SHUTTERBUG'S LOG

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

I KEEP TRYING TO GET THROUGH TO PEOPLE THAT THEIR VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENT REALLY DOESN'T COUNT AS LONG AS THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE EXISTS. CANDIDATES CAN FAIL TO GET THE MOST VOTES IN THE NATIONWIDE POPULAR VOTE IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND STILL WIN THE ELECTION. THIS OCCURRED IN 1876, 1888 AND 2000.

NOW, NORTH CAROLINA, BACK IN 2000 VOTED IN A PENALTY OF $10,000.00 IF AN ELECTOR VOTES AGAINST THE POPULAR VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENT IN THAT STATE. 29 OTHER STATES ALSO HAVE GONE TO SUCH MEASURES TO INSURE THAT THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN, BUT THERE ARE STILL 20 STATES OUT THERE THAT DON'T HAVE SUCH A POLICY AND THEY CAN STILL CAUSE AN UPSET IN THE NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE.

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM TO ME IS THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHO MANY OF THESE PEOPLE ARE AND WHAT THEIR REAL AGENDA MAY BE. THEY MAY BE WILLING TO TAKE THE PENALTY TO ACCOMPLISH THE DESIRED EFFECT. ESPECIALLY, LET'S SAY, IF THE ULTIMATE PAY OFF WAS BIG ENOUGH. WHEN YOU HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIKE THE COLLEGE, IT LEAVES A LOT OF OPENINGS FOR VERY LUCRATIVE, HIGH LEVEL INTERESTS TO COME THROUGH THE DOOR. IF THE VOTE WAS TOTALLY DEPENDANT ON THE NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE, THIS COULD NOT HAPPEN.

THESE DAYS, WITH ALL THE MANY CHANNELS OPEN TO THESE MEGA BILLIONS INTERESTED PARTIES, MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS CAN BE PUT TO WORK TO INFLUENCE THESE VOTERS WITHOUT ANYONE BEING THE WISER. BUT THEY COULDN'T'T DO IT WITH THE ENTIRE NATION. WITH THE SYSTEMS AVAILABLE TO US THESE DAYS, PROPERLY EMPLOYED AND PROTECTED, THE VOTE CAN VERY EASILY BE HANDLED IN SHORT ORDER.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT THESE SAME MEGA BILLION DOLLAR INTERESTED PARTIES, CAN STILL HAVE AN EFFECT TO PREVENT CONGRESS FROM ABOLISHING THE COLLEGE TO PROTECT THEIR CHANNELS. SO, I GUESS I'M PREACHING TO THE WIND, HUH?

OF COURSE THIS IS JUST MY OPINION, ISN'T IT?

WAR AND PEACE?

WAR AND PEACE?
By
Bob Rollins

Peace? What would that be like? I guess that on an individual level, we all can, at some time in our life, experience peace, VERY BRIEFLY.

But, world peace? It isn't going to happen unless we wipe out the human race! There has never been, in the history of man, a moment of true peace.

I only need to site one example. How many times after a Football game, or Soccer game or any other major sporting event takes place do you see or hear of RIOTS, MURDERS, BURNING OF HOMES, CARS AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT THESE RIDICULOUS FANS TAKE INTO THEIR HEAD TO DESTROY!

If you can't even have a simple game in peace, how do you expect to have world peace?

I have seen two good friends who have played a card game, got into a fight and one got a gun and shot the other to death. Then cried and could not explain why! She was drunk, but that wouldn't cause that, would it?

How many reasons are there to start a war?

Think about it. What kind of EGO must someone have to think that He or She should be the RULER over millions of people? I do mean RULER! Forget PRESIDENT OR PRIME MINISTER OR EMPEROR, OR WHATEVER! RULER is how these people see themselves and don't you think otherwise! If one of the RULERS should do something that upsets the other, you've got a war! If one has something the other wants, there you go! And if one knows he or she has an Army that can't be defeated, how BRAVE does that make him or her? What kind of person is able to force thousands of men and women to go out and DIE for his personal agenda, like, well let's say, OIL, or Land that he or she wants to control. And, you can elect (if it weren't the ELECTORAL COLLEGE that did the Electing) someone else to try to stop this, but they will have their own agenda too. So you wind up in a new war!

Remember, "POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY"and this never changes. IF you are intelligent, one look at ancient history of RULERS would teach you this!

(Origin

This arose as a quotation by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:


"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."


