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During a meeting between State Budget Director Julia Teska and the Interim Finance Committee, it’s been learned that even with the state’s entire “rainy day” fund, Nevada will see a budget shortfall of more than $61 million. Following the meeting, Governor Brian Sandoval issued a statement:

“The shortfall is caused by actual revenue numbers not meeting the projected forecasts of the Economic Forum, specifically gaming and net proceeds revenues, as well as a significant increase in the student population in the Clark County School District.”

He then went on to blow more Progressive smoke up the butts of Nevadans:

“Our economy continues to show steady signs of solid improvement, unemployment is at its lowest point since the recession and we are seeing quality, sustainable job creation across the state.”

Any Nevadan who lives in the real world will tell you that there is no ‘solid improvement,’ and that the reason the ‘unemployment is at its lowest,’ is because people have given up looking for work. Furthermore, there is no job creation – especially when you have the government deciding what businesses can and cannot operate within the state.

While he didn’t say exactly what new revenue sources he is considering, it time to get the shovels out as Sandoval plans unveil his budget proposal in the State of the State address set for January 15, 2015. That mean more Progressive bullshit is on the way.

1978

Everyday it’s back to the same old bench in the locker room, the same locker room, the same locker. This where it begins and ends.

All things center here. This is where the workouts get planned, the day discussed.

Success is forgotten here. Those who are champions are forgotten and are jus’ another member of the team.

Yet some still watch, wondering at him. He is the best.

Again the locker’s closed, slammed hard and locked. Double checked, making sure it’s locked.

He is you, and you turn and leave.

Out the door, like a Roman gladiator to the arena, you step into the spacious gymnasium. Everyone is fooling around, chasing each other and horse-playing.

Then a voice sounds, it commands, “Warm ups!”

Everyone, a well-regimented group of soldiers and like soldiers they come to attention, in a stiffened silence. Jumping-jacks, push ups, hurdlers, trunk twisters, all the same, daily.

You have memorized them by heart, because you are the ‘platoon leader’ of this ‘outfit,’ again this year – your last year.

Out to the football field at a trot, like everyday, showing those freshmen why champions are champions!

You do your daily dozen – your very own – working up a sweat, jus’ to sweat some more. Now you dash out hard a onto the hard rubber track to do twenty-five, 100 yard dashes, all of them under 12 seconds. But you do one in 13 seconds and you do one more to make up for it.

Now for the 220 yard dash, another twenty-five, all less than 23 seconds. You miss five of them, all over 23 seconds, and again you redo them.

Your heart wishes to burst home, but it won’t. And you want to sit down, but your will, or your pride won’t let you. You stand tall, while others sit. Now with a little rest, you loosen yourself ups by jogging an easy mile. Shake it off, the stiffening pain in the two stubs you call your leg.

Again to the 100-yard mark; the starting blocks. You set them, doing two for form, but now the real thing.

The coach pulls out of his pocket the starter-gun, he barks commands, “Runners to your marks, set and the gun sounds.

You have nine more to do.

The tenth one and you wish the gun were real and pointed at your head. Running 60-yards, hurting, but you must show why you’re the champion.

Everyone is leaving, but you jog and extra lap before heading in.

Through the door, the gladiator has won. The sweat on your back feels cold as you peel the shirt off, followed by your shorts and socks, then stuffed in a duffel bag to be washed.

Into the shower, where the hot water feels good, rising you clean after a good scrubbing.  Now for a cold shower, where it becomes hard to breathe,  but easier to move.

You dry off and get dressed.

You hurt all over, but never complain. You don’t complain – you’re the champion.

Off to the bus in slow, tight gait. Practice is over for today, it’s time to go home.

And after a long ride home, into your bedroom you go, tired, but you have yet to eat. So you do.

Now for bed, so tired that you don’t put on your P.J.’s after you have stripped. Off with your shoes and you know what to expect. The pain — your toes, all beaten and battered — they hurt and again you sit on your bed and cry jus’ like so many nights before.

But you don’t complain – you’re the champion.

Everyday is the same, except the last day of practice in the regular season, except this season, because it’s your last. You want to cry and you do…inside.

So down to the football field you trot one last time, but not for the practice, but rather jus’ to look, to see where you’ve been and to remember.  There’s another pain — this one in your heart — because you must leave and not jus’ for the year, but forever.

What was it all for?

