Congressional candidate for the Kansas 3rd District, Mr. John Rysavy, June 28th, 2010 Gardner, Kansas (Part I)

Here's the video from Congressman Pete Stark's Town Hall meeting last Saturday (June 26, 2010).

I used the border segment only (YouTube has a ten minute limit), the rest of the meeting was pretty tame anyway.
He made some pretty dumb comments as he mocked me including "the borders are quite secure", but it backfired on him.
Stark seemed medicated to me, had swollen ankles and could only sit on the edge of his chair for over an hour and a half. He's well past doing an effective job, but in my opinion, that's probably a good thing for America anyway.

And he will most likely be reelected

Link to: 2nd Amendment via the 14th Amendment

Link to: MCDONALD ET AL. v. CITY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ET AL.

Alito announces McDonald v. Chicago: reversed and remanded

Gun rights prevail.
The opinion concludes that the 14th Amendment does incorporate the Second Amendment right recognized in Heller to keep and bear arms in self defense

Stevens dissents for himself. Breyer dissents, joined by Ginsburg and Sotomayor.
The majority seems divided, presumably on the precise standard
The majority Justices do not support all parts of the Alito opinion, but all five agree that the 2d Amendment applies to state and local government.
Alito, in the part of the opinion joined by three Justices, concludes that the 2d Amendment is incorporated through the Due Process Clause.
Thomas thinks the Amendment is incorporated, but not under Due Process. He appears to base incorporation on Privileges or Immunities.
The difference between the majority and Justice Thomas doesn’t affect the fact that the Second Amendment now applies to state and local regulation

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McDonald v. City of Chicago:  Supreme Court a few minutes ago came down by a 5/4 decision allowing hand guns in any home in the country.  In the majority report it states the 14th amendment confirms the right to bear arms (my words).
BB

U.S. Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment

Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Link to: Muslim-only section in the city cemetery for religious reasons.

Garden City’s racial diversity is a look at America’s future

By DAVID KLEPPER ★ The Star’s Topeka correspondent

"For a growing number of immigrants, home is far west Kansas in a city of 28,000, a world away from Mogadishu, Mexico City and Myanmar.

It's where women in burqas stroll down a Norman Rockwell Main Street festooned with early Fourth of July banners. And where a Buddhist temple sits alongside grocery stores selling Mexican soft drinks and 50-pound bags of jasmine rice."

The plant

The plant was once the largest beef processing plant in the world, butchering up to 5,700 cattle a day. Tyson employs 3,100 workers, more than the next six largest employers in Finney County combined. The plant buys $1 billion worth of cattle each year, many from nearby ranches.

Wages start at $12.30 an hour, and it’s tough, bloody work.

>snip< By 2050, the Census Bureau predicts, the United States will have a new minority: whites. Already, non-Hispanic whites are the minority in California, Texas, New Mexico and Hawaii, and about one in 10 U.S. counties
>snip< The county is the latest in Kansas where whites are the new minority.
According to projections, the 2010 U.S. Census will show that whites will be the minority in as many as four Kansas counties: Finney, Seward, Grant, and Ford. All are southwestern Kansas counties that supply labor to meat packing plants.
>snip< Missouri has no county like that — but that’s likely to change in the next decade. Already, minorities make up more than 40 percent of those under 20 years of age in Jackson ounty, a sign that minority populations are gaining demographic ground and not just in rural areas.

>snip< Like their predecessors, the new immigrants bring their own cultures and controversies. Last month, Somali residents ruffled some feathers in Garden City after they requested a Muslim-only section in the city cemetery for religious reasons.
“This is our home now,” said Abdulkadir Mohamed, a Somali Muslim and translator at the Tyson plant who moved here in 2006. “But we need a place for us in the cemetery.”
“We’ve been too politically correct for too long,” said Leonard Hitz, a former Marine, retired banker and self-described cowboy poet. “If you want to come to this country and be an American, you’re welcome. But learn the language and assimilate.”
>snip< Debbie Jordan is a longtime resident, business owner and a leader in the local “tea party” movement.

