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An Alternative National Anthem By Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) & Sharon Robinson © 1988 CBS Records, Inc.    Everybody knows the dice are loaded. Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.    Everybody knows the war is over. Everybody knows the good guys lost.    Everybody knows the fight was fixed. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich.    That's how it goes. Everybody knows.    Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows that the captain lied.    Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died.    Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates    And a long stem rose. Everybody knows.    Everybody knows that you love me, baby. Everybody knows you really do.    Everybody knows that you've been faithful, Give or take a time or two.    Everybody knows you've been discreet But there were so many people you just had to meet    Without your clothes. Everybody knows.

Everybody knows that it's now or never. Everybody knows that it's me or you.    And everybody knows that you live forever When you've done a line or two.    Everybody knows the deal is rotten Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton    For your ribbons and bows And everybody knows.    Everybody knows that the plague is coming. Everybody knows that it's moving fast.    Everybody knows that the naked man & woman — Just a shining artifact of the past.    Everybody knows the scene is dead But there's gonna be a meter on your bed    That will disclose What everybody knows.    And everybody knows that you're in trouble. Everybody knows what you've been through    From the bloody cross on top of Calvary To the beach at Malibu.    Everybody knows it's coming apart. Take one last look at this Sacred Heart    Before it blows. And everybody knows. Everybody knows. Everybody knows.    That's how it goes. Everybody knows.

I hope you understand I just had to go back to the island. — Leon Russell, 1942-2016

"The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have." — Kierkegaard

Holding guns to our heads
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-1-2022 / Updated 6-2-2022 GMT / Expansions in blue

"Have you no sense of decency?"— Joseph Welch 1954

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With those words, the legendary attorney began the collapse of Sen. Joe McCarthy's "commie under every rock" pogrom.

McCarthy, R-Wisconsin, died three years later at 48, a broken man. Alas and alack, his spawn succeeds like serpents at a rodent revival.

Human carnage unfolds daily on newscasts infested with commercials from Republican candidates strutting with guns while the blood of innocents runs.

The nation was afflicted with so many mass shootings last weekend that those with fewer deaths were barely mentioned, an amorally immemorial Memorial Day.

The ballistic penis panderers exhibited no sense of decency. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lumbago repeatedly cawed that he's the only candidate for Nevada governor who carries a gun every day and has thus protected us, so we should let him take Nevada back. But where?

Perhaps to the biggest shooter massacre in US history, perpetrated in the portly deporter's Las Vegas Strip jurisdiction. Sixty dead, 411 wounded and 867 total casualties including the panicked stampede.

On Memorial Day, seven motorcycle gangbangers were wounded in an LV freeway shootout. Protection petrified.

Sheriff Bull Connor's GOP primary opponent, former U.S. Senator Dean Heller, went even lower, putting guns in the hands of his wife and daughters, all threatening to shoot anyone who threatens their virginity. Including his, apparently.

None of the proliferating Elephant Cult pretenders had the grace or decency to purge their puerile penile purveying packages from public airwaves.

Alas and alack, no Democrat called for their removal, either.

As the old saying goes, Democrats don't win elections, Republicans lose them.

Campaign managers do what works and Republican primaries are decided by worshipers of Hollywood cowboy mythology. So the GOPenis media metastasize.

In his Oscar-winning film "Bowling for Columbine," Michael Moore traced the roots of our pistol paranoia to old-fashioned racism. Both the KKK and the NRA were founded right after the Civil War was lost, then won by Jim Crow southern politicians who have done a helluva job rewriting history ever since.

The basis for their base behavior? The myth that respectable white women are endangered by jungle-voracious black males like 14 year-old Emmett Till. Dean Heller and family would understand.

So what can we do to stop the bloodshed making kids too scared to go to school?

Our system appears too co-opted or corrupt to change. Like Big Tobacco, the gun lobby will support any "reform" that they know won't work.

The only solution will come long term when today's enlightened young people take political power, resulting in many more women holding office. Until then, macho America bleeds.

JOHN HOWE, 1928-2022. Former KOLO TV-8 news director John Howe died last Tuesday at his Reno home. He moved north in the mid-1970s from a similar position in Las Vegas.

He leaves his wife of almost 65 years, Liz, sons David and Bill, and daughter-in-law Heidi. A memorial service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 25 at Mountain View Mortuary, 425 Stoker in Reno.

John was a great journalist for whom the highest accolade is thus demanded and deserved: He always got the story right. Complete family obituary at NevadaLabor.com/

FOLLYTIX FOR PUN & PROPHET. I've been asked by some Sparks readers about local races.

STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 30: Bernie's daughter Natha Anderson, 'nuff said.
STATE SENATE 13: Former Sparks Assemblymember Skip Daly. No contest. He's lived in the Rail City for all but about two years of his life. His experience — personal, professional and political — leaves him head-and-shoulders above all contenders. On day one, he will win powerful committee assignments not available to inexperienced newbies. I don't know Mark Miranda and serve with Nnedi Stevens on the Reno-Sparks NAACP. I wish she had entered a race that needed her. As one of our longtime NAACP colleagues told me, she filed in the wrong contest. Mr. Daly and I have had our disagreements over many years and I can attest that he's a solid pro-worker lawmaker who knows how to fight.
STATEWIDE: All the Donkeykong incumbents look good plus former Assemblymember Ellen Spiegel for state controller. I'm a bit torn in the light-guv race. Gov. Sisolak appointed little-known Lisa Cano Burkhead as his second in command. Her opponent Kimi Cole would be the first transgender officeholder in Nevada history. She also resides in Douglas County where they shoot Democrats on sight. That's bravery.
CONGRESS DIST. 2 has seven Donkeyite filers. The only familiar name is Tim Hanifan. If he's related to John, I'll support him. The late John Hanifan, popular former Democratic Churchill County Commissioner and a great public servant, survived in another town where Democrats remain an endangered species.
WASHOE COUNTY COMMISSION 3: Thus far, just two have responded to my make-or-break rent control queries, overtly pro Democrat Kyle Isacksen and one sorta, Hawah Ahmad. (Barbwire 5-4-22) Ms. Ahmad likes "the notion of rent control" but basically believes in the invisible hand of the free market. Mr. Isacksen has guts, as do Reno mayoral hopefuls William Mantle and Jenny Brekhus. Much more at Rentvolution.org/
Sparks Council candidate Damon Harrell believes rent control "a nuclear option...and I don't believe we are there yet." Where does he live? His website reveals him as a gunny homotextual in line with the anachronisms on our 12th Century Supreme Court. Which brings me to...
THE BOOK OF JUDGES. Avoid any candidate who subscribes to powdered wig "originalism" or "textualism", a constitutional con contrived by anti-government corporate shills and brought to bitter fruition by that disgrace to us Italian-Americans, Antonino Scalia and his best bud, Clarence Thomas, the court's Stormy Daniels expert. (Barbwire 2-9-2022)
SCHOOL BOARD: Incumbents Mayberry, Rodriguez and Smith are endorsed by organized labor. All are opposed by moonhowlers. Incumbent Ellen Minetto gets likewise distracted when the moon is full. Former TMCC Prez John Gwaltney is the experienced choice for university regent but I'd like to hear from his competitors.

FOR ALL THE NEWS YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED TO KNOW 'TIL NOW, subscribe to Barbwire Confidential (hush, hush!) at BallotBoxing.US/

Take care of each other and be careful out there. Pray for Ukraine and 53 other currently war-torn lands.

¡Sí se puede!

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)
être bien, élever l'enfer (Pardon my French.)
Stammi bene. Scatenare l'inferno. (And Italian.)
___________________
Andrew Quarantino Barbano is a 53-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com, SenJoeNeal.org, DoctorLawyerWatch.com, BallotBoxing.US, ConsumerCoalitionv.org, ChantalCoalition.org, Rentvolution.org, MIssissippiWestNV.org and CesarChavezNevada.com among others. He is a longtime member of the Reno-Sparks NAACP and Sparks-based Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO. As always, his comments are entirely his own. He is retained by no political campaign. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Sparks Tribune since 1988.

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The GOP War on Civil Virtue
By Paul Krugman / The New York Times / 5-26-2022

Sorry, kids. We are rudely screwed once again. This edition of the Crudely and Rudely Scrude News comes from no less than Gomorrah South.

Bottom line: When the biggest, baddest union in the state can't get something done by southern Nevada governments, MAYDAY!

That's just what's happened to mighty Culinary Union Local 226 and its 60,000+ Nevada members, some of whom even live up here in the provinces.

My union sisters and brothers will be gathering initiative petition signatures for a new ordinance mandating rent control in the City of North Las Vegas. They want a rental increase cap of five percent per year.

More than 7,300 Local 226 members and their families live in NLV, Nevada's fourth-largest incorporated city (by all of 117 fewer people than number three Reno, according to the 2020 semi-senseless Trumpian census). LV remains number one followed by Henderson with Sparks a distant fifth.

