Vast Write Wing - September 2009

[lwoolley]

Hi Lynn,
Listening to you today (9/23/09) about Obama's speech at the UN. Eleanor
Roosevelt and Alger Hiss would really be proud of what is happening. Our
president is setting us up for "One World Socialism" and I believe it is
a culmination of world-wide effort which has been on going for many
years. The "Climate Change" thing and its concomitant carbon tax are
really just the means to an end: make the cost of electricity increase to
a point where it will prohibit the "average American" cannot afford a
single family home. We are already just about to the point where the
electric company will be able to insure that your A/C system will limit
your winter temp to 68 degrees, and summer to 80 degrees. ("Smart" meters
and thermostats.) Then, as property taxes increase outrageously to
support schools and public services, more people will be financially
forced into apartments or "condos" which will be "more economically
efficient."
Am I paranoid? I don't think so.
Regards, Al

[lwoolley]

9.22.09 -- Excerpts from Jason Embry's First Reading, Austin American-Statesman

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/ ... uston.html

Much was made over the weekend of the brief YouTube clip in which Gov. Rick Perry, speaking last week to a business group in Houston, jokingly asked whether there was a recession.

The Perry campaign has been saying the comments were taken out of context. Now you can decide. The Hutchison campaign, which filmed Perry in Houston, has posted his full remarks.

The crux of his speech was that Texas is doing better than the rest of the country economically. It’s the crux of most Perry speeches these days.

Two critical passages:

First, Perry says, “We’ve got our own challenges. When you’re the No. 1 exporting state in the country, which we have been for the last seven years, and you have that kind of international and national contraction of the economy, sure, you’re going to be impacted by it and we have our challenges. But we’re still substantially better than any other state. We’re 1.8 percent less than the national average on unemployment. It’s not lost on me that those Texans that have lost a job, that’s a family. But what we can do and what we do work on, Dan, every day, the real answer to that is not creating another big-government program to keep people unemployed. The answer is to create a climate where the jobs get created in this state and that man and woman can have a good job to take care of their family in the future.”

About 20 seconds later, he says, “Mayor Giuliani asked me, he said, ‘Give me the Cliff Notes version of how this happened.’ He said, ‘Why is Texas kind of recession-proof, if you will?’ As a matter of fact, just today, I think, Michael, you said someone had put a report out that the first state that’s coming out of the recession is going to be the State of Texas. I told him, I said, ‘We’re in one?’ Seriously, the fact is that because we have positioned ourselves so well economically, we’re going to be the first state that starts showing that major recovery and then the rest of the states are going to follow us out of it.”

Here is part one, which is the portion in which Perry makes the joke questioning whether there is a recession.

[Please go to the following link to view the three-part video of Gov. Perry's speech. Then you can judge for yourself as to whether Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison took Gov. Perry's comments out of context. I believe she most certainly did.

Under Gov. Perry, Texas created more than half the jobs in the United States (2008), was the last state to go through the recession, and has over 1,000 people moving to Texas each day. In August 2009 (latest unemployment data -- http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/press/2 ... epress.pdf), the national unemployment rate was 9.7 while Texas' unemployment rate was 8.0.

Three-part YouTube of Gov. Perry's speech on Sept. 17, 2009, to Houston Chamber of Commerce:

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/ ... uston.html

-- Donna Garner]

[lwoolley]

Do you know why they've been fighting over Kosovo since 1389? Why was Marshal Tito the favorite Communist of the west? As a patriotic naturalized American ex-Yugoslav of the Muslim Bosnian minority, what would you do if you knew about the massacre at Srebrenica before it happened?

www.americanhonorbooks.com

jnp

[lwoolley]

lynn-
so you feel we should not even talk
to iran or other countries you determine are "evil"? you would rather
drop bombs on their people? do you
really believe we can acheive peace by
blowing up people. if so, i hope you
remember to sign up to fight in the next war -- unlike your chickenhawk
promotion of the iraq war. but dont expect me to send my children to kill
and be killed in your neocon dreams.
sincerely, alan northcutt
Sent from my iphone.

[lwoolley]

Another day, another insult. Sarcasm? Satire? No! A lack of anything to say that means something.

Why not be satirical about health care? You could write about how funny it is for you to watch little children suffer because they are born imperfect and have little or any hope to live because they have a misshapen valve in their heart.

You seem to think you are so noble in your efforts to stop abortion. Yet, you are not so noble and appear to think that when they’re born, “they’re on their own.”

