Posted 8:10 AM by Creditwrench

CIVIL RIGHTS CONFERENCE
Through House Concurrent Resolution 1048 the Representatives congratulated the League of United Latin American Citizens for scheduling a conference entitled "Status and Future of Minorities' Civil Rights in Oklahoma."

The goal of the conference is "to engage the public and private sectors and community leaders in creating awareness and learning opportunities about civil rights," the resolution explains. To accomplish that goal the league "hopes to create a dynamic forum of information exchange to address the many important and complex issues
associated with civil rights across the state."

The conference is scheduled March 6 at Oklahoma City Community College.

Posted 11:13 AM by Creditwrench

The Citizens' Debate Commission is a nonpartisan organization that was established to sponsor future presidential debates. The Citizens' Debate Commission consists of national civic leaders from the left, center and right of the political spectrum who are committed to maximizing voter education. The Citizens' Debate Commission has an Advisory Board comprised of over fifty civic organizations that broadly reflect the composition and concerns of the electorate.

The nonpartisan Citizens' Debate Commission was formed because the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, which has sponsored presidential debates during the past four election cycles, fails to adequately serve voters' interests. The Commission on Presidential Debates, which was created by the Republican and Democratic parties, secretly awards control of the presidential debates to the Republican and Democratic candidates, limiting voter choice and restricting subject matters of political discourse. Through the Commission on Presidential Debates, the Republican and Democratic candidates eliminate revealing debate formats, exclude popular third-party candidates, and avoid many pressing national issues. The result is diminished voter education and comfortable silence on critical issues of bipartisan agreement. The major party candidates never pay a political price for their antidemocratic practices because the Commission on Presidential Debates shields them from public criticism. For more information about the shortcomings of the Commission on Presidential Debates, please visit Open Debates.

Posted 4:38 AM by Creditwrench

I have found a very interesting article written by an attorney dealing with tort claims used by non custodial parents to regain their visitation rights when denied by custodial parents.

It is at Tort Action for visitation rights

Posted 10:51 AM by Creditwrench

By PAUL ENGLISH AND BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau
2/3/2004

Other key issues stressed in State of State speech

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Urging lawmakers to "resist the stale ideas and stagnant thinking of the past," Gov. Brad Henry on Monday endorsed ideas ranging from electronic gaming machines at racetracks to sweeping tort reform.

"Let us commit ourselves to excellence for an Oklahoma of now and tomorrow," Henry said in a 45-minute State of the State message to the Legislature.

"Education, health care, tax relief and economic development, these are the key issues we must face this year."

Henry said Oklahomans "deserve meaningful and genuine tort reform, and we will provide it."

"We will incorporate the best provisions of tort reforms recently enacted by our neighbor to the south, but we will not limit ourselves to a carbon copy of the Texas plan," he said.

"Once again, we will beat Texas."

Henry said Oklahoma needs to eliminate frivolous lawsuits and enact more reforms to protect doctors and health providers from unreasonable increases in malpractice premiums.

He urged lawmakers who might be "tempted to politicize" the issue to "resist that temptation.

"Oklahomans deserve better," he said.

The horse industry provides 50,000 jobs and has an economic impact of more than $1 billion, but the industry is in serious jeopardy, he said.

"We must provide parity and allow our racetracks to have electronic gaming machines -- just like those in the 82 tribal casinos throughout our state," Henry said.

Education funding: Speaking of education, he said the average teacher's salary in Oklahoma is nearly $4,000 less than the regional average.

"We must provide professional salaries and encourage professional development," Henry said. "We place great responsibility on the shoulders of our educators and it is time we act with equal responsibility."

He proposed a five-year plan to raise the average teacher salary in Oklahoma above the regional average.

He called for a summer program to enhance teacher development in math that would give graduates a $1,000 stipend.

More early childhood education is needed in Oklahoma, he said.

"The prekindergarten program in Tulsa, alone, was recognized by a recent Georgetown University study as the premier model to the nation," he said.

"It's time to build upon that success. I propose a $2 million appropriation for the Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness to expand its program to rural Oklahoma," Henry said.

The governor also proposed full funding for the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program which ensures college scholarships for eligible students.

