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Comedy Central had the Last Laugh special last night. Louisiana and Katrina were the big joke. But, Carlos Mencia brought up an interesting fact. New Orleans has the largest Guatemalan population outside of Guatemala and they all got on the busses provided to leave the city before the storm. So, the folks who stayed should have gotten on the bus. You have to accept responsibility for your own actions.

Entergy is apparently on its own after being devastated by Katrina. Dan Packer of Entergy New Orleans cannot understand this decision. I think the Feds are greedy and just don't want to spend any money to help a utility in trouble, but the Entergy building in Jackson, MS just got renovated and corporate headquarters is there. Along with 2 stories worth of luxury condos for the execs. Bite the bullet and live it down a little guys. Last time it was rate increases didn't go through because of Exec bonuses. Will these guys ever learn?

Tookey Williams got executed in California. He was sentenced to death 24yrs ago. If they hadn't waited so long to carry out the sentence, he wouldn't have written any children's novels. If he was truly a changed man, as he stated he was happy in his heart in an interview, then God will straighten that out in the hereafter.

Here are this weeks events happening in New Orleans. I think Louisiana people are standing up and showing whoever will care that this storm didn't kill the spirit of the people.

Maybe if you want a warm fuzzy feeling all the time get your news from HappyNews.Com


SPECIAL
And how about more Politically Corrupt Christmas Ideas:

It's beginning to look a lot like:
a) ChristmasHanukkahnukah
c) Kwanzaa
d) Indianapolis is a lock to win the Superbowl

Before backing down and permitting a full Nativity scene, a public library in Memphis agreed to allow the scene, but only if the baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary and the wise men were removed. This left a shepherd boy and some farm animals.

Next year the library will accept a Nativity scene only if it consists of:
a) A shepherd boy and some chickens
b) A shepherd boy and some ferrets
c) A shepherd boy explaining that the head librarian in Memphis thinks with a brain that may or may not be the result of Intelligent Design.

I am sure I will have more lately.

PC Party Ruination

CHRISTMAS PARTY  ANNOUNCEMENT

FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director

TO: All Employees

DATE: November 8, 2005

RE: Christmas Party

I'm happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take
Place on December 23, starting at noon in the private function room at the Grill House. There will be a cash bar and plenty of drinks!

We'll have a small band playing traditional carols...feel free to sing along. And don't be surprised if our CEO shows up dressed as Santa Claus!  
A Christmas tree will be lit at 1:00pm. Exchange of gifts among employees can be done at that time; however, no gift should cost more than $10.00 to make the giving of gifts easy for everyone's pockets.

This gathering is only for employees! Our CEO will make a special announcement at that time!

Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Patty


FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director

TO: All Employees

DATE: November 8, 2005

RE: Holiday Party

In no way was yesterday's memo intended to exclude our Jewish
Employees.  We recognize that Chanukah is an important holiday, which often coincides with Christmas, though unfortunately not this year.

However, from now on we're calling it our "Holiday Party." The same policy applies to any other employees who are not Christians or those still celebrating Reconciliation Day.

There will be no Christmas tree present. No Christmas carols sung.
We will have other types of music for your enjoyment.

Happy now?

Happy Holidays to you and your family.

Patty



FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director

TO: All Employees

DATE: November 9, 2005

RE: Holiday Party

Regarding the note I received from a member of Alcoholics Anonymous
Requesting a non-drinking table ... you didn’t sign your name. I'm
Happy to accommodate this request, but if I put a sign on a table that
Reads, AA Only"; you wouldn't be anonymous anymore. How am I supposed to handle this?

Somebody?

Forget about the gifts exchange; no gifts exchange are allowed since
The union members feel that $10.00 is too much money and executives
Believe $10.00 is a little chintzy.  

NO GIFTS EXCHANGE WILL BE ALLOWED.

Patty



FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director

To: All Employees

DATE: November 10, 2005

RE: Holiday Party

What a diverse group we are! I had no idea that December 20 begins
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which forbids eating and drinking
During daylight hours. There goes the party! Seriously, we can appreciate how a luncheon at this time of year does not accommodate our Muslim employees' beliefs. Perhaps the Grill House can hold off on serving  your meal until the end of the party or else package everything for you to  take home in a little foil doggy baggy. Will that work?

Meanwhile, I've arranged for members of Weight Watchers to sit
Farthest from the dessert buffet and pregnant women will get the table
Closest to the restrooms. Gays are allowed to sit with each other. Lesbians do not have to sit with Gay men; each will have their own table. Yes, there will be flower arrangement for the Gay men’s table.

To the person asking permission to cross dress, no cross-dressing
Allowed, though. We will have booster seats for short people. Low-fat food will be available for those on a diet. We cannot control the salt used in the food - we suggest for those people with high blood pressure to taste first.

There will be fresh fruits as dessert for Diabetics; the restaurant cannot supply "No Sugar" desserts.  Sorry!

Did I miss anything?!?!?

Patty



FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director

TO: All Employees

DATE: November 11, 2005

RE: The Stupid Holiday Party

Vegetarian pricks - I've had it with you people!!! We're going to
Keep this party at the Grill House whether you like it or not, so you can sit quietly at the table furthest from the "grill of death," as you so quaintly put it, and you'll get your stupid salad bar, including organic tomatoes. But you know, tomatoes have feelings, too. They scream when you slice them.  I've heard them scream. I'm hearing them scream right NOW!

I hope you all have a rotten holiday!  Drive drunk and die,

The Bitch from HELL!!!!!!!!




FROM: Joan Bishop, Acting Human Resources Director

TO: All Employees

DATE: November 13, 2005

RE: Patty Lewis and Holiday Party



I'm sure I speak for all of us in wishing Patty Lewis a speedy
Recovery and I'll continue to forward your cards to her.  In the meantime, management has decided to cancel our Holiday  Party.

Happy  Holidays!

Special

I was just wondering how the 'Day that will live in infamy' hardly got mentioned, but they haven't quit talking about John Lennon all day today. It is possible that the guy who shot him was trying to help him. Have you heard Yoko Ono sing?

I think it shows the state of our culture. A day when the US Navy was sitting there sleeping. Golf courses filled with officers. The sailor getting ready for another lazy South Pacific beauty of a day. We were not in the great war. We had no plans of it. Then BAM, Zeros shooting and crashing, the entire fleet decimated. Oh what a day of loss. A day of pain.

Then some singer gets shot and this is the day everyone mourns. Maybe it isn't the State but the entire race that is doomed.

Enjoy your weekend, I'll be skeet shooting with Lennon and Ono LPs. LOL

Just a few thoughts to warm your brain.

Entergy Corp. asks PSC for approval of $2.45 surcharge
read it here By MARK BALLARD

The surcharge Entergy Corp. wants to add to monthly electric bills is necessary to stall efforts by Wall Street to lower the company's credit ratings, company officials say.[ I guess the record profits won't support them. The customers must pay for natures damage. ]

"NO MORE CALLS FOR BUSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ty Bromell wrote Wednesday morning, Aug. 31. "My people are not calling for buses now." read it here

The media is beginning to get tough on Gov Blanco. This will spell her doom for sure. Not that her ratings before the storm were good. Speculations on the next Gov? I'll be @ my cabin in the woods pondering this as I continue writing in my journal.

Can we pull the whole thing together? Are the illegal immigrants the only roofers working right now? Wake up folks, we are being fleeced.

LSU lost to Georgia 34-14 and Virginia Tech was upset 27-22 by Florida State and the Saints did it again Haslett watched his team lose for the ninth time in its last 11 games despite a decent performance by the defense.

Sen Vitter responded to the Railway Legislation he proposed. Basically he wants to setup a Grant Program for states to be able to use to address railway crossing improvements and closures. At least it will be a state decision.


"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."-- Benjamin Franklin

Near The End

Well by the end of this week it will be the last month of this year. This has been an interesting one for us. People are spread out all over the country now. I personally know of people in West Virginia, Georgia, Michigan and Texas. They started the trip from here.

But, New Orleans is coming back to life. This week has a full schedule of openings and lightings for Christmas.

Not that this is the medias agenda apparently. 60 Minutes ran a story, that many disagree with. New Orleans becoming an island is preposterous. Sometimes they try to find or create the sensational, just to keep us wound up.

I'm not a conspiracy nut, but it sure is easy to find the big government agenda being fed to the masses by the media. Even in this article refuting the island theory they mention 'global warming'. This theory is as dumb as Charles Darwin. Ever wonder why they are theories? They are unproven. But, the media picks up a phrase or idea, like 'Cheznian Rebels'. What religion are they? Muslim. What was there latest big idea? Hostage taking and murder of schoolchildren. So another way to describe them is 'ISLAMIC TERRORIST'.

Then we have our own eating us alive. Like Randy 'Duke' Cunningham resigning after making plenty of money selling us out. Nothing compared to former presidential snafus though. But it shows you even a hero gets corrupted once he goes to DC.

Well, here is an interesting idea. I wonder if a 'National ID Card' is in the works?

HAPPY TURKEY DAY.
This holiday, unique to America, was formed to commemorate the survival of the Pilgrims. Due to a bountiful harvest of Maize [corn] and other things, they celebrated with a feast. The American Indian tribe that were their neighbors joined in the feast, since they had tought the Pilgrims to grow corn. The Pilgrims thank THE ALMIGHTY for the harvest and their friends the tribe.

Thank Him for what you have this Thanksgiving.


A FEW THOUGHTS

Is my garbage thrown out, or is still being on my property, just a pile of my stuff? I ask this since some people descide to take things out of other peoples piles. I mean we throw it out, I help them load up furniture, but digging in the other stuff is weird. MAKE SURE YOU SHRED OR BURN ANYTHING WITH INFO FOR PREDATORS!!!

Also, keep your dog in your yard. Thank you.


I wonder how the Army Corp of Engineers can build things around the world. And people actually question their ability to build a levee. The New Orleans Levee system worked great for up to CAT3 hurricanes. Just as the specs it was built to. The Politicians desided this was good enough. Blame where blame is due. The people who are dead blame on their Children for leaving them in the 'nursing home'. Or on themselves for not evacuating. The Army built with what was provided by the Big Political Machine.

On a non-lighter note, Why hasn't the Governor answered me about the seizure of weapons in New Orleans?

INTERESTING
The Top Politically inCorrect Words and Phrases for 2005:



1. Misguided Criminals for Terrorist: The BBC attempts to strip away all emotion by using what it considers neutral descriptions when describing those who carried out the bombings in the London Tubes. The rub: the professed intent of these misguided criminals was to kill, without warning, as many innocents as possible (which is the common definition for the term, terrorist). [To see one example used by John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, Click Here.]




2. Intrinsic Aptitude (or lack thereof) was a suggestion by Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard, on why women might be underrepresented in engineering and science. He was nearly fired for his speculation.



3. Thought Shower or Word Shower substituting for brainstorm so as not to offend those with brain disorders such as epilepsy.



4. Scum or "la racaille" for French citizens of Moslem and North African descent inhabiting the projects ringing French Cities. France's Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, used this most Politically inCorrect (and reprehensible) label to describe the young rioters (and by extension all the inhabitants of the Cites).



5. Out of the Mainstream when used to describe the ideology of any political opponent: At one time slavery was in the mainstream, thinking the sun orbited the earth was in the mainstream, having your blood sucked out by leeches was in the mainstream. What's so great about being in the mainstream?



6. Deferred Success as a euphemism for the word fail. The Professional Association of Teachers in the UK considered a proposal to replace any notion of failure with deferred success in order to bolster students self-esteem.



7. Womyn for Women to distance the word from man. This in spite of the fact that the term man in the original Indo-European is gender neutral (as have been its successors for some 5,000 years).



8. C.E. for A.D.: Is the current year A.D. 2005 or 2005 C.E.? There is a movement to strip A.D. (Latin for Year of our Lord) from the year designation used in the West since the 5th century and replace it with the supposedly more neutral Common Era (though the zero reference year for the beginning of the Common Era remains the year of Christs birth).



9. "God Rest Ye Merry Persons" for "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen": A Christmas, eh, Holiday, carol with 500 years of history is not enough to sway the Anglican Church at Cardiff Cathedral (Wales) from changing the original lyrics.



10. Banning the word Mate: the Department of Parliamentary Services in Canberra issued a general warning to its security staff banning the use of the word 'mate' in any dealings they might have with both members of the Parliament and the public. What next? banning Down Under so as not to offend those living in the Up Over.



Holiday Bonus: Happy Holidays or Season's Greetings for Christmas (which in some UK schools now label Wintervale. (In the word X-Mas, the Greek letter 'Chi' represented by the Roman X actually stands for the first two letters of the name Christ.)

In a blatant act of Hispandering, The Hildabeast is proposing giving Puerto Ricans income tax refunds. The only problem? Puerto Ricans pay no federal income tax. Way to go buying those votes, Hillary.

Is the Pelican State salvageable?

I don't like to be a doom sayer, I hope we can still pull this state out of the tailspin it is in. My best friend thinks otherwise, but I keep up the fight. The politicians don't make it easy for me though. Neither do the local media outlets. Or our businesses.

Why do I pay more for lights than people in Seattle WA, Detroit MI and Raliegh NC? I live in a place where ALL of our 'major' cities combined would be the equivalent of these. Don't think it is due to the fact it is more difficult based on our populace either. I pay more than Oxford, MS and Hays, KS also. It is not just my utility either. I'll have to call my PSC and ask.

I heard a radio advisement saying if your medicine is wet, discard it, if it is dry then it should be ok. If you need assistance contact ahealtht care provider such as the Red Cross, a hospital or emergency medical facility. I though that is odd, the Red Cross is a health care provider? Maybe this is just a mistake by the media right? Nope, the radio continued this message brought to you by the Food and Dradministrationtio FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services. The federal government has validated the Red Cross. Now I do not know how much contact you personally with the Red Cross, but you will find it hard to locate a Veteran who will say they are a good and worthy anything. I thought after 9-11 that people would see what a greedy, uncaring organization they are. Not the individual volunteers mind you, these people on the ground floor, for the most part just want to help their brothers in need. But, Oprah shipped them 50 Million dollars anyway. Word is that the Red Cross has collected enough money, prior to Oprahs Millions, to give everyone [all living humans] in the effected areas of Louisiana 66,000 each.

OK, lets do some math. $66,000 - $33,000 for Mississippi = $33,000. Then take Rita into account so that leaves us at $11,000 each. I personally did not get anything for my family[not sure why], so I'm wondering why my inlaws only got $350 each. $33,00 total for all 3 of us, minus the $700 they actually received leaves $32,300. Even if you say that some went to the authorized health care system of the Red Cross, where the heck is the money? FEMA gave me more of our tax money than the Red Cross did of donations.

U.S.M.C. 230 years old HAPPY BIRTHDAY JARHEADS


Notes from a special session of the Louisiana Legislature
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=d5012a55aa41a8dc&cat=58efbe858884606b

New Orleans Evictions Surging as Contractors, FEMA Bid Up Rents
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=27ef33ba1157865d&cat=58efbe858884606b


WMDs Found in Iraq Contrary to ongoing reports by mainstream media outlets, WMDs have been found in Iraq, so reports New York Times best-selling author Richard Miniter in his new book, Disinformation.
Consider these shocking facts:
Found: 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
Found: 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons
Found: Roadside bomb loaded with sarin gas
Found: 1,000 radioactive materials--ideal for radioactive dirty bombs
Found: 17 chemical warheads--some containing cyclosarin, a nerve agent five times more powerful than sarin


FLORIDA Doesn't Seem Any Better
In 1988, the voters of Florida amended the State Constitution to make English the language of official business for the State of Florida. The legislature has chosen to igore the wishes of the voters and, instead, proposes that we make the speaking of Spanish a requirement for all Florida elementary students

Due to recent changes made by the Florida Legislature, all voter registration records will become open public records as of January 1, 2006. Items such as social security numbers will not be public record; however the names,addresses, birth dates, telephone numbers and other non-exempted information will be open to the public without restriction.