That’s your creed. Good health to those who can afford it, death to those who can’t.
LS

[lwoolley]

Lynn-
The only thing more caustic than Ben Barack’s (sp) hair gel, is probably his hair. Your callers are awesome. Another great show.
Round Rock Ron

Ps- Bill Bennett was in a silly mood today also. Maybe it is catching. The swine flu version for talk show host.

[lwoolley]

Why? Why? A League of Free Nations?

What a moronic idea. To have an organization that only believes in what the other nations believe in? where would they meet? At the Whataburger on I-35? Why don’t you plant the seeds, finance the building of a place to have it and make a speech on Independence Ave in DC?

Geeezzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Your knowledge of diplomacy and how to get things done runs the gamut from X to Y. Your sophomoric (showing the naive lack of judgment that accompanies immaturity) mind is overwhelming.

I heard your piece and sat here shaking my head. You ought to resign your talk show immediately. You have shamed the brotherhood of talk show hosts with your commentary.


LS

[lwoolley]

To: Open Letter to Texas Congressman Chet Edwards
Re: Anti-Faith Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)
From: Donna and Wayne Garner
Date: 9.25.09

Because we are people of faith and most of the people in your District 17 are also, we ask you to vote against the anti-faith Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) if it comes to the House floor for a vote. ENDA (H.R. 3017) was introduced by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), an openly gay Congressman.

The hearing in the House Education and Labor Committee yesterday was supposed to present the pros and cons of this bill. Instead, out of 9 witnesses called to testify, only 1 opposed ENDA. Rep. Barney Frank also testified.

Supposedly ENDA is to end discrimination. Instead, the unfairly stacked witnesses of 8 to 1 indicate that discrimination against the bill was deliberately orchestrated by the House Committee.

ENDA would require faith-based employers to choose between granting special workplace protections on the basis of sexual orientation. This would go against people's closely held religious beliefs. Christian employers would be forced to make employment decisions that would violate their consciences. If they chose not to hire Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) employees, the employers could face the risk of prosecution.

It is not only people of faith who do not want to hire GLBT employees. Many employers do not want to hire GLBT employees because of the unhealthy lifestyle these people practice. The medical data is very clear: People who choose the GLBT lifestyle suffer a multitude of unhealthy consequences and often, early death.

Employers know GLBT employees will have a high rate of absenteeism because of their increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases and other medical conditions. GLBT employees will also cause employers’ healthcare costs to soar.

Here are the medical facts, most of which come from the U. S. government’s own agencies:

From the U. S. Food and Drug Administration:
Blood Donations from Men Who Have Sex with Other Men Questions and Answers -- 7.10.09 (http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccin ... 108186.htm )

Men who have sex with men also have an increased risk of having other infections that can be transmitted to others by blood transfusion. For example, infection with the Hepatitis B virus is about 5-6 times more common and Hepatitis C virus infections are about 2 times more common in men who have sex with other men than in the general population. Additionally, men who have sex with men have an increased incidence and prevalence of Human Herpes Virus-8 (HHV-8). HHV-8 causes a cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma in immunocompromised individuals.


· The latest Centers for Disease Control figures (2006 -- http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveilla ... ence_6.pdf) indicate that 69% of HIV cases are people who have practiced male-to-male sexual activity and/or drug use. However, the figure is actually higher than that because the heterosexual percentage of 31% includes those who practice bisexual activities and/or drug use.



· These CDC statistics prove that HIV is largely being passed by those who practice homosexual and/or bisexual activities and/or drug use -- all completely preventable activities. People are spreading HIV through their bad choices.



Dr. Paul Benson, a Berkeley physician, said in BetweentheLines (5.28.09, Issue 1722) -- a homosexual newspaper):

Men who have had sex with men since 1977 have an HIV prevalence (the total number of cases of a disease that are present in a population at a specific point in time) 60 times higher than the general population, 800 times higher than first time blood donors and 8000 times higher than repeat blood donors (American Red Cross). Even taking into account that 75% of HIV infected men who have sex with men already know they are HIV positive and would be unlikely to donate blood, the HIV prevalence in potential donors with history of male sex with males is 200 times higher than first time blood donors and 2000 times higher than repeat blood donors.

HPV affects approximately 65 percent of HIV-negative gay men, and nearly 95 percent of HIV-positive gay men, according to New England Journal study. Condoms only provide about a 50 percent protection rate against HPV, Benson said.

