Karl Rudder

Your persistence and skill in exposing the basic facts of this matter are worthy of careful review.

I am shocked that Madoff wasn't ever caught before making off with $50 billion dollars! Those responsible for not having caught him earlier need to face a few charges of fraud.

12/20/08 Congresswoman Norton, Copy of my address to President Obama's campaign office in respect to affording Home Rule in DC is attached.Your recent efforts failed to allow Utah to gain a Republican seat in hopes that DC would in turn gain a more responsible seat in only the House of Representatives. I fear adding up the salaries of you and all of the members of your office and see exactly how much has been totally wasted during the many years of DC "delegates" effort to "represent" us. The theme of my brief testimony to DC Council Chair Gray at his hearing on "special education" on 12/12/08 was to motivate the DC Council to better provide tutorial workshops for DC parents and students and thus measurably expand the learning experience for DC youth beyond merely the school day. I will be forwarding copy of that testimony to your office. Please inform me on any effort that you have expressed on the national[ issue of improving the quality of education for American youth. I pray you will soon begin to help the majority of American and not just DC youth being given the same quality of education that President Obama's children will be receiving at the Sidwell Friends School. "I know you may have read what I wrote, however, what I doubt is whether you understood what I meant." David Plouffe Campaign Manager Obama for America Thank you for the email that provides several new resources for me to use in my support for the direction of change of the Obama/Biden administration. I am sure that you are aware that the residents of this nation's capital city have yet , just like all other American residents, to have an active representation in the House and the Senate nor do we have control of our own tax revenue. I have faith that President Obama will finally motivate Congress and the national news media to begin to address the national and not just local importance to the social, economic and political oppression of the residents of this nation's capital city. Please refer me to any staff of President Obama or Vice President Biden that will help the Obama/Biden administration to try and submit an amendment to the United States Constitution that will finally eliminate the need for the very expensive and insulting duties of the Senate and House DC Appropriations Committees. Karl Rudder 1309 Adams St. NE #4 Washington DC 20018 202-249-8083 P. S. - The private email service to Delegate Norton's office disallows me to submit copy of this address to her along with my being able to submit copy to Mayor Fenty and just a portion of the members of the DC City Council. Communication = Cooperation

12/20/08 Congresswoman Norton, Copy of my address to President Obama's campaign office in respect to affording Home Rule in DC is attached.Your recent efforts failed to allow Utah to gain a Republican seat in hopes that DC would in turn gain a more responsible seat in only the House of Representatives. I fear adding up the salaries of you and all of the members of your office and see exactly how much has been totally wasted during the many years of DC "delegates" effort to "represent" us. The theme of my brief testimony to DC Council Chair Gray at his hearing on "special education" on 12/12/08 was to motivate the DC Council to better provide tutorial workshops for DC parents and students and thus measurably expand the learning experience for DC youth beyond merely the school day. I will be forwarding copy of that testimony to your office. Please inform me on any effort that you have expressed on the national[ issue of improving the quality of education for American youth. I pray you will soon begin to help the majority of American and not just DC youth being given the same quality of education that President Obama's children will be receiving at the Sidwell Friends School. "I know you may have read what I wrote, however, what I doubt is whether you understood what I meant." David Plouffe Campaign Manager Obama for America Thank you for the email that provides several new resources for me to use in my support for the direction of change of the Obama/Biden administration. I am sure that you are aware that the residents of this nation's capital city have yet , just like all other American residents, to have an active representation in the House and the Senate nor do we have control of our own tax revenue. I have faith that President Obama will finally motivate Congress and the national news media to begin to address the national and not just local importance to the social, economic and political oppression of the residents of this nation's capital city. Please refer me to any staff of President Obama or Vice President Biden that will help the Obama/Biden administration to try and submit an amendment to the United States Constitution that will finally eliminate the need for the very expensive and insulting duties of the Senate and House DC Appropriations Committees. Karl Rudder 1309 Adams St. NE #4 Washington DC 20018 202-249-8083 P. S. - The private email service to Delegate Norton's office disallows me to submit copy of this address to her along with my being able to submit copy to Mayor Fenty and just a portion of the members of the DC City Council. Communication = Cooperation