The damage to Central Florida citizen's privacy and safety from Orlando's WFTV Channel 9 exposure of the names and address of concealed weapon licensees, will have a long-lasting affect. Here are some of the potential dangers to licensees and the rest of the public: Criminals have been provided with a 'hit list' of people who have guns to steal This is without doubt another irresponsible action taken by the liberal news media without any regard whatsoever for the damage and harm they cause. I can only hope you jump on this situation with both feet. What useful purpose is served in making the private information of law abiding citizens public? More guns will be on the street because more guns will be stolen. Again, thanks to the list of names and addresses provided by your website, WFTV will probably be the subject of more lawsuits, but these could be much more serious given the potential for multiple killings.If you're licensed due to being stalked, your new private address you've kept secret is now exposed to the stalker. Will there be a class-action lawsuit against WFTV Channel 9? And a last item let's out WFTV's General Manager, Bill Hoffman's personal information. Anybody have that?

WORLDWIDE
Whew!! I was worried that we didn't have the UN's blessing at all. [lol]
The United Nations has extended the mandate of the US-led multinational forces in Iraq for another year. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4419222.stm

And on to the Wierd

PETA has started demonstrating, they are trying to make people believe that everyone being a vegetarian will remove the poultry farms and thus the 'bird flu'. It will remove they wages of American chicken farmers. I guess eggs are next.

As you eat your egg McMuffin, I mean your toast, no wait that has eggs too. How about a bagel? What am I eating? No sausage, cheese, bread. Grits, I will live on grits, after all they are corn. I have NEVER seen a healthy looking Vegetarian. Not that carnivores have any benefits, consider the scurvy of all the low carb diets. A balanced diet is what we are after people. Why do we have canine teeth if not for meat? Incisors for cutting through the crisp veggies, balance in our teeth, to balance our diet and health.

Wonder if PETA is behind this weirdness?
A representative of a shadowy group calling itself the Chicken Liberation Organization has accused orthodox Jews of responsibility for the aviary flu, which experts believe may become a global pandemic threatening the lives of millions.

LOL, found this tidbit interesting
AP and UPI reported today that the French government announced that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide." The only two higher levels in France are "Collaborate" and "Surrender". The raise was precipitated by a recent fire which destroyed France's white flag factory, thereby disabling its military.


Posted on October 26, 2005 http://barbrastreisand.com/statements.html#ifnotnowwhen
If there was ever a time in history to impeach a President of the United States, it would be now. In my opinion, it is two years too late.

Well thank you Babs. Always brilliant commentary out of Hollywierd. Is she a PETA supporter? That would clear up the question about the Chicken Liberation Front.

A Question For Spammers [by Clay]
Why does someone using the email name "Psychic Reminder" need to spam me? Can't such a person spam me telepathically?




I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson

On With The Show

Hope you enjoy the no POPUP feeling of the new site. Now on with the show.

Still haven't heard from the Governor.

SB 2 by Senator Ben Nevers (D-Bogalusa) which should be titled the Keep Louisiana Unemployed Act of 2005. Speaker of the House Joe Saltzer has proposed the House version. Basically, this raises unemployment benefits to the highest allowed by law, regardless of how much is actually in the unemployment trust fund. Unemployment compensation has been shown to harm the economy so these bills will impede Louisiana's recovery and should be defeated.

I don't want a handout; I don't even like the fact that I even need a hand. -- Rev Al Sharpton Thank You Reverend, your brilliance shines again. V

Public School Prisons By Joel Turtel (11/07/05) Why have we put our children into educational prisons called public schools? What crimes have they committed? Why do we condemn almost 45 million innocent children to this punishment? Do I exaggerate by calling these schools prisons?Well, let's compare prisons and public schools.

AND THEN:
The story out of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California. It seems some parents were not all that pleased with some sex education courses and materials that were being used in their own government schools. (Serves them right.) So .Theyhey filed suit. They lost. The 9th Circuit wrote that "there is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children.... Parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to witch their children will be exposed wile enrolled as students."
So ... aren't you so proud that you are one of those wonderful parents who have turned your children over to the government to be "educated." Now you get some idea as to just how the government views your role in this matter.
Congratulations, your doing a great service to your child.

JUST TO CLEAR UP WHO IS TELLING SECRETS:
Here's an interesting little tidbit regarding Joe WilsonThethe former ambassador and husband of Valerie Plame, the supposedly "outed" CIA "agent" at the center of the special prosecutor's investigation of the Bush administration. It would seem that Mr. WilsonWhowho has been so outraged over the leaking of his wife's name....was outing her long before Robert Novak did. The revelation comes in the form of Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely. Vallely says he was in the green room at Fox News with Wilson in 2002 and Wilson told him his wife was a CIA operative. That's a full year before Novak published it. Some secret, huh?

FRANCE IS ON FIRE:
Those 701 maimed and murdered souls from last week donÂ’t know how good theyÂ’ve got it, at least according to CAIR. The real victims, it seems, are the five bearded Muslims briefly detained by nervous security agents at a New York Giants football game (attended by former President Bush) after they got up in unison to gather next to the stadium's main air intake vent for... prayer.
CAIR never misses a chance to make it garishly clear that it values Muslim sensibilities far higher than the very tangible pain, suffering, and death that Islam is consistently inflicting on people outside the faith. Perhaps one day someone can explain to CAIR that it is exactly this critical and constant lack of moral perspective that makes the rest of us so nervous in the first place.
I guess France is glad they made the decision to 'stay out of the terrorist war'. Seems to be working out great for them.

"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."~~~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Interesting e-Mail out of Utah!

Let me tell you a few things about the wonderful group of evacuees we received here in Utah. The first plane arrived with 152 passengers. Of the 152; 10 were children. 3 of these children had been separated or abandoned by their parents. As these passengers attempted to board the plane, the National Guard removed from their person; 43 handguns (it is illegal to own a Handgun in New Orleans), 20 knives, one man had 100,000 dollars in cash, 20 pounds of Marijuana, 10 pounds of Crack, 15 pounds of Methamphetamines, 10 pounds of various other controlled substances including Heroin. Upon their arrival here in SLC, two people immediately deplaned and lit up a joint.

During the course of medical evaluations, it was discovered that parents were using their kids to carry loads of looted jewelry (price tag still on), and other items. One third of the people who got off the plane were angry that they didn't get to go to Houston or San Antonio. Over the course of the next 36 hours we received an additional 430 evacuees. Most of these, like their predecessors had to be relieved of illegal items. Additionally, most of them, were the owners of exceptionally prolific criminal records, just like those in the first flight. By the second night in the shelter, there was one attempted rape of a relief worker, sales of drugs on going and a gang had begun to rebuild. When the people arrived at the shelter, they were given the opportunity to dig through piles of donated clothes from local church groups. Many complained that they were second hand clothes. The state set up a reception center with relocation assistance, Medica! id and workforce services among many assistance groups. This past Saturday, workforce services held a job fair. 85 of the 582 evacuees attended. 44 were hired on the spot & 24 were asked back for a second interview. Guess the others had no desire to work. Yesterday we began relocating evacuees to be with family or friends who had agreed to take them in as well as three to the county jail. Now in the health arena; 4 with Aids, 15% of those 582 had some form of STD, one case of TB, 2 Heroin withdrawals, 15 mental health admissions, one brain tumor and 15 nursing home patients. Like everyone in this nation, I watched as the news media blasted FEMA and President Bush for the "poor response".

While everyone on TV saw nothing but people being let down by government, <>I saw people letting down people. Who would have ever thought that we would reach a point in time that US citizens would lie around in piles of trash complaining that no one had come to pick them up out of it. What ever happened to people pulling together to make their circumstance better? Why couldn't they get up and move on their own or at least just clean up the area where they had to wait for evacuation? Why did they feel the need to take a crap in the aisle of the superdome? FEMA did not fail them. FEMA is not a response agency. State and local government is responsible for the first 72 hours. But more important, we all have a responsibility to help ourselves and neighbors.

Poverty is not an excuse to behave like animals. The rest of the Gulf Coast d id not have problems like this! Difficult situations are not an excuse to loot your neighbor 24 hours before the storm even hits. I have always said New Orleans was a toilet! Now everyone has proof that not only was it a toilet, but a toilet long overdue for a flush.

Matthew Anderson Salt Lake City, Utah


It IS NOT illegal to own and posess firearms in New Orleans, by the way. Other than that, I guess someone sees one of our major problems here in Louisiana. V

2NOV05 Dear Governor Blanco

Governor Blanco,
I am concerned about the way things were handled in New Orleans and the surrounding areas after the storm. Specifically about the confiscation of firearms by the police.
Police is a word used when cleaning up a campsite by the Boy Scouts and military. It means to remove all debris and trash. This sounds like an accurate definition of what our law enforement does daily. Pick up the trash.
However, depriving law abiding citizens of their 2nd ammendment rights during a Martial Law crisis, is neither right nor accurate of the definitions. Martial Law invokes the Militia mentioned in the 2nd ammendment. It deputizes them, and gives them the DUTY to arm themselves as an officer of the Martial Law.
Regardless of any of this, at NO point in our nation should a law abiding citizen be disarmed by any government official. That being said, I will move on to the methods.
There is video of an elderly lady who made the mistake of opening her door to CHP officers and showing them she had a gun and food so they could leave her alone. She told them ‘I don’t want you here’. They pummeled her and while laying on top of her actually said’ We’re trying to help you maam’. Scary.
More video of people telling their story of being disarmed but allowed to stay. But, those were men, now a frail old lady. Guess they were too big to be pummeled. Or maybe it wasn’t California cops.
My concern being the blatant disregard by police of the FACT that this is still America. Eddie Compass on video saying ‘we will confiscate all guns.’ This is criminal. I’d hate to see a man who spent his life in law enforcement arrested. But, EVERYBODY needs to know this was WRONG. I know it was a hard time. I know there were knuckleheads out there doing all kinds of nonsense. But, coming into peoples homes and taking their guns is the act of a Dictatorship not a Democratic Republic.
I would appreciate at least an acknowledgement of this message. I await your response.

Old things made new again [Archives]

