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By KYLE GILLIS cated antics inside Metro’s booking Similarly, when Nevada Journal, moment on until further advised,” Special To The Penny Press area and showed them on Langley’s a publication of the Nevada Policy the complaint stated. syndicated television show, “Inside Research Institute, requested com- When Martines questioned pro- Las Vegas Metro has been fea- American Jail.” Vlijter and her attor- ment from Langley Productions, ducer Susan Carney about how the tured on shows such as “Cops” and ney argue that Langley did it without a spokeswoman there declined to production came to be, says the “Inside American Jail,” but the big her informed consent, given that respond. The Las Vegas Metropolitan complaint, Carney replied that, “The police department’s latest TV co- Vlijter was still inebriated when she Police Department also did not Sheriff ordered this, we are helping production may be a better fit for signed the company’s consent form. respond to Nevada Journal queries. his campaign for re-election.” The lawsuit is raising ques- In May, Metro Detective Gordon Carney’s response was heard by tions about the relationship between Martines, then a candidate for Clark seven officers, says the complaint. Langley Productions and Las Vegas County Sheriff, filed an ethics com- Martines submitted his complaint Commentary Metro Sheriff Douglas Gillespie. It plaint against Gillespie. to the secretary of state on May also is giving new prominence to a According to the complaint, 7, 2010. However, unbeknownst to “lost” ethics complaint that a Metro Metro higher-ups had called a Martines, the secretary of state’s “Law and Order.” detective filed against Gillespie this mandatory Robbery Section meet- office forwarded Martines’ complaint AOL News reported Dec. 4 that summer over mandated cooperation ing and introduced four producers to the Nevada Ethics Commission. Tina Vlijter, also known as “Hot with the production company. from “Cops.” During the meeting, When he hadn’t received a Blond Tina” of YouTube fame, had According to AOL News report- “approx. 33 police detectives were response by September, Martines filed suit against Santa Monica- er Steve Friess, both Gillespie and ordered by Staff that we all would wrote the secretary of state’s office based Langley Productions. Langley Productions owner John be cooperating, participating and demanding a follow-up. Secretary- The company — following Langley have declined to say how assisting these civilian TV producers of-state personnel confirmed they’d Vlijter’s June 2008 arrest by Las the cameras were able to film the with their production of an Episode passed his complaint on to the Ethics Vegas Metro — filmed her intoxi- incident. of ‘COPS’ in Las Vegas from this Commission and apologized for not Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly Voice Of Las Vegas FLOYD BROWN PAGE 5 Penny Wisdom FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Inside: DOUG FRENCH PAGE 7 Crime does not pay ... as well AL THOMAS PAGE 10 Guns, Not Outreach as politics. —Alfred E. Newman WYATT COX PAGE 11 Will Stop "Wilding" CHUCK MUTH PAGE 14 PETS OF THE WEEK PAGE 15 See Editorial Page 6 THE PENNY PRESS,DECEMBER 16, 2010 PAGE 4 Clark County Sheriff Nets Campaign Cash From 'Cops' Continued from page 3 following up. compensation from Langley Productions, and no additional public resources “You never know with Nevada politics,” said Martines. “Nevada’s cor- are required for producing the shows. rupt politics sets the standard for everyone else in the nation to follow.” If Metro does not receive or transfer any public resources to Langley Martines’ complaint apparently falls under NRS 281A.520, which Productions, the department would be compliant with NRS 281A.520. states, “... a public officer or employee shall not request or otherwise cause Multiple contracts were signed after Gillespie filed his candidacy (March 2, a governmental entity to incur an expense or make an expenditure to support 2010, according to Clark County’s elections office). or oppose: a ballot question or candidate.” Nevada Journal obtained a copy of a letter that the Nevada Ethics According to campaign disclosures, Langley gave Gillespie $10,000 Commission sent Martines. It states his complaint was referred to a com- during his 2006 campaign and $35,000 for his 2010 reelection campaign. mission panel that would investigate whether or not further action will take According to documents obtained by Nevada Journal, Langley place. Productions and LVMPD signed a contract for “America Behind Bars” on Caren Jenkins, executive director of the Ethics Commission, said that Jan. 23, 2007 and a contract for “Cops” on April 12, 2010. Both contracts by law she could neither confirm nor deny the status of the complaint or were signed after the campaign contributions were made. whether the Ethics Commission will render an opinion. Nevada Journal also obtained a media agreement dated