Of that 7,300, 63 percent are Latino and 18 percent black. If the NLV campaign is successful, "we will work to get similar laws passed in the cities of Las Vegas, Henderson, Clark County and other jurisdictions," stated union communications director Bethany Khan.

Does that include us, the uncultured great unwashed up here in the backwaters? Probably not. We just have not shown the cojones, at least not recently.

Evidence in point: I have asked for a position on this issue from EVERY Washoe County candidate or official running for anything this year, anyone who might have power to do something NOW. That includes city council and county commission candidates, city attorneys and others like Sparks Councilmember Kristopher Dahir, now seeking the Republican nomination for secretary of state.

One, count 'em, ONE has taken a definitive position on rent control, Democrat Kyle Isacksen. He's running for the Washoe County Commission District 3 seat (northeast Reno/western Sparks) being vacated by term-limited incumbent Kitty Jung.

I published his stance on May 4. He "told the Reno Gazette-Journal that he favors creation of a 'rental registry' database to 'find out where the money's going, who owns the houses...and then, the next step is rent stabilization.'

Breaking News Culinary Union proposes ballot initiative to bring rent control to North Las Vegas Michael Lyle/Nevada Current/5-19-2022 MORE: Barbwire 5-18 & 5-4-2022 Culinary Union launches North Las Vegas rent control ballot initiative Culinary Local 226 / 5-18-2022 Estabilidad vencindaria/226 Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau Verifies Local Government Rent Control Authority By Ben Margiott /NBC TV-4/Fox-11 5-18-2022 Does Clark County have the authority, desire to pursue rent control? Michael Lyle/Nevada Current/3-24-2022 Clark commissioners mull short term fixes, urge state action on rising rents Michael Lyle/Nevada Current/2-16-2022 Rentvolution.org

"Shades of the late great Reno Mayor Barbara Bennett," I noted. "Landlords would have to justify rent increases during tight times based on actual costs. Isacksen's next step would be some form of rent control."

"Are you in favor?" I asked.

"Yes," he said.

Zounds. A leader has risen.

I got some sideways wiggly wafflings but only Mr. Isacksen showed the courage to mount his white horse and tilt against the windmills and werewolves of the corporate welfare development cult.

First and probably alone in all of Nevada history, the Reno City Council actually passed rent control in 1978. Intense political pressure forced them to quickly back away. (Barbwire 7-17-2019)

A few elected officials have recently tried to do something, including Reno Councilmember Jenny Brekhus and Sen. Julia Ratti, D-Sparks, both in 2019.

At the last minute, legislative Democrats, acting at the behest of realtors and developers, killed Ratti's SB 398.

A bill was introduced during last year's legislative session to reign in extortionate rental application fees. Alas and alack, Democrats killed that, too.

As I noted, the ultimate irony is that no new law needed to be passed and former Sen. Ratti agrees. The Republican-controlled 2015 Legislature passed two bills (SB 29 and AB 493) which the Legislative Counsel Bureau says gives local governments all the power they need. (Barbwire 5-4-2021)

To use a good ole boy term, it slud thru the ledge. How? Because it granted broad local authority without mentioning issues. One of the immutable commandments of modern hidebound conservatism is cutting back on big government. You know, "take Nevada back" snake oil. This time, the grease caught on fire. Almost all the Donkeykongs voted against it. Go figger.

That accidental liberal blessing hasn't given local officials any courage. Reno City Attorney Karl Hall and his deputy, Jonathan Shipman, have advised their councillors that they don't think the 2015 legislation does what it says it does.

That means the Reno or Sparks council or the Washoe County Commission must actually pass an ordinance over which some corporate interest would sue.

That's sort of what happened in 1978 under a since-repealed cockamamie law allowing governments to ask courts to rule on constitutionality without a formal case filing. Somebody apparently forgot Article 3 of the Constitution of the United States which mandates that courts must have actual cases before them.

As a result, Washoe District Judge James Guinan bounced Reno's request for a judicial opinion like a hot check on a cold day. By then, business interests had mounted a vicious counter-offensive and city hall backed down.

Apparently no Nevada local body today has the political will to even enact a trial balloon.

The Culinary Union says initiative petitions provide legal workarounds neutering such timid objections.

Rent control advocacy did one good thing in 1979: It elected the greatest Reno mayor in history. Alas, if Barbara Bennett wuz alive today, she'd be turnin' over in her grave.

BARBWIRE CONFIDENTIAL: BLOODY BUS BUSTS BURGEONING. Monitor NevadaLabor.com for impending revelations regarding hemorrhages of taxpayer money perpetrated by macho ineptitude at the elected Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County and their overpaid, misguided, misfeasant minions.