He said his proposed budget also provides funding to eliminate the "sizable backlog of endowed chairs."

Oklahoma's CareerTech system is world-renowned but it is "time to flood the financial affairs of CareerTech with the same sunlight that helps ensure accountability for all state agencies," he said.

"Proper scrutiny is the prescription for healthy government."

Cigarette taxes: Henry said his proposal to raise the cigarette tax by 52 cents a pack would produce $130 million to fund vital health programs and reduce the number of teenagers who smoke.

"Under my budget, $100 million of the cigarette fee revenues will leverage three times that in federal dollars," he said.

"That, in turn will make health insurance available for as many as 200,000 currently uninsured Oklahomans."

He said Oklahoma is the only state where Medicaid does not provide screenings for breast cancer or cervical cancer, but his budget would provide Medicaid funding for the screening and treatment.

Prisons: The state is shackled by its dependence on prisons and must build upon options such as drug courts, mental health courts and community sentencing for nonviolent offenders, he said.

"Lock up the violent and dangerous, but find alternative ways to punish and correct the rest," Henry said.

Response: Republican legislative leaders said they were disappointed Henry didn't discuss workers compensation reform or same-sex marriages during his speech.

Rep. Todd Hiett, R-Kellyville, House Minority Floor Leader, said workers compensation reform is an issue which has held Oklahoma back for years.

Sen. James Williamson, R-Tulsa, said Henry should have used the speech as an opportunity to address the gay marriage issue.

Hiett was also critical of Henry's gaming plan, saying it will not bring parity to the ailing horse racing industry.

"It simply allows the horseracing tracks in Oklahoma to enact limited gaming, at limited times, on limited games, the Class II games," Hiett said. "At the same time, it would enable tribes in Oklahoma to participate in full fledged Class III casino style gaming."

House Speaker Larry Adair, D-Stilwell, said the Legislature can fund Henry's proposal for health insurance for educators with existing revenue.

But some other Henry proposals will require additional revenues.

"I don't think we need to kid Oklahoma citizens," Adair said. "I don't think we need to mislead them and give them some false hope that we can do these things without revenues. We are now down to the point it is show time."

Adair said Speaker-designate Jari Askins, D-Duncan, will champion workers compensation reform in the House.

Senate President Pro Tem Cal Hobson, D-Lexington, called the speech the "most upbeat positive, uplifting and challenging message" from any governor in his 26 years in the Legislature.

He said he preferred raising the tobacco tax by $1, not the 52-cent proposal from Henry. The steeper increase would discourage more children from smoking, he said.

"But to get things done out here -- it is the art of the possible, not the pathway to my way or the highway . . . it is a good start," Hobson said.

Henry endorses tort reform

Posted 6:22 AM by Creditwrench

You can keep up with what the Oklahoma legislature is doing by going to Daily Legislative News

Reports come in directly from the House and Senate.

Posted 6:43 AM by Creditwrench

A important new level of publication ability and technology has arrived for our J-accuse blog. It is named "Atom" and it means a whole new era of ease and portability for our blog.

It also heralds the advancement of search engine technology coming in the near future for Google since they own blogger. I've probably spoken before about API feeds which
Google rolled out a few months ago but so far hasn't been used much.

The whole thing boils down a discussion about what will become a new way of browsing which will help to cut down on virus problems and also mean that our blogs will get much wider media attention and much faster search engine placement for sites with relevant and meaningful content such as our J-accuse blog always has.

The first concept that needs to be propagated to and understood as well as accepted by the surfing public is that of feed readers. There are already a huge number of fairly good free feed readers and a few that you have to pay for. They are also known as "aggregators" and if you put that term in any of the search engines you will come up with a pretty good list of them. So far, they are pretty crude and have almost none of the bells and whistles that current browsers have but that will change over time as well.

But it makes little difference that feed readers are available if there is no way to syndicate and distribute one's blog without the hassle of hand coding the RSS feeds that are needed to generate the feeds and worse yet if the blog is not set up to make hand coding an efficient and feasable task.

