I wasn't going to get into the discussion about Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor; but, I'm getting tired of hearing what a racist the woman is. Because she once said that she felt that as a Latino woman she could make a better decision than a white man on some case she was reviewing, she shouldn't set on the Supreme Court. Well, then our founding fathers weren't fit to hold their offices or for that matter, found this great nation. Yes, our founding fathers were RACIST, SEXIST, and IN FAVOR OF THE WEALTHY CLASS TO RULE. My God, wash my mouth out with soap. How can I speak ill of the men that found this nation and gave us the freedoms that we have today. THEY DIDN'T! The founding fathers (notice no founding mothers) wanted this nation to be governed by white, wealthy, men. They didn't give females the right to vote, nor people of color. They didn't think the poor knew enough to hold office nor govern our country. They wanted only white, wealthy, men to take this country on its voyage into the future. They wanted to make George Washington king not president. So, get off your Washington high-horse and quit getting on news programs and stating that Sonia Sotomayor is too racist to set on the Supreme Court. Judge the woman on her merits, not on remarks she made concerning her nationality versus some wealthy, white, male. Quit with the remarks about this nation was founded on freedom for everyone, because it wasn't and probably will never be free from race, gender, or amount of money in your pocket.

Baby Justice's mother had gone to the local Albuquerque Police 2 hours before the murder and tried to turn herself in for an outstanding warrant. Our wonderful police couldn't find the warrant, so they refused to arrest her. (Another version has surfaced that the police did find the warrant but chose not to enforce it.) Nevertheless, the mother told the police that she had been thrown out of her mother's home and the "party house" and that she and her son had no place to go. The police gave her the phone number and location of a women's abuse foundation home that might be able take them in, but didn't bother to ask if she had transportation to get there. When she begged the police to help her, they told her they couldn't help every homeless person who dropped in. Just another example of our wonderful Albuquerque Police Department.

Baby Justice has found his eternal home. His mother is a Zuni Indian, she hasn't lived on the Pueblo, but the tribe has come forward to claim him. So, neighbors of the park where he was found held a candle lighting service for him today and he will be buried on the Zuni Pueblo tomorrow. I think it's a fitting ending to a sad story.

They found him buried under the swing set in the children's park. Only his foot covered in an expensive sneaker was visible. He was three years old, and someone had smothered him and buried him in the park he often played in. The police artist had drawn a picture of him and named him "Baby Justice." Every local news station placed his picture on the TV every night for a week and no one claimed him. No 3 year old boys were reported missing by grieving parents. Then police received a call from outside the local area, from a woman who claimed the boy looked like her nephew. Local authorities located the mother, a homeless 23 year old at a local "party house." You guessed it, she was on drugs. At first she denied knowing anything about the boy in the park; but, finally it came out. She didn't know who the father was, she had been thrown out of her mother's home with the child she said she had never wanted, and the "party house" had thrown her out because she wasn't taking care of the boy. (Either druggies have a conscious or they got tired of taking care of her son.) So she took him to the park one evening and they fell asleep there. When she woke up, she decided to kill him. She says she smothered him and revved him once, then smothered him until he died and she dug a hole with her hands in the sand and buried the boy under the swing-set. Now here is what gets me--the grandmother who threw them out of her home must have recognized the pictures on TV but she didn't come forward. She said that she knew that the woman wasn't taking care of the boy, but she didn't report it. The druggies in the "Party house" knew about the abuse and didn't report it. The woman's sisters knew about the abuse, but didn't report it, and they must have recognized the pictures also. No one did anything to help this child, no one came forward to report the abuse nor identify the body. But, now that it's all out in the open, the relatives want to bury the boy (citizens of the neighborhood where the boy was found in the park wanted to bury him in a marked grave); but, the relatives are up in arms. Why weren't they up in arms for the week before the child was identified? They didn't try to help the mother so that she didn't have to murder the child to get rid of him. They must have known her situation, but no one helped her. The district attorney said she won't receive the death penalty because there is no evidence of plotting to murder. What the heck would you call it? The whole story is a real tragedy, but where is the "justice" for Baby Justice? I don't see any here. If this woman didn't want this child why didn't she give the baby up to adoption or why didn't anyone alert authorities so that the child would have been taken into foster care? I just do not understand the mentality of our society anymore. And, the police want to know if the people who knew about the situation and did nothing to report it should be prosecuted. I may sound cruel; but, Yes, they damn well should be.

