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OCTOBER 12, 2006
Think Twice Before Banning
Guns From Schools
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VOLUME 4 NUMBER 3
OCTOBER 12, 2006
Dirty Little Secret Of ‘Gun-Free School Zones’
By Alan Gottlieb
and Dave Workman
Special To The Penny Press
Three fatal attacks on school
property in less than a week; more
than 20 since February 1996 when
Analysis
a 14-year-old youth strolled into a
junior high school in Moses Lake,
Wash. and opened fire, killing two
students and a teacher.
The dirty little secret of all these
atrocities is that they happened in
so-called “Gun Free School Zones.”
Prior to the enactment of that horribly misguided federal legislation
and its state-level clones, one never
read about school massacres because
there weren’t any. The Gun Free
School Zones Act transformed the
public school landscape into a freefire zone for whackos by removing
any possibility, however small, that
an armed teacher, student or private
citizen might be present to intervene.
As a result, monsters like Colorado’s
Duane Morrison or Pennsylvania’s
Charles Roberts, and a host of others
have committed mayhem, courtesy
of gun control fanatics who pressured Congress and state legislatures
to pass such statutes.
The exception is Luke Woodham,
who shot up Mississippi’s Pearl
High School in 1997 after slitting
his mother’s throat. Midway through
his spree, Woodham encountered
Vice Principal Joel Myrick, who had
rushed to his car to retrieve a .45caliber pistol. Myrick aimed the gun
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at Woodham’s head and held him
until police arrived.
You read little about Myrick’s
heroism, and less about his handgun,
in press reports.
After the Pennsylvania attack
on an Amish school in Lancaster
County, anti-gun Gov. Ed Rendell
had a remarkable moment of candor when he admitted that tougher
gun laws would not have stopped
the gunman. “You can make all the
changes you want,” Rendell said,
“but you can never stop a random
act of violence by someone intent on
taking his own life.”
His remarks were largely ignored
because nobody wants to admit that
Rendell is right about this, same
as they overlooked Myrick and his
gun. Such facts don’t fit the anti-gun
agenda.
It is time to re-consider gun-free
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Crime does not pay ... as well
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school zone laws and the zero-tolerance mentality such laws foster.
Inflexible regulations aimed at keeping kids safe also place teachers in
jeopardy. A teacher in Lacey, Wash.
was recently suspended for having a
gun in her purse. Licensed to carry,
she was afraid of her estranged husband, against whom she has a domestic violence protection order, and has
filed for divorce. But now she’s in
trouble; allegedly victimized by her
spouse and again by the law.
We can no longer afford the
empty-headed Utopian illusion that
such statutes keep anyone safe,
because they don’t. Like other
restrictive gun control measures,
this one has been a monumental
failure, and it is literally killing our
children.
Nobody is suggesting that all
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Bring Guns Back To School Drive A Little
Save A LOT!
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teachers arm themselves, but scrapping the law restores that option. School
massacres didn’t happen in the days when high schools had rifle teams, and
when it was common in the fall to find both teachers and students with rifles
or shotguns locked in their cars. That was before “gun” became a four-letter
word among self-described “progressive liberals” who championed gunfree zones.
If what’s happening at schools today is “progress,” we might be better
off – and a lot of students would still be alive – if we were back in those
unenlightened days when school kids riding down country roads with .22
rifles across their bicycle handlebars alarmed nobody.
In the wake of our most recent school shootings, reaction from the gun
control crowd has been pathetic. Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke
blustered that “we need to do something about that.” He suggested a national dialogue, as if more talk will stop suicidal maniacs.
His bunch has done enough already, with the help of gun-grabbing
Congressional demagogues like Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy
Pelosi and their far left colleagues, and an all-too-cooperative “mainstream”
press. They gave us a law that leaves our children and their teachers vulnerable to the whims of any nutball looking for 15 minutes of fame because of
real or imagined problems or perversions.
Restrictive gun laws do not prevent crime and the notion of a gun-free
school zone is a myth. More restrictions on law-abiding citizens will never
stop people like Morrison or Roberts who proved yet again that feel-good
laws have defrauded American citizens, and especially our children, of
genuine safety.
