Quote of the Day…02/08/10
The Bear on Feb 08 2010 | Filed under: Quote of the Day
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Constitutional Courts Are A Threat To Liberalism By: Christopher G. Adamo
The Bear on Feb 08 2010 | Filed under: Culture, Politics
The reverberations from Republican Senator Scott Brown’s Massachusetts election had barely subsided when an even greater shockwave was sent throughout the liberal world. On Thursday January 21, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that overturned major pillars of the McCain/Feingold campaign finance “reform” act, thereby reestablishing the ability of the people to express themselves freely during election time, and thus to publicly hold Washington accountable for its actions.
Of course such an outrage against the Ruling Class can never be allowed to stand, if its dreams of imposing the liberal agenda on the American people are ever to be realized. The most crucial component of any liberal program is a monopoly on the dissemination of information, and the success of every tinhorn dictator throughout history has hinged on controlling the voice of the opposition. So it comes as absolutely no surprise that Barack Obama is leading an attack against the Court, abetted by such leftists as Senator Charles Schumer (D.-NY)
High on the Democrat list of objectives in the wake of Obama’s inauguration last January was a reinstatement of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” which would ultimately subjugate the entire radio broadcast spectrum to the biases of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as the final arbiter of who gets to say what over the “public” airwaves.” It is not difficult to envision how this administration would wield such power against its critics in talk-radio. The ferocity of liberal reactions to the January 21 Court ruling tell the whole story.
Initially, the battle plan appears to be to discredit the Court’s decision. During his State of the Union speech, Obama specifically attacked the decision, making alarmist claims that it would result in a great infusion of “corporate cash” to influence American elections. Not surprisingly, this charge has been echoed by Schumer, who hysterically asserted that the “floodgates of special interest money,” meaning the unfettered voice of the conservative opposition, will henceforth “undermine our democracy.”
Also, during his State of the Union speech, Obama stoked phony concerns over the threat of foreign cash subverting the American electoral process. If the liberals were to be believed, this single court ruling casts doubts on the entire future of the nation. Yet once again, even a cursory examination of the historical facts proves quite the opposite.
Throughout the 1990s, the Clinton Administration engaged in obscene fundraising activities in which corruption, even including the obvious influence of foreign dollars, was rampant. The names Johnnie Chung, John Huang, James Riady were regularly heard in relation to dubious White House “coffees,” in which literal bags of laundered money were delivered in exchange for access to Bill Clinton.
During that same period, U.S. intelligence concluded that Chinese espionage had completely penetrated this nation’s security. Yet the Justice Department, under Attorney General Janet Reno, was deliberately slow to respond, and by its indifference, clearly telegraphed that it had no intention of getting to the truth.
Barack Obama’s shrill alarmism regarding the corrupting influence of corporate involvement in the electoral process would be comical, were his flagrant hypocrisy not so recognizable as evidence of complete contempt for the American people. Here is the man who, joined at the hip with ACORN, worked to construct a veritable revolving door for government funds to be amassed from taxpayer dollars and disseminated among the “community organizers” where they could yield the greatest advantage for Democrats.
The election season of 2008 was a time of relentless efforts by ACORN to work the streets and neighborhoods on behalf of liberal candidates, and 2009 was the payoff. Under the bogus premise of a “stimulus” to jump start the lagging economy, ACORN was slated to receive funding in excess of four billion dollars from the very political machine that now cries “foul” at the prospect of legitimate campaigning from the rest of America.
Given the fraudulent manner in which the left, led by Obama, is attempting to create panic over the decision, it is no wonder that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, when attending the State of the Union speech, silently annunciated the words “Not true” in response to Obama’s accusations against the Court. Though Alito did not generate the disruption and controversy of South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson with his “You lie!” outburst during Obama’s joint-session “healthcare” pitch, it was clear that his regard for Obama’s integrity parallels of Wilson.
