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Banning Guns
Doesn't Ban
Crime
The Legal Fallout From
Washington DC...
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Commentary Pages 3 and 14
Volume 4 Number 29
APRIL 12, 2007
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VOLUME 4 NUMBER 29
APRIL 12, 2007
Showdown Looms On Second Amendment
By Dave Workman
discussed at length as the National
Rifle Association gathers for its
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136th annual members meeting in
St. Louis, MO. Lead plaintiff’s attorThis is the “big one,” the one for ney Alan Gura recently was quoted
“all the marbles.”
by CNSNews that he has assurances
Or so many are thinking as the from NRA Executive Vice President
Wayne LaPierre that the association is “not interested in ruining the
case,” an apparent reference to legislation now in Congress that could
overturn the Washington, DC, gun
ban and make the case moot; legislafallout continues in the wake of tion that NRA supports.
last month’s landmark 2-1 ruling
LaPierre and NRA President
by the US Court of Appeals for the Sandra Froman told Gun Week in
District of Columbia that declared exclusive interviews that if the high
the Second Amendment protects an court does take this case, it will have
individual right to keep and bear an enormous effect. And both also
arms “beyond that needed to pre- said that while they could not imagserve the state militias.”
ine how a serious scholarly judicial
The ruling in Parker v District review of the Second Amendment
of Columbia will very likely be could ever support anything other
Senior Editor, Gun Week
Analysis
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Stop Complaining
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than the individual rights interpretation, nobody can predict for sure
what will be the final outcome.
Froman said that the ruling does
demonstrate the importance of what
she has been saying since joining
the NRA board 15 years ago in Salt
Lake City about the importance of
getting good, conservative, scholarly judges appointed to the federal
bench, and the Supreme Court.
“For a number of years, progun scholars have been working
on the scholarship in this area,”
Froman noted. “People have been
writing about this, preparing the
ground so that when the seed of this
was planted, it would grow straight
and true.”
The scholarship that has been
published over the past 15 years has
been decisively in support of the
individual rights. Froman, LaPierre,
Penny Wisdom
When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don’t
deal drugs. When they took the
sixth amendment, I kept quiet
because I know I’m innocent. When
they took the second amendment, I
said nothing because I don’t own a
gun. Now they’ve come for the first
amendment, and I can’t say anything at all.
—Tim Freeman
Gura and Chris Cox, executive director of NRA’s Institute for Legislative
Action, all concurred in separate
talks with Gun Week that Senior
Judge Laurence H. Silberman “really did his homework” before writing
his majority opinion in the Parker
case.
They also agreed that this case,
should it go before the high court
as many predict it will, is likely to
have a monumental impact on the
presidential campaign in 2008.
“It could change the political
landscape on who people will vote
for,” Gura suggested. “It will put
the gun issue back in the political
spotlight.”
Since the ruling came down
March 9, gun rights Internet forums
have been furiously debating the
case, and the potential course it
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Second Amendment Showdown Looms
could take.
According to Cox, this is entirely up to the courts. If the entire District
appeals court decides to hear an appeal en banc, that might delay the case
for a while. But the prevailing wisdom right now is that the case will go
directly to the high court. The justices will decide whether they will grant a
hearing, or reject it, thereby allowing the ruling to stand only in DC.
A favorable ruling is something that appears to have gun control activists even more alarmed than the gun community worries about a bad ruling,
although nobody wants to be the loser in this contest.
On the other hand, LaPierre said that if such a ruling came down against
the individual rights interpretation, “a firestorm would erupt at the grassroots level and a political tsunami would sweep over Washington, DC,”
because the overwhelming majority of citizens simply believe that they
have an individual right to own a firearm.
Froman and Cox both suggested that the Parker case does offer “a
unique opportunity.” This is not a criminal case but a civil case, and the litigants are all “good, upstanding people, good law abiding peaceable people
who just want to defend themselves,” Froman noted.
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Commentary: Pat Choate
Dead Pets
Matter
For centuries, miners would take
a canary with them deep into the
tunnels where they were working.
The little birds are sensitive to certain types of poison gas released in
the earth and if they died, the miners
knew they were in danger.
The deaths of thousands of pets
over the past several weeks because
they ate poisoned food made in
Canada is our “canary in the mine.”
The company that made the pet food
for dozens of other companies that
sold it under their label used bulk
materials from China that were not
pure and lethal.
Once upon a time, Americans
could smugly view the possibility
of poisoned drugs entering the U.S.
market as something far and apart
from their lives. Now, that is no
longer true. The FDA in its 2002
Performance Plan Summary states,
“The agency is unable to assure the
U.S. public that it can prevent unsafe
imports from entering the country.”
This is an honest and brave statement. It is also a powerful warning.
In hearings held by the House
Commerce Committee, the FDA has
warned repeatedly that international
mail brings into the United States
more than two million parcels a year
that contain regulated drugs. Yet,
that agency lacks the personnel to
inspect virtually any of these pack-
The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To:
The Herbst family for buying the casinos at Primm and returning them to a
family controlled operation. Nothing against MGM/Mirage, but the atmosphere seemed to change at Primm when they bought those properties to get
full control of New York, New York and we're willing to bet that the Herbsts
will restore that feel to Primm.