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Alan Gottlieb is chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep
and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org). Dave Workman is the senior editor of
Gun Week published by the Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org).
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Commentary: Pat Choate
Danger Ahead—
North Korea
North Korea is preparing to detonate its first nuclear bomb. Most
likely, that nation has enough nuclear materials to make several more
such devices.
Powerful voices in this nation
are urging that the United States
either go to war with North Korea
under the Bush Doctrine, which says
we attack those that present a threat
to us. “Moderates” are calling for
a surgical strike at North Korea’s
nuclear production sites.
Exercising either of those choices would be madness.
Let’s go back to basics. A tiny
clique of paranoid communists rules
North Korea. The people of that
nation follow them blindly and completely. To disobey is to die.
North Korea has a million-man
army that is as disciplined as that of
Germany in 1914, which means they
will do as told and die if necessary
in battle.
The U.S. has roughly 32,000 soldiers on the border between North
and South Korea. They are there
to serve as a trip wire. Most would
die in the first 24-hours of a North
Korean attack. So many would die
that the United States would surely
go to all-out war against that nation.
The trip wire.
North Korea’s nuclear weapons
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The three federal court employees who inadvertently heard a mock warning in a counterterrorism exercise and called the FBI which is exactly what
they are supposed to do. If you wonder why we haven't been hit in the past
five years, it is because unnamed workers like these folks take this stuff as
seriously as they should. Good going guys.
Mayor pro-tem Gary Reese who held up a license for the Crazy Horse Too
last week. “I don’t feel confident going forward at this time,” He said after
City Attorney Brad Jerbic told the City Council he hadn’t read every line of
the 20-page lease agreement. “We need to go forward with a microscope.”
Amen.
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And A Bouquet of Weeds To:
All of the Democrats who are gloating over the resignation of former
Congressman Mark Foley. It's not like sex perverts in Congress are a GOP issue
alone. The fact is that pervs come from both sides of the aisle and as long as we
get rid of them, it's not a political issue, it's a law enforcement issue. We have
plenty of other stuff to worry about for this to be a major issue.
are crude, probably larger than the
bombs we dropped on Japan to stop
World War II and probably far more
jury-rigged. North Korea lacks a
long-range bomber or rocket capable
of reaching the United States.
That lack of sophistication and
a primitive delivery system, however, is meaningless. If North Korea
wanted to bomb the United States, it
could patiently put a bomb in each
of several cargo containers or old
cargo ships and send them to Los
Angeles, Seattle, New York, Boston,
Miami, and Houston. You get the
picture. North Korea has it within
its capacity to do untold damage to
the United States.
So. What should be our policy?
First, we need to recognize that
North Korea has some neighbors
who are probably more worried than
we are. Think what the people of
South Korea, Viet Nam, China and
Japan must fear. Having a mad man
neighbor playing with nuclear weapons certainly clears one’s mind.
Thus, we should work in conjunction with those nations. A boycott of trade with North Korea should
involve them all. Recent news from
the region suggests that they would
be willing. But that should be the
next to last resort.
Our first step is to accept the
fact that North Korea has and will
continue to hold nuclear weapons.
Japan has them, as does China.
After the Iraqi invasion, all dictators understand the only thing that
might prevent a foreign invasion is
to have a few nukes that could be
used against the aggressor.
The second step is to flood North
Korea with food, fuel and electronic gadgets. Food will resolve
the North Korean people’s anxiety
about whether they are going to
starve. Fuel means they will not
freeze. Consumer electronics makes
life easier and inevitably leads to the
Internet and outside views.
Pictures of the good life in South
Korea, China and elsewhere in Asia
will do more to undermine the communists than any military threat or
propaganda we can offer. In short,
we need more engagement, not less.
Finally, we must deal with the
real problem – that a desperate for
cash North Korea will sell a nuclear
device to some terrorist group. That
is the real danger.
We should make clear, along with
our Asian allies, that the source of a
nuclear weapon has fingerprints. If
North Korea sells such a device to a
terrorist group and it is used against
us, we will know almost immediately from whence it came.