In truth, America is never threatened by the proliferation of political speech from Americans, but from its selective suppression. Clearly Obama and his minions are not bothered by enormous infusions of cash from liberal banks and lending institutions, and are even willing to accept overtly dubious home financing deals in return for access to the seats of power. Nor will Eric Holder, the thoroughly corrupted Attorney General, be any more likely to root out malfeasance in this realm than he was predisposed to go after those Black Panthers who, in the 2008 election, prevented citizens from voting in Pennsylvania.
A Supreme Court decision that moves America in the direction of the constitutional principles on which it was founded will revive and invigorate political debate from a conservative opposition that has been hamstrung by disproportionate and unequal government regulation. As a result, barring more dirty liberal tricks, the upcoming campaign cycle can take place on a loud but level playing field.
The rules have changed. The Massachusetts elections proved the vulnerability of the liberal/Democrat political machine in the face of an informed and vocal public. And it is this possibility that the left finds wholly unacceptable.
Christopher G. Adamo has been active in Wyoming politics for many years and is a managing partner in Best American Buy (www.bestamericanbuy.com), an e-commerce business that markets American made products including the incomparable Abigail Adams Bedspread Set from Bates Mills. Contact information for Chris Adamo, and his archives, can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
Congressional Progressive Caucus
The Bear on Feb 08 2010 | Filed under: Culture, Politics
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is the largest caucus within the Democratic caucus in the United States Congress with 83 declared members, and works to advance progressive issues and positions.
The CPC was founded in 1991 and currently has more than 80 members. The Caucus is co-chaired by Representatives Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). Of the 20 standing committees of the House, 11 are chaired by members of the CPC.
List of United States House of Representatives committees
SideBear: Let’s be clear about the name “Progressive”. It simply is a new but old name for Liberals because liberalism has become an unacceptable tern in our society. It is the same old group of Marxist-Socialists-Commies trying to hide their spots.
According to its website, the CPC advocates “universal access to affordable, high quality healthcare,” fair trade agreements, living wage laws, the right of all workers to organize into labor unions and engage in collective bargaining, the abolition of significant portions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the legalization of same-sex marriage, strict campaign finance reform laws, a complete pullout from the war in Iraq, a crackdown on corporate welfare and influence, an increase in income tax rates on the wealthy, tax cuts for the poor, and an increase in welfare spending by the federal government.
Modern American progressivism includes political figures such as Barack Obama who calls himself a progressive, as do Joe Biden[29], Hillary Clinton[30], John Kerry[31] Bernie Sanders, Russ Feingold, Al Franken, Debbie Stabenow, Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, Cynthia McKinney, John Edwards, Sherrod Brown, Kathleen Sebelius, David McReynolds, Ralph Nader, Howard Dean, Peter Camejo, Al Gore, and the late Paul Wellstone and Ted Kennedy. Also in this category are many leaders in the women’s movement, cosmopolitanism, the labor movement, the American civil rights movement, the environmental movement, the immigrant rights movement, and the gay and lesbian rights movement. Other well-known progressives include Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, George Lakoff, Michael Lerner, and Urvashi Vaid.
Progressivism in the United States
Raúl Grijalva
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He attended the University of Arizona and earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology. While at the university, he was a member of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA).
MEChA
M.E.Ch.A. (Spanish: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, “Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán”) …
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Criticism
A passage from MEChA’s national website reads: ‘As Chicanas and Chicanos of Aztlán, we are a nationalist movement of Indigenous Gente that lay claim to the land that is ours by birthright. As a nationalist movement we seek to free our people from the exploitation of an oppressive society that occupies our land. Thus, the principle of nationalism serves to preserve the cultural traditions of La Familia de La Raza and promotes our identity as a Chicana/Chicano Gente.’[7]
Aztlán
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Use by the Chicano movement
The concept of Aztlán as the place of origin of the pre-Columbian Mexican civilization has become a symbol for various Mexican nationalist and indigenous movements.
