Tandem Vincitur

This just in from my friend, Don Lynch:

I don’t know how widespread this is, but I do know it is happening on a continued basis right here in Lewis County.  I don’t know all the parties either.  I had thought it was centered on Riverside Nursing and Rehab Center in Centralia.  However, I have since come across a case where the man is not in a nursing home, he has home care.  The one name I see most often is attorney Scott Blinks of Vander Stoep, Remund, Blinks and Jones in Chehalis.  But he is not the only one.

How it works is an elderly, disabled person with money and/or assets is identified.  Someone goes to court and alleges the person is not competent and petitions for appointment of a guardian.  A guardian ad litem is appointed for the victim.  The guardian ad litem then bring a doctor to interview the victim to see if he is competent.  The interview consists of firing questions at the victim so fast he or she cannot answer.

The guardian ad litem then makes his report to the court that the person could not answer questions and is not competent to take care of his or her own needs.  The judge, looking at all these reports, and not having the victim in the court, approves the arrangement.

Everyone who put the scam together gets paid, full bore, out of the assets of the victim.  Heck of a deal, isn’t it?

I first became aware of this about a year ago when I was asked to notarize a document for an elderly woman here in Winlock.  She had been in Riverside, and in spite of having family close by, she also had assets and they were going to get them.  She escaped, but everyone who was in on the scam against her got paid out of her money.  She couldn’t get around much, but her mind was clear.  Since then, more and more cases keep coming up.

This has got to be stopped.  Someone has to take an interest in protecting these vulnerable people.  Does anyone care?  What is going to happen to me for bringing it up?  Or is it already happening?

Don Lynch
360-785-4519

© Tom DeWeese, December 22, 2008

Since just before the election of Barack Obama in November, it has been interesting and quite shocking that a forty-year old, seemingly forgotten radical group called “Weatherman” is getting so much attention. Of course, Obama denies any connection to old Weathermen. Here’s a quick history of the “Weathermen” and why it’s relevant to a new president calling for an undefined “change.

You’ve heard the famous names: Bill Ayres, Mark Rudd, Bernadine Dohrn and Jeff Jones, among others. Today, Ayres describes himself as a professor; Dohrn is his wife and a clinical law professor, Jeff Jones, predictably is an environmentalist and political consultant, and Mark Rudd is now a teacher. Just normal Americans, living their lives. Really?
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This is from David Crowe, RestoreAmerica.org

“In Chicago, January 2003, Barack Obama was chairman of The (State) Senate Health & Human Services Committee and played a major role in pushing through Senate Bill 1332.  The Bill reduced the number of (Planning) Board members from 15 to 9, making votes easier to pass. Board members would be appointed by Governor Blagojevich.” (Hilites mine - Crowe)

“Stuart Levine sought Board reappointment and told Blagojevich he would vote however they wanted when approving projects.”

“Jennifer Thomas, a former Blagojevich aide, testified that she attended weekly meetings at Tony Rezko’s office between spring 2003 and November 2004 where Rezko said Levine should be reappointed.” (Blagojevich and Rezko were working together and it appears that Obama was either knowingly involved or extremely naieve and easily duped.)
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Amy Goodman’s editorial today is somewhat confusing. Her article generally espouses her leftist leanings but she ends the article with a warning against the leftward shift in America.

The article titled, “Swedes Confront Shift To Right,” begins with recounting the origin of the Nobel Prize and the current celebration in Sweden. Then, she continues with support for and quotes from anti-war activists in that country. She praises those who do damage to property under the guise of, as she says, “the biblical prescription of Isaiah 2:4, turning ’swords into plowshares’.” In this, she dramatically misuses the Scriptures because this is not a “biblical prescription.” It is a prophesy of Christ’s reign on earth, that He will bring peace and nations will then turn swords into plowshares.
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This just came in today. Last night, I was talking with the registered agent for Judicial Forum and suggested we allow the corporate registration to lapse. So, while Judicial Forum is fazing out, another conservative group is being formed.

The last few years have seen several “conservative” judicial watch organizations form. All of them proved to be anything but conservative. This organization, while not Biblically based, will likely prove their mettle as conservative. The head of this group is Justice Richard Sanders and the members are lawyers who support Ron Paul. This will be an interesting group to watch and I will be looking forward to their reports.

Here is the first:

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by David Crowe RestoreAmerica.org

For several decades Hollywood has depicted pastors, preachers, evangelists, and priests as mushy brained, out of touch, backward, and ignorant fools, but in the last few years, the God haters in America have come out of the closet in open hostility to Christ, Christians, and the institutions of Christianity.

