The Reno Gazette Journal had a story yesterday about Nevada Republican Assemblyman Ed Goedhart watching “sexually explicit material” on his laptop computer while the Nevada Assembly was in session.
Photo: Nevada Assemblyman Ed Goedhart speaking at campaign event in Pahrump, Nevada.
Assemblyman Ed [...]
Senator Harry Reid now has some GOP opposition. I received the following on a comment to a blog posting from Bill Parson, as follows:
Bill Parson has left a new comment on your post "GOP searches for candidate to beat Reid":
The 3rd of April 2009 was a [...]
The U.S. Census Bureau has some facts that might interest you older people.
37.9 million of us 65 or older people as of July 1, 2007. 13% of the total population of the U.S.
It is projected that our numbers will grow to 88.5 million in 2050, to 20% [...]
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is engaged in streamlining the Defense Department. He wants to get rid of stuff not needed, keep stuff that is, and retool he Defense Department to handle more modern warfare. Wars against insurgents are different than “traditional” warfare. (Imagine that, using [...]
Texex Express has apparently tied a $436,627 mortgage default to the husband of Cindy Trigg. Citing the Record Courier of Carson City “comes an announcement that a certain Deed of Trust executed by ’WILLIAM TRIGG, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE AND SEPARATE’ on a [...]
The more I use Twitter the better I like it. There are multiple ways to use and benefit from Twitter.
Chris Miller on The Social Networker wrote:
In the last week or so I broke 5000 tweets. Was there a parade or confetti? Nope. Nothing came from it [...]
Those little red dots you see are the locations from which people read Nye-Gateway to Nevada’s Rurals. I thank each and everyone of you.
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Desert Beacon gives a Thumbs down at a slight angle to Dean Heller and a Thumbs down to torture apologist Senator John Ensign, today. Go see why. [Desert Beacon]
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Nevada Governor Jim “No New Taxes” Gibbons managed a major feat, without raising a single tax. He made the vivid dancer damselfly Nevada’s official state insect. [Las Vegas Review Journal]
Photo from Las Vegas Review Journal.
With a tip of the [...]
The House expanded the federal law on hate crimes to cover attacks against people based on their sexual orientation of if they have a disability. The law already covers crimes based on race, religion, nationality and gender. [Ely Times]
The bill was passed, 249-175. Berkley and Titus voted for [...]
The House passed the Obama budget, 233-193. The vote in the Senate was 53-43. No Republicans voted for the budget in either body. Among Democrats, all but 17 voted for it in the House and four voted against it in the Senate.
Berkley and Titus voted for the budget. Heller [...]
The House passed (357-70) new consumer protections for credit card users.
the bill would prevent lenders from abruptly raising interest rates on existing balances except under limited circumstances, and requires them to give 45 days notice of any rate hike. It adds restrictions on credit cards offered to college students, [...]
Cindy Trigg announces her campaign for election in District #2. Following is her initial campaign speech in Reno, Nevada. She is seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination to run as the Democratic candidate to oppose the current incumbent, Republican Dean Heller.
Paul Reeves, resident of Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada is also [...]
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Republicans: The Lost Party thedailyshow.com Daily Show 
Remember earlier when it was disclosed that AIG paid $120 million in 2008 bonuses to a pool of more than 6,000 employees? Forget that, AIG now says it paid out more than $454 million in bonuses to its employees for work performed in 2008. [[...]
It is very hard for me to believe Dick Cheney is trying to protect the “little people.” But that is what he is saying about the “torture” debate and investigation. [Huffington Post]
"This is the first time that I can recall [...]
Paul Reeves, a resident of Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada is running for Nevada’s District 2 seat in Congress. [Democracy for America]
You can learn about Reeves on the DFA link. The ultimate idea is to replace the current Republican occupant for District 2, Dean Heller.
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The question is “Who in the George W. Bush White House tried to shred a memo challenging the use of torture?” [Mother Jones]
Philip Zelikow wrote a memo in 2005 disputing the conclusions of Bush Justice Department lawyers that torture was legal. But [...]
According to breaking news of the New York Times.
http://nyenevada.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [...]May 5, 2009
In this MegaVote for Nevada's 1st Congressional District:
Recent Congressional Votes -
Senate: Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 Senate: Confirmation of Kathleen Sebelius to be Secretary of Health and Human Services Senate: Budget Conference Report Senate: Amendment to Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of [...]
At a “Tea Party” rally, Republican Representative Dean Heller told the crowd "You are doing exactly what needs to be done on tax day." He said Obama's spending plans have added $250,000 in debt for each of his four children.
http://nyenevada.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [...]Yesterday the Huffington Post had the following:
President Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced on Monday a crackdown on offshore tax havens that could produce $210 billion in new tax revenue over the next decade.
