Letls Recall Harry Reid

Lets Recall Harry Reid When an elected official like Harry Reid makes the uninformed and outright anti American comments he made about the protest at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada it shows he isn't equipped to represent the people any longer and should be recalled. Our country was formed in an attempt to escape a tyrannical government and every American has the right to speak out on on what they see as government tyranny. In fact it isn't just our right but is our individual responsibility as citizens.

As for the people at the protests with guns let me begin by saying as a former 911 emergency worker I hate firearms with a passion and have seen the damage they do time and time again. That doesn't change the second Amendment of the Constitution which is designed not for home protection, shooting ranges, gun shows or the like. It was written in mind of the citizens being able to protect them selves from a tyrannical government. Thank God it didn't come to either side using firearms. This protest of the BLM was clearly American citizens exercising the 1st and 2nd amendment of our Constitution. If I as a private citizen I understand this why doesn't Harry Reid?

Standing on the Corner of Politics and Justice: The Affirmative Action Prosecution of George Zimmerman, the True State Of Racial Equality and The Real Legacy of Trayvon Martin

I have been very quiet on this blog of late as there wasn't much happening that I thought could benefit from my “two cents”. I remained quiet on George Zimmerman because I didn't wish to feed the fires started by the news media and carried by the protesters. Now that the verdict is in I have a lot to say about the verdict and the case in general. This is a case that never should have never seen the inside of a court room. I give great credit to the Sanford , FL Police Department did their job without malice or prejudice toward George Zimmerman. A man who publicly testified against the department in the beating of a homeless black man a year before the Martin shooting. In Mr. Zimmerman’s own words: I would just like to state that the law is written in black and white," Zimmerman said during a 90-second statement to city commissioners at a community forum. "It should not and cannot be enforced in the gray for those who are in the thin blue line.” I think it’s safe to say Zimmerman was not a favorite son of the Sanford PD. They didn't charge the man because the evidence and rule of law supported Zimmerman’s side of the story and the county prosecutor agreed. The media jumped on this case and inflamed the tension that already existed in the black community and nurtured it like a baby at its mother’s breast because tension equals ratings. For all the talk of accepting the verdict don’t think the major media outlets weren't praying for riots because riots also equal ratings. If someone had been killed during those riots we might have the next Zimmerman ratings boom. When you have Jane Velez Mitchell doing her entire show in a hoodie just days after the shooting and may I add before any of the facts were even publicized you are pandering to the black community in a way that assumes they aren't capable of judging the facts on their own without the media spoon feeding what their position should be to them. That is truly offensive no matter what race you are. That brings us to political aspect of this case. While I firmly believe that he truly didn't mean any malice or pandering by his statement President Obama fanned the flames even more which opened the door for Angela Cory who did not just bow to but got on her knees and opened her mouth wide for the political pressure to bring the case that wasn't there against Zimmerman. Of course I’m sure it’s a pure coincidence she was nearing re-election at the time. This brings us to racial equity. Early on a black friend of mine and I were discussed this case and I said I believed Zimmerman’s side of the story. I was told “I guess you’re not for black people”. The truth of the matter is I am not. I am however for people in general and am not going to take sides on any issue simply based on the color of one the party’s skin. That is pandering. True equality means I am as good as you are and have the same rights and responsibilities as you and you have the same as me. When one group perceives itself as more equal than another that is called Affirmative Action or as I like to called it reverse discrimination. If the black community wishes true equality than you get the same rights and outcomes of a non-black community. It doesn't help when you have leaders in the black community like Jessie Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton who want black people as dissatisfied as possible so they will vote for them. For the record that makes them just like white politicians. Trayvon Martin wasn't shot because he was black or had the wrong kind of jeans or top on. Trayvon Martin was shot because once he blindsided George Zimmerman by breaking his nose and he proceeded to try and beat his brains out on the side walk. Trayvon Martin was no angel. The fact he was a 17 year boy makes that an indisputable fact. Very few are. What should have come out in court and was suppressed was Trayvon Martin didn't just have a propensity for violence but truly enjoyed it. He complained in a text to a friend that a guy he had fought with didn't bleed enough for his liking. Is that part of being 17? Maybe. But it doesn't excuse his actions. All this being said I feel horrible for this kids parents. They have been victimized four times over. Once by the actions of their own son that directly led to his death. Than by the media who build this into something it wasn't and exploited their dead son for ratings. Than by politicians who exploited their dead son to get the black vote and finally by the leaders of the black community who exploited their dead son to have one more reason to show their face on TV. The real legacy of Trayvon Martin is no matter what the color of your skin is do not brake someone’s nose and beat their head on the sidewalk so that they fear for their life. When someone fears for their life they just might take yours to save theirs.

To all the people walking around saying I am Trayvon you someday may find yourself involved in an incident that gets you a political prosecution and that will leave you saying I am George Zimmerman.

Hope For Us All

Not long after the verdict in the Casey Anthony case was read I placed this post on my Facebook page.


We learned one thing today. No matter who you are or what people think about you in America you will have your day in court and when you do the state better prove their charges against you. Love Casey or hate her, agree or disagree with the verdict the big winner today was our system of justice.

The justice system worked today. Why did it work because 12 people got to hear both sides of a case and make up their mind as to what was true and what wasn’t. If this can happen to the most hated woman in America if not the world it can happen for you and I.

