3. September 2010 by Satire V.

William Martinez appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 10th, 2010.  Follow up questions by Senators Sessions and Coburn asked straightforward questions of Martinez regarding his many questionable affiliations.  See this post. Martinez uniformly refused to answer any question.  He did provide responses, but no answers to the actual questions he was asked.  All of Martinez’s responses either invoked attorney-client privilege,  or stated that he would follow the existing Supreme and Circuit Court precedence.

If his answers are accurate representations of his intent, why do we need him?  An unsophisticated piece of software could do what he proposes are his only options, to rule either in keeping with the 10th, or with the Supremes.  I’m pretty sure my dog could do this.

Do anyone (obviously not the liberals that recommended him, Bennett and Udall) believe that he will not base decisions on his personal politics?  I certainly don’t.  The organizations he is associated with are radical.  For those who missed it before, here is a short list:

• Amnesty International
• ACLU of Colorado
• Colorado Public Radio
• Greenpeace, USA
• Human Rights Watch
• International Rescue Committee
• Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund
• National Legal Aid and Defender Association

Each of us need to write or call our Senators and ensure that they are aware that we don’t want any more activist, leftist, anti-Constitutional, anti-Federal judges on our courts.  These types of judges have caused enough destruction, and have taken away enough liberty.  Confirmation of Martinez would be one more step down the long dark hallway of statism.

Don’t let this nominee hide behind his robes.  Insist that your Senators bring his beliefs out into the open for all of us to see.

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3. September 2010 by Satire V.

Well, no mention of party.  You know the rule there.  At least we know that Willie Gandara is a Dem.  All indications are that the rest are too.

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/11-indicted-in-el-paso-public-corruption-case-893519.html?cxtype=rss_texas

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23. August 2010 by Satire V.

Kind of an old one, but back in the news again recently.  Take a look at this article and see if you can find the word “Democrat” or “Democratic” in it.  (Good luck)

Article here

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20. August 2010 by Satire V.

The “Justice” Department has decided that Roger Clemens needs to be tried for perjury for allegedly making false statement under oath before Congress.  Let’s get the obvious problem out of the way first:

Congress is concerned that someone sat in their chambers and lied?  Really?  This Congress?  The Democrat members of this Congress can’t move their lips without lying.  Joe Wilson was right when he pointed it out in the House chamber when Obama did it.  I suppose it’s a very good thing for Congress that they are not under oath when they speak before their own bodies.  I personally believe that before anyone testifies before any Congressional Committee, the entire Committee should FIRST be required to take the same oath that will be required of those there to testify.  Honestly, if I were called before Congress to testify, I would absolutely refuse to take the oath until they had done so.

Now to the meat.  It will be interesting to see what evidence the persecution (no, that wasn’t a typo) has in this case.  I have heard no allegation that there is any, other than the testimony of a witness that provided that testimony in exchange for some level of immunity.  Not exactly an unimpeachable witness.  If this is a simple case of the word of the defendant Clemens against the word of the informant, I can’t see how this can go to trial.  If there is not significantly more evidence than this, the trial will be an absolutely unnecessary expense to the American taxpayers.  We are not supposed to be paying to make some US Attorney’s name.

Lastly, why was Congress involved in this to begin with?  What a complete waste of time and money!  The list of things that Congress could have been investigating was, and these day definitely is, long and filled with far more important matters.  These idiots can spend huge amounts of time and money to investigate steroid use in baseball; which essentially boils down to small-scale criminal activity mostly at the local level of jurisdiction, but not to find out who is financing a mosque at ground zero.  Not to find out what laws Charlie Rangel broke.  Not to investigate the Black Panther case.  Not to determine whether recent persecutions by the “Justice” Department such as the Arizona immigration lawsuit have been politically motivated.  We seriously pay these people for this?

Maybe someone needs to tell these people that “justice will be served” doesn’t mean to “serve” the political and personal whims of those at the Department of “Justice”.

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17. August 2010 by Satire V.

It might not look like it on the surface, but that appears to be the plan.  Defense Secretary Gates, as part of his personal lame duck session, is hoping to raise costs for the Tri-Care insurance plan that many military retirees depend on.

Gates’ assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Jonathan Woodson, has made statements before Congress indicating that rationing is definitely part of the plan.  As reported at DailyPress.com Woodson 

“referred to more cost-efficient “therapies” and addressing “waste in the way we deliver care because of the culture of medicine. And there’s opportunity to decrease the variability of care that might result in cost savings.”

This doesn’t take much reading between the lines.  This is politi-speak for rationing and lowering the amounts paid to Doctors for their services.  Tri-Care’s payments for services are already laughably low, and “decreasing the variability of care” aka lowering payments, will likely drive many Doctors and clinics out of military retiree care.

