Electoral Votes-VOTE FOR RON PAUL

This is interesting.  Texas has 38 electoral votes and New Hampshire has 4 electoral votes.  Yet, Romney is campaigning in New Hampshire and ignoring Texas.  Only California with 55 electoral votes has more than Texas.  Obviously, Romney concedes California to the Democrats.  But, Texas?  Is he so confident he has Texas in his hip pocket he can ignore us?

We haven't even had our 2012 primary election in Texas yet.  Typically, we have our primary elections the first week in March on what is known as "Super-Tuesday."  The Department of Justice, the federal courts and  the Democrats have tied the 2012 Texas primary elections up in litigation and numerous court appeals so the March date came and went with no primary election in Texas which could have affected the outcome for Santorum or Gingrich.

Currently, the Federal courts have tentatively set May 29th as the Texas primary election date.  We've already held our county conventions without primary election results.  That was odd.  Now, if we do get to vote on May 29th I suggest we all VOTE FOR RON PAUL just to send a message to Romney and the Democrats that Texans don't like being shut out of the primary election process of choosing a candidate for president.

BO must GO

Romney-The Republican Establishment Candidate

I don't particularly like Romney. I think he is a political opportunist poor little rich boy that wants to be president and is using his extreme wealth to buy his way into the presidency.  I think there is something inherently dishonest with that.

Romney is the fair-hair child of the Republican establishment know-it-alls.  I just hope Romney et al can overcome the barrage of negative campaign and election trickery of Obama and his Democrat henchmen.  I'm a little fearful Romney like Dole and McCain doesn't have the pit-bulldog spirit and mentality to attack Obama and his associations with all his former and current Marxists leaning colleagues.

However, that all being said, I WILL VOTE for Romney.  I will vote for a cur dog before I will vote for Obama.

BO must GO

"American" or "United States American"

How do you call yourself?  Do you refer to yourself as an "American", or do you refer to yourself as a "United States American"?  This may seem strange to you good folks as it seems very strange to me.  I have always thought of myself as being an "American".  You ask, "Why do you ask such a strange question?"

The following may seem strange to most of you, else I'm awfully out of step with the times in which we live.

As you know from my previous post I was the Chairman of the Resolutions Committee for the Republican Party Convention of Washington County, Texas, last Saturday.  Presenting the proposed resolutions to the convention floor for discussion and/or amendment everything went fine for the first four resolutions.  They were more or less vanilla commendations for various party officials.  The very first resolution of substance naturally had the word "American" in it, as in "The American taxpayers are. . .etc."  When the resolution was presented to the convention floor and opened for discussion, this man asks to be recognized for discussion.  He objected to the use of the word "America" to describe the "United States of America", and he objected to the word "American" to describe citizens of the "United States of America."  His contention was everyone living in the Western Hemisphere (North America and South America) are all "Americans" and we in the "United States of America" should not use that term specifically to us.  He proposed an amendment to substitute "United States of America" for "America" and "United States American" for the word "American".

Duh!  I could hardly believe what I had just heard.   I protested the amendment saying the word "American" was widely accepted all over the world to mean citizens of the United States of America.  I also protested that even in our own culture we typically refer to ourselves as "Americans" and many of our social, cultural, and financial institutions refer to us as "Americans".  I also protested there were songs like "America The Beautiful" and "I'm Proud to be an American".  In the opening of the convention a man sang "God Bless America".   I also protested there were many instances in the remaining proposed resolutions where the words, "America" and "American" were used throughout the text.  Nevertheless, the amendment was brought to a floor vote.

Duh!  I could hardly believe what just occurred.  The amendment passed with a substantial vote.  I thought, "This is going to be a nightmare making all the substitutions in all instances throughout the text of the remaining 15 proposed resolutions."  This situation was mollified by another delegate that proposed a declaratory statement that in all instances where the words "America" or "American" occurred in the text they were to mean "The United States of America" and/or "United States American".  It passed.

But, I can't get over so many of the people at the convention were in agreement that we are not "Americans", rather we are "United States Americans".  I wonder if Canadians, Brazilians, Costa Ricans, or Cubans consider themselves to be Americans?

What do you think?  Someone needs to explain the meaning of this to me, and the reasons for this trend in our culture.  I'm at a total loss.



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Republican County Convention - Resolutions

This year I'm the Chairman of the Resolutions Committee for the Republican Party of Washington County, Texas.  I've been very busy for several weeks writing resolutions, coordinating resolutions from others and discussing the resolutions with the committee.  Our county convention is tomorrow evening.  When it is over I will have a little more time to devote to my blog.  In the future I'll post  a few of the edited versions of some of the more interesting resolutions passed by the convention.

