Why Did the Rebublican Party Call Me?
Well, I had voted in the Republican primary in 2008 to lend my support to Ron Paul. I voted twice for him, once for President and once for Representative. So, no doubt I had registered Republican, probably shortly after Alvin was reapportioned into Ron Paul's district.
In the 2008 general election, my last vote in Brazoria County, I voted for one Republican (Paul), zero Democrats, and whatever Libertarians (the only other party on the Texas ballot) were running. For President, then, I went for Bob Barr and whoever he had as a running mate.
Even though I hadn't re-registered in McLennon County, I was probably on a list of registered Repubs.
During the campaign of 2004 I kept getting mail from the Republican National Committee asking for money and/or requesting that I volunteer for something. Finally I overwrote one of these, stating my disgust of Bush's reneging on his 2000 pledge to get us out of Bosnia, his two unending wars, and a few other things. I never heard from them again until that call week before last.
It's For You. The Republican Party's Calling.
The other evening I received a phone call from the Republican party. From the voice I seemed to be speaking with a black woman. (Interesting.) Anyway, she wanted money, seventy-five bucks at a minimum, but a hundred or more would certainly be better. By way of justification she had already enumerated the horrors being foisted upon us by Obama and the Democrats. She was shocked, shocked to learn I wasn't going to pledge any money. While I agree with everything you say about BHO and his bunch, I explained, you all, Bush, Cheney and Powell in particular, lied us into two useless, pointless, enhdless and very expensive wars. This is a big reason we're in the dire financial straits we're now in. Then too, while O's so-called stimulus has done next to no good, I told her that I seemed to remember that Bush earlier championed one about the same size.
And her reply was, "Bush is gone now." But, she continued, "We've got a lot of good, strong conservative candidates and they really need your support." I started to say, "Name two." But, instead, I just concluded by saying, like her I hated the ground this bunch of Dems walked on, but the Republicans had a lot to prove before I gave them any money.
I was relaying all this to our real estate agent in Alvin the next day when I mada a call to her. She said her husband has received a similar call, and he told them they weren't getting one cent from him until they showed they would "stand up and fight for us." Well, he sure had them there.
There seem to be a lot of these calls going around. Hopefully, they are getting a lot of similar answers.
Have they hunted you down yet?
A 9/11 Truth Movement. Why?
Thus begins a column entitled "9/11 Mind Swell" by a Joel S. Hirschhorn in the
Online Journal dated August 14:
"As we approach the eighth anniversary of 9/11 consider this paradox. In the post 9-11 years, the scientific evidence for disbelieving the official government story has mounted incredibly. And the number of highly respected and credentialed professionals challenging the official story has similarly expanded."
Why would there be a 9/11 truth movement in the first place?
Probably because people know that Bush lied. And lied. And lied. As a candidate, about bringing our troops home from Bosnia. There were myriad lies about Iraqi WMDs, ties to Al Queda, exporting terrorism,
et al. About his so-called surge. And what all.
Cheney lied. Powell lied. Clinton lied. The other Clinton lied.
Obama lied-- lies. Pelosi lies. Isn't this what governments and politicians do?
You can go on and on. So given a government account about-- anything, what are you going to believe? Are they telling the truth? Where is there any reason to think so?
Me, I haven't paid any attention to the "Truthers" positions. They could all be preposterous for all I know. But, when I think about who they're challenging, well...
Right On, Paul! Or Is It Craig?
A few excerpts are reproduced here from a recent column by Paul Craig Roberts.
"It is more proof of the Orwellian time in which we live that $636 billion appropriated for wars of aggression is called a 'defense bill.'” Which, summing up, followed the following:
"Amidst this worsening economic crisis, the House of Representatives just passed a $636 billion 'defense' bill.
"Who is the United States defending against? Americans have no enemies except those that the US government goes out of its way to create by bombing and invading countries that comprise no threat whatsoever to the US and by encircling others -- Russia for example -- with threatening military bases.
"America’s wars are contrived affairs to serve the money-laundering machine: from the taxpayers and money borrowed from foreign creditors to the armaments industry to the political contributions that ensure $636 billion 'defense' bills.
"President George W. Bush gave us wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that are entirely based on lies and misrepresentations. But Obama has done Bush one better. Obama has started a war in Pakistan with no explanation whatsoever.
"If the armaments industry and the neoconservative brownshirts have their way, the US will also be at war with Iran, Russia, Sudan and North Korea.
"Meanwhile, America continues to be overrun, as it has been for decades, not by armed foreign enemies but by illegal immigrants across America’s porous and undefended borders."
