One year anniversary from the world’s greatest Navy. Yes, folks its hard to believe that it has already been one year since I said goodbye, hung up my dressblues and became a full time college student at the University of Memphis. To all of my family and friends-Thanks a lot!

In recognition of it, here is my next blog with some random thoughts of and amusings…

How much gas does it take to grow a crop of corn for ethanol?

If the cost of corn continues to rise, how much will your next bag “jelly bellies” cost you at Easter? (BTW-They definitely make the best jelly beans!)

Would the Apostle Paul be able to write most of the New Testiment today without being charged with a hate crime?

Forget Waldo, Has anyone seen Crystal Mangum lately?

PBA Regional tour pattern #3 is easy for a house shot-“Even a caveman can do it” For pattern #4 call in either Chris Barnes or Brian Nicolai….That ones tough.

If talk radio is running the country, then who is the President? “Rev Al Gore” or Rush Limbaugh?

If the NY Yankees can pay Roger Clemens over $1 million a game, then why not long time minor league player Pete Rose, Jr.?

What is today’s new Roman Empire-Secular Humanism? If they are, then their centurians could be the ACLU, Code-Pink and their President Nancy Pelosi.

The San Francisco City Council wants to ban the US Navy Blue Angels from performing at fleet week, which follows their recent decision to pull the JROTC programs out of their high schools-So the question has to be asked-Which flag is flying over the city by the bay? USA, Rainbow or Mexico?

The sounds of the protestors over the rush to condemn the Duke Lax team is deafening-Just not as much as the apologies by Shabazz, Jessie, Al and in the infamous “Group of 88”

Thank God for parents of little boys who are fighting a system to “wussify” them and so raise a group of gentlemen that will treat a woman like a lady and not a plaything to be used.

What is today’s new Roman Empire-Secular Humanism? If they are, then their centurians could be the ACLU, Code-Pink and their President Nancy Pelosi.

The San Francisco City Council wants to ban the US Navy Blue Angels from performing at fleet week, which follows their recent decision to pull the JROTC programs out of their high schools-So the question has to be asked-Which flag is flying over the city by the bay? USA, Rainbow or Mexico?

The sounds of the protestors over the rush to condemn the Duke Lax team is deafening-Just not as much as the apologies by Shabazz, Jessie, Al and in the infamous “Group of 88”

Thank God for parents of little boys who are fighting a system to “wussify” them and so raise a group of gentlemen that will treat a woman like a lady and not a plaything to be used.

I survived my first year in retirement, and Corps school survived Captain Lemon’s final year in command. May she have a nice retirement….

Various congressional people were complaining about the lack of fairness with talk radio-my question is; Since conservatives only have talk radio, and FNC, Why are they complaining since they have ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR and a host of newspapers like USA Today, The New York Times, and the Washington Post to name a few.

Until later, have fun, take care and continue to pray for our troops in harms way this July 4^th.

    According to the AP, Mike Nifong has been officially disbarred as an attorney in North Carolina today and yesterday he had stated that he would be resigning as DA.  The article further stated that Nifong will not be appealing his sentence, and that is definately wonderful news.
  While this is definately good news for the David, Colin, and Reade with their families, hopefully this good news will be followed by better news if they seek civil lawsuits against various and are victorius in court.  While no one should enjoy the suffering of others, the fact Nifong has begun to recieve what he sowed, and hopefully all others involved are taking it as a wake up because their professional licences and careers could be next.
  There is no amount of money that can bring back the reputations of the guys, and for now they are more than entittled to express a rightesousness indignation to their adversaries.  One could only imagine what number Nifong is on "The Grail" and that hopefully they will be able to cross that name off for good when they feel ready to forgive.  Of course poetic justice could come from Governor Easilery and that is appoint former assistant DA Freda Black to office of Distric Attorney-talk about a slap in the face to Nifong and in the end the best qualified attorney would still have gotten the DA's job.

