Saturday, August 27, 2011

MEET RICK AND ANITA PERRY: THE RIGHT PEOPLE FOR THE RIGHT TIME

Rick Perry is a fifth generation Texan, the son of hardscrabble west Texas tenant farmers – Democrats but conservatives through and through. He grew up in a farm town too small to be on the state map. Life was so hard that he was six years old before his house had indoor plumbing. His mother sewed his clothes, including the underwear he wore to college.

He is an Eagle Scout. After Paint Creek High School , he attended Texas A&M, graduated, and was commissioned into the Air Force where he became a C-130 pilot.

Now 61 years old, he has won nine elections to four different offices in Texas state government. In the first three elections he ran as a Democrat then switched to the Republican Party. He is currently the 47th governor of Texas – a position he has held for 11 years, the longest tenure of any governor in the nation.

He has never lost an election.

Rick Perry was the Lieutenant Governor to whom Governor George Bush handed over the office after winning the 2000 Presidential election. Since then, Perry won gubernatorial elections in 2002, 2004, and 2010, the last time by 55% against a field consisting of a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Green Party, and an Independent.

Since he became its Governor, Texas – a right to work state that taxes neither personal income nor capital gains – has added more jobs than the other 49 states combined. In the last two years, low taxes and little regulation led his state to create 47% of all jobs created in the entire nation. Five of the top ten cities with the highest job growth in the nation are in Texas . People follow jobs, so in the last four years for which data are available, Texas led every state in net interstate migration growth.

Perry signed ground-breaking “loser pays” tort reform and medical litigation rules that caused malpractice insurance rates to fall. Some 20,000 doctors have since moved to Texas ..

Texas boasts 58 of the Fortune 500 companies – more than any other state. Since May 2011 Texas resumed its pre-recession employment levels. Only two other states and the District of Columbia have done that.

Texas ships 16% of the nation’s export value. California trails at 11%. Of the 70 companies that have fled California so far in 2011, 14 relocated in Texas ..

In this year’s Texas legislative season, Perry got most of what he wanted. With no new taxes, a fiscally lean state budget was passed leaving $6 billion in a rainy day fund even as other states around the country struggled to balance budgets and avoid more deficit borrowing. A voter ID bill passed that was designed to prevent ballot box fraud and illegal voting. A bill passed that makes plaintiffs pay court costs and attorney fees if their suits are deemed frivolous.

Perry scored points even in his legislative failures. He failed to get sanctuary cities banned – Texas towns in which police cannot question detainees about their immigration status. The blame fell on the legislature. Perry also failed to get a so-called “anti-groping” bill passed that would put Transportation Security Administration agents in prison if they touch the genitals, anus, or breasts of passengers in a pat down. Federal officials threatened to halt all flights out of Texas airports and the bill died in special session. That endeared Texans even more to TSA employees living in Texas ..

Perry jogs daily in the morning. He has no bodyguard with him, but his daughter’s dog runs by his side and he carries a laser-guided automatic pistol in his belt. Last year while jogging in an undeveloped area, a coyote paralleled his jogging route, eyeing his dog. He drew his pistol and killed the animal with one shot, leaving it where it fell. “He became mulch," Perry said. Animal rights groups protested, but Perry shrugged it off. “Don’t come after my dog,” he warned them.

Recently, Obama asked Perry to delay the July 7 execution of Humberto Leal in order to comply with the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Perry refused. Therefore Obama asked the US Supreme Court to delay the execution because it would damage US foreign relations. The Court refused 5-4 and Perry ordered the execution to go forward as scheduled. Over the howls of diplomats, politicians, and the UN, Leal was administered a lethal injection at 6:20 p.m. Before he died, he admitted his guilt and asked for forgiveness.

The case has special implications for Perry, who is considering a run for the presidency in 2012. Even his critics resent federal interference in a Texas execution, which is related to a state, not a federal, crime – an alcohol and drug-fueled rape and murder 17 years ago by an illegal whose family brought him into the country 35 years ago as a child. The interference hinges not on the man’s guilt, which Leal’s advocates acknowledged, but on a technicality – failure to inform Leal that he could have gotten legal representation from the Mexican consulate in lieu of the court-appointed attorneys who represented him. Independent Texans saw Obama’s interference as another intrusion of federal power into the affairs of a state, which could cost Obama support in other states.

Needless to say, Perry is a hard-edged conservative and a ferocious defender of 10th Amendments rights (“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”) – an explicit restriction of the federal government to only those powers granted in the Constitution. Perry accuses the federal government, especially the Obama administration, of illegal overreach.

Perry said “no thanks” to the feds whose stimulus offered taxpayer dollars for education and unemployment assistance. The strings on “free money” from Washington , he said, would restrict Texas in managing its own affairs. Perry even depleted all state funds to fight recent wildfires before asking Washington for disaster relief. His request has been ignored, which comes across as an unvarnished federal power play, further pitting Perry and Texans against the federal government.