President Obama visited Rio Rancho, NM this morning. He held a town meeting at the Rio Rancho High School concerning the Credit Card bill he's trying to get through Congress. Of course, no one was told how to get tickets to the meeting, so I don't know who he gave his talk to. I had to work, so I couldn't have gone anyway. Thank goodness I left for work at 6:30 AM so I missed the traffic mess. But, at noon, I left the base to get something for lunch and ran into the police and secret service blocking my route because Obama was going to the airport. His motorcade wasn't scheduled to go through that route for another hour, but they had to clear the way. The traffic director walked over to my car and told me to turn around because they weren't allowing traffic beyond that point. "We can't park and watch the motorcade pass?" No, it won't be through for another hour, and you'd have to park about 1/2 a mile back. "You've got to be kidding, you all must think we have shoulder, rocket launchers in our cars." The secret service didn't find that remark amusing and with my clearance I couldn't afford the problems. So, I turned around and drove to the other side of the base for lunch. But, I wonder--we the American people pay for the secret service, the limo, the president; but we aren't allowed to get within 1/2 mile of any of this. I remember the day, when presidents were more accessible. We could stand on the sidewalk and wave at motorcades. The days when base commanders forced us to stand in hot hangers for up to 3 hours to listen to President Clinton's speak to us about how great we were and then when he thought we couldn't hear him, he called us all four-letter words. Yeah, those were the good old days--we paid for everything, got called names, and in return we at least stood 3 feet away from the president who was taking our money.

Our government bailed out the car manufacturers and GM is going bankrupt anyway. What happened to all those billions of dollars? Bonuses probably. Say goodbye to Pontiac and Saturn, they will no longer be manufactured. But, now the citizens of America will start to pay for all those billions to bail everyone out. Our wonderful government is going to start taxing the things that rich and poor alike always felt they could get tax-free. Sugar, salt--the staples of life throughout the world will now be taxed separately at the grocery store. Fuel and cigarettes were taxed before and now the tax will be raised on these items also. Soon we will go to the grocery store and each item will be taxed at a different amount and then when they total our purchases, they'll tax us again. California was to illegalize marijuana so that the state and the Federal government can tax it. Didn't colonists fight for independence from England because of taxation without representation? Get out the bows and arrows, which direction is Boston, its time for a tea party.

I want to with a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE LADIES OUT THERE. Pick up the phone and give your mom a call. And, to my mother--I love ya mom, have a great day.

Well, Texas has started something and who knows where it will end. Texas is threatening to leave the union if gun laws are passed and the economy keeps getting worse. This is legal, it happened to start the last Civil War. But, Texas isn't the only state that is making this threat. Montana is also threatening secession. Alaska has always wanted to be a separate country and Hawaii was forced into the union, so they may want to join the secession. Americans laugh and shake their heads--THEY WON'T DO IT. Stop and think for a minute, it only took a couple of states to leave the union over slavery to start the American Civil War. If things keep getting worse and people get really fed up with the stuff going on in this country, IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN.

Well we knew it was coming, and it did. New Mexico drivers licenses are no longer valid in other states. That's what our wonderful :( governor has done for us. By giving licenses to illegal aliens, drug trafficers, and criminals; other states have decided they can no longer except New Mexico drivers licenses as valid. Our DMV has accepted rent receipts and lease agreements or utility bills as identification from illegals to issue them New Mexico drivers licenses. This past month as a result of a state audit, it has been established that hundreds of illegals have used the same packages (rent receipts or leases and utility bills) as proof. The names of the landlords and bill recipients were changed but the address and amounts were the same. How many hundreds of folks do the DMV employees think can live in the same house at the same time. The criminals from Mexico come over here, get a New Mexico drivers license with the same phony receipts and then they disappear into American society and who knows what they are doing or planning. Now, those of us who live in New Mexico and follow the laws are stuck with unacceptable drivers licenses. I wasn't here when the Frito Bandito was elected as governor, but I will be voting in the next election for governor. Maybe we should vote for Val Kilmer, maybe he can get us all Hollywood drivers licenses.

