CABPRO Report

Ruffnotes by our old friend Jim Ruffalo. he is back!

One has to wonder why the Republican Party uses the elephant as its symbol when -- judging by recent developments -- it has all the memory capability of a rock with amnesia.  Not only does it make the same mistakes over and over, but it practically turns those errors into a mantra.  Latest case in point are the on-going debates

among presidential candidates and, no, this screed is not about the never-ending shattering of Ronald Reagan's famed -- but forgotten -- 11^th Commandment.

Instead, the problem is the way said debates are conducted. It's hardly Lincoln-Douglas. In fact, it's more like an Edsel than a Lincoln.

 One would think that by now, the GOP would realize there's no way to win a debate under the present setup. You know, where the TV talking heads spend more time in the make-up room than in the library, and where it seems more effort is directed at formulating a gotcha question than in trying to see who might actually have presidential qualifications. Wake up pachyderms! You're being used, and misused.

 About the only reason TV networks donate the time is that they see it as a vehicle to make some inept anchors and reporters appear almost competent, all the while lowering the chances of an educated electorate to make a proper choice. It is way past time that the Republican Party goes out and buys programming time, and puts on its own debates, perhaps using former presidents, learned elected officials and proper scholars to ask the questions and -- more important -- the salient follow-up queries. Those politicos who drain the oxygen out of a room with filibuster would be cut off in mid-paragraph, those who fail to answer the question would be chastised, and those who lie would be shown thetruth.

 Debates are important, or at least, they used to be. But now, thanks to the talking heads that have captured that life form, they have all the appeal of a root canal performed with a croquet mallet and cold chisel. About the only debate that came close to educating us was the Fox News effort from Iowa, and even that kept turning into a demo tape for at least one of the inquisitors. Still, it was the highest-rated cable show of that week, so it's not disinterest by the voting public that's ruining this form of educating us.

 Will Republicans some day learn that the current form of televised debates are designed to make them look as bad as possible? That's debatable.

 Jim Ruffalo is a retired reporter/columnist/talk show host.

America is a divided country, thanks to the liberal-socialist true believers

Ever wonder how two people can be so opposite in their beliefs about the same issue?  I have no doubt this has been the case since humans began to discuss important things like, what part of the rabbit should we eat first while standing in front of the cave.  Then of course we have the differences between men and women.  No one understands it but every person lives it.

Politics in America has always been a blood sport and ever since Thomas Paine wrote his scathing screeds about the king and men's rights, we have been jousting back and forth.  Who ever had the last, best argument usually won the prize.  The prize being  who would be in charge for some length of time.  In our country, two or four years seems to be the prize.

Then there have been the critics, the lazy people who sit on the sidelines and snipe at the doers.  This seems to have become a way f life in America in the last 40 years or so.  I think it became a sport during the Watergate fiasco of the 70's.  Before the Nixon years, the press, the three networks and the print media, were carefully in allegiance with the powers that be and many scandals never met the light of day.  Remember John F. Kennedy?  After Nixon, everything changed and anyone wishing to run for the power was given an endless anal exam. This was SOP for Republicans and conservatives since the media is 90% democrat and liberal.  The R's were their natural enemy and over time a great divide became even greater.

Politics was now a "sport", at least from the critics point of view and the conservatives were the recipients of their derision and ire.  This was reflected in the 40 years of democrat hegemony in the House of Representatives, finally broken by Newt Gingrich and the R's in 1994.  Of course there was also Rush Limbaugh, the lone Conservative voice on radio.  But when the R's won the HOR, I watched the venom and ire and all the nasty things the democrats were spewing at them.  I recall Congressman George Miller at the House dais calling the newly seated R's nazis!  That was the beginning of the super heated dislike between the left and the right.

About that time we had the General Plan and zoning of the county going on.  I attended most of the meetings and spoke at many of them.  I got to hear first hand the lefts dislike for private property rights and the nasty things they would say about those wishing to use their own property.  It went on for years here and helped make the divide between those that do and those that don't ever greater.  Our little county seemed to be on the front lines of the battle between the left and the right and there were many casualties.

