Vote Gibbons Out!

Thank you Carol Young for reminding me of nevada_scandalmonger@yahoo.com @ http://votegibbonsout.blogs.com/votegibbonsout/.

Barbwire

Thank you Carol Young for reminding me of ANDREW BARBANO @ http://www.nevadalabor.com/abtbarb.html.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAqL8UioTds

Is It Really Investigative Journalism?

Recently Seth and I had a discussion as to what is investigative journalism.

Hi Craig. First off, I was definitely generalizing. I'm sure investigative journalism goes on on Broowaha. Some of your stuff would be a good example. But, to be more precise, when I say "real" investigative journalism, I mean the more heavy duty stuff. Spending days, weeks, or even months researching a story, interviewing people, developing sources, etc.. I've just read through a few of your stories and it appears like what you're doing is doing a bit of internet research, collecting your thoughts, and presenting that research with a (usually) strong opinion. While this could be called investigative journalism, is it really?

Seth

Hi Seth,

I see your points. At one time the Internet was the least of my research, although many of what I used to do in person is now available on the Internet. I’ve been several times to the recorder’s offices in Nevada and California and the court records in Nevada and California. I have interviewed several people. I have researched newspaper rental ads. My new site, Reno Exposes @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/ is where I’ve been publishing my supporting documents.

Yes, Investigative journalism is a type of reporting in which reporters deeply investigate a topic of interest, often involving crime, political corruption, or some other scandal. http://www.worldpress.org/Asia/3277.cfm

My degrees are in Physics and Philosophy. My career was law enforcement. Since my exposes took off, I’ve researched beyond what a deputy sheriff would do into what exactly is investigative journalism which is where my Philosophy training has come in very handy.

I researched for example, http://journalism.berkeley.edu/. Tthe Institute for Analytic Journalism @ http://analyticjournalism.blogharbor.com/blog. David Sparks’ Investigative Reporting, a Study in Technique @ http://books.google.com/books?id=ewWRd4KCeH8C&dq=analytical+reporting+versus+investigative+reporting&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=JNnsSYrkC5TytAOd-KzrAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11#PPP1,M1. Margaret H. DeFleur’s Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting @ http://books.google.com/books?id=-4ItCtNvsDYC&dq=analytical+reporting+versus+investigative+reporting&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=JNnsSYrkC5TytAOd-KzrAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=12. Marcy Burstiner’s Investigative Reporting from Premise to Publication @ http://www.hh-pub.com/book.php3?book=HH1918.

- and others.

De Burgh (2000) states that: "An investigative journalist is a man or woman whose profession it is to discover the truth and to identify lapses from it in whatever media may be available. The act of doing this generally is called investigative journalism and is distinct from apparently similar work done by police, lawyers, auditors and regulatory bodies in that it is not limited as to target, not legally founded and closely connected to publicity".

The investigation might call for the reporter to make use of activities such as surveillance techniques, analysis of documents, investigations of the performance of any kind of equipment involved in an accident, patent medicine, scientific analysis, social and legal issues, and the like.

Investigative journalism requires the scrutiny of details, fact-finding, and physical effort. An investigative journalist must have an analytical and incisive mind with strong self-motivation to carry on when all doors are closed, when facts are being covered up or falsified and so on. You must be able to think on your feet.

Some of the means reporters can use for their fact-finding:
• studying neglected sources, such as archives, phone records, address books, tax records and license records
• talking to neighbors
• using subscription research sources such as LexisNexis
• anonymous sources (for example whistleblowers)
• going undercover

Investigative journalism can be contrasted with analytical reporting. According to De Burgh (2000) analytical journalism takes the data available and reconfigures it, helping us to ask questions about the situation or statement or see it in a different way, whereas investigative journalists go further and also want to know whether the situation presented to us is the reality.

Often the final report assumes the garb of an Exposé.

Investigative journalism observes strict adherence to the journalistic motto that opinions can be bartered but facts are sacred.

Investigative reporting travels beyond the clichéd allegation and denial mode, striving to establish the basic facts. It transcends the impartial approach and works to decide the said issue on one way or the other. The judgment is expressed based on the facts that have been unearthed.

An investigative journalist therefore naturally faces the ire of a lot of individual and collective authorities.

I’m approaching my exposes with the same professionalism I served in the Navy, I obtained my degrees and performed my job as a deputy sheriff. I appreciate your feedback.

Craig

Marin County Lawyer Steven T. Schoonover Says, Jim, Use Her Love For You Against Her

In my story about Flipper James K. Olson @ http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3630, I discovered a preponderance of clear and convincing evidence that Marin County; California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover had lied and created false documents -- seemingly for the benefit of his client James K. Olson. One of Schoonover’s lies and false documents is a “letter” Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover had purported in Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California court papers to “write.” There Schoonover claims he wrote and mailed this letter years ago to the Mrs. Reno Olson. Presumably Marin County; California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover charged James K. Olson for the writing of this “letter” and insists that this letter was returned to Schoonover unopened. Marin County; California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover’s then alleged letter was a written demand for the Reno Mrs. Olson “to only contact him (Jim) at home, not work, you have the number.”

1. Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover cannot produce the original letter and envelope although he claims “it was returned unopened” to him. Whoever heard of any lawyer not keeping paperwork?

2. Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover cannot produce any invoice that he billed James K. Olson for writing this alleged “letter.” Whoever heard of any lawyer working for free?

3. Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover cannot produce any receipt or entry in his books or bank accounts that he received payment from James K. Olson for writing this alleged “letter.” Whoever heard of any lawyer working for free or not keeping paperwork?

4. James K. Olson cannot produce any receipt or credit card bill or cancelled check that he paid Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover for writing this alleged “letter” on James K. Olson’s behalf.

Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover instead after the fact invented a “letter”, and provided it unsigned by Schoonover and not on letterhead as known false evidence to the Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California courts.

That letter is the first written evidence that James K. Olson was engaged in deliberately hiding his Reno, Nevada life as early as Fall 1995 from his Marin County, California life. A successful 11-year double life until James K. Olson was caught in his double life in September 2006.

If that’s not bad, startling, immoral, illegal and unethical enough in and of itself, what was written in this after the fact letter is even worse. Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover puts into the Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California courts’ records that he then wrote James K. Olson about Olson’s Reno wife and what Schoonover strongly recommended since Schoonover’s letter had been returned unopened by Olson’s Reno wife.

Here’s what Schoonover strongly recommended according to the court records of Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California. Schoonover writes his alleged then client James K. Olson that Schoonover’s letter had been returned unopened and that Jim, James K. Olson, should try to trick her, the Reno Mrs. Olson, since she trusted him. That James K. Olson should himself write his Reno wife as she, since she loves him, would unsuspectingly open his letter (bomb).

Again, Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover inconceivably has no record of billing James K. Olson or of being paid by James K. Olson for that “work.” Nor does James. K. Olson have any record of paying Schoonover for that “work.”

Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover told James K. Olson to use Olson’s wife’s love for Jim Olson and trust in Jim Olson, to again and further deliberately hurt her.

That’s low.

There is no evidence offered, claimed nor provided in the Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California courts’ records that James. K. Olson took his attorney’s advice and wrote Schoonover’s recommended letter bomb to his Reno wife. Instead, there is a preponderance of clear and convincing evidence that James K. Olson continued to hide his life with the Reno Mrs. Olson from his Marin County, California life until caught in September 2006.

James K. Olson did this same behavior during each of his four divorce filings from his wife. Each divorce filing that according to the Marin County, California court records James K. Olson reconciled with her and then dismissed. He continued to regularly see her, regularly spent nights with her, all the while concealing all that from his Marin County, California attorneys, the judges, the marriage therapists, his work, his friends, and his family. Instead he vilified and demonized her to them. From fall 1995 on, James K. Olson kept her and his Reno life a secret from his California work, his California friends, his family, and the IRS.

Copies of James K. Olson’s court admission and lies, the filings and dismissals by James K. Olson of his four Marin County, California divorces from the same wife, James K. Olson’s Reno, Nevada homeowners and landlord’s Farmers Insurance documents, the notarized Nevada Living Trust James K. Olson was and is a co-Trustee of with the Reno Mrs. Olson, and the Nevada Deeds of Trust for the dozen or so houses that James K. Olson was on title for along with the Reno Mrs. Olson, are all available for viewing at Reno Exposes @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/flip-floppers-among-us-marin.

Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover made up the letter years after the claimed “fact.” James K. Olson had been lying to everyone in his Marin County, California life. Either attorney Schoonover didn’t know his client Olson had lied to him also, or didn’t care. Either way, Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover manufactured false evidence that he later knowingly put into the records of the courts in Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California.

Birds of a feather, like Schoonover and Jim Olson, certainly do flock together.
Internet media has the ability to present new, or previously suppressed, news @ http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4213.

Everyday consumers of goods and services now have the Internet to describe their experiences with businesses and those businesses’ employees. Government executives, administrators and all government employees, businesses, both non-profit and profit, legal and not legal, and every single one of their owners and employees, and all religious participants are ever increasingly more vulnerable to exposure, and accountability.

Consumers have become bolder that their payment means total accountability for what consumers paid for. Consumers are less likely to keep to their place, do as they’re told and keep their opinions to themselves. Today’s governments, businesses or religions that dismiss or ignore consumers do so at their own risk.

The Internet is free at public libraries, free at many businesses and free to anyone that wants to crawl on to it from a nearby wireless connection. Consumers of these goods and services more often than not relate bad experiences over good experiences. Exercising their freedom of speech rights where legal and illegal, they not only spell out and link the offending business’ name and location, but also the offending employees and/or owner’s names and locations. They spell out in great detail, and link with supporting documentation, their complaints.

I am glad to see “Gone are the days where settings from Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib contaminated in isolation both superiors and subordinates.” I am glad “the Internet is real-time exposure forcing attention, and repercussions @ http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4375.” I am glad “The result has been an increase in holding others accountable, just saying no and exposes.”

Governments, schools, teachers, businesses, attorneys, judges, Realtors, home loan lenders, doctors, mechanics, hospitals, religions, etc. should be “relentlessly interviewed, closely monitored, increasingly resisted, and constantly scrutinized.”

“Online exposes and nastiness” happen for a reason. Reasons like bad customer service or injustice. “As the realization sinks in that the Internet is also a real time conduit of one’s reputation,” customer service will be deliberately forced to get only better.

I have come to the recent conclusion that the Internet has made the Better Business Bureau a dinosaur. The BBB does not publish what the complaint is, and without that, the complaint is useless. Complaints made to the BBB about businesses not providing goods and services as advertised or legally required, bar associations about lawyers lying and taking client’s money but not doing what they were paid to do, Realtor associations about Realtors clearly violating written ethics rules, ethics committees, commissions, etc. should not be private. Instead, all should be public. But they’re not.

That’s another reason why there is an increase on the Internet of complaints and exposes. Too often, ranks have closed in around an offending member and protected them rather than hold them accountable. Or worse, the accused makes threats against the complaintant and witnesses, or bribes are offered by the accused and accepted by the investigator(s), prosecutors and/or judges. The Internet is the medium to not only expose the offending member, but also these cover ups by those paid to investigate, judge and punish offenders.

Public records are public to protect the public. That’s why our publicly elected officials voting records are public. That’s why publicly elected officials can only have public meetings “putting their opinions and conclusions easily available to everyone.” That’s why those with public licenses have their records public. That’s why all complaints, investigations and outcomes should be public.

James “Jim” K. Olson sources are

Gun Controllers Among Us, Marin County California Courts, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3749

Flip Flop Rers Among Us, James K. Olson, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3630

Bigamists Among Us, Olson, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3481

Cheaters Among Us, Olson, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3334

Cold-Hearted Tricksters Among Us, James K. Olson, http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/coldhearted-tricksters-among

Insurance Fraudsters Among Us, James K. Olson, http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/insurance-fraudsters-among-us

An Open Letter to The IRS About James K. Olson, http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-the-irs

The Dishonorable Lazy, Incompetent, Ignorant or Corrupted Reno Judge Frances Doherty? http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-dishonorable-lazy

Photo is of James "Jim" K. Olson with the Reno Mrs. Olson at Reno's Ballantine's Ballroom circa 2006. Note that both of them are wearing their wedding rings.

Californicating Nevada - How Nevada Gets The California Boot

Californicating Nevada - How Nevada Gets The California Boot

In my research, I found that the Reno Mrs. Olson is not compulsive, delusional or obsessive. Rather what I found is puzzling, saddening and infuriating that law and justice are arbitrary, changeable, susceptible to the lies and deceit of lawyers and the whims of the judges, defined by mere commercial expediency. Surely the world is ran by higher priorities than deceit and whims and California’s commerce?

Surely it not. Why should anybody be allowed to retain obsolete fashion? Truth and justice must go. They went. California’s commerce and conversance must be served. Lawyers and judges are whores.

The Reno Mrs. Olson protested mightily. But there is a war on, don’t you know? Mr. James “Jim” K. Olson’s War. Mr. Olson’s War to impose silence, destruction, death and annihilation on his Reno Mrs. Olson. Mr. Olson’s conflict is desperate. Evidence for the justification for Mr. Olson’s War is non-existent, but anything can be put over by deceitful smug lawyers when there is a lazy, corrupt, unpatriotic or incompetent judge.

You listening Nevadan Judge Frances Doherty and Carol Cook? Judge Frances Doherty and Carol Cook are the lazy, corrupt, unpatriotic or incompetent Reno Californicated judges that both threw a Nevada citizen to the California whores and under the wheels of the California bus (DV 07-00352 and FV 07-00748). Let’s see if Reno Nevadan Judge Brent Adams or Judge Greg W. Zive are as lazy, corrupt, unpatriotic or incompetent Californicators (CV 08-01067 and BK 08-51146). You listening Nevadan Judge Brent Adams? You listening Nevadan Judge Greg W. Zive? You listening Nevadans Judge Frances Doherty and Carol Cook?

With great amusement do I point out that Mr. James “Jim” K. Olson hides his bigamy, Reno Nevada homeowners and landlord’s insurance, Nevada Trust, Reno Nevada ownership of house, etc. under his hairshirt. Mr. James “Jim” K. Olson emphasizes his lie he’s an innocent victim rather than the truth. Jim Olson and his Marin County, California lawyer buddies, Steven T. Schoonover and Michael B. Samuels victimized the Reno Mrs. Olson, forging her into a twisted bogeyman. Mr. James “Jim” K. Olson’s California lawyer buddies, Steven T. Schoonover and Michael B. Samuels, kept whipping the disobedient Reno Mrs. Olson into judicial line when she failed to follow their orders to just shut up and go quietly away.

If Jim Olson’s California lawyer buddies, Steven T. Schoonover and Michael B. Samuels could convince the California courts to forcibly alter the truth would it also not compel their attack on a Nevada citizen, which the Reno Mrs. Olson was and is. You bet your life, reputation, sanity and finances it would. By now, Nevada’s wrinkled crones and cowlick hillbillies were not allowed to play in the California courts. Nevadans and the rest of America are just supposed to have been thoroughly Californicated. Is it not only desirable by Californians, but inevitable, that those who do not come in will be left out in the cold?

I beg to differ. Come now, it’s really not all that chilly here in Nevada. Here in Nevada we still believe that the power of the legislator and judge is limited over the will and action of the people. Lessons anyone? The God of Californication is never sated is he? You listening Nevadan Judge Brent Adams? You listening Nevadan Judge Greg W. Zive? You listening Nevadans Judge Frances Doherty and Carol Cook? You listening Nevadans Judges Steve Elliott and Fidel Salcedo (enablers of Mortgage Fraudster Californian Californicator Keith W. Gledhill)?

I remind Nevadan Judge Brent Adams, Nevadan Judge Greg W. Zive, Nevadans Judge Frances Doherty and Carol Cook, and Nevadans Judge Steve Elliott and Fidel Salcedo that there is only one policy and law compatible with a healthy Nevada family life. That is one of non-intervention from California and California residents who see our fine state of Nevada as a bunch only populated by the lazy, corrupt, unpatriotic or incompetent who can not govern or try Nevada’s own that Nevada has to demand that California do so for Nevada.

