Freedom of Religion

"OF" not "FROM"

It's just one word, but it changes all the meaning. When ever anyone wants to express their religion the secularist propagandizers sternly remind us of "Separation of Church and State". Their message relies on most people's ignorance of history.

The founding forefathers were very religious, not atheists, not securalists, not communist, not totalitarian. They were not telling people they couldn't practice religion, they encouraged religious expression. The term "Separation of Church and State" dates to a time when the "State" was tightly tied to a religion, many European countries were tied to Roman Catholicism, others like England sponsored their own religion. So in some countries only the Catholic religion was tolerated, if you chose another religion you were persecuted by the government. America was founded on the freedom to practice your own religion and vowed not to select a "State Sponsored" religion.

No offense to my protestant breathern, but the first time I entered the "Church of Ireland" which was really England's State Sponsored religion invading Ireland and their attempt to route out Catholicism, I was dismayed that rather than religious monuments the thing that jumped out at me was a large array of Flags bearing the Coat of Arms of Heads of State. What? Who is being worshiped here I wondered - God or Government? And that is the problem with State Sponsored Religion, it attempts to remove your freedom of belief's and transplant government control under the guise of religion. Now I assume that the Anglican religions believe in God rather than Queen these days, but it wasn't always that way.

But my concern this day is how perverted the secularist propaganda is. Rather than sponsoring a particular brand of Christianity it is, in the false name of freedom, sponsoring atheism or secularism reaching the point of worshiping the State itself. Make no mistake about it, this interference in personal freedom is what led people to flee their home and seek safe haven in America. How ironic that 200 years later people twist and distort history and try to stifle our religious freedom in the names of our founding forefathers. Oh how angry their spirits must be, surely they are rolling over in their graves in frustration and disgust. And how could this fraud be perpetrated on the public? Our founding forefathers envisioned a participative government, not passive citizenry being led to slaughter like sheep.

So if I don't know you, I wish you Happy Holidays for whatever your beliefs dictate this time of year. If you are a fellow Catholic or Christian then I specifically wish you a very Merry Christmas as we look forward to the joy of Jesus Christ's birth and his second coming. if you are a Jewish friend I wish you (a belated) Happy Hanukkah, we differ in our view of Jesus, but we share a common Old Testament and belief in the Almighty God.

And no matter what you believe I wish you all a prosperous and Happy New Year and the hope that citizens will switch off reality TV, so they can participate and take control of our government as was intended. Don't drink the Kool Aide, question the propaganda (organized lies), its not pretty, but it is reality. Good night and may God bless you even if you don't believe.

Is Mommy Stupid?

That's what my son asked me one day. I've told this story many times, but I guess I never posted it. I struggled to keep a straight face and asked "Why do you ask that?"

We have two abandoned railroads near my house and my son and I often hike through the surrounding woods and on the tracks. Sometimes we find interesting things like railroad spikes. They are of course rusty, but not sharp or flaking off. The first time he found a spike he couldn't wait to show it off to his mom.

Her reaction, she recoiled back from him as if he was holding a deadly snake, she yelled to put that dirty rusty thing down. He wanted to take it to her apartment but she would not have that and said NO! I soothed his hurt ego and said that it would be better to keep it at my house.

So his answer was that "Mommy says that I could get tetanus and die from touching a railroad spike and I just know that's not true". I thought for a moment and rejected my first response "Mommy's not stupid she's just crazy" without saying it out loud. So I gave him the scientifically honest answer as I always do - "A long time ago people could get very sick and die from tetanus. You should not pick up rusty things with sharp edges because if they cut you and the rust gets into your blood stream you could get an infection. If you got cut from something rusty you should tell us right away and we'd take you to the hospital and you'd get a tetanus shot so you wouldn't get sick. It would hurt, but you'd get better and wouldn't die, not these days, we've been able to treat this for some time. A railroad spike usually doesn't have sharp rusty edges, but always look first and ask if you aren't sure."

One time when we were walking the railroad tracks my son got excited and said "Oh, grandma and I left some spikes here". He was talking about my ex's mother who apparently didn't share her daughter's tetanus phobia. When they found the spikes, she told her own mother NO! So my son put them somewhere he could find them later and we did.

So that's just an example of what my son and I have to put up with. Why don't the courts see this as unhealthy over-protectionism? Well they just like to error on the side of caution, for BIC of course. But then by definition "unhealthy over-protectionism" is an unhealthy over reaction, it is NOT in the best interest of the child (BIC) at all.

But that's just common sense and that has no place in the justice system (jqism).

My ex is a control freak

A reader asks:

Is she always there when you get to see your son? Do you always have to have your joy at seeing your son dampened by seeing her too?

She never wanted me to have my own visitation with my son, but the court order does allow me to see him without her after school on three nights.

She will often "suggest" what I should do with my son or what he should eat. She questions him and I after nearly every visit. Not that she's so damn good herself, she has left him in questionable care, he has gotten hurt in her care, and he eats more fast food with her than I. Why? Double standard. What she does is OK.

One of the big restrictions is justified by my sleep apnea. She fears that I will be too fatigued to care for him or that I will get in a car accident. But I am very aware and am treated for sleep apnea and it hasn't been a problem. She on the other hand used to be asleep when I got home from 3rd shift and my son was up, unsupervised. Why? You don't need a sleep disorder to be fatigued, and she often is in the morning to the point where he is rushed to school at the last minute. What is the difference? My condition is documented AND treated, hers isn't!

Two months ago she decided that she wanted more control and has stopped him from coming to my house after school. So in the mean time I only see him once a week with her present, a violation of the existing court ordered visitation.

Yes that does dampen the visit and yes it does piss me off. Like I said in my Happy Birthday post it is awkward. And that's an understatement. But I focus on him. And hopefully an upcoming hearing is going to deny her request for more restrictive visitation.

But that's what she wants, for her to be in control and for me to be uncomfortable. I have often said, she has more control over me now than when we were married. But it's not just me. She is very controlling of my son and I'm sure that he's uncomfortable too.

She has many untreated phobias, germs too. She always has her bottle of Purell (hand sanitizer) that she uses way too much of. And sure enough it came out in the bowling alley. When he was a child she could not watch him swing, not because he would swing too high, but just because of the repetitive movement on the swing. I have a swing in my back yard that he uses and he uses the school playground at recess, but his mom doesn't swing.

I have this little glimmer of hope, that this new magistrate will see her for what she is, will see her untreated phobias and unreasonable restrictions and force them both to be fixed. Sometimes she can push things just too far and they could back fire. It would be so good if this magistrate finally applied a little justice to an unjust situation.

A bright spot

Our city had a holiday celebration for kids yesterday. I met my son there, then at the magistrates' suggestion we did something fun afterwards. He suggested bowling or a movie. My ex chimed in that my son loves to bowl.

At the holiday party I gave my son a super bouncing ball that looked like a little basketball (that I got while I was downtown for court) and I got him two washers that he needed so he could fix something for his Mom better. He played games, won prizes, saw a magic show and had fun.

Imagine my surprise when I asked so when did you bowl last - about a year. If he likes it so much how come she never takes him to do it? She decided she didn't want to bowl (she's done it a lot more than I) but I did just because I wanted to do something with my son. I think it's been a five or ten years since I bowled. Never bowled much.

Why don't I take him bowling? My visitation (before her recent reduction) was so limited that I only feed him and supervise his homework. I never get him for a whole day, or overnight, or on the weekends. In the summer, I get him after his summer camp, which actually cuts my visitation even shorter (in violation of the visitation order, but my ex gives orders better than following them).

So we did have a lot of fun. I had a strike in each of the first two games, two strikes in a row the third game and five strikes in the fourth game (guess I was warming up). My son's score was keeping close to mine and he got a strike in the last game. She shrieked approvingly, he covered his ears.

The most fun of course was spending time with him...

You want that Journalized?

I got extra sleep before this week's hearing and luckily I was able to think on my feet, despite the high stress of my son's visitation being on the line.

I fired a lawyer for screwing up a journalization which caused a verbal visitation agreement to be cut in half. So its odd that I had the exact opposite situation this week.

