Late Breaking: University of Florida Student Tasered

There is a rude and obnoxious person around every corner. If this is was a justifiable use of a gun, how do you evaluate which rude people deserve to be shot in the future? It's sad that so many condone the use of a taser to control rudeness which is precisely what happened. I saw the video, Meyer was not threatening HARM to anyone. He was merely an "inconvenient" presence. If the police had tasered a dog, there would be jail time for the offending officer. Case in point, in Phoenix a police officer was jailed for the accidental death of his police dog. The officer is in jail, but in Maryland, a child molester is on the streets. Back on the streets because, over the course of three years, the judge could not find a translator of his native language. Never mind that it only takes six weeks to learn English. The man who's repeated, premeditated crime was against a child is free, but the one who's accidental crime was against a dog is in jail. Guaranteed, if the rapist had been tasered, the policeman would have gone to jail, not the rapist. Andrew Meyer DID NOT deserve to be tasered. I don't care how much he inconvenienced you. On the ground with multiple burly officers on top of him was not the time to pull the trigger. John Kerry and his squat team have it backwards. This is an obscene lapse of judgement by a brood of unprepared "officers of the peace." How is it that the penalty for infringing upon the schedule of a U.S. Senator is a crime deserving such action by the police? John Kerry owes the public an apology for his smallness and cowardice. As a public official, he had an opportunity to lead the police through the safe removal of the student-OR-to gracefully remain patient. But he blew it because he was consumed with himself and his ideology too much to see that Andrew Meyer was him 40 years ago.

Why Are Any Voting Ballots in the U.S. Printed in English and Spanish?

Every year, I get ballot information in the mail that costs twice as much in time and money than it should. It takes twice as long to read it because everything...every word and punctuation mark is translated into Spanish and printed alongside the English portion of the ballot or printed upside down on the back of the ballot. It costs twice as much to print, and extra to mail.

The City of Phoenix can't afford the number of police we need to manage the exploding crime rate, but somehow we have the resources to create and publish EVERY public document and every public website in two languages. It takes a few weeks total to learn English. We pay to educate the anchor babies and illegal immigrant children alike. Then we pay to duplicate every public document in Spanish! What sense does this make! None, it's i n s a n e ! How, how do we end up with eligible voters who CAN'T SPEAK AND READ ENGLISH! I studied Spanish from grade school through high school as an ELECTIVE. I learned Spanish to enrich my mind, not so I could vote!

Now, the mayor declares we need more money to pay for extra police and firemen. We do, but which of us can’t figure out why? An unreasonably significant portion of the population in Phoenix doesn’t understand English. And too much of the city’s influx are fugitives, are coming to commit a crime, or coming while committing a crime.

First of all, stop wasting our money. I work hard. I don’t like it when greedy, top-heavy municipalities demand extra money because they refuse to use common sense. Phoenix exacts one of the highest sales taxes in the United States. The most upscale municipalities don’t tax as much as Phoenix does. And I am furious, that any government has the gall to propose to intelligent hardworking people that more taxes are needed to “protect us” while they simultaneously try to score a raise. Phoenix police men and women must cope with a horrific wave of crime for which the city government is partly responsible. As a result of Gordon's sanctuary city, indeed we are all more vulnerable to chaos. Stop all that winning about the federal government and do something smart. Phil Gordon has more authority to manage Phoenix than the White House ever will. However, he will continue to whine because he does not seem to understand the American constitution. Moreover, Gordon is on the same page as pro-illegal immigration activists who care nothing about the U.S. and despise those of us who do. And a note to all broadcast producers: spare us from any more dribble by foreign spokesmen and the likes of Juan Hernandez. They wrongly assume we are a bunch of witless dummies who believe everything we hear. It’s unimaginable—thinking you've tuned into an update about the illegal immigration but instead, in broken english, hearing how Americans WANT illegal workers, DON’T WANT to work, and how the economy would CRUMBLE if illegal aliens were not here.

This is not about hispanics, turks, blacks, buddists, etc . What American in their right mind should tolerate the disdain of arrogant foreigners who want to tie our hands with our own laws while they run off with our elections, schools, hospitals, quiet neighborhoods and streets.

What Good Is a Fatwā Anyway?

Dennis Prager interviewed Robert McFarland (of the Reagan Administration) telephonically on his show this morning. I listened as McFarland described his participation in negotiations between the top religious leaders of Shia and Sunni tribes. These leaders are considering issuing a Fatwa condemning violence against either sect. The fatwa would deem it contrary to Islamic religious law to kill a Sunni if you are Shia and to kill a Ahia if you are a Sunni. Based on Mr. McFarland's testimony on the air, this fatwa would be the first of its kind in history! Both Prager and McFarland were dumbfounded that the story had not been picked up by mainstream media. McFarland indicated that he would attend further negotiations to nurture the process. It is expected that the ruling would be effective very soon.

While the Sunni-Shia war is having it's most catastrophic effect in the middle east and parts of Africa right now, isn't it coloring lives across the globe? It is impossible to tune into local or world news and not hear about its effects locally. We mourn fallen heroes from our hometowns almost everyday. All the cities in Europe that I have ever wanted to visit have major problems rising from within their Islamic populations. I have no Muslim acquaintances that I can name at the moment, but what is going on among Muslims gets closer and closer to home on a daily basis.

I don't care if main stream media picks up on it or not. Godspeed to McFarland and everyone involved. It's probably no panecea. The tension in Islam is systemically entrenched in history I suppose. But how much longer will it be before the movers and shakers in that movement see that the strategy to blow up innocent women and children is viewed as insanity by the rest of the world. How much longer will it be before the movers and shakers in the rest of the world act as if a problem that stems from religious beliefs needs a solution that stems from religious beliefs. I think religious threats may need to be dealt with militarily sometimes. I am not on the "defund-the-war" band wagon. But I am on the "end-the-threat" band wagon. Go McFarland Go, success here may save someone I know.

AZ Security Freeze Legislation Bites the Dust

I spent several minutes today organizing myself to opt-out of various databases and the credit bureaus. Fortunately, I came across the information I wanted to freeze my credit report. A security freeze will prevent a credit bureau from reporting your credit file to third parties. They can be lifted temporarily or permanently at the consumer's request. However, security freezes are based on state law. Until I saw an article published by Linda Valdez on the AZ Republic website, I was unable to confirm that Arizona had actually passed the state's security freeze law. It has been under consideration since 2005. Eventually, ARS 44-1698 was not passed due to interference mainly by retailers. To add, Arizona legislators proposed Arizonans pay 30% more for the service than the credit bureaus charge, $15 dollars for AZ residents vs $10 for all other states with the law! What for?

Arizona ranks #1, number one, primera for identity-theft and is aptly regarded as the identity-theft capital of the U.S. It is too easy jam up Arizona legislation intended to protect state residents.

An example of why it is important not to trust any third party with the task of opting out or filing any credit information for you!