Ken Nelson

I’m taking a long break from blogging. I expect I’ll get the bug again, sometime, but not for a while.

Thanks,

Ken N.

My brother prepares to photograph the St. George Temple

Nov 2002

A picture I like to call “Why I moved to Southern Utah”.

This is a wing of our farm house as seen from our driveway.

TaxProf via Instapundit…

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2011/02/rasmussen.html

Basically… one set of rules (and taxes) for the rest of us, another for Obama’s buddies.

As seen in NYC

This article, on Muslims and Christians is interesting for two reasons. The first is that the Washington Post didn’t publish it, even though it was submitted by a regular correspondent of the times.  The second is because it is… interesting.

Readers of KenNelson.com know that I’m a public advocate of limiting the inroads Islam makes into the United States via legal immigration.  I don’t think we should let them in.

3. Because Jesus was a failure and Muhammad a success, Christians from the start learned how to be a minority religion and survived Jesus’ failure only by the fact that he didn’t stay dead. Christians don’t know how to behave when they are in power (and, of course, have sometimes abused their power). But Islam was, from its start, majority-minded; and Muslims don’t know how to behave when they are not in power: it enrages them, makes them thin-skinned to “blasphemy,” drives them to achieve power and impose sharia, even motivates some of them to martyr-suicide in killing any they consider enemies of Allah.

I don’t come to this belief out of support pro or con as to the merits of any particular faith’s tenants.  I’m more practical than that. Where ever Muslims are permitted to congregate, trouble follows if they aren’t in charge. End of story.

I say… don’t let that happen here.   This doesn’t mean trampling the  rights of Muslims that live here, or of citizens who happen to choose that faith. But no religion has a RIGHT to immigrate here, and we have the RIGHT to deny entry into this country for any reason. I suggest we exercise that right vigorously and with an eye towards our countries stability and safety.

Source: Internet

Instructions to build can be seen here.

Unless you donate to the President.

1. Donate millions.
2. Hang with the President.
3. Who cares if you trample the rights and inconvenience millions. See 1.

The President’s Deficit Commission presented a bad plan. It raises taxes, for which there is NO need, except on those who pay nothing now.  With more money, they will spend more – they ALWAYS do.

Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, has a better plan.

It has its faults too… it isn’t specific enough about discretionary spending cuts.  It talks about “process” intead of actually getting rid of Departments. And it maintains a big Federal role in everybody’s healthcare.  And it exempts too many from sharing the burden – a recipe for spending growth.

Ryan’s plan’s good parts are that it solidly reforms entitlements, dismantles the IRS/complex tax scheme we have now, and has a very business growth friendly business tax scheme.

So it has problems, but it is way better than what we have by a country mile, if just because it won’t collapse.

The pliant press and Democratic politicians say that the October job news was “good”.  But I don’t see it. Looking into the details, there was a 159,000 increase in payroll joining, but most of  that was part time. There was a LOSS of 124,000 FULL TIME jobs, a trend that has over 1 million full time jobs lost in the last 5 months.

It is hard to see why current (and coming) inflation in basic commodities matched with part time work is a GOOD thing.

Oh… and about 61,000 of the “new” payroll jobs weren’t measured but were “estimated”.  These jobs were “magically” created in the small business sector, which doesn’t report like larger businesses.  Trouble is…  estimates by the Labor Department (which should be abolished) for this sector do not match other private estimates, and have been largely wrong in the past.

Other bad trends… labor rate participation fell to 64.5%.  254,000 gave up looking for jobs. And the ratio of employment to population fell to just under 60% – the lowest in 30 years.

So… what to do?   Well… cut the deficit, lower taxes, and cut regulation sounds good – and it hasn’t been tried in decades!

Source here.

Isn’t this one, in New York, one too many?

It says a lot about where we’ve come as a country that a mosque at Ground Zero is even being considered.  That our PRESIDENT should support it should be a shock as it clarifies just how far we’ve fallen.

Their permit should be denied.  Let them sue for 30 years about it. I don’t care.

You know my thoughts on Muslims. They should be seen on TV in OTHER countries. Not here. While they are a religion, of sorts, they are also a government, and as such should not be permitted into the US except under strictly monitored conditions. You know, bring in the oil, put it here, now get the hell out.

Sure, most of them are fine people, that just want to work, raise families, and so forth. BUT they bring with them crazies, and they don’t seem to have the cajones to call the crazies out of their communities. So any gathering of them is a risk, and I’d submit, a risk we need not accept.

Say “Ma’a Salaama” to you Muslim community. Enjoy screwing up other countries, we’ve decided the meager benefits your culture provides aren’t worth the dramatic risks you pose.

I spent an hour or so this morning tweaking a few blog settings and installing some helpful plugins. Improvements include:

• More understandable links – The old ones should work. The new ones
  will be more related to the post, instead of just a number.
• Comment editing – you can now edit your comments for up to 2 hours after you
  post them.
• Comment notification – if you comment you can now be notified of responses via e-mail.
•  Search engine optimization. This doesn’t affect readers, but does help search
  engines index KenNelson.Com
• Related Posts – An automatically decided “Related Posts” will guide you to
  my other writings related to that posting.
• Post Notification – I’ve installed a system that will e-mail commenters two days after
  notifying them of new posts. This can be opted out of, and is a one time only thing.
• Typography upgrades – minor improvements to layouts and word spacing/font kerning.
• ThickBox for images…. images will be shown in a pop up dialog rather than a new window or tab.  This may not work on all older posts, depending on how I inserted
  the image.

The e-mail server for kennelson.com and a few other domains I host didn’t survive a move over to a new ISP.  I’ll get it going soon… in the interim you probably know my other addresses…   And if you don’t… I guess you can leave a comment here for me to contact you.

Update: This is fixed.  Yippee!

Sorry… a windstorm took out the internet connection that my servers rely on. Back up now!

Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun Brian and I shot the Nevada State IDPA Championship. Fun and hard work. Certainly no time for blogging!

I’m back, catching up, but here is a little diddy TR sent for your enjoyment in celebration of upcoming Earth Day