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December 28th, 2011 EXTENSIONS / GAS / IOWA
Greetings from the West Texas Version Of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
(Which is not vast enough to suit me)
EXTENSIONS:
Congratulations to the Republican led House of Representatives. Those of you
who voted in favor of the payroll tax extensions. You have given the term "Cave
In" a whole new meaning. I am pretty sure that most of us thought that the
Boehner led House would fold like a cheap tent in the long run. Even the (Sub)
Standard Times ran an article entitled: "HOUSE CAVES ON TAX CUT
EXTENSION". And don't believe for a second that this will be the last of
the, for all practical purposes, "Leaderless House" giving in to the Obama
controlled Senate.
I think perhaps Texas Representative Kevin Brady
might have put it best; "In the end House Republicans felt like they were
reenacting the Alamo with no reinforcements and our friends shooting at us."
And it should come as no surprise to us that 2008 GOP presidential nominee, John
McCain, was among so called conservative voices urging House Republicans to
retreat. And the term conservative and John McCain were used in a story
printed by the (Sub) Standard Times. Please do not think for a moment that I
believe John McCain to be a conservative.
And keep in mind, this tax cut
extension is good for ONLY TWO MONTHS. I am sure we will see this dog and
pony show reenacted in a couple of months. And of course this allowed the
world's most articulate and intelligent human to be spirited away for a
Christmas vacation in Hawaii.
And what is also a bit irksome is the
statement made by Harry Reid; "I hope this Congress has had a very good
learning experience, especially those who are newer to this body." I can take
a bunch of lip, but having a complete turd like Harry Reid talk down to us is a
bit much.
Yeah, Harry, I had a learning experience. I learned that you
were a bigger turd than I first imagined.
GAS:
Yesterday morning the price of a gallon of regular gasoline at most places in
San Angelo was $3.08. By early yesterday afternoon the price at the same
locations had risen to $3.20 per gallon. Now for those of you residing in the
People's Republic of San Francisco that is an increase of 12 cents per gallon.
Then this morning I heard on the news the reason given for this sudden
increase in gas prices at the pump. The reason given was that Iran had
threatened to block the Straits of Hormuz by a naval blockade. Also Iran is
conducting Naval Exercises in the area. OK. How about us conducting some
"Naval Exercises" of our own in a nearby area? How about conducting some "Air
Exercises" in that same area?
At what point in time will our government
under the inept leadership of Barack Hussein Obama stand up, not only to Iran,
but to the rest of these countries who seem to get their kicks out of throwing
sand in our faces?
I am sure that you all remember that under the Jimmy
Carter administration, Americans were taken hostage but were rather rapidly
released on the day of the Inauguration of Ronald Reagan.
This con man
in the White House at the present time makes Carter look tough.
So in
the meantime we will all get to pay increased gasoline prices while our federal
government continues to allow Iran and others to impugn us at will.
IOWA:
I am past ready for the Iowa Caucus. This is all we have heard on
national news for the past couple of weeks. We have been subjected to the
results of all these different polls, more than one of which has Texas
Congressman, RON PAUL, in the lead. As I have said in the past, occasionally
Ron Paul will make a statement with which I can agree, particularly in the area
of the federal government staying out of our everyday lives.
But just
about the time you think he isn't sounding too bad he will come up with some
really goofy statement or idea which makes me realize that this guy would be a
complete joke as President of the United States.
I have listened to him
make statements regarding the attacks of 9/11 being an inside job with either
the C.I.A. or The Mossad or a combination of the two being in control of the
attacks. A vote for this bozo would be like voting for Charlie Sheen for
President.
Anyway, if the Iowa voters are leaning in this direction then
I would submit that the Iowa Caucus is at risk of becoming IRRELEVANT.
It is becoming more and more apparent that all of these state primaries and
caucuses are important only to the residents of those particular states. When
you really stop and think, a national election could be controlled by just a
handful of states.
I believe that Mike Huckabee won the Iowa Caucus
last election and he didn't even get close to being the nominee.
And
while I am on the subject of Mike Huckabee, I heard him on a program the other
morning lamenting over the fact that former New Mexico Governor, Gary Johnson,
was not included in all of the so called Republican Debates. Huckabee was
beside himself saying that he knew Gary Johnson and that Johnson was a real
conservative and that Johnson should have been included in all of the debates.
Now if Mike Huckabee really believes this then his views are almost as
IRRELEVANT as the Iowa Caucus. Gary Johnson is marginally less goofy that Ron
Paul. Huckabee really needs to talk with some people who were residents of New
Mexico during the two terms of Gary Johnson as Governor. But for now, he needs
to stick to playing his electric bass.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero; Ted
Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff
Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller
(USMC,Ret), Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion; Judy Langham; Jeanne
Green; Liz Deguren - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby
Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown,
Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL;
Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys
Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate
Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl
Coleman - OR; Hal Whitmore - DE; Herb Johnston - NY; Josip & Lela
Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy
Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick
Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex
Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English; SSgt. Eric Harmon -
USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1
Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca
Goodwin; 1st LT. Mandie Yates - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG
---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt.
Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English,
Russell Brown, Tim Supko (USNA '74) - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud
Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL
FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr)
Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan,
Michael B. Hudgens, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott Hillyer; Jeff Schoonover -
US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in the United
States Military; "DARKHORSE" 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their
families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy
Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
QUOTES:
"We should not blame the Constitution. It is
the longest surviving and greatest Constitution in human history, and the effort
by Progressives to overturn it is now more than 100 years old. It is not a
failure of the Constitution, but the success of the political rebellion against
it -- which has been systematic and going on for a very long time -- that brings
us to where we are today."...... LARRY P. ARNN, President, Hillsdale College
"The 2012 Republican Primaries may be a rerun of the 2008 primaries, where
the various conservative candidates split the conservative vote so many ways
that the candidate of the mushy middle got the nomination --- and then lost the
election."..... THOMAS SOWELL
"If you don't like growing older, don't
worry about it. You may not be growing older much longer."....... THOMAS
SOWELL
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary,
too many parasites living on the labor of the
industrious.".............................. THOMAS JEFFERSON
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains
of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take,
but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry
Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie
Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia
Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson
Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and
former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann-CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow
(MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House
Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel;
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsome; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor
Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck
Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL
CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush;
Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse
Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay
Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John
Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey;
Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank
Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi
Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle
Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean
Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King
(CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry
Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United
Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA
TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG;
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael
Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; Shepard Smith (FOX News); Bill O'Reilly
(FOX News); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda;
Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is
OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James
Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour;
Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation
Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood;
Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim
Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (New DNC
Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By
Request); Juan Williams (FOX News).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio;
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony
Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open
Society Institute; Center For American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan
Colmes FOX News; HUD; Jay Carney; Robert Reich; Department Of Energy;
Department Of Education; Warren Buffett; Morgan Freeman; Chakka Fattah
(D-PA); Bob Beckel FOX News; MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council); UNESCO
(United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization); Assistant
U.S. Attorney LANNY BREUER; Ellis Henican - FOX News; Richard Trumka -
AFL-CIO; Jimmy Hoffa Jr. - UAW; Sen. Patty Murray(D-WA); TIME MAGAZINE;
Lawrence O'Donnell (MSNBC)
MORE STUFF:
Well, I
hope all of you had a Merry Christmas. We did get to see our only grand
daughter and her family the week prior to Christmas when they came and spent a
few days with us. And a couple of weeks prior to Christmas I was able to spend
a few hours with some good friends from Hobbs, New Mexico.
We will have
a house guest arriving on New Year's Eve. The very first young lady from South
Korea that we met in early 2010 will be our house guest again until she has to
return to Missouri for the beginning of the Spring Semester at Northwest
Missouri in Maryville.
The months of November and December are sad for
me as five years back I lost a really good friend in December in the person of
Bill Whitman. Bill was an 85 year old World War II Veteran and a really good
man. Bill had been shot down over France in a B-17 and had made it through
German lines with the help of the Underground and finally made it to Gibraltar
and finally back to England. He was a died in the wool fan of the Dallas
Cowboys and the Texas Longhorns. And he was an arch enemy of "Fat Teddy"(Teddy
Kennedy). Bill was an old West Texas boy who had been through some tough
times. He was really fun to talk with and had a really great sense of humor.
Then last November I lost a friend who was more like a son than a
friend. He was the same age as our daughter and had gone to school at the same
time. His name was Tony Knott and he died shortly before his 51st birthday.
He and his lifelong friend, Flint Knight had played sports together; had been
police officers with the Hobbs Police Department together and at the time of
Tony's death lived on the same street with only one house separating their
families. I get to visit Hobbs several time per year and it always saddens me
to see Tony's house and know that this fine young man is no longer with us.
I sincerely hope you all have a wonderful year in 2012 AND I hope that we all
live to enjoy an Obamaless administration in 2013.
God bless you all and
thank all of you for your prayers and kind words over the past few months.
JEM
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December 21st, 2011 CHAMPS / LINES / GIFT
WEDNESDAY - December 21, 2011
Greetings
from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy For Jingoistic Xenophobic Draconian Four
Wheel Driving Fossil Fuel Burning Meat Eating Angry West Texans.
GIFT:
It almost appears to me as if the Republican
Congress and the Republican Presidential Candidates are trying to GIVE the 2012
Presidential Election to Barack Hussein Obama. I have to wonder just how long
it will take before the elected Republican Congressmen and Senators realize that
they can believe NOTHING said by their Democrat/Progressive/Socialist
counterparts.
For 45 years I worked as a Police Officer or Deputy
Sheriff at various ranks. Most of that time was spent in one area of Criminal
Investigation or another. I have worked many, many cases of fraud in which con
men/women of various races and ages attempted or succeeded in obtaining money by
fraudulent means. In most areas they were called Pigeon Droppers. The
criminals would use various stories in an attempt to get the victim to withdraw
a large sum of money from their bank account. The criminals usually operated
in teams of two or more people with various stories and schemes to get the
victim to make this cash withdrawal. Then they would get the money in some
type of envelope switch or by some other method, with the victim almost always
thinking that he or she stood to make a quick profit by their actions.
The victim was usually left in a parking lot with an envelope filled with
worthless pieces of paper cut up and packaged like U.S. Currency, or they were
left in a bank parking lot or bank lobby with nothing but a stupid look on their
faces. Then they decide to call the police and when they realize they have
been had through their own naive behavior which is normally accompanied by a bit
of greed on their own part, they want the police department to immediately find
the criminal or criminals and get their money back or they want the bank to take
the loss.
Just look what has been going on for the past few weeks
regarding the bill which was passed by the Senate and then sent to the House
while the Senate Pigeon Droppers went home for the Holidays. Then the House
realized that part of the bill was unacceptable and decided not to pass the bill
and instead want to "work with" Senators on a joint committee to "hash out all
the differences". Have we elected Republican Representatives who are so weak
that they cannot see through the games run at them by the President and the
Senate? Then of course when the Republican controlled House wants to make
changes in the bill, the Head Pigeon Dropper, Barack Hussein Obama has a free
run, with the support of a media with bias of Biblical proportions, to make it
sound like the Republicans are nothing but a bunch of "Obstructionists".
How many times will the elected Republicans have to be left in the parking lot
with an envelope full of worthless paper before they catch on that the
Democrats/Progressives/Socialists CANNOT BE TRUSTED FOR ONE MOMENT.
If our present group of elected officials is any example of the common sense
possessed by Congressmen, Senators, Professional Politicians in general then it
is time for wholesale replacement. Even the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists
are too stupid to realize when they are being used by the Chicago political
machine.
Also the Republican Presidential Candidates, for the most part,
are too busy whining and positioning themselves to do good in the Iowa Caucus to
realize that they are looking like a bunch of idiots who are incapable of
running a Dairy Queen, much less the United States. I am getting a belly full
of all their asses.
Many of the polls are picking Ron Paul to win the
Iowa Caucus. Now I agree with Ron Paul's view that the federal government is
way too involved in our every day lives but I believe my youngest Grandson, who
is completely engrossed in Colorado youth hockey, has a better grip on foreign
policy than does Ron Paul. Let's get serious; Pull all our troops out of
South Korea? Especially with the death of Jong Il Kim.. yes, that's right, KIM
IS HIS LAST NAME, and the prospect of North Korea doing something incredibly
stupid in a possible power struggle? And forget about Iran obtaining nuclear
weapons? As I have said in the past, in the long haul, Ron Paul is goofy.
But it appears to me as if the Republican Party with the assistance of John
Boehner (whom I have always said is a weak House Speaker) is getting ready to
make a gift of a second term as President to Barack Hussein Obama....... I hope
I am wrong.
LINES:
Earlier today at about
9 A.M. I took a box to the U.S. Post Office to mail. There was only one teller
in operation and there was one guy with a small package, already addressed, to
mail. I also had a small package, already addressed, ready to mail. There
was a woman at the teller's window who brought her stuff to the Post Office,
apparently not boxed and was packing her boxes at the teller's window and having
to have the teller help her tape her boxes closed; then she had to address the
boxes; then she had to seal some other large envelopes and address them. This
other guy and I were waiting and occasionally he would look back at me with a
look of disgust on his face.
Another teller opened another window and
the guy mailed his box; I then went forward and mailed my box; and the lady
in the other line was just finishing mailing her boxes when she asked for forms
to fill out to obtain a Post Office Box. I did not want to wait around to see
how long this one woman took in that line but I know that prior to the second
teller coming, the other guy and I waited about 10 minutes and I have no idea
how long the woman had been at that window prior to my arrival. So when I hear
of someone "Going Postal", I can understand why. During the Christmas mail rush
it looks to me like the absolute least a person could do would be to have their
packages taped and addressed prior to getting in line.
------
Now I am
sure that you all have seen the commercial about a retail store where everyone
in the pay line is paying with a credit/debit card and moving swiftly through
the process then one guy hands the clerk CASH and the whole operation comes to a
standstill. This is a commercial to make all of us who do not use a
credit/debit card feel guilty. WELL IT AIN'T WORKIN'. First of all the
commercial is a LIE.
Last week I was in a line at the grocery store.
The lady ahead of me had made a small purchase and when it came time to pay this
is what happened:
She swiped her card.... the clerk told her it did not
work and to try it again.
She swiped her card a second time.... same thing
happened again. The clerk told her to swipe it still again.
She swiped her
card a third time with the clerk looking closely at how she did it and then the
clerk told her that she had the card facing the wrong way...... she told her to
turn the card around and try it again.
The woman swiped her card a fourth
time..... this time the card was upside down and the clerk advised her to turn
it over and do it again.
The woman swiped her card a fifth time and had to
put in a PIN Number..... she couldn't remember it so she tried a number and it
didn't work.
The woman swiped her card a sixth time and put in the correct
PIN Number and the sale was finally complete.
The point is, the
commercial about the credit/debit card being the quickest way to check out is
pure bull shit.
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Now all lines are not necessarily
long, nor or they even necessary. While pulling into the parking lot at the
local H.E.B. store I was driving down the correct direction to pull into an
angle parking spot. This would have been fine but for a family; the man
weighing about 350+ pounds; the woman weighing in at about 250+ pounds; and a
boy who appeared to be about 10 or 12 years old and he only weighed about 200+
pounds. None of them were very tall which means that they were all extremely
W-I-D-E. All three of them were talking on their cell phones and were walking
three abreast and taking up the entire driving lane. They were much too
engrossed in their cell phone conversations to know or probably even give a crap
about holding up traffic. The thought occurred to me along about then that
back in history, whom ever decided that a 145 pound person, walking at
approximately 2 miles per hour tops, should have the right of way over a 3,000+
pound vehicle must have been stricken with an attack of lunacy.............. So
much for lines.
CHAMPS:
Last week I wrote about
a young man who was playing football for the Mason Punchers, a Texas Class 1A
football who were preparing to play for the Texas State Championship in that
division. Well, they not only played but decisively beat their opponents, the
Stamford Bulldogs by a score of 62 - 40. This was Mason's first State Football
Championship.
The Mason Punchers had a very large and athletic offensive
line. They also have a running back named David Mora. Young Mr. Mora set a
national record in 2010 when he carried the football a record 498 times for
3,573 yards. This year his carries were slightly over 200 but his production
was just over 10 yards per carry. Of course in addition to an exceptional
offensive line, Mora also gave loads of credit to the team mate in the
backfield, Rio Schmidt, who was also a devastating blocker..... Is that a great
name? Rio Schmidt.
David Mora was pulled in the fourth quarter with
6:13 remaining. He ended up the day with 41 carries for 258 yards. A great
performance by any standards. BUT what is even more impressive about this young
man's football abilities, above his talent for running the football, is what he
does when he is not carrying the ball himself. I watched a couple of plays when
either Rio Schmidt or his quarterback was carrying the ball and young Mr. Mora
would light someone up with an eye crossing block. I love great running backs
who also do other things.
I can remember Emmitt Smith and Walter Payton
leveling blitzing linebackers. And I can assure you that back in the mid-1960's
when Green Bay sported both Jim Taylor and Paul Hornung in the same backfield
that both of them were superior blockers. Of course both Hornung and Taylor
were pretty good sized dudes. Mr. David Mora is 5'5" and I believe I saw his
weight listed at 165 pounds.
Anyway, I am proud of the Mason State
Champions and I hope that some school, somewhere, recognizes the talents of
David Mora and gives him a shot at playing at the next level.
And I sure
hope Rio Schmidt gets a chance to play in college. I would love to hear his
name announced over some loudspeaker at some stadium.
PRAYER
LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth
Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige
Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim
Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion;
Judy Langham; Jeanne Green; Liz Deguren - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) -
IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller,
Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene
Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones -
NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan
O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers -
CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; Hal Whitmore - DE; Herb Johnston - NY; Josip
& Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West,
Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick
Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex
Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English; SSgt. Eric Harmon -
USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1
Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca
Goodwin; 1st LT. Mandie Yates - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG
---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt.
Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English,
Russell Brown, Tim Supko (USNA '74) - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud
Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL
FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr)
Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan,
Michael B. Hudgens, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott Hillyer; Jeff Schoonover -
US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in the United
States Military; "DARKHORSE" 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their
families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy
Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
QUOTES:
"This is not just another election and Barack
Obama is not just another president whose policies we may not like. With all of
President Obama's broken promises, glib demagoguery and cynical political
moves, one promise he has kept all too well. That was his boast on the eve of
the 2008 election: We are going to change the United States of America.... Many
Americans are already saying that they can hardly recognize the country they
grew up in. We may have already started down the path that has led Western
European nations to the brink of financial disaster."............... THOMAS
SOWELL
"Internationally, it is worse. A president who has pulled the
rug out from under our allies, whether in Eastern Europe or the Middle East,
tried to cozy up to our enemies, and has bowed low from the waist to foreign
leaders certainly has not represented either the values or the interests of
America."................ THOMAS SOWELL
"Can you name one important
positive thing that Romney accomplished as governor of Massachusetts? Can
anyone? Does a candidate who represents the bland leading the bland increase
the chances of victory in November 2012? A lot of candidates like that have
lost, from Thomas E. Dewey to John McCain."...... THOMAS SOWELL
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains
of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take,
but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry
Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie
Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia
Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson
Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and
former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann-CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow
(MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House
Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel;
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsome; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor
Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck
Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL
CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush;
Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse
Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay
Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John
Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey;
Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank
Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi
Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle
Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean
Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King
(CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry
Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United
Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA
TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG;
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael
Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; Shepard Smith (FOX News); Bill O'Reilly
(FOX News); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda;
Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is
OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James
Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour;
Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation
Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood;
Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim
Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (New DNC
Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By
Request); Juan Williams (FOX News).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio;
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony
Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open
Society Institute; Center For American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan
Colmes FOX News; HUD; Jay Carney; Robert Reich; Department Of Energy;
Department Of Education; Warren Buffett; Morgan Freeman; Chakka Fattah
(D-PA); Bob Beckel FOX News; MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council); UNESCO
(United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization); Assistant
U.S. Attorney LANNY BREUER; Ellis Henican - FOX News; Richard Trumka -
AFL-CIO; Jimmy Hoffa Jr. - UAW; Sen. Patty Murray(D-WA); TIME MAGAZINE
MORE STUFF:
This will be my last letter until
after Christmas.... Yes, that's right Christmas....not Winter Holiday....nor
Winter Solstice.....nor Kwanzaa...... but CHRISTMAS.
I want to take
this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and I hope that this
year has been as blessed for all of you as it has for me and my family. The
year has had some ups and downs but thanks to all of your prayers I believe my
health has improved and I sincerely hope each of you and your family enjoy good
health through 2012.
We must all work very hard in 2012 to try and get
our wonderful country turned around and headed back in the right direction.
Mentoring those young students from South Korea has been a very rewarding
experience. I can only hope that the young people of our country wake up and
see the terrible direction in which we are headed. There are many things which
we need to get turned around and we must dedicate ourselves to that task.
My God bless you all.
JEM
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December 14th, 2011 MASON / WORLD RECORD /
LIES
WEDNESDAY - December 14, 2011
Greetings from the West Texas
Organization Of Angry Four Wheel Pickup Truck Driving Fossil Fuel Burning Gun
Owning Jingoistic Draconian Law Believing Xenophobes.
Let me begin by
giving this suggestion to Herman Cain and Joe Paterno. Let Herman Cain coach the
Penn State Football Team and let Joe Paterno run for President. Then neither
will have to lose a step.
And prior to getting started let me say that
this year I DID NOT:
Watch the Academy Awards
Watch the Emmys
Watch
the Michael Jackson's Doctor's trial
Watch a single NBA game
Watch the
Grammys
And by not watching the Grammys I managed to miss the SEVEN
Nominations of Hip-Hop star Kanye West (who also has nailed down a spot on our
Varmint List). In the article describing the "Grammy's Nominations" I failed to
recognize a single performer (I refuse to use the word artist in referring to
these mutts). By some twist of fate I have managed to miss out on performances
of: Adele; Bon Iver; Mumford & Sons; Bruno Mars and the Foo Fighters; --- nor
did I recognize ever having heard any of these classic tunes: Rolling In The
Deep; All Of The Lights; My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy or The Cave.
Unfortunately, these award shows are a pretty accurate commentary on our times.
MASON:
Tomorrow at 12 Noon CST from Dallas, Texas,
FOX Sports Southwest will begin televising Texas High School Championship games.
The first of them being the MASON PUNCHERS vs. the STAMFORD BULLDOGS. This
year's Mason Punchers are undefeated and have a Division 1A high school team
which sports a really big and aggressive offensive as well as one of the best
running backs in the state in the person of David Mora. Young Mr. Mora, I
believe, was the leading rusher in the State of Texas last year.
But the
story I want to pass on is not about their undefeated season or the talents of
David Mora or the Mason offensive line. Most of the sports stories in the (Sub)
Standard Times relate to scores or scoring records or rushing records or
passing/receiving records. But this story was about none of those.
The
story was about a young man named Jacob Bibb who was a 6-foot-3 inch, 235 pound
starting fullback/linebacker for last year's (2010) Mason Puncher football team.
After their second game Jacob began feeling sick and the next week his mother
took Jacob to Llano to see the doctor. He was referred to a hospital in San
Antonio where Jacob was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a form of
cancer that affects white blood cells that fight infections in the body. A
dialysis-type procedure was followed by eight months of heavy chemotherapy.
Meanwhile the Mason football season went on and the Mason Punchers made it
with Mason winning 12 games and making it to the state quarterfinals. Everyone
including Jacob thought his football days were over. But by May, 2010 Jacob
began to realize that returning to football for his senior season was possible.
And, of course, with 15 returning starters Mason was in everyone's preseason top
10.
Jacob, at the start of the 2011 season, reported for the two-a-day
practices but he could not practice in pads for a few weeks. But by the week of
their first game, he was back in pads and the coaches could see that he had
caught up to where he should be. The following game was against Junction and
Jacob was inserted into the game in the second half. He played four plays at
linebacker and made two tackles. The crowd erupted and all the kids were
excited. Mason's coach said that it was one of the neatest experiences of his
coaching career.
Keep in mind that Jacob still has chemo treatments once
a month and will continue IV treatments for two more years. He also takes a
chemo pill nightly. The article had a quote from this fine young man:
"Of
course it's sad that I don't get to play much, but it's such a blessing to be on
the sideline with my friends on Friday night. I don't want to be selfish. I want
to be there to support my teammates and my friends. That's good enough for me."
When I look at the world and our country and our problems with our elected
officials, it does my heart good to hear of a story like that of Jacob Bibb's.
It sort of makes any of my personal problems seem pretty minor. And I think
there is a great lesson to be learned by us all from the attitude of this young
man.
WORLD RECORD:
A couple of days ago, on
December 12th, I heard a story on several news reports regarding Michelle Obama
taking part in setting a NEW WORLD RECORD.
Prior to the story I was
wondering if perhaps she had set a record in "Ass Widening"; or perhaps "Being
Married to the Most Arrogant person on earth"; or perhaps some type of
"Gardening" record. But I was wr ..... uh mista...... uh in err....., a trifle
confused in my thinking. So here is the WORLD RECORD for which she has been
given credit..................... A WORLD RECORD FOR LEADING OVER 365,000 PEOPLE
IN DOING JUMPING JACKS!!!!!! Boy! What and athlete!
And you people
thought that Jim Thorpe; or Jim Brown; or Bo Jackson; or Bob Hayes; or Bob
Seagren; or Jesse Owens were great athletes. Little did we know that right here
in our midst, today we have a true WORLD RECORD HOLDER For Leading The Most
People in Doing Jumping Jacks simultaneously. (For those of you currently
residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco, that means, at the same
time). A dubious distinction at best.
What really concerns me is: Who is
keeping tabs on such foolishness? How was this World Record checked out? Who did
the count? Whose World Record was broken?
It is fairly obvious that those
who reported this ludicrous happening had me confused with someone who gave a
crap.
Let us all hope and pray that in 2012, her husband (The world's
most articulate and intelligent human) will set a world record in being defeated
by the largest margin EVER.
But in order for this to happen, the
Republicans must stop shooting themselves in the foot and all realize that
Barack Hussein Obama is not only their enemy but is the enemy of all freedom
loving Americans.
LIES:
Now I realize that we are
all aware of lies being told every single day by
Democrat/Socialist/Progressive/Moderate politicians. Even Republican Mitt Romney
in his bid for Governor of Massachusetts proclaimed himself a "Progressive" and
a "Moderate". Wonder what he was "Moderate" about?
Anyway, it seems as if
the American people have sat back and learned to accept the "Lies" heaped upon
them by politicians.
But this past week I was watching, for a brief
moment, a statement made by "The world's most articulate and intelligent human".
And after I heard it it brought to mind the same basic statement made by
California Democrat/Progressive/Socialist Congresswoman Maxine Waters, several
months back.
The subject being addressed was the Keystone Pipeline which
was to run from Canada to Texas. I have heard several figures regarding how many
jobs this project would create and it has ranged from 100,000 to 200,000 new
jobs.
BUT, the President of the United States, without batting an eye,
said that an "INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS" would create more jobs than
this proposed pipeline. This is basically the same statement I heard Maxine
Waters make that if we really wanted to increase jobs then we should increase
Unemployment Benefits.
One must seriously wonder just exactly how that
would work. And one must wonder just exactly how these two obvious incompetents
ever got elected.
It is my understanding that this proposed pipeline
would cross the states of Montana; Wyoming; Nebraska; Kansas; Oklahoma; and
Texas. And I believe that it has already been shown by the Trans-Alaska pipeline
that neither wildlife or the environment have been damaged. It is purely another
instance of politicians lying to us.
A former retired Air Force Colonel
and former San Angelo Mayor wrote a pretty scathing article in the (Sub)
Standard Times in which he tells every member of Congress how disappointed in
them he is. I do not know that I necessarily agree with all of his statements in
the article but he points out to the members of Congress that their incessant
finger-pointing and blaming the other person or the other party is not
governing; it is Bull Shit.
And if you listen carefully, each day, the
World's Most Intelligent and Articulate Human tells us all that he inherited a
real mess and that it was WORSE than he originally thought. One must wonder just
how many years he can get away with blaming George Bush. Now I will be the first
to admit that I did not agree with George Bush's views on everything, but I
agreed with him on a damn sight more than I do this incompetent slug.
Oh,
and let us not forget all of the lies being told by Attorney General Eric Holder
and John Corzine and those other two stooges who just have no idea where this
ONE BILLION + of investor's money disappeared to.
God help us.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe
& Ruth Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige
Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col.
Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion; Judy Langham; Jeanne
Green; Liz Deguren - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike
Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos
Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK;
Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon
Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel - CA;
Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; Hal Whitmore - DE; Josip & Lela Slivar
- ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt.
(Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James
Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J.
Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English; SSgt. Eric Harmon - USMC---------}; Kenneth
Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col.
Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin; 1st LT. Mandie Yates -
USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan,
CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US
NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown, Tim Supko (USNA '74) - US
NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike
Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan
McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball,
SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott Hillyer;
Jeff Schoonover - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently
serving in the United States Military; "DARKHORSE" 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and
their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy
Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
QUOTES:
"The media and the intelligentsia seem obsessed with the
idea that government intervention is necessary to get the economy out of the
doldrums. This is certainly the prevailing dogma but it is contradicted by
history. Yet, who reads history anymore.?".. THOMAS SOWELL
"Economists
writing in a leading scholarly journal in 2004 concluded that government
intervention prolonged the Great Depression by several years."...........THOMAS
SOWELL
"Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not
the way to escape war.".....THOMAS JEFFERSON
"Whenever a man has cast a
longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."...... THOMAS
JEFFERSON
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the
price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course
others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."..... PATRICK
HENRY
VARMINTS:
Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy
Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank;
Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia
Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX;
JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former
President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann-CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC);
Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff
and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human
Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt.
Gov. Gavin Newsome; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor
Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John
Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick
Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE
REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R;
Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John
Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis
Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie
Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View);
Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson;
Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Mara Liasson
(NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom
Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU;
United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA TIMES;
CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael
Blumenthal; Shepard Smith (FOX News); Bill O'Reilly (FOX News); EPA; Center For
Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams
(CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff
Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt;
Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF
(Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned
Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner
& Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (New DNC
Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request);
Juan Williams (FOX News).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski
(D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB;
National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee
Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For
American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan Colmes FOX News; HUD; Jay Carney;
Robert Reich; Department Of Energy; Department Of Education; Warren Buffett;
Morgan Freeman; Chakka Fattah (D-PA); Bob Beckel FOX News; MPAC (Muslim Public
Affairs Council); UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organization); Assistant U.S. Attorney LANNY BREUER; Ellis Henican - FOX News;
Richard Trumka - AFL-CIO; Jimmy Hoffa Jr. - UAW; Sen. Patty Murray(D-WA); TIME
MAGAZINE
MORE STUFF:
I heard this morning on the
radio that Time Magazine's Person Of The Year is The Protesters. An excellent
move by TIME Magazine if their goal was to decrease their circulation OR their
desire to make The Varmint's List.
--------------------------------------------
In last Monday's edition of the
(Sub) Standard Times, their lead story was that of the plans of our Federal
Government to open an Un-Manned port of entry crossing in the Big Bend National
Park. This crossing would be remotely operated by U.S. Agents 100 miles away.
One might think that Homeland Security Director Janet Incompetentano perhaps has
been attacked and bitten by rabid baboons. But I have heard of no baboon deaths
recently so I guess this can just be attributed to her being an incompetent
idiot.
Supporters say that the crossing would give residents of the
isolated Mexican town of Boquillas del Carmen long-awaited access to U.S.
commerce, improve conservation efforts and be an unlikely target for criminal
operations. The monitoring of this crossing would be some 100 miles away where
the documents of those entering could be scanned remotely. If the crossing is
approved, Border Patrol would have eight Agents living in the park in addition
to the park's 23 law enforcement rangers. OK why not have the 23 Agents live in
the park WITHOUT THE CROSSING?
And for a moment, I was operating under
the impression that our borders and security of same was the objective of the
Homeland Security Department rather than catering to the long-awaited access to
citizens of a remote Mexican village. It would also, according to the article,
allow visitors from the U.S. to visit the Mexican town.
This article also
indicated that this would slow down the smuggling operations currently in that
area as the smugglers would have to be real idiots to try and smuggle stuff into
the U.S. at the only place with security in 300 miles. So, I guess that the
smuggling operations at Nogales; Laredo; El Paso; Del Rio; and Tijuana have
pretty much stopped then?
Beam me up Mr. Scott.... the Klingons are
taking us over
---------------------------------------------
I went to the
doctor today for my semi-annual checkup and had maybe the best report ever.
Dressed in gym shorts, T-shirt, sweat pants, and walking shoes I weighed in at
177 pounds of coiled steel. My blood sugar levels were way good as were all of
my other blood work reports. My doctor said I was her absolute best patient and
that she had never seen anyone recover from bypass and pacemaker surgery any
better. So that gives me all the motivation I need to try and keep it up.
My thanks for all your prayers and wishes and phone calls and e-mails.
God bless you all.
JEM
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December 7th, 2011 HEROES / SOLICITATIONS /
BOWLS
WEDNESDAY - December 7, 2011
Greetings once again from the
Headquarters Of Fed Up With Debates; Fed Up With Green Energy; Fed Up With
Socialism; Fed Up With Moderates; Fed Up With Candidate Scandals; Angry Sons Of
Jingoism Of West Texas.
HEROES:
I cannot think of
today's date without remembering December 7, 1941, the facts of which
unfortunately are not being taught in our public (government) education system.
Oh yes, the politicians mention it in their speeches but unfortunately it is not
to honor those heroes who lost their lives in that attack, but rather to try to
gather in votes from a certain segment of our society.
I heard some idiot
on a TV news program on the anniversary of the death of Princess Diana and the
dude she was with, make the statement that "All of us can remember just where we
were and what we were doing when the tragic news of Princess Di's death reached
us." Well in the interest of honesty, I can truthfully say that not only do I
not remember what I was doing, nor where I was, but I cannot even remember
exactly what time of year or for that matter in what year that Diana and the
boyfriend were killed in the auto accident. I do not wish to appear calloused
regarding anyone's death, and I am sure that some members of her family were
devastated by the news, but frankly it was not a pivotal moment in my life. I
hate to see anyone give up their life in an automobile accident..... well at
least most people.
But all the press given not only to her death but the
constant coverage of her funeral arrangements were shoved down our throats by
media idiots who have nothing better to do with their time.
But enough
about Princess Di. I can remember exactly where I was on December 7, 1941. We
were at my Aunt's home in Wortham, Texas. And when the news came over the radio
about Pearl Harbor being attacked, we all stayed glued to the radio as her
oldest son, William Garrett Jr. was in the U.S. Navy and stationed at Pearl
Harbor. And we did not learn whether or not he was alive for several weeks as
communications was severely limited.
One of the reasons why, other than
Bill being a relative, was that he was one of my Heroes at that time. And he
remained one of my Heroes until his death, after a long Naval career and his
retirement in McLean, Virginia. His last years as a Naval Officer were spent
being assigned to the Pentagon. Bill was one of my earliest Heroes. His younger
brother Leroy Garrett also joined the U.S. Army shortly after Pearl Harbor and
he also was one of my early Heroes. Of course my main Heroes as a young kid were
my Dad and my Grandfather. I never knew either of my real Grandfathers but my
Grandmother on my Mother's side did marry again after the death of her first
husband. But to me, he was my Grandfather and at the time I did not have any
concept of him not being an actual blood relation.
Then the next year,
1942 we moved from Wortham, Texas to Houston where it was easier for my Dad to
find a good job. During those mid 1940s to the mid 1950s one of my main Heroes
was one of my Junior High School football coaches. He had served in the United
States Marine Corps in World War II and was wounded on one of the Pacific
Islands.... I believe it was Saipan. I had a few sports Heroes as a kid. In
college football it was Doak Walker and Bobby Layne. Doak Walker and Bobby Layne
played in the same backfield at Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas. Doak
Walker went on to S.M.U. and Bobby Layne went on to the University of Texas. I
also had another college football Hero in the person of Robert "Bob" Smith who
played his high school football in Houston at Lamar High School, which I later
attended. Bob Smith went on to play college ball at Texas A & M. All three of
those football Heroes went on to play in the National Football League.
I
also had some folks whom at the time I guess you could call Heroes in sports and
those were Ted Williams, Stan Musial, and Joe DiMaggio. In boxing it had to be
Rocky Marciano and in the earlier days of professional basketball it was
"Slater" Martin who was an old Houston boy who played at the University of Texas
and the St. Louis Hawks in the NBA. Of course in younger days I always liked Roy
Rogers and Gene Autry and Randolph Scott and William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy) and
John Wayne and Wild Bill Elliot who in his movies always professed to be a
"Peaceable Man". This was generally just prior to him beating the crap out of
everybody who crossed him.
I have noticed that the famous people whom the
media has thrust upon our youth in the past few years as Heroes are generally
some complete slugs. A few examples:
Michael Jackson
O.J. Simpson.....
"Go O.J., Go"
Lady Gaga
Justin Timberlake
Alec Baldwin
John Lennon
and this list goes on. The point being is that thanks to a slimeball bunch
of media hacks the quality of Heroes and entertainment have taken a dive.
My wife heard the other day that the half-time entertainment at this year's
Super Bowl will be Madonna. Anyone still wondering why the NFL is on the
Varmint's List right between Charlie Sheen and the Sierra Club?
Speaking
of the NFL....... "How 'Bout Them Cowboys"?
SOLICITATIONS:
Just while writing the first part of this letter I have been bothered by
THREE telephone solicitations. The first was trying to sell me something and I
did not let them get very far before shutting them down. The second was one of
the groups which they say provide stuff for HOSPICE and when I asked them to
send me their request in writing they stammered around and finally asked me how
much should they make the request for. I told them just to leave the amount
blank and I would take care of filling the amount in. This threw them in a
complete state of confusion and they hung up. The third was, as they said "Your
Credit Card Company----and we can lower your interest rates------ If you wish to
be removed from the call list, press 3 (well this does not work as this is
probably the 20th time that my Credit Card Company has called)---- and if you
wish to speak to a representative, press 1". So I pressed 1 and in a minute or
so some idiot gets on the line and asked me if I was interested in lowering my
credit card interest rate. I told him that I surely was. He then said that I
needed to have over a $9,000 balance and be paying over 9% in interest.----- I
knew I had them then. I told him that I had just a bit over an $8,000 balance
and I couldn't even guess what interest rate I was paying and that I had been
waiting for a company such as this to call me so that I could get completely out
of debt. This idiot was completely flustered and I suppose forgot what he was
supposed to say then and then I got indignant and told him that if they were not
going to help me out I had just as soon they not call me again............. Of
course they will.
But with election season being just around the corner
what we have to look forward to is a whole bunch of recorded political messages
telling us that Michelle Bachman has something that she wants to tell us.
Actually I have already received recorded calls from Mike Huckabee; Mitt Romney;
Herman Cain (a bit premature); Rick Perry and one of the other Republican
Candidates. This is in addition to recorded messages from the NRA and I guess
the most insulting of all is the "Live Telephone Town-Hall Meeting with
Congressman Mike Conaway." When you get one of those, it is almost impossible to
hang up and get cut off from this scam. I did write Congressman Conaway a fairly
sharply worded e-mail requesting that my number be deleted from his Live
Town-Hall Meeting list. But I am afraid that it is just starting. Somehow I
don't have much faith in the "DO NOT CALL LIST" that I have signed up for. I
even get several calls per week on my cell phone from American Airlines letting
me know their flight schedules out of Dallas. Privacy in you own home is a thing
of the past, I am afraid.
BOWLS:
As I understand
it there are something like 120, give or take a few, NCAA Division I
Universities competing in football. I am basing this upon numbers I have heard
from various TV Announcers who broadcast NCAA Division I football.
According to this morning's (Sub) Standard Times we will be subjected to 35 NCAA
Division I Bowl Games. Now for those of you residing in The People's Republic of
San Francisco that means that 70 Division I schools will go to a bowl game. It
also means that some of the teams going to one of these bowl games will have
less than stellar records.
I can remember growing up when on New Year's
Day we had: The Cotton Bowl (Dallas); The Sugar Bowl (New Orleans); The Orange
Bowl (Miami); The Rose Bowl (Pasadena, CA); Also among some of the older bowls
were; The Sun Bowl (El Paso, TX); The Peach Bowl (Atlanta); The Gator Bowl
(Jacksonville). Then later on The Bluebonnet Bowl (Houston); The Fiesta Bowl
(Tempe) and I am sure there were a few others, but off the top of my head those
stand out.
NOW, however, since sponsors have reared their ugly heads we
have these additions:
The Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl - St. Petersburg, FL
The MAACO Bowl - Las Vegas, NV
The Belk Bowl - Charlotte, NC
The Little
Caesar's Pizza Bowl - Detroit, MI
The Meineke Car Car Bowl - Houston, TX
The Fight Hunger Bowl - San Francisco, CA (Where else?)
The Chick-Fil-A Bowl
- Atlanta, GA (This was formerly the Peach Bowl)
The Ticket City Bowl -
Dallas, TX
The GoDaddy.com Bowl - Mobile, AL
The BBVA Compass Bowl -
Birmingham. AL
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl - Boise, ID
And since
most of these Division I Schools play a 12 game season, some of these bowl bound
teams have won only 6 games.
Of course money has driven this whole bowl
game nonsense completely over the edge. Many of the old great college coaches
would have been ashamed to take a team that won only half of their games to a
bowl game.
Actually the Division II playoff games are a heck of a lot
more exciting than watching a couple of the mediocre Division I schools take up
time.
I just wonder how many more colleges will wimp out and change the
name of their team mascot in order to play the political correctness game?
Then we could have The Candy Ass Political Correctness Bowl and line up a
couple of teams who have bowed down to the political correctness gods and
changed their school mascot..... Stanford University comes to mind.
Hey!
I have an idea! Let's DUMP OBAMA first and then DUMP THE BCS.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth
Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens,
Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller
(USMC,Ret), Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion; Judy Langham; Jeanne Green; Liz
Deguren - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak,
Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos
Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK;
A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban
- MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat
Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; John D. Williams (99) -
VA; Hal Whitmore - DE; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael
Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt.
Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English; SSgt.
Eric Harmon - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric
Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown;
SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------};
{Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown,
LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown, Tim
Supko (USNA '74) - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA
'74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------};
{SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W.
Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, CAPT.
James Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women
presently serving in the United States Military; "DARKHORSE" 3RD BATTALION 5TH
MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek;
Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
QUOTES:
"It used to be common for people to urge us
to learn the lessons of history. But history gets much less attention these days
and, if there are any lessons that we are offered, they are more likely to be
the lessons from current polls or the lessons of political correctness."...
THOMAS SOWELL
"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and
they thought it was hell."...... HARRY TRUMAN
"Its soul, its climate, its
equality, liberty, laws, people, and manners. My God! How little do my
countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no
other people on earth enjoy!......... THOMAS JEFFERSON
"The American
people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a
consuming flame."... THEODORE ROOSEVELT
"The things that will destroy
America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of
duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of
life."......... THEODORE ROOSEVELT
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as
to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God.
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give
me death."..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
Barack
Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine
Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG
Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden;
Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint
President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV;
Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White
House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel;
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsome; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor
Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin;
Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter);
Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY
SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar
-R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore;
Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward
Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank
Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg
(The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor
David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX
News); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey;
John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John
McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY
TIMES; LA TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG;
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael
Blumenthal; Shepard Smith (FOX News); Bill O'Reilly (FOX News); EPA; Center For
Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams
(CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff
Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt;
Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF
(Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned
Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner
& Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (New DNC
Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request);
Juan Williams (FOX News).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski
(D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB;
National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee
Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For
American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan Colmes FOX News; HUD; Jay Carney;
Robert Reich; Department Of Energy; Department Of Education; Warren Buffett;
Morgan Freeman; Chakka Fattah (D-PA); Bob Beckel FOX News; MPAC (Muslim Public
Affairs Council); UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organization); Assistant U.S. Attorney LANNY BREUER; Ellis Henican - FOX News;
Richard Trumka - AFL-CIO; Jimmy Hoffa Jr. - UAW
MORE STUFF:
The reason I had a couple of quotes from Theodore Roosevelt today was due to
the fact that the World's Most Articulate and Intelligent Human had the audacity
to compare himself to Teddy Roosevelt. OK. I know that Glenn Beck doesn't like
Theodore Roosevelt but from much of the stuff I have read, we could use an ass
kicker like Teddy about now. Actually if Barack Hussein Obama is going to
compare himself with someone from the past, might I suggest Jimmy Carter or
Woodrow Wilson who are two of the worst U.S. Presidents I can think of. Of
course I was not around during the Wilson administration but I had enough of
Jimmy Carter after his one pitiful term. And if Beck wants to pick a Roosevelt
to blame for a bunch of stuff, might I be so bold as to suggest Franklin Delano
Roosevelt whom I do remember. Actually when I get to looking at the Democrat
Presidents during my lifetime, Harry Truman, of course, was the absolute best.
But when Bill Clinton starts to looking good them something is terribly wrong.
Of course I believe that Barack Hussein Obama is the most worthless leader I
have ever seen at almost any level.
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This coming Saturday
some friends and I are planning a trip to Abilene, Texas for a double header
Texas State Six-Man Championship game or actually games. At 2:00 P.M. we will
see the Defending Division I Six Man Champions - the Borden County Coyotes
(13-1) vs. the Throckmorton Greyhounds (13-0). Then at 7:00 P.M. we will see the
Motley County Matadors (13-1) vs. the Richland Springs Coyotes (14-0).
I
had damn sure rather watch these kids play than have an all expense paid trip to
the Super Bowl where the pathetic half time fiasco is interrupted by two halves
of football played by million dollar whiners.
But the real football treat
will be held in Dallas, Texas the following week end when that city will host
all the rest of the Texas High School Championship games. That will be NINE; IX;
9 games of some of the best football you can imagine.
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I had some
very sad news this week. I learned that a young man with whom I worked for a
number of years in Hobbs, New Mexico, took his own life last Sunday. I was
absolutely shocked to get the news and it is another trip to New Mexico for the
purposes of attending a funeral of a friend. I had known this young man for a
number of years and liked him and considered him a friend.
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I also saw where
veteran actor Harry Morgan died today. I pretty much liked the characters he
played on television and in the movies. He was in his 90's.
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The good news is
that I have one more visit for Cardiac Rehab and I will be finished. Actually I
have pretty much enjoyed the rehab and have met some really nice people.
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More next week.
JEM
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November 30th, 2011 DENIALS / ENDANGERED /
RETIREMENT
Greetings once more from the West Texas Headquarters For Pro-Constitution,
Pro-Second Amendment, Pro-Drilling, Pro-Guantanamo; Pro-Conservative;
Anti-Liberal; Anti-Progressive Politician; Anti-Over Regulatory; Anti-Obama;
Jingoistic Right Wing Conspirators.
This year is almost over and our
country is in worse shape now than at this same time last year. One doesn't
have to look much further than the Liberal/Progressive/Socialist Democrat Party
to find out why. Just this morning I heard White House Press Secretary, Jay
Carney make the statement that President Obama spend about 95% of his time
tending to the business of the country and about 5% of his time in a campaign
mode. Other than being a pure lying varmint, I believe that Jay Carney has a
problem with his math skills. He damn sure doesn't understand the concept of
percentages. But that seems to be the rule rather than the exception among
Liberals/Progressives/Socialists/Democrats.
DENIALS:
It seems as if many people are caught up in the denial game (For those of
you residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco, this means having to
constantly tell the nation that you did not do something, which in all
probability you actually did).
Now some of these denials have been
necessary in order to correct some statements which might have been either in
error OR outright lies. Of course the Crown Prince of Denials for the past
couple of months has been Republican Presidential hopeful, Herman Cain. I have
no idea whether any of the allegations against Mr. Cain have a shred of truth in
them, but I am equally convinced that he has not handled these accusations in
the best manner. And I am talking about flatly refuting these accusations. Of
course Mr. Cain has also fumbled the ball on any number of occasions in many
occasions when answering questions posed to him by obviously hostile media
mutts.
Anyway, insofar as Mr. Cain's candidacy, I think you can stick a
fork in him because he is done.
I am sure that since Newt Gingrich is
surging to the front of the pack that he will have to be on the defensive much
more than when he was in the single digits insofar as his popularity among
voters. But I will bet you all that Mr. Gingrich will handle his detractors in
a much more professional manner than did Mr. Cain or Rick Perry or any of the
other myriad Republican candidates.
I am also positive that most of us
have been accused of doing something for which we were innocent so I don't place
a hell of a lot of credence in accusations which are 10 years old or even back
further than that. But that does not mean that these accusations cannot
de-rail a person's path toward whatever their goal is.
While on the
subject of DENIALS, I watched a recent NFL game between the Green Bay Packers
and the Detroit Lions. In that game, a Detroit Defensive Tackle, NDAMUKONG SUH,
after a play as he was getting up stomped on the arm of a Green Bay player who
was lying on the ground. For his infraction, SUH was ejected from the game and
has since been fined and suspended for two games. But what I found interesting
was that after the game when SUH was asked about the incident, he completely
denied it.... and while he was denying it, the video re-play of him stomping the
other player was shown to the millions of viewers. SUH continued to deny
stomping the other player. I guess SUH was asking us if we were going to
believe him, or our lying eyes.
Anyway, I am not sure that his
punishment was harsh enough. With SUH denying doing the act as we were watching
it time-and-time again on video re-play I began to think of some other pretty
classical denials.
Mike Tyson denying biting part of the ear off Evander
Hollyfield in a heavyweight championship match.
Bill Clinton as in: "I never
had sex with that woman".
And there are others too numerous to mention,
but NDAMUKONG SUH sort of reminds me of Mike Tyson with cleats. They were both
very talented athletes but had a bit of a control problem..... well a control
problem and a problem with the truth.
RETIREMENT:
I know that a whole bunch of you are retired just as I am. And I am sure that
life as we know it proceeded on for society as a whole, even after we all
retired. I am also positive that most of us think that our retirement left a
hole in each of our particular organizations and in many cases it probably did.
I am also sure that if each of us were competent in our individual professions
that on occasion, someone whom was still with our organization would
occasionally ask us our opinion on some things. And I am sure that it made all
of us feel pretty good to know that perhaps each of us were missed by a number
of people.
But this week there was a retirement announced which can ONLY
have a POSITIVE EFFECT ON EVERYBODY in our country. How can this be, you
ask? Easy. The person who announced his retirement this week was Massachusetts
Democrat/Liberal/Progressive/Socialist Congressman BARNEY FRANK. I am sure
that there might be a few misguided souls on this planet who might be sorry to
see BARNEY FRANK go... but I ain't one of 'em. And I strongly imagine that the
United States Military are all secretly doing a "Snoopy Dance" to commemorate
the absence of this turd from the United States Congress. And I suppose that I
should apologize to all turds for including this sorry excuse for a human being
in their category.
It should be noted that Barney Frank is the 17th
Democrat/Progressive/Socialist Congressman to announce that he will not seek
re-election. Isn't it funny how, after re-districting, the Congressional
Districts just how many Democrat/Progressive/Socialist vermin have decided to
retire? Since he is only retiring and not leaving the U.S. to take up residence
in Elbonia, Barney Frank will remain on the Varmint's List. What a MUTT.
ENDANGERED:
This past week I have been caught up in the
excitement of an announcement in the (Sub) Standard Times that the CONCHO WATER
SNAKE has been REMOVED from the Federal List of Threatened and Endangered
Wildlife. As the (Sub) Standard Times reported; "A victory for the community."
Here are a few facts regarding this now Unendangered Species:
CONCHO
WATER SNAKE - Nerodia paucimaculata
Active - March through October
Natural Predators Include - Kingsnakes, coachwhips, raccoons, herons, hawks,
owls
Size - Up to three feet in length
Diet - Minnow, mosquitofish,
channel and flathead catfish, gizzard shad, sunfish
Habitat - Free-flowing
streams over rocks and shallow riffles; uses rock debris and crevices for cover
Life Span - Four to five years
OK. Now you all have the particulars on
the CONCHO WATER SNAKE. This snake was put on the Endangered List in 1986. A
1984 population study estimated its numbers were between 330 and 600.
Also according to the article a study costing taxpayers approximately $3,000,000
was conducted. But according to a man named John Grand who is the general
manager of the Colorado River Municipal Water District, the population studies
at the time were not accurate and the snake should not have been placed on the
list. He said that in order for a permit to be issued to build the O.H. Ivie
Reservoir, the district had to agree to things it didn't want to agree to. He
further stated that all the work done to provide a positive habitat for this
reptile was absolutely unnecessary. The article also pointed out that the
"Studies" done on the snake, which is NOCTURNAL(for those of you living in the
Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Massachusetts, that means that it is active
mainly at night time) were conducted in the daytime rather than at night when
the snake is most active. Another great job done by our Federal Government.
Anyway, this particular snake has been removed from the Endangered Species
List...... but I must warn you that should one of these little critters show its
head near my residence, it is still in grave danger as my wife believes that ALL
SNAKES are Black Mambas intent on the death of as many humans as possible. Once
while living in New Mexico I heard my wife scream as she was working in a flower
bed in front of our home. I ran out of the house and she immediately pointed
out a dead snake ..... well at least small pieces of a dead snake.... which she
had killed upon sight. She asked me what kind of snake it was. Had there been
a piece large enough to get a DNA sample I might have been able to tell her but
this beast was in tiny unidentifiable pieces.
Anyway, just because
something has been removed from the Endangered Species List doesn't necessarily
mean that it is not in grave jeopardy in certain locations.
I realize
that only $3,000,000 was spent on a useless study but this should show us all
just how out of hand federal spending has become.
PRAYER
LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth
Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige
Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim
Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion;
Judy Langham; Jeanne Green; Liz Deguren - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) -
IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller,
Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene
Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese
Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon
Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel -
CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; John D. Williams (99) -
VA; Hal Whitmore - DE; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB,
CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates,
MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt.
James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon
J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English; SSgt. Eric Harmon - USMC---------};
Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody
Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF
---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan,
CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer -
US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown, Tim Supko (USNA '74) -
US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt.
Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan
McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball,
SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott
Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in
the United States Military; "DARKHORSE" 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their
families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy
Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
QUOTES:
"The purpose of American immigration laws and
policies is not to be either humane or inhumane to illegal immigrants. The
purpose of immigration laws and policies is to serve the national interest of
this country."...... THOMAS SOWELL
"At one time, immigrants came to
America to become Americans. Today the apostles of multiculturalism and
grievance-mongering have done their best to keep foreigners foreign and, if
possible, feeling aggrieved. Our own schools and colleges teach
grievances."....THOMAS SOWELL
"It is the height of irresponsibility to
leave that border open and the people who cross it as a protected group.".....
THOMAS SOWELL
** This next quote is from an e-mail which I received
from a friend in San Antonio, Texas. It says it all as far as I'm concerned:
"You know, having seen a bit of the world, all I have to do is walk into
ANY American supermarket to marvel at just how blessed we are -- and then to
reflect on how incredibly naïve, uninformed, and just plain stupid are those who
would tear down the system that produced such plenty."........... JIM MORGAN
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price
of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course
others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."..... PATRICK
HENRY
VARMINTS:
Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy
Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney
Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric
Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden;
Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint
President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV;
Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former
White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel
Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsome; Mayor Anthony
Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill
Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry;
Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick
Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING
WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey
Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore;
Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins
-R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak;
David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga
(Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill
Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore;
Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Mara Liasson
(NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John
Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John
McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA
RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern
Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW;
John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; Shepard Smith
(FOX News); Bill O'Reilly (FOX News); EPA; Center For Biological
Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams
(CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County
Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP;
Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club;
Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation
Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN;
Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA
Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (New DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former
DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX News)..
Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark
(D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation
Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA
MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For American
Progress; Huffington Post; Alan Colmes FOX News; HUD; Jay Carney;
Robert Reich; Department Of Energy; Department Of Education; Warren
Buffett; Morgan Freeman; Chakka Fattah (D-PA); Bob Beckel FOX News;
MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council); UNESCO (United Nations Educational
Scientific and Cultural Organization); Assistant U.S. Attorney LANNY
BREUER; Ellis Henican - FOX News; Richard Trumka - AFL-CIO; Jimmy Hoffa
Jr. - UAW
MORE STUFF:
I was reading the
editorial page in the (Sub) Standard Times and noticed an article written by
super liberal columnist Ann McFeatters. This article was basically an article
bashing Newt Gingrich and Republicans in general and while engrossed in bashing
Newt Gingrich, Ms. McFeatters found it necessary to bring out this damning fact
on Newt Gingrich:
"His current campaign for president stumbled when we
found out he had a line of credit for over a million dollars at Tiffany's, the
posh New York jewelry store."
If this is a sample of investigative
reporting then this heifer needs a swift kick in the backside to shake her
brains up. Just what in the Hell does it matter if Newt Gingrich has a million
dollar line of credit at Tiffany's; or Field and Stream Sporting Goods; or
Wal-Mart; or Tractor Supply; or Sears; or Victoria's Secret; or Mom's
Bar-B-Que? If this is the best the Liberals/Progressives/Socialists can do then
we are on the road to victory in 2012.
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We had a great Thanksgiving with
one of our former S. Korean houseguests flying in to San Angelo from Maryville,
Missouri to spend the Thanksgiving Holiday with us. She is attending college
this year at Northwest Missouri . We had a great visit and she had not changed
a bit from the wonderful girl we knew a couple of years back. She and my wife
were in full shopping mode, and if you can keep up with my wife, you are a true
professional shopper. Of course my wife can spot a sale a couple of time zones
away and it always makes me happy to see what bargains she has found. She very
seldom buys anything for herself but gets practical stuff for our daughter;
grandchildren; and great-grandchildren. I get outdoor and hunting stuff for
the boys. As I have always heard:
You can never have too many firearms
You can never have too many knives
You can never have too much fishing tackle
You can never have too many ice chests
You can never have too much camo.
If you follow those simple rules, you can always please male family members.
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I got off three boxes
of cool stuff to a group of Marines stationed in Afghanistan. This is the first
stuff I have sent to this particular group.
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If the weather doesn't turn
out too bad this Friday, some of us have a trip planned to go to Tuscola, Texas
and watch a double header semi-final championship game for the Division II Six
Man Championship. The finals will be the following week in Abilene and we have
a trip planned for that also. Tuscola is South of Abilene and is the home of
Jim Ned High School which is the AA high school where former Texas Quarterback
and present Cleveland Browns Quarterback Colt McCoy played his high school ball.
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See y'all next week
JEM
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November 23rd, OCCUPY / PLAYOFFS / THANKSGIVING
WEDNESDAY - November 23 , 2011
Greetings once again from the West
Texas Headquarters For The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy And Promoters Of
Jingoistic Draconian Behavior.
JURIES:
This week
in the (Sub) Standard Times I read of a trial which just ended in a Tom Green
County District Court. The crime committed had been an Aggravated Armed Robbery
in which a lady who lives in a small community South of San Angelo had come home
and was met by a single defendant who was dressed in black clothing and the
victim never saw his face but did hear his voice and see the color of his hair.
Days later the defendant was arrested with dark clothing inside his truck (
which matched that of the home robber) as well as having hair the same color as
that of the robber and had a voice like that of the robber. The defendant also
had recovered from his truck several silver dollars and silver dollars had been
stolen in the robbery. Additionally there were shoes recovered in the truck
which matched shoe prints at the crime scene. The robber threatened to rape the
victim and threatened her with a knife and locked her in a cabinet before
leaving her house. Also a close friend of the defendant testified that the
defendant had confessed to him of doing the robbery.
But the jury found
the defendant Not Guilty as the defendant's DNA was not present on the clothing
found in possession of the defendant in his truck.
I have not spoken with
any of the jurors nor have I spoken to the victim but I would like to point out
that real life crime and real life investigative work and real life situations
have very little similarities with CSI Miami or any of the other myriad of Crime
Scene Investigation TV Shows. And while DNA evidence is excellent proof, no
matter what the television programs try to make you believe, DNA IS NOT
NECESSARILY FOUND AT EVERY CRIME SCENE. Jurors and the American Public need to
remember that those TV Shows ARE NOT ALL BASED UPON REALITY.
OCCUPY:
We have all heard and seen TV News Programs regarding
the idiots participating in the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland and Occupy
San Francisco but a couple of days ago I heard a local news report which told of
an "Occupy San Angelo" movement and demonstration at the Federal Building and
the Tom Green County Courthouse.
