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Rep. Patrick Rose: Not Such A Great Guy Or Leader As You First May Think
Rep. Patrick Rose: Not Such A Great Guy Or Leader As You First May Think
Question: When is a rose not a rose, not a rose?
Answer: When the rose is Patrick Rose and it sorta stinks.
A despicable character.
Recently Rep. Patrick Rose sent out an e-mail to constituents pushing the upcoming Hays County Road Bond Proposition 1 and also advocating toll roads. I am reprinting that e-mail below my article so you may review it.
Initially, Rose comes across as a young, handsome and polite man who gazes at you with endearing and understanding eyes. In reality, the real Patrick Rose is a political predator, out for his own advancement up the legislative ladder, a Rick Perry wannabe, or as playwright Henrik Ibsen might have said, Rose is “an enemy of the people.”
The following is my letter to Rose, of which I sent copies to my Hays, Blanco, and Caldwell County neighbors and also to local media. It is my response to Rose
Another Opportunity
Another Opportunity I witnessed a tragedy on April 28 in Waco, Texas. A young soldier, obviously suffering from PTSD, became enraged because fellow American citizens were exercising their First Amendment rights. Some of us in the Waco area joined in a nationwide exercise to peaceably assemble and speak out about the current administrations
Attach A Vacuum Nozzle To Your Mammilla To Show Mom You Care
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Post Sinks Millions Into West Texas Utopia
Post Sinks Millions Into West Texas Utopia Months of costly construction went down the drain on May 14, 1907, when C.W. Post picked out a new place for his West Texas dream town and ordered the original site abandoned. The hired hands shrugged their shoulders. After all, the Battle Creek millionaire had the bucks to build his High Plains utopia many times over. The creator of a popular coffee substitute did not merely find the pot at the end of the rainbow, he owned it. Financial success came early in life for Charles William Post with farm-implement patents paving the way for a fabulous career in business. But the entrepreneur with the Midas touch pushed himself too hard and suffered a severe nervous breakdown at the age of 32. Plagued by a series of relapses, Post did not completely recover for five long years. He came to Texas in search of a healthier climate, and the sparkling potential enticed him to stay. Back on his feet at last, he often visited Fort Worth where his elderly parents had retired. During extensive travels in the Lone Star State during the late 1880s, Post sampled the West Texas beverage of chicory, roasted wheat and other miscellaneous grains. This makeshift mixture inspired his patient effort to create a nutritional alternative to coffee. While supervising a sanitarium at Battle Creek, Michigan, Post perfected a tasty blend of wheat, bran, and molasses. In five years, the annual sales of Postum surpassed a million dollars. Cut-rate competitors cashed in on the craze with cheap imitations that sold for 15 cents a package, a dime less than the real thing. Post met the challenge by marketing his product under another label for a nickel and drove the fly-by-nights out of business. Although opposed to collective bargaining, Post exerted an innovative influence on labor relations. He encouraged his managers to satisfy the workers
Slam Dunk!
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Veto Of America
Veto Of America On May 1, 2007 our Little Dictator summarily tossed aside the efforts of both Congressional Houses to fulfill the will of the American majority. In what must have been record-shattering time Lame Dubya flexed his veto muscles, murdering the appropriation bill sent to him by Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Thus continuing the murderous conflagration he began over four years ago in Iran. Then, in keeping with his long-proven history of personal confrontation avoidance, Fearless Leader addressed the Nation at 6:10 that same early evening. In Chicago and Houston that was 5:10; Albuquerque, make it 4:10; only 3:10 in Los Angeles and Seattle. His remarks literally fell upon deaf ears. Folks in the Eastern and Middle American states were either on their way home, preparing or sitting down to dinner. The rest of the country was still engaged in normal daytime business and activities. Most people probably had no idea their wishes had been callously disregarded and crushed; far fewer knew of or even had an opportunity to witness Li
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The Human Side of Sucking Up To The Education Con
The Human Side of Sucking Up To The Education Con As Uncle Hugh used to say, “Government is a lot like outlawin
Same-Sex Couples Battle Immigration Laws
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The Reign Of Robots
The Reign Of Robots A growing number of Americans are witnessing, first hand, the faceless ravages of the mega-corporations
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Bordering On Insanity: Texans Witness Plight of Iraqi Refugees — Interview With Carla Mercado, Registered Nurse/Peace Activist
Interview With SAN ANTONIO The living conditions of Iraqi refugees in the neighboring country of Jordan are deplorable, according to a delegation of Texans that recently returned from a 10-day fact-finding mission. This four-person group led by Charlie Jackson, director of Texans for Peace, set forth on a trip designed to identify the needs of Iraq’s professional women and business owners. Specifically, participants in the Baghdad Business Women’s Center are given practical business tools and in some cases micro-loans with which to operate their businesses in Jordan until the U.S. occupation of Iraq ends. The tour met with officials from schools, hospitals, refugee camps, and non-governmental organizations as well as individual families to assess the situation of refugees. Still, after five years of continued conflict in the region, the conditions of the refugees are “pretty poor and have gotten worse,” Jackson said. Middle class families, having already been uprooted from their homes and livelihoods, are now starting to splinter as their wealth has depleted over the last several years. In some cases, for example, Iraqi fathers had fled out of fear that their families will suffer any number of dangers because of them. In other cases, these men, if caught, are deported because they lack the necessary legal permits to work and reside there. In other words, security as these Iraqis sought originally has yet to be fully realized. This situation, as a result, has left women as the sole means of economic support for their families in a country that has given them limited resources to survive. A majority of the aid given comes from Jordanian and internationally-recognized charities and NGOs such as: United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) on Iraq, CARE International, the University of Jordan (British research team on Iraq refugees), MIZAN (the Jordan Women Lawyers’ Association), the Jordan Woman’s Union, The Iraqi “Informal school,” Luzmila Hospital, the Catholic Church of Jordan, and the American Friends Service Committee. The shock-waves of the U.S.-led war in Iraq have already thinned the resources of the Jordanian government. Close to a million Iraq refugees have received guest status there, though no new paths to citizenship have been issued among any of Iraq’s neighbors. The effect is a legal limbo for Iraqi refugees. “A lot of people have had to go back to Iraq to get the new passports and new visas and then found out that the Jordanians would not allow them to come back,” said Jackson, noting that the United Nations estimates that two million Iraqis would leave their nation for Syria or Jordan if they could. For the most part, Syria has taken in the poorer of Iraq’s refugees while Jordan has harbored more of the upper and middle classes as well as those who had fled under Saddam Hussein’s regime. “Jordan and Syria can’t absorb two million more people. It’s a much bigger humanitarian crisis that the United Nations has seen a long time,” Jackson added. “The United Nations folks we met were estimating th
Carla Mercado
Registered Nurse/Peace Activist