Wrong. I despise California’s vulgar, home-wrecking and even attempted murderous intrusions in Nevada. It’s even more despicable when a Nevada hating Reno Judge, Frances Doherty, demands California courts judge Nevada citizens such as James “Jim” K. Olson and his Reno wife. Nevada Judges Brent Adams and Greg W. Zive, prove you are smarter and more patriotic of your home state of Nevada. Don’t let James “Jim” K. Olson Californicate you as he did Nevadan haters Judge Frances Doherty and Carol Cook. Or how Mortgage Fraudster California Keith W. Gledhill Californicated Nevada haters Reno Judges Steve Elliott and Fidel Salcedo. Nevadans Judge Frances Doherty and Carol Cook, go back and prove you are smarter and more patriotic of your home state of Nevada. Don’t let James “Jim” K. Olson and his Nevada hating lawyers John P. Springgate and Bridget Robb Californicate you anymore.

The Internet has become a common ground for sharing viewpoints, both pro and con. As more people are tuned in to the electronic age it has become increasingly more difficult for the bad practices of any business, no matter how remote or small their marketplace is, to continue without being noticed, as has been the case until now. People of all levels and of experience have begun to share their opinions concerning the various pluses and minuses of various businesses and people. Many businesses and people are not coming out well in these news group discussions.

To me, gloating promoters of the Information Age all too often forget that knowledge has always been about connecting people and their behaviors, not just in collecting information. There has been and continues to be a democratic demand for more relevancy and currency in people’s and organization’s behaviors, and to holding people and organizations accountable for their conduct.

I believe that the Internet, the servant to a Knowledge Economy, is the true democratic voice of facts and free speech beliefs. Using the Internet to do a search is simply a reversion to the search of any life for credentials and integrity of another’s life.

Most have access to a computer. Public schools and libraries have free public computer access and training. Most can now instantly post previously hidden facts and their free speech opinions, and access others’ post of previously hidden, even deliberately suppressed, facts and free speech opinions. Happenings and ideology that previously would never have been disseminated are now readily found with a simple Google search. A Google search is just a search for credentials and integrity.

The result is that individuals and organizations are suddenly finding their previously hidden illegal, corrupt, lazy, or immoral behaviors, and their secrets, avarice, cravings, or even mistakes, suddenly and rightfully very publicly front and center on the Internet. Integrity, or its’ lack, is immediately exposed in a simple Google search.

Harmful behaviors that once were self-servingly known then to be ephemeral, and smugly relied on by the licentious perpetuators to be such, are now instantly available for analysis and judgment in the permanence the of the Internet. In response, evil raises its specious clamor when it finds itself suddenly and rightfully in the expose spotlight of the Internet. Once exposed, evil then aggressively applies its Unclean Hands to spurious ridicule and makes heavy-handed, manipulative intentionally damaging legal threats of, or illegally pursues, defamation to brutally and wrongly silence the dissemination of facts and muzzle free speech beliefs. The Internet though, has rightfully, quietly and powerfully abdicated the corrupt in its’ contemptuous and former commanding amoral influence in silencing facts and free speech beliefs.

James “Jim” K. Olson sources are

Gun Controllers Among Us, Marin County California Courts, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3749

Flip Flop Rers Among Us, James K. Olson, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3630

Bigamists Among Us, Olson, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3481

Cheaters Among Us, Olson, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3334

Cold-Hearted Tricksters Among Us, James K. Olson, http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/coldhearted-tricksters-among

Insurance Fraudsters Among Us, James K. Olson, http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/insurance-fraudsters-among-us

An Open Letter to The IRS About James K. Olson, http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-the-irs

The Dishonorable Lazy, Incompetent, Ignorant or Corrupted Reno Judge Frances Doherty? http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-dishonorable-lazy

Keith W. Gledhill sources are NRS 645, NAC 645, National Association of Realtors’ Code of Ethics, Reno Justice Court, Washoe County District Court public records, O & A, Nona Hester letter, Carol Gates, Leon Leeper, and Buddy Wright.

Cheaters Among Us, Riley, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3526

Heroes Among Us, Broch, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3477

Is Your Lender A Patriot Or Terrorist?, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3462

Greedheads Among Us, Gledhill, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3448

Heroes Among Us, Houk, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3430

Culprits Among Us, Clark, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3421

Cheaters Among Us, Barry, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3415

Bullies Among Us, Mapes, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3404

Cheaters Among Us, Homier, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3397

Cheaters Among Us, Kings, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3377

Zeroes Among Us, Scheible, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3372

Cheaters Among Us, Maree, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3351

Cheaters Among Us, Gledhill, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3300

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Good Guys Don't Have Degrees Of Integrity
http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4247

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The VA Should Come Out Better Under General Shinseki

Morganas article @ http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4519 V A Cuts & Runs On Lady Vets made me laugh and want to punch some faces, that police chief being the first! Military women are everywhere. On land, at sea, in the air and on space missions. The link is groovy.

It would be interesting to see how retired 4-star General Eric Shinseki would react to stories like these here. If his past is an indication of General Shinseki’s future behavior and beliefs, the VA should come out better under General Shinseki. Perplexingly I couldn’t find an e-mail for General Shinseki or the Secretary of Veteran’s Affairs or even contact info for the Secretary of Veteran’s Affairs. That is another VA issue that should be resolved.

I liked that Obama’s pick, now confirmed, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, General Shinseki , publicly clashed with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during the planning of the war in Iraq over how many troops the U.S. would need to keep in Iraq for the postwar occupation of that country.

As Army Chief of Staff, General Shinseki testified to the U.S. Senate Armed Services committee that "something in the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would probably be required for postwar Iraq. This was an estimate far higher than the figure being proposed by Secretary Rumsfeld in his invasion plan, and it was rejected in strong language by both Rumsfeld and his Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, who was another chief planner of the invasion and occupation. From then on, Shinseki's influence on the Joint Chiefs of Staff reportedly waned. The end of his term of Army Chief of Staff came in June 2003, just three months after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and at that time General Shinseki retired from the military.

When the insurgency took hold in postwar Iraq, Shinseki's comments and their public rejection by the civilian leadership were often cited by those who felt the Bush administration deployed too few troops to Iraq. On November 15, 2006, in testimony before Congress, CENTCOM Commander Gen. John Abizaid said that General Shinseki had been correct that more troops were needed.

In 2001, Shinseki reportedly staved off suggestions by Rumsfeld and his aides that the Army be reduced in size. According to one source, at their first meeting Shinseki told Rumsfeld that his orders would not be implemented. The Quadrennial Defense Review issued in 2001 maintained the existing size of the Army. Another fight ensued in 2002, when Rumsfeld cancelled the XM2001 Crusader, an artillery system supported by Shinseki and members of Congress.

The personality clash between Shinseki and Rumsfeld was well known. Shinseki had a reputation as a quiet, reserved officer, while Rumsfeld had a history of his tough questioning and "wire-brushing" senior officers. (Barnett describes wire-brushing as "chewing them out, typically in a public way that's demeaning to their stature. It's pinning their ears back, throwing out question after question you know they can't answer correctly and then attacking every single syllable they toss up from their defensive crouch.") Shinseki and other army officers resented Rumsfeld's rough treatment of officers, while Rumsfeld and his aides felt the military had to be challenged vigorously in order for the civilians to exercise effective control of the department and steer it in the direction in which they wanted it to go.

Shinseki and Rumsfeld had significantly different approaches to military doctrine. For example, following September 11, 2001, Rumsfeld was in a meeting whose subject was the review of the Department of Defense's (Contingency) Plan in the event of a war with Iraq (U.S. Central Command OPLAN 1003-98). The plan (as it was then conceived) contemplated troop levels of up to 500,000, which Rumsfeld opined was far too many. Gordon and Trainor wrote:

As General Newbold outlined the plan … it was clear that Rumsfeld was growing increasingly irritated. For Rumsfeld, the plan required too many troops and supplies and took far too long to execute. It was, Rumsfeld declared, the "product of old thinking and the embodiment of everything that was wrong with the military."

[T]he Plan . . . reflected long-standing military principles about the force levels that were needed to defeat Iraq, control a population of more than 24 million, and secure a nation the size of California with porous borders. Rumsfeld's numbers, in contrast, seemed to be pulled out of thin air. He had dismissed one of the military's long-standing plans, and suggested his own force level without any of the generals raising a cautionary flag.

