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		<title>Senator: Prostitution scandal wider than believed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator: Prostitution scandal wider than believed WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, &#8220;morally repugnant&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16701">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Senator: Prostitution scandal wider than believed</span></strong></span></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16701/sen-susan-collins" rel="attachment wp-att-16702"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16702" title="Sen Susan Collins" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Sen-Susan-Collins-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><strong>WASHINGTON (AP)</strong> &#8211; Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, &#8220;morally repugnant&#8221; behavior, Sen. Susan Collins says.</p>
<p>She says the employees&#8217; actions during the stunning prostitution scandal could have provided a foreign intelligence service, drug cartels or other criminals with opportunities for blackmail or coercion that could have threatened the president&#8217;s safety.</p>
<p>Full Story Here:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://apnews.myway.com//article/20120523/D9UUB4CG0.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Senator: Prostitution scandal wider than believed</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">You would think that a U.S. Senator would choose their words a bit better than that; &#8220;Prostitution scandal <em>wider than believed</em>&#8221; &#8230; just sayin&#8217;. I know the *intent* of the words, but still, there is a gaffe in that line, maybe along the lines of a Beavis and Butthead gaffe, but a gaffe none the less.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">This picture is said to be one of the Colombian hookers involved in the Secret Service debacle.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16701/colombian-hooker" rel="attachment wp-att-16703"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16703" title="Colombian Hooker" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Colombian-Hooker.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="240" /></a><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Colombian Prostitute</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">And here we have the typical American hooker(s).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16701/american-hookers" rel="attachment wp-att-16704"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16704" title="American Hookers" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/American-Hookers-300x272.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="272" /></a><strong><span style="color: #800000;">American Hookers</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Now I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s *justification* for these Secret Service guy to mess around while on an assignment, but DAMN, Colombia has us seriously BEAT in the hooker business. <img src='http://texasfred.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">All joking aside, the ramifications of this little <em><strong>party on the road</strong></em> could place the USA in a very precarious position.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">As the article points out, Agents could become victims of blackmail and extortion, surely a few divorces will come from this, and who knows what else.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Think with the <em><strong>head on TOP</strong></em> guys.</span></p>

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		<title>Another Crappy Day in Paradise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 19:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had one of those days when NOTHING rang your bell? When you just looked at the news and politics and the like and said &#8220;forget it&#8221;? Well, that&#8217;s the kind of day I am having. So&#8230; Maybe &#8230; <a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16683">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000080;">Have you ever had one of those days when NOTHING rang your bell? When you just looked at the news and politics and the like and said &#8220;forget it&#8221;?</span></p>
<p><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16683/beer" rel="attachment wp-att-16684"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16684" title="BEER" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BEER.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="600" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Well, that&#8217;s the kind of day I am having. So&#8230;</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000080;">Maybe tomorrow will get off to a better start.. Maybe not, burn-out has set in.</span></p>

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		<title>Ted Cruz Senate ad: What&#8217;s true, what&#8217;s not</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 20:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TexasFred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted Cruz Senate ad: What&#8217;s true, what&#8217;s not With early voting under way for the Texas Primary, Republican candidates in the U.S. Senate race are spending millions of dollars bashing each other in TV ads. Ted Cruz, vying to get &#8230; <a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16671">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Ted Cruz Senate ad: What&#8217;s true, what&#8217;s not</span></strong></span></p>