Longtime Clark County School Board member Larry Mason, whose world
has been filled with hours in hospitals receiving an array of medical tests
and treatments for leukemia. He is continuing to attend school board
meetings via teleconference and do his day job with the Nevada System of
Higher Education, where he works as a liaison for students. Good luck.
The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer
And A Bouquet of Weeds To:
The Las Vegas Visitor and Convention Authority, which should have been out
of business and off the government payroll years ago, for spending nearly three
quarters of a million dollars of the taxpayers' money to try and enforce a bogus
copyright on "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas". Not only is it a waste of
money, they only seem to want to harass little guys who don't have the money
to fight back.
ages.
Also, the FDA is unable to
inspect most of the drugs coming from Mexico, which serves
American consumers from thousands of pharmacies just inside its
border cities such as Tijuana. Much
of this Mexican medicine comes
from Colombia, China, and India
and is counterfeit.
More recently, the FDA reports
that hundreds of Internet sites are
offering counterfeit medicines to
Americans from foreign factories.
The agency catches and closes some
of these sites, but others pop up to
take their place.
The FDA’s problem, of course,
is that the U.S. Government has long
starved it of enforcement funds.
Perhaps most worrisome, FDA
officials tell Congress that more than
80 percent of the bulk active ingredients that go into U.S. prescription drugs are imported. Worse, the
agency has information on only 18
percent of the companies supplying
these ingredients. Consequently, it
has never inspected the facilities of
more than 4,600 foreign companies
that supply most of the ingredients
used in U.S. prescription medicines.
More troubling, the FDA reports that
623 firms from China that manufacture drugs for export to the United
States, and 409 from India, have
never been inspected to determine
if they meet required Current Good
Manufacturing Practices (CGMPs).
Yet of all nations, China and India
are the world’s two main counterfeiters of medicines.
Congressman Fred Upton (RMI), who chaired sessions during
the House Commerce Committee’s
hearing on counterfeit medicines,
explained the danger as,
A bulk quantity of as little as
50 kilograms can be used in the
production of millions of tablets or
capsules. Thus, only one counterfeit
bulk that contains an impurity or is
synthesized improperly could cause
immediate death or injury to numerous people.
Simply put, the FDA does not
know nor can it guarantee that the
active ingredients used in U.S. pharmaceuticals meet its standards. Nor
can other governments do the same
for their citizens. This is a spectacular and dangerous failure.
Next time poisoned bulk ingredients enter the United States, the
danger could be to the pet owners.
PAT CHOATE
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OPINION
From The Publisher...
Media Execs Should Stop Complaining
The annual meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters from Time Warner (CNN), and News Corp (Fox).
begins here on Sunday and you are going to hear a lot of
breast beating about “old” media and “new” media.
Sure there are new companies involved like Microsoft and
Google, but the fact is that the old companies own most of
The representatives of old media will be complaining about the content and the “new media” is just another way to dishow the new media is going to put them out of business.
tribute that content.
It is hardly a new complaint.
So you would think that all of the media executives converging on Las Vegas this weekend would be looking at future
And the same morons representing Wall Street investment opportunities and coming up with new ideas.
banks will be nodding their heads and issuing reports suggesting that large old media companies (which are all still But no.
minting money) are all going to go the way of the dodo
bird.
They’re all mostly looking at ways to screw the other guy to
get a short term advantage for themselves.
Unless the media types stop bitching and start thinking, the
Wall Street types may be right. But only because smarter The radio guys are trying to scuttle the XM-Sirius satellite
people will beat them at their own game.
radio merger.
Simply put, the “old media” is radio and television—and the
print media—and the “new media” is everything else you
can use to communicate with. Now back in the day, the old
media was newsreels (remember Pathe and Movietone?)
and radio and the new media was television.
Then, the new media became cable and satellite television.
We entered the 500 channel universe.
Now, we’re talking about the internet.
The truth is that the more things change, the more they stay
the same.
“New” media, whatever that really is, is just a new way to
make money using the same old skills we’ve honed since
before Harry Plotkin wrote the Communications Act of 1934
which established the Federal Communications Commission
and started abridging the First Amendment by letting the
government get into the business of deciding what content
should be allowed on broadcast stations and what content
should be banned.
The broadcast television guys are looking for ways to screw
the cable and satellite guys.
The networks want to screw the local affiliates who made
them rich because they say their “business model” is outdated.
The local affiliates are clueless despite the fact they control
the most important local content there is, local news.
The AM radio guys haven’t had a new idea since talk radio.
The FM radio guys are trying to figure out how to add more
channels as if they are actually doing a good job with the
channels they already have.
And everybody is complaining about something.
Folks. Here’s a newsflash. It is hard to innovate when you
are bitching about things instead of thinking about them.
