NotMeUSA Opinion Blog

04 Feb

Dice Sports Games That Are Fun.

This is an introduction to a world of incredibly fun games played with dice. No, I am not going to teach you how to gamble. Rather, I am going to show you how just 2 to 8 dice can allow you to play any number of sports games.

Each week we’ll add new Sports Dice Games that can be played solo or against a friend. However, I would first like to introduce you to how these nifty games originated.

Back in the late sixties and early seventies whenever rain kept us inside my friends and I used to play a ton of different dice games. You see when I was a young teen we didn’t have video games, computers, the Internet or cell phones. We didn’t even have cable TV, DVDs, or even VCRs. Even most theatres were located outside where we could drive into them rather than walk.

Well, at least the hot buttered popcorn was better back then. Shoot, even board games were limited to about ten games starting with “Checkers” and ending with “Mystery Date” (No, I NEVER played Mystery Date). About the only games that could be referred to as “interactive” were Mousetrap, Operation and Battleship. All were pretty much boring after playing them a million times. I mean seriously, seeing that plastic cage spiraling down on top of the mouse lost its appeal after the first hundred times.

So we took to the “Bones” and just started making up these games…and we’d play them for hours. Enjoy!

03 Feb

What Does L.I.A.R. Stand For And How Will It Affect The 2008 Presidential Elections?

In the past few years our elected Republicans have completely turned away from Conservative principles and have actually promoted Liberal doctrine.  We have seen this in the out-of-control spending and unjustified beliefs in junk science and more government control of our lives. What was once a Republican election victory through the, “Contract with America” concept has now become the Death Warrant of the same Party. The question is why? Why did the Republicans who lost all of these seats go south on the Conservative principles that made this country so great? I have surmised of a plan and I call this the L.I.A.R. Conspiracy.

L.I.A.R. is an anagram for “Liberal Imitating A Republican”. A couple examples of LIARs would be Senators John McCain, Governor Charlie Crist and the Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger. These are just a few but believe me, there are many more in and out of office. What has happened is that after the Contract with America booted the Liberals out of control of Congress they realized that the American people have grown tired with their agenda of more Government Control, Entitlements, Waste, Taxes and Spending. Yet because this is who they are they found themselves in a conundrum. They cannot change nor will they ever try to. Big Government and controlling the American people is their core.

So that, I suggest was when this plan was hatched. First they had to use their only ally to help convince the seated Republicans that despite what elections represent, the people want Liberal actions. Want to make a Republican vote on a bill that lacks Conservative values? Then get the mainstream media to run a poll that is slanted for the bill. Run constant news stories that portray the People as wanting this piece of legislature enacted. Hammer it home often enough and eventually it becomes fact. This is pure brainwashing in its basic sense and the Republicans fell into the lies without a second thought. If you doubt this scenario, go back to the 2006 elections and see what the real truth was among Republican voters.

Yet still, Republican voters would never choose any Democrat over a Conservative. That is where the Democrats really snuffed the Republican brainwash victims. They all ran as Democrats with Conservative principles. They portrayed themselves as being more Conservative than the seated Republicans who were going nuts acting as Liberals. It was a slam-dunk victory for the Democrats and their mass media cohorts. The only Republicans who saved their “seats” were those who held on to Conservative values or were those who I’ve dubbed, the L.I.A.R.s.

One way that you can pretty easily tell who a L.I.A.R. is, is just by looking at who the Democrat party runs against them. As an example, John McCain has four times won his seat by running against an oddball ex-state legislator in 1986, an impeached ex-governor and civil rights activist in 1992, an environmental lawyer in 1998, and an eighth grade math teacher in 2004. These are not what can be called serious Democrat challengers, can they? The fact that if the DNC felt that McCain is a threat that needs to be removed one would think they could find a real political “Rock Star” to run against him. It can easily be deduced that McCain is viewed as one of their own even though he’s currently a Republican. Shoot, McCain is so Liberal that Kerry wanted him as a running mate BEFORE John Edwards.

Yet being a L.I.A.R. can backfire on you also. Currently, John McCain is what the mainstream media is calling the Republican Presidential frontrunner. They’ve been hammering away at that since before Iowa. They’ve tossed out all these polls which tout McCain as the only Republican capable of beating Hillary Clinton. Even McCain has an ad which states, “Mitt Romney would lose to Hillary by 16 points”. This, I suspect, is the set-up for a Hillary Clinton landslide election. I’ll explain how I got to this conclusion.

