Is Term Limits the Answer?

As sure as the sun rises in the east every morning, every decade or so the clueless will begin yapping for term limits. Now don't get me wrong, term limits, in principle, is a good thing and something worth striving for. But, is it the answer to the maiden's prayers? I thing not, not by a long shot! Californian's passed term limits twenty-four years ago in 1990, primarily to get rid of Willie Brown who had served in the state assembly for some 31 years and controlled the body for the last 15 years of his tenure. Term limits finally ended Brown's corrupt political career in 2004, over ten years ago. As much as I despised this liberal politician's socialist policies, I do not believe that anything has changed for the better in the 10 years since he departed Sacramento. In fact, one could argue that things in the golden state have worsened significantly since he left office. Why is this? Our worsening financial situation in California and the deteriorating moral decay of its citizens, which mimic the situation in the country as a whole, are not so much the doings of corrupt liberal politicians; rather, the mess we find ourselves is a direct result of our one man one vote concept of governance. In this respect, we are paying a heavy price for having let our system of government erode from a republic, , wherein the central government's powers were extremely limited and well defined, to a pure democracy where the majority rules everything and the minority has very limited rights, or no rights at all. The redistribution of wealth, which is the inevitably result of a pure democracy, stifles the work ethic, promotes moral decay and, most importantly, erodes property rights, the backbone of any successful capitalist society. Many conservative pundits believe that we will inevitably become an impoverished third world country like Greece if the liberalization of America is allowed to continue for much longer. Considering the staggering poverty in our major cities; the numbers of those who are unemployed and on welfare; the rate of illegitimacy; and the numbers of our young people who are in prison or on parole, it seems clear that we are already Greece, but just don't know it. Nothing will change unless we alter the way our leaders are elected in the good old, soon to be forgotten, United States of America. This concept of one man one vote is the root of all of the evils in our country. We must make it difficult or impossible for those who contribute little or nothing to society to vote for politicians who will take the hard earned dollars from those who work and redistribute them to those who do not. The changes that must be made are simple and straight forward. First, only those who pay federal income taxes should be allowed to vote in federal elections. Second, only those who pay state income taxes should have the privilege of voting in state elections. Finally, only those that pay local property taxes or can prove they pay rent, out of their own pocket, to someone who owns property (government housing does not count) should be eligible to vote in local elections. These simple changes in the way we elect public officials would change everything in America, for the better. Most importantly, it would end the century long reign of the liberal democratic politicians whose policies are ruining our once great nation. What are the chances that these simple changes in voting requirements will be made by our present bought and paid for politicians? Not a chance in hell! We will need a revolution for that to happen,

And This Week's Ding-bat Of The week Award Goes to CDC Chairman Thomas Frieden.

A The governmental missteps in the management of the Ebola crisis are almost unimaginable ranging from Obama's refusal to ban flights from the regions in West Africa where the disease is endemic to the care (or lack of such) provided to victim Eric Duncan by the naive personnel at the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital. Our government's handling of the Ebola emergency has been appalling from beginning to end, not that there is an end in sight at the moment. The data that one could present to show the incompetence of Frieden and the CDCs management of the Ebola crisis is boundless and would be considered comical if it were not for the seriousness of the situation and the possible drastic consequences of the CDCs dim-witted policies. However, in this essay I will limit my remarks to this ignorant incompetent man's misunderstanding of the significance of a fever when assessing a person with a possible communicable disease like Ebola. First, and most importantly, Mr. Frieden, and his associates at the CDC seem not to understand the importance of the fact the all warm blooded animals have extremely stable temperatures, for humans it is 98.6° F. Note, we humans do not have a temperature range, for example 98.2°F to 99.2°F, which is considered to be normal. Rather, if a human is not dead or suffering from some form of infectious disease or heat stroke, their temperatures are a rock solid 98.6°F, always has been always will be! Even the slightest variation from this norm is a cause for alarm, this is especially true if, as a medical person, the individual you are caring for was unlucky enough to have been exposed to a disease like Ebola. Considering this fact, which is known to every third year medical student in the world, it is inconceivable that Mr. Frieden and his cronies at the CDC would have concocted the ridiculous rule that allowed a nurse who had extensive contact with an Ebola patent fly in an passenger airliner just because her temperature did not exceed the magical figure of 100.3°F. This is so because anyone who has Ebola, can transmit the virus from the moment he or she first shows signs of becoming ill or, as in this case, develops

slightest fever. In this respect, a fever of any degree should have been a sign of alarm, if not panic! The moment this nurse developed the slightest fever she should have been placed in quarantine, of this there can be no question! While it may be true that a person with Ebola may be less contagious if their temperature is 99.2°F rather than 105°F, there is no evidence what so ever to support the CDC's contention that an Ebola patent cannot pass on the infection if their temperature does not reach the arbitrary figure of 100.4°F and, even if this were so, on one can predict, with any certainly, what the temperature of an Ebola patent, showing minimal signs of illness's when they board an airplane, would be at the end of an extended flight in an airliner, filled with unsuspecting passengers who could contract the deadly disease. Obviously, the correct rule should have precluded any person from flying for at least 22