Depiction of Christ in urineIn 1989 a photograph titled “Piss Christ” by American photographer Andres Serrano depicting a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist’s urine, won an award in which the author received $15,000 in tax payer money through the National Endowment for the Arts. The left in America defended the ‘work of art’ as “an issue of artistic freedom and freedom of speech.”
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A few days ago, I received an email that was forwarded with a message from a pastor. I do not remember his name, so we will call him Pastor Salvation Only. His message was he never gets involved in political issues because his mission is the gospel of Jesus Christ. According to him, the people sent a message loud and clear in this 2008 election, they are looking for Jesus Christ. He gave two examples, one was we have abused credit and now the people voted for Obama in repentance for their financial excesses. The other example I do not remember. He then went on to rebuff pastors that get off the track of preaching salvation through Jesus Christ and that now, because the people are truly looking for Jesus Christ, that is our only mission.

Pastor Salvation Only is very wrong. In fact, he is part of the problem. The Bible tells us clearly that man is not looking for God, as Pastor Salvation Only claims (Isa 64:7, Rom 3:11). While there are several admonitions to seek after God, the Bible tells us man may tip his hat to God while seeking his own way (Isa 58, Jer 7). Pastor Salvation Only is wrong, in that this election was not a declaration that man is looking for Jesus Christ, or looking for repentance. This election was a declaration that man is looking for a messiah, a rock star, a leader who will make them feel good about themselves, a leader who will bring change, without requiring them to change their lifestyles - or repentance.
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Reprinted from an article by Dean Isaacson 10 Feb 2008.

“So the administrators and the satraps went as a group to the king and said: “O King Darius, live forever! The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or man during the next thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into the lions’ den. Now, O king, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it cannot be altered — in accordance with the laws of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.” So King Darius put the decree in writing.

“Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.” [Dan 6:6-10 NIV]
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By Dennis Justice

Went to the Portland gun show Friday, 11/21.  Hadn’t been there for several years. So there things were a bit different than I remembered.

On the scene at 11:15 AM.  Ticket windows weren’t open until Noon.  Was just about to leave to find some coffee.  Turned around, looked, and the lobby was PACKED with people.  About that time a security guard had us split up into 3 lines.  Finally got tickets, went outside to have a smoke.  By then the line waiting to get in was not only out the door, but all the way to the next building and beyond.

This show isn’t as big as it used to be.  But there was a LOT of stuff there.  Quite a bit that I wasn’t expecting.  Manufacturers of AR15s, FALs, etc. cannot keep up with the orders they are taking.  So was surprised at the quantity available.  And the prices hadn’t gone through the roof as expected.  That probably won’t last.

There are a couple outfits that sell lots of hand guns at this show.  They were selling LOTS of hand guns.  Lines of people waiting to do paperwork.Reloading components were there, but much thinner than years past.  I didn’t see what I specifically was looking for.  Glad I didn’t really need anything.

The big news was the ammo sellers.  Three outfits with BIG displays.  Didn’t even try to see what they had early on.  They were MOBBED.  Ammo was leaving that show by the hand truck and 4 wheel dolly load.  Interestingly, the guys buying the most ammo were my age (59) and older.  Must be the 3 percenters.

When the doors opened at noon, people flooded the place.  You could move down the aisles, but it was crowded.  By 3:00 half the crowd was gone with most of the ammo.  By 5:00 the ammo vendors were calling their suppliers hoping to replenish stocks.  Remember, this was the first day of a 3-day show.  A Friday.  A work day.

This may have been the real election day of 2008.

Obama is screening political appointments based upon gun ownership. Here is question fifty-nine of his sixty-three question application:

According to most political pundits, including members of the 2000 Bush transition team, this question is unprecedented. Half-joking, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) suggested the question was to save Obama from a Dick Cheney style hunting accident embarrassment. However, even Matt Bennett, who did a stint at Americans for Gun Safety and now is employed at the Democratic think tank Third Way noted that only a small percentage of guns are ever used improperly and said, “It strikes me as overly lawyerly.”
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This is a statement written by Arthur Coday, Jr., M.D. You need to read this before voting on I-1000. Here is an excerpt:

A look at recent American history shows progression in the killing of innocent human life.  It started with the legalization of abortion on demand in 1973 and progressed to the legalization of physician assisted suicide in Oregon in 1998.  If legalized generally in America, the proponents of death will call for euthanasia of increasingly broader groups of people, starting with the most vulnerable.  This would potentially include the permanently disabled and the mentally incompetent.  The proponents of death will deny that killing these people is euthanasia.  Instead, they will say it is assisted suicide, because these vulnerable persons would have wanted to die if they were rational, as their lives were not worth living.  Killing them would be nothing more than acting on their behalf.  And so the wave of death will continue to spread out concentrically across society until the latter collapses.
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Spokane attorney and former city councilman Steve Eugster is no friend of mine. Neither is his attorney, Shawn Neuman. The only thing the three of us hold in common is our desire for government accountability. How that is accomplished and where we stand on life and moral issues, is where we part company. Despite our disagreement, I have never viewed either one as dishonest or unethical and I would be willing to vouch for either one of these fine men.

Steve Eugster is before the Supreme Court facing charges that could lead to his disbarment. According to the Spokane Review the charge is that he betrayed “a client when he asked a court to have a woman who’d just fired him declared incapable of running her own affairs.” His client was the late Marion Stead, an 87-year-old Colville widow. She hired Eugster because she was “suspicious of how her only child, Roger Samuels, was handling her financial affairs.”
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This week, the Supreme Court of the State of Washington is listening to the case of the constitutionality of a fifteen year old citizen initiative. What is the constitutional issue? Does the law violate rights? Does the law oppress a minority? Well, it depends on where you sit.

According to Lisa Brown, the Democratic Senator from Spokane and Senate Majority Leader, I-601 is unconstitutional in that it violates the rights of the lawyers, or the legislature, to strip the people of their assets through higher taxes. That is not exactly how she put it. She says it violates the rights of the legislature. According to The Olympian, she claims if the Supreme Court does not strike the supermajority provisions of the law the peoples’ initiatives could be used to create supermajority votes affecting civil rights and property rights.
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This is a classic reprise reprinted from Tandem Vincitur, July 1997 (copyright by Dean Isaacson). It has been reprinted by others almost every election cycle and stolen by some (by that I mean they stole several paragraphs without credit and put their copyright over my work). My policy is anyone may reprint any of my work, in whole or in part, as long as they credit the source (url, book, etc) and do not place their copyright over it.

Since we are firmly within another election cycle, I thought it timely to reprint it. It is also available in our section “Cominus Papers” (see menu). Here is the ancient article:

Our elected officials and bureaucrats are dealing away our rights and freedoms like they are in some kind of a global crap game. In 1994, we said we were going to turn things around with the “Republican Revolution” but the game goes on as before. The players change and the leadership–if that’s what you call it–take on new faces. Where have the Republicans even begun to roll back unbridled bureaucracies? overweening government? and the rise of globalism? They have not. Instead they have sent new mandates to the States restricting our first and second amendments, expanding the role of government in education and now giving us ID cards.

Senator Orrin Hatch chairs the powerful judiciary committee of the Senate. It is this committee’s responsibility to evaluate the judicial nominations of the President. On one occasion when Mr. Hatch was speaking before the Heritage Foundation, he warned the audience of the activist judges that Clinton had appointed–that is, he told the conservative audience what they wanted to hear. When one of the listeners pointed out that Mr. Hatch voted for the last eighty-three out of eighty-five appointees, he left in disgust.

He is not alone. Many of our most sacred of candidates will speak the conservative line while voting for legislation that expands the size of civil government, increases spending and brings us into the New World Order. Linda Smith voted for the Careers Bill, the Terrorist Bill and the like. Now she is telling general audiences that she is working to make government better. What happened to smaller?
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Yesterday’s post reviewed the appointment of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s VP choice and running mate. She is a true leader - and we excerpted from her acceptance speech what she said about leadership and how most politicians nowadays are not willing to take risks.

Today, I was mulling through some old documents, looking for an article, or some thoughts to post. I ran across a letter I wrote to the editor of the Seattle Times. It is from 1998 and is in reference to the state legislature sitting on their hands on Partial Birth Abortion.

A man’s principle goes beyond words, it goes to the core of what he is willing to fight for. It is disquieting to the Republican grassroots to watch their “leaders” melt into a sea of facilitation and administration. We have a majority party that is unwilling to lead. Is it surprising to see an ever-increasing exodus from the Party by principled people? No, it is not. And to the extent the Republican “leadership” is more concerned with self-esteem than leading, the exodus will increase exponentially.

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