You’re the champion, the very best, but you feel bewildered, lost in unhappy thoughts.  You must now let go of this part of your life, the biggest part…

It hurts, but you don’t complain because you are the champion and champions don’t complain. Besides, there is no-one who would listen.

So you hang your head low in sadness and cry. Yes — you jus’ start to cry.

It’s over, but you don’t complain, you’re the champion.

President Obama pledged to free all remaining inmates and close Guantanamo Bay Detention Center as he campaigned for President in 2008. Many remain concerned that the released prisoners will expose the U.S. to increased terrorist threats.

Now Uruguay’s President José Mujica has agreed to accept six Guantanamo Bay prisoners saying about them, “human beings who have suffered a terrible kidnapping in Guantanamo Bay,” despite polls showing 58-percent of Uruguayans oppose acceptance of the prisoners.

The U.S. embassy in the Montevideo, Uruguay, said the U.S. was “dealing with different countries in the region” and sought out Mujica because of his ‘leadership’ in Latin America. The agreement was made earlier this year but action was delayed until after the elections the 2014 November.

Most people don’t know that for every aviator, sailor or soldier with his index finger on the trigger, there are 10 or more support personnel supplying all their needs for victory. Petty Officer First Class Roland Peachee was going about his duties as a butcher on the dock next to his assigned ship the USS Rigel on the morning of December 7, 1941.

He heard some booms in the distance but thought nothing of it at the time.

“I think we were accusing the Army of having practice on Sunday,” Peachee said.

As the bombs began to fall Peachee took cover under a large crane, his only weapon, his meat cleaver. When he emerged it took him awhile to process what he saw.

“There were bodies in the water,” Peachee said. “Some of them were dead, in oil, burning.”

During the attack, two bombs dropped near the USS Rigel. The first bomb missed the bow and the second splashed harmlessly between the Rigel and a tanker with highly explosive aviation fuel.

The ships crew used their cutting torches to cut through the thinnest armor plate on the underside of the capsized USS Oklahoma near the propeller shaft to free the trapped crew. Without the Rigel’s successful rescue, the death toll, 2,403, would have been several hundred more sailors.

Peachee was physically unscathed but for some reason the Navy sent a telegram to his foster family in Indiana stating he was missing. He was unaware of the telegram as well and started a new life after the Navy with his wife in Nevada.

“I am ashamed I did not keep in touch with them because they were good to me,” Peachee said

In the 1980’s, he decided to look up his foster-brother.

“They said it can’t be you. I said well why not? Well you were reported dead at Pearl Harbor.”

Peachee worked as a grocer in Nevada for most of his professional life. He campaigned the state legislature to authorize a special license plate for Pearl Harbor survivors.

His home is like a living museum to that December morning.  Mementos, the 98-year-old is proud to look upon every day, including an award signed by President George H.W. Bush. During World War II, as a Naval Aviator, Bush flew a torpedo bomber.

“I guess I would be considered one of the lucky ones because I survived it and hell, I am an old man now, still alive,” Peachee said.

He was a founding member of the Silver State Pearl Harbor Survivor Association in the 1950’s. At the time there were 60 members.  Peachee believes there are only four now.

Nevada is ranked number three on the HeyLets Self-Promotion Index.  It asked 2,500 Americans who participate in social media to rate the number of posts they typically make on potentially self-promotional topics such as trips to special locations, attendance at memorable events, and work-related good news.

Here is the five “Most Braggadocious” U.S. States:

#1:  California (77% percent frequently engage in self-promotion)
#2:  Washington (76%)
#3:  Nevada:  (72%)
#4:  Maryland  (70%)
#5:  New Hampshire (69%)

The most humble five states are:

#1:  Utah (22%)
#2:  Oregon (26%)
#3:  South Carolina (33%)
#4:  Kansas (34%)
#5:  Arizona (34%)

They also ranked the top five most popular topics Nevadan’s like to post on social media:

#1:  Going on a special trip (62%)
#2:  Attending a memorable event (59%)
#3:  Meeting a noteworthy person (54%)
#4:  Something nice that your significant other did (53%)
#5:  Getting work-related good news (52%)

The protests in Union Square, Times Square and Grand Central Station started small, but soon grew with the help of “This Stops Today,”  a group affiliated with Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which is overseen by labor boss Andy Stern, its president since 1996.  Stern also sits on the Executive Committee of ‘America Coming Together’ funded by George Soros, who also funded ‘Occupy Wall Street,’ and continued to fund the ‘Urban Justice Center,’ ‘Open Society,’ the ‘JEHT Foundation’ and the ‘Public Welfare Foundation.’