2 November 2005 08:09 CST
Governor Blanco Letter Posted
1 November 2005 08:54 CST Posted by lux-et-veritas
NOPD: After Katrina COURT TV Nov 01 9:00pm Special, 60 Mins. New Orleans police attempt to keep the peace after Hurricane Katrina causes the levees to break. This program should be very interesting. I wonder if they cover the beating of people and pummeling of old ladies. Police state antics, I wonder if the spin machine is on for the filming. More comments on this I’m sure will come later.
I wrote Bobby Jindal about this blatant disregard for peoples rights. He said He thought it was terrible as well. I’m curious to see if I get a response from Gov Blanco. I never have, what will make this different?
It wasn’t all that surprising in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to see so many of Katrina’s victims demanding increased levels of response from government. Many of these Katrina victims have been relying on government for their entire lives. New Orleans had one of the highest levels of citizens on welfare in the country. These are people who have squandered their American birthright to become little more than parasites-with-rights. Now they’ve been scattered to the four corners, and their demands for more and more government attention haven’t abated.
Then came Wilma. This was one slow-moving hurricane. It was first estimated to reach Florida on a Saturday. It arrived three days late, and still people weren’t ready. As soon as Wilma passed we heard people in South Florida whining and complaining about the lack of government assistance. These people did little or nothing to prepare. They didn’t stock up on water or food. They didn’t even fill their cars with gas. Then, after the hurricane came through, they started complaining. Where’s my government water? Where’s my government food? Where’s my government gas? I want price controls! I want more government!
The president of the Orleans Levee Board has resigned rather than answer questions about why he awarded no-bid contracts to family members after Hurricane Katrina and gave himself a $100,000 bonus.
Jim Huey, who submitted his resignation late Wednesday to Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, said he welcomes an investigation into his actions, which he deemed necessary and appropriate.
How can Tiger Stadium easily accommodate 92,000 people for a LSU game, but have trouble with 61,000 for a Saints game? The answer: add the New Orleans Saints to the equation.
IMHO Files The R-rated film, whose title is taken from 50 Cent’s major-label debut album, is due to open November 9. It stars the rap artist, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, in a biographical story about a drug dealer who abandons crime and violence to pursue a music career.
50 Cent’s latest CD, “Massacre,” has sold 4.7 million copies in the U.S. since its chart-topping release in March and ranks as the biggest-selling album so far this year, according to Nielsen. Someone told me there is a videogame associated with this movie coming out. You go around killing rival drug dealers. Good and wholesome entertainment for your kids, huh? This isn’t a good premise for adults. WAKE UP PEOPLE!! The wolves are at the door, don’t let them in.
In a fight, there is no second place winner.
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”~~~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 October 2005 08:03 CDT Posted by lux-et-veritas
Hi NeighborTHIS WEEK IN OUR SPORTS I had an epiphany, what if all the concrete and steel from the Morial Convention Center and the great big bathhouse; AKA the New Orleans Arena, had been used on the levee system. I wonder if that had been done if we could have avoided the devastation in New Orleans. Or if that money could have been used to reinforce what was there or buy more water pumps. How did the Hornets coming to town help us exactly? And then we have the money pit, I mean the Saints.
Tom Benson is an idiot. I hope the Saints do go away. They are a drain on the state. Let’s put this in terms a little different than sports talk so maybe we can get from behind our blind fan following . O.K. here goes, if you had a dog, and you fed him steak while you ate bologna, he slept in the A/C while you hoped the winds would blow through your broken windows and he never even barked much less ran off the burglars who robbed you every week. When you got your third job, so you could try to keep him fed while your 2 yr old baby girl ate stale bread and wore dog food sacks for clothes. Would it then be time to put a bullet in his head, or at least let the neighbor have him? If the team was a race horse, we would have shot it by now and cut our losses.
It seems this clown Benson threatens every 3 months to move the team, unless we pay, unless we build a stadium, unless we quit taking care of things that need it and give him that money. Mr. Benson doesn’t care that we’ve had New Orleans dissipated by a hurricane, that our schools systems are failing, that our tourist industry is weakening, that our roads are horrible [especially I-55 to the state line, I-49 isn’t even completed, I-10 twin span is only 2 lanes now] or that we’ve been fleeced to the point of disrepair that we are in now by others like him.
Let’s look at a page from recent history on how to deal with clowns. Marc Morial kept telling Entergy, that he would take back Entergy New Orleans [NOPSI] if they didn’t do X, or didn’t give Y. Finally, Entergy CEO Wayne Leonard told him O.K. take it, and all Entergy employees would be offered jobs elsewhere in the Entergy Company if they wanted them. Marc shut up and we haven’t heard of these threats or tactics anymore. [I think Mayor Nagin has more class also] Maybe Tom Benson needs the same offer. BYE THEN. Either the price tag for the team would go down due to them moving or at least quit going up all the time if they truly want to be Louisiana’s team.
Katrina’s Smoking Gun “It is very important that time is allowed for Mr. Brown to eat dinner” (in Baton Rouge before appearing on a MSNBC TV show). “We now have traffic to encounter . . . followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc.,” FEMA Director Michael Brown’s Press Secretary.
“OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! Just tell her (the press secretary) that I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy restaurants. Maybe tonight I will have time to move the pebbles on the parking garage floor so they don¿t stab me in the back while I try to sleep.” Marty Bahamonde, FEMA Public Affairs Official, with 12 years of experience
Myths About Gun Control by John Stossel FINALLY SOMEONE IS SAYING IT. “I’m not going in the store to buy no gun,” said one maximum-security inmate in New Jersey. “So, I could care less if they had a background check or not.”
Gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see. It would be funny if it weren’t true. A visiting professor at North Carolina State University says the solution to the problems faced by many blacks is the extermination of “white people off the face of the planet.”
All the News is a Stage by Michelle Malkin These media masters of theater are incapable of delivering real drama and good news unless they control the script. Fortunately, you control the remote.
Did you notice how the riot broke out at a NeoNazi rally? Turns out it was gangs of black thugs. Nazis claimed they were there to bring attention to the city’s growning gang problem. The city claimed there was no problem. Gangs come out in force to prove the city wrong. The Nazis never even marched. They got back on their buses and left as the police told them to. Not that I agree with their politics, but they did obey the police and accomplished the goal of drawing attention to the gang problem.
Peace and Love Religion Islam pitched a perfect game last week by committing atrocities against every religion this side of the Heaven’s Gate cult
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”~~~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
18 October 2005 16:46 CDT Posted by lux-et-veritas
TuesdayTuesday will be the day. All evildoers [politicians and their paid constituency]will rue the Tuesdays here after. I’ve chosen Tuesday, as this was the day for the first post after my appointment to the pulpit of The Church of the Minuteman. [church means body of like minded people, pulpit is a place to speak from] I’ve chosen to use the [brackets] to mark my comments, hopefully soon you will get comfortable with this method, and I will be able to insert comments into anybody else’s rant that I post here. Also, gives me explanation points so your panties stay unbunched. Other than that I will try to stay with the established format to keep the transition comfortable. As far as how things were and are done. I see no reason to change. I think Minuteman is an appropriate name for the cause of those men and women who chose to be a productive citizen and not subjects. In the English language man describes species as well as gender, so a lady can be a mailman or a minuteman. I hate political correct talk. Why? Because it is wrong and makes us dumber every time we hear it spoken. There are basics to a civilized society. If you do not want to be civil then move or suffer the justice of the civilized. An armed society is a polite society. It is your personal responsibility to take care of you and yours. Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the Federal, State and Local failure to do what the Senators tell you they will do for you. IT IS YOUR CHOICE. If you sit and collect a quick check then you have no boat, car, water or food to sustain life if the system fails. Which has in the past, did in this case and will again. They don’t care about you. They care about their jobs. Pressure them and they will know you. Don’t and they won’t. Here is what I believe. You may have heard some of this before.
For all of society Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal: these are principles which every man of every faith can embrace. These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior. And those of you who ignore them will pay the dearest cost.
For the Minuteman Be without fear in the Face of your Enemies Be Brave and Upright, That God may Love thee Speak the truth always even if it means your Death Safe Guard the helpless and do no Wrong
Pick your spot in society. Sheep or Shepherd. Sheep get sheared. Some must protect them too. The wolves are circling. Whether you want to see them are not. They are out there.
Stay tuned…
18 October 2005 08:27 CDT Posted by lux-et-veritas
NEW MINUTEMAN SITENew Site, New Location, New Rants, New Host!
I’ve assumed control of THE MINUTEMAN CHRONICLES and changed the site location due to the name issue. I will enjoy this new opportunity. I hope you enjoy it as much as you did before and maybe even more. I hope I don’t have to warn you that I won’t pull so many punches as my predecessor did. More entries to follow soon. 11 October 2005 08:01 CDT
2nd Ammendment, 2nd AsmendmentAfter an elderly lady who made the mistake of opening her door and letting in the California Highway Patrol, shows them her gun which she says is her protection so she won’t leave her home, gets pummeled by the cops. The stupid reporter justifies it by saying well ‘a gun is a gun.’ He continues the stupidity with the statement ‘well they’re not kicking down doors, they’re not dragging people out of their homes.’ ??? You dummy, I just watched them do exactly that. VIDEO EVIDENCE
Next is the Military going through with authorization, verified by Chief Eddie Compass, that ‘We’re going to take all guns.’ VIDEO EVIDENCE
Finally, a 65 yo man makes the mistake of asking a Police officer ‘What time is the curfew?’ And then is attacked by a man who not identifying himself at any time or reading Mr. Davis his rights or telling him you are under arrest. Mr. Davis stated all he was told was ‘I will kick your a**.’ At which time they proceeded to do exactly that. VIDEO EVIDENCE
This police state/martial law scenario is getting very scary isn’t it? I mean it took no time for things to fall apart after the storm. Looting, killing, raping. Then the government steps up to ‘HELP US’. I don’t know which is worse. At least I can defend myself against a looter or rapist.
But, the police are in control now. I hope everyone who loves to talk about how only the police should have guns will see what happens when they are. Time and again it has been pr oven throughout history that if the citizens are unarmed, they will be beaten killed and oppressed. Thanks California.
“How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.” Texas State Rep. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp
6 October 2005 07:30 CDT
Laughing so I don’t cry.Isn’t this just the state of things. I mean when It really matters. When everybody is living in what I call Lord of the Flies mode. It is amazing the way people act.
1 October 2005 08:26 CDT
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is an activist who is trying to tell the truth and diswade the tied os hatred woven by people like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan. Some of you may have read his article Moral poverty cost blacksabout the New Orleans hurricane debacle.
He also has The Blacklist “The purpose of The ‘Black’ List Campaign is to expose Hollywood’s most anti-American black celebrities. Our campaign seeks to educate Americans about the beliefs, statements and actions of these entertainers.” - Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
Veritas vos liberabit - The truth will set you free
29 September 2005 14:39 CDT
Well Life Staring to ResumeWell, I’d first like to thank Gov Blanco for handling the question of if she would like to respond [retaliate] to Browns comment, very nicely. You showed a lot of class Gov by simply saying you wanted to focus on helping the state with the catastrophe have endured.
The national media and the federal propaganda machine will no mention this I’m sure. Yet I wouldn’t know what is on the news, I choose cable because of it’s rock solid reliability. But, thats another topic.
Mr Brown said his mistake with FEMA was not recognizing that Louisiana is dysfunctional. Mr Brown, who turned the ships full of helicopters out of Port of Orleans???? Who wouldn’t let truckloads of supplies donated from other states through Baton Rouge? Who is still hogging up media time with his BRILLIANT remarks? That would be your FUNCTION Sir.
Well, we are going to survive this. Entergy isn’t bankrupt, they just need bankrupt protection which allows Entergy Corp to loan Entergy New Orleans money. Or else you end up with unseen money shuffling and that was what Enron was doing.
Funny thing is that New Orleans {the 200+ year old part} was high and dry. It was where the lake’s property had been claimed by the city where the problem occurred. New Orleans will be back in business in 6 mos. Operating at 100% is my estimation. Some people will lived in different areas now. The areas we know as 9th ward, the parish and others will be a memory I am afraid. But, maybe we will get a new stadium for the city/state out of this destruction. St Bernard could be ALL industrial. May ideas are bouncing around. Soon the tension of the damage will be gone and everyone will feel the charge in the air containing so many possibilities.
Then Tom Delay has been hornswagled by the other side. Oh no panic on right, cheers on left. Who gives a flip. These guys try to lead us by our beliefs and they are all in it together. Them against us. The tax spenders against the tax payers. And if you get a check and think you are getting over you are wrong. You are just more easily led by your master, the government.
19 September 2005 07:31 CDT
What’s going on?Well, I have been pretty busy, as you can imagine after a hurricane. I don’t get a lot of info these days but have noticed a few nifty tricks going on.
I’m not sure of everything so if someone who is getting more information than me please let me know. I’m not talking about all the ‘blame game’ that has gone on. They were all unprepared.
What I see is the government keeping people from helping their fellow man. Trucks of food and water being turned around by FEMA. Citizens in boats not allowed to rescue people. Old ladies being pummeled by police for telling them she has a gun to protect herself with.
Sen Landrieu said, that ‘Faith Based Organizations’ had their place, but, could in no way take the job of the government. Well Senator the government failed people.
I saw where the only way to get help to people was to go around the bureaucracy, and find faith based Organizations to give to.
The Red Cross is a farce. This fake organization takes your money and then only passes out water if the cameras are on. Any ex-military or people who remember the 9-11 Red Cross computer buying scam know what I’m talking about.
5 September 2005 19:33 CDT
Hurricane AftermathWell we found my brother-in-law in Atlanta GA. Evacuated from N.O. hospital on Friday.
I just want to say that I keep hearing [very limited on info due to cable is still out] blame being put on this one or that one. Between the City of N.O., the State of LA and the FEDS everyone is to blame. They were not under prepared. That I could accept. We just didn’t do enough but we did some makes some sense. They were all completely unprepared. FEMA and the RED CROSS are false front organizations to make people believe that help is there. I went through one place where a church had people from out of state in there cooking and the churches facilities were opened to the community. Everyone in this town was eating all day between like 11 to 6. Then after 5 days of this the Red Cross put up their sign in front of it. Same folks, same location, new sign.
Be Prepared. Boy Scouts know this, but City and State officials don’t. Sad state of affairs isn’t it?
1 September 2005 21:32 CDT
WOAH!!!!!!In case anyone is in the dark, we got our butts kicked in Louisiana by Hurricane Katrina.
This has provided multiple opportunities for political stupidity and bureaucratic foul ups. I’ll update things as I can. Kinda busy here of late. Just got the Internet back today.
25 August 2005 07:29 CDT
MADNESSMichael Graham was fired as a talk show host for the following statement: “If the Boy Scouts of America had 1,000 scout troops, and 10 of them practiced suicide bombings, then the BSA would be considered a terrorist organization,” he said. “If the BSA refused to kick out those 10 troops, that would make the case even stronger. If people defending terror repeatedly turned to the Boy Scout handbook and found language that justified and defended murder – and the scoutmasters in charge simply said ‘Could be’ – the Boy Scouts would have driven out of America long ago.”
Seems reasonable. Drawing a parallel between this militant ‘Boy Scout’ organization and the Islamic religion caused CAIR [Counsil of American Islamic Relations] to demand he be fired. Funny, what was their statements or demands after 10 Islamic Terrorists attacked America on 9-11? Seems his interesting analogy is holding water so far.
Coupled with the information that CAIR is a spin-off of a group described by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a “front group” for the terrorist group Hamas in the U.S. Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.
Graham is furious that CAIR is now able to exert this kind of influence in the U.S. media. We should all be furious, this is rediculous. It’s like putting a Mexican in charge of the border, or have we done that already? As long as the media continues to demand the exact GPS coordinates of our ’special ops’ troops, maybe they should be treated as terrorists. ABC News is a joke. Now that they have fired a ‘TALK RADIO host for doing exactly what they do, the entire ABC media outlet may be proving itself to be an anti-American organization.
“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” –George Washington
Credited to F Lee Ermey [Mail Call Host] at a press conference concerning Marine Corp actions in Iraq:
“Aren’t you going against the freedom of the press?” “FREEDOM?? WHAT IN BLUE Blazes DO YOU KNOW ABOUT FREEDOM? I HAVE SWEATED MY ASS OF IN JUNGLES, WHILE BEING SHOT AT FOR THIS NATION!! WHAT IN THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE YOU LITTLE WEASEL? WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU PUT YOUR ASS ON THE LINE FOR ANYTHING? AND YET YOU HAVE THE UNMITIGATED TEMERITY TO SHOW UP HERE AND MONDAY-MORNING QUARTERBACK THE ACTIONS OF A BRAVE MARINE, WHO WAS DEFENDING HIMSELF AND HIS UNIT FROM AN ATTACK BY SOME MURDEROUS AL-QUEDA SYMPATHIZER!!!
YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT? I AM CONCERNED ABOUT A BUNCH OF ORGANIZED MORONS WITH CAMERAS AND MICROPHONES DOING THEIR BEST TO PORTRAY OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN AS WAR CRIMINALS! I AM CONCERNED ABOUT PANSIES THAT WANT US TO NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS AND WHINE ABOUT THEIR “FREEDOMS”!!”
19 August 2005 07:53 CDT
This is some interesting data. It has the Nation, City and Price in USD Regular/Gallon
Netherlands, Amsterdam $6.48 Norway, Oslo $6.27 Italy, Milan $5.96 Denmark Copenhagen $5.93 Belgium Brussels $5.91 Sweden Stockholm $5.80 United Kingdom London $5.79 Germany Frankfurt $5.57 France Paris $5.54 Portugal Lisbon $5.35 Hungary Budapest $4.94 Germany Luxembourg $4.82 Croatia Zagreb $4.81 Ireland Dublin $4.78 Switzerland Geneva $4.74 Spain Madrid $4.55 Japan Tokyo $4.24 Czech Republic Prague $4.19 Romania Bucharest $4.09 Andorra $4.08 Estonia Tallinn $3.62 Bulgaria Sofia $3.52 Brazil Brasilia $3.12 Cuba Havana $3.03 Taiwan Taipei $2.84 Lebanon Beirut $2.63 South Africa Johannesburg $2.62 Nicaragua Managua $2.61 Panama Panama City $2.19 Russia Moscow $2.10 Puerto Rico San Juan $1.74 Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91 Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78 Egypt Cairo $0.65 Nigeria Lagos $0.38 Venezuela Caracas $0.12
I notice that the oil producing state of the place is proportional to the price of the gas. I do not have an exact number on wells and refineries for Louisiana, but I think ‘A WHOLE LOT OF THEM’ is a fair ballbark figure. I thought of this as I put $2.59 regular in this week.
16 August 2005 12:11 CDT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Improvements to Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu’s office in the Capitol Annex and creation of his apartment and office at the Pentagon Barracks have cost taxpayers $955,000 since he was elected in 2003.
His staff says the spending is a critical part of efforts to improve the state’s image. Others point out that the state already had a $263 million backlog on its list of critical repairs to other buildings and property.
Public records show the Pentagon Barracks work added up to $419,000, and the improvements at his main office to $536,000. Most of it went for basic materials and labor. But the projects include better carpeting in the executive suite, a decorative glass partition in the reception area and ten-thousand dollars for an interior design firm.
Residential renovations include a new spiral staircase connecting the second and third floors, and commercial-grade kitchen appliances.
Landrieu declined to be interviewed about the construction projects but issued a written statement that they are consistent with his efforts to create a more polished image for the state.
Well I’m glad that our Lt Governor is so concerned with the image of Louisiana that he had to keep up in the spirit of all our former politicians and draining the public funds for their own personal use and comfort. You know it is like the same old attitude. They ask ‘What’s wrong with this? It seems like no big deal.’ Like Robert Wooleys pimple on a gnats butt, or Bob Odoms demand that gas stations not cut costs and we must be charged to the full extent at the pump. These clowns make these wild moves and then act like we should just shut up and take it. Well Mr Landrieu you will join your sister in the ‘DO NOT CHECK’ column of my voting booth.
Versus the thought of a patriot
“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.”– John Adams
JN 15:13
11 August 2005 07:47 CDT
The Florida State Seminoles, can no longer use the Seminole as a mascot thanks to NCAA regulations. It may offend someone, is the premise. Well obviously the Seminole tribe right? Wrong, they endorse the FSU use of thier image. This doesn’t seem to matter to bureaucrats though.
Oil use We use 20.5 million barrels per day in the USA. The next highest is China at 6.5 Just thought you would like to know.
Remember When You could buy American, from American companies, made in America? Our tax code is running them off.
Here is a little observation
27 July 2005 08:11 CDT
I wrote to David Vitter about his proposal to have Federal regulations and ideals on railroad crossings. As he is the author of this legislation, he will be expected to provide me with the wording and idea of it all. I think it is a mistake to give over more sovereignty of our state to the Feds. I am pained at the loss of people killed at these crossings, but I hurt also at the fact that Sen Vitter feels we are incompetent to govern ourselves here in Louisiana. Maybe Gov Blanco and the State Legislature should attack this true issue instead of the stupid NFL franchise ransom payments.
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
“A feeble Executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever it may be in theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.” –Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 70
19 July 2005 09:53 CDT
So fundamental has the right of private property and ownership been to America since its very founding that its first vice-president, and eventual second U.S. president, John Adams, said: “Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.”
Well, let’s give credit to the Mayor and city officials of Freeport, Texas. They sure recognize an opportunity when it presents itself. These political predators didn’t wait 24 hours after the Supreme Court’s eminent domain decision before they struck .. .with a vengeance. Freeport officials have now ordered their city attorneys to prepare the documents to seize three pieces of waterfront property owned by two seafood companies. One of the seafood companies, a shrimp processing plant that has been there for well over 50 years, will have to cease business and close. While the seafood company owners are frowning, there’s a big smile on the face of Dallas developer Hiram Walker Royall. He can now use the government to seize some property from a private landowner, and then buy that property from Freeport for a lot less than he would have had to pay the private owners. He’ll then get to proceed with his plan for a nice privately owned marina. Only in America — thanks to our Supreme Court.
“A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.” –James Madison
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.” –John Adams
Si talia jungere possis sit tibi scire satis - “If thou canst comprehend these things, thou knowest enough”
Craziness in California SchoolsGo figure… A school district in Southern California approved the “affirmation and recognition” of Ebonics into its curriculum as a way to help black students improve academic performance.
Mary Texeira, a sociology professor at Cal State San Bernardino, believes the program will be beneficial to students.
“Ebonics is a different language, it’s not slang as many believe,’ Texeira told the Sun. She acknowledged there are African Americans who disagree with her. “They say that [black students] are lazy and that they need to learn to talk.”
So this is going to help how??? Now they will have 2 or three ‘language’ classes to pass? What ‘language’ will mathematics be taught in?
More peace and tolerance from Muslims
BOMBAY — Hard-line Islamic clerics in a northern Indian village have declared that a woman’s 10-year-old marriage was nullified when her father-in-law raped her — and ordered the mother of five to marry the rapist. The fatwa, or religious edict, was issued by Darool Uloom Deoband, South Asia’s most powerful Islamic theological school.
The fatwa ordered Imrana Ilahi, 28, to separate from her husband and treat him as her son because she had sex with his father. “She had a physical relationship with her father-in-law, and it nullifies her marriage,” said Mohammad Masood Madani, a cleric at the theological school. He said it made no difference whether the sex was consensual or forced.
When Mr. Ilahi, a brick kiln laborer, learned of the attack, the village court instructed him to divorce his wife.
But Mr. Ilahi, 32, told his wife: “My father is dirty and you are clean. I still love you and I cannot desert you.” Mrs. Ilahi, with her husband and five children, sneaked out of Charthawal and took shelter in Kukra, the village of her parents.
18 July 2005 08:22 CDT
“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” –John Adams
This includes keeping the elected in check by calling and writing them to express your opinions and recomendations. You elected them, they work FOR you. Call them on this fact.
11 July 2005 07:29 CDT
The Democratic Hero & Mary Jo Kopechne
Mary Jo Kopechne would have been 65 years of age this year. Read about her and her killer, US Senator Ted Kennedy, below.
When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past.
But now that he’s become a leading Republican attack dog, positioning himself as Washington’s leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over. It’s time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why this chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 –
time to say the words Mary Jo Kopechne out loud.
As is often the case, Republicans have deluded themselves into thinking that most Americans already know the story of how this “Conscience of the Democratic Party” left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters underneath the Edgartown Bridge in July 1969, after a night of drinking and partying with the young blonde campaign worker. But most Americans under 40 have never heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety, then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he was behind the wheel.
Those young voters don’t know how Miss Kopechne, trapped inside Kennedy’s Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally died, while the Democrats’ leading Iraq war critic rushed back to his compound to formulate the best alibi he could think of.
Neither does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on his ear 15 years earlier — for paying a fellow student to take his Spanish final. Or why the US Army denied him a commission because he cheated on tests.
As they listen to the Democrats’ “Liberal Lion” accuse President Bush of “telling lie after lie after lie” to get America to go to war in Iraq, young voters don’t know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend in Palm Beach, when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a night on the town, an evening that ended with one of them credibly accused of rape.
It’s time for Republicans to state unabashedly that they will no longer “go along with the gag” when it comes to Uncle Ted’s rants about deception and moral turpitude inside the Bush White House.
And if the Republicans don’t, let’s do it ourselves by passing this forgotten disgrace around the Internet to wake up memories of what a fraud and fake Teddy really is.
The Democratic Party should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from Massachusetts as their spokesman.