Well take care, have fun and may you have a wonderful weekend.

paul

Correction:  I wrote in a previous blog (6/15) that Don Yaeger had requested an interview with Crystal Magnuson.  Upon rechecking the book, that is incorrect and the only interview that Crystal gave was to a local newspaper.  Sorry for the mistake.

 

 

 

 

The legitimate powers of government reach actions only and not opinions…Thomas Jefferson

    Currently the House of Representatives passed The Local Law Enforcement hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (H.R. 1592)and it’s now pending in the US Senate Judiciary Committee. The act would forbid (read: illegal) forbid people of religious or sincerely held moral beliefs from being able to hold or freely speak out against homosexual behavior. When other groups were being considered, such as pregnant women, military personnel, Christian welfare workers, and etc, these groups were denied this special extra protection.

  While criminal law treat all criminal activity relatively equally (with a few notable double standards dealing with female teachers molesting their students compared with male teachers doing the same thing) this new law would add a perpetrators thoughts in how they view certain people and if a victims sexual orientation was a factor in whether this crime was committed-then an enhancement penalty would be added. The problem with this is even if a victims homosexual orientation wasn’t known, a perpetrator would still face the enhancement penalty.

   By adding an enhancement to certain victims, and not all victims of crime violates the Equal Protection Clause (14^th Amendment) to the US Constitution that states some people are more valuable to society than others.

  The broader picture to consider is; Does society have a duty to remove religious expression from open public debate? Which views will be politically correct to discuss, which views won’t be, and who decides? (Hopefully it won’t be Rev. Al Sharpton with his Greek white homo speech from 1996 or Barney Frank from New York). Is it a Judeo-Christian world view with its many doctrinal divisions or is it moral relativism with its basis in atheism and/or eastern mystism?

  The answers to all of these questions is resounding NO and tolerance in application for all diverse points of view with respect to the US Constitutions 1^st Amendment is critical to being able to discuss this issue in a rational manner. While there will be arguments of the separation of church and state, a casual reading of The Federalist Papers should alleviate any concerns about a Judeo-Christian caliphate being established.

  Unfortunately people of Christian faith are routinely targeted for by the “thought police” for dare questioning homosexuality as normal and they range from; the Philadelphia 11 being arrested and jailed, a Swedish pastor was given a 30 day jail sentence, and in Canada-a group of Christian pastors were fined for a radio broadcast with the common factor being: They hold a biblical world view that homosexuality is morally, and ethically wrong.

  Not once did these people advocate violence (and if they did, I would be their strongest critic) against gays, but these people of faith demonstrated love in word, deed, and action-Yet, were targeted because they expressed an unpopular view point. While gays claim that they are for freedom of expression, association and speech, their actions in conjunction with governmental authority shows differently.

  Let’s keep the punishment where it belongs-on the people who are committing violent acts in society and not the people who dare to think and believe the unspeakable because a small vocal minority is going too be offended at the slightest remark or comment. Voltaire once stated, “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it! So how many gays and their activists would be willing to say this in word and deed? The people of Christian religious faith demonstrated it loud and clear in devotion to their loving God and they showed far more tolerance than most people with a non-Christian worldview ever d