Then along came the internet and later "blogging".  Anyone could join the battle and with 24/7 cable news and the explosion od Conservative talk radio, the left in America now had competition in the battle of ideas.  The left doesn't like competition though and the battles turned really nasty.  Many on the right were accused of the most terrible things.  The left called them homophobes for opposing homosexual marriage, racists if the right opposed a black Presidents policies, bigots if the right said Christianity was the basis for our laws and our country's origins.  Every issue was another way for the left to attack in disingenuous ways and words the opposition. 

When those on the right started to give back the true facts and show the world the Lefts strategy to silence them, the left went ballistic!  I could not believe how they doubled down on the lies and venom they spewed but they did and do.  We see it every day.  The left dishes out their lies, like "global warming" caused by man, and if you disagree with the lie a man who would have been  President gets on the worlds stage and calls those who disagree the same as  perpetrators od a "holocaust"! Well, that kind of rhetoric keeps fuel on the fire of the divide.

Here in our county we have settled down into a semi truce.  I think it is because we are all getting older and less strident.  I also think a lot of the goals of the left have been realized and they are now sitting back and reaping the rewards of their Pyrrhic victories.  The left has received hundreds of billions of tax dollars to come up with ways to help their brethren in our government to regulate the rest of us into impotence.  Kind of amazing how that has happened.  Small non-profits convince the leaders to pass a law, then they get grants of tax money to further more laws to regulate their outrage de jour and on and on.  Soon those non-profits are making millions and are desperate to find more  topics to keep things stirred up to raise more money!

This keeps the battle going between, mainly two political philosophies.  The right says get off my back and let me alone to blossom, the left says we want to make sure your blossom doesn't contain any herbicides so we will fee you and inspect you to insure that!  Then we have the self proclaimed "middle of the roaders" who flip and flop depending on the issues.  Those people are actually the "self righteous" since they claim to have no allegiance to either side.  I laugh at that claim though since the MOTR folks mostly side with the left. But, they are self delusional, they have decided they are above the fray and would not demean themselves to actually stand up for something.  Cartoonists seem to be this kind of hypocrite in the battle f ideas. 

America and the future of America are at risk as they have never been before.  We see the Power shove thousands of more regulations and laws into he lives of us all.  How is this possible?  It is because the divide between us is so great it must be a DNA issue since it really makes no sense.  The left must have a DNA motor in them that wishes to tell others how to live their lives.  This is overarching.  The right lacks that DNA motor and tries to live an independent life of liberty and freedom from the "controllers".

This battle will have a conclusion at some point.  When every American finally realizes they are now breaking some laws by simply getting out of bed in the morning perhaps that will spur them to action.  There are true "patriots" in our country who are trying to make things better and stop the onslaught of the left.  That is the battle and our country is the battlefield.  Let's hope liberty wins.

Obama and the "Fate of the Union" campaign speech and the local bar patrons

I laughed my arse off, well, almost.  I was down in San Jose visiting my daughter and had forgotten that President Obama was going to mae his campaign speech Tuesday night (paid for by the taxpayers of course). My daughter has two jobs and little spare time thanks to the Obama strategy of economics embraced by the urban areas of California.  With Obama and Jerry Brown working closely to destroy the economy, it seems it won't be long until my daughter takes on a third job.

Her second job is as a bartender in a little corner bar in South San Jose.  I was waiting for her to finish so we could meet the rest of the family for dinner.  About 25 people, probably from the surrounding neighborhood, were there.  It seems like a middle to lower income area and the fellows were wearing flannel shirts and the girls Levis.  Not to diverse but after chatting with a few of them I bet most were democrats if they were voters at all.  One fellow told me he just registered for the first time and he was fifty-two!.

The bar had three TV's on and the sound was turned down since the jukebox was on and blaring a Foreigner tune.  One TV was a hockey game live broadcast, one the Third "Dirty Harry" movie and the last one was CBS.  The CBS broadcast televised the "Fate of the Union" speech. 

I moseyed to the back of the bar to watch who would watch the speech.  There was not one person paying any attention!  They were all interested in each other or playing pool.  All were sipping on a cocktail or drinking a beer.  I had to read the words on the bottom of the TV and that was interfered with the banner CBS stationed there. I did my best to read it but at 61 my reading ability regarding speed of reading has slowed down.  I looked around throughout the speech and no one paid attention to Obama.  My thoughts were "golly, I hope they don't vote!". Well, they probably will and they will probably vote for him and they will have no idea what they are voting for.  We know Obama is our American version of "dictator" since he seems to have interpreted our Constitution as only as important as toilet paper. 