The hard message we should
deliver is that if a terrorist bombs
one of our cities with a nuclear bomb
made in North Korea, our retaliation
with be swift and sure. There will be
no second such occurrence because
there will be no North Korea.
This is a message even a mad
man can understand, particularly
when it comes from the only nation
in the world to have used nuclear
weapons against an enemy.
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THE PENNY PRESS, OCTOBER 12, 2006 PAGE 6
From The Publisher...
Gillespie Squishy-Soft Liberal On Crime
You can add another reason why we think Undersheriff Anything else is negotiating with terrorists.
Doug Gillespie is simply not qualified to be elected to the
top job.
If you had said that the courts and the DA’s office is a problem, we might have some sympathy.
He’s a squishy-soft liberal.
But the fact is that the police have the job of deciding who
Last Sunday, Channel 8 hosted a debate between challenger to arrest. If you concentrated less on political correctness
Jerry Airola and Gillespie. Gillespie spent most of the eve- and more on arresting a steady stream of gang bangers and
ning trying to put Airola away with one mighty blow and presenting them to the DA’s office for prosecution, they will
he ended up looking like one of Mike Tyson’s punch drunk be prosecuted.
opponents.
And the courts, getting that steady stream of prosecutions
When the subject turned to gang violence, here is what the will have to adjudicate them.
man who thinks he’s entitled to become our next Sheriff
said:
Judges, juries and lawyers do not live in a vacuum.
“How do we deal with gangs? Very effectively through
enforcement strategies from a policing standpoint
that we do and we do very well.
“But the other side of this, IT’S NOT A PROBLEM
THAT THE POLICE ARE GONNA ARREST OUR WAY
OUT OF. This is not a crime problem that is unique to
Las Vegas. It’s sweeping America and there has to
be more community involvement dealing with these
youths when they’re at their at-risk age, nine, ten and
eleven years old, to institute policies and procedures
so as to prevent them from committing these acts
when they become teenagers.”
If the police department sends a steady stream of miscreants to the courthouse for adjudication, everybody in the
system will get the message—except the ACLU and the
squishy soft liberals who will accuse you of profiling.
And when they do, you would answer, that, yes, your department IS profiling. It’s profiling bad guys who hurt people
and if they happen to be minorities, well, that’s the way the
cookie crumbles.
SAY WHAT?
We got a little concerned about Gillespie’s liberal leanings
when we saw who did his web site. It’s an Oregon firm called
Mandate Media which has worked for such folks as NARAL,
the AFL-CIO and many of the more left-leaning candidates
you may never have heard of in Oregon and elsewhere.
We can’t “Arrest our way out of”’ gang violence?
And then, there’s the Second Amendment.
He wants to become a social worker because gang violence You won’t see Gillespie’s web site touting an NRA endorseisn’t a crime problem but a social problem? Or maybe just ment. We can imagine why.
throw up his hands and declare it not his problem?
We don’t need to coddle gang bangers. We need to make
And this from a guy who likes to tell people on the campaign their lives so miserable that they head back to California
trail that he’s a cop and Airola is not.
where they belong.
Well, Doug, you are just flat wrong.
So their liberals can coddle them.
When gangs commit violent acts, they’re breaking the law.
There’s only one candidate in this race who will ignore liberal
pressure to negotiate with terrorists.
When people break the law, we arrest
in prison, thus incentivising them to
ior. And of that doesn’t work, we then
thus incentivising those 9, 10 and 11
that they, too, don’t want to spend the
prison.
them and put them
revise their behav- That’s Jerry Airola.
throw away the key
year olds to decide
rest of their lives in
FRED WEINBERG
THE PENNY PRESS, OCTOBER 12, 2006 PAGE 7
Commentary: Doug French
Hard To See
The GOP As Conservative
With the likes of Florida Congressman Mark Foley whipping out his
Cocktober Surprise and Clark County Commissioner Lynette BoggsMcDonald being caught on the Culinary Union’s Candid Camera fetching
the morning paper in her house coat and jammees at a house located outside
her district, its hard to see Republicans as conservatives this days.