23 June 2005 15:33 CDT
MOLON LABE!!!!“
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” –Thomas Jefferson
This is today’s most true statement as the Supreme Court has descided that Government can ‘TAKE’ your property from you. Well how nice.
EDUCATION “There is nothing indispensable about a state role in education. Parents don’t expect the government to provide their children’s food or clothing or medical care; there is no reason why it must provide their schooling. An educated citizenry is a vital public good, of course. But like most such goods, a competitive and responsive private sector could do a much better job of supplying it than the public sector can. Imagine how diverse and vital American education could be if it were liberated from government control. There would be schools of every description — just as there are restaurants, websites, and clothing styles of every description. … With separation of school and state, the roiling education battles would come to a peaceful end. Robust competition and innovation would dramatically lower costs. Teachers, released from their one-size-fits-all straitjacket, would be happier in their chosen profession. Children would be happier, too — and, perhaps best of all, better-educated to boot.” –Jeff Jacoby
FROM THE LEGISLATUREI would like to take this opportunity to inform you that HB 726 never made it out of the Ways and Means committee and will not be voted on by the full House of Representatives. Should you need anything further please do not hesitate to contact me. Representative Damon J. Baldone
APOLOGY? Why don’t these clowns think before they speak. Do you think the ‘apology’ will be broadcast around the world? Illinois, wake up its time to VOTE!!
“According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, some 15 million to 30 million prisoners died in the Soviet gulags. By comparison, Guantanamo at its peak held 750 prisoners; currently, there are 520; none have died in captivity, and, as I wrote 3-1/2 years ago, it has the distinction of being ‘a camp where the medical staff outnumber the prisoners.’ You’ll get swifter, cleaner and more efficient treatment than most Canadians do under socialized health care. It’s the only gulag in history where the detainees leave in better health and weighing more than when they arrive. This means they’re in much better shape when they get back to their hectic schedule of killing infidels: Of the more than 200 who’ve been released, around 5 percent — that’s to say, 12 — have since been recaptured on the battlefield.” –Mark Steyn
MARRIAGE I know a guy who had a couple of bad experiences. After that he said he’d just find a woman he didn’t like and buy her a house.
Is this what marriage is coming to? How pathetic. People have no stick to it, no commitment. I mean you went through the trouble and stress of courtship and a wedding. Then several years of a relationship as a married couple. Any relationship needs attention. You liked her enough to marry her and buy a house. Probably just didn’t commit to the relationship nurturing part of the marriage.
Why would the homosexuals want that? I bet marriage is much more than hating and wasting money isn’t it my friend?

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20 June 2005 07:39 CDT
Veritas vos liberabit - The truth will set you freeWhat country is this guy from? Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday, compared American troops at Guantanamo Naval Base to Hitler, the Soviet gulags and Cambodian mass murderer Pol Pot. Hitler murdered two million Christians and six million Jews. Nearly two million prisoners died in the Soviet gulags. And Pol Pot slaughtered as many as ten million in Cambodia. Durbin compared the American troops to Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot because of alleged mistreatment of prisoners held at Guantanamo. What earned these American troops the disparaging remarks by Senator Durbin? He said that some prisoners’ air conditioners were turned down too low, some had their air conditioners turned off making the room hot, and loud rap music was played in a room where there were prisoners. That a U.S. Senator would compare American military men and women to Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pott is beyond belief. When asked to apologize, he refused. He said it is the military that should apologize for how they were treating the prisoners of war.
More government lunacy A hundred and seven years ago, in 1898, the federal government began levying a temporary 3 percent excise tax on telephones, ostensibly to fund the Spanish-American War. Flash forward to 2005 — and every American with a telephone is still paying this “temporary” tax. The war was over after just a few months, but the tax has been in effect for over a century. On top of that, the tax does not go for any specific purpose. Rather, the funds are simply added to the general fund. Congress attempted to repeal the tax in 2000. Both the House and the Senate passed legislation to eliminate the tax — it was a 420-2 vote in the House — but then-President Bill Clinton vetoed the bill when it reached his desk. Once again, the House has been presented with a bill — H.R. 1898 — that would repeal the tax on telephone and other communications services. The bill was introduced in late April by Rep. Gary G. Miller of California, and has been cosponsored by 39 other congressmen. It currently sits in the House Committee on Ways and Means. The outrage? This tax should have been repealed more than a century ago, but some members of Congress still support the tax — and some even want to expand it. Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation issued an opinion in January, saying that the tax could be expanded to apply to wireless Internet and data connections. HAAAAAA HAAAAAA!! London - Grunting noises made by female tennis players as they strike the ball are getting out of hand, and rules should be changed to crack down on the practice, Wimbledon referee Alan Mills has said, according to a report on Sunday.
Mills, Wimbledon’s chief official for 22 years who retires after this week’s tournament, which begins on Monday, told The Sunday Times he believed coaches were teaching young women players to grunt
14 June 2005 15:41 CDT
Finally, Common Sense in a court An appeals court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit that the widow of a teacher gunned down by a 13-year-old student had filed against a gun distributor.
Pam Grunow’s lawsuit argued that Valor Corp. was negligent in selling the cheap handgun used in the shooting and should be held liable for the May 2000 death of her husband, Barry Grunow. He was shot in the doorway of his middle school classroom by Nathaniel Brazill, who stole the gun from the man he considered to be a grandfather.
This lawsuit against Valor Corporation made about as much sense as me suing the baseball bat manufacturer if someone I loved got beaten to death.
So the raping of Louisiana by sports teams such as the New Orleans Saints and the New Orleans Hornets will continue unchallenged. A Senate-passed bill that would have banned lawmakers and others from getting free tickets to sporting events was killed in a House committee Tuesday.
“People don’t want to give up the tickets, the golf games, the benefits they get from lobbyists,” Sen. Jay Dardenne, R-Baton Rouge, said after the vote.
State ethics rules allow elected officials to accept tickets worth up to $100 per occasion from lobbyists for sporting and cultural events.
Dardenne told the House and Governmental Affairs Committee that his measure offers a simple concept: Elected officials should not get benefits unavailable to most residents.
Were from the Government and we’re here to protect you. Cigar and cigarette smoking would be banned in bars, restaurants and virtually all other indoor public areas in Louisiana, under a bill passed by a Senate committee Wednesday.
What gives the government the right to ban smoking on private property without the property owners’ consent? If you do not want to be bothered by second-hand smoke in a bar or a restaurant, do not patronize an establishment that permits smoking.
The penalties for both smokers and businesses that dare allow them to smoke are:
A smoker convicted of violating the ban for the first time — a misdemeanor — would face a maximum penalty of a $500 fine and up to six months in jail. The owner of a business who allows smoking would also face a misdemeanor charge; conviction could bring a $50 fine.
10 June 2005 07:23 CDT
Legislative Updates
Thanks to your phone calls and emails, the sponsor of HB 726, a proposed tax on the sale of all ammunition in the state, pulled the bill down from further consideration during a meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee this week. Gun owners and sportsmen were also successful in beating back SB 319, a proposed ban on certain semi-automatic firearms, when the sponsor of that bill withdrew it from the files of the Senate earlier this session.
Also, the Governor is still ‘working in the background’ to get the cigarette tax passed. It hasn’t went before the legeslature for a vote but, they are 7 votes short to pass it. Is this normal? Do they constantly talk to us until they know it will pass then put it on a ballot? I mean they have time to argue the point, then it has to be voted on. I think it’s funny that without voting they know it won’t pass so they can’t vote on it. Didn’t you just vote silly.
Well, until next week…
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” –Thomas Jefferson
“It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed — that is, an extension of the revenue.” –Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 21
6 June 2005 08:24 CDT
Senators question whether TOPS should be restructured It amazes me how everything gets twisted and run down into the ground here in Louisiana. We may be the most pathetic state in the union due to the way we operate. If something isn’t for absolutely everyone, then change it? If my 85 y.o. Granny smokes 4 packs a day, is here $4 a day for teacher pay fair? She has no kids in the school system. Why does the state pay for the Saints if only Nawlins’ benefits? Is this fair to Alexandria?
Here is a little story for you: John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called pullets and eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs.
The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn’t perform went into the soup pot and was replaced.
That took an awful lot of his time so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.
The farmer’s favorite rooster was old Butch, a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning John noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all!
John went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run ! for cover.
But to Farmer John’s amazement, Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn’t ring. He’d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
John was so proud of Butch, he entered him in the county fair and Butch became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result…The judges not only awarded Butch the “No Bell Piece Prize” but they also awarded him the “Pulletsurprise” as well.
Clearly Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren’t paying attention?
1 June 2005 16:08 CDT
Someone asked me what I thought about the Cult in Ponchatoula. Well, level the building and salt the earth.
NEXT SUBJECT I heard some guy on the radio saying that Michael Jackson was being wrongly persecuted because he was black. Just like Kobe and O.J. Well excuse me sir but, Michael Jackson is being prosecuted not persecuted, and it has nothing to do with the color of his skin but, what skin was touching other skin of a child. Level Neverland and salt the earth.
Boo Hoo Hoo, I’m a celebrity and people are watching me and don’t like me. Bill Cosby is being persecuted for calling it like it is. Because of his skin color. I guess saying the younger generation is lazy and violent is not o.k. These bubble dwellers are almost as entertaining as the circus. The world is not your unique backyard. It involves other peoples backyards. Everyone who thinks alike should flock together and then states could make laws according to the individual beliefs of the populace. Not Californicating the entire country.
“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means….” –John Adams
31 May 2005 07:50 CDT

