Peepers Beware

Posted on July 21, 2011 by mmunson

From the office of Norma Torres:
Increased Penalties for Peeping Toms Approved by the Senate Public Safety Committee

Assembly member Norma Torres (D-61) announced the approval of her Assembly Bill 665 by the Senate Public Safety Committee, which will create a higher penalty for repeat offenders of an individual’s right to privacy.

Currently, many “peeping toms” are not deterred by existing penalties. Often they can make considerable profit selling images to internet sites. Assembly Bill 665 will allow law enforcement to lock up repeat offenders for up to one year in jail, impose a fine of up to $2,000, or both. The bill also requires a higher penalty for any violation where the victim is a minor.

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SB 48 Likely Going To Have Nasty Ballot Fight for Repeal

Posted on July 16, 2011 by mmunson

The reason that they don’t want the contributions of LGBT people included is the same reason they don’t want us in the military, getting married, teaching school, etc.: It makes it much harder for them to demonize us when others learn of the contributions of LGBT people, serving our country, building a family, helping children, etc. And when you can’t convince others to hate, you can’t convince them to donate $$$ to support the hate of the Family Research Council, NOM, Traditional Values Coalition, etc. So, as usual with sleazy conservatives, it all boils down to they will do anything, say anything for a buck. – SF Chronicle forum post

Karen England, the chairwoman of the Capitol Resource Institute strikes again, she uses ignorance, prejudice and fear to provide her meal check. When students become more knowledgeable that LGBT people are actual human beings and they do not need to be demonized then people like her will not have to make a living from her hate.

SB 48, the revolutionary bill to add the accomplishments of people who happen to be LGBT has received loads of public scorn from people who happen to live in the inland areas of our state. Parents think it’s a sensitive issue because they want to have the right to discuss this issue first and have the right to implant their children with their values no matter how ugly their beliefs may be.

Maybe if many traditional values advocates were not taught to have ignorance, prejudice and fear of LGBT people we would not need bills such as AB 9 and SB 48. My high school bully was a raised in a home who was taught by his parents to dislike and torment people who are different than him. If students do not have to come to school or leave school in fear of being beaten up, then that would be very beneficial to academics.

I wish we all could come together in perfect harmony so we can learn to coexist. When you work in the business world such as a sales clerk at the local mall, to being a stock broker at the brokerage house you learn to respect all customers even if they are different than you.

Our public schools serve all students, the schools are not just for Christians, or even LGBT people. We have to be pluralistic to make sure they can serve all students. If you want a niche education you have to pay for it with your own money.

If the equality campaigners have to endure a ballot fight in 2012, we will need to define the issue before Schubert-Flint who won the Yes on 8 campaign does. We need to have stories of actual students and humanize the issue so Karen England will no longer have the erasers to tell the people of California that LGBT people do not exist.

There Is a Reason Why Republicans Should Not Compromise

Posted on July 14, 2011 by mmunson

Ron Paul’s first major campaign advertisement is ready for people to view. This is about the debt limit negotiations, Republicans compromised in the past, but the Democrats helped to keep on spending and never agreed to spending cuts.

No Thanks TSA

Posted on July 11, 2011 by mmunson

Recently when waiting for the bus near Chaffey College, I saw a new announcement from Omnitrans which made me think of what might happen in the future for what was announced. The TSA is going to invade our bus systems no matter if its MTA in Los Angeles to Omnitrans in San Bernardino County.

Omnitrans is participating with the Transportation
Security Administration (TSA) to help ensure that
our public transportation systems are kept safe
for everyone. Our world changed on Sept. 11,
2001. We learned that our country and its transit
systems are not immune from terrorist attacks.
Omnitrans already regularly cooperates with local
law enforcement and first responders to enhance
the safety and security of our system. Soon we
will begin partnering with TSA and the
Department of Homeland Security.
A program known as VIPR (Visible Intermodal
Prevention and Response) will deploy teams
of government law enforcement officers at
Omnitrans transit centers. VIPR teams will
conduct random searches at transit centers
including at passenger waiting areas and on
board Omnitrans vehicles. Some officers will
be in uniform and others will not. In some
cases bomb-sniffing dogs may be used. The
VIPR program will help detect and deter
potential threats to our customers, our
employees and our community.
Thank you for your cooperation as we work with
TSA to help secure your ride.

More information is available at tsa.gov

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My Opposition to S.978

Posted on July 10, 2011 by mmunson

I decided to write a letter to Senator Feinstein and will likely send it to Senator Boxer AND Congressman Baca.

July 9, 2011

Dear Senator Feinstein

I am here to announce my opposition to S. 978 and I would like to express how regressive this bill is for our nation as a whole. I know you are bought and paid for by the content providers and you will not likely change your mind like Congressman Bachmann suddenly embracing LGBT equality.

This bill will end up jailing so many non violent offenders for copyright issues, this will end up leading to more people in jail for terms up to five years like how Oklahoma jails people with dime bags of marijuana with 10 year sentences. Threatening to shut the internet connection of people who upload videos of lip syncing to popular music will help to destroy the fandom for people’s appreciation for the works of the leading musical acts of today.

I know that the RIAA wants the money they used to make before the Internet, but we are in a new age.

