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With the latest monthly unemployment numbers coming out this Friday, I decided to take a look at what we've seen so far. It struck me that most of the quoted numbers were actually percentages, with the actual number of people not working obscured by statistics. So I decided to take a look at what would happen if I took the BLS numbers and then subtracted the number of people employed from the number of people in the populations that are 16 and over. This gives you the number of people who are currently not working, though are old enough to. Take a look at what has happened in Obama's first term so far:<br />
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As you can see, we've hit an all time high with over 100 million people not working, a number that has increased by 9 million since the day Obama took office with no letup in sight.<br />
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Now let's take a look at what happened in the first term of Ronald Reagan, a truly great American President:<br />
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Notice how different the trend is. Unlike Obama's trend which hit another all-time high in April, Reagan's peaked in March of 1983 and relentlessly fell from then on. It actually kept falling through his second term so that we had no increase in the number of people not working despite having 16 million more people 16 and over!<br />
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And all this happened in an economic environment that one could easily argue was less friendly than today. Remember that monetary policy was incredibly tight back then. Right when Reagan took office, Paul Volcker increased the Fed Funds rate by 2% to a whopping <a href="http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/statistics/dlyrates/fedrate.html">20%</a>! That is a far cry from today's zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) which has been in effect since December of 2008, right before Obama took office. From day one, Reagan was dealing with the tightest monetary policy in US history while Obama was dealing with the loosest, and yet Reagan was still able to turn gruel into gravy.<br />
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Also, if you look at the timing of the recessions each had to deal with, Reagan was disadvantaged there as well. Reagan's recession only ended in <a href="http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html">November 1982</a>, almost halfway through his first term, giving him little time to show improvement in unemployment as that often lags economic growth. Obama's recession, on the other hand, ended in June 2009, 5 months after he took office, giving him quite a long time to improve the employment situation. And yet he has failed miserably.<br />
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Obama needs to go to the dustbin of history so America can start growing again. His un-American policies that rely on big government, crony capitalism and corruption are simply not working.<br />
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Cross posted from <a href="http://libertarian-neocon.blogspot.com/2012/05/visual-proof-of-obamas-failure-as.html">libertarian neocon</a>'s blog.<div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. The Bird of Truth.<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9129398707869700858-7255582979572066678?l=www.politijim.com' alt='' /></div>
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It's no surprise that Europe is doing badly, but I don't think most people really understand how badly Europe, especially the western and southern portions, are doing. Take the<a href="http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/4-14052012-AP/EN/4-14052012-AP-EN.PDF"> industrial production</a> statistics that came out yesterday which showed that Europe as a whole contracted by 0.4% on a monthly basis and fell 1.9% compared to last year. The numbers are bad, signifying a recession, but aren't necessarily horrible. Two things need to be noted. First, growth in eastern europe is buoying these numbers so that weakness in the larger countries is being masked. Second, it's very important to take note where the absolute industrial production level is compared to years past. Incremental declines of 0.2% or 0.1% really add up. Take a look at this chart that I compiled of industrial production levels of select countries compared to 2005 and also what year those countries first hit this level (to give a sense of how far an economy has regressed). It's really not pretty:<br />
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As you can see, Greece's industrial production is almost 30% lower than it was in 2005, the same level it was at in 1978 (Newt Gingrich was not even in Congress then and Pink Floyd's The Wall hadn't been released yet)! That is over 30+ years of progress wiped out. Spain is doing better but you can't really say it is doing "well" as industrial production there is 21% lower than 2005, the same level as 1989. Go down the list, just about all the major western European economies are performing badly right now, except for Germany. And just for a reference, back at the height of the recession in the US, our industrial production was just 11.9% lower than 2005. So right now the UK, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain and Greece are all doing worse than we were when it looked like to many in the US as if the sky was falling.<br />
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And I just don't see how things are going to get better anytime soon. To cure the debt crisis, the European authorities have been throwing even more debt at is, making the eventual fall even worse. Also, "austerity" has meant heavy tax increases, putting economies deeper into recession (something that could happen in the US as well, thanks to the <a href="http://libertarian-neocon.blogspot.com/2012/04/were-8-months-away-from-being-massively.html">massive scheduled tax increases</a> that are coming in several months). Take a look at this <a href="http://libertarian-neocon.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-doesnt-greece-just-default.html">list of measures </a>approved in Greece last year:<br />
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<li> Taxes will increase by 2.32bn euros this year, with additional
taxes of 3.38bn euros in 2012, 152m euros in 2013 and 699m euros in
2014.</li>
<li> A solidarity levy of between 1% and 5% of income will be levied on households to raise 1.38bn euros.</li>
<li> The tax-free threshold for income tax will be lowered from 12,000 to 8,000 euros.</li>
<li> There will be higher property taxes</li>
<li> VAT rates are to rise: the 19% rate will increase to 23%, 11% becomes 13%, and 5.5% will increase to 6.5%.</li>
<li> The VAT rate for restaurants and bars will rise to 23% from 13%.</li>
<li> Luxury levies will be introduced on yachts, pools and cars. </li>
<li> Some tax exemptions will be scrapped</li>
<li> Excise taxes on fuel, cigarettes and alcohol will rise by one third.</li>
<li> Special levies on profitable firms, high-value properties and people with high incomes will be introduced.</li>
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Seems like a great way to crash an economy, which is exactly what happened. It's no wonder that extremist parties did so well in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_legislative_election,_2012">recent Greek elections</a>. The second largest party in parliament is now <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_Radical_Left">SYRIZA</a> (gained almost 17% of the vote), which is a coalition of radical left wing parties (including maoist, trotskyite and traditional communist & socialist parties) with such names as Anticapitalist Political Group, International Workers' Left, Communist Organization of Greece and Renewing Communist Ecological Left. And this wasn't the only communist game in town either, the official Communist Party of Greece gained another 8.5% of the vote. There is even a Greek neo-nazi party called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dawn_%28Greece%29">Golden Dawn </a>which gained 7% of the vote. It comes complete with a nazi salute and even a Greek version of the swastika. If you add it all up, these three crazy authoritarian parties gained a whopping 32.2% of the vote (this number could go up soon as <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18076757">new elections</a> are necessary after no coalition government could be agreed to by the various parties). And this insanity is not limited to Greece either (thought he Greek parties seem to be especially extreme). In France, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2012">Presidential candidates</a> representing fascists, communists and radical leftists got 30.2% of the vote in the first round of voting. As a reference, back in Weimar Germany, in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1930">1930 election</a>, the Nazis and Communists gained 31.4% of the vote between them. Just saying.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">***************WARNING GRAPHIC LANGUAGE*************** </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">After the initial background, we get into tweets and blogs of a Santorum supporter that are not for children under 18 or adults with delicate sensitivities. (You know that’s not me.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">PolitiJim followers are aware of the </span><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/more-santorum-supporter-tea-party-lies.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">recent demand for a retraction</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> from Dallas based Alice Linahan and her “new media consulting” Voicesempower. It’s bad enough she is now trying to make money off of the Tea Party movement. Alice also claims to be a “newspaper owner,” and yet seems unfamiliar with LIBEL LAWS or a little known journalistic practice called “<a href="http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php/The_Essentials_of_Reuters_sourcing#Honesty_in_sourcing" target="_blank">honesty in sourcing</a>.” Others call it integrity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Her entire site is a propaganda tool for Santorum but she tries to insinuate that Gingrich is trying “influence peddle” within the Tea Parties. Uhhhmmm. If by “influence peddle” you mean for Newt to pay for his own ads to get people to join the Tea Party before it started (right), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8smmN5QWf8&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">appear with Sean Hannity at the FIRST Tea Party event on 4/15/2009</a>, defend it to the mainstream media in countless interviews, then….yeah. Sure. (<em>Shouldn’t newspaper owners have a better vocabulary?</em>) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>A couple of things are interesting about this</strong>. She writes against Gingrich co-opting the Tea Party, but she hosted Rick Santorum in Keller (Dallas, TX), has Rick Santorum campaign advertisements all over her website and has ONLY Rick Santorum articles on her website. (Unless you include Herman Cain from days past). Unlike PolitiJim, there is ZERO BALANCE and is <strong>only pushing a single candidate.</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Pardon me, ma’am. Wasn’t the Tea Party supposed to stay on principle and clear of personality? </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Secondly, I am sure Tea Partiers in need of media help will race to the person who overlooks that HER candidate was <a href="http://www.therightscoop.com/definitive-proof-santorum-does-not-have-concerns-about-the-tea-party/" target="_blank">SLAMMING the Tea Party</a>, and supporting the Mitch McConnell RINO over Tea Party Rand Paul. In fact Santorum can’t be found on record ANYWHERE battling ObamaCare, <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/02/valentines-day-truth-massacre-on-tarp.html">Tarp</a>, or <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2011/12/newt-is-lie-and-gotcha-bomb-squad.html">support Palin against attacks by Obama press</a> except a couple of odd PAID appearances on FOX. Pennsylvania Tea Partiers <a href="http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/pennsylvania_gop_leaders_santo.html" target="_blank">say</a>,</span><br />
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“Now to show up and act like he was the original tea party candidate is absurd,” said High, the former Eichelberger aide. “But he’s phony. He’ll go to extreme lengths to be perceived as the most conservative guy in the room, but when it’s time to cut a deal to advance his political career, he’ll do it in a heartbeat.”</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Among many false arguments, Alice also complained about the PolitiJim acronym used to describe Santorum Lovers Unwilling To Soberly Syllogize and recently doubled down on Tea Party leader (and patriot) <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/KatrinaPierson" target="_blank">Katrina Pierson</a> actually accusing her of being FOR Agenda 21 when she was a key leader against it. Pierson also happens to be a Gingrich supporter and Linahan is now rallying others to OUT HER from the movement by calling her a “Tea Party Leader In Name Only.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Why? Because she retweeted a video from a liberal group attacking Santorum and using the “F-word.” In her original article she fantasizes that PolitiJim is a “segregate” (we are assuming she meant surrogate) as part of the Gingrich campaign and “as a mom” is appalled by the “SLUTSS” term. (I know she’s reading PolitiJim because she corrected her article from an earlier misspelling as SLUTTS.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I’ve got to tell you. <strong><span style="color: red;">Something sounds fishy with this whole thing</span></strong>. Most of the Santorum supporters I know may be totally blind to Rick’s faults and dislike Gingrich, but they are generally good Christians who really do CARE about the Tea Party movement. This women is simply mad because we are pointing out Santorum character flaws and supporting Gingrich. Hardly a cause to get worked up about considering Romney is Santorum’s real threat right now. What gives?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-x9HAEao4LcE/T21gbVY3xxI/AAAAAAAADxY/QXytmM3BS3Q/s1600-h/HoltAgencyBlurb%25255B3%25255D.gif"><img align="right" alt="HoltAgencyBlurb" border="0" height="125" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--dcdzBxbkNE/T21gcOL_TdI/AAAAAAAADxg/Zvkzq6KUOIA/HoltAgencyBlurb_thumb%25255B1%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 3px;" title="HoltAgencyBlurb" width="222" /></a> One quick example of her journalistic malpractice comes from even tiny portrayals of her qualifications using the testimonial of a Mr. Wayne Holt of “The Holt Agency” in Dallas on her “portfolio” page. He is even listed as an “Owner/Agent,” making us think this might be some kind of advertising agency/professional representation firm that is saavy in this media business she is pursuing. Hardly. Turns out, Mr. Holt’s “<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wayne-holt/4/466/b75" target="_blank">agency</a>” is a:</span><br />
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Multilines Agency for all property/casualty insurance products including farm,ranch,equestrian properties, trainer liability, club and event liability,equine liability,equine mortality,outfitters and guide,home,auto,commercial,as well as financial products including mutual funds,life insurance,disability,business overhead protection,estate planning,long term care, annuities and securities.</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">He’s a horse breeder, which of course is EXACTLY who Tea Party patriots would rely on to know that Ms. Linahan is qualified to take their hard earned dollars and turn it into…..a political movement? Actually, he had NOTHING TO DO WITH Voices Empower according to Alice’s <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=43750207&authType=OUT_OF_NETWORK&authToken=rcaV&locale=en_US&srchid=e15e7ec1-4b6a-4a8c-8b54-b2bdff40e7cf-0&srchindex=7&srchtotal=749&goback=%2Efps_PBCK_*1_Alice_+_*1_*1_*1_*1_*2_*1_Y_*1_*1_*1_false_1_R_*1_*51_*1_*51_true_*1_us%3A31_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2&pvs=ps&trk=pp_profile_name_link#recommendations" target="_blank">LINKEDIN profile</a>. Instead it says:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So let me get this right. Alice started a newspaper two years ago and Voices Empower overlapped a year of that and she is suddenly an expert in media charging money for Tea Party activities because a horse owner used her in in her 2 year career Real Estate? OK. Got it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In a day of investigation with my Texas Tea Party network, we found just kind of landed on the scene a year ago, about the time the battle to unseat RINO Joe Strauss began. Suddenly she’s a national tea party leader? Hmmmm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong><span style="color: red;">ON WITH THE FUN STUFF</span>.</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So, I was even more intrigued, when out of the blue PolitiJim got THIS comment posted and then an ensuing barrage of the same on Twitter:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/00477947314432716331">Tiffany</a> <a href="">says:</a> <br /><a href="">March 22, 2012 4:25 PM</a><br />
This blog post is severely flawed. NOBODY called you a Newt Surrogate. Nobody accused YOU of being affiliated with the Gingrich campaign. They were saying that the Gingrich campaign found your rants very useful. Now, the fact that you "clearly disavow" the true meaning of the word "slut" is all good and fine, but I read these blogs, your whole Slutss series, as a matter of fact. I read your whole explanation behind the term, but, still, why use the word even as an acronym if you aren't just trying to be insulting and completely disrespectful of a certain population of conservatives? Maybe you used it for esoteric purposes, because I sure didn't see the point, except as a way for you to bash female Santorum supporters. Maybe you just used it for shock value, which means, you sat and deliberated in front of your computer which words you could use that would necessitate the acronym SLUTSS, and yet it didn't once occur to you that you would still be disparaging people you were supposedly trying to reach with your message based on "facts"? Furthermore, I found a number of inconsistencies, things that you wrote that weren't quite "factual", as you claim, in those blogs, so don't think for one minute you can just climb on this high horse of truth, especially regarding somebody else's blog that was ABOUT Katrina Pierson, and NOT you. <br />And furthermore, NO ONE said who is or isn't the voice of the "Tea Party", as Tea Partiers know FULL WELL there IS no one voice for the Tea Party. This article that you are attempting to tear apart for whatever reason(mostly because it's Pro-Rick Santorum) is only maintaining that.</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So “Tiffany” the commenter and <a href="mailto:%E2%80%9C@MrsKlien54">“@MrsKlien54</a>” on Twitter (the same person as you will find out) is suddenly <strong><span style="color: red;">also</span></strong> offended at the SLUTSS term <strong>although none of the actual issues about Rick Santorum are challenged</strong>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A number of us on Twitter argued with her and she continued her “outrage” at the term. I noted that I DID apologize for those who were offended in <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/principled-slutss-for-santorum-part-3.html" target="_blank">Part 3</a> and apologized again on Twitter.</span><br />
<strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">It is worth noting that since the post there were some casual Tweets to PolitiJim expressing a discomfort with the SLUTSS term and certainly some unfollows, BUT NO ONE HAD REALLY sent more than a single DM or MT on it. No comments AT ALL. </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Then, not having been on Twitter all day – I was confronted with this barrage from the “sensitive” MrsKlein54 (read from the bottom up):</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-kIeIcnzpLEY/T21gd4H3PkI/AAAAAAAADx4/L2FaG8Hqafg/s1600-h/TiffanyKleinBarrage1%25255B6%25255D.gif"><img alt="TiffanyKleinBarrage1" border="0" height="535" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-REhjHzwsq70/T21getlUkiI/AAAAAAAADyA/RlD1U6VfHao/TiffanyKleinBarrage1_thumb%25255B4%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 4px auto;" title="TiffanyKleinBarrage1" width="484" /></a></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Perhaps the biggest red flag was the “why isn’t PolitiJim responding to my tweets?” tweet. This seemed too out of character for most gentile Santorum supporters. So, I wanted to see who this person was and looked at her bio which said:</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-VaM0bl6glsU/T21ggJ0IYhI/AAAAAAAADyI/TiOQJnlkbjI/s1600-h/TiffanyKleinTwitterProfile%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img alt="TiffanyKleinTwitterProfile" border="0" height="146" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-EJBdkkd18z0/T21gg5pip4I/AAAAAAAADyQ/SB8DdEvz99U/TiffanyKleinTwitterProfile_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffanyKleinTwitterProfile" width="484" /></a> </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">A pro-life, Catholic, Santorum-supporter. What are the odds that TWO DIFFERENT “Tiffany’s” would simultaneously attack me on PolitiJim.com and Twitter at the same time? </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">So I reeled off answers to each of her tweets from her complete ignorance of the link <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/09/401038/santorum-supported-individual-health-insurance-mandate-in-1994-republican-primary/?mobile=nc)" target="_blank">BACKING UP the claim</a> that Santorum supported individual mandates in 1994. Responses from Santorum supporters are typical. So she fit the mold with this reply:</span><br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/--MigiAYsikM/T21ghT3R41I/AAAAAAAADyY/7J2PRZ4ZJu0/s1600-h/TiffanyKleinIndividualMandate%25255B3%25255D.gif"><img alt="TiffanyKleinIndividualMandate" border="0" height="182" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-LOR_dQVgn4w/T21gh_B5hsI/AAAAAAAADyg/Qht0oNksF5Q/TiffanyKleinIndividualMandate_thumb%25255B1%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffanyKleinIndividualMandate" width="484" /></a> <br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">I informed her of course that a political candidate like Rick Santorum could actually say BOTH things contradicting himself. He has quite a <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/slutss-for-santorum-part-1-truth.html" target="_blank">history of doing EXACTLY that</a> including <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/pro-life-slutss-for-santorum-part-2.html" target="_blank">saying</a> anyone who funds ANY PART of Planned Parenthood is guilty of funding abortion, and then making an excuse of his vote for Title X as being for “women’s health needs.” </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">In a bone-chilling parry, using Bill Buckley Jr.-like intellect she responded:</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-4AUSKm6-6V8/T21giU1XM6I/AAAAAAAADyo/DHzOAdokqY0/s1600-h/TiffanyKleinTHATSNOTTRUE%25255B4%25255D.gif"><img alt="TiffanyKleinTHATSNOTTRUE" border="0" height="200" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-k3T22wf6F3o/T21giyeHvPI/AAAAAAAADyw/bHxDc-P5up0/TiffanyKleinTHATSNOTTRUE_thumb%25255B2%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 4px auto;" title="TiffanyKleinTHATSNOTTRUE" width="484" /></a></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Just like liberal would, she didn’t address this and jumped to another accusation of me. I was getting tired and my good Twitter friend <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/conservativecho" target="_blank">@conservativeecho</a> began to engage her ALSO trying to reason. <strong>I got suspicious when I got this DM from him:</strong></span><br />
<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-OvvCvCm6Gqk/T21gjYBso6I/AAAAAAAADy4/uzpJ7gE0DT8/s1600-h/TiffanyKleinConservEchoDM%25255B4%25255D.gif"><img alt="TiffanyKleinConservEchoDM" border="0" height="135" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-AIa9a_IJOZc/T21gj50RpeI/AAAAAAAADzA/EziQTelQxRc/TiffanyKleinConservEchoDM_thumb%25255B2%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffanyKleinConservEchoDM" width="484" /></a> <br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img align="right" alt="fatbottomgirlBLOGGER" border="0" height="232" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-0m2u3GV2oSM/T21gkSY8_8I/AAAAAAAADzI/qjxQAF__Gl0/fatbottomgirlBLOGGER%25255B7%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 3px;" title="fatbottomgirlBLOGGER" width="197" /></a></span>A bell went off and I went back to her original post on PolitiJim to look at her bio. I clicked on the Blogger profile for “Tiffany,” and then the BLOG that was listed. What did I see?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Since June of last year Tiffany has had a Blogger ID. AND A BLOG!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well, this should be interesting. Let’s click “Fat Bottomed Girl” and see what Santorum supporters blog….</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="fatbottomedgirl" border="0" height="304" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-eNkq8BZVJQ8/T21glId19bI/AAAAAAAADzQ/kcN1pMVSq3o/fatbottomedgirl%25255B4%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="fatbottomedgirl" width="484" /></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In case you don’t want to zoom it says, WELCOME:</span><br />
<blockquote>
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Yes, I am an asshole...</h4>
I am also a mother of a Little Bug, wife to my Hubby, student at University of Fictional Bird, and trying to not be fat.</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And her first post listed from February 20th under the title <strong>MISTAKEN IDENTITY </strong>(love the irony, right?) starts:</span><br />
<blockquote>
Remember my uptight bitch teacher who I wanted to choke? The female one? Yeah, she's a he. And not just any he. I had pictured a forty-something, overweight, frizzy haired white woman and I got....well, um I got not that. </blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So my “offended” Santorum Tea Partier continues her piece in a flurry of prose that would make Edward R. Murrow (and her candidate( so proud:</span><br />
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I arrived to campus early to get an official University of Fictitious Bird nameplate, I soon discovered that the instructor was a man. A woman in the admin building, after telling me how fucking ridiculous it was that he made a fucking name tag a fucking requirement (exact verbiage), she said "I haven't heard good things about him. Good luck." I obviously thought she misspoke, so I said "Yeah, she isn't rubbing me the right way." She gave me a funny look and replied "No, she's a he." All I could say was "fuck". I had called him a ma'am in my earlier email. Super. I haven't even got to class and I already have pissed the man off. I think that's a record for me.</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>THIS </strong>is a Santorum supporter that identifies herself first as a Catholic, then a Santorum supporter and finally “100% Prolife”? <strong>There are lots of Christians and Catholics who cuss. </strong>(<em>I know because I was one of them before God helped me with that.</em>) <strong>But I don’t know of anyone whose FIRST IDENTITY is their faith in God</strong> who are this profane.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">What about “MrsKlein54?” It had to be the same person right? I published this on Twitter IMMEDIATELY, and got this response:</span><br />
<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-nITeyJ2crAY/T21gllIWl1I/AAAAAAAADzY/fBulLoAxxJk/s1600-h/TiffanyKleinTHATSNOTME%25255B3%25255D.gif"><img alt="TiffanyKleinTHATSNOTME" border="0" height="280" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-upDq0HwoX80/T21gmDo5-wI/AAAAAAAADzg/QFk-sd72KnQ/TiffanyKleinTHATSNOTME_thumb%25255B1%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffanyKleinTHATSNOTME" width="484" /></a> <br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So – I went BACK out to the blog and WHALA! “Tiffany” left <strong>another</strong> comment on PolitiJim….<strong>WHERE SHE ADMITS IT WAS HER ON TWITTER!!!</strong></span><br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-T46dUMuaTZ4/T21gm3mgl0I/AAAAAAAADzo/-JF_l1Ar11Y/s1600-h/TiffanyPJComment2%25255B3%25255D.gif"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><img alt="TiffanyPJComment2" border="0" height="223" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-RDbMawcRs4s/T21gnahRuHI/AAAAAAAADzw/NP1UqFINVwY/TiffanyPJComment2_thumb%25255B1%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffanyPJComment2" width="486" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now why would a good wholesome Catholic Santorum supporter who is “offended” at the PolitiJim “SLUTSS” acronym have a profane blog complete with “B***tch” and “F**k”?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I wonder what we would find in @MrsKlein54’s Twitter timeline? Here are some samples:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-0tXKKa8JBAw/T21gn7AT3hI/AAAAAAAADz4/eeh2W1DnWhg/s1600-h/TiffKleinStupidSlutCat%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img alt="TiffKleinStupidSlutCat" border="0" height="100" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-IErsOBt33WY/T21goeKVFTI/AAAAAAAAD0A/3y4-qL5uBkE/TiffKleinStupidSlutCat_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffKleinStupidSlutCat" width="484" /></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">WAIT…, what? Maybe this good Catholic girl didn’t know what that meant?</span><br />
<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-oGs3lt1FZpg/T21gpCMJXzI/AAAAAAAAD0I/hVltVKlcDa4/s1600-h/TiffKJonahGSLUTS%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img alt="TiffKJonahGSLUTS" border="0" height="282" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-kPF0V1kZ8V8/T21gpktSTHI/AAAAAAAAD0Q/ToPjmaAAWsI/TiffKJonahGSLUTS_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffKJonahGSLUTS" width="484" /></a> <br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hmmm. She retweeted someone ELSE using the word slut too?</span><br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-603-vexWDZM/T21gqOmXOEI/AAAAAAAAD0Y/Fj1HeScHgKk/s1600-h/TiffKleinSlutRoomate%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img alt="TiffKleinSlutRoomate" border="0" height="330" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-SQ0F6JFf2Gw/T21gq0RT7GI/AAAAAAAAD0g/0VsDHNOOzwg/TiffKleinSlutRoomate_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffKleinSlutRoomate" width="484" /></a><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">WHOA!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Green Eyed Warrior merely TWEETED “Promiscuous roommate” and MrsKlein54 (aka Tiffany) <strong>SUGGESTS </strong>to use the word <strong>SLUT?</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Worse than that, she DEFENDS THE USE of the “S” word and gets more crude than you can imagine. (<span style="color: red;">GRAPHIC WARNING</span><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></strong><br />
<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wJzj1shEwv0/T21grb7kYSI/AAAAAAAAD0o/JjHFa_1rtQI/s1600-h/TiffKleinSLUTisNiceWord%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img alt="TiffKleinSLUTisNiceWord" border="0" height="240" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-u68LUdy3eF4/T21gsNDKfgI/AAAAAAAAD0w/kdqEWaTLekE/TiffKleinSLUTisNiceWord_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffKleinSLUTisNiceWord" width="484" /></a> <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-G1zGKZf79Fc/T21gsmaGvFI/AAAAAAAAD04/HQHATmsYDVY/s1600-h/TiffKleinSlutGoodThing%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img alt="TiffKleinSlutGoodThing" border="0" height="238" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-JkD6Q9dKo0s/T21gtA_ApTI/AAAAAAAAD1A/qn9_lbhkv8c/TiffKleinSlutGoodThing_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffKleinSlutGoodThing" width="484" /></a> <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-j9iwDnjr6Ww/T21gtrJPgoI/AAAAAAAAD1I/EpyhHCjmgMw/s1600-h/TiffKleinDefendRushSlut%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img alt="TiffKleinDefendRushSlut" border="0" height="142" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-cqurOMQknas/T21guE2qqzI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/UrJZzgAgMIA/TiffKleinDefendRushSlut_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffKleinDefendRushSlut" width="484" /></a> <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ipFwX2hBypU/T21guo5jWKI/AAAAAAAAD1Y/c0P014zQ6PA/s1600-h/TiffKleinCallFlukeSlut%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img alt="TiffKleinCallFlukeSlut" border="0" height="178" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-xgfwPOXbMsE/T21gvNttTII/AAAAAAAAD1g/EQcMOKmYpE4/TiffKleinCallFlukeSlut_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffKleinCallFlukeSlut" width="484" /></a> _<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is far worse than it looks. She uses:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana;">14 Sluts (not including the PolitiJim SLUTSS reference)</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana;">12 Sh*t’s</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana;">5 “F” words</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana;">2 “A-holes”</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana;">1 G_dmn and many other crude terms <br /> <br /><strong><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">…..in a single month</span></strong></span> </li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here is a short scrapbook of George Carlin’s (almost) favorite 7 words:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is the SAME “lady” who tweeted me (after her initial barrage):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-WNRaT5CXmZI/T21gwokIfcI/AAAAAAAAD1w/H3uqjhHDRN4/s1600-h/TiffKleinOFFENDEDbyPJSLUTSS%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="TiffKleinOFFENDEDbyPJSLUTSS" border="0" height="291" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-T-GCVwmRgAc/T21gxMdqQZI/AAAAAAAAD14/yyx_3HJpYGg/TiffKleinOFFENDEDbyPJSLUTSS_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffKleinOFFENDEDbyPJSLUTSS" width="484" /></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I also found out that she attacked ANOTHER GINGRICH SUPPORTER harassing him in a similar way:</span><br />
<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-2PmhBZZLkvM/T21gx_NexYI/AAAAAAAAD2A/9JON4aRBeqo/s1600-h/TiffKleinBlogBatunChristian%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img alt="TiffKleinBlogBatunChristian" border="0" height="388" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-H8_TuVvBTTY/T21gyiMHMNI/AAAAAAAAD2I/TrE6-nLRsbQ/TiffKleinBlogBatunChristian_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 4px 4px 4px 0px;" title="TiffKleinBlogBatunChristian" width="484" /></a> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong><u>What is the explanation for this?</u></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So do we have just a deranged individual Santorum supporter, or something more sinister. (If you guessed the latter you win.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It dawned on me that “Tiffany” seemed to know the article from Alice Voicesempower a little too well. And it was quite strange that with my obvious Tea Party affiliation and even more Katrina Pierson’s, WHY ARE SANTORUM SUPPORTERS burning all bridges to attack other Tea Partiers?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I <a href="http://gulagbound.com/7372/the-strategy-behind-neal-rauhausers-twittergate-social-media-marxofascism-by-progressives-part-1/" target="_blank">was told of a group</a> last year that tried to seem like part of the tea party, shouting obnoxious things and attempting to incite violence. There was also documented cases of Democrats hiring trolls as in the video below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As I was going through her timeline, I saw SOME OF MY CLOSEST TWITTER FRIENDS and many conservative icons like @DavidLimbaugh conversing with her. <strong>NO ONE COULD READ HER BLOG </strong>and assume she is a conservative.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But with a Twitter profile indicating she lived in Colorado, all I could think is she is one of the millions who had applied for jobs through the Obama campaign or some of the ACORN/SEIU slush fund partners documented elsewhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Until I double-checked her location. Seems she lied about that too.</span><br />
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<tr> <td width="63">3/22/2012 21:26</td> <td width="115">70.123. <br />
108.205</td> <td>AppleWebKit</td> <td>Texas</td> <td><strong>Flower Mound</strong></td> <td><strong>75028</strong></td> <td>Road Runner</td> <td>More Santorum Supporter Tea Party LIES ~ PolitiJim's Rants for Reasonable People</td> </tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Where is Flower Mound, Texas? You got it. <strong>Dallas</strong>.</span><br />
<a href="http://libertylinked.com/groups/1705/voicesempower/View.aspx" target="_blank"><img alt="Alice Linahan VE LibertyLinked" border="0" height="90" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-KMRYvIn1huU/T21gzrDeC4I/AAAAAAAAD2Y/TtiMUQ9nnh8/Alice%252520Linahan%252520VE%252520LibertyLinked%25255B4%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline;" title="Alice Linahan VE LibertyLinked" width="484" /></a> <br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Alice’s LinkedIn profile goes on to say:</span><br />
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Specializes in social media integration, media relations, strategic planning. and front-line marketing. <strong>Alice</strong> has a solid track record of results which has clearly been seen recently in her hard work in the trenches of the tea party movement.</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We don’t know if using “Tiffany” was part of her “social media integration” skills, but we are now asking her (<strong><span style="color: red;">in addition to issuing a retraction for the libel on her site regarding Katrina and myself)</span></strong> for the following:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana;">A condemnation of “Tiffany” for doing far worse than Katrina RETWEETING a Romney video, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana;">A clarification on her site that the TEA PARTY DOES NOT ENDORSE ANYONE INCLUDING RICK SANTORUM OR NEWT GINGRICH. (And especially not Mitt Romney), </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana;">An explanation of why she is using the Tea Party as a basis to engender animosity toward ANY conservative candidate – rather than maintaining the separation mandated by Tea Party groups and leaders nationwide, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana;">An apology for attempting to impugn the reputation of a single mom and Tea Party leader who has given selflessly to conservative causes for practicing her free speech rights.</span> </li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The great intellectual and conservative voice Thomas Sowell <a href="http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell/-super-tuesday.html" target="_blank">had this to say</a> about Rick Santorum (<em>graciously provided to me by one of your contributing writers at Voices Empower, by the way</em>.)</span><br />
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…can (Rick Santorum) survive the media's constant attempts to paint him as some kind of religious nut who would use the government to impose his views on others? And, if he can, will he also be able to go toe-to-toe with Obama in debates?<br />
I would not bet the rent money on it.<br />
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And what is at stake is far bigger than the rent money.</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Prove you are not still ANOTHER Santorum nut-job like Tiffany who is immune to reason, a sense of ethics and morals by trying to silence other conservatives. As my friend @conservativeecho put it:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-JTLccRSS8i4/T21g0T88AAI/AAAAAAAAD2g/Qj-fk-7beKk/s1600-h/TiffanyKleinConservEchoDM%25255B8%25255D.gif"><img alt="TiffanyKleinConservEchoDM" border="0" height="118" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-cN-PTqa7yzs/T21g08QXXRI/AAAAAAAAD2o/EhO7MhxUc3s/TiffanyKleinConservEchoDM_thumb%25255B4%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline;" title="TiffanyKleinConservEchoDM" width="484" /></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And we know you know how to do that. We especially liked your work where you called on Sheila Jackson Lee to apologize. Perhaps you could demonstrate to her how.</span><br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-dVNur7Ps1QQ/T21g1keYybI/AAAAAAAAD2w/A0tXA8MLQTU/s1600-h/AliceDemandSheilaJacksonApologize%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img alt="AliceDemandSheilaJacksonApologize" border="0" height="104" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-t1jgkrcnT3Q/T21g2E9ccsI/AAAAAAAAD24/u_7ASBFcfmg/AliceDemandSheilaJacksonApologize_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="AliceDemandSheilaJacksonApologize" width="484" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">PolitiJim is just now starting it’s investigation and there is certainly more to follow on this entire fabricated attack on other Tea Party people and fake identities. <strong>STAY TUNED!</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;">UPDATE: Alice is now calling for “conservative information pushers” (Not patriots, not thinking analysts – but “pushers”)</span></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.voicesempower.com/voices-empower-call-for-conservative-information-pushers/" target="_blank"><img alt="VEpushers" border="0" height="214" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-uUmv_lNTwG4/T24VUau-yiI/AAAAAAAAD4M/9C7akD1W38c/VEpushers%25255B4%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 3px 4px 4px 3px;" title="VEpushers" width="484" /></a> </strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">And what pray tell are they going to do at this function?</span><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.voicesempower.com/voices-empower-call-for-conservative-information-pushers/" target="_blank"><img alt="VEdrivingnarrativeSantorum" border="0" height="324" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-N6umfAyrKac/T24VU0484VI/AAAAAAAAD4U/dIXUe766osc/VEdrivingnarrativeSantorum%25255B4%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline;" title="VEdrivingnarrativeSantorum" width="484" /></a> </strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yep! It is to “push” Santorum through the Tea Party on a state level and she is hiding behind Anita Moncrief – former ACORN board member to do it. (I am shocked Anita would be a part of this, but that is for another story.)</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Patriots in Dallas be aware of this hypocritical promotion of using Tea Party resources for Santorum and against Gingrich or other conservatives. <span style="color: red;">DON’T LET OPPORTUNISTS (or possible plants) LIKE HER RUIN THE TEA PARTY!</span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Meanwhile, Katrina Pierson has perhaps the best advice of all (and PolitiJim is taking it to heart):</span><br />
