I’ve had it! I can’t keep silent anymore. The world is going insane and I have to call them out on it. Besides the Olympics right now, the only other news story anyone seems to be caring about it VP Dick Cheney’s hunting accident. I’m sorry, but who cares?!!??
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I was listening to talk radio today and there was a comment on the state of social security and how the government has promised us retirement benefits but are on the verge of breaking that promise. The point was…
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Besides the US Presidential race, the race for the 15th CA State Senate District seat is the most impassioned and prominent in my area. Unfortunately the information about each candidate being presented to us is so uninformative that I have been forced to do a little research on my own. Not that that’s a bad thing. The following comprises what I have learned so far.

To get a biography of each candidate you may go to their respective campaign web sites. What really matters to me is where each candidate stands on the issues and how likely it is for that candidate to act on their beliefs.

Abel Maldonado

Peg Pinard

From what I’ve found both Able Maldonado (R) and Peg Pinard (D) have personalities of getting things done. In contrast to some politicians who ride on the coat tails of others these two get things done. Maldonado has introduced 32 bills in the last 4 years in the state assembly and Pinard has been active in the Avila Beach cleanup project and lead the fight for the San Luis Obispo ban on smoking in public places.

Maldonado is the Vice-Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee (being a former Santa Maria farmer himself), is on the Assembly Business and Business and Professions Committee, and the Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee.
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After the Vice Presidential debate on Tuesday night, I like millions of Americans, took to the internet to investigate “FactCheck.com” at the request of Vice President Dick Cheney. I was expecting to find the facts about Halliburton and the Vice President, instead I was redirected to the personal smear site of George Soros, millionaire crackpot. Today I discovered that the correct web address is FactCheck.org. This site will have a link to it in the right column from now until the election as it provides fact checking for both candidates.

Some interesting titles include: Kerry Ad Falsely Accuses Cheney on Halliburton; Cheney & Edwards Mangle Facts, and Distortions and Misstatements At First Presidential Debate
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A report by Charles A. Duelfer, head of the CIA’s Iraq Survey Group weapons-hunting teams was released this week. The major focus by media and Democrats has been to reinforce John Kerry’s position of “Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.” The main point of the report, according to them, is that Iraq has not been making WMD since 1991. This morning however, I heard on The Today Show from Charles Duelfer who said that large portions of the report come from Saddam’s interrogation. Can he really be trusted? Also, an article from the British news site icBerkshire.co.uk concludes from the same report that “Saddam would have indeed built up his capabilities, built up his strength and posed an even greater threat to the people of Iraq and the people of the region than before.”

A belief that American’s rarely question is that “if you want it enough, anything is possible.” Saddam did want to make WMD and was an “even starker” threat than we thought because of his intense motivation. Another part of the report shows that Saddam was actually buying off members of the UN through the oil for food program and was counting on France and others to veto the US if we ever pressed to go to war against Iraq. This reinforces the notion that John Kerry’s Iraq policy of letting the UN do it’s inspections wouldn’t have worked since these countries were in the hands of Saddam.

George Bush is accused of going to war for oil, but it turns out that the allies that John Kerry wants so badly were getting oil for not going to war while Saddam was lining his pockets with their gold.

3 year old Sophia Parlock cries after her Bush-Cheney sign was torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters.

What is happening to our country. When did we loose the freedom of speech? This picture is of three-year-old Sophia Parlock who showed up with her father, Phil, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va. today. They showed up to see John Edwards as he made a brief stop to conclude his 2 day bus tour. Sounds okay, right? Well, it was until her dad gave her a Bush-Cheney sign. Even that shouldn’t be a problem in the country where free speech is obsessed over and where even pornography has been granted free speech protection. But some obsessed, angry, Kerry-Edwards supporter took it upon himself to teach this little girl about free speech in America by tearing up her sign!

I don’t understand the anger on the other side of the political spectrum. I don’t remember any protestors breaking into Democratic National Convention and shouting durring Kerry’s speach! Yet, how many protesters did we see breaking into the Republican National Cconvention? Not to mention the protestors on the streets. Did they really convince anyone to vote for Kerry by breaking laws or spraying urine on Bush supporters with squirt guns? I don’t think so. I don’t object to the supporters of Kerry, or those against Bush voicing their opinions; but I want to be able to voice my support for Bush without fearing for my safety, having my car keyed, or having my sign torn up.

With Election Day just a few weeks away I feel it important that the world know why I will be voting for President George W. Bush’s reelection. I hope that as you read that you keep an open mind. This election and its issues have been the most polarizing that I have seen in my short life of a quarter century, and I feel it important that I add my voice to those supporting our great President.

I say “great” and I mean that. I was in Europe at the time of the 2000 election and I missed all of the campaign fuss, the confusion in Florida, and my first memory of hearing about George W. Bush was in a Spanish newspaper saying that days after the Presidential election neither he nor Al Gore had been decided victor. My biggest political concern then was that the US was making a fool of it’s self to the world. I mention this only because my opinion of President Bush has been formed entirely during the term of his presidency. I have no personal experience with his past or what the media portrayed of him prior to his election.

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Wow, there is a lot going on in the news today. Prime Time news broadcasts are obviously dominated by the Olympics but all three celebrity trials have developments and New Jersey is engulfed in scandal.
Last week Gov. McGreevey of New Jersey made a public announcement with his wife and mother present that he was gay and having an affair, he then announced his resignation. Now, I am openly against homosexuality and think it’s wrong, but McGreevey is not the first politician to announce he is homosexual. So, why is he resigning? ….
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