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Twinkies Bankrupt? Mitt Romney, do Twinkies have the rights of a person?


by: Arctotraveler

Wed Jan 18, 2012 at 08:12 PM CST

Mitt Romney, do Twinkies have the rights of a person? Shouldn't a Twinkie approach a lawyer for chapter 13 personal bankruptcy and get battered by telephone calls and threats like most persons? Shouldn't a Twinkie get their pay checks garnished to point of starvation until the debt is paid, just like a person who claims bankruptcy? Shouldn't all Twinkie'sassets be assessed and auction on the street?

What is next with you Republicans, jail sentences until the amount is paid? Remember The George Bush Bankruptcy Act?

These claims turned out to be false. After BAPCPA passed, although credit card company losses decreased, prices charged to customers increased, and credit card company profits soared.[21]

citation: Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

Mitt Romney continues to confirm that Corporations have the rights of a person but he fails to tell the whole story that people do not have the rights of a person - just Corporations do

This one-side republican special interest pledge to the 1% will keep Obama squarely in the White House for four more years! This makes Texans happy because he just started to clean up a corrupt Texas Justice Systems with Rick Perry's 4,500 bias appointees some embedded in the supreme court.

No way, they are a corporation not a person! They will get away with murder by claiming a Twinkie Defense! That's how Dan White got off for the assassination of Harvey Milk, a San Francisco City Official - he had one too many Twinkies that made him go into a killing rage?

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

This bring up another point, is the Secret Service a Private Corporation with the rights of a person?
Citation: http://www.scribd.com/fullscre...

Twinkies Go Bankrupt
Atlantic Wire By Dino Grandoni | The Atlantic Wire - 20 hrs ago

Sad news, factory-made baked-good lovers: Hostess, the maker of Twinkies, is filing for bankruptcy -- but it isn't so much because Americans don't find Twinkies delicious anymore. The Wall Street Journal tries to parse out the reasons Hostess needs Chapter 11 protection, which it will file for this week. People losing their appetite for Twinkies is only a slight problem -- Twinkie sales have only declined a slight 2 percent while sales of its cupcakes and other baked goods have remained flat. So we still find those suggestively oblong cream-filled cakes delicious.

Read Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/twinkies...

The George Bush Bankruptcy Act? [Which by George Failed Too}

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA)citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Main article: Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-8, 119 Stat. 23 (April 20, 2005) ("BAPCPA"), substantially amended the Bankruptcy Code. Many provisions of BAPCPA were forcefully advocated by consumer lenders and were just as forcefully opposed by many consumer advocates, bankruptcy academics, bankruptcy judges, and bankruptcy lawyers.[19] The enactment of BAPCPA followed nearly eight years of debate in Congress. Most of the law's provisions became effective on October 17, 2005.

by G N O'Dell 01/16/2011

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Who Is Watching Who And Do They Know What They Are Doing?


by: Arctotraveler

Wed Jan 18, 2012 at 07:26 PM CST

Much to the surprise of those that dream while sleeping, many people do not dream or recall dreaming while they sleep, not even once in their entire lives! Dreaming is a human activity that most people take for granted as if everyone can dream. If dreams are something that some people can see and others do not, then dreaming is something that dwells in the peripheral blind spot of social invisibility.  Could it be that there is an everyday ordinary common god, as close as the invisible nose on your invisible face, working miracles in your life?

Dreams have a deeper meaning for clairvoyants such as myself because we see visualizations in our mind's eye while sleeping and awake. A clairvoyant is person who sees things clearly in their minds eye, as they are; sometimes with vivid startling accuracy the Greeks coined the logos or the known. It is unclear if the ability of perception is from the normal senses, psychic abilities, or spiritual epitome.

Clairvoyants rarely reveal their experiences unless the disclosure would be beneficial or helpful to others. There are the unscrupulous clairvoyants and the fakers that use the idea of clairvoyance abilities for selfless reasons that give us all a bad name. Then there is the innocent who believe they have God given talents, which they may; however, do not know what they are doing when they are looking for a lost child and the whole world turns to them for help after exhausting all other alternatives, only to be discouraged by failure and disbelief.

Lastly, Clairvoyance is not always the case a specialized profession such as murder solving, people finding, or gold digging enterprises.  In more cases than not, the clairvoyant that is open and clear of negativity at the time of need is the medium of choice; be it a matter of physics or divine intervention.

We are easy to identify. We are the people that stand in front of an elevator button and seem to debating if the up arrow means up and the down arrow means down. We compensate our trans-personalities by way of diversion to a trivial task not wanting people to know that our consciousness has shifted to a higher idea. I have never met a Clairvoyant that was trained the art and many notice they can see thing others cannot as early or earlier than three years of age. Many retain conceptions or memories of existence before conception or entering the human body at birth!

