So just let me know if ANYONE messes up your day today!
I GOT YOU COVERED !!
By Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 13, 2008; Page A02
Job applicants who were rejected by the Justice Department because of improper political considerations will be urged to apply for open positions, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey told an audience yesterday.
Mukasey said that the hiring system at Justice had broken down and that department leaders had failed to supervise the behavior "of those who did wrong." But the attorney general stopped short of agreeing to weed out lawyers and immigration judges who won their jobs based on faulty criteria.
"Two wrongs do not make a right," Mukasey told the American Bar Association yesterday in New York. "The people hired in an improper way did not, themselves, do anything wrong. It therefore would be unfair -- and quite possibly illegal given their civil service protections -- to fire or reassign them without individual cause."
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He is down 10 to 1 in campaign funds so we need a nationwide push for Rick please send this link to any and all Democrats and post it on any and all Democratic sites this is important
http://www.ricknoriega.com/
Now why some may say why should we be concerned about a State Rep race in Texas I would remind you we have the 2010 census coming up and also redistricting based on the census. One way to take Texas back is to have Democratic control of the State House and Senate when redistricting occurs. So if you can we need help Larry Hunter needs help. He is running against a well funded Republican incumbent Mike Hamilton and he is worse than GW Bush so once again I ask for you help I will repost this later as well.
Larry C. Hunter (TX-HD-19)
Please go to his site and donate what you can, thank you
An Open Invitation From Larry Hunter
Posted by: hunterrep in From Larry
My Fellow Citizens of Orange, Newton and Hardin Counties and all citizens of Texas:
For years now, we have watched the Texas Legislature fail us time after time after time.
Children cut off from their health care. Schools under funded. Wasted tax dollars on sweetheart state contracts for campaign contributors.
It’s time for the Legislature to start solving problems instead of creating them. It’s time for practical solutions, not partisan politics.
That’s why I am running for State Representative in District 19. And that’s why I hope you will help me win this important race.
This race is important because my opponent, Mike Hamilton, is part of the problem in Austin. He has cast dozens of votes that hurt the people of District 19, including:
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Sorry I am always in and out of here lately I have been not feeling well but I am currently listening to Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" got the idea from watching "Resident Evil - Extinction".
It is used in their soundtrack and it made me feel pretty good to here it so I am playing it now hoping to feel better.
In the middle of the drum solo now
We Need Larry Hunter Please Help so we may get rid of Hamilton.
Link to Larry Hunter Democrat: http://hunterforstaterep.org/?p=1
Lawmaker vows to fix possible campaign violations
08/08/2008
By JAY ROOT / Associated Press
Rep. Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton, R-Mauriceville, vowed Friday to correct a series of possible violations and errors on his campaign reports and personal ethics filings — everything from payments to his children to missing details about travel and lodging expenses.
Controversy over mixing campaign spending with personal business prompted the Legislature to clamp down on perceived abuses in 2007. But The Associated Press has uncovered several instances in which lawmakers have continued to keep campaign business in the family.
Among them is Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, who pays his wife's company for expenses associated with his campaign space in her building. On Friday, Shapleigh spokesman Anthony Martinez called the payments for paper, phones and computer usage — about $2,400 worth in the last year — both proper and legal. He said the senator will continue to reimburse his wife's company.
Hamilton is the latest to acknowledge family payments from campaign funds, but he said he stopped earlier this year once questions were raised about it.
Records show the Beaumont-area lawmaker paid at least $2,300 for "contract labor" over the last two years to two dependent children despite heavy restrictions on such expenditures. Hamilton initially told the AP Friday he would reimburse his campaign from personal funds for the charges but later changed his mind.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D92ECLN02.html
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This is a You Tube of a report from a news station on the Texas Legislature it is shameful and shows how corrupt the state legislature under Republican rule has become.
Now why some may say why should we be concerned about a State Rep race in Texas I would remind you we have the 2010 census coming up and also redistricting based on the census. One way to take Texas back is to have Democratic control of the State House and Senate when redistricting occurs. So if you can we need help Larry Hunter needs help. He is running against a well funded Republican incumbent Mike Hamilton and he is worse than GW Bush so once again I ask for you help I will repost this later as well.
