world court, and if we don't comply, other states might follow our example (be it fully noted that when the UN refers to a member, it's a state not a nation).

What do you think? I think Texas is setting a fine example. People in Texas are saying things like:

I don't believe the Constitution of the United States of America has any provision for murder trials, and or sentencing of convicted murderers, to take place in the "World Court" in The Hague, Netherlands. If America allows this intrusion into our sovereign affairs, it will be a sad day indeed for law abiding citizens. Law breakers all over the country, whether here legally or not, will rejoice! (chron.com)

If he does the crime in the US then he needs to be punished under US law. Texas has the death penalty for a reason and we use it. I think that every citizen in Texas will agree with the fact that when you commit a crime, you deserve to be punished, and the punishment should be fitting to the crime that was committed, he deserves what's coming to him. (abclocal.go.com)

Regarding a recent incident of drug violence in which Mexican nationals with AK47s sprayed a house with bullets to commit murder, a myfox blogger sympathetic to Phil Gordon's leadership in handling the incident wrote:

"Do drugs sell drugs get killed by drug cartel. The people living in that neighborhood had to of known that drugs were being dealt out of that house. They did nothing to stop it so therefore they are as much to blame. Shite happens, even in a Lilly white suburban neighborhoods."

More context:

"NO ONE has attacked America since 9/11 that I recall. It was a drug dealer getting revenge simple as that. No Mexican Military was involved. This is a non story that was blown out of proportion because a Phoenix PD mouth piece isn't getting the equipment he desires."

That presumably responsible Americans accept violence and lawlessness at this level under any circumstance is a huge problem in this country—one of the biggest. And to suggest that residents not only endure it, but do nothing until the Federal calvary comes riding in, is mind-bender. All police have had their hands tied with political strings, and the same factions want the sheriff likewise constrained.

THE PROBLEM

While our identities are stolen, retired diseases are transported over the border, our cars stolen, and we have to dodge drug bullets at night, the very same people attacking law enforcement attack us with name-calling such as fringe, bigots, racists, KKK, Nazis, white supremacists (? LOL), racial profilers, and worse just for speaking out. Yet the blogger above says that any neighbor to such crimes are to blame for the crimes because they did nothing! Therefore: it's our fault when we see someone committing a crime and we don't do anything AND it's our fault when we see someone committing a crime and we do something, because then we're being racist.

Make any sense? Because the folks in this camp wonder why they're not wanted in office.

The most bizarre activity on this community site is not when adults curse and call each other names. It's not even when ignorant remarks are made about different people groups. Although, I recently saw a comment with every other letter in alternating upper and lower case. (How do you do that?)

The most bizarre activity on this site (to me) is when people turn off comments that were previously on and proceed to post really long essays. Or when bloggers post their heart-felt ideas only for the purpose of vilifying dissenters. The end result is the same, a one-way conversation. What can that accomplish? What purpose does it serve to give of yourself that way and not allow anything back in return? How self-defeating. I've learned so much on this one site alone just hearing/listening to what people have to say. It doesn't matter how crude or vile. Most of the time, it's gold.

Sometimes we complain when leaders conduct one-way conversations but remain experts doing the very same thing ourselves. Is this just a sign of the times? 

Phoenix police report that men dressed in full military tactical gear raided a residence in West Phoenix on Monday morning killing one person. They were prepared to engage local police. The police think the men were hired by a Mexican drug cartel, some of them are suspected to be Mexican military. The men were even sporting the same shirts worn by Phoenix police raid specialists. It's no surprise. It's been public knowledge how active drug cartels have been on the border and how determined they are to protect their "market." It still raises some questions:

A. Is this related to illegal immigration or is the drug activity completely separate? I think they are related.

B. If a Mexican drug cartel will brazenly engage American law enforcement, what does this say about us? Specifically, Congress watering down border fence legislation.
 
C. Could the timing of the raid be related to removing the national guard from the border?
 
D. If Mexican military are involved, is this an act of war?

E. If the federal government refuses to protect Americans, should those who are willing to protect themselves be shunned as vigilantes?

Bush and McCain both spoke up for domestic drilling this week pleasing the crowd, I dare say. However, the president simultaneously announced that he wants to give sweeping power over U.S. financial markets to the Federal Reserve.

He thinks the mortgage crises makes this necessary, SO WE WON'T HAVE ANYMORE CRISES!

As I see it, there are two ways to control the CRISES and make sure all is well:

1-Retire the FED completely and all will be well with us.
2-Give the FED full control and all will be well with it.

I care because the Fed is a gourmet lending institution—a bank. And the business of a bank is to make money from the people around them. There is no altruism or patriotism in the mix, they are not governors. They are not elected, they are not all Americans, they exist categorically to make deals that make them money. They should have no governing authority over Americans or their means to prosperity.

Watch your wallet, I predict the push to make the FED all powerful will be in overdrive before Bush leaves office.