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27 May 2005 08:25 CDT
Here is an important press release from Senator Mary Landrieu´s officeFULL STORY “The American people have a right to know how rich they are and how much more energy independence they could be,” said Sen. Landrieu. “With young men and women sacrificing their lives everyday in Iraq, it would be unconscionable for us to not look into our own domestic energy supply to reduce our growing dependence on Mid-East oil.”
25 May 2005 07:57 CDT
Just a few thoughts to warm your brain.People who harm children are bad people. Some freaky cult in Ponchatoula has the FBI digging up the church grounds. I am glad Scott Perilloux is the DA for there. He doesn’t cut animals like these freaks any slack. If you are a predator, he will prosecute to the full ability of the law.
Then you have this schoolbus driver choking down kids. First of all, anyone with any knowledge of anatomy knows, that you can absolutely not gauge how much pressure you are using in any way when you have your hand on someones throat. You may think its just a light squeeze but, actually be shutting off the air to this person. I do not have all the info I’m sure, but from watching the video I saw NO REASON to choke a student down. Yet he is charged misdemeanor and the kids get felony assault? The kids we being turds and calling him names. So he gets up and goes to the back to reprimand the name caller. This kids older step-brother stands up and the bus driver chokes him back. Then goes after the original kid. I did see the younger kid swing on the driver. But, this was after he was down in the seat with the driver on top of him. You can see other children cowering against the sides of the bus obviously terrified.
Luckily for the driver, the parents haven’t went crazy like he did or this would be an arson, murder investigation. Stupid bus driver. Children are cruel and call people names all the time. It doesn’t mean adults can beat them up for it. Especially as a school bus driver. I once witnessed a grown man throw a 14 yo boy through a jalousie window for calling his 12 yo a ‘fag’. Stupid guy was prosecuted for assault and destruction of property. What if mention the trauma of the other children who saw this. I hope the ‘fag’ got his butt kicked everyday for a week at school because his dad was a ‘nut-ball’.
“There are certain social principles in human nature, from which we may draw the most solid conclusions with respect to the conduct of individuals and of communities. We love our families more than our neighbors; we love our neighbors more than our countrymen in general. The human affections, like solar heat, lose their intensity as they depart from the center…. On these principles, the attachment of the individual will be first and for ever secured by the State governments. They will be a mutual protection and support.” –Alexander Hamilton
17 May 2005 20:07 CDT
More Stupid Human TricksNewsweek’s recent misrepresentation of the truth shows us something. Just like as the briefing of the press daily by Gen. Franks or Gen. Brooks demonstrated. The American Media Complex is just plain stupid. These clowns try to steer people with their unrealistic, Hollywood style views. These people live inside a self made bubble. Asking Generals for just short of GPS coordinates of the ‘COVERT’ troops in the field. Like Dan Rather and CBS, Newsweek has once again LIED to make up some fantastic story. First of all, NO KORAN WAS DESICRATED. Second the Koran is their, given to prisoners by the US troops. Under strict rules of how this ‘Holy’ book must be handled and treated. That didn’t make the news that the troops went out of the way to provide the Koran to detainees did it? Amazing that the freedom of the press is being used by IMBICILES. MORE HERE Yet there are no consiquences in this country. Especially after the Clintons have mutilated our moral code.
Mayor Nagin will try selling “that sucker’ after all which is what he had almost jokingly suggested during the campaign when referring to the Louis Armstrong International Airport. The Times Picayune has more about new airport proposal, which could spill into Eastern New Orleans or St. Charles Parish.
LOUISIANA LEGISLATORS FIND SOME MONEY IN AN OLD COAT POCKET?360 Million dollars found in State budget. State government has an additional $168 million in spending money for the budget year that begins July 1, an economist told the Revenue Estimating Conference on Monday. The state also has an extra $192 million to spend by the end of June or carry into the next budget year.
Entergy Louisiana has $5 million for executive bonuses but has to jack up our cost for utilities. Great management skills guys. Full Story
I don’t think smokers care but, a new vaccinecould take the pleasure out of smoking, to help people quit.
13 May 2005 14:04 CDT
Making HeadwayFROM THE NRA I RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE Thanks to your phone calls and emails, Senator Ann Duplessis (D-New Orleans) withdrew Senate Bill 319 from the files of the Senate this week. This means the bill will not be brought up for consideration during the 2005 Regular Session. SB 319 imposed restrictions on the sale and possession of certain semi-automatic firearms, created onerous record keeping requirements on licensed dealers, and created a $50 tax on ammunition that could be used in firearms targeted by the bill.
Special thanks go out to Senator James David Cain (R-Dry Creek), who hit the radio talk show circuit over the last week in opposition to SB 319. He did a tremendous job explaining the effects this proposal would have on our Second Amendment rights and its limited impact on reducing violent crime. Please send Senator Cain an email at cainj@legis.state.la.us thanking him for leading the fight to protect our Second Amendment rights in the Louisiana Senate.
Responses from Legislature Thank you for taking the time to contact me with your opinion on HB 726. I am opposed to HB 726 and will vote against it should it reach the House floor. It would be helpful for you to include your physical address in the future. Damon J.Baldone
I’m sure my address would be helpful. That way it may be OK to ignore me. However, I am in Louisiana, and you are a Louisiana Representative. I appreciate your response and am pleased you agree that this bill is dumb.
I have received your email and would like to assure you that I can not and will not support HB 726. I feel it would take away our 2nd Amendment right. I appreciate your input in this matter and all matters that concern our great State of LOUISIANA. Feel free to contact me on any matter. Sincerely, Rick L. Farrar, District 27 Bill of Rights Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
I thank you. This is the man’s actual response. Including the 2nd amendment in his signature. District 27 make sure you vote him back in.
I appreciate your support on SB 319. I will certainly look at the bill and keep your opinion in mind when voting. James David Cain in response to my e-Mail asking him to oppose HB 726.
RELATED NEWS
Condoleezza Rice says the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms is just as important as the right to free speech. This came as a bit of a surprise to liberals who believe there is no right to bear arms.
SPORTS TALK I do not care one way or another if the Saint’s leave. I do not believe that a HUGE economic impact is in play here. It takes a winning team to generate money Mr Benson. I think you need to play in the Superdome and concentrate on FOOTBALL. Just put the Saint’s jerseys on the Tigers or the Voodoo and there would be improvement. The problem isn’t the place or the people. It is heart. This team and the staff and owner have to have heart. Mr Benson you make plenty money at car sales. Football is supposed to be a fun and exciting entertainment venue. Nobody goes to see bad movies or bad theatre. Why expect people to watch bad sports. I think their are a lot of folks who are tired of caring about a franchise that we feel doesn’t care about anything but money. New Orleans isn’t a big city. It cannot generate the support of a LA or Miami. Except that and enjoy the team. Put some heart into it and watch what happens. Green Bay is a heart team. New Orleans population is bigger than the whole state of Wisconsin. But, they have heart, thus support. I get critisezed on this point by some. Others don’t care. The lack of caring comes from the lack of connection. Connect back to the community.IMHO
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“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” –Gideon Tucker
“A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.” –Alexander Hamilton
“[The President] is to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint…judges of the Supreme Court.” –Alexander Hamilton
11 May 2005 16:36 CDT
ANOTHER SESSION, ANOTHER PAY RAISE Louisiana leads the nation in at least one category of innovation: legislative pay raises. Even if rejected at first, lawmakers never say die when an extra dollop of the taxpayers’ money is involved. The venue for the latest grab is the Legislative Budget Committee. The budget committee is the combined House Appropriations and Senate Finance committees, totaling 38 members of the 144-member Legislature. The chairmen of those panels serve as the chairman and vice chairman of the budget committee. They get extra pay which is set by the budget committee. Legislative leaders caused a stir last year by proposing a similar pay raise for the vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, who is on the budget committee but receives only the regular pay of any other member. After an outcry at this extravagance, the plan was dropped. The vice chairman of Appropriations, Rep. Warren Triche, D-Thibodaux, wanted another $20,000 a year on top of the legislative salary of $16,800 a year. House Speaker Joe Salter, D-Florien, this year asked the Legislature to authorize the budget committee to raise pay of “other officers” than the chairman and vice chairman. It would be left to the discretion of the committee who would get the benefits of the bill. The Salter bill sailed through the Appropriations Committee — fancy that — and the House on an 84-13 vote. Endless creative possibilities are raised by the Salter bill. Could there be pay supplements for more than one new officer of the committee? There’s a Senate vice chairman of Finance, and why leave out that dignitary when pay supplements are distributed? And since there is already a chairman and vice chairman of Budget, what will the new eminences be called? Secretary? Treasurer? Vice Kingfish of the Lodge? We hope the Salter bill gets some kind of harsher reception somewhere in the legislative process. Sen. Francis Heitmeier, chairman of Senate Finance, told the Baton Rouge Press Club on Monday that the state budget isn’t in good shape and that pay raises should not be considered. “It’s just not the time for us to do that,” he said.
PRESSURE IS GOOD Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley has given up the pricey pickup. Wooley said he will now drive a vehicle he owns and will not ask for an allowance to reimburse him for that cost. In a brief statement at the Insurance Department building Friday, Wooley said he was sorry the truck purchase had taken away so much attention from the work of his department. “I offer my heartfelt apology. I am sorry for the truck and how I have handled the entire matter,” he said. “I made a mistake.” Wooley said he returned both the truck and the SUV to the state Division of Administration. Because Wooley bought the truck and SUV with self-generated dollars from the Insurance Department, most of the proceeds of the sales of those vehicles will go back to Wooley’s department. Because of Wooley’s truck purchase, Sen. Art Lentini, R-Kenner, is proposing legislation that would require statewide elected officials to get approval from a panel of lawmakers before buying luxury vehicles with taxpayers’ money.
WIERD COVINGTON, La. (AP) — Officials captured 47 monkeys that had escaped from the Tulane Primate Center, but six remained on the loose Tuesday and seemed to be hiding out in a heavily wooded area near the site.
With the announcement that both GM and FORD stocks have been downgraded to “junk status” and TOYOTA raking in record profits, it should be clear to all Americans there is no better time than NOW to BUY AMERICAN.
When was the last time you thanked a cop? And wouldn’t it be nice if, for just a brief moment, the mainstream media would hold a ceasefire in its incessant cop-bashing crusades? Michelle Malkin
School Evacuated From Mercury Spill Potentially poisonous, the mercury spilled when a student walking to the science fair inside dropped a thermometer?
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“No man or woman of any faith or of no faith can truly love, truly serve, truly persevere, truly dare mighty deeds, truly hope for the future or truly honor the past, without a humble heart. So it is for humility, then, that, on behalf of the legislative branch — both houses, both parties — I ask for your prayers today. Because the only way we can serve well is to serve humbly, as servants both to God and our nation.” –House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 10
10 May 2005 09:45 CDT
More Stupid Government TricksNew rules took effect today from Medicare and Medicaid…that is, the government programs that pay for medical services for the old and the poor. Starting today, health care providers can start charging the government for the costs of providing medical care to illegal aliens. That’s right…you and I will have our earnings confiscated to pay for the health care of people who are in this country illegally. The tab? They say $1 billion over 4 years is being spent. My guess .. it will be closer to $5 billion when all is said and done. Here’s an idea. How about spending $1 billion on policing the border so the illegal aliens don’t arrive here in the first place? Imagine that…people who don’t belong here being kept out. What a concept! This is yet another step from the open borders crowd to legitimize illegal immigration. We have worker cards, driver’s licenses….and now health care. It’s reaching a point where becoming an actual U.S. citizen isn’t going to mean anything. Since no one is really being sent back, what’s the point of obeying the laws of this country and following the rules? Neither political party seems to have the backbone to do anything about illegal immigration. In the meantime, taxpayers are footing the bill for all these free services. Is this a great country or what?
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a point. Every country patrols their border. Every country except the United States, that is. He even says it isn’t rocket science. Arnold came here from another country, but they want to call him a ‘bad guy’ because he against illegal immigration. Well I say if a person from another country wants to come here, because 99% of the country are immigrant descendants, they can do it as our forefathers. LEGALLY!!! Then maybe they could be Governor of California instead of Lawnmower of California.
Girl suing teacher who told class she had mononucleosis and that was a disease whores get. Commonly know as the ‘kissing disease’ there are also other ways you can get it, but they all involve contact with saliva. More than likely, a teen aged girl today does get it by kissing. The best thing to do is keep your mouth to yourself until the pastor says’ You may know kiss the bride.’ This worked for years before now to keep all these herpes types in the promiscuous side of society. The problem is promiscuous things are excepted as common place now. Coughing (while not covering your mouth) on someone or sharing pillows, straws, toothbrushes, or food from the same plate also spread mono. It is possible the girl did get it by one of these ways. There was discussion of who he friends and who she dated also. Probably this didn’t bother the ‘nerdy’ librarian type girls at the same school. Just a thought. I mean if money is missing from my wallet and you were the one looking through it 5 minutes ago, it won’t look good for you. Be careful what you are associate with. IMHO
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ~William Shakespeare
9 May 2005 16:45 CDT
“Lawyers are like red wine. Everything in moderation. Today we have far too many lawyers, and we’re suffering from cirrhosis of the economy.” –Michael Savage
And heres why:
To a dessert shop customer, the severed fingertip found in a pint of frozen custard could be worth big dollars in a potential lawsuit. To the shop worker who lost it, the value is far more than monetary.
But Clarence Stowers still has the digit, refusing to return the evidence so it could be reattached. And now it’s too late for doctors to do anything for 23-year-old Brandon Fizer, who accidentally stuck his hand in a mixing machine and had his right index finger lopped off at the first knuckle.
“I’m not saying who has it, but somebody has it,” Stowers said this week in a telephone interview, refusing to let on where the fingertip is now.
Soon after Stowers found the finger in a mouthful of chocolate soft-serve he bought Sunday at Kohl’s Frozen Custard in Wilmington, he put it in his freezer at home, taking it out only occasionally to show to television cameras.
Medical experts say an attempt to reattach a severed finger can generally be made within six hours.
But according to the shop’s management, Stowers wouldn’t give it back when he was in the store 30 minutes after the accident.
“The general manager attempted to retrieve it and rush it to the hospital,” reads a statement posted Thursday on Kohl’s Web site. “Unfortunately, the customer refused to give it to her and declared that he would be calling the TV stations and an attorney as he exited the store.”
Thanks for not giving the guy his finger, just giving him yours pal!! What kind of human would do such a thing. This poor kid is missing a finger now with no chance of getting it reattached thanks to this clown. Notice he was sure to mention he was going straight to a lawyer and going to call the news people. Obviously they could make sure that his health was not in danger. That is why he didn’t run to the doctor or hospital. And the news people were just looking into public safety I’m sure. Just had to get the word out to damage this company or embarrass the kid for the accident I guess.
Thanks again you wonderful lawyer types for ruining peoples minds and consciences.
NOT A GOOD WEEK FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS but then, what week IS a good week for turning your child over to the government to be educated?
Dacula High School, Gwinnett County, Georgia
You heard about this last week on the show, and you saw Larry Nease on CNN this morning. “Doc” Nease is a science teacher at Dacula High School. For the past 10 years or more Doc has had a policy in his classrooms that if you fall asleep or disrupt the class you will get a zero for your class work for that day, or your grade will be cut drastically. Little Wesley, the football player, fell asleep in class. In fact, after an assignment was handed out Wesley the Football Player just put his head down on his desk and went to sleep. He did his assignment that night and handed it in the next day, as was allowed. But he got his zero. Wesley the Football Player’s Daddy came to school to complain. Did the principal stand by the teacher? Nope. Did the Gwinnett County School Board stand by the teacher? Nope. Doc Nease was fired. Twenty-three years teaching, and he was fired because he fulfilled a promise he made to his class — in writing — that if you fall asleep in class you can get a zero for that day’s work. The dictate from the teacher was included in a class syllabus that all students had to sign. I’m told that our football player’s parents also signed the syllabus. No matter. You just don’t screw with high school football players.
Spencer High School, Columbus, Georgia
