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Voter Fraud in Texas

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:37:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What is unsaid in this article is what party did all these thousands of dead and ineligible voters cast their vote for? Any bets?

Of course. The party of corruption. Democrats.

Clip Source: www.click2houston.com

Texas Watchdog compared Harris County's voter registration roll with the Social Security death index and found more than 4,000 matches -- registered voters that, it appears, are already dead.

Auditors identified 49,049 registered voters state-wide who may have been ineligible to vote. Approximately 23,576 may have been deceased and another 23,114 were possible felons. And they found more than 2,359 duplicate records.

The county's system for culling deceased voters from the roll seems painfully primitive.

We watched employees clip obituaries from the newspaper and sort through probate records for names matching those on the roll. But, Hammerlein says while fraud is a concern, for his office, disenfranchising voters is a bigger one.

"We do all we can, but you know we'd rather err on the side of leaving people on the roll instead of taking them off inadvertently," he said.

Texas Watchdog found 4,462 registered voters who appear to be deceased.

Tags: voter fraud

life insurance quotes

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:44:29 GMT

clipped by: Lillian12345
clipper's remarks: You just have to buy life insurance with no pressure at the convenient of your home or office.

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Tags: texas health insurance

University of Texas demanded Obama signs taken down

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:13:55 GMT

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Clip Source: apnews.myway.com

Connor Kincaid and his cousin and roommate, Blake Kincaid, said they were barred from registering for spring classes after refusing Wednesday to take down their signs supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

"Effective immediately, I am suspending the prohibition on signs in individual students' residence hall room windows and any sanctions related to its enforcement," UT President Bill Powers said in a written statement.

Powers said he had formed a committee to study the policy and make recommendations. In the meantime, he said, school policy now "expressly allows the display of signs and posters in students' residence hall room windows."

The crackdown sparked an outcry among students, and university Democrats and Republicans worked together to fight rules they said were unconstitutional. They had encouraged students across campus to put signs in their dorm windows as a form of protest.

"It's never been an issue," he said. "Obviously this is a hot political issue

Younger Military Families Closing Ranks Around Obama

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:20:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

People in all branches of the service are getting tired of repeated deployments. "I think more of them will vote for Obama than McCain," said Jennings. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, deployed troops are putting their money where their mouth is: they've given four times as much money to Obama as McCain.

"Any assumption that the military vote is overwhelmingly in favor of the Republican Party -- based on demographics alone -- is suspect, at the very least," said Donald S. Inbody, a retired Navy Captain who is on the political science faculty at Texas State University.

This could result in a 1.2 to 1 advantage for Obama in military communities, according to Inbody, especially if the campaign "isn't tone deaf" to the inroads that are possible.

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Younger Military Families Closing Ranks Around Obama

John McCain assumes he has the military vote -- but does he?

The Military Times recently released its annual survey of subscribers, which shows McCain-Palin enjoying a commanding lead over Obama-Biden (68/23 percent). But this is not a random sample, by any stretch of the imagination. Military Times subscribers are significantly older than the active military population. Nearly half of those surveyed are retirees, and minorities are under-represented.

"Everyone I talk to wants change but on base you can't say certain things. At a bar or a party, everyone tells me they're voting for Obama," said Thomas Singleton, 27, a former military telecommunications specialist

"My military friends are tired of being lied to," said Singleton. "They're told to deploy for six months, but it ends up being a year. And when they come home, they can't find a job. One of my friends is staying in the Army only because he can't find a civilian job."

Tags: military

Texas health insurance

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:04:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You can obtain insurance quotes from Best Insurance Quotes & Services LLC.

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Tags: instant term life insurance quote

Who You Callin’ a Maverick?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:26:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great little morsel on the origin of the word! Never knew how it came about, and so glad to have come across this!!

I find it so very .... poetically, beautifully ironic (?) - poetically beautiful and ironic (?)
!!!! ...that it tickles me so!

(thats just the best way I could put that at this moment, as terrible a description as it may be)

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

There’s that word again: maverick. In Thursday’s vice-presidential debate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican candidate, used it to describe herself and her running mate, Senator John McCain, no fewer than six times, at one point calling him “the consummate maverick.”

