Vast Write Wing - June 2011

[lwoolley]

Lynn you talked that at sometime members of your own family had migrated into the country.

During that time period, People came into 1 location in the northeast (Ellis Island)

They had to go through an exam to make sure they weren't carrying a disease with them into the country,They had to have at least $25.00 on them ,they had to have someone who would vouch for them, and had to have a job to go to , to make certain they wouldn't be a burden on the people or country.

I think it was not of the character for of the immigrants from the past who built the country, to want to steal anything,even passage into the US. They respected it and were in awe of it too much.

Many times 1 or more members would be taken aside and put in quarantine to be returned to their home country because they were ill. It could be a father or children didn't make any difference. The rest of the family could stay as long as they met all the qualifications.

Elizabeth / Killeen

[lwoolley]

Lynn,

I am city cop in Texas. In our department we contact ICE or Boarder Patrol when we suspect a person to be illegal. We work very close with these agencies in our area. Just wanted to let you know there are those in law enforcement that do our jobs.

Sent from my iPhone

[lwoolley]

This is amazing. More and more of the republican candidates are echoing Ron Paul.
Newt Gingrich is calling for an Audit of the FED!
according to this WSJ article today.
Ron Paul still crazy after all these years, and the rest of the field is finally catching up.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/06/1 ... -congress/

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Glenn from Odessa <glennu@ymail.com>

Hey just wanted to know if you know about Bachman's record on subsidies. I heard that she voted to make it mandatory to have 20% ethanol by 2013. I guess this would have been when she was in state legislator. If this is true will it have an effect on her in the presidential race. Any info will be helpful.

[lwoolley]

Lynn,
Farrakhan and Gaddafi are good friends, didn't Gaddafi give a lot of money to the Nation Of Islam at one time?

James Carpenter

jimza.com

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Fellow Intellectuals (both fast and half-fast),
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a really great one for its lead column. It is titled Death of the Duopoly by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch. Forgive me, but I’m really feeling vindicated at this moment…….after reading this confirmation of my pre-9-11-01 “encyclical” declaring the inevitability of the devolutionary/enclave society in which we are now living. (Film at 11) Surely this must be like Billy Mitchell must have felt after the Japanese really did attack Pearl Harbor from aircraft carriers as he predicted in 1924!

Meanwhile, back to the brilliance of government(s) beginning with the cities of Bartlett and Killeen. (Film at 11)
Glenn

[lwoolley]

Glenn,

I just finished reading the article when I got your missive. It is indeed a good and thoughtful piece. The concern I have is if we devolve from a two party system, we could easily slide into the bog that Belgium is in. They have no gone almost two years effectively without an elected government. Meanwhile their debt to GDP ratio os approaching that of Greece. They are the beneficiaries of the EU largess and thus have no fear of bankruptcy, but the attached article from John Mauldin reprinting the Robini commentary on the possibility of the break-up of the EU suggests that may be an illusion as well.

Lets hope that one or the other of the major political parties can make the transition from mainstream to a creative destruction mode as did the Republican Party in 1980. The problem we face today is not the dangers of new laws and spending mandates, but the existence of old ones. It takes a governing majority to repeal a law already on the books. Unfortunately for all of us the spending laws that are steering us toward the abyss are all ones that give money to potentially voting Americans. If Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid were trimmed to reasonable levels we would simply not have a deficit right now. We can chop everything else to the bone and we will still be on the way to broke if we leave those three in place. It will take a super-majority in Congress and a President with a mandate to trim those laws.

Just for the record, if you think that Medicaid is a "poor-folks" medical plan, take a look at the actual numbers. They match what I have seen anecdotally. The largest and fastest growing section of Medicaid is for care of people in nursing homes. The vast, vast majority of those people have family and once had sufficient wealth to pay at least a large portion of their own way. What they have done is, with the guidance and sometimes actions of their heirs, stripped themselves of all discoverable assets in order to effectively render themselves, "indigent" and thereby eligible for medicaid. It is, in short, another loopholed entitlement for relatively well off people. Meanwhile the long term care companies are gradually fading away because people have figured out that Uncle Sugar will foot the bill.

"We have met the enemy and he is us!" (Pogo)

Jeffrey W. McClure

[lwoolley]

Thought you all may be interested in this since you have talked on the subject several times.
Elizabeth/Killeen
Residents sue Killeen over recall
Posted On: Friday, Jun. 17 2011 10:52 PM
http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?s=57135

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Moby Walton <mobywalton@yahoo.com>

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinborough, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for
the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The Obituary follows:

Born 1776, Died 2008



It doesn't hurt to read this several times. Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election: Number of States won by:Obama: 19 McCain: 29 Square miles of land won by:Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000 Population of counties won by:Obama: 127 million McCain: 143

million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest!
danger to our freedom. This is truly scary! Of course we are not a democracy, we are aConstitutional Republic . Someone should point this out to Obama. Of course we know he and too many others pay little attention to TheConstitution. There couldn't be more at stake than on Nov 2012.

