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Friday, July 01, 2005

A vacancy, this is going to get good.

So Sandra Day O'Conner is retiring from the Supreme Court. This is going to get quite entertaining as the congress tries to confirm a new Justice. The sad thing is that this is going to be very important, especially in the wake of a bunch of controversial and down right dopey rulings. They have been legislating from the bench and so the choice is going to have to be a good one. We need to get a court that will support the Constitution, not destroy our rights under it. The President must also nominate a Justice that will not change to the left as Justice Souter has.

This is going to be very important to the future of our way of life. Especially after their decision last week, regarding eminent domain. I will be watching this one.

Posted at 10:40 am by RWO
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It has happened again.

This has been happening more and more lately here in San Diego.

Five die in van crash on Route 94

I don't drive the rural roads and highways around here too often, as I live in the city. Things like this make me thankful that I don't have to drive these roads. They say the border patrol was not involved in the crash. Why weren't they? Where were they? These people should not have been in this country and should have not endangered the 69 year old driver of the truck they hit head on.

The border patrol knows they coyotes use this method to avoid them. They also know where and when it happens. A few well placed border patrol agents could have prevented this by pulling these folks over. Since this happened at night at least the lights of their vehicles trying to pull these illegals over would have alerted the truck driver of impending danger.

This stuff has got to stop.

Posted at 10:30 am by RWO
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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Florida Cops Botch Case

A while back I blogged about the Jessica Lunsford case in Florida. Tonight while watch the O'Reilly Factor they were talking about how Couey, the guy charged with the rape and murder requested a lawyer, and since police kept questioning him his confession may get tossed. What kind of keystone cops do they have down there. This is ridiculous. Here is my original post.

This is horrible

The played a tape where he talked about burying her alive and all. If this guy gets off because of police ignorance I hope they fire all involved. This was a hideous case and this guy should get the justice he has earned, not off on a technicality.

Posted at 05:44 pm by RWO
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Iraqi's Caught Crossing the Border

Well why is the no surprise? Seems that a couple of Iraqi's were nabbed trying to cross into the United States. I guess the worsd is out, if you want to get to the United States just go to Mexico. Actually I am kind of surprised these guys were caught. Also since these guys were caught how many others have already made it here without being caught. How about Iranians and others.

The government is giving our country away bit by bit. They let anyone in as there is very little border enforcement. They take our money away and give it to others or waste it in a wealth redistribution program called taxes. Now the Supreme Court has taken away your right to own personal property. What is going to be next?

I am really growing concerned over the way things are going in this country. Our freedoms are being eroded day by day. It is about time to look at impeaching a few folks from the Supreme Court and maybe some Representatives and Senators. One of congresses responsibilities is to keep us safe and protect our rights. That is currently not happening. If I did my job the way these folks are doing theirs I would lose my job. It is about time they started losing theirs.

I used to be a Republican and this administration has convinced me to become an Independant.

Mexico Nabs 2 Iraqis Near U.S. Border

Posted at 12:05 pm by RWO
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Neopets Premium Memberships

I have 10 invites for premium memberships for Neopets. I will pass them out to the first 10 folks who are serious about purchasing a membership. The membership costs $7.99 a month and gives you quite a few extras such as easy access to the areas of the game you hang out on. More "Something has happened" and great gifts for new members. If you are interested please leave a reply. You have to have a credit card to join. I will invite the first 10 folks who reply to this post.

Please leave your neopets signon name so I can send you the invite.

Posted at 07:46 pm by RWO
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What comes around ...

What comes around, goes around. I was really happy to hear about this one. I heard about it when I was on my way home from work, but thought it was a hoax. I guess it isn't. I say it is justice.

Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter?

I hope this developer gets it approved and gets to make Justice Souter have to sell. After all what is good for the average American, must be good enough for him.

Posted at 03:08 pm by RWO
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Monday, June 27, 2005

Philippine President Admits

I told readers a while back I would keep up with this one. It seems that President Arroyo went on TV and admitted it was her voice on the tape. Now hers supporters are out touting her honesty, while others are trying to get impeachment papers filed, knowing full well that it will not pass, as they have enough votes to prevent it.

She has already stated she will not step down. I guess it will take the outrage of the Philippine people to force her out. Lets see what happens next. Here is the story.

Arroyo owns tape voice: 'I'm sorry'

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Sunday, June 26, 2005

Yesterday

The Del Mar Fair is currently going on here in sunny San Diego, so yesterday on the spur of the moment I convinced the wife and daughter we should go. We had a few minor errands to run. like get gas for the car and some spending cash.

Anyway by the time we fiinshed gassing up the car and all they had convinced me that they would rather head east to the Golden Acorn Casino. So anyway off we went and as usual I lost, but only $200 while the daughter won $1200 and the wife won $800. At least we came out ahead as a family.

Also when at the casino's I usually get happy feet and just want to play fast and go. Have you every tried to get women to leave when they are on a hot streak? They wouldn't even stop to eat. I finally got very hungry and went to thier restaurant. I had the 16 oz prime rib, with baked potato, veggies and a bowl of chicken noodle soup for less than $20, and it was good. The problem was there was so much food I couldn't eat it all. I packed up the half portion of the prime rib that I couldn't finish and the bread rolls and took them out to Ma RWO so she could eat and play at the same time.

Anyway we all had fun and at least we came home with more than we took with us for a change.

Posted at 02:48 pm by RWO
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Saturday, June 25, 2005

This is so sad

I was reading this and it is just so sad.

Three missing boys found dead

How in the world did the police and folks searching miss checking a car that was right there on the property. This is incompetance on a major scale. I really feel for these families.

Posted at 11:30 am by RWO
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Friday, June 24, 2005

Goodbye Personal Property Rights

I was going to blog about this yesterday but I was too angered by this one to write about it. The Supreme Court has decided that if your City Council thinks that stripping you of your land and selling it to another person or a company is good for the City they can do it.

When I was younger this type of thing happened to my family twice. When we were living in Vallejo, California the city decided to widen the street that my parents owned a business on. The city used eminent domain and my parents were forced to sell. As a result they lost their business. They tried to relocate and make a go of it at another location but had lost their customer base as they had to move to another neighborhood.

Later in life my parents rented a house in Fresno, California and the city decided to put a freeway through the center of town. Our landlord was forced to sell and we had to move. While it didn�t really affect us that much other than we had to move it was an inconvenience.

Both of those incidents were actually needed for the benefit of the folks living in the city, and I believe my parents and the homeowner were compensated fairly.

Now however the Supreme Court has opened the door to businesses and the rich. I live in a nice middle class neighborhood in San Diego. I live on top of a hill with a nice view of the mountains It is located in the city close to where I work and close to pretty much everything else in the city.

Suppose some rich person wants to go ahead and buy up my neighborhood and build a big mansion here. Then according to the ruling all they have to do is go convince the City Council that it would be beneficial to the city to allow them to buy up our land and rebuild on it. And of course the City Council is going to approve it as it will bring in more property taxes than my neighbors and I are paying now.

This ruling scares the hell out of me and it should scare every middle class homeowner in the country. Especially if the live in a city like San Diego where the City Counsel had ran up a huge debt. This will be a great way for them to get out of debt. They will just start selling peoples land off to the rich and gobble up the new tax revenue. What rights are the Supreme Court going to give away next?

High court's property decision stirs anger

Some Homeowners Vow To Stay Despite Ruling Against Them

Freeport business loses ground to eminent domain

Family May Lose Business To Court's Eminent Domain Decision

Posted at 01:03 pm by RWO
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