You’d think, since those tax havens have been in operation for decades, [...]
Last week I received a notice from my bank, Bank of America, informing me they are raising their Transaction and Foreign Transaction fees.
The Transaction fees for ATM Cash Advances, Balance Transfers, Bank Cash Advances, Cash Equivalents, Check Cash Advances, Direct Deposit Cash Advances [...]
Paul Reeves has written an excellent overview of how Nye County Democrats can get themselves organized. Here is what he wrote. Thank you Paul, well done!
May 3, 2009
Hello everyone,
Here are some ideas I wanted to share:
ORGANIZING NYE COUNTY WITHOUT GETTING BURIED UNDER THE NUMBERS
That is what the Wall Street Journal says. A whole lot of it has been found in Northern Louisiana.
So what, you say!
The discoveries have spurred energy experts and policy makers to start looking to natural gas in their pursuit of a wide [...]
http://nyenevada.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [...] Yesterday there was a bill before the Senate to vote on. The bill would have allowed bankruptcy judges to allow homeowners who met strict conditions to renegotiate mortgages -- a process known as cramdown. It would have only applied to mortgages entered into before 2009.
Only 45 Senate Democrats voted [...]
In light of new legislative efforts and ever-growing controversies over the role of payday lenders in Americans’ lives, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a new study entitled, Payday Lenders Pay Up, which examines the payday loan industry’s efforts to gain [...]
An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said Tuesday. [Huffington Post]
http://nyenevada.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [...]Last evening there was consideration discussion at the Nye County Central Committee meeting concerning recruitment and training of Democratic candidates to run and win elections.
It is one thing to file and run for an elective office, local, state or national. It is another thing to know how to run [...]
Margery Kay Behrens is a very active Nye County Democrat. I don’t know when she finds time to sleep, she’s everywhere, particularly on Facebook. And she is a fountain of good information and advice and suggestions for Nye County Democrats and how to keep up with all that is going [...]
Recent Senate Votes
Confirmation of Christopher R. Hill to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq - Vote Confirmed (73-23, 3 Not Voting)
The Senate confirmed Christopher Hill to be the Ambassador to Iraq.
Sen. John Ensign voted [...]
Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter to change to Democratic Party. That, when Al Franken finally gets into the Senate, will bring Senator Harry Reid’s total to 60, which means the Republicans can no longer filibuster. Big boost to Democratic Party’s control of the Congress.
Specter says the Republican Party left [...]
Read Myrna the Minx’s article on Care2 Make a Difference.
Equal Pay Day is the day when the average woman’s salary finally catches up with those paid to the average man in 2008.
http://nyenevada.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [...]
A very thorough analysis has been written by Desert Beacon’s Ensign’s Tortured Logic on Torture. I commend it to your reading.
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http://nyenevada.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [...] We all use search engines looking for information on the Internet. There are a number of them. They get rated just like TV programs are rated.
The top three are Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft/Windows Live.
The overall search market grew 16.7 percent to 9.5 billion searches from March 2008 to [...]
Just read a tweet from Paul Reeves which, in turn, provided me a link to the Sonoma Press Democrat in California.
Looks like Sonoma is far ahead of Nye County. Property owners in Sonoma County will be able to borrow money from their county government for energy-efficient improvements, the pay [...]
Or, as the Washington Post frames it, Effectiveness of Harsh Questioning is Unclear. Framing words is just a way of slanting the view of something. I call it torture, WaPo calls it harsh questioning. The Post begins with:
During his first days in detention, [...]
In a Washington Post-ABC News poll shows President Barack Obama’s first 100 days as President has strong approval from the American public. [MSNBC]
What surprises me is
“About half of all Americans, and 52 percent of independents, said there are circumstances in which the United States should consider employing [...]
Nicholas Kristoff, of the New York Times, isn’t exactly a screaming liberal.
Photo: Fred Conrad, New York Times.
A bit surprised to read he thinks
it essential that the United States proceed with an independent commission to investigate harsh treatment and tally its costs [...]
With all the current talk about socialism I ran across a 1909 article in the New York Times.
President Woodrow Wilson was speaking to a North Carolina audience. He accused the “automobilists” of encouraging the spread of socialism. Remember that in 1909 people in the United States were transitioning [...]
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Keith Olbermann, of Countdown on MSNBC, offered to put Olbermann’s money where Hannity’s mouth is.
Olbermann followed up his challenge to Hannity on DailyKos. Using Dr. Albert Sabin’s experience in [...]
I detest unethical behavior. This post is going to be about what I perceive as unethical conduct by the former Chairman of the Nye County Democratic Central Committee.
To understand it a brief summary of the history of what happened is necessary.
Two members of [...]