The name Aztlán was first taken up by a group of Chicano independence activists led by Oscar Zeta Acosta during the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. They used the name Aztlán to refer to the lands of Northern Mexico that were annexed by the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War. Combined with the claim of some historical linguists and anthropologists that the original homeland of the Aztecan peoples was located in the southwestern United States, Aztlán, in this sense, became a symbol for mestizo activists who believe they have a legal and primordial right to the land. In order to exercise this right, some members of the Chicano movement propose that a new nation be created, the Republic of Aztlán.[7]
Groups who have used the name Aztlán in this manner include Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, “Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán”), and the Nation of Aztlán (NOA).
Lynn Woolsey
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Recognition of Ramadan
On December 11, 2007, Woolsey, along with 8 other Democrats, voted ‘nay’ on a resolution to recognize the U.S. as a Christian nation, but did vote to “recognize the commencement of Ramadan,” an Islamic religious observance, and Diwali, a Hindu religious holiday, earlier in the year.[4]
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Scouting for All Act
In September 2000 Woolsey sponsored H.R. 4892, The Scouting for All Act, to revoke the charter held by the Boy Scouts of America, which had been held since 1916. The charter was issued by Congress to the B.S.A. for its efforts to promote “patriotism, courage, self-reliance and kindred virtues” for young boys …
Democrats Select Tony Rezko’s Banker for Illinois Senate Jennifer Rubin
The Bear on Feb 08 2010 | Filed under: Culture of Corruption, Election 2010
You almost wonder whether Karl Rove has infiltrated the Democratic Party. How else to explain how the Democrats could nominate to replace Roland Burris, the senator from Blagojevich, the banker for Tony Rezko? As the Chicago Tribune explained, state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias beat back a feisty challenger who made hay out of Giannoulias’s “handling of the state’s college loan program, which lost $150 million; and of loans Giannoulias gave to controversial recipients while working as vice-president of his family’s now-struggling Broadway Bank.” Those controversial recipients include Rezko and some figures of organized crime. The Chicago Sun Times explained:
Among the loans Giannoulias has gotten heat for:
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* More than $10 million from 2001 to 2005 to alleged Father & Son Russian mobster team Lev and Boris Stratievsky. Father Lev has passed away. Son Boris is in jail facing money-laundering charges. Broadway funded development projects some on the South Side — that tenants and city attorneys complained were roach motels. Broadway has been unable to collect on the loans.
* About $12.9 million to convicted bookmaker Michael Giorango for a Miami Beach hotel and a Hollywood, Fla., restaurant, among other ventures, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. Broadway has sued Giorango and his partner, Demitri Stavropoulos, convicted of running a betting operation in Chicago, seeking to get the money back. Giannoulias initially downplayed his relationship with Giorango, noting the loans to him started before he joined the bank. Later he said he went to Miami to meet Giorango and inspect the property, and that another $3 million loan to Giorango was for a South Carolina casino.
Read more from Commentary Magazine
SideBear: It’s hard to believe this is the candidate whom the Democrats wanted as their nominee but you can’t look past that this is Obama’s ‘buddy.’
Here is the top of the Illinois Democratic ticket for 2010
For Senator: Tony Rezko’s Banker (Read about him above)
For Governor: A guy who become governor by default because the former governor was indicted and impeached. His answer to Illinois’ deficit problems… raise taxes by 50%.
For Lieutenant Governor: A guy who is being sued by his ex-wife for child support and arrested for holding a knife to an ex-girlfriend’s throat who turned out to be a prostitute.
If the Illinois GOP can’t win this one they should all resign immediately.
Update: The Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor has dropped out of the race less than a week after winning the nomination amid a political uproar about his past.
When Borrowing Ideas from Democrats, First Consider the Source By Michael R. Shannon
The Bear on Feb 08 2010 | Filed under: Culture, Politics
One of my former jobs was group creative director at an ad agency. My largest client was Blue Cross & Blue Shield, the health insurance company. Inside BCBS you could find decision–makers, decision–avoiders, heartless bureaucrats, soft–hearted bureaucrats, dedicated employees and paper shufflers.
But what you could not find was a money tree just ready to be plucked by opportunistic politicians.
Which brings me to the latest revenue–raising idea from the Board of Supervisors in Prince William County, VA where I live. The county is suffering from a revenue shortfall, so the board is looking for new funding sources and plans to start charging county residents for ambulance transport.
