tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35003762024-03-05T16:50:40.936-08:00Between Heaven and Hell...Reports and observations from a Southern California Faithful Conservative Catholic™ Asian-American attorney's perspective. Whew!Roger H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03548346750315438363noreply@blogger.comBlogger2114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-22857806476926276022019-08-08T08:02:00.000-07:002019-08-08T08:02:44.859-07:00Maybe Coming Back to BloggingIt's been roughly two years since I've posted anything on here. The general objective of this blog - expressing my opinion about various stuff (usually politics and religion) - has pretty much been transposed to Twitter, even though Twitter has a character limit and no editing functions. The "upside" of Twitter, of course, is the speed at which my communications are seen and the vastly larger number of people who see them. <br />
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However, considering the extreme bias that Twitter has been showing against politically/ideologically right of center people (see below) I'm strongly considering coming back to blogging and maybe limiting my tweets to less controversial topics, like sports.<br />
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Twitter asked me yesterday to delete this tweet:<br /><br />It showed a person allegedly calling for violence against Mitch McConnell<br /><br />The person appears to be a BLM activist who has met with Elizabeth Warren<br /><br />I said no and they suspended me *and* McConnell's re-election campaign<br /><br />THREAD: <a href="https://t.co/RSospX3212">pic.twitter.com/RSospX3212</a></div>
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Alex is a longtime friend of mine who several years ago was a board member of the Anaheim Union High School District. <br />
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Most importantly, Alex is a strong and consistent pro-life conservative who I believe has the potential to do a lot of great things for this State as a member of the California Legislature. <br />
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Personally, it also helps that Alex is a Traditional Latin Mass loving Catholic, as well as a huge USC Football fan.<br />
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<br />Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-80675410408091938482015-01-07T17:35:00.001-08:002015-01-07T17:39:53.301-08:00Charlie Hebdo Played a Dangerous Game of "Chicken" with Jihadist Terrorists That Cost LivesThe publishers of Charlie Hebdo knew full well they were risking their lives, and the lives of those they employed, by intentionally trying to offend Muslims, particularly those of a jihadist bent. This is confirmed by the fact that the now late editor in chief of Charlie Hebdo, Stephane Charbonnier, once quipped that he'd "rather die standing than living on [his] knees." <br />
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In light of this, nobody should be surprised that Charbonnier, and at least eleven other people who worked on Charlie Hebdo, were murdered in cold blood today by Muslim terrorists. And yet, <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/01/07/muslims-are-right-to-be-angry-prominent-catholic-leader-accuses-charlie-hebdo-of-provoking-deadly-terror-attack/">some people are miffed at "Screaming" Bill Donahue of the Catholic League </a>for pointing out that the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo was foreseeable. <br />
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Obviously, these critics have mistaken Donahue's pointing out the foreseeability of the terrorist attack that occurred with blaming the victims for causing the attack. It's admittedly a nuanced distinction, but one that nevertheless exists.<br />
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These criticisms of Bill Donahue also detract from the fact that the publishers of Charlie Hebdo have been playing a reckless and dangerous game of "chicken" with Muslim jihadists that, sadly and unsurprisingly, has resulted in the tragic murder of several lives. <br />
Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-87006478888614104222015-01-05T18:11:00.003-08:002015-01-05T18:12:43.804-08:00Dear Harvard: *Facepalm*Much like almost all other institutes of so-called higher learning these days, Harvard was all gung-ho for the passage of Obamacare a few years ago. Heck, the architect of Obamacare, Jonathan "Americans Are Stupid People" Gruber, is a professor there.<br />
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Now comes news that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/us/health-care-fixes-backed-by-harvards-experts-now-roil-its-faculty.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1">the faculty at Harvard are bitching and moaning </a>about having to pay for increased health care costs that are directly caused by Obamacare. <br />
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If there were ever a group of people that was less self-aware than these left-wing elitists, I'd be shocked.Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-64639070962504009012015-01-05T16:25:00.005-08:002015-01-05T16:30:51.710-08:00Return of the Los Angeles Rams?News that the owner of the St. Louis Rams is planning on <a href="http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/story/_/id/12122091/st-louis-rams-owner-planning-stadium-site-los-angeles">building a stadium in the City of Inglewood </a>is fortifying rumors that the Rams will be coming back to Los Angeles. While I hope it turns out to be true (I grew up rooting for the Rams while they were in L.A.) I'm not going to believe the rumor until there's an official announcement. There's just been too many NFL teams over the years that have publicly used Los Angeles as a bargaining chip to get new stadium deals in their own cities. Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-37816687330753972192015-01-03T19:56:00.002-08:002015-01-03T19:58:40.604-08:00One Year Later...It's been exactly one year since my last post, which much like all of 2014, was a bit of downer. <br />