Our Afghanistan Troops & the News Media

I really wish the mainstream media would get behind and support our troops fighting in Afghanistan.  Instead, at every opportunity they do whatever they can to discredit our soldiers in the most derogatory ways possible.  If  the troops so much as do anything that impairs the holiness of Islam and/or the radical Muslim terrorists it is splashed all over the newspapers and on television in graphic photographic images much like the Los Angeles Times did on this most recent incident. Yet the enemy can do whatever they want with impunity and it is not covered to the same extent.  It is usually buried in the back of the newspapers and only scarcely mentioned on television, if at all.

So let's get off the backs of our guys in Afghanistan.  War is not a Sunday afternoon church picnic.  It is HELL!   You do things (like kill people and break things) you would never think of doing back home in Rosebud, Illinois, or Brooklyn, New York, or Casper, Wyoming, or Brenham, Texas.  It's easy to sit on your pompous rear-end and criticize.  I wonder how the Los Angeles Times editor, Mr. Maharj, would act if he was thrust into combat in a war zone?  Lets dispense with the foolish notion our troops must be the poster child of "goody-two-shoes" for the rest of the world. . . they don't give a damn.  What they do respect is sudden and severe force.

The Young and the Old

Early this morning I went with our son, his wife and our granddaughter to the local high school parking lot for our granddaughter to participate in the Blue Bell 5K run.  The place was swirling with a sea of humanity.  Our granddaughter was number 3796.  Someone said over 4,000 people participated.  After the race all the participants got all the Blue Bell ice cream they could eat for free.

What was significant about this?  I never felt so old in my entire life.  I looked all around and all I saw was young people, very young people.  Lots of young people from toddlers to only a handful over the age of 50 years.  It made me realize how old I really am.  Though I enjoyed seeing our granddaughter run I don't think I will go to another.  I know I'm old, but I don't like being so forcefully reminded of it.

Social Security Broke and Defunct

Ever wonder why Social Security is broke and defunct?  Small wonder with such things as portrayed by the following news release by the Social Security Administration today.  I have no problem trying to help people with health issues, but why the Social Security Fund?  Why not have special health and medical funds set up to support such causes with money appropriated from general operating  funds or special taxes?  Not Social Security. . . it was originally set up as a retirement fund to supplement people's retirement until it got so large the greedy politicians could not resist using the money for all manner of other things such as this.  Small wonder the Social Security fund is depleted.

Social Security Announces New Conditions for Compassionate Allowances Program

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced 52 new Compassionate Allowances conditions, primarily involving neurological disorders, cancers and rare diseases.  The Compassionate Allowances program fast-tracks disability decisions to ensure that Americans with the most serious disabilities receive their benefit decisions within days instead of months or years.  

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“Social Security will continue to work with the medical community and patient organizations to add more conditions,” Commissioner Astrue said.  “With our Compassionate Allowances program, we quickly approved disability benefits for nearly 61,000 people with severe disabilities in the past fiscal year, and nearly 173,000 applications since the program began.”

The Compassionate Allowances initiative identifies claims where the nature of the applicant’s disease or condition clearly meets the statutory standard for disability. With the help of sophisticated new information technology, the agency can quickly identify potential Compassionate Allowances and then quickly make decisions.  

Social Security launched the Compassionate Allowances program in 2008 with a list of 50 diseases and conditions.  The announcement of 52 new conditions, effective in August, will increase the total number of Compassionate Allowances conditions to 165.  The conditions include certain cancers, adult brain disorders, a number of rare genetic disorders of children, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, immune system conditions, and other disorders.

     

Race Relations

In 2008 we elected the first black man to be president.  I thought  surely that was prima facia evidence we as a nation had put aside all our racial prejudices once and for all and could move forward.

Wrong.  I believe this is the most racial president ever.  He sees the world through a white-on-black racial prism.

A "white" Hispanic man shoots and kills a 17-year old black young man in Florida and the main stream media, the president, members of Congress, and the usual racial pimps Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan go berserk on the TV airways and convict the shooter of murder without a whit of solid evidence.  The Black Panthers even put a bounty on his head and beat the drums to hang him.  None are content to let the criminal system work.

A 78-year old frail white man in East Toledo, Ohio, was set upon and beaten to death by a gang of blacks.  Not a peep from the above mentioned racial and civil rights experts.  A 90-year old white WW II veteran and his 85-year old white wife in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are set upon by a black man.  He is beaten and she is raped to the extent she dies from her injuries.  Not a peep from the above mentioned racial and civil rights experts.

In Chicago a 6-year old Latino girl is killed by a stray bullet fired by a member of a black gang.  The president and the others are conspicuously quite.   In Chicago black young men kill other black young men every day of the week.  The greatest danger to a young black man is not a white man.  It is a black man.  Yet, we hear nothing about this from the so-called self-appointed racial and civil rights experts.

So, this is where we are.  We are more and more polarized as concerns racial relations between whites and blacks.  I would hope for a more fair and balanced approach by the president, et al to find solutions to the racial strife, but I'm not holding my breath.  The president thinks he has more to gain politically, and the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, et al make their lavish lifestyle living from rabble-rousing white-on-black racial strife and conflict.

BO must GO