This idea is proof that even excellent, and normally reliably conservative governing bodies, can be lead astray by spending too much time in close proximity to Democrats.
In justifying this catheter up the taxpayer wallet, Board Chairman Corey Stewart rationalizes, “Today, taxpayers, you and me, we pay for that [emergency transportation] service, and the only entities that are getting away with anything are the insurance companies.”
According to Stewart, the devil–made–them–do–it and it’s not the fault of the board. The new billing practice merely brings the county into line with the neighboring jurisdictions of Fairfax County and Arlington, both run by tax–and–spend Democrats.
What policy company the board is now keeping. Northern VA counties run by Democrats tax residents for “affordable housing,” lavish money on “human rights” and raised taxes last year, so why is it exactly that we want to be like those counties?
Besides, our ambulance isn’t hauling the insurance company, it’s transporting the resident; and the he’s already paid for the ride in the form of property taxes that cover police protection, fire fighting, schools, libraries, street repair and oh, yes: ambulance rides.
In fact, residents here pay an obscure fire levy each year — in addition to property tax — that goes specifically to fund ambulance rides.
Insurance companies aren’t “getting away” with anything when a taxpayer is transported; any more than State Farm “gets away” with not paying for the water when the fire department puts out a house fire.
Insurance companies aren’t stupid, even if they can’t grow money trees. When the county starts charging for ambulance transport, residents will have the pleasure of paying for the ride THREE TIMES: first the property tax/fire levy, second the ride itself and third the increase in health insurance rates.
Thank you board of supervisors!
The proposal calls for a base transport fee of $400. If you need specialized services during your trip like defibrillation, a liver transplant or a full–body massage, the charge increases to a current maximum of $700.
And should you be comatose and unable to sign the chit for your ride, EMS will be happy to circle the hospital like a Comanche until a relative with power–of–attorney shows up to authorize the charges.
If the county is going to start gouging like Democrats, shouldn’t we start governing like Democrats? What about the poor, can they afford $700? The uninsured? Residents with high deductibles? Will there be a senior citizen discount or will the elderly be forced to wait for one of activity buses they recently demanded be restored to the county budget?
And don’t forget our hard–working illegal friends from South of the border! Charging them would be cultural imperialism.
Now I would have no problem charging foreigners like residents of Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria. We have a tax on car rentals for outsiders, so why not for borrowing an ambulance. And while we’re at it, let’s include a steep drop–off fee.
If the board plans to go to an a la carte system of billing for county services the sky’s the limit. I see a charge for 9–1–1 calls like porn entrepreneurs charge for 900 numbers. Want a police report for your fender–bender? Pony up! Old man slapping you around? Grab the debit card and call the police.
Of course, a la carte should mean I don’t have to pay for what I don’t use, so I’m eager for the property tax deduction that covers elementary schools, high schools, homeless shelters, fire levy and recreation centers, to name but a few.
Meanwhile, trimming that insurance company money tree will require a tree surgeon, and sure enough — just like Democrats — the board will expand the bureaucracy by adding a fire captain to manage the program, along with the staff he will soon demand.
And the best part is taxpayers will be footing the bill for an addition to this bureaucracy whose sole job will be to assure the BOS that double–billing for ambulance transport is no burden on the taxpayers.
Michael R. Shannon is a public relations and advertising consultant with corporate, government and political experience around the globe. He is a dynamic and entertaining keynote speaker. He wants you to share the machines and can be reached at michael-shannon@comcast.net.
Quote of the Day…02/07/10
The Bear on Feb 07 2010 | Filed under: Quote of the Day
“I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” – Ronald Reagan
“Murphy’s Law” By Jim Murphy
The Bear on Feb 07 2010 | Filed under: Culture, Politics
Hello again from The West Texas Vast Right Wing Conspirators Association.