In a public rebuke to General Shinseki, Secretary Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, called Shinseki's estimate "far off the mark” and "wildly off the mark". Wolfowitz said it would be "hard to believe" more troops would be required for postwar Iraq than to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Specifically, Wolfowitz said to the House Budget Committee on February 27, 2003:

Wolfowitz: There has been a good deal of comment - some of it quite outlandish - about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq, are wildly off the mark. I would expect that even countries like France will have a strong interest in assisting Iraq's reconstruction. We can't be sure that the Iraqi people will welcome us as liberators ... [but] I am reasonably certain that they will greet us as liberators, and that will help us to keep requirements down. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army - hard to imagine.

On November 15, 2006, Gen. John P. Abizaid, chief of the U.S. Central Command, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, acknowledged that in his view, and with hindsight, General Shinseki had been correct in his view that a larger postwar force was needed. Abizaid noted that this force could have included Iraqi or international forces in addition to American force:

Graham: Was General Shinseki correct when you look backward that we needed more troops to secure the country, General Abizaid?

Abizaid: General Shinseki was right that a greater international force contribution, U.S. force contribution, and Iraqi force contribution should have been available immediately after major combat operations.

No senior civilians attended General Shinseki's retirement ceremony, which broke historical precedent. Most Army officers and Senior enlisted, such as Major General John Batiste (ret.) who called for Rumsfeld's resignation, saw this as an intentional slight and foremost sign of disrespect directed toward General Shinseki by the civilian leadership.

General Shinseki has served as a director for several corporations: Honeywell International and Ducommun, military contractors; Grove Farm Corporation; First Hawaiian Bank; and Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.[25] He is a member of the Advisory Boards at the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and to the U.S. Comptroller General. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council of the United States, and the Association of the United States Army.

Shinseki was born in Lihue, Kauai in the then Territory of Hawaii, to a Japanese American family. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science degree and a commission as a second lieutenant. He earned a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from Duke University. He was also educated at the Armor Officer Advanced Course, the United States Army Command and General Staff College, and the National War College. General Shinseki has taught at the U.S. Military Academy’s Department of English.

The Dishonorable Lazy, Incompetent, Ignorant or Corrupted Reno Judge Frances Doherty?

When it’s the Governor of Nevada’s divorce, the Honorable Judge Frances Doherty pays attention: Judge finds automatic sealing of divorce records unconstitutional. Yet if it’s one James “Jim” K. Olson and his Reno wife, the Dishonorable lazy, incompetent, ignorant or corrupted Reno Judge Frances Doherty incredibly dismisses the Reno Mrs. Olson’s Reno divorce at the request of this James “Jim” K. Olson. Then the Marin County California courts also dismissed this James “Jim” K. Olson’s Request for A Marital Determination. The result is that there has been still no determination made by any court about this James “Jim” K. Olson’s marriage to the Reno Mrs. Olson while claiming some 26 years later to be married to another woman in Marin County, California.

Karma is such a groovy thing that I’m sure The Dishonorable lazy, incompetent, ignorant or corrupted Reno Judge Frances Doherty and the Fraudster James “Jim” K. Olson will get their just due.

In the meantime, according to the Washoe County Recorder’s Office records, one Jurie Maree went to foreclosure.

Ok, although I cite all my sources, and 99% of them are from the public records, since the legal threats, none of which have materialized, I found another site, sadly Broo doesn’t have this ability in its comments to upload jpeg. This site is where I have been uploading the supporting documents I have found or been provided for each of my exposes.

Of course, www.washoecounty.us/recorder, then go to Online Records Search @ http://www.washoecounty.us/recorder/icris.washoecounty.us, then EagleWeb @ http://icris.washoecounty.us/recorder/web/, is still a Groovy Treasure Trove.

How about doing a survey from the Washoe County, Nevada public of what we think?! These surveys are from a couple hundred or so Washoe County attorneys. BFD

WASHOE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION JUDICIAL SURVEY RESULTS, 2008 @ http://wcbar.org/documents/SummaryJudicialSurveyResults2008copy.pdf.
Also @ http://wcbar.org/documents/FinalPRWCBAJudSurvey2008.pdf.

WASHOE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION JUDICIAL SURVEY RESULTS 2006 @ http://wcbar.org/documents/CorrectedWebJudSurvey2006.pdf.

To view the supporting documents on Marriage or Insurance Fraudster Forgery James “Jim” K. Olson view them @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/flip-floppers-among-us-marin and. http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/insurance-fraudsters-among-us.

More Washoe County judge info @ http://nogibbons.blogspot.com/2006/06/it-seems-judge-chuck-weller-pissed-lot.html http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://mkesling63.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/katies-6th.jpg&imgrefurl=http://mkesling63.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/katies-birthdays-before-judge-francis-dohertys-rulings/&h=1152&w=864&sz=720&tbnid=CkAYK9w9DhrBTM::&tbnh=150&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djudge%2Bfrances%2Bdoherty%2Bphoto&hl=en&usg=__AXpdfz_Cyc0nhrKo-QkuMyw5tv0=&ei=O73aSaKSBaDmtQOI7-HJBg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image and @ http://www.co.washoe.nv.us/repository/files/31/DstCtJdge12DohertyRpt3.pdf.

2075 LaFond Dr
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Frances.doherty

http://www.judges.org/pdf/wc_lawclerk042607.pdf

Feasting At The Public Trough

Or a Tool For Sexual Predators?

I was a renter in San Francisco for years. Last year I inherited some money. I then bought a house in Novato. Novato is the furthest town north in Marin County. As a homeowner I now pay real estate taxes that go to the City of Novato and Marin County. My understanding is they go to pay for infrastructure. Like police, sheriff, district attorney, fire department, animal shelter, 911, schools, recreation departments, etc. I also pay rent for my office, also in Novato. I pay insurance, advertising, maintenance and utilities for my office. I have a doctorate in Psychology, a license from the State of California and a business license from the City of Novato.

I’m wondering why the City of Novato subsidizes people using the City to earn a living. I’m talking about all the “instructors” who are paid to teach classes through the City’s Parks and Recreation Department. These instructors are getting a building and services free, as we taxpayers paid for it. 1. A building. 2. A building with tenant improvements. 3. A building with utilities all paid for. 4. A building with real estate taxes not charged on. 5. A building with fire and liability insurance all paid for. 5. These “instructors” have all their advertising paid for. 6. These “instructors” are not required to hold licenses for what they are instructing in. In fact, these “instructors” are not even required to have any demonstrable proficiency in what they are “instructing” in. 7. A building where all the maintenance, upkeep and landscaping is all paid for. 8. A building with parking. 9. A building with exterior lighting.

Reprinted with permission.

Comments

Jen and Tonic: This is happening all over the place. I recently read a story about how a man in Germany was sent to do community service at an elementary school after he committed fraud. Their system failed to check that a few years prior he had been in jail committing sexual acts against a child. Scary stuff.

Steven Lane: What are they instructing and are they charging for the lessons? Sounds crazy.

yesteryear: It's actually not that cut and dry - course instructors for classes at most of these facilities aren't charged for use of the rooms because they have provided a 'proposal' to the city and are in essence 'hired' by the City to teach their course. It does pose a threat to other businesses (see my example below), but the City's benefit isn't financial - ideally it's a benefit to the whole community by providing a affordable, local way for residents to access enrichment and educational courses. But I do agree with the sentiment of your article. As a former small business owner with a business in the downtown of an East Bay city that will remain nameless, I was always furious when the "craft fair" folks would come to town for a weekend, block off the streets, drive away my regular customers, and take away all of the parking spots my customers used -- all for the price of a simple "vendor fee" for setting up their booth. Ironically, the city did not provide those of us who paid rent every day of the year, and taxes, with free booths so we could compete with the out-of-towners who came once a year. It's a racket.

Anonymous: It's also a publically funded conduit for pedophiles, etc., as, at least where I live, NO background checks are done on the one doing the proposal. Hell, for that matter, the instructors don't even have to prove they even have the minimum qualfication to teach.

Creedon: It's the same story in LA. As a small business owner I knew about the unfair perks the city gives these jokers with no credentials to support their "proposals." What I hadn't considered before was no background checks as a way in for sexual predators. I also didn't know about the extra perks the cities give to the crafts fairs when they come to town. Probably the same for the flea markets. I shop and buy local from a local who is here 365 days out of the year.