Expanding the Tutorial Skills of Parents vs Hiring the "Bill or Rights Organization" The most impressive means of providing better quality education for DC students will be to very openly develop the tutorial skills of parents, especially for elementary school students, and allow DC youth to receive more frequent, positive and skilled tutorial assistance from their parents and concerned community adult neighbors during this entire upcoming school year. It is only a myth that a child can become educated only within the hours of 9am -3pm. A child will not learn how to walk, speak, or even learn how to go to the bathroom without continuous practice. We all know this yet too many have resigned the academic development of too many children to only what the child can possibly experience during the school day. There only being 4 report cards for the entire school year will continue to fail to develop a strong team effort between parents and teachers. The ability of parents, teachers and school administrators to cooperate will be determined by their ability to communicate. Designing 8 if not monthly exchanges between teachers and parents will more than double the current effort and the level of success of exchanges between parents and teachers for the benefit of DCPS students. Parents, especially of elementary school age children, are in need of developing positive experiences at home for their children. A positive academic peer influence can be achieved so easily by having parents working with each other in providing their children and their children's friends. The frequent efforts to develop the academic study skills and better develop their reading, spelling, having good handwriting and basic writing skills will produce many responsible and happy students. How can a child learn to compute fractions, decimals and compute basic algebra and geometry when they have yet to confidently express a skill in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing whole numbers? The coordinated efforts of the many churches in DC, just a fraction of the thousands of college students in their junior or senior years of undergraduate study and any graduate student as well as many of the proud graduates of the DC Public Schools must form the army that will help many of the youth in DC during this entire school year. DC Public Schools require each senior to express "community service" in order to graduate. I know several can be trained,properly supervised and come to impressively provide service for many of their little brothers and sisters at neighboring elementary and possibly a few junior high school students during the course of this new school year. "Are you part of the problem or part of the solution ?" Malcolm X

Expanding the Tutorial Skills of Parents vs Hiring the "Bill or Rights Organization" I respect your choice to research and express your support for a corporate interest to be granted a contract to provide a structured curriculum. The most impressive means of providing better quality education for DC students will be to very openly develop the tutorial skills of parents, especially for elementary school students, and allow DC youth to receive more frequent, positive and skilled tutorial assistance from their parents and concerned community adult neighbors during this entire upcoming school year. It is only a myth that a child can become educated only within the hours of 9am -3pm. A child will not learn how to walk, speak, or even learn how to go to the bathroom without continuous practice. We all know this yet too many have resigned the academic development of too many children to only what the child can possibly experience during the school day. There only being 4 report cards for the entire school year will continue to fail to develop a strong team effort between parents and teachers. The ability of parents, teachers and school administrators to cooperate will be determined by their ability to communicate. Designing 8 if not monthly exchanges between teachers and parents will more than double the current effort and the level of success of exchanges between parents and teachers for the benefit of DCPS students. Parents, especially of elementary school age children, are in need of developing positive experiences at home for their children. A positive academic peer influence can be achieved so easily by having parents working with each other in providing their children and their children's friends. The frequent efforts to develop the academic study skills and better develop their reading, spelling, having good handwriting and basic writing skills will produce many responsible and happy students. How can a child learn to compute fractions, decimals and compute basic algebra and geometry when they have yet to confidently express a skill in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing whole numbers?

Thank You Jennifer. I had opportunity to meet a sincere gentleman yesterday with a background in developing computer skills. I am looking forward to coordinating with him a training program for the junior high school and senior high school students in responsibly developing their typing, writing and overall computer operating skills that the youth of today MUST have.

