A MAN WHO WILL LIE TO YOU, WILL STEAL FROM YOU.

I think every American citizen, who is eligible, should vote. One of my pet peeves is people spouting "opinions" when they have no idea what they're talking about. The only thing they know, for sure, is mommy and daddy were democrats or republicans, so that's what they are. It's easier that way, because you don't have to think for yourself, do the work it takes to see what a candidate"s voting record is. So much easier to just believe the ads for whichever party mommy and daddy always voted for.

Some people will gladly tell you who or what they're going to vote for...but ask them why they're voting for that candidate and all you'll usually get is that deer in the headlights look.  Those are the ones who get mad if you discuss politics. It's the only defense they have to keep from admitting they have no idea why they believe whatever it is.

Makes cold chills go down my back to think how many people are out there in voting booths, who have no idea what the issues are and what's really important.

More and more I'm hearing people talking bout voting or not voting for a presidential candidate because of their stand on gay marriage, or some other irrelevant issue. Gay marriage is NOT a federal issue. It's a state issue. Vote for your own governor and state politicians on that issue.

The shape the world is in right now, including our own country, nobody should be a "one-issue" voter. Voters should be picking a leader who will keep our country safe. One who has a proven record of fiscal responsibility.

A huge issue for me, is something my grandfather taught me. I didn't believe him for several years, until the saying proved to be wisdom because it always worked out the way he said it would. 

He said, "A man who will lie to you, will steal from you." It's true so anytime I catch a politician in a lie, he won't get my vote. If a politician has made promises and hasn't kept them, he won't get my vote. I'm proud of any man who seems to be a good husband and father, but if he's lied to the voters or not kept his election promises, he WILL NOT get my vote.

Although I am conservative, I've been "accused" of being a Republican.  I used to lean that way although I've rarely voted a straight ticket. If I am convinced the Democratic candidate is the most honest and I like their foreign policy, then that's where my vote would go.

I'm also hearing remarks from uninformed people that the Tea Party is Republican. I'd like to clear that up. I've watched the Tea Party get after dishonest Democrats and dishonest Republicans alike. The Tea Party is truly it's own entity. If they find untrustworthy public officials, they expose them to voters. Their biggest concern is Americans losing their constitutional rights and frankly that's mine also.

I don't want to see my beloved America become a socialist country. Our forefathers fought for our constitutional rights. Our military is fighting and some giving their lives lost to protect our country.  How our veterans are treated should be considered.

Nobody likes war, but having a strong military is important and should be considered. If we weaken our military, we weaken our country and put it in danger.

The oath of office of the President of the United States required by the United States Constitution before the President begins the execution of the office. The wording is very specific:

US Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 8
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Do you feel like our President has lived up to the oath he took?

 Has he kept his promise to have the most open administration there has ever been. Do you feel like he's lived up to that promise or has he just told the public what they wanted to hear and done things in secret?

These are questions you need to ask yourself before you walk into the voting booth.

GIVE THE GOVERNMENT AN INCH, THEY'LL TAKE A MILE. EVERYTIME!

It's very disturbing to me, that Americans don't get in an uproar when their constitutional rights are threatened. Have they fallen into thinking if a man is sitting in the White House, then he wouldn't dare do anything to threaten our rights?

The Constitution of the United States has been so misquoted over the last few years, I'm just not sure some people even know what their rights are or why some things could threaten us.

When someone passes laws without the legal right to do so, there is a reason they keep it a secret. We were promised, by President Obama, we would have the most open administration we've ever had. When he's meeting in back rooms with his cronies and signing things into law without taking it through the proper channels, it's illegal. And why isn't the media raising a fuss? I'll tell you why. Anyone who questions Obama's politics or methods is instantly accused of being racist.

I'll tell you what is also racist. Letting a man get away with passing unconstitutional laws because he happens to have a little black in him. That makes no sense at all. If a white man had pulled some of the stuff Obama has, they would have already impeached him. That, my friends, is racism.

And people who know me know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I'm NOT racist. Never have been, never will be, and I've been known to get physically involved when I've seen racism rear it's ugly head. I looked forward to the day when we would have  a  black man become President.

But I will also stand and fight to keep any politician, black, white, or pink with purple dots, from taking away my constitutional rights.

Some of the things sound like such a good idea until you think it through and where it could and probably would lead. One thing voters must NEVER forget….if you give the government an inch, they'll take a mile.

