HOW TO AVOID FAMILY ESTATE QUARRELS

Nothing avoids family estate quarrels like a Living Trust Estate Plan. With no need to file with or process in the court, equal shares to all children, and a provision dis-inheriting anyone who files in court to contest the trust. Further “pour over” wills can be written to assure that assets pass as the Trust directed even, if the trust is defeated so that the probate court process must be used.

Will IRS enforce law against Planned Parenthood?

PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND TAX EXEMPT STATUS The U. S. Tax law of charities provides section 501(c)(3) charity status to nonprofit educational organizations.Recent news reports indicate Planned Parenthood has this charity status, but that it recently endorsed President Obama for President in the next election. IRS Code Section 501(c)(3) expressly prohibits any such charity from campaigning for any candidate for public office. Apparently we will soon see whether the IRS under President Obama will enforce this law as it has done strictly in the past and revoke the exempt status of Planned Parenthood, or whether Obama’s people will cause the IRS to wink at this violation – abusing the IRS powers as President Nixon was properly denounced for doing.

DOES PRISON DECREASE CRIME? In “Mass Incarceration Hasn’t Made Us Safer” [DesNews Apr 22, 2012] Jess Rigelhaupt: a) – claims incarceration does not decrease crime, but his only evidence is that crime in America rose steadily with incarceration, while some European nations saw incarcerations and crime rates rise less. No allowance for possibly laxer laws in Europe, poorer enforcement, or unreliable statistics. Legalized marijuana, heroin, etc. automatically decreases crime and incarceration. He further: a) – cites disproportionate numbers of blacks and Latinos in prison as proof they are being discriminated against. No mention of actual crime rates per race, or any studies of same; b) – claims illegal drug problems in rural areas exceed those in large cities, with no numbers to support that c) – claims because bigger proportionate numbers of whites than blacks sell illegal drugs as proof that more whites use them, proportionately; and without authority for the first “fact”. Much of his article seems prejudice, that is opinion without visible means of support.

DON'T RE-LAUNCH ASTRONAUTS PROGRAM

DON'T RE-LAUNCH ASTRONAUTS PROGRAM Charles Krauthammer and former moon astronauts believe (DesNews 4/22/12) America can’t afford discontinue manned space flights. We can understand hero astronauts over-stating their own importance but pundit Krauthammer gives little reason for his claim that America becomes a third rate nation because the shuttles quit flying. Why do we need to re-discover that the moon has sand and rocks just like the earth. Talk about colonies on the moon and sending someone to Mars simply lacks reason beyond the explanation of the mountain climber – it’s because "they are there". But those climbers didn’t cost the rest of us $billions. How many tens of thousands of babies’ lives in the third world could be saved by that kind of money added for their inoculations and medical health? I’m no Obama fan, but he got this one right. Krauthammer seems to welcome any limb out on which to climb to take shots at Obama.

Rhine castles, Nuremburg, Dachau

Anne and I had just returned day before from our 3 –day train tour beginning with the BD Shipping boat ride on the Rhine from _____ to Bacharach with a wonderful stop at Marksburg Castle for 3 hours -- the only medieval ages castle in Germany that is still as it was when built and improved over those years. It sits atop a high, wooded hill commanding a long curve in the river. Its floors, ramps, and multi-stairways are mostly carved right out of the rock of the mountain. One room has a collection of some eighteen full suits of armor used from 400 BC to 1500 AD and the guide popped one can-shaped helmet on the head of a boy and asked how he would like to fight from that.

The castle has a knights dining hall where a whole ox can be roasted with a notched wheel to turn it with – giving rise to the German expression “turn it up a notch”. It never suffered was capture, Napoleon and other armies passing it by rather than try to attack such a well-fortified castle on a high hill. The dungeon has a torture room with all the old devices you have nightmares about, including neck/wrist clamps, stretching bed with weights and chains, an iron mask and stocks, The toilet jutted out from the wall near the chapel, had a lock-able iron door because it was open beneath for the sewage to fall into the woods and was a weak spot for attacks. One could get stuck in there for some time if enemies were around, and they had a special knock signal to unlock the door.