A well-practiced clairvoyant may dwell in the state as often as they can for enjoyment, enlightenment, or to help someone in need. Have you ever heard of the "Absent minded Professor?" Sometimes psychologist misdiagnosis the ability as Attention Deficit Disorder when in fact a clairvoyant can do multiple task of focus at the same time without compensating the accuracy of any of the task performed!

Unfortunately, behavioral scientist ignore the fact that some clairvoyants can take a peek into the future, visualize an eminent threat, and know instinctively when someone has their attention on them or looking at them even when the observation is done remotely by a camera or even a satellite.

Police will use clairvoyants to help with an investigation when all other scientific investigative means have failed and have about a 50/50 percent accuracy rate basically because they cannot measure the clairvoyants capabilities and use those that do not know how to use the art but believe they have special God given talents they really do not possess or know how to use.

In my case, dreaming while my body is asleep at the wheel is the best time to catch up on the adversaries or evil people that try to bring harm to just your everyday ordinary mystic like myself.

I have had a real hard time with the new anti-terrorist domestic surveillance program put into place years ago by congress with good intent to keep us safer; however, the police investigative strategies look for reasonable suspicious acts and nothing is more suspicious looking than a clairvoyant under hyper-surveillance because once a clairvoyant is a surveillance  target, we start to behave in a way that we know someone is watching  even though we are quite innocent of wrong doing are least harmless to others and dwell in the side lines or well outside terrorist threats.

Most troubling, once you are a target of interest, the information can never be erased or dismissed or expunged. This is bad for the wrongly accused but it is equally troublesome for accurate intelligence analysis having floaters bog the system as alerts that take attention away from real threats. The same can be said for those that have been targeted for political reasons as threats to make it easier on a politician or political special interest group.

It is my belief that most terrorist are not born terrorist, they are transformed into terrorist by pure hatred  and intolerance based on the way the rest of the world acts!

Who can argue against the theory that we all act in a way that is predictable? Don't we all stand in the bank beyond the cord ropes, and stand well beyond the red line on the floor without the need of instruction; however, it is a grave error to think that any particular behavior has a predictable reaction.
This is why the Behavioral Sciences will always be an art form; especially if they exclude profiles they do not  understand by the method of scientific observation and dump the prognosis in a category of the paranormal which  is an area of behavior that cannot be observed and rides in the blind spot of social invisibility.

This is why Mystics that operate alone or along with a group are weary and in some cases angry with U.S. persistent failure to protect individual rights of privacy, leaving many of the few finest of citizens whom act in a way outside of the norm as targets of domestic surveillance.

Domestic surveillance if use correctly, is a helpful law enforcement tool; however, it is the point when the surveillance leaves the general population and focuses on a specific target when things go a wire and resources are placed on people who would do no harm and taken away from those that are real threats.

Additionally, the contracting of private firms in 2008 by U.S. intelligence, even if the employees are sworn law enforcement officers, compound the problem because they are paid and rewarded  for intelligence, any intelligence if it is useful are just a report that waste valuable resources and time with total disregard to harm to the subjects of the report.

These people are easy to identify such as John Ashcroft, who is constantly trying to figure out what the term 'ethics' means or what place it has in National Security such as the Nazis wondered during World War II. We would all be speaking German if the principals of ethics were the basis of German diplomacy and tactical maneuvers of the last global conflict.

Chinese intelligence systems as well as other countries do a better job with surveillance because the people know that as long as you are in the band of the general public under surveillance, than you are relativity safe from privacy intrusion and free to move about freely without fear.

I know this because while living in China, the safest country I know of and I have lived in most, I observed that the police have a good working relationship with the populace and often will complain of two much information that leaves them blindsided to real threats of social invisibility. The same can be said of Italy where the local officer's patrol the communities in which they live, play, and worship.

In America we can say, "nothing changes but the meaning of law" and are economic down fall began many years ago by financing the DEA with resources for a dual mission, attacking drug violations at the street level instead of the source and domestic surveillance in the interest and protection against terrorist threats such as the attack on New York on September 11, 2001.

We like to believe that justice is blind; however, there is no finer judge who lives in a community where the whole town knows of something  less than appropriate behavior practiced by the local judge. A paragraph from " A History of La Salle County" 1856-1975 authored by Annette Martin Ludeman shows that at least in Texas, nothing changes but the meaning of law as follows in the month of December, 1886 La Salle County Texas:

"There was a jury inquest inquiring into the cause of the death of C.B. McKinney conducted by Judge Harwood. During the inquest Judge Hardwood was taken very ill and died within five hours. Judge Hardwood's mind was heavily taxed in conducting the inquest and having previously contracted the habit of eating morphine, in a moment of hurry and excitement took and overdose of the drug which cause his death." This of course added more grief and sorrow to the already grief stricken little community."

