Out with the new, in with the old

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At one time America, before the colonies had united into states, spoke many different languages. Over time our isolation from the European countries had eroded this diversity. For the next dozen or so decades we helped ensure that many countries other than our own, other than English speaking ones, remained free. Because of this work which cost our country blood, sweat, and many more tears, we’ve come to feel that English is our language. One that is prideful and respected. English is the most spoken language on Earth. So, why do we need to learn other languages?
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I haven’t posted in a while, but a recent discussion on facebook with a friend got me to thinking I should. With more and more video cameras in the world, we’re seeing a new phenomenon called “Cop Watching”. This is dangerous, yet needed, and I don’t mean dangerous for the person filming it. So, what we have is citizens aware of Law Enforcement Officers, or LEO’s as I’ll call them, who’re bending or breaking the law. The law could be anything from traffic infractions and parking infractions to full blow civil rights issues. Because citizens are aware of this hypocritical and annoying action that some LEO’s do, they’ve armed themselves with digital equipment to record officers at work. Most states it’s legal to film in public, and to film public employees. However, some states have arcane wire tapping laws that they’ve been applying to citizens who have “caught” public servants abusing the system. Now, of course this doesn’t reciprocate. Most all police cruisers have dash cams that record both video and audio.
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I admit, it’s hard to look at this mess in the Gulf knowing full well that it was preventable. Here we are over a month into this incident and there’s no sign of stopping the leak, or having a plan to clean up all of the spilled oil. Since the beginning people have blamed BP and the people they contract with. Now we’re seeing more and more people asking for a boycott of BP products such as ARCO. On the surface this may seem like a good idea, but what does it mean to boycott such a company?

Lets say that everyone banded together and successfully boycotted BP, which here in the U.S. really is ARCO. This would mean avoiding all ARCO stations 100%, by hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions of people. Who starts to feel the effects first? The CEO and his partners of ARCO or BP? Nope… The people who can’t show up to work because there’s no work to do. The first people who suffer are the gas station attendants. There’s no reason for them to come into work if there are no customers. The next person is the manager or owner. If no one buys his gas, how is he going to pay his rent? After he lays off all his workers, he’ll start having to subsidize his business with his own money or with loaned money.

What about further the chain? The next in line is the drivers who supply the station with the fuel. If the stations aren’t selling fuel, the drivers have nothing to drive. Next is the local refineries. The workers here will not need to produce fuel. So, they’ll be laid off from work just as the other people have been. If we keep moving up we eventually reach the drilling rigs that are offshore around the U.S. I believe BP said at one time they had over 1,000 oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. If we add all these workers up, that’s a hell of a lot of people, American people. These people have nothing to do with the oil spill. They’re workers in a larger game, one played by executives of corporations and governments.

You want to make a difference? Boycott our governments lack of motivation to move to alternative fuels such as bio-fuels and clean energy technologies. Boycott the lack of safety standards when it comes to oil production. There’s a lot we can do without hurting the average worker. Calling for a boycott of such a large company is irrelevant. If you want to affect their bottom line then hold them 100% financially liable for the cleanup, future impact of such a spill, and the development of alternative fuels. This is the only way we, as Americans can win the fight against large oil companies.

I can’t say I had a troubled youth, but it wasn’t perfectly innocent either. I found myself bored to death in High School. This proved to be problematic for my grades, which were embarrassing I must say. Well, my counselor told me I would never graduate, never amount to anything, would not pass go, and would never collect my $200. Following her advice I dropped out of school. Well, that wasn’t legal, so I was forced into continuation school.

There I met a teacher who named Mr. Galvan. He was my English teacher. I soon found that he had a genuine interest in seeing his students succeed. Through his praise, reinforcement, and assisting me in learning, not only English, but in life lessons, I was able to come to realize that there was more to life than being bored. He taught me that school and life is what you make of it. Mr. Galvan was fair and understanding. To be honest, I’ve never had another teacher to this day that was as fair as him.

It’s been 10 years since I saw him last. I recently found him on a popular social networking site. He’s moved and changed jobs, but he’s still helping people with what he’s doing now. I noticed some of his views on current issues, and they strongly conflict with my own. However, this only asserts my initial claim that he’s the greatest teacher I ever had. The reason being is I never once was influenced by him politically, or by any other means other than educational. His views never transcended the classroom, not once.

I wish there was a way I could show him my appreciation, but I have a feeling that no matter what I do, he would never truly understand how I feel. The interesting thing is I’ve run into someone else who had their life touched by Mr. Galvan as well. I’m sure there are a lot of people in this world who’re better off because of this man and what he’s done to help people.

As if tension between the U.S. and Mexico wasn’t high enough already. Now we have to deal with the tragic shooting of a 15 year old Mexican kid on the border.

Facts are few and far between for this incident right now. However, we do know that the Border Patrol Agent was conducting a detainment on the U.S. side of the border when he was assaulted by rock throwers. The BPA wasn’t hit by the rocks, however he seems to have fired a few warning shots or defensive shots into the direction of the rock throwers. One of the rounds struck a 15 year old in the head, which proved to be fatal.