I have said since this trial began that Jose Baez will either be proven to be an idiot or genius when this is over and I have bashed him at every turn and while he picked a defense I would have never suggested in the end he did a job that no one thought he was capable of and did it wonderfully and I offer him my public apology.
You may not agree with this verdict but you can take solace that if you are ever sitting at the defense table you have as good a shot as Casey Anthony.

The Defense That Should Have Been

It has been such an interesting week in the Casey Anthony Trial. This has gotten to be such good television that it is easy to forget a child is dead and her mother maybe executed.

I have been very hard on Jose Baez in these pages while at the same time calling for a fair trial for Casey because I fully believe when the Casey’s of the world can have a true and fair day in court we all can.

In my opinion if I had a dime for every mistake the defense has made in this case I could buy a new home cash.

I have constantly said if handled right this would have been a winnable case.

Let me make it very clear I am not an attorney, I have no legal education, and most of the time I fall asleep before Jack McCoy’s cross when watching Law & Order but I’d like to give you my take on how Casey should have been defended.

To begin with Jose Baez gave much to much away in his opening statement. He has painted himself into a corner that he’s now stuck in and he can’t get out without getting filthy if he can get out at all. The inference of Casey lying because she was molested is absurd and it was seen as the lie it was by anyone with a brain.

His opening statement should have been nothing more than, “A great deal of guess work and rumor has been floating around about this case and my client for three years now and both Casey and myself welcome the chance for not just this jury but the world to finally know what really happened on the day her daughter died and we are sure you will agree that while sad and tragic nothing sinister occurred the day Caylee Anthony died. Instead of doing what you or I would have done after finding a dead child in the pool Casey did what her family has taught her by example all her life. She lied and she hid. She placed her daughter’s body in the trunk of car and kept her there for three days while she devolved the story of a fake kidnapping. When Casey finally laid Caylee to rest she duct taped her mouth and nose to stage a kidnapping and did something that proves her stunted mentality. She placed a heart sticker over her daughter's mouth as her way of saying I love you, I'll miss you and good bye. Every bit of the states evidence will prove this to you.

He should have told a story of a young girl who grew in a home in which lying is not the exception but the norm. A young girl whose maturity level does not match her years and dealt with the tragedy of her daughters drowning by doing what she always did. By abusing her drug of choice for the past year, chloroform and living the lie she created for herself.

That would have left him the opportunity to go anywhere.

He should have stipulated Casey lied to the police and not even questioned the officers. She will be convicted of the four charges of lying to police. No way around it.

By admitting she was abusing chloroform you take away the states power to use it as a murder weapon. At that point all the states evidence of such high levels of what they call a chemical but you call her drug of choice are not just explainable but work in your favor.

As for the examination of the medical examiner I have covered that in another blog but there is line of questioning that should have been followed:

Dr. what is the accepted scientific method for testing if duct tape was applied before or after death?

Dr. did you do any test do see if the tape was applied before or after death?

So Dr. if there is no test to tell if duct tape was applied before or after death is it fair to say no matter how strong your feelings are that it is evidence of murder it is really nothing more than your own personal opinion that has no basis in scientific fact. Is that correct?

As someone who has forgotten more about computers than most people will ever know I can tell you the computer forensics could have been impeached by this simple fact, when you talk about how hard disks store data and operating systems write to a hard disk and how that effects how your browser cache determines the data written in binary code most people’s eyes glaze over and it verbal equivalent of watching paint dry. You could have completely confused the issue by talking about software revisions and known bugs in the software as well as processing speed and the amount of ram in the testing system. Did most of you understand that? Either would most people on a jury.

As to the crime scene you have already admitted this where she placed Caylee to rest and other testimony is moot.

The only question that should been asked of the FBI experts was “Is it fair to say the FBI crime lab is among the best forensic crime labs in the world if not the best”? “What evidence of murder did you find”?

Jose Baez was given a gift from god himself this week that is if he uses it properly, and that is the perjury of Cindy Anthony. This can prove his case in closing.

His closing should be very simple. I have told Casey comes from a family of liars and her mother proved that you when she sat before you and the world and knowingly and deliberately committed perjury. If you want know why Casey could lie to anyone and everyone for 31 days you need look no further than her mother. When it comes to lying Casey learned from the best.

The state has shown you great deal of evidence in these proceedings and if you look at what that evidence actually says as opposed to what the state wants it to say you will see it’s clear that states own evidence supports the defense’s account of how Caylee Anthony truly died.

I took this case because I believe in justice and because I believe in justice I will stand here and tell as Casey’s own counsel she should be punished for what she did. Casey Anthony lied to police and she is guilty of improper disposal of a body, and because I believe in justice I stand before you with a straight face and a clear conscience and ask you not punish her for she did not do. God has already punished her enough for daughter’s accident.

Would this work? It's a lot better than what we've see so far.

Let's Burn Her At The Stake!!!!!

Casey Anthony may be one of the most hated people on the planet second only to Hitler or maybe the guy who said yes Mr. President Obama care is a great idea.

I have spoken to so many people on this case who feel she should have just been locked away and not even waste the time it would take for a court to convict her. This disturbs me greatly, not because I have any great love for Casey Anthony or think she’s innocent but because when you have this many who publicly want to supersede the Justice System we have a complete breakdown of one of the fundamental principles of our country. The right to have our day in court and face our accusers.

