Looking for Leadership

This county is desperate for a leader that can get past partisan politics and address the challenges facing the nation.

 

Immigration: Secure the borders first.  After that, comprehensive reform will be possible. 

Terrorism: Stridently fight Islamic fascism and the hate it spreads.

Energy Future:  Lead the world towards an alternative , renewable energy economy.

Health Care: Lower health care costs and improve health care services by reforming the third-party payer system.

Social Security:  Make the program sustainable through partial privatization and fiscal responsibility.

Taxes : Minimize the tax burden on individuals and businesses.  Free flowing capital feeds the economy.

Environment: We only have one world.  We must meet our needs with respect to the environment.   

 

The Religion of Peace?

Brit ordered his daughter strangled for falling in love with wrong man
LONDON - A father who ordered his daughter brutally slain for falling in love with the wrong man in a so-called “honor killing” was found guilty of murder on Monday. Banaz Mahmod, 20, was strangled with a boot lace, stuffed into a suitcase and buried in a back garden. Her death is the latest in an increasing trend of such killings in Britain, home to some 1.8 million Muslims. More than 100 homicides are under investigation as potential “honor killings.”

full story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19176808/

I am glad to see the AP pick this story up. Let’s see if it has any legs.

Where are the human rights defenders? Where are the Feminists? When will the world stop pandering to a religion where murder is such an integral part of its practice? How can a father kill his own daughter because she shamed him? I guess according to Sharia law there is no shame in murdering your own daughter. We cannot ignore the threat that this cultural attitude poses to the world.

California's Troubled Future

Here is a link to an article by the Sacramento Bee’s chief political columnist.  In it he details the problems facing the California economy as the baby-boomers retire and the younger workers fail to obtain the education required to drive the economy forward. 

 

http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/215397.html#comments_here

 

We cannot abandon education and expect to be the world leaders for long.

Passed this on my way to work today!

Funny thing, this big accident was on my route to work.  Because I get on the freeway about 100 yards before the accident, the freeway was all clear immediately after I got on.  I made it to work faster than usual..

 

 

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/07/BAGJPQAQF53.DTL

Exciting Future Technology

It's always someone else's fault

Pro baseball pitcher gets drunk and kills himself by crashing into a tow truck which was assisting another car on the side of the road.  Family lawyers decide that everyone else is to blame, filing suit against the restaurant and others.  [full story]

 

"Other defendants include Eddie’s Towing, the company whose flatbed tow truck was struck by Hancock’s sport utility vehicle in the early hours of April 29; tow truck driver Jacob Edward Hargrove; and Justin Tolar, the driver whose stalled car on Interstate 64 was being assisted by Hargrove." 

 

Where in the hell is personal responsibility? 

 

"Authorities said the 29-year pitcher had a blood content of nearly twice the legal limit for alcohol in his system when he crashed into the back of the tow truck. He was also speeding, using a cell phone and wasn’t wearing a seat belt, Police Chief Joe Mokwa said after the accident. Marijuana also was found in the SUV."

 

Any sympathy I had for the family is now replaced with anger.  The tow truck driver was just doing his job.  The stranded motorist was just that, a stranded motorist.  Josh Hancock is dead because he got drunk and drove. 

Immigration Bill

Of course the channels I follow are buzzing about the Senate Immigration bill passed yesterday.  It's hard to get anything other than an emotional reaction at this point.  Here is a link to a more rational review of what happened yesterday and what it means.

 

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200705/COM20070518a.html