<p><center><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.wfaa.com/templates/belo_embedWrapper.js?storyid=152068685&amp;pos=top&amp;swfw=470"></script><object id="bimvidplayer0" width="470" height="264" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="cachebusting" value="true" /><param name="flashvars" value="config=http://www.wfaa.com/?j=152068685&amp;ref=http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Reality-Check-on-Ted-Cruz-senate-ad-some-true-some-false-152068685.html" /><param name="src" value="http://swfs.bimvid.com/bimvid_player-3_2_7.swf?x-bim-callletters=WFAA" /><embed id="bimvidplayer0" width="470" height="264" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://swfs.bimvid.com/bimvid_player-3_2_7.swf?x-bim-callletters=WFAA" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" cachebusting="true" flashvars="config=http://www.wfaa.com/?j=152068685&amp;ref=http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Reality-Check-on-Ted-Cruz-senate-ad-some-true-some-false-152068685.html" /> </object><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.wfaa.com/templates/belo_embedWrapper.js?storyid=152068685&amp;pos=bottom"></script></center></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16671/david-dewhurst-3" rel="attachment wp-att-16678"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16678" title="David Dewhurst" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/David-Dewhurst1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>With early voting under way for the Texas Primary, Republican candidates in the U.S. Senate race are spending millions of dollars bashing each other in TV ads.</p>
<p>Ted Cruz, vying to get in a runoff, is running a commercial criticizing opponent and frontrunner Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. But his claims are split between true and false.</p>
<p>With testimonials from supporters — including some tea party activists — the Cruz commercial aims squarely at Dewhurst.</p>
<p>&#8220;David Dewhurst is attacking Ted Cruz,&#8221; one supporter says in the ad.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s true.</p>
<p>Full Story Here:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Reality-Check-on-Ted-Cruz-senate-ad-some-true-some-false-152068685.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Ted Cruz Senate ad: What&#8217;s true, what&#8217;s not</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Ted Cruz NEEDS to be attacked, and if you think it&#8217;s HOT now, just wait &#8230; if this comes down to a run-off between David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz, it will be nasty.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Dewhurst has blanketed the state with ads criticizing Cruz for representing a Chinese tire-maker who was found liable for stealing an American company&#8217;s blueprints.</p>
<p>The ads have hurt Cruz, and his commercial responds with supporters saying: &#8220;David Dewhurst thinks I care more about Chinese tires than his tax-and-spend record.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Ted Cruz is a LIAR. And Teddy, listen, some of us DO care about you getting in bed with the Chinese. There&#8217; a lot more information on Ted Cruz here:</span> <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://realtedcruz.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">The Real Ted Cruz</span></a></span></strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Then, the Cruz commercial attacks with this claim: &#8220;Dewhurst increased spending $72 billion and calls it a cut. It&#8217;s not a cut.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s false.</p>
<p>The figure cited is the raw dollar increase in state and federal dollars in four of the five budgets since Dewhurst took office in 2003.</p>
<p>But Dewhurst&#8217;s specific claim is that the general fund — with just state tax dollars for all five budgets — dropped since then.</p>
<p>As PolitiFact Texas found, when adjusted for population and inflation — and even rolling in delayed spending for schools and Medicaid — general revenue spending dropped since 2003.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><span id="more-16671"></span>Another LIE. How about that?</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Cruz&#8217;s ad then claims again that Dewhurst promoted an income tax. &#8220;What&#8217;s a wage tax? A fancy disguise for an income tax,&#8221; the ad says.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s false.</p>
<p>As we previously found, Dewhurst has not supported an income tax.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Lie Ted Lie! Make sure Texas sees you for what you are!</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Then in the political ad, a Cruz supporter — Cathie Adams, former Chair of the Republican Party of Texas — says this: &#8220;Dewhurst appoints liberal Democrats.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s true.</p>
<p>While in charge of the Senate, Dewhurst appointed an average of seven Democrats to chair committees in each legislative session since 2003.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Apparently Ted Cruz is not all that smart. Does he not realize that regardless the number of Democrats that <em><strong>DO</strong></em> chair committees in the Texas House and Senate, the GOP still maintains solid control over <em><strong>BOTH</strong></em> Houses.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The Democrats in Texas are elected to represent their constituents, just like GOP members are, and they can’t be denied an opportunity to *serve*. Dewhurst was only being a fair and balanced Lt. Governor and was doing his job.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Nothing says that either House has to allow any proposals made BY the Democrats to actually pass now does it?</span> <img src='http://texasfred.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif' alt=':twisted:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<blockquote><p>With this commercial, Ted Cruz hopes primary voters think about that and appoint him the Republican nominee.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">They won&#8217;t, not if they have more than a few brain cells to work with&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">WFAA and Brad Watson have done a really decent job of presenting the facts as they really are, that is something so many media sources will not do. I thank them for this story and I hope it will influence Texas voters to support and vote <em><strong>for</strong></em> Lt. Governor David Dewhurst in his bid to become the next U.S. Senator from Texas.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">I support David Dewhurst for U.S. Senate, I hope you will too!</span></p>