Have you ever been accused of something you didn’t do. It can be as simple as drinking the last bottle of water or eating the last apple. Now take that a step further and say a co-worker you have had friction with ends up missing and is found dead. Now let’s say it’s public knowledge you had friction with this person and you end up as a suspect based on that alone. Sound far fetched. Death Row’s in every state have people who were sent there for a lot less. I’m including a link here Linda Kenny Baden was kind enough to send me.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Paul_House_Fully_Cleared_in_1986_TN_Death_Row_Conviction_Case_is_a_profound_reminder_that_our_system_of_justice_must_give_people_every_reasonable_opportunity_to_prove_their_innocence.php

This is just one example. The history of our courts is filled with cases like this.

Please do not mistake what I about to say as my proclaiming Casey Anthony’s innocence I am not. I firmly believe she is 100 percent guilty, but I couldn’t tell you just what she is guilty of and the state of Florida appears to have no idea either. They have presented supposition disguised as facts and have played up the hate factor to this jury.

The testimony of Dr. Vass is a great example. I’ll stipulate there may no one who is more expert in human decomposition than Dr. Vass but his air sampling of the trunk of Casey’s car should have never been admitted into evidence not because it isn’t a good test but because no other independent scientific body has been able to confirm or refute the validity of findings using this method. Why is that so important? Because when you or someone you love is sitting in a court room fighting for your life you do not want the prosecutor offing up some unproven method of testing as evidence against you and yours.

So far I see the state’s case as we know Casey Anthony did something very bad. We don’t what she did, or how she did it or even where and when she did it, but she is the only person who could have done it. We have a theory we’d like you to buy but all we have is that theory.

I’m sorry but it isn’t supposed to work that way here in America. When we bring someone to trail in this country the state is supposed to have real evidence that can answer more questions than it creates.

Why is it so important that this be followed for Casey? Because if the most hated woman in America can her day in court without a malignant prosecution, than there is hope for you or I in the same situation.

If Mr. Baez and his team had simply made the 12 people sitting in the jury box aware of these facts instead of talking about molestation and family dynamics this would have been a winnable case.

So doesn’t that mean Casey who we all know is guilty of something would walk free.? Yes it does. Better a thousand Casey’s should walk free than one innocent person be sent to death row. That is the beauty and the tragedy of our justice system.

King Of Dreams

If he weren’t holding a woman’s life in his hands I’d almost feel sorry for Jose Baez. He is as qualified to try a death penalty case as I am to remove a brain tumor. He is a man in the deepest of waters with no idea how to swim.

I understand he is a business man. Any attorney with their own practice is as much a business person as someone who owns a shoe store or a shop that installs tires. I can tell you as an independent business person myself that in this economy you take any work that comes your way and thank the gods of commerce for sending it to you, that is unless your job is to keep someone from being executed at the hands of the state. At that point you should have the professional ethics to say this is job beyond my scope of knowledge and experience and pass that client on to someone who does.

I’ll use myself as an example. When I have someone bring a laptop to me for repair that requires it to taken apart I tell that client that I’m very good at taking laptops apart but I’m not very good at putting them back together and I refer them to a guy who owns a shop down the street from me who does quality work.

I think even Mr. Baez knows he’s in over his head. You can hear it in his voice and you can see it on his face when he’s examining a witness. The prosecution has turned every one of his own witnesses against him and just plain made him look foolish.

He is playing Russian with his client’s life and why is that important? Because he has done such a poor job that if Casey is convicted she will be granted an immediate appeal based on what’s called ineffective assistance of council. For the layperson that means your lawyer did such a poor job representing you that you didn’t get a fair trial and the whole thing has to be done again from the beginning.

I have no idea what the estimated cost of this trial will be to the citizens of Orange County but thanks to Mr. Baez you can double it. Whatever agony Casey’s parents are in everyday you can double it. However long justice has been delayed thus far you can double that too.

I don’t envy Jose Baez having Casey Anthony as a client. This case would be a handful for even the most experienced criminal attorney and that’s who should be handling it.

The Big Show

The Casey Anthony trial is a great example of how our justice system has spun horribly off it’s axis.

I wanted Casey to get a fair trial and even be acquitted if the prosecution couldn’t prove its case not because I believe she’s innocent but because no matter whom the defendant is or what they are accused of the prosecution must meet its burden to keep an innocent person from being convicted.

However to be a fair trial both sides have to play fair. The job of a defense attorney used to be to provide vigorous representation for their client within the bounds of the law; at least it used to be. Now that job has been reduced to placing as close to 12 morons in a jury box as you can and convincing as many of them as possible that what could never happen in this or any other world just isn't just possible but probable.

Defense experts say whatever their paid to say and the truth be dammed. If you watched Dr. Spitz testify this week it was pretty clear even he didn’t believe his own testimony, but only in the paycheck he received and the chance to call himself defense expert on the Casey Anthony trial. A reference he’ll be using long after we have all forgotten about Casey herself.

What should be about finally finding out why and how a small child ended up as a bag of bones in a pet cemetery has become an attraction that has people fist fighting in the public square to catch a brief glimpse of our latest disposable celebrity. Ever since the Simpson trial defendants have become celebrities instead of defendants, and we tune in to see their lawyers do the legal equivalent of a dog jumping through a flaming hoop. It’s all a fabulous show that gets us no closer to an answer.