The DC, MD and VA news media "report" on the quality of education being given to local youth as if it's only a local concern rather than it being a national crisis. It is critical that the 9am - 3pm school day is expanded by providing positively rewarding tutorial services for the benefit of all kgn. - 12th grade students rather than merely debate on what schools will be or won't be closed. To insist on only providing four "report cards" and four opportunities for parents to meet with the teachers of their children is as practical as buying a dollars worth of gasoline. My point is that your child will only go so far with such a rare occasion for teachers to meet with parents. As the school year is ending it is time now to develop the confidence of parents and concerned adults in being able to develop their tutorial skills so that they can be more active in making sure that elementary school children will maintain if not develop more basic academic skills in reading, writing and computing math during the course of the summer. A sincere effort at helping junior and senior high school students cannot be developed unless we take care of the academic needs of our 2nd, 3rd, 4th,5th and 6th grade students. Truly coordinated services can even help responsible junior and senior high school students to perform tutorial services at the library or under the supervision of their own parents or the parents of children in their community. Positive peer pressure can prove to be the magic formula so long as it is properly supervised. Such an effort will develop the academic output of many junior and senior high school children. Right now the average American child "graduates" from elementary school without having mastered a 6th grade level of skill in reading, writing and computing basic math. Don't hold your breath until the news media shares such a basic fact with you. Should such a fact be "reported" I am willing to bet that it will be a quicky "report" that won't be able to compete with the effort given to make sure we all know what Senator is arrested for trying to pick up an undercover cop in an airport. "What we have here is a failure to communicate." I will be doing my best between now and June to contact all local Parent Teachers Association or any organizations that are interested in providing workshops for parents in building their tutorial skills for the benefit of their children. It is now time for the many proud graduates of the DC, MD and VA public schools to coordinate themselves and begin to be an Army of positive influence in helping their little brothers and sisters attending the schools that they had once attended. Can the parents and concerned adults of the DC, MD and VA area prove to be the role model for Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia and the many other major cities in these "United" States of America? Please indicate your success at contacting the Education Dept. of any local University to your community and stimulate and coordinate any graduate students if not Professors who will be willing to provide a few hours of their time in providing a few workshops during May and June to develop the tutorial skills of parents as well as concerned adults during the course of this summer. Many a child can return to school in September with big smiles on their faces and with a renewed level of energy at meeting their upcoming academic assignments should they have experienced a comfortable academic tune up during the course of this summer. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, will be to begin to better employ yourself at helping your local youth do better in school. DC, MD and VA political bureaucrats will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

January 8, 2008 Besides being the only major city in this entire country that is not actively represented in Congress and has control over its own tax revenue the District of Columbia is also the only major city in this entire world not using some modern version of a meter to equitably compute taxicab fares and used as a reliable means to record and tax the income of the local Taxicab Industry. Despite the success for the past 76 years by the shallow efforts of politrickcians, reporters and supporters of the very unique DC taxicab zone system fare structure it is essential that DC residents, taxicab drivers and tourists no longer be insulted and only be further brainwashed into believing that the continued use of a very unique taxicab zone system or a meter in DC taxicabs is merely an issue of popularity. The DC news media reported on 12/26/07 on the efforts of supporters of the zone system to soon publish the results of their conducting a "poll" among DC residents and taxicab drivers in regards to their view of Mayor Fenty's decision to install meters in DC taxicabs. Before hearing and assigning any merit to the results of any upcoming poll among DC residents in concern of the use of the zone system or the meter in DC taxicabs let us first ask how many DC residents or DC taxicab drivers knew that: 1) DC initially had used meters and that the zone system has been in operation for 76 years despite the fact that it wasn't ever approved. 2) The unique DC taxicab zone fare system had been denied for 20 reasons by the DC Public Utilities Commission? (Public Utilities Commission order no. 956 11/6/31) 3) They can call the Public Service Commission and ask for a free copy of DC Public Utilities Commission order no. 956. 4) The denial of the zone system to replace meters in DC taxicabs was upheld by Judge Adkins ruling, "The zone system is only a means to exploit the labor of the driver?"(PUR 1932C pgs.17.19) and Judge Adkins decision had been upheld by the DC Court of Appeals. 5) Every major city in this world uses a meter to equitable compute local taxicab fares as well as a reliable means to record the income of local taxicab companies and drivers as well as a reliable means to compute the tax revenue that was due from every local taxicab company and driver.