TAX:
This past week I received my home telephone bill from VERIZON. Of course the first thing I noticed was that there had been a rate increase and of course there had been no prior notification of said rate increase. A couple of years back I had cancelled a number of services which I had not requested and for which I was charged a monthly charge. So once again I began to go line by line of the extra charges. Of course the charge for my two residence lines was as it should have been. Ah, but then there began to appear several items which I am not sure of their exact use and if I do understand them, why are they there.
Interstate subscriber line charge is something which I guess I understand BUT I do not make long distance telephone calls from my home phone. I either use my cell phone which service is provided by VERIZON also. Then came a few items which I am not entirely sure of.
Interstate non-primary access…………….. $ 7.00
Cost of service surcharge ………………….. .06
Texas Universal Service …………………….. 1.30
Municipal Right-of-Way ……………………… 1.38
Emergency Service Charge ………………… 1.00
Federal Universal Service Fee…………….. .92
Federal Universal Service Fee ……………. .99
Call Waiting/Cancel Call Waiting………….. 5.00
Federal Excise Tax ……………………………. 1.55
City Sales Tax …………………………………… .79
County Sales Tax……………………………….. .26
State Tax…………………………………………… 3.43
TOTAL ……………………………………………… $23.68
If I desire to keep a home hard line telephone I will continue to be nickled and dimed to death by these jerks.
Of course if I had a long distance service through VERIZON I would be paying an additional $4.00 per month. If I made long distance calls totaling $4 I would be charged $4. If I made $10 worth of long distance calls, I would, of course, be charge long distance charges of $10. BUT if I had long distance service with VERIZON and made NO LONG DISTANCE CALLS, I would still be charged a minimum of $4.00 per month for, now get this, a NON-USE charge.
I can recall the days PRIOR to the federal government got involved in the de-regulation of many services. Seems to me as if things were much simpler back then and all these idiotic add on charges were pretty well non-existent.
The point is, that in spite of the old commercial, any of these telephone companies ACT as if they are the ONLY PHONE COMPANY IN TOWN. All of them will do you the same way. Their original sales pitch on your monthly costs are all a pack of lies. Who in the hell do they think they are? The federal government?
EDITORIALS/HAITI
This past week on the editorial page of the (Below) Standard Times I noticed a couple of letters to the editor. Now I don’t know who makes the choice on which letters are printed but I sometimes get the distinct impression that some of the letter writers and some of the staff who choose the letters to be printed all have the intellectual depth of a lima bean.
One person wrote a letter in which he first of all attacked an editorial contributor, Star Parker, because she believed in prayer. I knew from his second sentence that he and I would probably never attend a sporting event together.
But the straw which broke the camel’s back was when he began to take up for Keith Olberman. According to this mental giant: “Try watching his show for a week. If you don’t think he is telling the truth and isn’t the smartest ’sportscaster’ you ever saw, then I will not write another letter to the editor for three years.”
“I feel sad about people who call who call our president names and think he’s ‘liberal’ (that’s a good one). They are taking us down a worse path than Barack Obama could even imagine.”
Of course he went on to allude to the accusation that anyone who was not totally enamored with the world’s most articulate and intelligent human are taking the country down a worse path than Barack Obama could even imagine.
One must wonder that if a pea fell on this person’s head if he would jut bypass “Henny Penny”, “Foxy Loxy” and “Turkey Lurkey” and go right to the King to advise him that the sky was indeed falling.
Then one of the local editorial writers wrote an article pretty much blaming the United States for the horrible conditions in Haiti going back to 1804 when the black slaves and “local Indians” revolted and defeated the French to become an “Independent Haiti”. Of course this editorial writer neglected to tell what happened to every white resident of this Jewel of the Caribbean. If memory serves me correctly, the freed slaves killed every white person in this banana republic. Ah, but let us not forget that this freedom loving country was, in the not too distant past, ruled by Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier and then by his turd son Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. Then they were followed by the “Democratically Elected” government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was only marginally better than team Duvalier.