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src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-FbgmxbApxZ8/T66HXpfk1QI/AAAAAAAAFOs/JzZr2P_Zhg0/OutWithTheBullInWithThe_thumb2.png?imgmax=800" width="482" height="267" /></font></a><font face="Verdana"> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I find political meaning in everything, including the annual ritual of the changing of the Chicago Sports fan’s season, where we exchange bitter disappointment of basketball for the bogus hope for the boys of summer.  PolitiJim has changed from his Bull hat to Cubs, but perhaps this year it is prophetic for our political hopes as Tea Party conservatives as well.  Allow me to explain.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The team that miraculously tied for the best record in the NBA’s shortened seasoned (see PolitiJim cap in title picture) was eliminated by the Philadelphia 76ers last night in a series that ended up 4-2.  At the True the Vote National Summit I sat with a fellow patriot from Philly who owes me a plate of crow.  I suppose I’ll need to bring my own Bullsauce with which to wash it down.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The Bulls </font><a href="http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120504/sports/705049548/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">were astounded at losing game 3</font></a><font face="Verdana">, especially with a 14 point lead in the 4th quarter of that game.   No one said it, but even without Derrick Rose, the meltdown took on supernatural tones.  All Star Luo Deng couldn’t grasp it saying:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">“It just felt like that everything that wasn’t supposed to happen, happened,” Luol Deng said. “It just felt like that everything that wasn’t supposed to happen, happened.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">True, I predicted </font><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/historic-season-for-chicago-bulls-now.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">here</font></a><font face="Verdana">, that the Bulls would not win the Championship due to the “Obama Curse.” But I thought that even without last year’s MVP Derrick Rose lost to a season ending ACL injury in game 1, they could beat the worst team in the playoffs.  Afterall, the Bulls had gone 18-9 against other teams (including Miami and Dallas) without their hard working floor leader.  Apparently the Barack Jinx is becoming more potent, or PolitiJim failed to factor in the increased effect resulting from <em>Rose </em>publicly endorsing Obama for re-election.  Kind of a double damn, I suppose.  It appears unless you are directly apart of satan’s secret circle, endorsing Obama may be as hazardous to your success as having him endorse you.  Just ask Oprah who looks like her </font><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/oprah_obama.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">old “magic” tumbled when she endorsed Obama</font></a><font face="Verdana"> and is </font><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/own-network-oprah-discovery_n_1369838.html?ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">on the verge of loosing $300 Million and total failure</font></a><font face="Verdana"> in her new network.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong><u>THE POWER OF EPSTEIN</u></strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Is it coincidence that the Cubs, after starting out 3-11, are the hottest team in baseball while the Red Sox, who started out 1-5 are one of the worst?  Last year the Red Sox also started out 2-10 and went on to have the best record in baseball – a 81-42 record.  Yes, the managers have changed at both clubs, but the common denominator is the Waveland Wonder, <strong>Theo Epstein</strong>.  NO ONE, including PolitiJim, expects to be searching scalpers for World Series tickets this year.  But just as Phil Jackson took wannabe contenders to winners with Jordan and the Lake Show, there is SOMETHING beyond better decision making, better “X’s and O’s” to success, and the Cubs LOOK like a different team as the former Boston Red Sox GM promised.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Yes, creating a different “attitude” does help success.  But even the famed, philosophical optimist, Jimmy V only won one National Basketball Championship.  In the bible it’s called “an anointing.”  It is the opposite of a curse.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"></font><font face="Verdana">Of course, despite the natural inclinations of Wrigley worshipping devotees, it is too early to indicate long term success.  Don’t think every Cub fan wouldn’t like to declare the season over right now and take our winning record when we can get it.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But by all accounts there IS a different winning “atmosphere” despite injuries to Kerry Wood, and melt downs by crazy closer Carlos Marmol.  (<em>For non-Cub, non-baseball fans – Kerry Wood held the record for most strikeouts in a game until last year and Carolos Marmol is the most unhittable pitcher in the majors.  Unless he’s not, which has been the story most of the past year.</em>)</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Tea Partiers felt that in 2010 only to wonder if “conservative” is the new “Cub.”  Afterall, conservatives REALLY truly haven’t been empowered since Contract With America, and Bush turned out to be bush league as far as Regan Republicanism goes.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Many felt that last year the basketball Bulls were overachievers.  They were far more successful with Coach of the Year Tom Thibodeau despite utilizing the same core players that Vinny Del Negro and Scott Skiles couldn’t get into the playoffs or past the first round of playoffs.  The amazing accomplishment this year of EXCEEDING their winning percentage of last year (despite only having their starting 5 healthy for 15 games) proved that the Bulls were “for real.”  The players could INDIVIDUALLY play and improve all they wanted, but the right coach can set a goal, group expectation and integration of talents in a way average coaches can’t.  It’s why we marvel at John Wooden who won 10 NCAA titles.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The same is true with politics.  It isn’t JUST “policies” that dictate success.  Wisconsin Governor <strong>Scott Walker</strong> and Louisiana Governor <strong>Bobby Jindal</strong> have presided over <a href="http://chiefexecutive.net/best-worst-states-for-business-2012" target="_blank">enormous gains</a> for each of their states utilizing limited government, free market principles.  <strong>Chris Christie</strong>, despite the “conservative” love from Coulter and Romney, hasn’t fare as well.</font></p> <div align="center"><strong>Rankings of Best States for Economic Growth and Business</strong> <br /> <table border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="482" align="center"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="104"><font face="Arial"></font></td> <td valign="top" width="53"><strong><font face="Arial">2012</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="51"><strong><font face="Arial">2011</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="53"><strong><font face="Arial">2010</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="55"><strong><font face="Arial">2008</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="78"><strong><font face="Arial">2 Yr Chg</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="78"><strong><font face="Arial">4 Yr Chg</font></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="104"> <p align="left"><strong><font face="Arial">LA - Jindal</font></strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="53"><font face="Arial">13</font></td> <td valign="top" width="51"><font face="Arial">27</font></td> <td valign="top" width="53"><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td valign="top" width="55"><font face="Arial">45</font></td> <td valign="top" width="78"><font face="Arial">+27</font></td> <td valign="top" width="78"><font face="Arial">+28</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="104"> <p align="left"><strong><font face="Arial">WI - Walker</font></strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="53"><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td valign="top" width="51"><font face="Arial">24</font></td> <td valign="top" width="53"><font face="Arial">41</font></td> <td valign="top" width="55"><font face="Arial">43</font></td> <td valign="top" width="78"><font face="Arial">+21</font></td> <td valign="top" width="78"><font face="Arial">N/A</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="104"> <p align="left"><strong><font face="Arial">NJ - Christie</font></strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="53"><font face="Arial">45</font></td> <td valign="top" width="51"><font face="Arial">47</font></td> <td valign="top" width="53"><font face="Arial">47</font></td> <td valign="top" width="55"><font face="Arial">47</font></td> <td valign="top" width="78"><font face="Arial"><strong>+2</strong></font></td> <td valign="top" width="78"><font face="Arial">N/A</font></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <p align="left"><font face="Verdana">I don’t care how many great of a speeches the New Jersey Jiggle gives in front of Nancy at the Ronald Reagan Library.  </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Verdana"><font face="Verdana"><strong>RHETORIC is NOT RESULTS</strong>.  </font></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And “Leadership” is not equal, but necessary to all initiatives.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I envision leadership as a recipe with ingredients including:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">Bold Visions and Intelligent Strategy </font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Shrewd Judgment</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Motivating Communication</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Measured Tenacity and Immoveable Core Principles</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Humility</font> </li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">You can have 90% of the above qualities but base them on false Keynesian theory (<em>or if you are an NBA coach the “Four Corner” offense</em>), and you’ll still fall short in your effort to implement and sustain change.  INTELLIGENT means based on Objective Truth.  Alternatively, you can have the knowledge of prosperous conservative principles, but waiver when they are put to the test and end up ruining the “brand” or “franchise” as Bush 41 did to Reagan or <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/stopping_the_decline_in_housing_prices.html" target="_blank">Jeffery Immelt did to Jack Welch at General Electric</a>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904583204576544712358583844.html?KEYWORDS=Michael+Boskin" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 4px; display: inline" align="right" src="http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ED-AO203C_boski_G_20110907184052.jpg" width="300" height="188" /></a> Clearly, on every measure, Obama has shown he took America into an even deeper ditch than into the one he declared McCain would take us.  I’m not a George Bush worshiper, but clearly the tax cuts following 9-11 saved this country experiencing what might have been a severe recession with or without the mortgage bubble.  Obama had choices and chose the wrong one every time. Similar <a href="http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-minneapolis-fed-compares-reaganomics-and-obamanomics/" target="_blank">comparisons of the Regan and Obama recoveries</a> show what leadership versus Leninism does.  </font><font face="Verdana">Obama has set many records, but they’ve all been blasphemies of sound policy.  Unemployment is at 22% (not 8%) and <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/04/welfare-at-all-time-high-under-obama/" target="_blank">welfare is at an all time high</a>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong><font color="#0000ff">Here’s the good news and bad news.</font></strong>  The <strong>good news</strong> is that Romney will be better than Obama.  But so would a 9 day old unpeeled Easter egg.  The <strong>bad news</strong> is that with ALL of this terrible, horrible economic news - and documented evidence that he is not legitimately qualified to be President – he is STILL neck and neck with Romney in the polls.  In a sane world, Obama would have already resigned in disgrace.  If you factor in rampant voter fraud, Romney would have to win by 6% to 10% in the key battle ground states like Virginia just to tie.  And if that particular <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/23/section-527-works-to-seat-liberals-as-election-ove/?page=all" target="_blank">Secretary of State is owned by Soros</a>, they will “Al Franken” a way to win.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It is true that a large number of people don’t “tune in” into last few weeks of the race.  It is also true that Obama has <a href="http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-lefts-national-vote-fraud-strategy-exposed/" target="_blank">multiple OTHER devices ready to steal, kill and destroy our elections</a> and that Obama doesn’t have to win the national popular vote to stay in office and inflict more desecration upon our Republic.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I suspect as <a href="http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-lefts-national-vote-fraud-strategy-exposed/" target="_blank">this person</a>, <a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/46516?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=fff6a66b0e-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email " target="_blank">this article</a>, and <a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/46200?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=3902ec4433-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email " target="_blank">this person</a> does, that the next few months will not only be the most UNconventional election in history, but will likely be the most seductive and chaotic attempt to usurp our government.  Ever.  And most likely the GOP (and most of us if we are honest) will still be playing the equivalent of baseball in the middle of a no-holds bar ultimate fighting cage match.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I’ve had many close Twitter/Blogger friends tell me they have a bad feeling in their gut about the upcoming Presidential election.  Someone either tweeted, emailed or texted me the following thought this week, after the successful upset of <strong>RIN</strong>diana<strong>O</strong> Dick Lugar by Tea Party candidate Richard Murdock:</font></p> <blockquote> <p>Where the hell was THIS Tea Party on the national level the past months of the primary?</p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">I have many friends who argue with me that Tea Party is still alive and strong.  My answer:  <strong>If it were, Romney would not be the presumptive nominee</strong>.  It’s the same idiocy with fellow Bulls fans (like Scottie Pippen) claiming the Bulls were still the best team in the NBA even without MVP Derrick Rose because they went 18-9 without him.  <strong>Sorry, facts matter.</strong>  The Bulls only went 7-7 against quality teams without Rose.  <u>It’s about damn time we start getting DETAILED and SMARTER about what is really going on underneath the surface of our assumptions</u>.  We have got to quit kidding ourselves that we aren’t in deep delegate doo doo.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I can’t believe I saw a headline at <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/09/Dying-Tea-Party-Raises-12mill" target="_blank">Breitbart.com</a> (no less) that Tea Party was strong since the Tea Party Patriots raised twelve million dollars in 2012.  <strong>$12 Million</strong> to organize, communicate and support Presidential, US Congressional, Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer and a myraid of other races across the country.  Remember Gingrich’s SuperPac raised over <strong>$23 Million</strong> for a single candidate in a single race focusing on less than a handful of states.  <strong><a href="http://www.cfinst.org/Press/PReleases/10-11-05/Non-Party_Spending_Doubled_But_Did_Not_Dictate_Results.aspx" target="_blank">$12 Million is $1 million LESS than what the GOP and DNC spent on the single Governor’s race in Colorado in 2010</a>.</strong>  An additional $18 Million was spent by outside groups.  JUST in Colorado.  JUST for one race.  <strong>Why can’t conservative media report honestly?</strong>  Where is the mention that the co-founder of TPP talked about the organization <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/28/former-tea-party-patriots-leader-describes-groups-internal-turmoil/" target="_blank">selling out to the GOP</a> establishment and other problems.  This from a once ballsy outfit that now denies a six month law enforcement investigation which proves forged government documents (felonies) by the White House.  Why should we listen to them anymore?  Or pretend that they really have the same values we do?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">As I’ve said before.  <strong>It’s not just Andrew that has died, but his namesake and most major conservative media.</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>After 2 years of Tea Party activism we still have <a href="http://www.newser.com/story/144534/establishment-gop-has-defeated-tea-party.html" target="_blank">yet to obtain a single seat</a> on the 168 member GOP governing committee.</strong>  And may I remind you that Human Events Top Ten RINO for 2006 is our nominee?  You know, that guy that passed gay marriage by executive order, and implemented the most liberal socialized medicine and cap and trade programs of ANY state just 7 years ago?  And you want to tell me the Tea Party is alive and well?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">(<em>I’m not trying to depress you, honest</em>.) <u>But we have to quit deluding ourselves that Romney is going to wipe up White House with Obama</u>, or that we in the “Tea Party” are as strong as we think.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I’m not here to discourage you honest.  There is hope in the end.  I believe in the Tea Party and what we WANT it to be.  But we are setting ourselves up for a worse disaster than Hurricane Cain in a Florida straw poll if we delude ourselves into false security.  </font><font face="Verdana">I’ll explain why in a moment, but first…</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong><u>It’s Time to Tell the Truth About Tea Party </u></strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The Tea Party was ALWAYS an amalgamation of social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, Libertarians and angry independents who resonated with the idea of blaming someone.  “<strong><em>I’m not gonna take it anymore</em></strong>” wasn’t just a line from a 70’s movie.  My friend Richichi thinks this group breaks out something like this:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>42% Social <br />28% Fiscal <br />17% Libertarians <br />13% Constitutional</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">If you combine “fiscal” and “Libertarian” (both who are primarily motivated by economic issues rather than social), that sounds about right to me.  <strong><font color="#ff0000">BUT HERE IS THE PROBLEM</font>.</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Verdana"><strong>At it’s height of popularity in 2010, Tea Party “supporters” <br />themselves have never polled more than <font color="#ff0000">30%</font> of all Americans.</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Verdana"><a title="2010 Gallup Tea Party Composition" href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/141098/tea-party-supporters-overlap-republican-base.aspx" target="_blank"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="2010TeaPartyBreakdownChart" border="0" alt="2010TeaPartyBreakdownChart" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-el0jj7hrdC4/T66HYGJyO6I/AAAAAAAAFO0/LefVp0CaiHg/2010TeaPartyBreakdownChart5.png?imgmax=800" width="459" height="359" /></a> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The TOTAL of all Tea Party Supporters among ALL political persuasions is only SLIGHTLY higher than the number of people who call themselves “conservative Republicans.”  If you add in “conservative Democrats” (<em>Sorry Rush, there are some in the South that still think they are</em>), you still only come up with the 40% “conservative” number we all have heard about.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">BUT THAT IS SELF IDENTIFIED “Conservatives” and <strong><em>NOT</em></strong> Tea Partiers.  <strong>Meaning only </strong></font><font face="Verdana"><strong>about 2/3rds of all “conservatives” support (<em>or supported</em>) the Tea Party.</strong>  Only 60% of the <u>Republicans</u> ever did.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/09/tea-party-now-unpopular-obama/43129/" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 4px; display: inline" align="right" src="http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/upload/2011/09/awgood/large.png" width="322" height="215" /></a></font>And it’s gotten worse since 2010.  Now that the media has had time to try and “define” the Tea Party for those that only get their news from ABCMSNBC and Comedy Central.  Disapproval of the Tea Party has doubled, and is now rivaling that of the Forger-in-Chief.  Conservative South Carolina self identified Tea Partiers <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/25/tea-party-petering-out-in-south-carolina/" target="_blank">dropped from 28% to 11%</a>.  Those “supporting” the Tea Party nationally have dropped from 31% <strong>to only 27%</strong>.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>“Occupy” support <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/socialism-paris-hilton-popular-congress/story?id=15542237#8" target="_blank">is only 3 points away</a> at 24%.</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And let me preempt those of you who will argue that it’s a “liberal” poll or that “you don’t believe in polls.”  <a href="http://www.dickmorris.com/how-polling-works-dick-morris-tv-history-video/" target="_blank">Don’t be a fool</a>.  It is very rare for a poll to not only be off from it’s margin of error, and it is NEVER off by double the margin of error unless there are rapid events occurring or anomalies in communication.  In other words, polls including samples from the day before Gingrich’s South Carolina debate likely didn’t include the ABC (fake) bombshell, the Perry endorsement, or the Gingrich debate performance itself.  But even then it DOES give an accurate view of what the general population is thinking AT THE MOMENT they are asked.  Rick Perry didn’t secretly have 5 times the number of support than his polls said, and indeed, he lost badly in New Hampshire.  So don’t kid yourself that SECRETLY 50% of America loves the Tea Party or that the 75% that would NOT vote for Romney throughout 2011 were all Tea Party motivated.  It just isn’t so.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I’m shocked at the people that get paid to do “this” (reporting and analyzing news) who want to declare the Tea Party back on it’s feet because Dick Lugar lost to a Tea Party candidate.  That’s like saying the Cubs won the World Series in <a href="http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/10/19/2500278/2011-world-series-ex-cub-factor" target="_blank">2001 and 2008</a> because the Diamondbacks and Phillies each had a few ex-Cubbies on the roster.  Just because the Tea Party candidate got Just because the Tea Party candidate got 60% of the vote doesn’t mean that 60% of the vote are Tea Partiers.  Just because JFK was elected President in 1960 didn’t mean that everyone converted to Catholicism.  Good candidates who can articulate a BETTER more compelling message than their opponent get not just people who believe EXACTLY as they do, but those that also don’t want to vote for the other guy.   </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Rush used to say that conservatism wins everywhere it’s tried.  That’s just hogwash.  It <em>usually</em> does, but as Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell learned, how you are defined through the media makes “perception” the overriding factor.  It certainly hasn’t worked in the GOP primaries.  There <em>are </em><a href="http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/in-targeting-murkowski-tea-party-chooses-wisely/" target="_blank">scientific models</a> on how conservative one can be in a liberal state or vice versa, but it doesn’t account for differences in communication style and charisma.  Reagan won a LOT of blue states AFTER demonstrating supply side economics work.  Even states that HATED his social views.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong><u>So why am I giving you bitter TEA?</u></strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">If you’ve ever gotten into a street fight underestimating your opponent, or OVERestimating your advantage, you’ll understand WHY we can’t get all punch drunk over what we WANT the Tea Party to be, versus what it is.  If you know you are up against a Ultimate Fighting Champion and you’re a 12 year old girl, it doesn’t help at all to pretend you are Xena Princess Warrior.  What DOES help is to run like hell and get a cop (or a gun) when ARE equipped for the challenge.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>We Tea Partiers need a 12 step program</strong>.  </font></p> <blockquote> <p>PolitiJim:  “Hi.  My name is PolitiJim.  I’m an ex-‘Tea Party will take back our government in 2012’ believer.”</p> <p>Support Group: “Hello PolitiJim.”</p> <p>PolitiJim: “It’s been 2 since I blindly accepted what Rush, Drudge, Gary Bauer or my favorite Twitter follower told me.”</p> <p>Support Group Facilitator: “How did it go this week?”</p> <p>PolitiJim: “I quit worrying about missing my Twitter timeline and found 2 neighbors who had no idea the unemployment numbers were faked.  I got them registered to vote and asked them to do the research on a local City Councilman running which they will report back to at our local neighborhood Tea Party meeting in 2 weeks.”</p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">The first step is admitting you have a problem.  <strong>T.E.A. FACTS:</strong></font></p> <ul> <li><strong><font face="Verdana">We keep trusting the same GOP establishment types based on what they SAY rather than what they do or have done.</font></strong> </li> <li><strong><font face="Verdana">We’ve never had control of the power mechanisms of the GOP party, although our message and motives are sound.</font></strong> </li> <li><strong><font face="Verdana">We’ve ALWAYS been a minority EVEN within the GOP (<a title="62% of 2/3rds Conserv GOP plus 17% of rest of GOP equals 46.7%" href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/141098/tea-party-supporters-overlap-republican-base.aspx" target="_blank">46.7%</a>) and threaten those that see it as a “club.”</font></strong> </li> <li><strong><font face="Verdana">We have (temporarily) lost the media war of persuading the rest of Americans to join us, or getting our message out.</font></strong> </li> <li><strong><font face="Verdana">This will take more work than reading blogs, Twitter, listening to talk radio or showing up once a year at a Tea Party rally.</font></strong> </li> <li><strong><font face="Verdana">The GOP establishment is terribly corrupt and will use ANY means to stay in power.  They are NOT principled or conservative.  Just slightly more principled and more conservative than the Democrats.</font></strong> </li> <li><strong><font face="Verdana">We can not win by forcing or threatening those who are intimidated by our social conservative values to accept flaming religiosity.</font></strong> </li> <li><strong><font face="Verdana">We can not win by demanding 100% conservative purity when there is no candidate.</font></strong> </li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">I reiterate.  Not only do we “Tea Partiers” not have the power we thought we did in 2010 among the United States voters – we clearly don’t have the influence we thought we did in the GOP.  And we now know that “conservative” most likely does not mean what we think it means to over HALF of the GOP.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">You’re happy we beat RINO Lugar in Indiana?  <strong>Me too</strong>.  But this was a GOP Primary (not facing a union funded Democrat) against an 80 year old, bailout endorsing, out of state transient, whom Obama called his “favorite” Republican.  That is your sign the Tea Party is healthy?  Really?  Santorum lost by basically the same margin TO A DEMOCRAT and many of you thought it superfluous.  If you think this “reignites the Tea Party” or assures a GOP Senate, much less a conservative one, you’re either drinking Chamomile or Long Island tea, I’m not sure which.  DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TEA PARTY CANDIDATES HAVE ALREADY LOST IN EARLIER PRIMARIES?  Do you realize that Romney STILL got 65% of the vote in Indiana when Paul/Santorum/Gingrich voters could have made a “protest” vote, but failed? (16% / 13% / 6% respectively if you were wondering.) </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Now I have to be honest.  I’ve always hated the “12 Steps” philosophy since their REAL first step is declaring you are “powerless” over your addiction.  That’s <em>worse </em>than Chicago BULLcrap with a sprained ACL and a dislocated finger on your shooting hand.   We are NOT powerless and we need to start seeing ourselves as well informed, nonplussed, leaders who are like tanks against charging RINOs.  Maybe a better analogy is that you can reach your destination quicker if you first know exactly where you are, and how far you are from it.  (<em>Fill in your own damn cliché’ if you don’t like mine.</em>)</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But now that you’re Rose colored glasses are broken, <strong>here’s the hope, the rub and the reality</strong>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong><u>The Good Tea Party News</u></strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The <strong>good news</strong> is that after all the effort to separate religious conservatives, from conservative purists that won’t vote for anyone who wants to dismantle the Federal Reserve on the first day of office – and worse - we ONLY lost 4% of our support.  That’s pretty frickin’ amazing if you ask me.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The second piece of <strong>good news</strong> IS that the win in Indiana by Tea Party Mourdock proves a NUMBER of things including:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">The Tea Party message itself is sound and will attract independents and non-Tea Partiers.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">When conservative media unites around a candidate (rather than using Alinsky tactics against each other) they have an amplified impact that <a href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012205090339" target="_blank">raises cash</a> and awareness.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">When there is a CLEAR enemy, and a CLEAR leader expressing reasonable, mature views – there is no contest WITHIN the GOP.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">RINO inconsistencies and duplicities will not hold up if conservatives maintain a methodic drone and don’t quit when no one is listening.  (It took MONTHS for the pro-Mourdock / anti-Lugar message to finally sink into the media.)</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">The “establishment” can not buy an election with clear cut differences between the candidates given ALL of the above.</font> </li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>The other good news?</strong>  The American Revolution was fought with only 30% support of the colonial population against a well funded, well organized, well trained enemy while having to fight off loyalists on “their side” as well.  (If that doesn’t describe our predicament I don’t know what does.)</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Most revolutions from Cuba to Russia and even Poland were led and sustained by a minority that perceived through action until the lazy people gave way.  But Cuba had Fidel.  Russia had Lenin.  Poland had Walesa and Britain had Disraeli.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>And so we get back to the “leadership” thing.</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Breitbart’s Nolte smugly says that a leaderless Tea Party is a great thing because they raised about the same amount of money Romney will spend on <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/expend.php?id=N00000286" target="_blank">robo calls</a> in the primary.  Thank God he’s not in charge of running anything.  </font><font face="Verdana">Here in Harris County (Houston), Texas <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/05/is-soros-influencing-houston-schools-by.html" target="_blank">we’ve written about</a> a Malcom X teaching Democrat who “bought” a Republican leadership title through the local GOP <em>precisely</em> <a href="blog.chron.com/bigjolly/2012/05/harris-county-republican-party-–-know-your-candidates-ricahrd-johnson/" target="_blank">because there wasn’t strong funding, organization and leadership</a>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">A friend (who is much smarter about politics than I) made an argument that the original revolution started with unorganized small individual militias and no central leadership.  “We don’t need a leader,” he says.  But this was before there was any expectation that Virginia or Georgia or Massachusetts OWED it to each other to fight together.  They were as skeptical of each other as they were of the British.  And they DID have their own militias that were organized against Indians and natural threats in each “state.”  Even if you take Massachusetts within itself, Samuel Adams and John Hancock formed the heart of the movement by identifying and implementing strategies and it was the Boston patriots providing ideas, direction and initiative to the rest.  Places like Georgia hardly had ANY British to contend with save the tax collectors and limited troops protecting the governors.  And we did not win the war without a clearly identified General who was fastidious on authority, discipline and chain of command.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I would suggest we are not only past Lexington and Concord, but are already past the Declaration and well into organizing troops for the war.  And the very ABSENCE of leadership, is why we are ineffective nationally.  Mourdock HIMSELF was the leader to whom not only Tea Partiers, but the rest of the GOP rallied.  His victory wasn’t a spontaneous endorsement of “ideas” but a man.  A man with a plan.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">In 1775, the leaders were identified and were working toward a common goal of determining precisely what it would take to RUN a government.  While they disagreed, the ACT of declaring independence was NOT the central focus.  The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Congress" target="_blank">Continental Congress</a> was an organization unto itself to IDENTIFY key issues of tyranny and to UNIFY around a solution, independence being just one and the last resort.  Despite severe splits in HOW to handle the issue (appeals to the King versus war), they were already acting as a single unit because they knew they needed each other.  <strong>THEY ELECTED LEADERS and RULES OF PROCEDURE</strong>.  They were not separate mobs that said, “Hey Thomas, you want to kill you some redcoats sometime?”  Furthermore they engaged the enemy as a UNIFIED front with a UNIFIED plan.  Even John Adams who saw all along the diplomacy and threats were going no where, didn’t break off and decide to try get Massachusetts to start the war on it’s own.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">We HAVE a plan for conservative insurrection in the Disraeli, Goldwater/Reagan and Gingrich movements.  Don’t forget, the GOP wrote off Gingrich’s Contract (much less thinking it had any chance to succeed in retaking the House) UP UNTIL THE NIGHT BEFORE the election.  Newt didn’t have a majority of Republicans, much less US voters, during the entire 14 year planning of creating mechanisms for the recruitment of conservatives, their education, their funding and their unity of expressing conservative ideals.  And he really didn’t need the GOP establishment bandwagon because he spent years putting the candidates in place to challenge those races by using his the future Speaker’s songbook note for note.  The GOP takeover in the House and Senate happened BECAUSE OF UNIFIED STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP not because of a lack of it.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It is why I pleaded for Palin or Gingrich to strip off conventional politics and risk breaking apart the GOP and to start going after Obama on his corruption and fraud, and also after Romney and the party.  For some reason, Newt didn’t was blindsided by Bachmann and Santorum’s willingness to playing lying politics and didn’t understand the fragile nature of the conservative media as Drudge, Will, Coulter, and FOX News itself was clearly in the pocket of Romney and the rest were willing to let the GOP forces separate us.  He certainly underestimated the level and dishonesty of attack by the establishment in money and malice.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But let’s be clear.  At a local level and state level, there <strong>IS</strong> enough Tea Party power to compete WITHOUT a national leader if we:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">Get an articulate candidate without major flaws.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Focus on the REAL enemy instead of false issues.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Ensure the integrity of the vote.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Use what media we have available to hammer the message.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana"><a href="theprecinctproject.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Take over the GOP machinery precinct by precinct</a>, and,</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Work our arses off.</font> </li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">And pray.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><u><strong>What this has to do with the Cubs and Bulls</strong></u></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The same basic Bulls team was only a .500 team the two years BEFORE Tom Thibodeau arrived from Boston.  During those two years they STILL almost beat the reigning Championship Celtics and the Lebron led Cavaliers with Vinny Del Negro as head coach.  The Bulls had actually ASKED to speak to Thibs BEFORE hiring Vinny.  The Boston brass refused.  <strong>Then someone came and led</strong>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The Bulls were the best team in the regular season of the NBA the last two years and made it to the Finals of the Eastern Conference last year because of a tenacious coach that SET an expectation, that taught them to NEVER give up, that coached them to remember WHICH fundamentals work if you stay disciplined, and challenged them to not accept anything less of yourself than playing EVERY minute of EVERY game.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>It’s what Ronald Regan did WITHOUT the benefit of a Tea Party.</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Like this year’s Bulls, we can’t help injuries to our key leaders.  Palin not running, Gingrich being slaughtered by $40 million in false, lying ads (compounded by conservative media complicit in spreading those lies instead of diligently checking them themselves) are facts of life even without “curses.”  The goal hasn’t changed.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The fact is that we don’t have enough people to overtake the party without coordinated leadership amplifying and articulating our views together, much less coordinating our strategies and setting the goal.  But you probably can get enough people to take over your district or county.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Baring Romney having a political Damascus experience we are still in search of our Thibodeau, Epstein, Phil Jackson or Ronald Reagan.  We might have to play the next couple of seasons knowing that we can only give our personal best, but that our fellow conservatives NEED coordinated leadership to get motivated.  We need to prepare the way for when they are ready.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Obama could implement martial law before the election… or simply be elected and expand his desecration of the constitution… and then finally someone like a DeMint, Gingrich, Palin or Scott Walker, will make it “acceptable” for other media to take the gloves off and fight.  Maybe it will be an unknown “Joe the Plumber” type who will understand how to step into that role when the spotlight hits.  But:</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">There will be a clearly defined enemy.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">There will be a clearly defined objective.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And like a Lugar learned near the Land of Lincoln, T.E.A. will spill when we are unified.  Enough of the remaining 70% of Americans will be motivated to join us out of fear for their pain, simply because they are following whoever is winning that season.  Stadiums begin filling with fans with a few back to back victories.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And suddenly, a team that everyone writes off, may start 3-11, but finds they can compete with the Big Boys as the Cubs did this past weekend going 4-2 against the two best teams in baseball.  Any poll of “pre-season” selections for the Pennant or even Division Champions show that no one really knows until the game is played.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">We all know (myself included) we’ve fallen into this lethargy because we seem outnumbered.  We have to remember that RIGHT and TRUTH do prevail.  That we ARE empowered to get control of our local precinct, or fight for the county or state GOP chairmanship.  Let God determine the results, but as for me and my house, we will give every effort to finding just ONE thing that will move the momentum in the right direction.  It might be volunteering as a <a href="http://truethevote.org/volunteer/" target="_blank">poll watcher</a> or <a href="theprecinctproject.wordpress.com" target="_blank">precinct captain</a>.  It might be holding neighborhood discussions or “block walking” simply to educate 20 people on where the local, state and national candidates stand.  It might be <a href="http://www.ameliahamilton.com/" target="_blank">buying 100 copies of Little Patriots</a> for the private school or daycare down the street, and then volunteering to read it at the local library.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But we will trust God with the results.  And believe.  And pray.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It was the <a href="http://www.great-awakening.com/?page_id=12" target="_blank">Great Awakening</a> that inspired and educated colonists to get their hearts and minds around righteous rebellion that made the American Revolution possible.  Today our country is too easily diverted by entertainment, too easily swept up in sleight-of-hand scandals, too self-righteous, prideful or ignorant to do what’s “right” rather than what’s necessary, but our founders left us an inheritance which they believed was from God.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And if G_d Almighty wouldn’t let His own people perish without a homeland or a nation to call their own, I don’t believe He would ignore the prayers and faith of those of us who want to restore America to a place even greater than something which our forefather’s envisioned.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">So out with the BS of both conservative and main stream media, as well as impotence, lethargy and fear.  Screw it all.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And in with the new season of doing just <strong>one thing</strong> to get this Tea Party revolution back on track, whether we die trying or not.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Who knows what God will do, if we just take the NEXT step in faith.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Go Cubs Go.</font></p> <hr /> <p>The following excerpt from the 2012 Shepherd's Rod will speak for itself.</p> <p><a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=4xrw9udab&v=001ritck83OfZmdkJZrysLu1AjYubK3skKMXw8QNeFejr2DWvXWX6FeaGL5sY8ujoN7xnjbvN1j_WWN3OJ2UTNi-RY8QkkKu75fHszveitBvNK3ZYA28HfvXA%3D%3D" target="_blank">The President's Hat Blows Away</a></p> <blockquote> <p><img border="0" alt="President's Hat" align="center" src="http://www.images.elijahlist.com/email_images/PresidentsHat.jpg" width="365" /></p> <p>The wind of the Holy Spirit will cause the hat of the President to blow away. The cover of the President and his administration will be blown. Then all things done in secret will be cast down and will not stand.</p> <p>For they sow the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea 8:7a</p> <p>The truth is coming forth by the Spirit of God. It is the only thing that will have answers for this nation. It will come forth when we repent like Daniel did for the sins of his nation. The sins of our government will be revealed so repentance can be made and the Lord can release mercy to this nation. America is a great nation and God desires for her to survive. She can only survive when the truth is revealed to the people. This is the year the people will know the truth. If they seek the truth they will find it and the truth will set this nation free.</p> <p>Nothing is [so closely] covered up that it will not be revealed, or hidden that it will not be known. Luke 12:2</p> <p>The canopy of God is love and this nation must return to its first love. America must repent and return to her first love. When she does God will release His canopy of love to her.</p> <p><em>End of excerpt.</em></p></blockquote> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. The Bird of Truth.<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9129398707869700858-6966997187372363492?l=www.politijim.com' alt='' /></div>