Another English politician with no shortage of names - William Pitt, the Elder, The Earl of Chatham and British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778, is sometimes wrongly attributed as the source. He did say something similar, in a speech to the UK House of Lords in 1770:
"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it"

And, as we have seen, having a large body of representatives won't have a lot of control over a really forceful RULER! Furthermore, these "Representatives" often have an agenda of their own and they also have "POWER" having it's effect on them too!
                                                                                                                                                Copyright © Gary Martin, 1996 - 2008)


Remember, even the BIBLE is not a book of PEACE, much as all of you would like to believe!

What is it in the 10 Commandments?
Thou Shalt Not Kill

And no sooner were these words, supposedly written by GOD himself, carved in stone, GOD orders Joshua to WIPE OUT A CITY, Man, Woman and INNOCENT Child, just so they could occupy this place? With all the immense land available to the Israelites, GOD wants to WIPE OUT A CITY THAT WAS STANDING THERE FOR OVER 9,000 YEARS before Joshua was born! This was a City that was older then than the total age of the Jewish Religion to date! Yes, most archaeologists don't believe this tale actually took place, but the fact that the Hebrews thought this was such a great story of the FINE WORKS OF THE HEBREWS, they would use it in their TORAH, says something about the "PEACEFUL" nature of the race.

Where is the PEACE in this? This book (the Bible) is Chock Full of wars fought in the Name Of GOD over places that no one needed or under any other circumstances would want.

And you want or expect to have Peace???? NEVER!

OF COURSE, THIS IS JUST MY OPINION, AND YOU KNOW ABOUT THEM!

THE NEEDS OF THE RICH

THE NEEDS AND WANTS OF THE RICH
OUTWEIGH THE NEEDS
OF
EVERYONE ELSE

It has always been said that the "NEEDS OF THE MANY OUTWEIGH THE NEEDS OF THE FEW." But all that has changed these days!

Take for instance the current Gas and Oil dilemma. Yes, the cost of a Barrel of Crude Oil has gone up alarmingly. And the cost of Gas is also going up. But Conventional Math should tell you that if the cost of Crude is driving the cost of Gas up, the Oil Companies should not be making the ALL TIME RECORD PROFITS that they are! So, is the cost of Crude really driving the cost of Gas to ALL TIME RECORD HIGHS? Or are the Oil Companies simply hiding their greed behind the current situation, sending the cost of Gas beyond the range that it truly should be.

Congress never seems to be able to prove that the Oil Companies are Gouging the public. But maybe that's because a majority of Congress and our Executive Members of Government are so heavily INVESTED in Oil or so heavily paid by the Oil Companies to turn their heads away. At the same time, Government is accusing the Milk Industry of Fixing Milk prices. But the Government has no great investment there, so they will do that. And maybe it will draw the Publics attention away from the Oil problem???

Notice that all this is taking place at the very top of the Wealth Scale! The Milk Industry is quite far down that scale, nothing but a bunch of Farmers and small number of Milk Companies, and so they get attacked by the upper corp to distract everyone while they gouge everyone including the Milk Companies.

By all rights, we should have been burning Hydrogen Gas (H2) in our cars and planes and even trains LONG AGO! Contrary to what the Oil Companies say, H2 was around a long time ago, way before the idea of using oil. It was first discovered by Henry Cavendish in 1766 (Hydrogen)  and balloons and blimps as big as the Hindenberg were using it in huge quantities since then. The auto manufacturers and oil companies know that just as city, county and state vehicles burn LPG, they could just as well burn H2 and cause 0 (zero) emissions. Just water wich could be converted right back to H2 again! But the Oil Companies cannot control the production of H2 the way they do Gas or CHARGE NEARLY AS MUCH, so they BLOCK IT through OFF THE SIDE LOBBYING and PAY OFFS and PAY OFF the AUTO MANUFACTURERS to stall by coming up with all these hair brained schemes to REINVENT THE WHEEL with all these fuel cell cars and socalled Hybrid junkers that don't even give you the higher gas milage they claim! 

In the "MYTHBUSTERS" 2006 EXPLODING PANTS issue, Adam and Jamie ran a standard Carborator engine on pure H2 just feeding it directly into the neck of the carborator. Yes, on the second try it did backfire but they weren't even regulating the flow. If it were being fed through the normal fuel system and controled, it would work fine. It wouldn't matter if it got any better milage, H2 is so abundant, RENEWABLE and CLEAN a resource that the price and availability would make it the only way to go. Any car, such as City, County and State Vehicles that are equiped to run on LIQUID PROPANE GAS (LPG) can run on H2 as can any other care or truck, airplane or ship with minor modifications!

Imagine filling a 747's tanks with H2! Not only wouldn't it pollute and burn up huge amounts of Oil, but since H2 is Lighter than Air (a LIFTING GAS), the plane would be lighter by thousands of pounds than with JP 8 fuel. 