days after their last contact with the person suffering from Ebola, in this case Mr. Duncan. The fact that Mr. Frieden's CDC gave nurse Amber Jay Vinson permission to board that airliner is incomprehensible! Finally, it is important to realize that, to date, there is no evidence that the Ebola virus can be spread through the respiratory system; however, mutations in viruses are the rule rather than the exception and, if a mutation that allows airborne passage of the Ebola virus should occur, a third or more of the world's population could die in the ensuing Ebola pandemic in a matter of weeks. If such a plague should occur, the only thing between us and almost certain death is our incompetent one world president and the bungling, clueless bureaucrats at the CDC. Not a very comforting thought, do you think?

Growing bell (capsicum annuum) and chili peppers as perennials.

Most home gardeners grow bell peppers as an annual starting the plants from seed, or from a nursery seedling, in the spring and pulling them out in the late fall after the first frost. However, bell and chili peppers are actually perennials which can live for many years in temperate climates like we have in the bay area, and most of California for that matter. A mature pepper plant may look a little yellow and ragged during the cold winter months, but as long as the main branches of the plant remain green they will survive the winter and thrive again in the spring. The advantage of over-wintering these plants is that you have a fully mature plant in the early spring of each year that will produce an abundance of fruit far earlier than the nursery plants you plant each spring. If you live in a area that has less ideal growing conditions consider growing a few pepper plants in pots and bringing them indoors during cold winter months. You will be well rewarded for your effort.

Is Barrack Obama a Hoax?

Clint Eastwood recently posted on Face book that Obama was a hoax. Apparently Mr. Eastwood believes our president is a trickster, swindler, deceiver or con man. While it's true that Obama is a liar of the highest order and will say and do anything to promote his policies and those of the liberals who support him, I do not believe he is a hoaxster. To the contrary, it should have been crystal clear from the beginning, to anyone who was willing to take the time to examine, even superficially, the tea leaves, that Obama was an Anti-American, socialist demagogue who was hell-bent on bringing America to its knees for what, he perceived, were her past sins against humanity. The fact that we lost 500,000 souls eliminating slavery from the United States and fought, nearly single handedly, two world wars to preserve freedom throughout the world, is no more than an afterthought to this evil, amoral and Godless creature who has now been our president for six and a half long years. This wicked man's actions have always told everyone who would listen exactly who he was and is. Born in Kenya of card carrying communist parents; registering as a foreign student in college (that's why he refuses to release his college transcripts); spending twenty plus years in the pews of Reverend Wright's church soaking up Anti-American rhetoric; and working as a community organizer (the only real job he ever had before becoming president) tells us everything we needed to know about this anti-American zealot. No, Mr. Eastwood, this man is not a Hoax; rather, he is a deadly cancer that is eating at the very life and soul of American life. He accomplishes his sinister deeds with the assistance and full support of the sheeple who refused to recognize the obvious, not once but twice when they voted for him. That, I expect, would be most of you who are reading this. Shame on you!

Winning Wars

Other than our invasion of Granada, we have not won a war in nearly seventy years. Yes, we drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait but did not finish the job and were right back in Iraq 13 years later in a second feeble attempt to clean up the mess left by George Bush 1. I believe there is a very simple explanation for the fact that we have become so inept on the battle field in recent times. As I have said before in this blog, it is impossible to win a war unless you are willing to kill the enemies' civilians, huge numbers of them, as we did in Germany and Japan in the second world war. We are told over and over again, by our present day brain-dead generals, that we cannot prevail against the rag-heads in Iraq and Syria without boots on the ground, hundreds of thousands of them. These meat-heads apparently have forgotten that, after Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan surrendered without us having to put a single boot on the ground. Similarly, after we leveled Dresden from the air, Germany surrendered. I would argue that air power, not boots on the ground, was the deciding factor in World War 11. Yes, boots on the ground were necessary, especially early in the war before Rosie The Riveter got her act together, but the war was ultimately won with air superiority which we used to kill civilians by the hundreds of thousands. By the way, did you know that over 60 million people were killed in the second world war, most of them civilians! In this respect, the photographs of the pin-point air strikes and the beheadings of the three innocent American and British citizens by the Muslim fanatics were very informative. These pictures and videos show that this war is being fought in a desert. Unlike Afghanistan, where the enemy could easily avoid air strikes by hiding in the numerous caves that pox-marked the countries rugged mountainous terrain, there is nowhere for the enemy, and their civilian supporters , to hide in the treeless mountain less deserts of Iraq and Syria. In short, this war could be over in a matter of days, without employing a single pair of boots on the ground, if we were willing to use our air superiority to eradicate the ISIS troupes, and their civilian followers, with bombs dropped from aircraft flying at 40,000 feet. It is unacceptable for us to place our military personal in harm's way simply because the enemies' troops choose to hide in the homes of civilians and in religious places of worship (mosques) when they are not committing their atrocities on the battle field. To date, we have let the enemy decide when, where and how to fight. In essence, we are fighting a war with not one, but with both hands, tied behind our back. Why, because we do not have the stomach for killing the enemies civilians, it's really as simple as that! We need a change in leadership in this country, leaders that value the lives of our military personnel more than the lives of the medieval vermin we are fighting. Along these lines, the idea that there is such a thing as a good Muslim, is a fantasy. Rather, they are lying low in their Mosques patently waiting for the day they can rise up and kill every Christian and Jew on the face of the earth. Unfortunately, I do not believe there is a single politician of either major political party that realizes the seriousness of the threat the Muslim faith is to our country, not a single one!