Sometime, between the time you get here and the time
you leave would be a good time to stop complaining and
The biggest players on the internet today are the same start coming up with the ideas to take you into the next ten
old companies who have been making television and radio years.
shows and gathering the news forever.
Because if you don’t, then someone else will, and, unless
You have to look a long way before you will see an internet you are a member of the lucky sperm club, you will be an
devoid of the influence of the Walt Disney Company (ABC), obsolete dinosaur in today’s media world.
General Electric (NBC) and the Columbia Broadcasting
System (CBS). And even longer and harder to get away
FRED WEINBERG
Commentary: Doug French
Epidemic Or Not?
Most LewRockwell.com conferences are all about economics, gold and
the evil doings of government. But last fall’s “Healthy, Wealthy and Wise”
broke new ground with an emphasis on alternative health and how the medical establishment and government health agencies are working in concert
to kill us. To call most of the presentations “politically incorrect” would be an
understatement. But the guy who pushed the envelope the furthest was the
University of California at Berkley’s Peter Duesberg’s Friday night presentation entitled, “Is AIDS a Viral or a Chemical Epidemic? - a Multi-BillionDollar Question.”
Duesberg is no quack. He isolated the first cancer gene through his work
on retroviruses in 1970, and mapped the genetic structure of these viruses.
Because of this and other work in the same field, he was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences in 1986. He’s the recipient of a seven-year
Outstanding Investigator Grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Despite the awards and recognition, Duesberg is maligned for challenging the establishment dogma that AIDS is caused by a virus, and instead
proposes the hypothesis that AIDS is brought on by lifestyles that include
long-term consumption of recreational drugs, and the ingestion of the drug
prescribed to AIDS patients - AZT. Duesberg, the author of Inventing the AIDS Virus, was celebrating his
70th birthday the night he spoke - a night that was ironically World AIDS
Day. Duesberg made the point that most viruses are ubiquitous and totally
harmless, and that we all harbor numerous viruses and other microbes
almost from birth. These viruses are called passengers. Nobody cares much about passenger viruses because they are common
and scientists can’t secure funding to study them. Microbes aren’t the primary cause of diseases, according to Duesberg.
The two leading causes of death - heart disease and cancer - have nothing
to do with microbes. But it is quite lucrative for scientists and doctors to
develop tests and drugs to combat the microbes: $100 billion in the case of
AIDS. Yet, no vaccine has been created. But, while the medical establishment constantly harps about how contagious AIDS is, Duesberg made the point that with 920,000 AIDS patients,
not one single doctor, nurse or researcher is reported in the literature to have
developed AIDS. Also, wives of hemophiliacs don’t get AIDS, and nondrug using prostitutes don’t contract AIDS.
If unprotected sex caused AIDS, the entire porn industry would be
infected. It is not. In fact, Duesberg’s work finds that only “1 in 1,000
unprotected sexual contacts transmits HIV, and only 1 of 275 U.S. citizens is
HIV-infected. Therefore, an average un-infected U.S.. citizen needs 275,000
random ‘sexual contacts’ to get infected and spread HIV - an unlikely basis
for an epidemic!” At the same time, the growth in the number of AIDS cases exactly
tracks the growth in the use of recreational drugs during the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Duesberg cited 25 papers in the literature showing that drugs cause many of
the 29 AIDS-defining diseases.
Duesberg called AIDS medicine AZT, “AIDS by prescription.” “AZT
kills the exact same cells that HIV purports to do,” Duesberg said, “but with
much greater efficiency and toxicity to other cells.”
If AIDS were a virus like the medical establishment says it is, it would
be like all viral/microbial epidemics in the past - it would spread randomly
in the population. But in the United States and Europe, AIDS is restricted
to two primary groups - intravenous drug users and male homosexual drug
users. Plus, the disease should be a pediatric epidemic by now, because mothers transmit HIV to their infants at rates of 25 to 50 percent. But, less
than 1 percent of AIDS in America and Europe is pediatric, according to
Duesberg. Three million people a year receive blood transfusions. And HIV-infected blood was not eliminated from the nation’s blood supply until 1985. Yet
there was no increase in AIDS-defining diseases in HIV-positive transfusion
recipients in the AIDS era. Of course, this is all heresy to those milking the disease for government
money. There is no grant money available for telling people to quit using
cocaine, speed and ecstasy. No shinny new laboratories can be funded dispensing common sense. And now, Duesberg is not alone. During the conference wrap-up panel,
Donald Miller, M.D., Cardiac Surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the
University of Washington, told the crowd that he had been studying HIV/
AIDS for 10 years and completely agrees with Duesberg, calling him “A
Modern Day Copernicus.”
Let’s hope the world starts listening soon.