The magistrate observed and warned my ex that she was in violation of court ordered visitation. We made a compromise agreement for (reduced) visitation as I respond to her "concerns". Her lawyer asked for a visitation journalization form to protect "me" in case my ex reneged on even this reduced visitation.

First my docket is long enough and I don't need more entries in it. But there's a bigger reason, why document a reduced interim visitation schedule that could supersede my existing visitation order?

So I said that her lawyer's hand written notes of the interim agreement would be acceptable and asked her for them. This had the following advantages:

• Legally my existing visitation order is still in force
• The Magistrate viewed me positively as being cooperative and flexible
• I have the lawyer's handwritten notes as proof of our interim agreement
  
• The magistrate would view my ex reneging on the agreement negatively so its unlikely I need the "protection" of it being journalized

The rule has always been "get it in writing" and for the most part that is true, but remember that there is always an exception to the rule. And I think this is one of them.

Its not my job man

I don't do computers

BULLSHIT!!! That makes as much sense as I don't do VCRs or calculators. It's the 21st century damn it, use today's tools or go be a covered wagon wheel maker. Computer's are today's tools, checkout clerks need to use them properly for minimum wage so lawyers making 30-50 times more need to use them too. The minimum wage wage checkout clerk can't make a $10 error in grocery's without being fired, so why should a lawyer making so much more be able to make $10,000 errors and expect not only to be employed, but to be paid for making such a careless mistake.

The direct product of the lawyer is the legal agreements and property division so when these are unusable what the hell is he being paid for? Today's tool isn't a quill pen and abacus, its Word and Excel.

But lawyers are so caught up in their legal education they feel that knowing how to properly use a computer is beneath them. Well it isn't. Its just a stupid excuse for being ignorant and lazy. Now if you have some national celebrity lawyer, maybe he can't be bothered, then get a staff, otherwise do it yourself. But if you are going to do it yourself, know what the hell you are doing. Actually in corporate law you will usually see support staff doing much of the computer work at reduced cost.

But the idea that the lawyer can charge top buck, then provide an inferior product because he is too proud to learn how to use a computer is completely unacceptable.

There is a serious cost to the client for computer misuse, first in inefficiency causing inflated bills and second in errors made and more time to correct them.

In my case, I was billed for inefficient computer use by my lawyer, then we argued about his mistakes and I was billed for the argument, then when he finally admitted the error, I was billed again for his inefficient correction. In what other profession can you make 300% as a reward for screwing up? In divorce law you pay for hours not results (jqism).


Status: First Draft - Last Updated 12/13/08 6 PM

Math for Moron Lawyers

While I'm on the topic of computer use and lawyers, I might as well mention their other deficient skill - Spreadsheets.

I've mentioned this in a few other posts:

• Dumb and Dumber - Commingling mistake, columns are cheap, don't commingle. Offered assistance, lawyer was too proud to accept it.
  


• There's Big Bucks in Checking Your Lawyers Work - Cutting opposition fees charged to you, caring vs. carelessness, tax deductible by calling it alimony, misuse of Excel, saved $40,000 in one month by checking lawyers work.
  


• Lawyers can’t do math - Math done in text footnotes, careless errors, dated spreadsheet shows it was held back to cause delays.
  

Divorce Lawyers are equally inept with spreadsheets. Again just using the computer like a typewriter without regard to its proper use. Their spreadsheets are so inept that it probably isn't good to try to fix it. Get a copy just to prove their ineptedness. You most likely will need to design it from scratch. Extra work? Yes! But as I said in the above posts it can cost you serious bucks.

So what should you do that your lawyer won't?

• Design the spreadsheet
• Let the spreadsheet do all the calculations
  
• Use control and named cells
• Use variables rather than hard coded constants (eg split = 50%)
  
• Use extra (hidden) columns (or rows) to audit or calculate intermediate results
• Use the scenario manager rather than multiple duplicate sheets
• Use data validation and conditional cell formatting
• Use Audit Trace feature to validate correctness
• Don't commingle unlike funds (liquid/illiquid, different tax consequences, pensions, owed vs. controlled)
• Save each version
  

You are doing this to protect yourself, not to encourage your lawyer to slide out of his fiduciary responsibility to you.

You should consider outsourcing financial issues to a CPA trained in divorce issues, they are better trained in math.

And what should your lawyer be doing?

• All of the above !!!
• Learn how to use their computer efficiently.
  
• Don't keep reinventing the wheel, use templates.
• Realize that legal advice is only half their job, producing usable d0cuments and accurate property settlements is equally important and requires proper computer skills.
• If they can't or won't do it, then delegate it to competent support staff or outsource it to a divorce trained CPA.
  

Status: Second Draft - Last Updated 12/13/08 6:30 PM

Maintainable Documentation

Some divorce documentation, especially the parenting plan need to be referenced, maintained, and updated over a period of a decade or more.

If you are lazy and get paid regardless off results, as most divorce lawyers are, then you slap a piece of shit document together full of tabs, spaces, maybe using auto page numbering. Without a template or structure it takes several times longer to produce and update, but that's OK because you bill by the hour, not the results. The client pays more for your poor skills and productivity.

I received a document so bad, it's outline numbering botched terribly that it actually created a legal ambiguity. After correcting and complaining several times, I told my lawyer to leave it that way (since I was sure he wasn't going to fix it) so that I could call the document's validity into question in the future and attempt to exercise the severability clause. Now you'd think he'd acquiesce in embarrassment and fix it, Nope! He'd rather show his power and control over his client than do the right thing legally.

I gave up on my lawyer being efficient and doing as I asked, I could see he was just a stubborn ass. So I did it myself and it already helped at my hearing yesterday in finding the answer more quickly and accurately to the Magistrate's questions.

What did I do? Nothing a current elementary school student couldn't do, common sense and organization. I took my lawyer's haphazard shitty document and carefully edited it without changing its meaning. I changed all hard coded tabs, numbering, etc to paragraph positioning, widow control (keep with next, keep together), defined styles, use of HEADING n styles and auto numbering.

This helps make the document more readable. The use of HEADING n styles allows use of the Outline view to focus on sections of the document and also allows you to generate an automatic Table of Contents (important when they run over 90 pages).

Was that overkill? A waste of time? NO!! Just one advantage in preparation, one need for an update and the effort is paid for. And the odds of that in a decade are guaranteed several times over.

But why, oh why, do I have to fix what I paid so much for? It shouldn't be. The legal document is the end product that is charged at a very high price. Its internal organization, readability and maintainability are every bit as important as the punctuation and wording. Anything less is careless, sloppy, and of questionable value.

And when I get the time, I will take my former lawyers to court to answer that question. They think they took me for a sucker. We'll see who gets the last laugh! Vengeance, or in this case justice, is a meal best served cold, when my anger subsides and I can define their transgressions clearly and without emotion.

Status: Last Updated 12/13/08 6:40 PM

Surprise

Well it wasn't quite a victory, but it turned out much better than my expectations based on my experiences.

First I arrived on time, despite my car not being available and spending over 2 hours to get to the court building before it even opened. My ex and her lawyer arrived late.

I mentioned to the Central Motions Scheduler and to the Magistrate that I had never been properly served with the motions and that my calls for copies of them went unanswered. The magistrate gave me his copy while we waited for the tardy Plaintiff.

He chastised Plaintiff counsel for improper service and said that it was not fair to continue without it. I told him that even though I had little time to review it, I was prepared to move forward to resolve the issue. He handed me a waiver of service and thanked me for my cooperation.

He discussed my visitation and expressed surprise at its restrictiveness. When my ex tried to brag that she allowed some visitation in the last two months, he pointed out that she was in violation of an existing court order for visitation and while he understood her complaints they didn't "rise to the level of preventing visitation" and that "you need to make arrangements for the holidays". Sensing that the magistrate was serious her lawyer pushed her to make specific commitments.

Knowing my ex, I anticipated her complaints, sight unseen, and had prepared a response. The magistrate was impressed with the actions I took and my response. When he asked questions regarding the parenting plan, I had quick answers referencing a special annotated and cross indexed version, while my ex and her lawyer looked unprepared.