There is apparently an e-mail circulating around criticizing President Obama over the incident of Somali pirates holding Captain Phillips hostage.
FactCheck looked into the accuracy of the e-mail.
The e-mail stated:
Radm Lou Sarosdy USN Ret. writes:
Having spoken to some SEAL pals here in Virginia Beach yesterday [...]
CINDY OLIVAS TRIGG TO ANNOUNCE CAMPAIGN FOR CONGRESS
Democrat and Douglas County School Board President Cindy Olivas Trigg will be announcing her campaign for U.S. Congress on Friday, April 24 at 7pm at the Agave Restaurant in Reno. All members of the press are invited to attend.
CINDY OLIVAS TRIGG [...]
There is this fellow that lives in Pahrump that sort of fascinates me for some reason. His name is Dan Schinhofen.
Photo: Dan Schinhofen and his dog, Strider
Why my interest in Dan. Well, because he is interesting. He’s a Republican. [...]
The Pahrump Valley Democratic Party Meetup will be celebrating it's "One Year Birthday" on May 4th at 6:30 PM at Rubalcaba's Taco Shop. The theme is "Cinco de Mayo" and there will be chips, dips, salsa, and lot's of time to network and meet [...]
Paul Reeves, a resident of Pahrump, active member of the Pahrump Valley Democratic Party Meetup, has announced his candidacy for election to the House of Representatives from Nevada’s Congressional District #2.
You can learn about Reeves on the Democracy for America website. His biographical information [...]
Photo: University of California, Berkley, Marian Diamond, a legendary lecturer. Kathrin Miller for TIME
This week’s Time magazine has an interesting article called Logging On to the Ivy League.
What is this all about?
Well, it seems that some in the education [...]
View Full Album Thought some of you might like to see all the pictures I took while in Washington.
http://nyenevada.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [...]This is circulating around the e-mail circuit. Thought you might find it amusing at the expense of computer geeks.
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The [...]
Lillie and I had the opportunity last week to go to Washington, D.C.
It was our first trip to Washington. We went to see the museums, monuments, memorials, the White House, Capitol Hill, and Supreme Court. We knew we would never be able to see everything in just a week. [...]
I’ve just learned that Dale Lynn passed away. His funeral is today at Lee's funeral home on Buol at 1 p.m. My condolences to his wife Sally. Dale and Sally have been active Democrats for years in Nye County.
http://nyenevada.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [...]
All four of the newly elected members of the Nye County Democratic Central Committee met with members of the Pahrump Valley Democratic Party Meetup yesterday. It was a well attended meeting.
Much discussion centered around how the new Central Committee plans to move in the [...]
Recent Senate Votes
The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act - Vote Passed (79-19, 1 Not Voting)
The Senate passed this national service bill which would increase the number of AmeriCorps volunteers from 75,000 to 250,000 and designate September 11 as a national day [...]
The election of the new members of the Nye County Democratic Central Committee took place last Saturday, April 4, 2009 in Tonopah. I wasn’t there, being in Washington, D.C., so what I write here is second-hand information. Here are the newly elected members of the [...]
Please join us for our next monthly meeting. Apr 6 Mon 6:30 PM
Where? Rubalcaba’s Taco Shop - 270 Dahlia St Pahrump, NV 89048
A formal invitation is extended to all the candidates that willing ran for [...]
The Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down and he agreed, a White House official said. [Huffington Post]
“GM and Chrysler have received $17.4 billion in emergency funding from the U.S. Treasury and are asking for [...]
As I write this I am witnessing an historic occurrence. President Barack Obama is addressing the nation answering questions asked by Americans directly to him. These aren’t questions being asked by reporters of the national media, but rather by ordinary people from every nook and [...]
Who would have thought that it would be Democrats that would turn out to be one of President Obama’s adversaries in getting his budget through congress? Republicans seem to be incidental, but a group of Democrats, dubbed “ConservaDems” by Rachel Maddow, appear to be the obstacles to passage of the [...]
Anyone around in 1907 might remember this advertisement for Ivory Soap. It appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
http://nyenevada.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [...]Recent Senate Votes
Confirmation of Ronald Kirk to be U.S. Trade Representative - Vote Confirmed (92-5, 2 Not Voting)
On Wednesday, Ron Kirk was confirmed as U.S. Trade Representative.
Sen. John Ensign voted YES......send e-mail or see [...]
Embattled bank JPMorgan Chase, the recipient of $25 billion in TARP funds, is going ahead with a $138 million plan to buy two new luxury corporate jets and build "the premier corporate aircraft hangar on the eastern seaboard" to house them, ABC [...]
NEW YORK — Wall Street got the news it wanted on the economy's biggest problems _ banks and housing _ and celebrated by hurtling the Dow Jones industrials up nearly 500 points. Investors added rocket fuel Monday to a two-week-old advance, cheering the government's plan to help banks remove bad [...]