May I ask "Human" if you are seriously allergic to being clear on what you are talking about? What paper are you referring to and asking me "WHERE in your paper do you site ANY legislative zoning laws? Contain your hopes because the name that I respond to is Karl not "Honey" or "Karil" as you have strangely tried to express to me either through a lack of typing skills or hope that I will be impressed by your referring to me as being "Honey". Why did you leave this issue under the title concerning the Turkish Chief ? Surely you can't be talking about my paper available on google.com under the title, "Karl Rudder's Blog" - The Unchallenged DC Taxicab Fare Structure provides the best copy of my research - that specifically referred to DC Public Utilities Commission order no. 956 that had denied," any version of the zone system to replace the use of meters in DC taxicabs." Call the Public Service Commission and ask for your free copy of that document. That will greatly help you begin to study and get to know what you are talking about. Your most recent address to me then went on to express meaningless rhetoric of what you "know". Let me make the point again that in order to "know" anything that you will need to first express an effort at studying it? What specific issue did you ever study before you came to "know" anything about it? Your ability to answer that question will graduate your conversation at me to being far more of being able to be with me! Take your time and organize yourself before you attempt to address me again. There must be a clear beginning, middle and end to whatever you are trying to compose. I began this address to you by asking just what are you referring to. Right now I do not have the slightest idea of what you are referring to and from what you wrote I doubt that you can confidently refer specifically to whatever paper that I wrote that you are now attempting to challenge. My confidence in the organized manner in which I have always addressed the unique and corrupt DC taxicab zone system allows me to be certain that you can't possibly be talking about my address to the DC Taxicab Zone System. Please ask a friend of yours to come over and help you learn how to copy/paste the material that you are were atempting to refer to for the sake of clarity should you ever again try and address and attempt to challenge me on something that I have written about in respect to "zones". I know you may have read everything that I have just written. What I seriously doubt (remains unknown) is whether you realize that what you read is not at all what I had meant. There are many elements in this world that remain unknown! 2c + 19 = 3 + 4c Fortunately a sincere effort will reveal if not clearly define many elements of the unknown.

Luke, As the residents of Washington DC gain political rights in this country I think it will be essential that our fellow Americans learn how to begin to specifically refer to what aspect of the legislative, administrative or judicial aspect of the Federal government is at fault in respect to their manner of approach to an issue. You seem to agree and yet insisted that , "we have the right to freely speak about what we think should have been done." Calm down. I never denied you any aspect of your freedom of speech. My point is that there are very few political issues that are simple and the worst thing we can do is further complicate an issue by not even being able to responsibly and specifically refer to it. In my view, your rambling on and on about various issues of what you think Norton is all about and who Mayor Fenty endorsed as a candidate for being the next President of this country does not have the slightest thing to do with the international politics of this country. I trust you are aware that it clearly appears that this new day brings a new area of controversy for Hillary. This new area of controversy may well dismiss your speculation on her being able to be nominated as the Democratic nominee to be the next President. Our challenge to effectively address any element of local, national or international politics will begin by our skill in being able to be organized and clearly identify exactly; 1) what we are talking about, 2)who is in need of better address to a specific issue,3) when that address should be expressed,4) how that issue is in need of being corrected and 5)why an address to that issue is so urgent. Of course being able to clearly refer to where that issue is being expressed will allow all of us to know clearly whether the issue is of local, national or international importance. Your analysis of what you think someone had meant to refer to is in need of being replaced by having that person, all by themselves, clearly address a specific issue. Doctors go to medical school and then must choose an area to specialize in just like mechanics, architects, computer specialists and every other profession. Our mission, should we decide to accept it, will be to clearly identify and address an issue of local, national if not international, social, political or economic concern and do our best to address it without talking about Sen. Craig. You may have read what I wrote. Do you understand what I meant?