In today's world, the murderer would be illegible for the position of Judge or Texas Ranger and the Judge would be considered a harden criminal and drug dealer. I am not saying that the DEA has recruited criminals, but the dual task of enforcing equal and harsh penalties along with the billions of dollars of resources on drug users as well as terrorists jeopardizes our National Security.

The DEA should not be in the business of Anti-Terrorism Domestic Surveillance! The Department should be focused on the source of drugs and exterminating the source before drugs exterminate all the citizens of America! The Agency need look no future then the Drug Enforcement Agency itself to get a good head start at eliminating fifty-percent of the problem embedded as DEA Drug Lords that feed off of Federal Funding. Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Texas Governor Rick Perry are very good examples of extracting Federal Funds for state sponsored drug and human trafficking operations.

A good departmental split right down the middle of their dual mission and budget would save money, protect the innocent, and keep us safer.  The other half of their budget should be invested in Homeland security and first responders!

First Responders are seldom members of law enforcement, usually a common citizen in the right place at the right time that reports to an awake and alert member of law enforcement. Yes, many times law enforcement personnel are first responders because they are also citizens living in our communities. A cash reward and honorable citizens citation system has work best in the United States sense the conception of the constitution.

We see a break down in communications that is the cause of major security breaches after the application of the 911 Patriot Act and the fleecing of America by law enforcement personnel incorporating private security firms.  Citizens today find it almost impossible to report incidents to law enforcement because of a false sense or false belief of omniscience intelligence sold to the public by private security firms.

Lastly, the Chinese intelligence agencies and police have a true respect for individual privacy that naturally leads to respect to the police; otherwise, a country or State can become a police State overnight if surveillance is not regulated and used for political adversaries, criminal activity, or retaliation.

In the United States, the state of Texas has world recognition during these troubling times as a bona fide police state, led by a treasonous dictating tyrant, but let's don't make the mistake of blaming the situation on the police and professional law enforcement.

Any human behavior ethnology can be taken out of context just to give due cause of suspicion, producing a false report that can encourage a public hanging without a need of due process or trial of innocent law abiding citizens.

Attention is a very powerful thing when it is focus on an individual if just from a resentful person or a woman in scorn. So it is the case that most people are clairvoyant in some degree or another but don't practice the art correctly or use it to bring ill tidings to others. The modus operandi of a clairvoyant is strangely enough their biggest enemies their own attention and or the focus of attention by others.

by I am just your everyday ordinary common mystic G N O'Dell 01/13/2011

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Is Obama Waging War on Texas? Dewhurst Give Credit Where It Is Due I Did It!


by: Arctotraveler

Sun Jan 01, 2012 at 02:36 PM CST

The Economy Restored Several Times Destroyed by Tea Party Right Wing Mob Opinion

David Dewhurst enters the US Texas Senate campaign last month with "Tell Obama To Stop Waging War Against Texas." How can these Texas politicians be so misinformed? I say, David Dewhurst, stop giving Obama credit for my hard work!

Suffering the web for hours to find a Tea Party Sympathizer, I found an interesting article that tells the tale of  Tea Party big lie, "The second response is purely political-and Orwellian.  It is to repeat ad nauseum the Big Lie that this is the Tea Party downgrade, attributable lock, stock, and barrel to the failure of the Tea Party caucus in Congress to even countenance taxes as a part of any debt ceiling deal."

The author claims the credit rating was based on bad math calculations by the Obama Administration; however, memories are short and I wrote a valid justified complaint to the Office of the Inspector General April 2009 with concerns that the Tea Party is a Right Wing Extremist Group with one objective, to remove the first black president of the United States of America. In fact, I was specific with my concerns again last summer when our infrastructure fell apart with the BP Oil Spill, the main attraction based on discriminatory acts of hatred and narcissism in a post as follows:

In April 2009, Rick Perry succeeded from the Union founding an organized  rebellion (paid for by the state)  by posting the 'Stop' web page instructing all Texas employees to group together [Those that did not co-operate faced termination from their job] and rebel against the Constitution of the United States as members of  the  "Tea Party" rebellion, targeting not just the new presidential administration but the Honorable Barack Obama personally.

Rick Perry and his cronies, wealthy corporate owners and investors have just declared "War on the EPA" a statement just mentioned verbally in the state of Texas by a private citizens is enough to be harassed, arrested, and/or jailed by Law Enforcement for an unknown length of time waiting for Terrorist Threat charges to be collaborated by Texas District Attorneys.

Texas Steals Oil Rights 001: http://iamnotanonymousihaveana...

Texas Steals Oil Rights 002: http://www.burntorangereport.c...