Lois: It's both feasting at the public trough and a tool for sexual predators. These "teachers" submit their "proposal" and then get half of the "tuition" brought in by the "students" that attend. Same for the community college's non-credit classes who also don't do background checks. These community college teachers and recreation department "teachers" are not good enough to "teach" at a legitimate place. It certainly is a racket. In many cases, the strong possibility for a dangerous racket.

Craig B.: So, Novato Parks and Recreation Department, dahlings, bubbaluhs, why don’t you consider talking to me? I’m very open-minded. I won’t even put our interview in a paper with those escort, B & D Clubs and pot-club ads. I won’t pester you with the questions that some want to ask you after this Feasting at the Public Trough story came out.

Not that I’d hound the Novato Parks and Recreation Department, and their no qualifications or background check required of their “instructors,” but if I did, here’s a list of due diligence questions I’d promise not to pose to them.

Do you believe the Novato Parks and Recreation Department has a duty of care to the public?

Do you believe that verifying “instructor” qualifications and doing “instructor” background checks meets an reasonable amount of care standard in dealing with others?

Do you have an Age of Majority requirement for your “instructors” or students? Ya know, the age at which an individual is considered legally capable of conducting themself responsibly.

Are your “instructors” in an agency relationship with you since you pay them as independent contractors?

Have you done any sort of background check that any of your “instructors” are really aggressors who just might acquire another in a take-over attempt such as a pedophile or other type sexual predator would do?

What are your “instructor’s” qualifications? Or are you just using a logic analogy as a trade-off by assuming that if the instructor tells you they are qualified that they are? That implies a course of dealing that is based on a false understanding, and that you are trading off the safety of the public attending those courses for your desired result of “courses” to fill up your schedule.

Are you using anticipatory repudiation as to why you have not done “instructor” background checks or verified qualifications?

Why are you relying on your “instructor’s” apparent authority to teach their proposal class instead of verifying it’s real?

Aren’t your “instructors” practicing appropriation, the act of making the Novato Parks and Recreation Department their own, or exercising or making use of the Novato Parks and Recreation Department to subserve the “instructor’s” own interest?

What do you think of the assumption of risk doctrine if one of your “instructor’s” questionable activities has been repeatedly brought to your attention and you still keep on the instructor? Doesn’t the laches’ doctrine and negligence per se kick in at some point?

What do you think of the doctrine of attractive nuisance if one of your “instructor’s” is using the venue the Novato Parks and Recreation Department to lure children by something enticing therein?

What do you think of beyond a reasonable doubt when assessing your “instructors?” What would make you hesitate before acting in a matter important to you such as filling out your schedule offering versus the safety of a child or vulnerable woman?

Have you utilized categorical imperative as an ethical standard in the hiring of your instructors?

What do you think of consequential damages to students as they are reasonably foreseeable when “instructor” qualifications and backgrounds checks are not done?

What do you think of the likelihood of “instructor” duress on their students?

Does the Novato Parks and Recreation Department undertake any activity up to the point at which the marginal benefit equals the marginal cost?

So there you have it. How does that sound Novato Parks and Recreation Department? If you’re interested, drop me a line.

Morgana: Ballroom dance also rips off musical artists. Music, Archival Sound Recording and Synchronization licensing requirements apply to all ballroom dance studios, dance instructors, dance operators, dance associations, dance clubs, dance bands, dance DJs, dance organizers, municipal recreation departments who have music in their classes, non profits who have music in their classes, etc. This article missed mentioning the fact that municipal recreation departments are also required to obtain copyright permission for the music used in their programs. That is more feasting at the public trough as it is another unfair economic benefit at the public expense and is another detriment to artists as dozens of music artists are repeatedly deprived of lawful income as a result, another dirty secret.

“Teaching for pay makes an amateur a professional,” according to the United States Dance Sport Eligibility Committee. For several years now, the cities of Reno & Sparks, Nevada and Washoe County, Nevada has all required finger printing and police cards for their instructors of programs involving youth under the age of 18, and One Million Dollars in liability insurance. Washoe County, Nevada also requires accreditation from a member organization of the National Dance Council of America (NDCA), city, county and state business licenses, and BMI, ASCAP & SESAC music performance licenses from their dance instructors and that their instructors pay business and personal income taxes on their revenues, like any legal business owner. These requirements eliminated many of the "instructors."

Diana's Art: Outstanding article! Aside from the obvious unfair financial advantage given to those that “teach” at these recreation departments without licenses, insurance or any check of their experience or credentials to “teach,” recreation facilities are major attractions of pedophiles and for that reason this link lists implications for recreational professionals to ensure they are keeping children safe by not hiring pedophiles. Realize that pedophiles and sexual predators of adults can be charming individuals who live double lives very well. County commissioners have put a proposed ordinance on hold that would ban anyone who had ever been convicted of a sex crime from public parks or recreation centers.

The City of Novato, California Parks and Recreation Department’s email is prcs@ci.novato.ca.us. They and the City of Novato, California must know they have some very grave injustices going on here as well as a publicly paid for invitation to sexual predators.

How can a business compete against these public trough subsidies? They can’t.

I add to these issues another one. The City does no sort of background check, does not require a bond, nor require proof of any sort of proficiency in what is taught. The result? A magnet for those deliberately looking to slip between the cracks. That, for various reasons, an individual won’t or can’t work elsewhere. That would be two types of an individual. One being the individual who works the system to feast at the public trough. Get out of paying all the costs I, or a restaurant, or an attorney, or an artist, etc., have to pay. Another is a predator. A predator that creates a class to draw in their victims. The victims usually are children and women perceived to be desperate. The roster of classes offered by the Novato Parks and Recreation targets that audience.

Cold-Hearted Tricksters Among Us, James K. Olson

Garry’s comment @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4611 saddened me. It took me years to understand and accept that a sense of and trust to the shared past and a commitment to the shared present is far more important to the maintenance of love, marriage/a relationship and friendship than hope for the future. However, all too often I have seen the what of Garry's comment. Like this story.

In my story about Flipper James K. Olson @ http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3630, I discovered a preponderance of clear and convincing evidence that Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover had lied and created false documents -- seemingly for the benefit of his client James "Jim" K. Olson. One of Schoonover’s lies and false documents is a “letter” Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover had purported in Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California court papers to “write.” There Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover claims he wrote and mailed this letter years ago to the Mrs. Reno Olson. Presumably Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover charged James "Jim" K. Olson for the writing of this “letter” and insists that this letter was returned to Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover unopened. Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover’s then alleged letter was a written demand for the Reno Mrs. Olson “to only contact him (Jim) at home, not work, you have the number.”

1. Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover cannot produce the original letter and envelope although he claims “it was returned unopened” to him. Whoever heard of any lawyer not keeping paperwork?

2. Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover cannot produce any invoice that he billed James "Jim" K. Olson for writing this alleged “letter.” Whoever heard of any lawyer working for free?

3. Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover cannot produce any receipt or entry in his books or bank accounts that he received payment from James "Jim" K. Olson for writing this alleged “letter.” Whoever heard of any lawyer working for free or not keeping paperwork?

4. James "Jim" K. Olson cannot produce any receipt or credit card bill or cancelled check that he paid Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover for writing this alleged “letter” on James "Jim" K. Olson’s behalf.

Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover instead after the fact invented a “letter”, and provided it unsigned by Schoonover and not on letterhead as known false evidence to the Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California courts.

That letter is the first written evidence that James "Jim" K. Olson was engaged in deliberately hiding his Reno, Nevada life as early as Fall 1995 from his Marin County, California life. A successful 11-year double life until James "Jim" K. Olson was caught in his double life in September 2006.

If that’s not bad, startling, immoral, illegal and unethical enough in and of itself, what was written in this after the fact letter is even worse. Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover puts into the Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California courts’ records that he then wrote James "Jim" K. Olson about Olson’s Reno wife and what Schoonover strongly recommended since Schoonover’s letter had been returned unopened by Olson’s Reno wife.

Here’s what Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T.Schoonover strongly recommended according to the court records of Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California. Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T.Schoonover writes his alleged then client James "Jim" K. Olson that Schoonover’s letter had been returned unopened and that Jim, James K. Olson, should try to trick her, the Reno Mrs. Olson, since she trusted him.