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		<title>Gunbattle in Beirut amid fears of Syria spillover</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TexasFred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gunbattle in Beirut amid fears of Syria spillover BEIRUT (AP) &#8211; Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns early Monday in intense street battles in the Lebanese capital, wounding six people as fears mounted that the conflict in neighboring Syria &#8230; <a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16599">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Gunbattle in Beirut amid fears of Syria spillover</span></strong></span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16599/american-flag-square-2" rel="attachment wp-att-16621"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16621" title="American Flag Square" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/American-Flag-Square-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>BEIRUT (AP)</strong> &#8211; Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns early Monday in intense street battles in the Lebanese capital, wounding six people as fears mounted that the conflict in neighboring Syria was bleeding across the border.</p>
<p>The fighting appeared to be among the worst clashes in Beirut since 2008. The clashes erupted hours after an anti-Syrian cleric and his bodyguard were shot dead in northern Lebanon.</p>
<p>Lebanon and Syria share a complex web of political and sectarian ties and rivalries, which are easily enflamed. Last week, clashes sparked by the Syrian crisis killed at least eight people and wounded dozens in the northern city of Tripoli.</p>
<p>The revolt in Syria began 15 months ago, and there are fears the unrest will lead to a regional conflagration that could draw in neighboring countries. The U.N. estimates the conflict has killed more than 9,000 people since March 2011.</p>
<p>Full Story Here:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://apnews.myway.com//article/20120520/D9USNPTG0.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Gunbattle in Beirut amid fears of Syria spillover</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Lebanon and Syria. Is this what America needs to worry about? Are those nations a direct threat to the USA? Well, apparently Joe Lieberman and John McCain seem to think so.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>With the evident failure of an international peace plan designed to end the violence in Syria, recent actions by the Obama administration indicate the White House could be inching toward a military response, a Senate Armed Services Committee member said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think they&#8217;re moving toward some more real action,&#8221; Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Ct.) told The Hill regarding the White House&#8217;s evolving position on Syria.</p>
<p>Lieberman, along with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), has been at the forefront of the congressional effort to provide military support to Syria. <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/228459-sen-lieberman-white-house-inching-closer-to-military-response-in-syria"><span style="color: #0000ff;">SOURCE</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">I only have one thing to say to McCain and Lieberman:</span></p>
<p><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16599/out-of-syria-and-lebanon-3" rel="attachment wp-att-16604"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16604" title="Out of Syria and Lebanon" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Out-of-Syria-and-Lebanon2.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="86" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Here&#8217;s the way I look at it; if they are busy killing each other, they won&#8217;t be killing US here at home, and there is not so much as ONE legitimate excuse for sending American troops into harms way to save so much as one person in Syria and Lebanon.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">We have wasted, to date, <strong>12,035</strong> young American lives, dead and wounded, and untold BILLIONS of tax dollars in a place called Afghanistan, and there is no true end in sight!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">We wasted <strong>36,395</strong> young American lives, dead and wounded, and untold BILLIONS of tax dollars in a place called Iraq, and what, exactly, did we accomplish? The above numbers can be verified</span> <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">HERE</span></a></span></strong><span style="color: #000080;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">What have we gained for those efforts?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Do the Muslims hate us any less? Of course not. Do the Muslims wish to live in peace with us here in America and wish to embrace the American lifestyle? We ALL know the answer to that one, a resounding <em><strong>NO</strong></em>, they do not.