Wading In

Yes, you can find this brand new government toilet paper by clicking HERE . This so called GOP alternative budget is smoke and mirrors. It's nothing but an attack on Barack Obama's plan and calls for tax cuts. That's it. Tax cuts are the cure to the nation's ill. Need universal health care? Cut taxes. Need to shore up the banking industry? Cut taxes. Want to cure cancer, feed the hungry, and end the war in Iraq? Cut taxes. What's (not) surprising about this GOP budget is that there's no budget. No numbers. Just talking points. And they're GOP Talking Points circa 1994. You'd think in that amount of time a new idea or two would've popped into someone's mind. And if Republicans have all of these great ideas that will provide universal health care, get us off foreign oil, stimulate the economy, create jobs, and promote peace, why didn't they implement any of them in the past eight years? For six of those years, they owned the White House, the Co...

The Other Side column. Fairfield Daily Republic. There's still a place for newspapers By Kelvin Wade | | March 26, 2009 16:37 Newspapers are taking a beating. Denver's Rocky Mountain News bit the dust after being published since 1859. The Seattle Post Intelligencer stopped printing and went to Web only. The San Francisco Chronicle has reportedly lost 5.5 percent of its circulation last year and is losing $1 million a week, as is the Boston Globe. Newspapers are falling victim to falling ad revenue and stiff competition from the Internet. While I was interested in writing as far back as I can remember, I wasn't always interested in newspapers. I sometimes helped my brother Orvis with his Virginian-Pilot paper route when we lived in Norfolk, VA. I may have tossed it but I didn't read it. I didn't really become hooked on newspapers until my eighth grade journalism class at Grange where my teacher, Mr. Brown, would read us Herb Caen's column in the...

Rewards for failures is nothing new in the U.S. By Kelvin Wade | | March 19, 2009 14:38 'Put that coffee down. Coffee is for closers-' ---Blake, Glengarry Glen Ross Everyone's hair is on fire about the bonuses AIG is paying its employees. It's sickening that they're using their (what is it?) fourth government handout to reward failure. But it shouldn't be shocking. So the Wall Street boys have fixed the system so they get compensated with bonuses regardless of how poorly they perform. Performance doesn't matter. Isn't that the American way? You know that merit and rewarding achievement are secondary to what the contract says. Cops have been retiring in droves taking advantages of lucrative retirement plans from Solano County to Nassau County, NY, and points in-between. The New York Post reported this week that 200 Nassau County cops are rushing to retire before a new law kicks in limiting their benefits. It...

I was out of town...out of state...out of country..last week. I wrote a column remotely and it ran on schedule in the Daily Republic. Here is that column. Column research is a grueling affair By Kelvin Wade | | March 12, 2009 21:22 I'm writing this column more than a thousand miles from Fairfield, off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, resting on the aft adult pool deck of the Carnival Pride. It's mostly sunny and warm as I watch dozens of white folks sprawled upon deck chairs and slathering themselves with lotion trying to achieve the delicious caramel complexion the Good Lord blessed me with at birth. So what am I doing out here in the Pacific? Would you believe that it's all for you? When I watch fat Americans lumber bovine-like through the buffet, pushing ginormous trays of food that would feed a Somali family for a week, a thought crosses my mind. It's the same thought that I think when I see all of the sagging breasts on display beside the Lido ...

Time to revisit 'don't ask, don't tell' By Kelvin Wade | | March 05, 2009 15:15 Rep. Ellen Tauscher introduced the Military Readiness Enhancement Act that would allow gays to openly serve in the armed forces. The bill has been submitted before and has had more than 100 co-sponsors in the past but has never made it to the floor for a vote. Rep. Tauscher's approach is reasonable. She wants to hold hearings to educate the public and also supports an outside commission to study the issue, possibly headed by Colin Powell. Powell has publicly stated that the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy should be revisited. Former chairman of the joint chiefs Gen. John Shalikashvili wrote an op-ed in the New York Times in 2007 calling for the ban to be lifted. More than two dozen retired generals and admirals have also publicly come out against 'don't ask, don't tell.' Minds are definitely changing on the subject. Mention gay rights to ...

Remember this loser? Richard Allen Davis, the scumbag who raped and murdered 12 year old Polly Klaas back in 1993. He's been on death row since 1996. Now, he's arguing for a new trial saying his first confession should be thrown out. Evidently, after talking to a cop and the cop leaving his card, Davis called the cop up to confess. The cop hadn't read Davis his rights. The appellate court justices are skeptical because case law provides that police don't have to advise someone of their rights in a missing persons case where they hope to find that person alive. Whatever. Let's just stay in the real world for a minute. This scumbag should thank the Lord that he's still sucking air right now. Thirteen years on death row? Thirteen years. And with hundreds in front of him, he will end up dying of natural causes. Remember this guy kidnapped a 12 year old girl at knifepoint, sexually assaulted her and murdered her. Then, when he was convicted, he shot the cameras the ...