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Just three years ago we had a fresh face in the Democratic primary.  He was promising all kinds of things especially transparency with the law making process.  He would have bills published on the internet for all to see for five day so the American citizens could know what it was.  This was his promise [...]

After the last couple of weeks and the latest Republican Presidential Candidates Debate,  the group has changed and is forming for the dash to the winning line.  Rick Perry: bless his heart, he is my governor, had what I call a “Senior Moment.”  He couldn’t remember the “Energy Department.”  Shoot, I was banking on it being [...]

The day before the World Series was to start, a local TV news reported that parents, health nuts and the baseball commissioner had been getting together.  The health nuts (government included) and parent groups wanted the ball players to not dip snuff or chew tobacco while playing the World Series.  They had petitioned the baseball [...]

It happened for the first time in 1973. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). It was a shock to most people and wasn’t understood. It seemed that out of the clear blue sky, the APA determined that homosexual behavior was only a lifestyle. Two lifestyles [...]

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In the Attica Cemetery , Harper County , Kansas, a tombstone with an interest inscription resides. It is the tombstone of N. Grigsby who died on April 16, 1890. He was 78 years of age. At his request the following inscription was carved into the side of the stone. “Through this inscription I wish to [...]

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This is the key word regarding the present administration and Congress. Definition: noun 1) trust, reliance, 2) assurance. After weeks of what Washington calls debate, a debt ceiling bill was passed by Congress and signed by the President. Mr. Obama has gotten the trillions he wanted so he can keep spending money without regard for [...]

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The belief that there is no God defines an atheist. In wanting to understand why atheist are so anti-religion and specifically anti-Christian, it seems this statement has some bearing on the question. It is more than a disbelief in God but belief system that God does not exist. From reading atheist literature it appears their [...]

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I was watching the early evening news on a local station. It starts at 4:00 PM and sort of leads into the 5 o’clock news followed by the network news followed by the 6 o’clock news. So if you do not get the local news, it will be a miracle. The anchor had a local [...]

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O me, o my, o my, o me. Seniors are out numbering the young. But, don’t worry Baby Boomers your socialist governments will take good care of you. Cities are stepping up to the problem and making changes to accommodate your needs. You can stop ringing your hands now. You will not have to take of [...]

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Arizona passed a zinger of an immigration bill and the lovers of illegal immigrants cried, moaned and went to court. The very idea Arizona would do such a thing, why that borders on being a Tea Party and every one knows that is 100% American except the Democrats, their Ruler and the elitist who live in [...]

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I’ve wondered just what is the Obamas interest in food. It seemed a bit weird for the first lady to push food stuff since there are a lot of problems in the US or since there are global problems in the world that really need attention. Well, in 2009 Obama came up with a 3.9 [...]

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Well this couple of weeks have been just one normal day after another here in Texas. Sparse rain with temperature banging triple digits. So far this week five straight triples. Our governor who had no interest in running for President because he was happy in his rented house last year will announce in a month [...]

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This 4th of July saw the American Atheist making a nationwide effort to portray atheist as being patriotic. I somehow thought they were. It never occurred to me they wouldn’t be. It was puzzling to me as to why at this time, Atheist felt a need to reaffirm their love for country by advertising it. It seemed [...]

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Atlanta Public School were found to have 178 teachers and principals who erased wrong answers and marked the correct answers on the standardized test required by the government. Schools that do not meet the requirements of the Federal government will not get government money. (You can refer back to Obama’s speech stating the rule.) So the [...]

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I’ve said it before, I don’t know this new world I live in. All you mathematicians forgive my fumbling numbers, but pi is wrong. After all these years and math problems solving circles, you need tau. This new break through even is celebrated with Tau Day which was June 28th this year. It was celebrated [...]

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Birthday parties are fun because those attending like the birthday recipient usually loving him or having a genuine liking for him. Stories regale about past events and his words spoken in an up lifting way to the recipient. A birthday party is a time to be positive and promoting. A recent study by a couple [...]

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While getting ready to celebrate America’s birthday this week-end, I looked at the news and realized the America I grew up in was gone. Some strange new government had taken over while I was busy looking the other way. The police will arrest you more quickly for being uncooperative or teaser you for that reason [...]

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U.N. report foretelling ”global social crisis:” The 2008-09 recession/depression/blip has resulted in 200 million unemployed. With the resultant high fuel and food cost there are at least one billion “hungry” people. It is all the fault of the governments that have failed their people. Feed those hungry people. We should allow the UN to run [...]

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More bad news in real estate market. So far this year, the existing home sales are down 3.8%. Over all the real estate market is still going down hill and not effective in rebounding the economy. Top this with the new rules for buying a home and it makes things tougher. You want to buy [...]