Atom is the new process of handling those problems and will pretty well make feeding the aggregators an automated process. Once the majority of webmasters become aware of the new Atom technology they can easily set their blogs up to publish their blogs and get them into all the blogging search engines.

So now we have a reasonably viable set of tools to work with starting with multiple types of search engines such as GEO URLs which mean that the webmaster uses a GPs receiver or other means to determine his exact physical location in terms of decimal eqivalents for his latitude and longitude and puts that information in his blog or webpage coding and the GEO search engines will tell the world exactly where he is located. That may seem like utter foolishness to some at this time but it starts to make a lot of sense to those who think in terms of how easy that will make it to find driving directions to any business or home address anywhere on earth. And that don't help an awful lot until you have your vehicle equipped the way my pickup is equipped, meaning that it has a compass, a GPS receiver which feeds constant moving data to a laptop and a cell phone such as a Motorola V300 which has the capability to become an actual modem. So for about $20 a month you can now have internet in your car or truck with no problem and stay connected even when on the road and have a live feed right into your laptop so you can plot your course to any place on the face of the earth and and take the shortest and fastest route there. My pickup has quite a lot more features in it as well. There are 2 more computers in the bed of the truck and all 3 are fully controlable from the cab. And there is a dash mounted webcam as well with snapshot capability and of course the cell phone has a camera as well.

But I digress. So we have GEO URL search engines as well as the normal ones we are all familiar with and we also have search engines specifically for blogs plus the ones we are all familiar with and these are all being supported by Google at the present time. And we have Google API feeds which are helping to get blogs into the search engines much faster.

And now we have Atom which will make getting the blogs published much easier and more practical by eliminating the need for hand coding each article we write into RSS format for publication. Now it is all going to happen automatically and in real time.

That is a huge advancement thanks to Google and blogspot.com.

And I can tell you right now that there are a lot more advancements yet to come and are either already here or well on the way.

Posted 6:35 PM by Creditwrench

US-CERT
US-CERT, a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) and the private sector, has been established to protect our Nation's Internet infrastructure. It will do this through global coordination of defense against and response to cyber incidents and attacks across the United States.

US-CERT's objectives are to

* aggregate available cyber security information
* provide it to individuals and organizations in a timely and understandable manner.


Introducing the National Cyber Alert System

US-CERT also provides a mechanism that allows citizens, businesses, and other institutions to communicate directly with the United States government regarding cyber security information. US-CERT has created the National Cyber Alert System, which is America's first cohesive national cyber security system for identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing emerging vulnerabilities and threats. The system provides credible and timely information on cyber security issues for both technical and non-technical users.

Homeland security virus alerts

Posted 7:07 PM by Creditwrench

Dear Group,

Twenty five people or more people are putting together a large
group
to do a Federal level "Civil Rights Suit , to stop Legal Abuse"
(Class
Action or Joinder) . We presently have a well known PA attorney that
may be willing to help us. We already have a group of people who have
entered to be part of this.

We need your name, e-mail address, phone number, your address is
optional but this will be needed at the time of our first meeting .
We
hope to meet in February in central NJ at that time.

My request is that you pass the word to help get more people to join
this action. There are many other groups, relatives, friends and even
support groups with many men and women receiving abuse by the judges
and attorneys that churn cases and violate laws, just to releive you
of your assets so they can fill their pensions and off shore bank
accounts. We must make a stand to stop this fraud, extortion and
perjury. Remember we and our children are being destroyed because no
one is stopping the criminals that control and rape our lives. We are
tired of talk.

It's time to have OUR voices listened to. Unite and take a stand.

Brew (for Civil Rights group known as "CRLA"
Russ Brust


CitizenCOPS of America
With Pennsylvania's JAIL4judges
www.CitizenCOPS.org
Have teamed up to assist in EQUAL protection of all laws and to
assure
the rights owed to the people of the United States are protected with
our own form of punishment and sanctions, from the people for the
people. At this time we are accepting LINKS to sites with simular
toppings to keep people posted and aware of the problems within and
on
how to get help and support for their own struggles.

CitizenCOPS


Lambocar.Com
A member of CitizenCOPS of America
www.CitizenCOPS.org

This webmaster is no aware of which jail4judges the author of this message is speaking of.