This year’s election is less than a month away and no true conservatives are in sight, except on TV, with HBO running the documentary “Mr.
Conservative” about Barry Goldwater.
Goldwater was a five-term US Senator from Arizona who rejected
FDR’s New Deal. He was criticized in 1964 as a radical reactionary, yet
he energized a conservative grass roots movement that nominated him
for President. This same movement helped to nominate and elect Ronald
Reagan sixteen years later.
On the state level, Nevada’s government has mushroomed thanks to tax
increases in 2003 and 2005. And Bloomberg reports: “The number of civil
servants, government contractors and employees at organizations profiting
from government grants is on the rise, the Washington Post reported, citing
a study by Paul Light of New York University.
“The true size of the federal government is 14.6 million people, compared with 12.1 million in 2002 and 12.7 million in 1990, according to
Light’s study, which tallies up both official government employees and
those at contractors or related firms.
“While the number of civil servants has declined to 1.87 million people
from 2.24 million in 1990, the overall number of employees has grown as
the federal government has begun to rely more on private contractors, the
study found, the Post said.”
So while government expands under the watchful eye of today’s
so-called conservatives, we are left to wonder when the ideas of Barry
Goldwater will take hold again. Will there ever again be a politician who
would dare thunder before a packed hall: “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that
moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Goldwater wanted to reduce government intrusion, period: not just
intrusion in economic matters but in personal matters as well. He especially believed cultural conservatives were dangerous. Before he died, he
told John Dean that the current crop of Republicans act like thugs and are
uncivil. He pointed his finger specifically at social conservatives: “I don’t
know what in hell possesses them. I’d like to find out.” He even said, “I
think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.”
John Dean, in his book, Conservatives Without Conscience, describes
current conservatives, including George W. Bush and Dick Cheney: “at
heart they are tough, cold-blooded, ruthless authoritarians.” Today Bush
and Cheney ramp up the Patriot Acts I, II, ad nauseam to the point that
America resembles a police state. In contrast, Goldwater wrote in his book,
The Conscience of a Conservative: “I have little interest in streamlining
government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do
not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim
is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs,
but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed
their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden.
I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is ‘needed’ before I have
first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should
later be attacked for neglecting my constituents ‘interests,’ I shall reply that
I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am
doing the very best I can.”
Today’s conservatives spend their time worrying about gays in the military, what the definition of marriage is and other nonsense, forcing activists
to pound the pavement gathering signatures hoping to put initiatives on the
ballot in a quixotic attempt to curb government and preserve property rights. If today’s conservatives embraced true conservative ideals, there would
be no need for expensive signature gathering, and futile fistfights with the
rigged state Supreme Court.
All politicians are starting to look, act and sound alike, whether
Republican, Democrat, liberal or conservative. Cheered on by the press
and those wanting security rather than liberty, politicians of all stripes and
at all levels are erecting the nanny state that Goldwater fought against but
predicted. “Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood
it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly
understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism”
A number of Republicans angrily turned against Goldwater after Lyndon
Johnson soundly defeated him in the 1964 presidential election. They
claimed his defeat had significantly set back the party’s chances of national
success in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
The Republican Party has plenty of national success now, and we’re all
the worse for it.
DOUG FRENCH
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OCTOBER, 2006
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12-14= Liza Minnelli - Luxor.
12-15= Dionne Warwick- Orleans.
13-14= George Lopez-LV Hilton.
13-15= U.S. Open of Supercross-MGM Grand.
13-15= Bill Acosta - Suncoast.
14= Ray Price - Santa Fe Station.
14-15= Ray Romano - Mirage.
15=Los Lakers vs. Phoenix Suns- Thomas & Mack
17=Lakers vs. Sacramento Kings-Thomas & Mack.
19- Nov.1= Chicago - MGM Grand.
20= Holiday Celebration on Ice - Orleans Arena.
20-21= The Beach Boys - Luxor.
20-22= Jose Feliciano - Orleans.
21= Jimmy Buffett - MGM Grand.
21= Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis-Orleans Arena.
21= Bill Engvall - Green Valley Ranch.
26-29=The Smothers Brothers- Orleans.