Today HLN ran a piece about the clothes Casey has been wearing during the trial. What’s next the Casey diet? You can only eat the same things she buys from the jail commissary.

I long for the days when court officers had integrity and the only goal was justice be it a conviction or acquittal.

If Casey walks from these charges we can all look forward to Casey the Lifetime movie , the perfume, the clothing line and of course the reality show, and we'll all try to forget that little bag of bones.

It's Your Fault

It seems to me the main focus of our justice system has become who is to blame for the things I do and nothing exemplifies this principal more than the Casey Anthony case.

It seems everyone is to blame for the death of Caylee Anthony but her mother.

Cindy Anthony was domineering, George and Lee touched her, Roy Kronk was out to become rich and famous, the police were lazy and never looked at anyone else, the FBI Crime Lab is incompetent and everyone just wants a piece of poor Casey. To use her words she is just as big a victim as her daughter.

Do you feel sorry for her yet? Either do I.

I feel sorry for a judicial system that permits this type of legal Three Card Monty to proliferate in court rooms across America day after day.

The Casey Anthony case would have been entirely winnable had she done one simple thing. Stopped all the lying and finally took personable responsibility for her own actions.

I can promise you 12 decent people would want to believe her daughter’s death was a tragic accident that she was too immature to know how to deal with and covered it up as opposed to a cold blooded murder. She could have walked away with lying to police and possibly neglect and walked out of the county jail with time severed

Instead Jose Baez decided to play the blame game. The truth of the matter is I have no idea if George Anthony ever molested Casey, but I do know women that have been molested and grow up to kill always kill their abuser and not their child.

Everybody in the world has a weird family dynamic of some sort. That’s why the Brady Bunch was so popular. Everybody doesn’t kill and blame the action on their family dynamic.

Instead of acknowledging that the FBI Crime Lab is the best in the world and if even they couldn’t find one bit of forensic evidence that directly ties Casey to the crime scene it should be pretty clear that there isn’t any evidence to find. Instead what we hear is about George Anthony molesting his daughter.

The cross examination of Dr. Garavaglia should be taught in law schools as an example of what not to do with an expert witness. How it should have been handled is the defense should have played up her expertise and than asked these simple questions:

1) Dr. did Caylee Anthony die of an allergic reaction?
2) Dr. did Caylee Anthony die of a previously unknown heart or brain defect?
3) Dr. did Caylee Anthony drown?
4) Dr. did Caylee Anthony choke to death?
5) Dr. did Caylee Anthony die from accidentally ingesting cleaning supplies?

The only answer she could honestly give would be I don’t know and if a physician of her knowledge and experience doesn’t know there is truly no evidence of murder.

Instead we have a circus that is designed to insult the intelligence of the jurors, and is just another blight on our justice system

If the defense had followed this simple truth of personal responsibility Casey Anthony would be back on the stripper pole before you could say hot body contest.

I should tell you if you disagree with I have to say in this blog I tried calling my mother today and the phone went to voice mail because she was napping and my father couldn’t meet me for coffee because his car was in the shop. So if you disagree with me please blame them.

And For My Next Trick

I am as proud to be an American as any one person can be. I love my country and that is why I am so distressed at the things I see going on around me.

My country is going to hell like a street car with no breaks and no one is doing a thing to stop it.

I was among to say the first President Obama was not my choice but he is my President and for that reason alone I was going to give him a fair chance.

I have given him a fair chance and I have come to the conclusion Barack Obama is the political equivalent of David Copperfield.

He holds the health care debate high in his right hand to deter your focus from the crumbling economy in his left hand.

I won’t insult the intelligence the reader and say health care isn’t an important issue but it pales behind the need to rebuild the economy. As sad as it to say the average American has bigger problems than being uninsured. They are unemployed. The need for basic medical services is superseded by the need to find any method they can to pay their mortgage and feed their children.

If half the effort were made to bring American jobs back to America as there is in passing a bill that won’t improve the lives of anyone at all health care in America would be an issue I’d love to discuss, but frankly we wouldn’t need to because the majority of people would be working and have employer paid heath care and we wouldn’t need a diversionary debate to focus our attention from the rumbling in our bellies.

Hallelujah!!! The Recession Is Over!!!

The other day I saw President Obama proclaim the recession is over. While I am glad to hear this news I think someone forgot to tell everyone who doesn’t live in the White House.

I am not a graduate of the Wharton School of Business and in fact I don’t even know how to use QuickBooks. I do have something that the higher levels of government and top notch economic scholars do not have and that is my experience as a small business owner.

I had an experience this week that really opened my eyes as to how bad things really are out there.

I was hired to over haul the computer systems of a telemarketing room. I know you hear the word telemarketing and your ready to place my blog on the national do not read list but I have a secret for you. If you really want to know what the economy is like ask the person who spends eight hours a day talking to people all across America trying to sell them something. If you want a real expert on the economy look no further.

With the permission of the people who owned the business I monitored their sales people while I was working. I knew things were very bad out there but I had no idea just how bad. The statics and numbers you hear on the news just don’t hit home until you hear person after person talk about how they are out of work, have no heath insurance, are about to lose their home, how $200.00 which was once disposable income is now a fortune.

All joking aside I honestly believe every senior White House official and economic adviser to the President should have it be a job requirement to spend a week telemarketing. They may have the raw numbers but those numbers would really hit home if they could hear the voices and the stories of their fellow Americans who have and continue to suffer through what I can only guess is economic recovery since the recession is over.