You’ve heard about this one too. Spencer High School. Columbus, Georgia is a heavy-military area, home to Ft. Benning. Kevin’s mother is an Army Sergeant. She’s in Iraq. Kevin is in Spencer High School. Kevin’s mom calls him on his cell phone … from Iraq. It’s lunch break at the high school, so Kevin goes outside to take the call. One of our wonderful government teachers sees him and demands he hang up. He explains that his mom has called from Iraq. This matters none to the teacher. She demands he hang up and tries to grab the phone. In the tussle the call is disconnected. The teacher starts marching Kevin to the principal’s office. His mother calls back. They refuse to allow him to take the call. He gets belligerent. Who the hell wouldn’t? He knows his mom is in dangerous territory. She could die that afternoon in an insurgent attack. He wants to talk to her … they won’t allow him to answer the phone. End result? He gets suspended for 10 days. That suspension has now been reduced to three days … all due to public outrage.
Bow High School, Bow, New Hampshire
Isabel Gottlieb is a great student. She plays in the school band. She is taking advanced placement classes. Things like calculus and biology. She isn’t going to be allowed to graduate with her class. Why? Because she didn’t take a required PE class. Physical Education. She holds varsity letters in three sports at Bow High School, but she didn’t take this particular PE class. She was told that in order to graduate she would have to drop one of her advanced placement classes and replace it with the PE class. She said no. Now she isn’t going to get her diploma. There is no PE class offered during summer school, so that means she might not be able to go to college next Fall. Trinity College in Hartford, CT comes to the rescue. She will take her GED test over the summer and Trinity has accepted her for the Fall semester.
These kinds of idiocy can only happen at the hands of government. All of these incidents .. and don’t we all know that there are so many more .. happened in government schools .. and all within the last week.
There are several things that must happen in our nation is going to survive … and survival is by no means guaranteed. One of those things is that the American people need to come to the realization that it is counterproductive to the cause of freedom and economic liberty to turn out children over to the government to be educated. Year after year the quality of education in this country goes down. These government schools are under the full and complete grip of the largest, most powerful and most feared union in this nation .. The National Education Association.
There was a reason why Karl Marx insisted that government control over education was an essential step in bringing about the communist state. Government education is no less necessary to the growth of government power today than it was then.
How many of your children know what the Mayflower Compact is? The government lies about all manner of civics and history. Molds your little one into a zombie. Out to get a quick check. And we wonder why so many companies take jobs overseas. Because the people in the US won’t get up and work. DUH!!!
Here is the United States we are heading for:
ORDERING PIZZA IN 2008
This is so close to what is probably going to be happening in 2008 that we’re not sure how funny this really is…
Operator: Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your SSN ?
Customer: Hi, I’d like to place an order.
Operator: I must have your SSN first, sir.
Customer: My ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it’s 998-45-54610.
Operator: Thank you Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland Drive, and the phone number is 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number is 266-2566. Email address is sheehan@home.net Which number are you calling from sir?
Customer: Huh? I’m at home. Where’d you get all this information?
Operator: We’re wired into the HSS, sir.
Customer: The HSS, what is that?
Operator: We’re wired into the Homeland Security System, sir. This will add only 15 seconds to your ordering time.
Customer: (sighs) Oh well, I’d like to order a couple of your All-Meat Special pizzas.
Operator: I don’t think that’s a good idea, sir.
Customer: Whaddya mean?
Operator: Sir, your medical records and commode sensors indicate that you’ve got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won’t allow such an unhealthy choice.
Customer: What?!?! What do you recommend, then?
Operator: You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza. I’m sure you’ll like it.
Customer: What makes you think I’d like something like that?
Operator: Well, you checked out ‘Gourmet Soybean Recipes’ from your local library last week, sir. That’s why I made the suggestion.
Customer: All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then.
Operator: That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four kids. Your 2 dogs can finish the crusts, sir. Your total is $49.99.
Customer: Lemme give you my credit card number.
Operator: I’m sorry sir, but I’m afraid you’ll have to pay in cash. Your credit card balance is over its limit.
Customer: I’ll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your driver gets here.
Operator: That won’t work either, sir. Your checking account is overdrawn also.
Customer: Never mind! Just send the pizzas. I’ll have the cash ready. How long will it take?
Operator: We’re running a little behind, sir. It’ll be about 45 minutes, sir. If you’re in a hurry you might want to pick’em up
while you’re out getting the cash, but then, carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward.
Customer: Wait! How do you know I ride a scooter?
Operator: It says here you’re in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo’ed. But your Harley’s paid for and you just filled the tank yesterday.
Customer: Well, I’ll be a #%#^^&$%^$@#
Operator: I’d advise watching your language, sir. You’ve already got a July 4, 2003 conviction for cussing out a cop and another one I see here in September for contempt at your hearing for cussing at a judge. Oh yes, I see here that you just got out from a 90 day stay in the State Correctional Facility. Is this your first pizza since your return to society?
Customer: (speechless)
Operator: Will there be anything else, sir?
Customer: Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke..
Operator: I’m sorry sir, but our ad’s exclusionary clause prevents us from offering free soda to diabetics. The New Constitution prohibits this..
Thank you for calling Pizza Hut
Others Thoughts:
“I am sublimely confident that normal Americans will not be shocked to learn that a Republican Senate plans to confirm the judicial nominees of a Republican president — despite the objections of radical elements of a party that is the minority in the Senate, the minority in the House, the loser in the last two presidential races, the minority in state governorships, and the minority in all but a tiny number of very small but densely populated enclaves in this country that need to tax Rush Limbaugh, even though he lives in another state, just to keep all their little socialist programs afloat.” –Ann Coulter
“By allowing personal religious beliefs to infiltrate our political framework, we have enabled this administration to wage a war on women’s reproductive rights, squelch scientific advancement, take away our freedom of speech and fill important positions within government and possibly the nation’s highest courts with religious extremists. We must not let fear cripple our democracy.” –Babs Streisand
Interesting point of view.
The Navajo Nation is debating a law that would outlaw gay marriage. This law would be a disaster to Skipping Bull and Shopping Bear — the two gay Native Americans.—Jay Leno
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.” –Edward Abbey
4 May 2005 08:56 CDT
National TreasureAwesome Movie came out on video yesterday. I enjoy the way they run around OUR country in this film. Normally movies run us around Europe. Also, I enjoy the deep sense of patriotism and respect for history Benjamin has. Like stealing the Declaration of Independence to keep others from destroying it.
ON WITH THE SHOW Anyway, back to the real world. LA Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley said ‘he deserved’ the F250 Harley Davidson pickup. And he doesn’t think he is spending taxpayers money anyway. If it isn’t Louisiana’s money [of which I am a stockholder / taxpayer] why is he spending it? Another brilliant statement from someone who isn’t firmly planted in reality.
“It is not honorable to take mere legal advantage, when it happens to be contrary to justice.” –Thomas Jefferson
I figured Thomas Jefferson could sum it up better that I Mr. Wooley.
LEGISLATURE SESSION Ann Duplesis has a bill in before the LA legislature to ban ‘Assault’ weapons in LA. Assault weapons meaning pistol gripped with 1, yes one attachment. Boy that bayonet mount really changes the operation of a rifle doesn’t it? Besides I know ALL the scumbag drug dealers in New Orleans use ‘assault’ weapons in their illegal activities. That’s why they all use ‘A 9′ when the gangster rap talks about it. After all a M-16 assault rifle or an AK 47 is 9MM isn’t it? WHAT, It isn’t? Well I’m confused then. Well I guess maybe if they were doing ‘throw bys’ or hold ups with big rocks, we’d have to outlaw rock in the state also.
Representative Charmaine Marchand, also of the city of New Orleans, has a bill in to tax ammunition in our state. 3% tax to fund classes for anger management and self esteem of troubled youth. BRILLIANT! Make the ammunition buyers pay for the troubled youth anger management class. After all they are the ones who don’t take their kid duck hunting, just like their dad didn’t take them. I mean since the dawn of Louisiana dads have been teaching their sons and daughters how to hunt and fish here. Are these kids angry? Do they have low self esteem? These politicians just try to find a way to push their agenda forward no matter what. Do you think these 2 care about kids or the city? I don’t. I think they just want to tell everyone else what to do, and how to do it. These are both anti-constitutional bills directly attacking the 2nd amendment.
Responses from Legislature Thank you for taking the time to contact me with your opinion on HB 726. I am opposed to HB 726 and will vote against it should it reach the House floor. It would be helpful for you to include your physical address in the future. Damon J.Baldone
I’m sure my address would be helpful. That way it may be OK to ignore me. However, I am in Louisiana, and you are a Louisiana Representative. I appreciate your response and am pleased you agree that this bill is dumb.
The Democrat’s bottom-line “plan” to fix Social Security: “Our plan is to stop Bush.” –Barbara Boxer
OTHER STATES
AUSTIN, Texas - After an alternately comic and fiery debate — punctuated by several lawmakers waving pompons — the state House on Tuesday approved a bill to restrict “overtly sexually suggestive” cheerleading to more ladylike performances. The bill would give the state education commissioner authority to request that school districts review high school performances. “Girls can get out and do all of these overly sexually performances and we applaud them, and that’s not right,” said Democratic Rep. Al Edwards, who filed the legislation. Edwards argued bawdy performances are a distraction for students resulting in pregnancies, dropouts and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Ribald performances are not defined in the bill. “Any adult that’s been involved with sex in their lives, they know it when they see it,” he said. The bill passed on a 65-56 vote. It still must be approved by the Senate and signed by Republican Gov. Rick Perry. One critic questioned the legislation’s priorities. “Have we done anything about stem cell research to help people who are dying and are sick advance their health? No,” said Democratic Rep. Senfronia Thompson. “Have we done anything about the mentally ill, school finance or ethics?” American Civil Liberties Union said the measure was unnecessary because state law already prohibits public lewdness by students on or near a school campus.
Again we need the government to protect us from what it is already protecting us from. Man, they do a fine job of ‘helping’ us.
OTHER COMMENTS According to “The New York Post’, the New Pope has never had a driver’s license? He could come to California, he’s an immigrant. We’ll give him one for free.—Jay Leno
“Krista Snook, who looks exactly like that, seems to enjoy her job doing airport security at the Harrisburg, PA Airport a little too much. When my rubber-soled Keds failed to set off the magnetometer and give her an excuse to feel me up, she still insisted on a full-body search on the grounds that I had not taken off my rubber-soled Keds the first time through. … It was like a date with Ted Turner: whether you liked it or not, your clothes were coming off at some point. Ms. Snook took special care in waving the wand over my barefeet — barefeet! — but then quickly turned to the main issue at hand: the risk of an exploding bra. The last time I was mauled like that, I at least got a couple of cosmopolitans and a steak first. If I were a Muslim extremist at Guantanamo, Amnesty International would be issuing alarmist press releases, HBO would be casting their made-for-TV movie, ‘A Bra For Islam,’ and George Soros would be reaching for his checkbook.” –Ann Coulter
Final Thought I find it amazing that these people won’t answer me. Maybe I need to start calling and writing too.
UPDATE. I had a break through with this Rep Baldone. I guess I am making a difference. Just one man can. Huzzah!!!
26 April 2005 13:54 CDT
This is the liberal agenda: • Social Security. People must not own their own retirement accounts. The government must be in control. Control retirement, control the individual. • The United Nations. Weaken American by subjecting us to the whims of the international community through the world court and other UN institutions. • Talk Radio: Bring back the Fairness Doctrine to browbeat radio station owners into dropping conservative and libertarian talk radio shows. • Wealth confiscation: Levy a one-time tax on the outstanding balances in privately held retirement and pension accounts. • Control pension fund investments through government regulations … a ploy to reward Democrat-friendly unions and businesses. • Shift more and more of the tax burden to the wealthiest Americans. Now that one-half of Americans have been relieved of the responsibility of paying any income taxes, give them a free ride on Social Security and Medicare taxes as well. • Paid “Family Leave.” Make employers continue to pay the salaries of employees to take the 12-week family leave for a new baby, to care for a sick relative or just because they don’t like to work on Mondays. • Government paid child care for all. Make the taxpayers pay for something that should be the responsibility of the parent. • Repeal the Second Amendment. Only the government should have guns.
Consensus means that lots of people say collectively what nobody believes individually. — Abba Eban
FROM THE NEWS DESK
County School District Reinstates Corporal Punishment, Sees Positive Results One Ohio community is reaping the benefits of overwhelmingly approving paddling as another form of punishment in schools. Pike County Schools banned paddling back in 1993. However, after receiving strong backing from members of the community, corporal punishment is back in use. Pete Dunn, the principal of Western Elementary School in Latham, says since paddling was reinstated, misbehavior among students has declined substantially. The principal notes that students are not paddled for misbehavior if their parents do not approve of corporal punishment. But he explains that “well over half” of the parents of the students at his school have agreed that they want that as a form of punishment, and have signed a waiver giving him permission to spank their children if they misbehave. That, Dunn says, has led to fewer problems in the classroom. “If you don’t have corporal punishment — and [if] your other means of taking away recess and detentions in school aren’t working — then the only other thing you’re left with is suspending a kid,” the principal observes. “So what sense does it make if you had a kid that, say, skipped school; and then you’re going to suspend him and give him three more days out for skipping school? It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.” He explains that was some of the parents’ rationale behind reinstatement of paddling. “This is was another means that the community wanted, and it made sense to them,” he says. Dunn, a Christian, says paddling is not only biblical, but also a strong deterrent. The punishment, he points out, can only be administered by the building principal. “No teachers, no one else can do that. It’s [always done by] someone who’s detached from the situation,” he says. “It’s never done out of anger. It’s always done as a way of correction.” Dunn says he follows the biblical definition of discipline — “to train a child in the way they should go.”—By Jim Brown, April 25, 2005, a regular contributor to Agape Press
So what is the latest charge against Mr. Bolton? Did he rape a bus load of schoolgirls and defecate on a nativity scene? Did he shoot JR Ewing? No, he once shouted at an employee. TWENTY -TWO YEARS AGO!
Border Patrol Has Issues with ACLU Operatives in Monitored Sector
The union representing Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector says its members have had no complaints about the volunteers taking part in the Minuteman Project, which is wrapping up this week in the Arizona desert. But apparently the Border Patrol has had some problems with the ACLU. Since the first of April, volunteers with the Minuteman Project have been conducting what it refers to as a “citizens’ Neighborhood Watch” along the Arizona-Mexico border, looking for illegal immigrants crossing over into the U.S. and reporting those sightings to the Border Patrol. The group reports that as of April 24, 315 Border Patrol apprehensions have been “directly facilitated” by Minuteman volunteers. Mike Albon is a spokesman for U.S. Border Patrol Local 2544, which represents the agents patrolling the 27-mile sector where the Minuteman volunteers have camped out this month. Albon says there have been no complaints from his rank-and-file about the volunteers’ work. “The Minutemen have not caused any problems for the agents in the field,” Albon states. “We have not received any complaints [about] any of their activities being out of line. They have been real supportive of the [Border Patrol] agents in the field.” But the union spokesman says activities in the area by American Civil Liberties Union representatives have been counterproductive. “Apparently trying to catch the Minutemen doing something wrong, [someone] has been going out there and setting off [ground] sensors,” he explains. Those actions, he says, have caused extra work for Border Patrol agents in the field. “They’re counterproductive in [doing] things like that,” he says. Albon says his union is against any organization that opposes enforcement of American immigration laws. “We are against anything that is anti-enforcement,” he remarks. “The union wants the immigration laws enforced — and if the ACLU is supporting things that are not related to the enforcement of the law and are supporting people who are breaking the law, we do not condone that.”
WorldNet Daily reported in March that the Arizona chapter of the ACLU planned to monitor the activities of the Minuteman Project volunteers to “make sure they’re not abusing anybody’s rights.” A spokesman for the ACLU told a local newspaper that a team of attorneys would be ready to file civil cases against project participants should any abuses occur. —– By Chad Groening April 26, 2005 , a regular contributor to Agape Press
ON MY DESK THIS WEEK
In the United States, the term filibuster — from a Dutch word meaning “pirate” — became popular in the 1850s when it was applied to efforts to hold the Senate floor in order to prevent action on a bill. I’ve e-mailed Vitter and Landrieu with the question of what is it and why am I hearing about this on the news. I anxiously await their reply.
I figure that the reporters, journalist [in Great Briton they are called ‘readers’]think we are all stupid. Or they don’t care because most sheeple won’t even question their ideas and motives. They seem to think their news is some devine word for us all. I mean look at the stupid celebrity stories. Who cares what Skanky Girl is doing to what Doofy Guy. They all live in a bubble. Watch the Surreal Life and see how full of themselves the has beens and barely knowns on that show are. I mean how many times can a politician change his mind on issues? Why are the Dems saying NO Way to ideas they pushed a few years ago and vice-versa for the Reps. Why the double standards on so many things? Why does PRO-CHOICE only apply when death and destruction is involved? Are people in this world really this blind. I say world but, in reality only the US populace believe any of that dribble.