Everyone is calling this a race case, which I simply do not buy. Rocks are weapons, and can prove deadly. Don’t believe me? Open your bible and look at how many people were stoned to death. The officer fired in self defense I feel, with the current facts that I’ve seen. However it does seem that the Mexican Feds are trying to “setup” a case against this BPA. They were seen on video walking onto the U.S. side, retrieving an item, and then returning to the Mexico side. This is clearly against the law, neither side is allowed to cross the border for any reason.

I really feel for the boy’s family and for the BPA. This must be a tragic and traumatic time for all involved. If we learn anything from this it should be that we need walls and more secured border areas. If we want to protect our interests and uphold our laws, the best way is through security. With walls we can remove the initial armed element from the situation, making it safer for both sides.

I’m a relatively calm person, ok, I’m an extremely calm person as anyone who knows me will attest. I don’t care what other people do so long as it doesn’t affect me. This is why I’m a Libertarian. However, this O.C. Sheriff race really has me pissed off at the general public. I was under the impression that Orange County residents were educated, yet from your voting, you’re showing just the opposite. Hutchens started out with 56% of the votes, and this was only from absentee ballots. Seriously people?!

To be fair, I can’t blame the general public entirely. I mean, it’s hard knowing who to vote for when all three names start with an “H”. It’s also hard to look into the facts and see which sheriff would be better for your county. Everyone complains about the fiscal mess O.C. is in, yet they fail to even vote for people who’re more fiscally responsible.

I think we should also blame the Hunter campaign for running the stupidest slander campaign against Hunt. No one has heard of Hunter, no one endorsed Hunter, and yet he feels that he can run a slander campaign against the only person who’s qualified to remove Hutchens from office. Brilliant! Instead of posting facts about what he stands for in his own campaign, he posts slander. his friends at the O.C. Register run his stories to help him out, which is more slander. So the entire time, instead of worrying about removing Hutchens, all he cared about was discrediting Hunt, our only real hope of dislodging Hutchens from he appointed throne.

So Hunter will go back to running Anaheim, but he won’t apply any of his values to the department. He has the chance to do what he says he would do for Orange County, in Anaheim. But he won’t, and I’m not sure why. You’d think if he wanted to have a chance in running he would start making a good name for himself now, or actually years ago. Instead he just runs the department doing the same things everyone else has done. His stance on immigration, CCW, and spending isn’t inline with his campaign.

All in all, the people who didn’t vote need to keep their mouths shut when it comes to issues in O.C. and in CA. The people who did vote, but did so out of ignorance need to be slapped. To everyone else who did the right thing, good work, but we need to work harder.

Yep, somehow the parents of Sarah Palin all the way up in Alaska, some 3,600 miles away, are aware of the Orange County Sheriff’s race and managed to endorse Hunter. Better yet, if you read the letter it says “Here, in Alaska, we know the benefit of acquiring a permit to carry concealed weapons”. Hmm, here I thought AK was one of the three states now that allows Open Carry and Concealed Carry without permits. Maybe I was mistaken as I have been wrong before.

Anyway, what I find interesting is the Palin Parents obviously don’t know Hunter’s history. Hunter is on video recently talking to the Orange County Board of Supervisors about CCW issuance. His stance was that he’s “comfortable with California being a may issue state”. Wait! This can’t be true! His website and campaign says something else! Oh but it is, and here’s the video to prove it:

Craig Hunter CCW Stance

I know, I know. Shocking that someone running for a public office would lie. Then again, this isn’t the first time Hunter has lied. Back in 1997 Hunter was the target of an investigation regarding prisoner abuse and wrongful termination of a “whistle blower” employee. Because of this Hunter cost the tax payers $340,000. Do we need someone who lies, abuses minor prisoners by beating them, and costs the tax payers money because of his unwillingness to follow the very same law he swore to protect?

All of this begs the question. If Hunter lied before about numerous items and events, how do we know the Palin Parents support is even true? Sure, there’s a letter, but who can walk up to their door, knock on it, and ask them if they sent it? I guess if the Palin Parents really did support Hunter, the good news is everyone is distancing themselves from Palin because she’s a radical and inexperienced. Palin is also the target of several lawsuits from her home town.

I guess it’s hard trying to keep your lies straight when you’re Craig Hunter.

I found this posted on another site and found it interesting. Here is a man who heads the Anaheim Police Department (He’s an assistant chief, but says he runs the show). In charge of security and policing services for an entire city which includes Disneyland and other major spots. Yet, he can’t even hire someone who can secure his website. Sure, he’s not a I.T. guy, and probably has no clue that there is a flaw in his website. However, he’s the one who hired the web developers and the hosting company. Security during an election should be top priority, but it’s apparent he’s very lax on this issue.

Hopefully Craig Hunter doesn’t run his Anaheim Department with such oversight.

Note: I’d email him telling him about this flaw, but I’m sure he won’t answer my email just as he hasn’t done for the entire election season.