     I recently just finished reading two books on the Duke Lacrosse Rape case and while both of the books were pretty good, Its Not About the Truth, The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It Shattered by Don Yaeger and Coach Mike Pressler.  ISBN 1-4165-5146, 321 pages and (C) 2007.
  This is definately one of the best books ever written on crime, and if we had not watched this story unfold on tv, cable, MSM and in the blogs a person would easily swear that this is a good piece of fiction.  The story had everything the media and society wanted-Sex, strippers, corrupt government officials and athletes.  
  Don's abilty to get to the heart of the matter, and his investigative skills showed that from the beginning David, Colin and Reade (as well as the Duke Lax team) were being railroaded with minimal support from President Broadhead and his lack of leadership.  Of course there were 88 faculty members ("Group of 88") who jumped in with their personal agendas, and the usual suspects that come out, play the race card-and pronounced these athletes guilty before the investigation was even finished. Don has attempted to interview all the major players in this story and was rebuffed in a few instances by Broadhead, Mike Nifong and Crystal Gail Magnuson to get all sides of the story to tell the readers what was happening and what the MSM weren't talking about to America. Also Don is able to clarify in several parts of his investigation the fallacies put out by Nifong regarding the cooperation of the Duke Lax team, and even showed the possible double standard in reporting a rape case when the alleged victim is white, the alleged perputrator is black and a member of a black fraternity.
  It would be nice to hope that this change is due in not rushing to judgement and waiting for the respective police department and government agencies to do their investigation and not because it doesn't fit a sociology or African-America studies professors agenda of race/class or sex.
  Coach Mike Pressler during the early days of this scandal kept a diary and he wrote out his raw emotions that he was going through and it showed a diffrent kind of perspective from what was put out in the MSM.  Where his diary entries are quoted, showed a man who was committed to his team, bulwark in the face of a storm that wasn't ceasing and yet was fully human in private.  A man concerned for the safety of his family, and who put his needs last.  If there was ever a good example on leadership in the face of chaos-Coach Pressler demonstrated in measure that very few mortals would ever be able to understand or do consistently.
  The book is a little brash on the language and the profanities that are there are used in quotations from various people.  Understand that for the Duke Lax team, their families, and the few supporters they had, these are raw emotions and they cannot be treated with some nice sugar coating. (want sugar-Drink a coke and eat a bag of skittles)  From the beginning these folks believed in a justice system that would protect the innocent, punish the guilty, and they learned it showed that "truth" is just a matter of perspective and the facts would do little to keep a various groups from pushing their agenda or DA from getting elected. 
   There are alot of good reasons to enjoy this book, and in the end I became extremely and rightesouly angry.  For any person that has been falsely accused of a crime that they didn't commit will see part of themselves in this book and don't be suprised if the emotions that you had when you went through it come back up again.  Its not offen that I recommend a book to read, but this one should be on your summer reading list.  If you are a guy, a father of teenage sons, law school student or athlete-Read this book and consider that David, Colin or Reade could have been anyone of us in society accused because a person points a finger. 
  As a former EMT-B, Navy Corpsman and someone who has worked with various rape victims,  survived one SCM and faced another that was dismissed prior to SCM due to an HM2 being caught fabricating evidence-the Duke Lax hit very close to home.  
  I can say with relative certainly that the patients of rape that I worked with  had legitimate cases and don't recall any of them where their complaints were found to be invalid or false.  However, for victims rights advocates, their job has become alot more complicated because of the false accusations by Magnuson and any future victim of rape will think twice about coming forward, while the accused will have a case that made national headlines from which their attorneys can cite. 
  For the accused that have been charged, and facing several years in jail or the brig, it can be very unerving time.  Seeing that everything you worked for can be taken away in the briefest momement and the only you have left is your reputation.  It is during these times a person's faith is truly tested and it shows whether its a genuine faith in God or something like a "goodluck" charm. I and several of my colleges were fortunate over the years-we survived the malicious charges and I was able to retire last summer.
  If there was any critisim to be found with the book, its this and its not in anyway to meant to satisfy some pathetic or sadistic need, but to show the depth of depravity that those people that sought to destroy Duke Lax, and the reputations of the accused would be to include  showing who the accuser is (she has been able to hide annouymously)-(checkout foxnews.com for her photo), and the "potbangers".  Additionally publishing the names of "Group of 88" so society could see what truly evil is, vindictive prose these professors wrote before the truth came out and consider that they are teaching young adults.  The final thing I would like to have seen added was an index so a person can see how various events and people are interconnected over the period of thirteen months.
  In closing I will leave with a few random thoughts; Read the book, check out the sources for yourself, and come to your own conclusions about the case.  Don Yaeger, and Coach Mike Pressler have written a truly wonderful book and its definately worth reading twice and discussing with your athletes or teenage sons.  It is my sincerest hope that for everyone involved will either get the punishment due them, or have their reputations given back sevenfold......
 