Any similarities between those other
"Occupy" movements ended with the "Occupy" name. The local news report said that
12; yes XII; or for those of you residing in The People's Republic of San
Francisco that is TWELVE or SIX plus SIX; or SIX times TWO; or FOUR times THREE;
or TWENTY FOUR DIVIDED BY TWO.................. TWELVE...... demonstrators
showed up for this "Protest".
For some strange reason, I cannot get
overly concerned about 12 people gathering and actually peacefully demonstrating
as opposed to those unwashed mutts in New York, Oakland, and the rest of the
"Occupy" demonstration spots.
BUT, let us all over react to the Campus
Officer who sprayed the idiot demonstrators at one of the California
Universities. I don't know how may of you have ever been sprayed with actual
pepper spray but I can assure you that you would not sit mildly by with arms
linked with other idiots who had just been sprayed with full strength pepper
spray.
Almost every police officer who has ever carried pepper spray has
had to also received a good spraying in their training in the use of the spray.
I can speak from first hand knowledge that it is most uncomfortable.
Of
course the media was trying to make this into a "Police Brutality" case. Let me
point out to those media mutts that while the pepper spray is most
uncomfortable, there is nothing harmful to humans in the spray itself. EVERY
INGREDIENT can be consumed by humans with no harmful effects. PEPPER SPRAY IS A
MIXTURE OF FOOD PRODUCTS.
PLAYOFFS:
This is my
favorite time of the year. Texas High School Football Playoffs are in full
swing. The San Angelo Central Bobcats (Class 5A)won their first round playoff
game but lost the second. Nearby Wall High School (Class 2A) also won their
first round playoff game. Nearby Water Valley ( 6 - Man) won their first playoff
game. Central lost their second round game and Wall will play their second round
game this coming week end.
But last Friday night a friend and I went to
the small town of Blackwell, Texas where the Water Valley Wildcats played the
Ira Bulldogs. We were told prior to the game that Ira was very small but
extremely fast. Extremely fast was a mild understatement. They were ALL "Very
fast" and appeared to enjoy contact. Ira had a Junior running back, young Mr.
Lance Morris, who also was an absolute killer on defense and was an excellent
kick return specialist. This young Junior running back/linebacker took the
opening kickoff in the end zone and returned it for a touchdown. He ended up
with something like 270 rushing yards; threw one touchdown pass; and was an
assassin on defense. I doubt if he weighed in at 150 pounds. He was sure fun to
watch and I am sure that his clocked speed would have been somewhere around
186,282 Miles Per Second... (For those of you sentenced to the Freedom Loving
Worker's Province of Austin... that is LIGHT SPEED. Some friends and I are
planning on attending the Six Man State Championship double header games
(Division I and Division II) which will be played in Abilene, Texas in three
weeks. I should not be at all surprised to see young Mr. Morris again.
NFL is for the most part a bunch of whiners. College Football is better but
getting way to involved in the money game. High School football is the absolute
best.
THANKSGIVING:
We have a real treat this
Thanksgiving. About two years ago my wife and I had the pleasure of hosting a
young lady from Ulsan, South Korea in our home while she attended an accelerated
English class at Angelo State University. We have kept in touch with this
beautiful young lady. She returned to the United States last fall to attend a
University in Missouri for one year. She contacted us and wanted to fly to San
Angelo to spend the Thanksgiving Holiday with us. She arrived last evening and
is still the same sweet young lady as we remembered. We have hosted several
other South Korean students who have attended our University here in San Angelo.
These are some really marvelous young people who are so very polite that they
remind me of American kids back in the 1950's. They are also very intelligent
and have a work ethic like young Americans had in years past. Anyway my wife and
I were very happy to have this marvelous young lady as our guest over the
Thanksgiving Holiday.
After the tough year I have had with multiple
surgeries and rehabilitation from same, I really stopped to think of how really
fortunate I am and how much I have to be thankful for this year. Of course there
is my family. There are our friends, many of whom I have never seen in the flesh
but only have been able to communicate with them via computer.
Just this
past week in the regular mail I have received some printed material from a
retired NYPD Sergeant whom I have never seen but still feel like I know pretty
well. I also received an autographed copy of a book entitled "Live Bait" which
was written by Dr. Clayton Kelly Gross, who is a regular recipient of my weekly
letter. Dr. Gross flew 105 Combat Missions in World War II and became an ACE in
that war. I have started the book and have it in one room and I have the second
novel written by my good friend and Ex-Partner on the Houston PD, Jim Jenkins in
my bedroom to read in the evenings. As you all might have guessed, I love to
read and am blessed to have several friends, old and new, who are authors. So my
thanks go out to all of them as well as retired NYPD Sergeant Tony Schiozzi who
keeps me supplied with some really great NYPD publications.
I have been
blessed with a wonderful wife; a wonderful daughter; five super grandchildren;
and four (so far) great grandchildren. I have also been fortunate to have a
whole host of wonderful personal friends and was lucky enough to work 45 years
at a job I really loved. It just don't get much better than that.
So to
all of you, HAPPY THANKSGIVING. My God continue to bless all of you.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe
& Ruth Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige
Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col.
Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion; Judy Langham; Jeanne
Green; Liz Deguren - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike
Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos
Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK;
A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban
- MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat
Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; John D. Williams (99) -
VA; Hal Whitmore - DE; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael
Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt.
Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English; SSgt.
Eric Harmon - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric
Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown;
SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------};
{Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown,
LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US
NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike
Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan
McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball,
SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US
ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in the United
States Military; "DARKHORSE" 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages
and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
QUOTES:
"Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the world envisioned by today's liberals
is that it is a world where other people just passively accept whatever change
liberals impose. In the world of Liberal Land, you can just take for granted all
the benefits of the existing society, and then simply tack on your new,
wonderful ideas that will make things better."...... THOMAS SOWELL
"If
you think the goal was to solve the country's fiscal crisis, then obviously the
Super Committee was a complete failure. But if you think the goal was to improve
the chances of the Obama administration being re-elected in 2012, it was a
complete success."...THOMAS SOWELL
"Since the general civilization of
mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of
the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by
violent and sudden usurpations."...... JAMES MADISON
"The essence of war
is violence and moderation in war is imbecility."............ LORD MC CAULAY -
1831
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price
of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others
may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy
Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank;
Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia
Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX;
JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former
President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC);
Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff
and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human
Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt.
Gov. Gavin Newsome; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor
Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John
Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick
Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE
REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R;
Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John
Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis
Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie
Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View);
Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson;
Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Mara Liasson
(NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom
Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU;
United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA TIMES;
CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael
Blumenthal; Shepard Smith (FOX News); Bill O'Reilly (FOX News); EPA; Center For
Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams
(CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff
Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt;
Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF
(Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned
Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner
& Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (New DNC
Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request);
Juan Williams (FOX News).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski
(D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB;
National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee
Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For
American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan Colmes FOX News; HUD; Jay Carney;
Robert Reich; Department Of Energy; Department Of Education; Warren Buffett;
Morgan Freeman; Chakka Fattah (D-PA); Bob Beckel FOX News; MPAC (Muslim Public
Affairs Council); UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organization); Assistant U.S. Attorney LANNY BREUER; Ellis Henican - FOX News;
Richard Trumka - AFL-CIO; Jimmy Hoffa Jr. - UAW
MORE STUFF:
A couple of days back I was watching a news clip of Michelle Obama speaking
before a group (I did not get the name of the group) with the world's most
articulate and intelligent human standing at her side. I was subjected to this
unelected squack telling the group how much she respected the members of the
U.S. Military and their families. For some reason, I never had the feeling that
she was all that pleased with our men and women who are now or have served in
our military. Could it be that Michelle was not being entirely truthful?
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I have heard pretty close to enough
about Penn State and now Syracuse. It seems to me as if these stories are the
driving force behind all the problems facing our country. It also seems to me as
if the media love reporting that the jobless rate is declining BUT they are not
nearly so happy to report that most of those initial figures are almost always
adjusted to give us a more realistic view. The media seem to be absent when
those figures are made public.
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Isn't it sort of funny every
week when all the "EXPERTS" in the form of former NFL Players and NFL Coaches
all tell us that Tim Tebow just doesn't appear to have the skills to make it as
an NFL quarterback? Then the next thing you know, Denver has won another game
against a favored team with Tebow bringing the Broncos from behind to win
another one. Listening to those NFL Experts is sort of like listening to Alan
Colmes and expecting something like the truth to suddenly emerge.
I don't
know whether or not Tim Tebow will ever win an NFL Championship.... but then
again, neither did Hall of Fame Quarterback Dan Marino. Tebow might win ugly but
he wins.
I am sort of reminded back in the 1960's when Darryl Royal was
the coach at the University of Texas. His teams were winning every week and some
boob sports reporter interviewed Coach Royal and inferred that while Texas was
winning, their offense wasn't "Very Exciting". Coach Royal countered by saying,
"If I could win by running 50 Quarterback Sneaks a game, that is just how
exciting I would get." The reporter had no more to say.
But I think Tim
Tebow is a pretty good young man and has way more character than many of the
other NFL superstars.
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I have
a feeling that tomorrow is going to be a great day. I just returned from the
grocery store where I found and purchased a SUGAR FREE NEW YORK CHEESE CAKE. I
didn't know they made such an animal.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you
and my God Bless Us All for another year.
JEM
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November 9th, DENIAL / HEROES / DEATH
WEDNESDAY - , 2011
Hello once more from the West Texas
Headquarters For Jingoistic Angry Conspiratorial Fossil Fuel Burning Gun Owners.
DENIAL:
Within the past few days, Herman Cain has
had to spend more time denying charges made by females who claim that he
committed acts of Sexual Harassment against I believe the count is now up to 5
alleged victims. Now before I go any further, I suppose that some of you are
probably not completely convinced that the one broad, who has Gloria Allred as
her attorney, is not being completely truthful when she says that she is not
interested in any monetary gain, but rather is ONLY interested in having Mr.
Cain admit that he was wrong some 10 years ago when this alleged act of Sexual
Harassment occurred. Of course there have been other allegations against Mr.
Cain and on at least one he has flatly denied any knowledge of the person or
incident.
Where I think Mr. Cain has made his biggest mistake was in the
middle of his denials he sought to affix blame for the allegations coming to
light on several different sources at several different times. His first attempt
was to blame the Rick Perry campaign, which Governor Perry has flatly denied.
Then he seemed to be hinting that it was coming from another Republican
opponent, or group of opponents. Finally he is fixing the blame on the Democrat
Party. What concerns me is him not looking toward the Democrats in the first
place. I am not saying that one of his Republican opponents might not be capable
of blowing the whistle against Cain, but the blame game, without proof is a
plenty bad defense.
I personally believe that Mr. Cain is through,
insofar as gaining the Republican nomination. But before we jump to convict him
of any wrongdoing, there needs to be more concrete evidence than 5 squacks who
have waited years to claim the "Victim Status" and appear to be willing to lie
like a Clinton in order to get their 15 minutes of fame. I have this question
which keeps popping into my mind. IS GLORIA ALLRED DONATING HER TIME? Or is
Gloria hoping to get a "Piece Of The Action" regarding a cash payoff?
So,
while we are on the subject of denials I would, in advance of some future
invalid claim like to deny that I had anything whatsoever to do with the
following:
1) I was NOT suspected of being the father of Anna Nichole Smith's
baby.
2) I had absolutely NOTHING to do with the overdose of Michael Jackson.
3) I had NO PART in the death of RAPPER "Heavy D" of that marvelous group "Heavy
D and the Boyz".
4) I was NOT a party in the Duke Lacrosse scandal.
5) I
am not now nor have I EVER BEEN CONNECTED with the Penn State football program.
6) I have absolutely NO KNOWLEDGE of any of the facts regarding the Watergate
Burglary.
7) And finally I had absolutely NOTHING to do with the untimely
death of RAPPER Tupac Shakur.
And in addition I would like to say that
NONE of the above mentioned events was a pivotal moment in my life.
So
what we had better get ready for now is the fact that Newt Gingrich is beginning
to make a move and in my opinion is the ONLY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE who would
stand a chance against Obama in the 2012 election. Yes, I know he was on the
Varmint's List for a while BUT HE HAS BEEN REMOVED. Even with his baggage,
Gingrich appears to me to be the ONLY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE who has the knowledge
and the experience to take the White House from the incompetent hands of Team
Obama.
HEROES:
Within the next couple of weeks,
here in San Angelo, we will host an event called "Hunt For Heroes". Around 30
wounded Heroes will be treated to a week end hunt for white tail deer as well as
some fishing at several local ranches. The have a parade every year and I have
vowed never to miss one. The comments from some past participants in this parade
and hunt lets me know that those Heroes really do appreciate the efforts put out
to show them a good time. The actual wounded personnel ride in the parade in
golf carts and it is so sad to see so many young men who are missing limbs and
some are suffering from some terrible burns.
While on the subject of
Heroes, I received several e-mails on the death of Col. Robert Howard in
December, 2009. Col. Howard served a member of the U.S. Special Forces and was
awarded a number of medals for his service:
Medal of Honor
Distinguished Service Cross (Two)
Silver Star
Bronze Star (Four)
Purple
Heart (Eight)
Air Medal
Army Commendation Medal (4 for Valor and 3 for
Achievement)
Plus a number of other awards.
The story told of his
being wounded 14 times in 5 tours in Vietnam.
A very interesting story
and a real Hero.
This past week I also read an article regarding World
War I Heroes decorated for Valor. I found this quite interesting since we all
knew of Sergeant Alvin York and several others including Capt. Eddie
Rickenbacker. But I was unaware of Lt. Joel Thompson Boone who was a Navy
Surgeon and was awarded:
Medal of Honor
Distinguished Service Cross
Silver Star (Six)
Purple Heart (Three)
And there was PFC Charles D.
Barger
Medal of Honor
Purple Heart (Ten)
Let us not ever forget
what the brave men and women who are now serving or have served in our U.S.
Military have sacrificed for us all.
And let us all remember that this
coming Friday, November 11, 2011 is VETERAN'S DAY.
DEATH:
On Monday, 11/7/11 I was watching the news when they announced the death of
former heavy weight champion Joe Frazier. Joe Frazier was one of my all time
favorite fighters. You could count on him going all out for 15 rounds or for
whatever length of time the fight lasted. Win or lose, Joe Frazier brought
everything he had into the ring.
Joe actually lost one of the greatest
fights I have ever seen and that of course was against Muhammed Ali in the
famous "Thrilla In Manila". Joe Frazier could not answer the bell for the 13th
round and Ali was awarded the decision on a Technical Knock Out. Both of Joe's
eyes were closed and he could not see. Ali was in marginally better condition
when he was awarded the fight. Just when you thought that Ali was pulling away,
Joe Frazier reached back and brought his best and had Ali in trouble in several
rounds.
Joe Frazier was one of the greatest.
I can look back in
those days when each weight class had generally only one champion and I can
remember several fighters of note. I believe it was in the lightweight division
where there were 3 really great fighters. They were: Bobby Chacon; Rafael
"Bazooka" Limon; and Cornelius Boza Edwards. It was one of those divisions where
Chacon could defeat Limon; Limon then would defeat Edwards; then Edwards would
defeat Chacon. Finally one year Bobby Chacon defeated both Rafael Limon and
Cornelius Boza Edwards to win the outright championship. There was no quit in
any of those guys and you could always depend on an all out war when any of them
fought.
Then in the featherweight division there was Danny "Little Red"
Lopez. Danny Lopez would generally lose the first 5 or 6 rounds and would by
that time be cut over at least one eye. Then he went to work and usually won by
knocking out his opponent.
Then there was middleweight champion, Carlos
Monzon. Monzon lost his first fight, or maybe his second fight and then
proceeded to win over 84 straight fights. Monzon, out of the ring was a well
dressed really good looking gentleman, whom you might even refer to as handsome.
But on the day of the fight he looked like a 160 pound Frankenstein Monster. I
bet he didn't have 6 ounces of body fat and a super slim waist with huge
shoulders and long arms. He maybe was the best middleweight I ever saw and that
includes Sugar Ray Robinson.
But back during those years, Joe Frazier was
probably my favorite AND I never once saw him in a dull fight. I also thought he
had a pretty good sense of humor when he was a guest on some of the talk shows.
He was a class act.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar,
Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill
Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria
Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don
Faubion; Judy Langham; Jeanne Green; Liz Deguren - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94)
- IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie
McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson -
FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE;
Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate
Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman -
OR; John D. Williams (99) - VA; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA
----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow ,
1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George
Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi
English; SSgt. Eric Harmon - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; {
SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt.
Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss -
TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown,
Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English,
Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA
'74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------};
{SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W.
Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, CAPT.
James Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women
presently serving in the United States Military; "DARKHORSE" 3RD BATTALION 5TH
MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek;
Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
QUOTES:
"Barack Obama has brought more destruction
upon this country in four years than any other event in the history of our
nation, but it is just the beginning of what he and his comrades are capable
of."....... THOMAS SOWELL
"The relationship between age and income is not
hard to understand. It usually takes years to acquire the skills and experience
that high-paying jobs require, or to build up a clientele for those in business
or the professions.".......... THOMAS SOWELL
"People who cannot
distinguish between democracy and mob rule may fall to the idea that the
hooligans in the street represent the 99 percent who are protesting about the
greed of the one percent. But these hooligans are less than once percent and are
grossly violating the rights of vastly larger numbers of people who have to put
up with their trashing of the streets by day and their noise that keeps working
people awake at night."................ THOMAS SOWELL
"One thing I can
do, that all the services need to do, is to make sure civilian leadership is
making decisions based on knowledge and not just
math.".............................. GEN. JAMES F. AMOS - COMMANDANT U.S.M.C.
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."................. PLATO - Fifth
Century BC
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the
price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course
others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."..... PATRICK
HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama;
Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney
Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder;
Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson
Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former
President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC);
Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff
and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human
Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt.
Gov. Gavin Newsome; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor
Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John
Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick
Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE
REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R;
Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John
Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis
Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie
Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View);
Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson;
Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Mara Liasson
(NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom
Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU;
United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA TIMES;
CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael
Blumenthal; Shepard Smith (FOX News); Bill O'Reilly (FOX News); EPA; Center For
Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams
(CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff
Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt;
Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF
(Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned
Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner
& Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (New DNC
Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request);
Juan Williams (FOX News).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski
(D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB;
National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee
Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For
American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan Colmes FOX News; HUD; Jay Carney;
Robert Reich; Department Of Energy; Department Of Education; Warren Buffett;
Morgan Freeman; Chakka Fattah (D-PA); Bob Beckel FOX News; MPAC (Muslim Public
Affairs Council); UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organization); Assistant U.S. Attorney LANNY BREUER
MORE STUFF:
It is a real toss up with which story I was most fed up:
The Herman
Cain accusations by a plethora of squacks; The Dr. Conrad Murray trial on the
death of Michael Jackson; The molestation story on the accusations against the
former Defensive Coordinator of the Penn State football team. But these media
vermin will not let any of them go as long as they can still make suppositions
and create news rather than report it.
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Just in case anyone was wondering
about why Attorney General Eric Holder is on the Varmint List, all you had to do
was observe this turd's performance in front of the Sub-Committee hearing into
the Operation Fast and Furious fiasco.
Holder in my opinion is not only a
liar but he is incompetent as well. But why should that surprise any of us?
After all, he is an Obama appointee.
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On the subject of sexual
harassment let me relate a story to you regarding a complaint of a female
applicant's complaint of sexual harassment regarding a job application.
A
woman was an employee of a New Mexico Sheriff's Department. She was in training
at the Law Enforcement Academy. She along with another female and several male
Officers were caught breaking one of the rules of the Academy. When confronted,
the 3 male Officers told the truth and the 2 female Officers lied. When
confronted and given a chance to tell the truth and knowing that continuing to
lie would result in their dismissal from the academy, the 2 females lied once
again and were dismissed.
Several months later one one of the females
involved in the incident applied for a position at another local Police
Department. This female applicant neglected to put the incident of her dismissal
on the application. She additionally neglected to mention it in any of her oral
interviews. She was not hired when the incident of her dismissal for lying came
to light.
BUT during the interview, one of the interviewing Officers
asked her a question which I had been asked many years prior to that in Houston,
Texas and again at Hobbs, New Mexico. That question was simply if she had spoken
with her spouse and family regarding he application for a Police Officer
position. That was a standard question which had been asked of every applicant I
ever knew, particularly if they were married.
Since she was not hired,
she filed a complaint with the EEOC branch of the Federal Government. I know
that many statements were taken regarding why she was not hired but eventually
the EEOC in their infinite wisdom decided that since this applicant was a female
and she had suffered damage to her self esteem as the question indicated that
she was not capable of making a decision without the permission of her spouse.
She received an award of somewhere in the high five figures and for some reason
$75,000 seems to stand out.
So as you can see, the Federal Government and
I would imagine the News Media along with some ambulance chasing law firms can
carry this sexual harassment stuff a bit far.
Now I am not saying that
there are not legitimate cases of sexual harassment at the worksite BUT not all
of them are really sexual in nature NOR or all of them valid.
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Oh, one last thing. Lots of
folks are comparing the Cain accusations with those of Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings. Let me point out one thing
about the differences in these two incidents. Justice Clarence Thomas got pissed
off early in those hearings and what is even more important.... STAYED PISSED
OFF....... through the very end. It is a pretty good indication when someone is
falsely accused, for that person being accused, if completely innocent, to get
angry AND REMAIN SO. Someone who gets angry and then cools off too rapidly is
not as believable.
But most important............ CAIN CANNOT DEFEAT
OBAMA!
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LET'S DUMP THE
SOCIALISTS FROM OUR GOVERNMENT!
Later
JEM
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November 1st, 2011 CAIN / SERIES /
PROTESTERS
WEDNESDAY - November 2, 2011
Greetings once again from the West
Texas Association Of Jingoistic Gun Owning Fossil Fuel Burning Angry Right Wing
Conspirators.
SERIES:
Let me kick this off by
telling you something which you probably have already guessed. I am a fan of
the Texas Rangers baseball team. I was very proud that they made it to the
World Series. I was pulling for them all the way. However, if they did have to
lose, losing to the St. Louis Cardinals was not as offensive as it would have
been if they had lost to some other National League Team.
Growing up in
Houston, Texas I can remember as a little boy going to minor league baseball
games at Buff Stadium which was the home field of the Houston Buffaloes of the
Texas League. The Texas League was comprised of teams from Texas, of course,
but also had teams from Oklahoma and Louisiana.
The Houston Buffaloes
(Buffs) were a minor league farm team for the St. Louis Cardinals. And many
later Cardinal stars played a couple of years for Houston prior to moving up to
St. Louis. So of course the Cards were our favorite major league team. Also
when I was a young boy working for my Dad at his grocery store, one of my duties
was to deliver groceries. I delivered groceries to one family who lived several
blocks from my Dad's store and since I could not ride a bicycle yet I pushed a
grocery cart that distance to deliver groceries to those folks. The man of the
house was a employed by the New York Yankee organization. They always brought
stuff back from New York... like individual autographed pictures of the entire
New York Yankee team. One time they brought me a Louisville Slugger bat which
had the name of Dolph Camilli who played for the Yankees in the 40's. I had
tons of major league baseballs and other stuff. When I got to be a teen ager
and just too cool for that kid stuff, I gave it away to other little kids in the
neighborhood. Smart huh?
Anyway, I grew up as a fan of the St. Louis
Cardinals and the New York Yankees. So just behind the Astros and the Rangers,
the Cards and the Yanks are my two favorite teams.
Although the Rangers
lost the series, I thought that game 6 which was won by the Cards in the 11th
inning, was the most exiting baseball game I have ever seen. I don't care who
you were pulling for, that was a hell of a baseball game.
Then of
course, major league baseball showed their asses by the choices of the people
chosen to sing the National Anthem. I personally hold the leagues responsible
for such disrespect to our National Anthem. I did notice that during the 7th
inning break when different people sang God Bless America that this was done as
a general rule by someone who showed respect for our country.
When will
these teams and leagues learn that the Star Spangled Banner is NOT a Hip-Hop;
or Rap; or Blues; or Country and Western song to be butchered by some slug who
is more interested in showing their style than in honoring our country?
CAIN:
For the past few days we have been subjected to
an incessant stream of reports regarding some sexual harassment suit which was
filed on Herman Cain when he was running the National Restaurant Association.
The first report I heard was that a couple of "Un-named persons" had filed a
Sexual Harassment suit against Herman Cain and the allegations were that he had
made gestures which WERE NOT OVERTLY SEXUAL IN NATURE BUT MADE THE
COMPLAINING PARTIES FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE. Isn't that horrible?
Of
course when you look at a good many of these types of suits they are frivolous
on the face. Ah, but then we find out that at least one of these aggrieved
victims settled the suit out of court for an amount which was five figures.
This really sounds serious doesn't it. Of course later on we find out that the
amount of the settlement was about equal to a severance package.
Now I
do not know what happened but I do know that Mr. Cain did not handle the problem
as well as he could have when the matter came to light. Of course the liberal
media was quick to jump for his throat since they absolutely cannot stand the
thought of a black man or woman or for that matter any racial minority being
conservative, which I imagine is Mr. Cain's real sin, in the eyes of the media
vermin.
A number of years back another Hobbs, NM police officer and I
were filed on in Federal Court by a guy whom we had arrested. Of course all
this guy did was show up at the Police Station and pull a Buck Knife on the
Detective. He was slam dunked and placed under arrest and placed in jail.
Later on, this idiot moved to Albuquerque, NM and came in contact with a couple
of ambulance chasing lawyers who convinced him to file this suit. The suit was
for something like $500,000. At the time, all Hobbs PD Officers were insured
for damages up to $1,000,000 for each accusation so all those jerks were after
was the insurance.
We gave depositions and answered interrogatories and
then never heard any more about it. A number of months passed and we asked our
Police Chief at the time if he had heard anything and he had not. He, of course
was also named in the suit as being in charge of two such desperate
characters. So the Chief checked on the status and at that time we learned
that the suit had been settled out of court for $5,000. We were all plenty
pissed as we had done nothing wrong and did not believe that this varmint should
have received a dime.
This is when we learned that since the insurance
company was the entity who would have to endure the loss that they had the power
to settle such a suit, out of court, without our knowledge or permission. They
told us it was a nuisance claim and that in the long run it would be less
expensive to settle for the $5,000 fee than to take it to court. We also
learned that the two ambulance chasing attorneys got all of the $5,000 and the
turd got nothing. A few months after that we learned that he had gotten silly
acting with a couple of Albuquerque crooks who shot him numerous times. The
Albuquerque PD filed murder charges on them but I personally thought they were
candidates for the Victoria Cross.
So I can understand completely what
Herman Cain might have meant when he said he did not recall signing any type of
paperwork regarding his suit. We never signed anything on ours.
I do
believe that Mr. Cain should have been better prepared and should have had his
responses ready as he and his staff should have known that something like this
would come to light.... particularly under the keen scrutiny of the New York
Times. And he should be ready for anything else which they might come up
with... truth or fiction.
Isn't it funny though how the liberal media
jumps on any conservative candidate when they make a mistake in their facts or
figures BUT give the world's most articulate and intelligent bi-ped a complete
pass when he tells us that he has "Visited All Fifty Seven (57)" states"? Or
when he is speaking of the Corps but pronounces it as corpse? Oh, by the way,
for those of you living in the People's Republic of San Francisco, there are
only Fifty (50) states.
PROTESTERS:
I was not
really going to say any more about these idiots but this past week there was an
article in the local (Sub) Standard Times taken in San Diego, CA which had an
accompanying photograph of a San Diego Police Officer standing rigidly with his
hand folded in front being talked at ( yes talked at rather than talked to) by
one of the "Protesters" The photo did not show a full body shot of the
Officer or the varmint but the varmint had on a T-Shirt; wrist band;
back-pack; and was carrying a skateboard. I am sure that this citizen was only
trying to do his part to save his country from man-made global warming by going
to work using a skate board rather than a fossil fuel burning
machine.....Oooops! I said going to work. I would just imagine that if you
offered this turd a job he could make that skateboard sing as he beat a hasty
retreat.
Anyway, if these idiots are part of the 99% then I am pleased
to be part of the 1%...... the armed 1%.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero; Ted
Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff
Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller
(USMC,Ret), Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion; Judy Langham; Jeanne
Green - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike
Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin,
Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T.
Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE;
Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate
Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl
Coleman - OR; John D. Williams (99) - VA; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB,
CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates,
MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt.
James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon
J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG
--------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil
Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt.
Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay,
Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US
NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL
ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike
Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan
McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball,
SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott
Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in
the United States Military; "DARKHORSE" 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their
families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy
Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
QUOTES:
"In various cities across the country, mobs of
mostly young, mostly incoherent, often noisy and sometimes violent
demonstrators are making themselves a major nuisance."...... THOMAS SOWELL
"Members of the mobs apparently believe that other people, who are working
while they are out trashing the streets, should be forced to subsidize their
college education -- and apparently the President of the United States thinks so
too."..... THOMAS SOWELL
"Sloppy words and sloppy thinking often go
together, both in the mobs and in the media that are covering them. It is
common, for example, to her in the media how some 'protesters' were arrested.
But anyone who reads this column regularly knows that I protest against all
sorts of things -- and don't get arrested."........ THOMAS SOWELL
"The
judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners
constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederate
fabric."..... THOMAS JEFFERSON
"Is life so dear or peace so
sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me
liberty or give me death."..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane
Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice
Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe -
R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX;
JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former
President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow
(MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House
Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel;
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsome; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor
Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck
Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL
CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush;
Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse
Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay
Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John
Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey;
Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank
Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi
Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle
Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean
Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King
(CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry
Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United
Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA
TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG;
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael
Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; Newt Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX
News); Bill O'Reilly (FOX News); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity;
PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams
(CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County
Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP;
Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club;
Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation
Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN;
Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA
Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (New DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former
DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX News)..
Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark
(D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation
Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA
MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For American
Progress; Huffington Post; Alan Colmes FOX News; HUD; Jay Carney;
Robert Reich; Department Of Energy; Department Of Education; Warren
Buffett; Morgan Freeman; Chakka Fattah (D-PA); Bob Beckel FOX News;
MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council); UNESCO (United Nations Educational
Scientific and Cultural Organization); Assistant U.S. Attorney LANNY BREUER
MORE STUFF:
You may have noticed that UNESCO
(United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) has been added
to our Varmint List. I deemed it appropriate when I read an article telling us
that this organization when The Palestinians were awarded full membership in
this organization. BUT the United States said it WOULD NOT make a
$60,000,000 payment to fill out its contributions for this year AND WILL
SUSPEND ALL FUTURE FUNDING.
What concerns me is this; HOW MUCH
HAVE WE ALREADY GIVEN THIS ORGANIZATION. IF SIXTY MILLION IS THE AMOUNT
IT WOULD TAKE TO FILL OUT THIS YEAR'S CONTRIBUTION, HOW MUCH HAVE WE
ALREADY GIVEN THEM?
Oh, did I mention that the base of operations for
UNESCO is in Paris? For those of you presently residing in the gulag of
Austin that is in France.
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As I said last week, I tried to accurately figure out my taxes under Herman
Cain's 9-9-9 Plan and it came out more. I have read several articles which
indicate that approximately 84% of U.S. households would pay more in taxes than
they are at the present time.
So Mr. Cain needs to get some help on his
tax plan.
------------------------------------------------
I read a couple
of articles this past week telling of the serious financial problems in the
State of Michigan and the City of Detroit.. The articles said that Detroit's
population had gone from 1.8 million down to 912,000; high school failure rate
reached 76%; Unemployment is at 28.9%; Detroit was once our fourth larges city
and now is 11th and slipping.
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AND NOW.... LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Let me introduce you all to a Department
of Justice Assistant U.S. Attorney by the name of LANNY BREUER.. But first
let me pause a moment to add him to the Varmint List.... OK, I'm back.
I
watched part of the video showing this 100% turd testifying before a Senate
Subcommittee regarding Operation Fast And Furious. Of course he covered for
Attorney General Eric Holder and pretty much laid the blame on former
President George Bush AND also blamed the Second Amendment for all the firearms
problems.
All you had to do was listen to part of this turd's testimony
and even the slowest people should be able to tell that Operation Fast And
Furious had absolutely nothing to do with tracking the firearms to the Mexican
Drug Cartel Leaders. It was all about a move to try and convince the American
public that Licensed Firearms Dealers and American firearm owners were the
problem.
If this is the caliber of people that Obama and Holder are
depending on to shelter them from guilt then they are even more stupid than I
had originally suspected.
These people have to go.
--------------------------------------------
Let me leave you with this final
quote:
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift
in an ugly direction"
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - From Audacity of
Hope
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Let's get rid of these
mutts.
JEM
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October 26th, 2011 LIES / QUDAFFI /
REUNION
Greetings once more from the Headquarters For Angry Armed West Texas
Jingoistic SUV Drivers Against Green Energy But Pro Fossil Fuel Burning
Equipment.
Let me first tell you all how very disappointed I was when on
Monday, October 24, 2011, NOT ONE PERSON E-Mailed; Wrote; or Called me to wish
me a HAPPY UNITED NATIONS DAY. It is almost as disheartening as not receiving a
single KWANZAA gift. Now I know how Charlie Brown feels when he doesn't receive
a single valentine. BUT I intend to press on.
Now just who in the Hell
decided that we should have a day recognizing the United Nations? A
Democrat/Progressive/Far Left/Socialist I'll bet. I would personally like to
recognize the United Nations by pulling out and kicking their sorry asses out of
the country.
REUNION:
Last week end I spent a
couple of days in Fredericksburg, Texas with some old friends who are members of
the Houston Police Retired Officers Association. All of their members have
retired after serving many years with the Houston Police Department. Almost
every year I see someone whom I have not seen or spoken with for over 37 years.
This year was no different. Of course every year I learn of an old friend or
even worse, an old partner who has passed away. That always saddens me.
This year we were fortunate enough to have in attendance a retired
Solo-Motorcycle Officer who spoke a few words to the attendees. He is now 88
years old and served in the United States Marine Corps in WW II and the Korean
War. He gets around on a cane and uses a scooter sometimes but his mind is still
plenty sharp. I can only hope my mind is that sharp in my late 80's.
Of
course the food was excellent; fried catfish, hushpuppies, fries, pinto beans,
and peach cobbler. And for all of you health nuts, let me tell you that FRIED is
the only way to really enjoy catfish. Of course I am not supposed to have any of
that stuff but I figure once every so often is OK. Also, for those of you who
are not familiar with Fredericksburg, Texas, it is the home of some of the BEST
GERMAN PASTRY cooks on the planet. Of course I limit myself to only small
portions........ like about 3 helpings of each pastry.
We had folks show
up from as far away as Beverly Hills, Florida. If I am able, I will never miss
one of these gatherings. Old friends are a real treasure.
Also while on
this trip, I actually slept in a bed for the first time in a number of weeks. I
had been sleeping in a recliner so as not to put added pressure on my ribs and
the incisions from the installation of the Pacemaker.
LIES:
I don't have much use for people who lie... and no I am not talking about;
mis-speaking; stretching the truth; getting your facts mixed up; or anything
along those lines. I am talking about people who will make a statement and then
deny completely making the statement. Of course everyone in the Obama
administration fits the description of telling lies including Obama himself. In
fact he is probably the biggest liar of the bunch.
But the person whom I
wish to single out today is none other than Vice President Joseph Biden. I
listened to this varmint make statements about increase in crime if the Obama
Jobs Bill were not passed. Then when a reporter (whose name I do not recall)
asked him about it, Biden completely denied making the statement. Then when he
attempted to clarify what he had said, he once again said that crime would
increase if the Jobs Bill were not passed.
It is really hard to take
anything said by this man seriously. Keep in mind that a number of years back
while making a run at the Democrat nomination for President, Biden told some
reporter that he had graduated in the top 10 percent of his class in college. Of
course this was easily checked and as it turned out he was not even in the top
2/3 of his class.
But why should a Democrat/Progressive/Socialist telling
lies surprise any of us.
Other than Obama and Biden, lets look at a few
others in this administration who lie more regularly than they tell the truth:
Attorney General Eric Holder....... who knew nothing of the Fast and Furious
operation until just a few weeks back.
Homeland Security Director Janet
Napolitano ....... the U.S./Mexican border is safer than it has ever been
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney...... who lies on a daily basis about
anything which questions an Obama decision.
Harry Reid....Nancy
Pelosi....Chuck Schumer... all of whom are staunch supporters of Obama and his
incompetent clowns.
These boobs should be rather easy to defeat in 2012
BUT the Republican Party seems more interested in shooting themselves in the
foot than they are in bringing down the Obama administration. No they are too
damn busy having 8 or 9 person debates where nothing ever gets solved.
QADAFFI:
I imagine almost all of us have watched the
demise of Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffi via various video clips. I really enjoy
watching something on a video and then be subjected to various news media mutts
tell me what I just saw.
The big joke was when the media, FOX included,
said that Qadaffi was killed in a ......."Crossfire". I watched the ex-Libyan
leader being drug out on the street and he was still alive then the next thing
you saw was him lying dead on the street with a hole in his head. Crossfire my
ass. I even heard several reports of one of the Libyan rebels claiming that he
had been the one who had shot Qadaffi in the head.
The of course in good
Sharia fashion, after Qadaffi was lying on the street, deader than the truth
from the mouth of Joe Biden, the brave rebels stomped his dead body.
Now
don't get me wrong, head shooting a turd like Qadaffi is perfectly fine with me
but when someone is dead, I see little use in beating the dead carcass.
Ah, but it did not end there. Almost immediately, Obama called a press
conference and announced the death of that varmint and it appeared to me as if
the media along with Obama's flunkies were trying to convince us that the Obama
administration... if not Obama himself.... was claiming credit for the kill.
But Wait!!!! There's more. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made this
statement before TV cameras; "We came; We saw; He died". Once again here is a
member of Team Obama acting like they were the driving force behind the death of
Qadaffi.
But before we celebrate too much, perhaps it might be a good
idea to see what type of regime replaces this jerk. I would almost wager that
another Radical Muslim group will be in power, not only in Libya, but in Egypt
as well. I just wonder how many billions of dollars in foreign aid we will give
to these two countries before someone realizes that they do not like us and want
us DEAD.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil;
Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton,
Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim
Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion; Judy
Langham; Jeanne Green - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula,
Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin,
Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan -
OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara
Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat
Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; John D. Williams (99) -
VA; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel
West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick
Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex
Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth
Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col.
Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; {
Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay,
Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------};
{Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett -
USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------};
{SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W.
Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas
Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men
and women presently serving in the United States Military; "DARKHORSE" 3RD
BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr.
Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and
their families.
QUOTES:
"Have you ever heard
anyone as incoherent as the people staging protests across the country?
Taxpayers ought to be protesting against having their money spent to educate
people who end up unable to say anything beyond repeating political catch
phrases."...THOMAS SOWELL
"Regardless of how the current Republican
presidential nomination process ends, I hope that they will never again have
these televised 'debates' among a crowd of candidates, which just turn into a
circular firing squad -- damaging whoever ends up with the nomination, and
having the voters knowing only who is the quickest with glib answers.".........
THOMAS SOWELL
"Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as
rankly as under private ownership".... THEODORE ROOSEVELT
"Is life so
dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me,
give me liberty or give me death."..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein;
Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris
Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice
President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital
letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith
Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet
Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius;
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsome; Mayor Anthony
Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck
Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON (
same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO);
DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton;
Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan
Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan
Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David
Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS);
Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle
Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo
Rivera (FOX News); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah
Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist;
John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP;
NY TIMES; LA TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center;
MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael
Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; Newt Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX News); Bill
O'Reilly (FOX News); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda;
Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is
OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James
Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour;
Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation
Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep.
Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb
(D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (New DNC Chairperson);
Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams
(FOX News).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark
(D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board;
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA
MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For American Progress; Huffington
Post; Alan Colmes FOX News; HUD; Jay Carney; Robert Reich; Department Of Energy;
Department Of Education; Warren Buffett; Morgan Freeman; Chakka Fattah (D-PA);
Bob Beckel FOX News; MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council)
MORE
STUFF:
This week in the (Sub) Standard Times, they published an
editorial article written by a local Democrat hack. Of course the article was
slamming anything that could by any stretch if the imagination be put on the
Republican Party. This guy has a bit of a problem letting go of the past
evidently. Here are a few contemporary items he addressed in his article:
1) The Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount and essentially appointed
George W. Bush as President.
2) A covert CIA operative got "outed".
3) We let a major U.S. city, New Orleans, drown.
Then this alert
former Federal Employee felt duty bound to say that the Republican Party finally
got mad when a black Democrat was elected and decided that all Americans deserve
the right to medical help when sick.
As well as I remember the Florida
recount was in the year 2000........... Boy! This Democrat got right on top of
this one, didn't he?
The "covert" CIA Operative was neither Covert and was
actually outed by her husband.
When will the Katrina whining end? With
Democrats... NEVER. But one must wonder if this keen observer of history stopped
to realize that the Mayor of New Orleans was a Democrat as was the Governor of
Louisiana. One must also wonder if he ever stopped to make the observation that
the main flood area was 12' BELOW SEA LEVEL?
Probably not.
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STOP THE PRESSES!!!!
Amnesty International is calling for a U.N. Investigation into the death of
Qadaffi.
PETA is filing a suit on behalf of I believe 6 Killer Whales and
is claiming that Killer Whales have Constitutional Rights.
Are these two
great organizations, or what?
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Earlier in the week I
was listening to a local news program in the early morning hours and the guest
was some MSNBC Political Contributor whose name was, now get ready for
this...... Crystal Ball. I had to wonder for a moment if perhaps MSNBC had
fallen so low that they were now hiring strippers. If Crystal Ball isn't a
stripper name then I will be crowned the next King of Ethiopia.
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I was watching some
coverage of one of the Wall Street demonstrations and one of the FOX News
Contributors made the keen observation that the demonstrators represented the
views of 99% of the American people. Now I am not sure where this goofy FOX
heifer gets her statistical information, but a 99% approval rating for ANYONE or
any group seems a bit high.
But if she is correct, then count me in the
1%
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Thanks again for the
prayers and support.
JEM
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October 19th, 2011 MORE DEBATES /
DEMONSTRATORS
WEDNESDAY - October 19 , 2011
Hello one again from the West Texas
Association Of Jingoistic Fed Up With Political Debates Fossil Fuel Burning Gun
Owners Of Right Wing Persuasion.
Let me address two things before I
start in on the Liberals/Progressives/Socialists/Democrats.
This week I
was notified of the deaths of two people who had been on my mailing list for
quite some time. The first gentleman was E. Wayne McLamb who was a resident of
South Carolina. I was not aware of Mr. McLamb's condition until I received an
e-mail telling me and many other friends of his passing.
I also received
a call from the widow of Clarence Williams of Amarillo, Texas. Clarence had
been on the mail list for a number of years. Additionally, several years back,
Clarence and his wife and another family member were traveling through San
Angelo and they gave me a call and we had a nice visit at my house.
I
would like, once again, to express my sincere sadness in the passing of these
two fine gentlemen. I will pray for their families and would appreciate it if
you would all do the same.
MORE DEBATES:
I had pretty much
promised myself that I was through watching these Republican Presidential
Candidate Debates but caught myself checking in on them periodically. It was as
if I had stepped back in time and was watching the two previous debates but I
noticed a few things different which I thought warranted mention. First allow
me to point out a few things which DID NOT CHANGE:
1) Rick Santorum
still came across as an arrogant turd. Sorry for those of you in Pennsylvania
who have and are at present supporting this rude jerk.
2) Rick Perry
still continues his attacks on Mitt Romney with little effect regarding things
which are not all that important.
3) Michelle Bachman still continues to
come of as a gentler somewhat less shrill Hillary Clinton.
4) Herman
Cain is still hung up on his 999 plan as the answer to EVERYTHING.
5)
Mitt Romney cannot utter a sentence without mentioning "In My Book".
6)
Ron Paul will still say something with which I totally agree only to follow it
up with something quite goofy.
7) Newt Gingrich still comes across as
the ONLY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE who has a thorough understanding of the
political system and perhaps the only candidate who stands a chance against
Obama in a one-on-one debate.
Let me explain how I came to my
conclusions about the various candidates:
1) Rick Santorum - He
constantly attacks Romney and ends up asking Romney a question, then when Romney
is attempting to answer his question, Santorum continuously interrupts and
begins talking over Romney so that no one can really understand what Romney's
response is. Just his overall attitude appears to mirror the arrogance of the
jerk who is the present occupant of the White House.
2) Rick Perry,
along with Santorum, has pretty well well beaten to death the "Romney Care"
issue and I would like to see him move on to some of his own solutions. And
someone who advocates In-State Tuition for illegal aliens has damn little room
to be all that accusatory to someone who hired a lawn service which had an
Illegal alien as an employee.
3) Michelle Bachman evidently believes
that she must enter a shrill screaming mode in order to make her point. Oh, and
I believe we have all heard enough about her experience as a Tax-Attorney. If
she thinks for a moment that this fact would make me or most others drop
everything and cast a vote for her then she is not nearly so smart as she would
have us believe.
4) Herman Cain evidently believes that his 999 Plan
will solve all of our nation's problems. I have yet to really hear an in depth
description of how this plan is going to save us, BUT I did manage to hear
pieces of several interviews where someone pinned him down and personally I did
not much like what I heard about his 999 plan.
I understand that the
first 9 is for the 9% Business Flat Tax - This is the tax rate which would tax
the gross business income less all purchases from other U.S. located businesses,
all capital investments, and net exports. Then comes the part about
EMPOWERMENT ZONES which will offer deductions for those employed in THE ZONE.
Now what in the hell that means, I don't know. Perhaps Herman can tell us at
the next debate.
The second 9 is for the 9% individual Flat Tax - Gross
Income less Charitable Deductions. EMPOWERMENT ZONES will offer additional
deductions for those living and/or working in the EMPOWERMENT ZONE.
The third 9 is for a 9% National Sales Tax - Unlike a state sales tax, which is
an add-on-tax that increases the price of goods and services, this is a
replacement tax. It replaces taxes that are already embedded in selling
prices. By replacing higher marginal rates in the production process with lower
marginal rates, marginal production costs actually decline, which will lead to
prices being the same or lower, not higher. OK, now I would like a show of
hands of everyone who either understands OR buys this crap. KEEP IN MIND -
your state sales tax WILL NOT GO AWAY. This national sales tax will be in
addition to your state sales tax.
I have heard several economy experts
comment that this is a real piece of junk plan.
Perhaps someone should
ask Mr. Cain about the home mortgage which at present is the biggest deduction
most families enjoy.
I read one statement where Mr. Cain said that a
family of 4 making $50,000 per year would actually have money left over at the
end of the year. Wonder for how long?
So what I am saying is that
perhaps Mr. Cain's 9-9-9 plan isn't as hot as it has been painted. Perhaps Mr.
Cain is telling us that two can live as cheaply as one....... but only half as
good.
5) OK Mitt, we all know you have written a book and exciting baby
it must be if you devote pages explaining your Romney Care program when you were
Governor of Massachusetts. AND, when Rick Perry told you publicly that he did
not agree with the statement made by a Baptist Minister about the Mormon
Religion, you along with Santorum beat that subject to death and I must say that
I had to agree with Rick Perry when he asked you how much more of an apology
you wanted.
Let me add this thought onto this subject. If I have a
friend or a minister or a coach or a teacher or any other associate who says
something which offends you then THEY, not me, owe you an apology. If you are
going to play the part of another insulted victim thenforget me dude.
6) Ron Paul occasionally makes sense but the occasions are fairly rare and then
he will completely negate his lucid moments with moments of sheer goofiness.
7) I am sure that all of you know that I am not a huge Newt Gingrich fan as
I think he gets a bit arrogant and tries to play cute games on occasion BUT when
it comes to pure knowledge regarding government and the duties of the various
arms of government Newt Gingrich is head and shoulders above all the rest of the
Republican Candidates. AND I sincerely believe that in a one-on-one debate,
Gingrich would eat Barack Hussein Obama's ass off him. I also sincerely believe
that Obama would chew up any of the other candidates in a head on debate.
So, to sum it all up, I will vote FOR any of the Republican Candidates over
Obama but I believe many of them are a bit more dangerous than first suspected.
Within the past couple of days, Herman Cain appears to have seriously waffled on
several issues including the illegal immigration issue.
And I am also
saying that they can put their future debates where the sun don't shine. Now
for those of you living in the People's Republic of San Francisco, if you need
an explanation of where that is, call Barney Frank or his live-in.
DEMONSTRATORS:
This past week we have all been subjected to the antics
of the "Occupy Wall Street" bunch of buffoons. I listened to some on the street
interviews of some of these rocket scientists. One morning while on my way to
the McDonald's, to meet with some friends of like thoughts, I listened to one
of these demonstrators being asked if she thought the Military Budget should be
cut and what were her views on the U.S. Military. Her response did not
surprise me in the least, and here it is: "Well, if they would use the military
to like go in when there were hurricanes or floods or disasters, then that would
be OK, but if all they are going to do is like attack and stuff like war then I
think it should be cut." What a riveting mind this female possessed. Then I
heard one guy and all he talked about was that the banks had too much money and
that rich people had too much money. Wonder if anyone ever pointed out to him
the fact that having large amounts of money is why they call them "Rich
People". There were several more but they were all equally as goofy.
Now, not only is there a huge demonstration in New York, but there are more
being conducted all over the country. There was one in Oakland, CA and guess
who participated in that one? None other than the last two hikers who were
released from a prison in Iran. You remember, the two guys and one female who
obviously could find no challenging places to hike in the United States and
instead chose a spot near the Iran border and ACCIDENTALLY crossed over into
Iran and got caught. Of course we were all supposed to feel great pain for
these three idiots who just had to choose the Iran border in which to hike.
Sorry, but I felt that those people intentionally went to a location which is
unsafe at best and intentionally put themselves in their situation BY CHOICE.
Sort of like the female reporters who ACCIDENTALLY crossed into North Korea from
China. How does one ACCIDENTALLY cross the YALU RIVER?
I heard a funny
comment this morning on a radio show when the commentator made the statement
that had the Ming Dynasty had to deal with Labor Unions, the Great Wall would
still be under construction.
Anyway, the demonstrators, wherever they
might me have damn little.... no make that NO SYMPATHY from me.
PRAYER
LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero;
Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff
Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller
(USMC,Ret), Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion; Judy Langham; Jeanne
Green - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike
Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin,
Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T.
Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE;
Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate
Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl
Coleman - OR; John D. Williams (99) - VA; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB,
CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates,
MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt.
James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon
J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG
--------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil
Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt.
Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay,
Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US
NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL
ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike
Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan
McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball,
SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James
Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women
presently serving in the United States Military; "DARKHORSE" 3RD BATTALION
5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M.
Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their
families.
QUOTES:
"Like so many people, in so many countries,
who started out to SPREAD THE WEALTH. Barack Obama has ended up spreading
poverty.".............. THOMAS SOWELL
"If he were debating Barack
Obama, Newt Gingrich could chew him up and spit him out.".......... THOMAS
SOWELL
"Those people of good will who want to replace the racism of the
past with a post-racial society have too often overlooked the fact that there
are others who instead want to pug racism under new management, to have reverse
discrimination as racial payback for past injustices.".........................
THOMAS SOWELL
"My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent
performance of my duty, to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of
the newspapers."........ THOMAS JEFFERSON
"Is life so dear or
peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid
it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give
me liberty or give me death."..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein;
Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX;
Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry
Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY
CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President);
George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland
Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and
Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human
Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt.
Gov. Gavin Newsome; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF);
Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin;
Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as
Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell
(RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al
Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max
Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny
Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich;
Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie
Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The
View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor
David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera
(FOX News); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner;
Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson;
Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE
PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE;
SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL;
CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal;
Newt Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX News); Bill O'Reilly (FOX News);
EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West;
Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles
Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC);
Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen;
NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF
(Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith
Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb
(D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (New DNC
Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By
Request); Juan Williams (FOX News).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio;
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony
Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open
Society Institute; Center For American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan
Colmes FOX News; HUD; Jay Carney; Robert Reich; Department Of Energy;
Department Of Education; Warren Buffett; Morgan Freeman; Chakka Fattah
(D-PA); Bob Beckel FOX News
MORE STUFF:
A little earlier in
the week I was watching a video clip of California Representative Henry Waxman
(a permanent varmint) who made a statement about the Republican's love affair
with fossil fuels. Then I heard FOX News contributor and Democratic Strategist
Bob Beckel refer to the oil and gas industry proponents of using dinosaur
droppings for fuel. HEY BOB!! Damn right. It is still the most economical
and useful fuel we have on this planet. Of course Bob just earned himself a
place on the Varmint List. What a boob.
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I almost
forgot that I heard one of the demonstrator idiots whining about a ...... now
get ready for this ..... a TOFU shortage in California. OH NO MR. BILL!!!
Not a TOFU shortage! Where will it all end? OH, THE HUMANITY!
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I heard this morning that in
January of 2012 Social Security recipients will receive a Cost Of Living
Adjustment of somewhere around 3.5%. This announcement was followed up
immediately with the news that in January of 2012 the Medicare costs would
increase somewhere close to the amount of most COLA raises. Imagine that. Of
course the Social Security benefits are different for many people. I know that
my monthly benefits are a bit more than double those my wife BUT our MEDICARE
costs are exactly the same. So my COLA might cover my increase in Medicare
costs but my wife's will not cover hers. Of course if this turd we currently
have for a president were not running for re-election in 2012 we would more than
likely have received NOTHING.
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Earlier in the week I received an e-mail from someone who was not thrilled by my
written thoughts and after making me aware of that fact made the serious error
of asking why I was so damn hard on the Liberals and the Democrats. My answer
was rather short and sweet; "It is because you all seem to be begging for
someone to point out your shortcomings and additionally because you
Liberals/Democrats/Progressives/Socialists do and say some really stupid
stuff." It was almost too easy. I have not received a reply.
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I am
recovering from my surgeries really quickly and feel great. This coming week
end I will be heading out for a reunion of Retired Houston Police Officers in
Fredericksburg, Texas. I am looking forward to seeing many old friends and some
of my old partners on the Houston PD. I want to thank you all for your kind
words....your prayers.... and your support over the past few months. I am just
about ready to put on the pads and go full speed.
God bless you all and
thanks again
Later
JEM
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October12th, 2011 CLASS / NO CLASS
WEDNESDAY - October 12, 2011
Greetings once again from a plenty sore
Charter Member Of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Of course I would be much
happier if it were MORE VAST and more RIGHT WING than it is at present.
First things first. While I was in the hospital last week evidently someone
hacked into my E-Mail account and got access to my E-Mail address book and sent
out a couple of messages. Even some who are not on my Wednesday Newsletter
mailing lists received these messages. One I believe was a Viagra Ad and I am
not sure what the other was but needless to say, I was not responsible for
either of these messages. I have just taken steps to stop this from happening
again but I can make no promises.
PROGRESS:
Last Wednesday
morning I checked into the hospital for surgery which was to install a
combination Pacemaker/Defibrillator device. I went into the operating room at
about 8:00 A.M. and was almost asleep but never quite went completely out. Abut
half way through the installation I was completely conscious and could hear
every word being said by my surgeon and his assistants. The procedure which
should have taken about an hour drug out to three hours and I could hear what
they were saying so was not surprised when they took me to the recovery room.
This is what I learned:
The Defibrillator has one wire which was
connected into my heart muscle successfully. The Pacemaker was to have been
hooked into my heart (one wire on each side) and the wire connected to the right
side was connected successfully. The wire which needed to be inserted in the
left side of my heart gave them some problems and the angle they were using was
causing the insertion of that wire was being blocked by scar tissue from my
triple bypass which took place in June. While they bypass was a success, my
heart was not beating in synch as it needed to be.
So bright and early
on Thursday morning I returned to the operating room for another surgery to
connect the remaining wire. My surgeon explained everything to me prior to the
procedure. They were going to make another incision in my left side about 6"
below my incision from Wednesday. They were going to insert a tube in my left
ribcage area and deflate my left lung and then go in and insert the remaining
wire. All of these things occurred and of course I was completely unconscious
during that procedure. This procedure actually only took about a half hour.
I spent Thursday night in Intensive Care. Of course when I woke up I
immediately noticed that my left ribcage area was very sore. Any of you who
have had cracked or broken ribs can appreciate what I am saying. My left side
is still very sore and I do everything within my power to make sure I do not
sneeze or cough. A cough feels as if I were running full speed over the middle
and just as I reached up to touch the ball, Troy Polamalu buried his helmet in
my ribcage. A sneeze makes me feel as if he did it TWICE. For those of you
residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco this analogy exhibits the
pain I am presently experiencing.
Anyway, the doctors said that the
surgery was successful and that the Pacemaker was working properly. Thanks to
all who have called or sent me good wishes through E-Mail or regular mail or by
phone. I am already back on my walking program and am feeling very
good......... except for when I cough or sneeze.
NO CHANGE:
I
notice that while I have been gone, nothing much has changed insofar as the
political front.... Obama is still incompetent; Eric Holder is still lying;
Harry Reid is still whining; and Herman Cain appears to be making a real run
for the Republican nomination.
CLASS:
Every time I hear these
political hacks talk about "Class Warfare" I have an uncontrollable urge to
choke the crap out of whomever is talking. What they probably actually mean is
"Income Level" differences. And of course there are some real differences in
the annual income of many people. But I do not begrudge someone who has worked
very hard all their lives to achieve financial security, one dime.
But
when I think of CLASS I tend to think more in terms of GRADE or QUALITY or
DEGREE OF EXCELLENCE. Just stop and think; While George Soros might be very
wealthy in the area of money or possessions but the QUALITY of his character is
highly suspect.
I grew up in Houston, Texas and knew lots of people
from all kinds of economic backgrounds. I went to school with kids whose
parents had been founders of huge companies and were financially well off.
Some of them had class and some of them did not. BUT it was their CHARACTER
rather than their income bracket which determined the degree of CLASS they
possessed.
Conversely, I knew many people who lived in what was then
called "The East End" who were not financially well off but their CHARACTER was
of the highest quality.
NO CLASS:
That is why it really gets my
backside red when I hear Barack Hussein Obama or one of his equally incompetent
followers talk about: TAX CUTS FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS. They rarely refer
to financially well off people as UPPER CLASS but instead choose to refer to
them as THE RICH. In this same note they call people who are in Lower Income
Brackets; POOR PEOPLE or simply THE POOR.
These turds try to put us
all on a guilt trip if any of us has done something so obscene a make a profit
on a product. I have really gotten a laugh at the expense of those idiots who
are demonstrating, not only on Wall Street, but in neighborhoods at executive's
homes.
The other day I watched a reporter from one of the news networks
ask one of the demonstrators why they were marching and demonstrating. And of
course this boob immediately said, "It's for the people man". The reporter
asked him then, what he was doing to actually help "The People" and once again
this slug comes back with, "We're marching man". OK, the reporter went on,
how does your marching actually HELP THE PEOPLE? Then this idiot replied,
"Man there are just too many rich people out there". Apparently this rocket
scientist either; 1) Did not understand the question.... 2) Had no concept of
a lucid answer...... 3) Would be better off trying to figure out why Goofy can
talk and Pluto can't and they are both dogs.
Of course why should any of
us be surprised when idiots show the world WHY they are idiots.
Here is
an example of the Character of Barack Hussein Obama is questioned.
I
listened to Obama speaking to a group of students. And of course in his feeble
attempt at humor he told the group that while in the eighth grade he was
required to take a course in ETHICS. He made the comment that ETHICS was not
his favorite class. Now that is something I can believe. And the pathetic
part is that while he is UNETHICAL, so are most of his cabinet and close
friends.
REAL CLASS:
Yesterday I watched one of my very
favorite movies; "Bad Day At Black Rock" which among the cast featured Spencer
Tracy, Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Lee Marvin,
and Ernest Borgnine. Spencer Tracy was nominated for an Academy Award for his
role in this movie.
Then immediately after the showing of this movie a
TCM Host had about an hour long interview with Ernest Borgnine. Mr. Borgnine is
92 years old but is still mentally sharp is a tack. I look at the people who
were viewed as STARS back in those days and find that a great many of them
exhibited great CHARACTER and Ernest Borgnine is one of the leaders in that
area.
While on the subject of CLASS, I received an envelope in the mail
last week from an E-Mail friend whom I have never met in person. He is a
retired NYPD Sergeant. He sent me a copy of a publication "Frontline" which is
published by the New York City Sergeants Benevolent Association.
This
particular issue was a Memorial Issue honoring all the NYPD Officers who lost
their live on 9/11/01. It also published the names of everyone killed on that
day. Also honored were 6 NYPD Sergeants who died from 9/11 related cancers. I
have to say that based upon what I know of this organization, they are a CLASS
ACT.