“The people I talk to here are in the complete support of the Arizona law,” Jordan said. “The government needs to secure our borders.”

>snip< The immigration tsunami hit Garden City’s schools hardest.

Imagine the challenge of teaching 3,000 schoolchildren who speak a language other than English. The district, which has 7,400 pupils, had to hire more English language teachers. Even the cafeteria menu was changed to offer familiar foods.
But thanks to the community’s number of low-income immigrant households, the school district receives more money than other districts. Indeed, Garden City schools get $60 million in state and federal funding, compared with the $40 million received by the similarly sized De Soto district.

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Republicans gathered in Olathe Kansas to meet the candidates

In 90º heat Republicans gathered in Olathe Kansas to meet the candidates, eat, participate in a straw poll and sweat.

Here are the straw poll results. Remember, this isn't in any way an accurate vote prediction - some people just had more family and friends there today than others. But - here it is:
2010 Olathe Republican Party Straw Poll Results from Kathy Kist, Olathe Republican Party Chair.
(Thanks Roger)

Official Poll: One vote per person - (non-ACORN voting) - Remember, this isn't in any way an accurate vote prediction - some people just had more family and friends there today than others. But - here it is: 430 ballots cast.  (Below Video)

US Senate: Todd Tiahrt 315 - Jerry Moran 112 - Tom Little 2 - Bob Londerholm 2
US Representative, 3rd District; Kevin Yoder 156 - Patricia Lightner 117 -John Rysavy 55 - Dan Gilyeat 52 - Jean Ann Uvodich 23 - Craig McPherson 7 - Garry Klotz 5 - Dave King 0 - Jerry Malone 0
Governor/Lieutenant Governor: Sam Brownback/Jeff Colyer: 397 -- Joan Heffington/Mark Holick 23
Secretary of State: Kris Kobach 298 - Elizabeth Ensley 98 - JR Claeys 25
Attorney General: Derek Schmidt 298 - Ralph DeZago 43
Insurance Commissioner: David Powell 246 - Sandy Praeger 101
State Board of Education: John Bacon 190 - Dennis George 84
2012 Presidential Nominee: Sarah Palin 98 - Mitt Romney 62 - Mike Huckabee 57 - Newt Gingrich 43 - Bobby Jindal 42 - Ron Paul 21 - Jim DeMint 21 - John Boehner 16 - Tim Pawlenty 13 - Michele Bachman 9 - Other 16

Supreme Court, 8-1, upholds petition disclosure

HEY!  You lawyers out there, JUMP IN!

Politico's Josh Gerstein "Under the Radar" today published the Supreme Court's opinion regarding petitions; in this case it is Washington State's statute allowing public disclosure of signers.  In the written opinion there may be a clue as to how the highest court in the land may lean when the new Arizona statute requiring state peace officers to enforce federal immigraition laws. 
Billy Blogger may be seeing more in this then there really is but you lawyers out there,,, have at it.

"The Supreme Court, by a vote of 8 to 1 and with nearly as many opinions as there are justices, has upheld a Washington state law that requires the public disclosure of the names and addresses of referendum petition signers"

>snip< "This is not a hard case," Stevens wrote in a concurring opinion. "Any burden on speech that petitioners posit is speculative as well as indirect. ...Debates about tax policy and regulation of private property can become just as heated as debates about domestic partnerships....I would demand strong evidence before concluding that an indirect and speculative chain of events poses a substantial burden on speech. A statute 'is not to be upset upon hypothetical and unreal possibilities."

General Stanley McChrystal will make a fine conserative candidate in 2012 to run against Barack Obama.

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis

Another slug leaving a trail of slim across our lives!

We have just seen the most disturbing video

of Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis suggesting that "every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly whether they are documented or not."
This is a clear violation of our labor laws which she is charged with upholding!