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Politically, the year ended pretty well with the Republican tidal wave in Congress. I somehow get the feeling, though, the GOP congressional leadership under John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are going to screw everything up. Their handling of Obama's unconstitutional immigration legislation certainly hasn't given me much confidence in them. <br />
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Unfortunately, the Republican tidal wave across the country barely touched California. Moonbeam won reelection as governor, Republicans again failed to win a state-wide office, and over 900 new and largely liberty undermining laws have been added to the books. The only real positive thing that happened in California in 2014 was the Democrats losing their super-majority in the State Senate. <br />
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And, oh yeah, my friend Matthew Harper was elected to the State Assembly. Matt, I think, is someone to keep an eye on for state-wide office.<br />
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Whether this is my only posting for the year, I can't say. Facebook and Twitter have pretty much replaced what I started with this blog over ten years ago. I'm on Twitter almost every day, so if you happen to be interested in anything I have to say, you can follow me at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/catholiclawyer">@catholiclawyer</a>. Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-29712282837380793452014-01-03T20:10:00.000-08:002014-01-04T21:03:16.220-08:00Prayer Request for My FatherMy dad had to be taken to the emergency room today because he had been running a fever of over 100. When he got there, they found he had pneumonia. He's now been admitted to the hospital, and it's unclear how long he will have to stay there. Things are made even more worrisome by the fact that my dad's immunity system is on the weak side because of fairly recent chemotherapy treatment.<br />
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If you would, please pray for my dad, and also ask for the intercessory prayer of St. Bernadine of Siena, who is the patron saint of lung illnesses. Thank you, and God bless. <br />
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Update (1/4/13): Good news. Turns out my dad doesn't have pneumonia and is starting to feel a little better. Hopefully, he'll be able to go home soon. Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-493284386162152992013-09-02T08:53:00.003-07:002014-09-09T15:28:32.030-07:00Liberalism is FascismThe gay leftist Brown Shirts are at it again, this time targeting a bakery in Oregon whose owners have the temerity of exercising their First Amendment right to religious liberty. More specifically, the bakery owners believe marriage is a religious union between one man and one woman, and will not violate this belief by making cakes for sexual deviants who want to throw a "gay marriage" party.<br />
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<i>From threats to vicious phone calls and e-mails, the Klein family has been inundated with angry responses. Now, Aaron and Melissa have announced that they are shutting down their shop.<br />
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In a brief phone interview earlier this month, Melissa told TheBlaze that the couple has continued to face upheaval following their faith-based decision. Just days after we spoke, she and her husband announced that this past weekend was the family’s last at its current location.<br />
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The business will be transitioning, with the Kleins operating, instead, from their home.</i>
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Read more <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/02/bible-thumping-bch-bakery-that-refused-to-make-gay-couples-wedding-cake-is-shutting-down-its-shop-following-threats-anger/">here</a>.<br />
<br />Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-61400894208749863672013-09-01T10:25:00.002-07:002013-09-01T10:25:18.403-07:00Pot KillsTwo real life reasons for why marijuana should not be decriminalized so that it can be used for recreational purposes:<br />
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1. <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_23992231/rim-fire-smoke-covers-yosemite-valley-fire-becomes">Rim Fire in Yosemite Valley</a> becomes the fourth largest wildfire in California history. Fire officials suspect the cause of the fire originated from a marijuana growing operation. Yes, the operation was illegal, but only because proper permits were not obtained.<br />
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2. An Arizona man allegedly <a href="http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/23294249/2013/08/29/county-attorney-to-decide-on-charges-in-babys-heat-death">smoked pot while his three month old child was allowed to die in a hot car</a>.Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-89827079789073525462012-11-25T09:34:00.001-08:002012-11-25T09:44:11.185-08:00Atheism Makes You Stupid<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/25/charlie-brown-christmas-show-at-center-church-vs-state-fight/">Exhibit No. 895231:</a><br />