He strongly implied that one motion would be denied and the other two should be negotiated. This magistrate was more Father Friendly than anyone I have seen in the court system. I have to go back next month and I will be very prepared again. Hopefully we will resolve her complaint then.

I wondered why this magistrate hadn't handled the parenting plan the first time around, but the answer to that is easy, he makes the lawyers work, he pushes them to respond. The lawyers much preferred my absentee judge who wasn't even their 60% of the time, much less push them to do anything.

After four years in court I'm still observing and learning new things about how this "system" "works". And this time I wasn't intimidated to use my digital recorder either.

Back to Court

Four fuckin years already and no end in sight... Just fuckin shoot me (JFSM).

As I mentioned, my ex decided to stop my visitation and file against me in court for my birthday last month. The restrictive parenting plan in place now cost me over $20,000 in legal fees, my total legal fees exceeded $100,000, I have no more money for lawyers or anything else.

So early tomorrow morning (12/11) I head to the familiar court system by myself to go up against not one lawyer but two who want to keep my son from me. Parasites sucking the life out of families for profit, kind of makes prostitution look respectable.

Luckily my corrupt judge, the Dis-Honorable A.J.R., is busy moving into his newer bigger digs, his reward for kissing lawyer ass and screwing the public who was dumb enough to elect his famous last name. So he won't hear the case, its delegated to a magistrate.

Someone commented that I appeared agitated yesterday. Yeah I'm fuckin aggitated, I'm reading and preparing for the hearing. Oh you shouldn't... No choice, no fuckin choice. That's my miserable life now, a bunch of divorce industry assholes bossing this 52 year old around like a 15 year old. FUCKIN BASTARDS !!!

I'd mention my strategy here, but some dumb bitch has taken it on herself to be contacting the parties. That's OK, when I get time I'll sue her meddling ass too.

Man on Fire

I'm a photo, movie, and music fan, haven't put out anything with this tag in a while, so here's a post on a popular movie that I see a connection too.

Man on Fire, staring Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning is an intense movie about kidnapping and corruption in Mexico (originally in Italy). The movie is intense, violent, rated R for a reason. It is remarkable that Dakota being as young as she was could be exposed to such intensity. Christopher Walken stars as Denzel's friend, a different role from his usual bad guy, instead he helps set Denzel's background and add some humor. Marc Anthony plays the father of Dakota, married to Radha Mitchell, her mother. Mickey Rourke does a great job of playing the arrogant corrupt family lawyer. Rachel Ticotin as the helpful investigative reporter and Giancarlo Giannini as one of the few caring non-corrupt officials play their roles very well.

But the sub plot is how a child breaks through a man's cold heart, burned out from his intense work ethic and violent military career. When she is kidnapped, he erupts with a passion, a mission he truly cares about. To rid the system of its corruption. And that he does, showing no mercy to those who abused their trust.

If you get a chance, the double DVD version has an alternate ending suggested by Denzel. Still tragic, but some personal vengeance dispensed. Notice how the villains keep rationalizing with "I'm a professional" or "it's just business" or "I'm sorry", at one point Denzel gets sick of it and orders the villain to stop saying that.

Our judges and their "officers" (lawyer's, guardians, evaluators, social workers) are all "professionals" too and they say they are sorry that their large case load can't always deliver BIC, but then some work only three hours a day for full time pay, so what kind of sincerity is that? Lying bastards and bitches.

Certainly this storyline is intense, the heartbreak severe, kidnapping assisted by the corrupt system. Do you see a parallel? Oh technically you could say there is no comparison, but practically on an emotional level, right here in this United States; Is the breaking up of families, the relegation of NCPs to less than a parent, really so much better? Do we, us pompous ass American's, have any right to watch that movie and criticize Mexico as third world, when we American's do a very similar thing on a much grander scale? We are so blind to our own problems. And do our corrupt officials deserve any less punishment than their's? What have they done to deserve mercy?

Am I saying they should all be killed? No, that's a bit drastic. But I do firmly believe that they should pay for their crimes, hard time, like any other criminal and never hold an office of trust again in their lifetime. That would be justice. I pray for that day.

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Some movie quotes:

• Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.
• Creasy [pause] You're smiling.
• [about Creasy] I think he's been sick. He's all right now, but I think he's been very, very sick.
• Pita (Dakota): There are some good things in this world.
  Creasy: Oh yeah, like what?
  Pita: Like meeting me.
  
• [about Creasy] She showed him it was OK to live again.
  
  
• Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting.
• A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's (Denzel's) art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.
• He'll deliver more justice in a weekend than ten years of your courts and tribunals. Just stay out of his way,
  
• You know, I-I'm a professional.
  [Creasey (Denzel)]: That's what everybody keeps saying. "I'm just a professional". Everybody keeps saying that to me. "I'm just a professional", "I'm just a professional". I'm getting sick and tired of hearing that.
• I got all the time in the world. *You* don't, but I do.
• Last wish? I wish you had more time.
  
• Okay, my friend. It's off to the next life for you. I guarantee you, you won't be lonely.
• [Creasy is planning to go after Fuentes, a high-ranking corrupt police lieutenant]
  Mariana: He's better protected than the president of Mexico!
  Creasy (Denzel): He's gonna need it.
• 2.5 million, that's what Victor got, isn't it? 2.5 million to your lawyer [Mickey Rourke] that he put in an account in the Cayman Islands, but he won't get a chance to spend it. What happened to the other five Sam (Marc Anthony)? Huh? That's 2.5, 2.5. What is five from ten? That's five. What happened to the other five, Sam?
  
  
• Do you think God'll forgive us for what we've done? No.
  
• Revenge is a meal best served cold.

Thanksgiving

Time has worn me down. I am numb. I am tired. My mind looses track what I should be thankful for. It doesn't come easy. I think hard.

• I am thankful for the first 5 years with my son.
• I am thankful for the limited time I had with him in the next 4 years of separation and litigation.
• I am thankful I had the resources, strength, and endurance to fight for him to be in my life, even though it almost killed me. I do regret I have but one life to give to this terrible fight.
• I can only hope that my restricted access to my son will end sometime in the next 9 years.
• I hope with all my heart, for the best for my son for the next 9 years.
• I will be thankful when my son is grown and we can finally be reunited.
• I regret ever having gotten involved in this twisted notion of justice, it was never my desire to go to court.
  
• I am thankful I have a vehicle to speak up and warn potential victims.
• I am hopeful that one day, justice will prevail, my son and I will be free, and the people who feed off other's misery will receive their just punishment. Until then I remain conflicted on my thankfulness.

You can see how this mess has effected me over time, it wears you down, and that's the point...
Two years ago, my blessings easily came to mind.
And of course the wisdom of song writers can not be overlooked, in particular Don Henley's My Thanksgiving


Status: First Draft - Last Updated 11/28/08 11:30 PM

Happy F---king Birthday

Another year, another year older, and another dirty trick by my ex.

My ex has always had a sadistic sense of timing.

For one birthday she gave me a pair of web cams and said this is how you are going to see your son. But then she won't let him use it because Oprah said that web cams make child prostitutes. As if Oprah is technically competent to understand the Internet and protecting children on it. I actually have extensive experience in networking technology, advised the state government ISP, supported global networks, worked on computer security, and even set up the work from home network that my ex still uses.

She filed for divorce on April Fools day.

And now she decided that my restricted visitation is just too liberal and is taking me back to court to restrict it further. In the mean time, I haven't seen my son in two weeks and I didn't know when I'd see him again. She called today to say that she will meet me at a restaurant on my birthday and bring my son and let him see me there.

I miss my son terribly and will be happy to see him in one sense, but what mixed emotions, how stressful to know that when my meal is over, he'll go back with her and I won't know when I'll see him again.

Yeah, I'm gonna have a real Happy Fucking Birthday... Thanks to my ex.


