tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240080922024-03-08T03:24:50.755-08:00Valley of the ShadowFrom the the shores of Los Angeles,
analysis of Politics and Culture
from the Valley of the Shadow!JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.comBlogger1157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-60159832589913560292017-01-10T14:24:00.001-08:002017-01-10T16:10:40.841-08:00Putting the Valley to SleepAfter ten years (and multiple stop and starts), the Valley must rest as I create a new writing platform.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://valley-of-the-shadow.blogspot.com/2012/08/wheres-henry-waxman-not-in-los-angeles.html" target="_blank">This was the Blog that toppled a Congressman in my district (by proving he didn't live here);</a> It was here I engaged in debates about media bias', anti-semitism on the Left <a href="https://valley-of-the-shadow.blogspot.com/2012/02/kpfk-hate-speech-ii-ian-masters-dog.html" target="_blank">(still going at KPFK),</a> neo-conservatism, Paulbot madness and Winning in Los Angeles and California. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a Blog where I promote <a href="https://valley-of-the-shadow.blogspot.com/search/label/Muses" target="_blank">unique Muses (i.e. Goths) </a>and <a href="https://valley-of-the-shadow.blogspot.com/2009/04/discuss-journal-of-plague-year.html" target="_blank">discuss personal issues.</a> But sometimes, you must let the past go to create the new.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I still want to work in <a href="http://appropriations.house.gov/about/members/" target="_blank">DC </a>or<a href="https://www.asmrc.org/" target="_blank"> Sacramento </a> (<a href="http://cssrc.us/" target="_blank">State Senate</a> too) doing Policy work. But, add <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/commons/about-the-house-of-commons/" target="_blank">London (House of Commons)</a> to that dream as well. I know (and can work IRL) <a href="https://www.senate.gov/general/committee_membership/committee_memberships_SSAP.htm" target="_blank">Appropriations </a>and Process. With a touch of public relations. Hire me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again, <i><a href="https://www.cagop.org/counties" target="_blank">I will be a Delegate to the CAGOP.</a></i> Soon, I will be writing a nonfiction (and fiction) book. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Valley will always be here. The author is moving. When I have the new Blog (still deciding upon name and platform), it will be linked here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The show ends with Film (short and long) and Music. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The short film is called <i><a href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-matrix-esque-short-sundays-will-become-a-feature-fi-1694047449" target="_blank">Sundays</a></i>, which questions the Nature of Reality;</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Long Film is<i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118736/" target="_blank"> Six-String Samurai </a></i>(1998) a cult favorite</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And we finish off with Moby, "Flower" which <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Green-Sally-Up/dp/B005IVVH4O" target="_blank">mixes in a Gospel Spiritual</a> with techno. </span><br />
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<i><b><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Exeunt Stage Right</span></u></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks <a href="http://theothermccain.com/2017/01/10/berkeley-murder-suspect-pablo-gomez-harassed-college-republicans-last-year/" target="_blank">RS,</a> <a href="http://theothermccain.com/about-smitty/" target="_blank">Smitty,</a> <a href="http://theothermccain.com/2017/01/09/in-the-mailbox-01-09-17/" target="_blank">Wombat</a>, <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2017/01/brainwash-children-trump-brexit-top-education-mag-tells-teachers.html/" target="_blank">Pam</a>, <a href="http://riehlworldview.com/2014/12/mission-not-accomplished-us-allies-end-mission-in-afghanistan.html" target="_blank">Dan </a>and <a href="https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/254119/" target="_blank">Insty!</a></span><br />
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<br />JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-44879462694257143832016-02-24T23:49:00.001-08:002016-02-24T23:49:11.331-08:00Donald Trump, The Joker and Suckers on Three Card Monte<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As a member of a County Party (<a href="http://www.lagop.org/" target="_blank">RPLAC</a> -- <a href="https://www.facebook.com/50ADGOP/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel" target="_blank">50th Assembly District GOP</a>), and a Delegate to the State Party (<a href="https://www.cagop.org/about/" target="_blank">CAGOP</a>), let me ask the NVGOP one thing:<br />
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<b><i>How could you <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ktrainor59/posts/10201346948911310?pnref=story" target="_blank">mess up</a> <a href="http://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/feb/24/nevada-gop-says-reports-of-problems-during-caucus/" target="_blank">your own</a> <a href="http://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/feb/23/gop-nevada-caucus-results-trump-rubio-cruz/" target="_blank">Caucuses</a>?</i></b> <br />
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The Democrats had the same problem the week before, <a href="http://clarkcounty.gop/team/" target="_blank">Clark County GOP</a> and <a href="http://nevadagop.org/nevada-republican-party-executive-board/" target="_blank">NVGOP</a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/23/nevada-is-still-working-out-the-kinks-when-it-comes-to-its-caucuses/" target="_blank"> should have been prepped and ready Caucus night. </a></div>
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The chaos gave<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/republican_delegate_count.html" target="_blank"> Donald Trump a third victory</a>. <b><i><u>Thanks/ sarc.</u></i></b></div>
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I grew up in Queens, NY during the 70s - 90s. <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/donald-trump-timeline.html" target="_blank">During that time, I saw Trump become a major player in a Big Town.</a> (<i>Anyone who tells you Trump had no clout against Hillary Clinton in 2000 never lived in New York City during the 80s and 90s</i>). </div>
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Finally, Trump's own words endorsing <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/giulianis-new-york-shattered/article/1020148" target="_blank">Mayor De Blasio</a> <b><i>in 2013:</i></b><br />
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Let's take a lesson from some friends at the<a href="http://www.magiccastle.com/clubhouse/" target="_blank"> Magic Castle,</a> here in Hollywood:</div>
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Every voter on <a href="http://www.270towin.com/news/2016/02/22/super-tuesday-republican-polling-update_217.html#.Vs6sNpMrL6Y" target="_blank">Super Tuesday</a>, did you see that? That's Trump's campaign! <br />
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And who is <a href="http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_of_Hearts" target="_blank">the Queen of Hearts?</a></div>
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What is Trump's role in the Republican Primaries?<br />
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He plays<a href="http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Joker_(Heath_Ledger)" target="_blank"> the Joker</a> from Batman, bringing chaos into order (see Nevada).</div>
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In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Joker-Brian-Azzarello/dp/1401215815" target="_blank">Brian Azzerello's <i>Joker</i>,</a> the Joker leaves Arkham Asylum and works on taking back his "territory" in Gotham City. Using fear and chaos, he takes back most of his holdings [SPOILER ALERT: Before facing Batman, his last battle is with....Two-Face and his troops. SPOILER ENDS]. </div>
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My question: <i>Why is Trump trusted when he has done nothing for Republican candidates and governance when it mattered (in 2006 and 2008)?</i></div>
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JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-91237122187893044462016-02-15T02:01:00.000-08:002016-02-15T02:01:17.318-08:00A Little Song, A Little Dance.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Circumstances have brought me back (slowly, ever so) to The Valley.<br />
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Hello all! Missed me?<br />
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In a certain sense, 'Tis Election season and I am up for re-election in my district's Central committee (1 of 7, all good people). In another way, there was a bureaucracy in the way. <a href="https://youtu.be/a8HoZlhenZ4" target="_blank">No more.</a> And finally, on January 11th of this year,<i> I had a (small) heart attack. </i><br />
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<a href="http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/c/caravagg/10/65lazar.html" target="_blank">Like Lazarus, I have returned. </a><br />
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Upon my return, I have a love of TS Eliot poems (<a href="http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html" target="_blank"><i>The Wasteland</i></a> and<i> <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html" target="_blank">the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock</a>)</i>, Alternate History comics (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1582408734?keywords=pax%20romana&qid=1455529116&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Pax Romana</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/East-West-Volume-The-Promise/dp/1607067706/ref=pd_bxgy_14_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1A2S1RCFFMQWMSRN9N7W" target="_blank">East of West)</a> and Weird Westerns.<br />
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During the time away, I spend time in the<a href="http://www.rainbowbarandgrill.com/" target="_blank"> Rainbow Bar and Grill</a> (<a href="http://www.metalinjection.net/lists/5-reasons-lemmy-is-god" target="_blank">Lemmy is G-d!</a>) and The <a href="http://www.whiskyagogo.com/site/" target="_blank">Whisky-A-Gogo</a>. Great food, good place, kickass music and awesome people. So I love trying to save the historic part of <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/PLBfd9FBJfw" target="_blank">Rock and Roll on Sunset Blvd,</a> if needed. <br />
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So, hello again! I hope to do a little more in the Valley after the Long Break. <br />
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Enjoy some music and poetry. If all goes well, my first post will arrive soon.<br />
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<br />JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-69887429370315692702015-07-04T04:46:00.002-07:002015-07-04T04:46:35.832-07:00Happy 239th America! Hello again! Miss me?<br />
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There are tales to be told of where I've been (and where I'm going), but for now, let us wish the United States a Happy Birthday!<br />
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Every year, at this time<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Patriots-The-Started-American-Revolution/dp/0671675621" target="_blank"> I re-read <i>Patriots </i>by the late AJ Langguth</a>. For me, no other book has compared because it reads like a novel. It starts with <a href="http://www.masshist.org/revolution/townshend.php" target="_blank">the Townshend Acts</a> and ends with the<a href="http://www.revolutionarywaranimated.com/YorktownAnimation.html" target="_blank"> Battle of Yorktown</a>, and it takes the reader through the steps of how <a href="http://supreme.findlaw.com/documents/fathers.html" target="_blank">the Founding Fathers </a>understood why America had to split from England. <br />
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If you are interested in history, politics or Government (or curious what inspires JSF to be involved in all three),<b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Patriots-The-Started-American-Revolution/dp/0671675621" target="_blank"> buy this book. </a></i></b><br />
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Now, here is what we all, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Goths, Bloggers, partisans and politicians are celebrating. Enjoy!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"'We hold these truth to be sacred and undeniable,' he [Thomas Jefferson] wrote...Jefferson struck out 'sacred and undeniable and wrote in 'self evident,' He continued through the draft, paring words away to make his language bolder. From 'that all men are created equal and independent,' he dropped 'and independent,' 'Rights inherent and undeniable' became 'Unailenable Rights,' His next phrase came straight from his pen and could not be improved. Jefferson struck off those rights as "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,"</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"When members of the [Continental] Congress came to to Jefferson's stirring conclusion, a majority thought it should include one last appeal to the power even greater than George III...</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"'And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.'</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"On July 4, 1776, independence was declared in language worthy of it."</span></i><br />
-- <i>Patriots, AJ Langguth, pgs 355 and 362</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html" target="_blank">Here is the Declaration in full</a>:<br />
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<b>The Declaration of Independence</b><br />
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<b>In Congress, July 4 1776</b><br />
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<i>The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it; and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their acts of pretended legislation:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the Lives of our people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.—</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">WE, THEREFORE, the REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.—And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Signed by ORDER and in BEHALF of the CONGRESS, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">JOHN HANCOCK, PRESIDENT. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">ATTEST.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">CHARLES THOMSON, SECRETARY.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have a great Independence Day! Enjoy a BBQ and your friends and family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-71331165920428073892015-05-07T01:32:00.001-07:002015-05-07T01:32:56.118-07:0040 Months Down and 40 Days AheadBe ready.<br />
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For now, <a href="http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess#checkmate" target="_blank">I am in Check </a>in certain things. </div>
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The winds are slowly changing and I will be out of exile soon. </div>
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The what? and how? are not for today.</div>
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Just know, it is not <a href="https://youtu.be/3qYyr0r5otQ" target="_blank">Winter that is coming</a>, but someone you haven't seen in a while. </div>