His speech was a rehash of the last two he has made and there was just hot air coming from his mouth.  It is as if he is living in an alternate universe and his hubris is massive.  He still blames Bush for goodness sakes.  What that says to me is he is very immature as a person and his bloviating on every aspect of his policies is unreal.  How could he think we were so stupid to believe anything he says?  Well, I saw it first hand at the bar.  The people there don't care.  They of course will care if their job goes away or the unemployment check stops, but looking around that night, I saw the real problem our country is in.

Many people have tuned out to the bloviators running the show.  How they got this way and why they are ignorant of current events and politics is most likely caused by the the lack of education about those topics in our schools.  From top to bottom our people are being shortchanged and dumbed down to become these uninterested people about the system and the founding documents and what it all means.  Instead, they may pay attention in November at a 35% level and the rest will be out having a cocktail and chatting with their friends at the local bar.  That is because that is the most important thing to them and unfortunately that will be their demise.

Overall, Obama is  a one termer if the Republicans can convince the small number of voters who may turnout that they are the answer to the nations woes.  Judging by the slobbering love affair the mainstream media has for the "bloviator in chief" it will be a hard battle to win but win the country must.

Gang raped by Egyptian "Arab Springers", reporter Lara Logan back at work

Lara Logan is pretty amazing.  While covering the Egyptian uprising last year, since then called the "Arab Spring", a angry mob of those misunderstood Islamic men attacked and brutally raped her.  She thought she was going to die.  HERE is the full article.

Logan is married and a mother of two small children and she has what she describes as recurring nightmares and daymares about the attack.  I am always very nervous when I see women reporters in these hot-spots around the planet.  Men in many places are no better than animals and women are less important to them than a camel or a cow.  They are abused in many cultures and even in China, a woman was not allowed to birth a female child under threat of law.

America and the industrialized west seem to be the safest place for female reporter but even here there are many men who abuse them.  I was raised that men protect their women and children yet we hear every day the horror stories of abuse.  I am a simple fellow and if I was in charge, any man that  was caught sexually abusing a child would lose his privates to the knife.  Any man caught abusing, molesting or raping  a boy or a girl of any age, would get the knife at the very east and the death penalty at the most.

We need to stop thinking that these men  (mostly) are salvageable.  They aren't.  They should be removed from the planet if caught and convicted.  Why should society pay to give these anti-humans room and board and our planets precious oxygen?  They should not.  We need to take back the streets from these people.  We need to implement harsh penalties.  We need to stop the PC world of appeals and more appeals.  We the citizens need to be able to have the government recognize and take part in true justice.  How many child molesters go right back and do some more after they were supposedly "cured" ?  Most. 

How is it that victims of these monsters don't get any sympathy?  I am amazed every time I read a story like Lara's because women like her are simply so tough they make a man look no better than a sting of spaghetti.  She survived a terrible attack and the men in Cairo got away with it.  She has had to rebuild her life as best she can just as any child or woman must when attacked.  In America we have done our best to implement programs to help in these people's recovery yet the problem is not solved for the whole populace.  As I mentioned, the problem can't be solved when we allow the perpetrators to remain upright and breathing.  I am sure this position I take on rapists and molesters will tick off the PC crowd, but tough.

All around the world there needs to be a no tolerance position and ultimate consequences for these men.  It is a simple thing to me.  We must remove them when caught and convicted, recidivism will become ZERO and our planets women and children will be safe.

SCOTUS's Scalia, "Turn off the TV"!

The Citizen's United decision by the US Supreme Court 's 5-4 vote has the leftwing n an uproar and their whining is so loud they will turn deaf if they don't stop.  Antonin Scalia in an interview with AP-Obama folks, said this

"I don't care who is doing the speech - the more the merrier," Scalia said. "People are not stupid. If they don't like it, they'll shut it off."

My position exactly.  HERE is the full AP-Obama article. The more speech the merrier.  Speech purchased with money is still speech, guaranteed under our Constitution.  If the whiners want to curtail money, then they have ulterior motives.  I say instant disclosure after a donation and constant monitoring by the media (but they are too lazy) and the American voter gets all the information they want.  If people don't like the ads, turn off the radio or the TV. 