It is unimaginable the Governor of Texas would publicly "Declare  War" against regulating authorities that would of prevented the  Gulf disaster. Employee Whistle Blower Postings At These Operations Have The Maranda Act Printed On The Top Of The Federal Document. This is why oil clean-up workers would not talk to the press and the root cause to all the oil fires because the employees cannot say anything about safety "You Have The Right To Remain Silent, Anything You Say Can And Will Be Use Against You In A Court Of Law."

See Nobody Likes a Snitch Everybody Honors a Whistle Blower at this link:
http://iamnotanonymousihaveana...

The Gulf  Disaster investigation shows hard evidence, a repeat of special interest favors that also caused the Texas BP refinery explosion in 2005 as Perry justifies his words by stating "Obama has declared War on Texas."  The 911 Patriot Act is clearly unconstitutional if the rule of law is not applied universally to those that Govern (Rick Perry) and those that are governed too.

The state of Texas has no record of any virtuous acts other than those good deeds provided by private citizens and organizations in and out of the State of Texas. Over the last eight years, government agencies such as the EPA, Transportation Department, and Office of Civil Rights have tried every form of diplomacy  to protect property and lives and seldom pursue violations by court of law against the state of Texas.

Some good local examples are Kelly AFB which is an active EPA Toxic Super Fund,  our farm burn 3 times in a five year period due to faulty oil well heads (fire from the lack of routine safety maintenance and inspections example BP), and the mass exodus of disabled students from the university of Texas because of hostile policies that segregate the disabled population from all other campus community members.

My Demands Non-negotiable at this Link:
http://iamnotanonymousihaveana...

Most Texans believe that Perry's coalition is made of the few wealthy and corrupt State investors that have no regard for their fellow man or loss of human life. Countless examples of Perry's special interest policies such as the recent big pharmaceutical mortality spike of 88,000 deaths [Merck Vioxx], Vaccine legislation support by special interest cash linked to autism, drug legislation doughnut hole that deprives elderly for necessary medicines, antiquated DEA laws that aid the illegal drug trade, and finance terrorism.

In addition, burning fuel farms and oil well heads where cash buys safety certificates, academic payoffs justifying cheaper unsafe manufacturing processes, a "No Child Left Behind Law" that has filled Texas prisons with those very children the law intended to protect ad infinitum. Texas Governor Rick Perry defended his action by sarcastically apologizing for his anti-ethical behavior, to him justified his actions.

Ethics:  Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is a branch of philosophy  that addresses questions about morality-that is, concepts such as good and bad, noble and ignoble, right and wrong, justice, and virtue.

Anti-ethics: categories of good and evil do not apply

But why should Right Wing Extremist have a concern that does not concern themselves? The united States Constitution does not imply or express that fellow citizens should have a concern of the welfare of others as Rick Perry recently justified his "Anti-ethical practices" which is a true indicator that he and his coalition do not understand the term or value of 'ethics' or the destruction caused by unethical practices guarded against by the United States Constitution:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves  and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"

• in Order to form a more perfect Union:  "to improve the general well-being of the country (McGire)"

• establish Justice: "Justice is the concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, fairness, or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of said ethics (wiki)."

• insure domestic Tranquility: "One of the main goals of the Convention, then, was to ensure the federal government had powers to squash rebellion and to smooth tensions between states (US Constitution)."

• provide for the common defense: "The primary responsibility of the government of the United States of America; to ensure the nation is protected from threats both inside and outside the country, such as terrorism, war, subterfuge, etc. (Answers)"

• promote the general Welfare: All peoples of the United States rich, poor, health, sick, young, or old

Yes, empirical facts point to the struggle to get America back on its feet was defeated by Mob Tea Party Right Wing Extremist that is "political-and Orwellian" that abused the 911 patriot Act at the state level with Rick Perry's Executive Order Declaring himself God, creating a police state that created a strong market in the first quarter by inside trading of Domestic Surveillance, Security Private Firms, and Manufactures of such devices; the symptoms that were not felt until the "Orwellian Lie" news break that the 911 Patriot Act had been breach with security devices that now are used by the news media to get the inside scope to victims of the disaster that the 911 Patriot act was supposed to "Keep Us Safer."

Read Full Article: http://www.scribd.com/fullscre...

Texans have been screaming at the top of their lungs disputing the notion that the wealthy few create jobs, and can be clearly demonstrated to be false by the failed Rick Perry Tax Plan with a warning from the Texas Comptroller's Office detailing in 2006 a projected FYI budget in 2010 a 23,000,000,000 deficit, which is perfect math.

citation: http://www.window.state.tx.us/...

As predicted by the Obama administration and It is a fact, the quick fix is to Repeal the Bush Tax Relief Plan to the wealthy few who built their wealth on the backs on ordinary middle class citizens.