Most of you who are either current or retired police officers can
probably relate to what I am about to say. And of course this holds true
particularly in large departments. You might forget the names of some of your
past Chiefs; Deputy Chiefs; Inspectors; Captains; and Lieutenants, but you
will seldom forget the names of your Sergeants and you can go back and remember
who among them had the greatest influence in your careers. An old time
Sergeant was the main man.
I can recall on one of my first trips to
Hobbs, New Mexico when I had been hired but had not moved there yet. I was in
town to purchase our first house and was meeting an officer at the old PD to get
in touch with a realtor. As I was entering the main lobby, one of the shifts
had just finished briefing and were getting ready to hit the streets. At that
time I was about 5'11" and weighed in at about 210 pounds and when that shift
showed up in the lobby led by then Sergeant Bill Wigginton who was a huge
man and I wondered if I was large enough to work on that shift. There were some
real "Hawgs" in that lobby and I asked another officer if everyone on that shift
was as big is those guys. He told me that this was probably the largest shift
on the PD at that time.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary
Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop,
Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob
Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Albert &
Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul &
Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown,
Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL;
Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones -
NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan
O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers -
CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; John D. Williams (99) - VA; Josip & Lela Slivar
- ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates,
MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt.
James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon
J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG
--------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil
Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt.
Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay,
Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US
NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL
ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike
Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan
McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball,
SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James
Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women
presently serving in the United States Military; "DARKHORSE" 3RD BATTALION
5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M.
Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their
families.
QUOTES:
"An arrogant elite's condescension toward
the people - treating them as children who have to be jollied along -- is one of
the poisonous problems of our time. It is at the heart of the nanny state and
the promotion of a debilitating dependency that wins votes for politicians while
weakening a society."...... THOMAS SOWELL
"Attorney General Eric
Holder became a key figure epitomizing the view that government's role in racial
matters was not to be an impartial dispenser of equal justice for all, but to be
a racial partisan and an organ of racial payback. He has been too politically
savvy to say that in so many words, but his actions have spoken far louder than
any words."........ THOMAS SOWELL
"The judiciary of the United States
is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to
undermine the foundations of our confederate fabric."..............THOMAS
JEFFERSON
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased
at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not
what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me
death."..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein
Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine
Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen
Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President
Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters
as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann
CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet
Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsome; Mayor
Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill
Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry;
Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick
Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING
WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey
Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore;
Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins
-R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak;
David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga
(Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill
Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore;
Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX News); Mara Liasson
(NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John
Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John
McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA
RAZA; AARP; NY TIMES; LA TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern
Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW;
John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; Newt Gingrich
-R; Shepard Smith (FOX News); Bill O'Reilly (FOX News); EPA; Center For
Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson;
Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley;
Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan;
NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra
Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth
Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison
D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By
Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (New DNC Chairperson); Tim
Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams
(FOX News).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete
Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National
Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal;
MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For
American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan Colmes FOX News; HUD; Jay
Carney; Robert Reich; Department Of Energy; Department Of Education;
Warren Buffett; Morgan Freeman
MORE STUFF:
First we had the
O.J. Trial...... Then we had the murder trial of two guys who were accused of
murdering their wives, one in Illinois and one in California...... I'm sure
there were a few more sprinkled in but the we had Casey Anthony and were
subjected to that almost 24 hours per day....then we had the Amanda Knox appeal
where they reversed her Murder conviction to the delight of the crowds...... Now
we are subjected to the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor..... Since I passed
on all the rest, I think I'll pass on this one also.
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The "Obama Jobs Bill" which
would have been more accurately called "The Obama Tax Increase Bill" was
defeated in the Senate to the surprise of no one. All this Piece-O-Crap bill was
designed to do was to make the Republicans appear as "Obstructionists" and
nothing more. Apparently the only people fooled by this mutt's tactics is the
Republican National Committee.
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Here in West Texas we had a little over 3" of rainfall over the week end. We
sure needed it.
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I cannot
drive for about another week so I have to depend on my wife and friends to get
to the coffee shop. When you are 74 years old and grounded, it hurts.
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Hope I have the phantom e-mail problem
solved.
Thanks to everyone for your prayers and words of support.
God bless you all
JEM
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September 28th, 2011 DEBATE / JOBS / ENOUGH
Greetings from the West Texas Headquarters For Sick Of Debate Four Wheel Drive Owning Fossil Fuel Using Pro-Hunting Angry Jingoistic Mob Members.
Let me first give you all an update on my surgery recovery. Everyone seems really pleased with my progress but my heart, while much improved is still not functioning as well as it could. So with that, I will have a Pacemaker/Defibrillator installed next Wednesday. My surgeon showed me the item today at his office and it is much smaller than what I thought. He said that the item will be placed under my collarbone on the left side of my chest with three wires going into my heart. He said the whole procedure will take about an hour and I will not have to undergo the complete unconscious anesthetic and it will be more like the type they use when a colonoscopy is performed. I wish I could have gotten by without it but I really expected to have to have one of these babies installed. The surgery will be next Wednesday morning so I will be off line for that day. I will have to spend the night in the hospital as that is their rule just to make sure everything went as expected. So please keep me in your prayers.
DEBATES:
I looked up the word DEBATE ins the Webster's World Dictionary and here is what it says:
DEBATE - to discuss reasons for and against something; a discussion of opposing reasons; a formal contest of skill in REASONED argument.
Now if what we watched last week on FOX s between NINE Republican Presidential Hopefuls was a DEBATE then I expect any day now to depose Elizabeth as the British Monarch or perhaps to be named President of The NFL.
First of all, these people had something like 30 seconds apiece to give their views on a question asked of them. Now if being asked questions by the FOX s team were not enough, we were also subjected to video questions ,from God only knows who, via U-Tube. And some of these questions had to be formulated by plants from various candidates.
The bottom line is that NINE people participating in this sorry excuse for an actual debate is at least five people over the limit. Why former Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is invited is a mystery to me. And I know some of you probably like Ron Paul, and I also like a couple of his views on certain items, but for every intelligent statement he makes he counters it with a statement which makes him look like almost as big of a DOOF as Gary Johnson.
Actually the person on that stage who really appears to know more about government is t Gingrich who has shot himself in the foot with me a long time back. I like what Herman Cain says pretty much on every subject but realistically speaking, I do not believe he can raise enough cash to go the distance. Michelle Bachman is also pretty sharp on some items but then will come across like a screeching Hillary Clinton clone on others. Also she seems more interested in making Rick Perry look bad than she does with coming up with some solutions. Rick Santorum looked like he was playing hatchet man for Mitt Romney since all he did was criticize Rick Perry who managed to throw the ball out of the stadium. John Huntsman has on a few occasions came across to me as a &Moderate&. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Not another one of those. All in all I thought Herman Cain was the most straight forward but I thought Mitt Romney probably won the &DEBATE& since he an Perry were asked the most questions by far.
So in summation I will say that I probably will NOT watch another 9 person DEBATE; Nor will I watch the trial of the doctor who is being tried for the death of Michael Jackson; Nor will I watch the Emmys; Nor the Academy Awards; Nor Miss America; Nor The View; Nor Ellen; Nor Dancing With The Stars and that should pretty much tell you all just where I place these so called DEBATES. If the would narrow it down to two and have a decent amount of time for each candidate to state their position on domestic and foreign policy and how they plan on defeating the world's most articulate and intelligent human, then I could watch it...... for awhile anyway.
JOBS:
OK, to begin with, Barack Hussein Obama's so called half trillion dollar &Jobs Bill& is nothing more than a series of tax increases. Also, you may have noticed that I have added Warren Buffett to the Varmints List. If Mr. Buffett wants to pay more taxes, I am sure that the government, particularly under this band of thieves, would be more than willing to accept some additional funds from him. I know Mr. Buffett is a smart man and extremely wealthy but I do not need him to tell me how much I should be paying in federal income tax.
Back on JOBS. I have watched the world's most articulate and intelligent human in previous films speak about how many &Green PERMANENT Jobs& that would be created by Solyndra..... or as I prefer to call it..... SOBAMALYNDRA..... and making sure that they received a half billion dollars in assistance, which was basically a half-billion dollar gift to some people who are at least as incompetent as the world's most intelligent and articulate human.
Apparently these SOBAMALYNDRA idiots have a real problem with arithmetic. I watched one film in which one of the head idiots said that it cost them $6 to make each solar panel but the panels could only be sold for something like $4. So just in my head I realized that for every $60,000 spent on this manufacturing nightmare the company would only receive $40,000 back. Now I am not sure but I don't believe that this formula will catch on in the business world.
Not to mention the fact that when the Congressional Hearings began the two SOBAMALYNDRA witnesses were sworn in and invoked the Fifth Amendment more than Michael Corleone in Godfather II. I understand why the Fifth Amendment is in the Constitution and I believe that it is a good thing. But I also believe that when a witness or a defendant stands on the Fifth Amendment rather than answer a simple question that, dare I say it...... makes them LOOK GUILTY.
Anyway rather than creating his 1,000 PERMANENT GREEN JOBS, the company went belly up taking a half-billion tax dollars with them. Here is some information I received via E-MAIL and I thought it was pretty funny.
1) Last year after the Green Bay Packers defeated the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo released starting quarterback Trent Edwards making way for a quarterback.
2) During the Green Bay Packers vs. the Philadelphia Eagles game, the Packers injured Philadelphia quarterback Kevin Kolb making room for backup quarterback Michael Vick.
3) During a playoff game against the Philadelphia Eagles, the Green Bay Packers injured Michael Vick making room for still another backup quarterback.
4) After the Green Bay Packers vs. the Dallas Cowboys game, Dallas fired Wade Phillips and others on his staff.
5) Four weeks after losing to the Green Bay Packers, the San Francisco 49ers, Coach Mike Singleterry and most of his staff were fired and replaced.
6) During the playoff game with the Chicago Bears, the Green Bay Packers injured quarterback Jay Cutler and backup Todd Collins forcing the Bears to go with third string quarterback Caleb Hanie.
SO, anyway you cut it, the Green Bay Packers have created more jobs than the Obama administration.
ENOUGH:
It seems it is the general consensus of opinion among Democrats/Liberals/Progressives/Socialists that if you disagree with anything put out by Barack Hussein Obama or his administration then you must be a RACIST.
But it is perfectly alright for actor Morgan Freeman to accuse members of the TEA Party of being racist with the blessings of Obama and his minions. I have always thought that Morgan Freeman was a really good actor and had some measure of respect for his abilities but it seems as if he is just another Danny Glover or Harry Belafonte holding the view that if you are Caucasian or disagree with Obama then you must necessarily be a racist.
Now, think on this for awhile... THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS. If this is not being racist and continuing to drive a wedge between the various races in our country then racism is a myth. And where was the media when Barack Hussein Obama recently addressed the Congressional Black Caucus at some annual dinner and decided that instead of speaking as he normally does, felt it incumbent upon him to sound like he came from a cotton field in Southern Alabama. To me that is a complete insult to intelligent black people.
I watched an interview the other day when a FOX s Reporter was talking with a black Congresswoman and he mentioned Herman Cain and Alan West and this black Congresswoman immediately said, &We call them Oreos&. &That's black on the outside and white on the inside&. Nothing racist about this sow's statement, huh?
When you get right down to it, there are many so called black leaders who make a living off using race as a tool. Let's see, there's Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton just to kick things off. And of course there are many more who try to put us all on a guilt trip... but they are wasting their time and breath with me since I do not feel guilty in the least. How about Reverend Jeremiah Wright? You remember, the hate mongering slug whose church Barack and Michelle Obama attended but never heard any of his hate filled speech?
But I have had MORE THAN ENOUGH of these clowns trying to make us out as the bad guys. I have had MORE THAN ENOUGH of being talked down to by elected officials at every level. I have had MORE THAN ENOUGH of Republicans falling for the guilt trips of the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists. I have had MORE THAN ENOUGH of the liberal s media and their lies. And finally I have had MORE THAN ENOUGH of the Obama Administration.
These so called Republican Presidential Candidates had better get off their dead asses and stop beating up on each other and begin to attack the real enemies of our country.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner, Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
ES:
&We already have a President who is glib and fast on his feet. But he is a disaster when it comes to the economy, among other things. Do we need more of the same from Republicans?&............ THOMAS SOWELL
&The time horizon of politics seldom reaches beyond the next election. But, in economics, when an oil company invests in oil explorations today, the oil they eventually find and process may not make its way to market and earn a profit until it is sold as gasoline a decade from now.&...................... THOMAS SOWELL
&The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.&... THOMAS JEFFERSON
&Hitler learned that efficiency without justice is a vain thing. Democracy does not work that way. democracy is a matter of faith -- a faith in the soul of man --- a faith in human rights. That is the kind of faith that moves mountains --- that's the kind of faith that hurled the Iron Range at the Axis and shook the world at Hiroshima. Faith is much more than efficiency. Faith gives value to all things. Without faith, the people perish.&........... HARRY TRUMAN
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan Colmes FOX s; HUD; Jay Carney; Robert Reich; Department Of Energy; Department Of Education; Warren Buffett; Morgan Freeman
MORE STUFF:
I read an article in the (Sub) Standard which had bold headlines &PERRY LAGS IN APPOINTING WOMEN&. The article went on to point out that while Governor Rick Perry had many more opportunities to make state appointments than his two predecessors, his record in selecting minorities and women doesn't go far beyond theirs and in some cases lags behind. It said that while Perry's percent Latino and black appointments is slightly higher than that of former Governor George W. Bush, Perry ranks a bit behind Bush in appointments of women.
Now you see? I have been laboring under the false impression that any appointments made by any elected official should be made on that person's abilities rather than their race or sex. I guess I am just not in tune with the left wing loon's ideas on appointments. And another chapter to that story is I am damn proud not to be. Once again another liberal doof trying to put us on a guilt trip. But that should not surprise any of us when we live in a society where everyone is supposed to get a trophy or medal and special recognition for exceptional performance is just not in vogue.
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Another letter to the (Sub) Standard stated that the &War On Drugs& was a failure and of course this forward thinking individual compared the drug problem to prohibition. Now I will be the first to admit that I do not believe that the politicians as a whole are not really all that interested in enforcement of drug statutes but I dread to think of what our society would look like had we followed the suggestion of former Mexico Governor and current Presidential Candidate, Gary Johnson who wanted to legalize everything and let the Government be in charge of the dispensing of the various drugs. I can sure understand where he coming from since the government has done such a bang up job on everything else. Johnson is a RINO and a complete doof.
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I watched a film clip of the world's most articulate and intelligent human speaking about the &INTERCONTINENTAL RAILROAD&.
HEY BARACK! I'm going to say this just once and this again is according to The Webster's World Dictionary.
INTERCONTINENTAL - 1) between or among continents 2) able to travel from one continental to another
TRANSCONTINENTAL - 1) that which crosses a continent 2) on the other side of a continental
RAILROADS ARE TRANSCONTINENTAL
LONG RANGE MISSILES ARE INTERCONTINENTAL - as in ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile)
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I was sorry for the families of the three American hikers who were imprisoned in Iran for being in that country illegally. But the question comes to my mind is this; What in the hell were they doing over in that part of the world just to hike. Are you going to try to make me believe that there are not places in America where hikers can get challenged? How about Australia? How about Switzerland? How about the Great Pyrenees? How about South America? How about Zealand? I guess this would have been too tame for these adventurous souls.
Sort of reminds me of the two female reporters who were in China legally then ACCIDENTALLY entered North Korea and were imprisoned. How does one go about ACCIDENTALLY crossing the Yalu River?
My point is this. These people made a conscious choice to place themselves in harm's way near the borders of countries who hate our ass. Why should it surprise them when they are treated like.......... dare I say it............. ILLEGAL ALIENS?
As I said, I feel sorry for their families but perhaps they will choose their next hiking location a bit more carefully.
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Please keep me in your prayers. I sure hope this is my last surgery for a good while.
God bless
JEM
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September 21st, 2011 U.N. / CRIME / CHENEY
Hello once more from the West Texas Angry Fossil Fuel Burning Gun Owning SUV Driving Jingoistic Sons Of Four Wheel Vehicle Drivers Of America.
U.N.:
Earlier this morning I was doing my cardiac rehab class and was on the treadmill when the world's most articulate and intelligent human made his address before this completely useless body. There were a couple of television sets so that regardless of where you were in the room, one of them was visible. Of course the sound was turned down so that in order to keep up with the truly important views of the most incompetent U.S. President in history you had to read the script at the bottom of the picture. Occasionally it went a bit rapidly and at the time I was also listening to a tape with music from Elvis; Jerry Lee Lewis; Dr. John; Roy Orbison; and Lynyrd Skynyrd (as you may have gathered, I am a man of great culture). But I was able to pick up enough of the words from the world's most articulate and and intelligent bi-ped to reach the conclusion that he know absolutely no more about world affairs and foreign policy than he does about economical issues.
I watched him enough to know that in his view, &Peace Is Hard&. Wow! What a profound statement. As I was trying to keep up with his pretty much senseless babble the thought occurred to me that a Middle-East Peace between Israel and the Arab/Muslim countries which surround them might just be a bit too large a task for someone of Barack Hussein Obama's incompetence.
Let's face it. Up until now, Obama has pretty much thrown Israel out the window. Oh yes, he did say this morning that Israel was one of our strongest allies in the region but all in all his speech made me think back to Los Angeles right after the Rodney King riots when the two L.A.P.D. Officers were acquitted by a State Court and massive riots broke out which resulted in massive property losses as well as personal injury to a great many people. I remember Rodney King himself appearing on the television and tearfully begging the people of Los Angeles; &Can't We All Just Get Along?&
Well the answer then was NO and the answer today in the Middle East is also NO. There are some irreconcilable differences between the Arab/Muslim countries and Israel. Most of the Arab/Muslim countries deny that Israel even has a right to exist. It seems to me as if there have been a number of attempts to broker a peace deal between the Palestinians and Israel with way negative results.
I do not suppose that it has occurred to the world's most articulate and intelligent human that this particular area and group of countries have been fighting amongst each other for many centuries and the likelihood of someone who probably cannot parallel park will be able to cause peace to break out in this area has the life expectancy of a wounded wildebeest on the Serengeti.
And the likelihood of the United Nations doing ANYTHING which will benefit ANYONE is almost non-existent. I would imagine that Israel probably has the only real plan for getting the wolf away from their door.
CRIME:
There was an article last Saturday in the (Sub) Standard which proclaimed, in bold headlines, U.S. Violent Crimes Plunge 12% In 2010. Of course these crime statistics can be manipulated to show pretty much what some government entity wants them to say. From all the s we see every day about violent crimes which occur all over the country I pretty much believe that this 12% plunge is more than likely a load of crap.
Now I can believe that certain types of crimes have taken a dip, particularly in states which have a conceal carry permit statute. But in those states which do not allow a conceal carry by citizens OR their conceal carry laws make it almost impossible for an honest citizen to procure the permit, probably have not noticed a measurable drop in violent crimes.
When I said that these statistics can be manipulated to suit a government entity, let me give you an example:
At one point in time the break between a misdemeanor theft and a felony theft, in Mexico, was $100. This means that if the items stolen were valued at $100 or less then that theft was a misdemeanor. But if the value was over $100 the theft would be classified as a felony. Then one year the Mexico Legislature changed the statute raising the amount to $250 which means the property stolen had to be valued at over $250 in order to be classified as a felony. So with the stroke of a pen the number of felony thefts in the entire State of Mexico dropped significantly. That did not mean that the crimes did not happen but that statutorily there were less felonies.
Speaking of crime, I got an e-mail earlier today telling about the State of Florida being the FIRST STATE requiring MANDATORY DRUG TESTING for WELFARE RECIPIENTS. Applicants who test positive for illicit substances won't be eligible for the funds for ONE YEAR. Those who fail a second time would be banned from receiving funds for THREE YEARS.
Of course the ACLU and other flaming liberal groups will declare that this law is Unconstitutional HOWEVER they don't mind working people being required to take a drug test in order to GET A JOB.
Good for you FLORIDA. How about some other states following suit?
CHENEY:
I have not read the book, IN MY TIME, written by former Vice President Dick Cheney with help from his daughter Liz Cheney.... YET. But I do intend reading it within the next few months. I have a stack of books which I need to read as I fell behind in my reading during my surgery and vacation.
Apparently Vice President Cheney committed the unpardonable sin of speaking out against former Secretary of State, Colin Powell (Varmint) and also criticizing another Bush Administration Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. I have seen Dick Cheney on several interviews and his problem with Ms. Rice was apparently that he disagreed with her assessment of certain situations.
One night last week, Liz Cheney was a guest on the O'Reilly Factor and Bill O'Reilly was pretty much a complete turd to her. He asked her a question about something in the book and after she answered, O'Reilly, who is probably the second most intelligent human on the planet, told her that she was wrong about the subject. But Ms. Cheney jumped right back at O'Reilly and of course O'Reilly had to once again make known the fact that Dick Cheney had never appeared as a guest on his program. Hey Bill! Maybe Dick Cheney thinks you are a horses ass. I imagine that there are a number of other programs on which Dick Cheney has declined an invitation to appear. Perhaps Mr. Cheney has the same opinion as I, that being, anyone who thinks Charles Rangel is a &Stand Up Guy& is not one of my favorites.
I have been watching Dick Cheney make personal appearances since the first Gulf War in 1990 and have never seen him not be able to give an intelligent answer to any question asked. I watched him eat up John Edwards in a TV Debate during the campaign. He is probably one of the more experienced politicians I have ever seen. I might not agree with him on every issue but he sure makes a good case for the positions he takes. He has the same qualities as John Bolton, whom I believe has more knowledge and less use for the United Nations than anyone on the scene.
Also, another reason to believe that Dick Cheney is telling the true story is that Senator John McCain has been critical of Mr. Cheney's book and that should tell us all that Cheney must be on the right track. When pretty much everyone who is being critical of you is a mutt then you have to know you are on the right track.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner, Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
ES:
&People who say that Barack Obama cannot be re-elected with unemployment at its current level should take note that Franklin Roosevelt was elected a record four , despite two consecutive terms in which the unemployment was never as low as it is today.&...THOMAS SOWELL
&What most people are unaware of is that there was no Great Depression until AFTER politicians started intervening in the economy.&...................... THOMAS SOWELL
&We do not face large deficits because American families are under taxed, we face those deficits because the Federal Government overspends.&....... RONALD REAGAN
&There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.&......... GEORGE WASHINGTON
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan Colmes FOX s; HUD; Jay Carney; Robert Reich; Department Of Energy; Department Of Education
MORE STUFF:
Barack Hussein Obama's speeches are beginning to run together for me. In one clip I heard the world's most articulate and intelligent human make the statement that.... &To have what you want is one of the BASIC RIGHTS of everybody&. Once again I must disagree with this incompetent community organizer. There are lots of people who want lots of things. For instance, I want to attend every single Texas High School Championship Game. Is that one of my basic rights? It is something which I could probably do IF I wanted to spend the money for travel; hotels; meals; etc. But if I do not wish to spend the money or perhaps if I did not have the funds with which to attend these games, does the government have a duty to see that I get to do it anyway? I think not. There are wants and there are needs. I would love to have a brand Cadillac Escalade 4WD Pickup. But if I cannot afford to purchase it on my own, is it up to the government to take the funds from a millionaire or billionaire to satisfy one of my wants?
These bozos have stuffed the First Amendment down our throats long enough. The first Amendment is pretty brief and pretty clear. There is not one damn thing in there about Freedom Of Choice and I have yet to find anywhere in our Constitution where it gives anyone the RIGHT to infringe upon the rights of another WITHOUT DUE PROCESS.
These Liberals/Socialists/Progressives/Democrats had just better hope that the majority of Americans don't start practicing what the Liberals/Socialists/Progressives/Democrats preach to us from the highest mountain tops.
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A couple of weeks ago at the request of a young couple who had lost their home due to foreclosure, I called their mortgage company to see what the situation actually was. I got a young lady who was more than helpful and told me that the home had been placed up for auction and that it had already sold. I then asked her who had purchased the home and she told me that it was insured through FHA and that HUD had actually purchased the home.
I then called FHA and again spoke with a helpful individual who informed me that they only insured the loan and that HUD had been the ORIGINAL OWNER of the property in question and that they had bought it back from the mortgage holder. So I then called HUD. Helpful individuals had ended with my call to HUD. Prior to speaking with a person who spoke as if they had a mouth full of rocks I got the obligatory recorded messages to press certain numbers if I wanted certain information regarding certain things.
To my surprise, one of the options asked me if I wanted to speak to someone about my REVERSE MORTGAGE which of course I did not and went on until I spoke with a rude incompetent who pissed me off right off the bat. I did end up informing said incompetent that she was barking up the wrong tree talking down to me since I had absolutely nothing to do with their hen-house operation. I found out what I needed to know and happily ended my conversation with a HUD employee.
Then point I am making in this whole deal is that HUD is obviously involved in the Reverse Mortgage scam. Now I do not know how a Reverse Mortgage works for sure but I know that if the Federal Government in general and HUD in particular are involved then I do not ever want anything to do with it.
Funny thing is that on the very next day I heard Barack Hussein Obama talk about homeowners in danger of foreclosure were going to be guaranteed an opportunity to re-finance their mortgage. What a mutt.
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Last week I ed portions of Psalm 46 which was butchered by Barack Hussein Obama. Someone called to my attention another Psalm. So I went to my Grandmother's old Bible and looked up Psalm 109, verse 8:
'Let his days be few; and let another take his office&
With that thought I will leave you for another week.
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Later
JEM
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September 14th, 2011 MEMORIAL / VARMENTS
WEDNESDAY - September 14, 2012
Greetings once more from the West Texas Headquarters For Gun Owning Sons Of Jingoism.
MEMORIAL:
Like most of you last Saturday and Sunday, I watched several of the Memorial Services at the various locations where Americans were killed by Muslim Terrorists on 9/11/2001. This of course was the tenth anniversary of these tragic events.
I remembered a couple of years back when that doof who is married to Barbara Streisand, I believe his name is James Brolin, was being interviewed and he referred to 9/11 as a Holiday, which I thought went to show just how stupid he really was. Actually, being married to Barbara Streisand pretty much places you near the top of the stupid meter.
This past week end and I believe it was the service in Pennsylvania where flight 93 crashed, I listened to President George W. Bush who came across as genuinely sad and made sincere attempts to comfort the families of the victims.
He was followed by President Bill Clinton who made a fairly short speech which he ended by telling the audience that HE and I believe John Boehner were going to personally see that funds were available for a park at that location. So in reality he concentrated more upon what HE was going to do than he did upon the victims and their families....... Anyone surprised?
Then came Barack Hussein Obama who came across as his usual arrogant self. Now here comes the interesting part:
Let me begin this portion by ing PSALM 46; Verses 1 - 11: This from one of my Grandmother's Bibles which I remember seeing when I was a kid back in the early 1940's.
GOD is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake and with the swelling thereof.
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of GOD, and the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
GOD is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; GOD shall help her, and that right early.
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved; HE uttered his voice, the earth melted.
The Lord of Hosts is with us; the GOD of Jacob is our refuge.
Come behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow and snappeth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot and the shield in the fire.
Be still and know that I am GOD; I will be exalted amongst the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
The Lord of Hosts is with us; The GOD of Jacob is our refuge.
As I said, this e was taken from one of my Grandmother's bibles and is written in the old way as most bibles are. If you ever saw the movie; ZULU, this Psalm was ed by a Colour Sergeant Major, played by Nigel Green, and a preacher, played by Jack Hawkins. When I heard it in the movie, I remembered that this was one of my favorite Psalms from when I was a little kid and my Grandpa read passages to me from this very bible.
Of course in some of the modern bibles where contemporary language is use it sounds somewhat different but you can recognize it after listening to a few lines.
This is what I heard coming from the mouth of Barack Hussein Obama, who was without teleprompter and just had to read it as part of his speech at one of the memorial programs. I recognized it pretty early in the game BUT when he came to the part about &Breaketh the bow&, the world's most articulate and intelligent human pronounced it as BOUGH as in the bough of a tree, or a BOW as in what Obama does when in the presence of the leaders of Muslim countries, or bow as in the front end of a boat.
I immediately said to my wife that this doof had probably never read this passage before that day and his handlers had obviously not told the world's most articulate and intelligent human that the passage was referring to destroying the weapons if war and not the limbs from trees nor front ends of boats nor paying homage to some Muslim leader who wants us all dead.
But once again this jerk showed that he had no regard really for the victims or their families and this was just another photo op for he and his ever ballooning spouse. His mob handlers really need to make sure that he has his teleprompter handy because without that little item he comes across pretty goofy.
Why Jim, you are being overly critical critical of the President of the United States. Yes, I am. But he has had his backside kissed for so long by the mainstream media and the Democrat/Progressive/Socialist politicians that I feel as if it is my duty to call this slug out when he goofs. But Jim, everyone makes mistakes. Right again and about 52% if the voters made a grievous mistake in November, 2008 when they voted for this arrogant mutt.
I must say that on the programs I watched dealing with the 9/11 attacks, the National Anthem was done rather well by people who were paying respect to our country and our flag. But I was not fooled since I k that later on the NFL was going to kick off their season and they were bound to find some folks who could really screw it up.
And speaking of the NFL..... How 'Bout Them Cowboys?
THE VARMINT LIST:
Over the past couple of weeks I have received several questions as to why Bill O'Reilly was on the Varmint List. Within the past couple of weeks I have watched the Factor host, Bill O'Reilly, make the statement to one of his guests that he thought that Barack Obama was seriously concerned about workers and that he (O'Reilly) believed that Obama was genuine in his beliefs regarding, I believe he said the Health Care Bill. Then on another occasion he once again made the statement that York Representative Charles Rangel was &A Stand Up Guy&.
Perhaps I am a being bit judgmental but anyone who thinks that Obama is anything other than a complete liar and that Charles Rangel is anything other than a complete turd, belongs on the Varmint List.
I do not disagree with O'Reilly on everything but as tough as he claims to be, he still kisses up to powerful people.
Now I must briefly touch upon another True Varmint and that is Alan Colmes. I was watching him earlier today and they were discussing green jobs and green energy and that California Company who received a half-billion dollars in government funds only to declare bankruptcy within a few months. At one point I heard Colmes make a statement that the reason that green energy was not competitive was that the other energy sources should be taxed more to bring their costs more in line with the green energy sources. Now there is some sound reasoning. Let's just tax the petroleum and coal energy sources so that they must raise their prices to the unaffordable point and then we would be forced to turn to green energy.
If any of you still believe that the wind energy and those huge wind turbines is the way to go then you really need to speak with someone who has attempted to go into that field, or better still, speak with someone who is involved in the manufacture of the components of one of those huge windmills. Also if you will notice, you never see just one, nope, there are always between 25 and 50 of them at each location.
Also, I feel it is proper to call out York Michael Bloomberg for his decision to NOT INVITE members of the clergy to the Ground Zero Ceremonies AND to NOT INVITE every single Firefighter; Policeman; and Volunteer Worker who helped with the rescue and cleanup at that location. I did watch a short interview with his honor the mayor in which he justified not inviting the clergy since &Separation Of Church And State& is required by the Constitution, according to this mutt. OK. Mayor Bloomberg, just for you here is the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States:
&Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.&
Now I am sure that Mayor Bloomberg is much smarter than am I, and I am sure that his formal education is much more impressive, but to say that the Constitution requires the &Separation of Church and State& tells me that he doesn't know horse crap from wild honey. I think Mayor Bloomberg showed his ass, but why should that come as a surprise to any of us?
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner, Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
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&Arrogance is no substitute for experience. That is why the country is in the mess it is in now.:....... THOMAS SOWELL
&What most people are unaware of is that there was no Great Depression until AFTER politicians started intervening in the economy..... There was a stock market crash in October 1929 and unemployment shot up to 9 percent --- for one month. Then the unemployment started drifting back down until it was 6.3 percent in June 1930, when the first major federal intervention took place.......That was when the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which more than a thousand economists across the country pleaded with Congress and President Hoover not to enact. But then, as now, politicians decided that they had to do something...... Within 6 months, unemployment hit double digits.&......... THOMAS SOWELL
&When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.&......................... ANDREW JOHNSON
&It is no use arguing with a Communist. It is no use trying to convert a Communist or persuade him... you can only do it by having a superior force on your side on the matter in question.&...... WINSTON CHURCHILL
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
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President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan Colmes FOX s; HUD; Jay Carney; Robert Reich; American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC); Muslim Students Association (MSA); EPA (Environmental Protection Agency); ISNA (Islamic Society Of North America;
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Last week in Obama's big speech before Congress and then later on after he called a press conference to let us all know that he had the bill I believe called the American Jobs Act and he kept referring to &Infrastructure Jobs&. He kept telling us how this would put construction workers back to work. Stop and think for a moment about these &Infrastructure Jobs&. He is speaking of bridge construction; road construction; and God only knows what else. But most of these &Infrastructure Jobs& to which he is referring will be paid for with, guess what? That's right, TAX DOLLARS. He keeps speaking about hiring all these teachers and remodeling old and constructing schools. These jobs and positions will necessarily be paid with, guess what? Right again, TAX DOLLARS. And one must wonder if most of these jobs of which he is speaking aren't Union Jobs? This president is a union man from the start. Almost every time he speaks before a group of workers it is union workers.
What I really found extremely humorous was when he made the statement about wanting the people in South Korea to be driving GMC or Ford or Chrysler vehicles. I know for a fact that the South Korean people are very proud of their country. They are also very proud of the automobile and shipbuilding industries. And I just imagine that a Hyundai or a Kia in S. Korea is a bit less expensive than that same vehicle is over here AND I can assure you that the GMC; Ford; or Chrysler vehicles would be cost prohibitive in S. Korea. So once again, the world's most articulate and intelligent human showed that he doesn't have a clue. But there are some who are even more clueless than him.... and that is the boobs who were giving him a huge round of applause on that statement.
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Article in the Washington Post stated that the Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are becoming more scarce and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic Ocean. Very few seals and no white fish are being found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the seal will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.......... OH! Excuse me, I forgot to mention that this article was from NOVEMBER 2, 1922. For those of you in the People's Republic of San Francisco, that would be 89 years ago. Perhaps a relative of Al Gore was employed by them at the time.
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I went to the Post Office this morning and on the way I was listening to Rush Limbaugh who made a statement with which I am in complete agreement. He said that the conservatives in this country ARE NOT INTERESTED in electing Republican candidates who are willing to &WORK WITH& the Democrats. They are interested in electing TRUE CONSERVATIVES who will defeat the Democrats and take a super majority in both the House and Senate as well as the White House.
My sentiments exactly. I have heard enough about compromise. Let's steamroll these turds.
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I know that many of you remember a dead-pan comedian named Steven Wright. He was famous for one liners such as:
&If you shoot a mime, do you have to use a silencer?&
I saw one today that I had not seen before:
&If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?&
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Later
JEM
Note: I was reminded that Joe Biden was at the Pennsylvania Memorial. So the Obama goof was at one of the Sunday Memorials.
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September 7th, 2011 SPEECHES / GIBSON / GREEN
Wednesday - September 7, 2011
Greetings Once Again From The West Texas Headquarters For Firearms Owning SUV Driving Angry Barbaric Intolerant Jingoistic Anti- Man-Made-Global Warming Believing Fossil Fuel Using Activist Sons-Of -Bitches.
And before I go another step I must correct a man whom I believe is a Criminal Union Thug and that would be Teamsters Union Leader, Jimmy Hoffa. It seems as if the correct e made by this typical liberal Union boss when speaking of TEA Party members and anti-union conservatives was: &Let's Take These Son-Of-A-Bitches Out&. Now at the risk of pissing off this Union Mutt I feel it my sacred duty to point out his grammatical error. If he were speaking about just ONE conservative it should have been &Let's take this Son-Of-A-Bitch out&. So, if that were the case then his use of &These& and the plural &Bitches& is completely wrong.
So I must assume that he was referring to more than one conservative, and if so, the correct words should have been: &Lets Take These SONS-OF-BITCHES out. But then again, what can you expect from the head Union Thug. Certainly honesty and accuracy should never be expected from this turd. Apparently proper grammar is also foreign to this mutt.
SPEECHES:
I also watched Barack Hussein Obama's address in Detroit to the Union members. I further noticed that in typical fashion, Obama had audience members seated at his back so that the viewing audience could watch these puppets grin and nod in agreement with the world's most articulate and intelligent human being. There was one blonde woman sitting to the right rear of Obama and I do not know if this woman had a single digit I.Q. or not, but she sure appeared to be buying the entire line of crap being put out by this incompetent occupant of the White House.
I must admit that I did not watch the entire speech since I am unable to accept this line of crap being put out by the present administration.
I do not know if the Republican Party heads watched Obama's speech but they should have and better be a bit better prepared and go after this mutt in full force in the next Presidential election.
Republicans should have gone to school on this Operation Fast And Furious fiasco. It became pretty damn clear to me that had some BATF Field Agents not come forth then the Obama administration would have used the fact that some of these firearms purchased and transported to Mexico and put into the hands of the drug cartels and used in various crimes ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER, was basically the fault of greedy firearms dealers here in the United States. I can almost guarantee that stiffer gun control laws would have followed and our Second Amendment Rights would have been on their way out. Congress needs to see that some of the people responsible for this face Criminal Charges.
Back to speeches. I did not get the name of the group to which the equally incompetent Vice President, Joe Biden, was speaking but I did manage to catch this equally big turd referring to conservatives in general and TEA Party members in particular as &Barbarians At The Gate&. If that is what the Democrat leadership thinks of conservative American Citizens then I am proud to be a Barbarian.
And of course you have but to look at the media members who found nothing wrong with Hoffa's comments or Biden's rhetoric to know how these varmints will come at us in the 2012 elections.
Just stop and think that if George W. Bush were President and someone like Glenn Beck had introduced his speech by referring to the Democrats/Socialists/Progressives as &Sons-Of-Bitches&, then the mainstream media would have been calling for a federal investigation of Beck for a Hate Crime.
Obama, in his Labor Day speech should have told the RNC all they needed to know about how he is going to go about placing the blame for the jobless rate right in their laps. And they better forget political correctness completely and go after this incompetent slug. But that remains to be seen. I still trust the &Moderate Republicans& or &Moderate Independents& about as much as I do a rabid chimp.
Also, for the benefit of the residents of &The People's Republic of San Francisco&, Hoffa's &Take Out& remark did not mean out for dinner, or out to the ball game. He meant it in the exact same context as how the mob did his own father.
GIBSON:
I have seen several reports of some federal agents from Homeland Security and Fish and Wildlife executing search warrants on the Gibson Guitar Company. The apparent violation for which the Gibson company was suspected was being in possession of imported wood from India without the proper paperwork. Damn! I just realized that I own a Gibson Guitar which I purchased in about 1962 in Houston, Texas. I have no paperwork to show the original location from which the wood in my guitar came from.
Oh No!!! As I am typing this I also remembered that several years back I purchased a hand made pen from a friend. The body is made from... dare I say..... Ebony which was imported from Africa? Oh My God!!! I just wondered, did the friend from whom I purchased the pen pay his federal taxes on this transaction? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I also have Fender and Epiphone Guitars... could they also be made of suspected ILLEGAL WOOD?
Let's see now. We have literally tons of drugs being imported from all over the world; our border security at best is in shambles; we have terrorist plots being concocted all over the world; we have elected officials who are suspected criminals; BUT our Department of Justice is worried that perhaps the Gibson Guitar Company MIGHT have ILLEGAL WOOD. But why should that surprise any of us when we take a look at the U.S. Attorney General and many of his assistants.
And I read a couple of reports that the Gibson Guitar Company has made public the records that prove the company has followed all laws and regulations relating to the importation of rosewood from India.
Oh, one other item..... the Gibson Guitar Company contributes to Republican candidates rather than Democrat/Socialist/Progressive. AND the original factory located in Kalamazoo, Michigan had problems with the steel worker's union.
Oh, also the computers at the Gibson Guitar Company were seized. Wonder which part of those computers uses imported wood?
BEAM ME UP MR. SCOTT, THIS PLANET IS NOT WORTH SAVING.
GREEN:
Green Jobs. I have heard Obama and many of his followers as well as Democrat/Progressive/Socialist politician talk about &Green Job Creation&. I do not know how many of these &Green Jobs& that this incompetent administration has had a hand in &Creating& but last week we all saw that one of the California companies which manufactured the &Green Job& classified product of Solar Panels. In typical Obama fashion this company was given a $535 MILLION DOLLAR Stimulus Loan. And also in typical Obama Administration fashion the company, Solyndra, declared bankruptcy and laid off 1,100 workers. Oh, and this company was visited personally by President Barack Hussein Obama and his Energy Secretary, Steven Chu. And some of you wondered where I got off calling the world's most articulate and intelligent human and his staff, INCOMPETENT?
But does a little $535,000,000 mistake slow down this incompetent administration? Not likely. Every time you watch Obama speak he is still harping on &Green Jobs& and dumping all over the oil and coal industry.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner, Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy, Pat Schendel - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
ES:
&What kind of world do we want -- one in which everyone works to increase wealth to whatever extent they can, or a world in which everyone will be supported by either government handouts or private philanthropy, whether they work or don't work. It is not an abstract question. We can already see the consequences on both sides of the Atlantic. Those who have grown used to having others provide their food, shelter and other basics as RIGHTS are by no means grateful.&................ THOMAS SOWELL
&Judging businesses or their owners by how much wealth they give away -- rather than by how much wealth they create -- is putting the cart before the horse.&...........THOMAS SOWELL
&Every word of the Constitution decides a question between power and liberty.&....... JAMES MADISON
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For American Progress; Huffington Post; Alan Colmes FOX s; HUD; Jay Carney; Robert Reich
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Earlier this week I was listening to a local radio station very early in the morning and a s story came on which said that said that a poll had been conducted, (sorry but I don't remember which polling outfit did the poll) which showed that over 70% of those polled were convinced that America would experience another Revolution within the next 20 years. The scasters additionally said that the pollsters came up with the conclusion that those most likely to take part in this &Revolution& were:
1) People Without College Degrees
2) The Poor
3) TEA-Party Activists
4) Extreme Groups
They didn't say how this conclusion was reached but if you notice lately anytime you see the TEA Party mentioned, they always refer to the members as &TEA Party Activists& and they are always grouped in with &extremists& and &uneducated&. I know quite a few folks who are members of the &TEA Party& here in San Angelo and most of them are pretty intelligent people with better than average education backgrounds.
Also, occasionally I will forget but remember that the TEA in TEA Party is an acronym for Taxed Enough Already. I have found that at least here locally, the Democrats/Socialists/Progressives have not figured that out quite yet.
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I am sure that most of us have seen the story out of York where a Muslim group ran afoul of the security people at an amusement park where Muslim women were required to either remove their headscarf or not go on a certain ride. Any headwear was not allowed on the ride. I watched a couple of film clips in which several really obnoxious; shrill Muslim women were howling out their displeasure because their husbands had been placed under arrest in front of their children.
Now I can appreciate the fact that arresting a parent in front of a child is not the best of situations but keep this in mind; The Muslim parent decided to fat-ass in front of the children so being arrested in front of the children should necessarily be expected.
Also it came to mind that if Muslim women screamed at home like the do on TV, it is a small wonder that they are occasionally chastised by their old man.
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Also earlier this week I watched a clip of Labor Secretary Robert Reich advocated that government spending was the &only way& to get out of debt. I am not entirely exactly which economic theory subscribes to spending or borrowing you way out of debt but I have always found that spending LESS than you take in is usually the most rapid way to erase debt.
Also, please don't be fooled by all these lying turd politicians in their attempts to explain away their spending habits by giving us a bunch of double talk about budgets. I have worked on budgets at some level for most of my adult life. I have not always been successful in getting what I requested in a budget but there is really no big trick to a budget. It is just dealing with larger amounts of money the larger government agency you work for. It is really just addition and subtraction with an occasional need for multiplication:
If you are going to need 100 automobiles in a budget year and you get bids and estimates that each vehicle will cost approximately $30,000 per unit then you generally would budget in the neighborhood of $3,000,000. Then from that point on it is a matter of simple addition and subtraction. If the vehicles actually cost $28,000 per unit then you would have $200,000 left over. If this money were not by resolution or law transferred to another line item in the budget then at the end of the fiscal year that money should be returned to the general fund. But of course at the federal level you have greedy politicians who are not about to turn that money back into the general fund. They will find some special pork project and that is where it will disappear to.
Republicans as well as Democrats are equally guilty of misappropriating funds for their own personal projects.
So our answer is to dump the greedy Republicans right along with the greedy Democrats/Progressives/Socialists.
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As I have told you all in the past, every year there is one morning, generally in the Autumn where I am transformed from a 74 year old; 5'11&; aching old dude, into a 6'2&; 210 pound; 18 year old Running Back for the Hutto Hippos.
When I stepped outside this morning it was about 49 degrees with a slight breeze and the transformation took place. I walked my usual distance but did it about 2 minutes faster than normal. The a couple of hours later I went to the cardiac rehab place and did some extra stuff there also. Everyone should feel as good as I did this morning about 6:00 A.M.
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JEM
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August 31st, 2011 GOODNIGHT IRENE / HANGING
Wednesday - August 31, 2011
Hello once more from the Still Dry Still Hot Still Angry Still Intolerant Still Jingoistic Still Firearms Owning West Texas Supporters Of Fossil Fuel Burning Four Wheel Drive Pickup Drivers.
GOODNIGHT IRENE:
When I was a young junior high student in the early days of most homes owning one black & white TV, (ours was a Silvertone which at the time was made for Sears & Roebuck by RCA), I was first exposed to what would later become known as Tragedy Television.
There was a daytime television program called &Queen For A Day&. Housewives all over America were tuned in to this program which I believe came on once a week to begin with and later on was moved to an evening spot so that it could also be viewed by men and children. The show had several women guests, all of whom had fallen on hard , and the audience by a super accurate &Applause Meter& determined which one of these sad ladies would be crowned, &Queen For A Day&. She won all kinds of nice prizes and on occasion someone would feel so sorry for these ladies that they would call in to the program on the &Heart Line& and contribute all kinds of goodies to be distributed to the winning contestant.
Pretty early in this first real &Tragedy TV& program I began to wonder just how it came to be that the studio audience AND the TV viewing audience could get really caught up in these people's problems. And at a pretty early age I decided that people like to see others who are in worse shape than they are.
Now I am not trying to say that those ladies on that program had not fallen on hard or that they did not need a helping hand but my point is that program viewers really like to see the stories of the tragic people.
Now let's jump ahead from the early/mid 50's to the 2005 and up TV viewers. They really have not changed all that much but their tragedy demands are much larger. The want to see whole communities and cities and states who have been hit by some tragic circumstances.
Enter Hurricane Irene. I do not intend to minimize the damage and destruction caused by this storm. I do not wish to minimize the loss felt by the victims of this storm. And I realize that a disaster such as this does not affect a victim based upon their race; religion; sex; or any other particular identifying characteristic.
And of course the television industry is there to provide us all with coverage of an event such as this. But do you ever get the feeling that perhaps the various television networks might be blowing the event a bit out of proportion?
I was raised on the Texas Gulf Coast and went through some pretty tough weather systems almost every year including a number of hurricanes. And also keep in mind that there was no such animal as FEMA or any other federal or state agency for that matter who came to the aid of victims who also had lost everything they owned. But imagine this. Their neighbors; friends; churches; local charities; etc... came to their aid. I guess that in 1961 when Hurricane Carla hit not only Houston but the entire Gulf Coast area of Texas. I do remember Channel 11, Houston's CBS affiliate covering the storm mainly from Galveston Island. This is supposedly where Dan Rather got his big break and came to the attention of the national CBS network. I shall never forgive Hurricane Carla for launching his career.
But we saw flooding at a huge level along with terrible wind damage and I do not remember any s agency making that big of a to do over this storm. Of course we had plenty of warning and people actually took measures to PROTECT THEMSELVES. What a novel concept. I saw roads and bridges washed out. I saw automobiles carried away by high water and massive vehicle damage by flying objects since some of those Carla winds got up to 180 mph.
But let me remind everyone of a couple of facts:
1) When you choose to live on an island at sea level, almost any tropical storm will cause serious flooding.
2) When you choose to live in a city BELOW SEA LEVEL and are SURROUNDED BY WATER, you need not be surprised by flooding.
3) When you have ample warning days ahead of the event you should take emergency measures regarding food and water.
4) You need not be surprised to be without electricity for several days during any storm with winds of a significant nature
Earlier today I heard a FOX s report calling Hurricane Irene maybe the &Worst Tragedy In Our History&....... Excuse me, isn't that what they said about Katrina?
And how about the Hurricane which hit Galveston, Texas in 1900 where something like 9,000 people were killed?
I did notice one major difference in Irene and Katrina, that being the fact that most of those states hit by Irene had Governor's and Mayors who appeared to have a much better grasp of things that did the Louisiana Governor or Mayor Ray Nagin of Orleans.
I sincerely hope that none of you lost any relative, friend, or property during Irene.
And finally I am positive that the Obama Administration will use this storm and the victims of same to show just exactly how better equipped they are to handle an emergency than was that Great Prince of Evil, George W. Bush. And also keep in mind my point of the excessive coverage of this storm and for all the wrong reasons.
One last item, I heard today that many of the people who did have flood insurance WILL NOT be required to pay the extremely high deductable on their policies. Why? Because in many locations the winds DID NOT ever reach Hurricane Force.
HANGING:
Earlier today, I heard a Muslim Congressman speaking before a group and making a statement that the &Tea Party& would like to see black people hanging from trees.
I have heard lots of Tea Party members speak and I never once heard them speak of hanging black people from trees or anywhere else. This Congressman was representing the &Congressional Black Caucus&. Wonder if perhaps in his next address he might speak of the Muslim Arab role in enslaving thousands of Africans? Probably Not.
But what he has succeeded in doing is getting the Congressional Black Caucus placed securely on the VARMINT'S LIST.
For the past year or so I have heard all kinds of hate speech attributed to the &Tea Party& with absolutely NO PROOF of anything even remotely connected with the &Tea Party&.
BLAME:
A little earlier in the day I was watching part of a Barack Obama speech which he apparently gave sometime earlier today and what a surprise. He blamed the current poor jobless rate on.... yep, you guessed it, GEORGE BUSH.
Hey! While we are at it, why not blame Hurricane Irene on George Bush also?
What concerns me is that a lie told often enough will get some support.
And of even a bigger concern is the apparent inability of the Republican Party to intelligently answer many of the bogus charges made by Obama and his herd of incompetents.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero; Ted Salgado -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner, Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
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&The accounts of the United States ought to be, and may be made, as simple as those of a common farmer, and capable of being understood by common farmers.&......................... THOMAS JEFFERSON
&I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many PARASITES living on the labor of the industrious..&...................................... THOMAS JEFFERSON
&A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.&.... HARRY TRUMAN
(Wonder if he k Barack?)
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY; The Open Society Institute; Center For American Progress; Huffington Post; CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS
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I have not read former Vice President, Dick Cheney's book but I did watch part of an interview with him last evening. I have always liked Dick Cheney and believe him to be a very intelligent man. I can truthfully say that I have never seen him at a loss for an answer to a question. He has not been trapped by the vermin in the mainstream media although they have tried.
I did not catch the entire interview nor have I heard the complete facts on some of the passages in his book in which he supposedly slams Colin Powell. However I have caught a few comments of Colin Powell, whom I find to be a pure turd. So other than the fact that I like Dick Cheney and think Colin Powell is a rat, I am basing my opinion not on what they say but rather who takes their particular side in the matter.
I watched Alan Colmes speak about how honorable Colin Powell was and what a loose cannon Dick Cheney was and immediately formed an opinion based upon Colmes' support that Colin Powell had to be in the wrong. There is no way on God's earth that Alan Colmes could possibly support someone in the right. A pretty blonde has a better chance of surviving a vacation in Aruba than Colmes has of me buying anything he says. A pure MUTT.
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Last week we picked up a student from South Korea. She is a really smart and beautiful young lady whom we first met last year in January when she was here in San Angelo for a 28 day English Studies class. She will be attending Angelo State University for the next two years. And while she will live at one of the dormitories on campus, we will be her host family and see that she has transportation for shopping and visiting. She is the youngest of three girls and we found out that her Mom and Dad lived in Austin, Texas prior to her birth. Her Father was on some type of research trip to the U.S. She speaks quite good English and is a pure joy to be around as are all of those young Korean students. They are all very respectful of not only their parents but of all adults. It is quite refreshing to be around kids like that.
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I have received a number of e-mails asking be what I think of Texas Governor Rick Perry. Well I have some really mixed feelings about our Governor. I think he is pretty impressive in speaking with the public. I also like his position on Second Amendment Issues. I was in direct opposition to his support of the TransTexas Corridor and the NAFTA SuperHighway. He has been a politician for somewhere around 25 -30 years which is not a real high priority item with me. I am tired of professional politicians. And he was a member of the Democrat Party back in the 1980's. Also I do know a few folks who know him personally who do not care for him. I have also spoken with some who like him a lot. BUT, the bottom line is this; Would I vote for Rick Perry should he be the Republican Nominee? The answer to that is YES. If he were a bad President he would be more desirable then the lyin' varmint who presently holds the office.
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FOOTBALL SEASON IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER AND I AM HAPPY FOR THAT.
Later
JEM
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August 24th, 2011 HOME / EDITORIALS / EUROPE
Wednesday - August 24, 2011
Greetings from a Hot Dry Tired Jingoistic Fed Up SUV Driving Gun Owning Member Of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
HOME:
It is really good to be back home in San Angelo after a couple of thousand miles to Colorado and back. Of course we were very happy to see our daughter and three of our grandsons as well as our great grandson and a brand great grand daughter. She was 5 days old when we saw her. Unfortunately, our youngest grandson was at a Hockey Goalie Camp in Edmonton, Alberta. We did get to talk with him by phone though.
While on our way to Colorado we drove through Southeast Mexico and I thought I had seen some really dry country here in West Texas. But between the small town of Tatum, NM and Roswell, NM, which is about 70 miles or so, we saw some country which was as dry as I have seen it in the last 38 years. Where you usually see dry grass there is now only dirt. It was so dry that small Mesquite bushes were dead.
Now I don't know how familiar you might be with Mesquite bushes/trees but they are about as tough as a plant can get. And they are pretty hard to deceive. When we lived in Mexico we had several fruit trees in our yard. Fruit trees are stupid. In the early spring when the weather would get a little warm the fruit trees would pop into bloom and get our hopes up, the a late freeze would hit and kill all the fruit. BUT you could usually tell when your last hard freeze had come by watching the Mesquite bushes as they refuse to bloom and turn green until AFTER the last freeze.
A Mesquite bush/tree is plenty hard to get rid of by any means, so when you see a bunch of them dead from lack of moisture, you know it is dry.
The reason I say Mesquite tree/bush is because in most of Mexico the Mesquites only attain bush status. But here in San Angelo where they are able to get plenty of ground water the grow into really large and beautiful trees. Many people plant them for shad trees.
But wet or dry it is good to be back home. The altitude in Colorado did cause my wife some problems which went away when we got back down to about 4,000 ft. elevation.
EDITORIALS:
While we were gone I did not get to watch much television and missed a bunch of what was going on world-wide but I thought that going out shooting with a couple of my grandsons was a much better way to spend time other than watching the same folks saying the same thing at the same time every evening.
So when I got back to San Angelo I was looking at some of the stuff in our local (Sub) Standard . Of course some of it had to do with the United States being downgraded from a AAA rating to a AA+ credit rating by Standard & Poor's. But of course countries like France and several others have a AAA rating. OK, let's examine that for a moment. First of all, I would like a show of hands of everyone who believes that France should be rated ahead of the United States in ANYTHING other than the piss poor military category......... No takers? What a surprise. This letter on the editorial page additionally pointed out that not just the current Congress, but all Congresses since the 1950s have been busy adding to our debt with no cuts in sight. This brings me to the point of looking at a whole bunch of faces in the Senate and the House. And I am not speaking about replacing some Republican &Moderate& with a Democrat &Moderate&. I am talking about replacing all liberals and &moderates& with true CONSERVATIVES. And also this letter writer did address the fact that our current situation IS NOT the fault of the &Tea Party&.
There was another article speaking of the closing of the Central Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections and noted that it marked the first time ever that the State of Texas has shut down one of their prisons without opening a replacement unit. The Central Unit was located off Highway 59 between Sugarland, Texas and Richmond, Texas. This is an old unit and was once state of the art. I have known many employees of this unit in the past and was friends with a couple of the Wardens in the past. It was a really well run operation and at one time they had lots of land which bordered on the Brazos River and grew lots of vegetables and they had a dairy as well as a beef an poultry operation. The employee's dining room was open to all law enforcement officers to eat for 51 cents per meal, anytime of the day or night. The food was excellent and it was all raised or grown right there on that prison property.
There is an old folk song &Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos& which told of the prisoners cutting sugar cane. Of course Sugarland, Texas was home to the Imperial Sugar Mill which was one of the main employers in that rural area back then. Now it has been pretty well surrounded and swallowed up by Houston and quite frankly, although the article didn't say, I would imagine that the real estate on which that prison was located had become way too valuable to use as a prison farm.
I also read a couple of magazine articles which addressed &Operation Fast and Furious& which I am sure you all know is the failed sting operation where firearms were allowed , by our Justice Department, to be purchased and transported across the border into Mexico and placed into the hands of the Mexican Drug Cartels. Fortunately some ATF Agents with some guts blew the whistle on this operation which is currently under investigation by Congress. Of course no one above the Acting Director of the ATF admits to having any knowledge of this operation. Of course the President of the United States and many elected Congressional Mutts along with the Attorney General are far more interested in preventing honest American citizens from purchasing and owning firearms for protection and sporting purposes, than they could ever be in keeping them out of the hands of Mexican Drug Lords.
You can rest assured that had this operation not blown up in their worthless faces, at some point in time the U.S. Government would have been raising hell about firearms from America getting across the border into Mexico and being used by Drug Lords. They would have used this as a springboard to further limit our Second Amendment Rights. One of the articles accurately pointed out that the real solution to the violence in Mexico will not be be found in restrictions on law-abiding American's Second Amendment rights.
Now I appreciate a good sting operation as well as anybody but this one was doomed from the start as the weapons were destined to cross an International Border into a FOREIGN COUNTRY WITHOUT THAT COUNTRY'S KNOWLEDGE OR COOPERATION......... At least I think it was without the knowledge of the Mexican Government, but who really knows?
I would bet that an operation of this magnitude would necessarily had to have had approval from the President himself.
EUROPE:
I read an article earlier today which was a copy of a speech made by Vaclav Klaus, who is the President of the Czech Republic, regarding the failure of the &European Union& and the Union's monetary system. One short paragraph stood out to me: &In Europe, we have witnessed a gradual shift away from liberalizing and removing barriers and towards a massive introduction of regulation from above, an ever-expanding welfare system, and more sophisticated forms of protectionism, and continuously growing legal and regulatory burdens on business. All of these weaken and restrain freedom, democracy and democratic accountability, not to mention economic efficiency, entrepreneurship and competitiveness. Europeans today prefer leisure to performance; security to risk-taking; paternalism to free markets; collectivism and group entitlements to individualism.
Damn! sort of sounds like what the Obama administration has in mind for us........... doesn't it?
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner, Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer; Scott Hillyer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
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&Our elites often advise us to learn from other countries. They usually mean that we should imitate other countries. But it may be for more important to learn from their mistakes --- the biggest of which may be listening to fashionable nonsense from the smug intelligentsia.&.................... THOMAS SOWELL
&Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they resolutely ignore even the most blatant racism by blacks against others.&.................. THOMAS SOWELL
&We seem to be living in an age when nobody can be bothered to answer their telephone, but everybody has a recorded message telling us how important our phone call is to them.&........... THOMAS SOWELL
&Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.&..... NOAH WEBSTER.. An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, 1787
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
MORE STUFF:
One of the items awaiting my return in my Post Office Box was an official looking large envelope which had &Official Documents& printed on the outside. I was immediately suspicious so I was not surprised when I opened it and found......... Yep, you guessed it, a questionnaire which had several pages of questions which would require someone with extremely limited thinking abilities to not be able to tell how one would answer the questions by simply knowing a person's political party affiliation. Then of course at the end of this survey there was the obligatory request for a donation of anywhere from $1,000 down to $25. Then they had another line saying that if you could not make a donation at this time, would you be able to send in $15 to help defer shipping costs. And of course the return envelope was to the Republican National Committee offices.