My first question about that is who says Hillary is going to beat Barack Obama to begin with? According to the Mainstream Media, Obama is a Rock Star that is whipping Hillary all over the country. Most are even endorsing him as the next Black President! So if Obama is being so highly touted as a formidable opponent, why are they all talking about no Republican can beat Hillary other than McCain?

That’s because they’ve already got some hidden strategy to dispose of Obama when the time comes. The “Clinton Machine” has a whole arsenal in their dirty tricks handbag and if Obama really begins to show a sign of legitimate separation, then they’ll, “Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!” all over him without mercy. This is something that was initiated back at the 2004 DNC convention when Obama came out of nowhere to become a “serious” Democrat presidential rock star candidate. And the Clintons smiled at that.

It is my belief that the Clinton machine recognized very early that someone with Obama’s inexperience could be smacked away like a fly. So they got their usual back room lackey’s working with the mainstream media to perpetuate Obama for the last four years as the “arbiter of change”. Now that he’s fully blossomed it’s closing in on the time to snip the rose. So once Obama is dismissed what is the “Machine’s” next plan?

Enter the L.I.A.R., John McCain. McCain is a self-serving megalomaniac who has a closet full of more skeletons waiting to jump out than a New Orleans cemetery after Hurricane Katrina. There’s his poor ranking among his graduating class at Annapolis. His Poor flight school performances and the loss of five aircraft while in the Navy. Then there is his breach of the Uniform Code of Military Justice when he was in captivity and the accusations of his being a collaborator by other POWs, among other charges like the accusations about his 28 medals.

Or how about his divorce from his crippled ex-wife after an affair with a wealthy influential woman with whom he married? That’s just another one of his common conncections with John Kerry. Of course, there’s always his habitually damning temper and prevarications about his ever-changing political stances. Not to mention his Keating Five involvement and trips to the Caribbean.

Let us not forget his unusual “Stockholm Syndrome” behavior when meeting with his Vietnam captors and torturers while trying to normalize relations with their country. When asked about the “Ticking Bomb Threat”, he stated that, (paraphrase) “there is no way at any time and under any circumstance when torture should be used by America because it would lessen us in the eyes of the world”. That statement in itself would violate the Presidential Oath of Office. Because the Oath plainly states that the President will defend the Constitution (and its Preamble does call for the Common Defense). Thus, allowing thousands or millions of Americans to die just to save face with the world is a direct violation of the Oath of Office.

Finally, I personally think John McCain is mentally unbalanced and may be actually suffering from some form of latent megalomania. If pushed just hard enough I am sure he would actually explode into a tirade that would beat that of Jack Nicholson (as Col. Nathan R. Jessep) in “A Few Good Men”. That would be something to see…and hear.

As a matter of fact, I am a lifelong Republican and yet I will vote for Hillary if McCain wins the GOP. I write that because once Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid pretty much drives this country into a shambles the GOP would win back both houses within two years of her reign and leave her as a lame duck for the last two. I can only pray we don’t suffer another terrorist attack while they rule.

Better still, if McCain wins the nomination ALL Conservatives need to sit this one out and watch him take a fall, along with ALL of the other L.I.A.R.s who’ve sold their soul for a place in his “administration”. Then perhaps the other “politicians” in the party will understand that those Republicans who are not Conservative are no longer welcomed in the GOP.

Besides, if McCain were to become President I’d be scared to death about what he will do when pushed by some other country like Iran or North Korea. The guy scares me more than that lunatic Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen) in the Dead Zone. “You put your G-D hand on that scanning screen, or I’ll hack it off and put it on for you!”

03 Feb

“How to Make Up Funny T-Shirts”

This weekly is a source for anyone who wants to learn how to create humorous gag gifts, t-shirts, jokes and other funny things. Each week we will feature four funny gag gift or t-shirt submission entries that are sent to us from you crazy readers, along with our opinions about these four featured entries. These humorous ideas and how they were created can equally teach “humor challenged” people on how to be funny.

There are only two criteria for submitting your humorous design ideas to us. First, they have to be your original idea. We don’t want to read anymore jokes about hairless midget mud wrestling mamas. They have been way overdone. So have all those countless t-shirts about MILFs. Oh and for Pete’s sake, do not send us anything that pokes fun at Hillary. She is not only my muse but my dream lover. Make a joke about her and you’re just about guaranteed not to be featured.