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alt="WolfeReganInscription" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-7KlLjQjCWDg/T6sX87xLwXI/AAAAAAAAFJY/h0Ebx1Mm3l0/WolfeReganInscription_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="482" height="259" /></a> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Why would a former, discredited Democrat, who indoctrinated troubled African American men into the teachings of Malcolm X, suddenly run for an obscure Houston area school board at the same time Sheila Jackson Lee daughter does?  Furthermore, why would said Quanell X/Malcolm X protégé’ lie about his affiliation and try to pass himself off as a "Life long Conservative Christian” to try and unseat the ONLY true conservative currently on the School Board?  As a REPUBLICAN?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>D.I.R.T.</strong> happens.  (<strong>D</strong>emocrats <strong>I</strong>mpersonating <strong>R</strong>epublican <strong>T</strong>eapartiers).</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">PolitiJim uncovered the </font><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/santorums-profane-fat-bottomed-girl.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">profane Fat Bottom Girl</font></a><font face="Verdana"> who was posing as a conservative Catholic Santorum supporter and multiple probable “fake” conservatives in the article </font><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/05/insidious-liberal-plan-to-infiltrate.html"><font face="Verdana">The Insidious Liberal Plan to Infiltrate Indict the Tea Party</font></a><font face="Verdana"> this past weekend.  The Ulsterman Report </font><a href="http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/the-ulsterman-report-as-predicted-obamas-race-based-union-thuggery-campaign-now-underway/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">has been warning</font></a><font face="Verdana"> about Obama’s attempt to use racial unrest to the extreme and there is evidence the White House is progressively </font><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/obama_re-election_team_shock_and_awe_attack_on_tea_party.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">escalating the fake Tea Party/Republican racist insinuations</font></a><font face="Verdana">.   The goal is to infiltrate your opponent and slowly corrupt or distract them, or to simply instigate trouble that will tarnish your opponent’s movement.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Whether it is the mastermind of James Bond’s SPECTER-look-a-like George Soros, or merely massive exploitation of a countries moral, political and media decay by selfish opportunists, we find </font><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ZQbJHagx4&list=PL1D8092B66114E442&index=89&feature=plpp_video" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">classic Soviet style tactics</font></a><font face="Verdana"> being used to usurp, confuse and control not just our media – but our government.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.texastrashtalk.com/2012/05/how-many-democrats-have-bought-their.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Texas Trash Talk released a story</font></a><font face="Verdana"> describing how the Harris County Texas GOP “sold” a Leadership title to a life long Democrat Richard Johnson who now calls himself a life long “Conservative Christian” as he runs for the board of the Harris County Department of Education  (HCDE).</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">What is especially odd is that this so called “conservative” named Richard Johnson, </font><a href="http://www.houstontx.gov/citysec/agendas/2011/20110208.pdf" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">identified himself</font></a><font face="Verdana"> last year at a Houston City Council meeting as part of the far liberal <a href="http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-hispanic-republicans/files/2011/08/Coalition1.pdf" target="_blank">Greater Houston Coalition for Justice</a> (which includes Muslim Brotherhood linked CAIR and the Houston NAACP) advocating the “Appleseed Project,” </font><a href="http://24ahead.com/appleseed-wants-changes-immigration-courts-soros-linked" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">linked to George Soros’s Tides Foundation</font></a><font face="Verdana">.   This project advocates the blocking of enforcement of our immigration laws among other markedly ANTI-conservative views.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And after appearing with a former protestor of the GREEN PARTY at the Houston City Council last year, he <a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5spjWYGpHkwUmpiS1I1dFR0Wkk" target="_blank">suddenly formed</a> the <font face="Verdana">“HARRIS COUNTY REPUBLICAN MINORITY LEADERSHIP COUNCIL,” following his donation to the GOP.  Nothing fishy there, right?</font></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">What further casts doubt on Johnson’s “conservative” credentials is that DESPITE QUALIFYING TO RUN FOR THE SEAT abandoned by Republican Roy Morales, he is running against the ONLY conservative Republican on the board in an “at large” position.  Why?  If you were conservative wouldn’t you want to bolster conservative numbers on the school board?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">You know who IS running for that seat, abandoned by a Republican?  Yep.  Sheila Jackson Lee’s own little “Appleseed”, Erica.  Wouldn’t a conservative want to stop the “AFL/CIO” Candidate whose mom is listed in former agent Gaubatz’s book “Muslim Mafia” as one of the foremost perpetrators against American values?  You would expect Daughter Erica’s big contributor, Tyene Houston, is also a big contributor <a href="http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/tyene-houston.asp?cycle=10" target="_blank">to her mom</a>, Sheila Jackson.  But when we learn that multiple of her donors are affiliated with the Harmony/Gulen Islamic schools we now wonder if this is a planned assault on Harris County by her mom’s friends who advocate a SECRET jihad.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And Johnson wants to knock off the ONLY board member who has fought AGAINST expanding funding, against receiving Head Start funds and without whom there would have been a tax increase last year?  Something doesn’t smell right about this elephant.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">As a reminder, Texas Trash Talk began with a </font><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2011/09/texas-trash-talk-obsolete-bureaucracy.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">brutal investigation</font></a><font face="Verdana"> of HCDE exposing a taxpayer supported bureaucracy with 1500 employees and no students.  It was supposed to have been shut down over 50 years ago with the rest of the "county" school boards when Independent School Boards took over direct responsibilities for the state.  HCDE conveniently considers it self a “school board” when it wants to use it’s 123 year old taxing authority, but it’s a “Tax Assisted Non-Profit” when it wants to weasel out from legal accountability and oversight.  EVERY SERVICE provided by HCDE is already funded by Texas taxpayers in Texas Educational Service Centers including one 5 miles away.  HCDE has a </font><a href="http://www.texastrashtalk.com/2012/01/hcde-decades-of-corruption-continue.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">long sordid history</font></a><font face="Verdana"> of payoffs, subverting the law and political hijinks to stay in power and act as a slush fund for political cronies.  Not only is it continuing to extort more money out of Harris County Texas taxpayers, it looks like it might be a launching pad for a whole new level of political corruption if Richard “Appleseed” Johnson gets elected.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Just last week <a href="http://www.texastrashtalk.com/2012/04/hcde-14-taxpayers-pick-up-tab-at.html" target="_blank">the board was ready to blow hundreds of dollars</a> of taxpayer money on a fake “retreat” at a 4 star Houston luxury restaurant.  After public outcry by Texas Trash Talk and others, it was cancelled.  AND NOTICE, the retreat wasn’t so important that it was simply moved to a less expensive location (like the state of the art administration building built at taxpayer expense), it was <em>cancelled</em>.  Must not have been very important after all right? </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-PQ9iym-EyFM/T6sYgdZ_InI/AAAAAAAAFJ4/cSBwxe_H74s/s1600-h/wolfe_palin%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 4px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="wolfe_palin" border="0" alt="wolfe_palin" align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-iJKWInkcbhU/T6sYg8S2XVI/AAAAAAAAFKA/drd0LJFGjzw/wolfe_palin_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="196" /></a> Michael Wolfe, the target of Richard Johnson’s wolf-in-elephant clothing attack, has been attacked not just by the liberals who want to take over HCDE for possibly even more nefarious purposes, but also the liberal members of the board itself.  The Texas Supreme Court itself had to backhand the other board members for their undemocratic attempts to subvert the will of Harris County taxpayers.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Wolfe was elected to a six year term, unopposed in 2006.  Like hundreds of thousands of other races around America. most taxpayers have no clue what the position is  - much less that it even exists.  But these positions are important for three huge reasons.</font></p> <ol> <li><font face="Verdana">They never stop growing ever justifying more and more tax payer money.  In the first few years Wolfe was at HCDE – the budget grew from $16 Million to $78 Million, and is now over $100 Million.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">They give a foothold of power to like-minded leaches not just in crony capitalism that finance even more corruption, but to political resume’s needed to take power at higher and higher levels.  We just <a href="http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/bush-nixon-connection.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economicpolicyjournal%2FKpwH+%28EconomicPolicyJournal.com%29" target="_blank">learned this week</a> that Bush 41 would likely NEVER have been President, except for the continuous unmerited promotion by Richard Nixon after winning his first congressional election.  Even Obama’s <a href="http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/tag/obama-stole-1996-alice-palmer-election-and-2008-dnc-primaries-caucuses/" target="_blank">stolen 1996 Illinois Senate race</a> and earlier positions on civic committees formed is “credentials” to run for higher and higher office.  In political incubators, snakes only get more powerful and hungry the longer they feed on the electorate.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">The power they wield in those positions put LAWS and others into place that can negatively impact lives and communities by taking away even more freedoms.</font> </li> </ol> <p><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-UPO9Yv792BI/T6sX9nc-2pI/AAAAAAAAFJg/msMaafVHJj4/s1600-h/WolfeReaganHandshake%25255B4%25255D.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 4px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="WolfeReaganHandshake" border="0" alt="WolfeReaganHandshake" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Xh578lVzBls/T6sX-WhpP7I/AAAAAAAAFJo/6OzTTSnnWBM/WolfeReaganHandshake_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="213" height="166" /></a> Wolfe understood this in the spirit of Ronald Reagan and not only sought to the name the building after his political hero he met as a youth, and he established a platform AFTER running to “downsize, cut tax rate, and bring new leadership.” </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The reigning tyrannical bureaucrat, then Board President Raymond Garcia got angry and Wolfe took it the platform off of his website not intentionally trying to create waves, but pressed with the naming of the building after our 40th President.  </font><font face="Verdana">Despite the local liberals acting like salted slugs screaming against the name, Wolfe got it passed anyway.  But he was only beginning to stir their little protected slush fund nest.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">How bad is the Republican party in Harris County?  Garcia was a fellow Republican who would (as you will see) try to subvert the ONE Trustee who was actually trying to act like Ronald Reagan.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Wolfe was appointed as the <font face="Verdana">Federal Liaison for Head Start by Garcia, kind of a worthless position to go and attend the Federal Head Start meetings monthly and report back to the board.  When Wolfe voted to <strong>DECLINE FEDERAL FUNDS </strong>for Head Start funding at one of these meetings, the liberal HCDE bureaucracy became unglued.</font></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And in response to their anger, he realized he was a “Lone” Wolfe.  So, <font face="Verdana"><strong>he started an initiative to lower the tax rate because that’s precisely what Reagan would do.</strong>  Wolfe had conservative Tax Advisor Paul Bettencourt (then the Harris County Tax Assessor) to come and speak.  The county enjoyed a 7 to 10% property value growth that year and Wolfe won a 4-3 vote to lower tax rate.  Even enraged foe Raymond Garcia changed his vote at the last minute realizing he was up for election and couldn’t risk being on the “tax increase” count on such a narrow vote.</font></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>This is the guy that “conservative” Mr. Appleseed Johnson wants to replace.</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Wolfe went on to vote AGAINST numerous budgets and realized that he was going to need reinforcements to truly hold down the massive growth expanding before his eyes.  So he went recruiting OTHER conservatives to run.  (<em>Oddly, Richard Johnson didn’t come across Michael Wolfe’s mind as a potential conservative candidate then.  Johnson was known as the </em><a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/1999-12-30/news/the-insider/" target="_blank"><em>chief of staff and campaign treasurer for indicted City Councilman Yarborough</em></a><em> having been accused of multiple financial improprieties.  Or maybe it was because </em><a href="http://gregsopinion.com/?p=4205" target="_blank"><em>in 2005 Johnson was considering a run as the Chair of the Harris County DEMOCRAT party</em></a><em>?</em>)</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Immediately following the election that was lost to Democrat control, the new board used their new power to seriously look at waste at HCDE and determine exactly why members of certain Houston area ISD’s were being taxed TWICE for the same services the state provides…. No.  Sorry.  That’s what WOULD have happened had conservatives gotten control.  Instead, the board decided to CENSURE Wolfe for aiding candidates who wanted to run against incumbents.  Clearly, the HCDE mafia didn’t like people challenging them and decided to waste taxpayer money to intimidate a fellow board member who was bringing in all of these conservative activists and speakers who wanted to hold government accountable.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">They THEN tried to get him removed from office ALTHOUGH THEY HAD NO POWER TO DO SO.  (Isn’t that just like those deranged donkeys of the left to try and quash democratic rule?)  They even <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Board-trustee-Wolfe-winning-few-friends-1755349.php" target="_blank">admitted it</a> to the Houston Chronicle accusing him of missing multiple board members.  PolitiJim asked Michael Wolfe about this and asked him if that wasn’t a fair attack that he wasn’t “doing his job.”  Wolfe replied,</font></p> <blockquote> <p>I was selected as the Primary Director for the county Republican party and frankly, didn’t want to be accused of using my role politically.  I thought it was best both for HCDE and for the party for me to avoid anything they would think was a conflict of interest.  It was only a few meetings and I returned directly after the election.</p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">Ironically, the board wanted to accuse Wolfe for violating his homestead exemption – something it seems clear from the Texas Trash Talk <a href="http://www.texastrashtalk.com/2012/05/how-many-democrats-have-bought-their.html" target="_blank">article</a> is highly suspect in Richard Johnson’s filing with additional possibility of voter fraud.  Johnson is registered to vote with 5 other people at a tiny home he doesn’t own, but his wife is registered to vote at a much larger residence which is also listed as campaign office.  If Johnson indeed is <a href="http://www.hcad.org/records/details.asp?crypt=%94%9A%B0%94%BFg%85%8E%85~jl%8El%8DtXt%60W%9E%99%A2%D3%89%95%C2e%7CU%8A~%86%C0%AB%A8%AD%86%5E&bld=1&tab=2" target="_blank">claiming his homstead at the Spring address</a> as documents suggest, and filing for his candidacy as a resident at the Fannette address I think he has also violated his sworn statement.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But HCDE had no evidence in the case of Wolfe, nor would it have anything to do with his position on the board.  But in the spirit of Saul Alinsky the Raymond Garcia decided to try and FORCE Michael Wolfe (at taxpayer expense no less) to submit to a deposition THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HCDE BUSINESS.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Wolfe sued to stop the nonsense but a corrupt court and appellate court found in the HCDE Board’s favor.  But in a WWW Smackdown of Raymond Garcia, current President Angie Chestnut, Trustee Roy Morales and the HCDE mafia – the <a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5spjWYGpHkwZXl5WlhrOVR6ckE" target="_blank">Texas Supreme Court not only overturned the lower courts</a> (PDF), but rebuked and chastised all the parties for bringing it to begin with.</font></p> <blockquote> <p>Rule 202 is not a license for forced interrogations. Courts must strictly limit and carefully supervise pre-suit discovery to prevent abuse of the rule. The trial court here clearly abused its discretion in ordering Wolfe to testify regarding grounds for his removal from office without the request of the county attorney who must prosecute an ouster action for the State. An improper order under Rule 202 may be set aside by mandamus. </p> <p>Accordingly, we grant Wolfe’s petition, and without hearing oral argument, TEX . R. APP . P. 52.8(c), direct the trial court to vacate its order signed March 26, 2010, and dismiss this proceeding.</p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">Harris County fraud and abuse watchers will no doubt find it funny that Raymond Garcia is running again for the board and endorsed by his former consigliares still on it.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>So with a illegitimate government bureaucracy growing over 600% in six years and Wolfe being the only member willing to take it on for the Harris County taxpayer – why again is Johnson running against him?</strong></font></p> <p><strong><font face="Verdana">And, is it a coincidence that someone registered to vote in Sheila Jackson Lee’s district would let her run unopposed while trying to knock out a TRUE conservative Reagan Republican?</font></strong></p> <p><font face="Verdana">PolitiJim attended the September Tax Workshop and Board Meeting that shocking in so many ways.  Essentially the Superintendent was making a case that since land values were dropping due to the recession, the tax rate should be increased to make up the difference for the school board budget.  (Ironically the board never called the County Tax Assessor Don Sumners to confirm this but God forbid their first action would be to curtail spending, right?)</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Six taxpayers and the County Tax Assessor all asked to speak AGAINST raising taxes. <strong>  AT ONE POINT THEY AREN’T EVEN WILLING TO MAKE AN EXCEPTION FOR THE TAX ASSESSOR WHO COULD CONFIRM OR DENY THE NEED FOR THE TAX!!</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The voices you hear in the beginning are President Angie Chestnut, Roy Morales and Michael Wolfe – notable for a high pitched voice as the result of surgery he underwent as a result of paralyzed vocal chords at birth.  You will note that at one point the southern drawl of Superintendent John Sawyer can be heard suggesting that HCDE shouldn’t suspend their previous “rule” that only 3 people can speak on one topic.  It is fascinating.</font></p> <center><iframe height="300" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/30820540?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" frameborder="0" width="400" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/30820540">Harris County Dept of Education Board Meeting Oct 2011</a></p> </center> <p><font face="Verdana">Notice the Trustee (Henley) who says, “I believe in freedom of speech but if we can do it here we can do it anywhere.”</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>This is a study in power and corruption gone awry.   </strong>Worse, it shows just how normal our the process of letting elected officials run their fiefdom’s without understanding they are REPRESENTING the public – not themselves.</font></p> <p><font color="#ff0000" size="4" face="Verdana">They spend 17 minutes debating whether they should give TAX PAYERS 18 minutes to speak on a motion that takes money from them!</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Again, with some help from Morales – Michael Wolfe is the one who makes a motion for the public to be heard (and later is key to making sure the TAX ASSESSOR Don Harris is heard at the 36 minute mark).  Wolfe is also clearly the driving energy stopping the tax increase by forcing the board to admit that the Tax Assessor himself believes they will collect MORE than their budget for the year.  That video is equally fascinating and viewed <a href="http://vimeo.com/30821867" target="_blank">here</a>.  <strong>Especially when the board (except Wolfe) tries to keep Don Harris from giving them input on the very data upon which they are basing their argument.</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Both Erica Lee and Richard Johnson have spectacular looking websites and slick brochures.  This is for a position that pays (no kidding) $72 per year.  We SEE what drives Michael Wolfe not from slick speech but from a consistent conservative philosophy.  Why (again) would a “conservative” want to unseat him?  </font><font face="Verdana">And why all the fuss over some tiny little school district no one even really aware exists?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I have some theories.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">First, we know for a fact there is corruption going on.  A former superintendent (and now Mayor of nearby Katy, TX) continues to receive $100,000 a year for “consulting.”  There is much more being unearthed by Texas Trash Talk.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Second, HCDE is in a unique position of having TAXING authority without anyone really knowing of their existence.  Power can be used in a number of ways for their party, or their own personal initiatives.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Third, HCDE is in a unique position of reaching into schools around the nation without really being accountable to the children they serving.  They can introduce programs and influence policies around the country in the way a local school district could not.  With Johnson’s ties to Council of American Islamic Relations as well as Sheila Jackson Lee’s daughter through her mom, it isn’t so far fetched to wonder if they are going to broaden the influence not just of the Soros developed Appleseed program as Johnson advocated last year – but possibly even Harmony schools.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">For those that are not familiar with the Gulen or Harmony schools, they are birthed from the <a href="http://libertylinked.com/posts/8217/turkey-under-islamist-control/View.aspx" target="_blank">same movement</a> that took Turkey from a Western tolerant (if not embracing) country to an anti-American, sharia leaning one.  Many in Texas, most notably former educator and conservative activist Donna Gardner, have been fighting to close those already sanctioned with tax payer money here in Texas.  They can sneak in to unsuspecting educational bureaucrats under the guise of “new methods” or more.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Van Jones (Obama’s former Green Jobs Czar and Solyndra Socialist) not only wrote how they would no longer use “in your face” Marxist tactics to create revolution, but they would put on suits and ties to do from the inside.  One of their favorite coded phrases is “Social Justice” the same exact terminology that Richard Johnson used last year at the Houston City Council meeting.  Given the overlap by similar affiliations to Van Jones (NAACP, CAIR, etc) I think it would be interesting to see EXACTLY what this “Social Justice” is:</font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 425px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:bb41b2b2-0074-4ad0-93c9-766080bacb57" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="3aede035-1841-49e4-8fd4-e6d49ae72ec2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_-vgtYkJdA" target="_new"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-IjGQZX0z6iQ/T6utpg4nulI/AAAAAAAAFLU/UY49ZsT5SgA/video40781845e3d7%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('3aede035-1841-49e4-8fd4-e6d49ae72ec2'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/a_-vgtYkJdA&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/a_-vgtYkJdA&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div><div style="clear:both;font-size:.8em;">Van Jones Explains Social Justice</div></div> <p><font face="Verdana"><img style="margin: 4px; display: inline" align="right" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gCULE8myfj4/T6SK7AMuPnI/AAAAAAAAANk/PYHLfYXTkmU/s320/raj008.jpg" /> As PolitiJim readers know, we want TRUTH here no matter if it fits our agenda or not.  Richard Johnson III has done some very good work it seems with the <a href="chapels.org" target="_blank">Louisiana Prison Chapel Foundation</a>.  In talking to a former board member who worked with him, he has influence with the famous Louisiana Angola prison warden, Burt Cain and seemed to help the organization.  Unfortunately, even in this one effort, we find out that Johnson has lied.  Unlike his campaign literature he is NOT President of the LPCF.  In fact, there is only a single paid position of Managing Director.  He was made President of the Board of Directors, something entirely different.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">What else do we TRULY KNOW about Richard Johnson who suddenly wants to have authority over the Harris County Department of Education and the children they influence?</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">He has lied about where he lives or votes. (And we’d certainly like him to explain the other 5 voters registered at his 1st address.)</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">He lied to the Conservative Coalition about his former relationship with Quannell X.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Last year he advocated a George Soros program for Houston</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Last year he worked on behalf of a Houston coalition of far left groups including CAIR – the Council of American Islamic Relations</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Last year he encouraged the socialist rhetoric “Social Justice”</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Last year he appeared with a <a href="http://www.harriscountygreenparty.org/calendar/CalendarTextFiles/TazerProtest20050228.htm" target="_blank">Mr. Kallinen who was part of the GREEN PARTY</a> protest in 2005.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Only 5 years ago he <a href="http://www.taxexemptworld.com/organization.asp?tn=1115374" target="_blank">set up his own foundation</a> of “Justice of Peace”</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Had </font><a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5spjWYGpHkwLTVtVjdUZXFFTkE" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">considered running for Chairman of the Democrat Party</font></a><font face="Verdana"> only 7 years ago. </font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">His <a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/2003-02-20/news/mayoral-field-of-dreams/2/" target="_blank">license was revoked</a> to run his OWN education center called GOLDEN EAGLE in 2003 after numerous reports of abuse.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">White and Hispanic parents <a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/2003-02-20/news/mayoral-field-of-dreams/2/" target="_blank">testified</a> that GOLDEN EAGLE virtually ignored their children needing drug and alcohol rehabilitation, while African American children when exposed to militant Islamic teachings by Malcolm X.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Johnson was <a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/1999-02-18/news/councilman-cad/2/ " target="_blank">reported to be “brains”</a> behind corrupt City Councilman Michael Yarborough who was indicted on charges of Federal Bribery.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Johnson himself was shown in <a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/1999-12-30/news/the-insider/ " target="_blank">MULTIPLE INCIDENTS to have broken campaign finance</a> and ethics laws.</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Johnson <a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/2000-02-10/news/pulling-the-strings/" target="_blank">used intimidation to threaten</a> a Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse investigator, later taking the head of the NAACP to Austin to get him fired.  He did and the investigator won a default judgment for wrongful firing.</font> </li> </ul> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Meanwhile, Michael Wolfe has endorsements from REAL conservatives including:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">Chair of the Texas State Board of Education: Barbara Cargill</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Dr. Steve Hotze & Conservative Republicans of Harris County</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Terry Lowry & The Link Letter</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Gary Polland & The Texas Conservative Review</font> </li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">Having introduced and passed a tax cut during his term you can also witness his conservatism in action via both of the video links to the September 2011 HCDE Board Meeting above.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">We already see 5 voter registration at Johnson’s house in Sheila Jackson Lee’s district indicting a strong possibility that Erica Lee may already be “selected” without being elected.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">God forbid if both get on the board and Wolfe is no longer there to protect Harris County Taxpayers.</font></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. 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border-left-width: 0px" title="76 One Of These Is Not Like The Other" border="0" alt="76 One Of These Is Not Like The Other" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hAhv95ZW1gE/T6WnMh_4sLI/AAAAAAAAFA8/UkRovzG0qnA/76%252520One%252520Of%252520These%252520Is%252520Not%252520Like%252520The%252520Other_thumb%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="482" height="267" /></a> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Here is your chance to be the next “Breitbart.”  PoiltiJim’s crack staff of researchers and writers simply doesn’t have the time to follow the leads on this story, but should you desire to out-Woodward Bernstein (sans the </font><a href="nymag.com/news/features/ben-bradlee-2012-5/index5.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">possible lies and criminal journalism</font></a><font face="Verdana">) have at it.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>There is concerted effort underway to infiltrate the Tea Party and conservative movements with fake trouble makers</strong>.  It was well documented in 2010 by </font><a href="http://gulagbound.com/7372/the-strategy-behind-neal-rauhausers-twittergate-social-media-marxofascism-by-progressives-part-1/#.T6WN7-j1G68" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">GulagBound discussing Neal Rauhauser’s Twittergate scandal</font></a><font face="Verdana">, and a simple Google search will show the media has been working overtime </font><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/obama_re-election_team_shock_and_awe_attack_on_tea_party.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">to blur Occupy and the Tea Party movements</font></a><font face="Verdana">.   The Left has been unsuccessful at pinning the crimes </font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/10/AR2011011003002.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">against Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords</font></a><font face="Verdana"> and even Norwegian killer </font><a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100098575/whatever-liberal-commentators-say-the-tea-party-does-not-bear-responsibility-for-anders-breivik/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Anders Breivik</font></a><font face="Verdana"> on the Tea Party or the conservative right.  However, despite rapes, murders and bomb plots in the Occupy movement, the media is winning the PR war and has already attempted to “fake” a member of the Tea Party in order to bring dishonor and blur the distinction between them and Occupy Wall Street.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Our sister blog <a href="www.texastrashtalk.com/2012/05/how-many-democrats-have-bought-their.html" target="_blank">just posted a story</a> of a Malcolm X teaching Democrat who “bought” a GOP Leadership title and is now trying to pass himself off as a life long “Conservative Christian.”  We will be posting more on this throughout the week.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The backstory here begins with Dallas Tea Party (WatchTheVote) Leader Katrina Pierson (and to a lesser extent PolitiJim) was drug into an idiotic argument over supposed “profane” attacks on Santorum addressed first by the PolitiJim article </font><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/more-santorum-supporter-tea-party-lies.html"><font face="Verdana">More Santorum Supporter Tea Party LIES</font></a><font face="Verdana">.  At issue was Katrina’s retweet of a Romney video that had use of the “F” word, and PolitiJim’s SLUTSS acronym.  A lady named Alice Linahan in Dallas (who has hosted Santorum) wrote the article on her website VoicesEmpower.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I was informed by other Tea Party sources that Linahan appeared out of nowhere during the </font><a href="http://www.redstate.com/irish067/2012/02/06/joe-straus-texas-tea-party-public-enemy-number-1/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">RINO Texas Speaker</font></a><font face="Verdana"> battle and suddenly proclaimed herself a “national” Tea Party leader.  I also had word that she trumpeted ties to Pat Caddell and (possibly) MMfA money.  PolitiJim confirmed the relationship at the recent True the Vote National Summit where Linahan had her hands all over Caddell in a shocking display of PDA.  Something is strange when a “Tea Party” leader is shockingly displays PDA to the former Campaign Chair of the Carter campaign who openly states he will never be anything other than a liberal tax and spend Democrat.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The attack on Katrina was kind of lame, but peaked my attention when she </font><a href="http://www.voicesempower.com/tino-tea-party-are-you-ok-with-this-kind-of-video/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">doubled down</font></a><font face="Verdana"> calling on ALL Tea Party leaders to denounce this heroic single mom Katrina who has been part of the Tea Party and Voter Fraud Whistleblower movement since the beginning.  It turns out she has done the same thing trying to trash OTHER Tea Party leaders who were not for Santorum across the United States.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">With only a few Twitter unfollows and soft displeasure at the SLUTSS acronym (which I apologized for those who were offended) , on the same day, a blogger Google Friend named  “Tiffany” posted offense both at the SLUTSS term and my portrayal of the article from Alice.  It was strange to me that she had INTIMATE knowledge of the article (my readers normally aren’t that thorough) but we assumed it was someone who knew Alice.  When she also attacked on Twitter, we got suspicious.   As recounted in the PolitiJim story </font><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/santorums-profane-fat-bottomed-girl.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Santorum’s (Profane) Fat Bottomed Girl,</font></a><font face="Verdana"> it turned out </font><a href="mailto:“Tiffany/@MrsKlein54"><font face="Verdana">“Tiffany/@MrsKlein54</font></a><font face="Verdana">” was no typical Catholic, prolife, Santorum supporter.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">In fact on her website “</font><a href="http://tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Fat Bottom Girl</font></a><font face="Verdana">” (which had the welcome of “Yes I’m an asshole” and worse) – she had 11 Google “Friends”.  ALL are extremely average suburban American sounding including a Military mom and a 20 year married professional named “Arvilla.”</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">What was odd is that EVERY ONE of these Google Friends followed dozens of other blogs.  And with the exception of “Fat Bottom Girl,” they were family and rural oriented like “Crafts by Nature” and “TheMommyhoodMemos.”</font></p> <p><strong><font face="Verdana">Why are all of these average American (mostly) mom’s following a profane blog that would make Richard Pryor blush?  </font></strong></p> <p><strong><font face="Verdana">It didn’t make sense.  </font></strong></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I have no idea of the ethnicity of Tiffany/FatBottom/MrsKlein, but Fat Bottom has the writing style of a lesser educated, urban liberal with a “tude” that would make Big Momma blush.  So far I have not found a SINGLE minority website among the lot.  It doesn’t fit.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And why were they so singular in their tastes.  For instance John McCord (below) only follows extreme fitness blogs.  No nutrition, sports, camping.  The military mom named “L.” seems like a badly written single-dimension character in a Hollywood made-for-video movie.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But this made me look harder.  It is “Arvilla’s” blog called Coffee Bean Babblings.  And the top most article from last November is “</font><a href="http://cbbabblings.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-movement.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">The Occupy Movement</font></a><font face="Verdana">.”  <strong>EVERYTHING ELSE is apolitical.</strong>  Her summary ends this way</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">Government control and their warped idea of what "we the people" want and need is what has gotten us in this mess. <br />I'm not an anarchist and I want our government, I pray for our leaders and that they will make decisions that will help our country. <br />So, my decision on the Occupy Movement is that I am pleased that they have started the country discussing important issues and I pray that we will continue to discuss and resolve the issues in the best way possible for everyone in the country.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">Her other blog, “</font><a href="http://simplefamilystories.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Simple Family Stories</font></a><font face="Verdana">” is very detailed without much different in them and also only about a year old.  Both linked to an art store that has no art.  Here is Arvilla’s Blogger profile:</font></p> <h3>Arvilla</h3> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MpOkN8S2ug4/TDvTVY9lKSI/AAAAAAAAAAM/b07WqPDg8cM/S220-h/me.jpg"><img alt="My Photo" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MpOkN8S2ug4/TDvTVY9lKSI/AAAAAAAAAAM/b07WqPDg8cM/S220/me.