Vast Write Wing - January 2009

[lwoolley]

Today when Obama swears that with God's help he will Perserve,Protect and Defend the Constitutuion of The United States I hope he will be successful. Just as Liberals claim to support the Men and Women of our Military but not the Mission I, as a conservative, offer the same support to President Obama. I will support him as President but can not support him in his mission to grow government and turn these United States into a more socialized country than it is already.
Larry

[lwoolley]

What about all of the Democrats that did not support equality? People like Sal Gores father, Robert (KKK) Bird were all racists. In fact I thought it was the Republican Party who were primarily responsible for thrusting America into equality legislature being passed.

Kevin Morris

[lwoolley]

Lynn - The American Legion has posted their policy on illegal immigration under an article entitled "A Strategy to Address Illegal Immigration
in the U.S." Looks like this might be something people interested in the issue could get behind in contacting their congressman/senators. Once they
are at the below web address, simply click on the article. It's pretty detailed (some 30 pages) but it appears they really researched the issues
and have made excellent recommendations.

http://www.legion.org/whatsnew/bulletins

Isn't it interesting that the U.S. Government will be spending billions to create jobs in this nation, but looks the other way by allowing 6 to 7 million illegal immigrants to continue to hold onto their jobs in this nation........where is the logic in that?

Keep up your fine efforts.

Best Regards
Duane Langerman
Temple, TX

[lwoolley]

Lynn, I must tell you that I had a different thought from yours about Ms. Obama's outfil for the daytime Inauguration festivities. When she walked out in that glittering gold apparel, I said "Oh my God, who is advising her on the proper attire for this particular part of the day. I have been a spectator of our transfers of power since F.D.R. and I have never seen anything like this for the daytime activities. I am sure all the glamour magacines will say that it was soooooo Jackie Kennedy, but I can tell you Jackie Kennedy would never have worn this day or night.

Bonnie, Midland, Texas

[theotherside]

Lynn Ole Boy,

For the past three years, my car has had the same bumper sticker on it traveling through Temple and other points. This particular bumper sticker can now come off. What does it read, you ask, Lynn Ole Boy. Thought you would never ask. It simply states;


JANUARY 20, 2009
THE END OF AN ERROR

Enough said. Now onto bigger and better things, like the return of The Fairness Doctrine where the radio airways can truly experience democracy in action rather than total domination by the right wing crazies. Let's have some left wing crazies to listen to as well. The Fairness Pole was never a real substitute for The Fairness Doctrine.

Your Loyal Listener,
Richard in Temple

[lwoolley]

[As of today, this is what is posted on the White House's website. What a travesty that the official website of our President would support the perverse and unhealthy lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) lifestyle.

President Obama spoke about personal responsibility in his inaugural address today; but those who practice homosexual activities are sentencing themselves to a painful and early death, all the while expecting us taxpayers to pay their medical bills. For HIV, which is only one of many sexually transmitted diseases frequently contracted by the LGBT community, the estimated lifetime cost per patient is over $600,000.

Mr. President, I support your contention that we as Americans need to become personally responsible in order to do our part to help strengthen our country. The young people in our nation are looking to you for direction, and we need for you to encourage them to become healthy and productive citizens by choosing to remain abstinent until marriage and then living in a monogamous relationship between one natural man and one natural woman for the remainder of their lives. -- Donna Garner]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/civil_rights/

Support for the LGBT Community

"While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect."
-- Barack Obama, June 1, 2007

Expand Hate Crimes Statutes: In 2004, crimes against LGBT Americans constituted the third-highest category of hate crime reported and made up more than 15 percent of such crimes. President Obama cosponsored legislation that would expand federal jurisdiction to include violent hate crimes perpetrated because of race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical disability. As a state senator, President Obama passed tough legislation that made hate crimes and conspiracy to commit them against the law.

Fight Workplace Discrimination: President Obama supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and believes that our anti-discrimination employment laws should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender identity. While an increasing number of employers have extended benefits to their employees' domestic partners, discrimination based on sexual orientation in the workplace occurs with no federal legal remedy. The President also sponsored legislation in the Illinois State Senate that would ban employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Support Full Civil Unions and Federal Rights for LGBT Couples: President Obama supports full civil unions that give same-sex couples legal rights and privileges equal to those of married couples. Obama also believes we need to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and enact legislation that would ensure that the 1,100+ federal legal rights and benefits currently provided on the basis of marital status are extended to same-sex couples in civil unions and other legally-recognized unions. These rights and benefits include the right to assist a loved one in times of emergency, the right to equal health insurance and other employment benefits, and property rights.