That James "Jim" K. Olson should himself write his Reno wife as she, since she loves him, would unsuspectingly open his letter (bomb).

Again, Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover inconceivably has no record of billing James "Jim" K. Olson or of being paid by James K. Olson for that “work.” Nor does James "Jim" K. Olson have any record of paying Schoonover for that “work.”

Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover told James K. Olson in writing to use Olson’s wife’s love for Jim Olson and trust in Jim Olson, to again and further deliberately hurt her.

That’s low.

There is no evidence offered, claimed nor provided in the Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California courts’ records that James "Jim" K. Olson took his attorney’s advice and wrote Schoonover’s recommended letter bomb to his Reno wife. Instead, there is a preponderance of clear and convincing evidence that James "Jim" K. Olson continued to hide his life with the Reno Mrs. Olson from his Marin County, California life until caught in September 2006.

James "Jim" K. Olson did this same behavior during each of his four divorce filings from his wife. Each divorce filing that according to the Marin County, California court records James "Jim" K. Olson reconciled with her and then dismissed. He continued to regularly see her, regularly spent nights with her, all the while concealing all that from his Marin County, California attorneys, the judges, the marriage therapists, his work, his friends, and his family. Instead James "Jim" K. Olson vilified and demonized his wife to them. From fall 1995 on, James "Jim" K. Olson kept her and his Reno life a secret from his California work, his California friends, his family, and the IRS.

Copies of James "Jim" K. Olson’s court admission and lies, the filings and dismissals by James "Jim" K. Olson of his four Marin County, California divorces from the same wife, James "Jim" K. Olson’s Reno, Nevada homeowners and landlord’s Farmers Insurance documents, the notarized Nevada Living Trust James "Jim" K. Olson was and is a co-Trustee of with the Reno Mrs. Olson, and the Nevada Deeds of Trust for the dozen or so houses that James "Jim" K. Olson was on title for along with the Reno Mrs. Olson, are all available for viewing at Reno Exposes @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/flip-floppers-among-us-marin.

Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover made up the letter years after the claimed “fact.” James "Jim" K. Olson had been lying to everyone in his Marin County, California life. Either attorney Schoonover didn’t know his client Olson had lied to him also, or didn’t care. Either way, Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover manufactured false evidence that he later knowingly put into the records of the courts in Reno, Nevada and Marin County, California.

Birds of a feather, like Marin County, California Attorney Stephen T. Schoonover and Jim Olson, certainly do flock together.

Garry Crystal’s comment: A definite sad state of affairs with two scumbags and a number of innocent people duped by Olson for his own selfish needs. It's amazing the lenghts some people will go to. They will play games with people's lives without a second thought of the consequences to other people. My above statement was a sad one and I think wrong. Trusting no one is a scared way to live a life but I can see why people, and at times myself, do actually think like that. But allowing someone else's actions to eradicate your trust in others is to become the victim, and then they will have really won.

View supporting documuments @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-the-irs.

A List Of Questions I Promise Not To Pose @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=1905

Upgrading to Wife 2.3 after Reinstalling Wife 2.2 @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=2748

Get All Those Instructors You Can - Or Maybe Not @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=2887

Cheaters Among Us, Olson @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3334

Bigamists Among Us, Olson @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3481

Flip Flop Rers Among Us, James K. Olson @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3630

Gun Controllers Among Us, Marin County California Courts @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3749

Champs Among Us, Mc Queen H. S. Marching Band @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3784

Pure Sleaze @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3511

Feasting at the Public Trough @ http://sf.broowaha.com/article.php?id=2763

The Dirty Little Secret of Ballroom Dance @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=2840

Now you call it madness (but I call it love) @ http://sf.broowaha.com/article.php?id=1873

California's Legal Secret Marriage Racket @ http://sf.broowaha.com/article.php?id=2900

And What Of Your Precious Marriage Vows? @ http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4611

Cold-Hearted Tricksters Among Us, James K. Olson @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/coldhearted-tricksters-among

The Dishonorable Lazy, Incompetent, Ignorant or Corrupted Reno Judge Frances Doherty? @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-dishonorable-lazy

How James K. Olson Morphed 50 Cent Steak Knives Into $16,667 Apiece @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/how-james-k-olson-morphed-50

James K. Olson Stabs In The Back While Hugging @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/james-k-olson-stabs-in-the

An Open Letter to The IRS About James K. Olson @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-the-irs

Not a Problem In Marin County, California @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/not-a-problem-in-marin-county

The Douchebag Report: Read It, You Thoughtless Little Pigs! @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-douchebag-report-read-it

You're a Socialite Whore Jim Olson? That's So Cool! @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/youre-a-socialite-whore-jim

Not All of Men's Affairs Are For Just Sex or Even Love @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/not-all-of-mens-affairs-are

Unknowlingly Sleeping With the Enemy James K. Olson @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/unknowlingly-sleeping-with-the

Secrets Among Us, Marin County, CA's James K. Olson @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/secrets-among-us-marin-county

James K. Olson and Novato, CA Police Department @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/james-k-olson-and-novato-ca

Heroes Among Us, Twin Cities California Police @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?q=olson&start=20

James K. Olson April 4, 2007 Love Letter to Reno Wife @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?q=olson&start=20

Anatomy of A Bigamist, James K. Olson @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/anatomy-of-a-bigamist-james-k

Insurance Fraudsters Among Us, James K. Olson @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/insurance-fraudsters-among-us

Defining a Good Man James K. Olson Doesn't @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/defining-a-good-man-james-k

Hell of a Way to Treat Your Wife James K. Olson @ http://renomortgagefraudexposes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hell-of-a-way-to-treat-your

http://www.buddytv.com/tvshow2/tvshowcomments.aspx?parent=%2farticles%2fbig-love%2fbill-paxton-talks-about-his-ch-7075.aspx&cid=7075&csid=1&hosturl=%2farticles%2fbig-love%2fbill-paxton-talks-about-his-ch-7075.aspx&numcomments=50

Brandon Darby: Hero Or Provocateur? @ http://paris.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4466

http://newsbusters.org/node/12300

http://www.sfweekly.com/2006-10-25/news/the-double-life-of-john-leary

http://newsbusters.org/node/9216

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976740077

http://tvcocktail.ivillage.com/entertainment/archives/2007/06/big-love-recap-june-11-2007.html

http://www.backtype.com/url/digg.com%252fusers%252fCraigBerkeley/comment/22354894

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/el-cerrito-ca/T25HTNHR7ACCE6CSV

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The Dirty Little Secret of Ballroom Dance

The dark side of ballroom dance for women and the bright side of it for men.

Ballroom dance is not as gloriously depicted on Dancing With The Stars. It’s dirty little secret is that men do ballroom dance for sex and money and women do it to get a husband. With more than a dozen women for every male, the odds favor the men. Men quickly figure it out and soon sleep with every woman there, successfully playing on her hopes of snagging a husband. That’s not just the single men, so do the married men. Like a condemned woman, she seizes for her hope any man. Therefore, women advertise that if a man doesn’t have something nice to say about his wife, “come dance with me.”

The instructors never teach ballroom dance. Instead, they only teach the men and women to take more lessons. The male instructors have the added benefit to the sex they get of also being paid for their “lessons.” Men quickly learn to “practice” with the women. The result is the incident of sexually transmitted diseases is extraordinarily high in the ballroom dance world. Another result is because ballroom dance attracts male sexual predators, they prey on the women desperate for a husband. Therefore, there is a high level of physical and emotional abuse in relationships with a man who ballroom dances.

Men are never as good of a dancer as the women because they know they do not have to be. Women who marry a man they met in the ballroom dance world think they have won a victory. However, the women soon find it was a Pyrrhic one.