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MpOkN8S2ug4/TDvTVY9lKSI/AAAAAAAAAAM/b07WqPDg8cM/S220-h/me.jpg">View Full Size</a></p> <p>On Blogger since July 2010</p> <p>Profile views - 105</p> <h4>My blogs</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://cbbabblings.blogspot.com/">coffee bean babblings</a> </li> <li><a href="http://howetla.blogspot.com/">The Language & Academia</a> </li> <li><a href="http://simplefamilystories.blogspot.com/">Simple Family Stories</a> </li> <li><a href="http://arvillaswritingupdate.blogspot.com/">Arvilla's Writing Updates</a> </li> </ul> <h4>About me</h4> <p>Gender <br />Female</p> <p>Industry <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=j&ind=INTERNET">Internet</a></p> <p>Occupation <br /><a 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I have been working toward my Bachelors in Technical Communication for the last four years and now I'm getting close.</p> <p>Interests <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=Writing">Writing,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=cooking">cooking,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=candy+making">candy making,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=sewing">sewing,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=quilting">quilting,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=decoupage">decoupage,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=jewelry+making">jewelry making,</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=crafting">crafting,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=scrapbooking">scrapbooking,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=puzzles+and+reading.">puzzles and reading.</a></p> <p>Favorite Movies <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Annie+Get+Your+Gun">Annie Get Your Gun,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Aeon+Flux">Aeon Flux,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Back+to+the+Future">Back to the Future,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Legend">Legend,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Star+Wars">Star Wars,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=The+Sound+of+Music">The Sound of Music,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Change+of+Habit+(Elvis)">Change of Habit (Elvis),</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=ET">ET</a></p> <p>Favorite Music <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=s&q=I+love+all+music">I love all music,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=s&q=it+depends+on+my+mood+at+the+time.">it depends on my mood at the time.</a></p> <p>Favorite Books <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=b&q=The+Left+Behind+Series">The Left Behind Series,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=b&q=Anything+about+writing.">Anything about writing.</a></p> <p><strong><font size="5"></font></strong> </p> <p><strong><font size="5" face="Verdana">Here is it where it get’s weird:</font></strong></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/MrsKlein54" target="_blank"><font color="#303030" face="Verdana"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 3px 3px 4px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="chicotaco1" border="0" alt="chicotaco1" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-S1ItGK18tss/T6WnNXQcWVI/AAAAAAAAFBE/PfBxnSizAxA/chicotaco15.gif?imgmax=800" width="191" height="181" /></font></a><font face="Verdana"> So in trying to track down “Tiffany/MrsKlein” I established through my IP record she was in Dallas, not Colorado.  But the “Chico’s Tacos” wallpaper on her twitter page sent me sleuthing.  The only CHICO’s TACO’s I could find is in (you guessed it):</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Arvilla’s Home town.</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-GhykSMkvlHI/T6WnOC1yZuI/AAAAAAAAFBM/WIIKVVXNGaE/s1600-h/ChicosTacosLOCATIONElPAso4.gif"><font color="#303030" face="Verdana"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="ChicosTacosLOCATIONElPAso" border="0" alt="ChicosTacosLOCATIONElPAso" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-vlfc8TzfxXI/T6WnT5E_3DI/AAAAAAAAFBU/r54wbCJFcEs/ChicosTacosLOCATIONElPAso_thumb2.gif?imgmax=800" width="244" height="203" /></font></a><font face="Verdana"> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Another thing about these blogs.  They have patterns.  Two different profane Fat Bottom Girl “Friends” who are just average apple pie parents BOTH have blog or blog links that:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">feature adorable little kids</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">with extreme close-ups</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">with professional photography elements</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">all glowing about the joys of suburban life.</font> </li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">The famous Mrs “L” military mom’s page looks like this:</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-EG1vwvpnlmw/T6WnUaPgf_I/AAAAAAAAFBc/07hS2TMTnlM/s1600-h/LtothethirdWIDE5.gif"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="L to the third WIDE" border="0" alt="L to the third WIDE" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Xg6I-n-vAeo/T6WnVLmtIXI/AAAAAAAAFBk/B6RHGevfZbM/LtothethirdWIDE_thumb3.gif?imgmax=800" width="332" height="497" /></a> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Cute huh?  But Fat Bottom girlfriend Ana Lyman is linked to a blog called “TheMommyMemos” that looks like this:</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-nNNudhEwQ_g/T6WnV1-B63I/AAAAAAAAFBs/FYEyimNesa8/s1600-h/themommyhoodmemosCHILD23.gif"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="themommyhoodmemosCHILD2" border="0" alt="themommyhoodmemosCHILD2" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-3l47xxdoXww/T6WnWbtqlcI/AAAAAAAAFB0/p53aaqSCmbQ/themommyhoodmemosCHILD2_thumb1.gif?imgmax=800" width="238" height="244" /></a> While slightly different in age – the framing here is similar on a “L” link to Knits N@ - </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-RkLZRVTz1rE/T6WnWz4LyII/AAAAAAAAFB8/TsY60obZZMg/s1600-h/KnitsNwebsite3.gif"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="KnitsN@website" border="0" alt="KnitsN@website" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-qe6SaxeK5II/T6WnXwzo7YI/AAAAAAAAFCE/3lekQzrxC1Q/KnitsNwebsite_thumb1.gif?imgmax=800" width="244" height="186" /></a> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">A professional media person will note the angle, lighting, coloring – hell about 15 elements – that are EXACTLY the same. Average people post photos that are strikingly UNPROFESSIONAL.  <strong>And there are more.</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">L’s “<a href="http://el-cubed.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">L to the Third</a>” is especially enlightening.  Notice the pattern of:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">Adorable kid in green shirt with glowing mommy text</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Religious Architecture</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Adorable kid in green shirt with glowing mommy text</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Religious Architecture</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Adorable kid in green shirt with glowing mommy text</font> </li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">The professionalism is outstanding.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">One last thought about these links.  If you look at any one on my blog, you will notice that a large subset will follow the same blogs together.  Of my 60 Blogger ID followers, 12 follow Perfection Under A Red Umbrella, another 10 follow Mortlock Revolt – just like in real life your social circles overlap and puddle.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Not so Fat Bottom’s friends.  NOT A SHARED BLOG AMONG THEM for the most part.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong><u>My Theory</u></strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">We were not going to go public with this to try and do more research so they couldn’t take down the information.  Fat Bottom Girl already deleted her blog from her Google Friends profile.   A number of her friends disappeared the day after I wrote the first blog on her.  But with more revelations shortly to come on Barack Obama and GOP intrigue, we can’t hold it back any longer and need <strong>YOU</strong> to help follow these leads.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Going back to the fall I have asked the following question:</font></p> <p>“<font face="Verdana">Why isn’t Obama TRYING to do come to the center on policy to shore up his support for the election like nearly EVERY politician does?  Clinton signed Welfare Reform to counter his “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Faux Pas.”  Pennsylvania tea partiers established Santorum’s <a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_317352.html" target="_blank">pattern of voting LEFT of center in off election years</a>, only to come back in time for the election.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I speculated their are only two reasons.  Either he doesn’t care about being re-elected <u>or he knows he will remain in office REGARDLESS of the vote</u>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/did-obama-assassinate-clinton-delegates.html" target="_blank">evidence of the theft of the 2008 primary</a> (and all previous elections he has run in prior) leads me to believe the second could well be true.  Many laugh at the fear by some conservatives at the signing of NDAA and just last week the <a href="http://www.dickmorris.com/obama-assumes-dictatorial-powers/" target="_blank">Executive Order that allows him to take over ANY US resource</a>.  (<em>Link is from moderate Dick Morris by the way – not Alex Jones or Glenn Beck.</em>)  With a President who ignores judicial appointment laws in the Constitution and Subpoenas by Congress and Judicial Orders (Gulf Oil panel) – why are we worried about making the next leap?  I’m not the only <a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/46200?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=3902ec4433-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">one connecting the DOTS</a>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I have hours of interviews with Bob Cooley (When Corruption Was King) who believes Obama is going to use that $1 Billion war chest (and the untold $ Billions in kickbacks from Stimulus and TARP) to hire people to fill absentee forms, buy off precinct captains and hire programmers to hack voting machines.  After attending the <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/breitbart-will-not-have-obama-bombshell.html" target="_blank">National Summit for True The Vote</a>, I’d say the theft and payoff’s are obviously underway.  Why else would a Department of Justice attack 3 key states that would make elections MORE transparent?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I would not say it is a leap to wonder if this is an Obama and/or MMFA effort not just to infiltrate middle America, but to suddenly make racist or violent proclamations during the planned OWS violence widely reported to occur this summer.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">We already have record of <a href="http://gulagbound.com/7372/the-strategy-behind-neal-rauhausers-twittergate-social-media-marxofascism-by-progressives-part-1/" target="_blank">Tea Party infiltration via Gulagbound</a> reporting.  Although it doesn’t all add up – Tiffany is clearly more than an aberration.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I’ll be honest, I’m suspicious of bloggers who are ultra protective over their Identity and clearly were corresponding with the MrsKlein54 in Twitter.  I retweeted a MrLTavern audio on Treyvon Martin and immediately had a reply like this one:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/--pui9wyS314/T6WnYVRpKxI/AAAAAAAAFCM/mgiUxzy101o/s1600-h/effigyTweet4.gif"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="effigyTweet" border="0" alt="effigyTweet" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4vBSvYxO7KU/T6WnZWSYuzI/AAAAAAAAFCU/FlzV2WwhC9k/effigyTweet_thumb2.gif?imgmax=800" width="484" height="390" /></a> </p> <p><font face="Verdana">Notice the prolife AVI.  Her bio is similar to that of “Tiffany/MrsKlein54”":</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/JeanSMilner" target="_blank"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="JeanSMilnerEFFIGYbio" border="0" alt="JeanSMilnerEFFIGYbio" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-TbQpFOdSGnc/T6WnZ6lpzjI/AAAAAAAAFCc/G-Zb-T0_EMk/JeanSMilnerEFFIGYbio4.gif?imgmax=800" width="484" height="294" /></a> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">In looking at her timeline she has ton of RT’s of Right To Lifer Steve Erfelt, Ann Coulter, and other conventional conservatives.  Then there is this:</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-mbcmiIpmoko/T6Wnab-h8iI/AAAAAAAAFCk/Ti-1X5r5TW0/s1600-h/JeanSMinerMarijuna3.gif"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="JeanSMinerMarijuna" border="0" alt="JeanSMinerMarijuna" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-G8bPljrPzPY/T6WnbH9OWLI/AAAAAAAAFCs/a5QDKOU_opQ/JeanSMinerMarijuna_thumb1.gif?imgmax=800" width="484" height="406" /></a> </p> <p><font face="Verdana">A dope smoking pro-life, Gingrich supporter!! Sounds like a target market for the campaign.  The only good news is that criminals and frauds are normally sloppy otherwise they’d be after an honest living.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">So was the effigy comment an attempt to get a REAL conservative to agree?  Or will @JeanSMilner be an example of a conservative especially when she (or he) starts tweeting worse.  LIKE THIS:</font></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/JeanSMilner/status/183658252670746624"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 3px 4px 4px 3px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="JeanSMilnerViolenceProphecy" border="0" alt="JeanSMilnerViolenceProphecy" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-_CuVwu4N8vE/T6WnbjeTtEI/AAAAAAAAFC0/jil27_QyvUs/JeanSMilnerViolenceProphecy4.gif?imgmax=800" width="484" height="130" /></a> </p> <p><font face="Verdana">I guess you’re not really paranoid if they ARE after you, right?  LOL </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>But, I NEED HELP</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Below is a list of the web LINKS to Fat Bottom’s Friends.  I believe the KEY IS ARVILLA.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I’m looking for <strong>content</strong> and pattern on these blogs.  I’m also hoping we can find someone to help categorize DATES and numbers of blogs per Blogger ID.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Content:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">OWS friendly or Tea Party unfriendly/cautious</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Racist or potentially “edgy” content that would defame a Tea Partier</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Violent married with </font></li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">Patterns:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">Blogs less than 2 years old or so</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Posting times/patterns.  (I found an inordinate number (3 or 4) of these posted EXACTLY at 6:45am.  If it is a system programming thing perhaps they are bulk published from a server?</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Blogs with great detail but suspended posting for long periods of time without explanation</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Features that seem abnormal for average people with few followers like Knits or L…</font> </li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">I know there will be some way to coordinate this and am open to ideas.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Thanks.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"></font></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p></p> <h3><font face="Verdana">Arvilla</font></h3> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MpOkN8S2ug4/TDvTVY9lKSI/AAAAAAAAAAM/b07WqPDg8cM/S220-h/me.jpg"><img alt="My Photo" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MpOkN8S2ug4/TDvTVY9lKSI/AAAAAAAAAAM/b07WqPDg8cM/S220/me.jpg" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MpOkN8S2ug4/TDvTVY9lKSI/AAAAAAAAAAM/b07WqPDg8cM/S220-h/me.jpg">View Full Size</a></p> <p>On Blogger since July 2010</p> <p>Profile views - 105</p> <h4>My blogs</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://cbbabblings.blogspot.com/">coffee bean babblings</a> </li> <li><a href="http://howetla.blogspot.com/">The Language & Academia</a> </li> <li><a href="http://simplefamilystories.blogspot.com/">Simple Family Stories</a> </li> <li><a href="http://arvillaswritingupdate.blogspot.com/">Arvilla's Writing Updates</a> </li> </ul> <h4>About me</h4> <p>Gender <br />Female</p> <p>Industry <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=j&ind=INTERNET">Internet</a></p> <p>Occupation <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=o&q=Technical+Writer">Technical Writer</a></p> <p>Location <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=l&loc0=US&loc1=Texas&loc2=El+Paso">El Paso</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=l&loc0=US&loc1=Texas">Texas</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=l&loc0=US">United States</a></p> <p>Introduction <br />I have been married to my fabulous husband for 20 years, we have 4 awesome kids ranging in age from 19 to 9. I have been working toward my Bachelors in Technical Communication for the last four years and now I'm getting close.</p> <p>Interests <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=Writing">Writing,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=cooking">cooking,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=candy+making">candy making,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=sewing">sewing,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=quilting">quilting,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=decoupage">decoupage,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=jewelry+making">jewelry making,</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=crafting">crafting,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=scrapbooking">scrapbooking,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=puzzles+and+reading.">puzzles and reading.</a></p> <p>Favorite Movies <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Annie+Get+Your+Gun">Annie Get Your Gun,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Aeon+Flux">Aeon Flux,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Back+to+the+Future">Back to the Future,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Legend">Legend,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Star+Wars">Star Wars,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=The+Sound+of+Music">The Sound of Music,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=Change+of+Habit+(Elvis)">Change of Habit (Elvis),</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=m&q=ET">ET</a></p> <p>Favorite Music <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=s&q=I+love+all+music">I love all music,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=s&q=it+depends+on+my+mood+at+the+time.">it depends on my mood at the time.</a></p> <p>Favorite Books <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=b&q=The+Left+Behind+Series">The Left Behind Series,</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=b&q=Anything+about+writing.">Anything about writing.</a></p> <p><img title="Arvilla" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MpOkN8S2ug4/TDvV9VRQrWI/AAAAAAAAAAk/zGCDH43Yb9A/S45/me.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040053354052513862"></a></p> <p>Arvilla</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>About me</p> <p>I have been married to my fabulous husband for 20 years, we have 4 awesome kids ranging in age from 19 to 9. I have been working toward my Bachelors in Technical Communication for the last four years and now I'm getting close.</p> <p>Links</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//cbbabblings.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://cbbabblings.blogspot.com/">coffee bean babblings</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//howetla.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://howetla.blogspot.com/">The Language &amp; Academia</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//simplefamilystories.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://simplefamilystories.blogspot.com/">Simple Family Stories</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//arvillaswritingupdate.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://arvillaswritingupdate.blogspot.com/">Arvilla's Writing Updates</a></p> <p>Sites I've joined <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">More »</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//bondedwithlove.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://bondedwithlove.blogspot.com/">"Bond"ed with Love</a></p> <p><img title="Arvilla" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MpOkN8S2ug4/TDvV9VRQrWI/AAAAAAAAAAk/zGCDH43Yb9A/S45/me.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040053354052513862"></a></p> <p>Arvilla</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p> </p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//bondedwithlove.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://bondedwithlove.blogspot.com/">"Bond"ed with Love</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//keepinitthriftyandrea.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://keepinitthriftyandrea.blogspot.com/">*Keepin it Thrifty*</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//amommyssweetblogdesign.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://amommyssweetblogdesign.blogspot.com/">A Mommy's Blog Design</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//adventuresinhomeeducating.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://adventuresinhomeeducating.blogspot.com/">Adventures in Home Education</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.artsyfartsymama.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.artsyfartsymama.com/">artsy-fartsy mama</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//beourbest.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://beourbest.blogspot.com/">Be Our Best</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//bellavidabyletty.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://bellavidabyletty.blogspot.com/">Bella Vida by Letty</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//chestnutgroveacademy.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://chestnutgroveacademy.blogspot.com/">Chestnut Grove Academy</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//christiecottage.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://christiecottage.blogspot.com/">Christie Cottage</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//creativeminds-tamirisc.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://creativeminds-tamirisc.blogspot.com/">Chronicles From The Man Cave</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.coffeelovinmom.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.coffeelovinmom.com/">Coffee Lovin Mom</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//confessionofascrapaholic.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://confessionofascrapaholic.blogspot.com/">Confessions of a Scrapaholic</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//naturecrafter.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://naturecrafter.blogspot.com/">Crafty By Nature</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//create-with-joy.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://create-with-joy.blogspot.com/">Create With Joy</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//jembellish.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://jembellish.blogspot.com/">Creating my way to Success</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//cupcakeskissesncrumbs.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://cupcakeskissesncrumbs.blogspot.com/">Cupcakes Kisses 'n' Crumbs</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//shannonsarmywifelife.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://shannonsarmywifelife.blogspot.com/">Diary of an Army Wife</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//eatingwithgati.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://eatingwithgati.blogspot.com/">Eating With Gati</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//elisabethneville.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://elisabethneville.blogspot.com/">Elisabeth Neville Photography</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/">Fat Bottomed Girl</a></p> <p></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//nikki-fortheloveofbooks.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://nikki-fortheloveofbooks.blogspot.com/">for the love of books</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//fromknockeduptoknockeddown.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://fromknockeduptoknockeddown.blogspot.com/">From Knocked up to Knocked down.</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.havesippywilltravel.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.havesippywilltravel.com/">Have Sippy Will Travel</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//attitudeivlife.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://attitudeivlife.blogspot.com/">High Heeled Life &amp; the Country</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//m2flo.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://m2flo.blogspot.com/">Just My Everyday Life</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//keepingupwithkristi.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://keepingupwithkristi.blogspot.com/">Keeping Up with Kristi</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//luxuriousrecipes.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://luxuriousrecipes.blogspot.com/">L'Insalata's Luxuries</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.letsstartsavingnow.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.letsstartsavingnow.com/">Lets Start Saving Now</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//ihatechoosingusernames.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://ihatechoosingusernames.blogspot.com/">Life is not a Paragraph</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.lowerscoresrmpga.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.lowerscoresrmpga.com/">Lower Scores</a></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040053354052513862"></a></p> <p>Arvilla</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//mamato3crazies.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://mamato3crazies.blogspot.com/">Mom to 3 Crazies</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.myplace-home-family.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.myplace-home-family.com/">Mom's Place</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//nevergrowingold.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://nevergrowingold.blogspot.com/">Never Growing Old</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//notblessedmama.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://notblessedmama.blogspot.com/">Not Blessed Mama</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.ohmygoshbeck.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.ohmygoshbeck.com/">Oh My Gosh Beck!</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.mysnugglybugs.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.mysnugglybugs.com/">Ours + His + Mine = Nine!</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//photographybykristyjobrown.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://photographybykristyjobrown.blogspot.com/">Photography by Kristy Jo Brown</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.weidknecht.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.weidknecht.com/">Planet Weidknecht</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//potofgoldgiveaways.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://potofgoldgiveaways.blogspot.com/">Pot of Gold Giveaways</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//deceptivelyeducational.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://deceptivelyeducational.blogspot.com/">Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040053354052513862"></a></p> <p>Arvilla</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//saysmesaysmom.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://saysmesaysmom.blogspot.com/">Says Me Says Mom</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//kadie-sevenalive.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://kadie-sevenalive.blogspot.com/">Seven Alive</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.simplewyrdings.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.simplewyrdings.com/">Simple Wyrdings</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//socialstudiesmomma.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://socialstudiesmomma.blogspot.com/">Social Studies Momma</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//goobergrapemonkeyman.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://goobergrapemonkeyman.blogspot.com/">The Adventures of Goober Grape &amp; Monkey Man</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//themommiesnetwork.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://themommiesnetwork.blogspot.com/">The Mommies Network</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.thetrunkblog.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.thetrunkblog.com/">The Trunk Blog</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//workingwomansguidetodinner.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://workingwomansguidetodinner.blogspot.com/">Working Woman's Guide to Dinner or If I Cook Chicken A La King One More Time I'll Kill Myself</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//westtexaswp.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://westtexaswp.blogspot.com/">WTWP Speaks Out</a></p> <h4>MY OTHER BLOGS</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://simplefamilystories.blogspot.com/">Simple Family Stories</a> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><img title="Ana Lyman" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/profile/picture/65/DYkBo_VjI_RXZT2-YqBnpyr4Lfdpq7vPTrS7-gVDQrecOM4VA52dt59FywcczV0OyV-2MwGzz1LgFxX1NwEuoyGE3IbiCS_31zz-Xo9IkBsQHg45269c5tZ5cM173RRAeILq-vnJ2nN0_BiZseCZiXFTLnHLpIH6cWtf8T0MCA0YB5mbi_gW7g" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p><a href="https://plus.google.com/118083607950271223393"></a></p> <p>Ana Lyman</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//iwillgodeeper.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://iwillgodeeper.blogspot.com/">A Happy Chick...going Deeper.</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.asmallloss.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.asmallloss.com/">a small loss</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//lostonthedirtpath.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://lostonthedirtpath.blogspot.com/">A walk in These Shoes...</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//rrtimmins.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://rrtimmins.blogspot.com/">Alaska Bound</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//ashleycharlesmoore.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://ashleycharlesmoore.blogspot.com/">Attention Deficit Diso-Look IT'S SNOWING OUTSIDE</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//babyweightandbeyond.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://babyweightandbeyond.blogspot.com/">Baby Weight and Beyond</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.barefeetonthedashboard.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.barefeetonthedashboard.com/">bare feet on the dashboard</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//laughskissesandcries.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://laughskissesandcries.blogspot.com/">Boys, Bugs, Bruises, and Boogies</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//bugaboominimrme.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://bugaboominimrme.blogspot.com/">bugaboo, mini, mr &amp; me</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.christinasadventures.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.christinasadventures.com/">Christina's Adventures</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//pacificlayadventures.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://pacificlayadventures.blogspot.com/">Clay adventures</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//theblogofnell.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://theblogofnell.blogspot.com/">Cooking It Off!</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.cookingupfaith.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.cookingupfaith.com/">Cooking Up Faith</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//slimmersally.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://slimmersally.blogspot.com/">Downsizing Deeds</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.exhotgirl.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.exhotgirl.com/">Ex Hot Girl</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/">Fat Bottomed Girl</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.fromheretoeternityblog.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.fromheretoeternityblog.com/">From Here To Eternity Blog</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//healthyxdreaming.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://healthyxdreaming.blogspot.com/">Healthy Dreaming - A Healthy Weight Loss Blog</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//hereiammemyselfandgod.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://hereiammemyselfandgod.blogspot.com/">Here I am.</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//homeschoolsnapshots.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://homeschoolsnapshots.blogspot.com/">Homeschool Snapshots (a 365 Photography Project)</a></p> <p> </p> <p><img title="Ana Lyman" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/profile/picture/65/DYkBo_VjI_RXZT2-YqBnpyr4Lfdpq7vPTrS7-gVDQrecOM4VA52dt59FywcczV0OyV-2MwGzz1LgFxX1NwEuoyGE3IbiCS_31zz-Xo9IkBsQHg45269c5tZ5cM173RRAeILq-vnJ2nN0_BiZseCZiXFTLnHLpIH6cWtf8T0MCA0YB5mbi_gW7g" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p><a href="https://plus.google.com/118083607950271223393"></a></p> <p>Ana Lyman</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//pacificlayadventures.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://pacificlayadventures.blogspot.com/">Clay adventures</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//theblogofnell.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://theblogofnell.blogspot.com/">Cooking It Off!</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.cookingupfaith.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.cookingupfaith.com/">Cooking Up Faith</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//slimmersally.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://slimmersally.blogspot.com/">Downsizing Deeds</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.exhotgirl.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.exhotgirl.com/">Ex Hot Girl</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/">Fat Bottomed Girl</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.fromheretoeternityblog.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.fromheretoeternityblog.com/">From Here To Eternity Blog</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//healthyxdreaming.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://healthyxdreaming.blogspot.com/">Healthy Dreaming - A Healthy Weight Loss Blog</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//hereiammemyselfandgod.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://hereiammemyselfandgod.blogspot.com/">Here I am.</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//homeschoolsnapshots.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://homeschoolsnapshots.blogspot.com/">Homeschool Snapshots (a 365 Photography Project)</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><img title="Ana Lyman" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/profile/picture/65/DYkBo_VjI_RXZT2-YqBnpyr4Lfdpq7vPTrS7-gVDQrecOM4VA52dt59FywcczV0OyV-2MwGzz1LgFxX1NwEuoyGE3IbiCS_31zz-Xo9IkBsQHg45269c5tZ5cM173RRAeILq-vnJ2nN0_BiZseCZiXFTLnHLpIH6cWtf8T0MCA0YB5mbi_gW7g" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p><a href="https://plus.google.com/118083607950271223393"></a></p> <p>Ana Lyman</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//iwasntbornthisway.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://iwasntbornthisway.blogspot.com/">I [wasn't] Born This Way</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//totallytheturtle.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://totallytheturtle.blogspot.com/">I'm Totally the Turtle</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//cataylor85.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://cataylor85.blogspot.com/">In Pursuit</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//randylovesbev.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://randylovesbev.blogspot.com/">joy in our journey</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//emilyandbradsblog.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://emilyandbradsblog.blogspot.com/">Just the 2 of us...and a cat</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//levilymanslog.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://levilymanslog.blogspot.com/">Levi's Log</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//adepcornelius.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://adepcornelius.blogspot.com/">Life from a Mom in a Small Town</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//lifeincareer-sis.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://lifeincareer-sis.blogspot.com/">Life in crisis, I mean, fitness...</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//livelovemoo.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://livelovemoo.blogspot.com/">Live ❤ Love ❤ Moo</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//jellybelly811.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://jellybelly811.blogspot.com/">Losin' My Jelly Belly.. One Bean At A Time</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><a href="https://plus.google.com/118083607950271223393"></a></p> <p>Ana Lyman</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//mylostbattle.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://mylostbattle.blogspot.com/">Losing...</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.mandipidy.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.mandipidy.com/">Mandipidy</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//minniemizingme.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://minniemizingme.blogspot.com/">Minnie-Mizing Me</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//amysmomthoughts.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://amysmomthoughts.blogspot.com/">Mom Thoughts</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//mortalmuses.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://mortalmuses.blogspot.com/">Mortal Muses</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//mytakeonphotography.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://mytakeonphotography.blogspot.com/">my take on photography</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//nelliescookbook2.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://nelliescookbook2.blogspot.com/">Nellie's Cook Book</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//onedayoneweigh.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://onedayoneweigh.blogspot.com/">One Day, One Weigh</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//oscbb.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://oscbb.blogspot.com/">Operation Shrink Charlie's Big Butt</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//happythingsphotography.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://happythingsphotography.blogspot.com/">Photography and other happy things (a 365 project)</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><img title="Ana Lyman" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/profile/picture/65/DYkBo_VjI_RXZT2-YqBnpyr4Lfdpq7vPTrS7-gVDQrecOM4VA52dt59FywcczV0OyV-2MwGzz1LgFxX1NwEuoyGE3IbiCS_31zz-Xo9IkBsQHg45269c5tZ5cM173RRAeILq-vnJ2nN0_BiZseCZiXFTLnHLpIH6cWtf8T0MCA0YB5mbi_gW7g" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p><a href="https://plus.google.com/118083607950271223393"></a></p> <p>Ana Lyman</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//pizzacakespies.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://pizzacakespies.blogspot.com/">Pizza, Cakes, Pies...Oh My!</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thelindseyohana.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thelindseyohana.blogspot.com/">Raising a Child as a Disabled Mother</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.ashleysisk.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.ashleysisk.com/">Ramblings and Photos</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//seejilllift.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://seejilllift.blogspot.com/">See Jill Lift</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//sewchatty.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://sewchatty.blogspot.com/">Sew Chatty</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.law-momma.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.law-momma.com/">Spilled Milk</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//supermomlosingit.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://supermomlosingit.blogspot.com/">Supermom: Losing It</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tatteredandinked.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tatteredandinked.blogspot.com/">Tattered and Inked</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//texasgirlgettinfit.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://texasgirlgettinfit.blogspot.com/">TexasGirl Gettin' Fit</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thefatchickweigh.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thefatchickweigh.blogspot.com/">The Melting Queen</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a 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src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com/">theworldaccordingtoeggface</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tummo.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tummo.blogspot.com/">Tummo = fierce [woman]</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a></p> <hr /> <h4>ABOUT ME</h4> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09355017319970816074"><img alt="My Photo" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MYgQUayUmYs/TJiiWdOEHNI/AAAAAAAAAYs/UfmI0L-omPc/S220/madmen_icon.jpg" width="80" height="80" /></a></p> <dl><dt><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09355017319970816074">L.</a> </dt><dd>To make a long story short, I'm a history dork, military spouse, and a new mom. When I'm not suffering from a mild case of sleep deprivation, I enjoy reading, photography, visiting historic sites, and searching out fun little vintage and antique shops.</dd></dl> <p> </p> <p><img title="L." src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MYgQUayUmYs/TJiicuR4TrI/AAAAAAAAAZE/P2fsr1YGptU/S45/madmen_icon.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09355017319970816074"></a></p> <p>L.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//overthinkingmom.