For those of you following the Boulder City Brouhaha, you should know that opponents – OK, one guy with a grudge and apparently without a life named Stephen Stubbs – claims the attorney representing the citizens of Boulder City who were sued by Boulder City for exercising their right to petition their government is….unethical. Continue reading »
In invoking hyperbole and rhetoric worthy of NSHE Chancellor Dan Klaich, the Clark County School District is moaning and groaning about much-needed budget cuts coming its way thanks to Gov. Brian Sandoval standing firm on his commitment not to raise taxes. Indeed, school board President Carolyn Edwards, a teacher’s union shill, lamented in a LVRJ story last week that “I think we elected the wrong governor.”
Um, except that Rory Reid also promised not to raise taxes. I guess Ms. Edwards, like most voters, believe that Reid, unlike Sandoval, wouldn’t have kept his promise. Go figure. Continue reading »
My friend Paul Jacob of the Citizens in Charge Foundation once was arrested in Oklahoma for defending the right of citizens to petition their government through the initiative process. So when he warned in January that public officials shouldn’t be allowed to “simply throw dissenters into a gulag and govern by decree,” he was speaking with a high degree of moral authority.
But when I discovered that the public officials he was writing about in his column – who had sued their own citizens “regularly and repeatedly” for daring to participate in direct democracy – were right in my own back yard, my jaw dropped. How did I miss this? Continue reading »
Y’all remember Tera Burbank. She’s the liberal activist/unemployed construction worker/media heartthrob in Las Vegas who can’t find time to find a job, but finds time to organize protests against Republican Congressman Joe Heck and was busy lobbying for higher taxes in Carson City last week. If you missed the true Tera Burbank story, as opposed to the Associated Press version, click here.
Well, Tera’s 14-year-old daughter has now responded…and wow, what a mouth on this kid!
I’ve hesitated to publish Brooke Burbank’s grammatically-challenged (another fine example of a public school education) rantings because she’s just a kid and I certainly understand and appreciate her desire to defend mommy dearest. But as you’ll see, Brooke falsely accuses me of not publishing “all of the comments” posted on my blog, so she really left me no choice.
WARNING: I’m not kidding, this 14-year-old kid has a potty mouth on her like you wouldn’t believe. If you are offended by strong language, STOP READING NOW. In addition, I am reprinting Brooke’s comments exactly as written – capitalization, punctuation, spelling and grammar in the original.
Brooke Burbank says:
March 23, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Excuse me sir but thats my mom your talking shit about back the hell off I’ve been with her for 14 years and you dare say that about her you dont know jack about her she is sweet and loving. The reason I was failing school was because I have ADHD and John Clark is a selfish jerk who I never cared about. If you are going to post something then get the facts we are not white trash and I will not here and hear you say these about me and my family you tea party bastard. Dont you EVER talk about my family this way again I am 14 years old and I abviously have a problem with your article my family is amazing. Oh and “Mr.X” who ever you are John got that truck before he even met my mom my mom loves coffee her house her family and her politics was a huge mistake making a mockery of all of those things. Goodbye I dont need to waste my time on you anymore.Reply
Brooke Burbank says:
March 23, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Oh and Chuck why dont you show all of the comments instead of just the ones you wanna see afraid that your readers will notce that you are a jack ass??Reply
Brooke Burbank says:
March 23, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Why dont you show all oif your comments?? Are you afraid Chuck that you readers will relize that your a total asshole?
No further comment is necessary…though I will point out to those who haven’t read the original story that John Clark, the “selfish jerk,” is Brooke’s out-of-work step-father.
I’ve heard that Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford – unable to budge even a single Senate Republican from their pledge not to vote to raise taxes – is now trying to cut deals, Harry Reid-style, with some Assembly Republicans, promising them all manner of taxpayer-funded goodies for their districts in return for their votes to extend the 2009 tax hikes.
Horsford’s reportedly telling people he’s happy to dole out a couple hundred-million dollars worth of earmarked pork for targeted Assembly Republicans if that’s the only way to get over a billion dollars worth of new taxes approved – including an extension of the $800 million worth of tax hikes from 2009 which will sunset in June.
Apparently, Horsford thinks a strong bi-partisan vote for higher taxes in the Assembly would put pressure on Senate Republicans to similarly stab Gov. Sandoval in the heart and give him the votes he needs to raise taxes, as well as override a certain gubernatorial veto.
And by the way, make no mistake, ANY vote to extend the sunsetted tax hikes will be a vote to raise taxes. It will NOT be a revenue-neutral vote, no matter how hard some are trying to “spin” it otherwise.