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<i>An atheist group is accusing an Arkansas grade school of violating students’ constitutional rights by inviting them to a performance of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” at a local church.<br /><br />
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"We're not saying anything bad about Charlie Brown," Anne Orsi, a Little Rock attorney and vice president of the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers, told KARK 4 News. "The problem is that it's got religious content and it's being performed in a religious venue and that doesn't just blur the line between church and state, it oversteps it entirely."</i></blockquote>
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Forget about the fact that no student at the Arkansas school is required to go to the performance, the venue is an inanimate object, there is no "separation of church and state" in the Constitution, and that the so-called "religious content" Ms. Orsi is referring to in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKk9rv2hUfA">"A Charlie Brown Christmas"</a> is a factually accurate recitation of the origins/meaning of Christmas. Public school children must remain of the belief that Christmas is all about Santa Claus, i.e., the Democrat Party platform pre two-thirds delegate "approval" of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8BwqzzqcDs">this</a>! Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-53197261259584865572012-11-23T13:56:00.000-08:002012-11-23T13:58:52.500-08:00Arnold Schwarzenegger's Business Shakedown Legacy The one thing that Arnold Schwarzenegger has touted as a crowning achievement in his otherwise disastrous tenure as California's governor, which ended in 2010, is the enactment of <a href="http://www.epa.gov/captrade/">"cap and trade"</a> legislation. One of the features of this state law, which is set to take effect in 2013, is the auction sale of "carbon credits" by the state to businesses that may emit pollutants at levels that are in excess of what is legally permitted.<br><br>
Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the entire premise for cap and trade legislation - anthropogenic global warming - is bullshit. Recently, <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/the-futility-of-climate-change-mitigation/article/2514083#.UK_lzYdJOAi">the Science and Public Policy Institute in Virginia</a> released a report which found that if the United States just stopped emitting carbon dioxide altogether, <b>"the ultimate impact on projected global temperature rise would be a reduction, or a 'savings,' of approximately 0.08°C by the year 2050 and 0.17°C by the year 2100--amounts that are, for all intents and purposes, negligible."</b>
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So that <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/20/business/la-fi-pollution-credits-20121120">carbon credit auction</a> California had a few days ago pursuant to its impending cap and trade law? A pure scam. More significantly, though, businesses that couldn't afford to purchase any carbon credits are going to shut down, move out of the state or pass on whatever emissions fines they have to pay onto consumers.
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Thanks for nothing, Arnold, you clusterf&*k of miserable fail.
Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-40753284739130031012012-11-23T08:22:00.002-08:002012-11-23T08:22:53.800-08:00Astro Turf Much?How many of the protesters in this video are actual Wal-Mart employees, I can't say. Seeing as how most of them were specially bused in (probably by a labor union) and nobody would give a responsive answer to why they were there protesting, I'm willing to bet almost none.
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h/t <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com">Gateway Pundit</a>Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-35683050404460531392012-11-22T10:14:00.000-08:002012-11-22T10:14:06.066-08:00Rush Limbaugh on ThanksgivingHistorically speaking, Thanksgiving was basically a celebratory rejection of what came to be known as socialism.
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<i>...Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives." That's not what it was.
"Here is the part that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share." It was a commune. It was socialism. "All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well," not to the individuals who built them.
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"Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage." They could do with it whatever they wanted. He essentially turned loose the free market on 'em. "Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism." And they found that it didn't work.
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...So what did they try next? Free enterprise. "Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? 'This had very good success,' wrote Bradford, 'for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.'"
They had miraculous results. In no time they found they had more food than they could eat themselves. So they set up trading posts. They exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off the people that sponsored their trip in London. The success and the prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans, began what became known as the great Puritan migration.