This video is a disrespectful slap in the face to EVERY American taxpayer in the nation and demands an immediate response.

Here is the number: 1-866-487-9243

“Where are the feminists?”

The Vetting of Kevin Yoder: Conservative or Stealth Progressive?

The Vetting of Kevin Yoder: Conservative or Stealth Progressive?

By: David Losey

"Please read and realize what we are getting if we choose Kevin Yoder as our candidate for US House in the 3rd Dist. of Kansas!"

The above sentence was written by Sally Swindler about the author of a long piece on Kevin Yoder Congressional candidate for the 3rd District of Kansas. We are not going to post the entire article but it can be found at the above link and here.

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In his first campaign in 2002 it was reported on his web site that he received the following endorsements.

Endorsed by:
Johnson County Sun
Johnson County Republicans for Education
Kansas Agri-Business Council
Former Senate President Dick Bond
Former Senator Audrey Langworthy
Senator Barbara Allen
Senator John Vratil
Representative Dean Newton
Current 20th District State Representative Gerry Ray
Mainstream Coalition
The Squire
Friends of Kansas Education
Educating All Children in Kansas (EPAC)

(Sources for campaign contribution data:)

• opensecrets.org
• fec.gov
• campaignmoney.com

(Thanks Roger)

Congressman Todd Tiahrt and special guest Karl Rove rallied on Saturday, June 12th! 980 KMBZ radio host Darla Jaye emceed the event.

Afghan Taliban Hang 7-Year-Old Boy to Punish Family

A 7-year-old boy was murdered by the Taliban in an apparent act of retribution this week. Afghan officials said that the child was accused of spying for U.S. and NATO forces and hanged from a tree in southern Afghanistan.

Daoud Ahmadi, the spokesman for the provincial governor of Helmand, said that the killing happened days after the boy's grandfather, Abdul Woodod Alokozai, spoke out against militants in their home village.
Ahmadi said: "His grandfather is a tribal elder in the village and the village is under the control of the Taliban. His grandfather said some good things about the government and he formed a small group of people to stand against the Taliban. That's why the Taliban killed his grandson in revenge."
Shamsuddin Khan Faryie, an elder in the boy's home village of Heratiyan, said that the victim was seized as he played in his garden. He was found hanged from a nearby tree.
The killing of children to punish their families has echoes of Western mafia-style violence. Under Pashtunwali, the ancient honor code of the Pashtuns, it is likely to provoke more vendettas and blood-letting.  (More)

Tea Party Participant Stuns Crowd In Leavenworth County

(Play to the end, you won't be disaaapointed)disappointed

Kobach begins campaign for Kansas secretary of state

TOPEKA

Republican Kris Kobach formally began his campaign to be Kansas secretary of state on Tuesday with a promise to aggressively pursue election crimes.
“I would be transforming the model somewhat, from a ministerial model to more of a law-enforcement model,” Kobach told reporters after filing the paperwork to run.
The Piper resident said he supported requiring all voters to show a photo ID at the polls and requiring those registering to vote to prove U.S. citizenship.
Kobach also said he would help prosecute election fraud crimes and, if allowed by the state attorney general, defend a state voter ID law against legal challenges. Kansas has no such law currently, but Kobach said he had a bill drafted and ready for legislative consideration.
Kobach, 43, said he would take a leave of absence from his faculty position at the University of Missouri-Kansas City law school to campaign.
He ran for Congress in 2004 and later led the state Republican Party. He also was one of the drafters of Arizona’s new law targeting illegal immigrants.
Kobach faces Shawnee County Elections Commissioner Elizabeth Ensley and Salina resident J.R. Claeys in the Aug. 3 GOP primary.

Rush Limbaugh Gets Married

By DAVID CHIU

Not known for his brevity behind the mike, radio talkmeister Rush Limbaugh limited himself yesterday to two important words—“I do.”

