tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21982583795969350732024-03-05T15:56:51.807-06:00www.thelibertycourier.com www.libertycourier.blogspot.comAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-21875876006939831572015-02-16T18:22:00.000-06:002015-02-16T18:27:38.513-06:00LIBERTY ISD TAXPAYERS SHOULD CONSIDER A “YES” VOTE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;">I-dineout has several consecutive
months of comments fighting against one local school bond issue or another in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Liberty</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place> or the surrounding area. As
school district leaders in some districts that face,
aging buildings, tight budgets, rapid advancements in technology, and the latest demands for
excellence, nega</span>tive comments by a few can make working to win support from
voters a much tougher job than it should be. I have been asked to weigh in on
these issues in the past but have declined assuming that since the school I
have worked at for over a decade has a relationship to almost every area
school, I would be falsely accused of having some bias. (Even though privately
my family could tell you at least two school bond elections in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Liberty</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place> I was shocked ever even got on
the ballot in the form they were presented to the public).<o:p></o:p></div>
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But any good analysis will reveal
all districts don’t face the same situations and they are not all asking
taxpayers to do the same thing. For those who listen to what Liberty ISD’s bond
election is considering, I believe they will find this election one every voter
should consider voting “for”. It wilset the stage for 15 to 20 years of
great opportunity for our children, our grandchildren, teachers and community
by refreshing our two oldest campuses.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are a conservative, I am sure you are not for pulling
the taxpayer wallet out every time some one wants something new, but you
probably don’t look at every school bond issue in terms of “pass” or “fail”
either. Some schools like Dayton ISD may have to work extra hard to get a
normally supportive community because of the amount of money they are
borrowing. Some voters simply vote against spending money on anything. But informed
voters that are willing to consider issuing of school bonds may pay close
attention to each and every item that is on the list of what the bond is
covering and, just as some voters viewed the election in the Dayton ISD bond
issue, they may decide the district has extended their “need list” into a very
expensive and extensive “want list”. Some of the voters in that election
objected to the nearly $100 million rather than the idea of borrowing money to
give the school a shot in the arm. I
don’t think anyone could find that in <st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city>’s
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Why do I say that? I am banking on two things. Trust and
personal knowledge.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">First “trust” is important and
leadership from top to bottom is working to invite the public to be part of the
process. Not only are they saying to come and hear and look and see how you
believe after you get first hand information, they are also going out of their
way to leave the decision up to as many voters as possibly can be enticed to
the polls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The committee that has endorses issuing these bonds is
doing more than selling the community that this is needed, I am certain they
will hold town meetings, publish community newsletters, and maybe even develop robust
websites in order to get feedback and ultimately to make sure this community
legacy is one we are all proud of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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School districts are also up against jaded public opinion,
an offshoot of increasingly divisive politics at all levels of government. Unfortunately,
public confidence in any publicly-funded institution, including our public
schools, erodes more and more with each passing year. I have certainly been an
outspoken voice at times that has screamed “hold on to your wallets” and at 57
years old I guess some would expect that of me here, but I believe the public’s support for the
amount of money the committee has recommended and for the needs should be
considered favorably as we enter the process.</div>
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This is not the federal government in D.C. or the state
government is <st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city>
wanting more money from us, this is the “local control” and local decision
making some of us believe should be used on many more of the important
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<span style="color: #444444;">But pass trusting the
leadership, personal knowledge should increase voters to lean toward a “yes’
vote. Personal knowledge, including if you attended school in what is now known
as the administration building, should help you realize we need to pass a
school bond. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:city>’s
maintenance crew and different projects in past years may have it looking like
a pretty good building, but with all due respect to the power washing and
excellent paints and patches and re-purposing that can be done now days, this
building must be closing in on 100 years old. And it was not the greatest
design (with its flat roof) when it had its ribbon cutting before most of us
were born. Besides, most of the years that this building has stood it endured
active vibrant teenagers, now it is subject to overcrowding with co-op,
maintenance and transportation, the tax office and admin all housed there now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">This building is just one
example, albeit an obvious one, of the need to make some changes. I chose it
because my more libertarian friends fight almost any public expenditure by
making the simple assertion that money should have been set back all along as
this was planned for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I have two comments about a
statement that sounds good but does not meet the reality test. First comment:
“In reality, it is a rare person or organization that sets back money and pays
cash for a building. While it seems ideal, it has not happened and we need to
go forward from here. Low interest rates make this a good time to go forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Second comment: There is only
one constant involved in the school business and in Liberty ISD. It is not the
school board or the Superintendent, we have had many of those. Long term
planning is being done by the current board and administrators, for example a
bus rotation plan that uses grants and a time schedule to keep the fleet current.
This is good solid business planning, but the only consistent “controlling
authority” has always been the taxpayer. And we need to examine the current
proposal and see if we can catch up with what needs to be done to give our
children and our community a school that has the best chance of success while
at the same time holds our yearly tax bills down.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Richard Pegues</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-60161234074084056302015-02-12T19:38:00.001-06:002015-02-12T19:38:02.011-06:00BUSH BLAMERS STRIKE OUT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the rest our lives there is no doubt in my mind we will hear
how Al Gore beat George W. Bush in Florida and should have been the 43</span><sup>rd</sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
President of the United States and how “Bush lied us into a war with Iraq”. Both
things are not true and those who think they can prove otherwise might try to
sell some everglade property in their sales pitch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Please find below a short article that has an abbreviated rebuttal
of such nonsense:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Dangerous Lie That
‘Bush Lied’ <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<i>Reposted article by Laurence H. Silberman<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Some
journalists still peddle this canard as if it were fact. This is defamatory and
could end up hurting the country.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span itemprop="name">In
recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox
News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President <a href="http://topics.wsj.com/person/B/George-W.%20Bush/5369"><span style="color: black;">George W. Bush </span></a>“lied us into war in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I found this shocking. I
took a leave of absence from the bench in 2004-05 to serve as co-chairman of
the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding
Weapons of Mass Destruction—a bipartisan body, sometimes referred to as the
Robb-Silberman Commission. It was directed in 2004 to evaluate the intelligence
community’s determination that Saddam Hussein possessed WMD—I am, therefore,
keenly aware of both the intelligence provided to President Bush and his
reliance on that intelligence as his primary <em>casus belli</em>. It is
astonishing to see the “Bush lied” allegation evolve from antiwar slogan to
journalistic fact.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The intelligence
community’s 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal
presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had
weapons of mass destruction—a belief in which the NIE said it held a 90% level
of confidence. That is about as certain as the intelligence community gets on
any subject.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-57339784132175280792015-02-07T00:09:00.001-06:002015-02-07T00:09:14.228-06:00OBAMA WHACKOMO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The golf ball don’t lie, so just like bowling, our President
has had six years with room for great improvement. He can no doubt climb the
ladder in Presidential standings: No word on whether he is still the worst
bowler (last known bowling score: 30) ever to live at 1600 <st1:state w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:state> Avenue, but he has definitely
passed up Woodrow Wilson in the golf category:</div>
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<b><span lang="EN">1. John F.