What interested me in the AP-Obama article was the question asker only mentioned corporations and not unions.  The AP only asked or was concerned with "Citizens" in the South Carolina race for the Republican primary.  No curiosity by the AP on Wisconsin where unions spent millions more to attack and defeat Republicans.  But it is the lamestream media and I really don't expect any fairness.

The left in our country has decided the only way they can win in the campaign cash raising is to limit people.  I am guessing they are telling us their voters on the left are simply too stupid to ascertain the veracity of the message and believe their voters lemming-like voting patterns might be in jeopardy.  One thing I think the left is afraid of is the results of their hegemony in our education system.  Maybe they have something.  The left has dumbed down our citizens by shortchanging them in the classrooms (most kids need remedial education in college), so perhaps they feel their plan of a demo-robotic mass of people is right. 

Americans have received 19 Republican debates and get to see all the warts dug up by a hostile press.  Obama gets to raise a billion bucks and the slobbering mass of reporters could care less.So when a corporation gives a million that is bad, but when a union or a bundler does the same thing for the democrats, silence.  We will see the leftwing whiners about Scalia's decision lose this year.  Money is speech you lefty whiners, get over it.

Newt wins South Carolina

Every time the "experts" tell us how it is going to be, the American people thwart them.  South Carolinian's did just that today.  HERE are the results as of 8 PM. What fascinates me is most of the experts were so very wrong.

Even the last mnute smear of Newt by Brian Ross of ABC Snooze did not derail hiam.  I believe the National media is doing their best to prop up Obama and trash the Republicans, nothing new there, but it failed this time.  The experts said Newt would lose the women's vote because of the claims of his second wife, Newt took their majority.  Newt's problems as Speaker were supposed to derail him as well as his advisory role to Fannie and Freddie, nope, didn't work either.  It seems the experts were simply ex's and not perts.

Romney won one, Santorum won one and now Newt won one.  What a great country.  We will see how Florida will vote next.  I remember when Jimmy Carter and the democrats were salivating that Reagan, that old actor, would win the nomination and lo and behold, he did and went on to wipe Carter across the country.  Reagan was liked by the people and Carter had pretty well wrecked the place.  The American people responded and said it is time for a grownup with "gravitas" to run America. 

So before we all get run-over by the lame-streams, you know, the Obamamaniacs slobbering all over for him, just keep in mind the American people are not as stupid as the California majority voters  and Obama will be defeated. 

South Carolina Republicans vote today

This is a very good year for American politics.  Starting last year and ending the other night on the CNN debate, the American people get to see how we choose folks to govern us at the Presidential level.  We get to listen to how smart or dumb, how glib or boring, how each candidates ideas are workable or not.  Then we get to hear about all the warts as well.  The only downside I see to the process now is it has become a bad version of the "Jerry Springer" show. Warts are on every Americans noses yet somehow the imperious press, those "journalists" of piety and impeccable social credentials, get to write story after story on our candidates.

I have to say though, no matter how many warts we see and hear about our candidates I believe any of them is more capable of governing the country than the present occupant of the White House. Romney with his private sector expertise, Gingrich and his ideas and common sense, Paul with his monetary and Constitutional postilions and Santorum with his common sense and passion.  All would take America back to the future, all would inject pride in America again.  Obama's worldwide continuous apologies would end and Americans could once again pursue greatness.

South Carolinians will decide today who they believe will be the best candidate.  Then on to other states.  The primary process allows those that pay attention a look at the so-called, sausage making of a campaign.  I think it is a healthy thing for our form of governance but it has been wrecked to a degree by the Obama lovers in the mainstream press.  We still do not know what Obama's dissertation atHarvard says.  We don't know his grades, his girlfriends (if any) and many other personal issues the lamestream press is exposing on the Republican side.  Hell, we get to hear once again the ex-wife of Newt Gingrich spew her vile and the place Romney stores some of his hard earned money!  We haven't seen the medical records of Obama to the degree we saw Bush and Reagan's. 