27= Arturo Sandoval - Santa Fe Station.
27-28= LeAnn Rimes - Luxor.
27-28= David Spade - Mirage.
27-29= Professional Bull Riders-Mandalay Bay.
28= Alan Jackson - Buffalo Bill’s, Primm, NV.
28= Hawaiian Luau closing at the Imperial Palace.
28= Jimmy Buffett - MGM Grand.
31= Halloween.
++++++++++
Oct.?? = Construction starts on 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 that phase of the project are estimated at $500 million
and will take 18 months to build.15% of this Phase is already
rented!
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LAS VEGAS OPENINGS COMING UP.
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Mid-Oct.= Shag With a Twist show opening - Plaza.
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Oct.14 = COVER GIRLS show opens - Golden Nugget.
++++++++++
Oct.24= Gordie Brown Show grand opening - Venetian.
++++++++++
End-Oct.= South Coast changes name to South Point.
+++++++++
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LAS VEGAS CLOSINGS COMING UP.
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Sep.30= Clint Holmes Show closing - Harrah’s.
+++++++++
Oct. 1= Elvis-A-Rama Museum closing.
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Mid-Oct.= Shag With a Twist closing - Harmon Theater.
++++++++++
Oct.28= Hawaiian Luau closing at the Imperial Palace.
+++++++++
Nov. 1 = GOOD BYE STARDUST. Stardust will close to make way
for the $4 billion multi-use development named Echelon Place.
There were more characters in the Stardust Sportsbook than anywhere else in Las Vegas! I’ll miss it. Go to the Stardust Sportsbook
before it closes. Information and history: http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2006/01/19/columnists/col02.txt AFTER THE
STARDUST, IMPLOSION RUMORS HAVE the New Frontier, Riviera
and the Tropicana going down, but no definite announcements
yet.
+++++++++
Dec.??= Noted architect Paul Steelman has been hired to design
Montreux, the resort that
will rise after the NEW FRONTIER is imploded at the end of 2006.
Montreux, given a Swiss mountain theme, will cost $1.9 billion,
sport 2,750 rooms priced around $200 a night and include a big
shopping mall and dining and entertainment amenities. It will
open in 2009.
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2007= Sometime in early-2007 Caesars Palace headliner Celine
Dion is closing her show as she is planning for a second child at
the end of her Las Vegas run. Dion, whose 4-year deal expires in
early 2007, told Tele 7 Jours, a French entertainment magazine,
“I’m approaching 40 years old, and I have to tend to that.” Her
son, Rene-Charles, was born in January 2001 after in vitro fertilization. The frozen embryo of her second child awaits in storage
at a New York clinic. CHER IS RUMORED TO REPLACE HER.
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2007= Sometime in mid-2007 Imperial Palace will close and will
be demolished. Harrah’s will then be connected to the Flamingo.
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THE PENNY PRESS, OCTOBER 12, 2006 PAGE 10
Commentary: Albert Thomas
New Dow High Is Meaningless
There was dancing in the streets, well, at least on the floor of the New
York Stock Exchange last week when the Dow Jones Industrial Index closed
at an all time high. The many cheerleaders on CNBC-TV were ecstatic
screaming, “I told you so”.
But what did it really tell us?
The DJIA or DOW as it is also called is composed of 30 stocks that actually represent about 25% of the value of the NYSE. That is very impressive
and one of the main reasons this index is watched by so many the world
over.
Caterpillar Tractor Company was $16 in the year 2000 and closed on
October 2, 2006 at $65. The worst was Intel that dropped from $72 to $20.
Many fell 50%. So what really happened? Only 9 of the 30 stocks made
new highs that day – only 30%. No one on CNBC bothered to mention 21
stocks, 70%, failed to participate.
New highs were entered by American Express +3 points, Boeing
+12, Caterpillar +49, Johnson & Johnson +30, Minnesota Mining &
Manufacturing (MMM) + 33, Altria +55, Proctor & Gamble + 4, United
Technology + 39 and Exxon + 25. There is no point in listing all the
losers. Three lost more than 50% from the 2000 high. How can this make
a new meaningful high when the index shows 70% of the stockholders lost
money?