Samuel Augustus Maverick

But to those who know the history of the word, applying it to Mr. McCain is a bit of a stretch — and to one Texas family in particular it is even a bit offensive.

“I’m just enraged that McCain calls himself a maverick,” said Terrellita Maverick, 82, a San Antonio native who proudly carries the name of a family that has been known for its progressive politics since the 1600s, when an early ancestor in Boston got into trouble with the law over his agitation for the rights of indentured servants.

In the 1800s, Samuel Augustus Maverick went to Texas and became known for not branding his cattle

unbranded cattle

were called “Maverick’s.” The name came to mean anyone who didn’t bear another’s brand

Tags: maverick, mccain, palin, augustus

Our Gutless Congress Has Help Up This In Committee Since June 2007

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:49:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Folks, that almost 16 months... yet they can cram a $850 billion BAILOUT for their friends in a matter of a week...

GIVE ME A BREAK ! ! !

Clip Source: www.americanfreepress.net

Populists Back Ron Paul’s Plan To Kill the Fed

The trillion-dollar Wall Street bailout plan negotiated by the White House and Congress has reinvigorated the debate about Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act (HR 2755), which was introduced into Congress in June 2007.

In the halls of Congress, legislators have yet to bring Paul’s bill to the floor. It is currently languishing in the House Committee on Financial Services.

Paul’s measure, as it is now, would kill the Federal Reserve Act and would then phase out the Federal Reserve one year after the bill becomes law.

The Federal Reserve Act, passed by Congress in 1913, laid the foundation for the creation of a privately owned and controlled central bank and gave private bankers the power to control the nation’s money supply.

There can be no end to these manufactured financial crises until the government gets rid of the Fed and replaces it with honest, debt-free money.

The Man Who Could've Been King

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:13:10 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

The children of Paul Emery Washington think of their father as an unpretentious, generous guy who climbed the corporate ladder to become regional manager at CertainTeed manufacturing, a building-supply company. Now 82, he takes care of his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, while spending time on the San Antonio, Texas, property that he shares with his children.

Paul Emery Washington is a direct descendant of , our nation's first president and perhaps the only man in history who turned down the position of monarch.

the Continental Congress floated the idea of a coup-d'etat and the installation of King George and the creation of an American monarchy. But Washington, who believed that anyone (anyone!) might make for a good leader, staunched the idea and eventually relinquished his power as commander-in-chief.

Here Kitty Kitty. . . . .Tasty Kittens Annual Festival

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:37:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fury over cat eating festival . . . . . . .They believe that eating cat burgers – and fried cat legs and tails – can cure bronchial disease.

It is also believed that feline meat serves as an aphrodisiac.

The cats are bred especially for this festival – which takes place at the end of September on the Day of Santa Ifigenia.

But it has generated fury among animal rights groups.

Clip Source: www.thesun.co.uk

ANIMAL rights groups are up in arms over an annual festival in Peru that serves up hundreds of fried CATS to locals.

The 'Gastronomical Festival of the Cat' – dubbed the 'Massacre of the Moggies' – sees townsfolk in Canete, near Lima, feast on the fluffy pets for two days.

A PETA spokesman said: "“If Peruvians really eat poor old Moggy because they think his meat cures bronchitis, that’s about as bizarre as it gets, although remember that Asians eat monkey bits thinking that will cure their impotence and even Europeans butcher poor old Bessie the cow or Henny Penny the hen, because they see them as nothing more than a bit of nourishment.

“Having toured slaughterhouses for dogs in Taiwan, horses in Texas, and chickens and cows in Europe, PETA’s staff says the last thing we need to do is add yet another poor animal to the list of those being frightened and slaughtered for a taste.”

Tags: festival of the cat, canete peru

Polynesian Pipeline Feeds a Texas Football Titan

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:53:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Polynesian Pipeline Feeds a Football Titan

A pipeline from the Pacific Island kingdom of Tonga has delivered a Polynesian influence to this town’s churches, markets and championship football team, which won state titles in 2005 and 2007 among Texas’ largest schools. Players of Tongan descent have brought imposing size, strength and toughness to the Trojans — and the need for a roster with phonetic spellings for the announcers.

Students at Trinity speak 53 languages, and the flags of 31 nations hang in the school’s entrance. The proximity of Euless to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, which is located partly within the city limits, has brought a remarkable diversity to this town of 54,000.