Kennedy</span></b><span lang="EN"> Despite chronic
back pain, averaged 80.<br />
2 <b>Dwight D. Eisenhower</b> Had a green outside the Oval Office.<br />
3 <b>Gerald R. Ford</b> Clumsy, but was a legitimate 80s-shooter.<br />
4 <st1:city w:st="on"><b>Franklin</b></st1:city><b> D. <st1:place w:st="on">Roosevelt</st1:place></b>
At 39, polio robbed him of a powerful golf swing.<br />
5 <b>George H.W. Bush</b> Once got his handicap down to 11.<br />
6 <b>George W. Bush</b> Outgo.ing prez is a capable 15-handicapper.<br />
7 <b>Bill Clinton</b> Can break 90, especially using his "Billigans."<br />
8 <b>Barack Obama</b> The lefty plays more hoops than golf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">9. <b>Woodrow Wilson</b> As bad at golf as he was
at governing 100+<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN">PLEASE NOTE:</span></u></b><span lang="EN"> <b><i>So far this President remains behind Wilson
and all others as far as governing, but who knows, if he stays on the golf
course night and day, he might pass Wilson, Jimmy Carter, James Buchanan, and
Andrew Johnson.</i></b></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-7128137377687133582015-02-01T17:00:00.002-06:002015-02-01T17:00:13.812-06:00CHRIS KYLE DAY IN TEXAS FEBRUARY 2ND<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared February 2<sup>nd</sup> to be “Chris Kyle Day” to honor the Texan who became known the most lethal sniper in American history. Kyle was also recently immortalized in the blockbuster film movie, <i>American Sniper</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kyle was credited with 150 sniper kills during his four tours of duty in Iraq as a Navy Seal. He was tragically shot and killed on February 2, 2013, while trying to help a fellow veteran who was allegedly suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-10554999082069052522015-01-29T20:15:00.000-06:002015-01-29T20:19:24.200-06:00RAND PAUL DESERVES A FAIR SHAKE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rand Paul's presidential campaign is for real and it will be interesting to see if the media gives him a fair shake. Why do I say that? History!<br />
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Rand Paul's politics are not exactly the same as his famous father, Dr. Ron Paul. But if they treat him and his presidential run like they treated his father, it will be patently unfair. They not only ridiculed and marginalized Dr. Ron Paul, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, they gave their listeners very few opportunities to know what the man was selling.<br />
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What he was selling was not necessarily the same thing the media attacks. Many would say Dr. Paul was more conservative than his friend Ronald Reagan. But the fact of the matter is that some of what he was selling and the media was dogging are political positions that have become popular in the last few years.<br />
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Rather than report the news, they prevented their viewers from hearing it. Maybe they will do better with Rand. We will soon see.<br />
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Regardless, the following is an article to make sure those in my reach know Rand just scored big on his latest political play. Before I post it, let me say I am leaning toward Ted Cruz. But Paul has become a candidate I could easily get excited about if he were our nominee and we should be vigilante to help make sure all those who mistreat our candidates are identified and get their just rewards - Fox news included.<br />
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Here is the report:<br />
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<i><b>The chairman of the Texas Republican Party is planning to join Rand Paul as an adviser for a potential presidential campaign, according to The Wall Street Journal.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Steve Munisteri will join the Kentucky senator’s team in March after leaving his post as head of the Texas GOP, </b></i><br />
<i><b>Snagging Munisteri is a victory for Paul over two other likely 2016 hopefuls from the Lone Star State — Sen. Ted Cruz and former Gov. Rick Perry.</b></i><br />
<i><b>“I’ve known the senator for 33 years and what I’m most impressed with about him is his commitment to expand the party’s reach,” Munisteri told the Journal. “Our party cannot be successful, we cannot retake the White House if we do not do a better job of reaching out. Senator Paul has had that message since he’s been in office.”</b></i><br />
<i><b>Paul, who has made major overtures to young people and minorities, told an audience in Houston last year that Texas was at risk of becoming a Democratic state if the GOP didn’t become “a more welcoming party.”</b></i><br />
<i><b>Paul spent most of his childhood in Texas and attended Baylor University in Waco, where he was a member of the Young Conservatives of Texas group, founded by Munisteri. His father, Ron, represented Texas’s 22nd and 14th districts in Congress.</b></i><br />
<i><b>The senator announced earlier this month that he would be opening up an office in Austin in the spring or early summer.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Munisteri, 57, has served as chairman of the Texas GOP since 2010, during which time the state party has raised about $22 million. He has worked on presidential campaigns in several early nominating states, including Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, according to the Texas GOP website.</b></i><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-70054072784772029382015-01-28T20:10:00.001-06:002015-01-28T20:17:01.762-06:00CHOOSING NOT TO FIGHT DICTATORS<div align="center" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN">There is a great deal of talk about when one should stand
his ground and fight. Louis Rose was known as a brave soldier before he found himself in a situation
where he thought it best to pack up his guns and hit the road. Below is a short
bio on Rose without any commentary or specific point even attempted to be made.
Instead, I will let the reader try to put himself in Rose’s position in 1836
and decide for themselves how this fits in their belief system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN">Louis (Moses) Rose, a soldier of fortune who escaped from the Alamo and
contributed to its legends, was born on May 11, 1785, in Laferée, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Ardennes</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
He joined Napoleon's 101st Regiment in 1806 and eventually became a lieutenant.
In 1814 he was named to the French Legion of Honor for his role as aide-de-camp
to Gen. Jacques de Monfort. He served in campaigns in <st1:city w:st="on">Naples</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> as well as in the invasion of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Though
no one knows when or where he entered North America, he settled in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Nacogdoches</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Texas</st1:state></st1:place>,
about 1827. There he was employed as a log cutter and hauler at a sawmill owned
by John Durst and <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fth32"><span style="color: black;">Frost Thorn</span></a> and served as a messenger between <st1:city w:st="on">Nacogdoches</st1:city> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Natchitoches</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:state></st1:place>. He joined the <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jcf01"><span style="color: black;">Fredonian Rebellion</span></a> in 1826 and took part in the
<a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qen01"><span style="color: black;">battle of Nacogdoches</span></a> in 1832. Rose was a friend
of <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbo45"><span style="color: black;">James Bowie</span></a> and accompanied or followed him to
the <st1:place w:st="on">Alamo</st1:place> in the fall of 1835. He fought in
the <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qeb01"><span style="color: black;">siege of Bexar</span></a> that year.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN">Rose served the cause of <st1:state w:st="on">Texas</st1:state>
independence a fourth time during the siege of the <st1:place w:st="on">Alamo</st1:place>.
He fought for ten days, up to three days before the fall of the fort, and then
escaped. He is the source of the story about <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ftr03"><span style="color: black;">William B. Travis</span></a>'s drawing a line in the dirt
with his sword. Rose got the nickname Moses because of his age at the time,
fifty-one. When asked, "Moses, why didn't you stay there in the <st1:place w:st="on">Alamo</st1:place> with the others?" he invariably replied,
"By God, I wasn't ready to die." He was not the only survivor of the <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qea02"><span style="color: black;">battle of the Alamo</span></a>. Bowie and Travis sent out
numerous couriers, including Capt. <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fse08"><span style="color: black;">Juan N. Seguín</span></a>, to plead for reinforcements, and
other men left during an armistice that Gen. <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsa29"><span style="color: black;">Antonio López de Santa Anna</span></a> declared. In 1907 <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fes14"><span style="color: black;">Enrique Esparza</span></a> reported, "Rose left after
this armistice had expired . . . [and] after Travis drew the line with his
sword. He was the only man who did not cross the line. Up to then, he had
fought as bravely as any man there . . . . Rose went out during the night. They
opened a window for him and let him go. The others who left before went out the
doors and in the daytime." <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fzu02"><span style="color: black;">William P. Zuber</span></a>, whose parents took Rose in
after he left the Alamo, wrote of the escape. Rose went through enemy lines
west through San Antonio, then south down the San Antonio River about three
miles, then east through open prairie to the Guadalupe River, avoiding roads.
He arrived at the Zuber ranch in <st1:placename w:st="on">Grimes</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype> and stayed there for a while
before going on to <st1:city w:st="on">Nacogdoches</st1:city>, where he
operated a butcher shop and acted as a witness for numerous heirs of <st1:place w:st="on">Alamo</st1:place> defenders trying to get land for their service. In
1842 he moved to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Logansport</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:state></st1:place>, where he lived with
Aaron Ferguson's family until his death. Rose, who never married, died in 1851.
His brother Isaac had several sons; in 1927 one of Isaac's descendants, Arthur
Rose, presented Moses Rose's gun to the <st1:place w:st="on">Alamo</st1:place>
museum.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Rumprs that one of the most famous rock stars in history recented his conversion and is no longer a follower of Jesus Christ appear untrue. It seems the media liked him more as a confused searching hippie popping pills and smoking dope than as a born again Christian, so we just don' hear much from those who use to cover him ad nauseum.<br />
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God bless you Bob! Here are the lyrics from one of his songs not long after he accepted Christ as his Lord:<br />
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<b>"Gotta Serve Somebody"</b><br />
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<!-- start of lyrics -->You may be an ambassador to England or France<br />
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance<br />
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world<br />
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls.<br />
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But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed<br />
You're gonna have to serve somebody,<br />
It may be the devil or it may be the Lord<br />
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.<br />
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Might be a rock'n' roll adict prancing on the stage<br />
Might have money and drugs at your commands, women in a cage<br />
You may be a business man or some high degree thief<br />
They may call you Doctor or they may call you Chief.<br />
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But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed<br />
You're gonna have to serve somebody,<br />
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord<br />
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.<br />
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You may be a state trooper, you might be an young turk<br />
You may be the head of some big TV network<br />
You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame<br />
You may be living in another country under another name.<br />
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But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes <br />
You're gonna have to serve somebody,<br />
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord<br />
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.<br />
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You may be a construction worker working on a home<br />
You may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome<br />
You might own guns and you might even own tanks<br />
You might be somebody's landlord you might even own banks.<br />