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Stay tuned. <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20150701T07&p0=137&msg=It+begins&swk=1" target="_blank">The clock is counting down.</a></div>
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(NO, I cannot tell you what is going on. Post a comment if you think you have solved the mystery. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby_Snacks" target="_blank"> Get your scooby snacks first!)</a></div>
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Enjoy the music and movie!</div>
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And now a tale of return.....<br />
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JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-10984862745950119632015-01-21T20:57:00.001-08:002015-01-21T20:57:25.567-08:00The New Chessboard for 2016While I was gone on my adventures, there was an Election. <br />
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This post is not analysis, just reference.<br />
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Ready? Let's read:<br />
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First the US Senate:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">54 R - 44 D - 2 Ind (Caucus w/D)*<br />
*(I predicted 55 R - 45 D)<br />
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Now comes the US House of Representatives:<br />
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First, the Assembly:<br />
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"<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_State_Assembly_2015-16.svg#mediaviewer/File:California_State_Assembly_2015-16.svg">California State Assembly 2015-16</a>" by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kurykh" title="User:Kurykh">Kurykh</a> - <span class="int-own-work">Own work</span>. Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a> via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/">Wikimedia Commons</a>.<br />
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<br />"<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_State_Senate_2015-16.svg#mediaviewer/File:California_State_Senate_2015-16.svg">California State Senate 2015-16</a>" by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kurykh" title="User:Kurykh">Kurykh</a> - <span class="int-own-work">Own work</span>. Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a> via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/">Wikimedia Commons</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-boxer-retire-20150108-story.html#page=1" target="_blank">So why did Senator Boxer (D-CA) step down?</a><br />
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<a href="http://ad66.asmrc.org/resources" target="_blank">The South Bay flipped.</a> In the biggest county of California, Los Angeles. <br />
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The Revolution begins! <br />
<br />JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-78906175130055664912015-01-21T00:30:00.003-08:002015-01-21T00:30:28.512-08:00A New Vision of the Valley for a New DayRemember me?<br />
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After spending time<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/" target="_blank"> trapezing in the Fifth dimension</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">fighting to get to the front of a train in the snow </a>and following<a href="http://multiversitycomics.com/tag/this-american-death/" target="_blank"> Death and the Four Horsemen in an alternate America,</a> it was time to come back and write here. <br />
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Or actually, I have been doing some mundane work within my own life. <a href="http://www.cyoa.com/collections/classics" target="_blank"> Choose your own story,</a> but paragraph A is much cooler.<br />
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Please note that the top of the Valley has changed pictures and theme. <br />
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Soon I shall write about the State of the Union 2015 and how the Democratic Party and American society is equivalent to<a href="http://youtu.be/tQEE2iCuVvE" target="_blank"> riding the <i>Snowpiercer</i></a>. a movie and why Governors Romney and Jeb Bush should not run but be available for a cabinet position instead.<br />
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I'm back ya'll! Expect me to knock some sacred cows and open Pandora's box again. <br />
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Welcome back to the Valley!<br />
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<br />JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-63160047881075238752014-11-04T02:28:00.001-08:002014-11-04T02:28:26.362-08:00Endorsements November 2014: The Tops, the Props and those with ChopsThis is the year that has proven that Democrats don't clean their own messes. I am seeing commercials run on TV scaring the public with lies and untruths. <br />
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Here is the Hard Truth going into Election 2014 in California: <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/01/corruption_costs_dems_their_supermajority_in_calif_122125.html" target="_blank">Corruption rules within the Democratic Majority. </a><br />
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Now then, life (and a dead computer) have gotten in the way, but here is my Endorsement post for TODAY!<br />
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Governor: Neel Kashkar**i</div>
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Lt. Gov.: Ron Nehring**#</div>
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CA Secretary of State: Pete Peterson**</div>
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Treasurer: Greg Conlon **</div>
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AG: Ronald Gold**</div>
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Insurance Commissioner: Ted Gaines**</div>
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AD 36 - Tom Lackey </div>
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AD 38 - Scott Wilk </div>
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AD 43 - Todd Royal </div>
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AD - 44 Rob McCoy </div>
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AD 45 - Susan Shelley** </div>
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AD 46 - Zachary Taylor </div>
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AD 48 - Joe Gardner </div>
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AD 49 - Esthela Torres Siegrist </div>
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AD 50 - Bradly Torgan **#</div>
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AD 51- Stephen Smith </div>
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AD 52 - Dorothy Pineda </div>
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AD 54 - Glen Ratcliff **</div>
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AD 55 - Ling-Ling Chang </div>
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AD 57 - Rita Topalian </div>
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AD 62 - Ted Grose </div>
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AD 63 - Adam Miller </div>
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AD 66 - David Hadley </div>
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AD 70 - John Goya</div>
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SD 18 - Ricardo Benitez </div>
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SD 20 - Matthew Munson# </div>
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SD 22 - Marc Rodriguez </div>
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SD 32 - Mario Guerra </div>
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SD 34 - Janet Nguyen </div>
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CD 23 - Kevin McCarthy </div>
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CD 26 - Jeff Gorell </div>
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CD 27 - Jack Orswell </div>
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CD29 - William Leader </div>
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CD 30 - Mark Reed </div>
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CD 32 - Arturo Alas **</div>
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CD 33 - Elan Carr **#</div>
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CD 37 - R. Adam King </div>
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CD 38 - Benjamin Campos </div>
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CD 39 - Ed Royce </div>
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CD 43 - John Wood </div>
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CD 47 - Andy Whallon </div>
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John Morris**#</div>
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Jim McDonnell</div>
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Board of Equalization District 1 – George Runner</div>
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Board of Equalization District 2 – James E. Theis</div>
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Board of Equalization District 3 – G. Rick Marshall</div>
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Board of Equalization District 4 – Diane L. Harkey</div>
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(70) Kathryn Mickle-Werdegar</div>
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(80) Jeffery Johnson</div>
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(92) Nora Manella </div>
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(95) Paul Turner</div>
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(98) Kenneth Yegan</div>
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Dayan Mathai</div>
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Tom Greigo</div>
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Prop 1: NO</div>
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Prop 2: NO</div>
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Prop 45: Hell NO!</div>
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Prop 46: NO</div>
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Prop 47: NO</div>
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Prop 48: NO</div>
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And final prediction for the US Senate:<br />
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R: 55<br />
D: 45<br />
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Governor Walker, Governor Scott (FL), and Governor Brownback all survive.<br />
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GO and vote! <br />
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JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-60285713108916191042014-11-02T01:32:00.000-07:002014-11-02T03:30:16.354-08:00November 2014 Tip Jar (and an author who is a Gothy Muse)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Getting back to the Valley is hard, but I have posts upon posts hiding in the queue.<br />
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Now that the commercial is over, time to meet a Gothic Muse who can outthink you, her name is Nicole Sixx.<br />
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She is an author, works with a famous director (This is Hollywood, discretion is best unless you live here, just like DC) and also frequents the Sunset Strip (there is a future post on the Strip coming up). </div>
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Hip, cool and beautiful, <a href="http://womenincomics.wikia.com/wiki/Nicole_Sixx" target="_blank">here is the lovely Ms. Nicole Sixx!</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nicole-Sixx/e/B00BHKMCSA" target="_blank">Here is her Amazon Page (Buy her books!</a>) and <a href="http://www.threeifbyspace.net/author/nicolesixx/" target="_blank">website</a> <a href="http://nicolesixxphotos.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">(and photo website)</a><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/thatnicolesixx" target="_blank">Follow her on Twitter too!</a><br />
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JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-16317210663118484982014-10-22T23:46:00.000-07:002014-10-22T23:46:08.024-07:00Back From TexasI spent the last few weeks preparing (mentally) for my Sister's and Brother in Law's wedding.<br />
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Two wonderful people. In Honor of the new couple, they get a tag here in the Valley:<br />
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Mr and Mrs. Mozo!</div>
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Texas was a nice place with wonderful people and<a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qea02" target="_blank"> I saw the Alamo!</a><br />
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<br />JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-69206618288937851912014-10-02T02:39:00.001-07:002014-10-02T02:44:07.785-07:00Hate Speech in NoHo: #KPFK and Margaret Prescod share ISIS' views on Jews and GOPRead this:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sojournertruthradio/posts/10152602587073329" target="_blank">Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod</a>, </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sojournertruthradio/posts/10152602587073329" target="_blank">August 20 · </a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Ten Suggested Discussion Points for Unity</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>1. Reparations for African-Americans- support the John Conyers Bill H.R.40 Now! (Coates.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>2. Stop the war of genocide against Black America! A young black male was killed by an officer of the US law enforcement agencies every 36 hours alone in 2012, according to a study by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. This is Fascism “Amerikkkan” style. Killer cops must go! Stop police killings, brutality and harassment.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>3. Fight back against the gentrification against African American working class communities by “globalized” universities, hospitals, and corporate contracting interests (developers).</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>4. Fight back against right wing (Tea Party) takeover of state governments in eliminating the right to vote particularly for African Americans and the elderly, and attacks against public sector workers and labor. Support “Moral Monday” in North Carolina, Georgia and other places.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>5. Fight to save local autonomy (democracy) from corporate takeovers, right wing assaults by emergency fiscal managers appointed by governments (Detroit, Newark, NJ).</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>6. End all student debt now! (Past, present, and future.) Make education from K to post PhD free – if Cuba can do it, so can the U.S. Fight for academic freedom – 1500 colleges and universities in the US. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>7. Demand freedom for all US political prisoners! End the mass incarceration of African people. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>8. Demand affirmative action now in the construction industry and related organized unions – particularly in the private sector. (Read “Black Power at work”, Dubois, The Philadelphia Negro, pg 331-332)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>9. Down with Zionism! Boycott Israel – the New Nazis of the 21st Century. Cut off funding to Israel.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>10. Struggle against fundamentalism of all forms – Christian, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, etc. and Eurocentric Marxism.</i></span><br />
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And here is the Valley's response:<br />
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From the shadows of North Hollywood and the mind of a KPFK radio host, comes hate speech (again). For a person like Alan Minsky who wants to build coalitions, his morning crew seems set to destroy any chance of them. For my candidates from San Pedro to Santa Clarita, every Democratic and Liberal candidate should learn about this "unity"<br />