How many terrorist links are there from other towns and cities besides Baton Rouge? I mean it seems that those sniper idiots and now this grenade thrower both had peaceful muslim beliefs and had a Baton Rouge connection. How many terro.., uhm islamic extrem… I mean peaceful muslims are there in Baton Rouge? And why do these bad men keep sullying the fine name of the Baton Rouge population?
You know in California a teacher cannot tell a student that the answer the child has given is WRONG. The say’ Well Billy, 2 plus 2 equals 5 COULD BE AN ANSWER’. If the child doesn’t know it is wrong how can he get it right?
In Denver it is ‘One Nation, Under Your Belief System’. WHAT???? Well I guess they think that could be an answer. And it is. It’s the WRONG answer. These government schools are really a trip. They teach our future the wrong answers when they allow a hard answer to be permitted.
In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.” - Mark Twain
25 April 2005 08:40 CDT
LA Legislative Session Starts Today.On the immediate agenda will be Gov Blanco pushing for a so called ‘Sin-Tax’. These are the stats:
•Cigarette taxes would rise by 50 cents per pack, generating about $88 million. Current state tax rate is 36 cents per pack; federal tax rate is 39 cents per pack on top of that. Total tax would be $1.25 per pack. •Beer taxes would rise by $2.50 per barrel, generating about $9 million. Current state tax rate is $10 per barrel, would grow to $12.50 per barrel. •Wine taxes would double from 11 cents per gallon to 22 cents per gallon, generating about $2 million. •Liquor tax increases would raise $5 million. •Video poker tax rate increases are still a work in progress, although the administration is looking at 3 percent increases. Video poker taxes range from 22.5 percent at off-track betting parlors to 32 percent at truck stops. •Blanco wants to raise $16 million with the gambling tax increases and is still considering increases on slots at the race tracks.
All these taxes are supposed to give the state more money for teacher pay. I know smoker’s are going to be up in arms about this [I’m hearing from family members already] but, if you don’t smoke you don’t pay. But then again wasn’t the lottery supposed to help with education cost. No the casino’s yeah, they were gonna help with educational costs. What about the $5000.00 from the Feds per child extra for the 15 home schooled students I know of personally.
Maybe we could tax stupid political decisions by movers and shakers like Robert Wooley and Bob Odom. Wonder what the tax revenue on these guys ideas would be. May pull the whole state out of a funk with that kind of assured revenue.
Around the country
The volunteers patrolling the Arizona-Mexico border may be the starkest sign of frustration with the nation’s immigration laws, but across the country there is a growing populist movement also taking matters back into its own hands. In Washington, Colorado, Virginia and elsewhere, grass-roots organizations are forming to pass initiatives and pressure politicians into enacting laws denying benefits to illegal immigrants. There are already groups in seven states and more are expected by the end of summer. One congressman may even run for president on a platform of securing the border.
Here’s a case of political correctness spinning out of control: there’s a movement to remove “Christ” from B.C. (as in ‘Before Christ.) The PC replacement would be…’Before Common Era.’ Some people have way too much time on their hands.
The Sad Truth of Things An Irishman in a wheelchair entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The Irishman looked across the restaurant and asked, “Is that Jesus sitting over there?”
The waitress nodded “yes,” so the Irishman told her to give Jesus a cup of coffee on him.
The next patron to come in was an Englishman with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, “Is that Jesus over there?”
The waitress nodded, so the Englishman said to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, “my treat.”
The third patron to come into the restaurant was a Redneck on crutches. He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, “Hey there, sweet thang. How’s about gettin’ me a cold glass of Coke!” He, too, looked across the restaurant and asked, “Is that God’s boy over there?”
The waitress once more allowed as how it certainly was, so the Redneck said to give Jesus a cold glass of Coke, “on my bill.”
As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the Irishman, touched him and said, “For your kindness, you are healed.” The Irishman felt the strength come back into his legs, got up, and danced a jig out the door.
Jesus also passed by the Englishman, touched him and said, “For your kindness, you are healed.” The Englishman felt his back straightening up, and he raised his hands, praised the Lord and did a series of back flips out the door.
Then Jesus walked towards the Redneck. The Redneck jumped up and yelled, “Don’t touch me…I’m a drawin’ disability!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Postscript If people don’t start getting involved and taking action the whole system is about to go under. The sad truth is even if healing is offered there is a whole subculture that would rather get a small welfare check than to be 100% able. STOP STEALING. Earned Income Credit. You get credit for earning income? Wake up people, demand that right is right and wrong is wrong. I thank God for people like the Minuteman Project Volunteers. These guys have ‘Peacefully assembled to petition the Government to address theirs grievances’. If we don’t speak up then the career politicians will just keep robbing and raping us. Ever wonder why things move faster through the House of Representatives which has more members than the same legislation gets held up for months in the Senate.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
What if you were an idiot, and what if you were a member of Congress? But I repeat myself. — Mark Twain
“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?” –John Adams
21 April 2005 08:30 CDT
If 50 million people say a stupid thing, it’s still a stupid thing. — David SevernIt amazes me what people think is the truth of the situation. I mean this country of ours is an experiment in SELF government. Yet, my state is affected by the supreme court decision in California? If your level of freedom sound as described by California, move there. Likewise for any other state. This is the way it was in founding times. Stop forcing the ideals of one state on all the rest of them.
STUDY AND FIND THE TRUTH PEOPLE. And now the news.
Criminals And Guns Studies by the Departments of Justice and the Treasury have determined that most criminals obtain firearms through illegal and informal channels where no “waiting period” exists. (Bureau of Justice Statistics, “Federal Firearm Offenders, 1992-98,” June 2000) States that adopted non discretionary concealed-handgun laws saw murders decreased by at least 8%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robberies by 3%. The murder rates of women permit-holders fell by as much as five times the drop of their male counterparts. (More Guns, Less Crime, John R. Lott, Jr., University of Chicago Press, 1998) Police not required to protect individual citizens. In Warren v. District of Columbia (444 A.2d 1, 1981), the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled, “official police personnel and the government employing them are not generally liable to victims of criminal acts for failure to provide adequate police protection … this uniformly accepted rule rests upon the fundamental principle that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular citizen … a publicly maintained police force constitutes a basic governmental service provided to benefit the community at large by promoting public peace, safety and good order.” In Bowers v. De Vito (686 F. 2d 616, 1982), the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, “(T)here is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen.”
“The IRS — I find it interesting that when you combine the words in the subject line it becomes ‘THEIRS’!” The IRS has changed its phone-assistance number’s hold music to Joni Mitchell’s “Baby, I Don’t Care.” How appropriate.
FROM JAY LENO: NBC is claiming success with its new miniseries “Revelations” which they say is based loosely on the Bible. See they have to say “loosely” because no one in Hollywood actually has a Bible. They had to just wing it. According to a new poll, 7 out of 10 Americans say the tax code is too complicated. Well duh, that’s why they call it a code. They don’t want you to understand it. That’s the whole idea.
I am liking Jay more as I read his little quips.
“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 pretense, raised in the United States.” –Noah Webster
An armed society is a polite society. — Robert Heinlein
A gun in the hand beats a cop on the phone.
20 April 2005 08:19 CDT
SGT Patrick HaabFound this at Clayton’s Site I saw this on Hannity and Colmes last night too. I don’t understand why he was arrested. Vigilantism on the Border? I will be curious to know what the facts turn out to be about this case–but the article [SPIN ALERT blk] is careful to note that the guy arrested was not part of the Minuteman Project: An Army reservist was arrested on charges of holding seven Mexicans at gunpoint at a rest stop in southern Arizona, where civilian efforts to watch for illegal immigrants have raised fears of vigilante violence. Sgt. Patrick Haab, 24, was apparently acting alone and not involved with the Minuteman Project, which has organized volunteers for a monthlong effort to watch for immigrants and drug smugglers along the border. Officials said Haab used his vehicle to stop the seven men from driving away from an interstate rest stop Sunday, then ordered them to lie on the ground or be shot. He was being held on seven counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. “Even law enforcement has to have probable cause before taking people out of their cars and telling them to lie on the ground. He threatened to kill them,'’ Sheriff Joe Arpaio said. “He did not have the right to do what he did. How did he know they were illegal aliens?'’ There are a couple of interesting issues that a situation like this creates. 1. Would Border Patrol officers similarly order suspects at gunpoint to “lie on the ground” while waiting for backup? What makes it okay for the Border Patrol but not for a civilian enforcing the same law? It might well be that Haab lacked probable cause, but that’s a separate question. 2. Anytime a police officer points a gun at someone and orders them to not move, that’s an implicit threat of death. What makes a civilian different from a police officer in that situation? If Haab was in the wrong, it wasn’t because he was a civilian, was it? 3. Vigilantism in American history has often been the result of there being no effective criminal justice system (for example, in the California mining camps in the first year or so of the Gold Rush), or where the criminal justice system was so corrupt that it might as well have been absent–of which the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856 is a good example. It formed after a county supervisor shot to death a newspaper publisher in front of many witnesses–and the District Attorney refused to prosecute. The federal government needs to make a serious effort to secure our borders, so that people like Haab aren’t tempted to take the law into their own hands.
I find this mostly right. I mean I don’t know the entire story, but we never do with the FINE MEDIA we have in this country. However, The law IS IN OUR HANDS now. We aren’t taking it into our hands. We elect officials and allow them to do a job. When they are not doing that job correctly, we have the RIGHT to do it ourselves. I was a dishwasher in a resturant when I was 16. I didn’t have the experience to know the best way to do some things. So when the manager said ‘Give me that broom’ or ‘let me see something’, He simply did the job I was hired to do. I wasn’t unemployed, just learning from my employer how to handle the situation.
This brings us to the Minuteman Project. They are Minutemen not only by name, but in deed as well. They are doing the job of securing THEIR country’s border from ILLEGAL immigration. Immigration still being availible to those willing to apply through the proper channels. If the activity is ILLEGAL, then why oh why is it in any way that these people OUTSIDE OUR LAWS are able to use our LEGAL system? SGT Haab should be just another guy. No medal given, no arrest made. He did what any one of the employees of HIS in the Border Patrol does on any such incidence. He simple had to do the job himself.
19 April 2005 08:19 CDT
RECRUITMENT DRIVE NEEDED? You tell me.
“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.” –John F. Kennedy
15 April 2005 08:53 CDT
Everybody Scramble to pay the Emperor today?TAX DAY I should sue the IRS for extreme emotional abuse. And doctor bills because I scratched my own face off while filling out my office equipment depreciation forms.
The 16th Amendment (Income Taxes) was ratified on February 12, 1913 . This date should be added to December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001 as dates in American history that shall forever live in infamy. What’s the total nationwide cost of the current IRS tax system? $500 billion dollars. There is a way to spend zero hours a year preparing your federal income taxes. It’s called the FairTax. You would pay taxes only when you spent money and never have a dime withheld from your paycheck. The rate would be 23% and would be reduced to 15.6% after your rebate for necessities.
Just imagine…no IRS, no forms to fill out and no tax day. April 15th would just be like any other Spring day. NEAL BOORTZ has finished his book on the plan and will send it to the publisher soon. I cannot wait to get my copy.
The America proposed by the FairTax Plan would feature: * no federal income taxes, * no payroll taxes, * no self-employment taxes, * no capital gains taxes, * no gift or estate taxes, * no alternative minimum taxes, * no corporate taxes, * no payroll withholding, * no taxes on Social Security benefits or pension benefits, * no personal tax forms, * no personal or business income tax record keeping, and * no personal income tax filing whatsoever. No Internal Revenue Service; no April 15th; all gone, forever.
Christopher K. Coombs with the Economics Department at LSU has looked at the Fairtax plan and went so far as to indorse it in a letter to Congress and the President. Thank you, Mr. Coombs for your service to education, your state and your country’s citizens.
READ THIS FROM AN IRS COMMISIONER “Congress went beyond merely enacting an income tax law and repealed Article IV of the Bill of Rights, by empowering the tax collector to do the very things from which that article says we were to be secure. It opened up our homes, our papers and our effects to the prying eyes of government agents and set the stage for searches of our books and vaults and for inquiries into our private affairs whenever the tax men might decide, even though there might not be any justification beyond mere cynical suspicion. The income tax is bad because it has robbed you and me of the guarantee of privacy and the respect for our property that were given to us in Article IV of the Bill of Rights. This invasion is absolute and complete as far as the amount of tax that can be assessed is concerned. Please remember that under the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress can take 100% of our income anytime it wants to. As a matter of fact, right now it is imposing a tax as high as 91%. This is downright confiscation and cannot be defended on any other grounds. The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men. The income tax is fulfilling the Marxist prophecy that the surest way to destroy a capitalist society is by steeply graduated taxes on income and heavy levies upon the estates of people when they die. As matters now stand, if our children make the most of their capabilities and training, they will have to give most of it to the tax collector and so become slaves of the government. People cannot pull themselves up by the bootstraps anymore because the tax collector gets the boots and the straps as well. The income tax is bad because it is oppressive to all and discriminates particularly against those people who prove themselves most adept at keeping the wheels of business turning and creating maximum employment and a high standard of living for their fellow men. I believe that a better way to raise revenue not only can be found but must be found because I am convinced that the present system is leading us right back to the very tyranny from which those, who established this land of freedom, risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to forever free themselves…” T. Coleman Andrews. Andrews Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service for three years, from 1953 until 1955.
If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have no federal meddling in our schools, no Federal Reserve, no U.S. membership in the UN, no gun control, and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations or the “poor”, no American troops in 100 foreign countries, no NAFTA, GATT, or “fast-track”, no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights, no attacks on private property, no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited. — Congressman Dr. Ron Paul, MD (R-TX)
WHY IS IT?A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it’s a free market. A toy company can outsource to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it’s a free market. A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it’s a free market. We can buy HP Printers made in Mexico. We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh. We can purchase almost anything we want from many different countries BUT, heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian (or Mexican) pharmacy. That’s called un-American!
AND NOW THE NEWS Some folks in North Carolina are pushing the idea of offering In-state tuition for illegal aliens in North Carolina’s colleges and universities. North Carolina is now number two in the rate of increase for illegal immigration. Make this idiotic idea a law and soon North Carolina will be vying for number one. Remember, you get more of the behavior your reward, and less of the behavior your punish. How could you consider in-state tuition for illegal aliens anything but a reward for illegal behavior? The AARP is fully against private Social Security accounts….but John Carlisle says not only are they opposed, but the AARP is playing dishonest games with the truth. Why then, do so many people join? Must be the discounts. Unbelievably, Kofi Annan is blaming the Oil-For-Food scandal on America and Great Britain, but not himself. Has the man no shame? Apparently not. Is the Mexican military actually escorting people to the U.S. border so that they can make their crossing … including drug-runners?
I feel exactly the same way as this man[second President of these United States] I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. — John Adams
I read and study and listen and watch a bunch of things to get all this info. I sometimes just go off about whatever has me ticked off that day. But, in the course of my research I have found that some only post once a week. This is a thought as I have a regular job as well. I don’t even know if anyone reads this stuff. Maybe I’ll drop a few hints to some friends.
14 April 2005 16:38 CDT
Clearing the desk this week. Enjoy this stuff.I just wanted to update you that it has been at least 2 wks since I asked Gov Blanco, Sen Landreiu, Sen Vitter and Rep Jindal about thier opinion of the insurance commisioners truck. To date not so much as a hint they will reply. I’ll keep on them.