Time To Plant The Winter Garden

Vegetable gardens don't look all that great this time of year, that's for sure. However, if you live in a temperate climate, like we have in California, it's time to plant a winter garden. No, you will not have those wonderful vine ripened tomatoes by Christmas, but you will have an abundance of fantastic vegetables including carrots, turnips, onions, kale, chard, cabbage and the various types of lettuce to enjoy during the winter months. The point is, that now is the time to plant while the soil is still warm and almost everything you stick in the ground, whether seed or seedling, will get off to a good start. Wait another month or so when the soil cools and you will have lost the opportunity to get your winter garden off to the best beginning possible. I began to prepare for my winter garden a month or so ago by adding composted oak leaves and well aged and horse manure (the secret to any organic garden) to the top of the raised beds in the garden. My raised beds do not have sides but are simply rectangular mounds of organic material that are about a foot or so deep in the middle and a few inches in depth around the bed's perimeter. The beds are placed directly over the native rocky clay soil we have in the hills of the bay area and are basically dirt less. Yes, you heard me right, dirt is the least important component of an organic garden and that is particularly true if you are gardening in a rocky clay or adobe soil. If you are dealing with such a soil, do not attempt to rehabilitate it, plant over it in a bed of organic material. Carrots, as well as onions and other vegetables with small seeds, are difficult to plant. Fortunately, there is a nearly effortless solution to this problem. Simply, place a couple of handfuls of sand in a small container, add a package of seeds to the sand and mix well. Saturate the soil with water before planting the seeds. Using a hoe with a four to six inch wide blade, make a very shallow trench, about one quarter to one half an inch deep, in the area where you wish to plant the seeds. Sprinkle the sand and seed mixture over the surface of the shallow row and cover with soil or, as in my case, the organic material which makes up the garden bed. Use the back of the hoe to compress the material that has been placed over the seeds and water the prospective new row of vegetables. The advantage of this method for sowing vegetable seeds is threefold. First, you never have to deal with individual tiny seeds that are nearly impossible to see let alone arrange correctly in a garden row. In fact, using this methodology a blind man could sow carrots in his garden. Second, and of equal importance, the developing seedlings will be spread, more or less, evenly over a wide row in the garden, rather than in a crowded straight line. This, of course, greatly reduces the time you will spent thinning the rows of vegetables in the garden. Finally, vegetable seeds are expensive, using this method of sowing seeds will save you money because you will not be throwing away nearly as many valuable seeds during the thinning process. Happy fall gardening. For those of you in Minnesota, get ready to enjoy the snow and ice. Look on the bright side, you will soon be past the mosquito season.

And The Dingbat Of The Week Award Goes To-

Florida congresswoman and Chair of the Democrat National Committee Debbie "blabber mouth" Wasserman Schultz! This colossal liberal idiot has stepped into it a time or to in her not so illustrious political career; however, never more so than in the remarks she made at the Milwaukee Athletic Club this past Wednesday. During her remarks on women's issues, this creature from the depths of some nasty Florida swamp with the unkempt hair due, made several incredibly stupefying statements. First, the dingbat of the week said, when referring to the conservative pro-life Christian principles of Governor Scott Walker and the Republican Party, "That they had given women the back of their hand." The liberal miscreant went to say that "What the Republican Tea Party extremists are doing is that they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back and it is unacceptable." Well, Debbie "blabber mouth" Wassermann Schultz here are some facts for you to consider. The bible and the Jewish law, given to Moses on Mount Sinai 3300 years ago, all prohibit many of the things you and your liberal colleagues now champion including the taking of innocent life (abortion); same sex marriage ; homosexual behavior, referred to in the bible as an abomination; and excessive taxation (stealing) over 10 percent of a worker's pay. By the way, you simpleton, women, on average, make less than their male counterparts because whey work fewer hours than do males who are in similar positions. In short, Debbi "blabber mouth" Wassermann Schultz is a typical liberal American Jew who, over the past few generations, has lost her way and become an amoral, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish materialistic zealot of the worse kind. As Rabbi Daniel Lapin says in his America's Real War, these amoral liberal extremists, many of whom are Jews who should know better, are destroying the conservative Christian foundations which made America the greatest nation the world has ever known. These same conservative religious principles are largely responsible for the fact that antisemitism is as rare as hen's teeth in America, as has been the case since the nation's founding.