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://overthinkingmom.com/">(Over)Thinking Mom</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thepeacocktale.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thepeacocktale.blogspot.com/">..............................................................</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.adayinmotherhood.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.adayinmotherhood.com/">A Day in Motherhood</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//heatherluke.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://heatherluke.blogspot.com/">A Table for Ten, Please</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.well-adjusted-pessimist.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.well-adjusted-pessimist.com/">a well-adjusted pessimist</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//adelinesdaddy.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://adelinesdaddy.blogspot.com/">Adeline's Daddy</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//adventuresofamomof2.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://adventuresofamomof2.blogspot.com/">adventures of a mom of {two}</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//babygeisler.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://babygeisler.blogspot.com/">Adventures of a New Mom</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.afterblastwarriorwife.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.afterblastwarriorwife.com/">After Blast Warrior Wife</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//navyanchorsaway.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://navyanchorsaway.blogspot.com/">Anchor's Away</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//andweareoffto.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://andweareoffto.blogspot.com/">And we're off to....</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//almcrock.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://almcrock.blogspot.com/">Arms Open Wide: Our Adoption Journey</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//armyoftwodc.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://armyoftwodc.blogspot.com/">Army of Two</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//badmamamoments.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://badmamamoments.blogspot.com/">Bad Mama Moments</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.thebeyondbooks.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.thebeyondbooks.com/">Beyond the Blog</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//blog.adriennerose.me/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://blog.adriennerose.me/">blog.adriennerose.me</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//lovemygirls9709.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://lovemygirls9709.blogspot.com/">Cute Shoes</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//dandelionsinmygarden.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://dandelionsinmygarden.blogspot.com/">dandelion garden</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//shannonsarmywifelife.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://shannonsarmywifelife.blogspot.com/">Diary of an Army Wife</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//mrstrophywife.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://mrstrophywife.blogspot.com/">Exploits of a Military Mama</a></p> <p><a 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href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//andweareoffto.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://andweareoffto.blogspot.com/">And we're off to....</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//almcrock.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://almcrock.blogspot.com/">Arms Open Wide: Our Adoption Journey</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//armyoftwodc.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://armyoftwodc.blogspot.com/">Army of Two</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//badmamamoments.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://badmamamoments.blogspot.com/">Bad Mama Moments</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.thebeyondbooks.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.thebeyondbooks.com/">Beyond the Blog</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//blog.adriennerose.me/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://blog.adriennerose.me/">blog.adriennerose.me</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//lovemygirls9709.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://lovemygirls9709.blogspot.com/">Cute Shoes</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//dandelionsinmygarden.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://dandelionsinmygarden.blogspot.com/">dandelion garden</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//shannonsarmywifelife.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://shannonsarmywifelife.blogspot.com/">Diary of an Army Wife</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//mrstrophywife.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://mrstrophywife.blogspot.com/">Exploits of a Military Mama</a></p> <p><img title="L." src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MYgQUayUmYs/TJiicuR4TrI/AAAAAAAAAZE/P2fsr1YGptU/S45/madmen_icon.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09355017319970816074"></a></p> <p>L.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/">Fat Bottomed Girl</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//schmoomommy.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://schmoomommy.blogspot.com/">Fortune Favors The Brave</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.chichomeschoolmama.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.chichomeschoolmama.com/">Gigi Marie Photography</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//guinnandbareit.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://guinnandbareit.blogspot.com/">Guinn and Bare It</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//handmadebymother.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://handmadebymother.blogspot.com/">Handmade by Mother</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//happilydomestic.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://happilydomestic.blogspot.com/">HappilyDomestic</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//hollydays-blog.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://hollydays-blog.blogspot.com/">Holly Days</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//bartlett-kerr.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://bartlett-kerr.blogspot.com/">House of Bartlett-Kerr</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.houseofturquoise.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.houseofturquoise.com/">House of Turquoise</a></p> <p><img align="top" 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src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//jackspapermoon.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://jackspapermoon.blogspot.com/">Jack's Paper Moon</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.jenniepie.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.jenniepie.com/">Jennie Pie</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//justageeknamedjess.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://justageeknamedjess.blogspot.com/">Just a Geek Named Jess</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//snarkynavywife.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://snarkynavywife.blogspot.com/">Just Another Snarky Navy Wife</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//justbitspieces.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://justbitspieces.blogspot.com/">just bits &amp; pieces</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.kbsquaredblog.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.kbsquaredblog.com/">KB Squared</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//knitsnat.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://knitsnat.blogspot.com/">Knits N@</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//la-lashomedaycare.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://la-lashomedaycare.blogspot.com/">La-La's Home Daycare</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a 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href="http://melifaif.blogspot.com/">Meli Faif Life</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//memitherainbow.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://memitherainbow.blogspot.com/">Memi The Rainbow</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//themermaidtracks.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://themermaidtracks.blogspot.com/">mermaid tracks</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.momtriedit.net/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.momtriedit.net/">Mom Tried It</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.mumfection.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.mumfection.com/">Mumfection</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.mumsyhood.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.mumsyhood.com/">Mumsyhood</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><img title="L." src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MYgQUayUmYs/TJiicuR4TrI/AAAAAAAAAZE/P2fsr1YGptU/S45/madmen_icon.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09355017319970816074"></a></p> <p>L.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//mumsyhood365.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://mumsyhood365.blogspot.com/">Mumsyhood Project 365</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//mybossisteething.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://mybossisteething.com/">My Boss is Teething</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.mylittlemustache.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.mylittlemustache.com/">My little mustache</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//notjustanarmywife.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://notjustanarmywife.blogspot.com/">Not Just an Army Wife</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//northvamommies.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://northvamommies.blogspot.com/">NoVaMommies</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//ofmiceandramen.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://ofmiceandramen.blogspot.com/">OF MICE AND raMEN</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//ohboydrake.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://ohboydrake.blogspot.com/">oh boy</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.ohhellofriendblog.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.ohhellofriendblog.com/">oh, hello friend: you are loved.</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//jcmfamily.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://jcmfamily.blogspot.com/">One Day At A Time</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//doubleopp.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://doubleopp.blogspot.com/">Ostentatious Optimism &amp; Pretentious Pessimism</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a 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align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//pasticheantiquesandhome.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://pasticheantiquesandhome.blogspot.com/">Pastiche: Antiques, Home Projects and More</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//photograph4life.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://photograph4life.blogspot.com/">Photograph Life</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//pittsburghpadre.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://pittsburghpadre.blogspot.com/">Pittsburgh Padre</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//pro-tography101.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://pro-tography101.blogspot.com/">Protography 101</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//puttingdownthecookies.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://puttingdownthecookies.blogspot.com/">Putting Down the Cookies</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.ashleysisk.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.ashleysisk.com/">Ramblings and Photos</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.naptimemomtog.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.naptimemomtog.com/">Sarah Halstead : the Naptime Momtog</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//sarahlivingsimply.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://sarahlivingsimply.blogspot.com/">Sarah Living Simply</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//armystrongspouses.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://armystrongspouses.blogspot.com/">Strong Spouses....Army Strong</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><img title="L." src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MYgQUayUmYs/TJiicuR4TrI/AAAAAAAAAZE/P2fsr1YGptU/S45/madmen_icon.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09355017319970816074"></a></p> <p>L.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tawnyzengierski.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tawnyzengierski.blogspot.com/">Tawnyfrogmouth</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thewetternfamily.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thewetternfamily.blogspot.com/">The Adventures of <br>The Wettern Family</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thecollectionbym.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thecollectionbym.blogspot.com/">The Collection</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thedailywyatt.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thedailywyatt.blogspot.com/">The Daily Wyatt</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thedisplaceddutchican.wordpress.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thedisplaceddutchican.wordpress.com/">The Displaced Dutchican</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thegreatumbrellaheist.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thegreatumbrellaheist.blogspot.com/">The Great Umbrella Heist</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//harmonsquad.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://harmonsquad.blogspot.com/">the harmon squad</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thesquidsaccomplice.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thesquidsaccomplice.blogspot.com/">The Squid's Accomplice</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.mommyrachelle.net/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.mommyrachelle.net/">They Call Me Mommy Rachelle</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.thislifeissweetblog.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.thislifeissweetblog.com/">This Life is Sweet</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a></p> <p><img title="L." src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MYgQUayUmYs/TJiicuR4TrI/AAAAAAAAAZE/P2fsr1YGptU/S45/madmen_icon.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09355017319970816074"></a></p> <p>L.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.toesthattwinkle.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.toesthattwinkle.com/">Toes That Twinkle!</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thetrendytreehouse.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thetrendytreehouse.blogspot.com/">Trendy Treehouse</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//armyso.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://armyso.blogspot.com/">WebDev_ArmyWife</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.whoopsidaisy-tonya.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.whoopsidaisy-tonya.com/">Whoopsidaisy</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//liveeverymom.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://liveeverymom.blogspot.com/">Wild Ginger Photography - Newborn Baby Children Senior &amp; Family Photographer Merrimack NH</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//janetblyberg.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://janetblyberg.blogspot.com/">~ JCB ~</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.thepapermama.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.thepapermama.com/">♥ The Paper Mama</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a></p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p>L to the third Facebook freinds:</p> <p><a title="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002507002277" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002507002277">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002507002277</a></p> <p><a title="https://www.facebook.com/dazzinnari" href="https://www.facebook.com/dazzinnari">https://www.facebook.com/dazzinnari</a></p> <p><a title="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1327801845" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1327801845">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1327801845</a></p> <p><a title="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000363109928" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000363109928">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000363109928</a></p> <p> </p> <p></p> <hr /> <p></p> <p><img title="Shannon" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/profile/picture/65/UlWZwvY22L-h-RdT9TDu5OJ8Yhx76Vo4SveYRSy7CMlqUtLVV9TutzK6Yr-z3axpR68IBvN2pO1W5l5SIyzc37j4Grlc1j9ika1_3z_cSbg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p>Shannon</p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//365minusone.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://365minusone.blogspot.com/">365 minus 1</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//afamilyonthefritts.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://afamilyonthefritts.blogspot.com/">A Family On The "Fritts"</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//yoursoulyoumustkeeptotallyfree.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://yoursoulyoumustkeeptotallyfree.blogspot.com/">Awake My Soul</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.babesinhairland.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.babesinhairland.com/">Babes in Hairland</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.beautybroadcast.net/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.beautybroadcast.net/">Beauty Broadcast</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//nicolereviewsbooks.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://nicolereviewsbooks.blogspot.com/">Book Reviews by Nicole</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//bickfordes.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://bickfordes.blogspot.com/">Buckets of Crazy</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//chasing-butterflies.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://chasing-butterflies.blogspot.com/">Chasing Butterflies</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.kellehampton.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.kellehampton.com/">Enjoying the Small Things</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/">Fat Bottomed Girl</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.heididarwish.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.heididarwish.com/">Kaleidoscope</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//el-cubed.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://el-cubed.blogspot.com/">L to the third</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//quiltwalktalk.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://quiltwalktalk.blogspot.com/">Quilt Walk Talk</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//savannahgracerenfro.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://savannahgracerenfro.blogspot.com/">Savannah Grace Renfro</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tastycre8ions.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tastycre8ions.blogspot.com/">TastyCre8tions</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//homeiswhereagain.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://homeiswhereagain.blogspot.com/">Which Way Is Home ??</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.willcookforsmiles.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.willcookforsmiles.com/">Will Cook For Smiles</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a></p> <p><img title="Liya" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/NoPictureDark65.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p>Liya</p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>Sites I've joined <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">More »</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//ahhhhhshtihazbaby.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://ahhhhhshtihazbaby.blogspot.com/">Ahhhhhsht I haz baby</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.coffeeandcardigans.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.coffeeandcardigans.com/">Coffee and Cardigans</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//shannonsarmywifelife.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://shannonsarmywifelife.blogspot.com/">Diary of an Army Wife</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//everysweetmoment.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://everysweetmoment.blogspot.com/">Every Sweet Moment</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/">Fat Bottomed Girl</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://cbbabblings.blogspot.com/">http://cbbabblings.blogspot.com/</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><img title="Nancy Davis" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/NoPictureDark65.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p>Nancy Davis</p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//apricotcorner.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://apricotcorner.blogspot.com/">apricot corner</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//bearbottommountaindesigns.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://bearbottommountaindesigns.blogspot.com/">Bear Bottom Mountain Designs</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//the-sound-of-bright-copper-kettles.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://the-sound-of-bright-copper-kettles.blogspot.com/">Bright Copper Kettles</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//byelizabethcat.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://byelizabethcat.blogspot.com/">By Elizabeth Cat</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//byhookbyhand.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://byhookbyhand.blogspot.com/">By Hook, By Hand</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//crochetrenee.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://crochetrenee.blogspot.com/">Crochet Renee'</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//delights-gems.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://delights-gems.blogspot.com/">Delights-Gems</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//hooksandyarns.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://hooksandyarns.blogspot.com/">Dly's Hooks and Yarns</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//easymakesmehappy.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://easymakesmehappy.blogspot.com/">EASY</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//paty-entretejiendo.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://paty-entretejiendo.blogspot.com/">entretejiendo</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//leisureartsblog.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://leisureartsblog.blogspot.com/">Everyday Life at Leisure</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/">Everyday Mom's Meals</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/">Fat Bottomed Girl</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//gegecrochet.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://gegecrochet.blogspot.com/">Gege Crochet</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//hakenenmeer.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://hakenenmeer.blogspot.com/">Haken en meer</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.happytogethercreates.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.happytogethercreates.com/">Happy Together</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//hooksintexas.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://hooksintexas.blogspot.com/">Hooks In Texas!</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//ilovetocreateblog.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://ilovetocreateblog.blogspot.com/">iLoveToCreate Blog</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//traceyschuh.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://traceyschuh.blogspot.com/">Interlacements Yarns LLC</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//jaybirddesigns.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://jaybirddesigns.blogspot.com/">Jaybird Designs</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><img title="Nancy Davis" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/NoPictureDark65.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p>Nancy Davis</p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//leisureartsblog.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://leisureartsblog.blogspot.com/">Everyday Life at Leisure</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/">Everyday Mom's Meals</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tiffany-golden.blogspot.com/">Fat Bottomed Girl</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//gegecrochet.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://gegecrochet.blogspot.com/">Gege Crochet</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//hakenenmeer.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://hakenenmeer.blogspot.com/">Haken en meer</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.happytogethercreates.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.happytogethercreates.com/">Happy Together</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//hooksintexas.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://hooksintexas.blogspot.com/">Hooks In Texas!</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//ilovetocreateblog.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://ilovetocreateblog.blogspot.com/">iLoveToCreate Blog</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//traceyschuh.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://traceyschuh.blogspot.com/">Interlacements Yarns LLC</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//jaybirddesigns.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://jaybirddesigns.blogspot.com/">Jaybird Designs</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><img title="Nancy Davis" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/NoPictureDark65.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p>Nancy Davis</p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//littlewoollie.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://littlewoollie.blogspot.com/">little woollie</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//loopsandramblings.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://loopsandramblings.blogspot.com/">Loops and Ramblings</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//inthesky1.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://inthesky1.blogspot.com/">Lucy 'In the sky'</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//made-in-k-town.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://made-in-k-town.blogspot.com/">Made in K-town</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//margaretshooksandneedles.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://margaretshooksandneedles.blogspot.com/">My Hooks and Needles</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//crochetnuts-place.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://crochetnuts-place.blogspot.com/">Nancy's Crochet</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//olgemini.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://olgemini.blogspot.com/">OLGEMINI</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.purplescarfproject.org/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.purplescarfproject.org/">Purple Scarf Project</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//sarahndipities.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://sarahndipities.blogspot.com/">Sarahndipities ~ fortunate handmade finds</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thegirlwriter.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thegirlwriter.blogspot.com/">Simply Delicious</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//sockamabobsnthingamajigs.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://sockamabobsnthingamajigs.blogspot.com/">Sockamabobs &amp; Thingamajigs</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//southerngalscrochet.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://southerngalscrochet.blogspot.com/">Southern Gal's Crochet</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//sukigirl74.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://sukigirl74.blogspot.com/">sukigirl~~</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//crochetingcrab.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://crochetingcrab.blogspot.com/">The Blue Crab Stitches At Midnight</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.thecountrycook.net/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.thecountrycook.net/">The Country Cook</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//thedaintydaisyblog.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://thedaintydaisyblog.blogspot.com/">The Dainty Daisy</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//heather-thegoodlife.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://heather-thegoodlife.blogspot.com/">The Good Life</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.thehenbasket.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.thehenbasket.com/">The Hen Basket</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//mythreeofhearts.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://mythreeofhearts.blogspot.com/">Three of Hearts</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//tinkstinkerings.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://tinkstinkerings.blogspot.com/">Tink's Tinkerings</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Next »</a></p> <p><img title="Nancy Davis" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/NoPictureDark65.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p>Nancy Davis</p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined</p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//unravelmedesigns.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://unravelmedesigns.blogspot.com/">Unravel Me Designs</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.yarnprojectsfromtheheart.org/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.yarnprojectsfromtheheart.org/">Yarn Projects from the Heart</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//uroki-vjazanija.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://uroki-vjazanija.blogspot.com/">Вязание для начинающих</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Back</a> <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">« Previous</a></p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p><img title="John McCord" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/NoPictureDark65.jpg" width="65" height="65" /></p> <p>John McCord</p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/scs/images/smallEnvelope.jpg" />Send a message</a></p> <p>Sites I've joined <a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">More »</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//365daysofsquatting.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://365daysofsquatting.blogspot.com/">365 Days of Squatting</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//crossfitmobile.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://crossfitmobile.blogspot.com/">anywherefit</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//chaosandpain.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/">ChAoS &amp; PAIN</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//craigmccordphotography.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://craigmccordphotography.blogspot.com/">Craig McCord Photography</a></p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.crossfitchron.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.crossfitchron.com/">CrossFit Chronicles | The Smith Family</a></p> <p><a href="http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o-a-fc-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/">Members</a></p> <p>More sites I've joined </p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//365daysofsquatting.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://365daysofsquatting.blogspot.com/">365 Days of Squatting</a> </p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//crossfitmobile.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://crossfitmobile.blogspot.com/">anywherefit</a> </p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//chaosandpain.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/">ChAoS &amp; PAIN</a> </p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//craigmccordphotography.blogspot.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://craigmccordphotography.blogspot.com/">Craig McCord Photography</a> </p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.crossfitchron.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.crossfitchron.com/">CrossFit Chronicles | The Smith Family</a> </p> <p><img align="top" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/favicon?url=http%3A//www.diystrength.com/" width="16" height="16" /> <a href="http://www.diystrength.com/">DIY Strength.com</a> </p> <p><img align="top" 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I can't say that I can't identify with all of them because I do." target="_blank">wonderful post</a> by writer Ted Lacksonen at the Country Thinker.  It fits EXACTLY into a post I almost put up yesterday – and am glad I didn’t.  So you actually get 2 posts in one in this one.  Lucky you.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Thinker lays out a case that we should not vote for Romney because:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">Mitt will do nothing to improve the country (I agree)</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">The GOP can not be “taken over” (I disagree)</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">The GOP is corrupt beyond repair. (I agree and disagree).</font> </li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">Lacksonen’s ultimate solution is to join Libertarian Gary Johnson as President who I understand is selecting a pro-marijuana VP. (sarcasm alert ahead) Undoubtedly this will attract every last Santorum supporter that just split the conservative movement over supposed religiosity.  Of course, Johnson’s platform isn’t all bad, but like the Santorum supporters who think people would suddenly be attracted to a shrill religionist who couldn’t even win his own state, Libertarian party people need to think this through a bit more.  No matter how much someone likes Fresca, it will NEVER overtake 7-up, right?  My response to Ted quickly followed by the MECHANICS of a long term strategy I think could be employed.</font></p> <p>Ted, I appreciate your thoughts and passion very much.  I can't say that I can't identify with all of them because I do. </p> <p>Your points are so well made, I'm holding up a post on the same object to address and "flesh out" more of the thinking around your points. </p> <p>I have a question for you.  Let's say you are realize that professional basketball has bastardized the game that the founding father of basketball – Naismith  -envisioned.  Get rid of the shot clock, 20 fouls a game and 4 step dribbling without a call.  (For the record I'm probably more of a progressive in the NBA sense). </p> <p>Even if you had Lebron James and the entire Charlotte Bobcat team, do you think breaking away from the NBA and starting your own league would "change" the game?   Or that you could possibly get people to quit watching the NBA?</p> <p>Of course not.  But many have changed the game from within by exemplifying unregulated changes in their own clubs or creating pressure from the talent the "establishment" needs.  They don't have total control, but the players union in football (finally) won some reforms on long term concussion care and even INSTANT REPLAY was eventually adopted by Major League Baseball.  Change is slow from within, but trying to compete for viewers with your own "brand" is ludicrous from almost any angle in politics or professional sports.  Even with an enormous amount of money, a better philosophy for the game (and product) it is extremely unlikely to succeed as is shown by the history of the WNBA, CBA, XFL, WFL and others.  </p> <p>It actually makes even MORE impressive the accomplishments of Newton Leroy Gingrich to know he battled not only the liberal smears and attacks, but the undercutting of his own party.  In fact, he was allowed to operate because they DIDNT take him seriously.   And yet until the RINO’s revolted, it was Gingrich who set the course for no taxes, welfare reform and a myraid of ideas that were put into law.</p> <p>Haven't the extreme liberal socialists done the same in the Democratic Party?  Their 2008 Platform is more extreme than Ralph Nadar's GREEN PARTY was 20 years ago.  The Green Party went no where.   But the Marxists co-opted the party.</p> <p>How do you do it?  You deliver power and money to your slavemaster.  Jacob become WEALTHIER than his nefarious uncle Laban.  The Hebrews were a threat to Egypt BECAUSE they prospered and multiplied INSIDE of the corrupt Egyptian system. </p> <p>If you can show me some practical mechanism to create a rival VOTING (not rhetorical) force for even 35% of Americans I'm in!  But who is it?  The very asset of the Tea Party was also it's downfall.  Disconnected, non-leadership driven autonomy didn't even work with a Supreme Omniscient and Omnipotent Ruler behind it as those forces quickly demanded a KING! (<a title="1 Sam 8:4-7,9,19-20 (NIV)" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+8%3A4-7&version=NIV" target="_blank">The Story of the first Hebrew King Saul</a>.)  Modern armies simply aren't effective without Leadership, clearly delineated lines of authority, sustenance and communication.  </p> <p>The T.E.A. Party agglomerated because of a common (easily identifiable) enemy and a very generalized but powerful concept to stop paying for your neighbor's home, car, student loan, healthcare and union job.  It was quickly explained and quickly accepted as a “call” to years of frustration.  But sociologists can document 5000 years of movements that are short lived being "against" something. </p> <p>It isn't any of your arguments or analysis that are flawed (in my humble opinion) but the lack of logistical logic to create mass.  Unfortunately there are only a few who have the potential to initially draw that power and build on it.  Either a charismatic personality or media person.  Palin never started and <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/01/is-malkin-columnist-of-corruption.html" target="_blank">Malkin sold her soul to the devil</a> by falsely worshiping a unprincipled Pennsylvania liar who was the <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/rick-santorum-k-street-king.html" target="_blank">CHIEF architect of insider GOP establishment politics</a> with Tom Delay. </p> <p>Patience, perseverance, and a <em>patriotic</em> poison just might weaken the establishment <strong>IF</strong> we can become invaluable (and remain principled) to the GOP.  Certainly a bold and charismatic leader could jump start that movement as well.  My fantasies of Gingrich and Palin coalescing to do what Palin did in Alaska would have not only galvanized the constitutionalists I imagine, but also attracted a fair number of Independents sick of feeling like they were selling out to one party or the other. </p> <p>Don't forget Palin took a moderate Republican/RINO state and maintained an EIGHTY PERCENT approval rating nearly 3 years into her Governorship.  And this is while she was under assault from some liberal media and principals in her own party.  She was "safe" for both sides because she was clearly un-owned by either.   Funny how Levin and Limbaugh are oddly silent about HER attack of “big oil” but totally misrepresented Gingrich’s righteous questions on BAIN.</p> <p>I fear how much MORE sovereignty can be given away in 4 more Barry years.  I cringe at how much more debt or dollar dilution can continue by an overheated Federal Reserve printing press in another Obama cycle.  We certainly know it will be quantitatively more difficult to overcome or dismantle even further entrenched bureaucracies, institutional local, state and Federal corruption with the power of the police state behind them. </p> <p><strong>I despise Romney</strong>.  I don't think he will be any more effective than George H W Bush and will likely set up a Democratic resurgence in 4 years if he’s elected.  But unless someone with more money, influence or balls steps up to the plate to set a strong conservative crusade in place, I'll bide my time under RINO occupation for a later insurrection and avoid a worse tyrannical takeover.  </p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>My original post centers around our mutual fantasy that all of us that ORIGINALLY knew Romney was dangerous would still act as one.  It begins here:</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The “must follow” The Church Report carried an </font><a href="http://www.thechurchreport.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">article by J.J. Jackson</font></a><font face="Verdana"> speculating how grand it would be for the 60% of “real” conservatives to not accept a Romney nomination.  Two quick excerpts include:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">Conservatives could certainly opt to attempt to reprogram the scenario the GOP has given us. We could, and I know it sounds radical but bear with me, actually choose a candidate other than Romney or Obama and then actually vote for them. Of course I know the cries that go out at this suggest all too well. Voting “third party”? What are you? Insane? That would certainly lead to another four years of President Obama! Yeah, it might. I will stipulate that. But you must also stipulate that it might not.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">and</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">Yeah, I know, it is just a pipedream. Most conservatives have proven that they are not that principled when push comes to shove and will gladly parade around with blood on their hands as long as they can proclaim that it was not as much blood as if they had accepted the other option that was given. But the reality is that in three months into the Romney Administration, maybe a year or two if we are lucky, those conservatives who fell in line will be staring at their hands in horror screaming, “What have we done!” There will still be big government. There will still be rampant waste. Their will still be widespread fraud. There will still be debt as far as our great grandchildren can see. And the Constitution will still lay in tatters upon the floor. Oh, sure, he might roll back some or even most of the policies of President Obama. But be honest. What we had before Obama was not all that good either.