The press has made a mockery of the process because they are slobbering all over themselves in their pursuit of Republican warts and their bias against doing the same on the left.  It seems all the way down the tickets the left gets a pass by the alphabet networks.  Remember Boxer writing bouncy checks in the House Post Office?  How about the very questionable land deals done by Harry Reid and Obama and Tony Resco?  Or maybe the business dealings of Dianne Feinstein and her husband regarding land in California owned by the feds?  Maybe Maxine Waters making decisions benefiting the banking interests of her husband?  On and on.  Yet we know that Newt's second wife claims he asked for an "open marriage"!

What is good for one should be good for all if the press was doing their job.  Yet, today, the Republican voters of South Carolina will turnout and do the very thing I think the press is trying to suppress, the vote.  The press and their democrat allies (journalists are 93% democrats apparently) have claimed the Republicans are trying to suppress voting by asking for an ID at the polling place.  Democrats must produce one in their union elections but to ask for one to ensure the veracity of the public vote is somehow a suppression.  No, the voter suppression is in my view being done by the democrats and their press lackeys.  Trashing every aspect of one party's candidates to demoralize their voters is the true voter suppression in America.  I thank GOD for the internet and FOX TV and talk radio for at least giving the hegemonoc national media outlets a balance view. GO VOTERS!

SCOTUS on the Texas Redistricting lawsuits

The Supreme Court has sent a Appeals Court decision back down to them and said leave the presently drawn maps by the legislature in place for the April primary.  This was a victory for the Republican majority and a rebuke of the leftwing whiners.  HERE is the the news article.

I am glad this interim decision has been made and I hope it holds for the balance of the years elections.  California's redistricting was hijacked by the left and we may see a two generation minimum hegemony of liberals here.  I know of one lawsuit regarding the State Senate districts and my guess is the democrats will prevail.

In Texas the state gained 4 Congressional seats and the left was determined to gerrymander the lines to benefit them.  This was spoiled because Republicans are in charge there and they drew one heavily hispanic district and three competitive ones.  The democrats sued to get all four.

We will see what happens across the country with all the redrawing going on.  Since the Tea Party helped elect over 650 legislators nationwide last November, most states are now run by Republicans.  California is a lost cause but the Congress will probably gain Republicans from the other states.  Texas will have 36 seats and hopefully will offset the lefty democrats coming from our once great state.

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The Goebbel's affecianotos in the National Press are at it again with their double standard

Wow!  The press is after every Republican is some fashion and the latest is the old news we all already  knew about Newt Gingrinch.  He was chasing some skirts while he was married and has been a groom three times.  He has never spouted a social position on infedelity but he is being held to the double standard the press adheres too when it comes to democrats and Republicans.

Newt's second wife has been interviewed by ABC News regarding her divorce from Newt many years ago and as 50% of our people know, a divorce is a rather crappy thing to go through.  People go from love to hate and the hate usually stays until we croak.  Do we know anyone who has nice things to say about those they split from?  Probably not.  But, if you are a democrat you get a pass, or maybe a one shot story on your infidelity and the left, those news personnel, the 99% manning the newsrooms, shrug a lefty indiscretions off and say, hey, everyone does it, no big deal.

If you are a conservative though, all bets are off.  These minions of the press world become saintly in their efforts to prove a Republican is a hypocrite.  Usually they are investigating every aspect of that Republicans life and and relationships.  Democrats can have a relationship with a goat and that is fine but GOD forbid a fallen marriage of a Republican is hypocrisy to the Nth degree.  The purist press has also pursued Mitt Romney's grandfathers relationships and married life!  Obama, hey, his mom and dad are not pursued since they are democrats and the expectations of their social life is so low it has no scintillation appeal to the folks.

So, we get to see the Obama Press Express do their darnedest to take out the Republicans so Obama can win re-election.  What I am going to watch is the defeat of this bunch of suck-up "journalists" since we have so many other outlets for our information.  Newsweek, Time, almost every newspaper and national alphabet TV network are heading for the dustbin of information supply.  The internet and FOX TV as well as talk radio are taking over the information services.  We must stay vigilant.

No person is perfect, hell, I am far from perfect and I am the last to pontificate others social moree's.  I have over time changed my wild ways of youth to settle down and ask GOD for forgiveness of my indiscretions and I am confidant he has.  Newt asked for grace and I am sure he got it.  So, "he without sin cast the first stone".  The liberal lamestream press, the Obama News Express, should practice what they hypocritically preach.