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One thing I learned about "Unity," you give to get. AND don't sound like a Hater. Look at all these requests. Not one shows understanding of the other side. Not one amount of (as the song for her program ) <a href="http://youtu.be/vdB-8eLEW8g" target="_blank">"One Love," </a><br />
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<b><u>First, the most personal: Number 9. </u></b></div>
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How dare you Ms. Prescod? Have you no shame?<br />
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Know who else shares your view about Jews? ISIS. <br />
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<a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/nation/article/isis_inspired_lone_wolves_seen_as_posing_significant_threat_to_jews" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">ISIS has “not only stated intentions to form a caliphate, but named U.S. and Jewish people as targets specifically,”</span></b> said John Cohen, who until earlier this year was an undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security. “There’s a significant threat to Jewish communities.”</a><br />
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When you compare Jews and Israel protecting themselves in <a href="http://www.answers.com/Q/How_many_Jewish_countries_are_there" target="_blank">the ONLY Jewish State </a>in the world to Nazi's, you share the same political bedsheets as ISIS. <i>Every Jew killed within the sound of your radio show is on your hands. The blood is yours.</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.jpost.com/National-News/LIVE-BLOG-The-search-for-the-kidnapped-teens-359360" target="_blank">You did not care if Yaakov Naftali, 16, Gilad Shaer, also 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19 died. They were taken from their homes and killed</a>. You claim to care for the youth, except for Jewish ones. Except for Israeli ones. <b><i> Hamas cheered every Israeli death, so do you. </i></b><br />
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And let me refresh your history. Remember<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/WATCH-LIVE-Yaalon-discusses-Israels-national-security-at-Herzliya-Conference-355759" target="_blank"> "Land for Peace?" Israel gave the Palestinian the land to build and grow their own country. </a>The Gaza Strip has beaches and already built homes. What did they do with it?<br />
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<a href="http://www.idfblog.com/facts-figures/rocket-attacks-toward-israel/" target="_blank">Send missiles into Israel with it. </a>If the Gazans want a country, all they need is to build roads, schools and have elections. And stop attacking their neighbors. You wouldn't like it if someone threw bombs in your backyard everyday, especially if you gave them the nice house next door.<br />
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<b><u>Tea Parties and the Right Wing: We're here, get used to it!</u></b></div>
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I see in number 4 you Hate the Right wing. You Hate the Tea Party. <br />
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A) You never interview a Republican or Conservative or Local Tea Party Member;<br />
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B) Every time you bring up the Republicans, Conservatives or Tea party, you get it all wrong. Even WBAI interviewed Ayn Rand. <i> Are you so scared of other ideas that you refuse to call up and discuss if a rumor is true?</i><br />
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Apparently your Hate wants the Tea Party (Fiscal Conservatives), Republicans (usually Establishment from DC fighting against the local groups) and Conservatives (You don't even know the branches Ms. Prescod) to stop being part of the American Polity. That means if anyone of the Right goes to <a href="http://www.sotrueradio.org/" target="_blank">your website</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sojournertruthradio" target="_blank">FB page</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/sotrueradio" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, your issues are moot. <br />
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If you can't play nice with others (and that goes for my side too), don't expect any give. If you live in America, you're going to have to meet us and speak to us.<br />
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Go back to Haiti if you Hate Jews and Republicans.<br />
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<b><u>No Unity on Racial Issues either</u></b></div>
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1,2,3,5,7 and 8 all deal with racial issues with a slant that does not say "Unity" but says "America is horrible, let's take from it,"<br />
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Now, some good issues are addressed among them: incarceration rates among African American boys and men. Yes, I would rather that not happen. Before the 1968 social explosion, even if you protested you wore a shirt and a tie. <br />
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But Prescod also opposes business' entering poor areas. OK Ms. Prescod (and Mr. Minsky), hire up the impoverished (such as those on Skid Row) at KPFK. You don't want others doing it? Government (local, state and national) is not filled with funds<br />
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If you Hate business', don't expect anyone to give funds for the fund drive. There is cultural rot all over, <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=216353978988012340787.00000112583e7047c0070&msa=0" target="_blank">how do you stop the Gangs,</a> the<a href="http://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/C3BC73B91F4E0D00494559F2ED3FDF09.gif" target="_blank"> lack of Fathers,</a> and t<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gSlMm4Ee2BA/R1eLTr3WVNI/AAAAAAAABLU/lgrzmqa0yrk/s1600/Poverty+City+Stat042.jpg" target="_blank">he idea that the current Leadership of Democrats that do not care about these neighborhoods to make change?</a><br />
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Ms. Prescod, you don't want things to get better<i>, you want to complain. </i><br />
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<i>I'm not even going into your support of Dictators everywhere and dancing on graves of people of the Right. But this is America, we like fair play and Democracy.</i><br />
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I am willing to look at these issues (as a Pragmatist; 1,2,3,5,7,8 are ideals, what gives Unity? Nothing). But what will be given in return?<br />
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<b><i>Ms. Prescod, Mr. Minsky, what are either of you doing for "Unity" in America? NOTHING. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>The hate speech on Pacifica is getting known. Try being nice next time.</i></b><br />
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My question: <i>Ms. Prescod is an immigrant from Haiti, yet she never reaches out to those who thinks differently. Why? </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twelve Monkeys (1995) has been hailed as a film<a href="http://www.mjyoung.net/time/monkeys.html" target="_blank"> that gets concept of Time Travel (and Predestination Paradoxes) correct.</a> The movie touches on madness, reality and fate vs. free will. And yet, even though the plague in the movie was fake, the current fires in foreign policy are just as bad. Both threaten to engulf humanity, what happens next?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Currently, the President, a Harvard Graduate (<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/27/970580/-As-a-matter-of-Fact-Obama-was-a-Harvard-Legacy" target="_blank">and legacy like President Bush before him</a>), wanted to go to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/28/us-syria-crisis-obama-congress-idUSKCN0HN0TO20140928" target="_blank">war against Assad</a> and <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/29/whats-in-a-name-obamas-anonymous-war-against-isis-in-iraq-syria" target="_blank">now ISIS</a>. <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2014/09/24/6-ways-obama-contradicts-himself-in-wagi" target="_blank">It contradicts itself. </a> As shown in the full 60 Minutes interview:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621#photos" target="_blank">Throughout the Bush Administration,</a> the Democrats wanted out of Iraq (and Afghanistan too). They saw the Republican President going to war as end, not a means to an end. When the failed haberdasher, President Truman helped end the war, he left troops behind to <a href="http://militarybases.com/overseas/germany/" target="_blank">help transition Europe </a>and <a href="http://militarybases.com/overseas/japan/" target="_blank">Japan</a> into <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/marshall_plan/index.html" target="_blank">functioning Capitalistic Democracies</a>. And because the non-Ivy League, non-college educated Truman did that, the USSR was caught in check until it fell. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When President Obama campaigned on bringing the troops home (<a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/09/25/peace_update_obama_goes_to_war_for_oil" target="_blank">and the Democrats all fell in lockstep with the "Rush to War" bombings of Syria and Libya)</a>, there was no "endgame," planned for the region. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/45632920#45632920" target="_blank">So long US troops,</a> hello ISIS! Thank you Democrats, said ISIS!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And how do the Army of the 12 Monkeys fit in?</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to find a pure sample of the virus that kept humans off the surface. He gets sent back to 1990 (6 years before it starts) and ends up in a sanitarium in Balltimore. There, he meets Jeffery Goines (Brad Pitt), whose father creates diseases and Dr. Railly (Madeline Stowe), who treats him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He bounces through time and place eventually ending up in Philadelphia 1996. A mysterious message was heard in the future, the most haunting scene is where Dr. Railly calls off-screen. The quote:</span><br />
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<pre><b style="font-size: 14px;"> COLE
</b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> You... you left them a message?
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</b><b style="font-size: 14px;"> RAILLY
</b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> (impishly)
I couldn't resist. I was so relieved.
Wait'll they hear this nutty woman
telling them...they better watch out
for the Army of the Twelve Monkeys...
Looking at her laughing face, </span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size: 14px;"> COLE is struck with horror as he realizes the truth! </span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size: 14px;"> He starts to recite...
</span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> COLE
</b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> "The Army of the Twelve Monkeys --
they're the ones who are going to do
it. I can't do anything more. The
police are watching me."
Now she's stunned.</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size: 14px;"> She glances back and sees the phone booth twenty yards away.
</span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> RAILLY
</b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> You... you couldn't have heard me.
</span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> COLE
</b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> They got your message, Kathryn. They
played it for me. It was a bad
recording...distorted. I didn't
recognize your voice.</span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">President Bush's strategy was to bottle up Iran and bring more Democracy, thus more peace, into the Middle East (When Thomas Friedman wasn't a hack, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/08/opinion/foreign-affairs-big-mac-i.html" target="_blank">he wrote how Democracies don't make war on each other. A theory I have always subscribed to,</a> see Truman) The Democrats heard the wrong message, Senator Obama was playing animal activist while the threat of the plague hung over the story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2775047/Report-White-House-intelligence-gap-Obama-skipping-FOUR-seven-daily-briefings.html" target="_blank">Now throughout the Obama Administration, the President has ignored the intel briefings on the World.</a> Thus, any foreign policy that President Obama acted on,<a href="http://youtu.be/TxWN8AhNER0" target="_blank"> he had no sense of causality. </a> There was a plan to take out troops from Iraq, <a href="http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1889908_1893383_1893741,00.html" target="_blank">but there was no Mission Objectives in Afghanistan since 2009. </a> Thus, without a sense of causality or intel, the World started to burn this past summer.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/aow/aow21.htm" target="_blank">Sun Tzu made it very clears that without Spies a State is defenseless </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the<a href="https://archive.org/details/finalreportofsel01unit" target="_blank"> Church Commission</a>, Democrats have made it very clear <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/03/senate-democrats-fire-once-again-on-the-cia.php" target="_blank">they don't trust Our Men and Women in the Dark.</a> I do. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">President Obama thought he was smarter then the people extracting the information and only reacted when the news became bad on television. Cole in 12 Monkeys was the scientists spy into the past. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Cole was a pawn by everyone save Railly. They were the only ones talking Cassandra like about the danger of Jeffery Goines and the Army of the 12 Monkeys. No one listened. Jeffery Goines thought (due to his wealth and madness) he was better then everyone else in the movie; Whether in the Sanitarium or at the party. </span></span><br />
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</i><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><i>Because there are no Senator Baker's and Goldwater's in the current Democratic Party, there is no one to tell the President to read the Daily Briefing. There are no Goldwater, Rhodes and Scott in the current members of the Left. Not since 1994.</i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><b><i>What is my solution?</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Before the Presidential primary of either side, <a href="http://www.intelligence.gov/" target="_blank">I would hope the members of the US Intelligence vet the candidate's foreign policy</a> because the media did not (well, with the GOP they will). If you are a member of that Industry, pleads note that since the Church commission, the Democrats use the members (like Cole was used by the scientists) and throw you away. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">T</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here is fire and embers from the Middle East, why is the President <b><i>re</i></b>-acting rather then taking the lead? </span></span><br />
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Why is this the non-bucket bucket list? While I love the Darkness as a Goth, I was consoled that I was too young to have one…..So thus, future Goals and Dreams. </div>
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I have a belief if you put your dreams and goals out into the Universe, and stick with getting to them, maybe (with help from Providence) it happens. Never hurt before.<br />