The F-16s were taking the pictures of the 747 Presidential shadow as it flew over the old home of the Twin Towers. There was only crew members in the 747. Now the classified part could be that the location of the Presidential shadow is not suppose to be known, considering that it is the decoy. However, it you are going the fly the plane, in broad daylight, over Manhattan, with a fighter escort, wouldn't you think that people would notice--thus the location is no longer classified. I'm sorry but I still think that someone in Washington isn't playing with a full deck. As we old Intelligence analyst say, "Give up man, your crack is up."

Low-flying jet unsettles New Yorkers--great headline. A White House plane, actually the double to Air Force One, was taking part in a government-sanctioned photo shoot over several downtown Manhattan buildings today and workers and residents became frightened and started evacuating. People reported seeing the plane circle over the Upper New York Bay near the Statue of Liberty and then flying up the Hudson River. And, who authorized this photo shoot--why the director of the White House Military Office, Mr. Louis Caldera. Captain Anna Carpenter of Andrews Air Force Base stated that local law enforcement agencies and the Federal Aviation Administration had been given notice of the exercise. Now refresh my memory--I thought it was a photo shoot? New York Police Deputy Commissioner, Paul J. Browne, said that the department had been alerted to the flight by the federal agency "with directives to local authorities not to disclose information about it." So....wouldn't that mean they were not suppose to tell the public? Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed that he was annoyed that he wasn't told. He called the aviation administration's decision to classify details about the flight as sensitive and nonpublic "ridiculous" and "poor judgement." Annoyed? I'd be down right hog-tied. I have to side with Senator Chuck Schumers statement--"It is absolutely outrageous and appalling to think that the FAA would plan such a photo shoot and not warn the public, knowing full well New Yorkers still have the vivid memory of 9/11 sketched in their minds. It borders on being either cruel or very very stupid." What the hell is going on in Washington DC to authorize this stunt? This plane is suppose to be shadowing Air Force 1 and instead it's flying a photo shoot/exercise over Manhattan scaring the crap out of American citizens. Mr. Louis Caldera, if he did indeed authorize this incident should be fired. And, on top of all that, I want to know who was in this aircraft taking the pictures. If it was one or two individuals it's a waste of taxpayer money to fly a 747 and F-16s when they could be in a helicopter. And, if it was a group of people, who were they and what fun did they get out of scaring people into panic attacks? Yes, sir, Mr. Caldera, why don't you authorize a low-flying 747 over the Pentagon and see whose ass gets kicked out of Washington. PS. Captain Sully, who handed the U.S. Airways plane on the Hudson River is now unemployed. The idiots at U.S. Airways laid him off. Good luck getting any decent pilots to fly U.S. Airways planes.

Sometimes America seems like an ugly place to live, and then someone comes along to prove it's okay to be an American. And, that someone is Captain Richard Phillips. A 53-year old husband, father, and career merchant seaman. When heavily armed teenage pirates commandeered his container ship, the Maersk Alabama, off the coast of Somalia and demanded $2 million ransom, Captain Phillips ordered his 19-man crew to lock themselves in their cabins and he volunteered to be the pirates' victim. That is a hero, just like "Sully" who safely landed a plane full of passengers in the Hudson River. Phillips spent 5 days in a cramped, hot boat with nervous teenage pirates who were armed to the hilt and scared of loosing that $2 million ransom. Navy SEAL sharpshooters, trained to shoot from unstable platforms finally brought the hostage situation to a close. And, the first thing that Captain Phillips had to say about his situation was "The real heroes are the Navy, the SEALs, those who have brought me home." In a day when the title "hero" is misapplied to movie stars and big-league athletes, it's humbling to be exposed to the real deal. Yes, friends the military is not the bad guy, they really are heroes. And Captain Phillips is more than the sum of the parts of his captivity and rescue. He personifies the best of who we, Americans, are.