Hi everyone, this is the blog I used for my final blog with my Racial and ethnic minorities class and with finals this week, I am looking forward to a break.  Hope to see everyone in Phoenix real soon...  

A media double standard….

     Ladies and gentlemen time for a quick pop quiz to see if you have learned to recognize who are the villains and who are the victims in the following news stories:

A)     Radio shock jock Don Imus calls the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team a racial slur without using the “N” word.

B)     Three suburban members of the Duke Lacrosse team are falsely accused of rape by urban stripper Crystal Magnuson and maliciously prosecuted by local DA Mike Nifong.

The victims are the Lady Scarlet Knights and the Duke 3.  The villains are Magnuson, Nifong, Imus, and several urban civil rights groups.

     Sadly the racist mainstream media didn’t see that way and with the exception of Imus, gave a free pass to Magnuson, and Nifong.  In addition the press conviently ignored the racist history of Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, and Malik Shabazz by not asking the straight forward questions of their past racist slurs.

    

While Imus apologized to the Lady Scarlet Knights, they forgave him and are not holding any animosity towards him. These ladies truly showed a measure of class that all Americans can learn from while three members of various urban civil rights groups haven’t.

The Duke 3 received an apology from the state’s DA, a back handed apology from Nifong and NO apology from Magnuson, Sharpton, Jackson, Shabazz, and 88 members of the Duke faculty that signed a public letter of condemnation published in the school newspaper. In fairness, 6 faculty members apologized last year before the case was dropped this year.

Here the media did not give the press time to the Duke 3 and yet they were willing to convict them before they went to trial, hung on to every word spoken by racial demagogues treating these three gentlemen as villains because of “white privilege” and their athletic endeavors.

If the Duke 3 had occurred 50 years ago with the races reversed, there would have been an outrage from the NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC condemning a false accusation against these urban athletes from a suburban woman with America calling this behavior for what it is: Racism-Jim Crow style!

Justice has a strange way of coming about and sooner or later all wrongs will be made right and hopefully the following happens:

1) Imus finds himself working for one of the Lady Scarlet Knights.

2) Sharpton, Jackson, and Shabazz apologize for their racism and people of all ethnic groups begin to see their true nature. (Sorry-Don’t see that happening anytime soon in anyone’s earthly lifetime)

3) People not forget the racial slurs/demagoguery of: “Hymietown”, race based accusations of an assistant DA, “white interlopers and Greek homos”, and calling an Asian journalist a prostitute for her defense of the Duke 3, and refusing to condemn the racist remarks from his Nation of Islam supporters directed at Jews and other ethnic groups that don’t agree with them.

4) The Duke 3 are awarded lots of money in civil damages from Nifong, the city of Raleigh, Magnuson, Duke University, and anyone connected with that nightmare. With that money they create an innocence project providing legal support for anyone who is the victim of reverse racial/sexual discrimination. I suggest they call it “I am a Man”

Flash point: Who elected these self proclaimed urban rights leaders and are they able or willing to be held to the same standards that they lay on others? If recent history is any indication, then the answer becomes painfully obvious.