DOUG FRENCH
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LAS VEGAS OPENINGS 2007:
++++++++++
Apr.??,2007=PALMS opens their multi-million dollar, state-of-theart concert theater named THE PEARL. The farthest seat from the
stage will be a mere 120 feet away, allowing performers to personally connect with the entire audience. Two 14-foot by 16-foot
video screens will be located on each side of the stage for close
up looks at the on-stage action with additional plasma screens
located throughout the concourse areas. With special scalable
curtains, the Pearl’s capacity can easily adjust to accommodate
from 1,100 to 2,400 guests. In addition, the floor will allow for
seated concert viewing or general admission standing room audiences. The new concert facility will be hard wired to The Studio
at The Palms. The facility is also designed to host live television
programs, sporting events and award shows.
++++++++++
Apr.??, 2007= TERRIBLE’S will finalize the purchase from MGM
Mirage of the three casino/hotels in Primm, NV (Whiskey Pete’s,
Primm and Buffalo Bills).
+++++++++++
Sometime in the spring of 2007, the ALADDIN changes its name
to PLANET HOLLYWOOD CASINO & HOTEL.
++++++++++
Sometime in the spring of 2007, GREEN VALLEY RANCH will open
additional casino space and a400-seat lounge and entertainment
venue which will feature recurring acts and touring headliners.
++++++++++
May 5, 2007= Boxing. Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather
- MGM Grand Garden Arena.
++++++++++
May??, 2007= MGM MIRAGE is opening Towers B and C in the
RESIDENCES AT MGM GRAND. The project has three Towers,
each 40-storeys high and each Tower will have576 condominium
units. The Towers are very creatively called: Tower A, Tower B
and Tower C. The condominium units can be rented by the public under the MGM Mirage program called The Signature at MGM
Grand. Tower A is now open. The whole project is being built
where the MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park was located, in the
back of the MGM Grand. Turnberry & MGM Mirage are partners.
Tel. 1-888-891-1688 or (702) 891-5555. Beautiful internet site is
at:<http://www.mgmgrandresidences.com>
++++++++++
June??, 2007= RED ROCK STATION will open a $65 million, 72lane bowling center on the west side of the property near the
movie theaters and additional parking. The bowling center will
also include a lounge, dining area, full service pro shop and a
self-contained VIP bowling area with 12 lanes to host private banquets, meetings and special events. This is the last and Phase 3
of their expansion plans.
++++++++++
Sometime in the summer of 2007, SANTA FE STATION will open
a new poker room, two restaurants named Tides Oyster Bar and
Salt Lick BBQ and a Center Bar concept similar to the ones at
Green Valley Ranch and Red Rock Station.
++++++++++
Sometime during late summer or early fall of 2007,FIESTA
HENDERSON will open a Food Court, Arcade and 12-screen movie
theater operated by Regal Cinemas.
++++++++++
Sometime in 2007, the new HOOVER DAM bypass and bridge
opens. Major visible construction has started and with security
vehicle check points, there are some lengthy delays. Internet site
is at:<http://www.hooverdambypass.org/>
Sometime in 2007, HARMON AVENUE EXTENSION opens that
would link the street with Frank Sinatra Drive and The Strip.
Sometime in 2007, Station Casinos will start construction on its
DURANGO STATION CASINO complex. Phase I of the project will
include 400 hotel rooms, a 120,000 square-foot casino and amenities. Phase II will add a 600-room hotel tower, entertainment
center and other expansions.
Sometime in 2007, Station Casinos will announce plans for a
mixed-use project (condos, retail etc.) on 52-acres near their
Palace Station.
Sometime in 2007, Construction is scheduled to begin on THE
WORLD JEWELRY CENTER by a California developer called Probity
International Corporation as part of the city’s development of
its 61-acre Union Park site, vacant land just west of downtown,
across from the $2 billion World Market furniture center. The
$500 million World Jewelry Center would occupy 5.4 acres, be 57
stories tall, and have a million square feet of commercial space
designed to bring together jewelry manufacturers, wholesalers,
retailers, and consumers. Roughly 800,000 square feet would be
devoted to exhibition and meeting areas, gem-grading laboratories, classrooms, a jewelry and gem museum, a café, and a private club. A 125,000-square-foot retail center, consisting of up to
50 stores, would be open to the public. Up to 25 residential condos would occupy the top floors. The World Jewelry Center would
be competing with established jewelry centers, such as New York
City’s 47th Street Diamond and Jewelry Center, L.A.’s Hill Street
Diamond District, and Miami’s Seybold Jewelry Building. It will
take three to three-and-a-half years to complete.
Sometime in late 2007, the famous CROBAR Nightclub will open
where the Rita Rudner Theater was located - New York-New
York.
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2008
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Sometime in early 2008, Apollo Management Group and Texas
Pacific Group will close on their $17.1 billion purchase of HARRAH’S
ENTERTAINMENT.
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Sometime in early 2008, the LAS VEGAS MONORAIL is planning
to start construction of an extension from the MGM GRAND to
McCarran Airport. The extension will run north from the MGM
Grand to Harmon, east to Swenson Street, south to Russell Road
and east to the site of McCarran’s future Terminal 3. Monorail
stations along the extended route are planned at the site of the
planned “W” Resort Hotel on Harmon, at the Hard Rock Hotel and
on Swenson near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to serve
events at the Thomas & Mack Center. Two stations would be built
at McCarran, one near the planned Terminal 3 and another at
Terminal 1 on the north side of the airport’s baggage claim area.