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">With the impotence of Romney's 25% ceiling, the energy of a boiling Tea Party and the prospect of what we thought were MANY Conservative Blends, I never in my wildest dreams thought we would end up with a RINO six months ago. </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">You are right JJ that there ARE more of "us" than them in anti-RINO philosophy.  But it seems there aren't many who are also strong willed independent thinks of conviction.  It is a shock to realize that as tenacious as a Michelle Malkin is on corruption, she is equally fallacious in partisan thinking.  It’s like recruiting a 7’ 2” center for your basketball team only to find out he is more uncoordinated than a 12 year old boy at his first school dance.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">You are also correct on both counts that it turns out we have failed to grow “principled” conservatives and this is precisely the reason why a third party won’t work.  If they aren’t principled enough to keep fighting for a conservative when the nomination isn’t set (or to accurately assess who are the real and fake ones) what scenario actually makes them act counter to their programmed 2 party habit they’ve adopted for generations?  Purity isn’t the goal.  Power is.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It’s hard for some to conceive, but there are actually <strong>mathematical mechanisms</strong> needed to create corresponding results in politics.  For instance, I can create a new, no calorie, vitamin enriched soft drink more refreshing than Coca-Cola, but I need people to know about it before I can make any money from selling it.  Even if USA Today runs a feature story extolling it’s virtues, I still may have not convinced many to actually TRY it.  Those that were convinced could not find it at their local grocers yet. Worse, without repeated press or ads, the desire and knowledge would fade after a few days.   Marketing studies of consumer behavior show that even if it was in every store in America, cheaper the competition, a better tasting and healthier alternative  EVEN THEN it would be lucky get a fraction of the market share of Coca-Cola over the first year.  People simply take a lot of time to ACT in accordance with a new belief and change a habit.  Like voting a straight party ticket.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The Tea Party could also be explained by math.  If confined to the audience of CNBC, Rick Santelli’s rant would have temporarily excited a few thousand people of the tens of thousands that were watching but it soon would have been forgotten like the American Idol runners-up of years past.  It was the repetition and amplification of the Rick Rant that seen by hundreds of thousands on YouTube, millions on Rush and then repeated that made it become a surrogate outlet for ALL OF THE FRUSTRATIONS with the Obama administration.  Others said, “I’ll be there” giving it <strong>credibility</strong> and removing the <strong>fear of isolation</strong> for slow adopters.  Newt Gingrich actually bought ads to get people to join.  Skeptical analysts were quite correct that at the time, there WERE no real new taxes in place different from the Bush days when even conservatives merely grumbled at the excessive spending.  The Santelli rant in the middle of the Bush second term would have gone nowhere because the DESIRE for change wasn’t there.  Enough people had to be extremely frustrated or angry in large enough numbers to show up in response to multiple media and conservative leaders.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/01/paul-weyrich-warns-conservatives-on.html" target="_blank">This is what Gingrich commented upon to Paul Weyrich when Reagan was elected in 1980</a></strong>.  People liked Reagan personally, but not only was there no REAL massive switch in thinking to the acceptance of pure conservative values, there was no media to significant media to amplify it or representatives to help pass it.  We now know that Reagan himself would have imploded and given in to the Bob Dole RINO’s if it weren’t for Gingrich.  We also know that HillaryCare would already been in place if not for the 14 years spent after Reagan’s first election to protect conservative ideals with elected conservatives and with a substantial money raising and education network Gingrich engineered through GOPAC.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It’s shocking that the Limbaugh’s, Malkin’s, Coulter’s and even George Will didn’t amplify EVERY DAY that it was Gingrich who paid for ads for people to JOIN THE TEA PARTY movement, much less embrace him AT LEAST as a senior fellow conservative soldier.  (<em>Instead, Malkin’s HotAir proves to be worse than just bad breath with Allahpundit and Erika Johnson allowing </em><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/04/newt-a-rino-among-rinos/" target="_blank"><em>lies like this</em></a><em> to continue to be spread.)  </em>What Gingrich knew is that <strong>AWARENESS</strong> is different from <strong>RESOLUTION</strong> and is way different from <strong>ACTION</strong> much less <u>MAINTAINABLE ACTION</u>.  (I go into this extensively in one of my first PolitiJim articles </font><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2011/09/how-cain-palin-and-bachmann-are-like.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">How Political Ideas Become Reality</font></a><font face="Verdana">.)  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And with BOTH Limbaugh and Gingrich (who at the time were considered by everyone as co-leaders of the conservative movement according to Gallup) it gave <strong>CREDIBILTY</strong> and <strong>COMMUNITY</strong> for people to not feel alone in adopting a <u>NEW action</u>.  It’s why you wouldn’t see very many women lifting up their shirts at Mardi Gras if they were alone in front of one dirty old bum in the street.  It’s only “fun” (for the depraved mind) if everyone is doing it and it is acknowledged as being so by peers.  Truly righteous actions like those of Terry Lakin are all the more profound when the potential result is the loss of one’s career and freedom instead of the promise of a cheap thrill.  To me the indictment of the GOP primary is not the eventual domination by RINOey, but the exposure of how “unprincipled,” “undisciplined,” and “uneducated” conservatives really are.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>The only saving grace is that the liberals are worse</strong>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But I have to keep reminding myself that only 30% of the American republic supported the FIRST American revolution in 1776.  Like fair weather sports fan who suddenly fill the stadiums when their team is good (as opposed to valiant Cubs fans who remain faithful from year to stinking year), the rest of the country suddenly became “patriots” when the vanquishing of King George’s armies seemed likely or inevitable.  The bible teaches us to not chastise those for being late to the party but I must admit, I struggle with it.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But I must encourage Mr. J.J. in his lament.  Although terribly unlikely in this cycle, it could still happen.  And I guarantee there are enough patriots left like <a href="http://www.patrioticnurse.com" target="_blank">Patriotic Nurse</a>, <a href="http://gulagbound.com" target="_blank">Gulagbound</a>, <a href="libertarian-neocon.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Libertarian Neocon</a>, <a href="justin.fm" target="_blank">Justin.FM</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Kriskxx" target="_blank">Krisxx</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/users/katrinapierson" target="_blank">Katrina Pierson</a> to ensure it most definitely will happen in the long term.  We will never yield to tyranny whether in this country or in the GOP.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">A 2012 elimination before June would likely require a significant INDEFENSIBLE scandal by Romney which isn’t likely to happen.  If the likes of Ann Coulter would defend RomneyCare (which we would have THOUGHT indefensible six months ago), it is too much to expect most to grow balls or brain to throw him overboard.  Even if Obama starts trouncing Romney in the head to head polls, most conservatives would think changing horses as too risky.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">If the most significant conservative INFLUENCERS like Limbaugh, Levin, Hannity and others decided to be truly courageous and press the issue to the convention, it could happen.  But all have clearly telegraphed their cowardly resignation to the GOP establishment and it would take a Damascus experience for them to suddenly see their own complicity in conservative failure.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">To my dismay, Palin and Gingrich will not attack the GOP establishment this year seemingly fearing that if they lost, they would ensure Obama’s reelection.  As I’ve said from the beginning, a war against Obama on his corruption, forgeries and current/past indiscretions would likely see an immediate new front runner by nearly anyone including Donald Trump who would be fearless enough to take it on.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Instead, the goal IS to stop Obama and the certain give away of US sovereignty and freedom that would happen if he were re-elected.  Like J.J., I am convinced by his past governance, the crowd around him, the spineless and duplicitous leadership of his past that Romney’s election will still leave us on the road to Grecian-like ruin, but <strong>it will give us more time to carry on the battle</strong>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">George Washington knew this by simply avoiding capture of his rag tag army for months on end.  I love it that the British thought by capturing Philadelphia the colonists would have to surrender and instead we just moved the “capitol” to the nearest Holiday Inn Express.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Our strategy should be similar.  Avoid capture.  Make it through the political winter of 1776 when we can rebuild our forces and resources.  Figure out who are REAL allies are and build around a core that will not yield.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">While sitting at the True the Vote National Summit I realized that our strategy will require a much longer and drawn out effort than what I first imagined.  </font></p> <ol> <li><font face="Verdana"><strong>Retake the electoral system</strong>.  I’m talking about BOTH the state by state election laws of Voter ID and registration verification as well as the individual precincts and GOP party controls on a local level.  If we see a LEGITMATE mathematically plausible avenue for a third party – we take our network with us leaving the GOP bankrupt of real soldiers.  Do you realize we could absolutely control the entire GOP from the ground up with a FRACTION of those that attended the Tea Party rallies?  It requires time, patience and recruiting or stepping up to take those roles – but we can no longer leave this up to them.  We MUST take it over. <br /></font></li> <li><font face="Verdana"><strong>Take back a clear, unfiltered voice for TRUTH in the media</strong>. Limbaugh is unreliable, Coulter and Drudge can not be redeemed but all of them built ACCESS to millions of eyeballs and eardrums to gain agreement on issues to coordinate.  It takes talent, money and time to create a “network” that reaches millions, but whether it is the next “Rush” or funding the purchase of CBS, we can not win this war without coordinated communication. <br /></font></li> <li><font face="Verdana"><strong>Continue to create and educate on REAL American values</strong>.  Gingrich knew this in 1980.  Even Rick Santorum admitted he learned HOW to achieve power in the conservative brand through material Gingrich created through GOPAC.  True the Vote is doing this on the general election issues of #1 in a phenomenal way.  PJTV has been wonderful at pioneering information in a MTV brainwashed world and these efforts must continue at a local level on up.  But it must be based in – and committed to - OBJECTIVE TRUTH and not personality or petty biases as was glaringly evident by the George Will’s of the world, or even (shockingly) the social conservatives willing to sell out their Christian values for politics.   The education has FIRST got to be our own, and then worry about the “independents” who still have open minds <br /></font></li> <li><font face="Verdana"><strong>Create FUNDING of “true” conservatives like Toomey, Ryan, Walker and Demint.</strong>  We aren’t going ANYWHERE without money and qualified conservative candidates who can IMPLEMENT change at a legislative level from local offices on up.  Start identifying and exhorting these people.  Raise money for them.  Budget part of your OWN income on a consistent basis like you would your church tithe or monthly cable bill.  We can make money talk and Boehner walk. <br /></font></li> <li><font face="Verdana"><strong>Take back America not just for our children, but for those who NEED the inspiration of what she stands for around the world.</strong>  Lech Walesa said Poland would not be free if not Ronald Regan.  He’s only partially right.  If it wasn’t for the “idea” of America – neither would South Korea, Vietnam and even the economic democracy in communist China.  But right now our OWN elections are less fair and free than even some new democracies.  Once we’ve re-established the principles of blind justice, responsible freedom, libertarian economics and non-gerrymandered representative democracy by people who adhere to fundamental Judeo-Christian values – not only will be a beacon to others, our own results will shine strong enough to send the cockroaches who crimped REAL conservative values into permanent exile.</font> </li> </ol> <p><font face="Verdana">Find your local tea party.  Vet them.  Determine how much time and/or money you can give, and start showing the example of consistent, responsible diligence to your children and grandchildren born or unborn.  Only <strong>YOU</strong> can save this Republic for which it stands.</font></p> <p></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-PXunc2WzVQs/T6BPPn8aAUI/AAAAAAAAE7k/maKH2xcnYx4/s1600-h/UncleSamIWantYou%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="UncleSamIWantYou" border="0" alt="UncleSamIWantYou" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-BU3fegB4lS4/T6BPQI0nlnI/AAAAAAAAE7s/7iih63Gm6ic/UncleSamIWantYou_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="219" height="239" /></a></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. 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WRWF obtained a copy of Chen's field notes and we released the first English translation of these notes at a Congressional Hearing on December 6, 2011. You can read <a href="http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/?nav=congressional_hearing_2011">The Chen Guangcheng Report here</a>.</p> <p>A member of Chen's team, human rights attorney Teng Biao, drafted this 2005 investigative report into coercive family planning in Linyi City, Shandong Province. The report contains extensive witness statements from cases Chen and his team were investigating before Chen was jailed. In the report are detailed accounts regarding:</p> <ul> <li>a woman forcibly aborted and sterilized at seven months; </li> <li>villagers sleeping in fields to evade Family Planning Officials; </li> <li>Family Planning Officials who broke three brooms over the head of an elderly man; </li> <li>Family Planning Officials who forced a grandmother and her brother to beat each other; and </li> <li>The use of quota systems and the practice of "implication" – the detention, fining and torture of the extended family of One Child Policy "violators." </li> </ul> <p>The Chen Guangcheng report makes clear: the spirit of the Red Guards lives on in China's Family Planning death machine. WRWF released the names of the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity, so that they can be held accountable before the world.</p> <p>Apparently, things have not improved in Linyi since 2005. Just last month, a <a href="http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/thread-739999-1-1.html">woman in Linyi was forcibly aborted at nine months</a>.  A photo of her full term baby floating in the bucket in which it was drowned circulated widely on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, eliciting widespread outrage. In April 2011, <a href="http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=147%20In">Family Planning Officials stabbed a man to death</a> when attempting to seize his sister for a forced sterilization.  In October 2011, a woman, six months pregnant, <a href="http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=429">died during a forced abortion in Lijing County</a>, also in Shandong Province.</p> <p>Chen may be safe for the moment, but the women for whom he risked everything are not. Forced abortion is not a choice. It is official government rape. Until women in China are free to exercise perhaps their most fundamental right -- the right to bear children -- the nation of China will not be free.</p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>If A Blind Chinese Hero Can Fight Communists So Effectively as Obama Allows Economics Over Evil - We Can Too.  And More.</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Verdana">This is what unfettered corruption in power brings.  And don’t laugh that there are forces bringing this to the United States.  PRAY for this saint and against tyranny everywhere. </font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Verdana"><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden" border="0" src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.11NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEzMzU4MDI3NTQzNjcmcHQ9MTMzNTgwMjkyOTcyOSZwPSZkPSZnPTImbz1jYjVmNGY5YTBjMjg*YjUxYTRiNzlhYzRm/MGM3MGIwNyZvZj*w.gif" width="0" height="0" /></font><object name="kaltura_player_1335802775" id="kaltura_player_1335802775" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" allowFullScreen="true" height="221" width="392" data="http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/1_nz1ucnb1/uiconf_id/5590821"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><param name="movie" value="http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/1_nz1ucnb1/uiconf_id/5590821" /><param name="flashVars" value="autoPlay=false&screensLayer.startScreenOverId=startScreen&screensLayer.startScreenId=startScreen" /><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com">video platform</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/video_platform/video_management">video management</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/solutions/video_solution">video solutions</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/video_platform/video_publishing">video player</a></object></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. 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alt="stevebannonfbprofile" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-s3NmqM-Jrfc/T5x_mXQtjDI/AAAAAAAAE3o/yyzv-thFprs/stevebannonfbprofile_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="482" height="280" /></a> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I have just spent two days at the <a href="http://truethevote.org/" target="_blank">True the Vote National Summit</a> featuring James O’Keefe, Anita MonCrief, Christian Abrams, Pat Caddell, John Fund and many others.  I wanted to rush two newsworthy items out before a much more thoughtful and comprehensive post tomorrow on the conference.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The final speaker was the Executive Chairman of Breitbart.com and Sarah Palin THE UNDEFEATED Producer Steve Bannon who broke a bombshell by saying:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>Breitbart will not have a magic video that will change the election.  It is going to be done at the grassroots level by ground troops (like True the Vote.)</strong></font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">Many have noted that Andrew Breitbart seemed to indicate at CPAC 2012 something much more profound and injurious to the Obama campaign when <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ixB9vDN5_vk#!" target="_blank">he said</a>:</font></p> <blockquote> <p>I’ve got videos by the way.  This election we are going to vet him from his college days to show you (wild applause) why racial division and class warfare are central to what Hope and Change were sold in 2008.   The videos are going to come out, the narrative is going to come out, that Barack Obama met a bunch of silver ponytails back in the 1980’s like Bill and Bernandine Dorn - equally radical  - who said (emphasis mine) <strong>someday we are going to have the Presidency</strong> while the rest of us slept and they plotted, and they plotted and they oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars with the Annenberg Challenge.  They had real money.  </p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">Many have noted that the video of Obama hugging “Critical Race Theory” evangelist Derrick Bell fell far short of what most of us assumed was a video of radicals <em>saying </em>that they would own the Presidency.  Is it possible that the master of conservative bombshell media including Pigford, O’Keefe ACORN videos, and Anthony Weiner truly overestimated the impact of Obama hugging a radical even more obscure than his own Chicago pastor which occurred WHILE he was actually a Senator?  I suppose anything is possible.  It is a sobering thought to realize neither legislators or conservative media are going to touch the TRULY damaging evidence of Obama’s eligibility and rest their arguments on obscure relationships that go back <em>double </em>the length of time since Romney was an gay marriage by executive order, extreme socialized medicine and Cap and Trade imposing Governor.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">As has been pointed out many times on this blog, <a href="obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/03/breitbart-editor-ben-shapiro-were-going.html" target="_blank">Ben Shapiro not only said Breitbart wasn’t going to touch Sheriff Joe Arapaio’s six month investigative findings</a>, he further said that he didn’t believe Obama did anything so radical as forging documents.   He claimed his own staff told him there was “nothing to it.”</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">To me it isn’t only Andrew Breitbart, the founder of Breitbart.com, that is dead.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But Bannon did nail many other narratives including the declaration that September 18, 2008 – the day that George Bush decided to give the Federal Reserve the power to severely indebt the country and dilute our currency without consent of “we the people” – will go down in history as one of the darkest turning points of our country.  Since it was that event that singularly reversed the lead and double digit momentum McCain/Palin and sealed Obama’s victory and the associated tyranny.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">As a former Goldman Sachs VP and investment banker he gets it.  You don’t have to severely weaken America by passing laws if you make one US dollar worth fifty cents.  Your income stays the same but your food, gas and expenses soar.  Your house value plummets and many are forced to depend on the government MORE.  If it was a tax, it would be the equivalent of tripling taxes on nearly every American overnight.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Bannon emphasized the abdication of patriotic Americans who participated in creating a culture where a war hero like John McCain would rather cower from the fear of race riots rather than uphold the rule of law and challenge the rampant Obama voter fraud uncovered by his campaign.  Can I most respected war heroes really go from the selfless acts of Audie Murphy to the cowardice of the Eddie Murphy character Bowfinger?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">True the Vote has been saying this for sometime, but Bannon reiterated that “<strong>WISCONSIN IS EVERYTHING</strong>.”  He made an astute comparison of the Scott Walker battle to the November elections as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas" target="_blank">Bleeding Kansas</a> was to the civil war.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">If you don’t think Obama, the liberal and Marxist forces, George Soros and every union in America doesn’t know this – you had better slap yourself and a neighbor and wake the hell up.  To paraphrase the old New York, New York song, “if they can steal it there, they’ll steal it anywhere.”</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I can’t imagine Andrew Breitbart ever conceding that they weren’t gong to attempt to impact the elections through investigative media.  But in a strange way, that is <em>EXACTLY</em> what is needed for our American Idol/Dancing With the Stars culture of ennui to be shaken.  Someone else isn’t going to save you or your children’s future.  If you want to stop this election, YOU will have to get involved <em>personally</em>.  Bannon and Breitbart aren’t going to bail us out. </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Bannon said that David Axelrod and the Obama axis of evil know precisely what election professionals like Fund and Adams do. </font></p> <p align="center"><font size="4"><font face="Verdana"><strong>The election will come down to just <br />one hundred counties in eight states</strong>.</font></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">If you thought what Romney did to Gingrich was overwhelming by inundating Iowa and Florida voters with lying ads 22 to 1, just wait until you see the NEXT wave of liberal fury.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">A combination of untold media resources (paid and MSM free) WITH an ACORN orchestrated deluge of last minute fake ballots where the Soros paid Secretary of State in those states controls the outcome of election even more than Kathleen Harris did in Florida in 2000.  How else do you think Al Franken went from being an obvious loser the day before to being the vote ensuring ObamaCare?  As we’ve <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/did-obama-assassinate-clinton-delegates.html" target="_blank">noted</a>, Hillary Clinton may have actually WON the Democratic primary although it was never covered by the media.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Former Department of Justice whistleblower Christian Adams covered just how dire the American electoral system is and just what we are up against prior to Bannon’s speech.  He said conservatives and patriots needed to wake up to the fact that we are up against LIARS and DESTROYERS who will not be overcome with a good argument or even money.  It has to be won with prosecutorial EVIDENCE of their fraud machines, local accountability and volunteers.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>That bad news is</strong> that we are outnumbered and out gunned and severely underfunded compared to America’s enemies that have a 20 year head start on us.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>The good news is</strong> that groups like True the Vote are actually WINNING against great odds.  We’ve gotten Voter ID laws passed or proposed in many states.  in 2010 we turned out MORE poll watchers in Harris County (Houston) Texas than the Department of Justice had for the entire nation with millions of dollars.  And we’ve actually stopped tens of thousands of opportunities for fraud in Texas and Wisconsin even with the first few brave souls that has stepped up to help in any way they could.  It is truly the beginning of a REAL democratic force in the spirit of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa" target="_blank">Solidarity</a>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It’s not just that the loss of this election means an enormous rise in taxes for all Americans.  It’s not just that the loss of this election means a near certain double recession.  It's not just that the loss of this election means a socialist tyrant will have even MORE power to give away the defense secrets and wealth of this country to foreign governments while taking MORE freedoms us.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It’s that the loss of this election means a near impossible task to use the legitimate powers of not only the Federal Department of Justice, but a host of state and local governments that will simply refuse to prosecute their own their evil fraudsters and further strengthen the control to do whatever they want.  That results not just in the loss of your favorite party or representative, but the loss of control of your schools, property taxes and possibly even justice by your local sheriff.  Certainly it is the loss of free and fair elections for many years to come.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-eWTgTDKswCY/T5x_m-V_tiI/AAAAAAAAE3w/eCaSwq0FEq8/s1600-h/ttv-catherine%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 3px 3px 4px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="ttv-catherine" border="0" alt="ttv-catherine" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-k1zuRdWwFVI/T5x_nc11IFI/AAAAAAAAE34/IN9yrtG9m4k/ttv-catherine_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a>True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht closed the conference with her PERSONAL story of her first encounter when she volunteered to observe the voting at her local precinct.  PolitiJim could hardly see the “stop” switch on his recorder as she spoke.  This anecdote so well exemplified why America is so important not only to us, but to people around the world.  These four minutes should be heard by EVERY American.</font></p> <p align="center">Catherine Englebrect from the closing remarks <br />at the True the Vote National Summit. </p> <center><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf" 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Scottie Pippen missed just one game in the first three championship seasons combined and then five combined in 1996 and 1997 before missing the first part of the final championship season after surgery.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">So the Bulls lose the league MVP for almost half the season. The second best player and only other All Star, Deng, misses a dozen games, which was more than Jordan and Pippen combined in the first three championship seasons together. The Bulls let go their starting shooting guard who played all 82 games last season, Keith Bogans, for Hamilton. But with groin and shoulder injuries, Hamilton missed 58 percent of the games. Rose’s backup Watson missed 18 games with a variety of ankle problems.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Yet, even deep reserves guys like Lucas, whom many didn’t believe should be in the NBA and played just 10 minutes all of last season, step in and have big roles in even big games like against the Heat. Watson and Brewer started 68 games combined. The Bulls had 10 different players start games. <strong>The regular starting lineup played just 15 games together</strong>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Yet, the <strong>Bulls led the league in fewest points allowed</strong>, <u>biggest winning margin</u>, <strong>rebounding and second chance points</strong>. They set a franchise record for opponent scoring. The <strong>Bulls also were in the top five in opponent field goal percentage, blocks, opponents’ three point shooting and assists</strong>.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">How can Thibs not be the first Chicago coach (yes even over Phil Jackson) to not win back to back COY honors?  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And let’s hope he does because except the possibility of winning the Eastern Conference championship or a sudden willingness of the Supreme Court to look at that birth certificate, it’s all the Bulls will do this season.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Why?  <strong>The Obama’s Sports <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-25/news/ct-talk-small-talk-0126-20110125_1_sox-fans-president-barack-obama-bears" target="_blank">curse</a></strong>.  Among the many picks he has made since being office declared to be slam dunks, are these losers:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">2016 Olympic bid</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">LeBron to Chicago</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Bears/Green Bay 2011 NFC title game </font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Bulls 2011 Eastern Conference Championship</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Blackhawks 2011 playoffs</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">Every single Final Four pick since he’s been in office.</font> </li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">And don’t forget Obama’s “guarantee” that USA’s women soccer team would win.  Seems a pretty safe bet since USA was ranked #1 in the world and the final game was against a team that had not beat the USA in 25 tries, right?  Wrong.  Lowly Japan won causing some to </font><a href="http://espn.go.com/espn/commentary/story/_/page/hill-110718/us-choked-women-world-cup-final" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">say USA choked</font></a><font face="Verdana">.  Believe me.  It was beyond their control since the Obama Jinx was set in motion.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I can’t find Vegas odds but I bet we could retire the national debt by betting <em>against</em> any team the former Chicago Senator predicts to win.  So the Bulls are doomed.  He has ALREADY declared the Bulls to be National Champions.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, this honor actually has to be EARNED.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">So, perhaps if any team COULD break the curse it would be this heroic team of youngsters that exemplify almost everything Barack Obama does not.  Hard work (no vacations), team unity (not dividing by party, classes or race) and meritocracy instead of Marxism.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The Bulls start their futility at noon Saturday against the Philadelphia 76ers.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">What the hell.  As a CUB fan I’m used to rooting for hopeless causes.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Maybe <a href="http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2011/10/19/top-10-sports-superstitions/slide/the-sports-illustrated-cover-jinx/#the-sports-illustrated-cover-jinx" target="_blank">Sports Illustrated will put Obama on it’s cover</a> prior to the election.  And he’ll stay a Chicago White Sox fan.</font></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. 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by and large – are certainly based in a liberal mindset.  This last episode featured a 15 second lesbian kiss.  Not a word by anyone.  Including me.  <strong>It’s just the way things are now</strong>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">ABC News had a one hour special on voter fraud where they manipulated history to make the Father of our Country appear as a common politician without morals so that they could dilute the issue to make it seem commonplace.  Except PolitiJim, I don’t know of another media outlet that even raised an eyebrow.  <strong>It’s just the way things are now</strong>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But did you bother to ask yourself whatever happened to those Alaskan islands Obama gave away to Russians?  Why Fast and Furious is no longer a pressing concern?  Why we no longer talk about the clear subversion of Obama voter fraud against Hillary Clinton, let alone the still wonder why no one is asking for Obama’s past school – or Illinois Senate – records?  Or why we’ve let slide from the news the fact that Obama extorted money from a private company for an oil spill they might not have been responsible for and then crashed an entire economy in the Gulf based on lies the White House perpetrated to hide the media outrage?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It wasn’t perfect, but there was a time when children would be taught about character values by their parents, clergy, school teachers and even their local barber.  Now when you point out to conservative media, the people who are suppose to care about values, that A former FBI agent and current chief law enforcement elected by the residents of Maricopa County conducted a six month investigation and concluded probable cause that the President of the United States not only may be involved in multiple felonies, but indeed MAY NOT EVEN BE IN OFFICE LEGITMATELY, you are laughed at or disregarded as not “politically astute.”  <strong>It’s just the way things are now</strong>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">We’ve become a nation of gawkers.  TV and entertainment has rotted our skulls.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Some of us have even evolved into the cameraman that records the family burning in the car in Serbia, but doesn’t feel it is “journalistically ethical” to try and save them. A smaller number that are actually outraged feel a duty to pass along information of how awful things are.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I remember when I first noticed this when I was VERY new to both Twitter and blogging and Empower Texans was pulled off of Twitter.  The reaction by MAJOR conservative bloggers, Tweeters and others was basically, “I’m sure they are on top of it.”  It was heartbreaking and eye opening.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It wasn’t perfect, but there was a time when we could count on a few key “true conservatives” to act consistently with what they espoused.  My second hint was during the Budget Debate Battle.  I was aghast when those who called themselves “conservatives” essentially attacked Jim DeMint and Michelle Bachmann </font><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2011/07/current-conservative-sympathizers.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">for wanting to “hold the line.”</font></a><font face="Verdana">  Many of us seeing the back peddling from “Pledge to America” by Boehner and company knew these guys were no Newt Gingrich.  But except for the </font><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2011/08/deal-versus-ideal-i-told-you-so.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Tea Party 22</font></a><font face="Verdana"> and select media outlets, the supposed conservative Republicans entrusted Harry Reid to avoid destroying our military and national defense to the tune of $1 Trillion.  Meanwhile, many of the people that would NOT hold the line like Paul Ryan and Allen West, are being cheered as VP prospects as “true” conservatives.  It’s just the way it is now, I suppose.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">This primary has done a lot to sober me to not only the REAL shape of our country, and not only the REAL shape of the GOP, but also the REAL shape of the “conservative” media and the “conservative” movement.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It’s all about marketing and critical media mass.  “Our side” not only will buy snake oil if the conservative media malpracticers sell it, they will become network marketing distributors.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">No, I’m not all “woe is me” as this sounds.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I’m day 2 of being conservative media clean and sober.  When this primary started I read Ann Coulter every Wednesday night, watched or listened to Rush Limbaugh every day and thought the Reagan army was poised to not just bring prosperity back to America for our children, but common sense values of integrity, honesty and that whole “adult” thing that seemed lost in Comedy Central video clip domination of conservative newsfeeds.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">What I realize is that when the most liberal governor of modern times has successfully bought the GOP and conservative media to rebrand only his words – not his deeds – as conservative, we can’t even think about battling the mass media influences of independents and liberals.  When Breitbart.com refuses to vet Obama on forging government documents (and worse) to falsely usurp the highest office in the land in lieu of obscure letters from Marxist professors that even make conservatives yawn, we know we have lost the conservative movement, much less the conservative media.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It’s probably similar to thinking the girl you are dating will say “yes” to a proposal of marriage, only to find out she’s thinking of breaking up with you.  (If not worse.).</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Instead of buying a ring, you realize you may have to decide if you even want to BE in this relationship.  This is where my co-blogger @LibNeocon is at with his “<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/screw-gop-they-dont-seem-to-want-my.html" target="_blank">Screw the GOP</a>” frustration to embrace Gary Johnson.  (I’m not ready to run off with another girl for reasons I’ll explain in another post.)</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But certainly the plan is to stop the tyrannical Muslim-Marxist-Soros shill and deal with the twofaced Mormon-Madeover-Socialist corporatist later.  After we figure out what we are dealing with after the outcome of that battle, we need to set up a standard of constitutional conservatives of conviction who will start networking, educating and planning the take over of key infrastructures from a intelligent viewpoint of design.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It wasn’t perfect, but there was a time when we thought conservatism was possible as a prevailing political ideology.  Now we have “conservatives” defending statists, rationalizing socialized medicine and planting magical beans in their fantasy forest expecting independents and the media to suddenly love them.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">We need to find ways to counter even Rush Limbaugh’s of the conservative from distorting, deleting and diluting messages that would educate, motivate and equip forces that could make a difference.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It 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I'm done. I'm a lifelong Republican and I'm done. I've been a Republican since I was 6 and I saw Reagan speak on our old 13" black and white television set about freedom and about the evils of the Soviet Union, where I was born. I grew up listening to Reagan and I kind of always thought that he was what the Republican Party stood for. For individual liberty at home & abroad. "Moderates" like George H. W. Bush seemed like some sort of aberration to me, an exception to the conservative Republican rule. Looking back though, it's pretty clear that Ronald Reagan was the aberration. In 1988, instead of nominating the father of the Reagan tax cuts, Jack Kemp, the GOP nominated the anti-Israel squishy moderate George H. W. Bush. In 1996, instead of nominating the stalwart conservative Phil Gramm (<a href="http://conservative.org/ratings/ratingsarchive/2002/2002Senate.htm">lifetime ACU rating of 95</a>) or the flat tax visionary Steve Forbes, the GOP nominated another squishy moderate, Bob Dole (<a href="http://conservative.org/ratings/ratingsarchive/1996/iowamiss.html">lifetime ACU rating of only 82</a>). 2000 was a joke as the establishment had pre-decided that W was going to be the nominee and he really didn't have any real opposition. W, the "compassionate conservative". We all know how that ended. Ballooning federal spending and even a new entitlement! It was so bad that even in his home state of Texas I heard of people say that he destroyed the Republican Party by governing the way he did.<br />