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But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes <br />
You're gonna have to serve somebody,<br />
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord<br />
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.<br />
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You may be a preacher with your spiritual pride<br />
You may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side<br />
You may be working in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair<br />
You may be somebody's mistress, may be somebody's heir.<br />
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But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes <br />
You're gonna have to serve somebody,<br />
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord<br />
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.<br />
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Might like to wear cotton, might like to wear silk<br />
Might like to drink whiskey, might like to drink milk<br />
You might like to eat caviar, you might like to eat bread<br />
You may be sleeping on the floor, sleeping in a king-sized bed.<br />
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But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed<br />
You're gonna have to serve somebody,<br />
It may be the devil or it may be the Lord<br />
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.<br />
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You may call me Terry, you may call me Jimmy<br />
You may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy<br />
You may call me R.J., you may call me Ray<br />
You may call me anything but no matter what you say.<br />
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You're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed<br />
You're gonna have to serve somebody,<br />
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord<br />
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.<!-- end of lyrics --></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-75779018913249415292015-01-26T19:51:00.000-06:002015-01-26T19:57:23.522-06:00RETHINK ALL OF THE "RINO" NAMECALLING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Why are RINO'S are pointing out other RINO'S?<br />
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I think accurate words can help communicate and describe people and where they are coming from. I am not one of those people who says they "hate labels". But an opportunity for explanation or rebuttal may be necessary by the person labeling or the person getting labeled.<br />
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Recently I have noticed a trend has developed by people that would choose to label themselves Libertarian over the label Republican. These political activists are freely labeling people in the Repblican party RINO's. RINO is a pejorative term conservatives have used to label people they do not believe are committed enough to the principles of the Republican party. Sometimes the term has been used to describe party switchers that appear to be uncommitted and sometimes it has been used to opportunists who seem to have a commitment to themselves and no principles. But in all cases whatever the person labeling someone a RINO might intend ........ it has never been a good thing. In the past this was not compliment.<br />
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A problem arises when people that do not identify themselves as Republicans (without reservations) chooses to use this label. Now we must wonder if the person using this label means it as a positive thing. Anyone who does not want to commit to being a Republican or has reservations about their goals could easily be labeled a RINO if they associate themselves with the party as a candidate or as a member. Therefore, their use of the term RINO could easily mean something good.<br />
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It "could" mean something good,but it has been my experience that it is mix of two totally different things. They are identifying the same RINO's Republicans have tried to shun for decades or it is libertarians criticizing Republicans they do not want to hold office.<br />
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As a result, we Republicans have the strange situation where many times we agree and appreciate the help from these Libertarians, but we also realize they are not real Republicans. Libertarians have huge fundamental differences with the pro-life party that believes the best way to prevent war is to have a military budget that is more than enough to fulfill its Constitutional duty. Their labeling who RINO's would be the same thing as a third party effecting who the Democrat party nominates by pushing labels on their candidates in a similar way.<br />
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The result is, the Republican party's candidates are sometimes being chosen by people who patently disagree with Republican goals. Sometimes they have a candidate that they want to elect so they spew out the RINO label. It is easy to do. Spending or enlarging government in any single area can be interpreted by them as RINO, even though reducing the size of government overall by weeding out the useless and reducing the waste does not necessarily mean voting against spending on every bill. ev.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-28875864708979782712015-01-10T18:40:00.002-06:002015-01-11T12:00:22.926-06:00ANOTHER FORMER COMMISSIONER HURTS LEGACYYears after all of the protest meetings and the secret gatherings to get a new county commissioner in Dayton, now one of the men who said he could fix the Dayton areas county road problems has served his time and has been retired by his opponent.<br />
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Former Commissioner Norman Brown faced tremendous problems as he came into office over eight years ago on the votes of an angry electorate. Whether the job was even something the public would have ever thought someone successfully fulfilled is debatable. Brown may or may not have had an impossible job. That kind of thing will be left up, as they say, to the eyes of the beholder".<br />
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But as Leon Wilson comes in to serve there is one thing Norman Brown did in his last days in office that is undebatable. Maybe he did it because as he was first elected as a Democrat, it was "old hat" for Democrats to do what Brown ended up doing after he lost in his re-election bid. What did Brown do? At best, he made decisions he should have left for his successor. At worst, he spat in the face of the voters.<br />
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What am I talking about? Among other things, I am talking about selling important equipment that belonged to Liberty County after he lost his primary to Leon Wilson. The equipment included a truck and trailers.<br />
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This is the kind of stuff that makes people hate politics. This behavior is the kind of thing that has made it difficult for Dayton to repair roads and other things they hoped their commissioner could do.<br />
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Regardless of how you thought Commissioner Brown did his job before losing, there is no doubt he did not have Dayton's best interest in mind in his waning days. And that is unfortunate.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-11832359816873253912015-01-10T18:18:00.004-06:002015-01-10T20:07:55.960-06:00TED POE WANTED TO AVOiD MARGINALZING HIS DISTRICT<div class="story-intro format-s">
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">In case you thought John Boehner always cried in the clinch, please take note: </span><span style="font-size: large;">SPEAKER BOEHNER TAKES REVENGE.</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Exactly what Representative Ted Poe wanted to avoid. Some, if not all of the 25 Republicans who did not vote for Boehner, may look back and realize their influence, and the influence of their district, in this Congress, was diminished as they lost plum committee posts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Ted Poe knew what most of the Republicans knew going into the actual vote. He knew where his constituents stood on Boehner and he knew there were not enough votes to send the voting to another ballot. So Poe knew what his district wanted was not going to happen, regardless of how he voted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">After Boehner was assured of his third term as Speaker of the House f, Boehner moved swiftly to dismiss two of the insurgents from the influential Rules Committee. That could be just the start of payback in the months to come for the Speaker’s betrayers, who might never see subcommittee chairmanships and other perks as they might have.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Some of Boehner’s allies insulted the men that voted against him by calling them "insignificant" and "unheard of", as if they don't know what they are doing yet. But Boehner and his allies do know what they are doing. They are said to be eager to finally have persuaded Boehner to stop being t</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">oo nice to people who are eager to stab him in the back, and go for their throats - mostly out of the sight of the public and the media. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">The removal of Florida Reps. Daniel Webster and Richard Nugent from Rules was public however. It was meant to send a clear message that what Boehner and other party leaders accepted during the previous Congress is no longer acceptable, not with the House’s biggest GOP majority in decades.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">GOP leadership thought seats on the Rules Committee were a plum that these two no longer deserved and it just took a little bit of one day for Webster and Nugent (and tehir districts) to find themselves on the outside of a power structure they were once very much a part of.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">The House Republican leadership is carefully reviewing the list of members who voted against the speaker and those who opposed a procedural motion in December on the so-called “crominibus,” the $1.1 trillion spending package to keep the government open through to September. Top Republican sources suggested that the process could take months to unfold.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">“This is one of those cases where the fire has only gotten more intense,” said a GOP lawmaker. “More attention has been brought to this now. It’s not going to go away.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Tuesday’s tally brought “double the number” of anti-Boehner votes compared with 2013, noted Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), one of the most vocal thorns in Boehner’s side. Huelskamp said he was unhappy that “only three of the freshmen class” voted against Boehner.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Huelskamp said he was denied a chance to get back his seat on the Agriculture Committee because of his opposition to Boehner. The Kansas Republican was removed from the panel in 2012.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">“I am already hearing from my colleagues, and myself, about retaliation against those who voted their conscience, their constituents, their principles, to change the status quo,” Huelskamp said. “My colleagues fully expect that. That’s what they expect out of this leadership team.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">In almost every sense, Boehner worked much harder for this reelection than he did in 2013. Two years ago, the Ohio Republican was caught off guard by a handful of rebels, one being Steve Stockman (infamous for leading "charges" only to find no one following - example, Stockman filed a bill to impeach Obama).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Poe saw how the vote was going to go and that it would be little more than symbolism for him to vote with the rebels. And he decided to vote in a way that gave his district as much clout for future votes and issues as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">“We don’t need these fringe guys as much as we did anymore,” said a GOP leadership aide, speaking on condition of anonymity. “We can let them walk on certain bills, and it just won’t matter. That gives us breathing room.”</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-21153486701936309822015-01-10T13:36:00.002-06:002015-01-11T15:13:43.842-06:00INTERPRETING VOTING “PRESENT”<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The "present" vote is in effect a
"no" vote, but it is a "no" vote that sends a message. Hold
on before you hear what I have to say and simply disagree. Keep an open mind and read the entire
article. I have left those who want to continue their anger and disappointment
an opportunity to agree with me and still interpret a “present” vote as
“cowardly” if that is their impression of the person that cast it. Keep reading
and you will see how, at least historically, a “present” vote has been
interpreted to send any one of three possible messages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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point out however that those needing a “yes” vote are frequently the ones most
upset and they are also the one with unique powers to claim revenge. Even if
there is only one vote of “present”, the one who cast that vote can be the
recipient of retribution for the entire time they hold office. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Undoubtedly, the “present” vote has been a tool used in
elections to interpret the one who cast it in as negative a terms as possible.