I think I need another translation from Mr. Wilbur or someone else because I fail to understand the point or the elements of support to your composition. Slow down, don't move too fast. You've got to make your message last. A common referral to Washington is no longer acceptable by Karl. It is time for all of us to improve our spelling skills, typing skills and confidence in knowing that when you are actually referring to irresponsible Congressional action or the ridiculous acts of a President that it is essential to effective communication that you state just that and not employ a random referral to Washington. Your random referral to what kind of glasses you wear is meaningless unless you find it necessary to let me know that your lenses are 3/4 of an inch thick. "Oh, I see!",said the blind man.

The loss of American life in Iraq is a national if not an international issue Mr. Wilbur not a personal issue. Your ending your approach to this conflict, not war, with a personal challenge of my being able to provide the names of family members that I have fighting in Iraq is what I consider an element of a game that goes by the name of politricks. A very important element to the game of politricks is just how did "We the people" become not being an American citizen but rather being either a Democrat or a Republican. I will leave the terms "liberal" and "conservative" open for discussion. Your impression that the, "Demorcrats wants the United States to lose the war in Iraq" implies that you are under the impression that surely someone can win such a conflict. How would you define a "victory" in Iraq? Ireland, Israel and so many other locations of constant violence on this "civilized" planet await your response. From my being a native Washingtonian I will ask that you please refer to Congress or Bush and other specific terms rather than a loose referral to "Washington" in your reply.

I fail to see the point of your effort at addressing the topic of your composition. Your disorganized address to whatever you were trying to address, if not your very insulting referral to "Washington" completely overlooks the fact that the residents of the District of Columbia do not have control of their own tax revenue nor are actively represented in both the House and the Senate of the Congress of these "United" States. I do not consider such an oversight as a mere coincidence. Are you seriously concerned more about random international issues such as a country that you refer to as being "turkey" and you willfully will ignore the the social,political,economic oppression of the political rights of the residents of the District of Columbia? That is a specific question and please specifically respond to that issue rather than ramble around as you did with your far from researched reply to an issue concerning a Turkish Army Chief.

