Vast Write Wing - April 2012

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Dana Roepke <tdcrr@suddenlink.net>

Won't this also require them to have a photo ID? Could put an undue burden on the (illegal) poor.

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BUT they have to have a photo ID to open a bank account!!!!!!

John G

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imothy Sapp <TSapp85@gmail.com>

Honestly it seems to me that history is repeating itself here. Fast and Furious is Obama's Iran-Contra. Its completely true that this should be investigated, but as with Iran-Contra, the public may be dissatisfied with the result. As I recall there were hearings, but I don't remember reading about and indictments or convictions pertaining to it. I think it would be the same situation here. It would be taxpayer money spent for no result. While the presidents in both of these situations would see a historical blemish on their administrations, it would be department heads and employees who would and should be punished., because while they answer to the president at the end of the day, month, or year, they still have some level of autonomy to conduct their own business. As to the SS issue, I agree that those involved should be punished, but too much blame is being laid on the SS as a whole.

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Hans Hartung <hhartung@hot.rr.com>

Who didn't see this coming? When the candidates started bickering among themselves, the foundation to the white house started to crumble. There was a vision to get Obama out of office and with all that's happened, and is currently happening, Obama stands a bigger chance of being re-elected than ever. The vision of Obama being ousted has flown out the window. It's sad to say that the candidates have handed the election back to the enemy. The American people that wanted change can all say "Thank You Candidates." What needs to be understood on what will happen is higher taxes, downgraded healthcare, higher gas prices, in general, it's not the rich that will be taxed, but EVERYONE will feel the wrath of Obama.

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Lynn-
The next to the last phone call from Robert was very enjoyable. There might be hope for him yet. Lol.
Round Rock Ron

Ps- My social security card says not to be used for identification. Lol.

Pss- Great show. Always enjoyable.

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Hi Lynn,

I read the article you cited this morning (4-20-12) about the little girl with no hands who won a penmanship award. The article made me think of the number of people who have been harmed by Thalidomide which was first realized in England in 1962. I remember it well, because my wife was pregnant at the time, but we were in Germany and she didn't suffer any of the problems for which Thalidomide was prescribed. It was a time when our FDA did an outstanding job of protecting our citizens, and I don't recall if England had their wonderful socialized medicine at the time. The little girl cited in the article is seven years old and the danger of Thalidomide was discovered 50 years ago! I don't think that reflects well on the great and grand UN and the wonderful Chinese socialized medical system.

Regards, Allen

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April 21, 1836
On this day in 1836, Texas forces won the battle of San Jacinto, the concluding military event of the Texas Revolution. Facing General Santa Anna's Mexican army of some 1,200 men encamped in what is now southeastern Harris County, General Sam Houston disposed his forces in battle order about 3:30 p.m., during siesta time. The Texans' movements were screened by trees and the rising ground, and evidently Santa Anna had no lookouts posted. The Texan line sprang forward on the run with the cries "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember Goliad!" The battle lasted but eighteen minutes. According to Houston's official report, the casualties were 630 Mexicans killed and 730 taken prisoner. Against this, only nine of the 910 Texans were killed or mortally wounded and thirty were wounded less seriously.

Related Handbook Articles:
SAN JACINTO, BATTLE OF
SAN JACINTO BATTLEGROUND STATE HISTORICAL PARK
TEXAS REVOLUTION
SANTA ANNA, ANTONIO LOPEZ DE
HOUSTON, SAMUEL
Related Links to other web sites:
San Jacinto Battleground State Historical Park Complex

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I want the record to reflect that the National Debt continues to increase under President Obama, now we owe $47.00 to a Columbiam "Lady of the Evening"!!! Thanks, Retired Justice Felipe Reyna P.S. Notice the RED ink!!!

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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9a1_1250550290


Ted Nugget refused to serve when America was called on to save Viet Nam from Communism,but when Mitt Romney whose political record is more Communist than Obama needs an endorsement, "Uncle Ted" is leading the charge ?

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Romney can't pivot because he "glides" across the floor in his Gucci shoes. He has no ideas. Just slurs, insults and slinging scripted words written by others.