Compounding the problem of the debt is that we are at war declared by George Bush on Iraq as Osama bin Laden, a CIA operative, followed detailed plans that were given him, so our intelligence could devise a plan to counter such attacks.

Unfortunately, Osama was successful with the attack on New York by duping our intelligence agency. He should of been arrested for his first terrorist bombing during the Clinton Administration which would of made the attack on New York impossible and avoided the deaths of 4,000 American citizens.

My family is a victim of one his first high tech bombings in Riyadh Saudi Arabia November 13, 1993, and still wonder with the prudence and tip toeing done around the Osama bin Laden clan while it was a known fact, he attacked the United States and continued to do so before the twin towers were destroyed killing near 4000 people. [Conspiracy or stupidity? Your choice]

Citation: http://iamnotanonymousihaveana...

The attack on New York mortally spike is small in comparison to the millions of deaths by deregulation of Big Pharmaceutical, conflicts of Interest with political leaders, and manufacturing of products that still kill thousands daily such as asbestos.

Let's us not forget the mass shooting on U.S. Campuses that were in fact Orwellian Big Brother protection of the wealthy few, that could of been avoided if George Bush did not obstruct justice and cull professionals from the justice department.

It does not amaze me that Texas seemed to dance with impunity as if they had a copy of the hit list of professional District Attorneys that seemed to contradict Republican ideologies or wrote the list themselves blessed by Senator Cornyn.

Citation: http://iamnotanonymousihaveana...

The best indicator of economic health is the quality of care a State or Country provides for those that cannot care for themselves, and the evidence was there long before the election of Barack Obama, as seen as the abuses in Texas Protective Institutions of beatings, rape, and murder.

Graduates of these same institutions were shipped over state lines to slave farms as so called employers pocketed their social security checks while they lived in scalar. Not long after the investigation, Governor Rick Perry transfers a multimillion dollar budget from disabled care to Digital Ally for an x-ray machine that can penetrate metal to catch the human trafficking of slaves which are illegal Hispanics crossing the borders, while U.S. citizens were deported from the state of Texas over state lines in open public to slave farms in Missouri.

Amazingly, all this could be turned around in a matter of months if the Tea Party, or let's be fair, the Right Wing co-operated and supported the executive branch in a time of crisis. The Obama Administration saved the U.S. from destruction on several repeated occasions, only to be defamed by Right Wing Mob hatred!

I understand that you do not understand the value of ethics, but how about a little patriotism instead of conspiring with Right Wing Extremist such as the John Birch Society or banning together in the name of God as political day of prayer which is the "political-and Orwellian Big Lie" to 30,000 innocent people that was preplanned, premeditated, and orchestrated by the Republican party by instructing Perry to do so!

Consider a little empathy even if you have to fake compassion, now that doomsday is not just knocking on the foreclosed houses of the middle class, but making the wealthy few jump ship to off shore accounts, while the sting of consequences of Tea Party Hatred is now in your own living rooms as the result of your Mob Forced Intrusion on Congressional Legislators!

Now David Dewhurst Is Crying "Tell Obama To Stop Waging War On Texas." Don't blame Obama, give me and other Texans full credit for taking the time to report the legislatures illegal activity to the Justice Department including the EPA! That's right, I did it Dewhurst, so sue me!

If Right Wing Extremism is not addressed by the Justice Department now, history will repeat as it did on November 13, 1963 by the detonation of a dirty bomb that even shook the foundation of resident Texas Republican conspirators living in San Antonio - you know who you are.

Texas Right Wing Extremist Plan To Assassinate The President 1963 Set Off Nuclear Dirty Bomb:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ns8Z...

John Birch Society Hate Group Started A Texas Nazi Cult America's Youth just Like Rick Perry:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7ejP...

Who defended the biggest funds on the defense to protect themselves that cost more to watch us than to care for us - as you have stated in your article, "Would Rather Starve Than Feed" as follows:

It Doesn't Take a Rating Agency to Tell Which Way the Debt Grows By Craig Pirrong Aug 8, 2011, 4:02 AM Author's Website

citation: http://wallstreetpit.com/81097...

"The second response is purely political-and Orwellian.  It is to repeat ad nauseum the Big Lie that this is the Tea Party downgrade, attributable lock, stock, and barrel to the failure of the Tea Party caucus in Congress to even countenance taxes as a part of any debt ceiling deal."

"The Tea Party doesn't consider raising taxes to be a constructive part of any effort to address the problem because its members believe that spending is the problem, not the way the spending is financed.  They believe that the government is too big, it spends too much, it spends badly, and that raising taxes just extends, but only for a little while, the life of Destructive Leviathan-whom they would rather starve than feed."