Case in point is the socialized medicine that Obama tried to push off on us. Oh me oh my! It sounded so good. We'd all have all the medicine and medical care we needed. But in the fine print and pretty much ignored was the fact you would be forced to pay for insurance or go to jail. Yeah, if you didn't have insurance they were going to put you in jail. If that sounds constitutional to you, what if the government took it to the next step and decided to tell you how many children you could have and if you had more than one, you would be forced to have a hysterectomy and they would take the child away. If you agree with that, move to China.

Thank God for our Supreme Court who saw the danger coming and ruled that it was not legal to force citizens to buy anything from a private business.

That brings up something else I'm wondering about. Don't get me wrong about this. I know California has a bad smog problem. And I know they're trying to go green.

So recently they passed a new law that by 2025 every 7th vehicle sold must be a plug-in hybrid, full electric or hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. The way I read that means that vehicle dealers MUST buy 6 regular cars but the 7th has to be a hybrid. What if the public rejects the hybrids? If a dealer has already sold 6 new cars and someone comes in and wants a brand new luxury vehicle…is it then illegal to sell them a car unless they settle for a hybrid? Will the buyer have to find another dealer who has only sold 5 regular vehicles?

Or am I looking at this wrong? Is it possible the dealer will be able to buy 42 regular vehicles as long as he buys 7 hybrids? What if the dealers can't move those hybrids because it turns out very few people want them? Will the government shut down the dealership because they can't get rid of the hybrids?

Don't get me wrong. I'm curious about the hybrids myself. I have questions how they'll perform in my area where there's lots of hills. I also have questions how they'll perform in those long lines on the California freeways when traffic is stalled, bumper to bumper, for VERY long times.

And will this put too much strain on the already stressed electricity in areas. Will they still have heat and air conditioning or will those terrible blackouts start again?

Hybrids may turn out to be fabulous.

Not so for government. The bigger government gets, the worse it gets. We need to find a way to downsize it. I can think of several departments that should be completely done away with. And I'm all for reducing the salaries of our senators and representatives. Reducing those outrageous retirement plans would help politicians put things in perspective as to how the rest of us have to live.

How about a flat tax. Everybody over the poverty level pays the same percentage with no loopholes. I totally support a flat tax!

SPIDER BREAKS HIS THINGY DURING SEX

Over my coffee this morning, I was faced with a story about spider sex. Biologists have long known that the female spider kills the male spider after sex.

Somehow this always made perfect sense to me but then my sense of humor is a little twisted sometimes.

Now it's been discovered that the male breaks off his thingy inside the female to accomplish several things. It keeps injecting sperm into her assuring paternity and it acts as a "plug" to keep another male from getting to her.

I think this explains why she kills him. You go girl!

I have a can of RAID house and garden spray that would settle that whole dispute. Just please, someone tell me this important study wasn't funded by a government grant….

That brings to mind a story in a local newspaper a couple of years ago.

A woman in her 70s shot and killed her husband. When police arrived, they found her sitting in the bathroom on the toilet. Naturally they asked her why she had shot him.

"He said he wanted to have sex and I knew it was either him or me!" she explained.

Made sense to me, and I still laugh every time I think about it.

If you think about how strange all of this is, just google the sex life of an earthworm. And it was done on a government grant.

I was terribly naive as a kid. When I'd ask a question, I wouldn't get a straight answer. When I asked how babies got in mommy's tummy, the answer from my mother was "Don't worry about it. Someday you'll understand." What kind of an answer was that, for pete's sake! I was 14 years old at the time.

When I was finally told how it happened, I thought she was lying to me. I remember thinking "Even I'm not stupid enough to believe that."

As the old saying goes, "I got too soon old and too late smart."

I'M REVEALING THE SEALs WHO RESCUED THE HOSTAGES!

I'm going to tell you who the men are that make up the SEALs Team Six. I will reveal who killed Osama. I will reveal the men who heroically saved two hostages recently.

But first I would like to tell you who the SEALs are not.

The  megalomaniac who married into my family once that bragged he was a Navy SEAL was what he appeared to be….a narcissistic sociopath. He couldn't have made it through SEAL training to save his life. No patriotism, no morals, no common sense.