The same control  happens with the Medical Research Companies. The last time that the Vaccine for any LONG TERM DEBILITATING AND OR FATAL DISEASE was over 50 years ago with the Polio Vaccine! And that Vaccine was found in the process of AID's research! Now, 55 years later and all the VAST INCREASES in technology and not one new Vaccine for these types of diseases can be found? Scientists claim they have completely mapped out the Human Genome and almost every other creatures on earth and can CLONE HUMANS AND EVERYTHNG ELSE, but they can't figure out Cancer? Get REAL!!!! Oh, they came up with a Vaccine for Pneumonia, but it kills quick or not at all, so there isn't any profit in treating it, is there? And they came up with a Vaccine that COINCIDENTLY prevents a form of Cervical Cancer as well as a number of other STD's. They only let that one out because it would take some of the pressure off to come up with a Prevention for all the other Cancers that they don't want to. Right after the Polio Vaccine was released and the spread of Polio was stopped, thousands and thousands of Medics, Technicians, Nurses and Clinics slowly began to go out of business and people were loosing their jobs, and ever since then, they haven't "RELEASED" another Vaccine for any of these LONG TERM DEBILITATING AND FATAL DISEASES..

Let's face it, there is a HUGE PROFIT in TREATING these diseases for years on end for millions of victems. If you cure or prevent them, trillions of dollars would be lost, millions of people would be out of work and Medical Equipment Companies and Clinics would be out of Work! It wold be TERRIBLE to have a large population of healthy people around here!

Death Penalty

I SEE THAT THIS EX COP, CUTTS, WAS SPARED THE DEATH PENALTY. I'M SURE THAT MAKES ALL THE BLEEDING HEART LIBERALS HAPPY.

I'VE HEARD THE ARGUMENT THAT IT'S ALL WRONG AND CRUEL AND PAINFUL AND ALL THAT. WELL, I HOPE SO! AND FOR KILLING A YOUNG PREGNANT WOMAN AND HER UNBORN TOTALLY INNOCENT BABY, HE SHOULD HAVE FRIED!

MY ARGUMENT IS THAT IT (THE DEATH PENALTY) ISN'T USED ENOUGH. FURTHERMORE, IT SHOULD BE TOTALLY PUBLIC! ALL THE GORY DETAILS RIGHT ON TV AND IN THE CENTER OF TOWN! LET EVERYONE SEE HOW CRUEL AND TERRIBLE IT IS. THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT WILL MAKE SOMEONE THINK TWICE ABOUT KILLING ANYONE THINKING THAT EVEN IF THEY DO, THE PENALTY WON'T BE THAT BAD. I DON'T EVEN AGREE WITH THIS "DEATH BY INJECTION" THING, BECAUSE IT ISN'T CRUEL ENOUGH!

AS A FREELANCE NEWS VIDEOGRAPHER, I HAD TO WORK ON A GANG RELATED DOUBLE KILLING AND ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO KILL. 3 TEENAGERS, INCLUDING ONE FEMALE WERE TOLD THAT TO JOIN THE GANG HERE IN FAYETTEVILLE, NC, THEY WOULD HAVE TO KILL 3 PEOPLE. THEY GRABBED 2 YOUNG LADIES, DRAGGED THEM OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF A FARM FIELD AND SHOT THEM TO DEATH. LATER THEy GRABBED ANOTHER, TAKING HER TO THE WOODS AT A RECREATION AREA ON FT BRAGG AND SHOT HER. FORTUNATELY SHE LIVED AND IDENTIFIED THEM. BUT THEY WON'T GET THE DEATH PENALTY.

IF SOME GANG SEES ONE OF IT'S "BIG BRAVE KILLER MEMBERS" FAINTING, CRYING, PISSING AND SHITTING HIM OR HERSELF AS HE OR SHE IS DRAGGED UP TO "OLE SPARKY" OR THE ROPE ON A STAGE, AND HAVING THE LIFE CHOKED OR FRIED RIGHT OUT OF HIM, MAYBE THEY WILL THINK TWICE ABOUT HOW "BAD" IT IS TO KILL SOMEONE! OF COURSE YOU BLEEDING HEART LIBERALS WILL DISAGREE WITH ME SAYING THAT IT IS IMMORAL TO KILL SOMEONE LIKE THAT! BUT THEN IT IS MOST LIKELY THAT YOU HAVE NEVER HAD YOUR KID OR MOTHER OR FATHER OR HUSBAND OR WIFE MURDERED JUST TO GET INTO A GANG, HAVE YOU???????

OF COURSE THIS IS JUST MY OPINION!