Oddly, there is still time for the Right Wing Mob that defeated every progressive step to restore America, to join the rest of us and support the actions of the Obama administration, even if you do not favor him, because it is no longer an ethical concern beyond your understanding. The doomsday riders are now at your front doors as a hazard to yourselves and family, no longer just a patriotic concern for the future of a collapsing United States economy!

by Texas Threatened My Family And Now Texas Pays The Price. You have yet to pay the price and I still have a full deck of cards to play and nothing to lose! Pay Up of Shut Up David Dewhurst! And stop giving Obama credit for my hard work!

Want to resolve the issue? Read this article:

http://iamnotanonymousihaveana...

Your Welcome Communications Is Key! Gregory O'Dell:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CawW...

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House Candidate Filing rolls on in Texas and Illinois


by: benawu

Mon Dec 26, 2011 at 06:11 PM CST

Texas and Illinois were the first two states where candidate filing was due to close. Then the US Supreme Court gave Texas one extra day.

But nonetheless wander down below the fold to see how both parties are going at filling the slate in the first two cabs off the rank in the 2012 cycle.

Oh yeh and take a look at the 2012 Race Tracker Wiki just because you can.

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Running for County Chair


by: John McClelland

Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 00:45 PM CST

Electing Democrats. That has been my goal since I joined the party years ago.

I filed last week to challenge the incumbent Democratic Party Chair in Denton County. In a county with no partisan offices held by members of the Democratic Party, the goal of electing Democrats is challenging. Building a better Democratic Party at the county level is part of that challenge, and I believe it is something I can do.

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Rick Perry Phone Calls Freedom Of Information Act


by: Arctotraveler

Wed Dec 07, 2011 at 08:17 PM CST

Dear Law Students of America, please tell us how to use the Freedom of Information Act to get printed copies of the dialogs and names of Texas Governor Rick Perry's illegal telephone calls?

Texas attorneys fear Rick Perry because they could lose their practice if they help us, so no help there; however, "We the People" are going to roast this guy!

Why? Texas Governor Rick Perry is a criminal. He threatens our president by stating he is, "Barack Obama's biggest fear" when he should be looking over shoulder at the Justice Department watching his every illegal move and "We The People" they have sworn to protect and serve!

The everyday majority of Texans do not fear Rick Perry, we are embarrassed every-time he opens his mouth. Only those that Perry owns fear him. We are not stake holders like his conspiring 4,500 appointees of Public Trust including judges in the Supreme Court - What can he do to us Texans he has not already done! He can't even hit a Coyote at 30 yards or balance a budget:
http://www.window.state.tx.us/...

Blagojevich gets 14 years in prison using a office phone that was legally wire tapped. Rick Perry gets away with murder while every one's phone in Texas is illegally tap, recorded, and stored including the office phone he used for unauthorized business.

Where is the rule-of-law here? If Rick Perry can record and listen to our conversations without a court order, then we should have access to the complete dialogs he made in print via a request of The Freedom of Information Act.

There is enough evidence to show that Perry,  Corporations, and Persons he talked with could spend some time in prison such as Governor Blagojevich! The conversation he had with the Koch brothers would be of the up most interest since it includes the treasonous sales to our enemy Iran. The same country that used the funds from these transactions to build  bombs to kill, critically wound and mane, American Soldiers.

Citation: Controversial Republican billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch -- who have spent untold millions bankrolling right-wing candidates and causes -- are now the subject of a new Bloomberg investigation that shows Koch Industries profited from business with Iran.

http://iamnotanonymousihaveana...

Blagojevich gets 14 years in prison
By Chris Bury | ABC News - 4 hrs ago
The ex-governor is sentenced in the corruption case that included trying to sell Obama's Senate seat.

Read Full Article: http://news.yahoo.com/judgment...

Before announcing, Rick Perry used work phone to call donors
WASHINGTON (AP) - Time and again, Texas Gov. Rick Perry picked up his office phone in the months before he would announce his bid for the presidency. He dialed wealthy friends who were his big fundraisers and state officials who owed him for their jobs.

Full Article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/p...  

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By Two Thirds Vote in Congress Remove the Disability - Texas Governor Richard James Perry


by: Arctotraveler

Mon Dec 05, 2011 at 01:12 PM CST

"We The People" The Citizens of The United States of America residing in the State of Texas, hereby stand in peaceful protest against Rick Perry Governor of Texas who has stripped the citizens of the State of their rights to pursue economic prosperity, participation in the judicial process, the right to due process while establishing overt and covert intelligence operations outside the jurisdiction and powers of the State, and denied the citizens of the State equal protection of the law, creating a Police State of corruption that has endangered the lives of the people of the State and mismanaged State funds outside of budgetary restraints to a degree of course of bankruptcy and dependency on Federal Funds reserved for emergencies other than corruption of positions of Public Trust who have been appointed by the Governor not elected by the people and met in secrecy with the intent to defraud the people and the Federal Government for the sole purpose and intent of personal financial gain and retention of power as the Governor of the State of Texas. We the People, the citizens of the United States of America residing in the State of Texas demand that a vote be put before congress representing all States of the Union and by two thirds vote in the house in favor, remove the Disability- Texas Governor Rick Perry for engaging in insurrection and rebellion against the constitution and the citizens of the United States of America.

