I have a question for anyone who knows something about paved roads and their maintenance. My daughter, the civil engineer draws a blank on this.
So far as I know, south central Wisconsin is unique in "maintaining" the asphalt paved county and township roads around here by spreading a nice thck coat of tar or oil, then a nice thick coating of fine pea gravel. The oil gets on anyone's vehicle who is unlucky enough to have to use the road, and the pea gravel is a special treat to two-wheeled traffic. My daughter came out today on her bike and had to negotiate some curves on a county road so treated - luckily she knows how to ride.
Is there actually any benefit to this technique, aside from making some politically connected people's brother-in-laws rich? It certainly ought to make the greenies happy, spreading all that oil to leach into the ground...
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Appropriate for the Fourth of July!
Just saw this:
Felony charges for reporting within the Gulf spill zone
Just as we are celebrating our country's birth, our Glorious Leader's government does this. Somehow, it's appropriate.
Another link: Gulf of Mexico censorship
Felony charges for reporting within the Gulf spill zone
Just as we are celebrating our country's birth, our Glorious Leader's government does this. Somehow, it's appropriate.
Another link: Gulf of Mexico censorship
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Texas to shutter a bunch of refineries
EPA closes refineries due to some bullshit rule that got bent. Big Dick's Place has the link...
Common sense in a county prosecutor-and stupidity elsewhere
Article in the Beloit Daily News:
Prosecutor says he won't enforce state gun laws
Jackson County, Wisconsin District Attorney Gerald R. Fox is a very intelligent man. He has read the Supreme Court's ruling that incorporated the Second Amendment as a fundamental right, and has done the right thing - he refuses to prosecute people in violation of un-Constitutional state laws.
Contrast this with Little Dick Daley in Chicago, who in response to the same ruling, rushed through new restrictions on an unalienable right.
Lots of lawyers are going to get rich, and the taxpayers of Chicago are going to get poorer. Finally, the people of Chicago will be free - but it's going to take years, and Daley getting ridden out of town on a rail, dripping tar and feathers.
I can dream, can't I?
Just sent this to the Daily News letters:
Jackson County District attorney Gerald R. Fox is the kind of public official we need more of in Wisconsin. He has announced that, in accordance with the highest law of our country, he will no longer prosecute people for exercising their God-given right to self defense under the Second Amendment.
We now need to get our legislators to do the correct thing, and repeal all the un-Constitutional gun laws on the Wisconsin books. The useless 'handgun hotline', the waiting period for gun deliveries, the ban on concealed carry - all of them.
We need more people to take a stand like this. How about Rock County's district attorney being the next to announce he will follow the highest law of the land and ignore laws in violation of it?
Our prosecutors and police should be going after people who are committing real crimes, with or without weapons. Possessing an object should never be a crime. It's what you do with that object that matters, and only the action of harming another person should be prosecuted as a crime.
Prosecutor says he won't enforce state gun laws
Jackson County, Wisconsin District Attorney Gerald R. Fox is a very intelligent man. He has read the Supreme Court's ruling that incorporated the Second Amendment as a fundamental right, and has done the right thing - he refuses to prosecute people in violation of un-Constitutional state laws.
Contrast this with Little Dick Daley in Chicago, who in response to the same ruling, rushed through new restrictions on an unalienable right.
Lots of lawyers are going to get rich, and the taxpayers of Chicago are going to get poorer. Finally, the people of Chicago will be free - but it's going to take years, and Daley getting ridden out of town on a rail, dripping tar and feathers.
I can dream, can't I?
Just sent this to the Daily News letters:
Jackson County District attorney Gerald R. Fox is the kind of public official we need more of in Wisconsin. He has announced that, in accordance with the highest law of our country, he will no longer prosecute people for exercising their God-given right to self defense under the Second Amendment.
We now need to get our legislators to do the correct thing, and repeal all the un-Constitutional gun laws on the Wisconsin books. The useless 'handgun hotline', the waiting period for gun deliveries, the ban on concealed carry - all of them.
We need more people to take a stand like this. How about Rock County's district attorney being the next to announce he will follow the highest law of the land and ignore laws in violation of it?
Our prosecutors and police should be going after people who are committing real crimes, with or without weapons. Possessing an object should never be a crime. It's what you do with that object that matters, and only the action of harming another person should be prosecuted as a crime.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Osama wants immigration reform?
Another sent to the usual cretins:
NO. We do not need Mr. Obama's version of "reform" - we need the federal government to enforce the LAW as it is written.
What would actually be a true reform would be a law cleaning up the concept of "anchor babies" to limit automatic citizenship to babies born here to parents here legally who have previously expressed a real commitment to becoming citizens themselves.
Why not propose such a bill while telling Mr. Obama to quit fooling around when he's got real crises to deal with? Getting more Democratic voters is not a crisis to be addressed - it's a disaster for our country.
NO. We do not need Mr. Obama's version of "reform" - we need the federal government to enforce the LAW as it is written.
What would actually be a true reform would be a law cleaning up the concept of "anchor babies" to limit automatic citizenship to babies born here to parents here legally who have previously expressed a real commitment to becoming citizens themselves.
Why not propose such a bill while telling Mr. Obama to quit fooling around when he's got real crises to deal with? Getting more Democratic voters is not a crisis to be addressed - it's a disaster for our country.
Kagan nomination
Sent to the usual suspects:
Vote NO on Ms. Kagan. She does not understand, nor does she respect the Constitution of the United States.
She also cannot answer a direct question directly. We've way too many shady politicians in Washington now, without appointing one to life tenure in our highest court.
Vote NO on Ms. Kagan. She does not understand, nor does she respect the Constitution of the United States.
She also cannot answer a direct question directly. We've way too many shady politicians in Washington now, without appointing one to life tenure in our highest court.
Monday, June 28, 2010
McDonald ruling due today!
Like many, I hope for a clear victory - but will not be surprised by a weaselly refusal to act in the best interests of the people of America.
Update: Kinda a victory. More lawsuits to come, but the foot is now in the door...
Supreme Court rules that all Americans have fundamental right to bear arms
Update: Kinda a victory. More lawsuits to come, but the foot is now in the door...
Supreme Court rules that all Americans have fundamental right to bear arms
Hitting close to home
Hot Air has this:
I hope we can change the direction our country is being driven in without bloodshed.
Update: Sent this to the usual suspects:
GO here and see what our "president's" wishes, combined with your aid, have done to our state.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/27/obamas-promise-to-bankrupt-coal-industry-to-cost-1000-jobs-in-upper-midwest/
How about fighting for US here in Wisconsin, as we hired you to do, and not for the "new world order"?
Obama’s promise to bankrupt coal industry to cost 1,000 jobs in upper Midwest
Hope and change?I hope we can change the direction our country is being driven in without bloodshed.
Update: Sent this to the usual suspects:
GO here and see what our "president's" wishes, combined with your aid, have done to our state.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/27/obamas-promise-to-bankrupt-coal-industry-to-cost-1000-jobs-in-upper-midwest/
How about fighting for US here in Wisconsin, as we hired you to do, and not for the "new world order"?
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Nanny state protectionism
I've been thinking about laws meant to protect people from themselves in one way or another. The July 4th holiday always brings this to mind with the obligatory front-page warnings in the local paper about the dangers of fireworks.
How does any government that claims to be supporting freedom get off making any law aimed at forcing anyone to do something or not do something strictly for their own safety? The very idea ought to be anathema to a freedom-loving "legislator".
The only laws that should ever be passed are those which further the overall freedom of the people - and not "freedom from", ever. Americans should always be free to experience the consequences of their own actions, for good or bad. The only time the government should step in is if one person's actions cause injury to another or to some others property - and then only at the complaint of the injured party or a witness to the injury.
If children are shielded from all danger while growing, they will never mature as fully-functioning citizens of a free state. Of course, such defective children are key ingredients of a true nanny state. Without a cowering populace, the nanny state could not survive.
How does any government that claims to be supporting freedom get off making any law aimed at forcing anyone to do something or not do something strictly for their own safety? The very idea ought to be anathema to a freedom-loving "legislator".
The only laws that should ever be passed are those which further the overall freedom of the people - and not "freedom from", ever. Americans should always be free to experience the consequences of their own actions, for good or bad. The only time the government should step in is if one person's actions cause injury to another or to some others property - and then only at the complaint of the injured party or a witness to the injury.
If children are shielded from all danger while growing, they will never mature as fully-functioning citizens of a free state. Of course, such defective children are key ingredients of a true nanny state. Without a cowering populace, the nanny state could not survive.
Yet another futile attempt at controlling my employees...
Sent to Kohl and Feingold...
We do not need, nor do we want, a "kill switch" for the Internet.
We do not need, nor do we want, a "Disclose Act" that would infringe the freedom of political speech. It was tried once with McCain-Feingold, and rightly was struck down by the Supreme Court.