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Read all of Rush's monologue <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/11/21/the_real_story_of_thanksgiving">here</a>. And Happy Thanksgiving! Here's hoping we can restore it to being a celebration, rather a memorial, to free market capitalism. Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-13427270571014421622012-11-22T09:20:00.001-08:002012-11-22T09:20:49.960-08:00The Liberal Stupid is Outta ControlThis is a news report on the Thanksgiving-Eve protest organized by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) against LAX. The thing of it is, SEIU doesn't even represent LAX workers. Anyway, watch, laugh, and/or cry at what non-airport workers who were at the protest supporting SEIU say. Or are they "baaaaa"-ing? <br><br>
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If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen some of the lamenting I've done in the past about nobody making a primary challenge to my congressman, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcampbell.house.gov%2F&ei=GEWDT7OPB-SbiQKsv8W_Aw&usg=AFQjCNH5Qde3dsfbE2b5dqueM47oLJXqmw">John Campbell</a>. <br />
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Since ascending to Congress from the California State Legislature in 2005, Campbell has built up a voting record that is decidedly at odds with the conservative reputation he'd like everyone to believe he possesses. In addition to voting for the Wall Street bailout (aka TARP), Campbell was the only congressional Republican against limiting the salaries and bonuses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives. Campbell further voted for an increase on the limits of Fannie and Freddie home loans, helped Democrats in Congress beat back efforts to effectively repeal the anti-business Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and voted to overturn the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.<br />
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John Campbell is also notoriously known to be an "absent congressman" who seems to only show up in the district whenever he makes a call-in appearance to the Hugh Hewitt radio show. I myself have never gotten a response from Campbell about the emails I sent to his office regarding the need to reform the Americans with Disabilities Act. <br />
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Given all of his shortcomings as a congressman, it's unsurprising that <a href="http://www.redstate.com/augustine25/2012/02/21/ocs-john-campbell-fails-to-win-ocgop-endorsement/">John Campbell failed to get endorsed by the Orange County Republican Party Central Committee </a>this past February. From this news, I was delighted to learn that a primary challenge was being made to Campbell by a fellow named <a href="http://johnwebb2012.net/">John Webb</a>, a former Marine and police officer.<br />
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I'm not sure how realistic it is for John Webb to win in June, because even though the local GOP establishment isn't backing Campbell, I'm sure Campbell is getting a lot of money from the elected establishment in DC. Nevertheless, I'm voting for John Webb, and if you too live in the newly drawn 45th congressional district of California, I would encourage you to do so as well.Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-43803119270051128472012-04-09T08:47:00.001-07:002012-04-09T12:45:16.777-07:00So A White Guy Walks Into A Polling Place Claiming To Be Eric Holder...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unless you pay absolutely no attention to any news whatsoever, Eric Holder is the Attorney General of the United States. He is President Obama's appointed head of the U.S. Department of Justice, which is basically responsible for enforcing all Federal criminal and civil rights laws. And like President Barack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder is black.
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No doubt at the direction/approval of Obama, the Dept. of Justice under Eric Holder recently struck down laws in the states of <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/voter-id-laws-struck-down-in-texas-wisconsin/">South Carolina and Texas</a> which would have required voters to show a valid photo ID before they could receive a ballot. These sensible laws were blocked by the DOJ on the unsubstantiated rationale that they illegally deterred racial minorities, Hispanics in particular, from voting.<br />
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As the below video reveals, it seems Eric Holder also doesn't think requiring a valid photo ID does anything to prevent voter fraud from occurring. Indeed, Holder doesn't even seem to think there is a voter fraud problem. He is, of course, proven horribly horribly wrong:<br />
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<b><u>Update:</u></b> An unnamed DOJ official weakly dismisses as <a href="http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/doj-official-calls-okeefe-voter-id-stunt-manufactured">"manufactured"</a> the voter fraud exposed in the above video. <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/">h/t</a>Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-86312873593578260072012-03-12T20:46:00.000-07:002012-03-12T20:59:55.168-07:00Fun With -- --- .-. ... . -..-. -.-. --- -.. .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In Orange County, California, there is a stretch of the 55 freeway where you can regularly see a billboard sign that has been paid for by a group of self-identified atheists. As you can see by the embedded image of Thomas Jefferson, these atheists just don't express their non-belief in any god, they are openly hostile toward religion; Christianity in particular. How do I know this? For one thing, Thomas Jefferson <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/atheists-billboard-thomas-jefferson_n_1035168.html">never said the words</a> that these atheists attributed to him. <br />