The popular conservative pundit, 59, married his girlfrend, Kathryn Rogers, 33, in a Hawaiian-themed ceremony Saturday in Palm Beach, The Daily News reported. It was Limbaugh’s fourth trip to the aisle.

>snip< The wedding ceremony was highlighted by the appearance of Sir Elton John who, according to The Palm Beach Post, will receive $1 million for playing the reception at the Breakers Hotel

>snip< Limbaugh first met his future bride six years ago at a celebrity golf tournament that she ran. At the time the radio personality was divorcing his third wife Marta. The couple had been dating for three years.

“We try to live our lives as normal people,” Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail to the Post’s Page 2 Live section prior to the wedding. “We do NOT seek media attention, we do not want it, especially for this. It is very special, obviously, and we just don’t want any media attention.”

Immigration law supporters rally at Ariz. Capitol

Immigration law supporters rally at Ariz. Capitol

By MICHELLE PRICE (AP)

PHOENIX — Hundreds of people supporting Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigration rallied near the state Capitol on Saturday afternoon in soaring temperatures.

Hundreds of motorcycle riders kicked off the downtown Phoenix rally by riding in a procession around the Capitol. Supporters waved American flags and some carried signs that read "What part of illegal don't they understand?"

>snip< Demonstrators on Saturday sweated as temperatures reached 105 degrees. Some shaded themselves with umbrellas and clamored to buy cold water and ice cream from vendors.

"For them to come here when it's over 100 degrees and stand in the heat — it's awesome," said 32-year-old Stephanie Colbert of Glendale.

Colbert, who works in a restaurant, said those who disagree with the law and boycott Arizona are misguided because they hurt the immigrant community they aim to support.

"The hospitality industry has a very large population of immigrants, legal and illegal," she said. "It's those people's jobs that are in jeopardy."

>snip< The law, which goes into effect July 29, will also make it a state crime to be in the country illegally or to impede traffic while hiring day laborers, regardless of the worker's immigration status. It would become a crime for illegal immigrants to solicit work.

The Right to Remain Silent: Has the Supreme Court Decimated Miranda?

Supreme Court loosens Miranda rule

By David G. Savage

Chicago Tribune

           WASHINGTON
Want to invoke your right to remain silent? You'll have to speak up.

The Supreme Court backed off Tuesday from strict enforcement of the Miranda decision and its right to remain silent. The court ruled that a crime suspect's words can be used against him if he fails to clearly to tell the police that he does not want to talk.

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But in Tuesday's 5-4 decision, the court shifted the balance in favor of the police and against the suspect.

>snip<
In her first strongly written dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the ruling “turns Miranda upside down” and “marks a substantial retreat from the protection against compelled self-incrimination.” 

Death of Ernesto Miranda (1974)

JOHN HART, anchor:

Ernesto Miranda is dead. He was a kidnapper and a rapist, and he mattered because he gave his name to a Supreme Court decision that mattered a great deal. Here’s a report from Carl Stern.  Watch Video 
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Sarah Palin

"Several weeks ago, Governor Jan Brewer took President Obama to task for making Arizonas unsecured borders and illegal immigration crisis a laughing matter. However, since then, Washingtons comedy of errors has grown far worse, with top cabinet officials admitting that they havent even read Arizonas new immigration law. Broken borders are not a laughing matter, but the failure by Obamas trusted officials to read Arizonas law before commenting and condemning it is laughable".

Missouri's Health Care Freedom Act

Missouri's recently enacted Health Care Freedom Act will be on the ballot in August. The Act will undoubtedly be challenged by Federal authorities but if it is approved by voters it will challenge whether the Federal Government has the authority to force the citizens of a state, against their will, to buy federally mandated health insurance. Comments concerning the Act are located at the link below. Please click on this link and read the comments about this new Missouri Law. RiteOn believes that an informed opinion is necessary when voting if we are to remain free and in charge of our own decisions.