June 29, 2010 Martines says that, regardless of the outcome, his primary goal was the between LVMPD and Langley Productions, in which Langley Productions investigation. He questions why the investigation has taken seven months “requested permission to have access to certain L.V.M.P.D personnel in from when he first filed the complaint. order to produce the Program which is intended to include the investigation “My whole concern is the due process,” Martines said. “You violate my by L.V.M.P.D. of various crimes and/or criminal activity.” rights, you violate everyone’s rights.” According to information provided by the Metro’s Office of Public Kyle Gillis is an investigative reporter at the Nevada Policy Research Records, LVMPD and other public employees do not receive any monetary Institute. For more information visit http://npri.org/. THE PENNY PRESS,DECEMBER 16, 2010 PAGE 5 Commentary: Floyd Brown of one without the other.” about our Savior’s birth. They sang finance, it made up for it in faithful- Faith Is The And moreover said,” Liberty about the Christ Child and the mira- ness and selflessness. cannot be established without moral- cle of God reaching down and touch- John Fuiten was a faithful teach- Source Of ity, nor morality without faith.” ing mankind through His Son. When er of the Bible. He was always on In the 40 years since 1970, sec- the honor choir broke into a rous- call. He was available to pray with America’s ular humanism has assaulted the ing rendition of Handel’s Halleluiah families in times of sickness and fabric of this faith. The American chorus, we were moved along with trial. And he was never too busy to Greatness Civil Liberties Union and various all assembled. The audience ended share a moment with a young boy associations of atheists and Marxist the night on their feet. just learning about Jesus. “America is great because she leaning intellectuals have attempted Besides singing wonderful While mega churches often is good.” Those famous words by to disconnect America from God. Christmas songs in December, every command the headlines, it is small Alexis de Tocqueville still hold true They have failed. year we take time to reflect on the churches, meeting in simple build- as they did when he spoke them Last night we attended our past year and set goals for the future. ings, sometimes in schools, or even centuries ago. In the holiday season, daughter’s public school choir con- As a family, one of our traditions is gathering in people’s homes, which we see repeated demonstrations of cert, and despite a blizzard of litiga- to gather every New Year’s Day for nurture the faith that makes America this goodness. De Tocqueville also tion, unsettling judges’ edicts, and a Chinese dinner. Over steaming an exceptional nation. It is the thou- noted, “The Americans combine the bad public policy, Christmas still hot plates of Kung Pao Chicken and sands of John Fuitens stretched from notions of religion and liberty so reigned supreme. Moo Goo Gai Pan, we go around Florida to Alaska and their multitude intimately in their minds, that it is The public school choir did sing the table and ask each person to of simple sacrifices and good deeds impossible to make them conceive about the Grinch, but they also sang share what was special about the that keep our collective faith alive. past year. This year our reflections So in this era of tough economic started early, prompted by Floyd times and rampant unemployment, learning of the passing of a very we sense a spiritual renewal. Maybe special man in his life. it requires tough times for people John Fuiten was pastor of a small to refocus on the humanity of our church in Aloha, Oregon during the neighbors and the warmth of spiri- 1970’s. It was during that decade tual renewal that can only come that Floyd cemented his Christian from a rededication to the religious beliefs and was baptized. Much of principles that built America. his knowledge of Bible and wor- This religious faith is like an ship was taught to him by Pastor anchor or ballast of a mighty ship: Fuiten. His ministry might be judged it keeps us centered and stable when as lacking when measured against facing trials and uncertainty. Faith The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To: today’s mega church obsession with is the source of America’s goodness arena sized buildings and even big- and greatness. Maj. Yonel "Yogi" Dorelis, who retired Friday as a rescue helicopter pilot ger salaries and budgets. But what FLOYD and MARY BETH at Nellis Air Force Base after a 28-year military career. He has worn four the Aloha Church lacked in high BROWN different armed forces uniforms. He flew Navy-Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion and Super Stallion helicopters, Army National Guard UH-1 Hueys and Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawks. Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine, this is a guy who we should truly thank for his service to our country.