We DO need to allow the Gulf States the freedom to defend their own shores from the oil mess gnereated mainly by federal regulations that forced drillers into unsafe waters.
We DO need the federal government to either properly police our borders, as the law requires, or for them top get the heck out of the way and allow Arizona to do the job the federal government obviously will not or cannot do.
We DO need you guys to stop spending our distant descendants' life's savings on unicorn fart programs like ObamaCare and bailouts of companies. Let people take responsibility for their own lives, and let big corporations live or die based on their own actions and mistakes.
We DO need the size of the federal government reduced by about 90%. Now.
We DO need federal legislation prohibiting anyone paid in any way from taxes taken from the American people from joining or organizing a union. Anyone taking a federal paycheck who does so should be immediately fired.
We DO need an immediate cessation in the printing of money without a corresponding increase in our national product.
We DO need an immediate reduction of federal taxes - and no new taxes unless an equal amount of existing taxes are removed. You want to pass a VAT, well, disband the IRS and remove all income taxes, personal and corporate. One or the other.
Do what we want, don't do what we don't want you to do. It's really simple.
We do not need, nor do we want, a "kill switch" for the Internet.
We do not need, nor do we want, a "Disclose Act" that would infringe the freedom of political speech. It was tried once with McCain-Feingold, and rightly was struck down by the Supreme Court.
We DO need to allow the Gulf States the freedom to defend their own shores from the oil mess gnereated mainly by federal regulations that forced drillers into unsafe waters.
We DO need the federal government to either properly police our borders, as the law requires, or for them top get the heck out of the way and allow Arizona to do the job the federal government obviously will not or cannot do.
We DO need you guys to stop spending our distant descendants' life's savings on unicorn fart programs like ObamaCare and bailouts of companies. Let people take responsibility for their own lives, and let big corporations live or die based on their own actions and mistakes.
We DO need the size of the federal government reduced by about 90%. Now.
We DO need federal legislation prohibiting anyone paid in any way from taxes taken from the American people from joining or organizing a union. Anyone taking a federal paycheck who does so should be immediately fired.
We DO need an immediate cessation in the printing of money without a corresponding increase in our national product.
We DO need an immediate reduction of federal taxes - and no new taxes unless an equal amount of existing taxes are removed. You want to pass a VAT, well, disband the IRS and remove all income taxes, personal and corporate. One or the other.
Do what we want, don't do what we don't want you to do. It's really simple.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Jews in the attic
How do you determine a law is tyrannical? Joe Huffman has a test.
"Will this law make it difficult or impossible to protect innocent life from a government intent on their imprisonment or death?"
The Jews in the Attic test
Worth passing around. Check out his blog: The View from North Central Idaho
Chuck
"Will this law make it difficult or impossible to protect innocent life from a government intent on their imprisonment or death?"
The Jews in the Attic test
Worth passing around. Check out his blog: The View from North Central Idaho
Chuck
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Email to NRA-ILA
Re: H.R. 5175, THE DISCLOSE ACT -
How can you in any way support this? I did not send in all that money to the NRA to become a life member so that the NRA-ILA would be a party to un-Constitutional infringements on the First Amendment.
It's bad enough to have a state senator - Feingold - who thinks the First Amendment is not a restriction on the government - but to have my NRA aid and abet the loss of freedom is unconscionable.
What's next? Are you going to send money to the Brady Bunch? They are hurting financially, I hear, and I bet they would love help getting their message out!
How can you in any way support this? I did not send in all that money to the NRA to become a life member so that the NRA-ILA would be a party to un-Constitutional infringements on the First Amendment.
It's bad enough to have a state senator - Feingold - who thinks the First Amendment is not a restriction on the government - but to have my NRA aid and abet the loss of freedom is unconscionable.
What's next? Are you going to send money to the Brady Bunch? They are hurting financially, I hear, and I bet they would love help getting their message out!
Another nail in the national coffin
Feingold and Kohl both voted to let the EPA keep the power to regulate human exhalations and volcanoes.
Again, I send email to these idiots. Am I just a glutton for disappointment, or what?
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Are you insane, sir? Giving the EPA the power to unilaterally "regulate" substances that have no possible effect on our "climate", and that have no possibility of control by humanity?
Carbon dioxide is a vital nutrient, the vast majority of which is produced by natural sources. Man-made CO2 emissions contribute less than 10% of the total atmospheric content of this gas.
Allowing an unelected bureaucracy to have the power to control something that all living creatures exhale is totally crazy. The opportunities for mischief are endless.
I won't even get into the fact that our whole economy, and our standard of living - not just for America, but for the entire planet, depends on the burning of so-called "fossil fuels", and will be so dependent for the foreseeable future, despite any claims of "alternative energy". We must, as a species, someday wean ourselves off coal and oil, but to do so in a totally unscientific and illogical manner is a form of slow national suicide.
NOTHING America can do unilaterally will have the slightest effect on the climate of this planet. It is the height of arrogance to even think this is possible. All this power given to the EPA will cause is further destruction of our economy, more unemployment, and a further proof to the other nations of the world that the USA is no longer a power to be reckoned with.
In your last few months of service to the people of Wisconsin, could you please help rein-in the insanity of the environmental religion? At least show some guts and character, so when you are dis-elected, you will go out with a few good marks on your record!
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CO2 comprises less than 1/3 of 1% of our atmosphere. The probability of a given photon hitting a molecule of CO2 is minuscule, and actual scientific measurements have shown that CO2 is much less effective in trapping heat than water vapor, which is ten to one hundred times as common in the atmosphere. But, when has common sense and intelligent thought EVER figured into the antics of our politicians?
Again, I send email to these idiots. Am I just a glutton for disappointment, or what?
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Are you insane, sir? Giving the EPA the power to unilaterally "regulate" substances that have no possible effect on our "climate", and that have no possibility of control by humanity?
Carbon dioxide is a vital nutrient, the vast majority of which is produced by natural sources. Man-made CO2 emissions contribute less than 10% of the total atmospheric content of this gas.
Allowing an unelected bureaucracy to have the power to control something that all living creatures exhale is totally crazy. The opportunities for mischief are endless.
I won't even get into the fact that our whole economy, and our standard of living - not just for America, but for the entire planet, depends on the burning of so-called "fossil fuels", and will be so dependent for the foreseeable future, despite any claims of "alternative energy". We must, as a species, someday wean ourselves off coal and oil, but to do so in a totally unscientific and illogical manner is a form of slow national suicide.
NOTHING America can do unilaterally will have the slightest effect on the climate of this planet. It is the height of arrogance to even think this is possible. All this power given to the EPA will cause is further destruction of our economy, more unemployment, and a further proof to the other nations of the world that the USA is no longer a power to be reckoned with.
In your last few months of service to the people of Wisconsin, could you please help rein-in the insanity of the environmental religion? At least show some guts and character, so when you are dis-elected, you will go out with a few good marks on your record!
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CO2 comprises less than 1/3 of 1% of our atmosphere. The probability of a given photon hitting a molecule of CO2 is minuscule, and actual scientific measurements have shown that CO2 is much less effective in trapping heat than water vapor, which is ten to one hundred times as common in the atmosphere. But, when has common sense and intelligent thought EVER figured into the antics of our politicians?
Saturday, June 5, 2010
White House Press Corps Head Speaks!
From Helen Thomas, a good pal of The Won, President Osama:
Not much for history, this ugly broad...
Not much for history, this ugly broad...
Monday, May 31, 2010
LOST?
LOST - the Law Of The Sea treaty - is back. Osama wants it. Anyone concerned with sovereignty and freedom does NOT want it.
Write your critters. This cannot be allowed to be ratified.
Write your critters. This cannot be allowed to be ratified.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Another letter to the critters
I think it's time to enact a law forcing all federal agencies to get Congressional permission, by a recorded vote, to 'enact' laws.
The EPA is trying to regulate our exhalations in a quest to halt non-existent 'global warming', or as it's now called, 'climate change'.
The FCC may soon implement 'rules' concerning 'fairness' on the Internet, rules that will stifle free speech.
The BATFE routinely 'defines' what a gun is, and determines what weapons Americans can obtain without fear of federal prosecution, despite our Constitution having a clear Second Amendment.
The FDA is trying to regulate dietary supplements and "alternative medicine" out of existence.
All this is done without any Congressional oversight. These 'rules' are costing America billions of dollars, and are resulting in huge losses of individual freedom while expanding bloated bureaucracies.
A law is sorely needed to rein in these bureaucrats and make them accountable to the people they are supposedly serving.
Rather than passing more bailouts to companies 'too big to fail', and further ensuring our descendants inherit our mistakes for the next millennium, work on real, needed legislation.