    Its been two weeks since Virginia Tech was the scene of a violent attack on its campus by a loner, and the healing process has now begun.  When the shooting started, and before we knew the idenitity of the murderer, there was already talk in the media regarding how easy it was this guy to get his guns.
   What wasn't widely reported is that last year a student was punished for having a firearm on campus, and he had a CCW permit with him.  It didn't matter, the student was punished accordingly last spring (2006).  Well in August last year, there was a situation and the students were evacuated from a the student center, and Bradford B. Wiles wrote an editorial to the Roanoke TImes tittled Unarmed and Vulnerable lamenting the during the forced evacuation, he came to the realization that he was unarmed and vulnerable.  Even with the police in full body armor and carrying a various weapons to defend themselves.
   He came to a sad conclusion and feel that this can illustrate why law abiding citizens choose to carry weapons to defend themselves; 1st-wanting to maintain ones own safety and not rely on the police to do it, 2nd-Some CCW permit holders do not carry all the time due to the fear of losing ones academic or professional carrers, 3rd-The feeling of being completely helpless, and realising that there is nothing that is going to stop a predator unless they are met with an equal amount or superior amount of force, and 4th-CCW permit holders are trained, go through an extensive background check and can carry their concealed weapons anywhere that has reciprocity with your home state.  
     Sadly the VT Associate Vice President Larry Hinkler ignored this and replied, "It is absolutely mind-boggling to see the opinions of Bradford Wiles..The editors of this page must have printed this commentary if for no other reason than malious complience.  Surely they scratched their heads saying, I can't believe he really wants to say that.  Wiles tells us that he didn't feel safe with the hundreds of highly trained officers armed with high-powered rifles encircling the building and protecting him.  He even implies that he needed his sidearm to protect himself...The nerve! The writer would have us to believe that a university campus, with tens of thousands of young people, is safer with everyone packing heat.  Imagine the continual fear of students in that scenario.  We have seen fear here, and we don't want to see it again...Guns don't belong in classrooms.  They never will.  Virginia Tech has a very sound policy preventing same"
   Pop Quiz:  Do you know the caliber of a standard Daisy Red Rider BB Gun? What about the standard paintball gun?  A BB gun is chambered for a .177 caliber BB/pellet and the average paintball gun is chambered for 6mm paintballs. To put the shooters weapons in perspective; he had two semi-automatic handguns, one a .22 cal and the other a 9mm.  The "22" round would take 4 and half bullets to equal one inch, and the 9mm round approximately 3 bullets to equal an inch.  In other words, he didn't use large caliber weapons, and he used them to take innocent life just the same.  So the diffrence between the shooter's weapons and that of mere "toys" are only .05 for a BB to a .22 round and 3mm for paintball to a 9mm round.
  While schools have become "gun free zones" and while this may make people generally feel safer, it doesn't address why other students should be made to feel insecure in not having the ability to defend themselves.  The issue that has been coming up, is why the school didn't notify the shooter's parents and what can be done in the future.
   The answer to this is simple, and it deals with a students privacy.  Since the student is an adult (even though mom & dad maybe paying the tuition) the school cannot notify the parents or guardians of any situation that may arouse the parents concern.  A possible solution would be for the parents and the student to sign a discloseure agreement. 
   This discloseure agreement would permit the school to notify the parents of any situation where their son or daughter is having problems.  Since the parents are paying for the tuition, they should know where their money is being spent and if their darling and "perfect child" is doing what they are supposed to be doing in school-i.e. learning!  Things that that the parents should be made aware of include excessive student absences, problems in the dorms, any on/off campus altercations with the police and trips to the student health center.
   While the students may balk at this, the discloseure agreement can be tailored to fit each parent/student situation.  Maybe knowing that your daughter is being treated for an intimate gyn yeast condition might be something that might not have to the parents notified for, but if she coming in for a Rx for Paxil or Zoloft in conjunction with her birthcontrol that might something to get the parents called for.
   The shooter had alot of warning signs, and hopefully during the debate for reasonable accomdations of persons with mental health problems, there can be respect for CCW holders, and people who desire to protect themselves without waiting for the police to show up after the fact.
Flashpoint:  It makes you wonder what would have happened at VT if a student with a CCW/ and weapon had been there......... Are you listening Larry?

    Well folks in the wonderful world of academic life at U o M, I am posting the blog that I did this past week for an assignment given to me in my Sociology class.  So far none of my classmates have responded to it and if there are any responces to it, I'll post them at a later date.

