Amending Is Generally Just Expending

In order to ramp up voter interest in an otherwise generally uninteresting event in the form of a midterm election, the heavily R controlled North Carolina General Assembly has put six proposed state constitutional amendments on the ballot.  Some of them have accomplished their objective in creating colossal controversy. 
I have read the text as it will appear on the ballot.  I have read the official explanations as presented by the the NC Constitutional Amendments Publication Commission.  I have read the inputs from such groups as media outlets, the state bar association and the National Association of Social Workers.  (I didn't know who the NASW is, until I clicked on their posting.  You didn't really think for a moment that I give a good good gahoot what a bunch of social workers believe, did you?)   And I have read the actual full text of the laws as passed, in their native legalese, in which I am fluent. 
The first proposed amendment adds a 38th section of Article I of the constitution.  It is designed to protect the public's "right to hunt, fish and harvest wildlife".  The language of the law specifies "the right to use traditional methods" of these activities.  What are the traditional methods of fishing? Pole/rod and reel hook and line?  Net?  Canoodling?  Firearms? Battery electrocution?  Dynamite?  I've witnessed all of those methods used.  What are the traditional methods of hunting?  Firearms?  Bow and arrow?  Spears?  Clamp, slingshot, and pit traps?  Baiting and poisoning?  I've seen or heard of all of those methods utilized.
As one of my most respected neighbors opines, hunting and fishing are God given rights, not to be usurped by the state.  Genesis does command "men..to be the masters of all life upon the earth and in the skies and in the seas" and proclaims that we  are "the masters of the fish and birds and all the animals".
This proposed amendment would be "subject to laws enacted by the General Assembly and rules adopted pursuant to authority granted by the General Assembly".  The legislators did rightfully include that "Nothing" about this amendment "shall be construed to modify any provision of law relating to trespass, property rights or eminent domain."  Another provision that "Public hunting and fishing shall be a preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife" is as pointless and superfluous as the first mentioned provision in this paragraph.  I'll vote AGAINST.
The victims' rights amendment makes Article I, Section 37 a lot wordier.  Some of the words, like "dignity and respect" are pointless and superfluous, as they are words with no real objective definition or application.  I do like the inserted provisions to include "delinquency", as so much crime in 21st century America, particularly gang related crimes, are committed by minors.  I don't like the provision that gives district attorneys an 'out' for their malfeasance of duty.   I also don't like the the public fiscal note accompanying this legislation estimating that these changes to our justice system will cost $11 million a year.  I shall vote AGAINST and shall admonish my Raleigh Representative and Senator to remove or reword that D.A. protective provision in Subsection 1b and to insert language that mandates that costs incurred shall be paid by the criminals and to re-present the amendment in two years.
 Liberals decry that this amendment to lower the cap on state income taxes will hurt the middle working class, hurt public institutions, such as the schools and benefit the wealthy and corporations.  This is bull squeeze and balderdash, as the only change that this proposed amendment would make is changing the word "ten" to "seven".  Any specific number in this type of law is arbitrary.  I shall vote FOR any law that limits governmental power to take our money at the point of a loaded government gun.
 The Voter ID amendment adds a new subsection to Section 2 of Article VI.  My only real problem with this proposed amendment is that it only affects "in person" voters and does not address absentee voters.  I shall vote FOR this amendment, as it does not seem to affect the constitutional requirement that "every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English language."
  I shall not go into any great detail about the final two proposed amendments.  They are both obvious overreaches by the General Assembly to usurp Executive and Judicial authority, which would create imbalance in our system of checks and balances.  They also create new bureaucracies and provide additional power to Legislative major party politicians.
Both of these proposals are short sighted and narrow vision back lashes against recent governor, Repulsican Pat McCrory and current governor, Demoncat Roy Cooper.
 
I shall strongly vote AGAINST both.  

     
             

Who'll Tax Us (US)?

Article I Section 7 (1)  "All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives..."

Every two years, some hundreds of millions of Americans elect a few hundred Americans to assume the awesome responsibility of inventing and implementing laws, rules, regulations and codes  designed to take our money away from us (US) at the point of a loaded government gun. 

There is no way that I can intelligently and insightfully offer prognostication or opinion on 435 House of Representatives races, as I have for 35 Senate contests.  Of course, the real number is 440.  Though those five to whom I refer have no vote in Congress, but they do have input and influence. 

Therefore, I shall address just a couple which are close to my home and a very few others which are close to my heart.   The majority of those several, like the majority of all of the races across the nation, are deemed by the primarily progressive pundits and pollsters to predict that 'big blue wave'.

