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Education: Obama is against school vouchers. Therefore, children are forced to go to the public schools that are in their districts. Now don’t get me wrong, some public schools are good, but some are bad. Extremely bad. Now what about the children who are forced to go to those schools that is extremely bad. With vouchers, those kids can use the money that was paid to the bad public school to a good private school.

Immigration: He will not support any bills that do not provide a path of citizenship to undocumented people. The law is the law and by all means and it should not be broken for anyone. Also, it is a complete fallacy that the illegal immigrants here in the US is contributing more then what we spend on them on social programs. Therfore, a lot of our tax dollars are wasted on people who are not legally suppose to be here. Also, it is not fair for all the legal immigrants who work with the system to get here legally.

Abortion: He supports Roe vs. Wade and received 100 rating to “Planned Parenthood”, the slaughter house for unborn infants. All abortion does is support last minute birth control.

Gun Control: He supported banning all forms of semi-automatic firearms. So, I guess the only people who allowed having firearms is the law enforcements and criminals? And many times, law enforcements are criminals. Oh, and the law enforcements are not dependable. So, if someone breaks into my home to try to rob me, I guess I should say, “Hey Mr. Robbery Guy, can you wait until the police come before you continue? Hold up, let me call them now”

Bush Tax Cut: He supports reversing the Bush tax cut for those who make over $250K a year. Now this is completely NOT fair. Most household whose income is above $84K a year pays 82.5 percent of the total federal income taxes where as the lower income families pays 1.1 percent. Please look at the link below and note the quote:

“The two most startling figures are at the high and low ends of the scale. Although the richest taxpayers make 16.1% of the money, they pay 33.7% of the taxes, while those in the bottom 50% make 14.2% of the money but only pay 3.5% of the taxes.”

http://www.apatheticvoter.com/Newsletter_Articles/WhoPaysFederalIncomeTaxes.htm

So if anything, the Bush tax cut should be reversed on the lower 50 percent of tax payers. The rich is paying ENOUGH taxes, don’t you think?

California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer ejected a comment during questioning before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee looking into Iraq policies in which the media reflects as “harsh and outrageous”. Although I do not care for Boxer and her policies (especially on gun laws), I do not think that her statement, “You’re not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family.” necessarily means that Condoleezza Rice is a childless woman, as the media puts it. Immediate family can mean brother, sister, father, mother, husband, or just a family member that she is extremely close to. An immediate family is just a close member of the family. I think that the media is just running out of news and they needed something to target to get some ratings. Also, as Condoleezza Rice puts it, she was confused on the statement of Barbara Boxer. I think the only way to understand the meaning of what Boxer said is to let her explain herself. If you would just listen to the head of the media news about this issue, you would swear with your life that Boxer explicitly said, “Condoleezza Rice is a childless woman!”

Oh wait… What am I doing, I am defending a democrat! This is a first!

Here are some fun photos at Mammoth Mountain. I had a blast. My buddy owe me the pictures he took, but he still havn’t sent them. I hope he is reading this. :0)

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New York’s board of health voted that they will ban trans-fats at restaurants.

NEW YORK (AP) - The Board of Health voted Tuesday to make New York the nation’s first city to ban artery-clogging artificial trans fats at restaurants - from the corner pizzeria to high-end bakeries.

The board, which passed the ban unanimously, did give restaurants a slight break by relaxing what had been considered a tight deadline for compliance. Restaurants will be barred from using most frying oils containing artificial trans fats by July and will have to eliminate the artificial trans fats from all of their foods by July 2008.

But restaurant industry representatives called the ban burdensome and unnecessary.

“We don’t think that a municipal health agency has any business banning a product the Food and Drug Administration has already approved,” said Dan Fleshler, a spokesman for the National Restaurant Association.

What ever happened to self responsibility? When did it ever become such that the government had to make decisions for us adults and baby sit us. I feel that the absolute bare minimum a restaurant needs to do is provide a health chart for the food that they serve. Once that requirement is meet, it is up to the individual to decide if whether he or she would like to consume their food.

If we continue to allow this type of behavior from our government, we will end up as some type of communist country. The government in some states is already trying to tell us that we cannot even protect ourselves from evil, now they are telling us what we cannot choose what food we eat. By doing this, I guess the government is pretty much saying, “People are too stupid to know that eating fatty foods are unhealthy.” Therefore, they must step in and choose for us. Like a parent does a child. And if the government feels that we are too stupid to make our own conscious decisions about what food we eat, then why aren’t we too stupid to vote? Oh, I forgot. The same politicians who propose these types of idiotic laws are the same politicians who prey on stupid people for their votes.