The racist taxicab service to the predominantly Afro-American population of DC needs to be openly examined and eliminated. The unique DC taxicab zone system is everyday insulting Afro-American residents being charged an additional zone fare due to nothing more than their need to cross 12th St. NE, 19th St. NE, South Dakota Ave NE, 42nd St. NE, Alabama Ave SE and many other zone boundaries in the residential areas of DC yet white people can employ a DC taxicab to pay little for traveling much longer distances in downtown and NW areas of the city. The potential use of a proposed "Meter Zone System" is continuing to insult the predominantly Afro-American residents of DC by the fact that regardless of the use of the term "Meter" the same zone system now in use will still be the basis on which DC taxicab fares will be computed by even a very misleading "Meter Zone System". The DC Taxicab Zone Fare System is not an equitable means to compute taxicab fares and for 75 years it has failed to serve as a reliable means to record and collect the tax revenue that is due for DC taxicab companies and drivers. Every other major city in this entire world respectfully provides quality taxicab service to their residents by using a meter to equitably compute the taxicab fare which is based on the actual cost of transporting a passenger from their point of origin to their point of destination. The ability to be able to reliably record and collect the tax revenue that is due from the earnings of taxicab companies and drivers is a very important reason why every major city in this world uses a meter to compute taxicab fares in their communities. Mayor Fenty is due very soon to answer to a Congressional order that he decide on installing meters in DC taxicabs or maintaining the use of the inequitable design of the very unique DC taxicab zone fare system. My address to Mayor Fenty as he was a member of the Public Works and the Environment Committee failed to stimulate him to address this issue in respect to the initial and still standing government and court decisions that had denied, "any version of the zone system to replace meters in DC taxicabs." More know about his recent address to an unfortunate fire to the Eastern shopping mall than they know of his review and address to the 75 years of an a unique and very corrupt DC Taxicab Zone Fare System. I am composing this address to DC City Council members due to my not anticipating Fenty to suddenly have his response to Congress to carry any responsible sense of duty and have him use such an opportunity to openly address the corrupt origin of the unique DC taxicab zone system fare structure. To attempt to assist DC City Council members and make up for the failure of any previous "study" on the feasibility of the DC taxicab zone system I will copy four sheets of data and distribute this essential data to every DC City Council member as well as to many DC residents, taxicab drivers and tourists. Believe it or not all previous efforts to "study" the DC Taxicab Zone Fare System completely failed to refer to the initial government and Court decisions that specifically denied, "any version of the zone system to replace the use of meters in DC taxicabs." In respect to the failure of all previous "studies" on the DC taxicab zone system I will distribute: 1) Copy of DC Public Utilities Commission order no. 956 that was issued on November 6,1931. This PUC decision listed 20 reasons to support their decision to."deny any aspect of the zone system to replace the use of meters in DC taxicabs." I will attempt to stimulate all 20 reasons of order no. 956 to be carefully be reviewed by circling and highlighting the numbers to reasons 3,4,5,6, 9,10,12,16,17 & 19 of PUC order no. 956. 2) Copy of a letter addressed to DC City Council member John Wilson on June 27, 1975. This letter for the first time since 1933 made a very quiet and brief referral to the fact that the Commission in 1931 had issued order no. 956,"requiring the installation of taximeters in District taxicabs." This letter refers to the fact that PUC order no. 956 had been affirmed by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and that the U.S. Court of Appeals had affirmed Judge Adkins decision. This letter then goes on to state to DC City Council member John Wilson in 1975 that, "However, in the meantime, Congress included language in the District of Columbia Appropriations Act for FY 1933,47 Stat.343, which prohibited the expenditure of funds appropriated by that Act for the purpose of requiring the installation of taxi meters." This document will prove that the unique DC Taxicab Zone System wasn't ever approved not did Congress ever attempt to overrule any court decisions. Congress played a legislative game and only through the insulting DC Appropriations Act did Congress disallow the DC government to even discuss installing meters. 3) Copy of the very revealing Washington Post editorial for November 13,1971 that was entitled, "The Taxicab Rider" that will expose the role of Rep. Cannon as being the author of the restrictive provision to the 1933 DC Appropriations Act. On the other side piece of this data will be copy of the September 7, 1996 Washington Post editorial that was entitled, "New Cab Fares--But Old Problems that will allow DC residents and tourists to know that the DC City Council had passed and Mayor Barry had actually signed a bill that required for all DC taxicabs to be installed with meters by Sept. 1, 1998. . 4) Copy of the 12/07/71 Washington Post article that was very responsibly entitled, "Ban on Taxi Meters In Force Since '32 Will Be Challenged." This article began by stating, "The prohibition of the use of taxi meters in Washington that has been attached to the D.C. Appropriations Act annually since the 1930's will be challenged this year for the first time anyone can remember." The article goes on to refer to, "John Rudder, president of the United Brotherhood of DC Taxi drivers told Inouye's panel, "The case for meters is so apparent that it begs the question of sanity to think otherwise." This article fails to refer to the fact that an effective strike by the Brotherhood of DC Taxi Drivers during rush hours at Union Station and in the Capital Hill area had been the element that produced those sudden Senate hearings of Sen. Inouye's DC Appropriations Committee. The other side of this page of data will carry copy of the September 8, 2007 letter to the editor of the Afro-American newspaper that I had composed that I had entitled, "Congressional Corruption of the DC Taxicab Industry." In my view, the common defense by supporters of the DC taxicab zone system that, "all DC taxicab companies and drivers as well as residents prefer the zone system over the use of the meter" is very insulting and is only able to be expressed due to the continued failure of national and local politicians as well as any aspect of the major news media to ever responsibly research and address the racist design and use of a very unique DC taxicab zone fare system. Fortunately this country eliminated slavery in America and was able to finally afford essential civil rights to women and Afro-American citizens by the strength of the principles of law that were involved in respect to those issues. It is important to respect that ending slavery in America, denying women and Afro-American citizens the right to vote, work or for American children to being able to go to school was never decided merely on the basis of who had or had not preferred such essential improvements in American society. My fortune in addressing the corrupt regulation of the DC Taxicab Industry is that the Truth may be hidden but it cannot be changed!