So yes like many others out there I’m very good at identifying the problems facing us but that doesn’t do a thing to fix them. If you’ll indulge me I do have a few ideas that maybe you’ll agree with.

1) Go back to being a nation of producers instead of consumers. Common sense will tell you that the money to consume comes from the money you earn when you produce.

2) Bring American jobs back to America. It is time to either get the labor unions on board with recovery or break them once and for all. Plain and simple the reason so many of our jobs have gone over seas is the unions have out priced American labor. At some time you would have thought it would occur to them that having 60% of what you once had is better than having 100% of nothing.

3) Make low interest loans to companies that will build factories in America and will place a sticker on their products that reads MADE IN AMERICA BY AN AMERICAN.
They will put people back to work. Radical idea I know.

4) Change our current tax code to a flat 10% that every American pays on what they earn, yes even the rich guys too who pay next to nothing now.

5) Face the fact that if the recession is really over it’s only because we are entering a full scale depression.

These are just the ideas of a guy with no economic education but plenty of experience making a living.

It’s time to face facts and stop sugar coating how bad things really are and have a frank and open discussion about how to fix things and listen to every single idea no matter how radical it may seem.

Five Lessons We Can Learn From Michael Jackson's Death

Watching the news coverage of Michael Jackson’s death reminds me of the hostess party scene from the movie Goodfellas where one of the mafia wives says we always talk about them like they’re saints once their gone.

Michael Jackson is dead and there is nothing that can bring him back but the one “redeeming” thing we can take from his death is the lessons we all can learn from it.

1)Unless you love yourself it doesn’t matter how many other people do. This is a man who hated who he was and what he looked like so much he many actually hold the world record for plastic surgeries. No matter how many people packed into a stadium or lined the streets to see him he never liked what he saw in the mirror.

2)Never buy into your own hype. Adoration is more powerful drug than Heroin. When you receive it to the degree he did it’s easy to believe not only do you deserve it but are entitled to it. After the Thriller album he no place to go but down. Very few artists will ever have a success like Thriller and no one has ever had a second one. Fleetwood Mac never had another Rumors and Peter Frampton never had another Comes Alive. There is nothing wrong with dreaming big but you only set yourself up for intolerable pain when you chase the impossible.

3)No matter if you get them from a Dr. or Dealer DRUGS WILL KILL YOU. He wasn’t the first person become an addict and by no means will he be the last. It’s difficult to perform when you’re so stoned you can’t lift your head off a pillow. If you have a drug problem there are many places to go for help call one now.

4)Keep your sexual appetites to yourself. There is an old saying if one person calls you a horse you can ignore it if enough people say it it’s time to buy a saddle. I don’t care how many public denials he made about the molestation charges, He would deny it with a statement and then prove it with his actions. The only reason he won the criminal trial is the jury hated the accuser’s family worse than they hated what he did. If you suffer from a perversion get help don’t flaunt it.

5)At the end of the day no matter how many people know and appreciate your work you are just a person and are open to the same temptations and downfalls as the rest of us and you can pay the highest price there is for it. Your life.

More Of The Same

I am sitting here reading about another politician who has had an affair. This time it is Senator John Ensign of my home state of Nevada.

Maybe I an uninformed or don’t hold elected officials to the same standard others do but my reaction is so what.

As far as I can tell Sen. Ensign did his job every day, didn’t funnel campaign or state money to her or do anything else even close to illegal. All he did was have sex with a woman who wasn’t his wife and that is nobody’s business except his and Mrs. Ensign.

Does this make him unable or unworthy to carry out the business of the state of Nevada? I don’t see why not.

It is time to realize our elected officials are people just like you and I and susceptible to the same desires and temptations as the rest of us.

I think the Senator did the right thing by keeping this private as long as he did and only came forward to protect himself from the extortion attempt of the husband of the woman he was seeing.

There are some things that are not the business of the people and what an official does at the end of their work day provided it is not illegal is one of them.
This is not a new story. Only the names have changed.

We all remember President Clinton’s involvement Monica Lewinsky. I had no problem with it then or now.

The only thing I feel President Clinton did wrong was lie about it when it became public. He could have saved the country a great deal of time, trouble, and money by coming clean when it became public, just as Senator Ensign did.

When it comes time for the Senator’s re-election I hope the people of Nevada will vote based on the job they feel he has done and not what two consenting adults did on their own time behind a closed door.

Just What Did You Prevent? Nothing.

I have never understood the view of the select few who use violence in the war against abortion.

I just do not see how murder prevents murder. Yes I know all the standard arguments that by killing the doctor you have saved all the lives he or she would have killed. I understand those arguments I just don’t buy them.

I do not want to turn this blog into a debate abortion itself. If it is something you really want to discuss I would rather save that for another entry where it can be given the full consideration it is due. Today I want to talk about killing doctors.

People who kill abortion doctors always say they are following God’s will yet completely ignore the sixth commandment. If you believe in the Ten Commandments how do you pick this one to ignore.

Killing abortion doctors is not going to stop abortions. Abortions are a business just like the removal of kidney stones or any other medical procedure. As long as there is profit to be made doctors will perform abortions. It is as simple as that.

People who kill abortionists give Christians a bad name (and the people who do this always profess to be Christians). I am sure if you were to poll the Christian population 99.9% would say abortion is murder and it should be outlawed. That is their right. I’m sure the same 99.9% would say it is just as big a sin to walk into a church with a gun and kill someone who performs abortions.