The second criteria for successfully getting featured by us are how you came up with the joke. Tell us what struck you with the old humor lightning bolt. Something had to have happened to you that plopped the idea into your brain…right? I mean if you come up with a t-shirt that says, “Baby Jessica is doing well”, we want to know what prompted you to think that up. That’s what we also want to get from you; your inspiration.

It will also teach those humor challenged individuals how to think funny stuff up! An example would be like the first time I ever heard the word, “blog”. I was like, what is a blog? To me it sounded like something that someone with a spastic colon would get squeezed through their thong. Was it a word that’s derivative of a bisected log perhaps? That is what actually passed through my bizarre mind.

So now you know the ground rules for submission. Send us your original humorous idea with an explanation as to what caused your creative mirth. If it’s good enough (in our opinion) then you’ll be featured here in our weekly report. Of course we will also be printing our opinion of your submissions. Hey, if you wanted to get away with it Scot-free then life’s a beach. We got more opinions than Clinton has skeletons in his trousers.

Just remember that what you come up with will be published out in cyber-space for the whole world to see. The good news is that you’ll get credit for it. The bad news is that everyone and his brother are going to be stealing it. That’s just the way it is in the humor business. They say that Milton Berle made a pretty decent living out of stealing jokes.

Now get to it! As my boss says (when I get mental-block), “Get your butt out there and think of something funny”. Remember, no making fun of Hillary, because she’s my Goddess!

 

03 Feb

Cashing in on Man Made Global Warming

Some celebrity singer was recently quoted as saying that in order to save more trees we ought to limit ourselves with just one sheet of toilet paper for every visit to the bathroom. That is with the lone exception being up to three sheets for those really messy deals. Bear in mind that she is now claiming to have been joking at that time. Was it said with tongue in cheeks humor? Whether or not she was joking is up for debate. However, it must be noted that she is a blond and a celebrity with a cause. All I know for sure is that she might notice a major decline in autograph requests due to her statement.

Now where you might see someone saying something completely stupid I see an opportunity for more profit than that highly theatrical Inconvenient Truth joke bonanza. That is because we are all a little too late to start our own Carbon Offset companies. No, that ship has set sail. Yet we can take advantage of this toilet paper mandate by way of a new series of offset ideas. No, I am not talking about having toilet paper monitors doling out single sheets in all public restrooms. Especially when you think about what they will constantly be asked, Are you the guy who gives a sheet? Now that job would really, really stink.

No what I hope for is that they make it a law! I hope they invent yet another government agency directed solely at wiping away toilet paper waste. Because where there is a law there is going to be people who are made to back-up these laws. Granted, though the toilet paper abuse law may stink, it will open up my new offset company for awesome profits. How about offsets for those people who just cannot seem to put their finger on the single sheet concept. I mean seriously, one sliver of toilet paper might not be all that it is cracked up to be. It might be too hard to sit with but, and that is a big but; there will doubtlessly be those who cheat on their sheets. Those will be the people who we will target for our new offset concept. If they just cannot seem to make ends meet with their single toilet paper sheets then they can pay our new company to plant more oxygen producing trees for them. We will call these Methane Offsets! Yes, with Methane Offsets they can use all the toilet paper they want and we will wipe away their wasteful guilt for them.With methane offsets these people can put their toilet paper abuse behind them. Because we will plant trees for the right price which in turn will offset their methane expulsions with brand new trees. Really, it will be a gas! Speaking of methane gas, all of the thousands of Mexican restaurants can also make money selling our methane offsets to their customers as well. Shoot, we will even pay them a commission on all chili related Methane Offset sales. Hey, we can figure out a ton of ways to pile it on with toilet paper abuse.You know as I think about it, I could sell Methane Offsets to farmers and ranchers too. It should not matter what kind of animal they raise because each and every single animal has got to expulse methane in either gaseous of solid form. I will be there standing behind them all the way with my Methane Offset Oh yes! Well at least I will be behind all those who do not raise pigs. Those guys will probably be banned from raising pigs soon enough due to the racial hate laws that protect all religions other than Christianity. However, that is another matter that smells pretty bad.

As one last bottom line item about toilet paper abuse, celebrities will not have to worry about people asking for their fingerprint stains instead of autographs. No, with our methane offsets celebrities can once again enjoy refusing to sign autographs. Till they start paying us for their own personal methane footprint, autograph signing could be a sticky subject

 

 

 

03 Feb

Why Our Political Leaders Should Embrace the Fair Tax Plan.