The Rhine was the chief center of all commerce, and the multi-castles built along it testify to the greed of the various families contesting control. The city of Pfalz laid a huge chain across the river which prevented ships passing until they had paid the taxes. They became very wealthy from the taxes, Pope Pius the II demanded they be destroyed and inspired army to try, but Pfalz prevailed. We stayed the 1st night at Bacharach which has a seven tower Roman wall and vineyards on the steep hill surrounding it. Wine making and transporting dominated their economy then and now.

How different does Germany appear? Stuttgart stay.

GERMANY: most populous, largest economy of all the Eruo nations; What differences manifest in shor stay getting acquainted with the place & people:

a) not so friendly/outgoing as the Italians & Spanish

b) asking directions: some simply ignore you. Und ich spreche Deutsch fur fragen.

b) absence of chlldren and presence of smokers

c) highways better designed, maikntained -- more needful, more densely populated
Surprising when so many eschew auto owning, and bike.

d) subways/trains likewise generally superior.

e) restaurants: more pricey, smaller portions, rely on long stays many drinks

f) traffic, pedestrians more heavily regulatedm e,g.fines for standing w/ motor going, more tickets for not getting out of fast lane.

g) recycling like a religion. More critical w/ dense population.

h) houses (private, this neighborhood) sturdier, tighter, securer. Not nearly so convenient, many stairs - due to high land values.

i) racial diversity -- much more than formerly, still not approaching U.S.

"Visiting Solitude Schloss, Ludwigsburg, Germany

Carl Eugen's hunting lodge-become-palace circa 1750, overflows with real gold filigree, trim, brocade & furbelos. Huge; housed hundreds of guests, stabled 300 horses with hounds; separate ornate bedrooms for mistresses and for wife; heroic size paintings of family members, busts, ornate vases filling every room, wall and ceiling. Special rooms for gaming, sculpture, vases, throne, ladies' powder, balls, concerts, receptions, rallying the hunt, banquets. Duke Carl no doubt proud of his multi-million mark patronizing the arts. Notorious diletante, philanderer, horseman, dandy, who essentially bankrupted the dukedom with his extravagance. He had hidden passages opening inside the fireplace to hide the servants from view of the anointed.

This one of the largest and most famous roccocco style palaces in the German countries. Breathtaking its exterior beauty and setting atop a high hill; sweeping grounds and then the deep, luxuriant German woods. But not a room in which one could relax or feel comfortable -- too busy, bright, mirrored, golden, for the eye or spirit to find rest. For solitude, the woods alone far superior.

How would such an one report back to his maker -- what he did with what he was given, considering the poverty, disease, and starvation suffered regularly by thousands of his subjects.

Time's Tali Sharot on man's brain . . .woefully short.

Time magazine chimes in with another attempt to explain man’s character and tendencies by the physical structure and chemistry of brains. This and most of the popular science articles analyzing brains to understand man’s nature and tendencies, remind of the nothing so much as the ancient alchemists – each convinced that he could or would discover secrets of gold and how it is made.

Someone already made all these things, with unique attention to man, and the accounts of the making he has provided are so devoid of chemistry, physics or physiology as to put the thoughtful person on notice that the most important origins, elements and purposes of man do not appear in the test tube, the microscope, or the space probe.

Perhaps William Cowper said it best: “Blind unbelief is sure to err and scan his works in vain. God is his own interpreter and he will make it plain.” “Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” — I Corinthians 2:9.

Salt Lake County didn't play fair.

SALT LAKE COUNTY people led on a man who fell on their ice by helping him to an anambulance, and paying his medical bills for one year. At year end he had failed to give written notice of claim, relying on their promises, and they cut him off, just when he needed surgery. When we filed in court for him, they then moved to dismiss for failure to make the timely written claim. The judge ruled no dismissal, saying "The county cannot behave this way." See Website: mysandylawyer.com for more about personal injury recoveries.
Moral: It makes no difference whether you're a county or business, if you cheat a claimant, the court can set you straight.

