I’m thinking about getting involved in pushing for a Part Time Legislature for California in 2010. The Legislature has no sense when it comes to spending money. If you and I spent our money like the legislators in Sacramento we’d be broke. And if I am to believe the media reports, that’s roughly the state of things in California.

Glad you are following the subject of Term Limits in Congress. I wish more voters were paying attention.

Are you saying that Big Ed acted “stupidly”?

OK. Simple. Just too simple. Incredible is right!!

So sad. There’s probably a pretty good mind in there somewhere.

“I suspect we will never see Congressional Term Limits. Spending time on that is a waste of time.”

We could if we could convene a new Constitutional Convention and change a few of the rules to suit a few problems that we’re currently experiencing that no reasonable person would argue that the founding fathers could have foreseen…

“That said, I hope voters throw most members of Congress out of office when they vote in 2010 — and I’m talking about both Republicans and Democrats. It’s time to clean house.”

And if we do that and DON’T change a few of the rules, then we’re just going to be repeating this exercise again in a few years.

Where do think the new candidates will come from and why do you assume they will be any different…. The people motivated to run for office are ALL seeking POWER OVER US !.. They will come out of the same political machines that gave us the current crop of looters, and many of the worst of the ones we get rid of, will still be drawing full pay and benefits, and they’ll still be in the back rooms plotting their next moves through their surrogates…

It’s not just the liars and looters that’s the problem any more… It’s the way we’ve allowed them to subvert the basic principals that our country was founded on, and transform it into something that the founding fathers were trying to prevent… We HAVE to change a few of the rules…

This last election, & the primaries leading up to it, really clarified things for me when I began to think about all of the things that people simply accepted as being the responsibility of the government to provide…I remember several occasions in which the subject of universal health care was being discussed and the reaction of the people involved when I asked the question: “What makes you think that free health care is a basic right or entitlement of some kind?”

The answer was always something like: “Because it’s so important.” or: “People can die if they can’t get good health care.”

To which I always replied: “But someone has to pay for it, nothing in life is free, and healthcare happens to be rather expensive.”

And the reply is always the same: “Government has to pay for it.”

Of course what they meant by that is that taxpayers like you and I have to pay for it, and not just for our own health care, but for the health care of everyone who can’t afford to pay for their own, as well as those who simply prefer to spend their own money on cigarettes and junk food.

I usually exit the conversation shortly after asking the group the following question: “I thought you folks were a bunch of liberals, since when do you believe in slavery ?”

This never fails to stop the conversation cold. The usual response is “Slavery ? What the hell are you talking about ?” To which I reply: “What else would you call a system in which a small group of people are forced to work for the unearned benefit of others ?” (Someone much smarter than I is responsible for that line.)

To date I’ve never received an answer to that question worth repeating here.

Last night I heard a discussion on TV about the public schools failing in its duty to our children by not providing school lunches with the proper nutritional content… Was I the only listener who wondered, where the hell did anyone get the idea that it was their responsibility to feed them in the first place? When I was in school, we all brought our lunch from home.. Is there even such a thing as a lunch box anymore ? Sure.. some ate better than others… that’s the way it is in the real world.

Whatever happened to the idea that the parents were responsible for the health & welfare of their kids ?

The more the govt does for the people, the less free and independent the people become.

We MUST put a stop to the spread of this cancer which is tearing our republic down !

QUESTION; How much room will be left under the bus at the end of Community Organizer Obama’s term in office?

While I was involved in getting the 1990 California Term Limits Initiative passed, I’m ambivalent about a similar law for Congress. I won’t go into the rationale here. That said, I hope voters throw most members of Congress out of office when they vote in 2010 — and I’m talking about both Republicans and Democrats. It’s time to clean house.

I’m just old enough to recall the OLD IOC – i.e., the old farts who made up this very exclusive and dictatorial committee of elites. Avery (??) Bundidge or some name like that (with the aforementioned age comes memory lapse, sad but true…) was absolute “dictator” among this very WASPish group of MEN – NO women; and, as the old saying goes, “No Jews or Japs need apply!” As for African-Americans, well, fegheddaboutit! They weren’t even on the radar of those aforementioned WASP anti-Semite racists.

The point is, even in this supposedly “enlightened” age and with more “people of color” (I HATE that PC expression!) rightfully taking their respective places in various rungs of the ruling hierarchy, the IOC still, gentically, clings to its racist/anti-semitic/exclusivity past – even the newer members represent some aspect of that old, out-dated ruling elite from all corners of the globe. I think different skin pigmentations have made it onto the IOC, but in a very carefully orchestrated & controlled manner. This is truly a case of a small group of totally UN-elected elites ruling a very powerful, world-wide IDEA – the arena of international spots competition. Now, of course, this power includes and is welcome to tons of monetary & other bribes/perks – however one wishes to characterize them. And by having Olympics competitions every Two years now (Summer & Winter), instead of the original four-year intervals, these corrupted and corruptible bastards are guaranteed mucho hashish….

Back to Copenhagen, Chicago, the Obamas, Oprah and the IOC: If ever there were a clash of oil & water, this one was the perfect storm: “Uppity Blacks” trying to shill for a corrupted village of human types below the stuffy, patrician gaze of these self-important elites, was a recipe bound for disaster. Of course, money & power blinded the Obamas & Oprah from the fundamental truth of an international cabel of life-long racists. Everyone seems to have missed this point; they just assumed that the IOC joined the rest of the world in a more enlighted perspective with the dawn of the 21st century. NOT! Take off your rose-colored glasses and see what is Truth in the Real World. No amount of spin or self-congratulatory appraisals will defeat an ingrained system of elitism & racism – which is the REAL face of the IOC.

The Obamas and their minions were totally blinded and fooled by the outward civility of the IOC (quite a few has-been titles are usually among the lot); from the get-go, they (the Obamas) were NOT part of the equation. Perhaps had a resurrected John McCormick or some other old-style (and dead) Chicago power elite dominated the application process, the outcome MIGHT have been different.