I could understand going after illegal downloads and torrent sites that offer unauthorized products, but killing off interpretive content such as a music video concept by an independent film maker, a hobbyist covering their favorite tune or a drag queen dancing around pretending that he is Jenifer Lopez helps to spark the people against S.978.

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Save The Inland Elephant

Posted on July 9, 2011 by mmunson

I am going to come up with a slate for the 4th San Bernardino County Supervisorial District Republican committee. We need 5 other willing people who are part of the district to join up.

I am focusing on the agenda of an inclusive Republican Party. A party inviting and willing to work on uniting people and providing solutions instead of just focusing on abortion and the gays as the wedge issues distracting us from what is happening in our cities, our state and our nation. If people actually attended our county party meetings they’d more likely stay home watching baseball on television or go on with their lives.

Redistricting might change the composition of the 4th supervisorial district. However I want to start recruiting candidates to run.

We have lost almost 1000 Republicans since May 2009, and if we had a more welcoming Republican Party that did not care if you were Christian or straight or if you like to express your religion privately or in public.

Save The Inland Elephant, the initiative for 2012.

Blogging For Money, Fat Chance In California

Posted on July 8, 2011 by mmunson

Affiliate marketing is becoming an endangered species. I recently got an email from CD Universe stating that they want to reserve the right not to invoice California sales taxes to their customers due to AB 28 1x by Assembly Member Blumenfield. Due to an astroturf effort from Wal-Mart and Target resentful that they have millions of dollars in physical stores and they don’t like how the online stores have a competitive advantage over them.

However AB 28 1X is a panacea, because NOT ONE state has increased revenue due to these affiliate nexus laws. Rhode Island saw a DECREASE in revenue.

And if you are a prolific blogger like Leo Laporte then expect less state income tax from people like him.

Even though legislators like Republicans Senator Bob Huff of Diamond Bar and Assemblyman Mike Morrell of Rancho Cucamonga may not be friends to people who are not straight and or Christian, we will still elect delusional Democrats who think AB 28 1X is sound fiscal policy.

I am not pleased that my local legislators did vote for AB 28 1X, but maybe this is the price to pay for having legislators who do not want to persecute LGBT people.

Democrats still fail to understand proper economics.

And I am still looking for ways to help make this blog revenue neutral, but that is not going to be a reality in the long run.

LGBT History Matters

Posted on July 8, 2011 by mmunson

As someone who aspires to teach History and Government to the secondary grade students, I support SB 48. The contributions of people who happen to be part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community should be included in history. Because LGBT people are not mentioned in our textbooks they are invisible to the eyes of many students even though LGBT youth are opening themselves to the world at a younger age and straight students are becoming aware of them in their schools.

The reason why there is opposition to SB 48 is that the traditional values community wants to keep the LGBT community invisible. They want to do the final solution to the LGBT people like how American preachers such as Scott Lively of Temecula, California flies to Uganda to advocate for the extermination of LGBT people.

However traditional values advocates want to keep the LGBT community invisible and make sure their youth maintain their world view, even though they will be dealing with LGBT people in their daily lives such as at work or as their neighbors. I just find it sad that when anything deals with LGBT issues, they always say its sexualizing education. When an office worker puts a picture of their straight spouse and children isn’t that an expression of your sexuality?

When we have a supportive school environment, school achievement improves. For the conservatives who state that we should be focusing on improving our state’s abysmally low test scores, reading, writing and arithmetic first. Bills such as AB 9 and SB 48 are key in helping to improve school achievement. There is an actual study done in Oregon done by the Columbia University school of public health that proves this fact. When people are less likely to want to kill you or torment you where you are fearful that you will get beaten up before our after school, you will want to be attending school and not want to surrender to the bullies.

Without LGBT people we would likely of had an injured or dead President Ford, the civil rights movement by Dr.Martin Luther King would not of been as effective, World War II would of lasted longer and we would not have powerful computers as we have today.

I do hope Governor Brown signs this bill, but with our initiative process I am fearful that Frank Schubert and friends will make another campaign to show that even in areas that elect left leaning Democrats they still can be just as regressive as Alabama voters. This is why I advocate for California to use the Initiative and Referendum process of Nevada where constitutional amendments must be passed in two consecutive elections with the same language.

Facebook Is Weird

Posted on July 4, 2011 by mmunson

They shut down a page to discuss why the Tea Party movement is absurd and regressive and locked the person’s account who established it at the same time. Tea Party is not a brand name like McDonalds or Apple Computer, and Facebook leans Democratic and they are best friends with the Democratic Party and President Obama so what is the concern with Facebook shutting the page down?

Tea Party movement was a good idea, but it got perverted by the traditional values advocates and they actually want big government to mandate their theocratic means. Government will make sure that a bi-national same sex couple will move to the caring arms of Canada or the United Kingdom. Government will make sure you will never grow your marijuana. Government will make sure two men will never lock lips with each other on television.

Although I may not be a big fan of the Democratic Party health care plan, I am not a big fan of Paul Ryan’s plan either. Keeping people without health care is a public health issue where we will have people infected with diseases and people will not be able to go to work and make the economy work. Reducing the need of people using the emergency rooms because they have the flu will save taxpayers and patients with money or insurance to cover their care. Then we can reserve the emergency rooms for heart attacks and gunshot victims.

Big government is a subjective term, it is how you use government to affect change that matters.

Our Next President, Fred Karger