The American Psychological Association now states: "There is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that an individual develops a heterosexual, bisexual, gay or lesbian orientation. Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors. Many think that nature and nurture both play complex roles. ..."


As the Congressman who represents District 17, we expect you to vote against ENDA.



Sincerely,



Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Garner

wgarner1@hot.rr.com

[lwoolley]

Wanted to be sure you saw this report from the Dallas Morning News. According to the story, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, “living illegally in the U.S. in the small town of Italy, about 45 miles south of Dallas, pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden and expressed a desire to kill Americans…In conversations with agents posing as members of an al-Qaeda sleeper cell, Smadi said he came to the U.S. to wage jihad, or holy war. He told agents he wanted to target military recruitment centers, but eventually settled on financial institutions.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 7db8b.html

Jamie

[lwoolley]

Obama school chant in NJ:

Eerily reminiscent of the sign over the Auschwitz concentration camp- 'Arbeit Macht Freiheit'.
'Work Makes Freedom'.
Also, I would call it a 'rap' instead of a 'chant'.
Turns my gut to the point where I want to puke up my toenails!

Cliff

[lwoolley]

Lynn,

Rick Perry always dances on the right side of the room when an election is on the horizon. This is not the first time he has trumpeted border security. This is the same old song and dance. GODS SPEED!


MOE(Temple)

[lwoolley]

Lynn-

Heard the first part of your show this morning while coming to work, as usual. It brought to mind an event from earlier in the week.

Tuesday night was the annual Greater Killeen Chamber of Commerce banquet. Wish you could have been there, I think you would have found it enlightening. Our speaker was Jim Olson, senior lecturer for the Bush School of Government and International Relations at Texas A&M, and an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency for 31 years. He and his wife, also an agent, were heavily involved in covert operations over the years in every major "hot spot" on the planet, and he was actually chief of the directorate of covert operations for some time. Needless to say, he was a very interesting speaker who kept the 600-plus folks in attendance absolutely transfixed.

He began his presentation in this way:

"With no apologies and so you know exactly my frame of reference, I want to be honest from the start and let you know where I stand. The United States will be attacked once more on its own ground by international terrorists. That attack will come sooner rather than later. That attack will be with a weapon or weapons of mass destruction - nuclear, biological or chemical. The attack will come in a major urban center. Many thousand or tens of thousands of American citizens will be killed and injured. As it was after 9-11, life will be fundamentally changed in this country as a result."

Pretty sobering, considering the source.

--
Thad

[lwoolley]

Lynn:

You do actually have to admire Obama for already being at least the 2nd best political con artist in history. Other than Joe McCarthy and Bill Clinton, America has never seen a politician that can lie about the same subject at least 20 different ways. I think Obama will go down in History as the absolute best con man in all of history by the time he is finally out of office.

Mike in Far West Texas

[lwoolley]

Nazi Comparison

Lynn, I caught part of your program this morning and the talk of the Nazi parallels is striking. Additionally, the early Obama talk about creating a civil youth paramilitary force was very similar to the Nazi "brown shirt" brigades. The reason I am writing, however, is because I found your retort to the caller very interesting. You said something to the effect, "We'll just have to wait and see."

That is probably just a regular response when you are ready to wrap up a call. However, this is the same attitude that most of the germans had and what my german landlords languished over. We lived on the second floor of their house and they lived on the first floor and talked about this quite a few times, "why did the german people not do anything?" The same statements you said on the radio were the exact same that my elderly landlords stated: "We wanted to believe in our country," "We wanted to believe in our leaders," "We thought we could just wait (and see) and it wouldn’t get worse," etc., etc. In retrospect, they felt they were way too passive and should have had more moral courage to protest but they couldn’t because he was drafted into the military and became a Panzer driver. If they had protested, the family would have been harmed while he was away fighting. When the end of the war was imminent, he was stuck between the Russians and the Americans so he got out of his tank and ran as fast as he could to the Americans.

KerleyKilleen

[lwoolley]

As you know, a Kool-aid drinker is someone who believes what they are told without thinking for themselves... and when confronted with the facts, they just modify and self-delude even more to accommodate the new information...

Having said that... in Christopher Anderson's book about the Obama's, Michelle was the one who came up with the "Yes We Can" sloggon... He was against it at first. Then when he used in and the crowd went wild chanting it over and over, Barrack went back stage and said to Michelle, "They are drinking the juice."

This is too scary; especially since more than half the country is "drinking the juice."
That is BO in his own words.

Jo in Salado