The guy who sat in my office a few months ago and apparently decided to impress me since I'm probably the only woman private investigator he's ever run into. Never have figured out why some men see that as an immediately challenge to their manhood and try to impress me with stories of their daring adventures. Granted this man never said the word SEAL, but he kept hinting at it, finally pulling out his Iraq I.D. to show me.  At this point I started rolling with laughter, lowered the boom on this little short, chubby, clean shaven piece of bovine scatology. His testicles probably still haven't come out of hiding.

Pretending to be a Navy SEAL is illegal and if someone will just tell me how and where, I would report these gutless wonders in a heartbeat. How dare they

Now let me tell you about a REAL SEAL…

He is totally ripped. Big upper body, muscles in places you probably don't even know you have muscles. He has undergone torturous training in numerous training programs. He's one of the few who made it. Then he had to be approved by, not only his superiors but his peers.

He's super intelligent and could even  have a master's degree.

He's an adrenaline junky to the max. He may have had some trouble over the years, because of his love of love of adrenaline, he was always looking for some excitement. Even with this, he is extremely disciplined physically and mentally.

He loves his country and is a serious patriot. He may also be married with a child. He's the personification of honest. His word is his bond.

He's not a killer but if that's what it takes to complete the mission, so be it. He's successful because he takes no prisoners.

Think he's easy to spot? Just look for the most military looking ripped man in the room, knife creases in his pants, short military haircut, standing straight and tall? Not on your life.

A SEAL has to be able to move around in different cultures without being spotted. So he's probably a little on the scruffy side, certainly not the most well-groomed. His hair is too long, he may have a beard, never clean-shaven. He may be short, he may be tall.

He'll be on a dangerous mission one day and home mowing his grass the next.

He's arrogant, but doesn't have to brag to make himself feel better. He's arrogant because he's the best and he damned well knows it. The only place he talks or jokingly brags is among his little group of other SEALs because they're probably giving him all kinds of ribbing over how much better they could have done what he just did.

He's a hero but is always ready to be only one of the team. He'll lead or follow, whichever will get the mission accomplished.

SEAL Team Six…You are my heroes. I love you all, I admire you, I salute you. I would gladly take a bullet for any one of you.

HOW TO HELP SEALS AND THEIR FAMILIES

BOARD OF TRUSTEES SCREWED COACH JOE PATERNO DURING PENN STATE SEX SCANDAL

I find I'm sympathetic towards former Penn State coach Joe Paterno, who was fired in November in a knee-jerk reaction by the board of trustees . A few years ago, I think most people would have probably done exactly what he did, when McQueary came to him with allegations about Sandusky.

Paterno went to HIS superiors and reported it. I think in his case that was the proper thing to do. Think about it…

An organization named Perverted Justice was started a few years ago. At that time children being raped was not talked about. I joined the staff not too long after the organization started.

Having been in law enforcement, I had watched child molester after child molester either let go or given six weeks probation and then put right back in the home with the victim. It seemed like nobody knew what to do. There were no laws in place to handle this and judges didn't seem to take it seriously. It was the dirty little secret.

Perverted Justice worked diligently to expose how prevalent child molesting had become while nobody was watching and get the laws passed to protect children. Then they were approached by NBC to do a series of programs called dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator. Finally the problem was getting the attention and people became aware of how prevalent the rape of children had become.

But before that, normal people couldn't wrap their minds around the fact that a man would do such a thing. If someone had made that accusation, nobody would have gone to the police because what if it wasn't true and you ruined the man's reputation? And unfortunately, if you did go to the police they probably wouldn't have done anything. There just wasn't anything they could have charged him with.  Normal men had trouble even knowing what to do.

McQueary took it to his superior, Paterno, who in turn took it to his superiors. That's the way things are supposed to work in an organization. You take it up the ladder. The boss is supposed to take the action.

Paterno said he had never heard of "rape and a man. I talked to people that I thought would be, if there was a problem, that would be following up on it."

He said he called his superiors and said "hey, we got a problem I think. Would you guys look into it? Because I didn't know, you know…I had never had to deal with something like that, and I didn't feel adequate."

I believe that and understand it. If he had gone to the police himself and a scandal had ensued, he would have been fired immediately because he should have gone to his superiors and let them handle it.

Either way, Paterno was screwed. The board of trustees couldn't care less that children were raped. They couldn't care less how Paterno handled it. The only thing they care about is washing their hands of whoever it takes to get as far away from the scandal as possible.

Penn State's board of trustees have tried to do this the old way: Keep it quiet. Divorce yourself from it and turn it into another good old fashioned dirty little secret.