Thirteen of the 24 Trinity players who have made all-state since the 1980s, and 16 members of the current roster, are of Tongan descent.

“When you think of Texas high school football, you think of country kids, farm kids; you don’t expect to see players from the South Pacific,”

Tags: diversity

Living in the racist past

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:33:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: sobering

Clip Source: hardblogger.msnbc.msn.com

I just heard fineman say that the "that one" statement wasn't racial. I am a 54 year old white guy that grew up in NC and the rule was when you couldn't say N*****, you just said "that one" (or more acurately, that'n). Lots of people won't get that this was racist and like the comments I heard on the show wrtie this off as an old guy. Old guys grew up in a racist America and this is what is normal to them This is a note from a Texas newspaper from a week or so ago.

Who You Callin' A Maverick?

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:45:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

But to those who know the history of the word, applying it to Mr. McCain is a bit of a stretch — and to one Texas family in particular it is even a bit offensive.

Considering the family’s long history of association with liberalism and progressive ideals, it should come as no surprise that Ms. Maverick insists that John McCain, who has voted so often with his party, “is in no way a maverick, in uppercase or lowercase.”

“It’s just incredible — the nerve! — to suggest that he’s not part of that Republican herd. Every time we hear it, all my children and I and all my family shrink a little and say, ‘Oh, my God, he said it again.’ ”

“He’s a Republican,” she said. “He’s branded.”

Branded: Who You Callin' A Maverick

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:12:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The real Mavericks have an interesting family history. Read the article to learn more.

Sam Maverick’s grandson, Fontaine Maury Maverick, was a two-term congressman and a mayor of San Antonio who lost his mayoral re-election bid when conservatives labeled him a Communist. He served in the Roosevelt administration on the Smaller War Plants Corporation and is best known for another coinage. He came up with the term “gobbledygook” in frustration at the convoluted language of bureaucrats

Fontaine Maury Maverick lost his bid for re-election in 1938. Notice how the Liepublicans called him a "communist." Notice how their dirty lying tricks haven't changed: Obama - terrorist, socialist, Marxist, black nationalist, and on and on ad naseum.

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to those who know the history of the word, applying it to Mr. McCain is a bit of a stretch — and to one Texas family in particular it is even a bit offensive

BRAND Samuel Augustus Maverick

“It’s just incredible — the nerve! — to suggest that he’s not part of that Republican herd

“He’s a Republican,” she said. “He’s branded.”

Certain, caffeine will keep you up at night, but it doesn’t compare to the stare-at-the-ceiling powe

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:54:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sleep-aid-center.com

The Most Sleep-Deprived City

Certain, caffeine will keep you up at night, but it doesn’t compare to the stare-at-the-ceiling power of stress. In a recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers discovered that untamed tension increases the odds of insomnia by 43 percent. Maybe that explains why Fresno, not New York, is the city that never sleeps: It has a 12.7 percent unemployment rate. By comparison, the most-rested address, Honolulu, has a jobless rate of just 5.9 percent.

We know this because we stayed up late sifting through stats. These included Simmons market research on the percentage of people in each city who average 7 or fewer hours of sleep a night, the number who’ve suffered from insomnia, and the percentage who report popping sleeping pills; and, from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the number of sleep-disorders centers per capita. We learned that while not that many people are sleepless in Seattle, an awful lot are tired in Texas.

Tags: sleep, tips

El Paso Mayor Sings Opposition to Death Penalty

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:26:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.elpasotimes.com

Mayor Cook on guitar against Texas' death penalty

By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau

Article Launched: 10/06/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT

Mayor John Cook performed during the Music for Life Tour on Wednesday at Scholz Garten in Austin. (Brandi Grissom / El Paso Times)

AUSTIN -- In a dark blue pin-striped suit, crisp white dress shirt, snug red tie and shiny brown dress shoes, El Paso Mayor John Cook sure didn't look like any folk singer.

But he slung one knee over the other, braced his guitar and belted out a couple songs Wednesday night in Austin just as he has in five other cities across the state, playing with a variety of musicians promoting abolition of the death penalty in Texas.

Tags: death penalty, human rights, songs for life