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Looking back before Reagan, I think the last Republican President I actually would have liked was Calvin Coolidge, who was elected in 1924, a whopping 88 years ago (even Reagan's 1980 election was a hell of along time ago, a whopping 32 years). So in 88 years, there have been a total of 2 Republican Presidents and only 3 nominees (add Barry Goldwater in 1964 to the mix) who believed in small government, free markets and individual liberty. Being a Republican who believes in those things seems to be a great way to torture yourself. You are constantly tempted into thinking "maybe this time" but more often than not they end up giving you someone you despise but feel you have to support as they are the lesser of two evils. Well, I am done supporting any sort of evil, lesser or otherwise. Alternating the Presidency between lesser evils and full-on evils are how we got into the mess we are in. When the Democrats are in charge, the size and scope of government is increased dramatically (except under Clinton, where he tried to nationalize healthcare but was stopped and then a Gingrich-led Republican Congress kept him in check) and when the Republicans are in charge, government also increases, albeit at a slower rate. We're now to the point where even if we <a href="http://libertarian-neocon.blogspot.com/2012/02/we-cant-fix-budget-without-fixing.html">cut all discretionary spending to zero</a>, we will just be balancing the budget, thanks to all the promises of entitlements made in prior administrations (Mary Meeker has a <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.businessweek.com%2Fmz%2F11%2F10%2F1110_mz_49meekerusainc.pdf&ei=6_-XT4S4Ksiv0AG3_9ywDQ&usg=AFQjCNExZB3h1HmzT5Td0UoxldXfcsBz9Q&sig2=QHVDe-_efMYcdOFzDU_5BQ">great presentation</a> on how screwed we really are).<br />
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Romney is just the last straw for me. I can't really say for certain what I agree with him on or exactly how he differs from how Obama has been governing (as George Soros said, "<b>If it's between Obama and Romney, there isn't all that much difference except for the crowd that they bring with them"</b>). He believes in the individual mandate as a way to reform healthcare despite it being an abrogation of individual liberty. He is going to <a href="http://blog.american.com/2012/04/romneys-not-so-secret-plan-to-raise-taxes-on-the-rich/">raise taxes</a> if elected President, he has said as much. I'm not even sure how <a href="http://libertarian-neocon.blogspot.com/2011/11/is-mitt-romney-pretend-hawk.html">his foreign policy</a> would be different. So far, all I understand is that he would leave Afghanistan 3 months later than Obama and would only criticize Israel in private. Sure, I'm sure his decisions would be less bad than Obama, his regulations less over-reaching, but that is simply not enough for me. And the worst part of this whole process was that so many conservatives stood on the sidelines, not doing all that they could to keep a progressive from becoming the GOP nominee. Where was Sarah Palin's endorsement? Where was Jim DeMint's? Why weren't they out there campaigning, highlighting Romney's <a href="http://libertarian-neocon.blogspot.com/2011/12/romneys-terrible-record.html">terrible record </a>as Governor? The establishment had clearly decided on a candidate and these so-called iconoclasts didn't want to hurt their own careers. They just wanted to go along to get along. The conservative press was no better. They didn't want to hurt their future access to politicians and/or the White House.<br />
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So what now? Ideally, I'd like the Tea Party to get together and form a proper political party and then act somewhat like the Conservative Party of New York. Sometimes they would endorse the Republican, but if they don't agree with the choice, they would field their own candidate. That would act as an incentive for the Republicans to nominate a candidate that is acceptable to conservatives. Having a convention before the Republican primaries even start would probably maximize the Tea Party's impact. Imagine if a conservative nominating convention had come together and endorsed just 1 of the conservatives running for the nomination before Iowa. Instead of the vote being horribly split, allowing the only moderate in the race to win race after race with under 50% of the vote, the story might have been vastly different.<br />
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For 2012, I seem to have only two choices. Vote for the Constitution Party candidate or the Libertarian Party candidate. There is clearly a lot of overlap between the two groups (Ron Paul actually endorsed the Constitution Party candidate in 2008) but the Constitution Party is just a bit too anti-immigrant (even legal immigrants) and socially conservative for my taste. Heck, their last nominee, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Baldwin">Chuck Baldwin</a>, even said that people "misunderstand Southern slavery". What exactly is there to misunderstand about chattel slavery? Now, it's okay to sympathize with Confederate arguments over states rights, but slavery? That just goes way too far for me. I would find the Confederacy a lot more sympathetic if they had freed the slaves and then fired on Fort Sumter. <br />
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That leaves the Libertarian Party. I don't agree with parts of the platform, that's for sure. After watching the towers go down from my midtown office on 9/11, I can't agree with their dovish foreign policy. But on just about everything else, they are right on. Small government and individual liberty permeate every fiber of their being. As long as you aren't directly harming someone else or violation there own rights, you can run your business the way you want. And if you want to smoke or eat a plant in the privacy of your own home, what right does anybody have to say you can't? They even are likely to nominate a pretty good candidate this time around in the former two term Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson. Check out what the <a href="http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=936">Club for Growth</a> wrote about him:<br />
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Overall, <b>Governor Johnson has an excellent record on taxes and consistently pushed for tax cuts despite having to deal with the liberal New Mexico Legislature</b>. Late in his second term, the Cato Institute found that Johnson <b>was one of "four governors proposing or enacting the largest income tax rate cuts during their tenures." </b><br />
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In his first term, Governor Johnson proposed reducing the top rate of the state personal income tax from 8.5% to 8%, along with other tax cuts, but was rebuffed by the Legislature. He signed a repeal of a 1993 6-cent-a-gallon tax hike. In 1997, Governor Johnson again proposed to cut the top rate, this time to 8.3%. The legislature proposed to cut it to 8.2%, but offset some of the revenue losses from this and other tax cuts with a cigarette tax increase. According to Cato, Johnson signed the income tax cut, and "vetoed the cigarette tax hike." <br />
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<b>Unlike some of the other Republican candidates for President this year and in past election cycles, Gary Johnson never raised the cigarette tax.</b> While the tax on cigarettes has little relevance to economic growth, the fact that he held the line on such taxes demonstrates how strongly he opposes tax hikes. In 1999, he vetoed a 12-cent-a-pack cigarette tax hike —"not because he liked smoking, he says, but because he opposes all tax hikes." New Mexico's cigarette tax rate stayed the same from 1995 to 2003. <br />
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In 2001, Governor Johnson vetoed a bill to cut the top income tax rate from 8.2% to 7.7% because it also lowered the dollar amount that the top rate kicked in. His proposal would have cut the income tax by $72 million while the legislature wanted just a $32 million cut and a $30.5 million one-time rebate. Johnson later said he regretted vetoing the legislature's version. <b>Over the course of his two terms, Governor Johnson "cut the state income tax, the gasoline tax, the state capital gains tax, and the unemployment tax." </b><br />
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As a candidate for President, Governor Johnson has indicated his support for a flat tax. He also supports eliminating the corporate income tax. He called the 2010 deal to temporarily extend the Bush tax cuts for two years "not a good one" because it didn't make them permanent. <br />
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SPENDING<br />
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<b>Governor Johnson was one of the most anti-spending governors in New Mexico history.</b><br />
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<b> Governor Johnson set a state record for vetoes as Governor, earning the title "Governor No" after 742 total vetoes of bills over two terms. In an interview with John Stossel on Fox News, Governor Johnson bragged that one of his veto messages was "I'm vetoing this piece of legislation because it's just way too long and we don't understand what it says." </b><br />
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Governor Johnson looked for private alternatives to the infrastructure spending that too often busts state budgets. For example, Highway 44 between Albuquerque and Farmington was "designed, financed, built, and guaranteed by a private company." <br />
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In 2000, he refused to sign a budget and forced a special session with the legislature over funding priorities, a battle which ended with Johnson signing a $3.5 billion dollar budget but vetoing several small spending priorities such as $5 million on expanded Medicaid. He threatened to shut down state government when the legislature fought him and even threatened to let prisoners out of jail if the state couldn't afford to house them. <br />
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On federal issues, Governor Johnson says he would have opposed TARP. "Government should not have been involved in this…Why should Goldman and AIG be saved but not Lehman?" He also wants to eliminate government subsidies for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He says he would have voted against the stimulus. <br />
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<b>He has said that he would cut the federal budget by 43%</b>, "Start out with the big four - Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and defense," Johnson said in New Hampshire in early 2011. <br />
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REGULATION<br />
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<b>In 1999, Johnson vetoed a bill which would have raised the minimum wage from $4.25 per hour to $5.65</b>. He also signed a law deregulating New Mexico's electricity market that allowed residential, small-business customers and schools to start shopping for their electricity supplier. He's argued that when a Democrat negotiates with labor unions through collective bargaining it's a "giveaway" instead of a negotiation. He says he doesn't believe in cap-and-trade legislation, saying that "I do not believe that taxing carbon emissions is the way to go forward." Governor Johnson also opposes so-called "Net Neutrality" regulations that would lead to a larger government role in the use of Internet bandwidth. </blockquote>
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Pretty good stuff. Gary Johnson will govern this country, the way it should be governed. I know some people will say that I am throwing away my vote or voting for Obama. I am voting FOR small government and individual liberty, how can that be a waste? If the Republicans had really been interested in my vote (as well as the votes of other Republicans like me) they would not have nominated someone who believes that government knows best.<br />
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For those of you who still think there is time to dilly dally before we
fix our entitlements (essentially arguing as Homer Simpson did when
running for garbage collector "can't someone else do it!"), well that
time is up. Check out this paragraph from the <a href="http://www.ssa.gov/oact/TR/2012/tr2012.pdf">Social Security Trustees Report</a> released yesterday:<br />
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projected assets of the DI Trust Fund decline steadily, fall below 100
percent of annual cost by the beginning of 2013, and continue to decline
until <b>the trust fund is exhausted in 2016</b>. The DI Trust Fund
does not satisfy the short-range test of financial adequacy because the
test requires that the trust fund remain above 100 percent of annual
cost throughout the short-range period.</blockquote>
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Just as a reminder that Social Security consists of two parts. Retired
workers, their families, and survivors of deceased workers receive
monthly benefits under the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI)
program. Disabled workers and their families receive monthly benefits under the Disability
Insurance (DI) program. So it is this second fund that is going
bankrupt in just 4 years, the OASI fund is supposed to be good until
2035. Though that has some rosy assumptions built in like no
recessions. Ever. Which is pretty amazing considering the <a href="http://libertarian-neocon.blogspot.com/2012/04/were-8-months-away-from-being-massively.html">3.4% of GDP worth of tax increases</a>
coming next year. The real date of bankruptcy could easily occur
before 2030. By their own admission, the Social Security Trustees are
constantly over-estimating income:<br />
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<br />
Anyway, back to the DI program. While smaller than the OASI program, it is still a
behemoth compared to just about everything else. In 2011, it paid out a
total of $132 billion and they estimate that payments will balloon to $201 billion in 2021.
That is one hell of a big program to have to bail out and that is
probably what the next President will have to do, in one form or
another. Could he borrow from the OASI program? Sure. But that will
only accelerate the date of its bankruptcy, probably to some point in the middle of the next decade.<br />
<br />
The
promises the government made to people are bankrupting this country and
we can't wait anymore before tackling them. The more we wait the worse
it will be. Doesn't it make more sense to reform a retirement program
when the beneficiaries affected are 45-55 years old rather than when
they are 65 and have no time to alter their finances?<br />
<br />
The
worst part is that I have no faith in either Obama or Romney to do what
is needed. If you want to manage the decline, they are your men. If
you want to actually change something for the better, they clearly
aren't. Time to pray for a miracle.<br />
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In fact, it’s still going on for another 1/2 hour but I’m so damn angry I’m not going to finish watching in order to rant.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Fox News is dead as an honest conservative voice.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I know, I know.  “Water is wet”  and “ “Clay Aiken is gay.”  But I watched three overt misrepresentations in the first 1/2 hour that continues to equivocate and dilute the REAL story.  Remember, FOX still hasn’t reported on Sheriff Joe’s investigation and intentionally shielded Romney numerous times in this primary already.  So much fair and balanced.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The show started out quite well showing numerous incidents where absentee ballots had been cast in elections without the knowledge of the person with that identity.  It also covered the former Alabama Democrat Rep. <a href="http://truethevote.org/news/how-artur-davis-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-team-up-with-pro-voter-id-tea-partiers" target="_blank">Artur Davis</a> who shockingly </font><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/21/democrat-says-democratic-party-bosses-use-voter-fraud-video/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">admitted that voter fraud was a way of life</font></a><font face="Verdana"> for the Democratic party.  This was the guy who seconded Obama’s nomination for President and the only Congressional Black Caucus member who voted against ObamaCare.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">However in three of the main segments in the first half hour, FOX News lied,omitted and manipulated facts to blur the real culpability of the Democrats in this cowardly practice.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The first was discussing the Scott Walker recall at length.  FOX did </font><a href="http://www.wisn.com/Man-Claims-He-Signed-80-Walker-Recall-Petitions/-/9374034/8043808/-/qkpo3qz/-/index.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">cite the guy who signed the recall petition 80 times</font></a><font face="Verdana"> and noted that the Wisconsin officials said they would not remove duplicates or obvious signatures like Mickey Mouse or Adolph Hitler.  But in actually discussing the facts of what happened they stopped at reporting only that the Wisconsin Republican Party began to manually check duplicates where they had 30 days to file objections and could not finish in time to log an objection.  They completely ignored the effort by True The Vote’s “Verify the Recall”  that mobilized over 13,000 volunteers in 49 states to identify over 400,000 fraudulent signatures including that of </font><a href="http://truethevote.org/news/wisconsin-is-just-the-beginning" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Donald Duck</font></a><font face="Verdana">.  FOX left it sounding like “no one really knows if there was fraud or not.”</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The second item was a discussion of the 2000 Florida Presidential count for Bush versus Gore.  I didn’t expect them to reveal the whole truth behind how Gore and the Democrats had systematically attempted to subvert our 200 year voting traditions and laws but was dumbfounded by their spin suggesting that it is possible Bush stole the election.  No mention that the USA Today, Miami Herald and the </font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12623-2001Nov11.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">Washington Post</font></a><font face="Verdana"> </font><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-04-03-floridamain.htm#more" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">showed Bush’s margin would have nearly TRIPLED</font></a><font face="Verdana">.  This doesn’t even account for all the other slimy Democrat tactics like trying to smear Katherine Harris, or trying to steal the recount.  (Don’t forget, Gore illogically received three times as many “recount” improvements as Bush did – a statistical improbability.  But FOX made it sound like it is still “up in the air,” when facts are conclusive to independent observers.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The last issue was what set me off to ignore my Sunday Cubs game to get this done.  FOX besmirched the integrity of the Father of our country to make it sound like the man who “couldn’t tell a lie” was just an an average politician.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Fox’s fake George Washington take: <strong>George Washington bought votes to buy his election!</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Maybe the truth doesn’t make for quite such a good “voter fraud special.”  I mean, who cares if you besmirch the reputation of perhaps the most important founder of our country if it will help your TV show, right?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">In fact, </font><a href="http://www.infoplease.com/t/history/true-washington/citizen.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">liquor was a simple part of the election process for ALL candidates</font></a><font face="Verdana"> in Virginia.  Voters would go to “tipping houses” where votes were cast and the smart politician would buy the drinks for those voting.  <strong>It was Washington who wrote the Governor asking that the practice be halted</strong>.  In a 1757 election for </font><a href="https://www.google.com/search?source=dict-chrome-ex&defl=en&hl=en&q=burgesses&tbo=1&tbs=dfn:1" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">burgess</font></a><font face="Verdana">, Washington refused to participate in the practice and was defeated by 40 votes.  In 1758, Washington didn’t fight it and won by a sizeable margin over his opponent.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">No where did FOX explain Washington resisted it and that ALL politicians did this.  Nor did they mention this was for a minor state office and had nothing to do with his Presidency.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Is it any wonder that with this kind of communication by the only “conservative” mainstream media that we are in such a battle?  This is the kind of thing that Malkin, Levin and Limbaugh pulled on conservatives by their incomplete (or worse) commentary during the GOP primary.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I didn’t watch it but asked the National Training Director for the True the Vote how the second half hour went.  Again – it was incomplete and more of the same.  Missing the REAL stories of clear fraudulent voting in favor of trying to not attack the Democratic machine too hard.  No mention of the Soros Secretary of State program to put corrupt Democrats in power to steal elections.  No talk of the studies on that prove Voter ID actually HELPS the disadvantaged in elections (as well as Democrats).  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">In fact, in Al Franken case were over 1000 felons illegally voted, FOX interviewed only 10 (9 of who voted for Franken) and concluded they couldn’t truly ascertain if this was a planned Democrat initiative or not.  Of course, all they had to do was interview just a fraction more and they would have had a statistically significant sample to ABSOUTELY make that claim.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It seems it will be up to a small remnant of us to hold fast to the ideals upon which this country was founded and fight for truth.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">God knows FOX has given up that fight.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">We can’t let the mainstream media keep obscuring fact.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">We can’t let the CONSERVATIVE media (i.e., George Will, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh) continue to omit, distort or misreport FACT based on their personal bias. </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">We can’t allow the GOP establishment to erase ALL of the progress made in the 2010 elections by diluting the message and leadership by a guy who was the most anti-conservative governor in Massachusetts history ONLY 7 years ago.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>The fight starts now, and the GOP establishment domination stops here.</strong></font></p> <p></p> <hr />It’s clear that Santorum stole the election in Alabama from Gingrich and likely did in Tennessee as well.  Romney forces seemed to have done this in Maine, Puerto Rico and other places and I will eventually do a full post.  Meanwhile, here are two examples of Romney chicanery. <p></p> <p><a href="http://rightonweekly.com/a-strong-appearance-of-impropriety-by-reince-priebus-and-lenny-curry/">http://rightonweekly.com/a-strong-appearance-of-impropriety-by-reince-priebus-and-lenny-curry/</a></p> <p><a href="http://rightonweekly.com/crowning-romney-backfires-on-fox-news-and-rnc-as-delegates-voters-say-no/">http://rightonweekly.com/crowning-romney-backfires-on-fox-news-and-rnc-as-delegates-voters-say-no/</a></p> <p>As always – please join with <a href="http://truethevote.org/volunteer/" target="_blank">True The Vote</a> to become fight fraud at the polls.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. 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Taxmaggedon is coming. Remember the Bush tax cuts? Well they are expiring on January 1, 2013. The payroll tax cut? It's expiring on January 1, 2013. The AMT patch? You guessed it, it expires January 1, 2013. In all, taxes are set to go up by a whopping $494 billion in just 8 months time (that what happens when you keep kicking the can down the road). And I am not talking about them going up that amount over a 10 year span, but all in one year. If you looked at it on a 10 year budgetary perspective, we are talking about a $5 TRILLION tax increase. <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/04/taxmageddon-massive-tax-increase-coming-in-2013">Heritage</a> has a nice handy dandy chart summary of the taxes that are increasing and the amounts:<br />
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Just to give you a sense of how big this is, $494 billion is equal to 3.4% of GDP, that is 3.4% of GDP that is going to be taken out of people's pockets and given to the government. Can you say recession? If Obama's old Chair of Economic Advisers is correct and the <a href="http://emlab.berkeley.edu/%7Ecromer/RomerDraft307.pdf">multiplier on taxes is 3</a> (a dollar of tax increases lowers GDP by $3) we could see GDP fall by 10.2%!<br />
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Now I know that there is a good chance that as we are looking at the fiscal cliff, that Obama and Congress will kick the can down the road again with some sort of temporary fix, letting the next President and Congress deal with it. But, I also think there is a chance that they aren't able to. How do you kick so many cans down the road at the same time, especially at the height of campaign season with so many people out of their offices and with every move under the microscope. Republicans will be under pressure not to help Obama (especially after being screwed in previous dealings with the President e.g. the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress_Joint_Select_Committee_on_Deficit_Reduction">Supercommittee</a>) and Democrats will be under pressure to not "cut" taxes again on the "rich". There are also just too many programs to extend with too many moving parts. Think about it even if they decide to keep the Bush tax cuts, that only eliminates about one third of the fiscal cliff, they need to agree on a plethora of other issues to meaningfully minimize the cliff.<br />
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I also think that it is only a matter of time before the uncertainty of what is going to happen in 2013 bleeds into this year. Right now, very few people are talking about this and people seem to be spending like normal, but what happens when September rolls around and people see this looming iceberg right in front of them? They will very easily be able to calculate that they will be making thousands less next year than this year. It's just insane.<br />
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Cross-posted from <a href="http://libertarian-neocon.blogspot.com/">libertarian neocon</a>'s blog.<div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. The Bird of Truth.<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9129398707869700858-1315728580763174247?l=www.politijim.com' alt='' /></div>
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</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Aren’t you hurting Romney? </font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Why would you stay in if you can’t win? </font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Why don’t you go on a diet? </font></li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">Ok, not that last one.   But Newt has FACTUAL answers to each.</font></p> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://CBSDAL.images.worldnow.com/interface/js/WNVideo.js?rnd=508690;hostDomain=video.dallas.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=482;playerHeight=286;isShowIcon=true;clipId=6966769;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.DALLAS%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed"></script> <p><font face="Verdana">Remember how vocal all of us “Tea Partiers” were when said we won’t let the GOP Establishment choose our candidate?  I MEANT IT.  As did quite a few of my fellow conservatives.  If you said it and now are giving up (or worse supporting Romney), you’re the enemy.  Plain and simple.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Mitt Romney is the most liberal Republican Governor in history and they historically don’t do well in general elections.  Remember, this is the guy who forced gay marriage on his state through an executive order, recruited and implemented the largest socialized medicine program that gave birth (and the advisory “team”) to Obamacare, and implemented the broadest and most severe Cap and Trade regulations on global warming of ANY Governor – Democrat or Republican.  Do you really think the general public will buy that a Republican that LOST payroll jobs in his his four years as Governor while the country added over 4% will think Romney is any better than Obama?  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But a lot of you just want to throw in the towel and say “it’s over,”  the establishment won again.  </font><font face="Verdana">If you do, you are yellow’er than a new dandelion in a Starbucks flower planter in Soho.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And @Malvenue isn’t alone.  Gingrich supporter Steve Deace (or his publishers) decided to cash in on defeatism by pushing his book </font><a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/1664119482.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">We Won’t Get Fooled Again</font></a><font face="Verdana"> and tell us to work on 2016.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Well, Mr. Deace in the spirit of Declaration signer Francis Lewis and Abraham Clark, forgive me if I’m a little underwhelmed at your abandonment of the fight in lieu of cash.  Stopping Romney and the GOP Establishment is a little bit more important that selling some books in my opinion.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The Dallas man on the video said it well:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">“I have to take a stance for what is right no matter what everyone else thinks is right.” – Dallas Attendee</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">You go ahead and give up.  Show your kids how to act like John Boehner and the rest of the RINO’s if you want.  I’m fighting not just on principle but on a clear fact that if Romney is nominated EVEN if beats Obama – we will end up at the same place we did at the end of the George W. Bush era.  Establishing the fact Republicans can’t do any better than Democrats.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Don’t forget.  Your favorite “conservatives” Paul Ryan and Allen West voted WITH John Boehner to cave to Harry Reid and cut $1 Trillion out of Defense.  Do you think Romney will sweep other serious conservatives with backbones into office?  He actually LOST GOP members in Massachusetts and brought the number of elected GOP congressman to an all time low.  But yeah, Romney’s a great answer to revive the Tea Party momentum that worked in 2010 I’m sure.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Has Romney EVER shown he can stay consistent for more than a news cycle on ANY issue much less something like repealing ObamaCare?  His own advisor is telling us he won’t repeal all of it.  Another key advisor tells us he’s an “Etch A Sketch” that will wipe all of us promises clean.  He already began doing it last week on the Dream Act.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">In Dallas, Gingrich reminded supporters that in the Colorado primary last week that almost twice of the delegates WERE NOT for Romney than for him.  (23 to 13).  AND THIS WAS COLORADO not a deep conservative state like South Carolina or Missouri!  Funny, I thought conservatives honored the will of the people not the will of the blowhards who have sold out our movement for 30 pieces of silver.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>It’s not over FACTUALLY or in the hearts of REAL conservatives</strong>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Six thousand donors rushed to Newt.org to give immediately following Santorum’s exit.  </font><font face="Verdana">Six thousand patriots who aren’t willing to let a man named a Top 10 RINO only 7 years ago continue to bury the future of America for our children.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I still run across terribly uninformed people who still call Gingrich a “big government” progressive (who got it from Glenn Beck who now supports a guy who actually implemented gay marriage, socialized medicine and cap and trade).  And I’m aghast at the complicit conservative media like Limbaugh, Levin and the like who think somehow there will be a better chance to take Mitt on after he’s elected or in 4 years when he has an even STRONGER network.  (Don’t forget. Republicans are rewarding the guy who couldn’t win AGAINST the McCAIN!)</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Meanwhile Gingrich not just presents conservative ideas, he goes on the attack with them.  He </font><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/18/group-blasts-gingrich-for-limiting-hires-to-muslims-who-renounce-shariah-law/?intcmp=obnetwork" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">bans any Muslim who hasn’t renounced Sharia Law</font></a><font face="Verdana"> from his campaign.  He goes to the NRA and tells them THEY aren’t aggressive <em>enough</em>. Not only are we going fight for Hillary’s attempt to sign away our gun rights to the UN, Gingrich </font><a href="http://info.humanevents.com/egl40/wmws/EGPB/1334767734249_26/w58378.php?custcode=EGPB&bid=16326927&porefererid_=16326927&pbid_=16326927&pemail=jim%40abigcorporation%2Ecom&preflname_=&preffname_=" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">starts a campaign to make the right to bear arm a fundamental HUMAN RIGHT</font></a><font face="Verdana">!</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And I thought my conservative blood couldn’t pump any redder than seeing Obama torn apart in a debate.  Imagine Gingrich sending Bolton to the UN to author a bill giving EVERY PERSON ON THE PLANET the right to defend themselves like Ted Nugent!</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The highlight of March was the third place polling candidate making Obama’s White House spend weeks first trying to pretend that $2.50 gas isn’t possible, then to attack Gingrich for wanting to make oil companies rich, then saying the White House was making MORE oil companies rich already, denying Keystone would make jobs, denying Keystone was ready, then faking a Keystone approval.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But don’t sell Romney short.  The leading GOP candidate successfully got the Obama campaign to make Republicans look like they didn’t want women to work and wanted to make Lassie into a luggage rack.  I’m sure he’ll do just fine in the debates with Obama and the MSM media, don’t you?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Katrina Pierson who helped organize the Gingrich Dallas event said with less than 24 hours notice they had a great – and very diverse  - turnout including African American and young people asking “how can I help him.”</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Pierson tells me that he stayed until he had talked and shook hands with every one of the 75 people who attended.  it raised the spirits for those in Texas who felt he would drop out.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I’ll admit it.  Even I – the steel spined squab of steadfastness was wondering if the meeting with Romney and the softening of Newt’s tone meant he was aiming for a cabinet job.  After hearing the private discussions of those that attended, I’m fully persuaded the Georgia General is being absolutely as crafty as George in the 1776 Delaware jungle was.  It’s a guerilla war by conservatives against RINO’s.  Real conservatives who actually BELIEVE we shouldn’t give up on our principles (again) and despite the odds aren’t quitting.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Real conservatives who don’t just pay lip service to the idea of pledging our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to ensure a BETTER hope than the change the RINO congress presented, then caved on.  (Remember the $100 Billion in Boehner budget cuts after the 2010 Tea Party election?).</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Sorry.  Two years after the height of the Tea Party influence, the RINO’s and complicit (and lazy) conservative media have come close to locking it up to compromise captivity if not outright killing it.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">If we don’t coalesce around Newt Gingrich and stop Romney, Karl Rove will become the head of the GOP.  Mitch McConnell will be the new Harry Reid.  And the minute the media and libs scream about any conservative legislation, Mitt and his RINO mutts will compromise just like Bob Dole tried to do to Reagan.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Only this time there won’t be any Newt Gingrichs to stop them.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And RomneyCare will not be totally repealed after screams of insensitivity by centrists.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">DOMA will be too “divisive” to address.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And no one will do anything but keep trying to patch short term solutions to entitlements while the number of Americans receiving Federal handouts slips over the 50% mark.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">With Obama you get that scenario in 3 months.  With Romney you’ll be lucky if you get it sooner than 3 years.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Give up if you want to you “fake” conservatives and compromise your real beliefs.  But at least be honest that you don’t deserve the freedoms promised by our founders with blood shed for you.  And get the hell out of our way.</font></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. 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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/47JrltPBLrUrtXi1f-fEgAwsKag/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/47JrltPBLrUrtXi1f-fEgAwsKag/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RantsForReasonablePeople/~4/abfSNmzYkJM" height="1" width="1"/>PolitiJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942218396616503094noreply@blogger.com12http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/newt-not-taking-no-in-north-texas.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129398707869700858.post-3371280927765690092012-04-22T09:30:00.001-07:002012-04-22T09:30:27.554-07:002012-04-22T09:30:27.554-07:00Rick Santorum K-Street King<p><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-3LAD-rbNv90/T5QyFD3AAJI/AAAAAAAAEs8/Ar1G0PJWe5k/s1600-h/KStreetPennSt%25255B4%25255D.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="KStreetPennSt" border="0" alt="KStreetPennSt" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-SVGjRx0GMRo/T5QyF5IYhpI/AAAAAAAAEtE/r8yVmeBcUOw/KStreetPennSt_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="482" height="259" /></a> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I know, I know.  He’s out and we need to be “nice” to Santorum supporters to get them to join Gingrich.  I’m trying.  I really am.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I’m not worried about those who claim they are going to keep writing Rick in on primary ballots or that he will “unsuspend” his campaign once the Pennsylvania primary is over.  If didn’t work for Palin it certainly won’t help Santorum.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But I am worried about the Tea Party and the conservative movement.  And I’m not going to let lies keep eating away at both.  This post is brought to you by an unnamed “Tea Party” blogger here in Texas who was not only pushing Santorum from dawn til dusk, but refused to retract ANY false lies they sent out even after corrections were sent.  </font><font face="Verdana">I received the following headline in their daily email this morning:  </font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-IqcjLF67MCM/T5QyGoiUkrI/AAAAAAAAEtM/ET5l3aFE-NI/s1600-h/KStreetTPartyGOPBattle%25255B4%25255D.gif"><font face="Verdana"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 4px auto; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="KStreetTPartyGOPBattle" border="0" alt="KStreetTPartyGOPBattle" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Mv4q65ReYq0/T5QyHdNVD9I/AAAAAAAAEtU/5x8dJ2DKdpc/KStreetTPartyGOPBattle_thumb%25255B2%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" width="354" height="226" /></font></a></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It’s bad enough that so many social (and other) conservatives were too lazy to do their homework on Rick Santorum’s weighty record of </font><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/slutss-for-santorum-part-1-truth.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">lies</font></a><font face="Verdana"> and </font><a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/principled-slutss-for-santorum-part-3.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">hypocrisies</font></a><font face="Verdana">, but even this week this blogger continued to try and justify Santorum even though he has already dropped out of the race.  This particular Texas conservative sent out a false narrative to try and defend Santorum’s Specter endorsement which had been debunked </font><a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2012/02/23/specter-roberts-and-alito" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana">3 ways from Saturday</font></a><font face="Verdana">.   Who knows if she even read my carefully documented rebuttal.  I have so little faith in my fellow conservatives these days.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>The fight for the conservative movement is now a civil war</strong>.  If we don’t hold each other to a standard of OBJECTIVE TRUTH we will forever be relegated to the sidelines of not just national influence, but those within our own party.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">So below is my email rebuttal to this person who was pushing Santorum to the clueless even through this week:</font></p> <font face="Verdana"> <hr /></font> <p><font face="Verdana">It is more than a little ironic that you would run an article lamenting the K-Street and Tea Party battle after you refused to print the truth about Rick Santorum who was the <b><u>co-FOUNDER of the K-Street project and worked with Jack Abramoff</u></b>.  If this was an Austin RINO you would (heroically) be unrelenting in getting the truth out.  And I'd be applauding, promoting and doing the same with you.</font></p> <p><b><font face="Verdana">Somehow, you've been usurped, or blinded.  And it is killing the conservative movement.</font></b></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I don't say this to "beat you up" or demean you.  As you know I even ENCOURAGED people to subscribe to (<em>your blog</em>) on an earlier post where I called you to task.  But I hate to <b>see you and other conservatives played for fools</b> or worse, lose your good reputation as these facts come out.  You are needed for the battle ahead if you will finally make a declaration of devotion to truth.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I’m not speaking as a partisan supporter of Gingrich (although I’ve endorsed Newt) but from PERSONAL knowledge and fact.  