Raising premium payments is also a likely method that DoD will use to “cut costs”.  Obviously this cuts costs for DoD, but raises the costs significantly for retirees.  Military retired pay increases by a cost of living adjustment only.  These cost of living adjustments are part of the Federal budget process and are not guaranteed.  No connection has been previously made between the reduction in other promised benefits and the calculated cost of living change used to help determine COLA raises for military retirees.  This means that military retirees will very likely have their retired pay effectively reduced by the amount of Tri-Care premium increases.

How much will these premiums increase?  We don’t know yet.  What we do know is that we have made promises to our military retirees regarding medical care and retirement pay.  These promises are being broken almost daily by the current Congress.  Gates points out that medical care as part of the Defense budget will be approximately $50 billion next year.  This is a huge amount of money, but Congress was willing to spend more than that to pay off teacher’s and other State-level public workers (unions) as an “emergency” spending bill.

Which is the greater emergency for the Federal government?  Saving the pay of State workers to whom no promise was made, or saving the promised benefits of those who put their lives on the line for this Country?

Seems like a pretty easy decision to me.

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16. August 2010 by Satire V.

One guess, R or D?  Follow the corruption rules… CW

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/97960894.html

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16. August 2010 by Satire V.

I will be posting information regarding Federal political corruption charges and convictions under this category.

Some unwritten rules of the media to be aware of:

·         If the subject is a Republican:

o   Stories will be carried front-page, probably lead

o   Every attempt will be made to present charges and allegations as fact

o   Party affiliation will be mentioned prominently, and if possible multiple times

o   Affiliations with prominent Republicans will be played up, and inferences of collusion will be made

o   Association with the Tea Party or other groups that the left does not like will be inferred

·         If the subject is a Democrat:

o   Stories will be carried as far from the front page as possible

o   Facts and even convictions will be presented as allegations

o   Party affiliation will not be mentioned at all

o   Affiliations with prominent Dems will be ignored or presented as inconsequential

o   Association with nutroots groups such as DFA or MoveOn.org will be downplayed so as not to dirty the image of the subject’s benefactors

o    

The party affiliation rule is very important.  This will usually be the biggest clue to the political affiliation of the subject.

Satire V

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2. August 2010 by Satire V.

William Martinez is Obama’s pick, nominated by Senators Bennet and Udall, to fill a District Court of Colorado vacancy.  As Senator Udall proudly states on his website;

“I believe in strong, well-balanced courts that serve the needs of our citizens. Bill Martinez brings that sense of balance because of his broad legal background, professionalism, and outstanding intellect. I am pleased to have recommended Bill, and I am certain that, once confirmed, he will make an outstanding judge.”

He is joined in his excitement about the qualifications of Martinez by Senator Bennet on his web site;

“Bill embodies the American dream and is an immigrant success story. He was born in Mexico and immigrated with his family to the United States at a young age. He was the first in his family to attend college and law school. His rise through the legal profession is a great example to law students in my state.”

“I am proud to come before this Committee and highlight the experience and accomplishments of this superbly qualified nominee. Bill Martinez will be an asset to the federal bench. “

A well-balanced court.  The American dream.  Superbly qualified.  Broad legal background.  Sense of balance.

You would think from such comments that Martinez was a centrist, non-activist judge to be.  You would be very wrong.  Let’s take a quick look at his questionnaire for judicial nominees that was presented to the Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary.

Martinez lists the following employment of interest:
The Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago.  This organization receives much of its funding from the Joyce Foundation.  The Joyce Foundation is known to advocate radical liberal and environmentalist positions such as the elimination of gun ownership rights and the destruction of industries that consume natural resources (such as logging).  The Joyce Foundation also supports MALDEF, the NAACP, the Sierra Club, the WWF, the ACLU, the National Council of La Raza, and other liberal organizations.  Barack Obama served on the Foundation’s board before becoming a U.S. Senator.

More interesting are Martinez’s memberships, which Senators Udall and Bennet fail to make any mention.  Let me just hit the high points:

Amnesty International
ACLU of Colorado
Colorado Public Radio
Greenpeace, USA
Human Rights Watch
International Rescue Committee
Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund
National Legal Aid and Defender Association

Most of you are probably aware that the first five organizations on this list run from very to radically liberal.  The final three are all (yes, that includes the IRC) advocates for illegal immigrants and support amnesty and full legal protection for illegals.  MALDEF advocates open borders, free college tuition for illegal immigrants, lowered educational standards to accommodate Hispanics, and voting rights for criminals.  Not exactly a “balanced” list is it?