JUST FOR FUN: IN Africa, every morning a gazelle awakens knowing that it must outrun the fastest lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning a lion wakes up knowing it must run faster than th slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
Moral: It makes no difference whether you are a gazelle or a lion: When the sun comes up you had better be hauling booty.

No difference whether you're a gazelle or a lion . . .

IN AFRICA, every morning a gazelle awakens knowing that it must outrun the fastest lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning a lion wakes up knowing it must run faster than th slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
Moral: It makes no difference whether you are a gazelle or a lion: When the sun comes up you had better be hauling booty.

IN SALT LAKE COUNTY We won $26,000 for a fall on ice and torn rotator cuff, despite our client's failure to make written demand within one year as the law requires. The County had paid medical expenses until the year expired, then said the claim was barred. The judge disagreed, castigating the county’s attorney for their trickery. See Website: mysandylawyer.com for more examples.
Moral: It makes no difference whether you're a county or an individual, if you cheat a claimant, the court can set you right.

How is your religious freedom being threatened?

We Americans rely firmly on the Freedom of Religion protected by the Constitution -- First Amendment, but that freedom (for the Judeo-Christian religions) is being threatened in insidious ways . . . even in the name of religous freedom.

"We are now entering a period of incredible ironies. Let us cite but one of these ironies which is yet in its subtle stages: we shall see in our time a maximum if indirect effort made to establish irreligion as the state religion. It is actually a new form of paganism that uses the carefully preserved and cultivated freedoms of Western civilization to shrink freedom even as it rejects the value essence of our rich Judeo-Christian heritage." -- —Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Meeting the Challenges of Today. October 10, 1978

Website: mysandylawyer.com

Time Magazine's Joe Klein -- on whose payroll?

Reading Joe Klein's current comment page in Time it occurs to me to wonder whose payroll Mr. Klein is on. He is always on the attack or the defense for President Obama. In this issue: against Israel PM Netanyahu for demurring from Obama's foot-in-mouth trial balloon that an Israeli solution should go back to the 1967 boundaries before the six days' war.
Whether the person is black, white, or Hispanic; domestic or foreign, Deomcrat or Republican, if he differs from Obama then Joe Klein is on his case. Is he discussing Republican possibles to run for president? -- It's all about what a poor field they have to choose from, comppared to Obama.
If Mr. Klein is not on the White House payroll he should be.
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In sea of Glass . . . a place for woods.

THE WILDERNESS

The ancient maple stands defrocked
a gatepost to the wildeness.
Strewn down the slope behind,
its leaves still patch the dying grass.

The hills crowd in, their bulk and dark
surround the canyon's winding way;
and autumn, timeless, coming here
creates its own unique display.

The fall - of leaves and temperatures
came here two thousand years or three,
while tree and owl and rabbit ruled,
and men came only fleetingly.

Yet since a Man created this,
and saw these hills and called them good,
I trust somewhere in sea of glass,
is place for rabbit, owl and wood.

--Edwin H. Beus

Obama -- Pusillanimous Pussy Footer of the year

What a strange mixture of cowardice and courage is President Obama. First he cowardly-wise does absolutely nothing at all about the immigration crisis for two years, even with his party in control of both houses, and he sues both Arizona and Utah for their efforts to fill the void. But then he has the courage to order the high-risk attack to kill Bin Laden.

Now, with his political equity soaring from the Navy seals’ success, he has the nerve to stand at the border with Mexico and claim credit for decreased border crossings which everyone should know are chiefly due to decline in available jobs from our limping economy. He mocks Republicans for what he terms a “moat-with-alligators” attitude, and says the public must pressure Congress for a worker-pass system.

What a stark contrast to President Bush who proposed, and labored long and hard for immigration reform including both a re-enforced border and a worker-pass system. No such hard labor for Obama – it’s up to the people and the Congress. I nominate Obama for the Pusillanimous Pussy Footer of the Year award.