So I sat down at my computer and wrote them a reply which included a gentle reminder that I had sent them several pages of written communications specifically telling the RNC that I thought they had fumbled the ball miserably by supporting John McCain in the 2008 election and that they further blew it with me by appointing Michael Steele as the Chairman of the RNC after the election and I just wondered exactly which part of NO it was which they did not understand. I of course requested to be removed from their mailing list and my final closing statement was:
&So in closing I will say that when you send me correspondence requesting funds to spend on, God only knows what, that you are wasting your time....... Or perhaps to put it in more Biblical terms: Thou Art Wasting Thy Time&.
I must tell you all that I believe we are in big trouble with these boobs in charge of the RNC.
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Incidentally, every time I stopped to purchase gas on our trip I said &Thanks A Lot, Barack&. The cheapest gasoline between San Angelo, Texas and Lake City, Colorado was in Roswell, Mexico at $3.23 per gallon. The most expensive, was of course in Lake City, Colorado at $3.89. It seems as if last year about this same time unleaded regular was somewhere a little over $2.50 per gallon. Thanks again Barack.
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Later
JEM
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August 10th, 2011 BLAME / PHONY / EDITORIAL
Wednesday - August 10, 2011
Hello once more from a Burning Up Rain Starved Angry Gun Owning Fossil Fuel Burning Four Wheel Drive Pickup Owning Jingoistic Intolerant Conspiratorial Overtaxed Right Wing Mob Member.
As I begin writing today the Dow Jones Average is DOWN about 270 points. Of course what I know about stock investments you could fit into a thimble. I do know that if you buy low and sell high that you are pretty well not going to get hurt. But I imagine that we can get all kinds of information on why the market is in the tank.
BLAME - EDITORIAL:
I guess that right now the Tea Party is receiving ALL of the blame if you listen to the Far Left/Socialist/Progressive/Democrat hacks. Hold on! Let me re-phrase that since all of the people who have decided to blame the Tea Party for the state of our financial woes ARE NOT Democrats. They are merely Progressive/Moderate/Socialist but are members of the Republican Party.
So before I go on, let me say that when the Tea Party is getting the blame from the Democrats/Socialists/Progressives AND the Moderate/Liberal/Republicans then they must be doing something really right and when I say right I mean CORRECTLY.
We were all told that IF there were no Bi-Partisan agreement reached on the debt ceiling that the Credit Rating of the United States would most assuredly be DOWNGRADED.
So against the wishes of most members of the Tea Party, a Bi-Partisan agreement was reached and the debt ceiling was raised. And lo and behold, what happened? Our credit rating was downgraded from AAA to AA+.
I personally didn't give a damn about the debt ceiling being raised as I don't believe our nation could afford to not raise it. BUT what did we get for caving in before the last minute? We got some supposed spending cuts which are all bull shit. Most of them are not cuts except on paper. The one area in which we could ill afford to cut is our Defense Budget but of course the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists thought differently.
I thought that if the Republicans had held out until the very last second that they could have gotten way more spending cuts. Not increasing spending in a particular area IS NOT A SPENDING CUT. IT IS LEAVING THE ALREADY HIGH SPENDING AT THE PRESENT LEVEL. A spending CUT is actually decreasing the amount of money spent in a particular area. And I am sure we have all received multiple e-mails showing many areas in which our government spends BILLIONS each year with very little return for these expenditures.
BUT OF COURSE the TEA PARTY is to blame for all the ills which have befallen our country. But my question is how can a part of a Conservative Movement exercise all that much control when the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists control the Senate and the White House and the Print Media and the biggest part of the rest of the media?
A prime example of this appeared in this morning's edition of the (Sub) Standard on the editorial page. This little objective piece was the main editorial article under &OUR OPINION&. The lead headline was: &NICE - GUY POLITICS A FAILED STRATEGY& The very first paragraph should give most intelligent readers a brief idea of the political leanings of the (Sub) Standard editorial staff. And for your perusal, here it is:
&President Barack Obama came to our ongoing political brawl armed with a rational, balanced manner, disarming humor, a sense of fair-mindedness and fair play. He was almost overeager to reason with his opponents. He's getting killed for it, and it's not doing the country any good, either.&
One must seriously wonder if somewhere there is a parallel Universe and in that Universe there is a Planet Earth with a United States who have as the President a President Barack Hussein Obama who is a DIRECT OPPOSITE of the mob run varmint who presides over our country. That must be the answer as anyone with even basic intelligence could not describe our President Barack Hussein Obama.
And speaking of Barack Hussein Obama, I have heard him blame George W. Bush; The Tsunami in Japan; The Tea Party; The Republican controlled House of Representatives and almost anyone or anything else other than himself and his absurd cabinet and the Democrat/Progressive/Socialist Party.
This article also contained a line which I did not quite understand:
&Obama has ducked fights over his 2012 budget&............ WHAT 2012 BUDGET? A budget indicates that there are funds appropriated and those funds are spent upon the items for which they were intended. That his not been the case of the Obama Administration and in all fairness has not been the rule in the George Bush Administration or the Republican Controlled Congress and of course certainly not the Democrat Controlled Congress.
But let's not put the blame where it rightfully belongs. No let's blame the Tea Party. But keep in mind..... look at who is doing the blaming. Anytime you have the most liberal President in my lifetime and the likes of Harry Reid; Nancy Pelosi; Barney Frank; John Kerry; Barbara Boxer; Debbie Wasserman Shultz.... and the list goes on, trying to demonize you then you have to know that what you are doing is not only RIGHT but must be working. So to the Tea Party folks I say..... KEEP IT UP.
PHONY:
Now I believe that we have as many phony politicians presently holding office than I can remember in the past 60 years. I say that because it was about 60 years ago that I began to really pay attention to what some of these elected mutts were saying AND what they were doing in Washington, D.C. which affected us all.
But I must say that one of the all time great phonies, and I mean that in the most negative manner, is ARIZONA SENATOR JOHN MC CAIN.
I have watched McCain over the past week and watched him continually refer to Democrat/Progressive/MUTTS as &His very good friend&. I am sorry but I cannot be very good friends with people who oppose everything in which I believe. I can understand being friends with people with whom I occasionally disagree, but I cannot be friends, much less very good friends with people who are intent on selling our country down the river. But apparently this does not enter into John McCain's thought process. I feel as if I can speak ill of an Arizona Senator since I also have NO USE for one of our Texas Senators, Kay Bailey Hutchison.
What really got me steamed this week was McCain referring to the Tea Party members as &Hobbits& on the Senate floor. Now for those of you residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco, &Hobbits& are fictional creatures of diminutive size who create mischief and generally live in holes in the middle-earth. And Senator McCain suggested that they return there.
Since the Tea Party voters are more than likely largely responsible for the House of Representatives now having a Republican majority and also for the Republicans gaining Senate seats, I would be a little more generous with my description of them. But then again, while there are opinions to the contrary, I am not a horses ass and John McCain is.
Where he really showed his true colors was when he was asked about the statement and all he could say was that he was &Sorry& if someone misunderstood his statement but he refused to apologize for making it to begin with. Senator Rand Paul had a retort for Mr. McCain, &I'd rather be a Hobbit than a Troll.& Way to go Rand.
Also in one of the editions of the (Sub) Standard was an article by Martin Schram who writes political analysis for Scripps Howard s Service. This alert observer wrote; &Happily, the old John McCain rides again.& And one of Schram's compliments for this phony Republican was the fact that like a true &Maverick&, John McCain went against his own Republican Party in calling for a &Balanced Budget Amendment& to the U.S. Constitution.
OK let's examine that for a moment. Most families have to live within their budgetary means so why should we expect less from our government? How can someone hold public office and not be in favor of a &Balanced Budget&? Of course NONE of the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists appear to favor this type of thinking and apparently Senator McCain is in line with his &Good Friends on the opposite side of the aisle&.
People of Arizona, get rid of this turd.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner, Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
I can assure you that the people living in Texas, Oklahoma, Mexico and Arizona would appreciate all of our prayers in calling for some rain to a huge area experiencing a serious drought problem.
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& The poor are the human shields behind whom advocates of ever bigger spending for ever bigger government advance toward their goal.&............. THOMAS SOWELL
&As for being 'ill-housed', the average poor American has more living space than the general population --- not just the poor population --- of London, Paris and other cities in Europe.&.............THOMAS SOWELL
&When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.&... THOMAS JEFFERSON
&As the government stands, I despise and abhor it. I speak as one poor individual -- but when I speak, I speak the language of thousands. If I am asked what is to be done when a people feel themselves intolerably oppressed, my answer is to overturn the government.&...PATRICK HENRY
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
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President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS
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On the subject of the drought, particularly here in West Texas, my wife got some information from a neighbor which I would like to share with you all. This neighbor is retired but works part-time at the livestock sale barn here in Tom Green County. This lady has normally been working two days a week but is now working four and five days per week. The reason being that local ranchers who raise cattle; sheep; or goats are being forced to sell out ALL OF THEIR LIVESTOCK. The reason being a critical shortage of water.
The ranch owners say that their stock tanks have dried completely up and in some instances many of their water wells have gone dry. And of course the cost of feed for the livestock is unbelievably high. So where are the buyers coming from if Texas is so dry?
North Dakota; South Dakota; Minnesota; Montana; Iowa; Nebraska; and other locations where there is no water shortage. Our local farm and ranch economy has really headed South and there is no rain in sight. We have set a record here in San Angelo, not only of days of over 100 degree heat in a row but total days over 100 degrees for a year.
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Last Saturday, I watched the Pro Football Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies from Canton, Ohio. The inductees were:
Richard Dent - DE - Bears
Marshall Faulk - RB - Colts; Rams
Les Richter - LB - Rams
Ed Sabol - NFL FILMS FOUNDER
Deion Sanders - CB - Falcons; 49 ers; Cowboys; Redskins; Ravens
Shannon Sharpe - TE - Broncos; Ravens
Chris Hanburger - LB - Redskins
Of course Mr. Sabol did a great job from his wheel chair and was most deserving of this honor.
Richard Dent - did a good job and his small college band attended the ceremonies. I thought that was pretty cool.
Les Richter - was inducted post-humously - I can remember him from my early days of watching the NFL. He was a great player
Shannon Sharpe - He did a fairly good job but was a little long winded
Marshall Faulk - Showed class and did a good job. He was really an exceptional and COMPLETE running back
Deion Sanders - Deion Sanders was not only long winded but showed what a self centered jerk he really is. Now I am not saying that Deion Sanders was not an exceptional athlete and an exceptional player. He had so much speed that he could actually sucker quarterbacks into throwing in his area and before they could realize it, Sanders would be there waiting for the ball. He also had some real success in returning those interceptions for touchdowns as well as being an exceptional kickoff and punt return specialist. I am not questioning his ability as he was truly exceptional. But after his speech was over, he pulled out a blue &do-rag& and tied it around the head of his bronze bust which will be placed into the Hall. I really thought that was bush league bull shit and I thought that it was an insult to all the other people who have been inducted into this place of honor. Once again, Deion Sanders has a lot of Barack Obama in him and is a self centered jerk.
Chris Hanburger - Now here was a really class act. I remember watching Chris Hanburger play for the Washington Redskins during the days of the old &Over The Hill Gang& which included Diron Talbert; Bill Brundage; Dave Butz; Ron McDole; Jack Pardee; Billy Kilmer; Larry Brown; Christian Adolph & Sonny& Jurgensen III; Pat Fischer; Kenny Houston and lots of other old castoff players that no other team wanted. There were two week ends a year that I was not a Redskin fan and that was when they played the Dallas Cowboys. The rest of the time I was pulling for those old guys and I even liked George Allen except for those two week ends.
Also while watching a Monday Night Football game there was a particularly hard hit by a defensive player on an offensive running back. This brought Howard Cosell to ask this question of Don Meredith; &Dandy, who is the hardest...........& and that was as far as he got when Meridith came back with Chris Hanburger. Meridith said that Hanburger was the toughest dude in football.
Last Saturday, Chris Hanburger, who still looks like he would get with you pretty good if you wanted, made the statement that he didn't feel like he was a real Hall of Famer. He said that the real Hall of Famers were the men and women in our military and our policemen and fire fighters. He said that these people were who he admired.
Again, a class act.
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I received a couple of e-mails this past week relating some figures given by Dave Ramsey on one of his radio or TV programs. As most of you know, Mr. Ramsey has some rather unique ideas on family finances; like DO NOT SPEND MORE THAN YOU MAKE. Anyway Mr. Ramsey broke down our current national financial problem as if our country were a family. Here are his figures:
Annual Income - $58,000.
Annual Expenditures - $75,000.
Credit Card Debt - $327,000.
Proposed Spending Cuts - $3,000 Annually down to $72,000.
This is our federal budget and debts.
So again I must ask the Varmint Senator from Arizona; What is wrong with a balanced budget?
And not only McCain but every single elected official or appointed official who is responsible for this situation.... Democrat and Republican and Independent.
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I heard earlier today that former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton might be putting his hat in the ring for the Republican nomination. I am afraid that it might be a little late but maybe not.
I have never seen John Bolton asked a question for which he did not have an answer. I believe he is the absolute smartest American we have on foreign policy matters. And once again I have never seen him stumped for an answer to questions asked by media mutts. And although he was the U.N. Ambassador, he was no big fan of the United Nations which makes me a big fan of his.
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We will be leaving for Colorado near the end of this week and I will not have access to a computer. The last time I was gone for an extended period there were so many e-mails came in that it filled my mailbox.
So with that in mind I am going to ask everyone to PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM YOUR FORWARD LISTS UNTIL AT LEAST AUGUST 24TH.
See you all in a couple of weeks.
JEM
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August 3rd, 2011 THE DEAL
Wednesday - August 3, 2011
Greetings from a still hot and dry West Texas Anti-Deal Making Pro Gun Owning Fossil Fuel Using Association Of Right Wing Conspirators.
THE DEAL:
At this point, I really do wish I could speak intelligently about &The Deal& but try as I may, I still do not know the complete content of &The Deal&. I do know that I have heard Republicans claim that they won; and I have heard Democrats/Socialists/Progressives say that they won; and I have heard both sides claim that the other side won; and of course I have heard both sides claim that President Barack Hussein Obama did both... lost and won..
So it becomes readily apparent to me that neither the Democrats/Socialists/Progressives OR the Republicans understand &The Deal& any batter than most of us.
I do know that when Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin and Barney Frank and John McCain and several more prominent Senators and Congresspersons seem to be pleased with &The Deal& then I must in good faith believe that the American People just got screwed big time.
Just to refresh everyone about some of the goings on over the past few days, I was watching a FOX s.... Breaking s Story. They took us right to the Senate floor allegedly to watch and listen to these 100 varmints vote on &The Deal&. BUT, what we got was a great deal of time being wasted by these elected slugs in &Thanking the Pages& for their tireless efforts. Of course, in reality, the Pages probably did do more actual work than any of the elected buffoons. But I didn't view the &Thanking of the Pages& as a real show stopper insofar as s went.
Now I am sure that most of you know that I am not a huge Gabrielle Giffords fan. I am sorry that she was shot and I feel badly for her family but it seems to me as if the media made this multiple murder and attempted murder incident more about &Gabby& than they did about the people who were brutally murdered in that incident.
Try as I may, I cannot lose sight of the fact that Congresswoman Gabrielle &Gabby& Giffords was more concerned with our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq fighting a more ecologically sound war than she was about the lives being lost by our military. And from a number of pieces of correspondence I have received from Arizona residents, &Gabby& is ultra-liberal and that would not raise her up on the popularity totem pole in my village.
I also have recognized that apparently damn near every person who supported &The Deal& are a bit deficient in their math skills. As I said before, I still do not really know what all is in or has been stricken from &The Deal& nor do I know how much will be changed prior to reaching the desk of the most incompetent U.S. President in my lifetime. But what I do understand is that when you leave spending the same as it was last year, then that is NOT A CUT. I do understand that when Senators and Congressmen submit proposals with some of their main &Cuts& completely dependent upon the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq coming to a complete end over a certain time period the the possibility exists that those wars WILL NOT end and the huge cuts in spending caused by those two wars will either remain OR will not be as drastic as has been purported.
While I am still on a roll bitching about the House and the Senate I must recall one s clip which I was watching where Dick Durbin was speaking at length about the raising of the debt ceiling and it became John McCain's (R-AZ) turn to make a statement and he started out with his goofy little snicker, which reminds me of either &Bevis& or &Butthead&, I don't remember which, and began his statement speaking about &My good close friend& referring to Dick Durbin, who in my opinion is a bigger turd than McCain. But what grates on me is the fact that McCain claims to be a Republican. Well if John McCain is an example of what the Republican Party has become, then count my ass out.
I am still waiting for someone in government to explain to the American people just exactly how &The Deal& is going to trim our national debt.
If our government keeps on pouring huge amounts of money into the United Nations; Foreign Aid to countries who hate us; Social Programs here in the United States.... WHICH DO NOT WORK; Increasing the size of our federal government; Increasing our dependence upon foreign energy sources; Standing in the way of our American business with useless regulations and huge regulatory agencies; and forming Bi-Partisan Committees to solve our financial problems, then our ability to cut down the amount of our national debt is a fairy tale.
And keep in mind that there is some question on whether or not this rule by committee is even Constitutional.
Why is it that Progressives/Socialists/Democrats always want to make some of the largest budget cuts in areas which will potentially negatively effect the safety of our country. The people who have laid it on the line ever since I have been on this earth seem to be the people who will feel the largest cuts in some of these poorly thought out plans. Now for those of you presently residing in &The People's Republic of San Francisco& I am referring to the United States Military.
I watched and listened to several s programs which pointed out that every branch of our military are way down in their strength and equipment. I remember seeing one report on TV which showed that in 1990 there were something like 360 strategic bombers in our arsenal and that there are now less than half. According to this report the same was true regarding our Navy which was down to pre-World War I levels.
And keep in mind that we can ill afford to become a second rate military power. I never thought I would live to see the day when our military was in this type of situation but when you have complete incompetence at our federal leadership levels then anything is possible.
I was watching one of the FOX s programs which featured a panel and on this panel was a Democrat strategist, who actually seems to have thoughts on his own other than thoughts inspired by Barack Hussein Obama. I cannot recall this man's name but at the end of this panel discussion he made a statement which I found to be absolutely true and found it refreshing coming from the mouth of a Democrat. Regarding our elected officials in Both Houses of Congress he made this statement:
&THEY HAD RATHER RULE IN HELL THAN SERVE IN HEAVEN&. I thought that pretty well summed up the state of our federal elected officials.
And before I forget, since Barney Frank (Candy Ass) and Chuck Schumer (Candy Ass) and Dick Durbin (Candy Ass) and several other far left idiots have decided to brand the &Tea Party& movement as a bunch of &Terrorists& then count me in as one of those also. Just because there are some folks who have decided not to give in at every possible moment to the left wing radicals that does not mean that they are &Terrorists&.
I was listening to a radio program earlier and the host was mentioning that when you see Vladimir Putin in a photo he is riding mountain bikes; riding horses; climbing mountains; participating in shooting sports but when you see photos of Barack Hussein Obama, he is riding a girl's bicycle. I am tired of whining and crying and putting up with a bunch of sissy stuff. Let's get some strong leadership in The White House; The Senate and The House of Representatives.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner, Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------}; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; { SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------}; { Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------}; {Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------}; {Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------}; {Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------}; (SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------}; {SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY------------}; {All of the men and women presently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families.
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&&My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results in too much government.&.. THOMAS JEFFERSON
&No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.&.............. THOMAS JEFFERSON
&The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.&.................. THOMAS JEFFERSON&
&I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious&................................ THOMAS JEFFERSON - 1816 ( Sounds like he could be referring to us today. )
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MD); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS
MORE STUFF:
Here in San Angelo we have an old military fort, Fort Concho, which has been maintained and is open to the public. Each month they publish a sletter giving some items regarding the history of the fort as well as the history of the military back in the 1800s. They often include articles regarding old military firearms or perhaps a description of a particular battle and facts about Army life when the fort was first built. They have lots of special events there also. Generally they publish something in our history which happened on each day of the month. And on occasion they will publish a list of trivial facts. Last month they publish a list of little known facts. One of them caught my eye as it is something which is near and dear to my heart. So here is the fact:
&An estimated 14 million JUNK telephone calls are made every day in the United States&...... I am not sure but I think this estimate might be a bit on the light side. I personally receive nearly that many each day and I know that I am not the only one in that boat.
I have tried being nice and requesting that they remove my name and phone number from their call list. That has not worked.
So I reverted to my basic instincts and tried being nasty and intolerant and that does not seem to be effective.
I have found that the air horn gives me satisfaction but it is pretty loud.
So I have finally decided to just employ what I call my Democrat approach to these junk phone calls. And that is just to make up stuff and lie about damn near everything about which they ask.
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As I have stated before, I could care less about the NFL Owners and Players deal. Had they cancelled the season, it would have set just fine with me. And just remember who you got this from. I predict that it won't be too many more years that you will be able to get to watch your favorite NFL team play on Sunday. I am convinced that we are headed for a pay as you watch program before too many more years pass. Now while I have always liked Peyton Manning I cannot imagine paying him $90,000,000 over a five year period. They have gone way past off the chart on these salaries.
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Is it just me or is Michelle Bachman beginning to sound a bit like Hillary Clinton? She cannot open her mouth without reminding us that she has a law degree and that she and her husband were both Tax Attorneys. I am liking her less and less the more she speaks.
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I watched a business owner being interviewed the other day on FOX s and he flat out said that the overbearing regulations and out of control regulatory agencies here in the United States are the main reason that companies are moving their manufacturing businesses overseas. I am not sure that is the only reason but I must admit that perhaps &Pogo Possum& was right when he said .....&We have met the enemy and he is us.&
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Also, just in listening to some financial and economy experts speak about our country's economic situation, I would not be surprised at all to see some more &Stimulus& funds being doled out in the future. That is, of course, if the Bi-Partisan Committee of 3 Democrat/Socialist/Progressive Senators and 3 Democrat/Socialist/Progressive Representative along with 3 Republican Senators and 3 Republican Representatives can find their collective asses with both hands and realize that here is another good way to steal some tax dollars.
I will leave you with this final statement............... NIGERIAN BANKERS ARE MORE TRUSTWORTHY THAN OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS.
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Later
JEM
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July 27th, 2011 THREATS / CLICHES / ENTITLEMENTS
Wednesday- July 27, 2011
Greetings once more from the Record Setting Heat Headquarters For The Hopelessly Jingoistic Draconian Thinking Gun Owning Fossil Fuel Burning Radical Vast Right Wing Obstructionists.
THREATS:
A few weeks back, the world's most articulate and intelligent human, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, told us that this was not the time for threats but rather a time to come together as Americans. Now while all that might look good in print and while it might really sound good, it is far easier to say than to actually do, particularly when more than half of our current financial problems have been brought on by the very people whom we now expect to fix it.
So far during this week I have heard Obama and quite a few of his flunkies continue to threaten American Seniors and Military Personnel with the possibility of not receiving their paychecks. Also now added to these two groups are Veterans.
We keep hearing Obama and Harry Reid speak of &Working Together& and &Bi-Partisan efforts& and &Compromise&. But when the Republican House works up an actual piece of legislation and we hear the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid make the statement that the House legislation is &Dead On Arrival& and promises to not even bring the bill up for a Senate vote........... then one must ask themselves; Who are the real OBSTRUCTIONISTS? When President Barack Hussein Obama promises to VETO any legislation sent to his office which does not specifically contain some of his liberal/progressive/socialist wishes, then it looks to me as if he along with the Democrat/Progressive/Socialist controlled Senate are the real culprits.
Don't get me wrong, I blame many of the Republican Representatives and Senators for the mess we are in at present. Just because someone has an &R& following their title does not mean that they are without blame. And to take it a step further, many Republican voters are at fault for believing that all Republicans are Conservatives. Please take not of the so called Republicans now holding a secure spot on the Varmint's List.
I am not sure exactly everything contained in the so called &Boehner Plan& but I do know that at some point it calls for appointing another Bi-Partisan Committee to oversee the workings. That's just what we need....... more committees. I cannot recall the title of this committee but I am sure that it would be a &Blue Ribbon Panel&. Actually I would rather put my faith in a committee made up of &The Mystic Knights Of The Sea& (Amos 'n Andy); OR &The Royal Order Of Water Buffaloes& (Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble) OR &The Chipmunks& (Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton) OR &The Leopards& (Howard Cunningham; Happy Days) OR my personal favorite, &The Sons Of The Desert& (Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy)
Actually what this country needs is for the people to get angry enough to put the boot to a bunch of these incompetent, self-serving idiots and replace them with some other people who realize that these jobs are temporary and that they can be replaced in pretty short order.
But as long as the Main Stream Media keeps on putting out the garbage that anything other than an Obama-inspired idea is just more Radical Right-Wing Extremist Tea-Party blather and as long as the American people continue to pay attention to these various polls then we had just better shut up and learn to live under a totally Socialist form of government.
And you must wonder if perhaps one of the Obama flunkies ever borrows a line from Oliver Hardy and says; &Well Barack..... here's another fine mess you've gotten me into&
CLICHES:
Earlier in his reign as President of the United States, almost every day you could hear Barack Hussein Obama or one of his multitude of butt boys talking about &Bold& action and &Swift& action or that our course of action should be enacted both &Boldly and Swiftly&. Then they got pretty fed up with that and then began to talk about &Making the Tough Decisions&. And of course the &Tough Decisions& should be made both &Boldly& and Swiftly. Ah, but all that is out the window now..............someone came up with the &Balanced Approach& theme and that is all that this highly incompetent president can say. He wore that little cliché completely out during his last national speech..... or at least I think it was his last one. But he makes so damn many it is hard to be completely sure.
ENTITLEMENTS:
Every time I hear someone talk about &Entitlements& and immediately throw Social Security into that category, I am overcome with an uncontrollable to slap the crap out of someone.
As I look back through my working career, I first paid into Social Security from 1956 - 1958. The from 1958 to 1970 I did not pay regularly into Social Security as the City of Houston had their own retirement system and had never elected to participate in the Social Security Program. Then in the latter part of 1970 until September, 2003 I paid into Social Security and actually paid into the system even while drawing Social Security benefits while working part time.
My total years paying into the Social Security System totaled 35 years AND keep in mind that my employers also matched my payments into the system. So between my personal payments and my employer's payments into the system UNDER MY NAME, I had quite a bit paid into this system which some have suddenly decided is an &Entitlement&. When you add up 35 years of payments into the system plus the interest on my and my employer's contributions calling this an &Entitlement& is a bit far fetched.
Actually what most people view as &Entitlements& are funds received by those who have CONTRIBUTED NOTHING INTO THE SYSTEM. Dare I say it? How about the &Food Stamp Program&? How about all of the monthly checks sent out to HUD recipients? How about medical payments made for medications and treatments incurred by ILLEGAL ALIENS?
Please don't throw entitlement up in my face when our government wastes BILLIONS every month on welfare recipients who are accepting checks under false pretexts. How about money sent to foreign countries who in turn spit in our faces?
SOLUTIONS:
I know that several in the past I have written about the ancient Greek City States in general and the Spartans in particular. It was an unusual society to say the least. And I am not for a moment advocating adopting their customs in their entirety but they did have some things which I thought showed some real merit.
Of course the Spartans were a warrior nation. ALL male children at a really young age were sent to military camps where their entire adolescent years were spent learning how to be a soldier. Everything I read indicates that damn near all of the males serving in the military were homosexual, BUT don't be fooled by that as they were plenty bad. After they reached adulthood they would be sent back to mate with selected females and then they returned to the Military Camp. All of the men had long hair and they were all very vain and spent quite a bit of time making themselves beautiful.
I read one account of an individual who took some Persians spies to check out the Spartan forces prior to the Battle of Thermopylae and when the Persians saw the Spartan soldiers all brushing their long beautiful hair and prancing around in long flowing capes he laughed and indicated that these people would be no match for the Persians. He was informed by a Spartan traitor that he was not only wrong but dead wrong as this was the Spartan ritual before a battle to the death and that these people had absolutely no fear of death and were prepared for anything. And of course as it turned out the Spartans were defeated at Thermopylae but extracted a huge death toll among the Persians. So while the Spartan soldiers might have been sissies..... they were bad ass sissies.
The one Spartan custom which I really liked would be the answer to our prayers here in the United States. When a Spartan was elected to a position in their government he served a certain amount of time, and I believe their terms were about two years and then they left office. Now here is where it gets good. When an elected official had completed his term, HE WAS PUT ON TRIAL AND IF IT WERE DETERMINED THAT HE HAD DONE A GOOD JOB THEN ALL WAS WELL.............. BUT IF IT WAS DETERMINED THAT HE HAD DONE A POOR JOB OR HAD BEEN SELF SERVING THEN DEPENDING UPON THE SEVERITY OF HIS CRIME.... HIS SENTENCE WAS DETERMINED.
I LIKE THAT CONCEPT. At least half of these elected idiots we have presently in office should be under indictment. How about leaving Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds and the rest of these baseball players alone and start trying some of the REAL CROOKS in our society? That would be an excellent start into solving our current problems.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill; Joe & Ruth Lucero -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner, Albert & Sylvia Blanco; Don Faubion - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; Josip & Lela Slivar - ZAGREB, CROATIA ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------; Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------; Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY------------}; All of the men and women presently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
&Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions. The United Nations, for example, survives as a glorious idea, despite how corrupt, counterproductive and even dangerous its actions are.&............. THOMAS SOWELL
&The national debt-ceiling law should be judged by what it actually does, not by how good an idea it seems to be. The one thing that the national debt-ceiling has never done is to put a ceiling on the rising national debt. Time and time again, for years on end, the national debt-ceiling has been raised whenever the national debt gets near whatever the current ceiling might be.............. Regardless of what it is supposed to do, what the national debt-ceiling actually does is enable any administration to get all the political benefits of runaway spending for the benefit of their favorite constituencies -- and then invite the opposition party to share the blame, by either raising the national debt-ceiling, or by voting for unpopular cutbacks in spending or increases in taxes.&....................... THOMAS SOWELL
&Those people who want serious and substantial spending cuts are absolutely right in what they want. There are not only government programs that need to be cut but whole government agencies, including Cabinet-level Departments, that are not merely useless but positively harmful on net balance.&................THOMAS SOWELL
&When heads of state become gangsters, something has to be done.&................ WINSTON CHURCHILL
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MO); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS
OTHER STUFF:
Last week while criticizing a Republican plan designed to avert a government default, Barack Hussein Obama that the plan was nothing more than a &Partisan Three Ring Circus&. HEY BARACK! Where, other than at a circus, would you expect to find a bunch of CLOWNS?
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I heard that General Electric is moving all of their medical imaging operations to CHINA. Let's see now. Who is CEO of General Electric? Oh yeah, JEFFERY IMMELT. Jeffery Immelt is also an advisor to President Barack Hussein Obama in the area of job creation. He is also on our Varmint's List.
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I recently purchased a blood sugar testing device from One-Touch. The device comes with the meter; test strips; lancing device; and lancets. This was the and improved testing kit. The only problem I had was that the lancing device was so weak that the lancets (needles) would more than likely not strike your fingertip hard enough to pierce your skin. So I had to remove the safety tip and just try to guess how far away from my fingertip to hold the lancing device. I averaged getting enough blood with this device on about my seventh try and I have to test three a day.
So I called in the company and told them that I was less than impressed with their lancing device and did they perhaps have another style device with a stronger spring. The told me that they did and that they would send me one with some larger lancets. After a couple of days I got a package in the mail and found some larger lancets and an identical twin to my useless lancing device and of course the larger lancets do not fit that device.
So I contacted them again and was running a bit short on patience and told them of their error and the said that they would send me the larger and stronger device. A couple of days later a device with a much stronger spring and higher strength settings arrived. Now while the other devices would barely puncture the skin....... this device would knock a hole in the skull of a cape buffalo bull. So there is a bit more pain involved but I don't have to stick myself 6 or 7 on each attempt to check my blood sugar.
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A couple of days back the Turner Classic Movie Channel aired one of my all time favorite movies; &The Four Feathers& which was related to the British Campaign against the Dervishes and the Fuzzies in the Sudan. Great movie. Lots of action. Loads of great looking extras in the huge battle scenes. This movie was made the first time in 1939 and had Ralph Richardson and C. Aubrey Smith who were both great British actors. I love movies about the old British Army.... &Charge Of The Light Brigade&; &Gunga Din&; & Zulu&; & Zulu Dawn&. Great stuff.
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Later
JEM
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July 20th, 2011 GANGS / LIES / COMPROMISE
Wednesday- July 20, 2011
Hello from a still hot Headquarters For Firearms Owning Fossil Fuel Burning Four Wheel SUV Driving Jingoistic Angry West Texas Mob Members.
GANGS AND COMPROMISE:
When I turn my computer completely off and then turn it back on the next morning I receive a page which advises me that my Memory Information Is In An UNGANGED MODE. Now I am not sure exactly what that means but I appreciate the computer letting me know that my information mode is UNGANGED.
Whenever I think of &Gangs& I generally have thought of the various street gangs which are present in many cities other than Los Angeles, York City, or Chicago. But now it seems as if we must be concerned about &Gangs& in our federally elected officials.
I am speaking of the &Gang Of Twelve& which first reared its ugly head when George Bush was President. This &Gang Of Twelve& consisted of six Republicans and six Democrats/Progressives/Socialists and their primary task was to make that awful &Comprehensive Immigration Reform& palatable to the American people. Now here is this &Bi-Partisan Gang Of Twelve& as it appeared back in about 2005 or so:
REPUBLICANS:
Lincoln Chaffee - RI
Susan Collins - ME
Mike DeWine - OH
Lindsey Graham - SC
John McCain - AZ
Olympia Snowe - ME
Let me say at this point that I do not have much recollection of Mike DeWine but the rest of these so called Republicans are RINOs and either have been or are at present on the VARMINT LIST.
DEMOCRATS:
Robert Byrd - WVA
Daniel Inouye - HI
Mary Landrieu - LA
Joe Lieberman - CT
Ben Nelson - NE
Mark Pryer - AR
*Ken Salazar - CO served on this collection of turds but his spot was filled by Mark Pryer
I know nothing about Pryer or DeWine other than they were serving on a Senate group with complete jerks which only leads me to doubt their sanity.
Now if this &Gang Of Twelve& were not enough, (incidentally they had their Comprehensive Immigration Reform stuffed up their backsides), we are now subjected to the antics of a brand &Gang Of Six&. Who are they, you ask?
REPUBLICANS&
Saxby Chambliss - GA
Mike Crapo - ID
Tom Coburn - OK
DEMOCRATS
Mark Warner - VA
Dick Durbin - IL
Kent Conrad - ND
I have no knowledge of Chambliss or Crapo but I generally liked what Tom Coburn stood for on most issues.
I have no knowledge of the character of Kent Conrad but he has allied himself with two real turds.
And of course this &Gang Of Six& is tasked with coming up with a Bi-Partisan compromise regarding the debt ceiling and suggestions for cutting government spending. I have not heard what their final plan was but I did hear on a s report this morning that President Barack Hussein Obama and Senator Dick Durbin viewed this compromise with a favorable outlook.
That is all I need to know. If Obama and Durbin are in favor of it, I am against it. I cannot imagine either of those two vermin coming up with anything that I could accept.
And while I am on the subject, I heard some liberal hacks on several RV s programs last week making the statement that the reason those Congressmen/women and Senators were elected was to compromise.
SORRY! I do not vote for a candidate and expect them to &COMPROMISE& on every issue. I realize that on some issues compromise might be acceptable but I vote for those candidates with the expectation that they will DO THE RIGHT THING and that means standing up to the liberals/progressives and not giving in on important issues.
So at this point, I am no more impressed with the &Gang Of Six& than I was with the &Gang Of Twelve& and it appears that many of the Republicans who have had the balls to call themselves CONSERVATIVES will end up giving in to the Obama crowd. If they do, they need to see the villagers at their doors with pitchforks and torches. We have had enough caving in to these mutts.
I guess what I am proposing is that the Senate take the same position as my computer does and get into &THE UNGANGED MODE&.
LIES:
A couple of days back on the editorial page of the (Sub) Standard there was an article written by a guest columnist named Steve Tefas. The bold headlines on this article was:
&Obama's campaign statements inconsistent with the truth&. I thought that &Inconsistent with the truth was a bit of a sugar coating when I think they were outright LIES.
He did point out that Obama's promise that the health care debate and discussions would be on C-SPAN and that Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats did most of their work behind closed doors. He made reference to the Stimulus Package and Unemployment and that in just over two years under Obama's leadership the national debt has gone from $9 Trillion to $14 Trillion. He also pointed out that instead of reducing unemployment that it has actually gone upward and now stands at approximately 9.2%. I have heard several economists say that this figure is actually a bit low and realistically the unemployment rate stands closer to 12% than 9.2%.
Mr. Tefas additionally pointed out in this article that Obama stated that our oil production was at the highest level in years. But he also pointed out that our domestic oil production has dropped from 9 million barrels a day in 1972 to our present 5 million barrels per day. He additionally pointed out that the Democrats have foiled any attempt to promote drilling in Alaska as well as the inner 48 states.
I particularly liked on statement made by Mr. Tefas when he wrote:
&I agree that Obama is articulate and charming, but he is a buffoon when it comes to governance. His sole qualification was as a community organizer in Chicago. He chastises the Republicans for not getting anything done and then flies off to Philadelphia for a fundraiser.
He also stated that he was baffled by our current foreign policy and pointed out that we seem to be catering to our enemies rather than to our friends, particularly in the Middle East.
He also touched briefly on the fact that Obama has ENDED our Space Program.
And on that point I wonder just how many items that we have come to depend upon in our everyday lives that were discovered due to our space program? I watch the Science Channel regularly and I cannot tell you how many items which are used by Americans every single day which became common thanks to our Space Program.
But as Mr. Tefas said and as I have often said, we are being governed by buffoons and incompetent buffoons at that. But I must say that Mr. Tefas is really generous saying that Obama's campaign statements were inconsistent with the truth. I say that they were outright lies.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner, Albert & Sylvia Blanco - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR ----------;
{GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC---------; Kenneth Thomas -USCG --------; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF ---------; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG ---------; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY-------------; Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY------------; Bud Barnett - USNA '74-----------; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES------------; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY------------}; All of the men and women presently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families};
John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
Thomas Sowell wrote an article this week with the subject being &Good Things& and how common sense and facts are routinely ignored.
&Many of the things advocated by environmental extremists, for example, are things that most of us might think of as good things. But in politics, they become GOOD THINGS whose repercussions and costs are brushed aside as unworthy considerations.....Nobody wants to breathe dirty air or drink dirty water. But, if either becomes 98 percent pure, 99 percent pure or 99.9 percent pure, there is some point beyond which the costs skyrocker and the benefits become meager or non-existent.&...... THOMAS SOWELL
&If the slightest trace of any impurity were fatal, the human race would have become extinct thousands of years ago.&... THOMAS SOWELL
&&More students going to college is another good thing, even if lowering standards to get them admitted results in lower educational quality for others........... Too much of a good thing is bad.&..................... THOMAS SOWELL
&I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending , on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.&............... JAMES MADISON
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MO); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS
MORE STUFF:
Earlier this morning I watched a video of a scast from an Atlanta, GA television station. The reporter related a story where one of the ideas to cut government spending was to ELIMINATE the home mortgage interest as a tax deduction, (which would thereby RAISE personal income taxes at almost every level), while still sending taxpayer funds to other countries for the purpose of &Saving Mosques& in various Muslim countries.
I k that we did lots of stuff overseas and this should not come as a surprise to any of us, so I guess I am really more pissed than surprised.
I received a long list of programs which some Republican House members has proposed an elimination of taxpayer funding. Her is a small sample:
* Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy --------- $445 Million annually
*National Endowment for the Arts ------------------------ $167.5 Million annually
* National Endowment for the Humanities -------------- $ 167.5 Million annually
* Cut Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% ---------------------- $600 Million annually
*Eliminate Duplicative Education Programs -------------- $1.3 Billion annually
*Eliminate Taxpayer Subsidies to the United
Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 Million annually
*Economic Assistance to Egypt ------------------------------- $250 Million annually
Just these few items add up to over $2.6 Billion and there are a couple of really big ticket items that I have left off.
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Now don't get me wrong. I think Barry Bonds is a first class jerk. I always liked Roger Clemens though. But what gripes me is that Bonds and Clemens both had to face trial for allegedly lying to CONGRESS when CONGRESS was investigating Steroid Use in Major League Baseball which covered a time period when the use of performance enhancing drugs WAS NOT ILLEGAL.
My first question remains; What in the hell is Congress doing wasting time on this crap when our economy is going down the tubes?
My second question is: How could ANY GRAND JURY or ANY TRIAL JURY convict ANYONE for lying to a bunch of people who do nothing but lie to the American people every day?
And don't forget, Barack Hussein Obama has suggested that Congress get involved in the subject of NCAA Football Championships and design a playoff system. Like the BCS hasn't got it screwed up enough.
I cannot imagine trusting these bozos with anything seeing as how they have screwed up everything they have touched in the past 50 years or so.
And I am still not convinced that the Republicans in the House and Senate won't cave in at the last moment and let Obama have his way with this debt ceiling business.
Remember, to a Democrat/Progressive/Socialist, a LIE is just as good as the truth.
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More bad s for all you RAPPERS out there.
RAPPER, Ja Rule has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary by a Federal Judge.............. OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
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Later
JEM
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July 13th, 2011 MISDIRECTION / EXECUTION / LOCKOUTS
Greetings from an extremely hot and dry West Texas Association For Jingoistic Four Wheel Drive Angry Overtaxed Gun Owners.
MISDIRECTION:
How is it that a large percentage of voters are depending upon Congress and President Barack Hussein Obama to come up with a financial fix for our current system which appears to be on the edge of collapse, when they are the main reason for the problem to begin with? How is it that many Republican Congressmen/women and Republican Senators can keep going for the same sleight of hand tricks which have apparently had these overpaid slugs fooled for a good many years? Why is it that they cannot see that Barack Hussein Obama and the elected Democrats/Progressives/Socialists consistently have them looking in the wrong direction when the real answers lie in completely different area?
I know I am preaching to the choir but let me just explain one more time what these vermin, and in particular the head varmint, are pulling.
First of all, I am suspicious of a President or any other elected official who wants CLOSED DOOR SESSIONS on matters which affect us all. But this seems to be the style of this Chicago Mob run flunky. And of course he, himself never comes up with anything which will pass muster in either the House or Senate and when they break from these CLOSED DOOR SESSIONS the mainstream media goes to the President first and he ALWAYS gets in his version which in Obama's case is almost always a complete LIE.
I heard a clip earlier today when he was telling the media rats that this was not the time to play the blame game and certainly not the time to try to use fear tactics for political gains. Then a short time later he said that HE COULD NOT GUARANTEE THAT CHECKS DUE TO BE SENT OUT TO SENIORS, VETERANS, OR THOSE ON DISABILITY WOULD BE SENT OUT.
Now keep in mind, he DID NOT SAY THAT THOSE CHECKS WOULD NOT BE SENT OUT BUT THAT HE JUST COULD NOT GUARANTEE THAT THEY WOULD BE SENT OUT.
DAMN! ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE A FEAR TACTIC BEING USED BY THE VERY PERSON WHO TOLD US THAT THIS WAS NOT THE TIME FOR THE BLAME GAME OR THE USE OF FEAR TACTICS.
If the present Republican elected officials are going to keep falling for this same old magician's trick of misdirection then perhaps they need to get back to where-in-ever-the-hell they came from and let someone else with the guts to stand up to these turds give it a shot. If we need to dump some of the long time so called Conservative Republican Stalwarts----- SO BE IT.
Barack Hussein Obama has absolutely no problem in saying what he believes the public wants to hear even though he has absolutely no intention of sticking by what he claimed. Where I come from that is called A LIE and there is no other way to put it. And please spare me the old wives tales about how well Ronald Reagan and &Tip& O'Neal got along. As many of you will remember, &Tip& O'Neal was the ORIGINAL FAT TEDDY. He was a liberal turd of the highest or lowest order, depending upon how you wish to state it.
Anyway, keep on your Congressmen/women and Senators that Compromise is not the paramount reason they are presently holding their positions. And if we believe they are really all that stupid, then they should be looking at a private sector position.
EXECUTION:
Last week there was an article in the (Sub) Standard which stated:
&Governor Rick Perry rebuffed criticism Friday from the UNITED NATIONS and SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON for Texas' execution of a Mexican man whose lawyers said he was not informed he could have sought legal help from the Mexican Government after he was arrested for the murder of a San Antonio teen ager..& The article went on to say that the U.N.'s top human rights official said that Humberto Leal's execution amounted to a breach of international law by the U.S. Leal was convicted of the 1994 raping and bludgeoning death of 16 year old Adria Sauceda in San Antonio. The article went on to say that after taking responsibility for the slaying wrapped up his comments by shouting &Viva Mexico&.
I should like to point out that while Mexico might enjoy a &Long Life& Humberto Leal DID NOT.
It should also be noted that President Barack Obama's administration took the unusual step of intervening in a state murder case when the Solicitor General last week joined Leal's appeal in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution.
After his execution, relatives of Leal who had gathered in Guadalupe, Mexico, burned a T-Shirt with an image of the American flag in protest.......I guess that should resurrect his murderin' ass all right.
LOCKOUT:
I would really like a show of hands from everyone who has the NFL and NBA lockouts very high on their list of priorities. I have heard enough whining about greed from the players in both of these leagues. I find it somewhat bizarre that people who are making anywhere from $3 MILLION to $20 MILLION dollars per year are being all that hard pressed. I read somewhere that he minimum salary in the NFL was somewhere over $300,000 dollars per year.
Now don't get me wrong. I am not all that much enamored by the NFL and NBA owners. As a matter of fact several of them have come damn close to making the Varmint's List but in the long haul their contribution to our everyday life is fairly miniscule.
Now while we are on the subject of greed, as I understand it, the players in both leagues want a bigger cut of the owner's overall end-of-year profits. OK. If that is how things should work then perhaps the owner of the Miami Heat should also be able to get a piece of the action from LeBron James' fees for his endorsements.
Again, I am not all that much in favor of the owner's side of this argument but this incessant whining and the threats of these overpaid NBA stars of leaving the U.S. and going to Europe to play is getting to be a bit much. So to LeBron and the rest I say, &Don't let the arena door hit you in the ass on your way out.& Incidentally the NFL has already tried a European League and it went over about as big as knitted sweaters for dead armadillos.
As a matter of fact, if the American and National League baseball players want to go out on another strike, then I will applaud their absence from the scene.
College baseball is a hell of a lot more fun to watch as is NCAA Football (All Divisions) and NCAA Basketball (Men's and Women's) and of course there is high school sports which is the absolute best. So perhaps if the WNBA (for those of you presently residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco that would be the Women's National Basketball Association) and both Men's and Women's Professional Soccer Leagues could join in and just sit next season out, then our world would be a better place...... but only if they took the Williams Sisters along with them.
I know when I had surgery back in 1998 while they were removing part of my colon they also removed my appendix at no extra charge. I am not sure but I believe when they did my open heart surgery on June 2nd, they must have removed my give-a-shitter because I pretty much don't anymore, particularly when it concerns these extremely high paid whiners.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Keith Chambers - CO; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown; SSgt. Rebecca Goodwin - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; Bud Barnett - USNA '74; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
&what matters in politics is what you can get the voters to believe, whether it bears any resemblance to reality or not.&...THOMAS SOWELL
&Gun control advocates often point out countries like Britain have stronger gun control laws than ours and lower murder rtes. But they totally ignore countries that have stronger gun control laws than ours and higher murder rates than ours. ......... One such country is right on our border ------ Mexico. But there are others farther away, such as Brazil and Russia. There are also countries with higher rates of gun ownership than in the United States ---Switzerland and Israel for example-- that have much lower murder rates than ours. But none of this has the slightest effect on the talking points of gun control zealots.&..................... THOMAS SOWELL
&I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.&.................. HARRY S. TRUMAN
&The country is safe. Jefferson still lives.&....JOHN ADAMS ---- &John Adams will see that things go forward.&...THOMAS JEFFERSON****
**** These were the last words spoken by these two founders who died on the same day - July 4th, 1826 which was the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MO); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal; MEDIA MATTERS
MORE STUFF:
I am getting a bit sick of all this crap about how many jobs were created by the Obama Stimulus Package. I have heard the world's most articulate and intelligent human brag about how many jobs were created and how many taxpayers were now contributing into the federal tax coffers. Then the other day I was listening to a s report which said that the cost for every job created by this bogus stimulus package was something like $238,000 per job. Then I heard that ALL of the so called jobs created by this stimulus money were all GOVERNMENT JOBS of one type or another, and yes that does include jobs with public education systems as well as federal, state, county, and local jobs.
So let's look for a moment at the math in little equation: Just for the sake of argument let us say that a government job was created where the employee's annual salary was $70,000. Then after deductions, that person's annual taxable income was $50,000 which would probably make that person for argument's sake in the 15% tax bracket. Then his contribution to the federal tax system would be $7,500. So this would mean that $238,000 of our tax dollars was spent in order to create a position which would result in $7,500 being paid back into the federal tax fund.
WOW! Is this dynamite economics or what? Do they not teach math at Harvard? Apparently none of these learned elected buffoons plan on any of us listening and putting a pencil to their math. One does not need any type of degree in math or anything else to realize that $7,500 is not a really good return on a $7,500 outlay. (For those of you presently being held prisoner in the Gulag of the District of Columbia that means that you put out $238,000 for your purchase and sold it for $7,500 which is a LOSS of $230,500 per job. BUT these elected Progressives/Socialists expect us to swallow this, hooves, horns and all.
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I am sure that you all will be a shocked as I to learn of the arrest of Adam &Pac-Man& Jones who is a defensive back for the Cincinnati Bengals of the &Locked Out& NFL. Poor Pac-Man. He is just another misunderstood victim of a racist society. You don't suppose that the Cincinnati Police used racial profiling do you? For those of you who may not be aware of this guy's history, he has been problems everywhere he played. He has been cut from several teams and I believe that several years back, just prior to playing for the Cowboys, he served a league suspension.
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We have had our Great Grand Daughter spending the week with us and it has been most enjoyable. Yesterday I took her to a movie which was a real eye opener. I don't attend many movies at the theater but yesterday we went to an early matinee. The cost of admission has gone up considerably from the last time and we got a huge tub of popcorn and two giant drinks which was way too much but at those ticket and food prices I was not going to leave a kernel of popcorn uneaten. We manage to finish off the tub a few minutes before the end of the movie. I will never get the tub again. Sure tasted good though, there is no popcorn like movie theater popcorn.
Later
JEM
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July 6th, 2011 VERDICT / CANDIDATES / ANTHEM
Hello once more from the Jingoistic Angry SUV Driving Mob Members Of West Texas.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Independence Day. I spent a great deal of July 4th watching a series called, &The Revolution&, which was about 14 hours in length broken up into 1 hour episodes. It was aired on the History International Chanel. The series was really well done and really showed just exactly what exceptional men were our founding fathers. It additionally showed what a great man was George Washington. That is the kind of programming I like. It ran from early in the morning on July 4th until 10 PM. It made me realize once more how proud I was of our heritage and what really great men those founders really were. They also had one program describing one of George Washington's most trusted and intelligent Generals, Daniel Morgan. Daniel Morgan was not only a brilliant tactician but was really respected by his men. One of the programs described him on the night before the &Battle of Cowpens& in which Regulars and Militia under the command of Daniel Morgan defeated Lord Tarleton who was one of the greatest leaders among the British command. This report described General Daniel Morgan going around his camp and visiting with every one of the men under his command. He joked with them and raised their morale to the highest level. If you can find a book, and there are several available, about Daniel Morgan, don't hesitate to pick it up.
Then on the other History Channel they had all day programming regarding &How The States Got Their Shapes&, which is pretty interesting but I thought showing programming about the Revolution or the Declaration of Independence would have been a bit more proper. Then at 7:00 P.M. on The History Channel we were treated to several episodes of &Pawn Stars& with brief interruptions of exciting episodes of &American Pickers& and &Larry The Cable Guy&. Pretty lame all in all.
VERDICT:
While I am on the subject of &LAME& and television programming, I must say a few words about the Casey Anthony trial in Orange County, Florida. What we saw were verdicts handed down by jurors who obviously placed more emphasis on the plots of any number of television programs regarding law enforcement crime scene investigators.
Now I am not attempting to minimize the importance of crime scene investigators and the various forensic investigators. I have personally been involved in a number of cases when these experts were very important in the trial and subsequent verdicts. BUT by the same token, these television programs have some basis in fact but they ARE NOT ABSOLUTELY TRUE ALL THE TIME. But these jurors obviously could not separate what was from what they thought it should be.
After the verdict everybody, I suppose, except the NFL Channel interviewed Juror #14 who: WAS NOT A VOTING MEMBER OF THE JURY: WHOSE OPINION MEANT NOTHING IN THIS TRIAL: WHO APPARENTLY HAD A REAL PROBLEM IN LOOKING AT THE COMPLETE PICTURE AND ONCE AGAIN DEPENDED ON SOME TELEVISION COP SHOW FOR HIS BASIS FOR BELIEF.
A circumstantial case can actually be quite convincing. Apparently the jury in this case completely forgot the fact that when Casey Anthony's daughter Caylee went missing, this &Caring Mother& did nothing about reporting her daughter missing and even lied to her parents about the whereabouts of Caylee. She said at one point that she was with the Baby Sitter; Then she said that she was at Disney World; Then she said that she was with her wealthy boyfriend: Then finally when the Police were notified she continued to stick with these ridiculous stories until finally the body of Caylee was found.
After the investigation began several people testified that they smelled the odor of a decomposing body in the trunk of Casey's car. Now I don't know how many of you have ever smelled a decomposing human body but I have had more than my share. And, believe me when I tell you that, there is not another odor like it on this planet. I have attended murder trials where one of the things which led to the arrest of the defendant was the odor of a decomposing body in their vehicle.
I am not sure that the prosecution should have attempted to try this as a death penalty case, although I believe that if all facts were known the death penalty would have been appropriate. But when I hear Geraldo and Juror #14 the the two defense attorneys talk about the state did not prove a MOTIVE, I am forced to recall than in many murder cases in which I have testified, MOTIVE was never shown.
Over the past 15 or 20 years I have seen some really great final arguments, BUT I have not seen any great final arguments which were TELEVISED. Televising these trials is a bad idea. Anyway, when I hear that defense attorney make the statement that &Caylee's Death Has Been Vindicated& it comes to my mind that this beautiful little girl is dead and NO NONE will pay for it.
CANDIDATES:
On the subject of the Republican list of announced candidates I received a number of comments about my thoughts regarding Michelle Bachman. I received several comments from folks who lived in Minnesota and they were not real big on Bachman OR Pawlenty. Regarding Pawlenty, a couple of the rubs against him were his economy with the truth regarding stadiums for Minnesota athletic teams as well as he was, according to these residents, not real strong on the Second Amendment.
Regarding Michelle Bachman, I was reminded that back in the 1970's she was an Activist working for Jimmy Carter. I was also reminded that she is a proponent of Manmade Global Warming and she believes that our disabled veterans get too many benefits and is in favor of CUTTING the pay OF OUR MILITARY. One person said that he has written her many letters regarding specific issues but has received no response other than requests for donations for her political career.
So at this point I have seen or heard nothing to make me change my opinion of Ms. Bachman but I am somewhat disappointed on the information regarding Mr. Pawlenty. Oh, and while I am at it, please spare me the statements about Michelle Bachman having a Law Degree --- so did Barack and Michelle Obama -- Bill and Hillary Clinton -- Robert Kennedy -- &Fat Teddy& Kennedy...... and the list goes on.
The truth is that the Republican Party STILL has not had a really good candidate step up yet. While I do like Herman Cain, I don't think he has a prayer of getting the nomination or of winning a general election.
ANTHEM:
I am sure there is no doubt in your minds about how I feel about our National Anthem. On Sunday, July 3, 2011 I saw a piece in the magazine section of our very own (Sub) Standard under a section entitled Intelligence Report. This idiotic article pointed out that since a &PRO& like Christina Aguilera had problems with the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner and other Pros have experienced problems with the lyrics and range of the song that perhaps &It is time to change our National Anthem&. What these boobs suggest is that &America The Beautiful& be substituted. What gives these idiots reason to believe that varmints like Christina Aguilera couldn't screw up &America The Beautiful&?
Actually I really love &America The Beautiful& but it is not our Star Spangled Banner which was named as OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM BY ACT OF CONGRESS IN 1931. AND my very favorite rendition of &America The Beautiful& is done by Ray Charles. I know that Ray Charles sang this beautiful song in his own fashion, there is no doubt about what this song is about and he did not change the melody or the lyrics of the song.
Earlier this morning I was watching a show about The Statue of Liberty and at the end of the program there was a film taken of the Statue of Liberty taken in a flyover and in the background there was some howling, screeching squack singing America the Beautiful and occasionally you could recognize a couple of the words but never the melody. So if these idiot who are not satisfied with the Star Spangled Banner as our National Anthem, I have two words................ Tough shit!
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips, * 2nd LT. Levi English - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; Bud Barnett - USNA '74; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
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&&The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this Army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember the officers and soldiers, that you re Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty -- that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.&........... GEORGE WASHINGTON
&Not only did July 4, 1776 mark American independence from England, it marked a radically different kind of government from the governments that prevailed around the world at the time -- and the kinds of governments that had prevailed for thousands of years before.&............................... THOMAS SOWELL
&More than a hundred years ago, so-called 'Progressives' began a campaign to undermine the Constitution's strict limitations on government, which stood in the way of self-anointed political crusaders imposing their grand schemes on all the rest of us. That effort to discredit the Constitution continues to this day, and the arguments haven't really changed much in a hundred years.&...... THOMAS SOWELL
&It is time we reduced the Federal budget and left the family budget alone.&.......... RONALD REAGAN
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MO); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY; NLRB; National Mediation Board; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Milwaukee Journal.
REALLY GREAT STUFF:
If you checked our Prayer List really close you might have noticed that the name of Levi English is no longer present as a Midshipman at the United States Naval Academy. If you checked this list a bit further, you will notice that Second Lieutenant Levi English, United States Marine Corps has been added.
On Friday, May 27, 2011 Benjamin Levi English was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. He was sworn in by Assistant Commandant General Joseph F. Dunford Jr. The Keynote speaker for the event was Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates.
Levi graduated with honors with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, placing 29th in his class of 1,006. In August he will begin the Fall Semester at TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY on a graduate level fellowship study, specifically in Aerospace Engineering.
His younger brother Ethan English is in his Junior year at the United States Naval Academy. As you might imagine, Levi's parents are plenty proud of their oldest son. I have known Levi for about four years but have only actually seen him in person 4 or 5 . That was enough for me to form the opinion that this is one of the finest young men I have ever known. And the same holds true for younger brother Ethan. If you could meet their parents, Ben and Cathy English you would have no doubt about where both of these young men acquired their character.
And I must admit that Levi attending Texas A & M University makes me very happy.
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Here is another good story which says a bit about the character of a man who was one time head coach of the Houston Oilers and Orleans Saints. That man is &Bum& Phillips.
In 1983, in his roe as host of a charity golf tournament, NFL coach Bum Phillips went to the Hughen Center in Port Arthur, which served people with physical disabilities. His eyes fell on a 9-year old boy in a wheelchair, Robert Valencia. Coach Phillips was taken with this young man and put him on the cover of the flier for his tournament. Coach Phillips visited Robert several over the next couple of years , but after Valencia left the center Coach Phillips lost contact with him.
Last month Valencia, now 36 and living in San Angelo, got a big surprise when he entered his living room and &Bum& Phillips was sitting waiting for him. Coach Phillips was in town for the Angelo Football Clinic and stopped by to visit his old friend. Coach Phillips told reporters that he was sad that he could not locate Robert for so long.
For some reason this comes as no surprise to me. Several years back a very good friend of mine, Joe Dugger, passed away and my old partner Peary Perry and I attended his funeral in Pasadena, Texas. Joe had been on the Houston Police Department and also was involved with the Houston Oilers and Tennessee Titans for many years working security and dealing with equipment matters. He also accompanied the Houston Oiler Basketball team which traveled around playing other NFL teams who also had some off season basketball teams.