The EPA is trying to regulate our exhalations in a quest to halt non-existent 'global warming', or as it's now called, 'climate change'.
The FCC may soon implement 'rules' concerning 'fairness' on the Internet, rules that will stifle free speech.
The BATFE routinely 'defines' what a gun is, and determines what weapons Americans can obtain without fear of federal prosecution, despite our Constitution having a clear Second Amendment.
The FDA is trying to regulate dietary supplements and "alternative medicine" out of existence.
All this is done without any Congressional oversight. These 'rules' are costing America billions of dollars, and are resulting in huge losses of individual freedom while expanding bloated bureaucracies.
A law is sorely needed to rein in these bureaucrats and make them accountable to the people they are supposedly serving.
Rather than passing more bailouts to companies 'too big to fail', and further ensuring our descendants inherit our mistakes for the next millennium, work on real, needed legislation.
Friday, March 26, 2010
It's Earth Hour!
Saturday, March 27th, will see the 2010 celebration of Earth Hour, where all good greenies will turn off all their lights for one hour at 8:30 PM local time, to demonstrate their solidarity with the High Priest of Bull Shit, St. Algore and his Church of Climatology.
http://www.myearthhour.org/
For me, I intend to turn on every light on all three buildings on my property at 8 PM, and have every operable internal-combustion vehicle I own idling with lights on in the parking area, until 9 PM. I will also be operating all audio gear on the property at full volume for the duration.
I'll be riding the motorcycle. Not good to let it idle - it overheats. Beside, riding uses more irreplacable fossil fuel, and emits more of that horrible pollutant, CO2.
http://www.myearthhour.org/
For me, I intend to turn on every light on all three buildings on my property at 8 PM, and have every operable internal-combustion vehicle I own idling with lights on in the parking area, until 9 PM. I will also be operating all audio gear on the property at full volume for the duration.
I'll be riding the motorcycle. Not good to let it idle - it overheats. Beside, riding uses more irreplacable fossil fuel, and emits more of that horrible pollutant, CO2.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Osama's real energy policy
Should come as no surprise - he warned us about it, if we were listening...
Originally published 05:49 p.m., March 9, 2010, updated 10:43 p.m., March 9, 2010
EDITORIAL: Obama's a pain at the pump
Read the whole thing:
Originally published 05:49 p.m., March 9, 2010, updated 10:43 p.m., March 9, 2010
EDITORIAL: Obama's a pain at the pump
Get ready to pay a lot more than $3 a gallon to fill up your car during peak driving periods this spring and summer. More pain at the pump is the inevitable result of the Obama administration's carrot-and-stick approach to dealing with America's energy woes.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week announced new leases for offshore oil and gas drilling, which will take effect in 2012. While news reports characterized the decision as a bold response to the nation's energy needs, reality is quite to the contrary.
Within a month of taking office in 2009, Mr. Salazar froze drilling leases already approved by the outgoing George W. Bush administration. Then he imposed a six-month public comment period to precede his decision on whether to allow new drilling. When the comment period ended in September, Interior suppressed the results.
Read the whole thing:
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Found this interesting map at Google:
Original link: http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=254&issue=011
Original link: http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=254&issue=011
More on Interpol
Barking Moonbat Early Warning System has an intersting article:
http://www.barking-moonbat.com/index.php/weblog/interpol_nazis_and_crooks/
http://www.barking-moonbat.com/index.php/weblog/interpol_nazis_and_crooks/
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
The end of fredom?
This is scary:
http://threatswatch.org/analysis/2009/12/print/wither_sovereignty/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425
We've got to stop this back-door "legislation". Executive orders have been hugely misused over the years. No more.
My message to the CONgresscritters:
Time to get serious. Forget health care and "climate change" - just sideshows.
The main event is being held behind your backs - Mr. Obama has "modified" a Reagan-era executive order to allow Interpol extraordinary privileges in the USA. They do not need to follow any of our laws, even if they are interested in an American citizen.
here's a link to the White House announcement:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425
If you have a smidgen of respect left for your constituents, you and all of Congress will immediately insist on the retraction of this order, barring that, draft legislation restricting Interpol to following the laws of the United States while on our soil.
Quit screwing around with destroying our health care system and our economy and stand up for our freedoms.
http://threatswatch.org/analysis/2009/12/print/wither_sovereignty/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425
We've got to stop this back-door "legislation". Executive orders have been hugely misused over the years. No more.
My message to the CONgresscritters:
Time to get serious. Forget health care and "climate change" - just sideshows.
The main event is being held behind your backs - Mr. Obama has "modified" a Reagan-era executive order to allow Interpol extraordinary privileges in the USA. They do not need to follow any of our laws, even if they are interested in an American citizen.
here's a link to the White House announcement:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425
If you have a smidgen of respect left for your constituents, you and all of Congress will immediately insist on the retraction of this order, barring that, draft legislation restricting Interpol to following the laws of the United States while on our soil.
Quit screwing around with destroying our health care system and our economy and stand up for our freedoms.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Email to CONgresscritters
Futile effort:
To the usual suspects -
Do you just not understand, or are you actively refusing to listen to your constituents (bosses)?
We have told you repeatedly to vote NO on this monstrous misuse of federal power. The Constitution (little you care) has no mention of universal health care that will devolve almost immediately into the most convoluted bureaucratic nightmare this country has ever seen.
Vote YEA on the final bill and see what happens. You won't much like the results.
You have been warned.
Chuck Kuecker
To the usual suspects -
Do you just not understand, or are you actively refusing to listen to your constituents (bosses)?
We have told you repeatedly to vote NO on this monstrous misuse of federal power. The Constitution (little you care) has no mention of universal health care that will devolve almost immediately into the most convoluted bureaucratic nightmare this country has ever seen.
Vote YEA on the final bill and see what happens. You won't much like the results.
You have been warned.
Chuck Kuecker
Sunday, December 20, 2009
ESPN petition
Received this petition invitation from "Our Country Deserves Better". ESPN evidently has drunk the "climate change" Kool-Aid and is helping cram this crap down our throats.
Petition at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/shameonespn/
Of course they want you to donate.
My comment:
"Climate change" has been a natural part of life on Earth since the dawn of time. The current fear-mongering is simply a means of forcing more governmental regulation - "people control" - down our throats, and furthering the move toward a "one world government". Read their documentation - they are quite open about their goals.
Thank goodness that they are so insular - they can't decide on a course of action since it would end up hurting them individually, and they cannot abide that!
The radical environmentalists would like nothing better than to manage to reduce the Earth's population by at least 90% - some of them are straightforward about human extinction!
Chuck
Petition at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/shameonespn/
Of course they want you to donate.
My comment:
"Climate change" has been a natural part of life on Earth since the dawn of time. The current fear-mongering is simply a means of forcing more governmental regulation - "people control" - down our throats, and furthering the move toward a "one world government". Read their documentation - they are quite open about their goals.
Thank goodness that they are so insular - they can't decide on a course of action since it would end up hurting them individually, and they cannot abide that!
The radical environmentalists would like nothing better than to manage to reduce the Earth's population by at least 90% - some of them are straightforward about human extinction!
Chuck
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Letter to the Editor
Sent to the Beloit Daily News, in response to this article:
Benedict s bill: Look before you eat
http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2009/12/18/news/local_news/news1804.txt
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I was under the impression that Wisconsin needed to work on becoming business-friendly, and helping to preserve jobs.
So why is Rep. Chuck Benedict proposing another nanny-state regulation that will encourage businesses to think twice about opening new outlets here, and will cause prices to rise at existing fast food stores by proposing a new law that will force them to completely redo all their menus and outdoor signs to include "nutritional information"?
Last time I was in a McDonald's, there was a poster on the wall with that information. Anyone interested could ask and be shown calorie counts and other information. Mr. Benedict's new law would force them to shove this information into our faces, and make us pay more for the food to cover their expenses.
Obesity may be a problem for some, but it's their problem, not the government's. People have to take responsibility for what they eat, drink, and smoke and the effect it may have on their health. The government should not be taking that responsibility from the people with nanny-state rules such as this.
Aren't there a whole lot of real problems in and around Beloit that Mr. Benedict could be looking into instead of this? How about lobbying for that casino that would provide revenue and jobs for the area? Possibly proposing elimination of some of the recent "green" laws that hamper businesses who might otherwise build here? Reducing the taxes stolen from business?
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Chuck
Benedict s bill: Look before you eat
http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2009/12/18/news/local_news/news1804.txt
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I was under the impression that Wisconsin needed to work on becoming business-friendly, and helping to preserve jobs.
So why is Rep. Chuck Benedict proposing another nanny-state regulation that will encourage businesses to think twice about opening new outlets here, and will cause prices to rise at existing fast food stores by proposing a new law that will force them to completely redo all their menus and outdoor signs to include "nutritional information"?
