Jim made me laugh this morning and doesn’t even know it. I’ve come to the conclusion that having separate blogs is a good thing. Our overall mission is the same, and we share most of the same targets. But we both have our “special” people or organizations that need our “special” attention.
For me, for example, my newest target is San Manuel. Those who have known me for years know I have a special place in my heart for Native Americans. It goes back to when I was 8 years old and my family moved to Tucson from Eagle Rock. Even at that age I realized the disparate treatment of Native Americans. Tucson at the time was almost in a depression and the poverty on the reservations rivaled any third-world country. Anyway, I’ve spent my share of time on reservations since and love the culture. If I had my choice right now I would be living near the Navajo Reservation in Arizona or the Zuni Reservation in New Mexico.
That being said, even Native Americans make mistakes, and San Manuel has made a big one recently. So they may get some advertising to all 20 listeners, but they are also going to get some not-so-nice press read by all 20,000 plus readers.
Jim, has his own personal reasons, of course, for some of what he does on his blog. Those on my radar are not necessarily on his radar and vice versa. Today there is on such post on his blog, and I found it humorous. Here is his post:
The California Secretary of State has published the list of debtors who owe a combined total of $888,730 in various penalties for failing to file campaign finance related documents. The fines go into the state’s general fund and it wants the money.
Final notices are being issued.
Nearly one-eighth is owed by the Sacramento County Democratic Central Committee.
However, some local names showed up.
A list published bt the Sacramento Bee lists the following local individuals and entities as owing penalties.
Pay up folks……..
Rank Debtor Accrued Penalty5 Richard A. Lewis $12,19137 David Lewis $ 5,600Inland Valley Development Agency $ 220SEIU - Riverside $ 220 To visit Jim's, blog click here.
At the time that Indian gaming was proposed, I thought it was absurd that the message to the Indians was: Gambling is a vice and would destroy us, but since we destroyed your culture and took your land, we will allow you to do the thing that would destroy us. Huh?
American Indian and Alaskan native elders have a poverty
rate of 61 percent and a life expectancy between 3 and 4
years less than that of the general older U.S. population
(U.S. Senate, Older Americans Act Amendments of 1987, 1987).
my point…..
there should not be any poor/hungry american indians in the United States and San Manuel needs to stop sending the girls that have been impregnated by the men of San Manuel into the Medi-cal office for the rest of us to pay for…..