Projected completion date is three years later.
Apr.??,2008 = Opening of Phase 3 of the WORLD MARKET CENTER.
It will be a 16-story, 2.1 million-square-foot showroom along with
an adjacent nine-story parking garage. Construction costs for this
Phase of the project are estimated at $500 million. Most of this
Phase is already rented!
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Commentary: Albert Thomas
When The Market Talks – Listen
Every investor wants to know which way the market is moving – up or
down.
No on really knows what tomorrow will bring much less those who
are guessing at next month or next year. Brokers and analysts (that’s pronounced with a broad ‘a’) come up with complicated formulas.
Economist who know less than all the other experts have those wonderful long Greek formulas. Only another economist will begin to comprehend
them and will tell his compatriot where he is wrong.
All fundamental analysts know all about everything except which way
the market will go.
Technical analysts are somewhat more correct and seem to come closer
to a correct guess. The really good analysts (and there aren’t that many good
ones) listen to the market. They read their charts and also have some pretty
complicated formulas to try to decipher market direction. Most investors and
unfortunately too many brokers have no clue on how to read the basics.
The basics for any technical study are charts, MACDs (moving average
convergence divergence), stochastics, trend lines, RSI (Relative Strength
Index), oscillators, contrarianism, moving averages and many more.
Anyone can find all the education he needs by typing in the technical term
on Google.com. That is the beginning. It takes time and study to learn how
to use these tools.
When you become a master with these technical methods (and you
never will) you will only be right about 80% of the time if you are good.
Today there are many short cuts to learning – books, online trading tools
and personal instruction. Do not buy $3,000 software programs that have 30
parameters until the basics are mastered.
The most important rule is never taking a big loss. When wrong get out
immediately. An exit strategy is more important than an entry method.
Using a common sense approach with a few fundamentals and a backup
of technical tools it is possible to make money in the stock market. When
the news is all bad as it has been in March 2007, yet the market does not
break, Mr. Market is telling anyone who wants to listen that it wants to go
up. Those who understand some of the technical tools mentioned above can
easily see confirmations.
Technicals are the voice of the market. Most don’t hear it and few who
do receive a garbled message. Finding a broker or financial planner who
works with technical analysis will put the investor miles ahead and keep
him from losing money during the next bear market – and there will be one.
A really smart broker or financial planner will have their clients in cash
while the market crashes. Cash is a position. There are few who understand
how to use bear funds to make huge profits while Mr. Market speaks in bear
tongues.
The market speaks to everyone every day. Those who learn the language
profit nicely. AL THOMAS
Al Thomas’ best selling book, “If It Doesn’t Go Up, Don’t Buy It!” has
helped thousands of people make money and keep their profits with his
simple 2-step method. Read the first chapter and receive his market letter
at www.mutualfundmagic.com to discover why he’s the man that Wall Street
does not want you to know. THE PENNY PRESS, APRIL 12, 2007 PAGE 11
Commentary: Joyce Meyer
The Power Of
Passionate
Prayer
I believe one of the greatest
untapped opportunities we have in
this life is the privilege of prayer.
To think we can actually take our
needs and cares and fears to God in
prayer is almost too good to be true.
If we really understood the power of
prayer, we would spend more time
talking to God and less time trying
to figure things out on our own.
God doesn’t require that your
prayers be perfect or that you say just
the right words in just the right way.
You must remember…you have a
loving heavenly Father who accepts
you just as you are. He only asks
that your prayers be sincere—from
your heart. When you are praying
from your heart, you are praying
effectively.
Your prayers don’t have to be
long or loud. Effective prayer is
about sincerity. The kinds of prayers
that God pays attention to are passionate prayers, prayers that are
prayed with your whole heart.
The Bible backs up this truth.
The second part of James 5:16 says,
The earnest (heartfelt, continued)
prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working] (The Amplified
Bible). Remember, it’s not about the
words you use. It’s all about your
heart. The prayers that are the most
powerful are those that are earnest
and heartfelt…passionate.
I went through a period of time
in my life where I felt that God was
asking me to stop being so wordy
and become more sincere in my
prayer life. This was more challenging that I ever thought possible. I
was used to praying long-drawn-out
prayers because I thought that made
my prayers seem more important. I
thought I was being sincere, but I
was really just trying to impress God
or those I was praying with. I had
to learn to pray passionately…from
my heart.
If I did something wrong, I
learned to pray simply but sincerely,
“Now, God, I know that was wrong.
I admit it, and I ask You to forgive
me. Thank You, Lord. Amen.” That
was it! Believe it or not, that short,
simple prayer was very hard for me
to pray. It was actually easier for
me to go on and on in my prayers. I
learned that the long, wordy prayers
were more about me trying to feel
good than actually trying to be honest and sincere with God. Can you
relate?
In addition to praying more passionately, we need to be praying
much more than we do—not necessarily longer prayers but more of
them. Prayer needs to be a constant
part of our life, just like breathing.