Unfortunately, my comment section has been down for some time now.  I do not know exactly how long.  A friend of mines IM’ed me about this issue when he tried to comment on one of my post.  I have contacted the IT department who host my website and they have fixed the problem.  Therefore, if you have tried to leave a comment before, please feel free to leave it now.  Sorry for the inconveniences.

After reading “The AutoBiography of Malcomm X”, I became really interested on information on the religion of Islam. This book made me really curious on why Islam is practiced so dynamically across the world. Therefore, I search for a book on Islam and I found a book in which I highly recommend reading “Inside Islam”. This book is broken into three major sections: “The Faith”, “The People,” and “The Conflict” and the book is composed of a number of authors. I am not yet finished with the book, but so far so good. So far I have read about Muhammad (the founder of Islam), the Hajj (the pilgrimage to Mecca), the Islam in Iraq, Afghanistan (the Taliban), and other significant regions. This book does really good job in explaining why many Muslim in the middle east hate the US, western influences, secularism, and modernization. The only thing that I was hoping that the book had explain in which I have not read yet is about black Muslims and how they came about, their beliefs, and their conflict.

When a person serves time in jail for a crime that they have done, supposedly they have paid their debt to society for that crime. If a person does 5 years for Grand Theft Auto, dept paid. Or if a person does 10 years for having sex with a minor, dept paid. Actually no, the debt is not paid. Depending on the type of crime you have done, for the most part, you will be paying your debt to society for a very long time. You will be paying this debt by being affected on obtaining jobs. Serving time in jail is supposedly rehabilitation (another story). Once out, supposedly you are let out into the world again with a fresh start. Go out, get a job, and start over. But how do the government expect someone out of prison to get a job if every job is rejecting them because of a felony or registered sex offender tag found from a background check. The way the system is set up is that a person with a criminal history is more liable to go back to jail for doing a crime to survive because the disability of finding a job. I have known a few people in this situation. They have paid the debt to society, get out of jail, and cannot find jobs. Every time they go out to find a job, every thing is great until the background check. Once an employer sees a felon from a background check, they will treat that person like they have a disease or something. This is really not fair, especially when a person did not do a crime that has anything to do with the position they are applying for. For example, if a person has a felony for possession of drugs and that person is applying for a customer service position, it is not fair for that person to be rejected from his/her felony when drug possession has nothing to do with a customer server position. Now if the situation was such that a person that is applying for a position at a financial institute and that person have a felony from tax fraud, I can then understand why it would be fair for that financial institute to reject that applicant. That applicant has done a crime that is related to the employer’s line of business. I believe the solution for this is to categorize crimes and each employer will only have access to the categories that is specific to their line of business. If the crime that was on a persons criminal record does not have any relevance to the line of business to which they are applying for, then that business should not have any access to that crime.

Ok, lets see what the Senate is focusing on since the Democrats have taken over:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday promised major policy shifts on global warming, air quality and toxic-waste cleanup as she prepares to head the U.S. Senate’s environmental committee.

‘’Time is running out, and we need to move forward on this,'’ Boxer said of global warming during a conference call with reporters. ‘’The states are beginning to take steps, and we need to take steps as well.'’

Boxer’s elevation to chairwoman of the Senate Environmental Public Works Committee comes as the Democrats return to power in the Senate. It also marks a dramatic shift in ideology for the panel.

The California Democrat is one of the Senate’s most liberal members and replaces one of the most conservative senators, Republican James Inhofe of Oklahoma. Inhofe had blocked bills seeking to cut the greenhouse gases contributing to global warming, calling the issue ‘’the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people.'’

Environmentalists were overjoyed at the change.

“That’s like a tsunami hit the committee,” said Karen Steuer, who heads government affairs at the National Environmental Trust, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. “You can’t find two members or people more ideologically different.”

Boxer said she intends to introduce legislation to curb greenhouse gases, strengthen environmental laws regarding public health and hold oversight hearings on federal plans to clean up Superfund sites across the country.

On global warming, Boxer said she would model federal legislation after a California law signed this summer by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. That law imposes the first statewide cap on greenhouse gases and seeks to cut California’s emissions by 25 percent, dropping them to 1990 levels by 2020.