People who kill abortionists hide behind the name of Christianity without really knowing any of its core values. The majority of Christians would never even consider such a thing.

If you are that against legal abortion the way to stop it is to have the Supreme Court overturn Roe V. Wade not by bombing buildings and shooting people no matter what they do for a living.

When you take this route you are no better than the terrorists we are fighting around the world right now.

Why Should You Give A Damn About Amanda Knox?

I was at my local coffee shop several times today (it seems to be my home away from home). It is a block away from my home and directly across from UNLV or the University of Nevada Las Vegas. It is always filled with college students.
For the “fun” of it I asked several of them this evening a simple question.

Who is Amanda Knox?

One replied that she thought she was a professional skier and the rest didn’t know.
While this was hardly a scientific sampling of the populous it did raise an interesting question for me. If her own peer group doesn’t know who she is or even why they should who else doesn’t know.

Amanda Knox is the American college student sitting in an Italian prison awaiting trial for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher.

Meredith Kercher wasn’t just murdered she was butchered like a farm animal and all the evidence circumstantial and forensic points directly at Amanda Knox. Or does it?

Starting off the crime scene was processed so badly it made the O.J.Simpson evidence collection look good in comparison.

The authorities point to the clasp of the bra the victim was wearing as having the DNA of both Amanda and her boyfriend on it. It is my understanding from someone close to the case that not only was that clasp not found for 40 something days but it was cross contaminated with other DNA samples.

I am not a crime scene investigator by any stretch of the imagination but I can tell you it doesn’t take 40 something days to process one small bedroom and it doesn’t take that that long to find the clasp of a bra. It’s just common sense.

To make matters worse Amanda has become to the Italian media what Casey Anthony is to our own and worse.

Before ever seeing a jury there was a book on her sex life that was released and is a national best seller.

The problem with that book is twofold.

One Amanda had no part in its writing so nothing in it can be verified as true, let alone even in the same neighborhood as true.

Yet the people of Italy think it is true and that brings up the other problem. The prosecutors are claiming Meredith’s murder was a sex game gone wrong. No one can say what that game was or just who was playing it but the game went wrong and that’s why Meredith Kercher was killed.

Now Amanda “the sex crazed killer” is known all over Italy by the name taken off her Myspace page Foxy Knoxy. It is absolutely true by the way she was called that here at home. It was a nickname given to her by friends on her soccer team that describes her style of playing soccer.

There is widespread talk of her Marijuana use and drinking. If you go to Youtube you can find a video of a very drunk Amanda recorded with her friends. You know what this proves? That she is like almost every other college student her age.

I live a block away from a college and there are three college bars within walking distance of my home and they are packed every night. So this doesn’t make her unique.

What fails to be mentioned is how she has been an Honor Roll student all her academic career right into college.

What also fails to be mentioned is how the Italian Police have who many in the know believe to be the real killer in custody yet persist in their prosecution of Amanda.

This week on Point Blank the talk show I co-host we will be introducing you to the real Amanda Knox. We will be presenting a program that is dedicated to you getting to know the girl behind the stories.

Why should you give a damn about Amanda Knox?

Because if you ever take a vacation out of the United States you could be sitting in a foreign prison for over a year waiting to prove your innocence in a system of justice that does not afford you anywhere near the same rights and privileges ours here at home does, and that is the true meaning of being a stranger in a strange land.

Victory Shall Be Mine

Is it just me or does it seem when Seth McFarlene created the show Family Guy he based the character of Stewie on Kim Jong Il.

They are both about the same height. They both love to build weapons of mass destruction, and they both really want to rule the world.

As I woke up today I am seeing on the news about North Korea launching not one but two new missiles just 24 hours after testing a nuclear weapon that was the size of what we used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I think his intentions are pretty clear at this point.

There is a difference between political posturing and repeatedly kicking someone in the balls.

One is just that,posturing and the other shows you are not just willing but very able to harm at will.

Military action needs to be taken now.

It is not lost on me how I sit in the cheap seats knowing if our men and women in uniform are placed in harm’s way yet again I am too old to join them. It’s a battle I personally won’t have to fight. That doesn't change my mind on the need to have our military handle this. It is not a call I make lightly.

I have said it before and I will say it again. North Korea is the single greatest threat to the security of the United States second only to Al Queda.

I know there are inherent problems with fighting North Korea not the least of which how it will change our relations with China.

I’m thinking China may be getting a little sick of North Korea themselves and may even side with the US if it came down to action. I can only hope so.

Here is the fact of the matter. Do we have to wait until the guy nukes Guam before we do something?

He has all the working parts and components of a nuclear weapon that can hit our shores. Let’s do something now before he assembles them and the only choice we have is to evacuate the west coast.

Amercia's New Courtroom

This week I was lucky enough to speak with DNA expert, expert witness, and as he called himself on the radio show I co-host talking head Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky.

Later in the day I got an email from Dr. Kobilinsky that contained this phrase:

"I think that we need to consider enacting legislation similar to that in the UK which bars media from discussing the details of a live case. Although I believe that it important to educate the public about our criminal justice system, there may be a cost associated with this mode of education. This is an important subject which needs further study. I believe in fairness in the justice system and a person's right to a trial of his peers in a courtroom, and not on an entertainment television show. Such programs have no legal limitations and can be inherently biased against any defendant." Potential jurors can be tainted by what they hear on TV programs. The judge and jury on a criminal trial will be concerned with justice for a defendant and balance in their perspective and will not be concerned about high viewer ratings and competition with other networks in the way that TV anchors are."