God wants us to bring every one of
our cares and needs to Him—not
just the big ones. When we try to
handle some of those things on our
own, we only become frustrated and
upset.
I’ve found that there’s nothing
more frustrating than trying to do
something on your own that you
should be asking God to handle
for you. Let me give you an easy
example. Do you realize that you
can’t change your family members?
There’s nothing you can do that will
change those people you love into
the people you want them to be.
In fact, the more you try, the more
frustrated, upset, and angry you’ll
become.
God never intended for you to
try to change them! Instead, He
wants you to unload those cares on
Him in prayer and offer up passion-
ate prayers for your family members
who need real change in their lives.
God can do what you can’t, but
remember, your prayers will open a
door for Him to work.
It’s time for you to believe in the
power of simple, passionate prayer.
If there is something you want or
need…pray about it! Today you can
let go of those situations that are
causing pain, anger or frustration and
unload them on God. God is longing
to hear your heartfelt prayers. His
limitless power is available to you
when you pray passionately!
JOYCE MEYER
For more on this topic, you may
order Joyce’s four-part series Simple
Prayer…Simple Life, which is available by calling 1-800-727-9673 or
visiting www.joycemeyer.org.
Commentary: Wyatt Cox
CAT And Mouse
When It Comes To Service.
OK, I’ll admit it. I don’t own a car. Why? I don’t have hundreds of dollars
a month to put in the pockets of car dealers, insurance companies, big oil, and
garages. I DO own an electric three-wheeler which I use on my days off to get
groceries and the like. I even drive it to the Penny Press offices on occasion to
pick up a few hard copies for the diehards who refuse to download it from the
Internet.
Otherwise, I use the CAT system. Sometimes things go well and I get to
work on time.
Other times....
Take this last Sunday afternoon, for example. I left my apartment at 3pm and
walked over to Lamb and Charleston to catch the 213 route that takes me right
next to the Strip via Desert Inn Road and Channel 8 drive.
Apparently there was an accident early Sunday morning where a car plowed
into a utility pole just north of Lamb and Charleston and killed a man. Crews
were out repairing the downed lines in what was apparently a major project.
Lamb was closed both directions north of Charleston. I was there in plenty of
time to catch the scheduled 3:25 southbound bus. No bus. A visually impaired
man told me he had been waiting for more than an hour on a bus to come.
Time to break out the cell phone and call CAT.
Five minutes of sappy music and “Your call is important to us” admonitions
later, I get a “Customer Service Agent” on the line. Our conversation goes something like this:
Me: “I’m waiting for the 213 Southbound south of Lamb and Charleston and
I notice that Lamb is closed just north of Charleston. Is there a detour in effect
that is taking the bus off route so it’s avoiding this stop?”
CAT: “Let me check Ma’am. (I get this all the time) Please hold.”
Five more minutes of sappy music and “we’ll be right with you” admonitions
later:
CAT: “Ma’am, we show no detour on your route. In fact, the bus just passed
your location.”
Me: “Ma’am, I promise you the bus did not pass here. Something’s going
on.”
CAT: “Well Ma’am, why don’t you walk down to the next stop and wait
there.”
Me: “Ma’am, the next stop is a mile down the road, and there’s a visually
impaired gentleman here who can’t really walk that far. You mean you’re showing no detour here?.”
CAT: “No, Ma’am. I don’t know what to tell you.”
Me: “I see. Can I speak to a supervisor?”
CAT: “Certainly. Just a moment please.”
Five more minutes of sappy music and “we’re so very sorry for making you
wait” admonitions later:
CAT: “Hi, how can I help you?”
(Repeat above exchange with renewed anxiety as it’s now a half hour since
I started this call)
I finally pose the question to the supervisor that was most telling of all.
Me: “It’s obvious that the buses are detouring around this closure and not
making this stop. Wouldn’t the drivers report the detour to your office?”
CAT: “Oh come now. You think they would tell us if there was a problem?”
Me: “I would think so.
CAT: Oh Come Now.”
And this right here is the root of my complaint with CAT and their biggest
failing: Communication.
First, communication within the organization. Closures and major route
detours should be communicated. I learned after the fact that since early morning
CAT had been routing the bus from Stewart to Nellis to Sahara and back to Lamb.
This important information hadn’t been passed on to CAT’s information line.
Second, communication with the Public. CAT’s supervisors hadn’t bothered
to use their little temporary signs to indicate that the seven stops that were being
bypassed wouldn’t be serviced! Fortunately it was a cool day, so while health
wasn’t in danger, it certainly had to heat some tempers.
Third, the routing passed an unnecessary number of stops. I understand the
desire to keep busses on time, and I also understand the desire to keep busses off
of primarily residential streets, but a better routing than the Stewart to Nellis to
Sahara detour would have been Stewart to Marion to Charleston and then back
on route. Only three stops would have been affected and delays would have been
minimized. (And don’t give me the “Marion is a residential street” argument. I
use it for it’s bike route and there are days when it’s as busy as Lamb!)
