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Created: Fri Aug 15, 2008 at 11:01 AM CDT
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How bright is Texas and Texan's future?


by: TomP

Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 11:25 AM CST

Not very as long as ignorant, centered on self people in this state keep electing and reelecting the same type neocons to our state legislature that keep us ALL going backwards faster than an Arkansas clock.

I've made it no secret right here in this blog that neither McCain nor Obama were among my two top picks for the White House, but I will say that for once the less damaging person won by a popular vote margin that couldn't be stolen by neocon rats and their one way vote machines or hanging chads.

Now we can all look forward to the whom's it will be that President elect Obama opts to fill his administrative staff....those choices will be the proof in the pudding of how positively or negatively the next four years will be for U S Citizens.  Make no mistake on this.  Obama's administrative staff choices are paramount...and I personally believe and feel confident that Obama will make much better choices than McCain ever would have.  And as likely as not Obama may call on some of the more reasonable common sense conservatives to join his administrative staff.

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No humor allowed?


by: TomP

Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 11:04 AM CDT

I just had a humorous post "You may be a Taliban if" removed that was copied and pasted in from an email sent to me by my niece now serving her second in Afghanistan.

Thanks for showing your support moderator.

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I just read an interesting article about political speech writers


by: TomP

Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 05:25 PM CDT

And a major part of the problem as I see it is that politicians running for office "that say I know" and make promises have to have speeches written for them in the first place.

No matter which party they represent or even if they have no party, the candidates are the people we are making choices for to run the operations of our cities, counties, states, and nation and they should be speaking straight out of their own minds on the issues and either sink or swim on their on as case may be without being propped up by speech writers behind the drapes.

Maybe we should all just cut to the chase and vote for the prop up the candidates speech writing people if they are the brains behind it all anyway, instead of the people they write the speeches for.

But I guess that would make too much sense.

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The "R" word


by: TomP

Fri Aug 15, 2008 at 00:27 PM CDT

I'm for the lack of a better word, a political conservative, but I'm definitely not one of those right wing radical sheep so far out on the right that live in a place that may as well be called "Stupidland."  Neocons are semi living proof
of how a well oiled propaganda machine works and brainwashes
them.

Now that I've more or less described myself, on to other things like the "R" word, that far too many right wingers seem to choke on when they see or read it.

Rrrrrrregulate!  See there. It didn't really hurt that much when you read it, did it Mr.s and Mrs. Neocon?

How can that one word scare the living hell out of so many people is beyond common sense reason.

We live in a land of laws many of which are called regulations.

Please do note that I keep writing "regulation" not "strangulation."  Legalized strangulation is far more descriptive for what all us average Joe and Jane citizens have to cope with on a daily basis.  Because if there is one group living in this nation and its states being strangulated by regulatory law its us, the ordinary citizens!!

The regulations I'm referring to, many of them in place but virtually unenforced, are regulations on businesses and corporations that anybody with an IQ higher than a Daisy knows, take advantage of not only the law, but lawmakers as well at ever level in government in order to gouge every cent out of  government and consumers they can; especially and specifically the mega corporations that are under contract to and with the U S Government.

Face it folks.  The federal government is a money mill that feeds over two trillion dollars a year to its contractors, mega corporations all and government has only a very few methods available to get all those trillabucks to feed their monsters slopping at the public trough.

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