   The Fair Tax Plan (HR.25/S.25) has been out for well over a year now and yet there are still many people who have never even heard of it. One would think that a plan as bold and beneficial as this would be sounded from one coast to the next. Yet that is not the case. As a point of fact there are many liberal political leaders who continually ridicule the Fair Tax Plan whenever it is mentioned. They’re acting under the misguided belief that this wonderful plan favors the “rich”. That is the farthest from the truth as one can come.

   The sad fact is that if any of these doomsayers would take the time to actually read the entire plan then they would quickly recognize it for what it is—the greatest social welfare program of all time. This belief Fair Tax proponents share is held because HR.25/S.25 will do more for the “lower income” wage earners in the U.S.A. than any other liberal program(s) in existence today. 

  You see, all consumers will receive an annualized rebate (in 12 equal monthly installments) on necessary living expenditures up to the poverty level. The size of the monthly rebate will be determined by the government’s published poverty level for a particular household size, multiplied by the tax rate.  What this means is that for each person the monthly rebate will be increased in order to pay for the entire household costs for the basic necessities of life. This monthly rebate is given to all citizens regardless of age, sex, race, or income level.

   This is how the Fair Tax would have worked in the year 2000.  An individual would have received 100% of their pay check. That is if they earned $250 per week they would have taken home $250 per week. Plus, the individual would also receive a monthly check of $160 each month to help pay for their basic necessities of life.

   That’s a tax-free income and another $40 a week for your own benefit. The best part of all is what the Fair Tax Plan will do for families. Back in the year 2000 a family of four would have received an additional $431 rebate per month for their livelihood. That payment will happen each and every month until the children become adults. When one considers all of the added values with the Fair Tax in buying used items like cars and homes tax free; there is no better way of helping others to live the American dream.

   Is that not what we all want in these United States? Is it not the entire Democratic doctrine to bring equality among the masses? So then why do your democratic leaders refuse to back HR-25/S-25 and all that it will do for America? These are the questions that you must demand of all of your representatives to answer—democrats and republicans alike.

   The above are just a few of many more questions to be asked and I will address them all in following articles. Until then you can download and read the entire 40 page Fair Tax Plan brochure at the Fair Tax Volunteer website. While you’re there you will also find tons of stuff and highly important political information on how we can all persuade our representatives into enacting the FairTax Plan. Of course you can also join the revolution while you are there.

01 Feb

How Do We End Illegal Immigration?

In the past few decades, our country has been besieged by a plethora of immigrants entering the United States under false pretense and without legal merit. These are what we refer to as illegal immigrants or aliens. Now even as you read the words, illegal immigrants, you doubtlessly think of Mexicans, right. Yet what I am referring to is ALL illegal immigrants and not just those flooding in from Central and South America. No, I am writing of ALL those who are coming in from countries all over the world.Though billions of immigration enforcement dollars work to some degree we still cannot fully stop this stampede. Nor will we ever be able to fully block those who are intent upon entrance. There is just not enough manpower or money to cover every last inch of bordering land, air and sea. Safety in numbers is as true a statement today as the day it was first coined. So instead of trying to catch all of the foxes that are trying to get into the henhouse, why not remove the chickens? Now let me explain how we can completely stop the foxes or in this case, illegal immigration.In concert with President Bush, all illegal immigrants must leave the United States within ninety days. This is where the President and I begin to differ on immigration. I submit that we will not expend another dime on hunting down illegal aliens after that ninety-day period. That is because after ninety days the enforcement of illegal immigrants will be turned over to the investigation of American employers who use illegal immigrants. In short, we will begin to act upon and enforce the employment laws that are already in place.After the ninety-day period, any employer who is found to have illegal immigrants in their employ will be fined $10,000 per illegal and placed on probation for two years for each illegal found. They should not be incarcerated on the first offense. However, if they are caught employing an illegal a second time then the penalty will be grave. The second offense will result in a fine of $100,000 for each illegal in their employment and five years in prison with no parole. We must get serious if we are to stop illegal immigration.

Furthermore, their business and assets will be sold and the money generated from the sale will be used as an offset to enforcement costs. Additionally, there will be no bail allowed for their second offense of this crime. Therefore, if you are arrested for a second offense you had better be sure you have your harmonica with you because you will be staying in jail for quite some time.

Now what happens during the voluntary ninety-day relocation period? In order to insure that the illegal immigrants head back to where they came from we will need to remove all of the benefits that have been bestowed upon those who have violated our immigration laws. First, we act in accordance with the 14th Amendment when applying the law of citizenship. Despite what the supporters of illegal immigration claim, this Amendment should not allow for automatic citizenship for babies born here from illegal immigrants of foreign nations. So first off, we reclassify all illegal babies born on American soil to the status of their parents natural country of origin.