    Just like that disappointed dumb ass in the cartoon, I'm just not seeing it.  Currently, the Republicans/Repulsicans/Rebooblicans occupy 235 seats.  The one Democrat and the Demoncats/Dummycraps sit in 193 of those chairs.  There are seven vacancies.  Two of those vacant seats were held by D's.  Louise Slaughter of NY died.       Considering the urban demographic of her district, she will no doubt be succeeded by fellow frown face and guilty of election fraud, Demoncat Joe Morelle.   

 

  After more than half a century on Capitol Hill, John Conyers of Michigan resigned in disgustful disgrace at the end of last year, well ahead of his announced plan to retire at the end of this term.  Amid charges of sexual harassment and using tax payer money to settle those cases, he had not much choice, in spite of being one of the Demoncats' favorite houseboys, like Stephen in Django Unchained, as he was consistently ranked and rated as one of he most liberal members of the (Demoncat Plantation) House.

Rep. Conyers has named his son, John Conyers III to replace him.  And you can bet apples to oranges that this apple will not fall from the tree.  He was arrested for domestic abuse.  But being John Conyers III, he wasn't prosecuted.

  And you can bet your socks and shoes that the dumb mass Dummycraps of Detroit, etc. will elect him, while passing on the opportunity to support a truly GOOD, even GREAT American Negroid, John James, who is running for the Senate.  They'll continue to blindly and brainlessly cast ballots for Debbie Stabenow, who will stab 'em now and forevermore, as one of their most miserable plantation Missuses.

 

Five R's resigned their House seats this year.  Oklahoman Jim Bridenstine accepted President Trump's nomination and the Senate's confirmation to become the Administrator of NASA.  

 

Two Pennsylvanian Repulsicans said good bye, and from what I read, I say good riddance.  The two districts are recently redrawn and are predicted by pollsters to flip to the D's. 

 Ron Desantis resigned his seat as Florida's 6th District Congressman to run for Governor.  I hope to God, Jesus and Mother Mary that enough Floridians will choose him over that wackadoodle, Andrew Gillum, who is openly promising to reverse the great economic recovery and progress that Florida has experienced through the gubernatorial and presidential leadership of Rick Scott ad Donald Trump.  Gillum counts among his allies and supporters, crazy Bernie Sanders and former Dummycrap Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her gun control lobby.
And he considers and calls Florida "a cracker state."  Thank you, Project Veritas.

 

 

Surprisingly, the pollsters are predicting that Michael Waltz will beat a former Clintonista to hold the seat for the R's.  

  Evan Jenkins left Congress to accept an appointment to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. The district has a PVI of R+23, so most pollsters are giving a slight edge to WV House Delegate Carol Miller.  A couple of them are calling it a toss-up between her and state senator/retired, decorated Army Major, Richard Ojeda, who some veterans label as a fraud.

 

Realistic worst case scenario is that the D's fill six of those seats. Realistic best hope is that they will take four.  Splitting the difference, let's say that current R representation is 237 and the D's have 198 seats.  Given those numbers, the Demoncats need to flip twenty R held seats, while losing none of their own, to establish a one seat majority.  The pollsters are predicting only two Demoncat losses, while prognosticating sixteen flips in their favor.   That would narrow, but maintain the R's majority at 223 to 212.  And there's another thirty-three labeled as toss-ups, split about evenly between the parties.   With all of that, it is plain to see that we have a clear and present danger of being regressed to governance of progressive partisan politics, which only progresses the regressive realities of welfare state collectivism of 'community'.  People, or should I say sheeple, it does NOT take a village.   It takes individuals who recognize that they not only have rights; they have responsibilities to be self-sufficient, contributing citizens.  With that in mind, let's look at a few individual races of particular interest to me. 

Florida District 27 is in the Miami metropolitan area and has a D +5 PVI.  Long serving Repulsican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is retiring.  

It appears that the D's will take this seat.  It won't be all that much of a philosophical swing, as Rep. Ros-Lehtiner broke with the R's a full fifteen per cent of the time and opposed President Trump's initiatives a third of the time.  I mention this race only because I once suggested Rep. Ros-Lehtinen as a possible Cabinet Secretary because of her extended committee experience, as well as her gender and ethnic demographics.  With her most recent experience as Chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee, she would be an excellent pick to be permanent Ambassador to Cuba, as we presently have an interim Charge' d'Affaires there.  That's dependent, of course, on President Trump choosing to continue Obama established diplomatic relations with communist Cuba.