Update

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Well I waited a half hour for my ex and son to come. It was awkward, tense, and unnatural, hardly fun. But beggars and NCPs can't be choosers, after all we are the losers. (jqism) Nice pun, nice rhyme? I brought a set of inexpensive magic tricks, that my smart son quickly figured out to the amazement of my clueless ex. The one trick (coin switch) he figured out instantly. So at least that was a tension breaker for him as he practiced them while waiting for the food to arrive.

Less than an hour...

Earlier that day I asked my ex to withdraw her court request to alter visitation and go to a mediator instead. She was non-committal. I challenged her, "Didn't you learn anything in the last four years? Can't you see that the court's could give a shit about our son? Don't you see how much they've taken from him already?". She needs to think about it? What's to think about? Has she really thought about any of this, beyond her own selfish needs?

Divorced for 18 months and she's still fucking me royal.

Status: Second Draft - Last Updated 11/20/08 9 PM

The new face of our courts

So the election is over. BFD!

My judge, the Dis-Honarable [SIC] Judge A.J.R. has been officially promoted as Chief Probate Elect Judge, starting his new term 1/1/09, leaving the divorce court where he can only fuck divorcing couples to the Probate court where:

• He can fuck over everyone, we all die and go through probate
• He can make competency declarations
  (now that's kind of scary, he could declare me insane for speaking out against him, ala Soviet Union tactics).
• He has full authority over the court as the Chief Administrative Judge
• He also has wide reaching power to appoint boards to our park system, health care, etc.

This is a man who

• Worked three hours a day, effectively stealing $75,000 per year of public funds
• Allowed the lawyers to plunder the assets of divorcing couples and stealing the support and inheritance from children (BIC of course)
  
• Falsified public records to cover up his theft in office by entering "shadow" trial dates when in fact no trial took place
  

So how can you top that? Its hard, but they did.

• My judge was replaced by an incompetent part time civil (not divorce) magistrate who just started practicing family law recently (part time). No doubt she realized that the divorce industry is a recession proof growth industry.
  
• She was ranked as "Not Recommended" 0.0 of 4.0 by all four bar associations. That is hard to do as bar associations tend to protect "their own". It's also hard to achieve that unanimous rating from these ideologically diverse bar associations.
  
  
• The court continues to be led by the Dis-Honorable Chief Judge T.M.F. who also earned a 0.0 out of 4.0 rating because he refused to cooperate with the four bar associations in their mission to rate the judges.
  
• Being in this court since 1992 he probably feels a sense of entitlement to this position and feels he no longer needs to respond to the public. His sarcastic responses to our newspaper showed this contempt clearly. I believe he is entitled to be unemployed or in prison for his betrayal of the public trust and stonewalling of the State Supreme Court's investigation into the inefficiencies of his court.
• This man is so out of touch that he believes the biggest problem is litigant's exercising their constitutional right to self representation. He fully supports the status quo of judges' allowing the financial rape of the citizenry by greedy self centered lawyers, as well as the elitist view that litigant's are not c0mpetent to deal with the court.
  

So after 1/1/09 my judge has moved on and I have an opportunity to motion the court with a new judge assigned to the case. Local court rules assign the presiding trial judge to any post decree motions, which won't be possible since he has left that court for greener pastures. But who will I be assigned to, one of the recently elected 0.0 out of 4.0 rated judges or the other two that are proably equally poor.

Status: First Draft - Last Updated 11/14/08
Readers are reminded of terms and conditions not to contact the parties

Just filling in the bubbles

that is what many people's idea of voting is

Cynical opinion? NOPE! That's what the numbers say. So here are my observations from my county's vote results.

• Only 1.36% had the courage to vote outside the major parties for President
  
• 43% of those who voted for President voted for our corrupt unopposed divorce judges
• 99% of those voting for the corrupt divorce judges voted for the totally incompetent judge who was rated unqualified by four separate bar associations.
  
  
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• 45% of presidential voters voted in unopposed judicial races
  
  
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More observations coming... or maybe not if I get too disgusted...

PFS (Pretty Fuckin Sad) !!!

Every one has the right to vote, but most don't understand the responsibility to be informed voters. (jqism)

Status: Final Draft - Couldn't bear to update this after the 12th

A temporary tangent

I've gone on a temporary hiatus, on a political tangent. Have no fear, regular domestic relations disaster posts will return here shortly after election day, although while the election winds its way through the courts I may still post some more political commentary.

For the record I think both Major Political Parties have serious flaws, if I appear to criticize the Democrats more its just that I'm trying to counter the media's blind love affair with them.

PS: This post will float to the top as I add new political posts...

PS: Well thankfully the election process is over, but have we learned anything?
Back to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress.

PPS: If you have a favorite Domestic Relations Disaster topic, let me know here by comment or by email and I'll see what I can do to address your interests.


Status: Last Updated 11/13/08 11 PM

The old man didn't do too bad

Considering the millstones he was carrying.

McCain had insurmountable odds...

He had the terrible legacy of Bush, branded and labeled with his mistakes just because he was of the same party. But of anyone in the Republican party, McCain was the least likely to toe the party line, it is so ironic that he was branded, white washed with the same broad brush of those in his party that he often disagreed with. This is the downside of party politics.

No one would have taken office without introducing major change. But McCain was branded as sam ole sam ole Bush. McCain was not a dim witted drug abusing draft dodger, why would anyone think he'd act like one? His opponent slung that shit at him and it stuck. Partly due to McCain's big mistake of not distancing himself from the leader of his party who isn't anything like him.

One thing won't change, we'll have an old man tripping over his words and saying dumb things, only it will be the VP instead of the President.

It is said that bad things come in three's. The first for McCain was the terrible Bush legacy. The second was a total economic meltdown at a critical point in the campaign, unprecedented in American politics. And even though this meltdown was a product of both parties, the shit stuck on McCain and slid off Obama. But still McCain pushed on.

And last, but not least, just as McCain was making progress, in the eleventh hour, VP Cheny, in the ultimate campaign sabotage endorses McCain. WTF was he thinking? Is Cheny so vain as to think there would be some benefit in a war monger lending his tarnished name to the untarnished war hero? Was this some type of campaign euthanasia?

Or was this a twisted plot to sacrifice McCain for the benefit of the future of the Republican party. There are those who say things are so fucked up that no one can fix them and who ever tries, which ever party wins this dubious honor, is doomed to failure and loss in the next election. Was Cheny trying to protect the Republican party from its demise by throwing McCain under the bus and allowing Obama to walk into its path? As Denis Miller said of one of the losers of the Republican primary, "the man should drop to his knees and thank God he was passed over for this challenging situation".

And despite all this adversity, and the 2 to 1 loss in electoral votes, McCain only lost in the popular vote by 52 to 47.

Say what you will about McCain, but he is no Bush, he is a trooper, and he deserved better. Hopefully these positive traits will be recognized, respected, and sought out by the new administration. To ignore a man of such tenacity, simply because of his party affiliation, would be a disservice to the country that needs all the help it can get.

Who's really disenfranchised?

My view is not what people would think. I propose that the blind ambition to ensure voters are not disenfranchised has gone overboard in fact disenfranchised the responsible voter.

Should everyone vote?

Do I blaspheme? How dare I take the elitist view that maybe some should not vote? But think about this with an open mind. Should the uninformed be voting and disenfranchising those who took the time to take their civic duty seriously and are informed voters? Do you think that maybe the forefather's envisioned that people would be informed before voting, rather than voting for the candidate who attracted the coolest celebrities to perform free concerts?

Aggressive Voter Registration

ACORN

ACORN isn't responsible

Really, WTF. Then who is, you, me, God, no one? Look ACORN hires workers, gives them instructions, then incentitives to violate voter registration laws. Do we need to debate this? ACORN is responsbile for their workers, for their insentive to violate laws, and for the actions that occur violating laws. The individual workers are also respobible for their violaion of the law. Their collective actions disenfranchise responsible voters and represent a crime against the people and the government, nearly akin to treason.

I'll hold off on their execution at dawn, but I don't hesitate for a second to see them all jailed, fined, and made to clean up the fraudulent registration mess they made.

Registration Fraud isn't Voter Fraud

Oh please, can the bullshit. Shit is shit and it stinks and fraud is fraud and its a crime. Splitting hairs and semantics makes no difference. It's a technical academic argument of no practical value.