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Some relay to work (If you enjoy what you do, it is never work), others to things I want to do. One last indulgence before I get serious here in the Valley. </div>
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1. I want to do Appropriation Policy work in either <a href="http://ballotpedia.org/Appropriations_Committee,_California_State_Senate" target="_blank">Sacramento</a> or<a href="http://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/federal_budget_process_graph_congress_appropriations2.jpg" target="_blank"> DC. </a><br />
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2. There is one fiction novel that wants to get out and a non-fiction book about Politics; And a third (if I manage to do well) about being in Politics and dealing with Bipolar Depression;<br />
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3. <a href="http://www.cagop.org/board-of-directors/" target="_blank">The California Republican Party</a> -- Next cycle I hope to work for you!<br />
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4. Also, I want to earn enough so I don't have to worry where the next dollar is coming from. <a href="http://www.lobbyists.info/" target="_blank">Lobbying is also a nice job</a> (Los Angeles, Sacramento or DC on this)<br />
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5. Write paid articles for <i><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/" target="_blank">The Weekly Standard</a></i>, <i><a href="http://spectator.org/" target="_blank">American Spectator</a></i>,<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/" target="_blank"> Breitbart </a>and/or <a href="http://townhall.com/" target="_blank">Townhall</a>.<br />
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6. Have an article written about me, as the only Active (and only partisan elected) Goth Republican. Either in<a href="http://www.gothicbeauty.com/submissions/" target="_blank"> </a><i><a href="http://www.gothicbeauty.com/submissions/" target="_blank">Gothic Beauty</a> </i>or some other <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Subcultures/Gothic/Magazines_and_E-zines/" target="_blank">Goth magazine</a>. Yes, I still love<a href="http://youtu.be/mXG1netn9_g" target="_blank"> the deep and dark</a>. <br />
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7. Work for a Presidential Campaign, New Media -- either here in California (<a href="http://www.digitalsyndicate.tv/markets.html" target="_blank">Los Angeles</a>, second biggest Media market!) or the candidates Home State. <br />
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8. I want write more consistently here in the Valley. And I'd love to make more money off the Blog writing. <a href="http://valley-of-the-shadow.blogspot.com/2012/02/help-valley-get-to-burlingame-and-tampa.html" target="_blank">Look to the sidebar for prices</a>.<br />
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9. My family has helped in my wilderness time since I fell in 2008-09. One day, I'd like to give them something nice in return. That requires (4) to happen. I know I am lucky, even my future brother in law is cool. (Hell, I'm a Goth Republican in LA:<a href="http://youtu.be/fukZEuyjVlI" target="_blank"> I am as cool as a Bow Tie</a>)<br />
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10. <b><i> Running for office here in LA or for the State Assembly or State Senate. </i></b> That is still being thought and planned out. The decision will come if some factors come into play. (No, you don't get to know what they are...)<br />
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1. Travel to the UK, I am an Anglophile. I would love to work in <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/commons/" target="_blank">the House of Commons for a season. </a><br />
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2. Being the sci-fi dystopian, apocalyptic B movie lover,<a href="http://wastelandweekend.com/" target="_blank"> a trip to Wasteland Weekend</a>. <a href="http://youtu.be/pHU6K47qgc8" target="_blank">"Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves!"</a><br />
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3. See Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel, Jimmy Buffett (again) and all of my friends' bands in concert. <br />
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4. One place I dream of going to: <a href="http://www.scrubisland.com/" target="_blank">Scrub Island </a>with the person I am married. (That belongs after (10) in the Work stuff). While there, learn to ride a Sailboat and Scuba.<br />
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5. Before marrying, <a href="http://valley-of-the-shadow.blogspot.com/search/label/Rule%205" target="_blank">I want to date one of my Muses I have promoted during a Rule 5 here in the Valley. </a> I would be honored to treat any one of them. And I have met more then a few. (Who knows, I could marry one of them?!)<br />
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6. Take a trip across the United States from the Santa Monica Pier to my old neighborhood of Forest Hills out to <a href="https://www.montauklighthouse.com/" target="_blank">the end of the road at Montauk Lighthouse.</a> The last time I was there, <a href="http://youtu.be/q1CuX0Ix33I" target="_blank">Agent Cooper went into the Black Lodge.</a><br />
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7. Create an Major Event. Political or whatever. But something nice, here in LA or DC.<br />
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8. Take a boat ride up the Southland Coast. Take a copter ride around LA. Stay up and see the sun rise from the Hollywood sign with a Muse. <br />
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9. Own a condo, settle down. Have enough funds to help the poor souls down on Skid Row. My heart saddens that people have fallen, I could have ended up there. <br />
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10. Learn to be content. Have a significant other by my Birthday. <br />
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Next up, posts on the CAGOP Convention. I will post again on Sunday, there will be news there and one other place in LA (But I'm not telling....)<br />
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My question: <i>What are your goals and dreams? What do you wish for?</i><br />
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I go away from The Valley for the summer and the World Burns. <br />
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Even worse, the World Burns and it seems there is no one running things. <br />
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Either the Universe needs my input here in the Valley (or shaping the world some other way) or my absence created a Hole in Reality that was plugged by everything going on…..<br />
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1) <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053125/" target="_blank">Running from some domestic spies because my name matched a fake name;</a><br />
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2) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Electric-Church-Avery-Cates/dp/0316053937" target="_blank"> Shutting down the Electric Church before they made Cyborgs of Everyone</a>;<br />
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4) <a href="http://images.wikia.com/video151/images/archive/e/e1/20140625225454!Qwizards_-_Transformers_Summer_Edition_2014" target="_blank">Looking for another Computer because my Gateway Computer died in July, and has now resurrected as a MacBook Pro;</a><br />
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I'M BACK!!!!JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-22678487004060347042014-07-04T14:49:00.002-07:002014-07-04T14:49:44.795-07:00Happy 238 Years America! And a Short Lesson How we got the Constitution<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This is the time of year, I re-read AJ Langutth's Patriot's. It is a great re-telling of whole American Revolution. Here is the best quote of all. If you don't feel proud today of this, maybe this poll was right....<br />
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<i>"When members of the<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwjc.html"> Continental Congress</a>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We hold these truths to be self-evident, <b>that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,</b> that among these are <i>Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness</i>.--That to secure these rights,<b> Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government</b>, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. <b>Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. <i>But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security</i>.</b>--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. <b>The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled,<b> appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions,</b> do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. <b>And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.</b></span></div>
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In modern politics, some of the <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lawmaker-news/196362-irs-attack-on-tea-party-urged" target="_blank">mainstream</a> <a href="http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/203388-is-obama-enforcing-the-law" target="_blank">complaints</a> of the Right<a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/henninger-obamas-troublesome-congress-1404342045" target="_blank"> mirror the words</a> of the Declaration. Sorry, but true. </div>
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We won our freedom against the Mother Country. As the war was going on, the Second Continental Congress drafted the Articles of Confederation. At it's heart was a weak Executive, weak trade and currency zones between the States and useless Congress. <br />
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A more detailed lesson another day.<br />
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JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-65892558411773188232014-07-03T02:28:00.001-07:002014-07-03T02:28:14.316-07:00July 2014 Tip Jar and (Cyber) Goth Muse <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you know my background, you've already figured out I love being a Goth (and Politico). I grew up relishing the prospects of a Cyberpunk world<a href="http://youtu.be/3VgNoKc_Gdw" target="_blank"> (Where is the off-world colonies and Replicants?)</a> Meet the (Cyber) Gothy Muse who brings that world to the people:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"'Love you, Cat Mother',"<br /> whispered the Panther Modern's link man,"<br />SC at the SDCC</td></tr>
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<i><b>Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you'd break the fragile surface tension of the black market; either way, you were gone, with nothing left of you but some vague memory in the mind of a fixture like Ratz, though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks.</b></i></div>
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JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-3899598585898415732014-06-17T03:04:00.000-07:002014-06-17T14:42:53.377-07:00A Modern Media Mantra: With Questions @jayrosen_nyu, @GregMitch and @LATimesrainey WON'T Answer <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Today which freedom to defend by the Fourth estate<br />
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I might not be that old (Born in 1970 <a href="http://watergate.info/impeachment/articles-of-impeachment" target="_blank">when it was bad for Presidents to spy on the public and use the IRS against Political enemies.</a> Times change), but I remember when Newspapers had multiple editions during the same day. <br />
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I remember<a href="http://youtu.be/Iyv905Q2omU" target="_blank"> three main TV stations and PBS.</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Common-Ground-Turbulent-American-Families-ebook/dp/B008ZPFQIS" target="_blank"><br /></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Common-Ground-Turbulent-American-Families-ebook/dp/B008ZPFQIS" target="_blank">I remember reading about Race Riots<i><b> in Boston</b></i> (near Harvard) due to placement of kids from African-American neighborhoods.</a></div>
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However,<a href="http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/career-development/ask-the-recruiter/99591/do-i-need-a-degree-to-work-in-journalism/" target="_blank"> I also read generations of newspaper writers that had no Ivy education and understood the people who they interviewed; </a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>It did not take a degree from Harvard or Yale to understand Human nature.</i></span> </div>
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First the Mantra (written by Yours Truly) with Annotations, </div>
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then the questions that are never answered by "Media Analysts":</div>
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<u>A Media Mantra for the Modern Age (2014 Edition)</u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The job of a Reporter is to inform, not weigh in or judge;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The job of a TV Reporter is to inform, with sight and sound, but not with judgement;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The job of a Radio Reporter is to inform, with sound, but not weigh in,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Partisan Press can be partisan, but hypocrisies are fair play here;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It is the role of the Old and New Fourth estate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to keep the Partisans Fair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Role of the Old Fourth Estate is be Against those in Power, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Whichever Party is in Power,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Old Fourth estate </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">prays for<a href="http://life.time.com/history/jfk-inauguration-life-photos-january-1961/#1" target="_blank"> Camelot with Every Democrat</a>;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> And <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/timeline.html" target="_blank">Watergate with Every Republican;</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Role of the New Fourth estate is to keep an eye on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The Old Fourth estate;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Old Fourth Estate should <i>not</i> <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mark-halperin-media-very-susceptible-doing-what-obama-campaign-wants_650208.html" target="_blank">Collude</a> or <a href="http://youtu.be/zmyRog2w4DI" target="_blank">bend any knee</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://youtu.be/2X93u3anTco" target="_blank"> For ANY President,</a> Senator or Governor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The New Fourth Estate must learn protocol and diplomacy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> to get information from People in Power;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/mad-about-you" target="_blank">Even ones </a>they <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/whom-does-obama-hate-most/" target="_blank">do not like</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When the WHCD and WHCA </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Laugh with those currently in office,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And excuse things that made them angry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Under the Last Administration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/wh_tells_reporters_what_questions_to_ask_barack_obama_1.html" target="_blank">There is No Fourth Estate</a>;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.thewire.com/politics/2013/09/rick-stengel-least-24-journalist-go-work-obama-administration/69362/" target="_blank">There are No Reporters</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> There are only<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Empires-Barbarians-Fall-Birth-Europe/dp/0199892261" target="_blank"> Barbarians.</a></span></div>