Way back when before you were a gleam in Daddy’s eye (1896) when
the original average created by Mr. Dow and Mr. Jones first appeared in the
Wall Street Journal all you did was add up the price of all the stocks and
divide to get the Index. Stocks went up and dividends were issued and those darn stock splits
played havoc with computing what the average was each day. There is no
point in going into the complex details, but let’s look at how they get to the
final index number.
Each stock in 1990 was added and multiplied by 2. Today each stock is
added and multiplied by 8 to get the DOW number. If you add the closing
prices of the DJIA stocks on October 3 it came to 1465.91. With the current
multiplier of 8 makes a closing DOW Index of 11,727. A new high. Not
really.
Every investor is encouraged to go on the Internet to www.bigcharts.
com to look at a 10-year history of each of the 30 stocks. A comparison to
the DJIA may be superimposed. It will shock most investors.
Don’t buy stock based on what the DOW is doing. You must do your
own research for each issue before parting with your money.
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THE PENNY PRESS, OCTOBER 12, 2006 PAGE 12
Commentary: Joyce Meyer
Change Your
Heart—Change
Your Life
Life is nothing more than the
result of the choices we’ve made. In
fact, life is really all about choices.
To a large extent, we can choose
how we want to live. We can choose
whether we want to be happy, positive, satisfied and content. Or we can
decide to be unhappy, negative, displeased and resentful. Which sounds
better to you?
Let’s take a closer look. How
much of the time are you happy
compared to the amount of time
you’re not? What is it that makes
you so unhappy? Is your life really
so different than anyone else’s? Do
you have unique circumstances that
tend to make you “feel” as though
your life’s not as happy as someone
else’s?
The first step I took when I
decided to choose happiness over
unhappiness was to understand that
before I could change my outside
circumstances I was going to have to
change on the inside—in my heart.
In my heart, I actually believed I’d
be happy if I could get the people
around me to change and start doing
things the way I wanted them done!
It seems so silly now, but back then
I fully believed that lie. That’s how
off track my attitudes were!
It seemed that I had spent so
much of my life trying to change
things I had no control over, while
ignoring the things I could actually
do something about. I couldn’t make
people change. I couldn’t make them
make me happy or make them love
me. It seems I tried for the first ten
years of my marriage to change my
husband, Dave. When I wasn’t trying to change him, I was trying to
change my kids or my friends. I was
a mess!
But God revealed to me one day
that my problems and unhappiness
weren’t because of other people or
outside circumstances. I realized the
one with the problem was me! God
showed me that before I could find
the happiness I sought, my attitudes
would need a complete overhaul.
I had grown up always trying to
lay the blame for my problems on
someone or something else. I spent
so much energy constantly trying
to prove that I was right. It was
very difficult for me to accept the
fact that I was the one who needed
to change. But the more I began to
listen to God’s voice and read His
Word, I realized that the only person
I could change was me. I was the
key to my own happiness.
The bad attitudes that I carried
inside were actually making matters
worse. Thinking the worst of people
or situations only lead to furthering
my negative outlook. This was a
destructive downward spiral that I
had to break out of. Through much
prayer and seeking God, I was able
to break free from its hold, resulting
in a change of heart and a changed
life. Now my outlook is a positive
one—one where I think the best of
people and the circumstances that
surround my life. I’m not the sour
person I once was.
I believe if you’ll commit to
changing your attitude and walk in
a positive way for the next thirty
days you’ll see an improvement in
your life. Can you do it…can you
stick with it for a full thirty days?
Go to your calendar right now and
mark the date thirty days from today
and challenge yourself to make the
necessary changes in your heart. I
believe you’ll see miraculous changes in your life as a result. Take the
thirty-day challenge—change your
heart, change your life!
JOYCE MEYER
For more on this topic, you may
order Joyce’s four-part series, How
to Succeed at Being Yourself, which
is available by calling 1-800-7279673 or visiting www.joycemeyer.
org.
THE PENNY PRESS, OCTOBER 12, 2006 PAGE 13
Commentary: George Harris
voting on this issue.”
