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		<title>By: Bloviating Zeppelin</title>
		<link>http://texasfred.net/archives/681/comment-page-1#comment-4336</link>
		<dc:creator>Bloviating Zeppelin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Vietnamese = work ethic.

Chocolates = no work ethic, trained so very well by Government.

BZ</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vietnamese = work ethic.</p>
<p>Chocolates = no work ethic, trained so very well by Government.</p>
<p>BZ</p>
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		<title>By: Jenn</title>
		<link>http://texasfred.net/archives/681/comment-page-1#comment-4311</link>
		<dc:creator>Jenn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LOL... way to tell it like it is Fred. 

Dave and I interviewed a Amer-Asian girl from Vietnam. She was the daughter of a soldier who fought there during the war. She faced hardships and rascism at home....when she was 18 she came here, went to school, got a job and is now a social worker and writer. Married, happy and successful. 

She, unlike many, was thankful for the opportunites afforded her here and took advantage of any she could get to better herself and her situation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL&#8230; way to tell it like it is Fred. </p>
<p>Dave and I interviewed a Amer-Asian girl from Vietnam. She was the daughter of a soldier who fought there during the war. She faced hardships and rascism at home&#8230;.when she was 18 she came here, went to school, got a job and is now a social worker and writer. Married, happy and successful. </p>
<p>She, unlike many, was thankful for the opportunites afforded her here and took advantage of any she could get to better herself and her situation.</p>
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		<title>By: TexasFred</title>
		<link>http://texasfred.net/archives/681/comment-page-1#comment-4310</link>
		<dc:creator>TexasFred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Malinda, you know, I take that Micheal Savage thing as a hell of a compliment, a while back a terribly hypocritical bitch called Little Miss Chatterbox, some of us call her Little Miss CATbox, well, anyway, she said, &quot;That TexasFred thinks he&#039;s the Michael Savage of the internet or something!!&quot;

Well, she meant it as an insult but to me it wasn&#039;t and I was nice enough to respond to her by telling her, that was the nicest thing she had ever said to me, and I thanked her sincerely... 

I still laugh my ass off over that one, when someone hurls insults and those insults blow up in their face, well, it&#039;s a lovely day in the neighborhood... :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Malinda, you know, I take that Micheal Savage thing as a hell of a compliment, a while back a terribly hypocritical bitch called Little Miss Chatterbox, some of us call her Little Miss CATbox, well, anyway, she said, &#8220;That TexasFred thinks he&#8217;s the Michael Savage of the internet or something!!&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, she meant it as an insult but to me it wasn&#8217;t and I was nice enough to respond to her by telling her, that was the nicest thing she had ever said to me, and I thanked her sincerely&#8230; </p>
<p>I still laugh my ass off over that one, when someone hurls insults and those insults blow up in their face, well, it&#8217;s a lovely day in the neighborhood&#8230; <img src='http://texasfred.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: CavMom</title>
		<link>http://texasfred.net/archives/681/comment-page-1#comment-4309</link>
		<dc:creator>CavMom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We have all heard the words of the Declaration of Independence: &quot;Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness&quot; (I read somewhere that the original writings used the term &#039;estate&#039; in place of happiness)

These are our unalienable rights, to PERSUE, not to be handed to us while we sit on our asses and play video games. 

You are given life; you are free; Now get off your lazy asses and make something of yourselves. That goes across the board - all race inclusive.

Another issue that is burning me up is the Government bail out  for those who took out risky &quot;subprime&quot; loans. Dammit... I work hard, but I am tired of my tax money bailing out those who make bad decissions. 

I bought an SUV that gets terrible gas mileage and I think the Government should subsidize my poor decission and give me money, heck make it a weekly allowance to fuel up my truck. Or, perhaps they should buy my SUV and give me an economy car ~ On tax payers money of course. 

Seriously, welfare should never be granted long term with the exception of physically and mentally handicapped. 