LSU VS. BAMA...PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL

Speaking of football…you weren't? Oh well, most others have been talking football for the last three days.

Starting with the BCS championship game on January 9:
Here's what happened in MY world during the game. Being a fan of the Alabama Crimson Tide, I was glued to my television when they first entered the stadium for warmup before the fans even arrived.

As they entered, the LSU players went running over, lined up and began posturing, puffing out their chests and trying to intimidate the Bama team. Considering this was over an hour until the fans started arriving, I thought it was a totally classless thing to do. The Bama players completely ignored them.

Then it was game time. When the Crimson Tide ran onto the field, the LSU fans began to boo. When the LSU team entered, I heard not a single disrespectful boo from Bama fans. So what did it prove? It proved the LSU team and it's fans have absolutely no class.

When Bama coach Nick Saban entered, he made a point of walking around the LSU coach from a distance. My opinion is Saban was not giving the LSU coach a chance to start some kind of crap.

Crap trickling downhill is true. I can't imagine Coach Saban tolerating that kind of behavior from his players or the fans. He'd be all over them like white on rice and I'm proud of the Crimson Tide's ethics and behavior.

Usually I probably would stop watching a game that was an obviously going to be a humiliation to a team, like this one was to LSU. Not this time. After the arrogance and bad sportsmanship I witnessed, you couldn't have pried me away from that game.

Ordinarily I get pretty vocal during a game, cheering on my team. Even when I'm alone I really get into the game. Can't help myself.

Not this time though. I couldn't cheer because I spent the whole game rolling with laughter, as LSU's team, who had been so rude only an hour before, stood with this look of horror on their faces as they realized the Tide was rolling all over them and there wasn't a thing they could do to stop it. It was the first championship game I've ever seen where the supposedly #1 teams was stomped into the dirt, only got over the 50 years line once, immediately got the ball intercepted and came out of the game with a score of zero.

Coach Saban proved he deserved the Crystal Football. Congratulations to the Crimson Tide. You make your fans proud to say "ROLL TIDE!"

OCCUPY MOVEMENT THREW WRONG BITCH OUT OF WINDOW

The occupy movement reminds me of an old joke:

A man got on a train and the only seat left was beside a woman with a little well-dressed poodle. The man asked the woman to move the dog so he could have the seat and the woman, sticking her nose in the air, said "I will not."

The man stood until his legs were tired and again asked the woman to please move the dog so he could sit. Nose in the air, she again refused.

Finally the man grabbed the dog and threw it out of the train window. The woman began to scream. The train porter came, assessed the situation, then turned to the man and said, "Excuse me sir, but I think you threw the wrong bitch out of the window."

Maybe I'm missing something about this whole occupy thing. Here's MY thoughts on the thing.

Just exactly what are they trying to accomplish. They've made their ideals known. What began to quickly happen, all the freaks who had too much time on their hands and a gripe about ANYTHING showed up.

Then came the carnival atmosphere. WHEE! Half of them didn't even know what the issue was and the damage was to small mom and pop businesses being blocked.

I agree with some of the goals. There's too much pressure put on politicians by huge corporations, who pay big bucks hiring lobbyists. Then they make huge contributions to their chosen candidate's campaign.

Get the Federal Reserve back under control. They're the ones in control of the problem. Research what's going on with the Federal Reserve. It will shock you. Banks need more money? Hey, no problem, The Federal Reserve will just print it, with only thin air to back it up, and then loan it to the banks, who make huge profits off of it. Meanwhile people's homes are getting taken away by the banks, jobs have gone away, etc. But the bankers are getting richer and richer. And because there's no laws to control them, the Federal Reserve has now gone rogue. Our government no longer has the laws in place to stop it.

Pressure on politicians got us into this mess, putting pressure on politicians can get us out of it. We need to take back our democracy and take back our country.

If the occupy folks want to demonstrate, do it to the people who make the laws. Get some controls back on the banks. Deregulation of banks was not a good idea. Put the pressure on politicians  to raise the minimum wage so people can live on it. Refuse to work for those who don't pay fair wages.  Corporations who move to another country because they can pay lower wages….start a movement to stop buying their products. Jump on the buy "Made in America" products.

While we've been feeding and taking care of half the world's people, we stopped paying attention to what was happening in our own country. It's time to get informed before you vote. Stop voting for someone just because they have a nice smile. Stop voting for someone just because they can debate well. Vote for people who will clean up this mess we're in. Be an informed voter.