[lwoolley]

Since we are in discussion mode and Herr Dippel mentioned local government, I want to announce that I was served with a summons week before last just as I was going out of town for a week. The Bell County Health Department had determined that they had not been officially notified by a registered contractor that I had a current maintenance contract on my aerobic septic system. Yes, they had sent me a letter a couple of months earlier notifying me that I was within 30 days of expiration of that contract. I then dutifully called the contractor and informed the phone-answerer that I wished to renew. She told me she would take care of it.

My next notice was the local constable knocking at my door with a summons.

Apparently the contractor dropped the ball and failed to send me a new contract. I researched and found that I apparently cannot deliver my copy of a contract to our esteemed protector of the public health but it must be done by a certified, approved contractor, most of whom I attempted to contact had anonymous cell phones voice mail systems answering the phone.

Immediately after returning from my conference I appeared in court, paid my court costs and fine and pleaded "no-contest." I had my fully prepared, signed, and certified contract in hand, but the fact that I failed to have it renewed and delivered to our public servants at least 30 days prior to expiration of the old one is a violation of state law. If it were not for the time and inconvenience, I would love to launch an investigation of the ERISA retirement law compliance in the Health Department. Why? Because I am very familiar with that complex monster and am quite confident that I can find multiple violations of federal law in their practices. Then, if I filed a formal complaint with the DoL their inspectors and lawyers would subject the Health Department to a flurry of demands and threats. Interestingly enough, even the DoL and the IRS do not immediately file suit against people or organizations that fail to meet a deadline. Our dear old Bell County Health Department apparently believes that the best notice of innocent oversight is a law-suit.

We fear the federal government, but the local entities set up by our Conservative state legislature are actually the monsters we should fear the most. At least that is how I feel today.

For whatever it is worth, I have to report this lawsuit and its outcome to a host of federal regulators where it will reside in my official record for eternity and I am confident that I will be questioned on it and forced to produce full and complete documentation that I have repented of my evil ways. Each year for as long as I have to report to the SEC and FINRA I must list this lawsuit and detail the issues and outcome. More, if I am forced by Dodd-Frank to register with the State of Texas I will have to publicly and formally disclose my evil deed to all to whom I speak or correspond.

Thank you Bell County and thank you wonderful conservative Texas Republicans for ensuring that I will be branded forever because a contractor failed to deliver a contract on my rental house septic system.


Jeffrey W. McClure,

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lynn

front runner mitt romney has refused to sign the pro life pledge per this fox news article today. I think that puts the plug in the jug for Romney

http://nation.foxnews.com/mitt-romney/2 ... ife-pledge

per this article, Cain has not signed on either. makes me wonder how someone can not have their mind firmly made up on this subject.

steve

[lwoolley]

watch youtube-video of Perry here: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=_NoUIFdaNC8&feature=share
RINO-IN-ACTION ...... GOV. PERRY shows his "YELLOW-BELLY" in New Orleans after his speech. TEXANS are DEMANDING A FLOOR VOTE on the ANTI-TSA-GROPING BILL in the TEXAS LEGISLATURE........but, GOV. "PERRIER" is not up for the fight to pass it.
WHYYYYY should we trust PERRY to fight for us in D.C. if he won't fight for TEXANS & protect 4th Amendment Constitutional Rights in his own STATE?????

Eric Myers
Petroleum Engineer
Odessa, TX, USA

[lwoolley]

Dear Friends,
When I heard Sheila Jackson Lee say that Christian "Militants" might be the ones to bring down America, I just could not believe it!!! I don't usually start my own campaign, but I am so outraged by what she said, that I knew I had to do something.
Please, if you feel the say way....pass this on to anyone that would be interested. I, for one, will be donating to WHOEVER runs against this Congresswoman in the next election. When will we say ENOUGH is ENOUGH???? I don't even live in her district, but I'll do what I can to support her defeat in the next election.
Please, stand with me and pass this on!
Subject: Breitbart.tv » Sheila Jackson Lee: We Need ‘Analysis of How Christian Militants … Might Bring Down The Country’


Click on this link and watch for yourself!!! Outrage!!!!


http://tv.breitbart.com/sheila-jackson- ... e-country/

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Linda Forward <lcforward@aol.com>

Lynn,

The teaching of grammar was replaced by creative writing. It became more important for students to express themselves freely than to be "hampered" by correct grammar.

I am a retired teacher, and my daughter is an English teacher. An English teacher friend of mine would close her classroom door and teach grammar.

[lwoolley]

Lynn, love your show. I just started listening to it and I enjoy your viewpoints. One of the show topics this morning hit on one of my hot points. Grammar. I was educated in Massachusetts in the 60's and 70's in public schools. Our English curriculum stressed correct grammar (less vs. fewer, etc.). I am a finance executive here locally and spend a great deal of time correcting bad grammar from either other executives or from my senior staff. I will listen to your show in the future as I love the topics and your take on them. Hopefully, I have no grammatical errors. From my children's experience, the whole language method of learning to read destroyed a whole generation of children in terms of spelling, grammar and getting it right. We knew many teachers who "slipped in" phonics because they knew the whole language method made our children less literate. How about doing a show about the benefits of homeschooling versus public schooling. We homeschool our two youngest and the curriculum we selected stresses proper grammar, spelling and proper usage of language through the end of high school.

I appreciate your show and good luck.

Harvey Littman