LS

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You said if Zimmerman goeos out he will have to wear a disguise. Maybe he could wear a black hoodie.

Joey in Midland

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British actor Ben Cross was the very best in his role of Barnabas Collins. It is worth buying off of Amazon.

Why did those silly women always accept his invite to come to dinner at at his house ??

Something should have been going in their minds like little voices saying NO,NO,DON'T GO

The role of Billy ,Barnabas assist. was also very good in his role.

Elizabeth / Killeen

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Lynn,
it is very disappointing when I have to get the news from socialist Rachel Maddow,
because Fox, Limbaugh, hannity, Ingraham, Levin, etc...will not report on it
at lease I have to give Maddow credit she is due

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfS1x5RnZZQ

Steven

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Belton ISD supports censorship. They delete comments from their Facebook page that are critical of their left wing indoctrination of students with theories that they present as fact. They deleted my comments about their promotion of Earth Day.

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Thank you,
Wayne E. Johnson

[Thane]

Someone wrote: "April 21, 1836
On this day in 1836, Texas forces won the battle of San Jacinto, the concluding military event of the Texas Revolution. Facing General Santa Anna's Mexican army of some 1,200 men encamped in what is now southeastern Harris County, General Sam Houston disposed his forces in battle order about 3:30 p.m., during siesta time. The Texans' movements were screened by trees and the rising ground, and evidently Santa Anna had no lookouts posted. The Texan line sprang forward on the run with the cries "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember Goliad!" The battle lasted but eighteen minutes. According to Houston's official report, the casualties were 630 Mexicans killed and 730 taken prisoner. Against this, only nine of the 910 Texans were killed or mortally wounded and thirty were wounded less seriously."

Just as the American Revolution was, at its heart, a struggle against taxation and mercantilistic economic policy, the "Texas Revolution" was a struggle over property and culture - not freedom and liberty. No one can make a solid case that a weak and corrupt Mexico City, nearly a thousand miles away, was somehow realistically oppressing and tyrannizing the "guest workers" of Tejas who had been invited in by Mexico. Closer to the truth is that these Americans had no desire to be ruled by what they considered a degenerate race, had no desire to live in a culture speaking Spanish, and had no desire to support and favor the Roman Catholic Church. More importantly, much more importantly, they had brought their slaves with them and would not give them up under any circumstances. The tyranny of Mexico City was to outlaw slavery in its 1824 constitution and to free all slaves in Mexico by 1829 - except for those owned by the Gringos of Tejas. The Gringos of Tejas were not going to give them up and would fight for their very valuable property against the "liberal" government in Mexico City that dared to enact such a law. This is the history that is not taught even in these nauseatingly politically correct times with its absurd obsession with diversity trumping everything else - including reality. It was cold hard economics - where the money was coming from and where it was going - that underscored this conflict, like so many others.

A people, any people, can decide they no longer wish to be ruled by others and will fight to make it so. That is the natural order of things and I take no issue with that. I take issue with a people who fight for very real economic, or even cultural reasons, and then attempt to cover less altruistic-seeming motives with a myth of opposing evil tyranny, championing liberty, or fighting for "rights" that were never being violated. The Texas War of Independence was never about weaker Texans standing up to a much stronger and autocratic Mexico. For anyone who has really studied the history it was the opposite. The Texans were the stronger party, in so many ways, and in the fullness of time, sensing that strength, they decided to act and throw off their much weaker erstwhile master. Mexico attempted to enforce its "rights" on the battlefield and failed miserably. The Texans were not Spartans and Santa Anna was no Xerxes. The Texans won by locally concentrated force against a regime too weak and outnumbered to enforce its writ locally and too incompetent and distant to project power effectively from its core. On that day, April 21st, 1836, the Texans were most likely fighting for Sam Houston and to avenge the Alamo, but at the end of the day, metaphorically, they had won a victory for slavery, the English language, the Protestant religions, and the much desired and soon to be realized union with the United States. The loyalty to that union, likewise, would quicly evaporate when Texans again perceived the possesion of their slaves under threat. The second time, however, the distant political core would project power to enforce its writ rather more effectively.

Sincerely,
Thane