In fact, I have a friend who is a Christian movie producer that procured Rick Santorum for their advisory board prior to his run for President.  Santorum refused to do ANY ACTUAL help unless he was paid.  This for a group trying to make a groundbreaking film about Jesus' life.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Here are FACTS about Santorum's K-Street lobbying.  How you could not know this as a citizen journalist is beyond me.  If you DO know this and continue to promote (and defend) Santorum you are worse than the GOP establishment who tries to hide the truth of the people they want to push.   If you do NOT know this, (which I pray is the case), a retraction should be forthcoming immediately and a call to support either Gingrich or Paul in Texas.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The documented FACTS:</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-26/santorum-lobbyist-meetings-part-of-insider-history-he-rejects.html"><font face="Verdana">BusinessWeek</font></a><font face="Verdana">: Santorum was the Senate "go to" man for Washington Lobbyists and FOUNDED K-Street with Grover Norquist (who has now brought the Muslim Brotherhood into the Republican Party).</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">This is why Santorum was rated the most corrupt Senator in 2005/2006 since his committees received more lobbyist donations </font><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%9CLobbyists:%20Top%2020%20Recipients%202006,%E2%80%9D%20Center%20for%20Responsive%20Politics%20web%20site"><font face="Verdana">than ANY OTHER</font></a></p> <p><font face="Verdana">In </font><a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.confessore.html"><font face="Verdana">2003, Washington Monthly</font></a><font face="Verdana"> ran an article where lobbyists and former Congressmen called the coercion for money by Washington "Rick's meetings."</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Rick </font><a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/01/15/A-Peek-Inside-Santorums-K-Street-Past.aspx#page1"><font face="Verdana">Santorum ADMITTED it in Roll Call in 2004</font></a></p> <p><font face="Verdana">His PAC collected $11 million to help "conservative" law makers but he only gave away $1 million.  He then formed a </font><a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/01/15/A-Peek-Inside-Santorums-K-Street-Past.aspx#page3"><font face="Verdana">527 called Softer Voices</font></a><font face="Verdana"> that kept ALL of the donations.  As he showed with his own charity, he’s got a problem with money issues.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">A professor at Kansas State studied the the project and found that Santorum was the key in the Senate.  Instead of trying to create future Pat Toomey's - </font><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-26/santorum-lobbyist-meetings-part-of-insider-history-he-rejects.html"><font face="Verdana">23 of Santorum staffers ended up becoming lobbyists</font></a><font face="Verdana"> instead of future conservative politicians.  Even </font><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/convicted-lobbyist-is-santorums-sc-aide"><font face="Verdana">the head of his South Carolina campaign was a convicted lobbyist</font></a><font face="Verdana"> who bought hookers and worse for congressmen.  Rather than be proud of the Chuck Colson like change he made in prison, Santorum HID it from public disclosure documents.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">In 2005, he told the </font><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-26/santorum-lobbyist-meetings-part-of-insider-history-he-rejects.html"><font face="Verdana">Pittsburgh Post Gazette</font></a><font face="Verdana"> that his K-Street operation was a "good thing".</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Santorum had at least two instances which should disqualify ANY conservative some ever supporting him, or allowing him to be a voice of the Tea Party.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-XtH_nwqgiiE/T5QyH74pN7I/AAAAAAAAEtc/UMuiRCGyZAA/s1600-h/SantorumSmileSmirk%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 3px 3px 4px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="SantorumSmileSmirk" border="0" alt="SantorumSmileSmirk" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6dumcwJfTE0/T5QyIjuBDPI/AAAAAAAAEtk/8ctyJ0Q0RKA/SantorumSmileSmirk_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="125" height="183" /></a> The first is when Gingrich set up a bipartisan commission in the new GOP Congress to fight the terrible rapes, abuse and child labor of Saipan sweatshops.  Here are </font><a href="http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/12/29/santorum-may-be-too-nice-a-name-for-that-guy/"><font face="Verdana">ACTUAL billings by Jack Abramoff's firm</font></a><font face="Verdana"> proving Santorum got money DIRECTLY before a fund raiser, and DIRECTLY AFTER he got the bill killed.  What makes it worse as these Saipan operations were known to also FORCE ABORTIONS on their laborers.  Despicable. </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The second was when </font><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2005/08/santorums_mighty_wind.html"><font face="Verdana">he attempted to take away the the right to collect data from the National Weather Service</font></a><font face="Verdana"> so that his campaign contributor, Accuweather could become more profitable.  Not only is this "buying votes" that no other conservative would touch (or vote for), it would have literally cost lives.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Then, in 2006 people discovered what Delay and Santorum were doing:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">Indeed, by 2006, the K Street Project was a national scandal. Two of its best-known participants, lobbyist Jack Abramoff and DeLay, had been indicted for other crimes -- Abramoff for corruption and DeLay for money laundering. Santorum distanced himself from the project, </font><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jan/29/20060129-115858-4302r/?page=all"><font face="Verdana">stating in February 2006</font></a><font face="Verdana">, "We don't have a K Street Project. ... I have never called anybody or talked to anyone to try to get anybody a position on K Street with one exception, and that is if someone from my office is applying for a job and an employer calls me."</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But one month later, after the temporary, scandal-induced hiatus, Santorum </font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/08/AR2006030802449.html"><font face="Verdana">restarted his lobbyist gatherings</font></a><font face="Verdana">. He lost his reelection bid later that year by a whopping 18 percentage points, partially due to his role leading the K Street Project.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">Santorum received $496,683 from Washington lobbyists in his 2006 campaign, <b>the most of any candidate during that election cycle</b>.  Over the course of Santorum’s congressional career, </font><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-26/santorum-lobbyist-meetings-part-of-insider-history-he-rejects.html"><font face="Verdana">lobbyists ranked 10th among his groups of donors</font></a><font face="Verdana">, contributing $731,937 to his campaigns.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Perhaps this explains why Rick was NO WHERE to be found during the Tea Party genesis even though Newt Gingrich was using his own money to cut ads to get people to join.  (or <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/02/valentines-day-truth-massacre-on-tarp.html" target="_blank">TARP or ObamaCare</a>.) And if you thought undercutting wonderful Tea Party Pennsylvanian Pat Toomey by siding on the Specter side wasn't enough, supporting the Mitch McConnell GOP establishment pick over Rand Paul in Kentucky and Carli Fiorina over Tea Party Californian Chuck Devore was clear evidence that Rick was no early Tea Party supporter.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It is absolutely crazy how so called self-identified Tea Partiers now want to lament the destruction of the movement THAT THEY HELPED CREATE BY SUPPORTING SELLOUT CANDIDATES like Santorum.  Or now lament the influence by GOP insiders in the Tea Party when Santorum was part of the problem as Pennsylvania Tea Partiers and <a href="http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/pennsylvania_gop_leaders_santo.html" target="_blank">leaders</a> have been telling us <a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_317352.html" target="_blank">since 2005</a>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">You maybe can't change your past infractions on truth - but it would sure do a lot for the movement if you would at least admit that you didn't fully vet your candidate before supporting.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Or, if you did know this and still send out complaints about K-Street influencers - quit calling yourself a Tea Party conservative.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"></font></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. 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href="https://twitter.com/#!/DryCnty" target="_blank">(@DryCnty</a> on Twitter) for his co-hosting excellence.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">As usual, 30 minutes was too short and PolitiJim Radio will be expanding to 2 hours next week.  Unfortunately we didn’t record the SECOND 1/2 hour which was quite amazing.  Essentially – we are playing until the buzzer.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">What else you missed:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">Chicago Cubs are now 3-6 but the Chicago Bulls have the best record in the NBA.  (A lot of good it will do since Obama will predict the Bulls winning the Championship and thus sealing the victory for either the Oklahoma Thunder or – God forbid – the Miami in Heat). </font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">The conservative media are cowards, acting like the race is all over.   Daily Caller is complaining about a few thousand bucks for Secret Service protection and the supposed “Constitutional conservative,” Mark Levin – is calling trying to stop a man that single handedly implemented gay marriage, socialized medicine and Cap and Trade in Massachusetts “deranged.”   Really, Levin?</font> </li> <li><font face="Verdana">While Romney is up to an all time approval of 69% among Republicans, he has dropped 20 points with White Women during the campaign. </font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Although he leads Obama by a few points, no one is taking into account the planned Obama vote fraud that could more than erase a 10 point lead. </font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Conservative media falls for the distractions by Obama (ie, Contraception, Hillary Rosen) and clearly show they are willing to give up on our country and Constitutional government. </font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Nearly half do <strong>NOT</strong> want Paul and Gingrich to get out. </font></li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">Additional info:</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Only 2% are angry that Santorum got out (I think I know them all personally) and over 2/3rds are relieved or satisfied.  From YouGov:</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><img src="http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/inlineimage/2012-04-18/santorum_feel.png" width="482" height="402" /> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Even AFTER Santorum dropping out – nearly 1/2 STILL want Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich to stay in:</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><img src="http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/inlineimage/2012-04-18/goprace_dropout.png" width="482" height="402" /> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Justin points out this almost identical to the popular vote totals in the primary.  In reality, combining delegates from Santorum and other fall outs, Gingrich is still MORE than in the race.  A terrible miscue by Romney or a rally by conservatives who tell the GOP to go to hell would still send this to a brokered convention.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Who is with me?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">We aren’t giving up until the Republican 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Plus a bonus of sweet 16 making it a 98.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Like many I grew up watching AB every Saturday afternoon.  He never laughed at my ridiculous attempts to repeat the steps I saw on ABC unlike Cornelius who I swear had “LMAO” imprinted on his knuckles ala/ JAKE or ELWOOD.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">To me he was the “cool” of Fonz before Happy Days existed.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I had a deal with Dick Clark Productions at one time and a pending deal for another.  I only got to spend a few minutes with him and despite rumors of an abrasive ego found him to be the most down to earth, straight forward guy I had met in Hollywood.  (Not that that was a high bar mind you).</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">He was gracious but straight to the point and had a really unique way of not making me feel like a total moron while he shot holes in the obvious problem areas of the project.  (It was a special event TV series along the lines of the Charlie Brown shows.)</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I also remember his producer immediately following up on every little nuance of the areas we discussed and being grateful to “see how it’s done.”  It had become second nature to them but they were straight forward and I never felt like they would try to steal the concept although they could have in a heartbeat.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px" align="right" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Dick_Clark_American_Bandstand_1961.JPG/220px-Dick_Clark_American_Bandstand_1961.JPG" /> Dick Clark was an amazing businessman.  Few understand the hustle to find anything he could get on the air.  Few realize that he OWNED most of the shows he was on including Pyramid, TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes and of course, Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">He learned that by owning the show, you could control the content, make more money and never again have to answer to the “suits” who didn’t even know the audience you were entertaining.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The thing that amazed me about my interactions with DCP was how broadly and widely they cast their net.  They CREATED the American Music Awards, just to have something to televise.  They looked at nearly every form of merchandising eventually creating restaurants, movie theaters and more.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And they could pinch a penny tight enough to give Abraham Lincoln a headache.  They budgeted, cut, scrimped and haggled every penny of a production budget and rewarded their producers to do the same.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I hadn’t been in their offices for about 10 years, but the last time I was, it was the same very humble building Clark had been in since he landed in Burbank.  A big office but not ostentatious at all.  “Comfy,” is what I remember.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The other thing I remember is even as he was obviously dealing with health problems, how sharp and intuitive he was.  I didn’t know him or his producers the past 10 years or more, but he never seemed one content to STOP building, producing and entertaining.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I have no idea of his political views at all.  The producer I worked with was a conservative Christian and didn’t ever seem to be shunned for his ideas that were overtly Christian. I admired his ability to take calculated risks and do the “menial” game show and award shows many felt was “beneath them.”</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And I don’t recall a Dick Clark Production that ever glorified violence or stooped to the baser instincts of the business.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I know some other stories that aren’t flattering – and have no idea if they were true or not.  I don’t really care.  He was married to his third wife for over 30 years and gave me a shot at an idea I’m not sure even I understood.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I pray at some point He gave made my Savior, his.  Despite all of us falling short of the glory of God, he was way too good for the devil.  Or the excessive Hollywood of today that holds political agendas.</font></p> <p> <hr />Just saw this other great article about Dick Clark’s stand during civil rights:</p> <p><a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dick-clark-sam-cooke-and-klan/488161">Dick Clark, Sam Cooke, and the Klan</a></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. 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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AhPwuUDq0IFCssFkB-EKt_i1D1E/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AhPwuUDq0IFCssFkB-EKt_i1D1E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RantsForReasonablePeople/~4/fRUWTf8iFSE" height="1" width="1"/>PolitiJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06942218396616503094noreply@blogger.com2http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/politijims-personal-meeting-and-memory.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129398707869700858.post-35271596181921541472012-04-18T15:09:00.001-07:002012-04-18T15:09:26.932-07:002012-04-18T15:09:26.932-07:00Conservative Scofflaws Like Cain and Santorum should Quit Calling themselves Conservatives<p><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-O1mtUxjtuWY/T487jidSFtI/AAAAAAAAEnc/JnGWleQQOd8/s1600-h/Duty2RescueHeader%25255B4%25255D.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="Duty2RescueHeader" border="0" alt="Duty2RescueHeader" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-4IA4vv2oPUg/T487kYT_ErI/AAAAAAAAEnk/DSk4lzI9PhE/Duty2RescueHeader_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="486" height="273" /></a> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">…and Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, National Right To Life, George Will, etc, etc…</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Two headlines prove what I’ve been saying all along about Santorum, Cain and their supporters.  Not only are they <strong>not patriots</strong>, no conservative should look to them to lead our movement anymore.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Cain has decided to jump Newt’s ship and <a href="http://www.thechurchreport.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=siteContent.default&objectID=152730" target="_blank">endorse Romney</a> and Santorum has said he <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/santorum-wont-release-delegates/2012/04/16/id/436068" target="_blank">won’t release his delegates</a> so he has some “impact” at the GOP convention.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">These are selfish, self-promoting politicians who care more about their own ego’s than the United States of America.  Or the conservative movement.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And frankly, why should we be surprised? A <a href="finance.townhall.com/columnists/jerrybowyer/2012/04/05/problems_with_the_truth_confessions_of_a_22year_rick_santorum_observer/page/full/" target="_blank">22 year Santorum acquaintance</a> and the <a href="www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_317352.html" target="_blank">Pennsylvania Tea Party</a> have been trying to tell the world all along he has betrayed the conservative movement since being elected Senator the first time.  The Cain train became more of a <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/01/meandering-thoughts-about-south.html" target="_blank">circus car side show</a> when he alternatively campaigned with Stephen Colbert, said he wouldn’t endorse so as not to “split up” his supporters then shopped his 999 idea to any candidate that would put him Washington.  You have to be a true moron to think either of these guys had any real conservative principles deep down.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>Let me explain my disdain</strong>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">You may remember the 78 year old man in Connecticut who was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,363493,00.html" target="_blank">hit by a car and left to lie in the street</a> as pedestrians and drivers just drove by.  </font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; width: 425px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:51bc6743-4f95-40a5-889a-238eb5c347d2" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="f025ef51-404d-4942-9f03-83ef2673aee9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pkUNrtfMXg" target="_new"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-2gcUAbKTIYI/T487kw0oybI/AAAAAAAAEns/qTLJ6iypptg/videobf497843a6e8%25255B34%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('f025ef51-404d-4942-9f03-83ef2673aee9'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/0pkUNrtfMXg&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/0pkUNrtfMXg&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p><font face="Verdana">There is a legal principle called “Duty to Rescue” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue" target="_blank">defined by Wikipedia</a>:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">A <b>duty to rescue</b> is a concept in </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort_law"><font face="Verdana">tort law</font></a><font face="Verdana"> that arises in a number of cases, describing a circumstance in which a </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_(law)"><font face="Verdana">party</font></a><font face="Verdana"> can be held liable for failing to come to the rescue of another party in peril. However, in the United States, it is rarely formalized in statutes which would bring the penalty of law down upon those who fail to rescue. This does not necessarily obviate a moral duty to rescue: though law is binding and carries government-authorized sanctions, there are also separate ethical arguments for a duty to rescue that may prevail even where law does not punish failure to rescue.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">There is a long list of people, we once thought were conservative, that have decided against the risk of stepping in and lending assistance to real “conservatism.” They don’t like Gingrich or Paul, they are too tired or it is just too messy to bother with.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>Judge PolitiJim pronounces them guilty of failing a “duty to rescue” but also “impersonating a patriot.”</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">What I bought into in becoming a “Constitutional conservative” now seems to earn the equivalent embrace of new Amway distributor at a family reunion.  That is, we accept that they are part of the family but we’d rather just ignore them even if we DO need a second income.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I thought Constitutional conservatism included the values our founding fathers embraced such as:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">Limited government, with radical responsible individuality,</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Following, honoring and respecting the Constitution (law) and if you don’t like it – change it legally after garnering public support to do so.  (<em>In other words NOT ignoring it because it doesn’t fit your agenda or finding loopholes that weaken it for generations.</em>)</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">A sense of self-sacrifice not only for your family, but for your country,</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">A devotion to God and His virtues including honesty no matter where that led,</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Fearlessness to do the “right thing” regardless of personal discomfort.</font></li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">I issued a “<a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/george-washington-and-ryan-wrinkle.html" target="_blank">conservative casualty list</a>” spurred by the Ryan/Rubio Romney endorsement a couple of weeks back.  It isn’t a coincidence that Paul Ryan also wouldn’t “hold the line” with Jim DeMint instead opting to cave to Harry Reid and John McCain to “find cuts” before a debilitating $1 Trillion was cut from our military.  At perhaps the greatest potential threat to our country since the Cold War, we now have <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/27/morning-bell-a-slashed-and-burned-military/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell" target="_blank">one of the weakest national defense footings</a> of modern times.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The supposed “conservatives” on watch from Paul Ryan to Rush <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/01/limbaugh-is-liberal-not-newt.html" target="_blank">Limbaugh are actually assisting the death of real conservatism</a> rather than putting their own fortunes and lives at risk.  Don’t forget it was Limbaugh’s steady undercutting of Mike Huckabee that set up McCain in 2008.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Why are you remotely surprised that so many “conservatives” like Dick Morris are rallying around a potential candidate who:</font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana">Was Human Events Top 10 RINO only 7 years ago,</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Sold out his own state’s electorate and used an executive order to implement gay marriage and then lying about it,</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Again, less than 10 years ago, telling pro-abortion, pro-environmental wacko, pro-gay groups he would be a stealth GOP President.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Setting in motion <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/santorum-skedaddles-and-conservatives.html" target="_blank">a giant PR campaign</a> and bribe-fest to sell Republicans a false conservative even while RomneyCare was still being implemented (and supported) by Mitt.  Specifically funding prolife groups while he put Planned Parenthood into an ADMINISTRATIVE OVERSIGHT role in RomneyCare.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Orchestrating the largest socialized government program of any state and setting the blueprint and architects directly to the liberals to implement it nationally.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Setting up a multi-state Kyoto carbon credit trading scam, passing the <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/limbaughs-climatologist-defends-newts.html" target="_blank">most austere Cap and Trade program</a> on CO2 of any state while condemning coal plants as business that “kill people.”</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana">Actually LOST payroll jobs in his four years of Governor while the United States as a whole GREW them over 4%.</font></li> </ul> <p><font face="Verdana">You realize by the time the election comes around Obama will have manipulated the unemployment numbers and economy just enough to claim HE DID BETTER THAN MITT ROMNEY?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">But yeah – let’s all jump on the bandwagon of perhaps the sketchiest “conservative” since ….John McCain or the 2008 Romney.  </font><font face="Verdana">These people have no TRUE principle to begin with.  They talk a good game – but deep down they are unwilling to sacrifice their lives, fortunes and personal honor.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Although in Colorado last week Mitt only “won” the state with less than 40% of the delegates, and despite the fact he could be deprived of the 1,144 delegates  - sure.  Let’s just prove how weak the conservative movement is by taking the “blue” pill and pretend that he’s any different than the guy that Heritage Foundation founder Paul Weyrich was willing to leave the GOP over had McCain nominated him as VP.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">After nominating Romney it would be a shock that either Obama or Al Qaeda didn’t just outsource the TSA to Pakistan.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Despite a very easy way of FORCING Romney to at least make real conservative concessions - if not take a shot at a REAL conservative candidate at the convention  - t</font><font face="Verdana">he remaining conservatives are exhibiting just two postures.  </font></p> <blockquote> <p>Let’s not give Obama any more ammunition and focus on getting rid of Obama now.</p> </blockquote> <p>or</p> <blockquote> <p>It’s too late, Romney is the nominee.</p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Verdana">To my mind, none of these people deserve what our the blood of the American colonists died for, much less to be part of the conservative movement.  </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">These are both FACTUALLY incorrect.  Obama did just fine going up against Clinton until June.  And Romney has NOT won the nomination, or gotten close to the 1,144 he needs.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">I suppose George Will, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart (Ann Coulter and Matt Drudge are already Benedict Arnolds) and the rest will merely ring their hands and lament we are stuck with a better looking and richer John McCain.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Meanwhile, former Santorum supporter Richard Vigurerie doesn’t want you to be <a href="http://www.conservativehq.com/printmail/7603" target="_blank">a cheap date and to take over the Republican Party</a>…by not endorsing anyone else.  This marketing genius somehow was blinded to the numerous <a href="http://www.conservativehq.com/article/7603-where-do-conservatives-go-now#comment-85173" target="_blank">betrayals of Santorum</a> against the conservative movement (not to mention the Tea Party), and somehow magically thinks you and I can battle Mitt Romney with the scary ghost of Milton Friedman or Ronald Reagan.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It’s bad enough that people at <a href="http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/prolife-politics-or-postulate.html" target="_blank">LifeNews</a> and Right To Life ignored and lied about their preferred candidates clear betrayals of the prolife movement, but now they are rolling over both Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul who have ALWAYS had the strongest prolife positions and the best economic recovery plan for this country.  These people clearly no longer can be trusted to represent the prolife movement.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And how is the Tea Party not dead, when the guy who didn’t even acknowledge it’s existence, much less join with it – is the nominee of the Republican Party?  Gingrich PAID his own cash to get people to join at yet Tea Partiers still go for Romney in the national polls?  WTH?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">You hoped George Bush 41 would actually become more like Reagan after hanging around him for 8 years.  He didn’t – why would Romney?  You thought Bob Dole would be a tough campaigner and go hard after Clinton on conservative issues especially since Bill was accused of rape.  He didn’t.  Why do you think Romney will?  You thought George Bush would become more of a free market, limited government conservative and tougher on immigration because that’s how he campaigned in 2000.  He didn’t especially when it mattered.  Why would Romney?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">The conservative movement has been molested by the Republican establishment who lied about Newt Gingrich’s impeccable conservative track record that was actually <em>implemented </em>and ended up <em>expanding </em>the Reagan Revolution.  Romney outright lied about Gingrich’s history with Reagan and HIS OWN FAKE conservative credentials.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And most of you just want to stand by, shake your head and give up.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">Do me a favor will you?  Save your contrived outrage when Romney can’t really argue effectively against Obama, keeps giving the Obama campaign “rich uncaring” gaffes that Obama uses, gives up with little resistance against REAL conservative reform and measures, and IF elected – does exactly what George Bush 41 did.  <strong>Betraying every conservative promise and getting kicked out of office in 4 years.</strong></font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">EVERY politician ends up performing EXACTLY has their past governing actions indicate.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">- Obama was always for the most extreme form of abortion and continues to expand that power.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">- Obama always voted against (or abstained) from ANY serious conservative measure for the middle class.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">- Dole, George Herbert Walker Bush, John McCain, etc – ALL end up campaigning and voting EXACTLY like how they governed.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">And while we Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich supporters scream out to please save the conservative movement – please don’t be the guy in the subway booth who would rather just not get involved or risk their own safety, rather than allow the rape of a victim happening directly in front of him.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana">It’s not what a conservative patriot would do.</font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; width: 425px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:52e1c481-007f-4c16-a08c-6aea0ac5d1bb" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="fe0537e2-ae4e-4283-b998-db4ecd066bce" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7g-1STREA" target="_new"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-z6Y6jG2vnVE/T487lTq5IKI/AAAAAAAAEn0/S2ImBr99-IQ/video46e31159e56e%25255B36%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('fe0537e2-ae4e-4283-b998-db4ecd066bce'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Cl7g-1STREA&hl=en\"><\/param><embed 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I've known Newt since we were 15 years old. We spent an <br />evening together during Spring break at Panama City, FL - two nerds who wore <br />glasses, sitting on the patio talking when the rest of my cheerleader <br />friends were down at the Bandshell dancing and flirting with the cool <br />football players. He was fascinating, a talker, interested in history and <br />government even then. He was also a kid in an identity crisis. He had just <br />found out about his biological father and his birth name. He was trying out <br />Leroy McPherson instead of Newt Gingrich to see how that fit. I never forgot <br />that evening with Newt.</p> <p>We had a lot in common. We both had divorced dysfunctional, absent and <br />abusive parents. We both had insecurities, lacked strong identities. We were <br />both army brats and had suffered due to the frequent moves.</p> <p>Many with Newt's background become serial adulterers, alcoholics, drug, <br />porn, sex and gambling addicts, or they turn 'gay' - all seeking the love <br />and nurture and identity they did not get when they were younger. Newt's <br />pain was evident that evening. The very next year, Newt got involved with <br />his favorite teacher, a woman seven years older and married her to get away <br />from home to a sane and stable life. Newt was marrying a mother/parental <br />surrogate. He was emotionally vulnerable and immature. She evidently had <br />issues as well to seek the company of a student much younger than she.</p> <p>Later, when his wife and family did not come to DC with him, Newt got <br />involved with another strong woman figure, a political colleague, again for <br />the wrong reasons. The affair with Callista began when the second wife had <br />left and they were separated. Newt had affairs in between his marriages, <br />always seeking identity, seeking to fill the emptiness and numb his pain.</p> <p>When Newt's second marriage failed, he did the wisest thing any human can <br />do; he repented and confessed his sins, has renounced and abandoned those <br />sins. He also got help and counsel. Now Newt has come to Christ Savior, <br />Redeemer, the source and definer of real satisfying Love, Truth and Life. <br />Knowing Christ's Love and the power of His Cross and redemption, Newt has <br />been healed, restored; his emptiness filled and satisfied. Now Newt and <br />Callista are married as two whole adults, married in spirit and in truth. <br />Newt has found completion and wholeness that no woman, no substance, no <br />power, fame and no amount of wealth can provide. He is a new and whole man <br />in Christ who has found a secure identity, purpose, vision, based on God's <br />Word, Commandments and on the Constitution, Bill of Rights and founding <br />documents.</p> <p>My life followed much of the same pattern - marriage in a state of pain, <br />vulnerability, lack of judgment and maturity due to my unhealed childhood <br />traumas and losses. I came to Christ sooner than Newt, after my first <br />husband was killed during Viet Nam, and again after my second marriage was <br />in crisis. That second time, I had married again too soon, and married a man <br />who was a serial adulterer because of his own unhealed issues.</p> <p>People are attracted to the wrong people over and over until they deal with <br />their baggage at the Cross. Wounded, hurting, dysfunctional people are drawn <br />to other wounded dysfunctional people. Like Newt, I had married both times <br />to get away from home and to try to numb the pain of my childhood traumas <br />and fill the gaps and quench the fears and insecurities in my soul.  Like <br />Newt, I was a child seeking security and protection and nurture that no <br />human can provide.</p> <p>Even after coming to Christ, I could not save my second marriage; he had an <br />affair with an old girlfriend who was recently widowed and now they are <br />married. Through lots of prayer and counsel, I have come to see how my own <br />choices and behaviors hurt our marriage. Christ is still working on me, and <br />is my source of truth, strength, security, peace and joy...and respite from <br />pain and loss. Since my divorce I have worked with other similarly-wounded <br />adults in Celebrate Recovery and in prayer ministries that focus on healing. <br />I have received the help of counselors and groups and have come a long way <br />in recovery. Thank God, like Newt, I did not get into drugs or alcohol and <br />the other behaviors our parents did. I have shared my story because it will <br />help you to understand Newt and his journey better.</p> <p>Newt was not my first choice of candidates. I was for Romney at first, but <br />soon realized he had a serious problems with lying, corruption, <br />liberalism...so I switched to Michele Bachmann, then Rick Santorum, then <br />gradually to Newt, but it was out of conviction, based on evidence as I <br />watched all the debates, forums, listened to speeches and interviews, read <br />their articles, platforms and researched their records. I realized much of <br />what Bachmann and the media had said about Newt was false. I learned that <br />what the RNC and media were saying about Romney was false...there are whole <br />websites dedicated to telling and documenting the truth about Romney that <br />the media and Republican establishment are ignoring.</p> <p>Newt is now the only one I will vote for, even if I have to write in his <br />name. A repentant, redeemed Newt (who was always conservative and pro-life) <br />is far better than an unrepentant Romney...whose word is worthless and whose <br />record is radical liberal and whose plans are the same socialist liberalism, <br />according to his staffers and consultants.</p> <p>I will vote my conscience and stick with Newt.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer">PolitiJim.com - Committed to Giving You the Bird everyday. The Bird of Truth.<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9129398707869700858-874628040354534333?l=www.politijim.com' alt='' /></div>
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I think Romney voters are going to find that he doesn't believe what they think he believes. Check out what <a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/15/11216845-romney-offers-policy-details-at-closed-door-fundraiser">MSNBC</a> reported about his statements at a private fundraiser in Florida:<br />
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<blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Romney said the GOP must offer its own policies to woo Hispanics, including a "Republican DREAM Act," referring to the legislative proposal favored by Democrats that would offer illegal immigrants a limited path to citizenship, to give Hispanic voters a real choice between parties. <br />
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Now contrast that with this statement at the Fox News <a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/01/17/transcript-fox-news-channel-wall-street-journal-debate-in-south-carolina/">debate</a> in South Carolina:<br />
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<blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><strong>ROMNEY</strong>: And I have indicated I would veto the DREAM Act if provisions included in that act to say that people who are here illegally, if they go to school here long enough, get a degree here that they can become permanent residents. I think that's a mistake. I think we have to follow the law and insist those who come here illegally, ultimately return home, apply, and get in line with everyone else.<br />
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Or this from the Fox News <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/22/fox-news-google-gop-2012-presidential-debate/">debate</a> in September:<br />
<blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><p>WALLACE: Governor Romney, I want to continue a conversation that you had with Governor Perry in the last debate.</p><p>In Massachusetts, you vetoed legislation to provide interstate tuition rates to the children of illegals. Governor Perry of course signed the Texas Dream Act to do exactly that. But what about Governor Perry's argument that it's better to get these kids an education and to get them jobs than to consign them just to being a burden on the state?</p><p>ROMNEY: It's an argument I just can't follow. I've got be honest with you, I don't see how it is that a state like Texas -- to go to the University of Texas, if you're an illegal alien, you get an in-state tuition discount. You know how much that is? That's $22,000 a year.</p><p>Four years of college, almost $100,000 discount if you are an illegal alien go to the University of Texas. If you are a United States citizen from any one of the other 49 states, you have to pay $100,000 more. That doesn't make sense to me. And that kind of magnet --</p><p>(APPLAUSE)</p><p>ROMNEY: That kind of magnet draws people into this country to get that education, to get the $100,000 break. It makes no sense. </p></blockquote>It's amazing that the candidate who continually beat up Perry and Gingrich for being "soft" on immigration is so quickly softening his stance. I wonder what other flip flops are coming.<br />
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