Larry C. Hunter (TX-HD-19)
Please go to his site and donate what you can, thank you
An Open Invitation From Larry Hunter
Posted by: hunterrep in From Larry
My Fellow Citizens of Orange, Newton and Hardin Counties and all citizens of Texas:
For years now, we have watched the Texas Legislature fail us time after time after time.
Children cut off from their health care. Schools under funded. Wasted tax dollars on sweetheart state contracts for campaign contributors.
It’s time for the Legislature to start solving problems instead of creating them. It’s time for practical solutions, not partisan politics.
That’s why I am running for State Representative in District 19. And that’s why I hope you will help me win this important race.
This race is important because my opponent, Mike Hamilton, is part of the problem in Austin. He has cast dozens of votes that hurt the people of District 19, including:
Voting in 2003 for House Bill 2292, which cut off more than 200,000 children from the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Voting in 2005 against a budget amendment that would have provided an across-the-board teacher pay raise while also tripling the homestead exemption for property tax payers.
Instead of hurting our children, we need to invest in their future with better schools and better health care. We also need to take steps to create jobs in the local area, improve our highways, make our tax structure fairer, and protect our water supply.
As a former mayor, water district president, school board trustee, city attorney, municipal judge, and legal counsel for a regional planning commission, I have the education and experience to effectively represent this District and to address the issues facing our state. I am a life-long District 19 resident.
Over the next several months it is my hope that through this website you and I can get to know each other and you will develop the trust in me that will make it important for you, your family and friends support my campaign and help me become you next State Representative.
Thank You,
Larry Hunter
Now why some may say why should we be concerned about a State Rep race in Texas I would remind you we have the 2010 census coming up and also redistricting based on the census. One way to take Texas back is to have Democratic control of the State House and Senate when redistricting occurs. So if you can we need help Larry Hunter needs help. He is running against a well funded Republican incumbent Mike Hamilton and he is worse than GW Bush so once again I ask for you help I will repost this later as well.
Larry C. Hunter (TX-HD-19)
Please go to his site and donate what you can, thank you
An Open Invitation From Larry Hunter
Posted by: hunterrep in From Larry
My Fellow Citizens of Orange, Newton and Hardin Counties and all citizens of Texas:
For years now, we have watched the Texas Legislature fail us time after time after time.
Children cut off from their health care. Schools under funded. Wasted tax dollars on sweetheart state contracts for campaign contributors.
It’s time for the Legislature to start solving problems instead of creating them. It’s time for practical solutions, not partisan politics.
That’s why I am running for State Representative in District 19. And that’s why I hope you will help me win this important race.
This race is important because my opponent, Mike Hamilton, is part of the problem in Austin. He has cast dozens of votes that hurt the people of District 19, including:
Voting in 2003 for House Bill 2292, which cut off more than 200,000 children from the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Voting in 2005 against a budget amendment that would have provided an across-the-board teacher pay raise while also tripling the homestead exemption for property tax payers.
Instead of hurting our children, we need to invest in their future with better schools and better health care. We also need to take steps to create jobs in the local area, improve our highways, make our tax structure fairer, and protect our water supply.
As a former mayor, water district president, school board trustee, city attorney, municipal judge, and legal counsel for a regional planning commission, I have the education and experience to effectively represent this District and to address the issues facing our state. I am a life-long District 19 resident.
Over the next several months it is my hope that through this website you and I can get to know each other and you will develop the trust in me that will make it important for you, your family and friends support my campaign and help me become you next State Representative.
Thank You,
Larry Hunter
I will begin this by saying I am not an ex-supporter of the Honorable Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for to do so would imply I no longer support her and I do I admire her intellect her tenacity her strength and her graciousness.
Ideally I would prefer to be working to elect Hillary over McCain but this is not the case she has thrown her support behind Barack Obama.