Long time Las Vegas casino operator Michael Gaughan, whose South Point just turned five years old and is a bright light in a sea of red ink. Gaughan has no debt, happy employees and runs a rare pocket in Las Vegas where things are done the old fashioned way. The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer And A Bouquet of Weeds To:

Democratic Assemblywoman Peggy Pierce, who wants the state to impose an income tax on businesses. This union twit apparently thinks that you can tax small businesses into creating jobs when we have 14% unemployment. If this woman's brains were gunpowder, she wouldn't be able to blow her nose. We can't wait to see how this bill is received in next year's legislature. www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,DECEMBER 16, 2010 PAGE 6 OPINION From The Publisher... Self-Defense, Not Outreach Cures Problems With Punks Elsewhere in this publication, you will see a story about the and got the gun. When the robber broke into the house and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Sheriff of Clark came to the bedroom door, the young man fired through the County and their rather “special” relationship with Langley door and killed the robber. Productions, the folks who bring you “Cops” on the Fox Television Network and other police related shows like “Jail”. The moral to the story is twofold. First, there is one less bad guy on the streets. While the Lord High Sheriff of Clark County, Doug Gillespie, has been taking campaign contributions for co-operating with the Second, criminals must read the Tulsa World because armed shows Langley produces, another interesting phenomena has robberies were way down for six months after the widely become part of the police lexicon in Las Vegas. reported incident. There was the normal uproar about the kid having been taught to defend himself and his sister with a It is called “Wilding” and it is used to describe random, violent handgun from the liberals, but he and his sister are around street attacks by thrill-seeking youth who seem to lack any today because he was. compassion for their victims. There’s been a bunch of it in the past few years including the recent death of a teacher at the That was at least 20 years ago. hands of a small mob in Las Vegas. I’ll bet the principal remains the same. Clint Eastwood would describe these societal miscreants as “Punks”. If Clark County would stop their gun grabbing registration pro- cedures and stop assuming that everybody who carries a gun The Las Vegas Review Journal’s cop shop reporter, Francis is up to no good, then citizens might be encouraged to protect McCabe, told the story in last Saturday’s RJ. He quoted a themselves. An armed society is a polite society. defense attorney for a 20-year old driver in the attack on the teacher who pled guilty to a second degree murder as suggest- It won’t take but one or two incidents where citizens shoot ing that her client didn’t understand how he could be guilty of back at these groups of “wilding” youth and I can promise you murder when he didn’t have a gun in his hand. that it will stop. Nothing puts a damper on a bunch of punks terrorizing a city like the very real possibility they could get Fortunately, this punk will have 13 to 45 year to think about it killed. at one of Nevada’s finer institutions. All the while costing the taxpayers of Nevada about $40,000 a year. If one or two of these young societal misfits get themselves killed in the commission of an illegal act, you won’t need any But the whole attitude of the police and the legal community outreach programs to explain that this sort of behavior is seems to be that we need to educate these poor, misguided against all societal norms. youth so they understand that viciously attacking people and sometimes killing them is a serious crime. Mind you, I’m not calling for a return to the Wild West.