Some good and personally favorite Representatives are retiring. Trey Gowdy, Ted Poe and Darrell Issa are all good men and true Republicans, not of the ilk of so many of their Repulsican and Rebooblican colleagues.  Their wisdom and experience shall be sorely missed.  

The pollsters say that South Carolinians and Texans will vote to continue to have R's representing them.  Let us hope that William Timmons (or Guy Furay, the American Party candidate), and Dan Crenshaw (or Libertarian Patrick Gunnels) will govern using the same set of guiding principles which their predecessors did.  I think that they should..or at least could.  Timmons is an entrepreneur and an Army JAG officer.  Dan Crenshaw was a Navy SEAL.  The politically motivated pollsters are predicting that Diane Harkey will not be able to win Issa's long occupied seat.  That would be a crying California crime, as Harkey is even a rarer human commodity than Timmons or Crenshaw.  She is a capitalistic economist and a bona fide California conservative.  

 A bigger crime than not electing Harkey would be electing her King Baracka Hussein O endorsed, Dummycrap opponent. Mike Levin.  As his mentor, King Baracka was nothing more than a community organizer, this punk putz is an environmental activist.  He's a failed lackey lawyer, in that he somehow got into one of the finest law schools at Duke University, but couldn't get through it.  His far left wing energy agenda would have us stop drilling for natural gas and shutting down our nuclear power plants.  Besides King Baracka, his radical endorsers include The Sierra Club, The League of Conservation Voters Action Fund and the nags at NOW.  God help us if this seat flips.  

   Another California seat that worries me is that one long occupied by Reagan Republican Dana Rohrabacher.  Like President Trump, he has been a target of the political opinion press of being a Putin/Russia colluder/compatriot.  

  Rohrabacher's opponent is just another lock step liberal prevaricating progressive, passing himself off as a moderate, who will work across the aisle. Harley Rouda would be just another subject of Princess Pelosi. 

Another few out west House races of interest include AZ 2 and 9 and NV  3.  The contest for the seat of Col. McSally, who is now projected as the winner of Jeff snowFlake's seat is confounding.  

  Ann Kirkpatrick, the Demoncat candidate for the District 2 seat is just another lying, liberal lawyer turned professional, progressive politician in an worse ilk than John McCaint Tell The Truth.  She'll say whatever she believe Arizonans need to hear to vote for her. She is also a pathetic political opportunist. moving into District 2, from District 1, which she represented for so much of her life.  She would have had to run a primary campaign against an incumbent fellow Demoncat to go for her old seat.   She is an absolute Omababot, who calls her vote for Obamacare her "proudest".  

 Lea Marquez-Peterson is a local and a self described "lifelong conservative Republican".  In a district pretty much evenly split between R's, D's and I's, with a PVI of R +1, that could be a good, bad or indifferent thing.  A business and civic leader, Ms. Peterson is a political novice and a true Trump supporting outsider.   It is so sad that the Republican National Congressional Committee has given up on this race.  Voters being voters, this district probably will flip.  But let us hope it doesn't. 

Speaking of District 1, the RNCC continues to support its candidate there running against freshman Tom O'Halleran.

   Though O'Halleran identifies with the Blue Dog and New Democrat Coalitions, he proclaims a "positive attitude toward government" and is very liberal in his votes and voice on issues like energy, gun control. illegal immigration and national security.  He is a political gamesman and opportunist, having switched party affiliations from R to I to D during the past decade. 

  In the vein of Col. Martha McSally, USAF Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers is an "America First" Republican from a multi-generational  military family, looking to send President Trump some back up.  Beyond her twenty year Air Force career, she is a highly educated entrepreneur.  She is SO conservatively strong on the all important issues of national security and illegal immigration, including the wall and sanctuary cities.  Though the pollsters are giving the edge to the incumbent, this district voted for Trump in 2016, and has a PVI of R +2.   We need to flip this seat and get this woman in Congress.  Her campaign site introductory video gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes.   OMG, we need this woman in Congress.  VOTE, Arizonans!

Before leaving Arizona, I shall say that there is little hope for the voters in District 9 to see lackey lawyer turned pro pol past Phoenix mayor, Greg Stanton as just a male version of blonde, bisexual bimbo bolshevik Kyrsten Sinema, whom he is seeking to replace, as she vacated it to make a run for Jeff snowFlake's Senate seat.  With her recent exposure as a far left wing progressive with total contempt for Arizona and Arizonans, let's hope that it is a failed run, as is Stanton's.   

  

                                          

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REMINDER: Correctly color coded.  Red is for such political entities as 

The Soviet Red Army, the Red Chinese and the American Democrat Party.