It has been interpreted in all three ways we will discuss by those wanting to
elect someone other than the one who cast it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Let’s start our discussion with the infamous votes cast
by Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. How many did he casts? Was it 191
“present” votes? Republicans lost some of the insight they could have gained by
exposing his “present” votes as simply those of a fence riding coward. That is
one of the three choices for sure. And these 191 Obama votes surely deserve
that characterization. Especially in retrospect. 191 votes! But let me present
you an argument for why that analysis falls short of what should have been
identified by voters when they heard it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">First let’s look at these votes when most of them were
cast. Most of them were cast when Obama had no inkling of ever running for
President. If you accept that as fact, then most of these votes, if not all of
them, were cast when he could have never assumed that his votes and his
character would ever be examined as closely as they have because of his
candidacy and his win in the run for the Presidency. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">So let me submit to you reason number two some vote
“present”. The one his most artful and articulate admirers have used in his
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Number two reason goes goes like this:”The
"present" vote is used by lawmakers in situations where they agree
with a bill in spirit, however the current version of the bill is not good
enough to vote "yes;" either it is too expensive, it is inadequately
planned or funded, or it has riders or</span><strong><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> earmarks</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> attached
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This is classic Obama. Nothing is as good as he could
have done it. The man with a “messiah complex” had 191 bills come through that
simply were not good enough. This my friends was a huge hint into the kind of
person the American people elected twice to be the Commander and Chief. Obama,
we now know for certain, is a coward who tries to avoid taking a stance; AND he
is an arrogant men with few things to recommend him as a leader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The third reason? Obviously, the one I believe affected
our Congressman. Someone who can not be characterized as a coward or someone
who thinks they sit at the right hand of God, could conceivably cast a “present”
vote. Those not willing to consider this because they already planned on giving
a politician grief for their entire time in office because they wanted someone
else elected, or those who interpret every single issue, even a vote in a
losing cause, as a matter of principle – brace yourself. Your temperature may
spike! If voting on filling a position, the third reason could be that you
wanted to vote “no” on the candidate, but also wanted to preserve your vote
“for’ someone (until you knew who they were a little better or until a new
candidate emerged).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">On the matter at hand, I have known Brian Babin for
almost twenty years. I feel sorry for anyone that has judged themselves to be a
better Christian than Brian. I feel the same way about someone who either openly
or silently has judged him to be a coward. All I can say is you must not know
him or you are a poor judge of character and perhaps you should leave that area
to someone else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 10.5pt;">For thise that simply disagree with his voting
“present”….. this is politics. I love it. Now let’s do what we can to help
Brian as our Congressman to vote the way we believe he should from here
forward. Let’s not waste any more time or energy and help marginalize our own
Representative. Two years will be here before you know it and if you don’t want
to re-elect him, that is your time for unending, unfiltered criticism</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-73369038804082300242015-01-08T22:00:00.002-06:002015-01-08T23:11:27.410-06:00BABIN REGISTERS RESERVATIONS ABOUT SPEAKER<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">WASHINGTON — For people that like
a Representative in the House that is fearless, I present to you Brian Babin,
representing southeast Texas. As Freshman Rep. Brian Babin of Woodville
prepared for his first vote as a U.S. Congressman by taking a detour towards
where timid people would never travel on the House floor. He looked up Speaker
John Boehner. He wasn’t searching the Speaker out for advice on the vote; he
was informing the Speaker that his district’s vote would be cast to indicate
the voters in the district were not “for” him having another term as Speaker.
Like Representative Babin’s predecessor Steve Stockman two years earlier,
Babin said he wanted to register unhappiness with current management. But
unlike his predecessor, he also delivered that message in person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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veteran, said he didn’t talk to Stockman before casting his vote. He said he
voted “present” to reflect constituents’ dissatisfaction with party leadership
in the wake of the “Cromnibus” bill, a $1.1 trillion government funding measure.
The bill’s eleventh-hour passage in December averted a government shutdown, but
some of its provisions rankled Republicans and Democrats alike.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“Since the pass of this last
omnibus bill, our district and constituency believes that we need to start
seriously looking at possibly getting some new leadership. And I heard them. I
heard that call. That’s the reason I did what I did,” Babin said Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Republicans and 0ne of only twenty-five Republicans in the House not to vote
for Speaker John Boehner in his bid for a third term leading the House. The
race brought intraparty tensions to bear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rather than casting his ballot for one of Boehner’s challengers because he
would have preferred to see Boehner denied reelection on the first ballot,
forcing a closed-door GOP caucus meeting at which a replacement might emerge.
Two challengers had almost no support and Babin was unfamiliar with the third.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">For those wondering where our
Representative goes from here after being seen as a challenger to the lost
powerful man in the House, we must hope his assignments to committees is not
effected by this first vote. Babin has always put forth the idea that what we
have needed in a Congressman is one that builds coalitions and picks battles
that actually make a difference, not a statement. He is there to help build a
more conservative House.</span><br />
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When Babin says, “I definitely
can work with this leadership. I could work with anyone that they had up
there.” He is talking about having a seat at the table to represent a district
in southeast Texas that is conservative.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-64383189000377648632014-12-21T19:30:00.000-06:002014-12-22T19:11:07.595-06:00Republican Activist Notices County of Intent to Take Civil Action - Akins<i><b>(12/21/2014 Liberty County, Texas)</b> Former Liberty County resident and Republican political activist Ray Akins, has filed a "Notice of Claim" with Liberty County Judge Craig McNair and Liberty County Attorney Wes Hinch.</i><br />
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<i>Mr. Akins is seeking unspecified damages for:</i><br />
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<i>"<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Conspiracy, Oppressive/Punitive Bond, False Arrest, Unlawful Restraint,
False Imprisonment, Filing False (Government Documents) Criminal Record, Official
False Vehicle Records Retrieval, Official Misuse of TCIC and NCIC, Official
Oppression, Official Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution and all cost in Liberty
County case"</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></i><a href="http://akinslawsuit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Stay tuned here for lawsuit and fillings update and .pdf files.</a><br />
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>Notice was emailed to representatives for Liberty County as follows:</i></span><br />
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McNair, Liberty County Judge</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Suite 201 </span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Fax: (936)
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Email: </span><a href="mailto:cojudge@co.liberty.tx.us"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">cojudge@co.liberty.tx.us</span></a><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear Liberty County
Judge Craig McNair:</span></div>
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letter/correspondence is a Federal 1983/85 action <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Notice of Claim”</b> - of my intent to take legal action against Liberty
County, Texas and several of its representatives/agents in their <u>official
capacity, individually and severally</u>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The subject claim/s
damages include the following:</span></div>
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consort and/or conspiracy to commit the following torts/civil rights violations
against Akins of – Conspiracy, Oppressive/Punitive Bond, False Arrest, Unlawful Restraint,
False Imprisonment, Filing False (Government Documents) Criminal Record, Official
False Vehicle Records Retrieval, Official Misuse of TCIC and NCIC, Official
Oppression, Official Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution and all cost in Liberty
County case – CR28372, State of Texas vs. Frederick Akins.</span></div>
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been irreparably harmed by the outrageous and illegal behavior of individuals/defendants
further known as:</span></div>
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Prior Liberty County, Texas District Attorney;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2. Daniel Bradley,
Pro-Tem - as appointed via motion by Michael R. Little;</span></div>
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County ADA;</span></div>
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Liberty County Attorney;</span></div>
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Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The above
defendants used the good name and official offices of the State of Texas and Liberty
County to exact political revenge and charge Akins with a crime - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE</u></b> - in an
attempt to harm him. These specific claims arise from the 09/29/10 indictment and
subsequent arrest of Frederick Akins for “Organized Crime” – 71.02(a) PC. (Charges
dismissed, 09/05/14)</span></div>
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excess of the trial court/s jurisdiction for the above named torts/civil rights
violations and for required legal representation to perfect the subject claim.</span></div>
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Claimant- Frederick Ray Akins </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-63628556003932790902014-11-23T16:38:00.001-06:002014-11-23T16:42:05.825-06:00THE TRUTH ABOUT JFK’S PRESIDENCY ON THE 51ST ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ASSASSINATION<div align="center" class="bylineauthorvcard" style="text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-CA">On the 51st anniversary of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination november 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas, Jeet Heer writes an accurate, rather then emotional, analysis of the 35th Presdient's time in office. Find that article here below as he reflects on a Stephen King movie that continues an inflates the myth that continues about how "great" JFK was::<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Stephen
King specializes in giving readers nightmares, but his latest bestselling
novel,<em>11/22/63</em>, draws its strength from a wistful, widely shared
daydream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-CA">A yarn about a time
traveller who thinks the best way to make the world a better place is to foil
the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, Mr. King’s hefty tome
impressively demonstrates the staying power of the JFK myth – the idea that the
youthful president embodied all the noble aspirations of the sixties and that
his killing was the beginning of the violence that destroyed the dreams of the
decade.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA"><!-- This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone -->It’s
joined on the bestsellers list by Chris Matthews's <em>Jack Kennedy, Elusive
Hero</em>. Mr. Matthews, the motor-mouthed host of the MSNBC political talk
show <em>Hardball</em>, gets misty-eyed when talking about his lifelong
fascination with Mr. Kennedy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">As the books' sales show, a
large and receptive public likewise continues to worship at the shrine of JFK.