Last time I was in a McDonald's, there was a poster on the wall with that information. Anyone interested could ask and be shown calorie counts and other information. Mr. Benedict's new law would force them to shove this information into our faces, and make us pay more for the food to cover their expenses.
Obesity may be a problem for some, but it's their problem, not the government's. People have to take responsibility for what they eat, drink, and smoke and the effect it may have on their health. The government should not be taking that responsibility from the people with nanny-state rules such as this.
Aren't there a whole lot of real problems in and around Beloit that Mr. Benedict could be looking into instead of this? How about lobbying for that casino that would provide revenue and jobs for the area? Possibly proposing elimination of some of the recent "green" laws that hamper businesses who might otherwise build here? Reducing the taxes stolen from business?
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Chuck
Sent to the usual clowns
Sent to Feingold, Kohl, and Tammy Gay...
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Since our President has elected to make an ass of himself in Copenhagen, and promise our country will "do something" about this imaginary bogeyman of "climate change", it now falls to you in Congress to rein him in and remind him that the people of the USA are in charge - not him.
While you are at it, why is there no big investigation into the fraud committed by employees of NASA and various academics who received federal money for "climate change" studies?
Vote NO on any "climate" treaty, or any attempt to tax or otherwise control the necessary global nutrient, carbon dioxide. How about putting the EPA back under the control of Congress, so they don't do things like declaring our personal exhalations to be pollution? If it wasn't so serious, it would make for good comedy.
Oh yeah. Vote NO on any attempt to federalize health care. We all know how well the government handles most problems, and this one will be a particularly painful disaster if passed.
An investigation into the Federal Reserve and its' lending practices would be nice.
Remember who pays your paycheck - and all those benefits you are poised to get - like lifelong pension and health care not controlled by pencil-necks in some federal office.
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Chuck
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Since our President has elected to make an ass of himself in Copenhagen, and promise our country will "do something" about this imaginary bogeyman of "climate change", it now falls to you in Congress to rein him in and remind him that the people of the USA are in charge - not him.
While you are at it, why is there no big investigation into the fraud committed by employees of NASA and various academics who received federal money for "climate change" studies?
Vote NO on any "climate" treaty, or any attempt to tax or otherwise control the necessary global nutrient, carbon dioxide. How about putting the EPA back under the control of Congress, so they don't do things like declaring our personal exhalations to be pollution? If it wasn't so serious, it would make for good comedy.
Oh yeah. Vote NO on any attempt to federalize health care. We all know how well the government handles most problems, and this one will be a particularly painful disaster if passed.
An investigation into the Federal Reserve and its' lending practices would be nice.
Remember who pays your paycheck - and all those benefits you are poised to get - like lifelong pension and health care not controlled by pencil-necks in some federal office.
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Chuck
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
New from Feingold
An exchange with the great man:
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Message from Senator Russ Feingold - DO NOT REPLY wrote:
Hey, Russ,
You seem to miss the big point here - the whole scare ofer "anthropomorphic global warming" has been nothing but a scam, and a ploy to create a "one world government".
We don't need ANY legislation to address the nonexistent problem - especially now, when our economy is creaking under the weight of ill-conceived economic "fixes" by both the previous administration, and at an alarmingly accelerated rate by Mr. Obama.
We need to address things like climate change corruption and collusion to pass laws that will enrich certain people at the expense of all Americans.
We need to address the border security situation - both south and north.
We need to start enforcing our immigration laws -as written. That by itself would be a great "immigration reform" all in itself.
We need to address the rampant corruption and malfeasance in our banking and lending institutions, foremost the head of the serpent, the Federal Reserve. There needs to be a true independent audit done, and real soon!
We need to make REAL changes to health care - like eliminating the ban on intrastate insurance sales, and eliminating laws that force hospitals and doctors to treat people illegally in the country. Give illegals stabilizing treatment and ship 'em back to wherever in the next wherever-bound Greyhound or semi-trailer.
We need to acknowledge that radical Islam is not a "religion" - rather, it is a front for terrorism. We need to demand that mainstream Muslims stop supporting the radicals.
We need to start drilling and mining for oil and coal HERE, so we can wean ourselves off foreign oil.
We need to rein in rouge federal agencies like the BATFE, and the EPA, who seem to believe they have carte-blanche to make new laws without Congressional oversight.
There's a ton of really important things that Congress should be doing, instead of the three-ring circus you guys delight in.
Get to work, Russ. Remember who your boss is.
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Chuck
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Message from Senator Russ Feingold - DO NOT REPLY wrote:
Dear Mr. Kuecker,
Thank you for contacting me to express your skepticism about the existence of manmade global warming. I appreciate hearing from you.
As you may know, on November 19, 2009, emails and documents that had been stolen from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in England were posted on the Internet. On December 2, 2009, the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing on "The State of Climate Science." For more information on this hearing, please visit http://globalwarming.house.gov/pubs/. In addition, both the United Nations and East Anglia University have said they will conduct investigations into the emails.
The United States is a top emitter of greenhouse gases, and it is time for the federal government to provide leadership on this issue. As you may know, H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, was introduced in the House of Representatives on May 15, 2009, by Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA). This bill would enact a number of energy policy reforms, including the creation of a carbon cap-and-trade system. H.R. 2454 passed the House by a vote of 219-212 on June 26, 2009. On September 30, 2009, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, which, among other things, would create a carbon cap-and-trade system. On November 5, 2009, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee passed S. 1733.
During the 110th Congress, I was an original cosponsor of S. 309, the Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act. Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT) introduced S. 309, which would provide the leadership and the comprehensive, scientific-based approach to addressing global warming that Americans demand and deserve.
The bill also recognizes the importance of taking an economy-wide approach to addressing global warming, and not one that targets a single sector. Industry, power, transportation, and building sectors all have a role to play in reducing global warming-causing emissions. By sending the right market signals and supporting the development of existing technologies and development of new technologies to reduce emissions, we can keep U.S. businesses competitive in the emerging carbon-conscious global marketplace.
Thanks again for contacting me. While we may not always agree, I appreciate hearing from you. Please feel free to contact my office in the future about any issue of concern to you.
Hey, Russ,
You seem to miss the big point here - the whole scare ofer "anthropomorphic global warming" has been nothing but a scam, and a ploy to create a "one world government".
We don't need ANY legislation to address the nonexistent problem - especially now, when our economy is creaking under the weight of ill-conceived economic "fixes" by both the previous administration, and at an alarmingly accelerated rate by Mr. Obama.
We need to address things like climate change corruption and collusion to pass laws that will enrich certain people at the expense of all Americans.
We need to address the border security situation - both south and north.
We need to start enforcing our immigration laws -as written. That by itself would be a great "immigration reform" all in itself.
We need to address the rampant corruption and malfeasance in our banking and lending institutions, foremost the head of the serpent, the Federal Reserve. There needs to be a true independent audit done, and real soon!
We need to make REAL changes to health care - like eliminating the ban on intrastate insurance sales, and eliminating laws that force hospitals and doctors to treat people illegally in the country. Give illegals stabilizing treatment and ship 'em back to wherever in the next wherever-bound Greyhound or semi-trailer.
We need to acknowledge that radical Islam is not a "religion" - rather, it is a front for terrorism. We need to demand that mainstream Muslims stop supporting the radicals.
We need to start drilling and mining for oil and coal HERE, so we can wean ourselves off foreign oil.
We need to rein in rouge federal agencies like the BATFE, and the EPA, who seem to believe they have carte-blanche to make new laws without Congressional oversight.
There's a ton of really important things that Congress should be doing, instead of the three-ring circus you guys delight in.
Get to work, Russ. Remember who your boss is.
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Chuck
Friday, December 4, 2009
MoveON lies...
I signed up as a "member" of MoveOn.org back in 2008, so I could keep an eye on what they were doing and have a head start on countering it.
Yesterday, i got an email urging me to "sign their petition" to preserve the "public option" in the Senate Western civilization destruction (health care reform) bill. I did NOT click on the tab to sign the petition, instead I forwarded to friends and email lists.
Today, I got an email from them thanking me for my signature on that petition.
I don't know why I should be surprised that they would lie, but this proves it!
Original email reply I posted to various people:
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Speaking of health care...just got this.
Looks like they are getting scared. Let's help 'em OUT (of office!)
Chuck
-------- Original Message --------
Dear MoveOn member,
PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to Chuck Kuecker on December 3, 2009. To change your email address or update your contact info, click here. To remove yourself from this list, click here.
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What I got this morning:
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Yesterday, i got an email urging me to "sign their petition" to preserve the "public option" in the Senate Western civilization destruction (health care reform) bill. I did NOT click on the tab to sign the petition, instead I forwarded to friends and email lists.
Today, I got an email from them thanking me for my signature on that petition.
I don't know why I should be surprised that they would lie, but this proves it!