Voter Fraud often begins in Registration Fraud.
Registration Fraud often leads to Voter Fraud.
Both are bad, neither should be tolerated.
PERIOD, FUCKIN PERIOD, END OF ARGUMENT.

Partisan Board of Elections

Our corrupt state has had both Republican and now Democratic Partisan Board of Elections, to the determent of the people. As our Sunday paper editorialized, there is no place for politics in the election process. It should have only one goal, fairness and the upholding of the letter and spirit of the law.

Making voting too easy

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Media Manipulation

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Early Voting

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Electoral States

The Electoral State process marginalizes individual voters rights. It even creates bell weather and irrelevant states. How should a voter feel if they live in a guaranteed red/blue state verses a schizophrenic bell weather state like I live in, where our red/blue sections are constantly vying for control.

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Status: Rough Draft - Last Updated 11/04/08

Big surprise!

I already knew how I felt about the divorce judges in my county, they all need to be unemployed. But today I looked up judicial rankings for the other judges so I could make an informed vote. We are lucky enough (out of necessity) that our good ole boy judge network is so corrupt that a coalition was formed to inform the voters about the judges credentials. Four different groups and new newspapers rate all elected judges and put their ratings online.

It is imperfect as the bar and the power circles have some impact on the judicial ratings, but they do rate some judges as "adequate (1)" or "Not recommended (0)". And it beats the bias ads.

So while I was reviewing the various judges, I came across the divorce judges. The chief administrative divorce judge has been stone walling the State Supreme Court investigation into "the worst divorce court in the State". So it came as little surprise that he also refused to cooperate with all six rating agencies, earning himself a rating of 0.0 out of 4.0.

The second divorce judge up for election did cooperate and received a "Not recommended (0)" rating from all agencies, for a rating of 0.0 out of 4.0.

My divorce judge is a political power broker with the famous brand name and was able to get a 3.0 out of 4.0, and as for judicial skills that may be fine. But when you factor in corruption, theft in office ($75,000/year), and ruining people's lives I think he too deserves a rating of 0.0. Imagine how bad the other two were to get that. My judge is not running for re-election, but rather for a promotion to Chief Probate judge where he can wreck havoc on the lives of married and divorced alike.

So I did not vote for any of these three, NO! But that doesn't matter, they have already won. They, like many other judges in our one party county, won the Democratic Primary and were running unopposed. This election is a meaningless formality as the unqualified will wrongfully take their place in our corrupt government and pass judgment on us.

Too bad our local judges can't be handled like presidential judicial or cabinet nominees. If the legislature (or in our case the judicial rating agencies) believe all candidates are unqualified, they simply refuse to allow them to take office and another candidate must be submitted. Crazy idea? Or is having 0.0 out of 4.0 candidates getting into office even more crazy? I think the latter is crazy. No judge is better than an incompetent one.

What of my judge's 3.0 rating, should he be allowed to get in? Well as soon as he is promoted out of the Divorce Court (Jan 2009) and can no longer control my case, I will be writing letters to every judicial rating agency and suggesting that the judge's ethics be considered along with their judicial skill. The best judicial skill means nothing when ethics are absent.

Anyone else who shares my location, or has this problem in another area and wants to join my effort or share my ideas, please email me. Our rating agencies have very clear definitions of their standards and I have very strong evidence of how my judge has violated these standards. Even if you live elsewhere, my case may serve as a good example of the activism needed.

Why bother? I've been fucked, and getting corrupt judges unemployed won't undo that. That is an irresponsible attitude I will not take. It is lazy silent inaction that acts as a co-conspirator to corruption.

Speak up, or shut up and don't complain (jqism).

So how did I vote? Any candidate with 3.0 and less did not get my vote, even if they were unopposed and that included all three divorce judges and a few others too. Wouldn't it be wonderful if others did that too? It might be humiliating and at least send a strong message if an unopposed incompetent was sent to office with less than 10% of the vote. Stay tuned, I'll be looking for the final vote counts.

And what of the other unopposed, did I just leave them blank, since they are getting in anyway? No, if they had a rating close to 4.0 and I believed they were a good candidate, they got my vote.

You still have a choice with only one candidate! Vote for them if they are qualified or leave them blank if they are not. To fill them all in, because they are the only choice, or to leave them all blank because they will be shooed in, are both irresponsible and derilection of your civic duty.

Who's vote will you cast?

Will it be your own? Or will it be so influenced by other factors that it won't be your own?

Will you buy the media hype, don't throw away your vote, vote for the winner they tell you to? Is voting your mind, even at the risk of your candidate loosing, a waste? Or is voting for the media chosen winner you have reservations about a betrayal of your civic responsibility?

Did you know something about all the candidates and issues you voted on? Did you get info from multiple sources or a biased source? Did you vote for unopposed candidates to fill in the blanks or because they were worthy of your vote?

Did you get discouraged and stay home? Why bother? Maybe your state isn't a bellweather state. Maybe your local board of elections is ruled by partisan politics and is rigged or corrupted (by ACORN).

The purpose of voting is to express your choice, win or lose, popular or not. The only right vote is your own. Not voting, for any reason, or voting for who the media tells you to, or by gender or race, or anything that you don't truly believe in, is wrong.

Do the right thing!

They called me stupid

As I complained about how the divorce system was treating me, I was told mater of factly, "Well you're stupid!" And by inference they were calling my parents and their whole generation stupid too.

See I was brought up old school - work hard, save, invest, and your efforts will be rewarded.

And for nearly 30 years of my adult life that served me well. Until big government, the big brother that was never born into my family reared its ugly head and got more involved in my life than anyone has a right too.

That's when greedy lawyers with the assistance of a corrupt judge taught me a lesson my parents never did. They stole my hard earned money, my son, my family, my job, possibly my career, everything I had worked so hard for 30 years to build. They have stolen every meaningful part of my life for their own personal enrichment or out of callous disregard for other's personal rights.

Big Government is not the answer to your problems it IS your problem, if not now, someday soon!
Big Government is always bad for civil liberties and democracy.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

What was my stupid mistake? Saving, investing and owning. See if I just spent, rented, and owned nothing, then I would not be a target. I would have empty pockets instead of deep pockets and would not been a target of the divorce industry's lustful desire.

As we move toward our great socialist experiment, where hard work is considered stupid and penalized (as mine was) we will pay dearly for our collective stupidity of believing our forefathers were stupid!

We will move from a ladder of classes where people can hope, dream, and work their way up, to a new class structure as follows:

• The Super Rich (and powerful)
  
• The Government
  
• Government dependents gaming the system (the Great Welfare/Socialist masses)
  
• Old school middle class who will be crushed and beaten for their "stupidity"
  

There will be a large chasm between each of these classes. You won't climb a ladder you will attempt to jump and if you miss you will fall into the bottomless abyss that separates them. Most people will be content to sink into reality TV and the welfare masses to escape the miserable reality of their lives living as slaves waiting for their masters in the government to give them their next handout (or beating).


Which class will you belong to? How "stupid" are you?


Status: First Draft - Last Updated 11/03/08

She changed her tune...

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"I would bring a life time of experience to the White House, McCain would bring a life time of experience to the White House, Obama would bring a speech from 2002."

-- Hillary Clinton

Of course Hillary changed her tune and her official response to this message being replayed recently is "Why aren't they quoting my current support for Obama."

Well my dear Hillary there are 20 million reasons why!

See when you said this, you were speaking from your gut, back before you lost the primary. But when you lost you had $20 million in campaign debt. OUCH!!! The day after Obama won, you and Bill were pissed!!! But even when you were passed over for VP, your mood lightened and that's because Obama bought your endorsement in return for paying off your debt. You swallowed your pride very well, but then that's a lot of grease you had to help you swallow it.

Election Day

Our country's future is at stake... Don't blow it.

A picture is worth at least 1000 words...

Photo from http://www.motifake.com/. Click on photo to see it enlarged or post header to see the source web page.

McCain's Mistakes

McCain has made big mistakes...

• McCain was too respectful to our current President.
  He only recently criticized Bush and showed where he disagreed with him.
  