Remember shock-jock Don Imus? The white, radio show host who made a nasty, sexually explicit, decidedly unfunny comment about young black women on the radio in an effort at bad comedy. Everyone including the Rev Al Sharpton called for Imus to be fired for calling the Rutgers' basketball team "nappy-headed hos." And, he was fired!!! So what happens when a black man, Jamie Foxx, makes a nasty, sexually explicit, decidedly unfunny comment about a teenage white girl on the radio? Is anyone calling for Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx to be unplugged from Sirius Satellite Radio for calling Disney star Miley Cyrus a "little white bitch" who should do heroin and crack and "make a sex tape and grow up"? Where is Rev Al Sharpton now? Why isn't Foxx being given the Imus treatment? Now who is exhibiting a double standard? And, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has asked for a truly open discussion about race--who are they kidding?

I grew up in a small city on the Pennsylvania/New York border. A small city where everyone knew each other; where if I stopped at the local soda spot on the way home from school, my mom just called the police station and they had the Main Street patrol officer stop and tell me that my mom was looking for me. Ya can't find that city anywhere, anymore. One of our distant, female relatives was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was in her early twenties. She'd say she heard voices telling her she needed to take her clothes off and run around town naked. The police would grab her and the medical transport would take her to the mental hospital which was about 200 miles away. She stayed there, getting electric shock treatments which were the thing back then, and some medication, until she was what us kids referred to as not crazy. She'd come back to our hometown and she'd be just fine, until---she quit taking her medication. Then she'd be back to running around town naked again. As she got older, she became violent when the police would pick her up to take her to the mental hospital and finally it took 6 officers to hold her down so they medics could give her a shot. And, then finally she quit coming back. The reason I write about this is that yesterday on the way to work there was a talk show on the radio, an interview with Tim McLean's mother. She was being interviewed because it was that time of the year again when her family had to go the parole hearing of Vince Weiguang Li, the man who murdered her son, cut him up, and ate some of him on a Greyhound bus somewhere between Edmonton, Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Tim McLean didn't know Mr. Li, he was just another passenger on the bus when Mr. Li had a schizophrenic incident. In court Mr. Li stated that voices told him that Tim McLean was a demon that had to be killed, his organs taken out, and parts of McLean were to be eaten. So Li stabbed McLean over 60 times, beheaded him, spread McLean's internal organs around the bus in plastic bags, ate some of his heart, and was eating McLean's nose and ears when police arrived. Now, Mr. Li's wife and the pastor of a church who had helped him immigrate to Canada swore in court that Mr. Li never showed any signs of schizophrenia; not even a moment of anger or the smallest emotional problem. When ask in court if he'd like a lawyer, Mr. Li's answer was to shake his head and quietly say, "please kill me." The judge had Mr. Li undergo psychiatric testing and declared him too mentally ill to stand trial. Thus, Mr. Li has been in a mental institution since this incident. And, Mrs. McLean is sentenced to go to the parole hearings and fight to keep Mr. Li off the streets. When, and if, Mr. Li is ever released, there will be no record of this incident on his record; after all, he was too insane to know right from wrong. I find it impossible to believe that Mr. Li never displayed mental illness or emotional problems before the incident on the bus. Schizophrenia is an organic disease, associated with structural anomalies in the brain; a genetic defect which starts at birth and builds in severity over time. It can not be cured, but can be controlled as long as the patient takes their medication. Once they stop taking the medicine, the symptoms reoccur. The thought that Mr. Li could one day walk out of his hospital room a free man, is not an option, in my opinion. When he walks free and stops taking his medication, it's only a matter of time before he commits the same act or one very similar; and who will be his next victim? I understand that he is mentally ill; but, he can never be cured. He will never be normal. And, the McLean family shouldn't be subjected to reliving their son's death every time the parole board meets, for the rest of their lives. Granting Mr. Li's court room request to kill him, in my opinion, would have been more humane.