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<b>Reporters:</b> The baseline of who meets the people involved in the stories and then writes those stories;</div>
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<b>Partisan Press</b>: i,e. MSNBC, Daily Kos, the Nation from the Left and National Review, Weekly Standard, Fox News (evening) and Talk Radio for the Right (and multiple Blogs such as this one);</div>
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<b>Old Fourth estate</b>: Newspapers, TV and Radio News Stations, and Fox (daytime). </div>
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<b>New Fourth Estate:</b> Bloggers, macro and micro; the general public watching the reporters. Or to put it simply: <a href="http://vimeo.com/38649608" target="_blank">Quis custodiat ipsos custodes?</a><br />
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WHCA: The White House Correspondents Association<br />
WHCD: The White House Correspondents Dinner aka "Nerd Prom"</div>
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<b>The Current Administration</b>: The Obama Administration (D)</div>
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<b>The Past Administration:</b> The George W. Bush Administration (R)</div>
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<b>Partisans: </b>Those who fight for and against candidates and ideologies. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is the Partisan's job convince the public to vote for their candidate, <i>using the information gleaned from Reporters. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i>This is not the Reporters Job! (<a href="http://www.apstylebook.com/?do=product&pid=978-0-917360-58-9" target="_blank">Put this in the AP Stylebook</a>)</span></div>
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<b>Barbarians:</b> When Rome fell,<a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/195896/history-of-Europe/58257/Barbarian-migrations-and-invasions" target="_blank"> they took over</a>. Or the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9cf" target="_blank">Reign of Terror during the French Revolution</a>.<br />
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<i><b> That is the endgame by not following the Mantra. </b></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Do I have your attention Mr. Rosen, Mr. Rainey and Mr. Mitchell?</span></b></div>
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Here are my questions, any shirking of the answers confirms the End of the Mantra <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TemporalParadox" target="_blank">(A self-fulfilling prophecy, but only YOU can break it!):</a></div>
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Republicans have always felt the media actively <i>work</i> against our candidates (1964, 1992 , 2004 and 2012 are the Prime years they complain about). With the rise of Fox News (evening) and Talk Radio, these activists felt they had a voice and support from News Stations. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My first question:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>What has the Old Fourth estate done to mend fences with Republicans? Why is only Fox News attacked (and<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114005771" target="_blank"> by the most Powerful Man in America)</a> and their audiences spat upon by the Old Fourth estate? </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First question, subsection A)</span><br />
<b><i><span style="font-size: large;"> If fences are not mended, what do members of the Old Fourth expect to happen? </span></i></b></div>
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Even with High end degrees, <i><b>the modern Reporter from a National Newspaper understands little to nothing about protocols, people or the differing branches within the GOP.</b></i> It does not take a genius to figure out if someone likes you or not.<br />
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There have been many stories I knew from my time in DC<b> how Reporters like hanging out with Democrats and very warily </b>(say, like any writer of The Atlantic magazine or <a href="http://valley-of-the-shadow.blogspot.com/2012/10/1956-last-time-new-york-times-endorsed.html" target="_blank">the NYT -- which has not endorsed a Republican for President since 1956</a>)<b><i> visit Republicans in social settings <span style="font-size: large;">unless they had to. </span></i></b><br />
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Also, with this current Administration there is a fluidity between the Old Fourth estate and the White House,<br />
In 2008, there was the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/journolist/" target="_blank">"Journolist</a>," and the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/24/women-sarahpalin" target="_blank">Media Rape</a> of Governor Palin <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/12/a-fourth-picture/207848/" target="_blank">(which no reporter, columnist or Media analyst stood up to Andrew Sullivan AT ALL.). </a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My Second Question:</span><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all" target="_blank"> </a><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all" target="_blank">When the Democrats needed an Emmanuel Goldstein, t<i>he New Yorker </i>wrote up a story on the Koch Brothers</a>, yet there are no stories about corrupt Democratic financiers? <a href="http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/03/28/timeline-legal-troubles-of-sens-leland-yee-ron-calderon-rod-wright/" target="_blank">Look how Leland Yee was discovered</a>, not through <i>any Journalist of the Old Fourth estate!</i></span></b><br />
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And here is the most important question, which I think an answer is deserved:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Second Question, subsection </span><span style="font-size: large;">A) </span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Where are the modern Woodward and Bernsteins during the First Democratic Administrations or even the First Obama Administration? Or even when the Democrats hold Power in Government? </span></b><br />
<i>(No News Reporter ever cares if Minority Leader Pelosi or Majority Leader Reid are corrupt. At all.)</i><br />
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<a href="https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=james+fallows+false+equivalence+watch" target="_blank">James Fallows of <i>The Atlantic </i></a>and Media Matters <i> are <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/the-past-is-never-dead-bill-faulkner-said-but-what-did-he-know/372887/" target="_blank">on a crusade to silence Republicans</a> from ever appearing or have their voices heard in the Media. </i>This borders into 1984 and Eastern Bloc Secret Police territory. In a country that prides itself with the Bill of Rights, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3070" target="_blank">the quiet watchdog of the media turns into a poodle when it comes to the Democratic Party/ </a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If it is bad for a GOP President to do something, <br />
why do Democrats in Power get a free ride doing the same thing?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Third Question:</span><b> </b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In a bicameral Two party system, why does Fallows' call for censorship not wake up the Watchdogs of the Fourth estate?</b> Fallows is <a href="http://www.chinafile.com/contributors/james-fallows" target="_blank">promoting China Communist Government tactics</a> in America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Third question, subsection A)</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">If Reporters daily lives allows them to NOT interact with people and activists from one of the two major parties in America, <i>why should they be trusted to report the News?</i></span></b><br />
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<i>All the Major Media read and watch the same things to inform them. Epistemic Closure indeed!</i><br />
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Every major reporter follows the lead of the <i>New York Times </i>(No endorsement of Republicans for President since 1956),<i> the Huffington Post</i> (Founded by a Liberal), <i>Media Matters (</i>a Liberal check on the press), and <i>the Daily Show </i>(Holds Republicans accountable, not President Obama or Democrats in Congress). See a trend, yet? </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Third Question, subsection B)</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">In stories about Republicans, why does the Fourth estate have NO Republican contacts? </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I have seen more wrong stories by the Old Fourth estate about Republicans then I have lived. If Reporters cannot get intra-party Politics and personalities correct, why are they there?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gentlemen, that is your Homework assignment. </span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i>
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Please write your answers on your respective platform. No claiming false dichotomy or any weasel word cop-out. The major media is not trusted by half of American Political activists, step up. </span></i><br />
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The Right side of the line is doing more for First Amendment rights then you gentlemen (or the Left)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Republicans on the Modern Media. You are too scared to talk to us.</td></tr>
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Ignoring concerns on the Right is the <i>De Facto </i>act when questions are put to the media. Some of us around the country are saying "No more,"<br />
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MY question to my audience: <i>Your thoughts on the Modern Media Mantra?</i></div>
JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-4119895696117605762014-06-11T05:24:00.003-07:002014-06-11T05:24:57.178-07:00Wagging the Dog: The Fall of Cantor and Whipping the US Chamber of Commerce <a href="http://www.memeorandum.com/140610/p86#a140610p86" target="_blank">First some news: </a><br />
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Now,<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/eric-cantor-faces-tea-party-challenge-tuesday/2014/06/10/17da5d20-f092-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html" target="_blank"> some local news from<i> the Washington Post </i>(which follows Beltway and Leadership Primary Races):</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"By Tuesday night, he had suffered a defeat with few parallels in American history. Historians said that no House leader of Cantor’s rank had ever been defeated in a primary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"That left stunned Republicans — those who had supported Cantor, and even those who had worked to beat him — struggling to understand what happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Several said they believed that Cantor had mismanaged his campaign, with a strategy in which he was too aloof and his tactics too aggressive. In Virginia, some Republicans perceived him as having grown removed from his 7th Congressional District, spending too much time on national fundraising and Washington infighting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“'Cantor’s field effort was nonexistent. You didn’t see a heavy Cantor presence at Shad Planking, one of the premier Virginia GOP events, and the movers-shakers in the group he works with, YG Virginia, did not have the staff to fully compete,' said Andrew Xifos, a Virginia Republican organizer. 'Brat was always an afterthought to them, even as they spent a lot of money. Central Virginia politics was changing around them and they did not see it.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Brat was boosted for months by conservative talk-radio hosts, including Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin, who touted him as a contender to their listeners and drove small-dollar donations into Brat’s coffers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Unhappy with what they considered a too-hesitant-to-fight GOP, they championed Brat as a fellow warrior for an ideological cause, lifting him with the GOP’s base as he hovered under the national radar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"When Election Day came, the turnout was high: About 65,000 people voted, which was up from 47,037 two years ago (when Cantor captured 79 percent of the vote).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"After the race had been called, Brat spoke to cheering supporters in the atrium of a nondescript building at an office park. He told them that he had won by adhering to conservative principles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"If this is the end of Cantor’s political career, he may become a cautionary tale on Capitol Hill. He had tried to please both of the GOP’s warring wings, the staid establishment and the confrontational tea party movement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"In the end, that approach brought him power, but not enough loyalty to keep it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"The dour and businesslike Cantor had embraced confrontation enough to alienate some establishment types — in particular, by showing pique in negotiations with President Obama over a budget deal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"But he also had made moves that alienated the party’s confrontational wing. Cantor, for instance, had championed a Republican version of the Dream Act, which would enable some illegal immigrants who entered the country as children to qualify for in-state college tuition rates. Although he never brought the legislation to the House floor, his support for the idea irritated staunch opponents of immigration reform.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"For other Republicans in Congress, the message of the defeat was that if you try to play both sides of the intra-party divide you will lose. But how Republicans can govern without bringing both sides together remains a question."</span><br />
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And finally, a Beltway Blogger and friend, RS (this post is by Subcomandante Smitty):<br />
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<a href="http://theothermccain.com/2014/06/10/virginia-shocker-cantor-canned/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There were warning signs that kept piling up. In April, Brat supporters vastly outnumbered Cantor allies at local GOP meetings. Then in May, tea party fueled activists knocked off Cantor’s choice for local GOP chair in Cantor’s home base of Henrico County. </span></a><br />
<a href="http://theothermccain.com/2014/06/10/virginia-shocker-cantor-canned/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></a>
<a href="http://theothermccain.com/2014/06/10/virginia-shocker-cantor-canned/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But Cantor’s aides consistently brushed off the challenge, telling reporters and fellow GOP aides that the contest didn’t merit the media coverage it was getting</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://theothermccain.com/2014/06/10/virginia-shocker-cantor-canned/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Brat severely trailed in fundraising, pulling in $200,000 this cycle compared to Cantor’s $2 million.</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...</span><br />