Coach Bum Phillips delivered a really touching eulogy for Joe. This was years after coach Phillips had retired. Many of the old Oilers and present Titans were also at Joe's funeral.
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I am sure that most of you have seen the reports on the Director of the Houston National Cemetery, Arleen Ocasio, who in her infinite wisdom has forbidden the use of the words &God& or &Jesus& to be used during funeral services held at this cemetery. She has ordered a volunteer women's organization to not use the phrase &God Bless You&.
I believe that she is a Federal Appointee which should not surprise any of us. Lots of folks in Houston have written their Texas Senators and their Congress Persons requesting this heifer's termination. I saw one photo of this squack and she bore an alarming resemblance to &Jabba The Hut& (Janet Napolitano). Where in the hell does our Federal Government find these varmints?
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A couple of Harvard Professors have come to the conclusion that July 4th Parades and Fireworks Displays tend to bring out feelings of PATRIOTISM in Republicans more than in Democrats/Progressives/Socialists. And this is a surprise to any of us? Beam me up Scotty -- I m surrounded by Romulans.
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See ya next week.
JEM
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June 29th, 2011 PEAKS / VALLEYS / TV
Wednesday- June 29, 2011
Hello once again from the West Texas Headquarters For Gun Owning SUV Driving Jingoistic Draconian Right Wing Social Engineering (As stated by t Gingrich) Neanderthals (As stated by the NY ).
It is good to be back. I had my open heart surgery on June 2nd and I have been dependent upon my good wife and friends for transportation to important events such as coffee breaks and visits to The Academy and of course the Post Office. Tomorrow I will be back behind the wheel of either my Four Wheel Drive Pickup or my All Wheel Drive SUV.
My doctors said that they were amazed at how fast I was coming back from this surgery. Of course I am still a bit sore but all in all I did not have the pain that I expected. My chest incisions are healing up nicely as is my left leg where they removed the veins for the bypasses. I ended up with 57 staples which ran from about 6 inches above my knee to just above my ankle.
I had great care while in the hospital and had some really nice nurses. Every single member of the surgery team came by to see me at least once and my surgeon checked on me every single day I was hospitalized.
I still have two more weeks of not lifting anything over five pounds. But I have been able to get in a mile walk every morning that I have been home. I do not walk on Sunday mornings but do every other day of the week.
I wish to thank all of you for your prayers; telephone calls; e-mails; and visits while I went through this procedure. I had several friends who came by the hospital every day that I was hospitalized and brought me spapers; books; magazines; DVDs; and good conversation which sure helped me through a few tough days.
PEAKS:
I don't even know where to begin with this. After maybe the scariest thing I have experienced in my life I had to look back and reflect on all of the really positive things for which I am very thankful. Of course my family would naturally come first. My daughter called me two or three a day while I was in the hospital and I also received calls from all of my grandchildren at different . I got lots of calls from old friends and also some from some friends whom I have never seen in person. The most recent was just a few minutes ago from a retired York City Police Sergeant. I can't begin to tell you all how much those calls and visits have meant to me.
While I have been recovering I received some messages from two of my oldest friends who have had some really good things happen in their lives in the past couple of weeks. I do not call it good fortune or good luck on their parts as their hard work was actually responsible for these good things happening. I got a call from my old Houston Police Department partner Peary Perry. Peary has been working very hard for several years on opening a business with some other men. He called and told me that they had just gotten some contracts signed which should really kick off this enterprise. When I hear various people speak of entrepreneurship and refer to people like Mitt Romney, I almost want to laugh. Not that Mr. Romney hasn't been very successful but lets face it, he had a pretty good jump start from his family's money. Peary had no such start. As I said earlier, as a young man he was a police officer with the City of Houston. He has gone into several successful business ventures with nothing but guts and a willingness to try something . He is my idea of a real success story. I always like to tease him about a number of things from the past but I always admired his spirit and his ability to make a success out of something about which he k very little when he started.
Also while I was off I heard from another old friend who was also one of my partners on the Houston Police Department. His name is Jim Jenkins. Jim notified me that he just got his first novel published. I k that Jim had some writing talent and had been working on some ideas but he finally pushed himself and succeeded in getting his first novel published. I immediately ordered the book and read it in four sittings. Of course the location of the events are areas with which I am familiar. And the subject matter of the novel is one which is near and dear to my heart. All I will say is that it takes place along the Texas/Mexico border and deals with drug cartels and a covert U.S. Agency and although fiction , would probably be way more successful than anything put together by Homeland Security. I would urge &Jabba The Hut&(Janet Napolitano) to pay attention. The title of the book is &A Season Of Reckoning& and Jim writes under the name of his father, Jack Jenkins. If you are looking for a good story, get a copy of &A Season Of Reckoning&.
VALLEYS:
I have to say that I am most disappointed in not only the Republican Party in general but also the way that the s media has portrayed a couple of the candidates. After watching the first so called debate, I have tried to listen to many of the Republican candidates and up to this point, the only two who have made much sense to me are Herman Cain and Tim Pawlenty. Of course neither of these gentlemen are popular with ANY of the media. Also allow me to point out that I have received many e-mails inquiring why t Gingrich was on the Varmint's List. After watching this arrogant Pillsbury Dough Boy it is a small wonder that damn near ALL of his staff has resigned. When asked about why his staff is bailing out on him like Titanic passengers, this self centered boob said that there was a different opinion on the direction his campaign should take AND that his way was probably &Just Too Hard& for his staff. HEY T!!!! Could it be that your way might just be WRONG? Or could it be that finally your staff recognized you for the DOOF you really are?
Also, and I am sure this will not be very popular with some, but I cannot in good conscience support Michelle Bachman. I have watched her make public appearances and have been less than impressed with her knowledge of our nation's history and have noticed that she has left herself wide open by many of her responses to questions by media mutts. And to me, there has been way too much press and way too many comments on the question posed to her by Chris Wallace (FOX s); &Are you a Flake&? I was watching the interview and I completely understood the question asked by Chris Wallace. I had read and heard many of the Mainstream Media vermin refer to Ms. Bachman as a &Flake& or worse and perhaps Chris Wallace could have phrased the question a little differently but I did not have the idea that he was trying to insult her. AND I thought she missed a golden opportunity to have really stuck it to the media with any number of answers. So actually my opinion of her ability to think on the move is not real high. Also I am a bit tired of professional politicians. I think she is in her third term in Congress and up until recently when the Republican Party decided that they needed a cute replacement for Sarah Palin, I had not really heard much of Michelle Bachman. I have heard more than enough about her recently. To me she is just another attempt by the RNC to have a politically correct candidate. They better get off their asses and get a real conservative candidate or we will be looking at another FOUR YEARS of Barack Hussein Obama, which I am not sure our country can survive.
TV:
While recuperating from my surgery I have had more than enough time to watch and grade television programming. I am most sorry to say that what was once one of my very favorite channels has shown a tendency to drift toward &Reality Television& as is commonly accepted by today's standards. A couple of quick words on &Reality Based Television&........... HORSE CRAP! I had been watching the first episode of SURVIVOR for perhaps ten minutes when it dawned upon me that these mutts were trying to convince the viewing public that the contestants were actually on this island with no comforts and no ability to make it other than their own wits. It also hit me about the same time that there had to be some type of electrical power to operate the cameras; there were, God only knows how many, crew members; food preparers for the staff; and any number of other modern conveniences available to the contestants. Anyway I cut it off and never watched another minute of it or any of the spin off programs.
The latest channel to fall victim to the &Reality Based& crap is none other than THE HISTORY CHANNEL. Now don't get me wrong, the History Channel still shows some quality programs but let me address three in particular which I find really offensive:
ICE ROAD TRUCKERS
PAWN STARS
AMERICAN PICKERS
Let's look real quickly at ICE ROAD TRUCKERS. OK. You have TRUCK DRIVERS. They are driving on highways covered in ICE. You have several experienced truck drivers. Then you have your rookie truck drivers. And last you have a small really cute girl who is out to show that there is absolutely nothing any of these other big hogs can do that she cannot do at least as well if not better. Only two things can happen on these shows. Either the truck cannot make it through OR the drivers do make it through.
On my first full day after surgery in the hospital, the History Channel had something like 17 straight hours of various episodes of ICE ROAD TRUCKERS. Nothing happened. Some of the trucks ran off the road; some of them made it through without a hitch and all and all it was boring.
Now let's look at PAWN STARS. You take three or four really overweight obnoxious turds and dress them alike and you have different people come in with various items (most of which are junk) and they ask too much for the item and these obnoxious turds try to get the items for less than the person wants. BOY! Can you get caught up in the excitement of this kind of programming? And of course the old man who allegedly owns the pawn shop treats the others like chicken droppings and perhaps the idea behind the show is that the viewer is hoping and praying that one of them will knock this old turd out. And as in ICE ROAD TRUCKERS, they will show 6 or 8 exciting episodes in a row.
Finally there is AMERICAN PICKERS and this ball of excitement shows two really goofy dudes driving an old van who travel around the country looking for old treasures and just happen to drive up to a farm house several thousand miles away from the next structure and lo and behold, they come upon King Arthur's Sword, Excalibur. Then we are subjected to watching and listening to these two boobs barter with the stupid farmer until they finally strike a deal. Watching paint dry is more exciting.
Then just to keep me checking back with their channel they will show a program on collectable firearms. I watched one yesterday which showed a Colt percussion pistol presented by Samuel Colt to the Sultan of Turkey in the 1800's. The firearm was blue with loads of gold engraving and had been purchased by a collector in York for $2.3 MILLION dollars and he in turn had donated it to the Metropolitan Museum in NY City where it is on display today.
The Military History Channel shows some really good stuff some of which I had not seen in the past. One program dealt with the Russian Army's push toward Germany in WW II. I had read accounts but had not seen this film previously. Now get ready for this: The Russians had a front which was 350 miles long and in several places had 400 Artillery Pieces for each mile. Those gun crews were practically bumping into each other they were so close. It was a really awesome sight.
MOVIES:
I love old movies. I even love er movies which are really well done. While in the hospital, I had a visit from an old friend and long time co-worker Dennis Wesley and his wife Jeannie. They now live in Abilene, Texas. The came for a visit and brought me a DVD which contained, not just four Errol Flynn movies, but four of my very favorite Errol Flynn movies: The Adventures of Robin Hood; The Adventures of Don Juan; Fortunes of Captain Blood; and The Sea Hawk. If you like action and swordplay, which I do, you can't beat these four. You can add The Mark of Zorro with Tyrone Power as another great one. Also while off, I watched: Lonesome Dove; Broken Trail; Open Range; and Second Hand Lions. Now what these last four have in common is that Robert Duval is one of the stars. Robert Duval is one of my all time favorites. I also got to watch in its entirety two mini-series; Texas; and Streets of Laredo. I would also recommend Geronimo An American Legend which also stars Robert Duval among others. I also got to watch the history of Disneyland and Walt Disney World which were amazing stories. As the line in the old song goes:
&What ever happened to Randolph Scott Ridin' The Trail Alone?& The really great ones have gone on. But as long as we have Robert Duval and Clint Eastwood and a few others, we still have hope. But, I am secure in the knowledge that I have FOUR Errol Flynn movies I can watch anytime I damn well please.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil; Bill Morrill -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret), Elisabeth Ross Steiner - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; Bud Barnett - USNA '74; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
&Among the other announced Republican candidates, former governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota talks the most sense and shows the most courage................... But somebody has got to talk sense about our dire economic problems---- and it is painfully clear that Barack Obama will not be that somebody.&...................... THOMAS SOWELL
&Worse yet, former Speaker Gingrich has shown too many signs of opportunism -- including his wholly unnecessary swipe at Republican Congressman Paul Ryan's attempt to bring some fiscal sanity to Washington -- to be trusted.&....... THOMAS SOWELL
&Some fear that Governor Pawlenty doesn't have the charisma and fireworks rhetoric that they would like to see in a candidate. Charisma and rhetoric are what gave us the current disastrous administration in Washington.&........... THOMAS SOWELL
&I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart.&................ CHARLTON HESTON
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MO); Pete Stark (D-CA); NFL Player's Union; Anthony Weiner - NY
MORE STUFF:
The past couple of days I saw several reports on FOX s about a criminal wave that is apparently hitting some of the larger cities in our country; specifically Philadelphia; Atlanta; Chicago; York and several other locations. The report said that this technique is called &Mobbing& in some places; &Wilding& in some places and by whatever name you might use is causing problems.
Groups of 30 -40 teen agers mostly gather up and hit a retail store and start grabbing merchandise and then taking off after just a few minutes. Of course the store personnel cannot do much and by the time the police arrive they are long gone. They had several security camera films of these attacks on retail stores. I am sure it will not be long before it begins taking place in smaller communities.
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I am pretty sure that I am the only one of us who keeps up with the RAP Community. But while I was hospitalized two Rappers had some problems; Rapper Flo Rida (catchy name eh?) was charged with DUI. A large crowd gathered in Miami Beach and begged the officers to let Flo Rida go. They didn't. Heartless.
If that weren't enough, in York Ja Rule was sentenced to two years in prison on a weapons case.
When will it stop? Can't a Rapper get a break? Apparently not in Miami Beach or York....... I'm happy to say.
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I heard of some poll which took place a week or so back which said that 67% of the people were not satisfied with the job being done by Barack Obama. But what concerns me is that it also showed that 33% of the people were satisfied the job being done by this mutt. For those of you residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco that would be roughly 100,000,000 people.
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On my Dilbert daily calendar I noticed a really funny strip: Dilbert had just put up the number $4,629,873 on a presentation to his co-workers. Dilbert said, &I didn't have any accurate numbers so I just made up this one. Studies have shown that accurate numbers aren't any more useful than the ones you make up.&.......... A co worker asked, &How many studies showed that?&.... To which Dilbert replied, &Eighty seven&.
Almost makes you think that Dilbert is in charge of statistical information for the Obama administration, doesn't it?
I refer back to something which my old friend Peary told me once regarding figures. He said that if you subtracted your zip code from your telephone number you could generally come up with a believable figure. You could just move the decimal point one way or the other to come up with something someone would buy.
Again, I think our federal government uses that method on many occasions.
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Anyway, it's good to be back. Thank you all and God bless you for your support.
JEM
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May 26th, 2011 TRADE / CARTEL / CHOICES
Greetings once more from the home of a Plenty Pissed Jingoistic Intolerant High Price Gasoline Buying Four Wheel Drive Pickup Driving Gun Owning Angry West Texas Mob Member.
Very quickly.... my doctor's visit. Yesterday I met my surgeon for the first time and was very pleased with what I had learned about him and his experience in cardiac surgery. I saw his diploma from John Hopkins University and several more from some pretty high powered universities in special areas of medicine. I also read an article about he and his wife, who is his head nurse, and their move from the Northeastern U.S. to Texas. Everything I have read and heard about him was very positive. We discussed what was to be done and he had a small model of the human heart and he showed me exactly what would be done. Next Thursday, I will have heart bypass surgery. He said the surgery should take about 3 hours and that in all probability I would get to come home on either the third or fourth day. So I will spend the remainder of the week end and first part of next week getting my mind right for the surgery. So next week I will probably not send out my weekly gripes but hope to be back in the saddle the following week.
TRADE:
Very quickly on this subject...... I will trade Barack Hussein Obama and all his relatives; Hillary Clinton and all her relatives; Vice President Joseph Biden; Eric Holder and his family; and every person on the Varmint's List for BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AND HIS FAMILY. I watched the video clips of Mr. Netanyahu sitting side by side with the World's Most Articulate and Intelligent Human and was embarrassed that the President of the United States came across as an arrogant, petulant little boy.
Returning to the 1967 borders as a starting point? What an idiotic statement and idea. Of course Prime Minister Netanyahu didn't waste much time in shooting that brilliant idea down. Am I wrong, or didn't Israel WIN the 1967 War? Seems to me like the winners of a war in which the tiny nation of Israel kicked the crap out of the Arab countries and then took mercy on their asses. I would imagine that the chance Israel voluntarily returning the Golan Heights to Syria would roughly parallel the chance of the viewers hearing the letter &R& pronounced correctly with Barbara Walters conducting an interview with Elmer Fudd.
In short, Prime Minister Netanyahu looked like the leader of a nation and Barack Hussein Obama came across as a bit of a buffoon. One must wonder if the president's crack staff ever seriously look into anything before they advised him to either do or say something completely stupid. Now I am not up on matters of the Court but I did know that when &God Save The Queen& is being played, that no one is supposed to be talking, or in our own mutt's case, presenting a Toast to Her Majesty. I have watched that film clip a bunch of and everyone looked at him as if he had been bitten by a rabid monkey. Once again, here you have a Chicago, mob trained, con man meeting with British Royalty and looking like an idiot. Perhaps he should go back to Chicago and organize a few more communities...... Or, he could hustle up a Three Card Monte game..... or perhaps try to master the Jamaican Switch ..... or try to sell fake Rolex watches.
One columnist wrote, &Netanyahu showed a worldwide audience that purposefulness can be as polite as it is pointed, and that Obama has a glass jaw. A clenched glass jaw, but a glass jaw nonetheless&.
We have a street hustling con-man sitting in the White House. It should be about time for the American Public to realize the intellectual depth of this man, or rather the total absence of intelligence, and that of his entire staff. Show him the EXIT or if your are one of the &Little Rascals& and are a member of the &He Man Womun Hatrs Club& the EGGZIT. But whatever we do, please make sure that our next President has at least a clue of how to act in public.
CARTEL:
The National Football League has, how shall I put it.......crapped in their own breakfast, with me. I am at a point right now where I don't give a damn if there is a lockout; a strike; a plague of locusts; or an attack of berserk Vikings on the NFL and their Player's Association.
The NFL players who sued the league for alleged antitrust violations liken the league to a &CARTEL& in their latest filing. I am pretty unhappy that some of the really top players saw fit to let themselves be used by some more &Union Organizers&. And, how about the Executive Director of the NFL Players Association, DeMaurice Smith. I would imagine that if we watch interviews with him for another 7 or 8 years that he might accidently make an intelligent statement....... you notice I said MIGHT?
And what in the hell is going on with the players being able to dissolve the NFL Player's Union when it suits their purposes---and then later on when they get their way---the just simply form it all over again.
Just remember, there are college football games and in almost every area high school football games which showcase the abilities of people who ARE NOT MILLION DOLLAR CRYBABIES-------- YET.
Now don't for a minute think that the NFL Team Owners aren't showing a little bit of their elite personalities but in all fairness, most of these owners have invested many millions of their own dollars to purchase and maintain these teams.
But to compare them to a CARTEL really shows what a bunch of spoiled whiners professional athletes have become. I have personally known quite a few professional athletes in my life .... some good and some not so good. But I can tell you for a fact that none of them ever acted like these high paid whiners. Perhaps we should take DeMaurice Smith and at least five player representatives from each of the NFL Teams and toss their unarmed asses out in Chihuahua City and let them work their way back to the U.S. Border. Then they could get a dose of what real CARTELS are like.
RIGHTS:
I cannot remember the celebrity's name whom I heard on some radio program last week but they were spouting off about the Constitution and that one of the Amendments, not the right one of course, guaranteed U.S. Citizens the ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO PRIVACY.
Now I am sure that this slug was referring to the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution which reads:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against UNREASONABLE searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
You notice that it guarantees us the right to be secure against UNREASONABLE actions by the government and it is not an absolute right to be completely secure in your privacy. Only against UNREASONABLE actions by the government.
The very definition of a search is: &A search occurs ONLY when the government invades a REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY&.
But these same boobs don't seem to realize the content of the SECOND AMENDMENT where it says &the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.& They seem to miss the point on that but somehow read an absolute right into an Amendment which clearly states that we are protected only from UNREASONABLE searches and seizures.
And unfortunately the majority of these ill informed quacks are Moderate Democrats; Moderate Republicans; Judges; Supreme Court Justices.
Thank God there were 5 members of the Supreme Court which upheld a State's right to enforce immigration laws. Of course the vote was 5-3 and would have been 5-4 if this latest Obama appointee had not recused herself due to a conflict.
God help us if Obama gets to appoint another Supreme Court Justice.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret) - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
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&The goal is not to keep the poor from starving but to create dependency, because dependency translates into votes for politicians who play Santa Claus.&..................................THOMAS SOWELL
&To listen to some of the defenders of entitlement programs, which are at the heart of the resent financial crisis, you might think that anything the government fails to provide is something that the people will be deprived of.&......... THOMAS SOWELL
&Obama continues to exhibit behavior that, at best, can be described as mobocratic and, at worst, reveals a deeply damaged individual........It is beginning to appear the growing mistrust of him and contempt for his policies was beginning to have a destabilizing effect on him.&............................ MYCHAL MASSIE
&Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.&.......... RONALD REAGAN
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MO); Pete Stark (D-CA)
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I watched part of an interview of t Gingrich by a real mutt, David Gregory. I was amazed at how Gingrich waffled on some of his previous statements. This past week about all he has been doing is denying making statements which he actually did make and of course falling back on the typical politician's excuse that he was &TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT&.
Gingrich is toast and showed me that he rightfully has a place on the Varmint List.
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This afternoon I watched the University of Mexico baseball team defeat the T.C.U. Horned Frogs in the Mountain West Tournament. Of course this is a double elimination tournament and they will probably meet again and I would hate to make a living having to defeat T.C.U. Of course the reason I was interested in this game is that the University Of Mexico head baseball coach is a man who grew up in Hobbs, Mexico and I have known for a number of years. His name is Ray Birmingham and he is one of the best baseball coaches I have ever known. He has been successful everywhere he has been and was the head baseball coach for the Mexico Junior College Thunderbirds for a number of years and his final season there won the National Junior College Championship. He then went on to the University of Mexico. I had a bunch of his baseball players in many of the classes I taught when I was teaching Criminal Justice courses at NMJC. They were all really well behaved young men and I am sure that much of this was due to the rules laid out by Coach Birmingham. Several years back I was watching one of the World Series games and the California Angels put a pitcher in the game who had played for Coach Birmingham at NMJC and had been one of my students. Sure was good to see a nice young man do good. Anyway, Coach Ray Birmingham is a class act as are his teams.
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Earlier today I had to fill up with gas in my GMC Four Wheel Drive Pickup. Regular unleaded cost me almost $70 to fill up my tank. Thanks Barack.
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Well this is it for a couple of weeks. I sure do appreciate the prayers and the well wishes from so many of you. Please keep me in your prayers. While I do feel confident that everything will go well, the closer the time comes the more nervous I will get.
God bless all of you.
Jim Murphy
San Angelo, Texas
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May 18th, 2011 PESTS / CHOICES / OBESE
Wednesday- May 18, 2011
Hello again from the West Texas Center For Gun Clinging Religion Clinging Angry Jingoistic Fossil Fuel Using Right Wing Conspiratorial Mob Members.
A quick update regarding my health. I went to my cardiologist last week and received some good s and some s that might be good. The doctor told me that after all the tests that my heart was actually stronger than he had first believed. I still have one area which is not functioning at an efficient level and he indicated that a bypass would be of benefit. I did not like the sound of that all that much but I do have an appointment with a surgeon on May 25th, next Wednesday afternoon, and I will know more after that visit. I actually feel really good and if the surgery is to come I had rather get it done pretty soon so that we can do the traveling later this summer as we have planned. I will more than likely do next week's letter on Thursday so that I can have my schedule set. Thank you all for your prayers and messages of support. They do help more than some think.
PESTS:
No, I am not talking about the kind of pests who can be controlled with a spray or some type of trap. I am referring to the POLITICAL PESTS who seem to come out earlier each year. Now if these pests would call you themselves or have a live person call you then I might be a bit more tolerant. But today's POLITICAL PESTS instead use the technology at hand to bombard you with RECORDED MESSAGES and the most irritating thing about these recordings is that you cannot hang up and disconnect your phone line from their incessant blathering.
My latest escapade with one of these calls was a couple of days back when I answered my phone and on the other end was none other than Mike Huckabee who had an important message that he wanted to impart to me. I sort of felt like the little kid, Ralphie, in Christmas Story who was anxiously waiting for Little Orphan Annie's secret message which could only be deciphered with the Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring. I decided to listen to the very end, which is something I have not done up to this point, and see if I could respond via a recording OR perhaps a live person would be available for my comments.
Luckily, at the end of this message I was able to punch a number to speak with a Live Representative, and of course I was told that my conversation MIGHT be recorded for security purposes. I hope they did record my response. In a few moments a lady came on the line and began her political pitch BUT before she could get started, I began MY POLITICAL RESPONSE. Since the lady had a pleasant voice my response to her was done in a gentlemanly manner although I was not feeling particularly gentlemanly after being subjected to a little over 2 minutes of listening to Mike Huckabee tell me stuff which I already k.
I began by telling her that since I was old enough to vote, I had NEVER voted for a Democrat Presidential Candidate. My first election in which I was old enough to vote (voting age was 21 at that time) was to vote for Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy. And at that time I was a member of the Democrat Party. I advised her that my wife and I did support Republican Candidates at the State and Local levels with contributions as well as working at the Republican Headquarters and attending various Republican Organization meetings.
I then went on to advise this nice lady that I would be happy to give her my name and address so that she might contact the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE to check and see what my real attitude is at the present time about how the Republican Party is managed and run at the national level. I then told her that the useless recorded message from Mike Huckabee had lasted over 2 minutes and that I had been speaking with her for about 2 minutes which meant that someone calling my home would either get a busy signal or no answer.
I finally told her, nicely, that my telephone service was paid by ME and MY WIFE and that we had these various telephones situated throughout our home FOR OUR CONVENIENCE and not for the convenience of the Republican Party; The Democrat Party; The Tea Party; The Libertarian Party; The Green Party; The Socialist Party; or for Followers of Reverend Sung Yen Moon. She further received information that had the Huckabee Recording or my 2 minutes spent with her caused me to miss an important call that I would not be nearly as nice the next time.
I also explained to her that the likelihood of me supporting a Democrat Candidate for President would be about the same as Pee Wee Herman defeating Chuck Norris.
I finally requested that she contact whomever was responsible for putting my home telephone number on a political call list should use extreme caution should he ever chance to meet with me. I then thanked her for being so patient with me and that I k that she was not the one responsible and the identity of the person who was responsible should forever be hidden from me.
This nice lady then said that she was very, very sorry and that my telephone number would be removed from the list............ We'll see.
Of course Mike Huckabee recordings are not the only ones which irritate me but his was &The straw that broke the camel's back.&
CHOICES:
Well, it looks as if &The Donald& has taken himself out of the Republican Presidential race (No surprise). The Mike Huckabee removed himself as a candidate. AH, but t Gingrich has swooped into the race.
And as most of you have figured out the chances of t Gingrich receiving any support from me are fairly remote. First of all, he played it way too coy in his announcement and then as I understand it he made his official announcement on &Twitter& which does not strike a favorable note with me either.
But I have received lots of correspondence from people who have supported him in the past who wouldn't pee on him if he was on fire and no water was available.
But the final stroke, as if I needed one, to put t on the same level as most of the &Elites& IN BOTH PARTIES, was when I heard a Clinton Aide tell a radio host that t Gingrich was really the best candidate that the Republican Party could possibly pick. Now at this juncture, I would like a show of hands of all those who believe that a Clinton Aide..... no, make that ANY DEMOCRAT/PROGRESSIVE/SOCIALIST would actually tell the Republicans who their strongest candidate would be.
Just remember, in 2008, the Republican Party allowed the Mainstream Media and the Liberal Press to move John McCain from almost dead last to first place as the Republican Candidate. Now the Republican National Committee might fall for that again but count me out. Never again. I will write in a candidate of my choice before I vote for another candidate chosen by loony left wing mutts.
So what I am trying to say is that professional politicians from any political party are not among my favorite choices. And remember that there is not a penny's worth of difference between a &Moderate Republican& and a &Moderate Democrat&.
So whomever we choose as our candidate to unseat the world's most articulate and intelligent human, let it be OUR CHOICE and not a bunch of Socialist Media Varmints.
OBESE:
I know that in 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was elected as President of the United States. I do not recall the name of &Michelle Hussein Obama& on any ballot. But that doesn't seem to be slowing down this overbearing, arrogant female. At almost every turn we see video coverage of her on any number of daytime talk shows or media coverage of her ever expanding ass telling us, not only how we should be eating but what we should be eating and even more important what we should NOT be eating.
I will be the first to admit that there are lots of fast foods that are not as good for us as others. But when the &First Lady& (Gagggg) begins to impose upon the American people her own standards then it is time to draw the line.
Even today some liberal group is attempting, through legal action, to get the McDonald's Restaurant chain to drop their &Happy Meal& and do away with Ronald McDonald. Now I must admit that a goofy looking clown does not make me want to eat at their chain but I also must admit that a &Sausage; Egg; Cheese McMuffin& is way hard to beat when you are on the road and want a quick breakfast snack.
And please spare me any more video footage or photographs of this jug butted squack tilling the soil in the White House Garden.
A couple of days ago, in keeping with Michelle Hussein Obama's fight against &Childhood Obesity&, there was a story reported that our Congress is toying with the idea of introducing legislation which would have an effect on, more than likely, quite a few families. As you all know, and I am giving these figures from the report I heard on the radio, when filing your annual income tax you are allowed a $2,000 per year deduction for each dependent child. This legislation would, if passed, NOT ALLOW this $2,000 dependent deduction if the dependent child were determined to be OBESE.
I can already see that we need a whole Bureau to keep on top of this. I suppose it could be called BOOK (Bureau Of Obese Kids). OR, they could just put it under Homeland Security where &Jabba The Hut& (Janet Napolitano) could oversee this WAF (War On Fat).
I am not trying to minimize the importance of eating right and eating a healthy diet, but if I have a real craving for a giant pepperoni; bell pepper; and black olive pizza, then a bowl of non-fat tofu just won't feed the bulldog. AND, what's more it is none of Michelle Hussein Obama's business what or how much or when I eat. Involving the Federal Government in every aspect of our lives is more dangerous to us all than OBESITY.
Wonder if maybe the Congress will give parents whose children are NOT OBESE an extra $2,000 deduction for each dependent child? Probably not.
So I guess what I am saying is; KEEP OUT OF OUR WALLETS AND KEEP OUT OF OUR KITCHENS!
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret) - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
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&&Lofty words like investment should not blind us to the ugly reality of political pork barrel spending.&.... THOMAS SOWELL
&Students can graduate from some of the most prestigious institutions the country, without ever learning anything about science, mathematics, economics or anything else that would make them either a productive contributor to the economy or an informed voter who can see through political rhetoric.&.............. THOMAS SOWELL
&If all Americans want is security they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.&......................................................... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
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President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio; Barbara Mikulski (D-MO); Pete Stark (D-CA)
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I can't remember the date but our fearless leader, Barack Hussein Obama was making a speech in El Paso and of course he was talking about &Border Security& and &Undocumented Persons& and &How safe the City of El Paso is& and a whole bunch of other stuff about which neither he nor his Director of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano have a clue. Then this arrogant excuse for a Commander-In-Chief, in trying to make small those who favor a secure border look stupid said that he guessed that &They probably want a MOAT along the border. Then they probably want ALLIGATORS in the moat.&
See now? That just goes to show you how really uninformed this buffoon really is. Why would I want our BORDER MOAT filled with alligators? Actually my plan would be for the moat to be filled with salt water and my choice of animals to inhabit this moat would be SALT WATER CROCODILES; NILE CROCODILES; and GREAT WHITE SHARKS with the shores of the moat being patrolled by KOMODO DRAGONS.
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I know that some of you might find it hard to believe but I do not believe that Barack Hussein Obama has ever studied the History of the State of Texas. If he had he would not have made this statement; &Texas has always been a pretty Republican state, for, you know, historic reasons.&
I can assure you that if this boob had made this statement around Waco back in the 1960's they would have run him out of Central Texas. But according to columnist George Will:
&Texas, one of the 11 states of the Confederacy, was, for historic reasons, part of the solidly Democratic South for almost a century after the Civil War. Deeply Protestant Texas voted for Republican Herbert Hoover against Al Smith, a Catholic Yorker, for president in 1928, but it did not vote for a Republican presidential candidate again until Dwight Eisenhower carried the state in 1952 and 1956. It did not do so again until Richard Nixon in 1972. Four years later, it embraced Jimmy Carter.&
&Other than during Reconstruction, Texas did not elect a Republican Senator until 1961 (John Tower) and did not elect a second one (Phil Gramm) until 1984.
So as you can see, Barack Hussein Obama's knowledge about any subject other than Community Organizing is reasonably lame.
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Is it just me, or has the Obama Administration divulged way too much information on the raid on the bin Laden compound? And while I am on the subject, the videos and photos of the home in which Osama and his flock were living was a sty. If this is an example of a &Million Dollar Home& in Pakistan, then their construction costs are off the charts.
And while I am on the subject, I have seen &Crack Houses& in cleaner condition than how this mutt was living.
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I was saddened last week when I saw that a friend had passed away here in San Angelo. He was Judge Raymond Lee McKim Jr. Judge McKim was 86 and his wife of 62 years had passed away earlier this year in March. I first met Judge McKim at a Republican Luncheon in about 2005. We sat at the same table with he and his wife. I know that I have made some bad calls down through the years but I liked this old gentleman the very first time I talked with him. Judge McKim had first retired in 1984 but actually heard cases in courts all over the State of Texas from 1984 - 2009.
Almost every day I would run into him at the Post Office and he was always quick with a dig and he could take a good dig also. I can tell you he was no fan of Barack Hussein Obama. He caught me in the line to buy stamps one day and called out so everyone could hear, &I don't think they have any Obama stamps out just yet.& Of course everyone looked my way and he walked out laughing.
Hate to lose old guys like that. His wife was also a very nice lady and after she passed away you could see him fading fast. I will miss him and his little dog who he always had with him. You could almost set your watch by the time he pulled up into the Post Office parking lot and I guess I will never go there that I don't think of this gentleman.
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On May 18, 1908 Congress REQUIRES that the motto, &In God We Trust& to appear on U.S. coins.
Now we must wonder when these varmints will DEMAND ITS REMOVAL?
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I got several similar es through e-mails this week and here is my favorite:
&An Islamic Terrorist is like a penguin.... Life is good until the SEALs show up&
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See ya' next week.
JEM
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May 10th, 2011 COURAGE / TYPICAL / GREATEST
Hello a day early from the West Texas Plenty Dry Plenty Hot Angry Conspiratorial Jingoistic Intolerant Fossil Fuel Using Draconian Pistol Carrying Believers In The Constitution.
I am a day early this week as we will be leaving town tomorrow to pick up a friend at the Midland Airport and will not be returning until tomorrow evening. We will more than likely be taking a trip to Hobbs, N.M. some within the next week and I have to squeeze in a doctor's appointment on Thursday. So this week will be pretty busy for us.
COURAGE:
My final thoughts on the elimination of Osama bin Laden. I give full credit to the SEAL Team along with the other U.S. Military and C.I.A. Personnel who had a part in this operation. AND just so there is no doubt in anyone's mind how I feel about Osama bin Laden being shot by these men, I do not give a damn if bin Laden was; Armed.... Unarmed.....Awake......Asleep......Happy.....Sad......Depressed....Dressed.......Naked......Hungry....Full.......
Reading....Watching Television......Listening To C.D.s.....Or Making Obscene Phone Calls. What he was doing is a matter of complete indifference to me AND should be to any American. Our guys were right and bin Laden is &No Mas&.
BUT, the Obama Administration has seen fit, in spite of Obama's efforts to show his appreciation to our Military, to change the facts on any number of occasions in the past week or so. If this does not show the President's complete disregard for the Military, then nothing else can. Why would you keep changing the story if not for purely for selfish, political reasons? Of course Obama's crack staff has been left to change their stories also which goes to show that they are not one bit more honest than the President.
We have been subjected to many in every phase of the media trying to convince us all that Obama showed &Great Courage& in making the decision to go after bin Laden, and of course not giving one ounce of credit to the Bush Administration and some of the policies which in all probability were instituted by Obama's predecessor. But giving the Bush Administration credit for anything is certainly against the beliefs of the media and the Progressives/Socialists/Democrats who support Obama.
I don't know if any of you watched Obama's address to the troops in Kentucky but in typical Obama fashion he had many of the troops standing behind him while he made his political speech. And since I am aware of the fact that when you have seen one Obama speech, you have seen them all, I watch the faces of the Military men and women standing behind Obama. While concentrating on them I was not paying any attention to the words pouring out of the mouth of the world's most articulate and intelligent human, but on at least one occasion Obama made an all knowing statement regarding the operation and some of the troops behind him got a real funny look on their faces and cut a couple of glances at one another which leads me to believe that they recognized bull shit when they heard it.
Now, if putting up with all the self congratulatory statements weren't enough, a couple of days back I watched a s clip of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, or Grand Poobah, or Head Monkey, or whatever they are calling this mutt at this particular juncture in time, making a speech to a group of his supporters. Now I realize that he had to appear all upset over the U.S. Covert Operation inside their country but methinks he went a step too far. He indicated that this type of operation would not be tolerated in the future and should on occur than Pakistan would reply with the same action against the United States. Now that might sound good and strong to those boobs, but it seemed to me that he went a bit to far. How would they respond to another covert attack? Perhaps send some of his crack troops over here to exact revenge on the hot dog concession at Disneyland?
How would they get over here? I don't think that goats can swim all that well and I am not sure that camels can swim at all.
Then we have those who must remind us that: &Pakistan is a Nuclear Power&, which means that they have at least one nuclear bomb, I suppose. Now let's look into this threat:
The United States has the capabilities of delivering nuclear weapons anywhere on the globe, and that is many weapons.
Russia, I feel has the capabilities of delivering nuclear weapons anywhere on the globe.
China has nuclear weapons but I am not completely sure that their delivery systems are all that good, UNLESS they receive aid from Russia.
India has nuclear weapons and I am not sure of their delivery capabilities............ perhaps by elephant.
North Korea allegedly has nuclear weapons and if they do could probably have a delivery system of reaching from one end zone to the other in most NCAA football stadiums, that is if they didn't blow up on the launching pad.
Iran is working on nuclear weapons and I imagine that Israel would paddle their asses prior to any real aggressive action.
I am sure I am leaving out some nuclear powers but now let's look at;
PAKISTAN: If they in fact do have nuclear weapons I imagine that India would send their elephants over to crush them but if not, how would they deliver a nuclear weapon? The only way I can think of is via a &Stump Broke Donkey&. Now if I have to explain the term &Stump Broke& then you might check with Barney Frank or any number of elected officials in the People's Republic of San Francisco, OR practically any animal owner in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Pakistan.
BUT what really needs to happen is for someone in our government who has a set of balls, to contact the leaders of Pakistan (AFTER WE HAVE CUT OFF THEIR FUNDING) and resort to the Done Corleone method of negotiations; Make Them An Offer They Can't Refuse. And while I am in this frame of mind, to borrow a line from &The Godfather&, Osama bin Laden really does &Sleep With The Fishes&.
Now back to courage. To even intimate that Barack Hussein Obama showed COURAGE in allowing the Military and C.I.A. personnel to do what they are trained to do is a slap-in-the-face to all those who show real courage. Here are some people who show real courage:
U.S. Navy SEALs
Members of every branch of our United States Military
Firefighters
Police Officers
Airline Passengers who attempt to stop terrorists.
Citizens who, without a second thought, go to the aid of others.
I am sure I am leaving out many who exhibit courage but those are the ones who come to mind on short notice.
But to give your approval to a group of individuals to do what they have been trained to do is not all that courageous and to try to paint it as such demeans real courage. But then again, we are speaking of politicians and media people.....mutts for the biggest part who have never done one really courageous thing in their lives. No, they live off the courage of others.
TYPICAL:
On the front page of the (Sub) Standard there appeared a story with this BOLD headline&
SAN ANGELO OFFICER FATALLY SHOOTS TEEN
Then below that headline was a smaller headline: Suspect was reportedly armed
Then in regular sized print in the next to last paragraph on the page one article we learned that the &TEEN& who was &fatally shot& was in fact NINETEEN YEARS OLD. Then on page eight the article finally told of the &TEEN& fleeing from the police officer and exiting his vehicle armed with a firearm. But the article was quick to point out that it was unclear if the gun was loaded or not. The article finally let the readers know that the suspect was wanted for a motion to revoke probation warrant for &Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon& which is a Second Degree Felony. And the article ed one of the dead &TEEN'S& friends as saying that she had known him since she was 14 and that hearing he was running from an officer didn't surprise her. She further stated that she kind of expected something like this to happen.
This is typical reporting by the liberal media. When I think of a &Teen& I think of my 13 year old grandson or someone who is at least under the age of 18 AND I would imagine that is the view of most people. In this instance, this &TEEN& was old enough to vote; old enough to purchase a firearm other than a handgun; IS CONSIDERED AN ADULT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS; a Convicted Felon. But the headlines in this instance were meant to immediately garner sympathy for this poor &TEEN&.
But why should we expect anything different, like the TRUTH, from our local media.
GREATEST:
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub four minute mile in Oxford, England. His time was 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. I can remember that day and remember the films of Roger Bannister as he collapsed in exhaustion as he crossed the finish line. For many years many thought the four minute mile was unattainable and could never be broken but they were mistaken. Since then this barrier has been broken many, many .
But when I think of runners, particularly distance runners, there is one man who stands out in my mind as THE GREATEST Distance Runner EVER.
His name was Emil Zatopek. He was a member of the Czechoslovakian Army. He was born September 19, 1922. In the Summer Games of 1948, held in London which were the first Olympic Games to be held after the end of World War II, Emil Zatopek won the Gold Medal in the 10,000 meters and the Silver Medal in the 5,000 meters.
I thought that was pretty special. BUT in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, Emil Zatopek won the Gold Medal in the 5,000 meter run; won the Gold Medal in the 10,000 meter run; won the Gold Medal in the Marathon which is a distance of 42.195 kilometers OR 26 miles 385 yards.
And that feat had never been accomplished either prior to or subsequent to Emil Zatopek's performance. Now, 3 years later he set world records in the distances of 25,000 meters and 15 mile run.
In 1948 I remember seeing films of him in the movie theaters and in 1952 I saw films in the theaters and on television. So since that time, there have been people who have run faster in the Marathon; 10,000 Meters; and 5,000 Meters but NO ONE has done it in one Olympic Game. And in 1952 what is even more amazing is that he accomplished this feat in an 8 day time span.
So from now on, or until someone equals his performance, Emil Zatopek is in my books THE GREATEST.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret) - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
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&Unfortunately, an increasing proportion of American education, whether in the schools or in the colleges and universities, is closer to the baton twirling end of the spectrum than toward nuclear physics end.&.................. THOMAS SOWELL
&But you need only to visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.&.............THOMAS SOWELL
&I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?& ...... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Motion for Prayers in the Constitutional Convention, 1787
&Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.&......... JAMES MADISON
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
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President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman); Gary Ackerman (D-NY-By Request); Juan Williams (FOX s).. Welcome back Juan; ESPN Radio
MORE STUFF:
Here is a blurb from the (Sub) Standard ;
DUNES SAGEBRUSH LIZARD MAY ENDANGER WEST TEXAS ENERGY INDUSTRY
&This precious little three-inch lizard, thanks to the Obama administration, could shut down oil and gas operations in West Texas for a minimum of two years if it finds its way onto the endangered species list.&
Now I'm sure that most of you wouldn't mind paying about double your current gas price to be secure in the knowledge that the &Dunes Sagebrush Lizard& is alive and well.
The article went on to say that the oil and gas operations in Ector County (Odessa,TX) generated $22,000,000,000.00(billion) in annual spending and more than 61,000 PERMANENT JOBS. In Midland County (Midland,TX), the industry is responsible for $29.5 billion in annual spending and more than 77,000 PERMANENT JOBS.
Now I don't live in Midland or Odessa but I do know lots of folks in those areas as well as oil producing areas in Southeast Mexico and for the United States Government to put the well being of a damn lizard over the welfare of not only West Texas but the rest of the country as well, is absurd. But then, Obama and his whole crew are absurd.
Insofar as the Sagebrush Dunes Lizard welfare, I am reminded of my great grand daughters solution for the ant population and I think it could work for the Sagebrush Dunes Lizard; &Kill 'Em All&.
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Last week I gave my opinion regarding comments made by NFL Varmint, Rashard Mendenhall, regarding his &Tweets& about Osama bin Laden. Well it seems as if Champion Athletics shares my opinion of Mendenhall and have terminated his contract effective next Friday. The article mentioned that Mendenhall had recently signed a four year contract extension with Champion through 2015............. make that NEXT FRIDAY. A tonic for his ass.
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In last Sunday's Parade Magazine, (which I never read) my wife found an article about a guy named Rudy Tempesta who lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. who is now 85 years old and has been with the U.S. Postal Service for 65 years, first in York City and since 1959 in Chapel Hill.
&When I got out of the military, my father told me, 'You'd better get a good job, a steady job'. That meant the department of sanitation, the police department, or the Postal Service.&
Rudy is a Veteran serving in the Army Air Corps.
I really do like seeing stories like this one.
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On Sunday, I watched about 6 hours of programming on the Military Channel regarding the training of perspective Navy SEALs. What these guys go through to become a member of this elite group is absolutely amazing. Of course any specialized training for any of our military branches is above tough. Then one day last week I was watching Neal Cavuto on FOX s and he had as one of his guests a former SEAL, Benjamin Smith. This was one of the most impressive young men I have ever watched. He answered every question with articulate and firm answers and of course if there were areas which he did not feel he should discuss he was straightforward with his responses. This man was a walking recruitment poster for our Military.
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May God continue to bless all of our men and women serving in our Military. And our thanks should always go out to those who have served in the past.
Later
JEM
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May 4th, 2011 REASONS / LIES
Hello once again from the West Texas Home For Intolerant Angry Gun Carrying Four Wheel Drive Pickup Driving Fossil Fuel Burning Jingoistic Draconian Pro-Death Penalty Bullies.
Let me begin by giving an up to date report on my medical procedure from April 28th. The heart catheter procedure went off without a hitch but I still have a problem with my heart not operating efficiently. The heart pumps the blood in at a normal rate but does not pump it our at the proper rate. From my first visit with the Cardiologist we both k that this was the case and I was told then that he would probably recommend a pacemaker. I have my next appointment with him on May 12th and should know more after that. Thank you all for your prayers and kind words.
REASONS AND LIES:
All through my adult life I have watched people make decisions on any number of issues. I believe that most people make those decisions for the right reasons and that primarily being that it is the right choice which will have the least negative effect on everyone. BUT there are those who most of the time make the wrong choices and those are generally for selfish personal reasons. And that, I believe is the case in the ending of the life of Osama bin Laden.
Like most Americans I was very happy to hear the s of the demise of this enemy of our country. And at that time I actually was more pleased with President Barack Hussein Obama than at any juncture in his holding of that office. But it was a feeling which was short lived. In his address to the American people, the speech was less about the real heroes of the event, the Navy SEAL Team, and more about him giving the OK for the operation. And if you think I am just being anti-Obama for whatever reason, here is a direct e from his speech to the American people:
&And so shortly after taking office, I DIRECTED LEON PANETTA, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bib Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network.
Then last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I WAS BRIEFED on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to the ground. I MET REPEATEDLY WITH MY NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally last week, I DETERMINED THAT WE HAD ENOUGH INTELLIGENCE TO TAKE ACTION, AND AUTHORIZED AN OPERATION TO TO GET OSAMA BIN LADEN AND BRING HIM TO JUSTICE.
TODAY, AT MY DIRECTION, the United States launched a targeted against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body........................... As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States IS NOT ----- AND NEVER WILL BE ---- AT WAR WITH ISLAM.&
So, instead of giving the American people the s of the death of bin Laden and heaping praise upon those brave SEALs who carried out the operation, the speech was really more about how everything occurred under his direction. If it had stopped there then I could have held my nose and accepted it.
But almost immediately, Nurse Ratchet, (HILLARY CLINTON) felt duty bound (probably also under the direction of Barack Obama) to tell us all just what a great ally Pakistan is.
Now at this point I would like a show of hands of all those who believe that Osama bin Laden was living in a walled, guarded compound very close to the Pakistani Military Academy, WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE AND ASSISTANCE OF THE PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT.
Almost immediately CIA Director, Leon Panetta, in an interview admitted that some of the initial information which started this ball rolling came from, dare I say it, ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES. You remember, don't you, the intense interrogation methods which the Obama Administration said didn't work and took measures to halt them? Not only Panetta, but several other government officials like the N.Y. Congressman who heads the House Intelligence Committee who also credited harsh interrogation techniques with getting the initial information which led to this event.
Then within 48 hours, Leon Panetta disavowed any knowledge of his original statement and of course under questioning Attorney General Eric Holder claimed total ignorance of whether or not enhanced techniques were even used.
So as you can see, by the waffling and lying of members of the Obama Administration this president has, while making the correct decision to give the go ahead for the operation, has now tried to turn things around for purely political gain. And in my opinion only goes to prove just what a self-centered, arrogant individual he is.
Those SEALs put their lives on the line and performed magnificently in carrying out this operation and deserve the full credit and appreciation of our country for putting the final touches on the life of Osama bin Laden. Oh sure, Obama mentioned their bravery but still spent more time in congratulating himself on his decision making abilities. And I also noticed that he didn't seem to want to give any credit whatsoever to his predecessor, George W. Bush, under whose administration much of this interrogation occurred.
And finally I would like to point out this truth: A President or the Department Directors sitting on their backsides in Washington, D.C., CANNOT CLAIM CREDIT FOR THE SUCCESS FOR WORK DONE BY ANY MILITARY, or LAW ENFORCEMENT FIELD UNIT. The people and leaders ON THE SCENE ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE. The Administration cannot guarantee the success of any operation. They can only give the OK for an operation OR as in many cases IMPEDE the success of an operation by not giving the tools and the authority to those people in the field.
Now, the next thing will be to watch and see how long it takes before some special interest group or two want a full investigation on whether or not bin Laden was armed or presented a danger to the SEAL Team. How long will it be before the ACLU or CAIR or some other similar group starts calling for some type of prosecution against those involved in the operation?
And of course in the next few weeks I would imagine that you will see some of the Democrat/Progressive/Socialist members of the House and Senate begin to forget all this, &We Are The World&, &Cumbayah& , &Reach Across The Aisle& business and things will be right back where they were prior to the death of a real mutt.
My congratulations and praise go to ALL of the members of our United States Military and special thanks to the U.S. NAVY SEAL TEAMS.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret) - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. (Ret) Randy Morrow , 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
&When people in Washington start creating fancy phrases, instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don't want us to understand........ It was an act of war when we started bombing Libya. But the administration chose to call it kinetic military action. When the Federal Reserve System started creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air, they called it quantitative easing of the money supply.&......................................... THOMAS SOWELL
&Donald Trump is dangerous in at least two sensed. If, by some tragic miracle, he should become the Republicans' candidate for president in 2012 hat would be the closest thing to an iron-clad guarantee of a second term in the White House for Barack Obama.................. That would be a huge setback for the Republicans --- and far more important--- a historic catastrophe for this country.&...................... THOMAS SOWELL
&I only know two tunes; one of them is 'Yankee Doodle Dandy', and the other one isn't.&........ULYSSES S. GRANT
&We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.&............ THOMAS JEFFERSON
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman)
MORE STUFF:
I heard a couple of reports today which stated that several &Native American& (AMERICAN INDIAN) groups were upset because the code name for Osama bin Laden was &Geronimo&. Then one of the announcers said that Geronimo was a &Popular Native American Leader& in the late 1800's. One must really wonder just exactly with whom was Geronimo all that popular. He damn sure wasn't very well received by the settlers in Southeastern Arizona. I don't imagine he was all that beloved of any of the Mexican people whom he terrorized at will. I am pretty sure the U.S. Army did not have him on their Christmas list. And I would imagine that he was virtually hated by the Indian tribes outside of his own small group of Apaches.
Ah but let's all take every opportunity we can to whine and feel sorry for ourselves. It has become the rule rather than the exception for various groups to get insulted for any number of reasons.
And of course I am not trying to say for a moment that the Apaches along with any number of other Indian tribes received very fair treatment at the hands of the U.S. Government. But, don't you imagine that the various tribes were fighting each other long before the white men came to this continent? I guess that political correctness has gained a foothold in the naming of certain people and operations. Perhaps the next time our Military needs to use something which sounds like it could under any circumstances be confused with an American Indian name that perhaps they should form a &Blue Ribbon Panel& to study the matter................... Beam me up Scotty.
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In the sports page of this morning's (Sub) Standard there was an article regarding comments on his Twitter Page made by Pittsburgh Steeler Running Back, Rashard Mendenhall in which this this NFL Boob said, &We'll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.& And regarding the killing of Osama bin Laden, this politically astute individual noted that, &We've only heard one side.& And I like this one: &It's amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak.&
WOW! What depth. What an astute political mind this NFL Boob possesses.
Now, Rashard Mendenhall might have some abilities on the football field but I hesitate to put much faith in his knowledge about demolition of buildings or the character of the leader of a world wide terrorist group.
The article also made reference to Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson comparing the NFL to modern-day slavery. Mendenhall posted this comment on his Twitter Page; &Anyone with knowledge of the slave trade and the NFL could say that these two parallel each other&.
So with this brief exposure to this Pittsburgh Steeler Running Back I must conclude that he has the I.Q. of a school zone speed limit sign. Either that or he is just a pure turd. Either one or perhaps both could fit. Hey! Here's a good idea. We could have Rashard Mendenhall look up ANY ONE of the SEAL Team who took part in the bin Laden operation and he could challenge them to prove to him that their version was the one in which he should believe. Perhaps an old fashioned &Trial By Combat&.
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OH BOY!!! Here is a great piece of s for the Republican Party. Former Mexico Governor Gary Johnson has tossed his had in the ring and is running for the Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States. Let me cut right to the heart of this candidate. He is pure VARMINT. I had rather see Donald Trump's Chauffer as President than this mutt. He was a piss poor Governor for Mexico and I don't imagine he will get much support from elsewhere.
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Here is a little blurb from the (Sub) Standard from Olympia, Washington:
&Drivers of electric cars may have left the gas pump behind, but there's one expense they may not be able to shake ...paying to maintain the roads.&
&After years of urging residents to buy fuel-efficient cars and giving them tax breaks to do it, Washington state lawmakers are considering a measure to charge them a $100 annual fee---what would be the nation's first electric car fee.&
Way to go Washington.
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Thank you all again for your thoughts and prayers.
JEM
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April 27th, 2011 BUREAUCRATS / SPECIAL DAYS
Greetings once again from the West Texas Headquarters Of The Association Of Vast Conspiratorial Gas Using SUV Driving Gun Owning Jingoistic Draconian Angry Right Wing Bullies.
First of all, let me thank all of you for your birthday and Easter cards and e-mails. Easter was a beautiful day here in San Angelo, Texas and on Easter Sunday four thoughtful Korean students presented me with a nice birthday plant and a sugar free birthday pie and one of the nicest cards I have ever received from anyone. It was a nice day and to make it even better our daughter called from California and I got to talk with our youngest grandson (11) who was picked to play on an All Star Ice Hockey Team from Colorado. The tournament was in Anaheim, CA and some teams from some large metropolitan areas here in the U.S. and Canada. Our grandson's team lost only one game and that was to an undefeated team from Edmonton, Alberta by a score of 4 -2. That Edmonton team had been beating the other teams by much larger margins. Anyway I was happy to see that our 11 year old grandson was chosen to play on a team made up of young men from the Western Slope area of Colorado which includes; Gunnison; Crested Butte; Grand Junction and Lake City.
So with that being said I got to thinking about some special days last week and have a few observations:
SPECIAL DAYS:
Of course April 21st is now and has always been celebrated in Texas as &San Jacinto Day& which was the day in 1836 when Texas forces under General Sam Houston defeated a superior Mexican force under Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. The Mexican forces surrendered unconditionally to the Texas forces and as Santa Anna was the President of Mexico at that time, for all practical purposes, the Texas War of Independence was over and a Republic of Texas was formed.
So April 21st has always been a very special day for those of us who are students of Texas History. But for the last few years, the mainstream media in Texas has been downplaying this day as it damaged the self-esteem of certain people. Our very own (Sub) Standard spaper had an article on Friday, April 22, 2011 on page 7 of section A which informed us in BOLD PRINT; Remembering Revolution's Last Battle. The article went on to describe an event which had been held the day before on April 21st had a ceremony at the Tom Green County Veteran's Memorial on the 175th anniversary of the day of this important battle in Texas History.
Too bad that the (Sub) Standard didn't think this day important enough to be printing something about the event prior to the occasion. No they print an article the day after. All 14 flags representing every battle in the Texas War of Independence were on display by people dressed in period costumes and of course along with a salute by the participants using the weapons of the period. This article said that there were about two dozen in attendance. There should have been hundreds of not thousands in attendance. But our local liberal rag thought no more of the occasion than to print a short article on the DAY AFTER the celebration.
Several years back there was a move afoot at the behest of a teacher from the Houston Independent School District to remove any mention of THE ALAMO; GOLIAD and several other battles as it damaged the self-esteem of certain students. Of course this teacher and most other left wing loons fail to recognize the fact that many of those fighting for the freedom of Texas were Mexican citizens by birth and were simply tired of living under a dictator like Santa Anna. OK. This pretty well ends my observation on how this day in our state history has fallen on disrepair which now brings me to my SECOND SPECIAL DAY:
This would be April 22nd which as most of you know is EARTH DAY. This is a day on which environmental mutts get together and sing motivational songs and generally show just exactly how ignorant they are about almost everything and of course the latest Grand Poobah of these idiots is Al Gore. But let's go back to 1970 which was the birthday of the first EARTH DAY celebration. On this day, co-founder of this event, Ira Einhorn was the key speaker at this first celebration at Fairmont Park in Philadelphia. Einhorn was a self-proclaimed environmental activist and of course in 1970 he was tailor made to preach to the legions of the great unwashed generation.
Ah, but as one of my favorite radio personalities used to say, &And now for the REST OF THE STORY&. It seems that on September 9, 1977 Einhorn and his girlfriend , Helen Maddux went to the Philadelphia apartment which they shared I allegedly to collect her things as she and Einhorn had split up. She was never seen again. Einhorn claimed that she had left the apartment she had gone to the neighborhood co-op to pick up some tofu and bean sprouts. At least this is the story he told Philadelphia Police.
18 months later investigators searched Einhorn's apartment after one of his neighbors had reported that a reddish-brown, foul smelling liquid was leaking through their ceiling from Einhorn's apartment. Inside a closet in the environmental activist's apartment police found Maddux's beaten and partially mummified body inside a trunk which was also packed with Styrofoam, air fresheners and spapers.
Einhorn was arrested and his attorney, ARLEN SPECTER, arranged bail at which time Einhorn took of and went to Europe where he was finally arrested and extradited back to the United States. He was convicted of MURDER and sentenced to LIFE which is what he is doing presently. Of course being so very intelligent and articulate, Einhorn took the stand in his own defense where he claimed that Maddux had been killed by CIA Agents who then framed him for the murder because he k too much about the CIA's Paranormal Military Research. Apparently the jury didn't buy this bizarre defense and did convict Einhorn.
Of course, EARTH DAY'S organizers began to distance themselves from Einhorn and credit for the creation of EARTH DAY was given to Senator Gaylord Nelson and claimed that Einhorn was merely a Master of Ceremonies. BUT, that first EARTH DAY was such a success, in December of 1970, Congress authorized the creation of a federal agency to tackle environmental issues ---- THE EPA(For those of you residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco, that would be the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY). Which brings me to my second topic:
BUREAUCRATS:
Where do we start? OK, how about with the EPA. I imagine we have all heard this week about how Shell Oil Company has had to dump their efforts to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. This decision came on the heels of a ruling by the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board to withhold critical air permits. This EPA appeals board ruled that Shell had not taken into consideration emissions from an ice-breaking vessel when calculating overall greenhouse has emissions from the project. Of course environmental idiots from all over were thrilled by this ruling.
Oh, did I fail to mention that the Environmental Appeals Board has four members: Edward Reich; Charles Sheehan; Kathie Stein;;; and Anna Wolgast. All registered Democrats and Kathie Stein was an activist attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund. Even Lisa Murkowski, who is no favorite of mine, called the EPA ¬ competent to handle the process&.