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Mr. President, I would just like to talk with you for a few minutes about your federal budgets.  Not meaning to dredge up some bad memories, but you had high hopes and poor prognostication skills in 2009.  Your first mistake was saying, “What I won’t do is sacrifice investments that will make America stronger, more [...]

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Leaping lizards.  It is amazing how something very small can make a big stir.  Since April, the dune sagebrush lizard about three inches long is whipping up a sand storm in my home area of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. Well….Actually, the pesky little lizard isn’t doing it but a pesky small group of [...]

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Finally a supposedly scientific study that I can believe, “Energy up in smoke, the Carbon Footprint of Cannabis Production” by Dr. Evan Mills, a scientist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,  A study concerning of all thing marijuana, gives damaging evidence that pot is a definite environmental concern for the nation.  The EPA must be informed immediately [...]

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” – Samuel Adams, Essay in the Public Advertiser, 1749 Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.” – Samuel Adams, Letter to John Trumbull, October 16, 1778 [...]

We the people of the United States of America are not thinking coherently.  I feel empathy for the parents of a nine month baby patted down by TAS and disgust for congressmen who allow it.  I feel empathy for an 80-year-old granny, six-year-old girl and any one else who gets a pat down by TAS.  We are used to freedoms [...]

In January, 2011, Samuel Clements was still thumbing his nose at the American society. A new version of Huckleberry Finn was published.  The revision was written by a white college professor in North Carolina who primarily changed the N-word (Nigger, if you’re not acquainted with the word.) to the word slave.  The slave was a [...]

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Boy….I almost let this opportunity to wish all you a Happy World Environment Day.  The short-term memory just isn’t what it use to be.  Sorry I didn’t send a card but Wal-Mart didn’t have any.  I guess I could have sent an e-card but I would have to spend at least two days figuring out how [...]

President Obama has given his view of fixing the American education system circa 2011. “To help more students in high-need schools receive a well-rounded education, our proposal will provide competitive grants to states, high-need districts, and nonprofit partners to strengthen the teaching and learning of arts, foreign languages, history and civics, financial literacy, environmental education, [...]

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President Obama began his speech for increasing the debt ceiling and presenting his plan to reduce the debt by describing the America that had existed since 1776.  Appealing to the America of the Constitution.  Next, he seductively moves to a different America attempting to connect the concept that this America existed with the first principles and [...]

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Raymond Zack, spent nearly an hour in 54 degree water before he drowned in San Francisco Bay Monday.  Standing with their hands in their pockets police, firemen and 75 by standers watch him slowly drown.  I cannot believe this actually happened. Why didn’t the firemen help?  Blaming 2009, budget cuts Mike D’Orazi of the Alameda [...]

Dear Immigrant, “Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be [...]

There is something special about our military. They are dedicated Americans willing to give their lives for this country. Today we remember those who died in Afghanistan, Iraq as well as those who died in previous conflicts and wars. Our freedom to do as we wish is so commonplace, we as civilians take this day [...]

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You just have to watch out for President Bush. He tends to show up in unexpected places. He was found at the Texas Ranger’s last ball game when the camera following a foul ball found Mr. Bush sitting here while the catcher almost fell in his lap trying to catch the ball. In Dallas, we [...]

I love America. I think I’m beginning to love the internet. I do find it interesting that things you do, try to do, or say can come back around to bite you.  I just received an e-mail with this as part of its message. THE MOST IGNORANT PRESIDENT EVER? HERE IS HIS RESPONSE WHEN HE BACKED OFF FROM HIS DECISION [...]

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Seems like a lot of folks present old Thomas Jefferson as not being a Christian, not being religious, being a Deist, and just different from the other fifty-five signers of the Declaration of Independence. It seems folks just like to shoot off their mouth to prove a point without making sure what their shooting is [...]

One of the images in the post,  Presbyterians Vote To Allow Gay Clergy,  intrigued me. It showed a group of men which I assumed to be homosexuals but they could have been transvestites, cross-dressers, or bankers for all I know. They were doing a poor job of holding a large banner. Evidently, they were more concerned about looking good [...]

 Perhaps we are learning of a first of its kind. At least my quick perusals of Google did not reveal any previous episode of this nature nor magnitude. A patient was admitted to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor.  He was admitted for ingesting mole poison (rodent poison). It appears that he began some sort [...]

It is amusing that protesters claim Americans are not tolerant. Especially so when the protesters are Muslim, it is quite ironic. The question is are Americans intolerant or do the Muslims use the term as a smoke screen. You can decide for yourself, but it is clearly a smoke screen to transfer the Muslim intolerance [...]