The illegal immigrants will no longer be allowed to send their children into our public schools. Nor will they be eligible for any government entitlements or other social programs. If they appear at any hospital or clinic with injuries or illness then they can be treated only after immigration officers have arrived to take them into custody for the purpose of deportation. The lone exception here would be life-threatening issues, which require immediate treatment. Yet the immigration authorities still must be notified even before this emergency treatment commences. Once all these measures are enacted, the illegal immigrants will depart on their own. If not, they will eventually be found anyway.

Once the illegal immigrants are back in their countries they can apply for entrance into the United States by way of work permits. They must list their experience and skills and other pertinent information. They must have some working knowledge and basic 6th grade understanding of the spoken and written English language. All schools will be directed toward teaching legal immigrant children the English language. There will be no more bi-lingual signs, voice mails or any other instruction in foreign languages because the English language will become the official language of the United States.

In order to enter the USA they and their dependents will submit to fingerprinting and photo identification and they will have to be matched or sponsored with an employer certified by the immigration services. They will also be required to report to Immigration Services on a monthly basis to ensure that they have not relocated out of state without authorization. Any felony conviction or repeated misdemeanor offenses of an illegal immigrant will result in deportation without the possibility of ever returning to the USA.

Those employers who wish to employ legal immigrants will have to be certified by the United States Immigration Services. They will have to list the employee skills they need and the amount of people wanted. They will have to list whether the employment is of a permanent or temporary nature. The most important aspect of employing immigrants will be that the employers will be responsible for providing an equal rate of starting pay and benefits as those of their employees who are American citizens. That will prevent the slave labor or poor wages that are currently employed by many in this country.

The certified employers will receive a listing of immigrant employment applicants so that they can choose whom they want to work for them. They will be required to submit quarterly evaluation reports to Immigration Services about their immigrant employees as well as any problems or incidences of a disciplinary nature. In addition, all immigrant employees will only receive hourly wages/overtime and never a salaried position as long as their status is alien. Once they become United States citizens then their employment future will be maintained under the laws and jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Labor just as every other natural citizen.

Finally, each employer of three or more legal immigrants will help them choose one worker as an immigrant labor representative for the other workers. This labor rep will be responsible for submitting quarterly reports to the Immigration Service along with the employer report forms. He or she will also act as a liaison between management and the other immigrant workers.

If we are truly dedicated to securing and maintaining the American way, then we absolutely must get serious about it. We have to make certain that immigrants are fully deterred from entering this country without first being certified and authorized.

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01 Feb

A Visualization of the Urban Legend Called, Man Made Global Warming

About the only truth pertaining to Man Made Global Warming is that there are many people across the world making tons of money by perpetrating a junk science hoax. Just as in the previous Nuclear Winter scare of the 80s, there is no basis for the fears that are being manipulated by those who are profiteering from this absurd science. Worse yet is that if one calls a Global Warming Alarmist (GWA) out on their claims then they will get the patented answer of, the debate is over.I think not. One has to have a debate before the issues can be resolved. Yet the GWAs will not debate their evidence because they have none. If there is evidence anywhere to prove Man Made Global Warming as fact it has yet to be supported by reputable men of science. Therefore, the best recourse for these GWA profiteers is to claim that a debate which proved their claims has actually occurred. That brings to mind the following famous quote:

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” - Adolph Hitler

I will attempt to prove the absurdity of blaming man for the acceleration of Global Warming by first providing some basic botany facts and then a couple of visualizations which anyone can do at home. Bear in mind, these examples are for visualizing how small man actually is on this planet. Through normal Photosynthesis, algae and cyanobacterium in marine environments provide about 70% of the free oxygen produced on earth. The remainder of Earth’s overabundant oxygen is produced by plants like trees, shrubbery, grasses, flowers, et al. In fact just three average sized trees can provide one person with enough oxygen for their entire life. Now imagine how many trees there are on Earth.For the first graphic experiment one needs to agree that there are 300 million people living in the United States. Now what we will do is to multiply that number by three feet in length per every man, woman and child. The three feet is what we will say is the average width of each of the 300 million people, from shoulder to shoulder. That leaves us with a line of 300 million people stretching shoulder to shoulder for 900 million feet in length.