Original email reply I posted to various people:
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Speaking of health care...just got this.
Looks like they are getting scared. Let's help 'em OUT (of office!)
Chuck
-------- Original Message --------
| Subject: | Big trouble |
|---|---|
| Date: | Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:20:23 -0800 |
| From: | Kat Barr, MoveOn.org Political Action |
| To: | Chuck Kuecker |
Dear MoveOn member,
Sign the petitionAlarming news: the public option could be dead within days, and we need Harry Reid to act fast to save it.1
A few conservative Democrats, including Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman, are threatening to block health care reform—all of it—if the rest of the Democratic Caucus doesn't agree to drop or weaken the public option.2
A tiny minority of conservatives could cut out the heart of reform, supported by 86% of Democrats. The latest news is that to appease them a weak compromise is being unveiled within days.3
But it doesn't have to be this way. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can still stop this, if he continues to fight. Reid has shown that he's willing to be a leader in fighting for the public option, and now we need him more than ever.
So we're sending an emergency petition to Senator Reid asking him to do everything in his power to persuade these senators to support real health care reform. Can you sign the petition to Harry Reid? Clicking here will add your name:
As Senate Majority Leader, Reid can apply pressure in a number of ways: call a vote to force conservative Democrats to stand up publicly with Republicans and Big Insurance to filibuster health care, strip them of their committee chairmanships or committee seats, or opt to pass health care through what's called the "reconciliation" process, which would let him pass the bill with a simple majority vote.
Sen. Reid has shown us in the past that he's willing to fight for the public option. And in this final showdown, we all need to stand stronger than ever. Sen. Reid needs to hear that, at this crucial time, we've got his back.
Can you sign the petition to Harry Reid today? Clicking here will add your name:
Thank you for all you do.
–Kat, Nita, Michael, Wes, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Reid set to unveil new public option, breaking Senate impasse on healthcare," The Hill, December 1, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85349&id=18145-********-0YgV6Mx&t=5
2. "Lieberman: Sure, I'd Filibuster A Health Care Reform Bill With A Public Option," Talking Points Memo, October 27, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85376&id=18145-********-0YgV6Mx&t=6
"Lieberman: More Dems could join public option filibuster," The Hill, November 19, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85377&id=18145-********-0YgV6Mx&t=7
"Ben Nelson threatens filibuster," Politico, November 19, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85378&id=18145-********-0YgV6Mx&t=8
3. "Most in U.S. want public health option: poll," Reuters, December 3, 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc07/idUSTRE5B20OL20091203
"Reid set to unveil new public option, breaking Senate impasse on healthcare," The Hill, December 1, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85349&id=18145-********-0YgV6Mx&t=9
Want to support our work? We're entirely funded by our 5 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.
PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to Chuck Kuecker on December 3, 2009. To change your email address or update your contact info, click here. To remove yourself from this list, click here.
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What I got this morning:
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Dear friend,
Thank you. Your name has been added to the petition and your comments will be delivered to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Another great way to make sure Majority Leader Reid hears from us is to spread the word to your friends and family so they know what's going on. You can just forward the sample letter below.
Spreading the word is critical, but please only pass this message along to those who know you -- spam hurts our campaign.
Thanks for all you do.
--The MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Here's a sample message to send to your friends:
Subject: The public option is in danger
Hi,
Alarming news: the public option could be dead within days, and we need Harry Reid to act fast to save it.
A few conservative Democrats, including Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman, are threatening to block health care reform -- all of it -- if the rest of the Democratic Caucus doesn't agree to drop or weaken the public option.
But it doesn't have to be this way. Senate Majority Leader Reid can still stop this, if he continues to fight. Reid has shown that he's willing to be a leader in fighting for the public option, and now we need him more than ever.
I signed a petition urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to up the pressure on conservative Democrats who are threatening to tank health care reform over the public option. Can you join me at the link below?
http://pol.moveon.org/healthcare/reid/
Thanks!
If you've received this email in error, please correct your campaign subscription information at:
http://www.moveon.org/s?i=-********-Z80oeNx
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Looking at the HTML, it appears every one of those links above with '********' in it was an identifier for my MoveOn account.
Playing the double agent has its risks, evidently!
Chuck
Monday, November 30, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Another email
Sent to all three CONgresscritters:
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I urge you to get behind an in-depth investigation into the fraud evident in "climate change" research, and into the special interests such as Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens who stand to profit from legislation attempting to "fix" the non-existent problem.
Environmental activists need to be heard, but their comments taken with a large grain of salt.
Legislation, if absolutely necessary, should be based on proven, peer-reviewed science, not on panic and doomsaying.
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Chuck
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I urge you to get behind an in-depth investigation into the fraud evident in "climate change" research, and into the special interests such as Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens who stand to profit from legislation attempting to "fix" the non-existent problem.
Environmental activists need to be heard, but their comments taken with a large grain of salt.
Legislation, if absolutely necessary, should be based on proven, peer-reviewed science, not on panic and doomsaying.
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Chuck
Sunday, November 22, 2009
"Globull worming" put to rest!
After following a few links, I found a download source for the "hacked" emails from the Hadley Climate Research Unit. So, here's a link to my copy:
http://www.ckent.org/FOI2009.zip
Have fun!
Chuck
http://www.ckent.org/FOI2009.zip
Have fun!
Chuck
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Reply from Comcast
I've gotten this reply before:
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 | Comcast.net Blocklist Removal Response |
Thank you for contacting Comcast Customer Security Assurance. We have received and reviewed your RBL removal request.
Below each IP address you submitted in your request, we have included the result of our research. Please do not reply to this message.
xx.xx.xx.xx
We have received your request for removal from our inbound blocklist. After investigating the issue, we have found that the IP you provided for removal is currently not on our blocklist.
We need the IP address currently blocked to further investigate this issue. The IP address is a number separated by decimals and is located in an error code starting with "550" in the returned email from Comcast. You can learn more about how to identify a blocked IP by visiting our Frequently Asked Question page at :
http://www.comcast.net/help/faq/index.jsp?faq=SecurityMail_Policy18667
Please verify the IP(s) and resubmit your request to http://www.comcastsupport.com/rbl
Sincerely,
Comcast Customer Security Assurance
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Well, if my IP is not in their blasted database, why in hell am I getting those "550" messages referring to that same IP?
Assholes.
Chuck
Getting sick of Comcast
I don't have Comcast - but I've got a bunch of contacts I can't talk to who DO have them.
Comcast considers me to be a spammer, simply because I host my own email. It's a secure server on a fixed IP. I've sent them numerous requests to their customer service web site, with never a reply. Their "un-blacklist" URL is http://www.comcastsupport.com/rbl
Here's the latest one I sent them:
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You guys are preventing me from communicating with friends and customers because I run my own email server on my own machine. This has been going on for literal years, and I've requested you fix this situation numerous times.
I've implemented security on both incoming and outgoing email now - it makes no difference.
Occasionally, an email I send gets through your system, then subsequent emails get bounces. Please get your act together!
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For what it's worth...
Chuck
Comcast considers me to be a spammer, simply because I host my own email. It's a secure server on a fixed IP. I've sent them numerous requests to their customer service web site, with never a reply. Their "un-blacklist" URL is http://www.comcastsupport.com/rbl
Here's the latest one I sent them:
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You guys are preventing me from communicating with friends and customers because I run my own email server on my own machine. This has been going on for literal years, and I've requested you fix this situation numerous times.
I've implemented security on both incoming and outgoing email now - it makes no difference.
Occasionally, an email I send gets through your system, then subsequent emails get bounces. Please get your act together!
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For what it's worth...
Chuck
More senator emails
For what it's worth:
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Enough is enough.
Vote NO on ANY new spending bill, be it health care "reform", "climate change", or putting up a monument to Mr. Obama. Or ANYTHING. Particularly, no more bailouts of entities "too big to fail". Mr. Obama, after advocating the bankrupting of our country, has said he wants no more spending. Listen to him - this time.
No more spending until you guys have eliminated ALL the extra-Constitutional spending already being done by the hundreds of un-accountable bureaucracies already in place.
NO MORE SPENDING.
Get it?
Thanks.
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Chuck
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Enough is enough.
Vote NO on ANY new spending bill, be it health care "reform", "climate change", or putting up a monument to Mr. Obama. Or ANYTHING. Particularly, no more bailouts of entities "too big to fail". Mr. Obama, after advocating the bankrupting of our country, has said he wants no more spending. Listen to him - this time.
No more spending until you guys have eliminated ALL the extra-Constitutional spending already being done by the hundreds of un-accountable bureaucracies already in place.
NO MORE SPENDING.
Get it?
Thanks.
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Chuck
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Sent to Kohl and Feingold...
More wastage of my time?
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It's in your court now.