In truth, Haiti is probably the most poorly governed country in our hemisphere. Now keep in mind this includes the corrupt government of Mexico and other Central and South American countries. Again, it is time to blame America and try to put us all on a guilt trip. Sorry boys, won’t work with sane Americans. But if you socialist bozos want to feel guilty, feel free to do so.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Knott, Ann Fraley, Tony Aguilar, Julio Mirales – HOBBS,NM; Ella Dunlop, Frank Connelly – SAN ANTONIO,TX; George Brogdon – MIDWAY,TX; Irma & L.T. Drennan – ADA,OK; Susan O’Brien – VACAVILLE,CA; Dan Higdon – FLORENCE,OR; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak – ORLANDO,FL; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban – MD; Kate Powell – LOS ANGLES,CA; Janet Smith -OR; Lanelle Kittlestad – PLANT CITY,FL; Bob Love – ABILENE,TX; Alex Barker – SNELLVILLE,GA; Alan Miller, Capt. John B. McKamey,USN,Ret – PENSACOLA,FL; John Bowcutt – WA; Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, SSgt. Eric Harmon, SSgt. Matthew Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen, 2NDLT. Michael Rice,GySgt. James Walker, 2NDLT. George R. Zeigler – USMC; Jason Plilar, Kenneth Thomas – USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1C Elizabeth Barber & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, SSgt. Aaron Brown – USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss- TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, ENSGN Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown – US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown – US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna – SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt. Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, PFC Richard Lee Bishop, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Sgt. Mark Goodwin, LTC. Robbie Bell – US ARMY; John Mallory – DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Cathy Fellowes Hill, Cindy Hogman, Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families – All of our men and women serving in combat zones.
QUOTES:
“Former Ambassador John Bolton has written a book titled ‘Surrender is Not an Option’. But that is an option for the kind of people at the top in the Obama administration.”… THOMAS SOWELL
“The stakes in this fall’s elections go far beyond the fate of either the Republican party or the Democratic party. The fate of America is on the line. The Republicans need to understand that — and to understand that they are not simply ‘due’ because of the polls.”… THOMAS SOWELL
“It’s time we reduced the Federal budget and left the family budget alone.”… RONALD REAGAN
“I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”… HARRY TRUMAN
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe (R); Henry Waxman; Vice President Joe Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; Jack Murtha; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); HS Secretary Janet Napolitano; White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; Chuck Schumer; New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); Imaginary Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson; Richard Lugar (R); Lindsey Graham (R); Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al (Mr. Toad) Franken; Susan Collins (R); Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Linda Sanchez; Blanche Lincoln; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Chris Matthews (MSNBC); Markos Zuniga (Daily KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Shepard Smith (FOX News); New York Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; ACLU; THE UNITED NATIONS: ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; PETA; LA RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR
MORE STUFF:
This morning in our local newspaper, the (Sub) Standard Times, I spotted an article regarding the upcoming Texas Governor’s race. I am not sure who is running on the Democrat/Socialist side but the Republican primary will have three candidates. The incumbent Governor, Rick Perry; U.S. Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is giving up her Senate seat to seek the Governor’s office and a nice lady from Wharton, Texas, Mrs. Medina.
Anyway, Kay Bailey Hutchison found it necessary to attack the present Governor in an article in which she accused him of “listening to lobbyists”. Wow! What a startling revelation. Imagine that. A politician listening to lobbyists. I’m sure Senator Hutchison has never listened to a lobbyist. What a joke. As you may have gathered I have very little use for Senator Hutchison.
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Here is a flash. Nancy Pelosi wants to “Freeze” the defense budget. Yeah, let’s do that. Freeze the defense budget and send everything else to Haiti. Makes perfect sense to me.
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Wonder how much longer it will be before George Bush gets the full blame for the Haitian earthquake? Hell, the Democrats/Socialists have blamed him for everything else. Perhaps the Haitians are a bit like Obama. Perhaps they “Inherited” the earthquake from Bush, much like Obama blames everything negative regarding his administration as something he inherited from the Previous Administration.
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Last Saturday we took a group of Korean students to tour the Caverns of Sonora which is located a little over an hour away from San Angelo. We had a really good time and I believe the students did also.
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That about does it for this week.
See ya next week.