Polls show that the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
public ranks Mr. Kennedy as among the greatest of American presidents, often in
the same league as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">Rarely is popular mythology
so completely disengaged from historical reality.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">To place Mr. Kennedy in the
same pantheon as Lincoln and Roosevelt is absurd. <st1:city w:st="on">Lincoln</st1:city>
presided over the Civil War and freed the slaves, <st1:place w:st="on">Roosevelt</st1:place>
laid the foundations for the American welfare state and led a reluctant nation
into the Second World War.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">Mr. Kennedy had no
comparable achievements. Save for the assassin's bullet that gave him a
martyr's halo, he was a mediocre president, distinguished mainly by his
combination of eloquent rhetoric and often-reckless foreign policy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">Curiously, the cult of
Kennedy is particularly strong in liberal circles, even though he was among the
most conservative Democrats ever to be president. One character in<em>11/22/63</em>
says that stopping Lee Harvey Oswald's great crime is a chance to “save
Kennedy, save his brother. Save Martin Luther King. Stop the race riots. Stop <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
maybe.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">Not likely, actually: The
son of an isolationist, Mr. Kennedy came of age politically in the late 1940s,
when the tide of Cold War sentiment was at its highest. His father was close
friends with Joseph McCarthy, and unlike other Democrats JFK never turned
against the blacklisting senator. Indeed, like that famed demagogue, he
consistently derided any attempts to negotiate with the Soviet Union or <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> as
evidence of appeasement and unmanliness.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">In the 1960 presidential
campaign, Mr. Kennedy ran to the right of Richard Nixon on foreign policy,
falsely accusing the Republicans of allowing a “missile gap” to develop. As
president, he gave free rein to the military-industrial complex that his
predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower, had criticized. Mr. Eisenhower's attempt to
apply a rational cost-benefit analysis to military spending went out the window
under Mr. Kennedy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">Not only did military
spending increase by 13 per cent under Mr. Kennedy, but he also militarized
government agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
which became a showcase for the strutting of American power.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">Foreign aid also became a
Cold War tool under Mr. Kennedy, with the <st1:city w:st="on">Alliance</st1:city>
for Progress providing cover for <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
arming and training the militaries and police forces of <st1:place w:st="on">Latin
America</st1:place>. The military coups that rocked countries such as <st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chile</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the 1960s and 1970s were
often led by American-trained military men.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">Mr. Kennedy is often
credited for his sagacity in handling the Cuban Missile Crisis. What gets
forgotten is the fact that at the root of the crisis was the president's
determination to spur counterrevolution in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region>,
from the <st1:place w:st="on">Bay of Pigs</st1:place> fiasco to numerous
assassination attempts. In avoiding nuclear war, he merely defused the crisis
he helped to create by his own belligerence.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">In an authoritative
introduction to the book<em>Kennedy's Quest for Victory</em>, historian Thomas
G. Paterson summed up JFK's foreign policy as consisting of “escalation in
Vietnam; an arms race of massive proportion and fear, including the
bomb-shelter mania that the administration stimulated; a huge increase in
nuclear weapons; neglect of traditional, patient diplomacy; involvement in
Third World disputes beyond America's capabilities or talents to resolve;
greater factionalism in the Atlantic alliance; and a globalism of
overcommitment that ensured crises and weakened the America economy.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">If Mr. Kennedy was reckless
abroad, he was a foot-dragger at home. On the most important domestic issue of
the day, civil rights, he followed a policy of caution. Virtually all the major
domestic achievements of the 1960s came under his successor, Lyndon Johnson,
who was prodded by the civil-rights movement to a much bolder course of action
than Mr. Kennedy ever dared.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">The Johnson presidency was
troubled because the epic achievements of the Great Society were undermined by
the Vietnam War. Perhaps one use of the JFK myth is that it allows liberals to
separate out the mixed legacy of the sixties, crediting Mr. Kennedy with the
achievements of the era while laying the blame on LBJ. If anything, that gets
it backward.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA">“The heart of the Kennedy
legend,” journalist James Reston once said, “is what might have been.” Stephen
King plays to this dream by offering a pure fantasy. But what might have been
wasn't – and what really was is not the stuff of legends<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-60565228742891167292014-11-08T22:22:00.001-06:002014-11-10T19:04:18.055-06:00LETTER TO EDITOR REMINDING US OF POLITICAL CLIMATE WHEN LITTLE LEFT OFFICE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am hoping you are a true believer in freedom of speech and
that you will help me exercise mine. I was surfing the internet and found an
article (*please see below) in a <st1:city w:st="on">Shreveport</st1:city>
newspaper that I believe is worth local people reading. The article helped me
to understand why one of our local politicians did not retire but in an odd
move did choose not to run for re-election. This was a huge pay cut. I hope you will post this because it answers
the question, “Why Mike Little did not run for re-election in 2012?” It also
leaves the very possible prospect of him running again when voters have had a
chance to forget his involvement in some of tehse things.</div>
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The answer to why Little did not run for re-election is: The
sky was falling! The man has never had an opponent and he must be a little too
chicken to run with such a perilous political sky!</div>
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In 2012 when former District Attorney Mike Little decided he
would not seek re-election, the right people knew his political world was
falling apart but most had no idea how far his political world had crumbled. Below is a reminder of some of the things
known to the public that the former D.A. would have contended with had he run
(Please note Little did not retire, he just did not run for office – he is
still working.):</div>
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1. The election was in 2012 and Mike Little’s brother,
Sheriff Brodie Little, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for selling meth and
other drugs. If Little had run for election, the local media would not have
been able to suppress that a jury had found his brother’s “public service”
which was near the Louisiana portion of I-10 had ended in a long prison
sentence. Some may call that irony or coincidence since Little in his position
as D.A.was one of the top law officials overseeing the drug wars near I-10 in <st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place>.</div>
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2. Mike Little had just failed in an effort to divert the
public’s attention to Judge Cain’s office where he publicly accused them of
spending too much on travel while at the same time refusing to mention fellow
Democrat and friend, Phil Fitzgerald to a grand jury. The public was demanding
an open and exhaustive investigation of Fitzgerald and the big money FEMA
contracts awarded to his relative. Little’s job is to investigate and prosecute
alleged perpetrators of such alleged crimes, but he refused to do it. </div>
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3. Little had falsely charged and indicted Republican
activists and multi-state private investigator Ray Akins for organized crime.
This charge came with no probable cause and one that no doubt will end up in a
future lawsuit against Little. Before Akins was even accused of any wrongdoing,
he had very publicly questioned Little’s spending of hundreds of thousands of discretionary
funds and the deals the D.A. was working with criminals after a jury had found
them guilty and sentenced them. (Note: After these public accusations the Judge
that cooperated with this after sentencing “wheeling and dealing” lost his bid
for re-election in a very rare defeat of an incumbent District Judge in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Liberty</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>).</div>
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4. Little’s Democrat party was believed to be in the midst
of an election shut out across many counties in <st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place>.</div>
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Former District Attorney’s decision not to run did not leave
him completely out of the race however. Little has been like the Wizard of Oz
hiding behind the curtain ever since.</div>
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He tampered with a Grand Jury, shutting it down a month
before its term was over, and among other things, he successfully encouraged
the newest and youngest and most inexperienced lawyer on staff to run. Logan
Pickett’s well known family name and his connection to his father, Mayor of
Liberty Carl Pickett helped him to edge out his competition in the Republican
primary, but it also helped Little set up a successful transition into a new
job. His new job, by way of the Mayor’s appointment, is city judge.</div>
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Mike Little undoubtedly wants to rebuild his image and put
some time between the crimes of his brother and his next pursuit of office. He
wants us to forget that he failed to give <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Liberty</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>
grand jurors an opportunity to review the facts on County Judge Phil
Fitzgerald’s FEMA problems. He wants to voters to forget the mail theft in the
courthouse. He was voters to forget allegations of him tampering with a grand
jury when he tried to dissuade them from continuing any investigation of his
behavior. Under Little’s direction, Ray Akin was buried under legal bills, but
Little will have to continue to throw mud on Akins name and those activists
that demanded answers and questioned his public service if he really wants to
resurface and run for one of the judicial benches..</div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 8.0pt;">SHREVEPORT -- Albert D.
"Bodie" Little, a former <a checked_link="http://louisiana.gov/Government/Parish_Winn/" href="http://louisiana.gov/Government/Parish_Winn/" in_tag="ul" kaspersky_status="pending" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Winn Parish</span></a> tax assessor and sheriff, was
sentenced Friday to 13 years, four months in federal prison after his
conviction earlier this year on methamphetamine and other charges.<br />
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U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. "Beth" Foote also ordered that
Little be supervised for three years once he's released from prison, U.S.
Attorney Stephanie Finley said in a release.<br />
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Little, 62, was convicted in February of one count of conspiracy to
possess with intent to distribute 50 or more grams of meth, one count of
possession with intent to distribute meth, and two counts of use of a
police communication facility to facilitate drug trafficking.<br />
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Little and 10 other defendants were indicted on the drug charges in July
2011. All of Little's co-defendants pleaded guilty before they went to
trial. All have been sent to prison for sentences ranging from five years
to 12 years.<br />
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Little still faces state charges. He was indicted by a <a checked_link="http://louisiana.gov/Government/Parish_Winn/" href="http://louisiana.gov/Government/Parish_Winn/" in_tag="ul" kaspersky_status="pending" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Winn Parish</span></a> grand jury in August 2011 of
malfeasance in office, abuse of office and perjury.<br />
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Little was the parish tax assessor before he won the sheriff's seat in
2008.<br />
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"Former Sheriff Little knowingly chose to break the law and now he is
paying the price for his betrayal of the trust the citizens of <a checked_link="http://louisiana.gov/Government/Parish_Winn/" href="http://louisiana.gov/Government/Parish_Winn/" in_tag="ul" kaspersky_status="pending" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Winn Parish</span></a> placed in him," Finley
said.<br />
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The case was prosecuted by Senior Litigation Counsel Joe Jarzabek</span></li>
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Thanks
for promoting public dialogue. If anyone has a different view of Little, olease
invite them to comment on my letter.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Convict, Albert D. (Bodie) Little</td></tr>
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AKA- The I-10 and Hwy 59 Drug crew...</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-71262264830852654812014-11-08T20:35:00.002-06:002014-11-08T20:42:06.147-06:00WHAT KIND OF CITY DO WE LIVE IN?<div class="MsoNormal">
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Please take time to read this story so you will be aware of
the decisions our local government makes. The government works “for the people”
and sometimes I am not sure they realize that.</div>
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“Sonny” is from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cambodia</st1:country-region>. I don’t know the story of
how he arrived in <st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city>,
but I do know he is a very hard worker and he prides himself in taking care of
business. And I know he is a very likeable family man and, like you and me, he
is trying to earn a living and provide for those depending on him. </div>
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A few years ago Sonny bought the building my family owned on
the road going into the city park. He moved his donut shop into part of the
building and began making arrangements to open a seafood restaurant in the part
that housed Athletes Choice.</div>
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The effort to open that restaurant has been tangled up with
the City of <st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city>’s
inspection and permitting department now for well over a year. I am not sure
what the problem is since several different people have had restaurants there
but Sonny’s sign that let’s people driving by know seafood and steak is available
has been up for many months. Currently, he is still dealing with City of <st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city> and will not be
able to open until he has some kind of success.</div>
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Next time you drive by, or next time you are trying to think
of where else you can eat besides the same ole places, you might wonder
“why”….. why is it taking so long for this experienced Cambodian restauranteer
to open his doors and serve the public? What can possibly be taking so long? </div>
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You can eliminate the possibility that the owner ran out of
money or is refusing to spend the money it takes to open. That is not the case.