On January 2, 2011, Stan Soklovski’s gun vault was violated. Thieves had removed 40 weapons. Most were pistols along with several rifles including a couple of assault weapons.  He had constructed the gun vault in his basement to prevent theft, he had a state concealed gun license, he was registered with the federal government as a gun collector and he loaded [...]

At a Thursday morning money-making breakfast, Obama was interrupted and you know how he loves that.  A lady at one of the tables gets up, takes off her coat to show (easy folks) her T-shirt asking that Bradley Manning be freed.  The table rises and they sing a special song for Presy. Poor Presy, he is really getting [...]

The Center for Disease Control has prophesied that by 2020 every state in the union will have indoor smoking bans.   There are three bans in the prediction:  restaurants, bars and workplace. Of course you can’t smoke in federal buildings but these do not fall under state jurisdiction.   Texas just happens be one of seven states that still believes in individual [...]

As a journalistic virgin, I was naive thinking that all journalism was honest and upright.  The news media told  what actually happened and the “w” system was used.  Newspapers, radio and television was a trusted friend as I welcomed Walter, Tom and those guys into my living room so I could keep up with “the [...]

I just read the post, More Blood in Afghanistan.  More carnage.  More blood.  More death and destruction. I became a bit overwrought with emotion and it brought to mind Memorial Day. Thinking that in my lifetime, I watched as my brother went to the Pacific in World War II and how we watched the windows of houses [...]

I’m so happy.  The first President since George W. and L.B.J. who loves Texas.  Well, Ronnie may have.  Obama actually said it.  He loves Texas. The President decided on his attempt for a second go around to skip over the big liberal media types and go the small state media types.  I think it was a [...]

At least one of President Obama’s cabinet secretaries is concerned about the citizens of the USA.  Yeah.  He is working feverishly to accomplish his goal of automobile safety.  We most certainly will owe this man a debt of gratitude and thanks for his unswerving and unselfish endeavor. US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has something to be [...]

Pelosi has proclaimed herself extremely distressed over what she termed “the dangerous influence of the Tea Party on our governing processes. These people are outsiders who don’t really share the values of those of us who’ve been engaged in the task of governing this country for so many years. If those of us in the [...]

For the next few weeks we will be lambasted by what to do about the debt ceiling.  Will we ask China to raise our credit card limit?  Will the Republicans yank Obama’s strings?  What amazing compromises will be made?  Well, the hulla-ba-loo started last week.  President Obama gave his pitch for his vision, his mission, his [...]

 ”I know that as a Democrat I’m expected to support democracy,” Pelosi said. “But is democracy an end in itself or merely a means to an end? I mean, it was important that we elected President Obama to rule this country. Now that he is President, though, what further gains could there be from the [...]

I was wanting to check some information about President Obama when he was at Columbia.  I tried very way I could think of and my computer would tell me the search was done.  But, I would be looking at a blank page.  I tried Michelle Obama and all I got was blank pages. Why isn’t [...]

A week ago Bobby Ghosh, a world news editor at Times Magazine, was on MSNBC’s Hardball program.  Chuck Todd, a Democrat operative and communications professional, was the substitute host for Chris Matthews.  Mr. Ghosh, a native Indian, is considered a specialist on Islamicphobia in the states. He writes many articles about Islam and the Middle East.   One of the things they [...]

Yes the sky is falling, the sky is falling.  Danger Will Robinson.  I just got off google after perusing 58 pages of doom & gloom, danger, the sky falling, one is hoping it will close and stay closed.  It’s gonna be OK.  The WH will save us all.  Federal employee union already preparing a lawsuit because union [...]

In west Texas, you learn at an early age, there’s a lot of joking and kidding that goes on.  My first experience of being kidded was when I was four years old and my uncles still laughed about it when I was forty.  Only one of my daughters could take kidding so I had to tone back [...]

I sent a thank you note to President Obama this past week.  The first thank you note I’ve sent a President. A few months ago I was having trouble sleeping and nowadays, I surf the net until my mind fogs over.  I was tooling along and found a French TV interview of President Obama.  This [...]

On September 11, 1683, the boundaries of western Europe were set for the next few centuries.  The Islamic expansion that began in the 600′s was stopped at Venice, Italy.  This was the beginning of a rapid development and change of Europe.  The printing press was invented in the 1400′s.  The Bible, newspapers, books were being printed.  Information and ideas [...]

Islam calls the United States of America, Satan.  They claim we are evil.  That may be the pot calling the kettle black. I have learned to love the English language.  It is terrific.  We add new words all the time and kick out old ones.  It is difficult for people to understand and I can appreciate that.  [...]