I was assured that a road supervisor would be out to check the situation out
“shortly”. Forty five minutes later and with darkness approaching I helped the
visually impaired gentleman onto the Charleston Bus so that he could make it
home before dark and his limited vision wouldn’t become total blindness. It was
as we were boarding the Charleston Bus that I saw a supervisor finally arriving.
The rerouting was still going on when I headed back home around Midnight.
The driver did announce the detour and observed any stops on the detour to
accommodate passengers,but I wondered how many people might have been at
those closed stops at Midnight wondering where their ride to work was...
I’m working on a story now that will probably be ready in a few weeks.
It seems that much ado is being made of racial discrimination in the housing
markets (both sales and rentals). It appears there may be a new form of what we
used to refer to as “reverse discrimination”.
It seems that some landlords are forcing out most traditional tenants in favor
of -- get this -- illegal immigrant families and groups of illegals.
My sources tell me they’re treating these groups as “cash cows”, charging
excessive deposits PLUS first and last months rent. Then once the families have
moved in, the landlords are refusing to service the properties. The immigrants
can’t speak up, can’t assert their rights, can’t go to authorities, because they’re not
legal and could be deported. The landlords know this, and have them tied up. If
they decide to move and trash the place, the landlord has a bucket full of money
to repair it and can still evict them if they cause trouble under these sweetheart
lease deals that totally favor the landlord -- particularly if the immigrants can’t
read the language.
Watch this space.
Finally, a few words on Don Imus. The flap over “mush mouth” who got
out the evil words “Nappy Headed Hos” when referring to the Rutgers woman’s
basketball team has been waaaaay overblown by the African-American left who
have ignored the points being made.
Essentially Imus was comparing and contrasting the cultural differences
between the two teams. The NCAA championship was won by Tennessee’s
Lady Vols, a team which by and large embodies traditional middle class values.
The Vols team comes from mostly middle to upper middle class two-parent
households and were raised to be respectful. The Rutgers team embodies much
of today’s hip-hop urban culture. That was where Imus was trying to go, but his
attempt to play it for humor caught the ire of many African American leaders,
including Al Sharpton (and if he’s your leader...) who hosts a daily radio show
heard by about 1/10000 the number of persons that listen to Imus.
Imus’s two week suspension by Westwood One and his supporters proves
what I’ve always said about big media. Imus was given free reign to attack,
demean, and verbally assault any of a number of targets over the years. You’ve
never heard complaints from the B’nai B’rith, the Catholic League, even the
American Indian Movement, though Imus has at one time or another taken pot
shots at them. They know, as Sharpton and his Rainbow Coalition/PUSH/NOW
cronies should, that Imus is an equal opportunity offender. Westwood One loved
it all. Until the heat was turned up and they folded like a cheap deck of cards.
Make no mistake about it, Imus went over the line, but the man has apologized,
what more do you want, his ancient shriveled genitalia on a platter? Westwood
One showed that they already lost theirs...
All I can say about Sharpton is he has little ground to talk about Racism. His
success has been totally based on the fact that he is African American. If he were
a Caucasian talk show host, he would have trouble getting a job in Boise Idaho.
Emphasis on the “ho”.
WYATT COX
Comments welcome at [email protected].
Pro-Gunners Face Dilemma In Parker v. District Of Columbia
By Joseph P. Tartaro
Executive Editor, Gunweek
Special To The Penny Press
I have been editing Gun Week for over 25 years and had contributed to this
newspaper, and several other gun magazines and even law journals, for many
years before that. I think my active involvement in firearms civil rights activism goes back to the 1960s. I profess to be a writer, maybe even a journalist,
but not a lawyer.
During all those years, there have been many individuals, convinced that
the Second Amendment guarantees every law-abiding citizen an individual
right to keep and bear arms, who have downplayed the role of political activism
and public education by pro-gun individuals and organizations by suggesting
the most simplistic of solutions.
“Why not solve the whole problem once and for all by taking a case to the
Supreme Court? Let the court tell the politicians that their gun laws are unconstitutional,” they advise.
Of course that is even more simplistic than in sounds.
Many of the people who believe in the individual right to keep and bear
arms grew up and were educated in an earlier era when that view was almost
universal, even taught in schools. But times and the ways people look at ideas
have changed, and changed dramatically.
How the media, the public, lawmakers and the courts view fundamental
questions of human rights is amazingly different. And elected officials, scholars
and the courts were largely trained in a different worldview.
Without debating the intricacies of the abortion issue, let’s examine some
of its history, as an example of change. Years ago, people might only speak of
terminating a pregnancy in hushed whispers behind closed doors; today the
subject of abortion is one of the most divisive political issues of our times.
The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision provided a thunderclap of change which is
still being argued. However, all of the nuances of that decision are still being
sorted out and are likely to remain unsettled for years to come. The courts must
resolve peripheral questions, such as parental notification, late term abortions,
and so on.
Roe v. Wade may have legalized abortion, but it was not a total reversal of
past rulings and traditions, and there are shadings to that issue which will be
decided in years and courts to come.