OKAY!!! YEAH, this is the first thing on there list that they are focusing on…

After grazing through all the news with the elections, I have come across a couple of articles about abolishing abortion. From my selfishness, I am pro-choice. But I do believe pro-life is morally the correct choice. Actually, really thinking about abolishing abortion changes my selfishness. Just like welfare, when you give some people free money, they become dependent on it. Becoming dependent on it means that person will then count on it and always expect it. And that reduces their incentive to go out and go look for jobs, or to go and get a better education, or to even just better themselves. Like they say, “A hungry dog hunts best!” And welfare is feeding that dog and that dog is no longer hungry to hunt. If you were to cut welfare from a person, they would have no choice but to strive for money. With this in mind, I feel that abortion is very similar to welfare. People are becoming dependent on abortions. Abortion reduces incentive to be responsible for their own sexual behavior. Both men and women always know in the back of their heads, “If she/I gets pregnant, I can always count on getting an abortion. Therefore, I can afford not to wear a condom and I can afford to slip-up and ejaculate in this woman. I can afford to make these mistakes!” Remove abortion and a person can no longer count on it. This will make people responsible for ALL of their sexual actions. This will make a person think twice about making a mistake. Also, with the increase of condom usage (from abortion being abolished) to prevent pregnancies will also decrease STDs significantly.

Art Olivier, former major of Bellflower CA, is running for California Governor. If elected, Art will focus on the following issues:

• Illegal immigration and closed borders
• Cut spending
• Eminent domain issues
• Privatizing governmental jobs. Actually, Art privatized the city’s tree trimming, crossing guards, and street sweeping for the city of Bellflower.
• Against large government
• Focusing on the fight against drugs

Art Oliver is a man who see through jargon and rhetoric. He sees issues as they are and he is not afraid to give solutions, regardless of popular votes.

Arnold specifically proposed in his January 5, 2006 speech:

– $222.6 billion in public works improvements over 20 years, to be paid partly by $68 billion in new general obligation bonds
– 550 miles of new carpool lanes, 750 new highway miles, 600 miles of new commuter rail lines and 8,500 of bicycle and pedestrian paths
– $26.3 billion for new charter and technical schools, 2,000 new smaller public schools, and modernization of 140,000 classrooms
– Two new prisons
– A new crime lab
– Repair and reconstruction of California’s aging infrastructure, including ports, dams, power plants, levees, bridges, prisons, mental hospitals, parks and the state’s 50,000 miles of freeways.
– $1 per hour raise in the state minimum wage for all hourly workers

All with no new taxes. Of course.

Also add, he baned 50 cal guns in California.

I mentioned about the Conceal Carry Weapon (CCW) for both Utah and Florida a while back. You can now take a class to obtain your CCW for Utah and Florida here in California. Here is the site:

http://www.ccwusa.com/site/

Here is a glimpse of what this permit has to offer:

Get your Multi-State, Non-Resident CCW Permit Now!
Utah and Florida Multi-State, Non-Resident Concealed Firearm Permits have no State residency requirement and may be obtained by any legal resident of the United States. These are the most valuable Multi-State CCW Permits available, based on recognition from other States and total cost. A Utah Permit is only $59.00 for five years! Your Utah Concealed Firearm Permit is valid in 28 States! With a Utah and Florida Non-Resident Concealed Carry Permit you may legally carry in the following 30 States:

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming.

*Additional State regulatory licenses and/or professional permits may be required from individual States while working as an Investigator, Bail Enforcement Agent, or Executive Protection Professional.

$125 Course Fee Includes Both Utah and Florida*

*Florida CCW Permit applications require proof of prior training or experience, or live-fire range qualification. There is an additional charge of $25.00 for range qualification if needed. Individual State application fees not included.

Utah & Florida Concealed Carry Permits do NOT allow you to carry a concealed firearm in the State of California.

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In October, Florida expanded a law that a person have the right to use deadly force against intruders entering their home or vehicle by intruding unlawfully and forcefully. The addition to this is law is that if a person is attacked in public, that person no longer has to retreat. They now have a right to stand on their own. Here are some excerpts of the article:

In the past year, 15 states have enacted laws that expand the right of self-defense, allowing crime victims to use deadly force in situations that might formerly have subjected them to prosecution for murder.

Supporters call them “stand your ground” laws. Opponents call them “shoot first” laws.

Thanks to this sort of law, a prostitute in Port Richey, Fla., who killed her 72-year-old client with his own gun, rather than flee when he threatened to kill her, was not charged last month. Similarly, the police in Clearwater, Fla., did not arrest a man who shot a neighbor in early June after a shouting match over putting out garbage, though authorities say they are still reviewing the evidence.

The Florida law, which served as a model for other states, gives people the right to use deadly force against intruders entering their homes. They no longer need to prove that they feared for their safety, only that the person they killed intruded unlawfully and forcefully. The law also extends this principle to vehicles.

In addition, the law does away with an earlier requirement that a person attacked in a public place must retreat if possible. Now, that person, in the law’s words, “has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force.”

The law also forbids the arrest, detention or prosecution of the people covered by the law, and it prohibits civil suits against them.