<a href="http://theothermccain.com/2014/06/10/virginia-shocker-cantor-canned/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The AP gets to the heart of it:</span></a><br />
<a href="http://theothermccain.com/2014/06/10/virginia-shocker-cantor-canned/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Much of the campaign centered on immigration, where critics on both sides of the debate have recently taken aim at Cantor. Brat has accused him of being a top cheerleader for “amnesty” for immigrants who are living in the U.S. illegally. Cantor has responded forcefully by boasting in mailers of blocking Senate plans “to give illegal aliens amnesty.”</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<a href="http://theothermccain.com/2014/06/10/virginia-shocker-cantor-canned/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And so the toppling of Cantor will lead to a gut check for the GOP: go all “scorched earth” and run amnesty through despite the base, or deal with the reality that those spiffy Progressive ideas have all the appeal of a dirty diaper outside the Beltway.</span></a><br />
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Time to ask: <i>What happened and why?</i><br />
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The story written is part of another story told, the battle between the donor class vs the Volunteer class. It is playing out on the National level<br />
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Here is a song for the analysis:<br />
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In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Time-Heal-Autobiography-Gerald-Ford/dp/0060112972/ref=la_B001I9OLIO_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402485963&sr=1-1" target="_blank">President Ford's biography</a>, he mentions how in every generation<a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/238252/ousting-the-speaker-house-republicans-long-history-of-regicide#axzz34KNwpJ2x" target="_blank"> there is Regicide within the Republican House Leadership ranks </a>(see <a href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_64/Gingrich-Boehner-Their-Long-and-Winding-Road-210530-1.html?zkPrintable=true" target="_blank">Gingrich, Speaker</a> and <a href="http://www.rollcall.com/news/boehner_coup_attempt_larger_than_first_thought-220607-1.html" target="_blank">Boehner, Speaker</a>). With the threat of Regicide of Boehner, this was counterattack from the outside forces, also bringing up the one issue that could wag the dog.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tail_wagging_the_dog" target="_blank">The donor class takes the volunteer and staffers for granted. </a></i></span></b><br />
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The second tale behind this story. <br />
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How many times have Republican activists and electeds supported the US Chamber of Commerce from <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=koch+brothers+chamber+of+commerce&rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS449US497&oq=koch+brothers+chamber+of+commerce&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.5235j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">attacks from Democrats and this current Administration? </a><br />
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<a href="http://valley-of-the-shadow.blogspot.com/2011/11/commerce-democracy-and-rock-roll.html" target="_blank">To be an activist or Elected, from the ground level it is a simple philosophy which I addressed here.</a> The economy, <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/category/tags/happy-talk" target="_blank">no matter how much happy talk the Administration and the media</a> puts out, <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/real-unemployment-rate-is-still-too-high-for-the-fed-2014-01-29" target="_blank">still sucks</a>. And to throw out an Amnesty Bill, which every Republican activist is opposed to at this minute into the mix?<br />
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<i><u>Whisky Tango Foxtrot William Donohue?</u></i> Ever heard the word "Diplomacy?" Until the economy gets back to under 5% unemployment, why should you push an agenda that helps the Democratic party?<br />
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The Donors think they own the Republicans; The Tea Party came about as a rebellion against the Establishment in DC forgetting the public. What just happened last night was a reminder who is wagging the dog.<br />
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<a href="http://history.house.gov/People/Office/Republican-Whips/" target="_blank">Rep. Cantor's former job was House Whip. His job, was to make sure the votes are there for victory </a>(Or take your <a href="http://thefourthwalluk.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/FrancisU.jpg" target="_blank">Francis Urquhart/Francis Underwood</a>). <i> The donors have forgotten to wine and dine the volunteer and staffers<a href="http://youtu.be/Tf2VxJRghkg" target="_blank"> who count the votes. </a></i><br />
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Mr. Donohue thought he was wagging the GOP (there are local parallels in this, but another post), but it is the on the ground folks (especially the VAGOP) who have been heard.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">If the Activists wish to control the GOP, we need to plan a siege of the Donor class unless they help and listen to us. </span></i><br />
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<b>This is the First Step to whip the US Chamber; the second step us to speak to their local affiliates and ask them to come visit every County GOP office and offer to help. </b><br />
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My question: <i>Will the US Chamber of Commerce and the Donor Class listen to the Volunteers and Activists now?</i><br />
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<br />JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-60989111197456919242014-06-05T04:01:00.000-07:002014-06-05T04:01:51.504-07:00Drop Your linen and Start Your Grinnin': Bringing Together the CAGOP + RPLAC for November<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If I was in charge post-Primary 2014, here is what should be happening and said:<br />
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First, I promise<a href="http://youtu.be/Nz9BNwbKM0M" target="_blank"> "NO KUMBAYA!"</a> The song gets on my nerve and most of us are professional enough to know that this song below is our theme:<br />
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<i>Second, every Statewide Primary (legit) R Candisate should have a public and private meeting with their fallen opponents. Their Staffs and volunteers should also meet and get together. Discuss tactics against the Majority D's and their allies in the Media. Get everyone pointing in the same direction.</i><br />
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Pizza is always good to get people together. No wars have ever started over Pizza. <br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Subsection for Mr. Kashkari: Congrats from JSF in the Valley! Though I use New Media, I forgot that Air Forces (i.e. Commercials) defeat Ground Forces. YOU must publicly reach out to Donnally to stop a Civil War from occurring fast. <b>I want to help, don't confuse warnings with opposition. </b></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[I know the stakes, many do not. This is Politics; You might be at the Top of the Ticket but if the Loyalists on the Ground are ignored or not in your circles, this will be Election 2010 (and 2012) all over again.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Trust me, some bitter volunteer feeling deja vu (and they are many and legion), might do more harm against you then Governor Brown's dirty Tricks. Know the best activists in ALL 52 County and tap their brain trust. Much better then Ivy League]</span></i><br />
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In each county, do the same. If Primary opponents get together and create strategies (along with staffs and volunteers), we have the beginnings of a United front. <br />
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But like the poor Marines in Aliens, they weren't out of the woods when the set up a base. The place was still ready to blow. (Thanks Bishop!)<br />
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Third: There are three major branches in CA Republican Politics. If I was Chairman, I'd bring the County leaders of those branches (CRA, RLC and Reagan Caucus) to discuss bringing their respective groups together for November. This is NOT a convention but a private meeting to get everyone in line with one thought:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>If ONE California Republican is attacked,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/?s=punch+back+twice+as+hard" target="_blank">ALL OF US punch back.</a> </b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Note to Mr. Kashkari: If any of the Down Ticket candidates are being unfairly attacked by the media (not the D's), defend them. Loyalty goes both ways. As a former New Yorker, my one worry is if you can take <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/meg_whitman_vs_the_dirty_trick.html" target="_blank">Governor Brown's dirty tricks</a>. Please, prove me wrong]</span></i><br />
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<b>Fourth: Our quiet Donor Class. </b><br />
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<i>They have an outright disdain for our volunteers, yet without us on the ground in all 52 Counties, there would be NO Republicans in Sacramento or DC.</i> I humbly request the presence of the Donors to find the Pragmatic Activists within each County Party. Meet them and plan for the future. Donating one cycle at a time leads no one to victory.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Note to Mr. Kashkari: Whitman's and Romney's staff (the same people) ignored the people who had years and years of On the Ground experience. When Reagan won in all his elections, he TOOK Los Angeles County. Find those activists. Wine them and dine them. And get the donors to love these unsung heroes]</span></i><br />
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Fifth: This all has to be done under six weeks. If we have a unified front, nothing can stop the California Republicans from shaking the world before 2016. <a href="http://2016.presidential-election.info/California/" target="_blank"> We have 55 Electoral Votes in this state</a>,<i> if the RNC and every R POTUS candidate wants us, they have to fight with us!</i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Note to Mr. Kashkari: Rallies and Fundraisers in all the 52. Bring in big names from out of state. If they do not help you or the down ticket candidates, let the County Chairs know. Make Los Angeles the battlefield once you Unite with Donnally's forces. Thank me after you win. You haven't crossed the finish line yet.]</span></i><br />
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Finally,<a href="https://www.facebook.com/philjennerjahn/posts/10152122431796167" target="_blank"> there are some people who claim to be in the GOP who will never be satisfied with who the candidates actually are or if you veer from their closed version of the Party. </a> Don't follow them. We are the People who are the David's against the bureaucratic Goliath of Sacramento and DC. How to win CA and LA are future posts this summer. <br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Mr. Kashkari, next time you are in LA, contact this only Goth Blogger Republican. I don't want another Whitman or Romney. We need to fight] </span></i><br />
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'The Valley is back on.....thank you all for being patient. <br />
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Note I did not ask (or take...or get...) <a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=dpiaveN1ASvRW3Jdq_EutDn1bfCEgpZQLW55bnyi6fFN8EZkzOoLSBPL3K8&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d6cdb53fcfca2b5941339e576d7e42259" target="_blank">any Tip Jar requests during this time.</a> However, good news is that the Valley should be up and running Full Time soon. For now, it remains on in the Dead of Night. <br />
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Now, another beautiful Muse I have encountered in the Goth world, her name is <a href="http://youtu.be/Hy_oabU77GY" target="_blank">Malice (Alice) McMunn</a>. She is sweet, has a wicked sense of humor and is the woman you want having your back in Bartertown. <br />
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Before we go forward with this beauty,<a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=uQAWAPk8lCPiG9cSQwB5OnnTcbhLFuHRTuGH9Zp6V2b4Hb5ewiilB5usFXG&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d6cdb53fcfca2b5941339e576d7e42259" target="_blank"> please hit the Tip Jar. (Some of this will help me take her out to dinner in July;</a> She is also good friends with another Gothy Muse I think is beautiful: Kat Von D).<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/thekatvond">@thekatvond</a> bahaaaaaaa! ❤❤❤❤🙈 <a href="http://t.co/aGqb6jyyax">pic.twitter.com/aGqb6jyyax</a><br />
— Alice Mcmunn/ (@Malice666Mcmunn) <a href="https://twitter.com/Malice666Mcmunn/statuses/473649776165011456">June 3, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Follow this wonderful Muse on <a href="https://twitter.com/Malice666Mcmunn" target="_blank">Twitter (NSFW)</a>, and<a href="https://www.facebook.com/malice666mcmunn?fref=ts" target="_blank"> Facebook.</a></div>
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Here is<a href="http://malicemcmunn.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"> her website (sans PayPal), also NSFW.</a></div>
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Instead, find her dancing at Goth Clubs and<a href="http://cheetahsclubhollywood.com/" target="_blank"> Cheetah's Hollywood. (NSFW)</a></div>
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A quick Reminder for Endorsements:<br />
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RPLAC = Republican County of Los Angeles;<br />
CRA = California Republican Assembly (From the Right); and<br />
RLC = Republican Liberty Caucus (Libertarian and Ron Paul Supporters).<br />
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***Also, these are my endorsements. Though I am part of a few Republican organizations, these choices are my own and do not reflect on any group. *****<br />
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First though, I am going to travel south to a contested campaign. Because I don't like the way he has been treated by some Social Conservatives <a href="https://www.facebook.com/karen.grube/posts/10203386230790369" target="_blank">(This person is particularly homophobic -</a>- Reagan's Eleventh commandment does not matter; Only HER vision of what America used to be.) I'm a Goth and don't take kindly to people not wanting people in my culture [Goths] and District [Reagan's old Home District has West Hollywood where I have many friends] out of the GOP. <br />
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<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379185/carl-demaio-defiant-after-office-break-andrew-johnson" target="_blank">After DeMaio's office was attacked, rather then stand behind each other, Jorgensen did not say anything. This is not cool. </a><br />
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<a href="http://carldemaio.com/about" target="_blank">I endorse DeMaio in CA52</a> <a href="http://www.sandiegorepublicans.org/officially-endorsed-candidates.html" target="_blank">(SDGOP)</a><br />