Now let's discuss the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board). This group of bozos has taken steps to file a suit to prevent Boeing Industries from opening a plant in South Carolina. From what I have heard reported on various s programs, the home of Boeing Aircraft Industries is in Washington State. South Carolina is a Right To Work State and evidently the bureaucratic boobs of the NLRB realize that their might actually be some people hired at this location who might be...... dare I say it....... non-union workers. They are claiming that Boeing wants to build the plant there so as not to be forced to hire union workers. OK, let's say that is in fact true................ SO WHAT? Have we gotten to the point where this Community Organizer who calls himself President can now control where business may or may not open a plant? Evidently so.
In a number of West Texas and Southeastern Mexico, there lives a reptile called the DUNES SAGEBRUSH LIZARD.. Now while this rather bland looking reptile has been in trouble since the late 1990s, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delayed or taken the view that federal protection of this lizard was &warranted, but precluded by more important matters.&
BUT, WildEarth Guardians said in 2007 that no animals received protection under the Endangered Species Act prompting the organization to file notice that it would sue the federal government for failing to enforce the Endangered Species Act.
So now there will be a public information meeting which is scheduled to be held TODAY in Midland, Texas.
Of course, oil drilling is a concern since it can disrupt the natural habitat, something to which the lizards are particularly sensitive. At least this is the view of the Center for Biological Diversity. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! The &D& word.
So here is the United States: with an incompetent boob as President; badly in need of more domestic oil production; with a U.S. Senate under control of Democrats/Progressives/Socialists; becoming more dependent upon foreign oil; with elected officials more interested in their own re-election than they are about solving our nation's energy problems; being ruled by Bureaucratic Boards who are manned by more incompetents.
How does that situation look? These various Bureaucratic Agencies are holding us hostage and trying to control every single aspect of our free enterprise system.
While I am not at all pleased with any of the Republican presidential candidates, I would rather have any of them or for that matter Hillary Clinton as President than this present bought and paid for Union Organizer who I am convinced is controlled by the Chicago Machine.
Anyway, if our elected officials really are interested in controlling spending they should at the earliest possible moment get rid of the EPA; Dept. Of Education; NLRB; and take a real close look at ALL of these federal regulatory boards and trim them down to the bare minimum. Also while they are at it, how about starting from scratch on foreign aid and let the financial aid to each individual country STAND ALONE and be voted on independently. I imagine we have all seen the Texas Congressman speaking before the House of Representatives where he said that there are approximately 192 separate countries in the world and approximately 156 of them are receiving some type of foreign aid from us AND THIS INCLUDES: CHINA; RUSSIA and VENEZUELA. It has to stop.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret) - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
&When judges create rights for bullies out of thin air, just as they do for criminals, and prescribe due process for school discipline, just as if schools were little courtrooms, then nothing is likely to happen promptly or decisively..............If there is anything worse than doing nothing, it is doing nothing spiced with empty rhetoric about what behavior is unacceptable -- while in fact accepting it.&................. THOMAS SOWELL
&People who say that we should learn from other countries almost always mean that we should imitate what other countries do. But one of the most important things we cal learn from other countries is to avoid the mistakes they have made.&...................... THOMAS SOWELL
&It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.&...................... JOHN ADAMS
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman)
MORE STUFF:
Here is a s item which I found to be really invaluable information-- Miley Cyrus will watch the Royal Wedding on television. I was sure glad to hear of Miley's plans. I wake up almost every day wondering just exactly what Miley Cyrus is thinking or doing at that particular moment.
I am sick of the Royal Wedding talk. I am sure that there are those who are really enthused over this happening but I am not to be counted among them.
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I heard a couple of audio clips from the world's most articulate and intelligent human which he blurted out at various last week. In one of them he was urging the American people to, &Lower your expectations&. And the other was, &Use less oil&. Now here is some sound advice from a guy who has never held a real job and in all likelihood has never owned his own automobile. And always remember that this advice he spouts off to us is meant for us and not himself.
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I am sorry that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot and seriously injured and I hope that she along with the others who were wounded have a rapid and full recovery. But her attendance at the launch of the Space Shuttle is not a pivotal moment in my life and I have about heard my fill of how she received her injury. I am still particularly disturbed when I think of how the media made her injury more important than the lives of those who died in that same incident.
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How much longer will we be subjected to &Jabba The Hut& (Janet Napolitano) telling us how safe the U.S./Mexican Border is?
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And I have noticed that this Press Secretary of Obama's, Jay Carney appears to be able to lie his ass off just like his predecessor Robert Gibbs.
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And once again, John McCain has shown his backside in his visit to Libya and his subsequent TV interview in which he proclaimed in typical McCain fashion that the United States and other nations should recognize the opposition's political leadership as the &legitimate voice of the Libyan people.& McCain wants the U.S. to provide weapons and training to those who oppose Qaddafi. The White House disagreed with McCain saying that it was for the Libyan people to decide. OK, if that is the case then why are we sending unmanned drones and other air support to Libya? And again I must say that while I am certainly no fan of Qaddafi, I am not sure that his replacements will be any better. I still would rather see us not get involved in this battle of turds.
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Tomorrow morning I will report to the hospital for my heart catheter procedure. I want to thank all of you for your words of support and I ask you to all say a prayer for me tonight. I report in at 6 AM and the procedure is set for 7:30 A.M. If all goes well they will release me tomorrow. If they have to put in a stint then I will be required to stay overnight. In any event, I will be turning off my computer just as soon as I send out the letter.
Oh, before I forget, I got an e-mail which said that the letters DNC do NOT stand for Democratic National Committee. It stands for: &DISCIPLES of NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN. I liked that.
Thanks and God bless you all
JEM
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April 20th, 2011 U.N. / FIRES / SCAMS
Update and Corrections…. Thursday - April 21, 2011
In my letter put out on Wednesday the 20th I made a couple of statements which have been called to my attention as being based upon invalid information.
My statement regarding the 2 Croatian Generals who were being charged by a U.N. Court was taken from the spaper. My statements about most of the Serbs being Muslim was based upon what had been told to me by people who live in that part of Europe as well as hearing a couple of s items within the past year indicating that same information.
I have been contacted by several people who also have ties to that portion of Europe and have given me some information which indicates that my notion of the Serbs being primarily of the Muslim faith was not correct. Several people have sent me some items which shows that the majority of Serbian people are of Eastern Orthodox background which is Christian and that 85% of the people in that country are in fact Christian.
As I said, much of my information was based upon information which I had received from people who are of Croatian descent. So with that, I must apologize for not having the full facts prior to writing yesterday's letter.
Also, according to some people who are very familiar with that region, do not dispute that the two groups do have some opposing views on many things. But I suppose that can be said of most areas of Europe and for that matter even here in our country.
But the main point I was actually trying to make in that particular section was the fact that the U.N. in one of their courts have decided to step in and further drive a wedge between those two groups.
The information I received today did support that the Ethnic Albanians are a predominantly Muslim people who did take part in an ethnic cleansing of Serbs.
I also wrote that the Texas reporter was from Houston when he actually was from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
Once again, when I write my opinion on a matter, that opinion is mine..... but when I make a statement regarding a matter of historical value, I do make every attempt to check out my sources. And once again, the people who told me the information regarding that region of Europe were, I am sure, telling me what they believed to be the truth.
Hope this clears up the matter.
Jim
Greetings once again from the West Texas Association For Well Armed Jingoistic Draconian Huge Carbon Footprint Leaving SUV Driving Fossil Fuel Burning Intolerant Angry Mob Members.
FIRES:
I would imagine that many of you have seen on various s programs reports of the massive wildfires which are currently ravaging many areas in Texas. Out here in West Texas there are several which have come dangerously close to many small towns as well as nearing some of the larger West Texas cities. One of the fires is Northwest of San Angelo and we have been seeing and smelling the smoke from that one for about a week or so. According to the reports in the (Sub) Standard , nearly 150,000 acres have been destroyed by this one fire. Also there is another fire near Ozona which is about 75 miles Southwest of San Angelo and it also destroyed quite a large amount of ranch land. I also heard of one in the Texas panhandle as well as one rather large fire West of the Fort Worth area.
All in all, these fires are devastating to farms and ranches in those areas, not to mention the wildlife habitat which is being destroyed. There have been reports of several homes destroyed and some domestic animals as well. We have seen many local volunteers as well as every volunteer fire department in this end of the world being pressed into action in an effort to get these fires under control.
Of course when you check the humidity and see that it is around 6% along with no rain for a number of months, it is pretty easy to understand how these things can get out of control particularly in light of high winds.
As I said, we have seen loads of local volunteers as well as volunteers and firefighters from all over the state come to our area in order to try to get these fires under control. What we have not seen is a large volume of whining residents and people standing around with their heads up their rear ends waiting for FEMA or for federal help. Although the Texas Governor has requested that these fire areas be declared a national disaster, the large part of the folks doing something are average Texas citizens who are willing to help their fellow Texans.
Funny thing. I haven't noticed a presence of ANY of the ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUPS or ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS pitching in either personally or financially. I'm sure they are all in a meeting somewhere deciding which dynamic move to make to solve the problems. But of course I have never seen any of these groups do much of anything other than whine in any real emergency. They are generally too busy figuring out a way to stand in the path of people who are trying to do something to solve problems.
I wonder what their views would be if we told them that there were huge prairie dog towns and large numbers of kangaroo rats which were in danger of being destroyed, or God forbid, the habitat of the Concho Water Snake was in harm's way.
Anyway, my thanks go out to all of those who are working long and hard hours (most of them not for pay) to help their fellow citizens of this great state.
UNITED NATIONS:
As most of you know, on my list of useful organizations, the United Nations comes in only marginally ahead of the ACLU and PETA. Come to think of it, I am not entirely sure that I should place the U.N. quite that high. This past week I read a short article in the (Sub) Standard under the world s from the Netherlands. The article was titled: WAR HERO BRANDED A CRIMINAL IN COURT. This article went on to say: THE HAGUE --- A general hailed as a hero in Croatia was branded a war criminal by a U.N. Court on Friday. &Croatian war veterans said General Ante Gotovina was being persecuted for legitimate actions meant to liberate Serb-occupied territory.&
&Gotovina and General Mladen Markac were convicted of their roles in 'Operation Storm', a 1995 military offensive intended to drive Serb rebels out of Croatia's southern border with Bosnia, and which was seen as the battle that sealed Croatia's independence.&
My wife and I have friends who live in Croatia and we visited them in 1997 which was just two years after Croatia had won its status as an Independent Nation which was once part of the huge Yugoslavian Republic. As a historical note former Yugoslavian strongman Josip Broz Tito was born in a small village in what is now present day Croatia. He became President of Yugoslavia in 1953. The former nation of Yugoslavian nation has split into several other countries and I am sure you all remember the war in Kosovo and the trouble in Bosnia. And isn't it a bit unusual that all of the problems in Kosovo and Bosnia involved the Serbs.
Oh, and one other thing, most of the Serbs are Muslim. Now isn't that special? You might also need to be aware of the fact that most of the Croatians are Christian and have little or no use for the Serbs or the so called Ethnic Albanians and no use whatsoever for the Gypsies.
We saw evidence of their war for independence in their capital city, Zagreb as well as many of the small villages which we toured with our friends. The Croatian people treated us really well and the food was great and their country was beautiful. We met some really interesting people while there and found out that they like Americans a lot. Most of their school children take English as a second language very early in their primary education. But we also found out that they had been under the thumb of a damn repressive government until they gained their independence in their war which I believe began around 1991 and ended when the Serbs were driven out by these Generals who have now been branded as War Criminals by the United Nations.
To me being called a War Criminal by the United Nations and their idiotic World Court concept is sort of like being branded a racist by Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson or Louis Farrakhan.... for those of you in the People's Republic of San Francisco that means that the U.N. and I are in agreement roughly about the same as those three race baiting boobs just mentioned and I. The U.N. is a huge waste of time and money.
Incidentally, while in Croatia they were having their Presidential election and their President came to the City Square, which was huge and they had bands and all kinds of celebrators at the gathering. Just prior to the President's speech one of their school bands played a song to start the proceedings. What was the song? The Yellow Rose of Texas.
What is scary to me is the fact that our glorious leader, Barack Hussein Obama, seems to be taking us in the direction of this one world government fiasco. And what's more, if the Republican Party doesn't get off their fat asses, he will succeed or at least he will think he succeeded.
SCAMS:
I am sure that most of you, if not all, have received several of those bogus e-mails advising you that the person sending you the message is a direct descendent of Emperor Haile Salassie and they have anywhere between 3 million and 5 million which they are willing to share with you if you will only provide them with information regarding your bank account and some personal data.
First of all, anyone who believes that has to have the intellectual depth of a stick of celery. Of course your first inclination is to answer these slugs and I must admit that after receiving pretty much the same e-mail several , I could not resist the urge to respond so I answered them and told them that I had already been remembered in the will of Benjamin Gump and had inherited enough money from him to last me and my heirs for life. I told them that actually I had so much money that I had run out of places to keep it and that I might be interested in leasing a warehouse from them if they had access to one large enough to accommodate my enormous sums of cash and precious metals. I further informed them that although I was born on a day, that it wasn't yesterday and that they would probably be more successful getting a handout from Al Sharpton than they would getting anything from me. I then immediately put the sender on my blocked sender's list.
Recently a friend of mine also answered one of their e-mails and he was a bit more blunt than I and just told them to sexually penetrate themselves. He thought that was the end and then recently received another e-mail allegedly from the F.B.I. threatening him with some type of enforcement action for taking part in one of these schemes. Of course the e-mail was sent by F.B.I Director Robert S. Mueller. When I looked at the e-mail I noticed that it had been sent on a Sunday evening at 6:30 P.M. which is a pretty strong indication that it is phony as I would doubt seriously that the Director of the F.B.I. would be hanging around the office at 6:30 on a Sunday evening.
But please remember that anything sent form a legitimate federal government location will not have a -- .com or .org or .net at their site. It will be .gov and as far as I know all of the federal offices including the e-mail addresses of your senators and representatives will all have a .gov address.
While on the subject of scams, I know that many if not all of you have received an e-mail petition asking you to add your name and the 1,000 th person is to send it to whom ever is President. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THESE PETITIONS! In order for a petition to be valid it must have a place for the signer's name to be printed; a place for the signer's signature; and a place for the signer's address. And I am not sure if this is true in every state but I know in Mexico for the signature to be valid, the name had to be printed and signed exactly as the signer is registered to vote. Any other signature was not valid. But I do know that when you sign one of these e-mail petitions you will suddenly begin to receive a bunch of strange e-mails from some strange places.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil, Carl Randall -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy, Col. Ed Miller (USMC,Ret) - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs, Lynn Jones - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
& There is a lot of talk from many people about bullying in school. The problem is that it is all talk. There is no sign that anybody is going to do anything that is likely to reduce bullying.......When politicians want to do nothing, and yet look like they are doing something, they appoint a blue ribbon committee or go to the U.N. or assign some Cabinet member to look into the problem and report back to the President -- hoping that the issue will be forgotten by the time he reports back.&..................... THOMAS SOWELL
&When educators are going to do nothing, they express great concern and make pious public pronouncements. They may even hold conferences, write op-ed pieces or declare a NO TOLERANCE policy. But they are still not going to do anything that is likely to stop bullying.&......THOMAS SOWELL
&Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority&.................... ANDREW JACKSON
&They, the journalists are a sort of assassins who sit with loaded blunderbusses at the corner of streets and fire them off for hire or for sport at any passenger they select.&............... JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (Looks like ol' John Quincy had an idea about today's reporters&
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman)
OTHER STUFF:
Once again the (Sub) Standard seems to occasionally do something which is not completely off the reservation into the land of liberality. This past week they printed an article about a former San Angelo resident who was a beer salesman for the Russell distributorship. He had worked for Russell's in Midland prior to moving to San Angelo where he was hired to sell a Texas-brewed beer called the Travis Brand, which was a forerunner of Lone Star. He also peddled Blatz Beer at various honky-tonks, bars and nightclubs at night. He got $2 each night to plug Blatz, plus 8 cents for each case sold. Also he would perform for a couple of hours each night. He then got lined up to do a daily radio show on KGKL Radio for which he was paid $2.50 per day 6 days per week. He had purchased his first guitar at an Abilene pawn shop and his favorite performer was Jimmie Rodgers, the Singing Brakeman. OK. Who was this article about? None other than &The Texas Troubadour&, Ernest Tubb. Now anyone who doesn't know who Ernest Tubb is has never really been much of a fan of REAL COUNTRY MUSIC. Ernest Tubb performed for over 50 years and is a real country music legend. And to this day, &Waltz Across Texas& is one of my all time favorite songs. Ernest Tubb is a true Texas Legend.
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I cannot remember his name but another Texas Legend is the s reporter who caused the world's most articulate and intelligent human, Barack Hussein Obama, to lose his composure in an interview this past week. It was shown mostly on FOX s and played on many conservative radio shows. If you have not seen or heard this interview the Houston based reporter was asking his majesty, among other things, about the decision to not have any of the space shuttle memorabilia go to the NASA Headquarters at Houston. Obama gave some lame answer that the decision was made by some nebulous committee and then when the reporter stayed on the subject the world's most intelligent and articulate human lost his composure and became visibly irritated. He did not give a positive answer when asked if he would campaign in Texas for the 2012 election and then he even tried to say that he LIKED TEXAS, which we all know is bovine excrement (for those of you residing in the Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Massachusetts this translates to BULL SHIT). Then when he finished he took off his microphone BUT it was still on and had some pretty sharp remarks to the reporter. Of course many of the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists were at their wits end over the fact that the Texas reporter didn't kiss Obama's backside. Wonder where those seekers of truth were when the reporters were calling George Bush a liar?
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Here are a few figures I picked up from somewhere regarding &Change&:
JANUARY 2009 TODAY
Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S. .......... $1.83 $3.79
Number of fed. employees, no military.... 2,779,000 2,840,000
Food Stamp recipients............................. 31,983,716 43,200,878
Number of Unemployed.......................... 11,616,000 14,485,000
Number unemployment benefits............. 7,526,598 9,193,838
Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration; Wall Street Journal; Bureau of Labor Statistics; Census Bureau; USDA; U.S. Dept. of Labor; Heritage Foundation; Federal Reserve; U.S. Treasury
AND OF COURSE LAST BUT NOT LEAST:
National Debt.........................................$10.627 TRILLION ................... $14,052 TRILLION
Now, don't ask yourself the question........ who voted for this lying mutt?
Rather ask yourself .................................. how can we stop him from being re-elected?
According to some of the polls I have heard recently the percentage of the people who will definitely vote for him in 2012 was somewhere around 28%. So assuming that to be somewhere near the truth, the Republicans had better forget political correctness; appeasement; earmarks; and a whole bunch of other stuff and concentrate on getting someone as a candidate who will not be afraid to challenge this varmint in public debate and who will not be afraid to call him out in public. We have all seen that when the pressure is applied he folds like a cheap suit. If we get another candidate who is more interested in &Reaching Across The Aisle& and &Compromise& than in holding this mutt's feet to the fire then we had all better get set for another 4 years of this turd.
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I am sure that if you are a member of the NRA you have received many calls asking for donations just as I have. A couple of days back I received a call from someone representing himself as calling for the NRA. Most of the time I have received a call from them it will be a recording asking you to listen to a message from the Executive VP and then you will hear the recorded message and then a real person will get on the line and explain what they are requesting, which is normally a donation. And normally the live person with whom I talk is very clear and articulate.
On this occasion, however, there was no recording and the guy sounded like Jethro Bodine (That was Jed Clampitt's nephew on the Beverly Hillbillies played by Max Baer Jr. ) This person was putting the touch on me for a donation first of $100 and when I declined he lowered it to $75, then to $50, then to $25 and this was allegedly to help fight to defeat SB-38 which the caller said was legislation which would give the Obama Administration the authority to deny to ANYONE the ability to purchase any firearm. It was explained that they could deny you for any reason other than the normal denial reasons. For some reason I did not think this was all that legitimate and I asked for a little more in depth explanation of SB-38 and he could not give me anything other than it gave the Obama Administration the ability to deny a firearms purchase for any reason. Of course I did not nor will I ever commit to a donation OR give any information to any person or any cause over the telephone when I did not generate the call myself.
I then went on the Internet and pulled up SB-38 and it came up as a bill which came up in 2008 and had absolutely nothing to do with firearms sales or anything to do with firearms purchases or anything else. So be aware that all calls, even from some organizations which you support might not be legitimate. I additionally e-mailed Senator Cornyn's office as well as Representative Conaway's office and asked for information which they might have on any legislation. I did not e-mail Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's office as I am not completely sure that she knows where her office is or for that matter what a firearm is. As you may have gathered I do not have a great deal of use for our other Republican Senator. Thank God, she is not running for re-election
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Please pray for those folks in West Texas who have lost their homes and livelihoods due to the fires.
See ya' next week
JEM
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April 13th, 2011 POLITICAL CORRECTNESS / TRIP
Hello once again from the West Texas Association Of Jingoistic Draconian Angry Mob Members.
TRIP:
Last Friday we left West Texas for a week end in Houston, Texas. The event was one of my 55th High School Class Reunions. The reason I say one of them is I actually go to two class reunions. One of them is the year I should have graduated and the second is the year I actually graduated. How could this be, you ask? Easy. I actually loved high school and spent my first Junior year playing and having a good time. At the end of that year the Administration at Mirabeau B. Lamar High School told me that since I had played so hard my Junior year that they would give me the opportunity of taking it all over again. So I repeated my Junior year and graduated a year later than I should have.
And I must say that the reason for my repeating my Junior had NOTHING to do with any failure on the part of any of my teachers. And I actually did rather well in math and history but some of the other stuff was reasonably boring to my somewhat underdeveloped mind. And while I did regret letting my parents down as well as some others I really consider myself very fortunate to have finally realized my errors in judgment.
But then again, being able to attend TWO class reunions isn't all that bad.
Of course it is always fun to see people whom you have not seen for a while and my wife and I sat with one guy and his wife whom I had not seen since 1956. We had a really good visit and found that he and his wife had gotten married in 1957 and they now raise cattle and also raise cotton in an area not all that far from San Angelo. Of course many of my classmates have become very successful and have worked in really diverse fields.
The whole event was held at a really nice hotel and there were events going on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Of course there were those who were absent for health reasons and those who had passed away since our last reunion. But I am looking forward to my 60th and sincerely hope all those who were in attendance will still be around and in good shape in 2016. Old friends are hard to beat.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:
Where do I start? I actually did not watch but a few s programs over the week end but could not help but hear some of the goings on regarding the now famous BUDGET CUT fiasco which I believe just shows exactly how weak our political figures have become. As close as I could tell the Republican Party elected officials promised us a cut in federal spending which began at $100 BILLION. Then the next figure I heard ed had been trimmed to somewhere around $68 BILLION. Then the final figure ed to us was an actual reduction in spending of $38 BILLION.
It seems as if I remember Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, e a figure of $32 BILLION as a starting point and of course he was talking about working it DOWN from that figure.
So after all the meetings and rhetoric and lies and magic tricks it seems to me as if the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists gave up a total figure of $6 BILLION whereas the Republicans waffled to the tune of $62 BILLION DOLLARS.
Ah but some are saying that had the Republicans not COMPROMISED that the federal government would have been SHUT DOWN. Well to that I say &Let 'er rip&. In reality the Republicans caved in due to the fact that according to all the political experts, the Republicans would have been blamed by the MEDIA for the shut-down. Oh, so I guess that now the MEDIA will begin giving Republicans a fair shake, huh? What the Republicans including John Boehner were in fear of was being thought if in the same light as was t Gingrich back in the mid-90's.
Why is it so hard for the Republican elected officials to realize that they cannot play nice with the MEDIA or the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists? If we have people in public office who do not realize what a bunch of vermin the MEDIA are then they are way too stupid to be in charge of anything.
In reality, I believe that these boobs are AFRAID to be truthful and straight when talking to/about or dealing with Barack Hussein Obama as they have a phobia about being called or thought of as prejudiced or racist or something along those lines. In other words they are more interested in their own reputations and positions than they are about doing what is right.
Immediately after the deal was struck I heard some media mutts say that this was a resounding victory for the Republicans but I also heard more say that it was a victory for the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists. And it damn sure didn't take Barack Hussein Obama and Harry Reid long to get in front of some cameras and claim credit for the &Largest Budget Cuts In History&. I actually heard Obama call them &Historic Cuts&.
If this is a sample of what we can expect from the elected Republican officials then we had all better get set for another 4 years of Barack Hussein Obama. As a matter of fact, at this present time I am more interested in keeping a majority in the House of Representatives and having a Republican majority in the Senate than I am in putting my faith in more of &The Usual Suspects& of the Republican party. As of this moment, in my eyes, the Republican elected officials are only marginally less liberal then are the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists.
I will address some of the possible candidates a little later on. But until we get some Republican candidates and elected officials in place who have the balls to do the right thing instead of the politically correct thing, then our country is on its way out. Please just look at what has happened to Western Europe and some of our cities in the North and realize that political correctness is at the bottom of those problem areas. Political correctness has our U.S./Mexican Border as more or less an imaginary line which means something to many Americans but means nothing to Mexico.
Americans better WAKE UP............ AND RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil, Carl Randall -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz, Jim Murphy - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore, CAPT. James Palmer - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
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&Big corporations get big bucks from the government , not only in agricultural subsidies but also in the name of 'green' policies, in the name of 'alternative energy' policies, and in the name of whatever else will rationalize shoveling the taxpayer's money out the door to whomever the administration designates, for its own political reasons.&.............. THOMAS SOWELL
&The money saved by cutting off agricultural subsidies to the wealthy and the big corporations is vastly greater than the money to be saved by cutting off Planned Parenthood or National Public Radio, much as they both deserve to be cut off.&.......... THOMAS SOWELL
&Man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.&..... THOMAS JEFFERSON-On The Judiciary
&Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties or his possessions.&............. JAMES MADISON
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz ( DNC Chairperson); Tim Kaine (Former DNC Chairman)
MORE STUFF:
After we returned from Houston we attended a program on Monday evening with the subjects being; Sharia Law and The Muslim Brotherhood. You all remember the &Muslim Brotherhood&, I am sure.... you know... that &secular umbrella group& according to James Clapper (National Intelligence). This administration would have us all believe that the Muslim Brotherhood really plays no role in terrorism and is certainly no threat to the United States.
But somehow, Mr. Clapper and our present administration seem to either have forgotten a few facts, or never k, or are just flat out lying. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 and now boasts of chapters in 80 countries. The &Brotherhood's& founder, Hassan al-Banna stated that the group's goal was to assert Islam's manifest destiny and create an empire governed by Islamic religious law and unified in an autocratic caliphate. He professed that it was the nature of Islam to dominate and to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the ENTIRE PLANET.
The Muslim Brotherhood has close ties with Al Qaeda; Hamas; and Hezbollah. They are extremely strong in Egypt and I am pretty well convinced that they will be in charge when the dust finally clears over there. One of their spiritual leaders, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, maintains that; &The civilizational-jihadist process is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization FROM WITHIN and sabotaging its miserable house...so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.& Please note that part of the statement; &FROM WITHIN&.
I was not aware until last Monday that Jersey Governor, Chris Christie just recently appointed a Muslim State Supreme Court Justice to the Jersey Supreme Court. According to the information we received on Monday, this appointee has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Makes me want to re-think my position of Governor Christie.
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We have all been subjected to s stories regarding Donald Trump (The Donald) making a serious bid for a run for the office of President of the United States. I am still not completely convinced that &The Donald& is as serious about running for president as he is about seeing his name in print and seeing himself on TV. I think that while he is a successful business man, how serious would our allies and even more important our enemies take him. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think for a minute that Donald Trump would be one ounce worse than the mutt who we have at present, but I am just not sure he is not more interested in stroking his own ego more than serving his country.
mutt who we have at present, but I am just not sure he is not more interested in stroking his own ego more than serving his country.
The brutal truth is that at the present time the Republican Party has NO ONE who has shown that they are ready to step up to the plate and swing for the fences. Once again, political correctness rears its ugly head and as of this moment I have not seen one single perspective Republican candidate whom I believe can defeat Barack Hussein Obama.
Oh, one other item. I heard on a s program this morning when a so called political expert was being interviewed that the last political donation made by Donald Trump was a $50,000 donation to the campaign of Rahm Emanuel for his run for the office of Mayor of Chicago. I am sorry but I have a bit of a problem trusting anyone who could support that slug.
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I want to thank all of you for your prayers and kind words during my past heart scare. My heart catheter procedure is scheduled for April 28th. I am feeling pretty darn good right now and feel strong and exercise every day so perhaps I can get through all this with your help.
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While on our way to Houston we hit LaGrange, Texas at around lunch time. I stopped in at an auto parts place to ask them where a good place to eat was. We were directed to Prauges' (sp) Meat Market on the town square right across from the Fayette County Court House. It is actually a meat market with a large back room with tables and benches for people who want to eat at that location. We had lean brisket and it was outstanding as were the baked beans and the baked potato salad. Really good old time Texas Barbecue. Of course I stayed away from the sauce which was probably superb.
Then while in Houston I met a couple of my oldest friends at Pappas' Barbecue and had lean brisket once again with a salad and it was also superb.
Then on our way back home we stopped in Llano, Texas at Cooper's Barbecue which is some of the best on the planet. I changed from brisket to lean, lean, lean pork loin. It looked way better than it tasted as it was very salty. I was a bit disappointed that I had chosen that particular meat.
As you may have guessed I do love good food and love good Barbecue about as well as anything so below is my list of favorite foods.
Barbecue - Will Haynes' Barbecue in Houston's Fifth Ward. The meat was lean and the SAUCE was unbelievable. (Will is dead now but one of my good friends has possession of Will's Barbecue Sauce recipe and the sauce makes almost any brisket taste like a bit of heaven)
Mexican Food - Felix Mexican Restaurant- Houston, Texas - I am not sure that they are even open anymore but they were the best outside of homemade.
Pizza - Shakey's Pizza - Bellaire Blvd., Houston, Texas - They are now closed as are all of that chain but their pizza was the best.
Steak - Silver Dollar Mercantile - Tinnie, NM.
Hot Dog - James' Coney Island - Houston, Texas
Lasagna - Sandra McPeters, Hobbs, NM.
Peach Cobbler - Mrs. Ernestine Patterson - Midland, TX by way of Hobbs, NM
Blackberry Cobbler - Mrs. Anastasia Hopcus + (This great cook was my Mother-In-Law and pretty well everything she cooked was super but her berry cobblers were the best EVER) And her daughter ain't bad either.
Home made Enchiladas - Irene Salgado, Hobbs, NM
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It is good to be back home and I feel very fortunate to live in West Texas where the loonies have not taken over YET.
Seriously folks, let us concentrate on the U.S. Senate and the House for 2012 because as of this moment it looks like the Republican Presidential Candidate is going to make John McCain look positively inspiring. Remember a MODERATE REPUBLICAN and a MODERATE DEMOCRAT look amazingly the same, and that is not meant as a compliment. They need to practice their MODERATION on their own dime, not ours.
See ya' next week.
JEM
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April 6th, 2011 CUTS / VOTER I.D. / CHAMPS
Hello again from the West Texas Headquarters Of Jingoistic Draconian Fossil Fuel Burning Mean Spirited Gun Owners Of America.
First of all let me thank all of you for your kind words and prayers for my well being after my trip to the hospital last week. I am feeling fine now but I did make an appointment with a Cardiologist who had read my echocardiogram and EKG while I was hospitalized. Of course those tests showed that I had a heart problem which I have had for the past 12 years. According to my doctors back then and my Cardiologist my heart pumps blood in at a normal rate but pumps it out at a below normal rate. This can cause fluid to build up in my lungs which is exactly what happened last week. I have been able to keep that under control with medication for the past 12 years.
My Cardiologist wants to do a heart catheter procedure on the 25th of this month. He also said that we might be looking at an implant of some type of pacemaker which will help the heart rate and better control my problem. He did give me the OK to travel to Houston this coming week end for a class reunion. I also got put on a more restrictive diet which isn't all that bad.
So for the past week or so I have been worried more about my health issues than what the clowns in Washington have been up to. But I did manage to catch the s stories which of course are the ever changing views on the Libyan conflict BUT our worries are over since GERALDO RIVERA is now on the scene and I'm sure he will be on the front lines possibly leading charges against the enemy..... whom ever that may be on that particular day. It seems as if it is impossible to get a really accurate report on who is winning the Libyan civil war. I am sort of the mind as one guy whom I heard ask the question as to why in the world we are getting involved in a war where Arabs are killing other Arabs.
Of course our involvement in this conflict seems to change on at least a daily basis depending upon whatever polls drive Barack Hussein Obama on any particular day.
CUTS:
We have all been hearing about the proposed budget cuts of the Republican Party; the Democrat Party; and President Barack Hussein Obama. As I said I have not been taking the notes I usually do when I am 100% but I do know that apparently Barack Hussein Obama has a bit of a problem with relatively simple math.
On the same day I watched one report which said that the House Budget proposals amounted to somewhere in the neighborhood of Sixty Three Billion dollars ($63,000,000,000). This same report said that the budget cuts proposed by Barack Hussein Obama added up to Thirty Three Billion dollars ($33,000,000,000). Then on the same day I watched Barack Hussein Obama, in one of his plethora of TV appearances, say that his proposed budget cuts were exactly the same amount as those proposed by the House.
Now I do not hold an accounting degree from any college or university, nor do I consider myself a mathematical genius, but I did make good grades in math throughout my high school career and one year at the University of Houston. And using all of the math skills I possess indicates to me that there is a bit of a disparity assuming any of the figures ed by TV s approach accuracy. Perhaps someone should point out to the world's most intelligent and articulate human that there appears to be about Thirty Billion dollars ($30,000,000,000) difference.
Of course the Democrat big threat is that the government will SHUT DOWN and it will all be the fault of the Republicans. I have listened to some of these Democrat/Progressive/Socialist mutts predict everything from starving children to dead seniors in the street if the government shuts down. This just goes to show how dependent these liberal vermin want us to be on the federal government.
And what really gets my backside red as a three ball is how the elected Republicans and the RNC are handling all of this. It is becoming fairly apparent that elected national figures all seem to be following a path which we have become so accustomed. It seems to me as if perhaps some of these people who were elected last November have forgotten not only WHY they were elected but WHAT THEY PROMISED. The Republican party is handling this possible government shut down from a defensive position rather than attacking like crazed pit bulls. It is time to be strong and realize that when you appear to show any signs of weakness, the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists will treat them like hungry lions treat a wounded wildebeest on the Serengeti.
It is time for the elected Republican politicians to stand up and show some strength and not give in to pressure brought to bear by Obama or the mainstream media.
As Don Corleone said rather forcefully: &You can stand up and be a man&.
VOTER I.D.:
A Voter Photo I.D. Bill just passed our Texas House. What I cannot understand is why any honest American would object to having to show a photo I.D. when they go to the polls to vote. But a photo I.D. voter bill has been defeated by elected mutts in the past. It looks like this one will pass. But what really burns my backside is that they have also included several exemptions from compliance with this law. I have lost the article but apparently there were three exemptions listed where an individual would not have to produce a voter I.D. and here they are:
1) If the person has a DISABLED classification on his/her voter registration
2) If a person is over 70 years of age as of January 1, 2012
3) If being photographed is against a person's RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.
I am not sure if there are more but those are the three which stand out in my memory.
I don't have all that much problem with the DISABLED classification, however if a person can get to the polls I don't see why they cannot obtain a photo I.D. I would think that perhaps the State or the County could budget funds to go to the disabled person's place of residence for the photo.
I am not sure I agree with the over 70 exemption. I would bet that damn near every person over 70 would support the photo I.D. legislation and would bust their butts to comply with having a photo I.D. made.
And as you might have already guessed, exemption #3 is bullshit. This gives an open door for non citizens to register under false information. And isn't giving an exemption for RELIGIOUS reasons violating the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE as the Democrats/Progressive/Socialists have been preaching to us for many years?
Anyway it appears to me as if this is another example of elected supposed Conservative Republicans caving in under the guise of compromise to Liberals/Democrats/Socialists.
But I suppose that a weak photo I.D. law beats none at all.
Also they appear to have solved one problem before the bill even passed. Since the State of Texas Motor Vehicle Division of the Texas Department Safety issue Driver's License's and Official State of Texas Identification Cards, that would be the place for an individual to obtain photo I.D. for voting purposes. At the present time a State of Texas Identification Card costs the individual $16. If this bill passes the photo I.D. for citizens of Texas for Voter I.D. purposes alone would be free.
CHAMPS:
I got fairly caught up in March Madness this year and watched a number of the games. I was particularly following the Butler Bulldogs as it did my heart good to see a small school take it to the big boys. I really saw some very good men's basketball games in the NCAA Tournament but the Championship Game between the Butler Bulldogs and the University of Connecticut Huskies was maybe the most uninteresting and at least on Butler's part the worst game in the men's tournament.
AH, but the Women's NCAA Championship Tournament was way, way, way good. Of course the two teams in the Championship Game were Notre Dame and Texas A & M. It was fairly obvious to me that all through the tournament the darlings of the tournament were Connecticut; Baylor; Stanford; and Tennessee who all had exceptional teams. But Baylor and Tennessee were eliminated and the Stanford was eliminated by Texas A & M and the University of Connecticut was eliminated by Notre Dame in two of the best women's college basketball games I have ever seen. This set up the championship game which was played last night with Texas A & M winning their first NCAA Championship in women's basketball.
It was a really good game and if the two teams played again tonight there might be another winner. But as of this moment, the Texas A & M Aggies are the best.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil, Carl Randall -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; A.J. Meyer - CT; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, 1st Lt. Michael Rice, 1st Lt. Nick Francona, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
&One of the secrets of the growth of the welfare state is that politicians get a lot of mileage out of making promises, without setting aside enough money to fulfill those promises.&.............. THOMAS SOWELL
&We would probably be better off if there were no Congressional Budget Office to lend its credibility to data based on hopelessly unrealistic assumptions fed to them by Congress.&................... THOMAS SOWELL
&If the League of Nations means that we will have to go to war every time a Yugoslav wishes to slap a Czechoslav in the face, then I won't follow them.&............ THEODORE ROOSEVELT
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan; Mark Warner & Jim Webb (D-VA-By Request Of VA Patriot); Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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I read an article in our local liberal rag this morning making us all aware that then leader of the Democratic National Committee is South Florida Congresswoman DEBBIE WASSERMAN-SHULTZ. I have seen this squack on several occasions as she appeared on one television s show or another but always obviously arrogant and if it was on FOX s and she was on with some conservative, she always employed the typical Democrat/Progressive/Socialist tactic of butting in and talking over her opponent in the so called &debate&. I really never saw the guy whom she replaced all that much but his predecessor was Howard Dean who was a complete turd from the get-go.
So the appointment of this beetle should come as no surprise. According to the article, a Tallahassee based political consultant, Steve Schale said of Wasserman-Schultz: &She is a tireless advocate, she's loyal, but she's not a soldier, she's a LEADER.&
When I saw that statement I was called to remember one of the DILBERT comic strips which was on the subject of leadership and one of the characters, Dogbert who was also a consultant defined leadership as &LEADERSHIP IS NATURE'S WAY OF REMOVING MORONS FROM THE PRODUCTIVE FLOW.&
I have seen leaders both good and bad all my life in school and in my work and for some reason or other Debbie Wasserman-Schultz doesn't exactly come to mind when I think of good leaders. As a matter of fact, just look at our elected officials at every level and I am sure that some could be classified as good leaders BUT they are few and damn far between.
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Remember a few weeks ago when James Clapper one of our top Intelligence heads told us how the Muslim Brotherhood was a secular, umbrella group with no real agenda which could be viewed as harmful to us?
Here is the Mission Statement of the Muslim Brotherhood which was founded in Egypt in 1928:
Allah is our objective; the Quran is our constitution; the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.
One of the Brotherhood's founders, Hassan al-Banna, stated that the group's goal was to assert Islam's manifest destiny and create an empire governed by Islamic religious law and unified in an autocratic caliphate. He claimed that it was in the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power over the entire world.
Sure sounds like a &Religion of Peace& to me.
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Again I would like to thank all of you for your prayers and kind words. I would appreciate it if you would keep me on your prayer lists until I can get this behind me.
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Keep on these Congressmen and Senators. Now is not the time for weakness. It is a time to stand firm and shout at the top of their voices that this government shut down which seems to put fear in the hearts of Republican Congressmen/women is not the end of the world. BUT, a second Obama term just might be the beginning of the end of life as we have known it.
Thank you all
JEM
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March 23rd, 2011 DEBATE / COALITION / STUPIDITY
WEDNESDAY - March 23, 2011
Hello once again from The Association Of Jingoistic Bullies Of West Texas.
This morning I attended the funeral service for Jean Wallman, who was the wife of one of my good friends Bob Wallman. It was a very nice service with some really pretty music. I have known the Wallmans for close to nine years. Bob, of course is one of my good friends and coffee drinking buddy. And he is also on our prayer list. I have told you a bit about his volunteer work for various local outlets. But this morning I realized that Jean's last injury, a broken hip, occurred while she was doing volunteer work at one of our local hospitals. I k that she and Bob had met when they were both serving their country in the United States Air Force when they were married in 1957.
This was a service in which there was a slide presentation with music showing Jean Wallman at various stages in her life. I have come to really like those presentations at a person's last service. Of course many of the slides showed Jean and her family at various ages. Of course my friend Bob after the service was seated in the front row where the family were all receiving the wishes of the congregation as they passed down the line. And Bob Wallman, being the real gentleman I have always found him to be stood up whenever one of the wishers was a lady. He also stood up for his closest friends and I did receive that honor. Keep in mind that this man has real problems standing and walking but he is such a gentleman that he still stands for ladies and close friends.
I have seen a lot of tough guys in my life but Bob Wallman is my idea of a really tough guy. He never stops to think of himself but always thinks of his friends and family. When he found out that I was sending stuff to Iraq and Afghanistan to our men and women in the military he began saving magazines and giving them to me each month to send overseas. He has also donated some other really good quality stuff.
In this morning's service one of the presenters said the while in the nursing home facility Jean referred to the folks who were in charge of her physical therapy as &The Torturers& but it was in good fun. Jean had been a Registered Nurse and after her military service graduated with Highest Honors from Arkansas Tech University in 1984. And like her husband she was really service oriented donating time to various church groups; the Girl Scouts of America; and the Daughters of the American Revolution and served as an officer in that organization in several different locations. All in all she was quite a dedicated and busy lady. Even as a patient at the nursing facility she held court on many days for many of the employees of that facility passing along her experience in the nursing field. All in all quite a lady. She was 78 at the time of her passing.
DEBATE:
Down through the years I had always thought of a debate as discussing different views on a particular subject. In Webster's Dictionary the word DEBATE is defined as: to discuss reasons for and against something; to take part in a discussion/debate with a person or about a question; a discussion of opposing reasons; a formal contest of skill in REASONED argument. All of these I can accept.
BUT what I cannot accept is Sean Hannity telling us that he is getting ready to DEBATE a guest on his show who is invariably a left wing zealot and there is precious little debate occurring. Or he or some other FOX s employee will tell us that in a few moments we will be able to view the DEBATE which will involve perhaps two conservative contributors DEBATING two liberal contributors and the host always tells us that &YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THE DEBATE&. What they are calling a debate is basically two or more people talking over each other and screaming with perhaps the host, O'Reilly or Hannity, butting in on a more than regular basis so that the listener/viewer is really unable to hear a thought or even realize what has been said/shouted.
Now I will continue to watch FOX s over CNN; MSNBC; CNBC; ABC; CBS; or NBC. But I have begun to pretty much turn the volume DOWN when it is nothing but a shouting match. And of course if you happen to be a guest on the O'Reilly Factor you must subject yourself to the ever increasing irritating arrogance of Bill O'Reilly.
Something else I have noticed on many of these so called s analysis programs is that normally the host AND their guests spend a great deal of time in promoting their own books. I find it somewhat difficult to believe that all of their books contain parts which are germane to almost any subject being discussed.
The bottom line is that many of these people have become enamored with their own fame and their arrogance is approaching that of Barack Hussein Obama. And since we are on the subject of Barack Hussein Obama, on occasion, Bill O'Reilly will make a statement which almost sounds as if he does not agree with the world's most articulate and intelligent human BUT when a guest has a negative comment about Obama, O'Reilly jumps to his defense. I think O'Reilly is more than likely more conservative than he lets on but he spends way too much time trying to convince us all that he is a true INDEPENDENT VOTER.
Speaking of INDEPENDENT VOTERS, one of the pollsters did a poll where the question was who these INDEPENDENT VOTERS would vote for in a Presidential election--- Sarah Palin or Charlie Sheen. The results were 49% would vote for Charlie Sheen while only 37% would vote for Sarah Palin.
Now I don't want anyone to think for a second that I believe Sarah Palin would be the best candidate for President, BUT Charlie Sheen would be marginally qualified to put paper advertising slips under windshield wipers at a Wal-Mart parking lot. And anyone who would vote for Charlie Sheen has a school zone speed limit IQ (which is either generally 15 or 20).
Of course I have little or no use for these pollsters but if this is any indication of the intelligence of the sought after independent voters then someone has been wasting a bunch of time on these bozos. AND that opinion is not open for DEBATE.
COALITION:
For the past week or so we have been subjected to the reports of the NO FLY ZONE over Libya and that this is supported by practically every country other than Elbonia. Of course the Russians are now against this alleged Coalition of U.N. member countries and I believe that China has also voiced a bit of displeasure BUT the Arab League is for it and that sure is good enough for me..............NOT.
Do not think for one second that I am a supporter of Colonel Moammar/Muammar Qadaffi/Gadaffi (your choice). As a matter of fact I thought that when the missile attack under President Reagan did not kill the mutt that perhaps a team of trained CIA operatives should have been sent to shoot him in the head. He is 100% turd from the word go. But spare me the fairy tale that we are stepping in militarily because we care about Libyan civilians. Personally I don't give a damn about Libya; Qadaffi; Libyans; their pets; their camels; their goats, or anything else and I strongly imagine that most of our elected officials could care less about them. No, this is a chance for Obama to show the &World Community& that we are on board for damn near any stupid plan they might hatch in the future.
Does anyone remember when George Bush advocated going into Afghanistan and Iraq? Seems to me as if we had many more nations on board than does this Coalition headed by France. And almost daily he was being criticized for &Going It Alone&. And taking a back seat to France approaches lunacy.
Of course this Coalition is allegedly limited to air support, for the so called rebels, by enforcing the No Fly Zone over Libya. But this morning I heard one of the top military people say that Libya actually didn't have any planes which could fly and damn few helicopters which could be of any use. The report was that most of the damage being done by the regular Libyan Army was with tanks and heavy artillery........... perhaps we could re-name it to a No Drive Zone; or a No Shoot Zone; or a No Run Zone; or a No Walk Zone; or a No Sneak Zone. Even some of the idiot Democrats/Liberals/Socialists/Progressives think this Coalition move borders on stupidity.
One last point on the Coalition of the lame is that none other than Bill O'Reilly on his program the other evening was defending Barack Obama (what a surprise) when Obama was being criticized by Varmint Congressman Dennis Kucinich for not bringing this matter up before Congress and getting their blessings. O'Reilly made the statement that when George Bush went into Afghanistan and Iraq that he did not bring the matter up before Congress. But as surprising as this may seem, the world's second smartest individual, was wr - - -; mista- - -; in err - -;........ full of shit and to make matters worse, the guest he made this statement to was Carl Rove who IMMEDIATELY made Mr. O'Reilly aware of his errors.
But O'Reilly being such a big man at the end of the segment did apologize for his mistake which is more than I can say for the world's most articulate and intelligent human. But O'Reilly was caught dead to rights and couldn't do anything else. Who says there is no Santa Claus?
STUPIDITY:
Where do I start? Earlier this week in the (Sub) Standard there was an article entitled: 2 Bush Officials In Running To Be Next Head of FBI. The two men mentioned are: James Comey and Kenneth Wainstein. The article pointed out that Comey became a hero to Democrats who opposed President Bush's warrantless wiretapping when Comey refused to reauthorize it. Comey also opposed tough interrogation tactics against suspected terrorists. Others in the running are some of the usual suspects including Jamie Gorelick. Remember her as a member of the 9/11 Commission. Also remember that she was one if the instigators of the Federal Law Enforcement agencies NOT sharing information with other Federal Law Enforcement agencies. Sounds like she would be a typical choice for an administration which apparently prides itself of stupid appointments.
Stupid appointments you say? Why Jim how can you say that?
OK. Eric Holder; Janet Napolitano; Kathleen Sebelius; Timothy Geithner; Rahm Emanuel; Robert Gibbs; David Axelrod......... Need I go on?
What is really unfortunate is that many good FBI Agents will be subjected to the whims of someone who has no clue as to what is necessary to insure that the FBI Agents have the tools necessary to successfully do their jobs. Not the least of which is being required to deal with a Justice Department who has a complete buffoon at the helm. But then that could be said for almost every branch of the federal government. We have already seen how the stupidity at the wheel of the Homeland Security Department has actually cost lives.
Just keep all of these things in mind when the next election comes up. Remember the Republicans as well as the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists who vote for confirmation of these varmints.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, 2nd Lt. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens, Nicholas Fiore - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
&The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered MATERIALISTIC and GREEDY to want to keep what you have earned. But it is IDEALISTIC to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.&........................... THOMAS SOWELL
&The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called the 'Detroit Pattern'---increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.&...................... THOMAS SOWELL
&Whoever said, 'The pen is mightier than the sword', obviously never encountered automatic weapons.&....... DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR
&To preserve liberty, it essential that the whole body of the people always posses arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.&.................. RICHARD HENRY LEE - 1788
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; JIMMY CARTER(he is all capital letters as a varmint President and former President); George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Anthony Weiner; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; BILL CLINTON ( same as Carter); Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN-Ret.); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN; Stephen King; Louis Farrakhan
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Well this week a person from Texas made perhaps one of the more ignorant statements when Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson made a statement comparing the NFL lockout to slavery. What I really think of Peterson is not fit to print so for now I will just agree with the sports reporter who commented that perhaps Mr. Peterson had slept through American History classes. The commentator nor I can ever remember a slave who earned a salary of $12,000,000.00 per year.
This once again shows that some of our professional athletes are not only stupid but are also greedy. And that also goes for some of the owners. Personally on the subject of the 2011 NFL Season I have adopted the Rhett Butler attitude: Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
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Earlier in the week some local rocket scientist made a keen observation in a 'Letter To The Editor' of the (Sub) Standard regarding the 'right-wing' agenda. This master of political science submitted to the editorial the following list of items which he/she perceives to be the highlights of the 'right-wing' agenda and for your perusal, here they are:
*Destruction of the middle class. Create a society in which a few multimillionaire corporate executives and CEO's control almost all the nation's wealth.
*Do away with almost all regulation of business. Allow industry to ignore pollution, unsafe working conditions and unsafe products.
* Use voter ID laws to inconvenience young adults in hope they won't vote. Use the claim that such laws are needed to prevent fraud.
*Use public schools as a political indoctrination tool. Rewrite history and social studies textbooks to promote a partisan agenda.
*Use one-sided talk radio, FOX s and other right wing propaganda outlets to mislead.
*Use religion as a political indoctrination tool.
Now if you will just look at each of these items presented by this politically ignorant boob you will notice that several of them are now and have been used by the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists for a number of years; PARTICULARLY the Destruction of the middle class; Opposing voter ID legislation so that they can continue to falsely register Democrat voters such as was done by ACORN in the last election; Using public schools for political indoctrination; Using opposing religion as an indoctrination tool. Keep in mind that these idiots attempted to get a left wing, liberal, progressive, socialist radio network started and they fell flat on their asses. I guess this mutt has never heard of NPR or PBS.
Anyway some it is sort of funny to see really how ignorant these people really are.
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Now see, this past week when all of you have been concerned with the earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear power plant meltdowns in Japan; or perhaps you have been foolishly watching us get involved in the Libyan civil war.
I, on the other hand, have been monitoring the effect of the death of Rapper, &Nate Dogg& on the West Coast. His attorney, Mark Geragos pointed out to us that &Nate Dogg:, whose real name was Nathaniel D. Hale, wasn't just a &rapper&, but an integral figure in the genre: (his words, not mine); His voice wasn't particularly melodic, but its tone--at menacing, at playful, yet always charming--provided just the right touch on hits including; Warren G's &Regulate&, 50 Cent's &21 Questions&, Dr. Dre's &The Next Episode& and countless others.(Damn, they sure don't make 'em like that anymore, do they?) He is best known for his contributions to the West Coast soundtrack provided by the likes of; Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tha Dogg Pound and more. I suppose it was best said by long time friend, Snoop Dogg-&We lost a true legend n hip hop n rnb. One of my best friends n a brother to me since 1986 when I was a sophomore at poly high where we met.& Snoop Dogg tweeted on Tuesday.
Damn, but that Snoop Dogg has a way with words, doesn't he? Anyway, I am sure not all of you will take this tragedy as seriously as do I.
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Keep on these elected mutts and if they don't do the right thing, DUMP 'EM.
That's about it for this week.
Stay cool
JEM DOGG
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March 16th, 2011 JAPAN / LYBIA / HOME
WEDNESDAY - March 16, 2011
Greetings once again from the Headquarters for The Gun Carrying Fossil Fuel Burning Pickup Truck Driving Angry Jingoistic West Texas Bullies.
JAPAN:
We have all, of course, been seeing lots of programming on the earthquake and subsequent tsunami and the damage done to various parts of Japan. What is truly amazing is seeing the water moving inland from an aerial view and then observe the same situation at a ground view. On the ground the speed of the water is much more noticeable. But regardless of which view you are watching, the power generated by this wave is absolutely incredible.
I am of course very concerned about the problems at the nuclear plants which are experiencing multiple problems.
One morning I heard one report from a non-FOX s source which reported that there had been a &Nuclear Explosion& which of course was not the case. It is fairly obvious that many in the media wouldn't know a &Nuclear Explosion& from a shoebox full of horse crap. And also what concerns me is that this problem at the Japanese nuclear plants will drive the environmental vermin to a feeding frenzy of such magnitude that they will resemble Cujo at your car window. Of course these are the same people who scream like drugged howler monkeys over &Petroleum Energy&; &Natural Gas Energy&; &Coal Energy&; &Energy Generated by Animal Power&; BUT enter a state of euphoric bliss at the mention of &Wind Energy& or &Ethanol Energy&.
I heard a report on one program regarding the deaths caused by &Nuclear Energy& and I believe it was for the United States, and the total death toll was 7. By the same standards, there were 47 deaths attributed to &Wind Energy& farms. (One must assume that these 47 deaths were due to falls from great heights etc.....) And of course there have been a number of deaths caused by accidents at coal mines as well as a number of deaths at refineries and gas plants as well as on drilling locations. So it seems as if any source of energy carries the element of danger.
But one thing I have noticed that the Japanese people with all the negative occurrences which they are experiencing currently, I have noticed a rather noticeable absence of LOOTING and WHINING. I guess those two behaviors are reserved for the Orleans 9th Ward residents. I actually heard a couple of s reports on the first day of this tragedy being compared to Hurricane Katrina. From what I have seen this is a really stupid comparison since much of the negative behavior was actually brought about by the Orleans residents not paying attention to warnings which were given to the State, Parish, and City in plenty of time for some pre-disaster action. This earthquake came about rather suddenly as did the tsunami wave which hit Japan.
And let us not forget that the mainstream media was predicting massive destruction along the California coast. I have seen some high water damage at one particular spot in Northern California. It seems as if the remainder of the West Coast was besieged by surfers waiting for &The Big One&.
Anyway, the Japanese people have acted very responsibly after this disaster and have restrained from looting businesses which had nothing to do with either the quake or the flooding and in many areas have already begun their clean up activities. Isn't that amazing that people realize that it is up to them to repair their damaged property and clean up the damage rather than waiting on FEMA.
HOME:
Since I am on the subject of whining, I cannot help but point out Representative Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) in last weeks hearings going into his completely FAKE crying act allegedly being driven to tears over the story of the death of a Muslim man on 9/11. I watched this phony turd on several different occasions and failed to notice any sincerity in his act. Of course whining was not the exclusive property of this Muslim Congressman. No sir, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TEXAS) felt it necessary to point out to us members of the ignorant masses that the Constitution was a &Living, Breathing, Document&. Every time I hear one of these slugs refer to our Constitution as a &Living, Breathing, Document& I want to scream loud enough to make Jesse Jackson shut up.
Modern day Liberals/Progressives/Socialists/Democrats tell us that our Constitution is a &Living, Breathing Document& that &Changes With The & without realizing that they are actually recommending the very system the colonists sought to escape. The British Constitution was very flexible----actually too flexible for the colonists, who were inflexibly committed to upholding their traditional rights. The &Living, Breathing British Constitution& was no safeguard of American Liberties. So in reality all this &Living, Breathing& talk is a big load of politically correct bull-shit.
Also on the home front a couple of Obama appointees have once again showed their respective asses regarding not only border security but a pretty broad ignorance about foreign policy. I am referring of course to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Incompetenapolitano and one of the top Security Advisors, James Clapper, both of whom are members of our Varmint List. It is really hard for me to watch either of these two buffoons for a very long period of time.
Incompetenapolitano of course took the stance of being &Uninformed& regarding the details of the ATF Operation which allowed several hundred weapons to cross the border into Mexico AGAINST the wishes of the field ATF Agents. And of course James Clapper when asked to name the country(countries) which posed the greatest threat against the United States blurted out China and later added Russia. Hmmmm. Wonder what ever happened to North Korea; Iran; Any number of Middle East Countries who harbor and support al Qaeda and other Radical Islamic Terrorists. And I know it is probably politically incorrect to perhaps cast an eye towards Mexico and a few South American countries who are causing us problems on a daily basis RIGHT NOW.
Now don't get me wrong, I have no great love or respect for China or Russia, for that matter, but I don't believe either of them believe for a second that they could get away with a bunch of stupid crap. However North Korea and Iran are pretty much under the control of some real incompetents and might try to pull some stuff. Of course our federal government is also being operated by real incompetents also which makes us pretty much a second rate Republic, particularly in the eyes of other incompetents.
Ah, but are we not fortunate during all of the problems in the Middle East; Japan; The Indian Ocean; Mexico; and other locations around the globe, to learn that President Barack Hussein Obama appears to be more concerned with the &Brackets& for the upcoming &March Madness&? (Now for those of you presently residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco, I am referring to the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament)
LIBYA:
Again, we have all been privileged to receive daily information on the revolt in Libya by some dissatisfied residents of that oil rich kingdom. Once again, I am certainly not a supporter of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi (Moammar; Gaddafi; Qadaffi; Gadaffi; take your pick) and should someone get lucky and put a well placed round in his ear, I would lead you all in a huge Snoopy Dance. But our fearless leader didn't say a damn thing until last week and then he let it be known that Colonel Qaddafi MUST GO and MUST GO NOW. Of course this empty threat of &Holding Qaddafi Accountable& had barely escaped the mouth of the World's Most Articulate and Intelligent Human, when the Army under the control of Colonel Qaddafi began to turn this &Revolution& around. It was almost as if Qaddafi was waiting for our &Buffoon-In-Chief& to make such a statement so that he could order his forces to stop fooling around and put these people back in line. Now right off the bat I noticed a few differences in the forces at odds in Libya. I am sure there are more but here is what came to mind right off the bat:
LIBYAN ARMY: Trained Troops; Well Armed: Ammunition; Aircraft; Bombs; Tanks; Heavy Artillery; Trained Leaders.
LIBYAN REBELS: Untrained troops; Mediocre armed; Low ammunition supply; No aircraft; No bombs; No tanks; No heavy artillery; No trained leaders.
Now I am no military expert but just being in possession of these facts I could have almost predicted the Libyan Army making marked headway toward regaining control over that country.
I also watched several locations which were broadcasting live reports from the Rebel camps. Several of the reporters told us that the Libyan Rebels wasted scarce ammunition by shooting into the air anytime a camera was in view. Also trying to bring down a jet fighter with a shoulder launched RPG is pretty much like going bear hunting with a willow switch. And this is particularly true when you shoot at these attacking aircraft AFTER THEY HAVE DROPPED THEIR BOMBS AND LEFT THE AREA. Of course no one has yet to prove to me that anyone in Libya knows dog crap from apple butter to begin with.