Damn right they’ll say and do anything. The union-backed “Nevadans against - er - for Nevada” claimed TASC
There are days when all a person can ask is: “Who’s really running the violated the single subject clause. The lawsuit was the last in a long series
show here?” Ever since state Sen. Bob Beers announced intentions last year of baseless accusations. Nevadans for Nevada had used multiple avenues to
to put the clamps on state spending with his Tax and Spending Control ini- block TASC, including trying to head off its signature gatherers, alleging
tiative, unions, politicians and now judges have done all they can to silence signature fraud and challenging the initiative in court. I could say that I’m
the will of the people.
shocked that the Nevada Supreme Court fell for the government union’s
Who controls America? Ask any citizen and deep down they’ll respond latest desperate attempt to keep TASC off the ballot. But I must remember
with what they’ve been conditioned to believe - the American people are in what our Supreme Court represents.
control. Elected representatives, union bosses and judges will even offer this
Justice, by far, is not it.
whopper. After all, voting is what empowers us, right? I despise the term, but this bench is full of “activist judges.” It is a body
Well, when that power appears to threaten the big boys, watch out. They that dismantled the state constitution in 2003 to overlook the required twowill ruthlessly remove your ability to vote on issues that threaten their exis- thirds majority to raise and implement new taxes. Need I say more?
tence. After what happened on Sept. 8 in the Nevada Supreme Court, our
One thing these judges cannot do is prevent us from voting them out
world is crystal clear - we can vote for or against politicians, just not on any of office this fall. Cynthia “Diane” Steel needs your vote to oust Michael
measures that limit their power. In situations like this, the powerful make Douglas and Nancy M. Saitta needs your support to beat Nancy Becker. Both
the common man (and woman) powerless.
of these fine, Constitution-respecting candidates have earned my vote.
This month, the Nevada Supreme Court silenced the 156,254 Nevadans
Enemies of the measure - like union boss Danny Thompson of the
who made the TASC ballot initiative a reality by shutting it down and deny- Nevada AFL-CIO - commended the court for striking TASC from the baling voters a chance in November to have their voices heard on state spend- lot. After the ruling, Thompson offered this nugget: “The court did the right
ing. Specifically, TASC would have limited government-spending growth to thing.” Should he have completed that deep thought, Nevadans would have
increases in population plus inflation. heard: “The court did the right thing for us big-government guys who rely
Beers, a man inside all the legislative mayhem, spearheaded the mea- on our lawmakers’ overspending to retain employment.”
sure. His efforts created such an incredible media buzz around the initiative
Unions claim to be for the people; our elected judges say they serve the
that it frightened government unions and others bullies in the public sector. people. Despite the court’s horrible decision, Nevadans want TASC. Lately,
How else can you explain the fact that only 83,184 valid signatures were I seriously question who’s really in control. Beers said it right when talking
needed to get the measure on the ballot and the TASC Committee turned in to the Review-Journal after the high court’s decision: “There [is] fact and
156,254? law that could be used to support any decision. This was all about judgment,
“We are shocked that these big-government-union-front groups were and I don’t know how they possibly could have set aside their feelings and
able to muscle their way past the will of the people,” said Bob Adney, political biases. Ultimately, this was a political decision.”
executive director of the Nevada TASC Committee. “Nevadans want TASC
If we the people are in control, then why are we left powerless when
- and it shouldn’t be taken away from the ballot just because government challenging the powerful?
unions and special interests will say and do anything to keep people from
GEORGE HARRIS
Major General Mike Worden
(right) replaced Major general
Stephen Goldfein (center) as
Commander of the Air Warfare
Center, the largest component
of Nellis Air Force Base at a
ceremony last Friday. Presiding
over the change of command
ceremony was Goldfein's new
immediate boss at the Pentagon,
General Ronald Keys(left), the
commander of the Air Combat
Command.
Goldfein
will
become vice commander of the
Air Combat Command. Worden
is a 1976 Air Force Academy
graduate who came from the
Pentagon to take over the most
important command at Nellis.
Penny Press Photo by Skip
Jennings
Powerful Vs. Powerless
Change Of Command At Air Warfare Center
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