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March 2009
We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!
Shut
Up! Shameful, Coward Nation
Posted by:
CotoBlogzz | 02/26/2009 9:00 AM
The Shut Up Rule
Recently, a good number of local politicians have
adopted a
Shut Up Rule, allegedly for efficiency purposes.
Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens statements that
she does not agree that her restrictive CCW policies
infringe on Second Amendment Rights can be construed
as another instance of the Shut Up Rule. The
piece du resistance however is the recently released
Orange County Grand Jury report titled "Let
The Sheriff Do her Job." And supported by OCR
columnist and Hutchens cheerleader.
So Shut Up and let the Sheriff do Her Job, you
shameful, coward nation!
A Coward Nation
Last week Eric Holder, the nation's first black
attorney general, in a speech to Justice Department
employees marking Black History Month, said the United States was
"a nation of cowards" on matters of race,
with most Americans avoiding candid discussions of
racial issues.
The AG's comments drew the ire of Frances Rice
Chairman of the National Black Republican Association,
and others. "Holder's outrageous and insulting
declaration is a harbinger of Obama's sinister scheme
to use race as a weapon to bludgeon Americans into
submitting to his socialist will - supporters and
non-supporters alike," reads Rice's statement
titled Race
Mongering, Presidential Style released over the
weekend. Refer to other commentaries including:
A Cowardly Conversation Starter by Jonah Goldberg and
A Nation of Cowards by Linda Chavez
"So were the 52% of
Americans who voted for Obama "cowards" or
was it the rest of us who voted for McCain that are
"cowards"? As an employer that
is color blind, am I a "coward" for having a
diverse work force....What is wrong with these people?
They have to stop thinking as victims and finally
admit that anyone who gets a good education and works
hard in this country can overcome prejudice or any
obstacle. It does help to be smart too. A
low IQ idiot or imbecile (there are legal definitions
of both) of any color is probably not going to achieve
much in life. My Italian immigrant grandfather
who spoke no English and had little education did not
let that stop him from being successful because he
never saw himself as a victim and he was smart and
worked hard. The statement made by the Attorney
General of the United States was ridiculous and
insulting to the entire nation." - Joe the
Business Owner
A Shameful Nation
And just in from Hollywood
"I think it is a good time
for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage
to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame
and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they
continue that way of support. We've got to have equal
rights."
Sean Penn, accepting the Oscar for Best Actor-
February 22, 2009
This is the message that was communicated throughout the
world on Sunday night during the Academy Award show by
Hollywood liberals, including their "best
actor" Sean Penn.
It is perhaps not surprising that Hollywood liberals
would use their "awards" show to campaign in
favor of gay marriage. After all, many of these same
liberals donated or raised millions of dollars to
attempt to defeat Proposition 8.
What is perhaps surprising is their brazen attempt to
influence public opinion against traditional marriage
by manipulating people into thinking that this is a
"human rights" issue, or a "civil
rights" issue, or even an "equal
rights" issue. What they don't tell people is
that gay couples in domestic partnerships in
California already have equal rights! Gay domestic
partners in California enjoy the same legal rights as
married spouses.
Liberal Hollywood activists like Sean Penn know a
thing or two about reaching audiences. They make
millions - tens of millions - learning how to connect
with an audience. One audience they no doubt hoped to
influence on Sunday night was the California Supreme Court, which is hearing challenges
to invalidate Prop 8 in just ten days. Another
audience probably watched the show from the upstairs
of the White House in Washington. Still another audience is
made up of voters here in California, enough of the 7
million of whom they hope to shame into repudiating
their votes cast in favor of traditional marriage the
next time the issue is on the ballot.
Traditional marriage has served society well, and
there are many sound reasons why people support one
man, one woman marriage - including continuing the
best institution to give children both a mother and a
father. Prop 8 wasn't an attack on gay couples, it was
an affirmation of traditional marriage - but you
didn't hear that at the Academy Awards.
So Shut Up and let the Sheriff do Her Job, you
shameful, coward nation!
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Dallas
You previously dismissed the GJ as "as nothing
more than an opinion that should not have been
given" - however, you forget or choose to
ignore the larger implications - analogous to the
message t communicated throughout the world by
Hollywood liberals, including Sean Penn.