I work too darn hard to be buying groceries for the lazy. Grrrrrrrrr</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have all heard the words of the Declaration of Independence: &#8220;Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness&#8221; (I read somewhere that the original writings used the term &#8216;estate&#8217; in place of happiness)</p>
<p>These are our unalienable rights, to PERSUE, not to be handed to us while we sit on our asses and play video games. </p>
<p>You are given life; you are free; Now get off your lazy asses and make something of yourselves. That goes across the board &#8211; all race inclusive.</p>
<p>Another issue that is burning me up is the Government bail out  for those who took out risky &#8220;subprime&#8221; loans. Dammit&#8230; I work hard, but I am tired of my tax money bailing out those who make bad decissions. </p>
<p>I bought an SUV that gets terrible gas mileage and I think the Government should subsidize my poor decission and give me money, heck make it a weekly allowance to fuel up my truck. Or, perhaps they should buy my SUV and give me an economy car ~ On tax payers money of course. </p>
<p>Seriously, welfare should never be granted long term with the exception of physically and mentally handicapped. </p>
<p>I work too darn hard to be buying groceries for the lazy. Grrrrrrrrr</p>
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		<title>By: Malinda777</title>
		<link>http://texasfred.net/archives/681/comment-page-1#comment-4308</link>
		<dc:creator>Malinda777</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fred...I feel you totally.  I relate to you as a Texan, but it&#039;s karmic to find you are actually from NOLA.  I am a Texan that landed four years in Bay St. Louis, MS.  Actually, BSL, and Waveland, MS were ground zero for Katrina.  I was gone by then, but it struck me hard.

I used to be in the casino industry, which led me to there.  I saw first hand the corruption of LA.  I saw that white men that managed to rise above the &quot;raising of the south&quot; to wealth and didn&#039;t use it appropriately and used their power for evil.  I saw the chocolate people in NOLA suck bottom because they could.  I also saw wonderful people of color, black people in my part of Mississippi be as equal as you and I in life.

I found it not so surprising that the leftist media concentrate on NOLA during Katrina when really there was so much more relevant news further down the coast.  In 1992, I had an incident in NOLA that scared me to death.  I almost met death by a chocolate person down by the aquarium and river ride not far from Canal St.  Since I saw NOLA police regurlarly, I told my story.  They told me, given the same situation again...just run over the bastard.  The police would never find you guilty.

NOLA is such a unique place.  I was only there for four years, but I loved the southern spirit of the place.  However, the chocolate people and the forcefulness of the homosexual community took it over.  Not that I am a gay hater, I&#039;m not.  But when any group, forceful chocolates, or forceful fairies begin to unlevel the balance of the overall group it&#039;s not good.  The same way that I think forceful trailer trash or overbearing rednecks do some of us &quot;normal&quot; southerners bad.

I think this was a really good piece you wrote.  Although I read you a lot, comment little, ALWAYS VOTE at your poll blog...and think sometimes you go over the edge...it&#039;s the edge we all need to get back to.  I&#039;m too careful, and have companies still to think of that I own...I wish sometimes I had the balls to say it like you do.

I don&#039;t know if you ever read or listen to Michael Savage, but you remind me of him.  He&#039;s radical, kinda like Rush, but both men have a lot of good to say...even though they keep the shit pot stirred.

