My Recent Nuggets of Wisdom

By Dan Barber

Oprah – Today’s African American protesters are leaderless

Twisting Dr. King's message and historical fact into an unrecognizable mess by Winfrey, Sharpton and Obama to fit their radical point of view is disgusting! Winfrey is right though about the African American community needing a new role model. article 1

Sony hack probably inside job

I knew there was a root cause behind my phobia of asking IT techs at my work for help in unfreezing my computer! I always suspected after they unplugged my computer from the power strip and plugged it back in and my computer magically started up again they went back to their shop and signed off on my trouble ticket as: "Problem solved on ID-I0-T ticket as operator malfunction!" article 2

‘Selma’ film wrong on historical facts (see article 1 above)

Only in Hollywood is it possible for blaming stupid on someone else. Perhaps instead of blaming mudslinging on someone exposing ERROR IN FACT, the writers, producers and directors should be blamed, at best for being lazy or uninformed (stupid) or at worse trying to push the liberal agenda of racism. article 3

California’s Democratic Leaders figured out how to cover deficit spending

There is reason behind the madness of our state legislature passing a law that allows digital "funny-money" like bitcoin to be legally used for transactions in the State. article 4

'Digital' Funny Money now legal for California use

"Bitcoin: Digital currencies including bitcoin are legal for transactions in California." Excellent, I will be paying my state income tax with on-line monopoly money bucks! article 5

Manipulating through communicating

What's depressing is how professional pollsters and journalists can team up to shape and influence perceptions and keep political score of how any favored or unfavored politician or political party is doing. There is a huge industry of Democratic and Republican pundits pushing whatever agenda is paying them to push. article 6

Obamacare is a huge political diversion

The only thing this law has done is reform how much more money health insurance companies can earn from tax-payer funded subsidies and requires EVERYONE to pay their "share" for health insurance. It also reduces the amount insurance companies are required to pay to healthcare providers. I predict the profits for health insurance companies will rise significantly this year and next when the employer mandate to provide healthcare insurance to employees goes into effect. Income for health care providers will drop causing shortages in all aspects of healthcare. Emergency Rooms (ER) will be slammed because they are required, by law, to accept all patients requesting care. Many private healthcare providers will be going out of business, if not already, because of a drop in income and the added government mandated cost of providing care to patients. Insurance companies win, healthcare providers lose; we the people get the bill. article 7

Tis The Season to be Married

Military personnel stationed in Hawaii since 2008 have no-doubt been put on notice that the Obama's will be in town for two weeks so be prepared to have your planned holiday leave or liberty put on hold until January so Obama can have a carefree rest and recuperation. I'm sure military members were also too busy in November to celebrate Thanksgiving because they were busy "sprucing" up areas the Obama’s might visit. There is a happy ending, but not until 2016 so military personnel need to plan accordingly! article 8

I wonder if people can use funny money to buy homes or pay HOA fees?

At best, this is a prime example of what well-meaning but clueless liberalism can cause. At worse, it's how politicians can control their political demographics by taking from the middle income workers to give to the very poor, thereby creating a dependent voter base.

This model allows an influx of super rich to the Home Owner Association (HOA) governed gated communities... gates and fences are needed to keep the undesirables (poor people and criminals) out.

Poor immigrants push out poor American citizens because they are more willing to take the domestic jobs (as described by the Obama's as "the help,") and agree to un-reported lower pay.

Plus those poor immigrants are more willing do the "hard labor" jobs in agriculture and in the service sector. But not to worry because they will be able to cash in on tax-payer provided healthcare (Medi-Cal) public housing and food stamps.

The Democratic progressives have allowed California to evolve into a "caste" society. Schools need to bring back courses in History, Social Studies and Civics in grades K-12. Also, analytical thinking along with political science, and ethics in high school should be required courses. article 9