The entire 50 United States has 12,383 miles of coastline and 7,458 miles of International Boundaries with Mexico and Canada. Which means the little thin outline on a map of the continental USA, complete with an insert of Hawaii and Alaska stretches 19,841 miles in length. Multiply these miles by 5,280 feet and the length of the USA outline stretches out to 104.8 million feet.

Now all we have to do is to figure out how many times we can run our line of 900 million “people feet” around the boundaries and coasts of the United States map. Through dividing the 900 million in people feet by the 104.8 million in USA outline we will get a total of 8.6 rows of people stretching around the entire USA map and inserts. Now if each person is averaged out at being two feet in depth then our rows would become 17.2 feet deep by 104.8 million feet long. At that thickness this line would not even be visible from low earth orbit!

Now look at the entire United States. One can see nothing but green and blue with a few sprinkles of beige for deserts. All of this green and blue and a small portion of beige produce oxygen. That is the entire oxygen producing ground cover of the United States. The CO2 emitting lines of people are not even visible at all. So how can one say that man is affecting the land?

For the second graphic experiment all we need to do is multiply 300 million people by six square feet (their footprint). That is an allocation of three feet by two feet for every single person in the USA. This results in approximately 1.8 billion square feet of people. Divide this by the total square feet of a square mile (27.9 million) and you will get an area of 64.6 square miles. That is actually a smaller area than Reno, Nevada! Which compared to a USA map would be like throwing a golf ball out onto a football field. The grass of the field would produce oxygen while the golf ball would represent the 300 million people producing CO2. Still think man can affect the earth?

To account for emissions from factories, transportation and animals, let us get crazy and just toss a volley ball out onto the football field instead of the golf ball. Even then, there is plenty of green on the field producing an overabundance of life sustaining oxygen.

 

 

01 Feb

What would it mean to Pass the FairTax Plan?

    How would you like to keep one hundred percent of everything you earn? That is one hundred percent of your paycheck, your savings interest, your inheritance, your winnings and any money given to you from a benefactor.  How much would you like never to have to worry about tax laws, deadlines, audits, penalties and punishments? Imagine a world where April 15 is just another day of the year…won’t that be wonderful?    It will soon come to pass. Some day in the not so distant future we will all benefit from the passage of the FairTax Plan (HR 25/S 25). Once this piece of legislation becomes law the United States will experience an economic escalation that is unprecedented in history.  Imagine the cost of living actually moving downward! Envision fuel prices falling and the prices for everyday consumables lowering back down to sixties proportions. How about being able to have mortgage companies actually compete with low prices against each other? 

    With the FairTax in place we will see incredible job growth. There will be hundreds even thousands of jobs that foreign companies will be bringing back to America. It will be poetic justice when Asian companies start building “call centers” all over the USA. We’ll see Japanese, German, Chinese and even Mexican manufacturers moving into the USA to save huge sums of money while providing Americans with jobs-a-plenty.

    Our farmers will actually be able to cultivate their lands knowing full well that their family business will stay in the family and not be sucked dry by the banks. There won’t be any need for tracking thousands of expenses just for tax purposes.  When the patriarch passes away his family will be able to keep the farm because there won’t be anymore inheritance taxes. In fact, farming will become highly profitable again.    The FairTax will equally lessen crime and make criminals pay taxes from their illegal income for the first time ever. Because when crooks buy with their ill gotten gains they’ll be paying taxes on their purchases. For the first time ever, illegal aliens will also pay taxes despite their “under the table” cash income. Most of the lobbyists on Capital Hill will have their power brokerage decreased because tax “favors” will no longer be used to garner corporate political clout.

    I have just touched the surface on all the inconceivable benefits that are going to be reaped once we make our political leaders realize that we want and need the Fairtax. The United States was always the world’s model for economic prosperity…that was up until the mid to late 1990’s. Then somewhere in that decade we fell behind several other nations. With the FairTax enacted, we will once again become the world’s economic trend setter and employment magnet.

     This is the first in a series of FairTax articles that I will be writing. In each of the subsequent articles I’ll focus more on informing you with better detail about the FairTax benefits. If you would like to know everything about (HR 25/S 25) in advance then please go to the Americans for Fair Taxation website at www.fairtax.org. There you will find tons of stuff and highly important political information on how we can all persuade our representatives into enacting the FairTax Plan.

 

 

16 Jan

Why does the Electoral College no longer work? 12/28/2000

  This year we have had the closest presidential election in the history of the United States. Vice President Al Gore has won the popular vote and yet fell short of victory by less than a thousand certified votes in the pivotal state of Florida. This means that under the system of the two-hundred-year-old Electoral College, Texas Governor George Bush overcame the popular opinion of the entire United States to win the Electoral Vote.  