A simple answer is “I do not know.” But I have tried to help the situation
twice because I thought it might be a communication problem. Sonny speaks
English, but it is not his first language. After my second unsuccessful attempt
to help, I have changed my question from “what needs to be done to get the
restaurant open” to “what kind of city do I live in.”</div>
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From information related to me by all sides I know the city
does not like the fact Sonny’s carpenters moved walls and did other work
without them pulling a permit. I knew that after my first visit with the City
weeks ago. I was told then that there was no real problem, Sonny just needed to
hire someone to provide the city with plans to the building and he would be
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Weeks and weeks later, Sonny approached me and asked me to
speak to the parties involved to see what else he needed to do to open. He told
me to talk to Louis Bergman, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Engineer</st1:placename></st1:place>.</div>
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Louis was very nice and very helpful. He told me he drafted
the plans to the building and it should be all the City of <st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city> needs. When I told him they were
still not allowing Sonny to open, he looked disgusted and gave me a much fuller
evaluation of the situation.</div>
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County Engineer Bergman told me he has done a great deal of
work in <st1:city w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:city>
and is familiar with the new woman that deals with these types of matters for
the City. He told me she was run out of <st1:city w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:city>
because she was so difficult to deal with and that she had many problems with
Hispanics in particular. I shook his hand and thanked him for any help he had
given Sonny in dealing with all of this. He wished me luck because “the City
will not return my calls.”</div>
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Next, at the City of <st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city>
department I had visited weeks ago, I asked for someone who could help me on
this matter. A woman appeared and indicated she could help me. I told her I was
a friend of Sonny’s and wanted to help if there was a communication problem.
She assured me there was no communication problem. I told her I figured there
was because the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Engineer</st1:placename></st1:place> said no one
would return his calls. After a few minutes of visiting with this city
employee, I could tell I was getting nowhere. She kept referring me to the code
book. I asked for a written list of what Sonny had left to do to be in
compliance and be able to open. I knew he had spent a great deal of money and
expected the list to be small. She was not rude, but she was obviously not
going to help Sonny. She refused to give me a list and referred me to her
supervisor on the matter.</div>
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A few minutes later I found myself in the Assistant City
Manager’s office trying to help my Cambodian friend resolve issues that were
stymied in the halls of our city government. Sonny pays about $5,000 a year in
taxes on that building alone and no telling how much in sales taxes on his
donut business. When the Assistant City Manager sat down and asked me very
kindly what he could do to help me, I couldn’t help but think what it must have
been like all these months to be from a foreign country, speaking a different
language, and trying to deal with whatever it was the problem is.</div>
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So after the gentlemen told me that the City would not even
consider giving Sonny a list of what else was left to do (“because they could
be libel if it does not agree with the code”), I asked him to consider what it
must be like to be a foreigner in this situation. I had hoped liberty was
represented by people that were more willing to go the extra mile and be the
kind of public servant I assumed they already were. Instead, I got this
nonsense by the people that would inspect the building that they could not
provide a lsit of what shortcomings they had found that would be inspected the
next time they were called out.</div>
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I was left with a handful of questions. What kind of City do
we have? What kind of government contorts their job into that of creating
roadblocks to taxpayers instead of being helpful? Who do these people think
they work for? This Assistant City Manager said he was insulted when I
intimated to him that Sonny might file a lawsuit thinking he being was treated
fairly. I thought Sonny was the victim and I was giving this man a heads up,
but I found out he was the one being treated poorly.</div>
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And that I was the one mistreating him! I apologized to him,
but I can’t help but wonder if he realizes the climate he is in. There are many
people who are tired around here of feeling like the taxpayer has become the
dog that is wagged by the public servant. There are plenty of people who would
like to see this eating place open. There are many taxpayers who don’t like to
hear these kinds of stories.</div>
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I hope Sonny will find someone at the City that will go out
of their way to help him open his restaurant. No laws should be broken, but if
the Mayor rents out a seafood restaurant to people in town, I expect Sonny to
receive every bit as cooperation much as they get. He should be treated like
someone who helps pay the bills, not like a troublemaker.</div>
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During the afternoon five o'clock rush four people found themselves in serious condition from a three vehicle collision in north Liberty on SH 146 at Ridgewood
Grocery. The accident closed SH 146 in both directions for over an hour while the
accident was investigated and the injured rescued from their vehicles. Life flight used the highway for a landing pad and raced victims to area hospitals.<br />
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One car was decapitated and passersbys saw what looked like a mini-salvage yard.</div>
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Terry Holcomb Sr.,
pastor of Huntsville-based Crossroads Baptist Church has now added a second
arrest to his list of badges of honor in his fight for the freedoms our Founding
Fathers risked life and limb for in the American Revolution. Terry is accused
of disrupting the meeting even though I can’t imagine any citizen sitting in
the court had his peace disturbed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Terry, in fact,
was speaking up for anyone there who might have the audacity to want to
exercise their free speech rights and address public officials. Terry was told by an elected official – yes,
you heard it right, an elected official – he nor anyone else would be allowed
to make comments at the regular portion of the public meeting.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We’re not gonna
allow public comments today?” Holcomb said to the four county commissioners and
County Judge Fritz Faulkner of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">San
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“It’s not on the
agenda,” Faulkner replied. And rather than correct what we can only hope was an
oversight and allow for comments, Faulkner doubled down. What a patriot. Not!
What an arrogant public official who has forgotten exactly who he is denying
opportunity to speak – the voters……<o:p></o:p></div>
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“That’s
unacceptable,” Holcomb said. If therere are any history buffs out there, this
is the kind of rebel rousing stuff Samuel Adams did that has made him known to
be the Father of the American Revolution. Even more so, this is the kind of
leadership heard and seen from the pulpit in the days of Washington, Franklin,
and Jefferson.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Faulkner with the
full courage he could muster knowing there was surely some lawman nearby then
told Holcomb he could “go outside and discuss it,” but the meeting was moving
forward with an executive session.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Saying again that
the situation was “unacceptable,” Holcomb accused the court of taking the
rights of the people. Dang rebel rouser….. there he went again with something
that sounds like the Constitution.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Terry Holcomb then
stood his ground inthe courtroom and waited for Faulkner to collect his thirty
pieces of silver and protect his fellow elected officials from a time opf
public questions. Oh, what a brave and patriotic commissioners’ court! Faulkner
mustered up the courage to then declare to Pastor Holcomb, “You’re dangerously
close to disrupting a public meeting.” It must have seemed odd to the average
person who attends public meetings to hear this…… after all any question Holcomb
would have asked could not have possibly disturbed the court as much as this
oppressive County Judge!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Holcomb told the
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Faulkner responded
by saying, “You can go out there and talk to the people. We’re fixing to have
executive session.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Still seated in
his chair, Holcomb said, “You didn’t want to hear from the citizens and you’re
gonna hear from them. You are gonna hear from me. You are not going to silence
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At that point,
Faulkner was not man enough to relent and give the people a time to speak as he
should have without any help from Pastor Holcomb or anyone else. Instead he called
for Pct. 2 Constable Roy Pippin Jr. to remove the Pastor from the meeting
chamber. Poor Pippin……<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You have been
requested to remove from the court,” Pippin told Holcomb.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I am not leaving.
I am not leaving,” Holcomb replied.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Directing his
comments to the commissioners that had sat right there and not spoken up on
behalf of the citizens and a time for publc comment, Holcomb then said, “And
y’all commissioners that are allowing this, you are all cowards. All of you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pippin implored
Holcomb to leave the room but Holcomb remained in his chair and demanded to
know what law he had broken. Poor Pippen…….<o:p></o:p></div>
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“No law is broken.