 Freshman senator Dean Heller is the only Republican senator seeking reelection in a state which Hitlary Clinton carried in 2016.  Hers was a narrow victory of plurality, with "None of these Candidates" receiving a larger percentage of the vote than that between The Hilldebeast and President Trump.  

The whorish hucksters of the various poling concerns have been saying that this seat IS going to flip.  As election day nears, even they are having to tell something closer to reality, to keep from looking like completely incompetent incompetents.   Harry Reid acolyte pro-abortion progressive 3rd District Congresswoman Jacky Rosen sought this Senate seat this year, because her district voted for President Trump in 2016, just as they are apt to vote R this year for Senator and Congressperson.

  The Dummycraps have chosen Susie Lee to run for the ladder climbing Rosen's seat.  She is just another Baracka like illiberal ignoramus, who has spent her life in quasi-education and non-profit.  The Dems do know about avoiding a profit.  It's like every year when Jimmy Carter ran the family peanut farm, it lost money, whereas, when his drunken, alcoholic brother Billy managed the farm's affairs, it made money.

    Non-establishment Republican candidate Danny Tarkanian is an entrepreneurial attorney with great Nevada name recognition.  He played for his father, Jerry Tarkanian's great UNLV basketball teams of the 1980's.  He's also run for danged near every office one could imagine.  This will be his third run at the US House.  Let's hope that 'third time's the charm'.  He lost by a narrow plurality margin to Rosen in 2016, after which he successfully sued her and the Demoncats for slander, libel and defamation.   

Coming closer to home, there's two very interesting House contests here in the Carolina's.   The first two congressional incumbents to lose primary elections were Mark Pittenger of suburban Charlotte, NC and Mark Sanford, of coastal South Carolina.

   Pittenger has proven to be a persistent putz, and Sanford is an anti-Trump establishment Repulsican.  They both deserved to lose.  I wish more constituents were as conscious and conscientious as those in NC 9 and SC 1. 

 Recovered from serious injuries received in a car crash in June, businesswoman Katie Arrington is fully expected to retain Sanford's seat for the R's..  She has even garnered public support from several prominent coastal Carolina Democrat Negroid business and community leaders, who are tired of Demoncats taking their votes for granted, according to ABC-4.

 NC 9 is another of those ridiculously gerrymandered districts here in NC, as ordered by federal court ruling.   It stretches along the NC-SC border from the southeast suburbs of Charlotte all the way to Fayetteville.   It is a district that has been represented by the R's for over fifty years, including the great patriot, Sue Myrick.  

   I said in 2001 that I wished the 9/11 plane that crashed in Pennsylvania had reached its target of the Capitol Dome, as long as Sue and just a very few others could escape and survive.

Now, in 2018, overly optimistic pin headed pundits are postulating that this is the year the R's lose that seat.  With an R +8 PVI and two candidates as diametrically opposed as is possible, the Dummycraps just keep getting dumber.  Rev. Mark Harris, is a stauch fiscal and social conservative. He's maybe overly socially conservative, but he is a Baptist pastor.  He will easily outdistance prevaricating Pelosi peon puppet, Dan McCready.      

Even closer to home, the Pelosi pocketbook is pouring the proverbial gazillions of dollars to persuade

Triad and Triangle Tar Heels to elect a Pelosi clone and a Maxine Waters wannabe.   Granted, there has been, in recent years, an influx of carpetbaggers to The Old North State, particularly in the Triangle.  But I do not see Ted Budd or George Holding losing their seats.

    

I especially don't see it, considering the Demoncats have nominated a mansion dwelling multimillionaire, who obtained that status by being just another Hitlary-like lying, liberal trial lawyer/ and Pelosi  clone in Kathy Manning.  

They're even more ridiculous in Raleigh by putting up a bumbling bolshevik bureaucrat in the person of Maxine Waters wannabe, Linda Coleman, to be an amiable addition to the cast of cuckolds in the Congressional Black Caucus within Princess Pelosi's plantation house.  I'm sure that she'd be stunning alongside self-proclaimed "proud socialist" and Marxist Maxine and her in-state sista, altruistic Alma Adams.

  

Are these few examples an indication of whom the Demoncats have chosen to recite the same old socialistic stupidity and bolshevik bull squeeze which they've been spouting since they founded the Ku Klux Klan?  If so, I'm thinking that we're not going to get washed away by a Demoncat/ Dummycrap deluge.  Until shown otherwise next week, I have to think (hope, at least) that the stupid sheeple don't yet outnumber the smart people, and that intellect and intelligence will Trump emotionality and idiocy.