Martinez cannot be expected to ignore his personal bias and agendas when such are so extreme and often run counter to the rule of law and our Constituion.

He will not serve a well-balanced court.  He does not support the American dream.  He is not superbly qualified, and in fact is entirely unqualified to serve on the Federal bench.  His legal background is certainly not broad; a more narrow background would be hard to find.  He certainly doesn’t embody a sense of balance.

The only appropriate action for the Senate would be to refuse confirmation of Martinez, but that won’t happen under a Congress that fully intends to thwart the will of the people as often as possible before (and after) election day.

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13. March 2010 by Satire V.

There has been a lot of discussion lately about Michelle Bachmann’s statements about the Census.  She has publicly stated that she will not provide any information other than the number of people in her household.

Much of this discussion has centered around her pointing out that Census information was used to locate and round up American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.  First I should point out that nobody has really challenged this assertion, and if anyone did, that person would be wrong.  Her statement in that regard is accurate.  Much of the argument appears to be that “we have come a long way since then, and besides, there are severe punishments for misuse of this information.”

Really?  Have we come a long way?  If that is true, why is the race card played so reliably by the left?  If one were only to listen to press conferences by the left in America (not to be confused for “the American left”, doesn’t exist) one would probably conclude that America is the most racist country on Earth.  Maybe challenging her concerns on that grounds isn’t the best road to take.

Are there ample punishments?  This of course assumes that first, the person using this information illegally will be caught.  That would require the transparency that this administration and Democrat leadership have talked so much about, but have definitely not produced.  Second it assumes that the punishments will be applied, and applied to all equally.  Not likely under this cronyism based administration.

Bachmann has also been challenged on her assertion that the Constitution does not provide for questions beyond how many people are in a household.  The arguments against this idea are not very strong.  One of the arguments is that the Supreme Court has ruled that additional questions are Constitutional.  This must be the infallible Supreme Court that I have heard so much about.  Dred Scott anyone??  See, I can play the race card too.

Another argument is that the language of the Constitution supports anything Congress wants to ask.  The words used to reinforce this theory are

“The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they by Law direct.” 

Most of the arguments, including those before the Supreme Court have concentrated on the words “in such Manner as they by Law direct”.   The idea is that the Congress can make whatever laws are necessary to accomplish the census.  More care should be taken with this though.  The Constitution directs the Congress to ENUMERATE the people.  This word, “enumerate” means the same thing now as it did then.  To count.  Some definitions include more as a result of the misuse of the word, but the accepted meaning is to count, nothing more. 

The Constitution is, contrary to that genius of a Constitutional scholar Barack Obama’s boneheaded assertions, a permissive document in relation to the Federal government.  This means that the Constitution restricts everything from the Federal except for those specific permissions given in the text.  Nothing should be inferred or assumed.  Article 1 is clear in using the term “enumeration.”  This means that the Congress should only make laws directing the manner of counting, not adding to the information collected.  The only exception the Constitution made was to determine whether a person was a slave or free, and this was compromise language.  It didn’t imply an intent to collect additional racial, ethnic, gender, or other data.

Of course, the most obvious proof that Bachmann is right on this, is that the blogs on the left say she is wrong.  To put that another way:  Stupid is as stupid does.

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13. March 2010 by Satire V.

More Federal government waste under Democrat leadership.  Shocking I know!

Most of you have probably received a letter from the US Census Bureau in recent days.  The purpose of this census letter is apparently to inform all of us ignorant proletariat that there is a census coming.  I suppose this might have been news to someone, but I can’t imagine that too many were unaware of the upcoming count.

Given that the number of households that would be caught with their pants down on this, it seems that this might not have been the best use of taxpayer money.  Given also that most people that choose to ignore the census when it arrives would likely ignore this letter even more studiously, it is definitely a waste of money.

How much money you ask?

Well, let’s assume that the postage was free.  We will also ignore the cost of ink/toner, equipment hours and depreciation, and manhours, and only concentrate on the envelope and paper.  GSA prices copy paper at $28.83 for 2500 sheets of low-quality paper (a little over a penny a page).  Envelopes prices were $28.21 for 500 (close to 6 cents per envelope).  The census bureau’s own estimate of the number of households in the US for 2010 is 114,825,428.  The total per mailing for just paper and envelope is over $7,940,000!  Compared with the spending of this administration and this Congress, this is chump change.  It is however, an example of the willingness of this group to waste money during difficult economic times.  This is irresponsible, and frankly, stupid.

These are the people we are supposed to trust with 1/6th of our economy?

I don’t think so. 

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