The Dr. makes a good point. The media has become America’s new courtroom. More and more the court of public opinion decides people’s guilt months or in some cases years before a defendant sees a jury. Where is this opinion formed? In the media of course.

High profile defendant’s virtually have no chance of encountering a jury that is in not some way biased or at least familiar with the intimate details of a case long before the summons for jury duty is even cut. More important they may have been exposed to and will consider evidence that may not even be allowed at trial due to pretrial motions.

A great example is the case against Casey Anthony. You can’t go fifteen minutes watching cable news without hearing about the murder case, the civil suit, what she had for lunch, or who she slept with before she was arrested. Tonight Nancy Grace is doing a special on all Casey's lovers. Why?

The remedy for this type of exposure used to be a motion for a change of venue. But the days of national cable news have made this moot. It doesn’t matter where you try Casey Anthony because wherever you go they have seen the same coverage as well.

You can even take this one step farther. There are shows like the ones on Court TV that at least try to remain objective. Then you have hosts like Nancy Grace who wish to prosecute a defendant in the media without the benefit of that person being able to offer a defense.

Whatever your opinion of Casey Anthony I promise you more people are going to remember Nancy Grace crucifying “tot mom” more than anything Jose Baez has said regarding her innocence. Just for the fun of it try to remember as many Nancy Grace quotes on this case as you can and then try to remember some Jose Baez quotes. I promise you Nancy will win hands down.

Why should we care if Casey Anthony, Drew Peterson, Melissa Hukaby, or any other high profile Defendant gets a fair trial? Because next week through no fault of your own there could be circumstantial evidence linking you to a murder and the last thing you need is Nancy Grace telling the entire country what a bastard you are. There is no way to defend against that.

Perhaps we would all be better served if high profile media went back to reporting the news instead of trying to create it.

Til Death Do Us Part

It seems every day on the news we hear two or three stories of men abusing their wives. Even worse we hear about the Drew, Michael, and Scott Peterson’s (maybe any woman out there should think twice about marrying a guy named Peterson), Chris Colman’s, or the deluge of cases that end with a dead wife.

I didn’t realize until last night just how desensitized we as a society have become to men hitting women.

Last night I met a fantastic woman. She was absolutely beautiful. More important she was twice as smart as she was pretty. This woman could talk me under the table with ease on any topic from the role of Hamas in the west bank to domestic politics and every subject in-between.

We started discussing the Chris brown Rihanna case and I mentioned how I have never laid my hands on a woman in anger. I don’t think she believed me. She kept presenting scenarios in which it might be permissible for me to hit a woman.

If a woman this smart is desensitized to this issue how desensitized must the rest of us be.

Abuse of women takes many forms. Not every abuser kills the woman he’s involved with but that doesn’t make it any less serious a problem.

It makes me wonder just what we have to make even a small dent in this problem, let alone wipe it out completely if we could. I don’t know what the answer to that question is? Before you can solve the problem you have to create a reaction in the general public that goes beyond a here we go again attitude.

If any of you reading this know of a way of re-sensitizing the general public to this problem I would not just love to hear it but I’d like to do what I can to help.

Next Stop On The PR Tour. That Missing Kids Vigil.

I am all for raising awareness of missing children.
I am all for rising awareness that Haleigh Cummings has yet to be found dead or alive.

By all means let’s keep her face in the media until we know what happened to her. I would have no problem if we saw her face on the news every five minutes until she’s found.

I do have a problem however with seeing George and Cindy Anthony’s face yet again in the never ending Casey Cool-Aid goodwill tour and press junket.

I cannot believe the audacity of these people showing up at vigil for this poor child. If I thought there was one grain of concern for Haleigh Cummings in their appearance I wouldn’t be writing this but I don’t.

I think the whole purpose of being there was some ill-advised PR stunt to raise goodwill for their daughter. They couldn’t care less if Haleigh turned up in a shoe box as long as we see Cindy on camera getting her 15 minutes. I assume no one has told her everything in this world isn’t about her and Casey. There are other people in the world who are suffering too.

Whoever advised Ronald Cummings to publicly dissociate himself from the Anthony’s sure earned every penny of their money today.

Experts on every show from the local news to the Nancy Grace show have flat out said they are having the opposite effect of what they are trying to achieve with their public appearances, yet they persist with this farce.

Again it leads me to believe this whole thing isn’t about Casey, it’s about Cindy.

She just has this overwhelming desire to open her mouth and be seen no matter what the consequences to her daughter. In her mind judgment against Casey is really judgment against Cindy and we being mere mortals aren’t qualified to judge Cindy.

While I have no evidence of this and it is solely my opinion, I would be willing to bet my bottom dollar that the mental health defense that the death penalty attorney who was fired from the case came up with centered around the psychological abuse that is inevitable when you live under the same roof as Cindy Anthony.

Beyond Closed Doors

There are a great many things about the media coverage of the Casey Anthony case that have bothered me. One of the things that always stuck in my craw is how we have never seen one friend of the Anthony’s or ever heard about any family beyond Cindy’s parents.