Keep stirring the shit pot brother...somebody&#039;s got to :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fred&#8230;I feel you totally.  I relate to you as a Texan, but it&#8217;s karmic to find you are actually from NOLA.  I am a Texan that landed four years in Bay St. Louis, MS.  Actually, BSL, and Waveland, MS were ground zero for Katrina.  I was gone by then, but it struck me hard.</p>
<p>I used to be in the casino industry, which led me to there.  I saw first hand the corruption of LA.  I saw that white men that managed to rise above the &#8220;raising of the south&#8221; to wealth and didn&#8217;t use it appropriately and used their power for evil.  I saw the chocolate people in NOLA suck bottom because they could.  I also saw wonderful people of color, black people in my part of Mississippi be as equal as you and I in life.</p>
<p>I found it not so surprising that the leftist media concentrate on NOLA during Katrina when really there was so much more relevant news further down the coast.  In 1992, I had an incident in NOLA that scared me to death.  I almost met death by a chocolate person down by the aquarium and river ride not far from Canal St.  Since I saw NOLA police regurlarly, I told my story.  They told me, given the same situation again&#8230;just run over the bastard.  The police would never find you guilty.</p>
<p>NOLA is such a unique place.  I was only there for four years, but I loved the southern spirit of the place.  However, the chocolate people and the forcefulness of the homosexual community took it over.  Not that I am a gay hater, I&#8217;m not.  But when any group, forceful chocolates, or forceful fairies begin to unlevel the balance of the overall group it&#8217;s not good.  The same way that I think forceful trailer trash or overbearing rednecks do some of us &#8220;normal&#8221; southerners bad.</p>
<p>I think this was a really good piece you wrote.  Although I read you a lot, comment little, ALWAYS VOTE at your poll blog&#8230;and think sometimes you go over the edge&#8230;it&#8217;s the edge we all need to get back to.  I&#8217;m too careful, and have companies still to think of that I own&#8230;I wish sometimes I had the balls to say it like you do.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if you ever read or listen to Michael Savage, but you remind me of him.  He&#8217;s radical, kinda like Rush, but both men have a lot of good to say&#8230;even though they keep the shit pot stirred.</p>
<p>Keep stirring the shit pot brother&#8230;somebody&#8217;s got to <img src='http://texasfred.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Ranando</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ranando</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you think they cleaned up their area in New Orleans, you should see what they&#039;ve done to their country. I was in Ho Chi Minh City (Siagon), Da Nang and Hanoi this year and I can tell you it is one of the most cleanest and beautiful counties I&#039;ve ever been to and I&#039;ve been to many.

Crime is not allowed, you can walk the streets with no worries and the people are the Friendliest I&#039;ve seen in some time. You might have a purse snatched once in awhile but if caught, they deal with it right there and then and I mean they deal with it.

The Vietnamese have pride in themselves and that goes along way. Hell, most people have pride in themselves.

Great post and comments Fred, nice job.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you think they cleaned up their area in New Orleans, you should see what they&#8217;ve done to their country. I was in Ho Chi Minh City (Siagon), Da Nang and Hanoi this year and I can tell you it is one of the most cleanest and beautiful counties I&#8217;ve ever been to and I&#8217;ve been to many.</p>
<p>Crime is not allowed, you can walk the streets with no worries and the people are the Friendliest I&#8217;ve seen in some time. You might have a purse snatched once in awhile but if caught, they deal with it right there and then and I mean they deal with it.</p>
<p>The Vietnamese have pride in themselves and that goes along way. Hell, most people have pride in themselves.</p>
<p>Great post and comments Fred, nice job.</p>
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		<title>By: Jo (Cafe)</title>
		<link>http://texasfred.net/archives/681/comment-page-1#comment-4306</link>
		<dc:creator>Jo (Cafe)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Its never too late to learn how to work, or the pride the comes with it, but when you&#039;ve had so many generations on the government tit - well let&#039;s just say old dogs learn faster.  Everyone -- wanna see what is going to happen to America if one of the socialist running on that side win?  Look at NOLA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its never too late to learn how to work, or the pride the comes with it, but when you&#8217;ve had so many generations on the government tit &#8211; well let&#8217;s just say old dogs learn faster.  Everyone &#8212; wanna see what is going to happen to America if one of the socialist running on that side win?  Look at NOLA.</p>
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		<title>By: Longstreet</title>
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		<dc:creator>Longstreet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I still say give NOLA back to France, along with several trillion US bucks to boot, and be done with it.  We&#039;ll have Baghdad up and running like a well oiled machine LONG before New Orleans.  