Oppose a Constitutional Ban on Same-Sex Marriage: President Obama voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment in 2006 which would have defined marriage as between a man and a woman and prevented judicial extension of marriage-like rights to same-sex or other unmarried couples.

Repeal Don't Ask-Don't Tell: President Obama agrees with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili and other military experts that we need to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The key test for military service should be patriotism, a sense of duty, and a willingness to serve. Discrimination should be prohibited. The U.S. government has spent millions of dollars replacing troops kicked out of the military because of their sexual orientation. Additionally, more than 300 language experts have been fired under this policy, including more than 50 who are fluent in Arabic. The President will work with military leaders to repeal the current policy and ensure it helps accomplish our national defense goals.

Expand Adoption Rights: President Obama believes that we must ensure adoption rights for all couples and individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation. He thinks that a child will benefit from a healthy and loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.

Promote AIDS Prevention: In the first year of his presidency, President Obama will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies. The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care and reduce HIV-related health disparities. The President will support common sense approaches including age-appropriate sex education that includes information about contraception, combating infection within our prison population through education and contraception, and distributing contraceptives through our public health system. The President also supports lifting the federal ban on needle exchange, which could dramatically reduce rates of infection among drug users. President Obama has also been willing to confront the stigma -- too often tied to homophobia -- that continues to surround HIV/AIDS.

Empower Women to Prevent HIV/AIDS: In the United States, the percentage of women diagnosed with AIDS has quadrupled over the last 20 years. Today, women account for more than one quarter of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses. President Obama introduced the Microbicide Development Act, which will accelerate the development of products that empower women in the battle against AIDS. Microbicides are a class of products currently under development that women apply topically to prevent transmission of HIV and other infections.

[lwoolley]

I have just returned from an historic event in which 30,000 patriotic fellow Texans welcomed our President back home. It was a wonderful event and although I differed with the President on some issues I believe he did what he thought was right. We have been kept safe from harms way. I am happy he commuted the sentences of Ramos and Compean even though it should of been a full pardon. I hope in the future you might be able to have these two agents on your show to tell their story. My wish is (since they can not sue the government) is that they get a huge movie deal, write a book and get on all kinds of talk shows. Thank you Lynn for keeping us informed on illegal immigration issues. I hope with this new administraion you will be on top of this issue. I think it helps very much to have folks like Roy Beck, Chris Simcox, Bay Buchanan and any others on the radio spreading the word.
Thank you and God Bless Sue in Midland, Tx

[lwoolley]

Pro-Life Friends,

1. Bears for Life initiatives on the Baylor University campus.
2. PLW ad blast at PP Waco in the Waco Trib.
3. Car pool invitation to Rally for Life in Austin on Saturday,
January 24

Baylor's pro-life student organization, Bears for Life, will take
the lead in Waco for Roe Week. For Wednesday and Thursday
of this week there will be a pink and blue display of 1,200 flags
on Fountain Mall (in front of Moody Library). The flags and
signs honor the over 1,200 lives lost in 2008 at the Planned
Parenthood Waco abortuary on Columbus Avenue.

Then at 7 p.m. Bears for Life will show a one-hour documentary
entitled "Demographic Winter." The documentary shows the
reality and results of the dramatic worldwide decline in fertility in
recent decades. A discussion led by Baylor faculty members
will follow documentary showing in Bennett Auditorium in
Draper Hall.

The Roe Week initiative of Pro-Life Waco will be a powerful ad
that will run each day for a full week in the Waco
Tribune-Herald. The message of the ad is "Life begins and
conception and ends at Planned Parenthood Waco.
1,246 abortions committed in 2007." You can see the ad
by clicking here.

Wacoans will car pool down to Austin on Saturday the 24th for
Texas Rally for Life Sponsor by the Texas Alliance for Life.
Check out the Rally events here. You are invited to join in.
Just let me know by responding to this email. Doel Garcia will
be departing from St. Mary's parking lot (15th and Columbus) at
10 a.m. to take in the march and the rally. Brian McCann will
be departing from St. Mary's at 7:30 a.m. to also take in the
special Mass for Life at San Jose Church celebrated by the
Most Reverend Bishop Gregory Aymond. Again, please let me
know if you would like to have a ride.

Let us continue to be faithful and pray hard and work hard for
the Gospel of Life.

Yours in Christ,
John Pisciotta
Pro-Life Waco, Director
john_pisciotta@prolifewaco.org
www.prolifewaco.org
201 Harrington Ave. Waco, TX 76706
254-644-0407

[lwoolley]

Lynn,

I’m with you all the way on the opening of your show today.