Our House of "Representatives" voted to pass this remarkably complex, certainly un-Constitutional, bill without giving the taxpayers of America a chance to see what is in it - indeed, they passed it without themselves knowing what it contained. There was never enough time for them to read the bill, let alone understand it. They voted on a "pig in a poke", which they want to make the people of the US accept on their uninformed word.
Therefore, it is your duty as one of the last people between this abomination and certain signature by our President and its' being inflicted on us.
Vote NO if this comes up for a vote. If you don't, you have proven to the people of Wisconsin that you have no concern at all for their welfare, freedoms, or futures - only for control over them.
Vote NO on ObamaCare - I mean - PelosiCare. I insist.
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It's in your court now.
Our House of "Representatives" voted to pass this remarkably complex, certainly un-Constitutional, bill without giving the taxpayers of America a chance to see what is in it - indeed, they passed it without themselves knowing what it contained. There was never enough time for them to read the bill, let alone understand it. They voted on a "pig in a poke", which they want to make the people of the US accept on their uninformed word.
Therefore, it is your duty as one of the last people between this abomination and certain signature by our President and its' being inflicted on us.
Vote NO if this comes up for a vote. If you don't, you have proven to the people of Wisconsin that you have no concern at all for their welfare, freedoms, or futures - only for control over them.
Vote NO on ObamaCare - I mean - PelosiCare. I insist.
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Tammy Gay oversteps the line, yet again.
Another futile rant aimed at my favorite gay representative:
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OK, Tammy.
I had my suspicions that you did not give a freaking damn about the people you supposedly represent. Now you have proven that premise beyond any possible doubt.
First, you refused to attend true open talk sessions where the taxpayers you defecate on regularly could have told you to your face that they DID NOT want the stuff you insist on stuffing down our throats. You did this because you knew damn well what the result would be, and you were scared that you might have to confront their justified anger. Coward.
Next, you support the most radical, most insane "speaker of the house" that this country has ever seen, in voting to pass a "health care" reform bill that could not possibly have been read and understood by any single member of the House, let alone you or even your staffers. This is an act of treason against your constituents, even if it was not technically an act of treason against the United States. Morally, you are as guilty as any of the Muslim nut cases who blow themselves up to attempt to "change" the world. Simply an act of calculated malice, or pure stupidity. Somehow, I don't see you as a stupid person.
The "health care" bill will force American taxpayers to foot the bill for:
1. Care for illegal immigrants. Yes, I said "illegal". I know how desperately the Democratic Party needs to import loyal voters and will do anything to ensure that American taxpayers will never be able to defeat their plans for a World Soviet. Well, we will see how well that worked next year, won't we?
2. The American taxpayer will end up paying for the "medically necessary" abortions for thousands of women who were brought up to believe "it's a choice, not a child". Pure evil. And I am not even a "right to life" supporter. I just object to the blatant forcing of rules that a clear majority of taxpaying Americans detest.
3. The American taxpayer will be forced to purchase "health insurance" at prices that will ensure inability of millions of young families to ever save any money for anything. Of course, those who cannot pay - i.e., those who will not work, will get their insurance paid for by those who DO work. If you haven't noticed, the Thirteenth Amendment to our Constitution, an amendment the Democrats of the day fought tooth and nail, prohibits slavery. Of course, with the enactment of the Sixteenth Amendment, you managed to give yourselves an "out" - it's just a "tax", not slavery. Politicians are very good at twisting language, even if useless for any reasonable purpose on this planet.
4. Due to bureaucracy, health care costs will rise. It's a law of nature. There is only so much true value in our economy, and the actions of Congress in the last few years have ensured that our economy will drop to levels that people in the Great Depression would have seen as horrible by comparison. This WILL result in rationing of health care, and "death panels" no matter what cute name or acronym the clerks come up with. Medical research will suffer, and millions of Americans, and even illegals "enjoying" our largess will suffer poor care and needless death and illness as a result. By this vote, you condemn our country to a future many in "third world" countries would consider poverty.
I am sure that I could find much more to rail against, but since I am sure that you personally will never read these words, I will be satisfied in telling you - or more likely, the staffer who might actually read this, that I will be doing everything in my power to ensure that you become a member of the largest growing class of Americans - the unemployed.
I won't wish you actual ill, as that's not my way - but I am sure that thousands of Wisconsin taxpayers will do so very soon. Enjoy that thought.
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OK, I actually tried to send that to Tammy Gay - but her website requires that you type in a security code. Every variation on the five-number "code" was rejected by the program. What a clever way to prevent even useless attempts at communication! She can now honestly claim that she never heard a bad word against her policies, since the website never forwarded the message.
I've got to wonder if that was a conscious decision on her part or by one of her minions, or just poor code design.
Anyway, it's war, now. I'm bringing the biggest guns I can out to fight for her removal from office. So, actually, business as usual here.
Chuck
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OK, Tammy.
I had my suspicions that you did not give a freaking damn about the people you supposedly represent. Now you have proven that premise beyond any possible doubt.
First, you refused to attend true open talk sessions where the taxpayers you defecate on regularly could have told you to your face that they DID NOT want the stuff you insist on stuffing down our throats. You did this because you knew damn well what the result would be, and you were scared that you might have to confront their justified anger. Coward.
Next, you support the most radical, most insane "speaker of the house" that this country has ever seen, in voting to pass a "health care" reform bill that could not possibly have been read and understood by any single member of the House, let alone you or even your staffers. This is an act of treason against your constituents, even if it was not technically an act of treason against the United States. Morally, you are as guilty as any of the Muslim nut cases who blow themselves up to attempt to "change" the world. Simply an act of calculated malice, or pure stupidity. Somehow, I don't see you as a stupid person.
The "health care" bill will force American taxpayers to foot the bill for:
1. Care for illegal immigrants. Yes, I said "illegal". I know how desperately the Democratic Party needs to import loyal voters and will do anything to ensure that American taxpayers will never be able to defeat their plans for a World Soviet. Well, we will see how well that worked next year, won't we?
2. The American taxpayer will end up paying for the "medically necessary" abortions for thousands of women who were brought up to believe "it's a choice, not a child". Pure evil. And I am not even a "right to life" supporter. I just object to the blatant forcing of rules that a clear majority of taxpaying Americans detest.
3. The American taxpayer will be forced to purchase "health insurance" at prices that will ensure inability of millions of young families to ever save any money for anything. Of course, those who cannot pay - i.e., those who will not work, will get their insurance paid for by those who DO work. If you haven't noticed, the Thirteenth Amendment to our Constitution, an amendment the Democrats of the day fought tooth and nail, prohibits slavery. Of course, with the enactment of the Sixteenth Amendment, you managed to give yourselves an "out" - it's just a "tax", not slavery. Politicians are very good at twisting language, even if useless for any reasonable purpose on this planet.
4. Due to bureaucracy, health care costs will rise. It's a law of nature. There is only so much true value in our economy, and the actions of Congress in the last few years have ensured that our economy will drop to levels that people in the Great Depression would have seen as horrible by comparison. This WILL result in rationing of health care, and "death panels" no matter what cute name or acronym the clerks come up with. Medical research will suffer, and millions of Americans, and even illegals "enjoying" our largess will suffer poor care and needless death and illness as a result. By this vote, you condemn our country to a future many in "third world" countries would consider poverty.
I am sure that I could find much more to rail against, but since I am sure that you personally will never read these words, I will be satisfied in telling you - or more likely, the staffer who might actually read this, that I will be doing everything in my power to ensure that you become a member of the largest growing class of Americans - the unemployed.
I won't wish you actual ill, as that's not my way - but I am sure that thousands of Wisconsin taxpayers will do so very soon. Enjoy that thought.
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OK, I actually tried to send that to Tammy Gay - but her website requires that you type in a security code. Every variation on the five-number "code" was rejected by the program. What a clever way to prevent even useless attempts at communication! She can now honestly claim that she never heard a bad word against her policies, since the website never forwarded the message.
I've got to wonder if that was a conscious decision on her part or by one of her minions, or just poor code design.
Anyway, it's war, now. I'm bringing the biggest guns I can out to fight for her removal from office. So, actually, business as usual here.
Chuck
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Yet another attempt to control my employee...
Another possibly Quixotic attempt to control the out-of-control:
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Ms. Baldwin:
Unless you have PERSONALLY read every word of this bill, and understood the impact on your constituents, and are PERSONALLY assured that this bill is both in the best interests of the taxpaying voters from your district. and also in accordance with their publicly stated wishes, I expect you to do the honorable and correct thing - vote NO on any attempt to federalize heath care.
If you vote for this bill without reading it, or worse, on the recommendation of a staffer or, God forbid, Nancy Pelosi's word, you madam, are a traitor to the people who you represent.
I personally insist that you vote NO.
Vote your conscience, but be aware that we, your employers, are watching.