You were given an order to remove from court,” said Pippin, adding moments
later, “By not following my order, you are resisting arrest. Do you want to go
to jail for resisting arrest?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Faulkner in an
effort to feel some sense that he was in the right told Holcomb that
commissioners court meetings are not a political stomping ground. What he
surely meant was “only us big shots get to stomp on this political ground”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Outside of the
courtroom, Holcomb was confronted by Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Sowell who asked to
have a “private word” with him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Holcomb asked if
he was being detained and Sowell replied, “You’re about to be,” prompting
Holcomb to ask if he had committed a crime.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I didn’t say you
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Sowell placed
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1 Commissioner Ray McCoppin, Holcomb filed a written request to make public
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Faulkner, told some
on the media Tuesday night that comments were left off due to an already
lengthy agenda. How convenient! Might we
expect all the agendas to be “too long” when the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Judge</st1:placename></st1:place>
does not want others stomping around his own personal political space? Faulkner
denied all citizens from speaking because, according to him, they may say
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Faulkner, the
Democratic incumbent county judge, is defending his position against Republican
challenger John Lovett in the November general election. Unless you are ate up
with being a Democrat loyalist, please consider ridding <st1:placename w:st="on">San
Jacinto</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype> of
someone who does not believe in, and does not practice, our way of governing
here in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></div>
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Allowing comments
during commissioners court meetings are not required by law, but are a good
practice whenever possible, according to Liberty County Judge Craig McNair. In <st1:street w:st="on">Liberty County Commissioners Court</st1:street>
meetings, the only comments allowed are those that relate to agenda items; all
other comments are denied.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After Holcomb’s
arrest, members of the San Jacinto County Republican Party expressed their
frustrations about what transpired.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“There was no
reason [for it],” said San Jacinto County Party Chairman Dwayne Wright. “That’s
what activates people like myself. That’s what activates people like Terry
Holcomb.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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that Holcomb specifically wanted to address a resolution regarding the housing
of illegal immigrants, which was decided against last month.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“He was upset that
[the] resolution he put forth was not dealt with,” said Wright. “The judge
prepared and substituted his own version [that] wasn’t even close to
[Holcomb’s] version.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To view the videos
from the commissioners court incident, go online to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O5vuNb3lDiQ"><span style="color: #457d9d;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O5vuNb3lDiQ</span></a>
and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk40pSrZPyphso9CXsxnNYQ"><span style="color: #457d9d;">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk40pSrZPyphso9CXsxnNYQ</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Terry Holcomb at a
casual glance may seem like he is a bit too much for the average person. But
from personal experience I can tell you he is more like the average Texan than
the media and the men like County Judge Faulkner will ever admit. The media
will quickly point out Holcomb lost an election and Holcomb was arrested in
2013. But the real losers and the people who would look more at home in a jail
cell are those who do not see the signs of the times. The charges against Terry
Holcomb’s in his ongoing battle on behalf of gun owners and the Constitution
were dropped. As for Terry Holcomb spending
money and time out of his own pocket in an effort to represent this area in <st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city>, he should be
honored. His efforts were honorable and his message was 100% American. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Look past the
caricature the media paints of this man and you will see someone who has
decided to give his life to God and country. You decide whether we will stand
with him or play into the spin and the half truths used to make him look like
something different than he is. A patriotic Texan fighting the good fight for
the country we all love.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Right Judge Faulkner?</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-7344631249538774672014-09-24T15:49:00.004-05:002014-09-24T15:55:51.451-05:00IS FOOTBALL ABOUT MORE THAN THE WIN-LOSS RECORD<div class="yiv4953938547WordSection1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411591549205_5737">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411591549205_5740" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If football truly teaches young men about life and that is the justification for its prominence in our schools then Charlie Strong should have every fan in America pulling for the program he is instituting at the University of Texas in Austin. And every high school athletic director across this nation should be able to count on that same kind of support.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411591549205_5784" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is an excerpt from Coach Strong’s most recent press conference. He is sticking with what he is doing even though it has cost his team nine players. Players that could have remained on the roster and helped win games …. But at what cost? Here is some of what Coach strong said,</span></div>
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<b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411591549205_5788"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411591549205_5787"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411591549205_5786" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“The blue print of this program has been and always will be the change in helping direct the lives of young people. I'm sorry that another player had to be dismissed, but when you're told something over and over again...</span></i></b></div>
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<b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411591549205_5792"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411591549205_5791"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411591549205_5790" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We continue to develop young men. We will continue to ask them to follow our core values, which all of them have been brought up on. They understand what the core values are. When you are asked to do something and you are part of a team, and when you don't do it then you affect the whole team, and you affect the whole program.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Young people want discipline in their lives, and it's our job as a coaching staff to make sure that we provide him with discipline. I always look at it like this - right now, they are laying a foundation for 10 years from now. That foundation is the house they are going to live in, the wife they are going to pick to marry, their children and how they're going to provide for them and how they're going to raise them. If that foundation is provided for them now, 10 years from now they'll just be able to lean back on it and look back and say 'That's the life that I want to live. </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Any time a player is dismissed from this program it hurts me because we are here to help young men. We are not here to run young men off; that's not our job. We're here to help them, and it just bothers me. When you're given an opportunity, you want to make sure you have every resource and everything available to help them be successful.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I always look at it - sometimes you see someone that has given so much and achieved so little and then someone that has given so little and achieved so much. </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I'm not hard at all. Those guys have more fun around me then they will ever have around any coach, and that's just the atmosphere that I provide for them. I give them a lot of chances to get it right because I want them to still be successful. </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When you say you're going to do something, it's just like your own child, they're going to challenge you. Now when they do challenge you, then what are you going to do about it? It's not so much the program, it's just that young men sometimes want to make a decision where they feel like it is their prerogative to do whatever they want to do. It just can't happen here.”</span></i></b></div>
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<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411591549205_5799"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411591549205_5798" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“If you watched this press conference, you can tell Coach strong is deeply upset. He wants it more for these guys than they do for themselves. Some of his values, which I've read and heard described as "strict" or "old fashioned" or "intolerant" or "meat-headed" are, in fact, the basis of a functioning civil society. Basic respect for women, don't steal, don't carry guns for cheap street cred, don't lie, don't let your life be ruled by drugs or alcohol such that you can't live up to your responsibilities.”</span></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-66454717487009910132014-09-10T21:26:00.001-05:002014-09-15T12:06:48.101-05:00YOUNGBLOOD AND SHAUBERGER, TWO PEAS IN A POD<div class="MsoNormal">
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It has been called to our attention by those who are willing
to suffer a constant barrage of twisted liberal articles and comments so they
can check the “car wreck blog” to see if anyone they know has been hurt in an
accident that Allen Youngblood has joined Eddie Shauberger in the continued
irrational bombardment and assassination of Sheriff Bobby Rader’s reputation.</div>
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Why Youngblood has decided to devote so much of his time and
energy and blog space to slinging mud on Rader is as difficult to understand as
it is to try and figure why ANY BUSINESS would advertise with someone who is
attacking a very popular public official. But we have taken note that the
irrational, suspicious attacks on Rader’s character that started with Eddie
Shauberger have now been continued by his former classmate, Allen Youngblood.</div>
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Shauberger still awaits trial for allegedly sexually raping/assaulting his adopted daughters and for various business problems linked to the business
he owned years ago. While we have repeatedly asserted we have no insight into
his guilt or innocence, we continue to be in the dark on how him knowing the
law was after him related to his unabashed devotion to the re-election of the
failed sheriff, Henry Patterson. Shauberger spent hours and days dogging his
friends and their wives to vote for Patterson. He tried blackmail and every
other coercive device he could conjure up as he forfeited friendships and
declared war to try and defeat Rader. We don’t know why.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-85992914483274770332014-09-10T20:36:00.001-05:002014-09-10T21:32:23.099-05:00TIPPING OUR HAT TO THE LOCAL PAPER<div class="MsoNormal">
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There is no doubt one of the most popular public responses
to news stories is to blame the media. We have done it ourselves and done it
with no regrets. The media, television, newspapers, and radio stations are
guilty of having a point of view and allowing it to color its “news”. We prefer
and are unusual in the fact that we are very open in where our ideology and our
preference lies – the conservative wing of the Republican party. But most media
make the unbelievable claim that they merely “report the news” and their own
bias is not reflected in their reporting. Hogwash!</div>
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With that said and with nothing but kudos intended, locally
we want to recognize the closest local media to fulfilling the goal of news
with no spin is definitely The Dayton News and The Cleveland Advocate. Both
local papers are run by Editor-n-Chief Vanessa Brashier. Vanessa does a great
job putting together a newspaper that covers most of the community interests and
all the other things a reader hopes to find in a good newspaper. It is a
massive, never ending undertaking with publishing deadlines and story after
story to cover. She is aided currently by another excellent writer, Casey
Stinnett and a small staff. Both the newspapers are a credit to the community
as they help us feel closer to each other and more aware of our surroundings
and specifics about our neighbors lives.</div>
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So what is the catch? Why compliment local media? At times
we have been no holes barred negative about media. The answer is simple. At
times we have wanted the media to report things they should know about and readers
would want to know. And at times, we have viewed events differently.</div>
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But we are freely giving compliments to Ms. Brashier and her
papers because she puts out a really good local paper week after week. We have
learned that all though we all have bias, these papers are making every attempt
to serve the public and not their self interest. Unlike competitors, Ms.