ANITA PERRY:

Anita Perry is a native Texan from Haskell. She is dedicated to improving the health of her state, preserving its culture and promoting its outstanding business climate.

Mrs. Perry worked as a nurse for 17 years in surgery, pediatrics, intensive care, administration and teaching. Her advocacy for the profession has been recognized by Texas Tech University, which renamed its nursing school in her honor in 2008. To aid in the nursing shortage, two endowments are set up in her name: The Anita Thigpen Perry Nursing Excellence Scholarship at West Texas A&M University, and The Anita Thigpen Perry Endowment at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

In 2000 she created an empowering and educational event, the annual Texas Conference for Women, which brings together more than 7,000 women from across the state. A small-town girl herself, she has a passion for the authenticity of Texas and recognizes preservation efforts through her annual First Lady's Texas Treasures Award. Mrs. Perry travels the state promoting tourism, and has spoken at thirty-seven Main Street Program community events. She also supports trade efforts with international markets, and has led economic development delegations to Argentina, Brazil, Slovakia, England, Japan and Germany.

Mrs. Perry earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from West Texas State University, now West Texas A&M University, and a master's degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

She is a staunch conservative who feels that Obama Care will be the final nail our great countries fiscal mess. It has been said that she is the one who convinced her husband to run for President by telling him Rick, you need to get out of your comfort zone.

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As opposed to the current leaches who infest the White Hut, these two sound like they'd be a credit to the White House and the nation.

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

AN INSIGHT INTO THE ABSURDITY OF OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION

This president is a major FOOL!  Need *more* proof?  Read this story from Neal Boortz.
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Obama to streamline regulations .. yeah, right!


Here’s what Barack Obama’s administration is really good at: Making it sound like he is all for something, but not actually doing anything about it.  Government regulations is a case-in-point … yesterday his administration announced plans to streamline hundreds of hideous government regulations.  This “review” is said to “likely” save $10 billion over five years.  That’s great.  I truly hope that Obama is serious about this and it is carried out in full.  But why should I believe him?

What happened to the executive order Obama issued earlier this year?  Oh you don’t remember that, do you?  At the beginning of the year, Obama issued an executive order stating that all rules “must promote predictability and reduce uncertainty” and “must identify and use the best, most innovative, and least burdensome tools for achieving regulatory ends.”  

Since issuing that executive order, the administration has repealed a whopping one rule.  You may remember that asinine rule .. it was the rule where a spilled milk emergency was treated the same, under the eyes of government, as an oil spill and dairy farmers were required to have emergency plans in case of a spill.  
Seriously!  

So Obama issues this executive order, and the administration repeals one stinking rule.  In the meantime, since the beginning of this year, the administration has proposed 340 new regulations that are estimated to cost us $65 billion .. and this is the just the cost they could estimate based on the rules that actually underwent an economic analysis.  That figure is definitely higher.  So let’s get this straight .. Obama’s new plan is said to save $10 billion over the next five years, so $2 billion a year.  Meanwhile, in this year alone he has proposed $65 billion in new rules.  And we are supposed to be hailing this as a great victory?  I’m not surprised though.  This is the same administration that has increase spending by 25% and then claims that we can’t afford spending cuts.

If Obama was seriously about stimulating our economy, he would do something drastic about government regulations.  Repealing ObamaCare would be a wonderful start.  Imagine if Americans suddenly had $2.8 trillion more money in their pockets to spend and invest .. imagine what that could do for our economy!  Why $2.8 trillion?  That is the amount of money that government regulations are projected to cost U.S. taxpayers each year.  That is money spent complying with government rules and regulations.  This means that the average worker worked 77 days this year just to pay the price of complying with government regulations.
 
By the way .. who manages to weasel themselves out from under the thumb of government regulations?  Union bosses.  Seriously!  Just take a look at how the Obama administration wants to increase regulations, but not on unions.

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

GE AND CHINA: MORE OBAMA LEADERSHIP FAILURE

Today's New York Times reports that as China strives for leadership in the world’s most advanced industries, it sees commercial jetliners — planes that may someday challenge the best from Boeing and Airbus — as a top prize.  And no Western company has been more aggressive in helping China pursue that dream than one of the aviation industry’s biggest suppliers of jet engines and airplane technology, G.E.

On Friday, during the visit of the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, to the United States, G.E. plans to sign a joint-venture agreement in commercial aviation that shows the tricky risk-and-reward calculations American corporations must increasingly make in their pursuit of lucrative markets in China.
G.E., in the partnership with a state-owned Chinese company, will be sharing its most sophisticated airplane electronics, including some of the same technology used in Boeing’s new state-of-the-art 787 Dreamliner

For G.E., the pact is a chance to build upon an already well-established business in China, where the company has booming sales of jet engines, mainly to Chinese airlines that are now buying Boeing and Airbus planes. But doing business in China often requires Western multinationals like G.E. to share technology and trade secrets that might eventually enable Chinese companies to beat them at their own game — by making the same products cheaper, if not better. 