• McCain was too respectful to his opponent.
  He has not criticized his opponent's many flaws or staunchly defended himself from attacks.
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Remember McCain is not Bush and Obama is not Clinton.

As an example, who is for equal pay for equal women? Careful its a trick question.

• Obama has lots of ads promising equal pay for women.
• But Obama pays 83 cents per dollar to women on his Senate Staff.
• On the other hand McCain has equal pay for both genders on his campaign staff.

So how are you gonna vote by words or actions?


Status: Rough Draft - Updated 10/26/08 4 PM

Do we even need an election?

According to many NO!

• We have ACORN stuffing the ballot boxes.
• We have Democratic Election Officials more interested in representing their party's Presidential Candidate then fulfilling their sacred duty to a fair election.
• We have pollsters telling us the election is over and who has won.
• We have the media telling us, as American's we must vote for the winner they tell us too, otherwise we are throwing away your vote.
  

If you understand what your voting obligation is then you must

• Protest anyone's attempt to stuff the ballot box.
• Vote crooked, biased Election Officials out of office.
• Tell pollsters you can make up your own mind and that their popularity contest is irrelevant.
• Tell the media to can their thinly veiled attempt to influence the election and their trite bullshit propaganda.
• Go and vote your conscience, not for popularity, this isn't American Idol, this is your future, this is your real life, act like it.

If you don't understand your voting obligation then

• Sit on your ass, listen to the boob tube, vote for your American Idol (or not), and shut the fuck up when he screws up, you deserve what you got.
  

Status: First Draft - Last Updated 10/26/08 1:30 PM

Democratic View on Terrorism

A Barack Obama campaign spokesperson, Bill Burton, argued that Barack didn't say:

"Iran doesn't pose a serious threat to us."

What Barack Obama actually said, verbatim, in full context, was

"I mean think about it Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared ta the [SIC] Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us and yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at a time when they said we're going to wipe you off the planet. And ultimately that direct engagement led to a series of measures that led to a series of measures that helped prevent nuclear war and over time allowed the kind of opening that brought down the Berlin wall. Now that ... That [SIC] has to be the kind of approach that we take. Uh ... We ... We ... We shouldn't be... [SIC] Iran may spend 1/100th of what we spend on the military. I mean if ... if [SIC] Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us they wouldn't ... they wouldn't [SIC] stand a chance."

So what is Barack really saying?

Can he possibly be serious? Is he trying to say that there is no difference between a stable communist government and radical suicide terrorists? When did Russia ever say they were going to "wipe us off the planet"? Thank God, that was never their stated goal or it would have been done already! They were capable of it because we were capable of it. It was a "cold war" with minimal casualties, not a terrorist war with suicide bombers /pilots on American soil or against American outposts overseas.

"If Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us they wouldn't stand a chance?" Was 9/11 a serious threat? Did it take a lot of money? Did they stand a chance? Can he possibly believe his own words?

The naivety of comparing a stable government with terrorist radicals is dangerous to each and every US citizen.

So when the Obama campaign spokesperson argued with Fox News about this quote, insisting that it was never said, he was a bold faced liar. We all know that lawyers and politicians lie, but this is a lie that threatens your life. Its much more dangerous than all of his other campaign promises that he is sure to break. And lying about that is unacceptable.

And then Joe Biden, who should certainly know better said:

Mark my words, a terrible threat will come to America to test Barack's mettle, just like Kennedy was tested with the Cuban Missle Crisis. You may not think Barack's response to it is correct at first but bear with us.

WTF!!! What the Fuck!!! Did he think for two seconds on that?

Is this supposed to be comforting, reassuring? Do we need another Cuban Missle Crisis? Is Barack anywhere near as ready as Kennedy was? Will he be talking to the radical terrorists as we see mushroom clouds in the sky over US soil? Do you think the leader of Iran is as easy to reason with as the leader of Russia? Even today's KGB Putin is a pussycat compared to the leader of Iran.

Why? Because Putin doesn't have a death wish, he isn't looking forward to 72 virgins!

Has someone checked the mental health of Joe Biden lately, a heartbeat from the presidency? All his "gaffes" are cause for great concern. As dumb as Bush is, he hasn't even said anything that stupid.

Is all change good?

There's one thing we can agree on, the Democrats will bring change. But will it be good? Would McCain's mettle be tested this way? Not like that it wouldn't. For all the criticism of Palin, has she said anything that dangerous? NO! As I said I have problems with the Republican's too.

But let's be fair, McCain is no Bush and Obama is no Kennedy!!!


Status: First Draft - Last Updated 10/25/08 12:30 PM

Note: Obama's quote has been carefully reviewed from tape and is verbatim.
I haven't reviewed Biden's quote from tape for accuracy yet, please bear with me if I have a minor misquote in this draft as it pertains to Biden's remarks.

Barack Obama the Spammer

If you fill out any political surveys make sure you don't use your main email or phone number. Not because the candidates will abuse it, they won't, except for Barack Obama. His support machine is aggressive and relentless. Once they have your info they will harass you constantly without let up. You will get several emails per day, every day. Your info will be spread throughout all the Barack Obama support structure all over the United States. You will receive phone calls, even on Sunday.

Am I being too sensitive? NO!!! I have sent the same communication to other presidential candidates, to my state and federal legislators. Each of them acknowledged my email with one or two emails in a week time span. Only Barack Obama went into full spam mode, from multiple sources. This must be what the Acorn Voter Registration Victims must be experiencing. I guess I almost understand them signing papers just to make them go away. But they don't go away. So I will need to make them go away, using the same forceful tactics they do.

We have a local Barack Obama campaign office, I will visit them to lodge a formal protest of their harassment of me and let you know the outcome. I encourage you to do the same. Stay Tuned.

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Well I haven't gone to Barack Obmama's campaign office yet, I need to work up to dealing with his brainwashed koolaid drinkers. In the mean time I added an email filter to deliver his spam unopened to a spam subfolder so it doesn't vie for my attention from email that I'm expecting.

Status: First Draft - Last Updated 10/23/08 8:30 PM

Another Stolen Election

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Pleading Ignorance

Acorn claims that they can't help it if their workers are corrupt and fraudulently registering phony names. Really!?! Do you buy that bullshit? They aren't responsible - period! And as such they should not be allowed to register voters at all.

Disenfranchising Who?

You!!! In an effort to get lazy people to vote for candidates that they wouldn't bother going out of their way to vote for, so that they weren't disenfranchised from a right they cared little about, who is really being disenfranchised? Our Secretary of State justifies her participation in Acorn's fraud by saying that if she released the suspect ballot list to the counties that suspect ballots would have to "wait in line" longer and may become discouraged.

Well I don't know about you, but I am pretty damned discouraged that my legitimate vote could be undone by a fraudulent vote.

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Status: Rough Draft - Last Updated 10/19/08

The Mortgage Mess

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They're both guilty...

... So just how are they going to fix something that they broke?

Deregulation

That's the conservative republican view. Big bumbling government will likely do more damage than good. Makes some sense, right? Well there is a big assumption, that the free market is free from greed, fraud, and a bail out.

A chicken in every pot and a house for everyone

If a chicken in every pot is good, isn't a house for everyone better? Well I don't think people should be homeless, but can we just loan out any amount of money with no down payment, with no incentive to pay back? If you weren't sure of the answer before, I think the mortgage crash answered that. Is it fair that hard working people who made a down payment are screwed by this mess? According to the redistribution of wealth theory espoused by liberals - Yes!

Greed

The investment community has moved to full out greed.

Pleading Ignorance

Does anyone believe that billions (even trillions) were invested in complex derivatives that no one understood? Really!?! Sure they didn't bother with the details, they didn't need to! They understood all they needed to, the government (would stand behind Fannie & Freddie) was on the hook. They didn't need to exercise caution, they didn't need to understand the risks, they had a gullible government on the hook.