I have come to the realization that the most dangerous person in America today in terms of the future of my grandchildren and their children and our country is John McCain.
There was a time when John McCain may have been great he may have been honest and a straight talker but that John McCain has sold his soul in order to curry favor with the extreme Right wing of American Politics.
At a time when America needs to chart a new course create a new beginning and move towards redeeming itself as the true leader of the free world and a beacon of hope and a place where if you dream it you can do it McCain represents stagnation.
In Afghanistan today we hit a dreadful milestone of 500 U.S. Troops killed to date.
In Iraq we are at 4134 KIA which if McCain and the Republican’s have their way will only be a down payment on future losses.
An economy showing greater and greater strain dwindling opportunities for future generations, diminished quality of life, failing infrastructure, crumbling education system and an endangered eco system.
These are all problems which Republicans gladly turn a blind eye to or simply refuse to admit they exist this can not be allowed to continue in America or there will be no America.
I must admit I was not for Obama in the beginning and I will admit to still having some reservations but the consequences of the continuation of the tragedy known as Republican control is far, far too great.
The more I watch, read and listen to what is said by John McCain and the Republicans the more I fear for the continued survival of the United States of America for as Sen. Hillary Clinton has said on numerous occasions the differences between us (Democrats) is almost non-existent but the differences between us and them (Republicans) is irreconcilable.
She is absolutely correct that is why she has thrown her support behind Barack Obama and she has asked her supporters to support the Illinois Senator as well.
Those of us that truly understand what Hillary is asking know she did not do this just to be a team player and despite rumors there was no quit pro quo instead she understands what is at stake.
This is the best I can do in explaining my support for Barack Obama for there is a time when ideology and realism collide and this is that point for me.
Obama hecklers accuse him of neglecting black community
Posted: 01:40 PM ET
From CNN's Alexander Marquardt and Rebecca Sinderbrand
Obama was greeted by hecklers at a Florida event Friday.
The protestors — who held a sign reading "What About the Black Community, Obama?" – said the Illinois senator had not been active enough on issues of interest to African-Americans, ranging from the impact of subprime mortgages to the shooting of Sean Bell and the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina.
Obama urged the audience – which began to boo the hecklers – to calm down, before addressing one of the men directly. “I think you’re misinformed. Everything you mentioned I did speak about,” he said, listing legislative initiatives and statements on those issues as the men continued to shout at him and the crowd began to chant “Yes, We Can,” the Obama campaign’s cheer.
“On each issue I’ve spoken out. I may not have spoken out the way you wanted me to speak out — I understand, but…hold on a second,” said Obama. “What I’m saying is, what I’m suggesting is on each of these issues I’ve spoken out….The one thing I think is important is that we’re respecting each other and the way we’ll solve our problems…is if all of us come together, black, white, Hispanic, Asian-American.”
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2008/08/01/sot.fl.obama.protesters.baynews9
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/obama-responds-to-heckler/2224487421
FedEx just delivered my brand new power supply for my PC so I have to go for now, if I don't mess it up I will be back later so please keep your fingers crossed.
American
"Every American ought to have the right to be treated; as he would like to be treated, as one would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated."
I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world which will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.
JFK 10/26/63 Amherst College
A lot of lip service by certain persons on this blog is paid to the man, the words, the ideals, the life that was John F Kennedy.
I therefore have decided to remind people of President Kennedy's views which have helped to define the modern Democratic party.
The following are a few of his quotes.
Conformity "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
John F. Kennedy (1917-63
Tolerance
"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others." John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th US President 1960
Democratic Party
Our duty as a party is not to our party alone, but to the nation and, indeed, to all mankind. Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and freedom.
John F. Kennedy, speech planed for Dallas Texas, 11-22-1960
Equality
This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
John F. Kennedy 6-11-1963
Education
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
JFK State of the Union, 1963
Education...is the mainspring of our economic and social progress...It is the highest expression of achievement in our society, ennobling and enriching human life.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree. JFK accepting a Yale degree, 6/12/63
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