I have a better idea. But I would note that this sort of activity doesn’t happen often if at all in rural Nevada where you don’t have to register your Let’s encourage people in Las Vegas to arm themselves. weapons and it is not unusual to see an armed citizen. Inevitably, one of these groups of punks will attack someone who is armed and get themselves killed. It’s about time we stopped treating citizens who exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms as bad guys. Let me tell you what will happen. The bad guys are the people who you need to defend yourself from. And they’re not worried about registering their guns. Some years ago, when I was in Tulsa, a 10-year-old and his younger sister were home alone when someone started bang- Defending yourself is something only you can do. Not even ing on the door. The 10 year old had been taught by his watching Cops can convince most people that the Clark County grandfather how to use a handgun which was in the father’s Sheriff is capable of doing it for you. bedroom. FRED WEINBERG He took his younger sister into the bedroom, locked the door THE PENNY PRESS,DECEMBER 16, 2010 PAGE 7 Commentary: Doug French The Fed created money to buy $293 billion worth of mortgage-backed Salvation In Cheap Bailouts? securities from Deutsche Bank, another $287 billion from Credit Suisse, $67 billion from BNP Paribas, and so on. Canadian banks borrowed $111 billion Don’t Bank On It through their U.S. subsidiaries. You remember the hysteria we were being fed at the time. The big Three years after the economy began to unravel, the American people financial institutions must be saved or, when you go to the ATM machine, finally get some information on just which banks received life-preserving no money will come out! This isn’t a Wall Street problem, it’s a Main Street help from the Federal Reserve’s money machine. Ironically, it was Vermont problem. The American way of life will be threatened if the big banks aren’t Sen. Bernie Sanders, who actually owns up to being a Socialist, who insisted saved. that the Fed cough up some data, and it has: a list of 21,000 transactions over Who knew that hedge fund managers John Paulson and Julian Robertson, the past three years. It turns out the Fed made $9 trillion in overnight loans along with other wealthy individuals, were considered systemically impor- to major banks and Wall Street firms during the financial crisis. tant enough to be allowed to participate in the Fed’s emergency loan pro- Goldman Sachs bellied up to the Fed’s Primary Dealer Credit bar 85 gram? times for $600 billion. Coincidentally (or not), the president of the New Even corporate giants like McDonald’s, General Electric and Harley- York Federal Reserve Bank worked at Goldman Sachs for a decade before Davidson turned to the Fed when no one else would buy their commercial joining the New York Fed (just in time, as it turns out) in January of 2007. paper. Goldman’s competitor down the street, Morgan Stanley, borrowed from But it seems the price of survival comes cheap when the Fed is ladling the Fed 212 times from March 2008 to March 2009. As a Wall Street Journal out the money. It only charged an annual rate of anywhere between half a editorial commented, “This news makes it impossible to argue that either percent and three and a half percent. bank would have survived the storm without the Fed’s cash.” Treasury In 1884, three decades prior to the Fed’s founding, there was a severe Secretary Tim Geithner said in an interview a year ago, “None of them market panic. Overnight money was needed and provided by the market would have survived.” — at an interest rate of four percent daily! Instead of the downturn lasting And for those who took Fed Chair Ben Bernanke at his word when he three years (and counting) as in our current situation, that crisis lasted only told Congress in February, “We have no plans whatsoever to be involved in three weeks, writes Elmus Wicker in Banking Panics of the Gilded Age. any foreign bailouts,” the list of European mega-banks that sold mortgage- Bailouts with cheap central bank money only prolong the financial backed securities of dubious value to our central bank is as long as it is pain. prestigious. DOUG FRENCH THE PENNY PRESS,DECEMBER 16, 2010 PAGE 8 Rodd William Stowell Weekday Mornings 6-9