Before corrupt lawyers assisted by a corrupt judge stole all my money, I was an active trader, I had invested in options, commodities and derivatives. But no one was going to bail me out, so I took the time to understand them. And that day in Oct 87 when the market crashed and I was on the wrong side of a derivative, a naked call on a basket of stocks, an aggressive investment vehicle. I received a margin call for $25,000 to cover my position over and above the securities I had already pledged. But there was no bail out for me, I worked hard for two weeks to unwind my position, I continued my hard work over the next year in a risky, volatile market to make the loses back.

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Status: Rough Draft - Last Updated 10/19/08

My Political Endorsements

For those of you who know me, who live nearby, you will know what I mean. For those of you who don't live near me, there is some generally applicable advice. For those of you who aren't sure, email me.

Presidential Race

Both major parties are responsible for our current economic problem and the largest corporate welfare package in history. That alone should encourage you to vote for a third party or a write in. If everyone followed their gut rather than the Media Manipulation, neither party would get even 40% of the vote, this would be enough for them to sit up and take notice.

But if you must vote for one of the two media manipulated choices, consider this.

Do you want to vote for a party that believes two wrongs make a right? That the solution to the mortgage mess is to redirect the bail out to Acorn who had a hand in making the mortgage mess? That the solution to the last stolen election is too stuff the ballot box with illegal votes from Jive Turkey, Mickey Mouse, from dead people and children, from kids taking a break from overseas studies who have crammed in a rented house and are voting here because our Secretary of State supports the rigging of our election?

But more importantly did you know we don't have a democratic or republican candidate? The democratic candidate is a socialist who will break his candy for everyone promises or kill the economy trying to keep them. The republican candidate is a centrist, a party maverick who is disliked by his fellow Republicans for having the courage to descent from the party line. Only recently has he had the greater courage to disavow Bush. This man may not be liberal enough for you, but you will still be living in the USA if he wins, not the USSA (United Socialist States of America).

Do you believe in the distribution of wealth fairy tale? Will you still believe it when you are selected to pay for it, when you hit the glass ceiling of average and the more you work, the more you contribute to those less fortunate than you? And when you see those gaming the system at your expense will your benevolent attitudes survive or be soured? Do you seriously believe that higher corporate taxes won't be passed on to you in higher prices or lost jobs?

Do you believe that government is so efficient that they will solve all problems as their grow to consume all that you have? When this expanding government swallows up the middle class and there is only the elite (many in high government posts) and the poor, which side will you be on? Ready to bet your future on 50/50 odds? They aren't that good, it will be 10% elite, 90% poor.

Chief Probate Judge

My judge, the Honorable [SIC] Judge A.J.R. left his three hour per day working schedule at the Domestic Relations Court for greener pastures. It was getting warm there, as the media attention attracted the notice of the State Supreme Court who quickly determined that our Divorce Court was the worst in the state even when compared to similar large caseloads. Is that any wonder? Three hours a day! No one works an 8 hour day in our Divorce Court, the media investigation proved that by analyzing records from secured judicial parking. But that's just the beginning for the corruption, stay tuned as I make the rest of the story public.

Thanks to a complete monopoly on political power in our local government he easily won the primary with his famous name and is running unopposed in the general election. What can you do? Just don't vote for the crook! Oh but you'll be leaving that office blank and he will get in anyway. Yes, but the alternative is for you to endorse a crook. A person who did so much more damage then just stealing $75,000 ($121,000 x 5/8) per year, he wrecked people's lives, not just mine, lot's of honest hard working tax paying citizens. He allowed lawyers, through his inattention, to steal the life savings of the public who pays his salary and expects him to work an honest day for a generous paycheck.

Leave the selection for Chief Probate Judge blank. If he wins with 10% of the voters, it will send a message to him and to potential competitors that his time is up. Remember he will have much broader power in probate court, he can wreck your life now.

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Corrupt Officials

A few months ago local politics were shaken by federal dawn raids on the homes of a county commissioner and the county auditor. Just a few weeks ago we had two more dawn residential raids. There will be more.

There was a much easier way for this to be done, IF the feds had any faith in local law enforcement, but they didn't. Rather than issue a subpoena and risk a corrupt local law enforcement tip off, they did it the hard way. A raid is much less efficient. All potential evidence must be taken to prevent destruction and trucked to a warehouse, inventoried, then reviewed to find the info that could simply be gotten by subpoena.

The calculated risk that the feds predicted that our local government officials were so corrupt that they would destroy evidence because local law enforcement would tip them off is a very serious charge of obstruction of justice, the complete breakdown of their duties to the public. It is not good enough to say that most common criminals would act this way as common criminals are not eligible for elective office. This breach of trust is a crime against the electorate, a crime against the people at large. As such it takes on a special importance, demanding special action by each of us.

But what can you do, its the system? Do you really believe you are that helpless or are you just too damn lazy. Have you sent an email up the line or are do you prefer watching reality TV rather than participating in the reality of life? County officials in the ruling party first asked their own endorsed criminals to resign, they refused, so they appealed to the governor to pressure the county officials to resign. So what can you do? Add your voice to theirs!

Stand up and be heard or shut up and don't complain about the criminals screwing you. (jqism)

Will your email to the corrupt officials, their peers, the ruling party bosses, the governor, and your state legislators single handedly solve the problem? No, there is only one guarantee, that your silence will count you as a co-conspirator who gets the corrupt government that your laziness deserves. You don't even have to leave the comfort of your well worn lazy boy recliner, you can send email or scribble a letter while watching reality TV. I'm watching a very technical science program right now as I write these words on my laptop. I don't need reality TV, I have too much of that in my real life.

County Prosecutor

So why don't the feds trust local law enforcement? What does that mean? The county prosecutor is the head law enforcement of the county. He executes subpoenas against county officials and he acts as their lawyer too. Hmmm, a bit of conflict of interest. But there's more, one of the charges is bid rigging. The county prosecutor legally approved the bid rigging, he was charged with being the check and balance to the corrupt commissioner, he failed, he will be the subject of federal investigation as they process the evidence they have seized.

We are a liberal county (high concentration of poor in the urban metro center) in a conservative state. Our county government, including the judges and prosecutor are democrats. So if you are one of the many liberals in our county are you going to re-elect this co-conspirator along party lines? Or does job performance count more than party affiliation? Can we afford "liberal" law enforcement? My answer is NO! Its time for a new prosecutor who can stand up to corrupt officials.

Bid Rigging

As a person who worked nearly two decades in the public sector and had extensive involvement in bids, including being a whistle blower on a bid rigging attempt by my superior, I know something about the seriousness of this. This is a serious charge that was not applied lightly. It is a difficult charge to prove, so to get reasonable cause there must be some blatantly poor behavior.

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County Commissioner

One of our commissioner's is under Federal Investigation for various charges including bid rigging, he has refused to resign and he is not up for reelection. Only one of the other two commissioner's is up for re-election. Unlike my judge, a suburban mayor has taken the opportunity to run against the unindicted commissioner who's term is up. She is smearing him with the corruption of his fellow commissioner.

My first impression is that they are all dirty, toss them all out. But I have met this man personally, he is an outspoken person on Father's Rights. I think his work in this area, and his not being indicted by the federal investigators (to date) earns him the benefit of the doubt.

Don't vote for his opposition merely because his fellow commissioner is corrupt, vote for her only if you feel that she is qualified to move from a rich outlying suburb up to county government with all its urban problems of the poor. If you think that's a stretch for her, then compare that with the accomplishments of the incumbent. Remember, he is a relative new comer compared to his entrenched colleagues. He has voted against them. If you want to make an assumption of guilt, its his other more entrenched (yet to be indicted) commissioner that is part of the good ole boy network, not him.

Unopposed Candidates

Don't take the easy way out and ignore the races without opposition. You still have a decision to endorse the candidate with your vote or to condemn them by withholding your vote. Don't check off a box unless you know that they are worthy of your vote.

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Status: First Draft - Last Updated 10/19/08 6:40 AM

Politcal Bullshit

Anyone else saturated with this longest and most irritating season?

I have usually steered clear of pure politics, but its gotten so deep, I'm ready to explode, so I'll throw in my two cents. When I think of it politics plays a big role in this Disastrous Divorce Industry.