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Chuck
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Ms. Baldwin:
Unless you have PERSONALLY read every word of this bill, and understood the impact on your constituents, and are PERSONALLY assured that this bill is both in the best interests of the taxpaying voters from your district. and also in accordance with their publicly stated wishes, I expect you to do the honorable and correct thing - vote NO on any attempt to federalize heath care.
If you vote for this bill without reading it, or worse, on the recommendation of a staffer or, God forbid, Nancy Pelosi's word, you madam, are a traitor to the people who you represent.
I personally insist that you vote NO.
Vote your conscience, but be aware that we, your employers, are watching.
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Chuck
Monday, November 2, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Question to my local paper
I just emailed this to the Beloit Daily News. A recent headline said the City of Beloit was needing to deal with the BIA before being allowed to build a casino.
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Someone please explain to me why the City of Beloit needs to beg permission from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, or anyone in Washington DC before entering in to a contract with anyone to build a casino in Beloit? If there's any permission to be asked, I would expect it to be at the state level at the most, unless the property is not in the city limits, in which case the town or county might get involved.
Another thing - why is there even such a critter as a "Bureau of Indian Affairs" in this day and age? Are Native Americans so naive and stupid that they need the Great White Father to make sure they don't get a bad deal?
Just wondering...
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What ever happened to state's rights - and when did Native Americans need to get federal permission to enter inot business contracts?
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Someone please explain to me why the City of Beloit needs to beg permission from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, or anyone in Washington DC before entering in to a contract with anyone to build a casino in Beloit? If there's any permission to be asked, I would expect it to be at the state level at the most, unless the property is not in the city limits, in which case the town or county might get involved.
Another thing - why is there even such a critter as a "Bureau of Indian Affairs" in this day and age? Are Native Americans so naive and stupid that they need the Great White Father to make sure they don't get a bad deal?
Just wondering...
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What ever happened to state's rights - and when did Native Americans need to get federal permission to enter inot business contracts?
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Chilling climate change video
In case you need a better reason to oppose "climate change" legislation besides it's right up there with astrology and Osama worship for sanity, check this out:
Found this at http://www.globalclimatescam.com/ There's a link to a petition to be sent to your Congresscritters and to The One hisself.
Go there, do that.
Chuck
Found this at http://www.globalclimatescam.com/ There's a link to a petition to be sent to your Congresscritters and to The One hisself.
Go there, do that.
Chuck
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Book recommendation
Just finished Matthew Bracken's "Foreign Enemies and Traitors" - the third installment of his "Enemies" trilogy, which includes "Enemies, Foreign and Domestic" and "Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista". See the link on the left.
Frightening images of an all-too possible future, with stirring portrayals of human courage and honor, and a thinly veiled description of current affairs that had me chuckling out loud at times.
Read them all - keep your powder dry...
Frightening images of an all-too possible future, with stirring portrayals of human courage and honor, and a thinly veiled description of current affairs that had me chuckling out loud at times.
Read them all - keep your powder dry...
YAY! Chicago LOST!
As a native Chicagoan, I can only jump for joy at the news that Emperor for Life Little Dick Daley and his tame President Osama have been slapped down is such a strikingly public manner.
Go Rio! Perhaps this year I will break my decades-long streak and actually watch the Olympics.
Chuck
Go Rio! Perhaps this year I will break my decades-long streak and actually watch the Olympics.
Chuck
Tired of posting Herb Kohl's canned responses
It's painfully obvious that Herb Kohl does not read or personally respond to any of my communications. I guess it's my (naive) innate trust that humans have honor and responsibilty that made me keep on trying.
I've just received not one, but two identical replies on the subject of "glowbull worming" that duplicate one "he" sent a few days ago. Same explanations about how it's "well known" that CO2 and methane "accumulate" in the atmosphere and Congress just HAS to do something.
How about NOTHING, idiots?
Chuck
I've just received not one, but two identical replies on the subject of "glowbull worming" that duplicate one "he" sent a few days ago. Same explanations about how it's "well known" that CO2 and methane "accumulate" in the atmosphere and Congress just HAS to do something.
How about NOTHING, idiots?
Chuck
Friday, September 25, 2009
More Feingold communications
Got not one, but two copies of the following:
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Dear Mr. Kuecker,
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Dear Mr. Kuecker,
Thank you for contacting me regarding the increased need for fiscal responsibility and deficit reduction. I appreciate hearing from you.
One of the main reasons that we are in such a budgetary mess that we are currently in is because of the reckless fiscal policies pursued by the previous administration which have left us in the biggest financial hole in our history. Deep deficit spending is something that I am extremely concerned about, which is one of the reasons why I opposed the flawed Wall Street bailout plan.
There are a number of steps we should take to restore some fiscal discipline, and one of those steps is to stop unauthorized spending earmarks. That is why on January 6, 2009 I introduced S. 162, the Fiscal Discipline, Earmark Reform, and Accountability Act. This bipartisan bill is cosponsored by Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO), John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Lieberman (ID-CT), Richard Burr (R-NC), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Tom Coburn (R-OK).
Our bill would make it easier to remove unauthorized earmarks in appropriations bills. If any Senator tried to remove such an earmark, supporters of the earmark would have to obtain the super-majority of 60 votes in the Senate to keep the earmark in the bill.
In an effort to further target wasteful spending, I also joined my colleagues, Congressman Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain, in introducing the Congressional Accountability and Line-Item Veto Act of 2009. This legislation would create a line-item veto to target wasteful earmarks, improve congressional accountability, and deter lawmakers from inserting "Bridges to Nowhere" or other frivolous spending into future bills. This legislation would enable the president to single out egregious earmarks in bills that arrive on his desk for signature and send these specific items back to Congress for expedited votes on whether to rescind, or cancel, funding for these provisions.
One of the main reasons I first ran for the U.S. Senate was to restore fiscal responsibility to the federal budget. Throughout my career in the Senate, I have worked to bring
Again, thank you for contacting me. Please feel free to do so on this or any issue.
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The only problem is that I was asking him about the possibility of an independent audit of the Federal Reserve...
Another one, again about health care:
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Dear Mr. Kuecker,
Thank you for contacting me regarding health care. I appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts with me.
It is far past time for Congress to ensure all Americans have guaranteed, affordable, high-quality health care. Too many Americans are forced to make basic decisions regarding their health based on cost rather than on medical reasons; too many delay seeking treatment and do not receive preventive care, which results in more costly, or even fatal, consequences down the line. Our country spends $5,670 per capita annually on health care - which is twice as much as any other industrialized nation - and 15.6 percent of our gross domestic product. Despite this spending, we are not healthier than those other countries, and we still have more than 46 million Americans - including eight million children - who do not have health insurance, and countless others who are underinsured.
As you know, these high and rising costs take a tremendous toll on American families and businesses. While inflation grew 9.7 percent, and wage growth was 12.3 percent, premiums for family insurance coverage rose 59 percent from 2000-2004 and show no sign of stabilizing. As a result, many employers are shifting much of their health care costs to employees, no longer providing health benefits, or eliminating positions.
The Senate Finance Committee is currently considering legislation on health care reform. I look forward to Congress finally taking up this issue. Ensuring every American is guaranteed good, affordable health care coverage is made much more difficult by relying only on private insurers. While Americans should be able to retain their current coverage if they choose, providing a public option should keep health care costs down for all Americans.
I am also committed to making long-term care a key part of any reform. Since my time as chair of the Wisconsin State Senate's Aging Committee, I have worked to give seniors and others needing long-term care the choice to remain in their own homes and communities instead of entering institutional care. Long term care must be part of health care reform because helping more people live in their homes is the smart choice to meet both the preferences of families and the need to spend government funds efficiently.
Additionally, the Medicare reimbursement formula has shortchanged
Again, thank you for contacting me. As health care reform moves forward, I will continue working to improve access to health care and make health care more affordable for the people of
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Again, he (or his staff person who writes these) seems determined to ignore the gist of my communication, which was to do NOTHING about health care, rather to fix the GOVERNMENT that's broken and the cause of virtually all our current social and financial problems.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
CIFTA reply from Russ Feingold
This was in response to an email I sent him:
http://beloitballistics.blogspot.com/2009/08/anoterh-set-of-emails.html
-----------------------Dear Mr. Kuecker,
Thank you for contacting me regarding the Inter-American Convention against Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms (CIFTA). I appreciate hearing from you.
As you may know, CIFTA was signed in 1997 by then-President
I have heard from several constituents expressing their concerns that this treaty could infringe upon their Second Amendment rights. I believe the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and I oppose measures such as gun licensing requirements and handgun bans that seek to unreasonably limit that right. At the same time, as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I have supported
Should the Senate consider legislation relating to this treaty I will carefully review it to make sure, among other things, that it is consistent with the Second Amendment.
