Monthly Archives: August 2014

This article is taken from one I blogged on July 15, 2012 when I was running for the Supreme Court of Washington.  My platform at the time was the court’s weren’t working and there was a need for change.  I think the need for change has grown even stronger since then. Now the whole country knows a majority of our land records are falsified, except for the courts.  Something is wrong, when the courts can simply ignore the truth. Anyway, this is an article i wrote a couple years ago challenging the basis of judicial review.  Courts should not be given such power unless they make more right decisions than wrong ones.  Our’s don’t any more.                    *                                       *                                       * We are taught that our nation’s Constitution sets forth a government based on checks and balances. But the United States Supreme Court decided in Marbury v Madison that the judicial department gets the final say over what the Constitution means. Chief Justice Marshall wrote: “It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.”  But is it? The Constitution does not specifically say this.  Marbury only decided this as precedent.  Precedent can and should be overruled when it becomes harmful. My … Continue Reading

Life evolves.  That is the order of things. There are individual changes.  And there are societal changes. Monumental changes are not fully appreciated until they have occurred or are in their final stages. For example, smoking has been around since 5000 B.C.  Indeed, smoking was pretty much an accepted social activity for much of my life. An old family picture I found demonstrates the magnitude of the change in our culture regarding smoking in the 65 years of my existence. This is my Dad and me.  See the cigarette?  This doesn’t happen as much in twenty-first century America. I remember that in the nineteen-seventies and eighties I would consume a pack or two of cigarettes while I took a deposition.  That certainly does not happen now (both because I quit smoking in 1984 and because such conduct would no longer be tolerated.) Smoking is older than coinage and perhaps as old, or older than money itself.  If people can come to a consensus that smoking should be deterred, can we not come to similar conclusions about our monetary systems and materialism generally? The peoples of the world can and should decide that the monetary system and materialism which it promotes has become more harmful to the whole of humanity than is warranted by the benefits it provides to a few. It is time to reflect with regard to whether money and materialism gets in the way of achieving those goals which are necessary for our planet’s survival and evolutionary growth. As we battle to … Continue Reading

It is Tuesday evening; almost midnight.  Already passed my “I need to get to sleep” time.  I finished watering the garden, have finished the start of a “fire and brimstone” brief (they always get watered down some)  And now I’m finishing the blog I started last night. So a lot of cool things happened last week.  But the most touching occurred the Monday morning before yesterday.  I drove down the mountain, parked my car, and entered the thrift shop next door to the ST office.  I often say hi the owners of the neighboring thrift store on Mondays while I check out some of the treasures they have found over the weekend. That morning, Jeff says “Hey, Scott.  I want you to look at something.”  When Jeff or his wife, Becky, tell me they want me to see something, this immediately gets my attention.  I smile and ask “what you got?” Jeff reaches behind the counter and shows me a piece of art he’s drawn.  “I wanted you to have this”. As my eyes focus on the image it is clear that the picture was designed to tell a story. I am drawn into the etching.  There is a short silence.  Then Jeff begins to speak.  He tells me the drawing began with the cross.  And at that point I felt shivers.  I remember him showing me the empty teller, the gavel banging into a toilet, and the money shooting into the air.  I heard what he said, but was dumbstruck, … Continue Reading