First, if he does marry one of the women dancers, he still sleeps around. Second, because he knows how desperate the women are for a husband, and that women literally run up to the men to dance with them, he knows he can get away with mistreatment to the women. Third, men in the ballroom dance world usually have secrets. Like they’re married, sometimes twice at the same time. Alternatively, they’re a cross-dresser (ya think with the wardrobe and those costumes!) Or, they’re bisexual. Or, they’re gay. Or yes, they live in some rich place, but forget to tell her on a boat, a very small one, or in a trailer. Fourth, men who have figured out the benefits of the ballroom dance racket will commit Elder Abuse on the widows and single women by isolating her. They will flatter her, all the while fleecing her out of every dime as she pays for everything. First, she pays for his dance shoes. Next, it’s his dance lessons. Then it’s his wardrobe. Then he’s “borrowing” money from her. He buys her gifts. Too late she finds out he charged it to her account. Then he moves in with her but she pays for everything. Soon he gets her to elope to oh so romantic Lake Tahoe there getting married with a Confidential Marriage Certificate, a dubious offer at best and a hollow victory for her. She then puts his name on the free and clear house(s) and car(s) and the bank account(s). Then starts her downward slide. The now former dance partners square off as he then divorces her. He gets half of everything as she co-mingled everything into community property. More often than not, he even gets alimony. All along, he’s been sleeping around by saying his wife just doesn’t support his dancing, successfully repeating his pattern time and again. Then he’s on to his next victim, who he’s already had a covert operation going with.

So women, do ballroom dance and you’ll get your heart broke, your bank account emptied, broken bones and teeth, sexual diseases and lose your home and future. Men, run, do not walk, to the nearest ballroom dance. Sex, money and never having to work again is your reward. In the San Francisco Bay Area it’s: The Metronome, The Pavilion, The Starlight, and the City of Novato Parks and Recreation.

Copyright © 2008 Joan W reprinted with permission.

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Comments:

VeroniqueChevalier: Oh, my dear. This is just absolutely appalling! I hope that you are not one of the unfortunate ladies who lived these abuses personally. Thank you for writing this article. If it saves just one other woman from heartache, you will have done a great public service.

Kerry: I'd heard that about ballroom. It even looks sleazy on tv.

Lois: I agree with Joan. Over the years it sure seems the male teachers and male dancers had an affair with every woman at the dances. The men never mention they're married or have a girlfriend. Or they tell me they're separated. Look at Steve Rebello and Jim Olson and how many affairs and marriages they've had over the years they've successfully trolled the dances. It is difficult to compete just to dance when too many women literally do run up to the men who all a man has to do is show up at a dance. He can be fat, short, balding, married, ugly, smell, old or any combination of, and the women still run up to him vying to dance with him. As for the community college classes in ballroom dance, those teachers are the worst. Those classes are taught on the non-credit side. So those teachers have no credentials to teach nor does the college do a background check on them. Those community college teachers are like the ones at a city's recreation departments. These "teachers" submit their "proposal" and then get half of the "tuition" brought in by the "students" that attend. These community college teachers and recreation department teachers are not good enough to teach at a legitimate dance studio. The result is the community college and recreation department dance teachers teach you only to memorize a series of steps rather than to dance. The legitimate dance school instructors do not consider the community college or recreation department dances classes to be "quality." They consider them to be junk and find that "students" from those classes are a danger on the dance floor to themselves and to other dancers, as they recklesly attempt their memorized steps with no thought to floorcraft, timing, their partner or the other dancers. As for venues to go dancing, yes there are. However, there are a dozen women for every man. So the men get all the dancing, not the women. Ballroom dance is a racket and a sleazy one at that.

Credo: An unorthodox but fascinating topic for sure, can’t say that I ever knew about the jungle dance fever issues. This proves that there are stranger things in life than appears in books and fairy tales.

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Ron: Right on Credo! If you can’t hang with the big dogs, stay on the porch I snarl my opinion of ballroom dance. Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way. Joan, get a backbone. Stop running up to the guys as if you’re some desperate whore peddling sex. Then you’ll start getting some respect. I entered into, and remain in, ballroom dance solely for one fact. It’s a connivance that sexually benefits me as a male. “Too much aggression is dangerous, but, then so is too little,” is from George R. Elder’s An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism. The first time, of hundreds of times to follow, a dozen or so women ran up to me at a ballroom dance, was intoxicating to me. I was dumfounded as they dragged me onto the dance floor, and then later into their beds. As I sorted it all out, I came to some conclusions. One conclusion I came to was the young ones were just looking to get pregnant with a claim on me for child support for the next twenty years. That’s when I got the vasectomy. Came in handy later when girls tried to nail me down as the contributor of the sperm that had gotten them knocked up. A second conclusion I came to was that the older women wanted to stake their husband claim on me. For some reason, women equate sex with marriage. That’s when I started telling women I did not love ‘em ‘cause those tramps and sluts certainly did not love me. A third conclusion I came to was that the younger women were great for quickies as their getting pregnant, not their orgasm, was their goal. A fourth conclusion I came to, was that the older women were much more grateful for an orgasm. That made my getting off even better as it was usually simultaneous with hers. Therefore, I evolved a system. “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another,” wrote William Blake, poet. To me that meant that I will not pay homage to any woman that runs to me. Why should I? I didn’t create the ballroom dance system. I don’t whine as I benefit from it. I don’t promise the women dancers anything. They want to pay for my dance lessons, clothes, meals, and dance camps, that’s okay with me. My system includes that I never lie to the female dancers. I’m not married, don’t want to be. I’m not a daddy, don’t want to be. I live alone, plan to stay that way. I’m not a cross-dresser, gay, or bi-sexual. I’m partial to the missionary position. I’m not into bondage. I do not require vinyl or leather or rubber to get off as so many of the male “dancers” do. I own my own home free and clear. I have a Masters degree. I have a pension. I’m looking to be laid, not become a better dancer. We go to her house not mine. I don’t pretend to be a ballroom dance instructor. When I was younger, it was seven times a week with seven different women as I couldn’t that many times with just one or two women. I’m quite a bit older now, so I’ve slowed down to four times a week with four different women although with a new female dancer on the scene I’m usually up for a fifth time that week. I’ve had STDs more times than I’ve cared to. In the thirty or so years I’ve been in the ballroom dance world, no woman has not run up to me. The day I meet a woman who does not run up to me at a dance, then spends five or so years investing her time with me with no sex, her leading by becoming and being my friend, who learns to love me as me, accepts me as I am, who develops a shared history with me so she knows all about me and still loves me, is the only woman I will follow, fight to win and marry. That is the only woman I will respect and love with fidelity, until death do us part. I would not share her with anyone; therefore, I would become a better dancer just for her. We would dance only with each other, and only in private, for the sheer pleasure of it, rather than to show off at a public dance. This “loves2dance” Broo “reader” with their asinine “comments” and “na” in their bio is a sicko jokester and an even sicker shill with their fako Broo name. There is no ballroom dance class taught anywhere in the Bay Area as an academic credit class. Duh. “loves2dance” is one of those non-credit male community college self-titled “ballroom dance instructors.” Or, even worse, a male recreation department self-titled “ballroom dance instructor.” A reject aka pervert aka watches himself in the mirror at the public ballroom dances. He hypocritically holds himself morally above the rest of us while he hides his own sex trolling cross-dressing double life. The type Joan wrote about.

Craig B: When Dancing With The Stars first came out I asked my wife if ballroom was something she was interested in us doing. She gave me that long cool direct look she had so perfected many years ago and flatly and dryly said “I catch you doing that ballroom dancing and you’ll be lucky if all I break is your leg.” Ouch. My wife just slugged my arm, saying “Don’t go getting any ideas Bubba.”

Morgana: Ballroom dance is notorious for its own vulgarity. Ron Montez, 7-Time (1979-1985) undefeated US Latin Ballroom Dance Champion says: “The man’s role is to frame and to circle and to present his partner. For that reason I dislike men’s see-through shirts intensely.” His wife Karla adds, “It takes away from the masculinity that we need to keep other viewers looking at this sport. Ron continues, “I prefer couples who along with technical mastery, have a good rapport and genuinely seem to be enjoying dancing with one another. It’s a very delicate balance. Some are too much into one another, like a social dance, and some are too into performing and doing a ham dance!” I add to that the “dancers” who incessantly watch themselves in the mirror.

Ballroom dance is also famous for discrimination as it is predominately young, white and not disabled. In All Kids Are Our Kids, Peter L. Benson writes “ . . . the cancerous spread of age segregation, in which adults and children go their separate ways. The architect and design of communities and neighborhoods isolate families, and virtually every program and institution is organized to meet age-specific needs at the expense of the richness of intergenerational community. The public perception of danger and the rise of mistrust freezes connectedness and undermines community.” In accordance with Executive Order 11246, Title VII Civil Rights Act (1964) as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972; Title IX Regulation Tool Education Amendments of 1972; Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans With Disabilities Act; the 1991 Civil Rights Acts, and all other federal and state rules, laws, regulations and policies concerning nondiscrimination, ballroom dance is supposed to be nondiscriminatory on the basis of sex, age, race, color, religion, handicap, or national origin.