This Christmas Give the World The Gift That Keeps On Giving!

Make a Request Which Is Legal And Binding To Your Congressional Representative Of Any State in The Union To Investigate Rick Perry For Treason And by Two Thirds Vote in Congress Remove the Disability - Texas Governor Rick Perry Before Christmas.

Who is your congressman at this link: https://writerep.house.gov/wri...  

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The Lunar Virus Pandemic Anthropology Jobs South Central Texas


by: Arctotraveler

Sun Nov 13, 2011 at 01:55 AM CST

The Center for Disease control employees thousands of professionals nationwide in collaboration with a worldwide network forming a Global data reporting base that has no international or state boundaries.

Unfortunately, the information shared by these agencies is only as good as post electronic data reporting systems and seldom considers dormant diseases. Yes, noteworthy events such as the Black Death have been considered and various theories researched by Anthropologist including forensic scientist.  What if the treat is real and I-have-name is the only one that can see it?

What if there is a dormant disease clearly expressed in dusty court records in South Central Texas and Big Oil is trying to hide it to the point of corrupting the Governor of Texas?

Big Oil has a history of corruption motivated by the all mighty dollar and they cannot be stop by any law-a-biding reasonable means including local police, FBI, or military action. This is the case of the hand written court records now held in an ancient school building where President Lyndon Johnson once taught my kin.

La Salle County records have been remove from the court room to facilitate the Cataula County Court House renovation and are at great risk to be destroyed by fire such as the studio set of The Alamo in Austin. Governor Rick Perry claims "The Alamo" movie set burned to the ground by a single lighting strike to hide his Gadhafi style leadership by bizarre media adds that includes the sickening play after play of Katy Perry so called country music

While visiting the school where LBJ once taught, trying to located my oil rights due me and my family, one cannot avoid a pandemic disease that is now dormant; however, cases of this Lunar disease are reported everywhere in Texas and some cases have been noted in Old Mexico South of the Nueces River.

I recommend the Center for Disease Control tape this school off as a crime scene and send in a team of University Forensic Anthropologist from the University of Texas to investigate every case where the court has legally and legitimately declared an individual suffering from the Lunar Virus or disease noted by the term 'Lunacy.'

The Lunacy Pandemic  is a unique type of disease that we have never seen the likes of because it only infects the weak, the disabled, elderly and especially woman that are rightful heirs to the biggest oil find in that last 60 years in the State of Texas! Page after page the Honorable Presiding Judge was force to give those suffering from the Lunar Disease oil rights to Big Oil.

Recommendation: Give the Forensic Anthropologist at the University of Texas something to do this semester. Offer a course to locate and eradicate the Lunar disease from the boundaries of Texas that has an affect on anyone who opposes Rick Perry Governor of Texas. The Lunar disease is the first know disease that attack the poor, sick, elderly, and women for profit. Perhaps the Lunar disease is the first virus to become Self-Aware!

A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan "all" + δῆμος demos "people") is an epidemic of infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide. A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic
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Joe Driver's ethical detour ends in felony conviction


by: The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee

Thu Nov 10, 2011 at 02:33 PM CST

[cross-posted at dlcc.org]

Texas GOP state Rep. Joe Driver has learned the hard way that public corruption is like a one-way street: once you’ve gone too far, there’s no turning around.

Driver, an 18-year veteran of the Texas House, pled guilty on Election Night to charges that he illegally pocketed nearly $50,000 in taxpayer funds over his two decades in office:

State Rep. Joe Driver, who candidly acknowledged pocketing taxpayer reimbursements for travel paid by his campaign, will enter a guilty plea on abuse-of-office charges, a third-degree felony, a top prosecutor said Tuesday night.

“He is going to plea to the third degree felony,” said Assistant Travis County District Attorney Gregg Cox, head of the Travis County Public Integrity Unit. “It is a plea of guilt.”

The genesis of this scandal was an excellent piece of reporting by the Associated Press over a year ago, in which reporters noticed that Driver had been billing both his campaign and the State of Texas for “luxury hotels, airline tickets, meals, fees and incidentals” related to travel – and then pocketing the extra cash.

That AP’s article included a brief interview with Driver, who not only admitted double-dipping, but also offered up this classic explanation of his actions:

"Now you're scaring the heck out of me," Driver told the AP, adding: "It pretty well screws my week." (…)

Driver insists he thought the double-billing was perfectly appropriate - until talking about it with the AP.