NOLA is a prime example of what Socialism can and will do!

Best regards!

Longstreet</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I still say give NOLA back to France, along with several trillion US bucks to boot, and be done with it.  We&#8217;ll have Baghdad up and running like a well oiled machine LONG before New Orleans.  </p>
<p>NOLA is a prime example of what Socialism can and will do!</p>
<p>Best regards!</p>
<p>Longstreet</p>
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		<title>By: Patrick Sperry</title>
		<link>http://texasfred.net/archives/681/comment-page-1#comment-4303</link>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Sperry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow! Most excellent commentary here. Best that I have read here, on the Black Tygrrr, or even Michelle Malkin for quite a while.

Here is the thing, as I see it. The Asians, are doing exactly what the hell the &quot;Wops,&quot; &quot;Christ Killers,&quot; and the &quot;Drunkard Irish,&quot; have been doing for quite some time in this place that we call America.

This, is LIBERTY, it is FREEDOM, it is PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY, and RESPONSIBILITY, and a joining of very diverse groups for the betterment of any, and all...

These peoples, like all peoples, do have their problems though. TOMCAT, I worked with the Hmong. They, could care less about what you think about the Vietnamese. Same goes for the Hmong.

Both groups have what it takes to become what, in my opinion, is AMERICANS!

Then again, my standards are high...