Ballroom dance also rips off musical artists. Music, Archival Sound Recording and Synchronization licensing requirements apply to all ballroom dance studios, dance instructors, dance operators, dance associations, dance clubs, dance bands, dance DJs, dance organizers, municipal recreation departments who have music in their classes, non profits who have music in their classes, etc. The article in the San Francisco BrooWaha Feasting At The Public Trough missed mentioning the fact that municipal recreation departments are also required to obtain copyright permission for the music used in their programs. That is more feasting at the public trough as it is another unfair economic benefit at the public expense and is another detriment to artists as dozens of music artists are repeatedly deprived of lawful income as a result, another dirty secret.


“Teaching for pay makes an amateur a professional,” according to the United States Dance Sport Eligibility Committee. For several years now, the cities of Reno & Sparks, Nevada and Washoe County, Nevada has all required finger printing and police cards for their instructors of programs involving youth under the age of 18, and One Million Dollars in liability insurance. Washoe County, Nevada also requires accreditation from a member organization of the National Dance Council of America (NDCA), city, county and state business licenses, and BMI, ASCAP & SESAC music performance licenses from their dance instructors and that their instructors pay business and personal income taxes on their revenues, like any legal business owner. These requirements eliminated many of the "instructors."

jake strong: Joan's article seems like an expression of her pain, full of absolutes about male dancers. The human condition is ripe with vulgarity, abusers, womanizers, hustlers, hookers and pimps. Some people are users and others are victims. Surely all this activity is not limited to the world of ballroom dancing.

I am a Lindy -hop dancer and an amateur ballroom dancer. Dance is senuous by nature. The physical contact feels great as two bodies move to a rhythm. Many good leads are also musicians and dancing is a real time expression of a great blues, or jazz song. I dance because it puts me in the moment and pushes away worries about stocks, divorce, and the state of humanity.

When I Lindy-hop and blues dance, women half my age ask me to dance. We will have a sexy blues dance, thank each other and move on to the next partner. I suppose the young girls are using me for a dance. So be it!

More drunken sex would occur after Friday happy hour at the local watering hole than at the dances I attend. Dance is a conversation. The ladies are sober. Some are sexy and some are athletic and fun. Can you get laid as a male dancer? I should hope so. You already have her in your arms and women love men who make an effort to dance. But dance is a community; people know each other and reputations must be maintained.

I would like to have a beer with Ron. He could enlighten me on his Machiavellian techniques to use women at his leisure. Perhaps I can find a lady to take care of me and pay me to dance? According to Joan-because I actually like to be nice to women-I should make a great catch compared to the mutts she writes about. It sounds better than hustling stocks. I apparently have no idea of the power I hold in my dancing feet. Ace Bigelow dance/stock gigolo.

My experience at a chain ballroom studio was a money hustle. Divorced women spending their alimony seemed common. All the instructors would flirt shamelessly but were not allowed to date students. My lady teachers made me feel like a million dollars. Unfortunately they cost a substantial percentage of that million. I wish I could afford them. Sleaze is everywhere. Is it more prevalent in ballroom dancing? Perhaps, but dancing lends itself to high quality, clean fun.

Growing up in a church, I would prefer dancing sleaze to church sleaze. There is more action between the pastor and some lonely woman counseling for a divorce, than there is at a big city Lindy dance in the heart of Chicago. Go to Fizz nightclub Monday nights in Chicago. You will find the best Lindy-blues-balboa dancers in the city. There are couples, singles, and people about to meet. The leads and follows are there for a great dance. Most people have many dance partners for the evening. If someone meets the man or woman of their dreams, all the sweeter. The scene however is social and dance till you drop.

Lucy Ong: A similar thing happened to me as the author describes here. Since that terrible experience, I no longer have anything whatsoever to do with ballroom dancing. I met a nice man, at the library. We are now in a committed relationship. If he ever has anything to do with the ballroom dance racket, that'll be the immediate end of our relationship.

How James K. Olson Morphed 50 Cent Steak Knives Into $16,667 Apiece

I had left them out so my wife was again reading the court papers of this Marin County, California James K. “Jim” Olson. “Craig,” she called out, “did you read this about the steak knives?” This Marin County, California teacher James K. “Jim” Olson had put a lot of craziness into his numerous court filings but steak knives did not immediately come to my mind. I replied, “No, but there’s a lot of crazy stuff he’s put in a lot of paperwork.” My wife continued “Steak knives. A half dozen of them bought at the San Rafael Good Will thrift store for fifty cents a piece.” Shaking her head, and saying, “that poor woman,” my wife handed me the paperwork. I read them.

In the fourth divorce filing from the same wife, this James K. “Jim” Olson’s divorce court papers have that Olson had his happy to be a well-paid scum attorney write an extensive brief to the court for why he should get custody of the community’s steak knives. This James K. “Jim” Olson’s incredible, lame, dumb, petty argument boiled down to that, his wife is a vegetarian so she doesn’t need steak knives.

I started laughing after reading that. My wife was still shaking her head. “This guy is petulant and mentally sick. He has zero mercy and 100 percent cruelty. He repeatedly paid a lawyer who was more than happy to take unethically the community's money to write and file this kind of petty garbage into the public records. He was deliberately and cruelly using the courts to further emotionally abuse his wife. He keeps recycling the same arguments for why he was divorcing her in all of his four divorce filings, while then turning around and reconciling four times with her. Marriage to him is not about love, but about control and punishment.”

My wife’s of course right. This divorce filing with its contemptible and hot-headed demand for custody of the community’s six steak knives worth a total of all of $3.00 was the fourth James K. “Jim” Olson had done from the same wife that he had now reconciled with three times before, and would again in this fourth divorce filing. By this time, Mr. James K. “Jim” Olson had spent an astonishing more than a $100,000 in attorney fees in these four divorce filings from the same wife. Cora Lancelle is still a lawyer in Marin County, and she was so correct about this James K. “Jim” Olson when she was poking fun at him in Judge Michael Dufficy’s court in 1995. “Not surprising” I said. “This is the guy that according to his own court papers, had deliberately seduced his wife to get her college class schedule and then had her served in her college class for his third divorce filing against her.”

Molly’s eyes teared over, “This Jim Olson has so much willful cruelty.” My wife then said, “I don’t get why the Marin County School District kept covering up for this dangerous joker. That would never have happened in my school district. He would have been immediately and permanently bounced from ever being a teacher back with that 1991 scandal with Cindy, his Dominican College student-teacher.”

I agreed and wondered aloud why Judge Michael Dufficy had allowed the repeated blatant abuse in his court and had not sanctioned Mr. James K. “Jim” Olson and his lawyer. My wife said, “First, women in Marin County were treated then, and still are, as second-class citizens. Second, being dishonest and immoral is what Marin County is all about. This horrible Jim Olson and his hideous lawyer then knew that and successfully exploited that. Jim Olson has gotten away with debauchery for so long he believes his evil. His lawyer today, this lying Steven Schoonover, also knows that dishonest and immoral is what Marin County is all about and successfully exploits that. If you can’t beat them or join them, you get the hell away from them. I think that’s what Jim Olson’s wife was doing when she left Marin County and moved to Reno. Because she is honest and moral and above all has compassion for others, most especially for this Jim Olson, I suspect she just wanted the hell away from those that are otherwise. Isn’t that why we left Marin for Santa Rosa, and then eventually moved to Reno?”

“Man, I Miss Groovy Berkeley,” I said.

“So do I Craig,” Molly wistfully smiled back at me. “You were a good man then and you are a good man now. Keep writing the exposes, justice will be served.”

“In my lifetime?” I joked back.

“With the Internet, very likely,” Molly replied as she went back to reading more of Mr. James K. “Jim” Olson and his attorney’s smears and lies of Mr. Olson’s wife.

Flip Flop Rers Among Us, James K. Olson, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3630

Gun Controllers Among Us, Marin County California Courts, http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3749

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