This is something I had a long discussion on with the Co-Host of our upcoming show on Blog Talk Radio Gwen Lindsey Jackson. It was her comments that prompted me to dig out a reverse directory and see if I could find any neighbor of the Anthony’s who would be willing to be a guest on our show. Not one would do it but there was one who agreed to speak with me on the phone under the condition that they not be identified in any way.

I gave my word to this person and intend to keep it that they would not be identified under any circumstances but they were kind enough to answer a great many of the questions both Gwen and I were asking ourselves.

So sit back, relax, and let’s take a tour of life with the Anthony’s on Hopespring Drive.

One of the things I was able to learn is the Anthony’s don’t have a single friend in the neighborhood.

This is the type of neighborhood were people routinely gather at each other’s homes for football games, barbecues’, and what have you.

This person was quick to say that George is an okay guy but Cindy was and remains the most hated person on the street due to her constant nasty attitude toward everyone.

I was also able to learn that allegedly Cindy is extremely racist against Hispanics and Casey who was famous in the neighborhood for her one night stands would often sleep with Hispanic men as a way of taunting Cindy.

I was able to learn that George and Cindy would often be seen playing in their front yard playing with Caylee and this person could not recall one instance of seeing Casey join them.

The Anthony’s purposely insulated themselves from their neighbors and the only real interaction they had with the rest of the neighborhood was the yearly garage sale that the entire block participated in. Every year since Caylee was born they would place what this person estimated to be thousands of dollars of toys, clothes, and shoes that Caylee no longer needed for sale.

I was able to learn that the friction between Casey and her mother that has been reported in other media outlets has not been over exaggerated. It was not an uncommon occurrence to have Casey’s screams of F.U. directed at Cindy break the quite peace of the neighborhood as Casey would get in her car and squeal her tires as she sped away.

It appears Cindy never had much tolerance for anyone including Casey’s childhood friends whom Cindy would order out of the house immediately and routinely upon returning home.

This person feels and can list several examples of how anytime someone’s life touches the Anthony’s that person’s life goes bad.

I was able to learn that Cindy not only wore the pants in the family but was also the primary breadwinner as George has never been able to hold a job for any length of time in the entire time this person lived near them.

It has been reported in the media George and Cindy briefly separated in 2005 before Caylee’s birth but I was surprised to learn that George was having an affair and when he left the home he moved in with relatives in a town called Titusville he proceeded to sue Cindy for alimony.

When I asked this person on a scale of 1 to 10 how they would rate Casey’s intelligence they proceeded to tell me how Casey was a high school dropout and proceeded to flunk out of the only 2 courses she took at Valencia Community College.

One thing I found interesting is that from the time Lee moved out of the house he allegedly never returned to the neighborhood again until this case broke. I also found it queer this person could not recall one instance of seeing the Anthony’s ever have guests.

I asked this person if they thought Casey committed this murder and they said yes. Than I asked them what they thought Casey’s motivation was in killing Caylee and without one second of hesitation they responded to separate Caylee from Cindy. That Casey could not bear the thought of Cindy raising her child. This person thinks Casey may have thought that death was better than a life with Cindy. This person than proceeded to quote Cindy’s mother who has made the statement Casey hated Cindy more than she loved Caylee.

I would like to invite any neighbor of the Anthony’s or the Anthony’s themselves to join Gwen and I on the air to confirm or deny what is written here.

There is an old saying that you never know someone until you live with them and this is one of the few times we have been able to meet someone whom has lived among the Anthony’s.

She's A Role Model?

I think I must be a rarity or at the least a very peculiar person for the times I live in.

I can honestly say I do not judge people by the color of their skin, which God they choose to worship or not, where they buy their clothes, who they go to bed with, or any other criteria you can use to lump people together. I judge people not by their words but by the things I see them do.

This is why my dislike for Carrie Prejean grows on a daily basis.

She is the perfect example of do as I say and not do as I do.

She is a liar and not even a good one at that.

When her first semi nude photos surfaced, she flat out lied about being a minor when they were taken in a poorly thought out ploy to keep them from being seen. Everybody knew this was a lie the second she said it.

For a woman who claims the morality of being Biblically correct in deciding who and who should not be allowed to marry she sure doesn’t take the moral high ground when it comes to getting naked for the camera for a shot at her 15 minutes of fame.

To take it a step further if she really was 17 when the topless photos were taken that is an even bigger statement on her morality or lack of it.

Now the latest set of photos featuring full frontal nudity are out and poor Carrie stands at the microphone lambasting the photographer for taking her picture as the wind blew her vest open.

Come on Carrie. It was a breeze strong enough to blow your cloths open but in the picture you never break pose and your hair isn’t blowing in the wind.

It’s been said by more than one person no one ever went broke by under estimating the intelligence of the American public, but Carrie not one of us is dumb enough to believe that.

I am waiting with baited breath to hear her explain how she was tricked into making the raunchy video of her that’s about to be released, and how it really wasn’t her fault.

If Carrie Prejean is the role model for young Christians I feel bad for young Christians. I think she has tainted the public’s perception of Christians in a sad and ugly way.

She is in the same camp as Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggart, Ted Haggard, and every other huckster who hides under the banner of Christianity to get what they want at the time but doesn’t live up to any of its ideals .

Carrie Prejean is not a role model she is just another media whore with nothing of value to add to any conversation. She should do what she does best. Close her mouth and open her shirt.