I mention all of this because we may have finally arrived at a similar watershed point in the battle for the individual right to keep and bear arms. And let
me remind readers that there are two parts to that question of rights; the “keep”
and the “bear” are separate issues. Even plenty of people who believe in their
right to arms split when it comes to those questions which is why it has been so
difficult in recent years to get right-to-carry laws passed even in states that have
a long tradition of keeping and using arms for recreation and defense.
Over the past 30 or 40 years some people cringed whenever the idea of
bringing a gun rights case before the Supreme Court was mentioned. In fact,
many strategists argued against such a course, believing that the judges were
more disposed to a collective right theory, or even one that has not been
advanced before.
Some argued that more liberal courts of recent times that were disposed to
abandon the original intent of the Founding Fathers would be dangerous arbiters of the Second Amendment’s meaning.
Others counseled that we should wait for a generation of change on the
Supreme Court as presidents more to their liking appointed more judges mindful of original intent and hostile to change. The fallacy to that argument is that
both conservative and liberal presidents have been surprised when their judicial
nominees turned out to hold views that were different than supposed.
With all of that said as preamble, I’d like to add a few comments of my
own regarding the Parker v. DC decision and the likelihood that it will become
a major Supreme Court gun case, as reported in Dave Workman’s report (see
page 3).
As is suggested by Workman’s article and the people he interviewed before
writing it, the Parker case may be a turning point in the struggle for the right
to keep and bear arms. It must be remembered, however, that the Parker case
focuses on the question of “keeping arms” in one’s home or business, not “bearing” arms on the streets of Washington, DC, or anywhere else.
If it goes to the Supreme Court, and the court upholds the Mar. 9 ruling by
the three-judge panel in the DC appellate court, it will not spell the end of all
gun control laws. That decision, like the earlier 5th Circuit Emerson decision
left room for some limitations on firearms possession and use while upholding
an individual right to possess them.
The anti-gunners has been tearing their hair out and screaming that the
world of gun control will come to an end if the Supreme Court upholds the
Parker decision. As usual, they are predicting nothing short of the end of civilization as we know it if the decision is upheld.
Some pro-gunners are almost as extreme in their fear of what would happen
if the court overturns Parker, something I find hard to believe given the careful
preparation of the case, the upstanding nature of the plaintiffs, and the scholarship woven into the Parker decision.
Sooner or later, it is inevitable that one or more Second Amendment cases
will be accepted by the Supreme Court, no matter what the pro-gun and antigun leaders and their strategists say. I believe that Parker should be that case. As
I mentioned, it is a case about the right to keep arms in one’s home. Later, there
may be cases that address the question of bearing arms outside the home.
Better now the Parker case than the one involving drug dealers, terrorists,
bank robbers, and rapists—all of whom frequently raise the Second Amendment
in their defenses.
As Parker case attorney Alan Gura told Workman during his interview, “If
not this case, which case?”
And as NRA President Sandy Froman, who is an attorney in Arizona, noted
to Workman if any gun law was going to be challenged on Second Amendment
grounds, the District’s gun ban is “just about the best law that could be challenged.”
“It is not only an unwise law, but an unconstitutional law,” she said. “How
can you say that someone can’t own a gun in their own home for self-defense?
We’ve seen that the gun ban is a total failure...This is a good way to challenge the law, with great plaintiffs. The attorneys have done a good job on this
case.”
There are some big flies in the ointment leading to a Supreme Couirt ruling
on Parker. The flies are pro-gun flies, or as the Washington media likes to say
these days “neo-pro-gun.”
The flies came with good intent, but they now pose a threat to the Parker
ruling. They are the Senate and House bills that have been filed by friendly
pro-gun lawmakers at the urging of pro-gun groups like the National Rifle
Association.
Unfortunately, if those bills designed to wipe out the District of Columbia’s
anti-gun ordinances pass before the Supreme Court has chosen a course regarding the Parker case, they could destroy the fine, even landmark decision, written by Judge Laurence H. Silberman. While these bills offer some promise for
some gunowners, they are totally unnecessary. If Parker is upheld, the legislation would be pointless.
In the unlikely event that the Supreme Court hears and overturns the Parker
decision, there will be plenty of time to respond legislatively.
Further, if the Supremes review and uphold the Parker decision, it will have
a lasting national impact for years to come. It will provide a well protected
fortress from which we can campaign for more changes and more favorable
decisions on gun laws.
If the Supreme Court decides not to review Parker because Congress passed
the Hutchinson or Souder bills giving DC residents a carry law rendering the
Parker decision moot, we will be faced with a continuation of the same old battle, with the prospect that an anti-gun Congress, where an anti-gun president,
and an anti-gun Washington, DC, council could change the laws back again, or
even make them worse.
Pet Of The Week
Adopt This Pet !
Normally, we would present a cute pet which could be adopted at the
Lied Animal Shelter. Due to the events of last week (See page 3) we're
working on finding a different source for adoptable animals. Photo By
Debbie Pierce

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