My fiancé, Jacque (pronounced like Jackie), is from West Virginia originally and I ask her all the time what is wrong with “her people” voting in Robert Byrd time and time again. When we visit her folks there, I see building and bridge one after another named after him. She is a newspaper editor and worked there for many years and the word around his staff is that he is completely out of it. His staff and aides do just about everything including telling him how to vote because he just can’t understand what is going on any more.

Also, on the state of the Mall here in D.C., it is a disgrace. Naturally when you have a large group of people some are going to litter. But, from what I have heard about the state of the grounds, this was more than a few bad apples. Obama voters as a group treated our nation’s capital like one big dumpster. It is disgraceful and in my mind shows a total lack of respect.

Just wanted to let you know how I felt. Great topics.

Thanks

Brandon

[lwoolley]

Here is the deal: Everyone in the world knows what the words "strengths and weaknesses" mean. There would be no confusion among students and teachers as to what these words mean. Such words give clear direction to educators as well as to textbook and TAKS test writers. However, the words "analyze and evaluate" do not make clear distinctions and would open the door for interpretation by various entities. For instance, a biology teacher could have his students "analyze and evaluate" the fossil record without actually having them make clear distinctions as to the "strengths and weaknesses" of the fossil record as it applies to evolution.

Students need to learn to make clear distinctions among theories. The blurring of those distinctions allows teachers and textbook/TAKS writers to manipulate and coalesce the issue as they so choose.

Parents expect their children to complete their science classes having established in their own minds what are the definite strengths and what are the definite weaknesses of evolutionary theory. That is called "education."

-- Donna Garner

EDUCATION

State Board of Ed split as science vote nears

Local board members unsure what outcome will be in evolution teaching debate.

By Molly Bloom
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, January 22, 2009
As the State Board of Education heads toward a decision on how Texas schools will teach theories about the origin and evolution of life on Earth, the board appears split between those pushing to continue teaching the "strengths and weaknesses" of scientific theories including evolution and those who favor removing the phrase.

Some who support removing the phrase — which has been part of the state science curriculum since 1988 — argue that the phrase can promote the teaching of creationism alongside evolution.


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Terri Leo sees no push to teach creationism in schools.

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Cynthia Dunbar says cutting phrase could limit discourse.
Board member Terri Leo , who represents part of Harris County, said at a Wednesday board meeting attended by more than 150 people that she was unaware of any board member who supported teaching creationism in public schools.

"To my knowledge there is no one" pushing for that, she said.

The board plans to hold an initial vote on adopting the new science standards today , a second vote on Friday and a final vote at its March meeting.

Proposed new standards written by a committee of educators and revised several times over the past year would remove the "strengths and weaknesses" phrase and instead require students to "analyze and evaluate scientific explanations."

University of Texas cellular biology professor Arturo De Lozanne told the board that the revised language is a more "accurate and descriptive" way of explaining how science should be taught.

Texas science standards play a major role in determining the material covered in textbooks, discussed in classrooms and covered on standardized tests.

Eugenie Scott, a physical anthropologist who is executive director of the National Center for Science Education, a California-based nonprofit group that advocates teaching evolution in public school science education, told the board that the debate over the new science standards is "about textbooks."

"This is about, two years from now, what will textbook publishers put in textbooks in order to sell them in Texas?" she said.

Board member Cynthia Dunbar, who represents Travis, Williamson and other counties, said she didn't see any disadvantages to leaving in the "strengths and weaknesses" language. Although some people who addressed the board said that the language could lead to the teaching of incorrect information about evolution, Dunbar said she was not concerned about that.

"Our students are smart enough that they can see through that," she said. "Taking (the phrase) out would further limit any active discourse in the classroom."

Board member Ken Mercer, who represents Travis, Hays and other counties, said that he's leaning toward keeping the language in place, but he pointed out that the proposed new standards are significantly different than the current ones in many ways.

"There are hundreds of revisions in there," he said. The strengths and weaknesses phrase "is just one part."

Although at least half a dozen vocal conservative board members have indicated that they support retaining the phrase, Mercer said he didn't have a clear sense of what the board would do when it voted.

"I'm not sure what's going to happen," he said.

Board member Rick Agosto , who represents a South Texas district , said that he expected today's vote on the science standards to be close. Agosto said he was "still listening to what both sides have to offer" but would probably vote in favor of the revised standards .

