Living Without Electricity, Part 3
Living Without Electricity, Part 3 If you
Reptilian Rule
Reptilian Rule Is anyone willingly to initiate the long-needed changes to our public education system, which includes providing adequate financing, correcting mismanagement, financial misappropriations, modifying and developing REAL learning outcomes and trimming the “fat” in each district to give every American child a quality education? Or do our leaders still want to keep the majority of our children uneducated and unemployable? While the American education system has been a long-time disappoint over the past several decades [under both parties] apparently <www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=16776> legislators continue to decrease the state
The New Federal Deficit Cover Up
The New Federal Deficit Cover Up According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the current fiscal year, which ends on September 30, will end up with a deficit of $400 billion. While this figure is shockingly high, the truth is that the actually deficit is a lot higher. The $400 billion deficit is based on an accounting fraud called the Unified Budget, in which money borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund and which is added to the National Debt, is counted as income for the annual budget. This kind of trickery by Republicans and Democrats would land officers of publicly held companies in prison. When you take the $186 billion that is being borrowed from Social Security and add it to the $400 billion deficit that is being acknowledged, you get the real deficit of $586 billion. Raiding the Social Security Trust Fund to finance the general operations of the federal government is a direct attack on the financial security of senior citizens. Trying to cover it up through deception is unconscionable. As for Fiscal Year 2009, the Bush Administration projects a deficit of $482 billion, but that does not include $36 billion from the Housing Bill, $80 billion in war costs, and $227 billion borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund. The actual deficit next year will be $825 billion to $343 billion more than has been acknowledged. While the Housing Bill passed late and no one really is sure what the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost, it is inexcusable to pretend that the $227 billion being borrowed from Social Security is an asset, rather than a debt that must be repaid. Republican and Democratic politicians should keep their hands off of Social Security surpluses. And they should start accounting honestly for the money borrowed from the Trust Fund. Richard A. Viguerie pioneered political direct mail and has been called “one of the creators of the modern conservative movement” (The Nation magazine) and one of the “conservatives of the century” (The Washington Times). His latest book is Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big-Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (Bonus Books).
eBay-itis
eBay-itis While I was living in hospitals, I conjured up various creative ways to maintain my sanity. I found I could attain a great deal of satisfaction from simple things, like sleeping three or more hours at a time. If I managed to give myself a manicure and/or pedicure, I was delighted. If I managed both in the same day, I was ecstatic. You get the idea. Simple pleasures. Every day in Fort Worth I would try to take a break, leave the hospital for an hour or so (much to the dismay of the patient). I went to shower at my cousin
In Praise Of The Biggest Political Sin
In Praise Of The Biggest Political Sin Candidates have been calling their opponents names throughout history. Here in America, they
My Weekly Quandary
My Weekly Quandary
In researching lesser-known news stories and other info, be it amusing or exascerbating, to serve as fodder for this column, I subscribe to a number of major newspaper web editions, news compendia, and myriad blog compilations.
I can afford these subscriptions because they
State Police Stage Reconstruction Reign Of Terror
State Police Stage Reconstruction Reign Of Terror The trigger-happy state police opened fire without warning on a crowd of Saturday shoppers in Brownwood on Aug. 19, 1871. In his inaugural address in April 1870, Republican Edmund J. Davis asked fellow Radicals for a new law-enforcement legion to bring Reconstruction order to the chaotic countryside. Two months later, the governor got his wish
Teacher Shortage Or Teacher Lockout?
Teacher Shortage Or Teacher Lockout? As Uncle Hugh used to say, “The best thing about stupidity is that folks are so proud of it they like to show off.” Two pieces of idiocy crossed my desk last week as I was tussling to assemble a new digital graphics course. Texas boasted about improving the state ACT average, and the fascist Republicans down at the Texas Public Policy Foundation released a full-page diatribe on keeping teacher salaries low. What do those two have to do with a digital graphics course? The state of computer imaging these days is that we can pretty much display anything we want. If I
Democrats
Democrats
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Nashville, Tenn.
Bass Patterns — CRANKED UP ABOUT FLUOROCARBON
CRANKED UP ABOUT FLUOROCARBON If you respool your reels as much as I do, I hope you stocked up on some extra fluorocarbon line recently because it’s summer and you’re going to need it. Summertime fishing conditions are different from any other time of the year. Much of this centers around water clarity. In short, summertime brings about some of the year’s clearest water conditions. Unlike the spring when most places receive much of their rainfall, the summer is usually dry and free of precipitation. This results in less runoff and clearer water. Also, summer brings about rapid growth in shoreline vegetation, which filters the water. Plus, summer fish are usually more finicky about what they eat. All this boils down to fish a better look at your bait. By this of year, pretty much all of my go-to presentations are being thrown on the new Berkley Trilene 100% Fluorocarbon line (this stuff is awesome, but we’ll get to it in later). I use fluorocarbon as a leader when flipping a jig on braid, I use it to pop a spoon in deep water and to stroke a jig and a plastic worm. But most importantly, I use it for deep cranking. About the only thing I don’t do with fluorocarbon is throw topwater baits
Hillary, Insurance Companies Win Health Care Battle
DENVER, Colo.
Iconoclast Newsbriefs
Texas
Parents of children in Gonzales Independent School District disrupted a school board meeting over a proposed revision to the student dress code. The new rule would give 5th-to 12th-graders the option to wear prison-style jumpsuits if they disobey the dress code.
The government has until Sept. 5 to respond to a motion calling on a judge to open his court hearings and docket for reporters in an El Paso public corruption investigation. Texas Civil Rights Project on behalf of Newspaper Tree filed the motion.
Dallas-based American Airlines charged two Texas troops up to $300 for an extra duffel bag. Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) has called for the airline industry to stop the practice of reimbursing soldiers for extra luggage.
Nation
Police want New York City to turn into London, England. Law enforcement are proposing a plan that would photograph every car
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JERUSALEM
Information Highwaymen Accost Online Editor
SEATTLE, Wash.
Iraq War Makes The World Safe For China
BAGHDAD, Iraq
Big Business Takes Permanent Tax Holiday
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Silencing Falun Gong
CRAWFORD, Texas