Racism in Society-Assignment for Sociology 3422
By Paul K. Fischer, University of Memphis
January 25, 2007

With all the talk about racism between various ethnic groups, the appearance of racial double standards, and in light of the “Duke 3 Lacrosse Rape Case”-maybe its time to take the PC wheels off and come up with some solutions rather than making excuses.

When someone like Bill Cosby criticizes openly problems affecting his ethnicity, he is immediately branded as a racist. The fact that he points out the high illegitimate birthrate, poor educational performance, and etc…, he is subjected to the vilest of ethnic slurs, and most of them come from within his ethnic community who will not or cannot come up with a workable solution of their own.

When other ethnic groups agree with him, particularly whites, they are also immediately subjected to the same charge of racism and simply dismissed as having nothing of value to contribute the nations dialog on race relations and it ends up with; “Just shut up, apologize for your ancestors that owned slaves, and donate something to the cause”.

The issue isn’t that whites are more racist at their core (even though there are racists in every ethnic group); they do exercise white prejudice that has nothing to do with the color of a person’s skin, but the content of their character. It is this same prejudice that causes them to be ashamed of the Aryan Brotherhood, and the KKK in their ethnic group, as well as despise the application of double standards in the court system (e.g. Duke 3), criminal activity and the low life’s causing it.

The tragedy is that with a society having millions of kids without fathers, a divorce rate at 50%+, increasing drug abuse, and a lack of desire to succeed with a high illiteracy rate and language skills that will hinder a person from being able to succeed in a global market place. These are the problems that affect everyone, and are not restricted to any one ethnic group; when we stop making excuses for this behavior and start providing solutions for the problems will things start to improve such as:

1) Those that truly want to succeed will be able to rise to the top and those that do not want to work hard will fall by the wayside.

2) It will eliminate the animosity between various ethnic groups because everyone will held to the same standard, and anyone that advocates having a different standard based on ethnicity can be branded for what they truly are: A racist.

3) And finally; The people that are succeeding at a high level will not have their accomplishments demeaned by others because they met the equal standards and have proven that they can master the work before them. If society continues to demand that each ethnic group have its own standards, then any group that has a lower admission standard will be subject to scrutiny by the other ethnic groups and may not be considered as equal. It is a valid concern that is not based on racism, but on character since there are different standards being applied (e.g. University of Michigan Law School).

If more people of all ethnic groups would be willing to look critically at the problems facing society as a whole, rather than as ethnic group vs. ethnic group or us vs. them, this would go a long way to healing the racial divide that separates us in this country. Consider this; When was the last time you spoke up when a member of your ethnic group made a slur to another person? Silence in condoning the behavior is just as bad as the racist that made the slur openly.

Over 25 years ago, Bill Cosby did a presentation on race where he put down every ethnic group by stereotype, and at the end of each group he would simply say that they should be put away somewhere and not killed. In the end after every group had been put away, he stated that there are now only two people left: You and Me.