If you do not share the liberal persuasion and bring
race into the competence issue, you are a racist. If
not, you are a coward,
What is the GJ's message intended to do? Stifle
discourse on the Disarm, Intimidate, Ridicule and
Obfuscate debate and let the Sheriff do what she
wants, how she wants - after all, it is the law -
right? – CotoBlogzz
Dallas
The
way that you attempt to marginalize the Sheriff by
linking her to these ultra left wing Hollywood types
is what I find laughable. The story I read about the
individual GJ members who supported the Sheriff's
position indicates that they are NRA members and
generally on the "right" side of the
political spectrum. Your attempt to link Sheriff
Hutchens and the GJ as part of the vast left wing
conspiracy to silence opposition sounds utterly
ridiculous.
I believe the GJ's message to the BoS basically said
stay out of another elected's business. I believe
the issue is more nuanced than that and therefore
disagree with the GJ but the link to the Hollywood
liberals is once again a stretch.
CotoBlogzz
I am not laughing and I am sure a good number of Constitutionalists are not either.
CotoBlogzz
This just in ----"Wednesday Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Obama administration will seek to reinstitute the assault weapons ban which expired in 2004 during the Bush administration." - I suppose you see any opposition to the AG/Obamas' actions herein also laughable?
Dallas
No Coto, your attempt to link Sheriff Hutchens to the Hollywood left and gay marriage is what's laughable. It also borders on a amateurish McCarthyism.
CotoBlogzz
We
are getting somewhere - since you are the
intelligence expert, are you saying that the link to
the AG is not laughable?
For laughs - what position do you think Hollywood
has on the CCW issue? Is that also laughable?
Dallas
What the hell does it matter Coto? One minute we're talking about Sheriff Hutchens policy on good cause and the next thing I know you're shooting high and to the left (pun intended) about the Hollywood elite and their views on gay marriage. Try to remember, it's the CCW issue, not the gay marriage issue.
CotoBlogzz
Again: What do you suppose the Hollywood elite's stance is on the CCW issue - if you do not think there is a connection, your assessment about your inteligence prowess is weaker than I even gave you credit for.
Dallas
Their
opinion is irrelevant to this topic. Unless you
assert that they are behind the Sheriff's policy on
good cause or somehow influenced her decsion, which
I seriously doubt.
And for the record, don't give me too much credit. I
truly am not desrving of it.
CotoBlogzz
Dallas:
The LA/Hollywood connection is indubitable - did you
read the LA Times editorial? Did you watch the
Oscars editorials - this is your brain....get it?
Dallas
Coto,
the Sheriff instituted her policy several months
back. the fact that the CCW supporters generated a
media storm over it has garnered some press from the
LA times, Orange County Register and several
columnists but that was AFTER the Sheriff
implemented her policy.
Frank Mickadeit also seems to support her. Is he
part of some vast left wing conspiracy as well? Oh
and the Grand Jury was full of LA types too wink
wink.
CotoBlogzz
You
are inspired! - the evidence room must have logged
in a new shipment of the good stuff - I would not
have thought Frank Mickadeit would be part of any
conspiracy, but now that you mention it, there are a
number of interesting links:
Consider that like the Sheriff, Frank Mickadeit
deals mostly in the fluff, rather than substance.
Just wit his apparent infatuation with a trashy
reality TV show, over other substantive issues.
While I was criticizing the process used by the
OCBOS to select the new Sheriff, Frank Mickadeit was
extolling the Sheriff's virtues.
While Ms. Bates legislates that the BOS should
simply SHUT UP, anent the SHerifff's handling of the
Constitution, I have been speaking up.
While the GJ, for whatever reason, decides on a
vacuous action to SHUT UP the Sheriff's critics and
Frank Mickadeit jumps in the bandwagon using a
"guts" argument, and I write this piece, I
suppose you cannot come up with a more stark
contrast - but of course I have no idea what is in
the evidence room.
As sated before, if the Sheriff could trample on the
Constitution thinking there would not be any
repercussion, she severely underestimated the people
she swore to serve and protect. But then this the
Hollywood Elite/LA Times modus operandi - the CCW
supporters have simply added to the rage about the
trampling of the Constitution.
RonSallinger
when can we start cutting the budget for the sheriffs department? The sooner we get rid of the dead weight in this county the sooner profress can be made. I'd start with getting rid of the bloggers who work for the OCSD. You happen to know any Dallas?