How to Vote

We all know how to do this, right? NO, WRONG! We are a nation of arrogant, ignorant, lazy jerks who are hypnotized by TV and what ever it tells us to do. You want to vote for a winner right? You want to vote against a loser, don't you? What the hell ever happened to voting for the best person? When did it become acceptable to voter for the lesser of the evils? Why do you think that voting your true conscience is "throwing your vote away"? Isn't voting for someone you don't believe in the true "throw away"? When there is only one choice, do you just check it, because there isn't any other choice? Don't you have the choice of leaving it blank?

Muzzle the Media

The media is fully engaged in manipulating the elections, just as bad as any third world First they brainwash the suseptable public that you are an arrogant American and you must win, so you must vote for the winner. How will you know? No problem, just listen to the media, they are happy to tell you who to vote for and prevent you from "throwing away your vote" on a loser. Think about that, who is the loser? We all are, by being trapped in a never ending cycle of lies, corruption, and mediocrity.

Sure the early decenters won't win the first election. But they will have voted their conscience and set the ball in motion for others to consider voting their conscience. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. As long as everyone believes the media crap that they only have two choices we are guaranteed to all be losers.

The other disgusting habit is the media's last minute babbling, jockeying for the last word like the last minutes of an ebay auction. If people haven't made up their mind on election day, they should stay home. We don't need the media's last word on election day, telling us who won with 1% of the precincts reporting. There should be a gag order shutting them up at least a day before the election, if not a week, and not saying anything until at least all elections have ended in Hawaii. And even then, do we really need a play by play as if it were a horse race, can't we wait until lets say 50% or even 80% of the vote is in? And since the elections are moving from the polls to the courts its all moot until the court challenges are over.

Another Election Stolen

Liberals will say the election was stolen from Al Gore 8 years ago, they've been moaning and groaning about that for years. So what do they do about that travesty, work very hard to steal it from McCain through Acorn's voter fraud machine. Did no one teach these people that two wrongs don't make a right?

Going to stay up to see who wins? Don't bother, the election will be decided by the court judges that no one voted for or voted for out of ignorance of their record. The election will be decided long after the polls close on Nov 3. And just like 8 years ago, the controversy will not end on inauguration day. Any bets on what tactics the Republican's will use to steal it back again in the next election?

We have no business criticizing others

For decades we've criticized the integrity of other country's election process, most likely with good cause. We've sent delegations of people to observe and critique their processes. When will the third world return the favor and tell us how to properly manage the voting process in a democracy? We are long overdue for it.

My View

How dare I criticize this country, am a communist? No. I love the country that was built 200 years ago, but its gone down hill in the last half century. Why? Because too many people are too busy doing who the hell knows what to give a shit about this country. These quiet lazy ones are the true cause of our downfall, they enable the corrupt power mongers to run over the great principles that founded this once great nation.

Staying silent while corrupt officials manipulate and steal the government from the people is very unpatriotic. To criticize todays governmental travesty and call for the return to the wisdom of the founding fathers is the true mark of patriotism.

Status: First Draft - Last Updated 10/18/08

Alec Baldwin on the View

Well I missed 20/20, but I TIVOed "ALEC BALDWIN and TALK SHOWS" and got the view. When the program came up, the thumbs down rating showed, but my TIVO program over rode it. Thank God for fast forward, geez, tinkling on toilet seats and jiggling butts for the first 28 minutes. Alec came out and gave the jiggling butt girl money and kissed each woman. So the gals went gaga over Alec, not hostile as I heard Diane Sawyer of 20/20 was.

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They started the chit chat complimenting him on his Emmy. Then they talked about the nasty voicemail that Alec left in frustration for his daughter when he couldn't reach her.

So the meat of the interview started at 35 minute mark.

Alec started talking about PAS. He was careful to not disparage Kim.

He mentioned that he was held to the myth of perfect parenting, situations that wouldn't be of any concern in a normal marriage were exploited as "abuse". He said that PAS makes normal parenting "abusive". If you try to discipline your child by saying "Stop misbehaving or I'll take away video, TV, and cell phone", in a normal marriage, your wife would say "listen to your father", with PAS, its off to court you go as an "abusive" parent.

In the last generation, father's worked and were uninvolved, and mother's parented full time. That's the way they did things. In this generation, especially after a divorce, a father may want to take a more active role in parenting. Alec didn't mention it, but I'd say that as more women entered the workforce, traditional father breadwinner, mother housewife roles changed. Now father's are more active because the mother is no longer a stay at home mom, even while married. Another trend I believe is important, is that the higher divorce rate also contributes to higher father involvement. In the older generation, divorces had a reason, a grounds, so the separation seemed more rigid. Today's "no-fault" divorces seem to make a lot of "involuntarily divorced father's" who really didn't want to leave their children in my opinion and they feel a sense of profound loss in that these outsiders have wrestled the ones they love from them.

Alec advocates for an immediate default of 50/50 parenting unless the Father really doesn't want it. Many court systems give lip service to this, but most still follow the old standard, every other weekend visitation for the newly demoted NCP, former Father, and nearly sole (residential) custody to the mother. If the mother wants to make accusations, then the father's visitation (as mine is) can be limited even further or eliminated all together.

Courts have given lip service to abandoning the "tender years doctrine" which says that only mothers can take care of infants. Aside from breast feeding there wasn't any care my wife gave our son that I didn't, even after working a 14 hour third shift with my 100 mile commute because she was "tired". This was even when my son was sleeping through the nights, so I don't know why my wife was so damn tired, but I'd come home to see her sleeping while my young son was up and wandering the house. Interestingly, Alec took the position that the "tender years doctrine" should be respected because no Father would wrestle away a toddler from his needed maternal connection 50% of the time. Hmmm... Lucky I was around to pick up the slack for my son's tender years. Well my son just turned 9 so that issue has changed. Now, as far as I know, when he wakes up before her, he wanders unsupervised. At least that was the explanation when his reading log showed 45 minutes of morning reading and tardy arrival at school. Yeah that single parenting thing works real good (sarcasm).

Alec stated that there should be an immediate order for co-parenting at the time of filing for divorce. Alec also stated that when PAS arises, then "bang" order therapy to prevent it.

Barbara mentioned that Alec was so distraught by this process that he contemplated suicide and that his book even mentions the ways that he had thought to commit suicide. This agonizing time occurred when the voicemail to his daughter was released. Alec explained that orders were in place, not just a verbal agreement, but orders as a result of a full trial. Alec said at that time Kim violated orders frequently. But enforcement of these orders is "Ala Cart", the victim must pay a lawyer and sue the victimizer to enforce the orders. Alec said the court orders are "not worth the paper they are printed on". I refer to court orders as ass wipe, that's the only useful purpose they could possibly serve.

Alec could have sued Kim over her court order violations, but he didn't. And for his generosity, he was rewarded with the voicemail tape being released to the media. It was then that he realized that this was all about how to abuse him and that he couldn't do anything to reduce the hostility.

Alec didn't blame it all on Kim, "she was in the hands of lawyers" who were hell bent antagonism. Alec said that "Millions were wasted that could have gone to his daughter".

PAS

Its very interesting that the radical feminists oppose PAS because they say it is only to allow abusers to get off. Alec mentions, Father's rights advocates don't want abusers to endanger children, they just don't want women to get away with lying that responsible fathers are abusers when they are not. This is a broad and complex topic I will take up in another post.

Two more Guests

Two more guests joined came out at the 52 minute mark, one was a mother estranged from her child due to PAS, and xx American Coalition of Fathers & Children

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The estranged mother mentioned that her children were turned against her and claimed to be "fearful" of her. Alec echoed that this is the frequent method used, a supposed "fear" of the alienated parent is claimed.

Alec said -- Judges afraid of lawyers, they let them do it. Judges pick a side, can't undo it

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Barbara Walter's asked, "What has this done the children?", and as Alec was going to answer, she promptly told him they were out of time. Too bad, because this is the biggest problem of all, the damage to the children, our next generation. For what? Lazy judges and greedy lawyers?


Status: First Draft - Last Updated 09/29/08 4 am
I will review this program in detail and update this post.