RTC Washoe Contact Information — Utilize frequently

In case you've forgotten, the RTC's board is comprised of Sparks Mayor Ed Lawson (R), Washoe County Commissioners Vaughn Hartung (R) and Bob Lucey (R); Reno City Councilmembers Oscar Delgado (D) and Neoma Jardon, (R), board chair. // RTC board e-mail <rtcpubliccomments@rtcwashoe.com>, bthomas@rtcwashoe.com (RTC Executive Director Bill Thomas), RTC Director of Public Transportation and Operations Mark Maloney,

Mr. Delgado is stepping down. At the June 1, 2022, Reno City Council meeting, his replacement will be named from among the following: Councillors Jenny Brekhus, Naomi Duerr & Devon Reese, all-D, and Mlle. Mayor Hillary Schieve, NP.

FOR ALL THE NEWS YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED TO KNOW 'TIL NOW, subscribe to Barbwire Confidential (hush, hush!) at BallotBoxing.US/

Take care of each other and be careful out there. Pray for Ukraine and 53 other currently war-torn lands.

¡Sí se puede!

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)
être bien, élever l'enfer (Pardon my French.)
Stammi bene. Scatenare l'inferno. (And Italian.)
___________________
Andrew Quarantino Barbano is a 53-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com, SenJoeNeal.org, DoctorLawyerWatch.com, BallotBoxing.US, ConsumerCoalitionv.org, ChantalCoalition.org, Rentvolution.org, MIssissippiWestNV.org and CesarChavezNevada.com among others. He is a longtime member of the Reno-Sparks NAACP and Sparks-based Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO. As always, his comments are entirely his own. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Sparks Tribune since 1988.

 

Take care of each other and be careful out there. Pray for Ukraine and 53 other currently war-torn lands.

¡Sí se puede!

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)
être bien, élever l'enfer (Pardon my French.)
Stammi bene. Scatenare l'inferno. (And Italian.)
___________________
Andrew Quarantino Barbano is a 53-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com, SenJoeNeal.org, DoctorLawyerWatch.com, BallotBoxing.US, ConsumerCoalitionv.org, ChantalCoalition.org, Rentvolution.org, MIssissippiWestNV.org and CesarChavezNevada.com among others. He is a longtime member of the Reno-Sparks NAACP. As always, his comments are entirely his own. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Sparks Tribune since 1988.

"Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate." — "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" 1983

I thought I settled all of this 33 years ago, dammit.

Here's the text of the January 27, 1989, Barbwire entitled "An Elegant Solution to Abortion."

The abortion quandary revolves around the classic question of cake: how to have it and eat it, too. Pregnant women want to become unpregnant. Anti-abortionists want pregnancies carried thru to birth and have been increasingly willing to resort to violence to make their point.

INSTANCE IN POINT: On October 23, 1998, Dr. Barnett Abba Slepian was murdered in Amherst, New York, by anti-abortion militant James Charles Kopp. Dr. Slepian was the brother of then-Reno Wooster High School Principal Serena Robb.

Back to 1989.

Before any more on either side get killed, consider this: for the price of a couple of B-2 Stealth Bombers, we might solve this once and for all. My idea is simple: a new, liberal spending program to facilitate embryo/fetus survival outside the womb at any point in pregnancy.

STUPID QUESTION FROM A DUMB TEENAGER. I once asked my Fresno State freshman psychology professor Dr. Powell about exactly that in 1963. He looked at me like I had set him up for joke.

"How are they going to do that without a placenta?" he dissed me. If only I knew then what I know now.

Back to the 1989 Tribune:

Today, not only can in-vitro fertilization take place in a laboratory, but embryos can be removed from one womb and transplanted to another. This constitutes difficult but "basically surrogate mothering," one doctor told me awhile back.

Survivability is now limited to early and late stages of pregnancy, leaving the mid-portion for research. The mid-pregnancy time frame continues to shrink. No less than U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has recognized that the law and medical technology are on a "collision course" on this issue.

Controversial British researcher Robert Edwards has had embryos growing for over a month in lab dishes. Fertilized eggs can be frozen and last for years. The collision course of law and medical technology can be utilized to end the counterproductive collisions between people of radically different views. All it will take is putting the right amount of taxpayer money into the program.