The other risk is that Western technologies could help China play catch-up in military aviation — a concern underscored last week when the Chinese military demonstrated a prototype of its version of the Pentagon’s stealth fighter, even though the plane could be a decade away from production.
The first customer for the G.E. joint venture will be the Chinese company building a new airliner, the C919, that is meant to be China’s first entry in competition with Boeing and Airbus.

In addition, General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha, Wis., to Beijing. In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year. but paid no taxes-the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the united States.

So let me get this straight.   President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar).   Immelt is supposed to help create jobs. I guess the President forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs.

If this doesn't show you the total lack of leadership of this President, I don't know what does.

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

I, for one, am sick and tired of this "multi-culturism" crap permeating throughout the Liberal moronic enclaves in this country.  We are acquiescing to the many demands of too many illegal immigrants who, beside having no right to be here, are demanding that we change our lifestyles, laws and regulations to satisfy them.  Meanwhile, their loyalties and allegiances remain with their country of origin.

I SAY "BULLSH*T TO THAT!  And I agree with Teddy's philosophy as clearly stated below.



'In  the first place, we should insist that if the  immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes  an American and assimilates himself to us, he  shall be treated on an exact equality with  everyone else, for it is an outrage to  discriminate against any such man because of  creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is  predicated upon the person's becoming in every  facet an American, and nothing but an  American...There can be no divided allegiance  here. Any man who says he is an American, but  something else also, isn't an American at all.  We have room for but one flag, the American  flag... We have room for but one language here,  and that is the English language.. And we have  room for but one sole loyalty and that is a  loyalty to the American  people.'  
 
Theodore  Roosevelt 1907
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The eagle is gone!


The skunk has replaced the Eagle as the new symbol of the American Presidency. It is half black, half white, and everything it does stinks! 

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Top 12 reasons to vote Democrat

Thought you might enjoy this. When your "friends" cannot explain why they voted for Democrats, give them this list.  They can then pick their reasons from this "TOP 12"...


1. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.

2. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

3. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

4. I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.

5. I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.

6. I voted Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

7. I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social
Security benefits.

8. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution
as the Democrats see fit.

9. I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

10. I voted Democrat because I think that it's better to pay billions to people who hate us for their oil, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle or gopher.

11. I voted Democrat because while we live in the greatest, most wonderful country in the world, I was promised "HOPE AND CHANGE".

12. I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ass, it's unlikely that I'll ever have another point of view.


Friday, August 12, 2011

WE'VE FIGURED HIM OUT!

WE'VE FIGURED HIM OUT!

By Ben Stein


Why was President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. (Pig in a poke means: an offering or deal that is foolishly accepted without being examined first.)

They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white and anti-American writings in his books.

They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by "his" minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student.

They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, and his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth.
Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, and not a fan of this country.

The American people have already awakened to the truth that the "Stimulus" Bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way helped all Americans.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never can be -"a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society."   Either the costs go up or the free society goes away... an historical truth.

These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud - if believed to be caused solely by man.. She has also signed on to a Small Firearms Treaty at the U.N. This is a back door gun control move. This is approved by the Senate and a 2nd Amendment majority doesn't exist in the Senate now. It will supersede all U.S. Law and the 2nd Amendment. All citizen firearm possession will be eliminated through confiscation. Just like Great Britain and Australia .

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.There is his urgency and our opportunity. 


Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Monday, August 8, 2011

Another of Obama's Pathetic Accomplishments

HERE IS a listing of countries that now have better credit ratings than the United States. Countries who are considered less likely to default on their debt than the United States of America. Sad and pathetic display. All of the following have AAA ratings. We now have a AA+ rating, which is a step lower.
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Canada
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Hong Kong
  • Liechtenstein
  • Luxembourg
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Singapore
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom
All of those countries are considered safer bets than the United States.
Bonus: Countries with credit ratings at the same level as the United States.
  • Belgium
  • New Zealand
And that’s it. We’re considered as dependable as New Zealand and Belgium. Hope and change, baby. Hope and change.


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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Sen. Marco Rubio on DEBT CRISIS...without need for a teleprompter.

This is a MUST WATCH video on the debt crisis issue and the hypocrisy of the Democrats in promoting increases in taxes and spending.  And he said it all flawlessly...without need for a teleprompter, unlike the Idiot-in-Chief who can't speak one minute of lies without depending on a teleprompter.



Thank God we have young Republicans being elected who are actually committed  to saving our country, our kids, our grandkids from living under the burden of massive debt.

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