Was this fair? Yes, because under the rules and laws established before this election was held the end result of Governor Bush winning the Electoral Vote is what determines the winner. As mandated in the United States Constitution and agreed upon by every state’s legislative law one cannot change the rules after the fact just because the national popular vote winner lost. Unfortunately, that is not the shared opinion of so many others.  

Now we hear the rising echo of irate citizens and politicians calling for the abolishment of the Electoral College. In it’s antiquated format the popular vote winner can be beaten and “it’s not right”. Yet in order to do that we will have to rid ourselves of the ONLY true way for these United States to reflect “the will of the people” nationwide. My suggestion is not to abolish the Electoral College and go solely with the popular vote. Rather, I suggest we need to tweak the system to better reflect the present and future structure of these United States. In order to do this we must first look at the history of the Electoral and why it appears to have become ill suited for our modern nation. Once that is accomplished I will humbly submit my suggestion for changes that need to be made.  

The need for an Electoral College of voters arose when our founding fathers realized that the more dominantly populated states could perhaps ban together and literally control all of the elections and in essence, determine many advantages for their own self interests. How could we be called a United States when just four of the thirteen states could always determine who got any and every thing that they wanted or needed? I suggest that they knew that “the will of the people” could never truly be reflected under a minority count of heavily populated states overwhelming the majority of states with less population but sharing an equal risk in governing this new republic. What they did was to allow each state to have Electors equal to their respective representatives within the Congress and Senate.    In short, the states with less population were then equally more represented by their Electors during national elections. What this meant was that the ability of the major population centers banding together to capture national elections and benefits was brought down to an equality that hasn’t been fully realized during the two hundred years since it was originally created. Yet even with such unprecedented wisdom as that that they exhibited two hundred years ago there was still this eventuality of our population centers growing large enough to force national election results and the future direction of these United States. I personally feel that the main reason for this is they never would have imagined that this country would grow from thirteen states and 3.5 million people into the monstrous proportions that it has grown to in just two centuries.  In the two hundred years since the Electoral College was created the United States has blossomed from 13 states with just a little over 3.5 million people to 50 states with almost 300 million citizens. Currently there are twenty-six states, which have populations that exceed the entire combined population of all the thirteen original states. I suggest that our forefathers would not only be amazed at how well their fledgling Constitution has governed these United States but they would also in their unparalleled wisdom, recognize how out of proportion our population has grown. James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, both Virginians, would probably be stunned to find that Virginia (the most populated of the thirteen original states) now ranks twelfth in rank among all the fifty states. This despite the fact that Virginia’s population is ten times what it was when the Electoral College was first created.  

Currently there are eleven states with enough Electoral Votes to override all votes of the other thirty-nine states and Washington DC. As in 1780, where just four states could out vote the other nine through the popular vote, there is an Electoral Vote imbalance that is being created by the main population centers within these eleven states. The Vice President won the national popular vote by capturing just twenty states and Washington DC. That means that Governor Bush won the Electoral Vote by capturing the remaining thirty states and their Electors…by a narrow margin. Yet the argument still persists with the wails and cries being trumpeted for a national popular vote to determine, “the will of the people”.  

This is where we can actually see how out-of-whack the Electoral College has become. The large population centers are dictating the outcome of not only state totals but also the national results. Which is what the Electoral system was created to prevent. With just the proper prodding or gifts any candidate can win the major city(s) within a state and capture the entire state Electoral. In the 2000 Presidential Election this is evidenced in Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. All ten of these states were won by the margins of their largest populated county. Which was high enough to defeat all the other counties within their respective states. The question comes from this, how can just the largest most populated county shadow the will of all of the other counties within these states? It’s the population, stupid! Yes, the same thing that compelled our founding fathers to create the Electoral College is now engulfing that same safeguard. I suggest that in all probability our population and growth alone is what may become the catalyst for the future failure of these United States.  So what do we do to license the Electoral College to once again maintain balance in our national elections? We should again look to our founding fathers to find the solution. When they created the Constitution they empowered us, their future citizens, with the ability to make changes through ratification. If they had felt so certain that their work was binding and without peril they would have set our covenants in stone. That, they did not do. The most naked testimony to their wisdom is the fact that they knew that the United States would grow. They knew that changes would surely occur throughout time and a government would need to be able to adapt and reinvent itself when these changes came. This is something that I will submit in the following.  Before we look at the current Electoral changes I am going to suggest we must first address the state population imbalance. What do the Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas all have in common? Their combined population exceeds the entire population numbers of the twenty-five less populated states within the United States. Los Angeles County by itself has a population that is greater than the ten smallest U.S. States combined! By the next Census the Los Angeles CMSA could achieve 16 million in population. That would rank them as the fourth most populated state in America. Additionally, the Chicago CMSA would rank around ninth and the New York City CMSA would be the second most populated state in America!  