So there you have it. Put your pro-life money where your mouth is. Support the answer to abortion: a classic liberal spending program to research and implement the perfect solution. While the research is underway, another question must be posed: How many pro-lifers, male and female, would be willing to volunteer their bodies as hosts for these saved kids? (A recent report stated that male pregnancy is now technically feasible.)

UPDATE: In 1994, supermacho actor and future conservative Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in "Junior," a comedy in which he became the world's first pregnant man. What Terminator?

Back to 1989.

Pro-choicers to whom I've presented this idea have unanimously committed to support it with their tax dollars. Anti-abortionists have accused me of sanctioning murder and violating God's will. I can't seem to get thru to them that the transplanted embryo/fetus would not be trashed, just relocated to eventually become little Johnny. No sale.

Why? Because elimination of the abortion controversy would destroy a lot of hobbies. People who enjoy proselytizing, publicizing, pontificating and prevaricating to their little corner of the world would find themselves fresh out of a cause. People get mad when you threaten their favorite pastimes.

So concluded my since-ignored advice. A guy even wrote Dear Abby with the transplant idea a decade or two later.

In one of his last newscasts, the most trusted man in America, Walter Cronkite, decried the emergence of single-interest politics. Anti-abortion is (pardon the expression) its poster child.

Zealots avoid "tangential" issues like who pays the societal costs for all those new kids? The 2005 bestseller "Freakonomics" noted how sociologists accurately predicted that the national crime rate would drop starting in 1998, precisely 15 years after 1973's Roe v. Wade decision. Why? Far fewer unwanted young males age 15 to 25, the demographic responsible for most crimes. [UPDATE published by Stanford Law: "Legalized abortion reduced violent crime by 47% and property crime by 33% over the last two decades."]

We already have an embarrassingly high infant mortality rate in this country (33rd among 36 advanced nations). Mississippi is our worst state and Mississippi West Nevada last month earned the dubious distinction of fourth in the nation for syphilitic babies.

Alas and alack, narrow focus is smart follytix. Lots of "fiscally vigilant" anti-abortion pols vote against "commie-liberal" programs such as food, Head Start, child and health care — like diagnosing and stopping parental syphilis with two bucks worth of penicillin.

The Texas Compromise: Make sex illegal save by government-regulated appointment

"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament" read a recent protest sign. Amen.

I'm basically a Buddhist-Newtonian: Matter and energy are neither created nor destroyed, they merely change form. Thus with any inchoate individual who doesn't make it all the way.

Catholic dogma recognizes an immortal soul. I've never gotten over Father Sergio Negro telling my high school senior religion class that if it's a tossup between a mother's life or the fetus, doctors should kill the mother in order to give the kid a chance at baptism and a higher place in heaven. My all-male classmates were uniformly aghast at this unintentional but callous marketing strategy.

I will let my first and last wife Betty (1941-2005) close with this until-now unpublished commentary on my 1989 piece: "The only thing I might add is this thought: Right or wrong should not always be equivalent to legal or illegal. People grow and advance as a human race when allowed to choose. People become divided and law enforcement ineffective when all choices are ruled legal or illegal. Mankind must grow through conscience, not fear. Fear of breaking the law is not necessarily based upon fear of God or morality, nor should it be. Government is not God. (God help us for making it seem this way.)"

The mother of five, grandmother to 11 and great-grandma of three (so far) was always much wiser than me. And demonstrably a much better and certainly more concise writer.

BARBWIRE CONFIDENTIAL: Monitor KRNV TV-4/Fox-11 starting today for the latest on rent control. (Barbwire 5-4-2022)

Take care of each other and be careful out there. Pray for Ukraine and 53 other currently war-torn lands.

¡Sí se puede!

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)
être bien, élever l'enfer (Pardon my French.)
Stammi bene. Scatenare l'inferno. (And Italian.)
___________________
Andrew Quarantino Barbano is a 53-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com, SenJoeNeal.org, DoctorLawyerWatch.com, BallotBoxing.US, ConsumerCoalitionv.org, ChantalCoalition.org, Rentvolution.org, MIssissippiWestNV.org and CesarChavezNevada.com among others. He is a longtime member of the Reno-Sparks NAACP. As always, his comments are entirely his own. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Sparks Tribune since 1988.

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On Roe, Alito cites a judge who treated women as witches and property
By Jill Elaine Hasday, Univ. of Minnesota Law School / Washington Post 5-9-2022

No women in the U.S. Constitution?
Of course the Constitution has nothing to say about abortion
By Jill Lepore / The New Yorker / 5-4-2022

Rise of the Homotextuals
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-9-2022

Betty J. Barbano 2-7-1941 / 12-27-2005