In a recent story from the Associated Press and FOX, the two news services quoted a couple of ‘random citizen protesters,’ — Ashley Coneys and Nadya Stevens — who are involved in the New York demonstrations. It turns out Coneys is a member of ‘Police Reform Organizing Project,’ and the ‘Urban Justice Center,’ while Stevens is the assistant to the president of Communication Workers of America Local 1180.

So much for random.

Meanwhile, another fact that isn’t being shared by FOX, the AP or any other mainstream media outlet is that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who put Eric Garner in the so-called ‘chokehold,’ was supervised by an Black female NYPD sergeant. This kind of puts a new twist on the matter as claims of ‘race’ are being shouted across the land.

As reported by New York Daily News:

“Having that black sergeant in charge of that crime scene takes race out of the equation. As awful as Pantaleo’s actions appear on that video, at no time does that black sergeant order Pantaleo to stop choking Garner.

With a population that is 70% white and 10% African-American, when a Staten Island grand jury is presented with a white cop supervised by a black sergeant applying a lethal chokehold, it eliminates the racial component.”

From a police report obtained by New York TV station PIX11 the sergeant’s name is Kizzy Adoni:

“Another female sergeant, Kizzy Adoni, made a similar statement in the report. She “believed she heard” Garner say he was having difficulty breathing. Adoni also said “The perpetrator’s condition did not seem serious and he did not appear to get worse.””

Adoni is not shown in the cell phone footage of the incident, but appears in several photographs taken as the incident unfolded. The media, the mayor of NYC, and the  rest of the race hustle industry have done their best to erase Adoni from the story because she doesn’t fit their progressive template.

From a friend via the Internet…

God promised at the birth of time,
A special friend to give,
His time on earth is short, he said,
So love him while he lives.

It may be six or seven years,
Or twelve or then sixteen,
But will you, till I call him back,
Take care of him for me?

A wagging tail and cold wet nose,
And silken velvet ears,
A heart as big as all outdoors,
To love you through the years.

His puppy ways will gladden you,
And antics bring a smile,
As guardian or friend he will,
Be loyal all the while.

He’ll bring his charms to grace your life,
And though his stay be brief,
When he’s gone the memories,
Are solace for your grief.

I cannot promise he will stay,
Since all from earth return,
But lessons only a dog can teach,
I want you each to learn.

Whatever love you give to him,
Returns in triple measure,
Follow his lead and gain a life,
Brim full of simple pleasure.

Enjoy each day as it comes,
Allow your heart to guide,
Be loyal and steadfast in love,
As the dog there by your side.

Now will you give him all your love,
Nor think the labor vain,
Nor hate me when I come to call,
To take him back again?

I fancy each of us would say,
“Dear Lord, thy will be done,
For all the joy this dog shall bring,
The risk of grief we’ll run.

“We’ll shelter him with tenderness,
We’ll love him while we may,
And for the happiness we’ve known,
Forever grateful stay.

“But shall the angels call for him,
Much sooner than we’ve planned,
We’ll brave the bitter grief that comes,
And try to understand.”

The Republican Party won a large victory on the promise that they’d fight President Obama’s executive overreach – but it seems those promises were nothing more than a ruse to gain votes and power. And jus’ so you know what the hell I’m talking about when I write that the GOP and the Democratic Party are one in the same:

During a House Rules Committee hearing on legislation to curb some of the overreach in President Obama’s executive action on immigration, Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Tex.) said he was working with House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) to push a bill to make sure that not one illegal is removed from the United States “unless they were dangerous to this country and committed a crime.” Sessions also said he personally would use all his “assets and resources” in 2015 to work out a deal whereby illegal immigrants can “be in this country and work, and where not one person is quote ‘thrown out’ or ‘deported.’”

With acts of betrayal like this – it shouldn’t be a surprise when the GOP fails to repeal Obamacare as they claimed they would.

1974

(Note: This is a comical review of the species Homo Sapiens, i.e. Human Being. It is intended as a basic guide for all persons who are people watchers.)

‘People watching’ is something most persons do when they are bored or jus’ being nosy.  And yet some persons make it their business to study people and their behavior patterns .

I have studied people, because truthfully — I am naturally nosy.

Okay, so something’s haven’t changed in the last four decade about me.

That doesn’t mean my nose is unusually large, but it does mean that I want to make other peoples business, my business. In relative theory it is simple, it’s jus’ the words are hard to understand.