"I hope to see the expertise of our teachers and (curriculum writing) experts respected," he said.

mbloom@statesman.com; 445-3620

[lwoolley]

I have sent this e-mail to 1 Governor,1 congressman(us) and 1 senator(us) with no Reply from any!!!! I didn't give them as much as I am you!!!
I have a plan, it will create jobs, help in (if you believe) global warming, divert disaster and I have a way to pay for it without costing every tax payer....
(My name is Dennis Rose, I'm an inventor more than that a thinker, you have a problem I will work on a solution... but it has to be in something I know about)
Every year we have a disaster from storms. Last year it was Wisconsin rivers over flowing, causing billion's of dollars in damage.... here is my plan: Obama wants to up government spending by fixing infrastructure (roads and bridges) I say no! We have people for that, how about a water system that runs for top to bottom, and side to side, granted the state government will pay for the equipment and the labor but it's every state the amount of pipe to do the job would employ thousands, as well as the pumps and the construction would employ many.You can't divert a river but you can pump flood water anywhere. Right now their isn't any way to do that, but if you could pump flood water from that area to a drought area what would that do? For one it was minimize most disasters, also it would create humidity which in turn could create rain in a drought area, which would lead to cooler temperatures.You could also run pipe lines in fire prone areas , this pipeline doesn't have to run under ground its fresh water. We can run it on top of the ground, which will save in the cost in not having to bury it.
Part of the cost should go to the insurance companies wouldn't you think, I would, ok lets pay for this... I own a house I'm sure you do to but I don't own the minerals under my house if the government put a mineral tax into effect guess what, people that have 1000's of acres wouldn't be so fast to say you can't do anything with my property, the minerals under my house would be bought or given back to me I still wouldn't care I own 2/10's of an acre lets say a rate of $120.00 per year per acre it would cost me $24.00 a year, the size of the U.S. 3,536,294 sq miles X 640 = 2263228160 acres X 120 = $271,587,379,200.00 Dollars give or take a year.... Lynn I am pretty sure this is an efficient way to solve many of Americas fire.drought, and flood problems. Thanks,
Dennis Rose
Midland ,Texas

[lwoolley]

Lynn,

Listening to the sound bytes of President Obama's Inauguration Speech, I heard, "It's time to stop working for the good of the individual and start working for the good of the Nation." Or something to that effect. My question is when de we start calling each other Comrade? Because that quote is so socialist its communist. It's been a while since I read the Constitution of the USSR but I am sure you could find that line in there multiple times. Thanks for reading this e-mail, and i love your show.

Noah

[lwoolley]

Mr. Woolley,
Thank you for remaining calm and reminding us of the setbacks we face with this new administration. Twenty years ago I used to drag our small sons to the Abortion clinic on Saturdays to speak up for the unborn. Years of crying out to God for justice for these little ones, and, now, with the stroke of a pen, the President will begin to undo what we have fought so hard for. One man should not have the right to do such a thing! I am writing everyone I know to be a crusader for justice to say "Thank you" for standing up for the unborn, and inform us what things we can do to be most effective, besides praying. I listen to you on the way to tutor high school math students in the Dallas area.

God bless, Susan Reading

[lwoolley]

Lynn,

CNN is pushing a poll showing that 66% vs. 33% of Americans favor "Palestine" over Israel in the war in Gaza. I just don't think that really reflects most American views. The true American voice must respond with numbers and be heard. We must stand together. Thousands of these emails are going out across the world right now. Be a part of supporting Israel. See also the hateful messages being left if you need motivation to become involved. Please pass this to all concerned. If you have not already done so, please click on the link and then simply click on the Israeli flag.
http://www.israel-vs-palestine.com/gz/
Please tell everyone to vote.

*If Fox news did this poll, I just bet, it would be completely the opposite percentage!

Thanks,
Rebecca Messner
Salado, Texas

[lwoolley]

Dear Lynn,

Baylor’s pro-life student organization, Bears for Life, will take
the lead in Waco for Roe Week. The News Release is
available here.

For Thursday January 22—the Anniversary of the
Roe v Wade Supreme Court abortion decision—Bears for
Life will have a display of 1,200 pink and blue flags on
Fountain Mall (in front of Moody Library). The flags and
signs honor the over 1,200 lives lost yearly at Planned
Parenthood Waco on Columbus Avenue.

Then at 7 p.m. Bears for Life will show a one-hour
documentary entitled “Demographic Winter.” The
documentary shows the reality and results of the dramatic
worldwide decline in fertility in recent decades. A discussion
led by Baylor faculty members will follow the documentary
showing in Bennett Auditorium in Draper Hall.

Warm regards,

John Pisciotta
Bears for Life Faculty Sponsor
254-644-0407