The central innovation in the Florida law, said Anthony Sebok, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, is not its elimination of the duty to retreat, which has been eroding nationally through judicial decisions, but in expanding the right to shoot intruders who pose no threat to the occupant’s safety.

Jason Rosenbloom, the man shot by his neighbor in Clearwater, said his case illustrated the flaws in the Florida law. “Had it been a year and a half ago, he could have been arrested for attempted murder,” Rosenbloom said of his neighbor, Kenneth Allen.

“I was in T-shirt and shorts,” Rosenbloom said, recalling the day he knocked on Allen’s door. Allen, a retired Virginia police officer, had lodged a complaint with the local authorities, taking Rosenbloom to task for putting out eight bags of garbage, though local ordinances allow only six.

California shares this law that you can shoot someone without questions if that person unlawfully and forcefully break into your home, with an exception of a relative or a person who lives in that household. But California does not extend this law to a vehicle. I think California should consider that as an expansion. This will reduce car jacking significantly.

I believe the example of Jason and his neighbor is not within the domains of this law. Jason’s neighbor should have been arrested. Florida’s expansion of this law says to meet force with force. Shooting someone over shouting is NOT meeting force with force.

Please, can anyone give me suggestions on how to battle all this spamming on blackpundit! I tried un-checking the “Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)” but I still get a lot of spam trackbacks. Any suggestions?

“While America is a nation of immigrants, we are also a nation of laws, and rewarding those who break our laws not only dishonors the hard work of those who came here legally but does nothing to fix our current situation.”

–Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of people across the country protested Friday against legislation cracking down on illegal immigrants, with demonstrators in such cities as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Atlanta staging school walkouts, marches and work stoppages.

Congress is considering bills that would make it a felony to be illegally in the United States, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border. The proposals have angered many Hispanics.

I don’t understand some people. To me this is a no-brainer. How do you protest something like this? Illegal immigrants come and crowd our public schools, use our medical services, use our welfare and they don’t even pay taxes. Double negative here people! They use all of our services and they don’t pay taxes, but yet we are trying to keep them here. Isn’t this ironic?

Also, how is it fair to other foreigners? Since we are trying to give open borders to Mexico, what about the people in other third world counties who would love to live out here. Like Haitians and Cubans. Hispanics has increased to about 70 percent (raised from 60 percent) of all illegal immigrants, and since the other illegal immigrants are just a small fraction compared to Mexico, then why not let them in with no problem. That is only fair, right? Only focusing on letting Hispanic illegal immigrants would make us prejudice, right?

But please don’t get me wrong here. I am for immigration, but legal immigration. Now if you want Hispanic immigrants to come across our boarders, then fight for easier immigration laws. Laws that would make it easier to get visas. But don’t accept something illegal and make it seem like it is legal. That’s contradicting, isn’t it? At least this way, they will be paying taxes too!

February 21, 2006

Arab-American Psychologist Wafa Sultan speaks on Al-Jazeera TV about the destruction Muslims have created through out the world. This is a must hear. Please click on the link.

WASHINGTON - Efforts to allow illegal immigrants to eventually become legal U.S. residents were given little chance of winning congressional approval as the Senate began work on an election-year immigration bill.

The legislation pits several Republican constituencies against each other. Social conservatives and governors say the tide of illegal immigrants is overwhelming their state budgets, but businesses say they want to keep them as a source of labor.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he does not object to allowing illegal immigrants to earn legal permanent residency after several years of work, as proposed by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.

First, how can you propose a legislation that allows ILLEGAL immigrants to earn LEGAL permanent residency after several years of work if the workers are ILLEGAL. Isn’t this contradicting to laws? Laws must obey other laws, right? And the only way this legislation works is if a person breaks a law and be an illegal immigrant and works for several years to get their permanent residency.

Second, if this law was to take affect, then wouldn’t this create a stronger burden on our state budget? Illegal immigrates would be even more aggressive to get over here if they knew all they have to do is work for several years as an illegal immigrant and they could get their permanent residency.

Maybe I am missing something here!

LOS ANGELES - The University of Southern California has received a $25 million donation to build a stem cell research center, school officials said.

Philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad donated the money to build the Broad Institute for Integrative Biology and Stem Cell Research, officials said Thursday. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the fall.

The 215,000-square-foot facility is expected to be the largest stem cell research center in California when it opens in 2008, the university said.

I know there is a lot of controversy over stem cell research, but I am actually for it, regardless of all the abortion and moral issues. I honestly think there are ways around those issues. Hopefully in years to come, we will have a major break through with Stem Cell Research and maybe we can finally have a cure for Cancer, Parkinson disease, and the likes.