When we look to the charts labeled Gore States and Bush States we see that in this election there were several states that were won by just one county’s margin of victory. Vice President Gore won the Illinois Electoral Votes by a victory margin of 569,628 votes and Chicago/Cook County was equally won by Gore with a margin of 1,350,934 votes. Which is 237% of the final statewide Illinois margin of victory. This meant that despite the fact in which 78 out of 102 Illinois counties chose Governor Bush over Gore, Chicago and it’s massive population overwhelmed the entire state’s predominant choice for President of the United States. As you can see in the Gore States chart, this same thing occurred in Delaware (New Castle Co.), Iowa (Johnson Co.), Michigan (Wayne Co.), Minnesota (Hennepen Co.), New Mexico (Santa Fe Co.), Oregon (Multnomah Co.), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia Co.), Washington (King Co.) and Wisconsin (Milwaukee Co.). Also, Governor Bush won Arizona (Maricopa Co.) and Florida (Duval Co.—Properly pronounced, “dew-vaul”) in the same manner. Of course if Gore should litigate this in his favor then Broward County, Florida would have captured the state for him with its hefty 209,238-victory margin; despite the fact that 50 of 67 counties voted for Governor Bush on Election Day.  

The really amazing feat for the Top Fifty Most Populated Counties was what they meant to the entire National Popular Vote totals. Los Angeles County (CA), Cook County (IL), Brooklyn County (NY) and Kings County (NY) each had a margin large enough to provide Gore with the National Popular Vote victory.   As we return to the Electoral College issue we should now see that what our Forefathers feared most is now occurring. The largest Cities/Counties are already determining our election outcomes. I suggest that the failing lie not within the United States Electoral but within the states themselves. As stated, the entire 1780 US population would only rank in the middle twenties in state rank today and California would be ten times larger than that national total. So we should now see that with California’s 54 Electoral Votes it would take about seven 1780 populations to overcome the state of California’s Electoral Vote. Wow! As it stands today, it will take the lowest 15 population ranked states to overcome California’s vote. Why, just because of population? My belief about this is that these 15 states, though smaller in population all are parts of these United States of America. They have before and will again stand alongside all other 49 states to defend our borders and our way of life. They too would fight to the last man for our Constitution and if an aggressor were ever to invade our land then they would have their cities burned along with every other city within our country.   Despite all the risks shared equally among our states it would only take eleven states to win a National Election. Just imagine what could have happened during this election if Governor Bush had not been from Texas? You can pretty much bet that there would not have been this seemingly endless bellowing for clairvoyant ballot chad decryption in south Florida. Maybe because Texas could have swung Gore’s way and there would not even have been this bizarre protest/contest “Court-fest” in the first place?

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17 Mar

Mr. President, what the hell?

I have backed you through thick and thin. I have stood behind you when all others began to wonder what in the hell is going on in your head. I even have been known for calling you one of the greatest leaders this country has ever known. Yet, after your recent ass-kiss in Mexico, even I am beginning to wonder about you. What in the world are you thinking, Mr. President? We have a major crisis on our hands and you seem to be just shrugging your shoulders as if saying, “Illegal Mexicans? Hey not my problem.”

But it is, Mr. President. You need to take a stand and make these illegals leave the USA. I don’t think you need a wall or fence. No, the best way to force these invaders out of our country is to make them want to leave. How? Make it a federal law that they are not eligible for any kind of “hand-outs” what-so-ever. That includes, medical, educational, financial and even food stamps and skanky government cheese. Next, ENFORCE THE LAW! Quit trying to hamper our Border Patrol. Third, put employers of illegal aliens in jail. Make the fine a million dollars, confiscation of all assets and imprisonment of a mandatory five years.

Finally, next time some third world dick-tater starts taking you to the woodshed, reach over and slap the SOB across the face and tell him, “You got a problem with that? Well I got a problem with some whiney little pig farmer lecturing me about my policies and my country. Especially when your country is so wonderful that millions of your people are jumping the fence to get into mine.” Take a stand and see if you can find those nads you had back on 9-11.

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