Lima Company, Seventy-Fifth Infantry, One Hundred and First Airborne

Oh, and a bit later, I served on the MIKE FORCE</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow! Most excellent commentary here. Best that I have read here, on the Black Tygrrr, or even Michelle Malkin for quite a while.</p>
<p>Here is the thing, as I see it. The Asians, are doing exactly what the hell the &#8220;Wops,&#8221; &#8220;Christ Killers,&#8221; and the &#8220;Drunkard Irish,&#8221; have been doing for quite some time in this place that we call America.</p>
<p>This, is LIBERTY, it is FREEDOM, it is PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY, and RESPONSIBILITY, and a joining of very diverse groups for the betterment of any, and all&#8230;</p>
<p>These peoples, like all peoples, do have their problems though. TOMCAT, I worked with the Hmong. They, could care less about what you think about the Vietnamese. Same goes for the Hmong.</p>
<p>Both groups have what it takes to become what, in my opinion, is AMERICANS!</p>
<p>Then again, my standards are high&#8230;</p>
<p>Lima Company, Seventy-Fifth Infantry, One Hundred and First Airborne</p>
<p>Oh, and a bit later, I served on the MIKE FORCE</p>
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		<title>By: Deron</title>
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		<dc:creator>Deron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Way to go Fred. As usual you have told it like it is.  Why is it that WE as Americans (black and white, and any other nationality that lives here) have to go out and bust our asses to provide for the people who can and won&#039;t strive to make a better life for themselves.  I get angry everytime I see a low life driving a brand new vehicle or wearing top of the line clothes but, don&#039;t work and collect a check from the gov&#039;t.  I have seen with my own two eyes, the peole that need can&#039;t get but the people that don&#039;t want more.  A few years ago there was a Hurricane that went through my are of Louisiana and as many other National Guard Soldiers, I answered the call for help.  As a Non Commissioned Officer, I was placed in charge of an area of great importance in times of disasters, the Social Security Office.  My Soldiers and I were advised that we were supposed to ensure the safety of the SS Personnel.  There were many people who came in that lost everything they had and lost the job they had because the business was destroyed and they were denied assistance because before the storm they made to much money.  It was hard to sit there and listen to the stories of some of the people that lost everything and got nothing and to hear the ones that have never worked a day in their lives complain because they aren&#039;t getting enough.  On one particular day, there was a Chocolate man that drove up on a brand new Harley Davidson and made it a point to show off his new toy.  When I asked if I could assist him, his response was &quot;I&#039;m here for my share&quot;.  After inquireing about his &quot;Share&quot;, he advised that he heard that he could get an increase on his Food Stamps if he could prove he lost his belongings in the storm.  After several minutes of listening to his sob story, I asked him if he felt guilty for taking something he didn&#039;t need and that others can&#039;t get anything and have lost everything.  His response was &quot;that&#039;s not my problem&quot; and &quot;I gotta provide for my family&quot;.  I did something that could have probably gotten me in alot of trouble, I advised him that he was a disgrace to this Country and that he needed to leave before he was unable to do so on his own.  I then told him to sell his bike and all the &quot;Leather Goods&quot; that came with it and his family should be fine.  I am not a racist person, (honestly I hate everyone equally with the acception of a certain religous organization that I hate more than anything in this world) but, I have to say that some people would rather recieve than to give and we are the ones that have to give it to them.  As a Combat Veteran, I have seen what it is like to live with nothing, but some of the people in the many Third World Nations I have been to, have my respect more than some of the ones I have fought for.  If one group can accomplish this why can&#039;t others.  It would be nice to see Al (Slim Shady) Sharpton and Jesse (I got game) Jackson come to the Chocolate City and hold their fellow Chocolateites accountable but, you will never see that because then there would be nothing to blame the White Man for.  Sorry for taking so much of your time, but I felt like the stoy needed to be told.  God Bless!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Way to go Fred. As usual you have told it like it is.  Why is it that WE as Americans (black and white, and any other nationality that lives here) have to go out and bust our asses to provide for the people who can and won&#8217;t strive to make a better life for themselves.  I get angry everytime I see a low life driving a brand new vehicle or wearing top of the line clothes but, don&#8217;t work and collect a check from the gov&#8217;t.  I have seen with my own two eyes, the peole that need can&#8217;t get but the people that don&#8217;t want more.  A few years ago there was a Hurricane that went through my are of Louisiana and as many other National Guard Soldiers, I answered the call for help.  As a Non Commissioned Officer, I was placed in charge of an area of great importance in times of disasters, the Social Security Office.  My Soldiers and I were advised that we were supposed to ensure the safety of the SS Personnel.  There were many people who came in that lost everything they had and lost the job they had because the business was destroyed and they were denied assistance because before the storm they made to much money.  It was hard to sit there and listen to the stories of some of the people that lost everything and got nothing and to hear the ones that have never worked a day in their lives complain because they aren&#8217;t getting enough.  On one particular day, there was a Chocolate man that drove up on a brand new Harley Davidson and made it a point to show off his new toy.  When I asked if I could assist him, his response was &#8220;I&#8217;m here for my share&#8221;.  After inquireing about his &#8220;Share&#8221;, he advised that he heard that he could get an increase on his Food Stamps if he could prove he lost his belongings in the storm.  After several minutes of listening to his sob story, I asked him if he felt guilty for taking something he didn&#8217;t need and that others can&#8217;t get anything and have lost everything.  His response was &#8220;that&#8217;s not my problem&#8221; and &#8220;I gotta provide for my family&#8221;.  I did something that could have probably gotten me in alot of trouble, I advised him that he was a disgrace to this Country and that he needed to leave before he was unable to do so on his own.  I then told him to sell his bike and all the &#8220;Leather Goods&#8221; that came with it and his family should be fine.  I am not a racist person, (honestly I hate everyone equally with the acception of a certain religous organization that I hate more than anything in this world) but, I have to say that some people would rather recieve than to give and we are the ones that have to give it to them.  As a Combat Veteran, I have seen what it is like to live with nothing, but some of the people in the many Third World Nations I have been to, have my respect more than some of the ones I have fought for.  If one group can accomplish this why can&#8217;t others.  It would be nice to see Al (Slim Shady) Sharpton and Jesse (I got game) Jackson come to the Chocolate City and hold their fellow Chocolateites accountable but, you will never see that because then there would be nothing to blame the White Man for.  Sorry for taking so much of your time, but I felt like the stoy needed to be told.  God Bless!</p>
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