The U.S. Justice Department has moved to reverse the conviction of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. The Justice Department lawyers asked a judge to dismiss the indictment against Mr. Stevens and to toss out his conviction. The Stevens’ case, the government’s highest-profile attack on congressional corruption in recent years, was plagued by problems that continued to pile up even after a jury found Ted Stevens guilty. The last straw, apparently, was the failure of prosecutors to turn over notes of a crucial interview in which a witness contradicted a statement he made later under oath at the trail. In their court filing today, Justice Department lawyer Paul O’Brien told the judge they recently discovered prosecutors’ notes from an April 2008 interview with Bill Allen, a key witness against Mr. Stevens. The notes indicate that Allen said he did not recall talking to a mutual friend about giving Stevens a bill for work done at the senator’s home in Alaska. Yet when he testified at the trial, Allen claimed he did have such a conversation. Under trial rules, contradictory statements must be given to the defense team, and they were not. Let me comment on this story. When I lived in Alaska in 1980 thru 1984, I met Senator Ted Stevens at several organizational luncheons and dinners. If you had a problem, he was always willing to stop and talk and tell you to send him your documentation and he’d take care of your problems. After all Ted Stevens held the Senate seat since 1968 and, he had raised millions of dollars to help build Alaskan infrastructure and Anchorage’s skyline. Not to mention the complete renovation of the Anchorage International Airport named after him. But, when I went back to Alaska in 1994, there was a different Senator Stevens. When I’d run into him at political dinners, he would make his speech and then he was out of there. If you’d write letters to his office, if you received an answer it was to inform you that he couldn’t help you. When I finally left Alaska in 1999, it was obvious to most Alaskans that when it came to Ted Stevens, total power corrupts totally. Senator Steven’s downfall came as the result of allegations that he had allowed a big oil company to renovate his home and then he didn’t report the the gifts and renovations. He was convicted of seven felony counts of lying on Senate financial disclosure forms to conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and home renovations. To me the key word there is “convicted.” Why isn’t he being re-tried so that a jury can reassess the importance of the notes that were withheld during the trial? Although I have to agree that the Justice Department was definitely in the wrong, why are they asking that the jury’s verdict be dismissed? The answer: Attorney General Eric Holder’s statement. “After careful review, I have concluded that certain information should have been provided to the defense for use at trial. In light of this conclusion, and in consideration of the totality of the circumstances of this particular case, I have determined that it is in the interest of justice to dismiss the indictment and not proceed with a new trial.” Thank you Attorney General Holder. The Justice Department was so hell-bent on convicting a U.S. Senator; but, due to this error, you have declared Mr. Stevens innocent and wipped out the charges as if this never happened. So much for changing our corrupt government.

New Mexico is number 4 in the line of most violent states. And, all of us here in New Mexico know it. Now our wonderful governor has announced that he is repealing the death penalty. From now on all these violent criminals can rest assured that they will get life in prison without parole--at the taxpayers expense. This would be reassuring except that the criminals in New Mexican jails seem to escape a lot and they are never recaptured. So, all you violent criminals out there, come on down to New Mexico, our governor loves all of you, in addition to all the illegal immigrants who are getting everything free. Too bad the Frito Bandito didn't go to Washington DC to live with all the other nuts running this country.

And, now Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac are in on the bonus facade. Paying out big bonuses to folks that put it in the hole. Who is going to be next? Don't ya just love the bank bailout plan from our great Secretary of the Treasury? Sure, why don't we just buy up every failing business in America, why stop with banks that are bankrupt? And, this great plan made the stock market go up 500 points??? Now what is our government going to do with bad banks? To the tune of another trillion dollars. Is this administration a bunch of escapees from mental institutions? We buy up failing banks, and then they fail, and we're out another trillion dollars--and this makes the stock market go up--can someone please explain this to me--cause I really don't get it!!!!