That $800 million-plus worth of tax hikes was sold to taxpayers in 2009 as temporary. They were approved ONLY because they were scheduled to go away in June 2011. Any Republican vote to extend them is a vote to raise taxes and an invitation for a GOP primary challenge next year.
Plain. Simple. Period.
Gov. Brian Sandoval has been and continues to be a rock in his commitment to balancing Nevada’s budget without raising taxes and fees. And after getting off to a bit of a rocky start, Senate Republicans have been right there with him. No tax hikes. No way. No how.
Assembly Republican leaders; however, are and continue to be, as usual, as dependable as AT&T cellular service.
That said, in light of Assemblyman Ed Goedhart’s “Ten Bears” letter delivered to Democrat leaders on Thursday, I hear Republican Assembly Minority Leader Pete Goicoechea has decided to play a little hardball himself.
Indeed, I’m told Goicoechea intends to issue a new set of demands on Monday which he’ll insist must be met before voting to raise taxes. Tax My Meat Pete’s new demands include:
• A case of Turtle Wax
• A Justin Bieber CD
• Two packages of Burpee rutabaga seeds
• Dinner for two at a Sonic Drive-in
• A tube sock filled with quarters
• One bottle of Asti Spumante
• A can of Red Man
• Two nights at the Beatty Motel 6
• An autographed copy of Sharron Angle’s new book
I’m telling ya…this guy knows how to drive a hard bargain!
When most people think of the Americans for Disabilities Act, they think of mandatory wheel-chair ramps. But ambulance-chasing trial lawyers don’t think like you and me. They only see ridiculous and absurd ways to make a buck at somebody else’s expense, often taxpayers. Thus this story from Friday’s Baltimore Sun:
“A federal appeals court upheld a ruling Friday that requires the Washington Redskins to make game content broadcast over the FedEx Field public address system accessible to deaf fans through captioning – including song lyrics. . . . The National Association of the Deaf and the Baltimore law firm Brown, Goldstein & Levy filed the suit in 2006 on behalf of three deaf or hard-of-hearing Redskins fans who regularly attend home games.”
When it comes to trial lawyers, I think Shakespeare was correct.
Muth’s Truths reader Tim Marvin wrote to Assemblyman Tick Segerblom recently to voice opposition to Tick’s proposal to tax water, suggesting that spending cuts were the better way to go. To which the liberal Democrat from Las Vegas responded:
“I do not support cutting spending, I support taxing luxuries and corporations which don’t pay anything! I support balancing the budget by increasing revenue, is that too difficult to understand?”
Of course, while not difficult to understand, that didn’t answer Mr. Marvin’s question about taxing water which, most regular people would agree, isn’t exactly a “luxury.” To which Assemblyman Segerblom responded:
“Taxing water is like taxing clothes. I support raising taxes to balance the budget – if you don’t like it vote me out!”
If only redistricting next year somehow would make that a possibility!
Although what passes for leadership in the Republican Assembly Caucus can barely put out a press release or tweet that even comes close to informing the public in general, and fellow Republicans in particular, on the critical issues currently being fought in Carson City, their communications guru somehow found a way to tweet the following about last night’s legislative basketball game:
“NVGOPASSEMBLY: Final score. GOP 51, Dems 39”
Glad to see these clods have their priorities straight.
Nevada’s resident Bloviator-in-Chief; the High Priest of Hyperbole; the Pampered Prince of Pomposity, TV mogul Jim Rogers weighs in with a new ghost-written tweet today saying some very unkind and hurtful things about poor little me:
I thought it was statistically impossible for one state as small as Nevada to have two intellectual lightweights like Sharron Angle and Chuck Muth at the same time. Yet here they are. My analysis proved to be wrong because I had not known that Muth and Angle had been born Siamese twins and at the time of separation each got somewhat less than half a brain.
I make these comments about Chuck Muth because he is dangerous in that he has no understanding of higher education when he claims that higher education has withstood all the budget cuts to date and will be able to do so in the near future. The problem is not simply the cuts. The problem is how those cuts damage the Nevada’s Higher Education System. Mr. Muth needs to take a course in logic and learn something about cause and effect.
That’s right! Ice…man. I am dangerous.
Oops, sorry. I flashed back momentarily to my days flying fighter jets at Top Gun in Miramar.
Actually, I don’t mind being accused of having half a brain….especially since that’s all that’s necessary to match wits with the likes of Mr. Rogers’ ghost-writer. But to compare me to Sharron Angle? Now, that’s just mean.