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Watch this short video of Fr. Robert Barron on the new atheists (h/t <a href="http://the-american-catholic.com">The American Catholic</a>). I especially like how he describes atheism as a drug that makes its adherents the very thing which they accuse people of religious faith of being: delusional.<br />
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And in the 57th state, our lord and savior said "Make it so!" (in Austrian, of course), and <a href="http://news.investors.com/Article.aspx?id=602152&p=1&ibdbot=1">turned algae into the U.S.'s sole source of energy</a>.<br />
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Can I get an "Allahu Akbar"?!<br />
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<b><u>Update</u></b>: <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://minx.cc/?post=326982">Unicorn Farts Are an Impractical Substitute for Oil</a></span>Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-64200935001212769102011-12-23T22:32:00.000-08:002011-12-23T22:32:41.173-08:00Let Them Eat Poi!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last year in August I blogged a post titled "<a href="http://catholiclawyer.blogspot.com/2010/08/let-them-eat-paella.html">Let Them Eat Paella!</a>" which was about the extravagant vacation to Spain that FLOTUS Michelle Obama took on the taxpayers' dime while the country was going through some hard economic times.<br />
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Things have not really gotten much better a year later, as the national real unemployment rate is somewhere in the vicinity of <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.4452bed82adf3124e5884678e236d7fb.361">16 percent</a> and the <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2011/10/10/higher-health-insurance-premiums-this-year-blame-obamacare/">rotten effects of Obamacare</a> have started. But all this hasn't stopped Michelle from having the First Family take a 17-day vacation to Hawaii, which we all know is in <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/15/obama-mistakenly-refers-to-hawaii-as-asia-during-summit/">Asia</a>.<br />
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Total estimated cost to the American taxpayers for this jaunt by the Obama's to the Aloha State: <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/18/obamas-4-million-hawaii-vacation/">$4 million</a>. <a href="http://wizbangblog.com/2011/08/21/obama-hits-the-links-for-the-78th-time/">Ridiculous</a>.Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-76606486038955314552011-11-18T20:36:00.001-08:002011-11-18T23:23:03.907-08:00Stand by Our Matt?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I decided to attend a local Republican Party candidates forum the other night that was sponsored by the Fountain Valley Republican Assembly (I think that's their name). There were three participants in the forum, all of whom are running to be the elected representative for the newly redistricted 72nd District in the California State Assembly.<br />
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One of the candidates, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/HarperForAssembly">Matthew Harper</a>, is an old acquaintance from my Orange County Young Republican days in the late '90s. Matt is politically savvy and articulates his policy positions really well. His only one real drawback is on the issue of abortion, where he would allow legal exceptions for it in cases of rape, incest and endangerment of the mother's life. But other than that, Matt has a good head on his shoulders, is conservative, and somebody definitely worth supporting and voting for if you are able.<br />
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In terms of his campaign, I'm holding out hope Matt will borrow from the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g7cazQNF4eo">"karaoke strategy"</a> employed by Tan Nguyen in his otherwise failed run at unseating Loretta Sanchez from Congress in 2006.
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<i>"[Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" - President Andrew Jackson (purportedly) </i><br />
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I haven't been paying very much attention to the GOP presidential campaigns and debates, but my best guess is that there hasn't really been much discussion going on about the courts and the judges who preside over them. The seeming one exception to this is Newt Gingrich who, in the following appearance on Face the Nation, forthrightly says Federal judges have effectively become dictators over the American people. In his administration, Gingrich says that blatantly unconstitutional court rulings will be ignored, and the Federal judges who make them will be publicly held accountable and perhaps removed from the bench. <br />
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Even though I think Gingrich has too much personal baggage to overcome to win the GOP nomination for president, I really like what he saying in his campaign about the courts. Hopefully, the other GOP candidates will take his cue and broaden the discussion.Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-86581297306307505852011-10-09T20:46:00.000-07:002011-10-09T20:50:09.522-07:00Coming Back Soon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been gone for a while, but I plan to start blogging again real soon. One thing I'm considering is doing a series of posts on specific California state court judges that I have either appeared before or heard about. Suffice it to say, if I decide to do this series, most of these posts will be critical, and several will outright recommend throwing a judge off the bench via the ballot box.<br />
