OHIO SCRAPS 2 YEAR OLD 21 MILLION DOLLAR VOTING SYSTEM

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections recently voted along party lines to change the two year old electronic voting system. The two Republicans voted no, the two Democrats yes. The tie-breaker was cast by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. She had previously recommended scrapping it.

Voters in other Ohio counties had no problems with identical and/or similar systems. Why Cuyahoga County? One is lead to believe that there are only a few of reasons for it:

1) The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections doesn't know what they're doing.
2) Cuyahoga County voters are too dumb to do things right.
3) There is a deliberate effort to sabotage the electronic voting system.
4) Jennifer Brunner and the Democratic Party will somehow benefit from the new ($9 million)
way of doing things.
5) Cuyahoga County will go over to Dennis Kucinich in the upcoming Presidential Elections.
6) All of the above.

How our friends and fellow Americans will lose the War

If I were the other guy, given the propensity of the American Congress, I'd just wait things out. You know sooner or later we're going to pull out. How about a little historical perspective behind my thoughts?

Henry Kissinger, a German-born naturalized American citizen, negotiated "peace with honor" on behalf of the American government of the time. The so-called Vietnam peace treaty was signed in Paris, France. We pulled out and it wasn't long afterward that the other guy came out of his hole and pushed into the capitol of South Vietnam, Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City). After the military victories won there by our courageous fighting forces, we allowed the other guy to win the political victory and eventual military victory.

There are times I like to be wrong but I've seen it happen before. Once we pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq they'll come out of their holes. The fact that they can kill at will doesn't matter. 50 innocent people were blown up this week there. They will blow up 50 anywhere they choose and nobody's standing with us in our attempt to prevent it.

Let's see what happens when we have radical Muslim governments in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, etc. Then-President Jimmy Carter turned his back on the Shah of Iran and we "lost" them. Who will then turn their backs to us? We still don't know who are friends are.

Thumbprint Identification

I recently had to ask a claimant to provide identification. He was seeking money for a auto-rental truck accident (he was in the car) that appeared to be staged. He asked me to meet him at a residence that was not where lived. In my presence, he pulled out a Social Security card from a desk drawer. It had his name on it. As he put the card back into the desk drawer I glanced down at it. Inside the drawer were many social security cards.

Whatever happened to the idea of thumbprint ID? Couldn't this solve a myriad of problems? For example, people who vote twice (like those who put Cleveland's Dennis Kucinich in office).

How about people with multiple IDs? Who knows, there might be the John Smith who is employed by a government beauracy or private industry, and then there might be the same John Smith, aka Muhamed whatever, drawing social benefits from Uncle Sam.

Wouldn't thumbprint ID eliminate cheaters? The pool of deceivers that would be cut from their income stream might be far larger than anyone could imagine.

Sell the Ohio Turnpike and help Iraqi Refugees

There has been talk this year of selling the Ohio Turnpike. There has also been talk about settling Iraqi "refugees" here. I've got a plan that will solve both issues.

Sell the Turnpike to Iraq. Can you see it - an Iraqi in every Toll Booth!

Thank you Bill Cosby

This was checked on Snopes.com as True.

"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk:

Why you ain't,

Where you is,

What he drive,

Where he stay,

Where he

work,

Who you be...

And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.

Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father?

People putting their clothes on backward: Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong? People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something? Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?

Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back.

People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now. We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.

We have to start holding each other to a higher standard. We cannot blame the white people any longer."

Dr. William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.

Illegal Immigation - the polarization of the issue.

The reported Hispanic community's alleged alarm over perceived backlash against illegal immigration only confirms this cultural anthropologist's observations.

All Americans, including "native Americans" have roots somewhere else. However, American media has done an effective job of polarizing the issue of illegal immigration.

The message to the illegal community, if one can call them that, is COME IN THE FRONT DOOR.

The problem exacerbates itself when amnesty is considered for those already illegally residing here. Don't you think they will bring in MORE illegals from their families?

If we don't maintain control it won't be long before the question will be asked, "Is Los Angeles (or Cleveland, or......) burning?

Religion in Politics

Religion is man-made, an outward expression of what most consider their "faith".

True faith, however, transcends "Religion". That is in the arena of spirituality. And those who are in touch with their spiritual nature can be Moslem, Christian, Jew or simply one without any outward expression of any particular "religion".

One's spirituality should be evident in the way they live and doesn't need to be questioned or broadcast. Religion, on the other hand, like homosexuality, has no place in the political world.