Ah, but we have a move afoot to get the UN to declare a NO FLY ZONE over Libya. First of all you would have to explain to many of those countries just exactly what a NO FLY ZONE really was AND if it were violated, what would the UN do? Oh, I know they would issue a resolution imposing sanctions against Libya. Those have really worked well in the past, haven't they?
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez, Hamilton Anderson, Arlene Anderson - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, 2nd Lt. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
&Those who see hope in the Middle East uprisings seem to assume that they will lead in the direction of freedom or democracy. There is already talk about the LIBERATION of Egypt, even though the biggest change there has been that a one-man dictatorship has been replaced by a military dictatorship that has suspended the constitution.&...... THOMAS SOWELL
&Freedom is still expensive. It still costs money. It still costs blood. It still calls for COURAGE and endurance, not only in soldiers, but in every man and woman who is free and who is determined to remain free.&............ HARRY TRUMAN
&Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.&......THEODORE ROOSEVELT
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson-TX; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee-TX; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; Rep. Keith Ellison D-MN
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Let me pose this for you. While our media is busy giving us 24 hour coverage on the tragedy in Japan and the Libyan and Middle East turmoil I believe that while our attention is is focused on those area, the elected vermin will take this opportunity to try an sneak some real questionable stuff by us. So I am urging everyone to pay attention to what these elected people are up to while we are focused on other parts of the world.
Almost sounds as if I don't trust our elected officials doesn't it? We cannot afford to let our guard down for even a short while. It just doesn't take long for those folks in Washington, D.C. to pass something will be harmful to the American people. Watch them like a hawk.
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Over this past year how many have we heard the Liberals/Socialists/Progressives/Democrats tell us how violent and racist those vicious &Tea Party& people are? At almost every event they have reported that the Tea Party people have been screaming racial slurs at minority officials. Of course there were cameras taking film and video from every angle and not one instance of racial language has been shown and we all know that if such a film existed that it would have been shown several per hour on the mainstream media. It just simply doesn't happen or else the mainstream media camera people have the intellect of a box if trail mix. Ah, but that doesn't mean that certain demonstrations do not turn violent but since these are reflecting the behavior of Liberals/Progressives/Socialists it is seldom seen.
However with all the demonstrations occurring in Madison, Wisconsin at the State Capital, were almost entirely made up of Liberals/Democrats/Progressives/Socialists there was not a large amount of radical behavior preserved on film or video. HOWEVER there were a few moments and the thought occurred to me that these were just somewhat cleaned up hippies protesting just about everything in which the American government was involved.
Oh, and these &Peaceful& union workers who were just interested in collective bargaining issues only did a little over SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS in damage to the Wisconsin Capital building. I saw one bearded boob wave at the camera with the obligatory, &Hi Mom& as he was being bodily dragged away from a door which he was blocking.
But the Wisconsin Governor is standing by his guns and that is good. Oooops! Did I just make a politically incorrect statement? &Standing by his guns&. Why that almost sounds like &Hate Speech&.
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I have had some people write me and ask me if I weren't going too far by calling members of the elected community; Varmints; Vermin; Mutts; Boobs; Buffoons; Turds; etc........... Well, I must sat that I have absolutely no negative feelings about calling a turd a turd. I just wonder if those same folks get upset when that radical Baptist church and radical minister and radical congregation gather at the funeral of a member of the U.S. Army; Navy; Marine Corps; or Air Force and scream obscenities at the dead hero's family members? No doubt a bunch of Tea Party members. The United States Supreme Court should be ashamed of themselves over this ruling.
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Let me recommend a pamphlet which ever American should read. The title: Sharia Law for Non-Muslims. Published by the Center for the Study of Political Islam. ISBN 0-9796794-8-6, Published by CSPI,LLC; WWW.CSPIPUBLISHING.COM
It is only 48 pages in length but explains quite a bit about Sharia Law and just exactly how we are viewed by &The Religion of Peace' and what they have in store for us.
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Also keep on these incumbents asses and let them know what we have in store for them if they don't start to doing what they promised when they were elected. Also get in touch with the Republican National Committee and let them know that their performance over the past 4 years is unacceptable. Let them know that they have allowed our country to slide to its lowest point in our lifetime.
If Obama is not replaced in 2012 we can kiss our asses goodbye because the game will be over and America as we have known it will cease to exist.
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On a sad note, my good friend Bob Wallman who is on our prayer list, lost his wife last Monday. She had been confined to a nursing home while recovering from a broken hip. Bob is a really good person and his wife was very active in the D.A.R and a number of other historical societies. So he really needs our prayers now. Fortunately Bob has a daughter and a son who live here in San Angelo.
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God bless you all and I'll see ya' next week.
JEM
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March 9th, 2011 BORDER / HEARING / DIVERSITY
WEDNESDAY - March 9, 2011
Greetings from the West Texas Association Of Jingoistic Conspiratorial Anti-Global Gun Owning Burners Of Carbon Monoxide Causing Fuel.
BORDER:
I don't even know where to begin on this. I watched Homeland Security Secretary Janet Incompelitano on the Huckabee television program last Sunday. Of course Huckabee was way softer on her than necessary giving her a break but she just couldn't resist taking advantage of the opportunity to show just exactly out of touch with reality she really is. Then later in the week we heard of the ATF &Whistleblowers& and the story breaking about firearms which were allowed to cross the border from the United States into Mexico as a part of an ATF operation to locate where and to whom these firearms would end up with eventually.
The manner in which this investigation was handled was apparently strongly objected to by ATF Agents. Eventually two of these weapons were recovered at the scene of a murdered Customs and Border Protection Agent, Brian Terry. One report said that one of the weapons allowed to cross into Cartel hands was a Barrett Model 99 .50 caliber sniper rifle. I believe that many of us have seen the range and effectiveness of this rifle as used by U.S. and Canadian snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Being a veteran law enforcement I realize the value of letting the small fish go in order to catch the big fish. And in certain circumstances I can agree and have participated in undercover operations where a person on the low end of the chain of a criminal enterprise is not prosecuted in order to obtain a conviction of the head of the organization. I understand that concept probably better than most. BUT there must be some limits to what the small fish is allowed to do. I have participated in many operations such as this in my 45 year career. BUT, I cannot think of a single incident where someone lost their life as a result of allowing the small fish to skate on charges.
And of course, the operations in which I and other officers were involved had some pretty strict guidelines and generally were viewed by live surveillance; on occasion filmed; and on other occasions recorded on tape. And in most of those cases the supervisors and administrators were kept informed but did not call the shots on the operation.
AND, to continue in the &FISH& analogy, in the event that the &Small Fish& lied or did something against your instructions, he/she was immediately put out for consumption of the Friday All You Can Eat Buffet. Now for those of you currently residing in The People's Republic Of San Francisco, this means that they were dropped in the grease; prosecuted for the crime which they had committed; thrown to the wolves; or any other metaphorically vivid description which you may conjure up.
Apparently this is not the case with this ATF operation. And what makes it worse in my eyes is also last week we were subjected to a rather lengthy s conference in which President Barack Hussein Obama and Mexican President Felipe de Jesus Calderon. I suspect that you all know my opinion of President Barack Hussein Obama but perhaps you do not know just exactly how low I place President Felipe de Jesus Calderon. Calderon is an arrogant whining rat. OK, so now you know. In this s conference we were once again subjected to Obama kissing up to Calderon and again exhibiting just exactly how ignorant he appears regarding the politics of Mexico.
The incident where an American Agent assigned to the Embassy in Mexico City was killed and another injured by ambush supposedly by drug cartel thugs. It was brought out that our Agents when assigned in Mexico ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY ARMS. Of course Calderon said that in order to get that rule relaxed he would need the approval of the Mexican Congress.......... OK, then get off your whining ass and get it done! And to take it a step further, WHY HAS IT NOT ALREADY BEEN DONE?
The bottom line is simply this. Our federal law enforcement agencies are under the guidance of some really incompetent slugs. Law enforcement in Mexico is under the guidance of a super corrupt administration....let me re-phrase that ANOTHER SUPER CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION. If you look back into the History of Mexico you will more than likely learn that Mexico has been under the leadership of some really dictatorial folks.
AND, if you believe that these drug cartels could have operated for as long as they have without the knowledge AND assistance of the Mexican Government then you have the intellect of a paper weight. And in spite of the assurance of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Incompelitano, the Mexican/U.S. border IS NOT SAFER THAN IT HAS BEEN IN YEARS. So to this winner of the &Jabba The Hut& look alike contest I have but two words; YOU LIE!
HEARING:
As we speak, there are hearings being presided over by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman, Representative Peter King - R-NY. Now it is a rare occasion indeed when I agree with a York politician. But I do agree with the views of Congressman Peter King. Representative King took the unpopular and politically incorrect stance that there is at present a concentrated effort to radicalize elements within the Muslim population. Representative King made this statement: &I don't believe there is sufficient cooperation by American Muslims with law enforcement.& Representative King additionally recognizes that al-Qaida terrorists are attempting to recruit Muslim youth in this country.
But at the same time the White House is praising American Muslims for helping fight violent extremism. Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough while speaking at an interfaith forum at a Northern Virginia mosque, commended its members for taking an &unequivocal& stand against terrorism.
But I would be surprised if the White House took any other stance. It is almost humorous to watch these elected candy asses who have sat around for years while Colonel Muammar Qaddafi (Gadaffi, Gaddafi,Qadaffi or any other spelling you might choose) acted like the turd he is, have had very little to say about him, are now, with the Libyan leader appears to be on the run, calling for his head. AND President Barack Hussein Obama came down with the tough statement that Qaddafi needs to go NOW. And that he would be &HELD ACCOUNTABLE& for his actions. One must wonder just exactly HOW this turd will be HELD ACCOUNTABLE? Of course the world's most articulate and intelligent human NEVER tells us how any of his so called sanctions will actually help matters at all.
AND, just why have our leaders Republican as well as Democrat have averted their eyes away from Colonel Qaddafi for a number of years. It seems to me that when Colonel Qaddafi claimed credit for the bombing of the passenger jet over Lockerbie, Scotland he permanently placed himself on the hit list. Why Jim, it almost sounds as if you would be for sending in a team to take this turd out? Yep, that's what it sounds like alright. Call me crazy but I have not observed many U.N. Sanctions or Obama threats which have HELD ACCOUNTABLE many who needed some serious punishment. HEY!! Maybe we can hold some hearings to determine whether or not Colonel Qaddafi is behind Muslim terrorism. But that would call for a vast majority of the elected mutts to admit to something which is not politically correct.
So, Barack, spare us all your tough talk. OH! Before I forget, remember in 2008 when Presidential Candidate assured Americans that the prison at Guantanamo WOULD BE CLOSED and that the terrorist bastards being held there WOULD RECEIVE CIVILIAN TRIALS? Seems as if Guantanamo is still open, as it should be AND the terrorists will instead of civilian trials be tried by Military Tribunal. Actually this is as it should be. BUT what this shows me about President Barack Hussein Obama is that he will say whatever gets him the most votes, EVEN if what he tells the AMERICAN PUBLIC ARE ALL LIES. But since he is a Liberal/Democrat/Progressive/Socialist, then why should any of us be surprised?
DIVERSITY:
Last week, there was an article in our very own (Sub) Standard . The article was written by someone named Katie Smith and it had this headline: &HISTORIC FIGHT TIED TO STATE'S DIVERSITY&. Once again people who apparently cannot tell the difference between a chocolate malt and a jar of warm monkey urine have decided to interject &Diversity& into the equation. And as a part of this article there is this e allegedly made by Arnoldo De Leon who is a History Professor at Angelo State University: &Men and women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds have fought for the Lone Star flag and everything it stands for.& A sub headline is ÐNIC GROUPS KEY TO SUCCESS&.
This idiotic article says that Texans should remember that the state in 1836 was a &diverse society that engaged many races and cultures in the battle.& Now up until this time they have not told of the battle of which they speak but one might guess that he was speaking of the battle at the Alamo. The article points out that there is a misconception that Texas' independence was won by any single ethnic group.
Funny, but I cannot remember any Texas History class I ever took which indicated that it was one single race or ethnic background which was responsible for Texas independence. So I have never been under this misconception. I k from an early age that many of the Alamo defenders were Hispanic as well as Caucasian as well as two blacks, one a male who was a slave owned by William Barrett Travis and another a black female slave owned by Jim Bowie. Spare me the lecture about slavery and remember that this was 1836 and slavery did exist in the United States.
The History of Texas or for that matter the history of any state or country should report what happened and the society at that particular time whether it is politically correct; right; wrong; confusing; or any other description. History is about what happened and when it happened and the effect it had on the people/state/nation/country/continent etc.......
But once again we must have diversity crammed down our throats.
Actually what caused the people who were all Mexican Citizens decided that they wanted their independence from a Mexican government which was presided over by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. And as in the American Revolution not all citizens were in favor of the revolution against Mexican authority but the war for independence in the area known as Texas actually had damn little to do with diversity or ethnic background or anything else other than people's desire to be free.
So at the risk of pissing off this article's writer and the history professor I must tell them both that neither of them could find their own backsides with a set of direction. And let me put this little saying to rest: &Our Diversity Is Our Strength&. Whoever said that would also need a guide to locate their own rear end. Actually when you really look closely at the diverse races, religions, cultures, ethnic backgrounds and languages, it has been our ability to work around and disregard those differences which has made our country great. The Liberals/Democrats/Progressives/Socialists DEPEND UPON THOSE DIFFERENCES AND THEIR ABILITY TO CONTINUE TO USE THEM AS A TOOL TO DIVIDE OUR COUNTRY.
Oh! And for the benefit of the author and the history professor, a chocolate malt is sweet and thick and cold. I will wait for you to tell me if the monkey urine has a different quality.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, 2nd Lt. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
&The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.&................... THOMAS SOWELL
&The most fundamental fact about labor unions is that they do not create any wealth. They are one of a growing number of institutions which specialize in siphoning off wealth created by others, whether those others are businesses or the taxpayers.&..... THOMAS SOWELL
&A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.&............. SAMUEL ADAMS
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood; NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO; PBS
MORE STUFF:
I remember several months back hearing of General David Petraeus being questioned by a House Armed Services Committee when he was asked the question; &General Petraeus, what are you doing to reduce carbon emissions in the war on terror?& I remember hearing the audio on this as well as reading several articles on this matter. There were also other equally idiotic questions posed to the General. I did not recall who asked this question but this past week received a number of e-mails revealing that this question was asked by none other than Arizona 8th District U.S. Congressional Representative GABRIELLE GIFFORDS.
I know that Congresswoman Giffords was one of the people shot in the Tucson incident. But when you really get to looking into this matter it seems as if the prosecution is more concerned with Congresswoman Giffords being shot than about the six people including a U.S. District Judge who were MURDERED.
I have received a number of e-mails from Arizona residents who like me were plenty hot about the shooting but many of these people are not Gabrielle Giffords fans.
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Also this past week in the (Sub) Standard there was a very interesting article with a front page photo of Boris Karloff as Dr. Frankenstein's Monster holding up a small blond haired boy in a scene from the 1939 movie &Son Of Frankenstein& which also featured Basil Rathbone and Bela Lugosi. The article also told of this little boy as being the voice of &Bambi& in the 1942 Walt Disney classic.
This little boy's name is Donnie Dunagan. Mr. Dunagan is a resident of San Angelo, Texas and a native Texan. The article told of his life as a 25 year U.S. Marine Corps veteran. A career where he received several gunshot wounds while serving in Vietnam. He retired as a Major. The article told of the other movies in which he was involved. And he spoke very highly of Walt Disney which made me feel pretty darn good. It is a shame to see the depths to which not only the Walt Disney Studio has sunk. Of course I guess they have to play the game, but I still believe that Walt Disney is spinning in his grave.
Anyway this was an interesting article and &Son Of Frankenstein& in my opinion was the absolute best of those old horror classics starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney Jr. Also I have seen a number of movies this past month which had Basil Rathbone in the cast. Basil Rathbone is one of my favorites. HE WAS SHERLOCK HOLMES. I liked all of the Sherlock Holmes movies. He as also a really excellent villain particularly in &The Adventures of Robin Hood&, &Fortunes of Captain Blood& and &The Mark of Zorro&. The Hollywood experts also say that Rathbone was the absolute BEST &Swordsman& of all the Hollywood stars.
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I cannot begin to tell you how many e-mails I have received from retired policemen; retired school teachers; retired firemen; and a number of other retirees who worked at union jobs. Not some, not most, but ALL of the emails I received had very negative views of the unions and pretty well parrot Dr. Thomas Sowell's statement that Unions are not for workers. Unions are for Unions......... Here is a small sample of some of the comments:
Teacher unions are an impediment in that they protect and reward the weak performers in administration and in the classroom
Tenure...eradicate ASAP
Evaluations...what a joke
One man wrote a letter to the editor of the (Sub) Standard
He was a 43 year veteran and belonged to the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen.
He said that if they expected increases in their benefits they had to show that they k k the skills required for their job and learn the improvements. He pointed out that the labor organizations now demanding job skill improvements.
He additionally pointed out that some children are receiving their diplomas even though they are illiterate.
Now that last statement might be hard for some to believe but for those of us fortunate enough to have lived in Hobbs, Mexico we observed at least one high school student who graduated from Hobbs High School and was given a football scholarship to a college which is now a member of the Big 12 Conference and play football 4 years for that college and then play a couple of years in the NFL. He was one hell of an athlete but had some serious character issues as well as being functionally illiterate and could not carry on an intelligent conversation. I k many teachers at every level in the Hobbs Public School System who k of grade changing and grade fixing and there is no need to think that this same situation does not still exist at many public schools.
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I heard one of the s people on FOX s make the statement that &You have to sort of feel sorry for Charlie Sheen&. Well let me set you minds at ease. I do not feel sorry for Charlie Sheen. They tell us that life is about choices. I will be the first to admit that I have made some bad choices at various points in my life. Fortunately most of my choices have been pretty good. I had a man tell me one time, &Jim, if you are right 51% of the time you are ahead of most of the world.& I hope my percentage was better than that. But when you see people like Sheen and a bunch more of these whining, pampered Hollywood types act as if the rules are not made for them, then it shouldn't surprise anyone when they melt down at a fairly early age.
After watching small doses of interviews with Charlie Sheen, it seems to me as if he resembles Jack Nicholson's character in &The Shining&.
Of course Charlie Sheen being a pure turd shouldn't come as a surprise to any of us seeing who his father is. Martin Sheen has been a varmint for years.
Anyway, while Charlie Sheen is on the Varmint List and shall remain there, I am declaring this a &Charlie Sheen Free Zone.&
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I am still waiting for these ly elected Republicans to start aggressively showing some conservative values.
Keep on these elected officials AT EVERY LEVEL.
And don't forget that if you own your own home YOU ARE PAYING SCHOOL TAXES.
If you rent, the owner of your home/apartment pays school taxes and charges you rent with those taxes built into your rent payment. Therefore YOU ARE PAYING SCHOOL TAXES.
Just because you do not have children in school does not mean you should not be interested in and active in your local school boards and in the content of the public school curriculum.
Keep on these elected officials AT EVERY LEVEL.
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Oh, before I go let me once again remind you to KEEP ON THESE ELECTED OFFICIALS AT EVERY LEVEL
Later
JEM
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March 2nd, 2011 HISTORY / SALARIES / MEMORIALS
WEDNESDAY - March 2, 2011
Hello once again from the West Texas Association Of Jingoistic Gun Ownin' Four Wheel Drive Suburban Drivin' Conspiratorial Angry Mob Members.
SALARIES:
I received a list of salaries for some of the mistreated Wisconsin school teachers and public employees who have been in the headlines the past couple of weeks. This first list is the annual average salary including benefits (for a 9 month contract for the teachers):
Teachers:
Elmbrook $91,065
Germantown $83,818
Hartland Arrowhead $90,825 - Highest $122,952 - Lowest $64,942
Men Falls $81,099
West Bend $82,153
Waukesha $92,902
Sussex $82,956
Mequon $95,297
Kettle Mor $87,656
Muskego $91,341
Staff:
Arrowhead - Bus. Mgr. $169,525
Arrowhead - Principal $152,519
Germantown - Asst. Principal $123,222
Elmbrook ---- Elementary Principal $142,315
Madison ---- Asst. Principal $127,835
University of Wisconsin:
Prof. of Business $327,828
Chancellor $437,000
Prof. of Nutritional Science $254,877
Madison Sanitation Workers 2009 salaries:
One employee made $159,258 in 2009 including $109,892 in overtime and other pay
One employee made made $125,598
7 employees made $100,000
30 employees made over $70,000
Milwaukee City Bus Drivers:
136 drivers made over $70,000
54 drivers made more than $80,000
18 drivers made more than $90,000
8 drivers made more than $100,000
Top driver made $117,000
The source was WTMJ for this information according to the correspondence I received.
It is my understanding that at the present time the employees do not pay anything toward their retirement and the State government is requesting that the employees contribute 5.8% toward their generous retirement.
I retired from Mexico under the State Public Employees Retirement program. At the time of my retirement I was contribution 16.3% of my gross salary toward our retirement system. I am certainly not anti-public employee by any stretch of the imagination but having the taxpayers pay 100% of a public employee's retirement is a bit far-fetched.
I can only hope that the Wisconsin Governor stands by his guns and does not give in to the George Soros funded demonstrations.
MEMORIALS:
This week there have been several deaths of some people whom I consider worth mentioning.
The first is FRANK BUCKLES who was the last living World War I veteran left alive in America. He was 110 years old. As if that were not noteworthy enough the story said that Mr. Buckles enlisted in WW I at the age of 16 which of course meant that he lied about his age. He devoted the last years of his life campaigning for greater recognition for his former comrades, prodding politicians to support a national memorial in Washington and also working on a biography. To his biographer he was known as &The Humble Patriot&. This also should bring to mind that we are losing our WW II Veterans at the rate of about 1,000 per day. I know that in the past 5 years I have lost 3 friends who were WW II Veterans who lived here in San Angelo, Texas.
We all heard that Jane Russell also passed away this week. I can remember watching Ms. Russell in many movies when I was growing up. I also remember that she was pretty outspoken about removing any mention of God in our public schools. She of course opposed such a move and in later years was an outspoken conservative. When we look back we can see many Hollywood stars who were not ashamed to be patriotic toward their country. Unfortunately we are losing those Hollywood types at an alarming rate.
This week another notable death was that of Hall of Fame Centerfielder, Duke Snider. He played in what I believe was really the &Golden Age& of Baseball. I once heard him joke about being the &Third Best& Centerfielder in York. Of course the two ahead of him were Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle. Damn, baseball in the City of York must have been really something during those years. Duke Snider, like Jane Russell and Frank Buckles was a class act.
HISTORY:
When I was a kid growing up in Houston, Texas, I can recall taking classes in Texas History from about the third or fourth grade on up through my Junior High years. Of course I always liked history and particularly Texas History. Of course back then I believe the teachers and the system were more interested in teaching us what had happened in the past rather than the self esteem of some students. Texas History was plenty interesting then and still is to me.
Of course this past week from February 23rd until next Sunday which will be March 6th was a time in the history of Texas which every school kid k were the dates which commemorated the siege at The Alamo in 1836. There were some real heroes killed at this well known battle in which Mexican forces under the command of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. And contrary to many stories there were a number of survivors of the Alamo battle which included a number of adult females and one black slave who had belonged to Jim Bowie. These survivors retold the story of the battle at the Alamo and one would almost have to believe their version of what had occurred over the suppositions of some so called historians which were based upon some letters found about 150 years later which were THOUGHT to have been written by a Mexican soldier in 1836.
Of course this was not the first time when someone attempted to re-write history in order to spare the self-esteem of some. In 1907 Enrique Esparza who was one of the survivors as a child made this statement: &You ask me if I remember it. I tell you yes. It is burned into my brain and indelibly seared there. Neither age nor infirmity could make me forget.&
After the Alamo, here is a e from Juan N. Seguin:
&Yes, fellow soldiers and fellow citizens, we are witness to the meritorious acts of those who, when faced with a reversal in fortune, during the late contest, chose to offer their lives to the ferocity of the enemy. A barbarous enemy who on foot herded them like animals to this spot and then proceeded to reduce them to ashes. I invite all of you to join me in holding the venerable remains of our worthy companions before the eyes of the entire world to show it that Texas shall be free, and independent. Or to a man , we will die gloriously in combat.&
Of course many of the men who died at the Alamo were famous before that epic battle.
In 1846 after Texas had become a State in the United States of America there was another war with Mexico. During this war another famous Texan was killed in battle. There was a story about this man and the pistol he designed which bore his name, &The Walker Colt&. This past week on the History Channel there was a program on MAGNUM FIREARMS. Part of the story of the Walker Colt and its designer Samuel Walker was told on this program. According to the History Channel and firearms experts the Walker Colt, which was a black powder cap and ball handgun, was the MOST POWERFUL HANDGUN ever until the mid-1980's. This program stated that the Walker had more muzzle velocity and generated more foot pounds of energy than the Model 29 Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum used by Dirty Harry. I believe it was the 454 Casull which finally surpassed the Walker Colt.
There was one story of Texas Rangers Samuel Walker and John Coffee (Jack) Hays were both armed with two Walker Colt pistols. They were attacked by an overwhelming number of Comanche warriors. Evidently both of these old time Rangers armed as they were, each with a pair of Walker Colts, defeated a much larger force of attacking Comanche Indians. And keep in mind the Comanches were noted for being fierce fighters.
In this second Mexican War one unit was made up of a company of Texas Rangers who indeed did &Remember the Alamo&. They were in a small Mexican town in a fierce gun battle with Mexican troops. According to the History Channel and stories which I had read in the past, Samuel Walker was shot by a Mexican sniper and died shortly thereafter from the wound. According to the History Channel before he died he gave his pair of Walker Colts to another Ranger and told him to put them to good use.
This program said that the Texas Rangers went absolutely berserk over the death of Samuel Walker and pretty well stopped taking prisoners and of course history tells us that they became known to the Mexican citizens as Los Diablos Tejanos (Texan Devils). I read several accounts where the American commanders made requests to General Winfield Scott to recall the Ranger Company as they were uncontrollable.
There have been many books written about the history of Texas and the history of the Texas Rangers. They are too many to mention but I have read these accounts almost my entire life and find them very interesting.
It saddens me to think that our American and Texas heroes gave it their all and would be ashamed of how the government of our great country has turned its back on its people.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, 2nd Lt. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
&We should not assume that our own freedom and democratic of government can be taken for granted. Those who created this country did not.&............... THOMAS SOWELL
&Without a sense of responsible citizenship, voters can elect leaders who are not merely incompetent or corrupt, but even leaders with contempt for the Constitutional limitations on government power that preserve the people's freedom.................. We already have such a leader in the White House and a succession of such leaders may demonstrate that the viability of freedom and democracy can by no means be taken for granted here.&.................. THOMAS SOWELL
&One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors.&................ PLATO
&Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies, especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong. It is weakness----it is weakness that invites adventurous adversaries to make mistaken judgments.&................... RONALD REAGAN
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood
MORE STUFF:
I imagine that most of you, like me are getting plenty sick of watching interviews with Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen is, in my opinion, a complete buffoon BUT he more than likely came by it righteously as his father is also a liberal/progressive buffoon. I heard part of one interview where some dippy squack asked Charlie Sheen if he was Bi-Polar. Sheen acted as if he had no idea what she meant and perhaps he didn't as he appears to have the intellectual depth of a can of Alpo. Actually I would classify Sheen more as Octo-Polar, Bi-Polar just doesn't seem to cover the degree of goofiness of this idiot.
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I am still waiting for the Republican Party to come up with a candidate capable of defeating the current idiot occupying the White House. I have watched this so called President show his true liberal/progressive/socialist colors on his statements regarding the fiasco in Wisconsin. Not only is he completely biased in favor of the union employees but apparently does not seem able to grasp the fact that the State of Wisconsin does not have the funds with which to finance the demands of these unionized public employees.
I can't begin to tell you how many personal e-mails I have received from retirees from the public sector at all levels: Federal; State; County; City and Public Education. Damn near every one of them tell me that the demands of the Wisconsin employees coupled with their lack of contribution to their OWN RETIREMENT FUND, are completely out of whack.
I watched one guy with a Cheese Head hat speak to a reporter the other day. I thought that if this guy was any indicator of the intelligence of the average Wisconsin school teacher, the education system in that state was in deep trouble. As a matter of fact if I were suddenly overcome with an uncontrollable urge to just choke the crap out of someone I would choose either that guy or Charlie Sheen. It would be a toss up. After listening to this slug spout off his unintelligible demands the thought struck me that if you asked this mutt to name a classic film he would either pick:
&Dude Where's My Car& or &Romey and Michelle's High School Reunion&.
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Here is a e:
&As this government stands, I despise and abhor it..... I speak as one poor individual----but when I speak, I speak the language of thousands. If I am asked what is to be done when a people feel themselves intolerably oppressed, my answer is OVERTURN THE GOVERNMENT!&
This statement was made by PATRICK HENRY, BUT, it was not aimed at Britain; it was aimed at the United States, as the thirteen former British colonies considered whether to adopt a constitution. As he had done a decade earlier in his famed cry for '&Liberty or Death&, Henry once again roared for the rights of free men to govern themselves with as few restrictions from government as possible. His roar would reverberate through the ages of American history to this very day.
This e and statement were taken from the book, &LION OF LIBERTY& which is the story of Patrick Henry who was a real States Rights advocate. In 1787 he refused to attend the Constitutional Convention and prophesied tyranny under national government. In 1788 he led a fight against ratification and demanded a BILL OF RIGHTS and LIMITS ON FEDERAL POWER.
One wonders what Patrick Henry would have to say about our present administration's abuse of federal power. I would sincerely like to know just exactly what all of those founders would say about our present condition in this country.
&Lion of Liberty& ..... Harlow Giles Unger
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&The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country....VICTORY OR DEATH.& These were the last lines written to The People Of Texas and All Americans In The World on February 24, 1836 by Lieutenant Colonel William Barret Travis at The Alamo
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I will leave you this week with this observation:
If it should move and doesn't, use WD-40.
If it should not move and does, use Duct Tape
With these thoughts in mind, I might suggest a couple of buckets of WD-40 be applied to the Republican National Committee so that they might possibly get their asses in gear and get us a GOOD CANDIDATE who can DEFEAT Barack Obama in 2012.
I then must also suggest that we use some Duct Tape on RINOs and some of the so called conservatives who are now playing cute games and forming Exploratory Committees to test the political waters before they announce. t Gingrich is supposedly waiting to see how well his latest book does before he makes the plunge. Quick! Someone duct tape his butt down so that he doesn't get things more screwed up than they are at the present time.
And let us all pray that the Wisconsin Governor stands firm. If he gives in the liberals/progressives/socialists will take this as a sign of weakness and the sharks will go into a feeding frenzy.
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Later
JEM
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February 23rd, 2011 PIRATES / CIVILITY / WISCONSIN
Hello once again from the Non-Union West Texas Constitution Supporting Jingoistic Four Wheel Pickup Driving Non Green Energy Believing Right Wing Conspiratorial Intolerant Mob Members.
WISCONSIN:
I watched several days of Wisconsin Union School Teachers and Union Public Workers show their backsides in the various demonstrations at Madison, Wisconsin. Many of my closest friends are retired school teachers and retired public sector workers. But when I see the Rent-A-Mob demonstration which is purely politically driven and the people who are carrying the signs and screaming the loudest are actually demonstrating when they should be either at work at their jobs or in their classroom teaching I find it rather difficult to understand their situation.
Now as I understand it, Wisconsin School Teachers are NOT ALLOWED TO GO ON STRIKE. So what do they do instead? They call in sick and then go to the State Capitol Building and demonstrate and carry signs in front of EVERY S MEDIA OUTLET IN THE COUNTRY. Then they go to a physician and obtain a phony sick note for the day they took off from their jobs seeming to never realize that hundreds of millions of people have watched them show their collective backsides on NATIONAL TELEVISION.
Now as if lying their asses off about missing work were not enough they compound the situation, in my eyes, by telling the national television audience that this is NOT ABOUT MONEY; NOT ABOUT THEMSELVES; BUT RATHER ABOUT THE STUDENTS.
Please pardon me if I choose not to buy that story because we all know that it IS ABOUT MONEY. Now don't get me wrong, if I thought these people were underpaid and being mistreated I would support some of what they say, BUT it does not give them the right to violate the law, which not only they but the physicians who knowingly wrote them the phony sick notes obviously did. They committed FRAUD at the very least.
I do not know the political views of the Republican Governor of Wisconsin but when the state has NO MONEY then some steps must be taken to keep from financially going in the hole even further. I can't even begin to tell you all how many I have watched salary freezes take place when the price of oil went down from $40 a barrel to $8 a barrel. Those salary increases not only meant that pay raises for those years was frozen but even a person who had performed at an outstanding level and normally would have received a merit pay increase within his/her pay scale, received NOTHING.
Did we like it? Hell no! But did we call in sick and get fraudulent notes from our physicians? Not likely.
Again, I do not live in Wisconsin BUT IF I DID, AND IF MY ELECTED STATE OFFICIALS RAN OUT OF THE STATE RATHER THAN FACE THE ISSUE, THEN I COULD NOT REST UNTIL THOSE COWARDLY MUTTS WHO HAD RUN OUT ON THEIR RESPONSIBILITY WERE REPLACED. Also I would work to see that their pay for those days on which they were absent for no other reason than a lack of backbone was withheld along with the pay of the lying teachers and public sector workers.
Ah, but never fear, because in addition to the Rent-A-Mob people who came to Wisconsin in order to demonstrate along side of the Wisconsin liars, they were joined by none other than the so called reverend JESSE JACKSON. Now at this time I would like a show of hands of all who believe that JESSE JACKSON really gives a crap about Wisconsin Teachers or Public Sector Workers.
I am not sure what the telephone number for Rent-A-Mob is but I would strongly imagine that you could call either the SEIU or the NEA and get some results. But what number should call to get a Race-Baiting Varmint? Might I suggest looking in the telephone directory under: Rent-A-Turd; or perhaps Rent-A-Varmint; or perhaps Rent-A-Lying-Bigot; and I am pretty sure they would all list the home phone number of JESSE JACKSON.
Hey! I just had a thought! It seems as if the Governor of Wisconsin has perhaps hit on something that will solve all of our problems. As I understand it, the Democrat State Legislators from Indiana are also on the run to keep from doing their jobs. AND they have also chosen Illinois as their State of Refuge. SO if all of the states with Republican Governors will just follow the lead of the Wisconsin Governor then maybe ALL STATE DEMOCRAT LEGISLATORS will flee their respective states and meet in Illinois where they can all gather in one location and join hands and sing &We Are The World& or perhaps follow the example of the Reverend James Jones or perhaps just stay in Illinois FOREVER.
In any event those employees who have chosen to lie their asses off and then appear on national television should face legal action by the taxpayers of that state.
PIRATES:
I read earlier in the week where four American Citizens had been captured and were being held prisoner by Somali Pirates. Then yesterday I heard and read where those American Hostages had been killed by these Somali Pirates.
I also read where two of the Americans killed had been sailing around the world since 2004 handing out bibles. I am really sorry that Americans lost their lives to these vermin. I must also question their choosing to sail in an are which is known to harbor these pirates.
Now that this tragedy has already happened I believe that our country along with Great Britain and any other country who has naval vessels and is tired of being victimized by these so called Pirates, should perhaps saturate the area and give the Somali Pirates a &Little Taste of British/American/Australian/South Korean Steel& as would be the term used in the old pirate movies.
The United States and South Korea have shown that these people can be dealt with. And when I say dealt with, I do not mean &Bring Them To Justice& which is the lame term which I first heard used by President George W. Bush and is presently being copied by the world's most articulate and intelligent human. When I say dealt with I mean ELIMINATED WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. (For those of you presently residing in the BROKE People's Republic of San Francisco, that means; Cancel Their Ticket; Foreclose On Their Mortgage; Make Birth Control Retroactive; Kill Their Sorry Asses).
Years ago when our Great Grand Daughter was about 4 years old she came to Hobbs with us and we kept her for a couple of weeks. She was plenty funny and noticed everything. She could spot a bug from a great distance. She and I walked out the front door one afternoon and she immediately spotted a lone ant walking across the sidewalk. She immediately screamed &ANT& and ran over and stomped him/her into an unrecognizable spot on the sidewalk. So I walked her around the side of the house where there was a huge ant bed and I asked her what we should do about all these ants. She gave me an honest answer; &Grandpa, let's kill 'em all&. Not a bad prescription for handling the Pirate crisis.
CIVILITY:
Let me e a few lines from an article I read a couple of days ago in the (Sub) Standard :
&Two former presidents---one Republican, the other a Democrat---will lead a national institute to promote civility in political discourse in the city where U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was severely wounded in a shooting rampage that left six dead.&
For those of you laboring in the Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Austin, that city would be Tucson Arizona. And please notice that the SIX MURDER VICTIMS were mentioned, not by name but by lumping them all together in a neat little box. The article went on:
&The National Institute for Civil Discourse will be at the University of Arizona. Former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton will serve as co-chairmen.......Our country needs a setting for political debate that is both frank and civil, and the National Institute for Civil Discourse can make a significant contribution toward reaching this goal, Bush said.&
Now I know why Bill Clinton is involved in this farce. Anything which will get his name mentioned and get him media attention is always foremost in the goals of the world's biggest narcissist. Well, maybe not the biggest but he sure is amongst 'em. But what saddens me is that former President George H.W. Bush has allowed himself once again to be teamed up with this turd just as he was in the tidal wave incident several years back. I had a major problem with their efforts at that time just as I did with several other relief efforts in which our government had a hand. Notice that they always say that these victims need clothing, food, water and medical supplies BUT they do not want you to donate the items, they instead want MONEY which of course may be distributed in many different ways which includes payoffs to any number of varmints.
SO, I believe that I will stay away from EVER CONTRIBUTING ANYTHING TO ANY GROUP WHO SAY THEY ONLY WANT CASH.
And along these lines of a Civility Institute, if you speak harshly about someone are they going to sic the Civility Police on you? Or is this another opportunity for our Federal Government to create a department? Will it be the Department Of Civility which will have a Director; Assistant Director; Associate Director; Administrative Assistant To The Director; Human Resources Director For Civility; and the list goes on.
Well if this is the case then let me be the first to tell you that this Civility Institute is a &Load-O-Crap&. And along the lines of Un-Civil Speech which is not a federal violation as of this moment, let me borrow a description which I read in a &Dilbert Cartoon&. I immediately thought of JESSE JACKSON when I saw this line as it was applied to the &Boss& by Dogbert: & A Humorless Stain On The Soul Of Humanity&. Pretty well sums up my personal opinion of JESSE and several others on the Varmint List.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bobby Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, 2nd Lt. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
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&Democrat are for meddling in other countries -- but only provided a change of regime will harm U.S. national security interests.&.................................. ANN COULTER
&Nothing more clearly illustrates the utter irresponsibility of Barack Obama than his advocacy of high-speed rail. The man is not stupid. He knows how to use words that will sound wonderful to people who do not bother to stop and think.&........ THOMAS SOWELL
&Republican moderates warn their fellow Republicans that they need to move away from the Ronald Reagan approach, in order to attract a wider range of voters. BUT Ronald Reagan won two consecutive landslide elections......... What Regan had was a clear, coherent and believable message. Even voters who did not agree with him 100 percent could respect that and prefer it to the alternative.&..... THOMAS SOWELL
&A muttonhead, after an education at West Point---or Harvard---is a muttonhead still.&...THEODORE ROOSEVELT
&I NEVER TAKE A STEP IN FOREIGN POLICY UNLESS I AM ASSURED THAT I SHALL BE ABLE TO EVENTUALLY TO EVENTUALLY CARRY OUT MY WILL BY FORCE.&................. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper; Planned Parenthood
MORE STUFF:
I read an article a few days back in the (Sub) Standard on the editorial page. It was written by one of the regular editorial columnists with whom I seldom agree. But his article this week did not deal with politics but rather with today being the 100th anniversary of the death of Quanah Parker. For those of you not all that familiar with American History and particularly the history of Texas and the Southwest, Quanah Parker was one of the last recognized Chiefs of the Comanche Tribe. A couple of months back I read a book written by S. C. Gwynne --- The Empire Of The Summer Moon and it is a pretty in depth biography of Quanah Parker and his family. It also gives an excellent description of frontier life in Texas. The book has several photographs of Quanah Parker and he is what every kid my age grew up thinking and Indian Chief should look like. His likeness should be on some of our coins. I recommend this book for anyone who likes American/Southwest History.
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I read a copy of an article in Roundtable regarding the proposed Health Care Legislation passed by our elected boobs and signed into law by Barack Obama and which has subsequently been declared &UNCONSTITUTIONAL& by a Federal Judge. It is just another example of how elected officials have decided to relieve us of money which is rightfully ours and not theirs. I am referring to a 3.8% tax on home sales and other real estate transactions. Only our federal lawmakers and incompetent president could relate your home sale to health care. And I can remember when the insurance you had was called &Hospitalization Insurance& or &Medical Insurance& then somewhere along the line they changed it to &Healthcare&. I imagine it was along about the time that City and County Governments changed the title of &Personnel Officer& to &Director of Human Resources&. I never cease to be amazed at the way governments and employers change the name of a position but the pay and the duties remain the same.
Keep in mind the term &Life Insurance&. If you purchase &Life Insurance& does this mean that you will live longer? It would be better if it were called what it is, &Death Beneficiary Payment Insurance&, but then it might be a bit harder to sell.
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Speaking of name changes, do any of you remember when President George W. Bush was right in the middle of the NAFTA Superhighway and the Trans Texas Corridor? Well that died out pretty much when it all came to light and people began to raise hell about the idea. Well, don't worry because they have an alternate plan. However, this one is supposedly designed to come right through San Angelo, Texas. This latest North American Union fiasco is known as the Ports-To-Plains Corridor and is designed to go from Mexico to Canada. Just the same as the NAFTA Superhighway of which the Trans Texas Corridor was a major part of. I am sure that some will be happy with this idea but I am not. One of the really nice things about living in San Angelo is that we are NOT located on an Interstate and while U.S. 87 and U.S. 67 do run through our city it is not the same is an Interstate or a Port-To-Plains Corridor. When I see what an abject failure the European Union is I hesitate to think what a North American Union would look like under the direction of Barack Hussein Obama and his band of merry men.
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Each month I receive a copy of Imprimis which is a publication of Hillsdale College. As I understand, Hillsdale is a college which is located in Michigan and receives NO FEDERAL FUNDING and has conservative professors and has not fallen under the spell of flaming liberalism/socialism as have most other American Colleges. This month's publication had a copy of a speech given by Brian T. Kennedy who is president of Claremont Institute . This speech was sponsored by Hillsdale's Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C.
In one part of his speech Mr. Kennedy is addressing the subject of Muslims, both here and abroad, who actively seek the destruction of America. Here is a portion of that speech:
&Here at home, the threat is posed by the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD and its organizational arms, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the various Muslim student associations. These groups seek to persuade Americans that Islam is a religion of peace. But let me e to you from a document obtained during the 2007 Holy Land Trial investigating terrorist funding. It is a Muslim Brotherhood Strategic Memorandum on North American Affairs that was approved by the Shura Council and the Organizational Conference in 1987. It speaks of Enablement of Islam in North America, meaning; establishing an effective and stable Islamic Movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood which adopts Muslims' causes domestically and globally, and which works to expand the observant Muslim base, aims at unifying and directing Muslims' efforts, presents Islam as a civilization alternative, and supports the global Islamic state wherever it is. Elsewhere the document says:
The process of settlement as a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the means. The Ikwan [the Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah's religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes.&
Last week didn't we hear from James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence that the Muslim Brotherhood was merely and Umbrella Group; Largely Heterogeneous; Secular?
Apparently a few tidbits of information have escaped the keen observation of Mr. Clapper and more than likely a few others in the Obama administration.
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Get on those Representatives and Senators. Let them know that we have had ENOUGH and are not willing to put up with business as usual.
Later
JEM
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February 16th, 2011 CONSERVATIVE CONCERNS / INCOMPETENCE
Hello once again from the Central Time Zone Headquarters For SUV Drivin' Fossil Fuel Burnin' Jingoistic Gun Ownin' Conspiratorial Right Wing Angry Mob Members.
CONCERNS:
The past week I watched and heard a number of poll results as to who the leading prospects were likely to be as the Republican Party's choice for their 2012 Candidate for President of the United States.
To say that I was shocked is a mild understatement. To say that I am deeply concerned is a mild understatement. To say that I believe if our choice as the 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate is made among &The Usual Suspects&, that Barack Hussein Obama will be elected for a second term is dead on.
In a couple of the polls I heard that Mike Huckabee was the choice of something like 36% of Republicans. I heard that Mitt Romney was the choice of around 33% of the Republican voters.
Then the list went really down hill with Sarah Palin and t Gingrich and the Senator from Florida Marco Rubio and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. Now I like much of the stuff said by Governor Barbour but I do not believe that he is what the conservatives in this country need as President. Nor do I believe that any of these people can defeat Barack Hussein Obama in a general election.
When we look back at the 2008 Presidential race Republicans from all around our country sat idly by and basically allowed the Mainstream s Media push John McCain to the head of the Republican candidate list. And even back then I was trying to tell people that McCain had several flaws in my view. BUT, the Progressives/Democrats/Socialists K that McCain would be the easiest candidate to defeat in the General Election and began to really pump him up.... UNTIL he was chosen as the Republican Candidate, then they dropped him like a hot rock.
Now if the Republican Party on a national level wants to put up another candidate with the same &Moderate& outlook as John McCain then they can damn sure count me out insofar as financial support. I am still waiting to see how the Chairman of the RNC is going to perform before I make any commitment on the national level. I will still more than likely support our local Republican Party and Candidates but I cannot in good conscience cast another vote for another John McCain.
And if you do not want Barack Hussein Obama in office for a second four year term then we had better be about choosing a candidate who is prepared to do what is right rather than what he is told to do to get elected. I really feel like everyone who cast a vote for John McCain in the 2008 election was sold a bill of goods and I know in my case McCain was simply the lesser of the two evils.
I am not sure at this moment just how someone like Jersey Governor Christie would fare in a national race. Nor do I know how John Bolton would do nationally. BUT either of them would be light years ahead of anyone on the list of &The Usual Suspects&.
When will the Republican Party wake up and realize that their game plan over the past 6 to 8 years has been pretty much a pathetic failure. And, you notice, I am including some George W. Bush years in that observation. When will the Republican Party wake up and realize that the terms &Compromise& and &Bi-Partisanship& do not mean the same thing to Democrat/Progressive/Socialist politicians as they do to Conservatives.
The brutal truth is that many of our so called Conservative Republican politicians are in fact NOT Conservative but are more &Moderate& in their approach. Once again we are allowing the s Media to define the paths taken by elected officials.
If anyone feels comfortable with that, then so be it. I just hope that all this &Moderation& and &Compromise& makes everyone feel comfortable with the thought of Barack Hussein Obama as President for an additional four years.
Oh, before I forget.... How weak did the United States look during all this Egyptian government takeover business?
INCOMPETENCE:
When you realize that the Director of Homeland Security is Janet Napolitano and that drunken monkeys could make better decisions the term INCOMPETENCE might perhaps jump out at you. Well just when you thought you had seen/heard it all up jumps James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence and makes Janet Napolitano look almost qualified. You notice I said ALMOST.
I watched Clapper testifying before the House Intelligence Committee describing the &Muslim Brotherhood& as: Largely Heterogeneous; Secular; an Umbrella Group............. (Now for those of you living in The People's Republic of San Francisco, let me clarify the meaning of these terms):
Secular - not religious; not connected to a church or religious group
Heterogeneous - differing in structure; dissimilar; composed of unlike parts
Umbrella Group - any comprehensive, protective alliance
OK. Now the Muslim Brotherhood has described itself as:
An Islamist group, committed to implementing Sharia law, supporting Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Keep in mind that they were instrumental in the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981 and later joined forces with al Qaeda. Another Brotherhood offshoot is Hamas.
So it looks like our Homeland Security AND our National Intelligence is in the hands of complete boobs.
But then again should we blame the incompetent boobs OR should the blame be placed on the shoulders of the person responsible for their appointments? And of course that would be the President of the United States. Let me see now. I have to think on that for a moment or two...................... OK. I've thought about it long enough.... The blame must be placed on Barack Hussein Obama. One must wonder if he had two huge dart boards. One containing the positions to be filled by appointments and the other containing the names of the most inept mutts in the country. Then blind marmosets threw darts and the selections were made in that manner. It had to be either that or perhaps the world's most intelligent and articulate human has as little grasp of character and abilities as he does on foreign policy and universal health care.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, 2nd Lt. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
In a recent article Thomas Sowell wrote of the differences between former Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano and the Republican Party. The following are a few of his comments which are dead on:
&One of the reasons Marciano took so much punishment in the ring was that he had shorter arms than most other heavyweights. It was easier for others to hit him than for him to hit the..... In a sense, Republicans today are in a similar position in the political arena. With most of the media heavily tilted toward the Democrats, Republicans are going to get hit far more often than they are going to get in their own punches...... The difference is that Rocky Marciano understood from the beginning that he was going to get hit more often, and prepared himself for that kind of fight. His strategy was to concentrate on developing punches powerful enough to nullify his opponents' greater number of punches.....Republicans take the opposite approach from that of Rocky Marciano -- and often with opposite results. That may be why they managed to lose both houses of Congress and the White House in recent years, in a country where there are millions more people who call themselves than there are who call themselves liberals&.................................. THOMAS SOWELL*
* I know that was a bit long but it really hit home with me. The Republican Party should know that they are going to take more hits BUT if when they hit back it is like a Marciano right cross which was devastating. Also keep in mind that Rocky Marciano is the ONLY Heavyweight Champion to go UNDEFEATED in his career.
&What are called 'tax cuts for the rich' have been reductions in high tax rates under four different administrations, including the Democrat administration of John Fl Kennedy. In each case, going all the way back to the 1920s, the reduced tax rates have led to increased tax revenues for the government.&..........THOMAS SOWELL
&A gentleman told me recently he doubted if I would vote for the Angel Gabriel if found at the head of the Democratic Party, to which I responded that the Angel Gabriel would never be found in such company.&........ THEODORE ROOSEVELT
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL; Sierra Club; Muslim Brotherhood; ALF (Animal Liberation Front); ELF (Earth Liberation Front); James Clapper
MORE STUFF:
I saw several reports this past week and received a number of e-mails regarding select Public (Government) Schools in the Mansfield, Texas Independent School District offering ARABIC Classes as a REQUIRED LANGUAGE. This is in response to a federal grant received by the school district. A so called Moderate Website toned it down somewhat reporting that it will not be MANDATORY as first reported but would be offered as an elective course to higher grades and available in lower grades within the framework of state-mandated curriculum. Keep in mind this latter information was from a so called Moderate Website. The Moderate Voice.
Most of the other Websites indicate that this subject at least was initially listed as Mandatory but is now evidently on hold due to complaints by local parents. But if this is the kind of crap we can expect when a school district receives money from the Department of Education then I say it is time to do away with this useless department and put the money to better use............ like say hire some more Border Patrol Agents. Oh, but that might make it look like we actually were interested in protecting our borders.
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Last week I received probably over a hundred e-mails regarding HB 1388 which according to the e-mails was secretly passed last week without any public knowledge and that this bill provided funding for re-locating HAMAS refugees into our country.
After checking on this I learned that HR 1388 was passed in 2009 and although I did not read the entire bill I did read the summary and saw that this legislation dealt primarily with funding and education spending....... which might be almost as dangerous as HAMAS refugees.
Hey! I just had a thought. How about we move the terrorist prisoners to the United States and hold them in Washington, D.C. and move the Department of Education to Guantanamo? And they could take the Department of Energy with them.
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A couple of days back I walked through the room where my wife was watching Shepard Smith on FOX s and &Shep& was talking about how the Egyptian Revolution wouldn't have been possible, and that a debt of gratitude was owed by the Egyptian People to.... now get ready for this....... al Arabiya; al Jazeera; CNN, FOX s and other s outlets. Actually all I saw out of any of these s outlets was speculation and wild ass guessing and quite a bit of whining. I know that one of the FOX s female reporters was allegedly sexually molested by some &Protestors& and I do not believe that should be taken lightly, but much of the rhetoric coming out of Egypt was pretty much like &Shep& does every day in my opinion.... and that is to piss down our backs and try to make us believe it is rain. Small wonder &Shep& is on my Varmint List.
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This morning I bounced out my front door to pick up my morning edition of the (Sub) Standard and found NOTHING. For some unknown reason we did not receive our Wednesday morning dose of Progressive/Liberal crap. But in all fairness to the (Sub) Standard , earlier in the week they did do a story on the death of former high school and college coach, Emory Bellard.
Coach Bellard passed away in a nursing facility near Austin, Texas. Many of you outside the State of Texas might not recognize the name right off the bat but I will bet that all of you who are fans of college football will remember some of the things which Coach Bellard contributed to the game. Coach Emory Bellard won State Championships in football at Breckenridge, Texas and San Angelo, Texas. He went on to become an assistant coach at The University of Texas under head coach Darryl Royal where he became the offensive coordinator in 1968. This was the first year anyone saw the Wishbone Formation. I can remember in 1968 which was the first year of the Wishbone. Texas tied their first game and lost their second. Their third game was against Oklahoma State and Texas was behind at halftime. In the third quarter, quarterback Bill Bradley was replaced by quarterback James Street and that was all it took. Street, in my opinion, was the best Wishbone quarterback EVER. Texas went on to win the Southwest Conference and trounce Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl. In 1969 Texas went undefeated and were crowned National Champions. James Street NEVER LOST a game that he started for Texas. Texas was also awarded the 1970 National Championship although they lost to Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl. Emory Bellard was the man who made the Wishbone work. Of course he had a few horses to help him.
Coach Bellard then went on to Texas A & M where he was their head coach for 7 years. He then went to Mississippi State as their head coach and in his second year there upset Bear Bryant's #1 ranked Alabama team. After his retirement he returned to the high school ranks in the Houston area at Spring Westfield High School. In all he coached 21 years in Texas High Schools with 177 wins -59 losses- and 9 ties with 3 State Championships. Everyone I know here in San Angelo who k Coach Bellard had nothing but praise for him. In the late 1960s I was in Houston and went to an event where Coach Darryl Royal was the speaker. Many of the questions were regarding the still Wishbone Offense and Coach Royal gave complete credit for the success of that offense to Coach Emory Bellard.
Coach Bellard was 83 when he left us. Pure Class.
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While reading Thomas Sowell's column, &Rocky and Republicans& I recalled the first time I saw Rocky Marciano fight on television and it was the night that he completely destroyed Joe Louis. I immediately disliked him until Joe was counted out and Marciano went over to help him up. Then I immediately got pissed at the manager of Joe Louis for putting him in the ring with a young, hungry, double tough opponent like Marciano. My Dad and I watched the fight when Rocky won the Heavyweight Championship. Jersey Joe Walcott was champ by then and Joe Walcott was not only a superior boxer but could hit as well.
Walcott beat Rocky to a pulp for about 12.3 rounds and then Marciano threw the best and hardest punch I had seen or maybe have ever seen. He threw a short right cross and Walcott was unconscious IMMEDIATELY. On his way down Rocky hit him with a left hook which he never felt. I have seen that fight probably 100 or more since then on film and am always amazed at the toughness and ability to take punishment and conversely to give it back, of Rocky Marciano.
I also watched Rocky Marciano's final fight with Archie Moore. Of course at the time Archie Moore was the Light Heavyweight Champion but could fight at about 195 and then trim down to 175 to defend his Light Heavyweight Championship. It was a really good fight with Moore landing some really good shots and knocking Marciano down..... but not out. Then Marciano as described by Dr. Sowell finally caught up with Moore and knocked him out. Rocky retired after that with 49 fights 49 wins and I believe 44 knockouts. After the fight a reporter asked Archie Moore which of Marciano's punches hurt the worst, to which Moore replied, &All of 'em&. Rocky Marciano was another class act.
Of course this was back in the days when you only had ONE World Champion in each weight class and it was probably the golden age of boxing as Sugar Ray Robinson was still a champ. As was Kid Gavilan. Willie Pep. And if you ask anyone who followed boxing back in the 1950s and 1960s to name you the greatest fight they ever saw.... and if they saw it and will tell you the truth it was: Archie Moore vs Yvonne Durelle who was the Canadian Light Heavyweight Champion. In the early rounds Durelle had Moore on the canvas 5 or 6 and Moore ended knocking Durelle out in the later rounds after knocking him down 4 or 5 . Not a dull moment. Also, and this was later on, I NEVER saw Joe Frazier in a DULL FIGHT. He was always coming on.
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Get on your local Republican organizations and convince them that we need a real candidate in 2012 not some politically correct appeaser. We have all seen enough of that.
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Beam Me Up Mr. Scott
JEM
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February 9th, 2011 JOB / SUPERBOWL
Greetings from a very cold Headquarters For Gun Ownin' 4 Wheel Drivin' Pickup Ownin' Brown Energy Lovin' Jingoistic Right Wing Conspiratorial Angry Mob Members.
SUPER BOWL:
Half Time Show
Please join me in writing letters to the NFL and letting them know just how we feel about their all-time low in Super Bowl programming. Now in all honesty I didn't have a dog in the fight insofar as the two teams playing for the NFL Championship. Actually I could have lived a pretty normal life regardless of which of the two teams won. BUT as most of you have already guessed my take on the National Anthem as screeched out by Christina Aguilera was a bit negative. As was my opinion of the Half-Time show as performed by The Black Eyed Peas. Just so their can be no doubt in the minds of anyone including the residents of The People's Republic of San Francisco, my opinion of the Black Eyed Peas' so called show at half-time ranked somewhere between watching Dung Beetles on the Animal Planet and watching Cockroaches breed. Now in all fairness to &The Peas&, I had to form this opinion by only catching roughly 10 second segments as watching &The Black Eyed Peas& for any greater length of time in any one sitting could give me a case of, as Jonathan Winters called it, The Green-Apple-Quick-Step. If anyone in the Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Massachusetts needs an explanation then I would suggest contacting Barney Frank.
National Anthem
Once again, I am sure you all know my feelings already on ANYONE attempting to turn our National Anthem into some type of Rock/Hip-Hop/Country and Western tune where the focus is on the voice range of the person singing/screeching/bellowing/whining or any other verb you might choose to use. I also am not sure who is to blame for choosing Christina Aguilera to perform our National Anthem but whom ever is to blame, whether it is the NFL or FOX Television Network or a combination of these two or someone else entirely different from these two entities should be punished using the fair standards of Sharia Law. Maybe I am being a bit harsh in my judgment but is it asking too much for the performer to actually KNOW THE WORDS? I can remember learning the words to the Star Spangled Banner PRIOR to entering the first grade which would have made me 5 years old. I still know them just is I learned the Pledge of Allegiance prior to attending school and I still remember those words. So, either Ms. Aguilera has forgotten the words OR she never k them to begin with OR she possesses the intelligence of a Porta-Potty.
Commercials
Without a doubt this was the worst set of commercials I have ever seen during a Super Bowl. Of course there might have been a couple I missed but out of the hoards of commercials I saw during the Super Bowl I actually thought a couple of the Volkswagen commercials were reasonably well done but most of the others were really stupid and certainly did not approach some of the great commercials in the past; particularly some of the Budweiser commercials featuring the Clydesdales and of course the Coke commercial featuring Mean Joe Green and my personal favorite of all was the Cat Roundup. But this year's commercials were really lame as a whole
And of course I have somewhat of a problem with Chrysler who spent something like $9,000,000 on a commercial and besides being a pretty stupid commercial, I believe that Chrysler is operating on taxpayer bailout dollars.
Anyway, as for me I think the NFL leadership has been attacked and bitten by rabid marmosets and have additionally be stricken with an attack of lunacy insofar as their approval of the pre-game; half-time; and post-game shows and we might as well throw in the sideline squacks who detain the coaches leaving the field at half-time and returning to the field following half-time and posing really stupid questions to these coaches who have a bit more on their minds than pacifying some female personalities who more than likely don't know a screen pass from a screen porch.