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And my friend John A. wanted me to give a shout out to a candidate in San Benandino:<br />
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Now, <a href="http://youtu.be/R_UpLtGEWoY" target="_blank">welcome to LA! </a><br />
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Here are the Assembly candidates (not all endorsed by RPLAC) and any asterisks means I can vote for them. <br />
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AD 36 (Palmdale) -- Suzette Martinez<br />
AD 38 (Santa Clarita) -- Scott Wilk (RPLAC)<br />
AD 43 (Burbank) -- Todd Royal<br />
AD 45 (W. SFV) -- Susan Shelley (RPLAC and she is a good friend. Vote for her!)<br />
AD 46 (Sherman Oaks) Zachary Taylor (RPLAC)<br />
AD 48 (West Covina) Joe Gardner (RPLAC)<br />
AD 49 (Monterey Park) Estrela Siergist (RPLAC)<br />
AD 50 (MY District) Brad Torgan (RPLAC) Vote for this guy, he rocks!*<br />
AD 52 (Ontario) Dorothy Pineda (RPLAC)<br />
AD 54 (Culver City) Glen Ratcliff<br />
AD 55 (Diamond Bar) Ling-Ling Chang<br />
AD 57 (Whittier) Rita Topalian (RPLAC)<br />
AD 62 (Inglewood) Ted Grose (RPLAC)<br />
AD 63 (South Gate) Adam Miller (RPLAC)<br />
AD 66 (Torrance) David Hadley (RPLAC)<br />
AD 70 (Long Beach) John Goya (RPLAC)<br />
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SD 18 (SFV) Ricardo Benitez (RPLAC)<br />
SD 20 (Ontario) Matthew Munson (RPLAC)<br />
SD 24 (East LA) William Morrission (Good friend of mine, please vote for him!)<br />
SD 32 (Whittier) Mario Guerra (RPLAC)<br />
SD 34 (Huntington Beach) Janet Nguyen (RPLAC)<br />
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OK! My favorite races to follow!<br />
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Let's <a href="http://youtu.be/0b5LzCOc98E" target="_blank">walk in LA </a>to see all the different districts!<br />
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CD 23 (Kern) Rep. Kevin McCarthy (RPLAC)<br />
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CD 25 (Santa Clarita/Palmdale) Steve Knight -- This seat is where "Buck" McKeon is retiring. A lot of hard words and backstabbing is occurring here. To keep the past in the past (as it were -- more on the dead at another time),<b> I endorse Steve Knight</b>. (But I will happily work with Tony Strickland if he wins).<br />
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CD 26 (Ventura County) Jeff Gorrell (RPLAC)<br />
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CD 27 (Pasadena) Jack Orswell (RPLAC)<br />
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CD 29 (East SFV) William Leader (RPLAC)<br />
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CD 30 (West SFV) Pablo Kleinman -- Another harsh campaign fr a vote rich territory. My rule remains the same, <i>my choice for the primary, the winner gets my support for the General. </i> In this heavily Jewish area, Kleinman represents the area well. <br />
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CD 32 (West Covina) Arturo Alas (RPLAC) -- I am happy to support him! Go Alas Go!<br />
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CD 33 (MY Home district -- Waxman's old district and Reagan's home district)<br />
<i>Elan Carr. No one else matters. He is legit, his campaign is strong and no amount of re-districting should make any seat safe for any party. The House is still going to be Majority Republican. If the Westside and Beverly Hills want a voice, vote Carr!*</i><br />
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CD 37 (Culver City) Adam King (RPLAC)<br />
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CD 39 (Fullerton) Rep. Ed Royce (RPLAC)<br />
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CD 43 (Inglewood) John Wood (RPLAC)<br />
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CD 47 (Long Beach) Andy Whallon (RPLAC)<br />
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And finally, here comes the Judges! (AL RPLAC endorsed)<br />
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Office #61 LA County Dayan Matthai<br />
Office #76 LA County Allison Matsumura Estrada<br />
Office #87 LA County Steven Schreiner<br />
Office #107 LA County Joan Chrostek<br />
Office #117 LA County Judge James Pierce<br />
Office #138 LA County Donna Hollingsworth Armstrong<br />
Office #157 LA County Andrew Cooper<br />
Office #157 LA County Arnold Mednick<br />
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<br />JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-59609520449179268382014-06-03T01:00:00.000-07:002014-06-03T01:00:01.805-07:00California Primary 2014 Endorsement Post #1: Tops of the Ticket<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let's <a href="http://youtu.be/FrIBP24Q-2k" target="_blank">take it from the Top</a> and move down ticket. <br />
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***These are individual endorsements. These endorsements are not from any Organization from which I am a member. They are mine, and mine alone. Asterisks are those Ballots that I can vote for. Enjoy the ride!****<br />
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<b>RPLAC is Republican County of Los Angeles County;</b></div>
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<b>RLC is the Republican Liberty Caucus (Libertarian and Ron Paul supporters)</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.electtimdonnelly.com/about" target="_blank"><b><i>Governor's Race: Assemblyman Tim Donnally </i></b>(</a>Endorsed by RPLAC, CRA, RLC)*<br />
This race has caused a little chaos down among the activists; But for me, it is the Honorifics in front of Mr. Donnally's name that helps. He has run campaigns, he has moved among the ground forces. <br />
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In the battle between Establishment DC Republicans vs. Local Control, Donnally has taken the time to work the Ground. <i><b> Kashkari flew in with his funds and DC backing.</b></i> As we saw with Meg Whitman and Governor Romney, <i>that is not enough. </i><br />
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<b><i><a href="http://www.ronnehring.com/meet-ron.html" target="_blank">Lt. Governor: Ron Nehring</a> </i></b>(RPLAC, CRA)*<br />
I have known Chairman Nehring on and off since SUNY-Stonybrook. He is a solid leader and would be the best person in Sacramento to keep Gov. Brown (D) in check if he wins; And he can help Gov. Donnally (R) if he wins. In other words, the Valley calls voting for Nehring a win-win!<br />
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<a href="http://petesos.com/meet-pete" target="_blank"><b><i>Secretary of State: Pete Peterson </i></b></a>(RPLAC, CRA)*<br />
This is the race where California Democratic Party hypocrisy was exposed in <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/file/757/757-complaint_affidavit_14-70421-nc.pdf" target="_blank">Assemblyman Leland</a><a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/California-State-Senator-Leland-Yee-Arrested-on-Bribery-And-Corruption-Charges-252452181.html" target="_blank"> Yee. </a> (<a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/03/26/timeline-controversy-follows-california-state-sen-leland-yee-raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-and-keith-jackson/#21909101=0" target="_blank">Follow the links</a> for the whole story)<br />
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With a Democrat, a former GOP now a NPP [No Party Preference] candidate, all that is left is Pete Peterson. When you go NPP as a candidate, I think "Someone who stands for nothing, etc." As an active partisan, you understand the system then you make it better.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.philwyman4attorneygeneral.com/about-1.html" target="_blank">AG: Former State Senator Phillip Wyman</a> </b>(Endorsed by RPLAC, CRA) *<br />
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<b><i><a href="http://www.gregconlon.com/about" target="_blank">Treasurer: Greg Conlon</a> *</i></b><br />
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<u><b><i>Controller:<a href="http://www.fresno.gov/Government/MayorsOffice/Default.htm" target="_blank"> Mayor </a></i></b></u><a href="http://www.ashleyforca.com/bio" target="_blank"><b><i>Ashley Swearengen</i></b> </a>(Endorsed by RPLAC, CRA)*<br />
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<a href="http://www.lydia4schools.com/MeetLydia.html" target="_blank"><b><i>Superintendent of Public Instruction: Lydia Gutierrez</i></b></a> (RPLAC, CRA) She is a dedicated school teacher and a friend of mine. This one I want you to pull the lever for. *<br />
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<a href="http://www.tedgaines.com/about/" target="_blank">Insurance Commissioner: State Senator Ted Gaines </a>(RPLAC, CRA)*<br />
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Now the Tops of the Los Angeles Ticket (after a musical Interlude):<br />
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<a href="http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_41,_Veterans_Housing_and_Homeless_Prevention_Bond_(2014)" target="_blank">Prop 41: </a>Yes (in theory), No (due to reality). * <br />
With the spotlight (finally) on Veteran and VA problems, the calling for Bonds for Housing is good. <br />
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California can handle the first half (raising the funds) of the equation easy, but when it comes down to following through, I need only drive by Skid Row or walk along Santa Monica Promenade and Venice beach to know of promises broken by the State (including the Federal Mammon). <br />
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I endorse the idea, but the follow through failing again does not bring me hope. <br />
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<a href="http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_42,_Compliance_of_Local_Agencies_with_Public_Records_(2014)" target="_blank">Prop 42:</a> Yes, yes and YES! *<br />
Local Governments (City and State) are the closest to the people. If there is no way to keep our local candidates honest, within a one Party system, an Assemblyman Leland Yee appears saying one thing ("Guns are bad,") and doing another (Gun smuggling with criminals)<br />
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What our officials say in the Governmental sphere is important. It is who they are. <br />
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Sheriff -- The only legitimate "R" is corrupt; so I had to find a candidate who is not corrupt who errs on the side of treating "Law and Order," by the book: <a href="http://www.bobolmsted.com/about/" target="_blank">I endorse Bob Olmstead. *</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.morrisforassessor.com/about-john/" target="_blank">Assessor -- I endorse wholeheartedly (since I have met him many, many times): John Morris (RPLAC)*.</a> <br />
He will clean out the corrupt office of the assessor. While he might be a prosecuter, he can delegate and has a good sense of who is right and honest. Both LA papers (the Times and the News) Endorsed him as well.<br />
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Finally, who is in charge of tax collecting? Meet your Board of Supervisor member:<br />
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<a href="http://www.georgerunner.com/meet-george/" target="_blank">District 2 -- George Runner </a>(RPLAC, CRA)*<br />
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<br />JSFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112671583392607007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24008092.post-3189847215086555762014-05-29T21:47:00.003-07:002014-05-29T21:47:09.159-07:00A Flickering Light.....The Valley slowly turns ON!For the past 85 weeks or the past year and a half, my situ is not conducive to Blogging. <br />
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However, there is a Foreshadowing of good news ahead (of which I cannot write until much later), but suffice to say, the Valley will be active again. I still follow news, blogs and databases, but I cannot write about them until the Chess Piece that moved 85 weeks ago moves into a better position on the Board.<br />
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In less then a week is the California Primary (yay! But<a href="http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_14,_Top_Two_Primaries_Act_(June_2010)" target="_blank"> Damn Prop 14!</a>) so tonight I will Blog Endorsements from the Governor's race to the Assembly races in Los Angeles <a href="http://ballotpedia.org/California's_52nd_Congressional_District_elections,_2014" target="_blank">(with a note to CA-52 in San Diego</a> because<a href="https://www.facebook.com/karen.grube/posts/10203364032435424" target="_blank"> some partisans</a> forgot<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/02/23/Conservative-infighting-and-the-Eleventh-Commandment" target="_blank"> Reagan's 11th Commandment)</a>. <br />
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Since I am now engrossed in a<a href="http://multiversitycomics.com/columns/this-american-death-east-of-west-issue-1/" target="_blank"><i><u> Weird West/Sci-Fi/Alternate History/Apocalyptic Comic Book</u></i> </a>called<i><a href="https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/east-of-west" target="_blank"> East of West </a></i>(Starring Death and the Three other Horsemen - yes, THOSE Horsemen), let's watch a 1971 movie called<i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067770/" target="_blank"> Red Sun</a></i> starring Charles Bronson which bring elements of Samurai and Cowboys together.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nostalghiamusic.com/" target="_blank">First some music by the upcoming band Nostalghia, </a><br />
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Someone sent out emails asking us not to endorse a candidate for tomorrow. Follow my FB and/or Twitter feed for more at the Endorsement meeting. <br />
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<b><i>Now, onto my sacrifice. </i></b><br />
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In the science fiction world, there are always tests to see <a href="http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090918154725/starwars/images/7/7d/Grand_army_formation.jpg" target="_blank">if an Artificial Intelligence can think independently. </a>Whether it was the<a href="http://youtu.be/Umc9ezAyJv0" target="_blank"> Voight-Kampff test of Blade Runner</a> or the <a href="http://www.antonraubenweiss.com/gibson/sprawlsumm.html#neuromancer" target="_blank">Turing Test of Neuromancer</a>, how one distinguishes human from Bot is still something we are working on. <br />
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Many intrepid Liberal reporters and Bloggers go onto Face book of Republican candidates and Parties to see how their supporters act. <a href="http://www.memeorandum.com/" target="_blank">One needs only read Memorandum </a> to see that what goes on Facebook can end up in an opposing campaigns book tomorrow. <br />
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To understand Jose Aguilar, you have to read (or see the movie) <i>1984</i> by Orwell. <a href="http://valley-of-the-shadow.blogspot.com/2009/04/do-democrats-need-emmanuel-goldstein.html" target="_blank">He, like I have written about Democrats, needs his Two Minute Hate:</a><br />
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<i><b>Like any good Liberal, he hates neo-cons.</b></i><br />
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1)<a href="http://www.thenation.com/search/apachesolr_search/neocons" target="_blank"> The Nation magazine (Left Wing) </a>Hates Neocons;<br />
2) <a href="http://prospect.org/search/google/neocons?query=neocons&cx=002533371440587990913%3Asg8ewonkgsg&cof=FORID%3A11&sitesearch=" target="_blank">The American Prospect (Left Wing) </a>Hates Neocons;<br />
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3) <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/search/neoconservatives" target="_blank">MSNBC (Left wing) Hates Neocons;</a> and<br />