KWNA1400AM Winnemucca KTSN1340AMElko KELY1230AMEly THE PENNY PRESS,DECEMBER 16, 2010 PAGE 9 THE PENNY PRESS,DECEMBER 16, 2010 PAGE 10 Commentary: Albert Thomas advised when the market turns down to protect their portfolio. Long Term Investors Always Know The folks who have money in managed 401Ks or other managed accounts are at the mercy of a know-nothing fund manager. If you are a bro- Market Direction ker reading this just tell me how you managed accounts for your customers in 2000 and 2008. Don’t worry folks, no one will write to me. Really? Then why do more than 90% of equity mutual funds lose money Here is what I call the KISS formula for long term investing. No, I did in a down market? not pull this out of the air. I was an exchange member for 17 years and If an investor who really cares about his money takes the time to do a owned a large brokerage company for 8 other years. What I am going to historical study of stock market price action going back about 100 years he show you is based on experience, not book learning or what Wall Street will immediately see the regular up and down cycles. teaches. The first thing that is apparent is the regularity of the cycles. They occur On a computer go to almost any SP500 mutual fund. Especially later in about 16 to 18 year tops to bottoms and the same time period back up check out mutual funds or ETFs you might own. Draw in a 200-day Moving again. The tops and bottoms will be at widely different prices. That doesn’t Average. A good source is www.bigcharts.com. It’s free. When that 200 line make any difference. is trending up it is a good time be a buyer of funds. When the line turns For an investor it is hard to be out of the market for long periods of time; down sell everything and go to cash. however, within even the down periods there are times when money should Now check that performance for the last 10 years and see how the return be committed. It is the down times that take away profits made during the on investments would have been if the investment had been in a Buy and up trends. Hold. There is not a single example where the major index using the 200 Is there a simple accurate way to know when to be in the market and method has not out performed Buy and Hold. when to be out? Yes, and anyone can do it. Now you know more that your broker and fund manager. From now on Don’t count on any broker to tell his long term customers to sell. His you manage your account. company will fire him if he has them go to a cash position. Let me empha- AL THOMAS size right here that CASH IS A POSITION. No brokerage company will Al Thomas’ new book, “If It Doesn’t Go Up, Don’t Buy It!”, 3rd edition, ever tell that to its clients. has helped thousands of people make money and keep their profits with his In the industry each broker has an average of about 300 customers. It simple 2-step method. The method made 10% during 2008. Read the first is easy to see why a broker does not call clients very often. They should be chapter at http://www.mutualfundmagic.com and discover why he’s the man that Wall Street does not want you to know. THE PENNY PRESS,DECEMBER 16, 2010 PAGE 11 Commentary: Wyatt Cox Additionally, Ivory Wave has also been speculated to contain WIN 35,428 American Innovation—Better Living and Pentylone, though the presence of these chemicals has yet to be dem- onstrated. Through Chemistry? The drug has been reported to cause adverse effects similar to those experienced with other amphetamine-like drugs, including heart and circu- ELY—A few weeks ago you may have heard about the Drug Enforcement latory problems as well as agitation, hallucinations and fits. Hyperthermia, Agency banning the sale of a legal product. renal failure, and alterations in blood pressure may also occur. It needed to be banned. This product has been sold in shops and on the Internet as a bath salt. A The herbal product, sold as an incense, was called, among other names, 200 mg package goes for $30. Awfully expensive for bath salts. Not expen- Spice or K2. A number of cities (like Ely) and counties (like White Pine) sive for junk. Like Spice and K2 (which were sold as an herbal incense), it banned the sale and possession of the product long before the Federal is labeled Not for Human Consumption. This is ignored and the product Government could act. snorted or smoked. Quoting Wikipedia: Overseas media reports seem to point toward a good first experience, Synthetic cannabis is a psychoactive herbal and chemical product followed by a hard crash and subsequent doses being more addictive and not which, when consumed mimics the effects of cannabis. It is best known by nearly as satisfying...just a craving for more. the brand names K2 and Spice, both of which have largely become general- Reports of deaths coming from this legal drug have been coming in just ized trademarks used to refer to any synthetic cannabis product. (It is also over the last few weeks. for