Thank you again for contacting me. For more information about my work on behalf of
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I'm convinced these things are canned, written by aides.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Tammy Gay votes to spend - again
Just saw that Tammy Gay Baldwin has voted to spend more of the money the IRS steals form us every paycheck...the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network Continuing Authorization Act
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Tammy,
If you have not noticed, our country is in a depression created in large part by Congress spending like drunken sailors. NO insult intended to our Navy.
WHY did you vote to spend money on a local tourist attraction?
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Tammy,
If you have not noticed, our country is in a depression created in large part by Congress spending like drunken sailors. NO insult intended to our Navy.
WHY did you vote to spend money on a local tourist attraction?
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Email from a friend
A buddy emailed this to me:
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One question: How do WE "change" this if the polititions are the ones who write the laws?????
Not long ago I read a joke... It said all the politicians running for president are promising change to the American people. We send them billions and billions of tax dollars and they send us the change.
Funny? Not really; there is too much truth in it to be funny.
But that got me to thinking... They all promise change.
A restoration that would take us back in time to a place where
things ran better, smoother and life was more enjoyable.
Change? That, in truth, is what they have been giving us all along.
We used to have a strong dollar...
Politicians *changed* that.
Marriage used to be sacred...
Politicians have *changed* that.
We used to be respected around the world... Politicians *changed
*that.
We used to have a strong manufacturing economy... Politicians
*changed* that.
We used to have lower tax structures... Politicians *changed* that.
We used to enjoy more freedoms... Politicians *changed* that.
We used to be a large exporter of American-made goods...
Politicians *changed* that.
We used to teach patriotism in schools... Politicians *changed* that.
We used to educate children in schools... Politicians *changed* that.
We used to enforce *LEGAL* citizenship... Politicians *changed* that.
We used to have affordable food & gas prices...
Politicians *changed* that, too... and one could go on and on with this list.
What hasn't been changed, politicians are promising to *change *that as well, if you will elect them.
When, oh when, is America going to sit back with open eyes and look at what we once were and where we have come and say "enough is enough"?
The trouble is, America 's youthful voters today don't know of the great America that existed forty and fifty years ago. They see the world as if it has always existed as it is now.
When will we wake up? Tomorrow may be too late. When will America realize... Politicians are what is wrong with America ? This goes for BOTH parties... Republicans and Democrats, there is no difference anymore... they all do only what they can to be re-elected, not what is best for the citizens!
*What is needed is for the Constitution to be amended to limit all Senators and Representatives to TWO terms in office like the President.
*
*Oh, by the way,* *no big pension either, social security just like the rest of us. How do they rate bigger and better entitlements than the people THEY WORK FOR? WHICH IS US!!*
*Being a politician shouldn't be a person's life work* *but rather a call to public service then back to being an honest hard-working citizen.*
Politicians are no more than housekeepers and janitors... unfortunately they act like they own the building.
*PASS THIS ONE AROUND... **FOR A CHANGE...*
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I replied:
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Amen - but I would add that any politician who betrays his/ her oath of office by introducing an un-Constitutional bill, gets treated as a traitor in wartime. The gallows ought to be out front of the Capitol, and proceedings televised on C-Span.
Also, the free health care, exemption for the Ponzi scheme known as Social Security, and lifetime retirement pension after one term have to end. CONgresscritters need to be housed in a barracks equal to what boot camp enlistees get treated to, ditto food - and health care. They can stay healthy by walking to work, which should be a minimum of one mile from the barracks.
Air conditioning needs to be removed from the meeting rooms and the main halls in the Capitol, and CONgress needs to meet only during the hottest part of the summer for two months maximum. After that, they go home. The longer they are in session, with "creature comforts", the more likely they will be to enact something stupid.
The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution needs to be repealed. Ditto the 16th. Senators need to be appointed by governors, not popularly elected, and CONgress needs to go on a diet, not have a feeding tentacle in everyone's wallet.
An amendment requiring that ten laws be removed from the books for every new law passed - including budgets, which need to be truly balanced, would be nice, as would a requirement that every new bill come with a Constitutional justification for its' enactment. See the first line.
THAT constitutes a good start for ME.
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Then I realized that he had asked a question in that first line - so I sent him another email:
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Almost missed your comment at the top - it may take a revolution. I think the opening shots may have already been fired.
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Chuck Kuecker
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One question: How do WE "change" this if the polititions are the ones who write the laws?????
Not long ago I read a joke... It said all the politicians running for president are promising change to the American people. We send them billions and billions of tax dollars and they send us the change.
Funny? Not really; there is too much truth in it to be funny.
But that got me to thinking... They all promise change.
A restoration that would take us back in time to a place where
things ran better, smoother and life was more enjoyable.
Change? That, in truth, is what they have been giving us all along.
We used to have a strong dollar...
Politicians *changed* that.
Marriage used to be sacred...
Politicians have *changed* that.
We used to be respected around the world... Politicians *changed
*that.
We used to have a strong manufacturing economy... Politicians
*changed* that.
We used to have lower tax structures... Politicians *changed* that.
We used to enjoy more freedoms... Politicians *changed* that.
We used to be a large exporter of American-made goods...
Politicians *changed* that.
We used to teach patriotism in schools... Politicians *changed* that.
We used to educate children in schools... Politicians *changed* that.
We used to enforce *LEGAL* citizenship... Politicians *changed* that.
We used to have affordable food & gas prices...
Politicians *changed* that, too... and one could go on and on with this list.
What hasn't been changed, politicians are promising to *change *that as well, if you will elect them.
When, oh when, is America going to sit back with open eyes and look at what we once were and where we have come and say "enough is enough"?
The trouble is, America 's youthful voters today don't know of the great America that existed forty and fifty years ago. They see the world as if it has always existed as it is now.
When will we wake up? Tomorrow may be too late. When will America realize... Politicians are what is wrong with America ? This goes for BOTH parties... Republicans and Democrats, there is no difference anymore... they all do only what they can to be re-elected, not what is best for the citizens!
*What is needed is for the Constitution to be amended to limit all Senators and Representatives to TWO terms in office like the President.
*
*Oh, by the way,* *no big pension either, social security just like the rest of us. How do they rate bigger and better entitlements than the people THEY WORK FOR? WHICH IS US!!*
*Being a politician shouldn't be a person's life work* *but rather a call to public service then back to being an honest hard-working citizen.*
Politicians are no more than housekeepers and janitors... unfortunately they act like they own the building.
*PASS THIS ONE AROUND... **FOR A CHANGE...*
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I replied:
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Amen - but I would add that any politician who betrays his/ her oath of office by introducing an un-Constitutional bill, gets treated as a traitor in wartime. The gallows ought to be out front of the Capitol, and proceedings televised on C-Span.
Also, the free health care, exemption for the Ponzi scheme known as Social Security, and lifetime retirement pension after one term have to end. CONgresscritters need to be housed in a barracks equal to what boot camp enlistees get treated to, ditto food - and health care. They can stay healthy by walking to work, which should be a minimum of one mile from the barracks.
Air conditioning needs to be removed from the meeting rooms and the main halls in the Capitol, and CONgress needs to meet only during the hottest part of the summer for two months maximum. After that, they go home. The longer they are in session, with "creature comforts", the more likely they will be to enact something stupid.
The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution needs to be repealed. Ditto the 16th. Senators need to be appointed by governors, not popularly elected, and CONgress needs to go on a diet, not have a feeding tentacle in everyone's wallet.
An amendment requiring that ten laws be removed from the books for every new law passed - including budgets, which need to be truly balanced, would be nice, as would a requirement that every new bill come with a Constitutional justification for its' enactment. See the first line.
THAT constitutes a good start for ME.
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Then I realized that he had asked a question in that first line - so I sent him another email:
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Almost missed your comment at the top - it may take a revolution. I think the opening shots may have already been fired.
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Chuck Kuecker
Alert from congress.org
Got an alert from Congress.org's Roll Call about proposed financial legislation.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=14027556&type=ML
Here's my contribution:
Let me make this eminently clear. With the exception of the recently repealed Glass-Steagall Act, which needs to be put back in force immediately, there are more than enough laws on the books NOW to handle corrupt banks and dubious financial practices. Enforce what is already there.
Require the Federal Reserve to open its' books for a true accounting of its' dealings over the last couple decades. Require them to operate openly - no "secret deals".
Chuck Kuecker
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=14027556&type=ML
Here's my contribution:
Let me make this eminently clear. With the exception of the recently repealed Glass-Steagall Act, which needs to be put back in force immediately, there are more than enough laws on the books NOW to handle corrupt banks and dubious financial practices. Enforce what is already there.
Require the Federal Reserve to open its' books for a true accounting of its' dealings over the last couple decades. Require them to operate openly - no "secret deals".
Chuck Kuecker
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