So with that being said and with the probability of an NFL Lockout next season I believe I will bid the NFL a fond ADIOS until they get their minds right. There is plenty of high school and college football to keep me satisfied.
BORDER:
This past week I have heard several sound bites of Janet Napolitano telling us all just how safe the US/Mexican Border is along with what a great job she is doing. I have also heard from law enforcements along this same border telling us that things are completely out of control. Now just as soon as one of the Border area Sheriffs or Police Chiefs give their thoughts on the matter we heard Janet Napolitano tell us that she has Walked; Flown; and Rode Horseback all along the Mexican Border and has not observed any problem areas.
OK let's take her first mode of transportation.. she walked.... I will venture to say that she either didn't walk in the troubled areas OR SHE IS LYING. Anyway, I didn't think Jabba The Hut walked.... I always thought Jabba more or less slithered.
Second mode... flown. Must have been in a C-130 transport or maybe she hitched a ride behind the Wicked Witch of the West on a broom.
Third mode....Rode horseback.... Had to have been a team of the Budweiser Clydesdales..... Perhaps that is why they were absent in Super Bowl commercials.
Anyway, Janet Napolitano is no more believable than any other member of this current administration including Barack Hussein Obama.
Now just so everyone will not think that I am only on the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists, I also heard some clips from an appearance at some function by former President, George W. Bush. Now I have always thought that President Bush was much more honest than the media gave him credit for being, and I do believe that he had the guts to take action in some cases but I never did agree with his views on immigration. I still do not agree with him. I heard one clip of him talking about too many Americans were falling into a pattern of &isms& which he elaborated to mean &Nativism&; Separatism; and some other type of &ism&. Once again he sounded like he did back in about 2005 when he and John McCain and Fat Teddy and Lindsey Graham got their &Comprehensive Immigration Reform& stuffed up their backsides.
Ah, but things didn't stop with former President Bush, Laura Bush and daughter Barbara Bush also had to slip in their views toward &Freedom of Choice& and Gay Marriage.
Since I have often said that former Presidents should be seen and not heard I must say that I mean ALL FORMER PRESIDENTS.
JOB:
Last week while drinking coffee with a friend at the local Target Store we had a conversation with a pretty remarkable young man. He is an employee of Target and is always friendly and has a pleasant smile for everyone. It was actually on our coldest morning and he had on a heavy coat and you could tell that he was very cold. He got something warm to drink and sat at the next table from us. During the conversation he made the comment that he had to walk a couple of blocks to work, which raised the question of ownership or access to a car.
He then told us that he was actually classified as legally blind and could not get a license. Then pursuant to our questions this young man told us a bit about himself. He was actually from Missouri where he worked at one of the Target Stores. He requested and received a transfer from that store to the one in San Angelo where he needed to move so that he could help out his 93 year old aunt. The aunt actually lived in a small community about 40 miles North of San Angelo and since he could not drive, he spent $8 per day getting to and from work in a bus service for handicapped people. He said that recently his Dad and other brothers and sisters had convinced the 93 year old aunt to give some thought to an assisted living facility. She did and chose to move to a facility in Kansas.
The young man's Father and others were handling the sale of the aunt's property so the young man could move to town and be closer to public transportation. He said that he had a problem from birth with being able to focus on any one thing for any length of time. He had a device which assisted him in reading bar codes and another device which helped him in distance viewing. He said that he really considered himself lucky since he was born with this condition and he felt that he was much better off than someone who was born with good vision and the lost it for various reasons.
He said that Target was working on getting him transferred to a Target Store in Kansas so that he could be closer to his family. All in all I thought this was a really remarkable young man with a really positive attitude and outlook on life. My views on the Target Stores also rose considerably when I checked and found that they did everything possible to help their employees re-locate when requested.
A few minutes later I checked out and this young man did the honors and from dealing with him at the cash register you would never know that he was disabled in any way. So, every time I hear someone whining about their job or about their situation in life, I will think of this really nice young man and will once again appreciate his overall outlook and attitude.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; John Bowcutt - WA; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, 2nd Lt. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - US NAVY; Levi English, Ethan English, Russell Brown - US NAVAL ACADEMY; SSgt. Mike Campagna - SPECIAL FORCES; SSgt.Michael Strawn, Sgt. Logan McKinzie, Capt. (Fr) Kevin Peek, Maj. Fred W. Tanner, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, Joel Reynolds, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
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&The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism&, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened..... I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The DEMOCRAT PARTY has adopted our platform.&...... NORMAN THOMAS - 1944 Socialist Party Presidential Candidate
&The British spaper The Telegraph has reported that part of the price which President Obama paid to get Russia to sign the START treaty, limiting nuclear arms, was revealing to the Russians the hitherto secret size of the British nuclear arsenal.....To betray vital military secrets of this country's oldest ally behind the backs of the British government, is something that should set off alarm bells. Following inn the wake of earlier betrayals of prior American commitments to put a nuclear shield in Eastern Europe, and the undermining of Israel and calculated insults to its prime minister, this pattern raises serious, and perhaps most unthinkable, questions about the Obama administration's foreign policy.&.... THOMAS SOWELL
&The Obama administration's response to the current crisis in Egypt likewise threatens to make being an ally of the United States less attractive.&................... THOMAS SOWELL
&To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.&. THOMAS JEFFERSON
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olbermann CURRENT TV; Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Lt. Gov. Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Mayor Edwin Lee (SF); Governor Jerry Brown; Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen; NFL
MORE:
Jersey Governor Christie is looking better and better to me. I saw several reports where Governor Christie has vetoed legislation which would have funded Planned Parenthood. He has also stood up to the teacher's unions as well as other unions in his state and that takes some guts. And apparently he did it without feeling pain, BECAUSE IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
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Great s, Beavis and Butthead are coming back to MTV. Boy what a thrill. This only shows the level of today's television programming. Hey! I wonder if they are going to get John McCain to do their voices? If you listen really close you will hear the similarities.
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And maybe I'm wrong but I think it is about time to hear a little less out of the mouth of Megan McCain. She is starting to sound awfully &Progressive&. But then, why should that surprise any of us? Her father is Progressive to the core. How in the hell did he ever get to be the Presidential candidate of the Republican Party?
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I was listening, momentarily, to Shepard Smith the other day and noticed that when he referred to the Pro-Mubarak people he referred to them as &Thugs& but when he spoke of the rock and Molotov Cocktail throwing Anti-Mubarak group he called them &Protestors&. Fair and balanced alright. Perhaps that is why Shep is on the Varmint's List.
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I listened momentarily the other morning to ESPN Radio and heard one of their boob reporters say; &Everyone wants Tiger Woods to get back the form he had prior to his problems. Golf just is not the same.& Well apparently this ESPN reporter has made a slight error since not &Everyone& is interested in Tiger getting his form back. I'll bet the other guys on the tour are not the least bit interested in seeing him return to his previous level. And this reporter obviously has me confused with someone who gives a crap about Tiger's form. Once again, political correctness rears its ugly head.
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Speaking of jobs, I can remember a number of years back on a very hot summer day in Hobbs, Mexico where the temperature was in excess of 100 degrees Fahrenheit and another officer and I were driving down North Turner Street when we passed a business which had hired someone to dress up in a dog suit with a huge rubber and cloth head and flag down cars at the entrance to a business. I told the other guy that every time we thought our job was demanding that we should think of that person in that dog suit standing out in the blazing sun and we would then realize that we had it pretty damn good.
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Well, Varmint Keith Olbermann was not out of a job very long. After being FIRED from MSNBC and their dozen or so viewers, he has now been employed by Current TV which is the TV Network owned by Al Gore. Now there is a match made somewhere. Who says GOD does not have a sense of humor?
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Am I wrong or have the world's most articulate and intelligent human (Barack Hussein Obama) and his Secretary of State, Nurse Ratchet (Hillary Clinton) changed their demands on just how rapidly Egyptian President Mubarak MUST vacate his position? Seems as if during the first hours both of these mutts were calling for Mubarak's IMMEDIATE resignation. Seems as if they are both now waffling a bit on their demands. But then again I guess that their demands are sort of like their statistical information in the fact that they are poorly thought out and accuracy is an unknown characteristic.
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I heard one report yesterday and did not catch the name of the Senator/Congressman who was presenting a piece of legislation which would make it ILLEGAL for anyone to sell A TOY FIREARM to a child. It would be OK to sell that toy to an adult who I guess in turn could give the toy to a child. But this approaching total madness. THESE CLOWNS MUST BE REPLACED. Either that or should have the Vulcan Death Grip applied to them by Mr. Spock... or anyone else who is proficient at it.
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One last item from Fort Worth, Texas. Last week a special order was issued by Chief Jeff Halstead and anyone violating this order would likely be fired. The Fort Worth Star Telegram reported that the order prohibits police employees from CONSIDERING ∽̱ color; gender; age; national origin; religion; disability; economic status; sexual orientation; gender expression; gender identity; transgender status; membership in a cultural group or OTHER INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS or distinctions while performing police duty.
OK Chief now that we know what we CANNOT consider, how about issuing another special order telling your officers what they CAN CONSIDER. Or another option is that your as could resign and go to work for the ACLU or some other idiotic organization.
Mr. Spock, go pay this boob a visit.
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Join me in writing the NFL and pointing out their shortcomings insofar as their judge of talent. Also join me in a total boycott of the National Football League next season. This is about all I can bear for another week.
JEM
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February 2nd, 2011 ECOLOGY / DIFFERENCES / MEXICO
Hello once more from the West Texas Headquarters For Gun Ownin', Jingoistic, Fossil Fuel Burnin', Carbon Footprint Leavin' Conspiratorial, SUV Drivers Of America.
I might also have added damn cold to that description. I know that many of you live in parts of the country where the winter temperatures regularly drop into the sub-zero range and I can appreciate that you will not find our SINGLE DIGIT TEMPERATURES here in West Texas all that bad. But let me tell you that 9 degrees with a 20 MPH North wind blowing is plenty cold. Then to top it all off at about 7:40 A.M. this morning the electric power went out and did not return until around noon. Now for those of you living in the People's Republic of San Francisco that would be about 4 hours and 20 minutes. Now here is where the fun begins:
I contacted a neighbor who had been watching his television and heard the announcement that parts of San Angelo would be without electric power for approximately 20 minutes. So I gathered up our Korean Student and left to take her to the University for her Class. I then went to coffee and returned to my house at about 9 A.M. to check and see if the power had returned and found that it had not. And this had been a little over an hour since the power had gone out. So I decided to call the power company to report the outage and to see when we could expect it to be turned back on. Here is where things turned pretty ugly.
I first dialed the local number for my electric provider and found that the number listed in the telephone directory was good for several other electric providers but not for mine. So I went and dug out my electric bill from last month secure in the knowledge that there would be a number on the bill which I could use. So I called the first number on the bill and of course got picked up by an automated voice which directed me to do several things which I did and after doing the last thing which was to enter my zip code I got another recording which told me that their records did not show any service to that location.
So I try the second number and got a bunch of automated answering devices and followed their instructions and finally ended up at the very first site and was requested to repeat every step which I had already done. Along about this time my attitude was approaching that of a polar bear on Dexedrine so I hung up and called the third number which was located on the back page of my bill. I of course was greeted by another automated voice and followed their instructions and got placed on hold. Every 30 seconds or so I would get an automated response telling me how important my call was to them; Then I would get another recorded message telling me that my safety was very important to them and that I should NEVER place anything metallic in any electrical outlet. DAMN! I was sure glad they told me that since occasionally I am overcome by an uncontrollable urge to stick an ice pick into a wall socket; Ah, but then another recording telling me that again they were concerned about my safety and that I should ALWAYS use outdoor cords and wiring for outdoor electrical needs. Wow! What dynamite advice.
Finally I got a real person and gave her my name; address; city; state; zip code; telephone number and she told me she would check and came back in a few minutes and said that they had received something like 1148 calls reporting the outage from my city. She then told me that the estimated time for power to be restored would be in about 20 minutes which would have been 10 A.M. Then before signing off she asked me for a number at which she could contact me if they required any additional information. I gave her my cell phone number and she replied that is in Abilene, Texas...right? I said NO that I was some 80 or so mile SOUTH of Abilene and repeated my information. She then repeated the telephone number back to me which I had given her barely 30 seconds prior AND SHE HAD THAT WRONG.
Along about then I could have bitten the bumper off a Mack Truck but I hung up and wondered if everyone who had an electrical outage had to go through the same bunch of stupid stuff with which I had just had to deal. Anyway a little after noon the power came back on and all was well again....... at least for now.
ECOLOGY:
I heard on the radio the other morning that some study group... not to be confused with an oversight committee...... or a blue ribbon panel, had reached the conclusion that Genghis Kahn was the most, now get ready for this, ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CONQUEROR in history. This bunch of idiots came to this conclusion by connecting the information that by killing some 40,000,000 people and wiping out whole civilizations, that much of the land which the Kahn had conquered was returned to forest and thereby making the land more environmentally friendly.
All I can say is I wish I had some red and white face paint; some really oversized shoes with flat floppy soles; and a really small car so that these clowns could dress the part and really feel like they were performing a great service. Of course as we all know, little kids are scared to death of clowns and don't want any part of them and their horn honking loud act.
Back to the Great Kahn. I saw a program on the History Channel a couple of which told of the Kahn wishing to create a trade route which would go from the East Coast of China to Europe. In order to make this route safe he sent ambassadors to a number of the countries along the route requesting that they honor his master plan. One of the countries was a Muslim country presided over by a Caliph. This Caliph evidently was not overly endowed with brains and cut the hair off the Kahn's ambassadors and sent them back. Surprisingly enough the Kahn thought that perhaps the Caliph had misunderstood his wishes so he sent three more ambassadors to make peaceful offers to the Caliph. These ambassadors met with the same treatment and had their heads shaved and sent packing.
So the next thing this good Caliph heard from the Great Kahn was when the Kahn took somewhere around a half million troops and killed everyone and everything in that country. The people who had shaved the heads of the Kahn's ambassadors were executed in a somewhat novel manner. Their mouths, ears, noses, eyes and every orifice on their bodies were filled with molten gold and silver. So I guess that lesson was that it was not a good idea to piss off the Great Kahn. Wonder if that tactic would work in today's world.
DIFFERENCES:
Last Saturday in the local (Sub) Standard they had a couple of editorial articles, side-by-side from the heads of the Tom Green County Democrat and Republicans. Now anytime someone tells you that we are all the same in our basic views and that we can and should really go all out to reach across the aisle and gather around the campfires and sing, &Michael Row The Boat Ashore&, is just fooling themselves. Let me show you the differences in the directions of these two political parties.
First The Interests Of The Democrat Party: (according to their county chairperson)
The Arizona Shooting
Bi-Partisan and Civil Dialogue
Civil Rights Act
Endangered Species Act
Children's Health Insurance Program
Seating Plan for Lawmakers (Republican and Democrats sitting together)
Sarah Palin not to blame for Arizona Shootings BUT her use of the words &Reload& and &Don't Retreat& are very provocative.
Culture of Guns
The Republican Party Leadership:
Voter Integrity Act which includes PHOTO I.D. and Reform of Mail-In-Ballots
Fair Re-Districting Plan
Anti-Illegal Immigration Legislation: ELIMINATES SANCTUARY CITIES and ENSURES THAT SOCIAL SPENDING DOLLARS GO ONLY TO UNITED STATES CITIZENS.
Sonogram Bill to protect innocent life from being lost to rash or uninformed decisions.
A Responsible BALANCED BUDGET WITHOUT RAISING TAXES.
It appears to me as if there are some rather glaring differences in the two parties and of course I am not trying to say that none of the Democrat politicians or supporter have some good ideas or input. But when one of your main topics for discussion is the seating arrangements for Congress and words like Re-load and Don't Retreat send you off the edge of the cliff like so many lemmings, all this togetherness seems a bit unproductive.
MEXICO:
The country of Mexico is in a shambles. It is hard to tell the good guys (if there are any left in government) and the bad guys (the criminal drug cartels). Apparently the life expectancy of government police officers and elected civil officials approaches that of a wounded impala in the midst of a pride of hungry lions on the Serengeti. (For those of you residing in the Freedom Loving Worker's Province of Los Angeles that isn't very long). I heard and read of one smaller city whose entire Police Department took off and that city now has ONE Police Officer which is the Chief of Police and she is a 20 year old Criminal Justice student. Now if she lasts longer than a couple of days then there are a couple of possibilities:
1. She is in bed with the drug cartels - figuratively or literally
2. She is of absolutely no threat to the cartels.
I can't think of a third reason for the cartels allowing her to live.
Keep in mind that regular working citizens in Mexico had their right to own firearms taken away many years ago. The only people who own firearms in Mexico are the drug cartels and the government. And that is what the Obama Administration; the Democrat Party; Liberals; Socialists; Progressives and Muslim Terrorists want for us.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; John Bowcutt - WA; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, 2nd Lt. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - 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, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, Joel Reynolds, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
&The mainstream media continues to portray all who oppose Obama in any way as racist. Despite a list of failed policies, overreaches into the private sector, violations of the Constitution and planned destructive legislation too numerous to mention in this article, many Americans are still fearful of criticizing our first black president. INCREDIBLE............ My fellow Americans, you must not continue to allow yourselves to be 'played' and intimidated by Obama's race or the historical context of his presidency. If we are to save America, the greatest nation on the planet, Obama's progressive agenda must be stopped.&........ LLOYD MARCUS - A Tea Party Patriot who is also a Black American.. NOT HYPHENATED.**
** Mr. Marcus published an article which is well worth reading. I believe the article is entitled; A Black Man, The Progressive's Perfect Trojan Horse&
&Many of the people we honor today are the people who are skilled in the rhetoric of grievances and promises of 'rights' at someone else's expense. But is that what is going to make a better America?&.... THOMAS SOWELL - From his article entitled HEROES vs. OLD
&Despite the old saying, 'Don't cry over spilled milk&, the Environmental Protection Agency is doing just that.......In a classic example of this process, the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with regulations to file 'emergency management' plans to show how they will cope with the spilled milk, how farmers will train 'first responders' and build 'containment facilities' if there is a flood of spilled milk.&...... THOMAS SOWELL
&There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.&........ GEORGE WASHINGTON
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Mayor Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Governor Jerry Brown; Governor Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); DOUBLE PHONY SOCIALIST LYING WANNABE REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour; Charlie Sheen
MORE STUFF:
Here is a e I received from an article written and sent out by my friend Ben English. You might notice that in our prayer list appears the names of two young men who are both students at the United States Naval Academy. Those to exemplary young men are Ben's sons, Levi and Ethan. Anyway Ben sent me an article a couple of weeks ago and at the end of this article was this e:
&Schoolyard bullies do not pick on the kid with the brass knuckles.& I liked that e and when I ran into Ben a couple of weeks back at, dare I say it?
A Gun Show. There now you know. Please do not tell N.Y. City Mayor Michael Bloomberg............ On second thought go ahead and tell the turd.
At the Gun Show, Ben told me the story of how he had come by the e. As I remember it, he got it from his Grandfather who was raised in the Southwest Texas community of Carrizo Springs, which is a small town located in a ranching community. According to the story related by Ben's Grandfather who was attending school at Carrizo Springs as a young lad, a kid from an Eastern city showed up at the school. He was dressed in a manner pretty different from the rural kids in West Texas. So naturally the first opportunity arose outside the classroom some of the local boys were going to teach the kid a lesson. But when they tried the kid reached in his hip pocket and withdrew a set of brass knuckles and proceeded to check the role. (For those of you residing in the Gulag of Austin that means he commenced to kick-ass and take-names). From that day on, the kid was left alone and Ben's Grandfather told Ben that &Schoolyard bullies don't pick on the kid with brass knuckles.& At least they don't do it a second time for sure.
Now I understand that type of logic perfectly well. There are lots of countries and governments understand it. I can guarantee that the State of Israel understands it and evidently has the brass knuckles to prove it.
But what happens when the entire Middle-East is under the control of Radical Muslims who do not believe that not only Israel but no other nation who does not bow under to Sharia Law has the right to exist? I am certainly no expert in Middle-East affairs and I am not entirely sure what or who set off the troubles in Egypt. But I am positive that any leader who has been in power for 30 years as the head of a nation has made some enemies and may be falling under the old saying that &Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely&. But I have to think back to the &Carter Years& when Jimmy Carter tossed the Shah of Iran over in place of the Iran government. Wasn't that a brilliant political move insofar a foreign policy. And while the Shah may have been a Mutt, he was our Mutt. The same might be true with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. I have absolutely no faith in the foreign policy abilities of the worlds most articulate and intelligent human and I hate to see the Middle East get into an even worse turmoil with these incompetent jerks occupying the White House and control of the U.S. Senate.
Actually I believe that former U.N. Ambassador, John Bolton might be the wisest person to listen to on this matter. Time will tell but we cannot afford to throw Israel into the lion's den.
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I heard several reports and read an article telling of an undercover operation approved by N.Y. City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. This undercover operation was conducted at a Gun Show in Phoenix, Arizona. The first thing that jumps out at me is the question of just exactly at what point in history did the Mayor of N.Y. City have any jurisdiction in Phoenix, Arizona? But we can't let a little thing like jurisdiction get in the way of Mayor Bloomberg's investigation, can we? And his big deal was that a NON FEDERALLY LICENSED DEALER sold a firearm to someone who pretended to not want a background check run.
HEY MAYOR BLOOMBERG!!! The background check ONLY APPLIES TO FEDERALLY LICENSED DEALERS! I know of no way that a non-Federally Licensed Firearm Dealer can legally conduct a background check on someone. It is probably a violation for anyone to knowingly sell a firearm to a convicted felon or to a non U.S. citizen but I do not know that for sure and I'll wager that the idiot the people of N.Y. City have elected as their Mayor doesn't know of one either. But of course we can't let something like the law get in the way of this boob's play for gun control. The article said that all exhibitors are required to follow state and federal gun laws. So if a state or federal gun law was broken then I say it is up to the State of Arizona to pursue the incident AND NOT THE YORK CITY MAYOR.
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DAMN! It is sure nice to know that you have made the right decision about an elected official. As I alluded to last week, Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is not going to seek re-election in 2012 which suits me fine as I view her as a condescending varmint of the highest. Then last Thursday my views were confirmed when the (Sub) Standard wrote an opinion stating that Senator Hutchison had served her constituents well. In the past 7 years I have found damn little on which I and the (Sub) Standard are in agreement. I won't go into the article as I do not wish to see my lunch regurgitated on my computer keyboard. Anyway, getting rid of her is a good thing.
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I an entertainment section of the (Sub) Standard a few days back I read an article about the release of &The Mechanic&. The article convinced me that many of these entertainment journalists are on about an even par with reporters from MSNBC, CNN, Sports Illustrated, ESPN Radio and various other incompetents. The article said &John Statham OUTSHINES CHARLES BRONSON&. I can only think of a line from an old &Stan Freeburg& recording of &The Yellow Rose of Texas& when Freeburg said: &Now you can cover up YELLOW and you can cover up ROSE, BUT DON'T YOU COVER UP TEXAS!& I am sure there are some good actors around today BUT DON'T TRY TO TELL ME THAT ONE OF THESE AGE TWINKIES CAN COMPARE WITH CHARLES BRONSON. I think I wrote a few months back that while I am not a huge Brad Pitt fan, I thought he did a really good job in &Legends of the Fall& which is one of the few er films I have enjoyed. I have not seen the &True Grit& yet but plan to remedy that either this or next week.
Actually most of my favorite actors around today are all about my age or older:
Robert Duval
Anthony Hopkins
Gene Hackman
Jeff Bridges
Wilford Brimley
Clint Eastwood
Tom Selleck
I can still remember movies which had very little real action and little or no special effects upon which today's films seem to thrive.
Try:
Inherit The Wind
To Kill A Mockingbird
And even some which did have some action but not the blow up kind we see today:
Bad Day at Black Rock - One of my favorites which I saw at a sneak preview in Houston. It did not run at the downtown theaters only the neighborhood theaters.
As a matter of fact, almost anything with Spencer Tracy was worth watching more than once. As was any movie starring Errol Flynn.
And if you think that John Wayne could only make Westerns - try Donovan's Reef and The Quiet Man
Bottom line is that trying to compare these so called actors today with some of the really great MOVIE STARS of the past is idiotic.
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Also, keep this thought in mind. While I keep harping on staying on top of our elected officials and keep their lines busy if they are doing or supporting something which you don't like, by the same token when they do something that you do like, let them know that you appreciate their actions there. I am sure they are not accustomed to hearing from their constituents when the do good. So let them know when you are pleased.
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Beam Me Up Scotty
JEM
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January 26th, 2011 APPOINTMENT / SPEECH / TOUGH
Greetings once again from the Central Time Zone Headquarters Of The Vast Right Wing Vitriolic Anti-Green Jingoistic Gun Ownin' Angry SUV Drivers.
APPOINTMENT:
Last Friday, the world's most articulate and intelligent human announced that he was appointing General Electric Company CEO Jeffrey Immelt as the head of a Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. BOY! What a relief. For a moment there I was under the impression that we were not going to have any Councils; Committees; Blue Ribbon Panels; or some other useless group by some other name. Are we not fortunate that the world's most intelligent and articulate human is around to appoint this type of quality individual to head another group.
If you wanted to find a bigger turd to appoint to a position, I challenge you to find a bigger one than Jeffrey Immelt. Am I wrong, or is this the same Jeffery Immelt who was the CEO of General Electric several years ago when it was learned that General Electric was doing some back door business with Iran?
I guess that must have been another Jeffery Immelt and another General Electric operating behind the scenes.
The bottom line is that Jeffery Immelt fits right in with the other people that the world's most intelligent and articulate human has chosen to associate with over the years. And the following is an Obama e from the Associated Press article:
&Our job is to do everything we can to ensure that businesses can take root, and FOLKS can find good jobs. We're going to BUILD STUFF and INVENT STUFF&.
WOW! I really love it when the world's most articulate and intelligent human really gets down to the explanation of another of his brilliant ideas. I wish he wouldn't be so technical though. Wonder if that last couple of statements made a chill run up the leg of Permanent Varmint, Chris Matthews?
Anyway this is just another useless move appointing a useless turd to a useless position on a useless panel created by the most useless President this country has seen. Sorry Jimmy Carter, your title has been taken away............... but just barely.
TOUGH:
I read, heard, and received photographs of a rather disturbing occurrence which took place at a celebration of Martin Luther King Day in Columbia, South Carolina. According to the articles and I am looking at a photograph of the event as I am writing this piece:
&The annual MLK observance at the state house in Columbia SC had an interesting twist this year. The event is held on the north side steps of the statehouse. Prominent at that location is a large bronze statue of George Washington. This year, the NAACP constructed a BOX to conceal the Father of His Country from view so that participants would not be offended by his presence.&
Well, to the NAACP and to those who would be offended at viewing a statue of our Nation's FIRST PRESIDENT and who is one of those directly responsible for the formation of The United States of America and is a true American Hero, I feel that I must point out that the NAACP is becoming almost as irrelevant as the United Nations and to those NAACP Members or to anyone else who might be offended at a statue of the Father Of Our Country TOO BAD. Or as Major Frank Burns on the TV series M.A.S.H might have said, &HARD CHEESE&. Or perhaps I should say what I really feel, TOUGH SHIT!
Or perhaps the NAACP and their obviously incompetent leadership might be better served if they pursued the answer to these two questions:
1) Why can Goofy talk and Pluto cannot?
2) Why Popeye and Bluto always fought over the ugliest woman ever?
What a bunch of buffoons.
SPEECH:
Yesterday evening I was torn between watching the entire State of the Union speech or going out and eating pizza. We chose the latter and were not sorry for the choice we made. We took six young Korean students out for pizza and after eating we treated them to a game room where they rode motorcycles; jet skis; race cars; and shot pistols (electronic of course). They had a ball and so did we. Anyway I k that arriving at our house about 8:30 P.M. we would still be subjected to a good part of the State of the Union Address given by the world's most articulate and intelligent human.
You see in today's world of communications we are subjected to a number of reports early in the day in which so called reporters, who have received copies of the speech, tell us what the President is going to say. Then if you watch the speech you can hear direct from his mouth what he is saying. Then after the speech you can be bombarded with varying reports of what you just heard. All in all it is a slight case of overkill and in reality it is much ado about nothing.
First of all during the parts of the speech that I heard, I was fairly well convinced that the world's most articulate and intelligent human was lying. Then I felt as if he were speaking in such general terms that there were no specifics. And I don't know about the rest of you but I am a hell of a lot more interested in SPENDING CUTS than I am in a BUDGET FREEZE.
When you really dissect what these politicians are saying, a Budget Freeze means that the amount of monies spent/wasted will remain. Spending Cuts indicates that there will be a reduction in spending. Just like when the Democrats/Liberals/Progressive/Socialists talk about Tax Cuts For The Rich, they are actually describing tax rates remaining the same. If something remains the same it is not a CUT.
Then of course we were subjected to all this Kumbayah and reaching across the aisle and bi-partisan rhetoric. Please spare me. Then we are subjected to so called Republican Senator John McCain tell us how smart Barack Obama is and what good ideas he has and that all in all he is doing a good job.
In this morning's edition of the (sub) Standard there was a section called West Texas Reaction. In this section there were statements by both Texas Senators and three West Texas Congressmen. The report did not surprise me at all. Senator John Cornyn said that he wanted to see action rather than just talk. But he was against government spending and called for a balanced budget amendment................. Representative Mike Conaway said that his number one priority was cutting spending and that holding spending at its current rate wasn't good enough.................. Representative Mac Thornberry also called for change in government spending and reviewing every government program for efficiency and effectiveness................. Representative Randy Neugebauer said, &On November 2, the voters of this country sent the federal government a memo. The memo was very clear. Americans want Washington out of their way, and want tax hikes and rising deficits to end. Unfortunately many of the statements made by the president tonight appear to signal that he still has not read this memo and doesn't understand that larger government means a weaker and less innovative economy.&....................... And last but not least was Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison who said, &Tonight we saw a change in the President's message, and that is a good sign....... I look forward to working in the Senate, with my colleagues in the House, and with the President to create jobs in the private sector, and to bring down spending.&
In my estimation, Kay Bailey Hutchison is a RINO and has also announced that she will not be seeking another term in the U.S. Senate. That suits me fine as I do not believe that she reflects anything resembling conservative views and has waffled on many occasions in the past. Several years ago I received a reply from her office which indicated to me that she had no real interest in the views of her constituents and she sounded an awful lot like John McCain and Lindsey Graham regarding immigration.
Anyway, I was not the least bit surprised at this speech and I was a bit surprised that most of the FOX s folks thought this speech was pretty useless and presented no answers to the problems faced by our nation. Of course the exceptions were Juan Williams and Kirsten Powers which came as no surprise. But Brit Hume and Charles Krauthammer were pretty critical.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bob Wallman, Maria Tupaz - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt, Debbie McKeown, Violet Fermin, Harold Smith, Carlos Fernandez - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; John Bowcutt - WA; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, 2nd Lt. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - 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, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, Joel Reynolds, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
ES:
In response to a San Francisco Chronicle article about thousands of affordable housing units built by redevelopment programs;
&The idea of 'affordable housing' in San Francisco is a joke --- a very bad joke. This same spaper, just a few years ago, mentioned a graduate student looking for a place to rent in San Francisco, who was visiting one exorbitantly priced hovel after another.&........ THOMAS SOWELL
&To 'redevelopment' agency bureaucrats costs are just things to conceal with lofty rhetoric and creative book-keeping. After all, it is only the taxpayers' money.&............................. THOMAS SOWELL
&Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.& ................ GEORGE WASHINGTON
&Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.&.................. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
VARMINTS:
President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Mayor Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Governor Jerry Brown; Governor Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); PRETEND REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan; NAACP; Jeffery Immelt; Christiane Amanpour
MORE STUFF:
From an article in the (Sub) Standard : Former Dictator's Return A Mystery
This article by a somewhat puzzled reporter from one of the s agencies is inquiring into the reason for the return to Haiti by Jean-Claude &Baby Doc& Duvalier. Let's look back into the history of Haiti for a moment. Jean-Claude's father &Papa Doc& Duvalier was a ruthless dictator of this island country populated by some of the most uneducated; ass-backward people on the planet. After &Papa Doc's& death the reins were handed over to &Baby Doc& who was a carbon copy of his father which meant that torture, murder, rape, and every other violent crime was the rule rather than the exception in this island paradise.
In 1986, &Baby Doc& fled the island in exile and went to France who evidently welcomed this mutt with open arms. Of course he had looted the treasury and fled with a great deal of wealth.
He returned last week to Haiti which the article described as a country dealing with the aftermath of an earthquake, a cholera outbreak and a disputed presidential election. Hey! You don't suppose that ol' &Baby Doc& might just be trying to resume his power over this backward country, do you? Evidently the reporter who wrote this article has the intellectual depth of a crushed beer can.
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OK. I am pretty sure the rest of you have pretty much the same opinion but I just want to make it perfectly clear what my views are on our ly elected Republican Congressmen and Senators.
First, I did not vote or support Republican candidates so that they could go to Washington, D.C. just to &play nice& with the Democrat/Liberal/Progressive/Socialist politicians. If one of those folks &on the other side of the aisle& has a good idea or a piece of legislation which does not sell out conservative principles then they should by all means listen. BUT, SELLING OUT IS NOT AN OPTION.
I heard one politician on one of the radio programs this morning say that the November elections were not about electing Republicans just to oppose President Obama's ideas, but rather to work with the Democrats and compromise.
Well let me tell you right now that is not why I wanted the Republicans to get back in control of the House or Senate or White House. I definitely want my Senators and Representative to OPPOSE the Obama Agenda. As of this time I have not seen or heard of one single thing supported by this Mob Controlled President with which I am in agreement. Anyone who subscribes to the beliefs of Saul Alinsky is not now or ever will be on the path that I have chosen to take.
We need to keep on these elected officials. It did not take long for several of them to forgot who put them in these positions. Senator Brown from Massachusetts is beginning to sound more like a Democrat/Progressive than I would have thought. I also heard a statement made by the Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, in which he spoke negatively about the Tea Party movement. HEY MARCO! The Tea Party People in Florida are the very people who got you elected.
The point being is that these politicians have a very short memory and must be reminded REGULARLY why they were elected and it wasn't to support Barack Hussein Obama's agenda....nor to reach across the aisle and play nice with the Democrats/Progressives/Socialists.
Keep in mind, we don't owe them a damn thing. They owe us loyalty, leadership and strength.
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Hey! Who is the biggest doof around? My personal vote goes to Motorcycle Expert Jesse James. I read the other day where he is going to wed Tattoo Artist Kat vonDrachenberg (or Kat vonD to the purists). Now let me paint you a picture of this rocket scientist:
1) He was married to Sondra Bullock.
2) Sondra Bullock had just won the Academy Award for Best Actress in the movie Blind Side
3) Either the same day or the day after the s broke that Jesse was having an affair with Kat vonDrachenberg.
4) Jesse and Sondra get a divorce
5) Now Jesse is going to wed Kat vonDrachenberg
All of this indicates to me that Jesse James has either been stricken with a severe attack of lunacy or he possesses the I.Q. of an un-soaked pinto bean.
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All right, I admit it. I did not watch the Golden Globe Awards.
But I will make up for it by not watching the Academy Awards.
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Last week I place Ronald Reagan's son, Ronnie Reagan on the Varmint's list. This week I was really happy that this worthless little turd had taken a place with the rest of the vermin. I saw a film clip of him bad mouthing former Vice President Dick Cheney for approving of the practice of water boarding terrorists. As I gathered, Ronnie was way more concerned with the rights of terrorists than he was the safety of his country.
Also you will notice that Christiane Amanpour is also an addition on the Varmint's List. After that pathetic pack of lies told by Barack Hussein Obama at his so called State of the Union address, Christiane Amanpour (sorry but I don't know which idiotic network she works for) stated that Obama's speech was Reaganesque which made me want to throw up. Then I thought that she might be right. He and Ronnie Reagan seem to have been feeding at the same trough.
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OK. It's the Packers and the Steelers. And I think they both played really good in the playoffs. Throughout the playoffs I noticed a rather odd circumstance:
1) I have a Philadelphia Eagles jacket - - they lost
2) I have a Kansas City Chiefs cap - - they lost
3) I have a England Patriots jacket - - they lost
4) I have a Seattle Sea Hawks jacket - - they lost
5) I have a 3/4 length insulated hooded Chicago Bears stadium coat - - they lost
6) I have a Texas Longhorn Coat, jacket, cap, sweatshirt - - they didn't even make a bowl game
7) I have a Texas A & M jacket, cap, pullover - - they lost
Perhaps I can persuade the Steelers and the Packers to bid on which of their jackets and gear I will not buy for the Super Bowl. Just a thought.
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Have a good week.
JEM
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January 19th, 2011 TUCSON / REAGAN
Hello once again from the Central Time Zone Headquarters For 4 Wheel Drive Pickup Ownin' Fossil Fuel Burnin' Gun Totin' Tea Party Supportin' Angry Conspiratorial Mob Members.
TUCSON:
As a general rule I do not watch Memorial Services on television but seeing as how such a huge deal was made about Barack Hussein Obama being a speaker at the Memorial for those who were murdered by the Tucson shooter the week before. Of course I was operating under the false impression that this service was primarily meant to honor those who were killed in the attack.
But when the coverage first started I k that this was not going to be your typical Memorial Service. I was a bit puzzled regarding the music which was played at the outset. Actually I heard the same piece of music played at a concert immediately prior to the introduction of The Rolling Stones. It is not that I do not like that particular piece but I do believe that it was a bit inappropriate for a Memorial Service. But when all the dignitaries were seated and the program began I immediately k that this so called Memorial Service was not going to be about honoring those who were brutally murdered. This was just another photo-op for the world's most articulate and intelligent human and his spouse.
I can assure you that I have pretty thick skin and have been called a lot of names which I did not like and I have had to listen to various people throughout my life whom I k were completely wrong in their thoughts. I have been insulted and in return insulted a hell of a lot of people. I have been in quite a few fights and won some and lost some. I have been a fan of the Dallas Cowboys since 1960 and have enjoyed some triumphs and some setbacks with them. I have been a fan of the Texas Longhorn football team as well as the Texas A & M football team and have had many ups and downs with them throughout the past 65 or so years. I know life is about give and take and I believe that I have been on both ends and survived pretty well.
BUT, when I have to be subjected to ations from the Bible by Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder, it is more than a person should be expected to bear. But at least their remarks were short and I found out why. This gave more time for their fearless leader, Barack Hussein Obama to make a political speech, and that friends is exactly what it was. Oh sure, the names of the deceased were mentioned as well as Congresswoman Giffords but Obama's speech, which I understand was over 30 minutes in length, centered more on himself than it did those who this service was supposed to be about. And I know that many of you had to catch the part where the world's most articulate and intelligent human broke the s that Ms. Giffords opened her eyes FOR THE FIRST TIME when he and Michelle were in her hospital room. Of course this brought a huge cheer from the crowd, whom I suspect was loaded with Obama plants. But the real message being shoved down the throat of the general public was that Obama appears to have some type of power to make things happen, or in my estimation, use the deaths of six people and the critical condition of Congresswoman Giffords to further the political ambitions of the world's most articulate and intelligent human.
All in all I thought it was a pitiful excuse for a Memorial to honor those who had been murdered by a man who obviously has some real anti-social traits.
I was also a bit disappointed in some of the FOX s folks and of course almost all of the other media with their take that Obama was really trying to get across a positive message. I think Obama was merely feathering his own nest and using the tragedies in the lives of others to do so.
But then again, I believe that the Obama administration is still following the instructions of Rahm Emmanuel about not letting a good crisis go to waste. All I know is that we have some real sorry people in charge of our federal government at the present time and many should be replaced.
A little off the subject but I figured that people from Maine to California heard my shout of happiness when I learned that Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison WAS NOT going to seek re-election. Although a Republican in name, she was not conservative by any stretch of the imagination and I think we have a chance here in Texas to right a wrong which occurred when that woman was first elected.
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First of all I want it perfectly clear that I was/am/will be a loyal supporter of our former President Ronald Reagan. When I was born, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President of the United States and of course at the time lots of folks thought that he walked on water. (For those of you residing in The People's Republic of San Francisco, this is a Metaphor) I can remember when President Roosevelt died and the Presidency was taken over by Harry Truman. I was still pretty young but I always thought that Harry Truman was a tough cookie and didn't take a bunch of stuff off anyone. Even at a young age I appreciated that. He sort of reminded me of how my Dad and Uncles were. Then of course Dwight Eisenhower was elected and I never really viewed him as super strong but he always seemed to be a pretty nice guy.
Then JFK soon to be followed by LBJ who got out while the gettin' was good. This paved the way for Richard Nixon who I always sort of liked his style until the Watergate scandal sunk him and the Republicans. But I still think Richard Nixon was way ahead of most in his foreign policy. THEN we were subjected to four years of Jimmy Carter who may have been the worst of the lot until this bozo we have in there now.
Then the American people showed the good sense to Elect Ronald Reagan who I believe is the greatest President in my lifetime.
All of this brings me to the point about today's Ronald Reagan. Of course I am speaking of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan's son Ronnie. I understand that he has a book out. Now normally I won't comment on a book unless I have read it. But the thought of purchasing a book and contributing a red cent to Ronnie Reagan is appalling. I have heard some comments on the book by several radio hosts and several s reporters and they have all reported that in this book Ronnie Reagan (who incidentally is a liberal little turd) claims that his father Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's Disease WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT.
Now I am not sure at exactly which medical school Ronnie Reagan received his training but bringing out an accusation such as this against his own father is pretty damn low. I have also heard Michael Reagan speak on this subject and he is absolutely livid with his brother. Isn't it strange that the adopted son, Michael is more loyal to his Father and Mother than is their biological son Ronnie. But this really shouldn't come a surprise to any of us. I remember when President Ronald Reagan passed away and there was a huge Memorial Service given in his memory and at this service there were a number of former Presidents as well as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who spoke as well as Ronnie Reagan. Even at that service Ronnie couldn't resist making a jibe at then President George W. Bush regarding &Wearing his religion on his sleeve&.
I pretty much though Ronnie belonged in the turd grouping back then and there is nothing which has changed my mind at this point. SO RONNIE, WELCOME TO VARMINTVILLE.
Also years ago I heard a football coach asked if he was going to start Johnny Unitas since he had been injured and was only about 80% and the coach replied that Unitas was indeed going to start and that Unitas at 80% was still the best quarterback in the league. He was right of course and I sort of think the same about Ronald Reagan. If he wasn't 100% he was still miles ahead of the rest.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bob Wallman - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman - OR; John Bowcutt - WA; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, 2nd Lt. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, LCDR Jeff Palmer - 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, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, Joel Reynolds, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families.
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&One of the political games that is played during a budget crisis is to cut back on essential services like police departments and fire departments, in order to blackmail the public into accepting higher tax rates.&............ THOMAS SOWELL
&The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.&.............. THOMAS JEFFERSON
&Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?&................................. PATRICK HENRY
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
&OUR CONSTITUTION IS TO BE CELEBRATED NOT FOR BEING OLD, BUT FOR BEING YOUNG.&.... PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN - 1987
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President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Mayor Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Governor Jerry Brown; Governor Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); PRETEND REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Charles Barkley; Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC); Ronnie Reagan
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There is a name on our prayer list which is that of Bob Wallman. Bob is one of my oldest friends here in San Angelo. He is now 82 years old and his wife is presently in a nursing home. Bob's health has gone down over the past seven and a half years that I have know him. But with him barely being able to walk on his own this good man volunteers for almost everything under the sun. Until recently he delivered meals to shut-ins two days a week. Then every Saturday he worked four hours at Fort Concho. He volunteered for many other charitable causes in our area and has finally been forced to give up delivering meals one day and has had to give up every Saturday at Ft. Concho although I did notice that he did work one week end prior to Christmas. This man is Retired Military and served in Korea and Vietnam and has lived all over the world.
He is one of the kindest people I have ever known and is an ordained Presbyterian Minister. His first military service was in the U.S. Army and he retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Major. If he doesn't have to go to some type of rehab he never misses coffee at the Target Coffee Shop. He is an avid shooter and just an all round great person.
It is sad to see people of his character coming to the end of their string and I sincerely want each of you to say a special prayer for him every day. We need more like him. Oh, and perhaps I forgot to mention, Bob is a bit on the Conservative side and I am thankful to have him for a friend.
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A week or so back my wife and I went to a local restaurant which serves really good Mexican food. While there we noticed a television set up high on one wall and it was on a channel which was showing nothing but old MGM Tom & Jerry Cartoons. Of course the sound was turned off but the cartoons were still enjoyable since MGM had some really great quality animators back during those years. I have always been told that the difference between good animation and bad animation is that with good animation you still can follow the story of the cartoon without the sound, whereas with bad animation it is not the action which tells the story but you must depend upon dialog to understand what the story is about.
This brings me to I believe FOX Television Network on Sunday nights has nothing but animated shows and I must add BAD ANIMATED SHOWS. What our society had been reduced to is the idea that it is perfectly fine to have sexual innuendos and course language and bad behavior passed off as normal BUT it is not permissible to watch Jerry hit tome over the head with a shovel and watch Tom shatter like a broken vase. We certainly cannot permit our children or grandchildren to watch Wile E. Coyote use every trick under the sun and every tool manufactured by the ACME Corp. and always come up on the short end of the stick.
The truth is that our society has allowed these liberals to CENSOR thing that are funny and harmless but encourage viewing things which I believe are harmful to young people. Isn't it funny how even a little thing like a Tom & Jerry Cartoon which we all enjoyed while growing up is now taboo to the liberal masters.
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That is about all for this week. We have our young student from South Korea staying with us for several weeks. She and my wife are quite the shopping duo. She also seems to like Mexican food which is good thing. Of course all of the Korean kids love pizza which is also one of my very favorite dishes.
When I was growing up in Houston my Dad leased a building in which he ran a small neighborhood grocery story from and old Italian family. Their daughter and grandson who was my friend spoke English as well as anyone but the old Grandma and Grandpa spoke nothing but Italian. They liked me and I ate lots of meals at their home and fell in love with Italian food. I still love it.
More next week.
JEM
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January 12th, 2011 YEAR / SAME STUFF
WEDNESDAY - January 12, 2011
Happy Year from the West Texas Center For Gun Ownin' Fossil Fuel Burnin' Jingoistic Four Wheel Drive Pickup Drivin' Right Wing Conspirators.
The Year has passed and for the first time since Year's Eve I feel almost human. My wife and I both had our flu shots and we both have had our pneumonia shots but we both came down with something that eats the flu for breakfast. But it looks like we are both about to get back on track. I sure do appreciate all of your e-mails and your prayers.
YEAR SAME STUFF:
And of course by the &Same Stuff& I mean that the Progressives/Socialists/Liberals/Democrats have not missed a step and while the world's most articulate and intelligent human appears to be playing it low key, I can't help but believe that his &Puppet Masters& have perhaps for once given him the correct advice insofar as his comments on the shooting incident last week end in Tucson in which Arizona Representative Gabrielle Gifford was seriously wounded along with a number of others as well as six people being murdered by Jared Loughner.
Almost immediately the mainstream media mutts began speculating that this shooting came as a result of so called hate speech by conservatives including conservative talk radio. Then the Sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, Clarence N. Dupnik put in his take on the matter which followed right along Progressive/Democrat Party lines. Then not to be outdone a U.S. Representative from South Carolina, James E. Clyburn put the icing on the cake by agreeing with this in depth look at the matter. And of course, the U.S. Senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin had to put in this really objective views on the subject which was in lock step with those other two buffoons previously mentioned.
Of course there are some stories being reported today, at least on FOX s, that perhaps the Pima County Sheriff's Department had some previous warning that Loughner might pose a danger to the public. Hey! You don't suppose that Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dipsh.... excuse me, Dupnik might just be trying to cover his own ass do you? Just a thought.
Immediately following the shooting Sheriff Dips.... Dupnik made his first appearance on television and I was in another room and did not see it but my wife who is not even in the same league as me when it comes to being opinionated and critical of stupid people pointed out to me the idiotic statements made to the media by Sheriff Dips.... Dupnik.
After spending a total of 45 years in Law Enforcement I absolutely could not believe the information being released to the media by the Sheriff of Pima County, Arizona. Also I have receive a bunch of e-mails from Arizona residents who are way less than thrilled with Sheriff Dips.... Dupnik's performance.
Of course Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is already on the Varmint's List but South Carolina Congressman James E. Clyburn along with Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dips... Dupnik have blasted their way onto this list. They are in excellent company.
Then of course today I watched a couple of film clips of former President Bill Clinton giving his unbiased opinion on this matter and the thought immediately crossed my mind that I was really happy that he was married to Hillary Rodham Clinton and that those two mutts really are deserving of each other.
And I heard today that one Democrat/Progressive politician was actually using this tragedy as a fund raising tool. I did not hear who this was other than it was a Democrat politician.
Then as late as yesterday I saw where the Westboro Baptist Church group was going to demonstrate at the funeral of nine year old Christina Taylor-Green. I am sure you remember that this is the group who have been loudly protesting at funerals of our Military Personnel who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. I believe that these idiots decided not to protest this young lady's funeral, not out of respect, but rather because they were afraid of some repercussions from other groups. Which leads me to believe while they might be complete turds, they are a bit smarter than originally thought.
And of course, almost immediately Democrat/Liberal/Progressive/Socialist politicians began to set up a howl about firearms ownership; gun control; high capacity magazines (for those of you presently residing in the People's Republic of San Francisco these are the items which hold ammunition for either a semi-automatic or fully automatic firearm, not the paper things with pictures which you thumb through at a doctor's office). I even heard one of the so called Democratic Strategists make the statement that if the shooter had not been in possession of a high capacity magazine that fewer people would have been killed. That may be true but it also may not be true. When it comes to firearms issues I would place more stock in the opinion of my 11 year old grandson than I would in a &Democratic Strategist&.
Then of course, and this was completely lost in the knee-jerk reactions of the Liberals/Democrats/Progressives/Socialists, another of those killed in this attack was a CONSERVATIVE United States District Judge, John Roll. I just wonder how they can lay the blame on &Conservative Vitriolic Speech& and &Conservative Talk Radio& and FOX s when one of the victims was a CONSERVATIVE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE? Once again, rational thought seems to have completely escaped these flaming left wing loons..... (I had better use this term now as it may be ruled hate speech by this time next week). Of course after some sane people began to look into the background of Jared Loughner it appears that he was more attracted to the radical left than to any other group.
Anyway, while the Liberals/Progressives/Socialists/Democrats are attempting to extract their heads from their rear ends, I believe that the grown-ups in our country should be offering our prayers to the families of those who were murdered or injured in last Saturday's tragic incident in Tucson.
Also it might be a pretty good idea for the citizens in Pima County to be looking for an opponent to run against Sheriff Clarence W. Dipsh....Dupnik in his bid for re-election. Just a thought.
PRAYER LIST:
Tony Aguilar, Mary Vigil -NM; Landon Whinnery - CO; Ella Dunlop, Bill Wigginton, Kaleigh Paige Hudgens, Cliff Peiser, Bob Wallman - TX; Sr. Delphine Grigas (94) - IL; Paul & Debby Gula, Mike Burkebak, Lanelle Kittlestad, Alan Miller, Joe P. Hunt - FL; Irma & L.T. Drennan - OK; Therese Skaggs - NE; Gladys Beasley, Barbara Urban - MD; Sharon Fields - AZ; Susan O'Brien, Kate Powell, Annise Kennedy - CA; Meryl Coleman, Janet Smith - OR; John Bowcutt - WA; GySgt. Daniel West, Rudy Bates, MSgt. Randy Morrow, Cpl. Brandon Robinson, 2nd Lt. Michael Rice, GySgt. James Walker, 2nd Lt. George Zeigler, SSgt. Matt Ross, Alex Boyd, Capt. Bjorn Thoreen, RCT Graydon J. Phillips - USMC; Kenneth Thomas -USCG; SSgt. Eric Grudziecke, A1 Elizabeth & Cody Barber, Col. Phil Samples, TSgt. Aaron Brown - USAF; Capt. Brian Kriss - TxANG; Lt. William Jourdan, CDR Robert McLay, Ensign Tommy Brown, Lt. Michael Brown, Mike Mauldin. LCDR Jeff Palmer - 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, Lt. Col. Robbie Ball, Joel Reynolds, SSgt. Travis McGowan, Michael B. Hudgens - US ARMY; Eric Aubin -CANADIAN ARMY; John Mallory - DEA; Fr. Joseph M. Peek; Gary and Cindy Hogman; Ashtyn Wages and John Paul Tupaz and their families. All of the men and women currently serving in the United States Military; &DARKHORSE& 3RD BATTALION 5TH MARINES and their families. The families of all of the victims of last week's shooting in Tucson, Arizona.
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&We do not need an Energy Department to solve our basic energy problems; as long as we let the forces of the marketplace work without undue interference, the ingenuity will do that for us.&................ RONALD REAGAN
&A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.&.... HARRY S. TRUMAN
&While the case for having the government play Santa Claus is easier to make, the opposite case is by no means impossible to make. Radio talk show hosts from Rush Limbaugh to Sean Hannity and many others make that case every day, in plain language that anyone can understand.&.................................... THOMAS SOWELL
&The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. BUT the constitution, which at any time exists, until CHANGED BY AN EXPLICIT AND AUTHENTIC ACT OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE, IS SACREDLY OBLIGATORY UPON ALL.&................................ GEORGE WASHINGTON
&Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.&..... PATRICK HENRY
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President Barack Hussein Obama; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid; Diane Feinstein; Barbara Boxer; Maxine Waters; Barney Frank; Eddie Bernice Johnson; Chris Dodd; Arlen Specter; AG Eric Holder; Olympia Snowe - R; Henry Waxman; Vice President Joseph Biden; Sheila Jackson Lee; Jimmy Carter; George Soros; Keith Olberman (MSNBC); Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano; Former White House Chief of Staff and Potential Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Ezekiel Emanuel; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Mayor Gavin some; Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa; Governor Jerry Brown; Governor Bill Richardson; Chuck Schumer; Ray Nagin; Richard Durbin; John Kerry; Hillary Clinton; Bill Clinton; Robert Gibbs; Patrick Leahy; Bobby Rush; Colin Powell (RINO); PRETEND REVERENDS Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; Richard Lugar -R; Lindsey Graham - R; Jay Rockefeller; Max Baucus; Susan Estrich; Al Gore; Charles Rangel; John Conyers; Steny Hoyer; Al Franken; Susan Collins -R: Edward Markey; Dennis Kucinich; Alcee Hastings; Bart Stupak; David Axelrod; Hank Johnson; Cokie Roberts; Katy Couric; Markos Zuniga (Dailey KOS); Whoopi Goldberg (The View); Joy Behar (The View); Bill Maher (HBO); Michelle Obama; Governor David Paterson; Michael Moore; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Geraldo Rivera (FOX s); Mara Liasson (NPR); Larry King (CNN); Ted Turner; Oprah Winfrey; John Edwards; Tom Hanks; Harry Belafonte; Willie Nelson; Charlie Crist; John McCain - R; ACLU; United Nations; ACORN; CODE PINK; LULAC; LA RAZA; AARP; NY ; LA ; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SEIU; Southern Poverty Law Center; MOVEON.ORG; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CAIR; NOW; John Testor; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Michael Blumenthal; t Gingrich -R; Shepard Smith (FOX s); EPA; Center For Biological Diversity; PETA; Bill O'Reilly (FOX s); Jane Fonda; Kanye West; Alan Simpson; Cindy Williams (CB0)-[Thinks our military is OVERPAID]; Pima County Arizona Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik; James Clyburn(D-SC)
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Well the college football season is over and Auburn University ended up winning the BCS National Championship. And in spite of the game being called by Brent Mussberger it was a pretty interesting game. I am still not a huge fan of Auburn quarterback Cam ton as I have received lots of e-mails from people who k of him while he was still at the University of Florida. I am not totally convince that he possesses the character necessary to be rated as one of the best. He does have quite a bit of athletic ability but I still harbor some doubts regarding his character.
Once again though, the BCS/NCAA or whoever-in-the-hell is in charge of getting people to sing the Star Spangled Banner have dropped the ball in my books. Our National Anthem is not a Hip-Hop; RAP; Blues; or Country and Western tune. Also during the Cotton Bowl pre-game ceremonies the Texas Aggie Marching Band was on for a few brief moments and then they cut to some people in the broadcast booth.
I cannot even imagine what the pre-game and half-time entertainment will be like at this year's Super Bowl. Just when you think you have seen the worst, the NFL finds some idiots who really show their backsides.
I still love football but the NFL with a very few exceptions has lost my support as have many of the colleges and NCAA Conferences. Actually some of the best games on TV are some of the playoff games in the Division II and Division III Schools.
But the best football on the planet in my estimation is Texas High School Football. And it doesn't matter which class you see all the way from the Six-Man schools through the 5A schools. I have watched High School Football since the early 1950's and have seen many future College and NFL Hall of Fame players perform. As I get older I appreciate true amateur athletics more and more.
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In the print media and on radio and television I keep hearing reports of how our military spending must be cut. Now I am well aware that Military Spending, particularly when we have troops in battle areas, is one of our biggest spending areas. But I also realize that we have men and women who are in dangerous areas and are putting their lives on the line and I do not believe in cutting spending which could place them in even more danger. I still believe that there are many areas in say like WELFARE PROGRAMS and AID TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES which could be trimmed rather than cutting spending on equipment and personnel for our military.
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Earlier this week there was an editorial piece in the (Sub) Standard by Deroy Murdock. I have come to really appreciate this man's take on things. This particular piece dealt with Katie Couric and her views on &Bigotry against Muslims&. But Katie being the deep thinker we have all come to appreciate had a rather unique idea to battle this problem of &Bigotry against Muslims&. I know you will all probably have about as much use for her brilliant idea as did I. OK, here it is: &Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show.... I know that sounds crazy but The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think some people are afraid of what they don't understand.&...... Then Mr. Murdock's response to Katie's idea of a Muslim Cosby Show was a classic. Below I will e some of his response:
&With apologies to chickens, ostriches and other feathered creatures, Couric's comments are multifariously bird-rained.& ..... &Couric's comments seem blissfully detached from the clear and present danger posed by Muslim zealots.& ...... Mr. Murdock went on to list just a few of the Muslim Terrorists who have either pled guilty or are awaiting trial for a number of thwarted terrorist attacks against U.S. targets. He then went on to say........&Shallower than Saran Wrap, Couric uttered not a word about this. She sees the real threat as average Americas with a deep-seated hatred of all Muslims.&
It is always a pleasure for me to read a column when someone with some real common sense exposes one of the &Mainstream Media& members who appears to have the intellectual depth of a dirty Pamper. So, Hats Off to Deroy Murdock. And a big UP YOURS to Katie Couric.
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I received an e-mail which originated from a citizen in Oregon with the information that the State of Oregon, in their infinite wisdom, raised its state income-tax on the richest 2% of its residents last year to fix its budget hole, but the state treasurer admitted that the state collected nearly one-third less revenue than had been projected.
The article indicated that if Salem officials want to find where the millionaires went, they might start the search in Texas, which leads the nation in job creation.
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Next Sunday we will have another student from South Korea coming to our home for a four week study course in English. I learned a lesson from our last student who stayed in our home that I had to really watch my language as these students are among their brightest and not much slips past them. It was a really great experience and we are looking forward to meeting this young lady from Ulsan University in South Korea.
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That's it for this week and thanks again for your prayers and good wishes.
JEM
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Born- April 23, 1937 - Wortham, Texas
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Moved to Houston, Texas 1942
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Attended school in Houston-Graduated Lamar High School -1956
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Attended University of Houston 1956-1957
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Operated family business 1956-1958. Business sold, 1958
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Married -1958
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Houston Police Department 1958-1970
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Southern Printing Co. 1970
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Returned to law enforcement with area Sheriff's Dept.
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1970-1973
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Moved to Hobbs, Mexico 1973
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Hobbs Police Department 1973-1996
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Attended Mexico Jr. College
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Instructed Criminal Justice classes at NMJC for 17 years.
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Retired with rank of Captain from Hobbs PD in 1996
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1996 - 2000 -City Commissioner, Hobbs, Mexico-elected
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1996 - 2003 - Region VI Drug Task Force
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2003 completely retired after 45 years in law enforcement;
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17 years teaching at NMJC and various law enforcement academies
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2003 moved to San Angelo, Texas
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