CotoBlogzz
Ron:
Dallas may think the issue you bring up is good for
a laugh - it is not. It is dead serious: Ironically,
a previous GJ investigation- iif you can believe
that one - coupled with my own investigation, finds
a culture where individuals do enough just to get to
pension. - that is, the
"accountability-solved" canned response
the Sheriff touts cannot be simply solved by
removing the command staff and or a simple slap on
the wrist.
"Hi Sgt. This reporter is killing me. And will
likely write something inaccurate and slanted if I
don't come back with something", writes a
Sheriff's spokesperson of Elton John fame, begging
to get some information on an open case after
month's of asking - with no response. For example.
Dead weight? Dead wood? What about a dead forest?
Dallas
Again, I find it laughable that you stray off on other topics like gay marriage, hollywood elite, pensions, the US Attorney General etc...and then tie it all in to Sheriff Hutchens policy on the CCW issue.
CotoBlogzz
Do you also find Ron's point about the dead forest in the department laughable? If so, you may want to check the stuff you are smoking - either that or you may be working some overtime in the evidence room - where the laughing gasses are stored, for instance.
Dallas
Whats the matter Ron? Am I getting under your skin? I know I"m "outgunned" on this blog, at least as it relates to this issue. Maybe you'd like it better if I went away and you could sing Kumbaya with Coto.
CotoBlogzz
Dallas:
Congratulations! - Your are on to something here! -
maybe it is not a philosophical (or threshold of
belief) issue associated with the Sheriff's stance
on the CCW issue - maybe it is a psychological one -
Freud would love to tackle: As in a feeling of being
"outgunned" and or not having a gun at
all. Hence, if I do not have a gun, no-one else can
one one - either!
Brilliant! - another link to the Hollywood elite, as
you put it - right?
Dallas
Okay, it was a bad pun. I admit it. It was a deliberate attempt at humor and I"m sorry you didn't take it that way, but try not to psychoanalyze it too much. It might lead you down another paranoid path that Freud would scratch his head about.
CotoBlogzz
On
the other hand, like a real CSI episode, you just
clearly and succinctly articulated the most
compelling reason for the Sheriff's overly
restrictive policy which says: "Only the
Sheriff can decide what good cause is and what do
about it":
If I do not have a gun, no one else should have
access to one either
Dallas
I suppose to some degree that's true. She does have alot of lattitude in determining what good cause is. I don't necessarily agree with it but she does have the penal code behind her. If you disagree, do what I've said and get another candidate who shares your view. If a majority of voters side with you then I say good for you.
CotoBlogzz
Indeed I feel in no uncertain terms, that it is a breach of fiduciary responsibility at best to go from a "serve and protect" to Disarm, Intimidate, Ridicule and Obfuscate style and will continue to provide opinions/trends/facts to see how many others agree with my position – and as you say, the vote will ultimately decided – contrary to Ms. Bates, GJ and or Mickadeits’ recommendations, I do not intend to Shut Up any time soon.
Dallas
Nor would I suggest that you shut up. I know we don't always see things through the same prism and I've occaisonally suggested that your paranoia has skewed your perspective but I value differing opinions nonetheless.
RonSallinger
Again your wrong. #1 I dont want you to go away. Your opinion is just as irrelevant as mine. #2 The only thing that gets under my skin is wasteful spending. Let me give you an example, a county employee blogging when he should be working. So, I will ask the question again...........You know anyone like that Dallas? In the private sector we call this a budget cut. However, if you work for sandra this is a resume enhancer. It's got nothing to do with your opinion. It has to do with wasteful spending. After being on this blog, I could give some suggestions to the BOS where budget cuts could take place..............Guess where I would suggest?
Dallas
Sorry Ron, but if you think I'm posting my opinions on the county dime you're wrong. I only post from my home computer.
RonSallinger
We'll
see. For those of us who know who you are (and we
do), we find comfort in knowing that all the
political hacks in the OCSD will be exposed for what
they are. Coto, please keep all this guys posts.
It's going to be interesting to pull up his work
schedule and match it to his posts. See where this
is going Dallas?
Allow me to go back to my original
statement.............budgets in the OCSD need to be
cut and we need to start with the bums at middle
management that are not needed. Dallas, without
naming names, I'm trying to give you the opportunity
to do the right thing. I can't make it any clearer
to you.
CotoBlogzz
Ron - as you may know, I am a facts fiend - cotobuzz@yahoo.com
Dallas
No worries here Ron. Have a great weekend :-)
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