FROM THE NEW YORK POST April 13, 2005 — The Rev. Al Sharpton insisted yesterday he did nothing illegal while raising money for his presidential campaign — and suggested racism could be behind an FBI investigation into his fund-raising.
AFTER BASHING TOM DELAY, PRESS ADMITS MANY ELECTED OFFICIALS HIRE OWN FAMILY MEMBERS
If you are like me, you are totally fed up with that fact that despite Republican control in Washington, we’ve seen no real progress toward reforming our obscenely complicated, messy, and tangled up tax code. The man-hours, money, and aggravation caused each year by our needlessly complex and burdensome tax code is a drain on our economy and our personal lives.
Sandra S. Froman, the NRA’s first vice president, is expected to be elected president by the NRA’s board of directors on Monday, after the group’s annual convention, which begins Friday in Houston. “Every president of NRA brings to the office their own skills, their own personality. Being a woman and a nontraditional, if you will, president of NRA, may bring some attention to the organization.” Froman said Tuesday, shortly after arriving in Houston to prepare for the convention. HOUSTON CHRONICLE
“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” –Benjamin Franklin
“Three groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.” –Dick Armey
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” –Thomas Jefferson
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” –John Marshall
In a democracy, two wolves and a sheep take a majority vote on what’s for supper. In a constitutional republic, the wolves are forbidden on voting on what’s for supper, and the sheep are well armed. – Anonymous
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it’s worked for over 200 years, and we’re not using it anymore. — Jay Leno
12 April 2005 14:57 CDT
Amazing and unrealistic views people live withSan Francisco is attempting to place a ballot measure before its voters this November banning handguns. The measure would strip any citizen of his or her right to own a handgun for any reason. Only law enforcement officers, members of the military, and security guards would be allowed to possess them. The measure would also completely ban the sale, manufacture, and distribution of all handguns and ammunition in San Francisco, as well as the transfer of shotguns and rifles. If passed in November, city residents would be forced to surrender their firearms within 90 days. Over the past few decades, California has served as a laboratory for gun control experiments. And very often, sadly, what happens out west tends to drift eastward to other pockets of the United Sates. So not only would passage of the handgun ban have dire consequences for San Franciscans, but it would also no doubt serve as a harbinger for similar bans for other Americans outside of San Francisco who live under the fist of anti-gun city officials.
California ends up being the basis for so many impositions upon individuals freedoms it makes me sick. I am all for states having their rights to choose how people live in that state. However, this then is used as a policy on the national level to impose that on ALL the other states. Do you think a rancher in Wyoming gives a rip about San Fransisco’s goof ball policy? No. He is only concerned with his world. He may need the gun. How about a bayou tour guide in Louisiana? Does he need the San Fransisco gun ban or does he need to be able to kill a cottonmouth that Will kill him? I guess the Senators who grab hold of these laws and ideas and run with them. Impose them on everyone else without a care. I guess Mr. Boucher will just have to sell his boats and go to work at Target.
Or he can immigrate to Mexico
TRY THIS
Enter Mexico illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas, international law, or any of that nonsense.
Once there, demand that the local government provide free medical care for you and your entire family.
Demand bilingual nurses and doctors.
Demand free bilingual local government forms, bulletins, etc.
Procreate abundantly.
Deflect any criticism of this allegedly irresponsible reproductive behavior with, “It is a cultural United States thing. You would not understand, pal.”
Keep your American identity strong. Fly Old Glory from your rooftop, or proudly display it in your front window or on your car bumper.
Speak only English at home and in public and insist that your children do likewise.
Demand classes on American culture in the Mexican school system.
Demand a local Mexican driver license. This will afford other legal rights and will go far to legitimize your unauthorized, illegal, presence in Mexico.
Insist that local Mexican law enforcement teach English to all its officers.
Good luck! You’ll be demanding for the rest of time or soon dead. Because it will never happen. It will not happen in Mexico or any other country in the world… Except right here… Land of the naive.
Should laws protect pharmacists who don’t want to fill birth control prescriptions? Or should a business have the right to fire them for refusing?
This one is a no-brainier for me: let the businesses decide. Why do Republicans support “conscience clauses”? A Republican should support the right of businesses to make the decision, and the state should have nothing to say about it. Suppose I’m working as a cashier at Target and I’m morally opposed to selling Maxim magazine, or condoms, or alcohol. Do I get a conscience clause? No. Target can tell me to sell the stuff or be fired. That’s their right!
There are some pharmacies who will voluntarily allow conscience clauses. But most will want to do what’s best for their business, which is to require their pharmacists to sell all the products they offer. Otherwise, a customer will patron another pharmacy where she doesn’t’t have to deal with the bullshit. And that means another pharmacy will get the rest of her business too– meaning all the other items she buys when she stops in to get her birth control.
Funny how some Republicans hail the free market only when it suits them.
OPINIONS IN BRIEF
“[Ashley] Smith was reading aloud to [Brian] Nichols from the Christian book ‘The Purpose-Driven Life’ — in direct violation of his constitutional right to never hear any reference to God, in public or private, for any purpose, ever, ever, ever! … Smith read to Nichols some more, both from the ‘Purpose’ book and from another popular book that’s been dropped from all news accounts of this incident: the New Testament. (In the Hollywood version, Smith will be reading from the Quran.)… Heaven help the average liberal if this ever happens to him! What would an urban secularist do? Come sit down and let me read to you from Michael Moore’s ‘Stupid White Men.’ Or maybe he could put a Sponge Bob video in the VCR. WE ARE FAM-I-LEEEEE! At least before he killed again, the dangerous fugitive would have warm feelings toward homosexuals. …[In reality], Smith saved the soul of a man on a killing spree by talking to him about Christianity.” –Ann Coulter
“For an illustration of the difference between proportionate and progressive taxation, we can look to the Bible. There, tithing is explained as the economic basis of our Judaic-Christian religions. The Lord says you shall contribute one-tenth and He says, ‘If I prosper you 10 times as much you will give 10 times as much.’ That is proportionate– but look what happens today when you start computing Caesar’s share. A man of average income who suddenly prospered ten times as much would find his personal income tax increased 43 times.” –Ronald Reagan
“It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of thier income.”– Benjamin Franklin
11 April 2005 15:44 CDT
11 April 2005 08:19 CDT
Hard to keep up withWow, this is harder than I thought to keep daily. Sometimes I just get so busy I can’t get to the desk for the time I need to post.
Well anyway, I find some of our Gov. Blanco’s ideas are in the best interest of the state. I don’t know if she crosses ‘party lines’ a lot. But, I’m not in either party so I don’t care as long as Louisiana is better for it. The Stelly plan report is out, believe it or not. I do not agree with more income taxes so I’ve added a link to the FAIR TAX website. You ought to check into it. I think it makes sense. Just the fact that the IRS wouldn’t be around would reduce the amount of the government would need to run. I am all for less government.
In response to the Minuteman Project, the Mexican government has done something unprecedented — patrol its own border opposite the Minutemen, to apprehend border-crossers before the Minutemen do! “I’m proud of every single one of you [in the Minuteman Project]. You are not vigilantes. You are heroes.” –Rep. Tom Tancredo
Gene Robinson the ‘gay’ Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire gave last rites to the 100-year-old Church of the Redeemer in Rochester, after most parishioners departed rather than accept Robinson’s ordination. In a final sermon to the handful of parishioners who stayed at Redeemer, Robinson said, “What looks like weakness is really strength.” The Federalist Patriot agrees saying, — while a church closing looks like weakness, it took strength for lifelong parishioners to put their obedience to God’s eternal Word ahead of their obedience to contemporary church fashions.
When asked about the authority of Holy Scripture, Robinson replied, “No one of us can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit; it must be tested by the community. … Let’s see if it bears fruit.” WHAT????? Again I caution you not to stand near this man on judgment day. I am afraid he is deceived.
Of course, if my only means of entertainment were Air America radio, Barbra Streisand albums and reruns of ‘The West Wing,’ I too would be asking: ‘What kind of quality of life is this?’” –Ann CoulterThis was her suggestion for why the libs were figuring Terri didn’t need life.
Well hopefully I’ll have more tomorrow.
5 April 2005 11:52 CDT
Why was it OK to pardon all these death row inmates and make sure any murderer under 18 years old didn’t die, but not one Hollywood goof ball had any opinion about the Shiavo dilemma. These are the same people who feel so strongly about the presidential race they say they will leave the country or quit singing if their guy doesn’t win. Course they didn’t leave or quit singing. How many people are left with true and honest opinions? That stand up for what they believe in? I may not agree with them all the time but, please stand for something.
Remember that you are responsible for the safety of you and your family. The police are only historians after some incident has taken place. They cannot be everywhere.
But what every gang member, what every rapist, what every previous sex offender can understand and will respond to is the barrel of a gun pointed between his eyes—or lower.
WOW preach on my friend @ Someone elses humble opinion here
This ‘first gay bishop’ clown Gene Robinson actually said Jesus Christ had untraditional relationships with other men. REMEMBER NOT TO STAND ANYWHERE NEAR HIM BEFORE THE BEMA SEAT. Like causing another division in the church wasn’t bad enough, now we have someone begin preaching all kinds of craziness. 1 TIM 1:6-7
Another brilliant statement from Louisiana Sen Mary Landrieu was that she was OK with fixing Social Security after all they had fixed it a few years earlier [why is still broken then Sen?] , but she didn’t agree with taking any money out of it. WAIT!!! Stop the presses. There is money IN Social Security? HAA Sen Landrrieu should be informed that the money she has been allowed to waste on big government crap IS THE SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY.
Sen Hillary Clinton was able to get the rights to hillaryclinton.com She sued and the court found in her favor. Said it was her copyright name. Wasn’t there a girl who had died that some freaky guy had a website with her name dot com. Her parents sued trying to get the rights but, he was found in favor of? Someone help me with this if you remember this. I know I saw it on TV news. I cannot remember all the specifics, I just remember it as a dead girl and creepy guy with website story. How is it OK if you are a Senator? Do you have some rights that an ordinary citizen isn’t privy to concerning your private issues? It should not be this way. Right is right and political power misused is tyranny.
Here are a few quotes for you. The common good comes before the private good.– Nazi slogan The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.– Adolf Hitler We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.– Hillary Clinton
WHAT??? Is anybody awake out there in NEW YORK? Do you hear the way your Senator thinks?
4 April 2005 14:11 CDT
Brilliant College StatementSometimes we fall into the trap I was talking about earlier of believing lies because of familiarity. Well to set the record straight, the War of Northern Aggression/Civil War in the US was fought due to the same issues as the Revolutionary War. TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. The lie is that it was over slavery. ALL of Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest’s men were Black. Imagine a black calvary outfit on the Confederate side of the war. HUH? Look it up if you think I’m lying and then the veil will begin to fall from your eyes as you learn truths.
What brought this up is that at LSU games sometimes people fly a Confederate Battle Standard in Purple and Gold. LSU colors for all you non-sports or non-college fans. Well a black student was offended, due to lack of information. They filed a complaint with the school. The actual statement from an educator was that they weren’t't going to outlaw the flags but, put out a statement to let everyone know that the school didn’t support the sentiment of the flag. What sentiment? That the ‘war’ going on the sports Field shouldn’t have fans? BRILLIANT!!! Educate yourself before you apply for a job at a university.
4 April 2005 08:57 CDT
Minuteman ProjectI heard that 1000’s of citizens have organized a kind of border patrol/ neighborhood watch program for this month. They are calling it the Minuteman Project. I guess there are thousands of us Minutemen after all. MINUTEMAN PROJECT This is the website donation page. Read up on their activities. I think it is a great idea. I can only send my money to help so, that’s where I am starting you at the donations page. It is this type of citizens standing up for their country that we need today. I mean if we don’t assume some level of responsibility for our nation, it will be dismantled by liars and lawyers. I lived in Arizona while I was in the Army and there is a huge problem with illegal immigration. These people are trying to take care of a problem. Trying to bring to the forefront, to the nations view a very real and present danger. How appropriate the the movie Clear and Present Danger begins in Ft Huachuca AZ. In the very stretch that these citizens are at. The clear and present danger now is that while the news media tries to tell us to be tolerant of everyone. Everyone else is out to KILL us. I mean where are the ‘PEACEFUL’ Muslims? Why aren’t they screaming mad and rebuking the ‘extremists’? They must be all the same. Mexicans are flooding over the border daily. The terrorists could get right in with them. Just the illegal’s are enough of a problem. I mean they can work for less than minimum wage’s because the illegality status allows the ‘under the table’ activity. We Americans are not allowed to make a days pay at less that what our government deems right. Half a loaf is better than none isn’t it? I mean why is it the governments business how much I make an hour?
1 April 2005 07:35 CST
Public Office or Public OffenseLouisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley decided he needed a 2005 F250 Supercrew Harley Davidson Edition to replace his 2004 Ford Eddie Bauer edition Expedition. Now I like Ford and am glad their trucks are this popular but, I think this is OVERKILL for a state official. Either of these vehicles is too much but, the Harley truck is no more than a man’s toy. Mr Wooley ‘didn’t see the problem’. I e-Mailed the Governor Kathleen Blanco, as well as several state legislators and all my congressmen. Only the state reps have bothered to contact me. I guess my voice is to small [Hence these chronicles have begun]. The state reps, all 4 that I contacted directly, Either called me or 1 e-Mailed me back that they felt this was a huge waste of taxpayer’s money. Mr Wooley, Have you a comment?
District Attorney in New Orleans Eddie Jordan has been found guilty of bigotry and racial preference by firing 56 people [53 white, 2 black and 1 hispanic] and hiring all black to replace them. Some of these people he hired were not even qualified for the positions apparently. Well he has been ordered to pay the people he wrongfully fired. He said ‘I don’t have the money’. So now the city will pick up the tab for this clowns circus acts.
Firefighters in New Orleans are due to be paid for work they have already performed. So the powers above are looking at lay offs to be able to pay this back time money. WHAT??? Are these servants of the public, these emergency situation rescuers, being punished for asking to be paid what the deserve? The only reason any of that money could be overtime would be the department is understaffed already. I know where the money could come from. Fire some of these bosses and committees that make stupid suggestions about laying off the people actually working outside of the office.
I had a friend e-Mail me a joke about Japan vs America. The basic idea was that in a row boat race between an American and a Japanese company, the Japanese won by a mile. Well the American company appointed a committee to see why. They found that the Japanese had 1 steering and 8 paddling. The American team had 8 steering and one paddling. So, they decided to have 3 steering supervisors and 4 steering coaches. The next years race the Japanese won by 2 miles. Well naturally the man paddling was fired for poor performance and the committee members were all given bonuses for finding the problem. Sound familiar.
These managers and politicians who think they are on top of the world need to realize the undercurrent is swelling. The ‘upper crust’ WILL BREAK when pressure comes from from beneath it. I AM HOLDING YOU ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR BEHAVIOR! Just wanted you guys to know that we are watching you closely.
Entered: Sunday, 3 April 2005 - 17:39 CST Name: Mike King URL: www.Desciple2one.4t.com E-Mail: Desciple2one@yahoo.com Comment: I think that emergency personnel aren’t paid enough; they get all the crap and none of the benefits. So remember the next time you see one to thank your lucky butt they are still out there taking your crap for crap pay. Pray for them they all we got.
Thanks for the comment Bro.
31 March 2005 14:21 CST
On With The ShowNow to the heart of the matter. Our lives are being hijacked by crooked politicians, judges and the media. People walk abound in a daze most of the time and believe things just because they heard it one or more times. Repeating a lie doesn’t make it more true. Stupidity runs amuck in our society. People jump on the ‘Rollback’ price without questioning what it was rolled back from. I believe America was formed based on true Freedom. This means we include gay marriages. Christianity shouldn’t be beaten down by the combined efforts of everyone else. And that the 2nd amendment Cannot be infringed upon by the government. The bickering and division has got to stop. Drugs should be legalized, welfare and income tax abolished, consequences enforced and the government regulated. I mean take social security for instance. Yes there is a problem. The problem is the greedy government taking the money out of the plan. Easily this could be fixed. Why does it seem that there are all these ‘people helping’ groups that sue anyone and everything just to create division? I mean I think the ‘powers that be’ understand that truly if We the People stand united, they will have to quit bleeding us. I invite you to comment on any of this. Or any other rant you have. I feel if we come up with legitimate ideas and griefs we can create solutions to problems created by our lack of previous involvement.
31 March 2005 14:08 CST
The IdeaThe idea of this blog is to place my views. I feel I need a place to reach out and express my views outside my near world. I have very strong views on certain issues and I just want to see if this type of media is the right outlet for me.