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There's a whole lot of incompetence in the California judiciary that has resulted in the needless harming of lives and which has cost all of us untold millions in taxes. The best way that I can think of to help reform this pervasive problem is to expose it on this here blog. Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-73774993269270627982011-04-15T18:27:00.000-07:002011-04-15T23:08:48.005-07:00Kobe Bryant and Political Correctness<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1zJP6ZZQB374fKU8TDqAbS4dE10QF3aBqgh2mTUyH58okBjUZDuEhzFIm7gZMqjzHNfoX3Nd4FndFg0ySY_CjUVhk9lGzCfsboEd53uxC5Jv1g2TpFsq5DDb9mq1SUprvuzbFHA/s1600/kobe-bryant.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 129px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1zJP6ZZQB374fKU8TDqAbS4dE10QF3aBqgh2mTUyH58okBjUZDuEhzFIm7gZMqjzHNfoX3Nd4FndFg0ySY_CjUVhk9lGzCfsboEd53uxC5Jv1g2TpFsq5DDb9mq1SUprvuzbFHA/s200/kobe-bryant.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596054834939134210" /></a><br />The NBA recently <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=6344596">fined superstar basketball player Kobe Bryant $100,000</a> for calling a referee "faggot" during a nationally televised game. Kobe uttered the vulgarity basically out of frustration with the referee's perceived incompetence.<br /><br />There is certainly no defending Kobe's potty mouth and lack of civility toward the referee. However, the swiftness and excessiveness of the fine imposed by the NBA over a vulgar word illustrates just how successful the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Mafia">Lavender Mafia</a> and their enablers in the leftist media have been at normalizing an objectively disordered sexual orientation, as well as same-sex intercourse, in our popular culture. All this week, I've been hearing sports talk radio hosts like Dan Patrick praising not only the NBA for quickly reprimanding Kobe for his so-called "anti-gay" remark, but Kobe himself for basically kowtowing to the Lavender Mafia and the lie it perpetuates that homosexuality is the equivalent of race and ethnicity. Every time I hear this stuff, I want to call the radio shows and inform the hosts that since they are characterizing Kobe's remark as anti-gay, it must then mean that not only do they think homosexuality is not disordered (i.e., biologically unnatural) but also that they must not have any moral objection to same-sex intercourse (i.e., it's something they would do themselves). <br /><br />Seeing as that these talk radio show hosts are likely informed about most non-sports issues from the leftist media (Dan Patrick is a longtime friend and former reporting partner of the execrable Keith Olbermann) and aren't very much accustomed to critical thinking, I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised that they would mindlessly parrot the false assumptions about homosexuality the Lavender Mafia propounds in our culture. It is exceedingly annoying, though, as is the slavish adherence to political correctness by both the NBA and Kobe Bryant.Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500376.post-53287361412147866342011-04-12T16:21:00.000-07:002011-04-12T22:54:56.269-07:00Chinese Soldiers in the Civil War<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3sOvomLFQlKrnTP6uGSdnN5HrvzFXSmWje-OMjVmUv7hdXGFfKU0mv-x1dycMZ27R-rONofBmVCKVfS0pX8v13HIbmmN5tj6G-ZuB2RtDHE2nUN6fIQipEaz9lKAMHbgotX22eg/s1600/joseph_pierce.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3sOvomLFQlKrnTP6uGSdnN5HrvzFXSmWje-OMjVmUv7hdXGFfKU0mv-x1dycMZ27R-rONofBmVCKVfS0pX8v13HIbmmN5tj6G-ZuB2RtDHE2nUN6fIQipEaz9lKAMHbgotX22eg/s200/joseph_pierce.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594842292239133602" /></a><br />On this day, 150 years ago, <a href="http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html">the first shots of the American Civil War</a> were made in Charleston, South Carolina. Regardless of one’s sympathies for either the North or South, this era of history has had, and continues to have, a great deal of fascination for most people, including myself.<br /><br />Thanks in large part to the Internet (or its “inventor,” Al Gore) I’m even more intrigued by the Civil War, as I’ve recently discovered to my pleasant surprise that there were some ethnic Chinese who had fought in the war as Union and Confederate soldiers. A few details about some of these men can be found <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/accsacw/Home">here</a>, which is where I pulled the pictures that are imbedded in this blog post.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw8AKDYEZ1rjeYbdDEzrjl4ZwhS7u5CrFM29Fd35ZojgKuF3O2HzFJ6XLDUv2Ct1-xKQjltK5lBUv6X-2PF0fxsw3Q6PpshmuLIiag2BmtmYznUImimMYD5Vu7LMjAdl1EnPJB6w/s1600/HongNeokWOO.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 149px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw8AKDYEZ1rjeYbdDEzrjl4ZwhS7u5CrFM29Fd35ZojgKuF3O2HzFJ6XLDUv2Ct1-xKQjltK5lBUv6X-2PF0fxsw3Q6PpshmuLIiag2BmtmYznUImimMYD5Vu7LMjAdl1EnPJB6w/s200/HongNeokWOO.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594941295716090642" /></a>As you read through the above linked to site, which really could be better formatted, take notice of the distinctly non-Chinese last names used by some of the profiled soldiers: Joseph Pierce, Thomas Sylvanus, Charles K. Marshall, Edward Day Cohota. Kind of odd, right? Then again, the Confederacy’s greatest general had a Chinese-sounding last name, so maybe not.Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751347457451165584noreply@blogger.com1