Brashier’s advertisers can know when they spend their hard earned money and
place an ad in one of her papers, no one should feel the paper is so uneven and
out of balance politically that they have to hold their nose to fork the dough
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So here is to you Vanessa. Casey. And staff. Keep up the
good work. We will surely criticize you again, but you have earned our respect
and we want everyone to know it.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-74780867080368452152014-08-24T20:07:00.001-05:002014-08-24T20:13:04.493-05:00MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK<br />
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The “cream of the crop”, “top of the game” advertising
executives in this country make a great deal of money helping companies maximize
the best return possible for the money they spend. In smaller companies, these
decisions aren’t made by well trained experts and there are no studies to give
them feedback on whether they are spending their money well. In a rural county
like <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Liberty</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place> the choices of where to advertise
are limited but the decision of how this part of the budget is still very
important.<o:p> </o:p></div>
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Research nationwide has been done on internet advertising
that might benefit local <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Liberty</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place> advertisers. To
our knowledge only one local blog collects ad money for advertising. With the trend
in the country obviously moving toward collecting consumer information and targeting
customers on blogs that are proven winners for advertisers, it is difficult to
understand why any local company advertises with the local blogger. The host of
that blog has advertisers but they are research-based and targeted to each
person who views the blog. <o:p> </o:p></div>
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The local company hoping to benefit by spending their hard
earned money does not have that capability. His ads appear to everyone who
views the blog. There is no target. Readers of that blog and advertisers should
take note. When you goon that local blog, the host of the blog will have sold
an ad to some company based off of your interest. For me, it may be clothes for
grandchildren, but for another person it may be bow hunting equipment.</div>
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to post ads on a blog if they are comforted by seeing other ads on there. Some
are well placed ads that are not local, but (as we have said) targeted. Others
may be local advertisers wasting their money. There have been at least three
local blogs with fairly high readership. But readership in terms of numbers is
not necessarily the best way to spend advertising money.</span><br />
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</span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-80609664593030080602014-08-24T10:47:00.002-05:002014-08-24T10:47:27.735-05:00Corrupt prosecutors who play political games...<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
There's nothing like Texas when it comes to treating what most consider the normal business of politics as a major crime, <b>especially when the prosecutor is of the opposite party persuasion</b>. That appears to be what happened to Gov. Rick Perry, who is facing charges that vetoing funds of the Austin County prosecutor's office constitutes a felony that could send him away for more than 100 years if he were convicted, which seems highly unlikely.</div>
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For the record, I'm not a huge fan of the three-term Republican governor whose ambitions are once again pointed toward 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. But having covered local, state and national politics for nearly 60 years, I do know a roust when I see one, even when the person or party trying to pull it off expresses wide-eyed innocence over such allegations.</div>
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To quickly refresh your memory (it shouldn't take long, since the event just happened) a grand jury indicted Perry on criminal allegations that he misused his office by vetoing the budget Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg uses to investigate corruption. She had been arrested for drunk driving and made more than a little spectacle of herself in the police station. She refused to quit and Perry exercised the veto of state funds. His reason seems plausible. She isn't responsible enough to administer the money.</div>
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That may or may not be true, but folks are left with this to chew on. She certainly didn't act that way as she got processed by the cops who confiscated an open bottle of vodka in her car and her protests reached the level one might expect from a person of her station who has indulged a bit too much.</div>
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To understand this mess one needs only to realize that the DA's office in Austin, the state capitol, is a minority Democratic Party island in a conservative Republican sea that covers most of the state. The office also is the scene of past similar escapades none of which have been successful. Former U.S. House Republican leader Tom DeLay was indicted and convicted by then prosecutor Ronnie Earl on charges of misusing campaign funds. The conviction was overturned. Earl previously had indicted U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, a Republican, alleging she had misused state resources when she was state treasurer. The case ended during the first day of trial.</div>
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That prospect for the decidedly conservative governor who made a mess of the opportunity two years ago has never seemed all that bright to me, although he has worked to change his image, even trading his cowboy boots for loafers. Despite the fact that the legal problems are based on such a shaky premise that a veto is a criminal act, the mere problem of defending against them could slow down his White House efforts.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-61715588750883840672014-08-16T12:57:00.003-05:002014-08-23T14:55:16.010-05:00BOGUS CHARGES WILL BACKFIRE<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The indictment of James Richard Perry is one more in a growing list of examples of elected officials using the power given to them to eliminate what some might refer to as those “pesky little participants in our democracy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have seen it lately with grand juries, elected boards, IRS officials, and a whole host of others. Indicting someone needed to be taken down a peg or fired or dragged through the courts because of one thing or another when in truth anyone with a brain knew the person being whacked. This newest mess with James Richard Perry from Paint Creek, Texas better be resolved in a way that does not harm him or this country might as well pull up chairs and grab a front row seat while those we give power to use it to destroy the country using deception and the power given to them to end the great experiment known as the United States of America<span style="font-size: xx-small;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">One thing working for
those who would hate to see that happen is James Richard Perry is not only a
fighter that will use the courts if necessary to vindicate himself, he is also
the Governor of Texas. I said <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:state>.
Texans know Governor Perry is guilty of nothing and the courts in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:state> rarely have the
bizarre outcomes other states experience. In fact, in Texas the people attempting to get Perry out of the their way may find that the courts will do more than just say Perry is innocent. The courts may punish this cowardly and openly deceptive abuse of power.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perry needed something to help change the
image left with Americans in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the last
Presidential race and this may or may not be just the ticket. Overcoming the
negative stereotype of him being shallow pretty boy from a conservative-crazed <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:state> that was either
suffering from Alzheimers or stupidity should not be difficult. This indictment
could be the game-changer he needs to generate a fresh start and a new image.
An image that is closer to fact than the wild fiction the media enjoyed last
time. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Perry is eyeing a
presidential run in 2016, and though I would hope conservatives have other and
better choices, his stock went up with me as soon as the Democrats lied and
said this whole thing was plain and simple. The Governor did something wrong
and he must be punished. If Perry artfully uses this occasion to be a victim,
martyr and fighter, it could be just the rehab he needed. If he had no
politicak ambitions,he might could make a pile of money in a lawsuit on this
little scheme that has been perpetrated on him. But Perry is a politician and
if he plays this right he will get something more valuable than money – he will
be getting a lot more media attention than he would in the coming days and
weeks. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">There is little
question that the indictment is absurd. And after watching the video of Travis
County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg’s behavior after her drunken-driving
arrest, it’s no wonder that Perry declared a loss of public confidence in her
ability to lead the public integrity unit. If you have not watched the video
yet, trust me it’s on its way to being a political classic.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">While proper
prosecution of people that are harmful to society is a good thing and reassures
the public that the checks and balances in our democracy are working.
Concocted, phony and retaliatory prosecutions serve only to reinforce the
public’s skepticism about the motives of our country’s political leadership and
undermine the public trust. If we needed further erosion of the public faith in
our government, this indictment certainly supplies it. It should backfire and
the only one that should suffer are those who tried to deceive the American
public and harm a citizen by using false pretenses<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Bogus charges against
a political foe erode the relevancy of legitimate corruption charges when they
are actually needed and warranted. By pursuing Perry’s indictment, the
Democrats might actually do Perry some good. But in the meantime, they are
contributing to the further disintegration of the ability of our two-party
system to create a government that functions.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Travis County has a reputation for this kind of stuff and, with this grand jury
acting at the behest of special prosecutor Michael McCrumo, they are sure to
keep to keep that reputation. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The basic facts of the case are
simple. Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, pled guilty to DWI and
served 45 days in jail. After serving her jail sentence, Lehmberg refused to
step down and continued to be the supervisor of the Public Integrity Unit. In
response to the audacity of her contnuing to serve in this capacity, Governor
Perry announced that unless she stepped down he would veto funding of that
unit. Later he followed through and did veto the bill.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Perry is not accused of abuse of
power for actually vetoing the bill because state law says the Governor can
veto a bill for any reason he wants to or no reason at all. Governor Perry is
accused of threatening the D.A.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07197850140100357505noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2198258379596935073.post-60641851842831379832014-08-14T11:47:00.001-05:002014-08-15T00:07:08.676-05:00Consider the source...<div class="MsoNormal">
In a recent series of events Allen Youngblood of i-dineout
blog has become the news/story in Liberty County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Youngblood in an attempt to draw readers in to his blog has
created a controversy at the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Youngblood has harassed and stalked the
Liberty County Sheriff’s Office and harassed Sheriff Bobby Rader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The continued series of meaningless stories and open records act request’ by Youngblood- pointed at the Sheriff’s Office is not only bizarre,
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Youngblood creates a controversy by splashing lies about the
courthouse security being taken away and how the judges will not have any
protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He continues to
manufacture controversies concerning the tools the sheriff needs to police Liberty County
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The truth is, Bobby Rader is a good man and a great sheriff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sheriff is not perfect but... Rader is doing as much as
he can with what little he has been given.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rader wants to police more of the county but is short
handed plain and simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a
modern world, the protection of the people should come first before the county’s
other needs but... not in Liberty County.</div>
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Next time you hear someone questioning our sheriff Bobby
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<i>Note: Stay tuned for an upcoming LCSO story from <a href="http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/cleveland/" target="_blank">HCN Cleveland News</a>.</i></div>
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