Like everywhere, something has to begin somewhere. And it is a generally well known fact that everything (or something) has to start at the bottom.

Now whether you believe ‘Man’ came from the sea or from the like­ness of God, that does not matter. What matters is the basic element and fact that ‘Man’ is here!

Do not concern yourself with “here”, because actually “here” is “nowhere”, but just some­ where in a wide unknown galaxy.

Adam, as we all know, was the first man and Eve the first woman. They were workers — trying to survive in the garden of Eden.

That means both of those people were basically “Classites.” But doing genealogical studies of persons in the past is much harder, because we cannot fully comprehend their world, we can only imagine.

People of today are different from them in style. We speak differently and understand more.

But we still have classes of people. Not jus’ Black, White, Yellow, or Red, although before the turn of the century colors did have something to do with it. It seems much simpler, all color-coded, but it was ruled unfair for very obvious reasons.

Now, we rational people have a different way of doing things.

Obviously, I was talking out my ass.

First there is the “Burnout.” This person generally has money, more money than most people know, but they don’t care about it, or actually about anything.

Because they can afford it, they usually use drugs. A “Burnout” is a class five of our species.

A number four species is a “Greaser.” This is someone who, like the burnout doesn’t care for anything.

And they dress like they don’t care. One main reason they dress like they do is for simple fact they can’t afford to.

Now in a society like ours it is a privilege to be an athlete. This type of Homo Sapiens is called a “Jock.”

A “Jock” is usually combined with a “Classite” type of specie. Most “Jocks” and “Class­ites” are intermingled, both work and are superior in physique and mental attitude. Classites are generally workers, Both blue collar and white collar.

OOPS! Color coded again!

As in all societies there has to be a top rung to the proverb­ial ladder of the Human Being, and that is the “Socialite.” This is the most outwardly happy and successful type, but in reality the most dangerous.

They associate with the rich (also type one) and keep to themselves. Sometimes a few will get together and appear in public view of the other four species.

While they seem to be on a higher plateau or level of thinking, they aren’t. They are generally a rather nervous breed.

But still they are no different than most other people, yet they have that certain color about them. And that color is green. Money.

That means power. Therefore they are to be adjudged dangerous.

Now that light has been thrown on the subject, it is time to say everyone has these basic traits, and some more than others.

Everyone, or just about everyone has used drugs. (Aspirin, anyone?)

And have dressed according how how they felt. Everyone has done something mentally and/or physically inclining to the sports world, whether that thing is crossword puzzles or the decathlon.

They have also worked, and had more money and have known persons with more money than they…thus making them equally richer or poor than someone.

So everyone is alike — even though may think your better than someone else, jus’ remember everyone is the same, give or take a little bit from one or the other.

Our national media is failing us and we are letting them.

More of you know who Michael Brown and Eric Garner are than about the nearly 45 young Black men shot over Easter weekend in Chicago.  While the media is feeding the frenzy of ‘racial mistrust’ – there are events in our nation that will have a world-wide effect on the future of our country and it seems we are being lead away from what is relevant and to that which is hog-wash.

You have yet to realize our national debt now $18-trillion and growing, or know the name of the American teacher stabbed to death in Abu Dhabi, not to mention where Abu Dhabi is located. And you haven’t heard about the failing Iranian nuclear negotiations or the Arab-backed U.N. resolution to force Israel to show its nuclear program and submit to U.N. IAEA monitoring.

And while the House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill that strengthens the U.S.-Israel alliance, you haven’t heard of it. Neither will you learn about the Obama administration’s plan to imposing sanctions on Israel for continuing construction on Jewish homes in Jerusalem.

Some may recognize the names, but few know what federal mandate Jonathon Gruber worked on or why U.S. war vets are upset over the release of Bowe Bergdahl. Hardly any of you has heard about Hillary Clinton’s advisement that the U.S. should “respect and empathize” with our enemies or know who Ashton Carter is, and what makes him a good or bad choice for the position he’s been nominated to fill.

No doubt you’ll hear that someone vandalized Bill Cosby’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by scratching the word ‘rapist’ in it three times, but you’ll have no idea who Luke Somers might be. Some of your favorite 2015 Grammy Nominations will be highlighted in the evening news  – but not the importance of the run-off between Mary Landrieu and Bill Cassidy in Louisiana.

As the old African proverb goes: Lack of knowledge is darker than night.