What you should know about frog eggs in space

Fascinating article in the 5/8/11 DesNews about Hillcrest High’s “Scramble to get [African claw] frog eggs into space” raises again the critical citizenship questions. Will the tadpole be a U.S. citizen, a natural born citizen, a possible future president frog? Is the spacecraft under U.S. jurisdiction to make him a citizen automatically? What kind of birth certificate would he have, and could we trust it? Only Donald Trump knows for sure.

Is he a “natural born” citizen eligible to be president frog by reason of citizen parents? His family being African frogs raises serious questions of his parents’ citizenship. But perhaps the highest hurdle of all for him to clear is that his parents were undoubtably wetbacks. A large segment of the local population would never stand for a wetback-born president frog. My advice to Mr. Frog: forget about tangling with all these knotty American issues and run for president of the Solar System

I believe in Music – Swanees Concert

The Swanee Singers male chorus founded in 1948 will be in concert at 1750 E. Spring Lane, Salt Lake City, on our lucky Friday the 13th of May, 7:30pm -- admission free. Come enjoy the power and excitement men’s voices raised in song – jazz, spirituals, anthems, songs of the 20s; and my daughter Annalyn Beus Osborn’s soaring soprano in serious and comic performance. The Swanees directed by Dr. Jay Campbell and Bill Hesterman, continue a great choral tradition which included performing at LDS General Preissthood Meetings,and J. Sencer Cornwall among early conductors.

Global Warming crowd resemblels Galileso's persecutors

Mr. Gale (4/2/11 Des News) means well, but he errs when he concludes that man causes climate change (he means global warming), claiming that all scientists believe and only self-serving politicians don’t. He ventures far beyond his literary area of expertise. Many reputable scientists believe any global warming represents earth’s own cycles, not man’s actions. The know-it-all so-called scientists clamored in the ‘50s that we were suffering a disastrous global cooling trend – beginning a new ice age. They were wrong then too. Ironic how the man-is-central attitude of these supposedly enlightened ones resembles the attitude of those who persecuted Galileo for stating that the sun rather than the earth was center of the solar system. Both crowds dangerously over-inflate the place of man in affairs of the heavens.

A mother's day poem

MOTHER'S DAY OF HOPE
(For mother: Hope Beus)

To Mother on this mother’s day:
Where you have gone I cannot go,
send flowers, cards, or telephone.
It’s been foretold you see and know -

and often wince at our mistakes.
And I will add from knowing you,
you smile and pray for all our sakes.
For those are part of what you do.

You’re reverenced still in countless ways
To you this day I raise pean,
look forward to your charm again,
and cherish days with you – long gone.

Edwin

So, government shut-down coming up.

Martin and Buehner won't give in, Reid and Senate Demos won't either. Even our favorite Eloquent Ditherer Obama has gotten involved. Still little progress.
Republicans hope the monster national debt is so frightening even the general electorate will see need to hold firm until Dems agree to real cuts -- even with shut-down. Dems hope for shut-down and for public to blame the Repubs for it as being too extreme to justify, like they did last time -- even if the nation's finances go to hell in a handbasket.

Mohammed the last prophet?

In my recent visit with a Muslim believer from Jordan, he explained that he belileved Jesus was a prophet and that Mohammed was the last prophet. When I asked whether we needed prophets today, he said no, becaus Mohammed was the prophet for all people and for all time.
However, it has been pointed out that if one who lived in Noah's day satisfied himself he knew the law and the prophets before and therefore had no need to listen to Noah, that would not have saved him from the flood.
Similarly we must cope with floods of Satan's insidious attacks by way of drugs, pornography, abortion, and denigration of marriage, etc. Without the warning voice of a prophet we risk being overcome by the flood as were the people who would not listen to Noah.
You can have the very present comfort and guidance of the prophets of the living God by the simple flick of your remote today, on KSL Channel 5 at 10 am and 2 pm