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AZ Republican Tea Party
In a repost of the blog I did in 2015 when Diane Douglas was elected to the head the Arizona Department of Education, I discuss the nature of the effort to reduce government by the TEA party. This epistle is to refresh your memory, connect some dots, and continue to spur you on to vote in ALL elections.
The Arizona Republican party has been hijacked by the TEA party members to the point that good, responsible, long-standing Republicans are leaving the party. Party actions like censure and voting individuals out are now commonplace. A responsible moderate Republican has no where to go for party support.
The reason I am bring this up is that in the six years since we were so badly hurt by Diane Douglas’s TEA party, we may have relaxed and forgotten. The effort required to remove her, the time lost, and the tragic losses schools and students received from that incompetent cannot be forgotten.
Most people have no idea how complicated school finance is. Arizona residents pay taxes to the state and federal revenue departments. In Arizona the school district taxes on your property levied by the school districts DO NOT all make it to the schools the taxpayer sees on the tax bill. The game at the copper dome is to mix that state income into the General Fund so that it can disappear administratively. The money we thought got to the school is winnowed down to much less.
TEA party members do not want this or any other taxing. Public education is under the crosshairs of these ax handlers who for the most part starve public education and have no one in the public education system they would advocate for. Retirees along the Colorado river who want the governments checks are also the ones unwilling to support their state civically. The lead of the Arizona Republican party is such an individual who arrived here from West Virginia and has actively lead the TEA party devastation, the “stop the steal” anti-American activity, and saw to it that dialog in the caucuses was extinguished.
Lately I have watched the bogus “audit” of the last election foisted on the voters of Arizona by this same group of individuals. It cost us millions, broke the chain of custody of the ballots, threatened and injured Elections staff, and broke the voting machines. No miscount of the ballots was found. When we got to the US congressional meetings on this activity, we got to see Gosar, and Biggs carry on the lies and destructive monologue of streaming dog whistles now familiar to the educated and informed voters of Arizona.
The previous incompetent president, purported to be a savvy businessman who many of theses off-base dolts seem to love, is not far from many States Attorneys and the Federal Department of Justice taking him to task for criminal activities, treasonous activities, illegal nepotistic activities, gross financial misconduct, tax evasion by fraudulent means, and profiteering at the American voter’s expense.
All the while these same TEA party members and their kindred leadership of the Arizona Republican party have incited the masses to believe a grand conspiracy is afoot. It is apparent that the previous incompetent president did have a genius for spreading lies by way of the “liar’s dividend”. This has been emulated by every one of the now despotic leaders of the Republican party in Arizona. They divide, demean, spread falsehoods, abandon fact, lie, obfuscate, redirect and carry on.
FACTS
Joe Biden won the presidential election in 2020.
The DOJ is busy working on the previous incompetent’s law breaking.
Twelve States Attorneys General are after the same guy our Arizona Republican party leadership worships.
The present 2021 Arizona Republican party leadership continues to serve the previous incompetent’s lies.
Bernard Lambert – November 19, 2021
Bad Cinema
I received this happy mail form Senator Sinema’s campaign.
It is true that she will not accept communications from the public. It is hard to represent your constituents when you do not “town hall” or otherwise communicate in a DIALOG with them.
The “Novice Threat”?
Novice threat…
Bernard Lambert
The idea that novice or inexperienced people pose a threat belies the fact that the process to get those individuals to mastery is a very secure method due to the process of passing through those apprentice, novice, journeyman, and master programs. Absent of that, how will one read about it, write about it, talk about it, and do it?
In IT, certification is insufficient without seat time at the consoles of those tools and devices. The addition of deep problem solving skills and a great deal of experience are the necessary requirements of these complex IT jobs.
For those new to IT, the question is often “How will they get any experience when locked out of job experience?”.
Your thoughts please
Your Favorite Monitoring Tool
Network and system gurus I am searching for your favorite tools. Please indicate the most used tool you use in your networked enterprise to do things like monitor addresses, desktops, virtual systems, physical nodes, or network performance.
Is the nation standing still?
Inquiries for the low end positions are abundant. Offerings of solid work seem elusive.
Have you a similar experience?
The Job I Want
With the decades of experience that I have, it is hard to find a contract to perform network or systems work that commands $85 an hour. Please consider these things prior to contacting me:
- No third party recruiters.
- All work is contracted either W2 or 1099.
- Remote work is the only type desired.
- Equipment can be provided, leased, or sold to customer.
- All monitoring activities available:
- zabbix, SolarWinds, Netscout, SOC, NOC, ISE, pandora
- Firewalls and Load Balancers
- Palo Alto, F5, Cisco, Checkpoint
- Scripting bash, powershell, python, ansible, chef, puppet, etc.
- Orchestration Salt, Ansible, Kubernetes
- Cloud, hybrid, and captive enterprise systems and networking capable.
Please send your inquiries to System Wrights:
Radio Blog
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Bernard Lambert October 16,2021
In the old days of broadcast radio we were entertained by the spoken word and sound effects. The human voice and sound was the only mass media.
In the spirit of the “voice and sound effects only” I have many commentaries and opinions found here.
Return To Work?
Bernard Lambert September 12, 2021
What are your main concerns with returning to work while the pandemic rages on?
- Catching a virus?
- Giving someone a virus?
- Bad ventilation on-site?
- Lack of testing offered or on-site?
- Mandatory vaccination?
- Non-mandatory vaccination?
- Lack of remote work?
- Poorer wages or rates?
- Unreasonable/unsafe work conditions?
Code Monkeys?
Bernard Lambert September 12, 2021
I was approached by an organization to utilize their talented people from elsewhere in the world. Coders were being quoted at eight dollars an hour. It is described as using talent from a place in the world where costs and wages are considerably lower than here in the US.
Every venture entrepreneur wants low development costs. Sometimes this can be overshadowed by low quality. Adjustments are made. Costs rise but eventually fix.
In the meantime I charge eighty-five dollars for every hour I spend on a project. Still, the low-cost seekers call. What happened to stating what you expect to pay somewhere near the beginning of the conversation?