   If you have surfed the internet for any legnth of time, there comes a time when you have either been spammed, infected with a trojan horse, a virus and the etc...But what do you do when in the process of your job you open an e-mail message from a trusted source just to find out that you have been spammed, and worse, its spam of a pornographic nature.  Recently I had a wondeful and lively conversation dealing with the problem of unscruptulus (error intentional) tech support/IT personnel.
    For most people, when this happens on their home computer, its pretty easy to get rid of and off you go.  Not so easy if it happens to be on a work computer.  Of course what makes matters worse is that you report it, and are treated by your companies IT department as a pornographer and they want to prove their mettle to their bosses.
    It has been my sad and unfortunate experience is that there are a group of "IT Professionals" that are less than professional and will not stop at anything to prove their worth to a company by pointing an accusing finger at anyone who either reports finding some porn on their system and/or convinces a manager that they have caught a group of people engaging in unscruptulus behavior.  In short who monitors the IT geeks and does the "average Joe" truly understand the enormorus power an IT person with  Adminstrator -Super user access has.
    If the average person truly saw first hand what type of power the IT department has, they would be afraid.  The good news is that most IT departments are staffed by very competent and professional personnel.  While they maynot attempt to harm a fellow co-worker, the potential for abuse is certainly there.  In short; Who is watching the watchers?
    In almost every profession, there are national codes and standards that a person who is affilated with has to follow, and to some degree has taken on the force of law.  For example groups like American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, and etc.. have written ethical standards that their members are expected to follow.  And if there are situations that these standards do not address, they are sent to the local board for clarification and subsequent ruling.  Ironically the one profession that does not have any standard ethic code of conduct is the IT community.  
    While the IT community has its local company standards, and competency certification standards (both of which are good so far)-It is lacking a uniformed and consistent ethical standards for which their members are to be held to.  There are criminal and civil laws that do cover computer commerce, and a persons behavior-but no standard industry wide code of ethics.  Of course who would be the best person or company to set this up....That being said, I propose the following:
   That representatives from the major computer, software and businesses get together at the next Science and Technology Fair to discuss it.  I would also include leading ethicists, computer forcenic sciencetists, philosophers, Psychologists, and theologians for their input.  People like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, "Supper Nanny", Dr. Joyce Brothers, and Judith Martin ("Miss Manners") to name a few.  Companies to include the US Military, SAIC, Comp USA. Client Logic and Namco.   With these personnel and varying points of view, a basic code of ethics can be set up for all IT personnel to follow.  While some activities in the IT realm are certainly criminal, alot of them are not and being able to prove malious activitiy is difficult to do.  But when the accusation of the IT department can possibly cause a worker to lose thier job or have their pay docked, and the IT departments conduct is not open for examination-It is time to say enough...
    Therefore I propose the following code of conduct as a start:
A)  All IT personnel with Administrator-Super user access will be required to undergo a background check to include fianancial and criminal.
B)  Any problems discovered by the IT department regarding the conduct of a worker (e.g. discovery of porn, criminal activity, etc) will be referred to the regional manager.  Additionally, random spot checks of IT personnel and the use of the Admin access will be conducted to see what sites they are visiting under a workers computer code.
C)  If a worker discovers that evidence has been falsified (or backdated), then the IT worker will be subject to the same punishment the worker would have received.  Up to and including termination.  In no case, does this excuse the company from possible civil liabilty.

This is only a start, and a code of ethics would be a great place to elinimate the fear that some workers have regarding the conduct of their companys IT department....

Point to Ponder:  With the increase use of computer technology, how feaseable would it be to hold the IT departments accountable? 

   Well the time is right to start a wonderful blog and what better way than to say welcome and hope you enjoy my ramblings of life, death, politics, college life and of course war and destruction.  So e-mail me if I strike a raw nerve, encouragement and generally if you want to vent.  Of course sending my blog to your family and friends won't hurt either, and will not be offended if you do....
  To begin with; I won't make apologies for some of my hard line views and generally open to discussion if someone is offended.  There are several areas in life that are not easily moved, and the basis for my moral compass goes back over 4,000 years.  However, I will not go out of my way to flame anyone, issue or position.  Hense, no profanity and innuendo-If people want that, they can easily blog on salon.com or msnbc.com  
  No, I will generally present a topic, add my perspective on it and then leave a tidbit at the end called "Points to Ponder".  Where I address a topic, I will give the source where the article comes from.  In short; you will probably see articles come from the The Navy Times, The Commercial Appeal, and Military.com  Of course, I might on occasion blog about some of the editorials written in Townhall.com by Dr. Mike Adams, Ann Coulter, and the like.
  So kick back in the easy chair, enjoy yourselves, and let the blogging begin.
Paul
Point to Ponder:  Were the Seattle Seahawks denied their rightful place as Superbowl Champions in 2006 by the referees?