As my grandmother use to say, “It’s all coming out in the wash.” In the current hearings on Capital Hill concerning AIG and their bonuses, Senate Banking committee Chairman, Christopher Dodd told CNN that he was responsible for the language added to the federal stimulus bill to make sure that already-existing contracts for bonuses at companies receiving federal bailout money were honored. The Treasury Department stated it was because administration officials were afraid the government would face numerous lawsuits without the new language. Senator Dodd stated that the “grandfather clause” language “seemed like innocent modifications” at the time. AIG chief executive, Edward Liddy, told Congress the roughly $165 million in bonuses were “distasteful” but necessary because of legal obligations and competition. These bonuses were suppose to be retention bonuses to keep employees until certain departments (the ones gone bad) could be closed out. However, some of the employees receiving the retention bonuses have already left the company. Explain that one Mr. Liddy. I have to agree with U.S. Representative, Barney Frank, from Massachusetts, who stated, “We own this company in effect, and we’re not asking that these bonuses be rescinded because we have lent money to the company. I believe we are saying as the owners of the company, we do not think….we should have paid bonuses to people who made mistakes, who were incompetent.” So, it all comes out in the wash. Our government knew about the bonuses, and they okayed the bonuses because they were afraid that if they didn’t okay the bonuses, employees (past or present) would take AIG to court for the bonuses. Back in 1994 I worked for a government contractor at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. This contractor took social security, federal tax, and state tax out of we, the employees, pay; however, they never paid it to the government. So, the IRS came in one day and shut us down, tagged everything in the office, and told us to leave. This was all without notice to us, the employees. Now we, the employees, were out of a job. We went to court because we, the employees, had been given bad pay checks and they all bounced and we wanted our money. The IRS sent a representative to the hearing and the judge awarded any monies from the sale of the contractors property to the IRS. They told us, the employees, that it was too bad; however, the government had first claims. In other words, the government of the U.S. could screw us, the employees, out of our monies just because they came before us in the pecking order. And, I know the bankruptcy laws, government agencies are paid first. So, the government being afraid of people taking them to court is a line of bull. Change, what change? The government is still sneaking around, lying to the American citizen. And, why? Because they just want to get their share, and pay for it with our taxpaying dollars, and they don't give a darn about us, the taxpayer who is getting screwed in more ways than one. So much for change and honesty in Washington DC. Don't hold your breath until things change in DC.

On the New Mexico West Mesa police have unearthed 13 sets of bones in the last month. Some are headless, making it harder to identify. Four sets of bones have been identified as Albuquerque prostitutes; one pregnant. A serial killer, possibly. Or, perhaps the result of the Mexican drug war. Just across the border in Mexico, drug lords have taken over whole provinces and anyone who get in their way is turning up headless, hung in public places, or they just disappear. And, the Mexican government has no control over what is happening there. Now it's spilling over into New Mexico and our wonderful governor, the Frito Bandito, isn't doing anything to help the situation. So, who is killing people and burying them out on our West Mesa? I guess only time will tell.

AIG is in the news again. More money and they are giving it away. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, AIG is giving huge bonuses (or retention payments) to corporate executives and it's on our tab. And, the government knew about it before it happened and they say there is nothing they could have done to prevent it. Well, wise up Americans, there is something that the government and we can do about it. PULL THE PLUG. They know that they can keep getting away with it and they also know that the government will keep giving them billions because they government feels that they can't be allowed to fail. Let these guys file for bankruptcy, there are chapters of bankruptcy that will accommodate only the bad branches of AIG and will allow the other departments to continue. If you don't want to do that, then believe me there are thousands of good, honest bankers out of work that can take over these positions and make a success of AIG. American citizens are getting sick and tired of bailing out AIG just to have them throw the billions out the window and come crying for more. AIG is suppose to belong 80% to the American taxpayer, but were any of you taxpayers out there consulted on this decision? NO! Our wonderful new Secretary of the Treasury knew about this latest round of bonuses and approved them. But, did he inform us, NO. This has got to stop. If our government won't stop it, well then maybe we should take matters into our own hands. This is not the time to be passive, speak out, call or write your senators and representatives and let them know that you have had enough.