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Wednesday 17 February 2010

If we really want to establish a procedure for taking away taxpayer funds from people who waste them, it probably isn’t the men and women at the bottom of the ladder we should begin with, but the people at the top: Politicians. E.J. Montini

Thursday 3 September 2009

I do wonder, however, how we would feel if he were a imam speaking in a mosque rather than a self-proclaimed Baptist preacher. I wonder what the reaction would have been to such a person saying the exact same things about President George Bush during the early days of the invasion of Iraq. Would such a person have been described as an extremist expressing constitutionally guaranteed opinion, or as a traitor and a threat? E.J. Montini

Tuesday 11 August 2009
Tuesday 28 April 2009

People who are 100 percent Democrats or 100 percent Republicans share one common trait: they’re liars. In order to demonstrate 100 percent loyalty to a political party (or to the philosophical labels of Conservative or Progressive) a person has to be willing to ignore his common sense and even his sense of decency and stand up for his side even when he KNOWS they’re wrong. EJ Montini

Thursday 5 February 2009

We won’t throw a parade for a football team that was roughly 2 minutes away from an NFL championship, but we’ve got no problem with the local sheriff staging a parade of suspected illegal immigrants through downtown. EJ Montini

Tuesday 9 December 2008

The incident that brought Townsend to the public’s attention began shortly before midnight on Dec. 3. A Department of Public Safety motorcycle officer who was parked underneath the 59th Avenue overpass on the Loop 101 heard what he later described as “loud banging noises.” According to the officer, 26-year-old Townsend was striking the metal and glass housing of a photo enforcement camera with a large pickax. In addition to a criminal damage charge, Townsend stands accused of “interference with a traffic control device” and criminal trespassing. EJ Montini

Wednesday 13 August 2008

Americans have a tough time accepting the notion that even lowlifes have constitutional rights. You’d also have a tough time getting many of us to go along with the idea that a person arrested for a crime should be presumed innocent. Near as I can tell, these concepts remain difficult for us to grasp until someone we know is locked up. EJ Montini

Thursday 6 December 2007

So, does an illegal immigrant have the right to free speech? To go to any church that he wants? To be protected from unreasonable searches and seizures? To a fair trial? If you don’t know the answer to these questions, then you’re American ONLY by birth. You have squandered the opportunity afforded you to a free education, which leads to an understanding of the ideals set forth in the constitution. Which have to do with the rights of “people,” not just citizens. That’s what sets the USA apart from everyone else. E.J. Montini

Wednesday 28 November 2007

It has become a holiday tradition that the folks at Go Daddy Group Inc. completely out fox the media. The company does this by appearing to waste millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads when in fact that they are pulling the wool over idiots like me by getting us to GIVE them what could amount to millions of dollars in free publicity to help offset the cost. E.J, Montini

Tuesday 28 August 2007

It’s only a matter of time before Idaho Sen. Larry Craig resigns. Eventually, even he will get that it isn’t about whether he’s gay or not. It’s about whether he’s a hypocrite or not. And if he’s a pervert or not. The fact is, a man’s foot does not ‘accidentally’ drift into a neighboring stall far enough to touch another man’s shoe. That’s just creepy. And in more than one bathroom it would get you a beating, rather than simply get you arrested. EJ Montini

Saturday 14 July 2007

It’s funny that the group of high profile business people trying to stop the new law and initiative aimed a punishing employers who hire illegal immigrants call themselves ‘Wake Up Arizona!’ Apparently, they’ve been napping for the past several years while public concern on illegal immigration has mounted. Apparently, they’d dozed off all those years when Congress did nothing. Apparently, they were catching some Z’s while xenophobia and anger replaced rational discussion and reasonable solutions. EJ Montini

Friday 18 May 2007

There are all kind of legal, financial and other requirements in the proposal, but the fact is, it will grant legal status to millions of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. As Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said, the bill “gives a path out of the shadows and toward legal status for those who are currently here.” In other words, amnesty. E.J. Montini

Monday 14 May 2007

Churches perform some valuable services and can do great work. But the buildings. The trappings. The showy stuff. It kind of spoils the message for me. E.J. Montini

Tuesday 17 April 2007

Given the fact that, logically and in any practical sense, it would be impossible to keep weapons out of the hands of bad people, the only thing we should be discussing is if weapons should be permitted “without restriction.” What does our city, state, country look like under such a law? E.J. Montini

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