this reason that synthetic cannabis is often referred to as spice product, The question is, can these drugs be stopped? due to the latter.) Our local City Council promises to institute a ban as soon as they and When synthetic cannabis blends first went on sale in the early 00s it law enforcement can figure out exactly how to write the ordinance so that it was thought that they achieved an effect through a mixture of legal herbs. sticks to the product, not to the brand name. Laboratory analysis in 2008 showed this was not the case and that they in Given the large number of Internet references that I’ve found over the fact contained synthetic cannabinoids which act on the body in a similar past few days, I believe they can make it stick sooner rather than later. way to cannabinoids naturally found in cannabis, such as THC. A large and Then it’ll be on to the next intoxicant. complex variety of synthetic cannabinoids, most often cannabicyclohexanol, WYATT COX JWH-018, JWH-073, or HU-210, are used in an attempt to avoid the laws which make cannabis illegal, making synthetic cannabis a designer drug. It has been sold under various brand names, online, in head shops and at some gas stations. A number of deaths had been related to the use of this product. The ban should temper this. Unfortunately, there’s another wave on the horizon. An Ivory Wave. Again, quoting Wikipedia: Ivory Wave, also known as Ivory Coast, Purple Wave and Vanilla Sky, is a novel psychoactive drug the recreational use of which has been reported in the United Kingdom and Australia. Samples of the drug have been reported to contain the substituted cathinone derivative MDPV as well as the local anesthetic lignocaine. THE PENNY PRESS,DECEMBER 16, 2010 PAGE 12

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Biased and misleading polls offering incomplete choices? and 26, 2010 who want to find a productive use for the foreclosed-upon Yucca Mountain I mean, what if the question was, “Would you support Yucca Mountain Free R 25th facility, calling them philosophical hypocrites. if you would receive free electricity for the rest of your life?” Do you think “(S)ome Republicans have shown themselves to be philosophically flex- the poll results might be a little different...especially in Las Vegas when its Annual Hyatt Regency ible. During the campaign...Republicans claimed the health care legislation 105 degrees outside? I sure do. San Francisco Airport was a violation of the 10th Amendment, the ‘states’ rights’ provision in the What the Legislature really ought to do is put an objective advisory Constitution, and they bashed proposed deals to give certain states extra question on the ballot regarding Yucca and let the people of Nevada actually money to gain their support. If they truly believe that, where’s the out- vote on it, instead of guessing the position of the citizens based on unreliable rage about Yucca Mountain? How come they aren’t yelling about the 10th and often biased polls. Try this one on for size: 2010 Gun Rights Policy Conference Amendment?” “Should Nevada continue with its no-negotiations-under-any-circum- Excellent point regarding state’s rights - one I wish more liberals would stances position with regard to Yucca Mountain or should the state be open champion more often. And indeed, until a few years ago, this was exactly to discussions and explore all options, with the citizens of Nevada having my argument against Yucca Mountain. Alas, the unfortunate fact is...Nevada the final say on any proposal via a statewide referendum?” doesn’t own Yucca Mountain. The feds do. I wonder how such an advisory question, if placed on the 2012 ballot I wish our federal government didn’t own some 80 percent of our land, by the Legislature, would fare. Don’t you? I mean, if Nevadans are really SavingSaving FFrreedom!eedom! but they do. And as such, they can pretty much do whatever the heck they against it, what’s to fear from an actual vote, right? Sponsored by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms want with it. As long as Nevada doesn’t own Yucca Mountain, we are, alas, CHUCK MUTH at the mercy of Uncle Sam, 10th Amendment or not. Chuck Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a non-profit public policy and the Second Amendment Foundation The newspaper editorial concludes with this: “Nevada’s Republican grassroots advocacy organization. He may be reached at chuck@citiz- Come meet national gun rights leaders and your fellow grassroots activists at the 25th Annual Gun Party should repudiate anyone who supports a Yucca dump. 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