Huffington Post links to the View and Barbara Walters:
"If you had to buy one thing now," Barbara asked her co-hosts, "let's say there's one luxury thing now that you could buy..."
"You mean besides a vibrator?" Joy interrupted.
"For her, that's not a luxury, [...]
Meet the Press, to me, is one of the outstanding political talk shows on television. Moderated by David Gregory, successor to the late Tim Russert, it is crammed full of knowledgeable “talking heads.” You can learn a lot if you listen to their discussions each Sunday.
Yesterday Meet the [...]
One of the primary corrupting influences in Washington, D.C. is campaign contributions to those running for elective offices.
Big corporations make campaign contributions in a number of ways but the underlying motivation for making them is to buy influence of candidates who those corporations think [...]
The Las Vegas Review Journal listed the top 100 water users in Las Vegas. The list is a Who’s Who of the top 100 are casino executives, entertainers, professional athletes and billionaire business giants.
“Prince Jefri Bolkiah, brother to the Sultan of Brunei, to be exact -- whose 16-acre [...]
American International Group (AIG) has triggered a national anger at corporate greed over bonuses paid to corporate executives. Congress and the Treasury Department are scrambling to recover $165 million paid to AIG executives as “retention awards” aka bonuses from taxpayer bailout money.
It remains to be seen if the recovery [...]
Throughout his election campaign President Obama repeatedly told us that to effect change in the way Washington does its business he would need our help. Yes he was speaking to us grassroots Democrats.
He is now seeking our support and assistance to pass his budget. It is an ambitious [...]
Mark Danner is a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is the author of three books: The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount; [...]
Maynard "Joe" Richards
Brothel owner in agreement changes plea to guilty. Photo from LV Review-Journal.
75 year old Maynard “Joe” Richards pleaded guilty to a bribery charge yesterday in U.S. District Court, in Las Vegas.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on June [...]
President Obama vowed to try to stop the faltering insurance giant American International Group from paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to executives, as the administration scrambled to avert a populist backlash against banks and Wall Street that could complicate Mr. Obama’s economic recovery agenda. [[...]
The price for failing to rein in predatory clergy keeps rising for the U.S. Roman Catholic Church.
The church has paid more than $2.6 billion in settlements and related expenses since 1950, according to an annual report released Friday by the U.S. Conference of [...]
China, understandably, is concerned about the safety of its investment in the United States.
[Chinese Premier] Wen [Jiabao] earlier said that China, the U.S. government’s largest creditor, is “worried” about its holdings of Treasuries and wants assurances that the investment is safe. “I request the U.S. to maintain its [...]
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush during a farewell visit to Baghdad has been sentenced by an Iraqi court to three years in prison.
The trial of Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who shot to fame [...]
Nevada is last in the nation on a lot of lists. Nevada is last in its rate of child support collection. In fact Nevada ranks as the lowest of any state of the nation and U.S. territories.
It is reported that deadbeat dads only pay 47.6% of the child support [...]
Recent House Votes
Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 - Vote Passed (234-191, 7 Not Voting)
The House passed this bill intended to prevent mortgage foreclosures and enhance mortgage credit availability.
Rep. Shelley Berkley voted YES......send [...]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) was signed by President Barack Obama on February 17, 2009. This page contains information concerning the Act itself (sometime referred to as the "federal stimulus" legislation), proposed Nevada legislation and legislative hearings concerning the stimulus legislation, [...]
Here is some good news for a change:
NV Energy, Las Vegas, has teamed up with two companies, Solar Millennium, LLC, and MAN Ferrostaal Inc., to develop a solar facility in Nye County. [Pahrump Mirror, Thursday, March 5, 2009, page 3]
It will be a 250-megawatt “solar trough technology plant” [...]
T. Boone Pickens will be on Real Time with Bill Mahr tonight on HBO. Pickens has a new video out too.
We’re making real progress in Washington. If you haven’t seen the entry on the Pickens Plan blog about Sen. Harry Reid introducing [...]
The case of the pregnant nine-year old was shocking enough. But it was the response of the Catholic Church that infuriated many Brazilians. Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of the coastal city of Recife announced that the Vatican was excommunicating the family of a local girl who had been raped and [...]
Here is the e-mail going around:
SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGES
It does not matter if you personally like or dislike Obama. You need to sign this petition and flood his e-mail box with e-mails that tell him that, even if the House passes this bill, he needs to veto it. [...]
My thanks to Desert Beacon for posting the following on Blue Sage Views.
"Nevada is at the top of the list in numbers of homeowners facing home foreclosure. The Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection wants homeowners to have the information they need to [...]
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