"Well, it doesn't sound like it is now. If you bring it up that way," he said.

“If you bring it up that way,” illegally taking $50,000 sounds almost wrong, doesn’t it?

Driver has announced his retirement from office next year, but that’s not good enough for the people of Texas. He pocketed at least $50,000 of their tax dollars, and we’ll never know if there was more because reimbursement records prior to 2005 have been destroyed.

Now Driver wants to serve the rest of his term with a felony conviction for public corruption. He would spend another 15 months as a lawmaker who, for instance, remains eligible for official travel reimbursements at taxpayer expense.

Driver should resign today.

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AISD Joins 250+ others in that Other Political Court Drama


by: Michael Hurta

Tue Oct 25, 2011 at 00:06 AM CDT

While most politicos in Austin sit waiting for the courts' next move on our 2012 electoral maps, forces more basic to our state's functioning (both political and otherwise) are pushing the legal system.

Tonight, the Austin Indpendent School District, on a unanimous vote, joined the fray by teaming up with law firm Thompson & Horton that argues "that the school finance system in its current state constitutes an unconstitutional statewide property tax, and that target revenue provides funding levels to schools that are arbitrary, and thus are an inefficient and unsuitable method for financing public schools."

And that's just the smaller lawsuit - comprised of wealthier districts that don't think they can afford current funding to spread out equally among Texas schools. The Texas Taxpayer & Student Fairness Coalition, on the other hand, is comprised of over 250 different school districts throughout Texas.  That's about one fourth of Texas's independent school districts. And almost a fourth of the Lone Star State's schools are going to court - against Texas.

The major coalition includes local ISDs, too - Pflugerville, Elgin, Smithville, Coupland, Granger, Hutto, Thrall and Taylor ISDs are the other districts from Travis and surrounding counties. And with so much effort behind this suit, noise will surely be made. Already in the Texas Tribune's "Insider Poll,", 60% of respondents said that the school finance lawsuits were "serious" at level 5 on a 1-5 scale (with 5 being the highest.)

One even went to say, "By the time this hits the district court, over half of Texas schools will be involved. The suit also will include parents, small business owners and other taxpayers."

Two Hundred Fifty Plus and Counting.

The main battle at stake, in the larger coalition, was outlined in a press release sent almost a month ago by the Equity Center, a group that represents a large portion of this coalition on matters of school finance equity at the legislature every session:

Because the Legislature has failed to adopt a rational and efficient system that treats all Texas taxpayers and children fairly as required by the Texas Constitution, districts believe now is the time to take legal action.

Given the disparities in student funding and taxpayer equity, these districts have a strong case and their position cannot be ignored.

For example, per student funding across Texas ranges from under $5,000 to over $10,000, even though state accountability standards are applied to all children uniformly.

Dr. Wayne Pierce, Executive Director, explains it this way: "We believe litigation is the only way to ensure taxpayer equity and a quality education for Texas children. We must litigate for a school finance system that makes sense and is fair to all children, taxpayers, and districts."

Or read the argument from the lawyers in the first paragraph in the Plaintiffs Original Petition and Request for Declatory Judgement:

Before the 82nd Legislature convened in January of 2011, Texas' funding for public education had already become an arbitrary hodge-podge of approaches rather than a coherent system. This hodge-podge, built around a hold-harmless scheme adopted in 2006 called "Target Revenue," resulted in huge differences in yields for similar tax effort that gave property-wealthy districts unconstitutionally greater access to educational dollars. This constitutional inefficiency was compounded in 2011 by SB 1 passed by the 82T Legislature which reduced school funding formulas by $4 billion dollars in addition to other cuts in excess of $1 billion. In FY 2012, SB1 makes across-the-board percentage reductions to districts' regular program funding. These losses in already low-funded districts have a harsher impact than similar Cuts to a much higher funded district. In FY20 13, SB 1 cuts more from districts with Target Revenue, but limits their losses so that they will still have greater resources than the lower wealth districts.

This isn't the first time schools needed to sue the state. In fact, it's a relatively common occurrence, and it's a sad reflection on our state government that litigation is the most effective means towards reasonable policy.

Perhaps this time, with such a force behind multiple lawsuits against the state, the ballot boxes will hear this roar, too.

Edit 10/25 1:25 pm: Turns out I made a significant mistake in the original write-up. AISD did not join the same lawsuit as the Texas Taxpayer & Student Fairness Coalition. AISD, along with other large and wealthy joined a lawsuit that doesn't make the equity argument, which could potentially mean less money for wealthier districts. Either way - Texas school districts statewide are finding major problems with the school finance system that the legislature passed, no matter how relatively bad their current situation is.  

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