4)<a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/holocaust-museum-shooter-von-brunn-a-9-11-truther-who-hated-neo-cons-bush-mccain" target="_blank"> Crazy mass murderers </a>Hate Neocons.<br />
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These are the people that Jose Aguilar has aligned with. <br />
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<i><b>When Aguilar follows Former Rep. Ron Paul's words to the letter, one must ask, is he human or is he a Democratic Party Mole?</b></i><br />
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Even the Liberty Crowd gets sick of his paranoiac ravings, <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/10/01/weekinreview/20061001_HERDS_GRAPHIC.html" target="_blank">he has no place in RPLAC unless he understands that <b><i>Neo-CONSERVATIVES </i></b>are part of the Republican (i.e. RPLAC) Coalition. </a> </span>Los Angeles needs a Republican win and I look down upon any person who wants to kick people OUT of the party.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Republican_Party_presidential_tickets" target="_blank"> I converted to the GOP in the Summer of 1992, I have voted for more Republican POTUS candidates then Aguilar,</a><i> he should leave the party if he hasn't followed suit. </i><br />
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If Aguilar wants to fight Neo-Cons, he should quit his position on his Central Committee, fly to DC and join a<a href="http://www.codepink4peace.org/" target="_blank"> Democratic Peace group that fights neo-cons. </a>Until then<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews#Significant_Jewish_population_centers" target="_blank">, Los Angeles has the second biggest population of Jews. </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/34312336440/" target="_blank">Yelling "NEO-CON," in a crowded Face book</a> room <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2005/12/neocon_as_antisemitic_code.html" target="_blank">opens up any ally of Jose Aguilar's to charges of Anti-semitism. </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyone can say there is bad in the world, anyone can copy and paste articles, but it takes a Human to think about creative solutions that adds more allies.</span> Children call names, adults work with others to find solutions.<br />
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I ask the Liberty Coalition (Nick Hankoff is a person I can work with) and the RPLAC membership to start questioning Aguilar's role. <br />
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<b><i>If he is not adding anything to building a coalition to help Republicans win in Los Angeles, why is he allowed to write on our Facebook walls?</i></b><br />
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Only RPLAC members can comment here. <br />
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<b>And Jose Aguilar, here is your questions: </b><br />
1) <i>We know you want to rid the world of neo-cons, but what is your vision (NOT Ron Paul's, YOURS!) of the GOP and Presidential Foreign Policy?</i><br />
<i>2)</i> And then tell us:<i> what is your role in RPLAC? </i>You anger more people then <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/08/la-fuming-over-obama-traffic-demands-investigation.html" target="_blank">if President Obama blocked off Olympic Boulevard again.</a><br />
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Can it be debated<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4460172" target="_blank"> like the Bush<i> fils</i> Doctrine </a>(which was<a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrarsenalofdemocracy.html" target="_blank"> FDR's</a> and <a href="http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/woodrow-wilsons-war-message-to-congress" target="_blank">Wilson's</a> -- both Democratic Presidents, funny that)?<br />
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<i>Or can we finally say, with the world burning, that President Obama's worldview is a failure?</i><br />
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After 9/11, President Bush and the Republicans on the Hill staked their belief on an old Democratic Party policy: <a href="http://www.cfr.org/history-and-theory-of-international-relations/carter-syndrome/p21106" target="_blank">America believes no person should live under the yolk of Freedom, not the whims of a Dictator.</a> That was what FDR, Truman, JFK and LBJ believed. The current crop of Liberals and Democrats opposed President Bush throughout his whole term.<br />
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<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/20/stay-classy-obama-cultists-jeer-departing-bush/" target="_blank">Because the partisans acted crude upon the transfer of power</a>, it begat the opposition conference later that night.<br />
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The Year of Four Emperors began in flames. Nero burning Rome and his subsequent suicide. For the first time since the rise of Augustus, there was a power vacuum. Rome, looking for a champion, found Galba. He had put down an anti-tax riot in Germany. <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Galba*.html" target="_blank"> The Praetorian Guard, as Nero fell, supported Galba. </a><br />
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Galba entered the Eternal City to cheers on January 1. <br />
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From the moment Democrats took over the Capitol, hatred of Republicans and Bush colored their policies. (i.e.<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll165.xml" target="_blank"> House votes on Obamacare;</a> <a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00396" target="_blank">Senate Votes on Obamacare) </a> <br />
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<a href="http://valley-of-the-shadow.blogspot.com/2011/09/brian-williams-richard-wolffe-and.html" target="_blank">The Praetorian Guard (the media) </a>and the Democrats hailed President Obama and<i> never asked an important question before inauguration day:</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>President Obama, What is your foreign policy?</b></i></span></div>
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<u><b>Galba to Otho: The Arab Spring and the Missed Chance</b></u></div>
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On the way to Rome, Galba took from the towns near the Eternal City. Being known as someone who stopped an pro-tax General, he took from the people he needed support from. The troops under him were not brought into positions of power and some reforms were taken away from the public.<br />
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By January 15, Galba was killed by the Praetorian Guard. <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Otho*.html" target="_blank"> Enter Otho.</a><br />
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And Otho's rise started a trend that ended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Six_Emperors" target="_blank">around 293 (the Year of the SIX Emperors)</a>: Bribing the Praetorian Guards.<br />
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After the rise of the Tea Party and the loss of the House in Election 2010,<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/irs-admits-targeting-conservatives-for-tax-scrutiny-in-2012-election/2013/05/10/3b6a0ada-b987-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html" target="_blank"> President Obama used the IRS to intimidate the opposition (</a>Democrats opposed using the IRS for political use in 1973,<i> not anymore)</i>. Overseas, the Arab Spring erupted.<br />
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Iran and Egypt called for freedom. What did President Obama do?<br />
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Say sweet nothings about nothing.<br />
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In <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/22/egyptians-rally-outside-white-house-to-protest-muslim-brotherhood-obama/" target="_blank">Egypt </a>and<a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/022812-602609-obama-ignored-iran-freedom-fighters-in-2009.htm" target="_blank"> Iran,</a> the Arab Spring shifted to an Arab winter as the protesters were killed.<br />
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Democrats gave up standing for people under the thumbs of Dictators; Modern Democrats work with Dictators. FDR rolls over in his grave. <br />
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****Side Note: President Obama went to war without UN or Congressional authorization in Libya to depose Gaddafi. It worked, but the side effects were worse then the cure. See next chapter. <br />
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<u><b>Otho to Vitellius: Dead Ambassadors and Putin playing Chess over Syria</b></u></div>
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Otho's power was limited to the army and the Praetorian Guard. <br />
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Otho understand the mechanics of overthrowing an Emperor, just not understanding the mathematics of Ruling. The people and the Senate were already missing the (somewhat) stable Julio-Claudians. Galba left a Chief of Staff in charge in Germany by the name of Vitellius.<br />
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Vitellius and his veteran troops were advancing on Rome. Otho offered a few peace agreements but with the weapons of support of the military behind him, Vitellius ignored them. <br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bedriacum#First_Battle_of_Bedriacum" target="_blank">In March, outside of the town of Cremona, Italy, both men fought. Vitellius won </a>and Otho, following suit, committed suicide.<br />
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April 16th, 69 ACE, Vitellius entered Rome in Triumph.<br />
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In 2012, President Obama was cruising to re-election. <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-09-13/news/sns-rt-film-protests-wrapup-8-pix-tvl5e8kd5iw-20120913_1_benghazi-embassies-libya-libya" target="_blank">He ignored the multiple embassy attacks (on the anniversary of 9/11!)</a><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">What is galling to us on the Right, if the Democratic policy is more diplomacy,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack#Fatalities_and_injuries" target="_blank"> why the jokes about Benghazi?</a></span></b></i> <a href="http://www.afsa.org/afsa_memorial_plaque_list.aspx" target="_blank">Very few American Ambassadors died in her history,</a> but<a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/05/06/what_benghazi_shows_us_democrats_can_t_be_trusted_with_life_and_death_decisions_because_they_live_in_denial" target="_blank"> Democrats don't care</a>.<br />
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And of course, Syria.<br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obamas-red-line-warning-to-syria-on-chemical-arms-draws-criticism/2012/08/21/bcaf39e0-ebd2-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html" target="_blank">Obama drew a line in the sand against Assad</a>, <b><i><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18462813" target="_blank">then allowed Putin to save Assad. </a></i></b> Thus, <i>the word of President Obama and the Democrats in foreign policy meant nothing. </i><br />
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<u><b>Vitellius to Vespasian: Dominoes Fall as Putin Rises</b></u></div>
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On April 17th, the Roman Senate appoints Vitellius Emperor. <br />
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During his short reign, he expanded the bureaucracy to include knights as well as freedmen. Also, no Centurion could sell his service to escape the military.<br />
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Unfortunately, augurs and debauchery destroyed any goodwill for Vitellius' reign. When Vitellius took power on the anniversary of the very<a href="http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy05.html" target="_blank"> First Sack of Rome (390 BCE),</a> the Eternal City was concerned. The partying did not help the Cities coffer's either.<br />
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In response, many of the Eastern Armies backed Vespasian. Vespasian was the Roman General during the Judean (Jewish) Wars. His son, Titus was there at Masada in 71 ACE. As Rome was without leadership, the military saw this veteran as a way of stabilizing the Empire.<br />
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Vespasian held onto the grain in Egypt, cutting Rome off from its supply. The Slavic Legions backed Vespasian as he marched closer to Rome. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Bedriacum#Second_Battle_of_Bedriacum" target="_blank">Supporters of Vespasian battled partisans of Vitellius outside of Cremona, Italy. Guess who won?</a><br />
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As Vespasian entered Rome, his troops found Vitellius hiding; <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Scalae_Gemoniae.html" target="_blank">They [Vespasian's troops] executed Vitellius on the Gemonian stairs.</a> <br />
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On December 21, 69 ACE, <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/flav/hd_flav.htm" target="_blank">Vespasian founded the Flavian dynasty.</a><br />
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President Obama has talked and talked. But for the nations near <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Europe-blocs-49-89x4.svg/400px-Europe-blocs-49-89x4.svg.png" target="_blank">Russia's sphere of influence</a>, there are no protective weapons (Poland and Ukraine), and <a href="http://en.ria.ru/infographics/20110912/166788392.html" target="_blank">the EU is dependent on Oil from Gazprom</a>. To President Obama, the Tea Party and Republicans were worse then a foreign power that can attack allies. <br />
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When Putin brought the Russian military into the chaos of Ukraine,he knew there was nothing that President Obama could do or would do for American allies. <span style="font-size: large;"> In foreign policy (and politics in general),<a href="http://thesaurus.com/browse/go+back+on+ones+word" target="_blank"> if you don't have your Word, you have nothing. </a> </span><br />
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President Bush might have been flawed, <a href="http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince17.htm" target="_blank">but he protected America's allies by being feared. </a>And also giving his Word and not going back on it. <br />
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What President Obama has done is played the role of the Galba, Otho and Vitellius. He tried hard to protect his own power while the world burns and his Word means nothing.<br />
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<u><b>Our Vespasian: Not until 2016 </b></u></div>
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America will not have a calming influence in Foreign Policy until a Republican wins the Oval Office in 2016. Say what you will about Republican Presidents, the world does not burn when they are in office. As the last Empire (as it were), America is supposed to control the lighter. <br />
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Now? We are still in the summer of 69 ACE. <br />
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And remember,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack#Fatalities_and_injuries" target="_blank"> if Secratery Clinton and Democrats don't care about the lives of Ambassadors or Intellegence Agents, maybe they should not be put forward. </a><br />
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My question:<i> Is President Obama Galba, Otho or Vitellius? </i><br />
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***BCE: Before Common Era<br />
***ACE: After Common Era<br />
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