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><span id="more-16599"></span>Will Muslims EVER want to be our buddies? No, and again, that is a resounding <em><strong>NO</strong></em>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Liberals claimed that Iraq was a *<em><strong>war for oil</strong></em>*. Of course that ridiculous statement has been proven wrong. *<em><strong>No BLOOD for OIL</strong></em>*, that was the battle cry of the left, and you know, they were very correct in that one, we didn&#8217;t get one damned drop of oil from Iraq. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">We had a legitimate reason to go into Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, and we needed to have some resolution, and satisfaction, for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">We had <em><strong>NO</strong></em> legitimate reason to invade Iraq, we never did, and we have <em><strong>NO</strong></em> legitimate reason to stick our noses into the fights that are taking place in Syria and Lebanon!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">No more American troops need to DIE in Muslim lands.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Our government won&#8217;t let our troops fight a WAR, they force them to fight under strict *rules of engagement*, rules that get our troops KILLED. Until such time that the powers that be decide to let our fighting men actually <em><strong>FIGHT</strong></em> and win, get them OUT of these places and keep them safe.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">But if this nation is presented with a legitimate threat to us, the American people, <strong><em>loose the dogs of war</em></strong>, and by God, <em><strong>NO MERCY</strong></em>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Barring that, <strong><em>We, THE PEOPLE</em></strong>, need to elect leaders that have the BALLS to fight for America, not leaders that are conflicted as to where, and <em><strong>to whom</strong></em> their loyalties lie!</span></p>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TexasFred</dc:creator>
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if&#8230;</span></strong> </p>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">A Muslim officer crying &#8220;Allah Akbar&#8221; while shooting up an army base is considered to have committed <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2817941/posts" href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2817941/posts" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;Workplace Violence&#8221;</span></a></span> while an American citizen boasting a Ron Paul bumper sticker is classified as a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/ron-paul-supporters-terrorists" href="http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/ron-paul-supporters-terrorists" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;Domestic Terrorist&#8221;</span></a></span>.</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">You know you live in an Upside-down Land if&#8230;</span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">You can get arrested for <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/post/thousands-arrested-for-expired-car-registrations-in-dc-since-2009/2011/10/20/gIQAVzji0L_blog.html" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/post/thousands-arrested-for-expired-car-registrations-in-dc-since-2009/2011/10/20/gIQAVzji0L_blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">expired tags</span></a></span> on your car but not for being in the country illegally.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more of our money.</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">You know you live in an Upside-down Land if&#8230;</span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">A seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-12-05/news/30479021_1_sexual-harassment-substitute-teacher-inappropriate-behavior" href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-12-05/news/30479021_1_sexual-harassment-substitute-teacher-inappropriate-behavior" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;cute&#8221;</span></a></span> but hosting a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/03/class-sex-toy-demonstration-causes-controversy/" href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/03/class-sex-toy-demonstration-causes-controversy/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">sexual exploration or diversity class</span></a></span> in grade school is perfectly acceptable.</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">You know you live in an Upside-down Land if&#8230;</span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of &#8220;underprivileged&#8221; drug addicts are left to rot in filth infested cesspools.</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">You know you live in an Upside-down Land if&#8230;</span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Working class Americans pay for their own health care (and the health care of everyone else) while <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="http://satireworld.com/us-news-headlines/201112031322/woman-with-15-illigitimate-children-says-taxpayers-need-to-be-responsible-and-need-to-help-with-their-support/" href="http://satireworld.com/us-news-headlines/201112031322/woman-with-15-illigitimate-children-says-taxpayers-need-to-be-responsible-and-need-to-help-with-their-support/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">unmarried women are free to have child after child on the &#8220;State&#8217;s&#8221; dime </span></a></span>while never being held responsible for their own choices.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid and subsidized housing.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">The government&#8217;s plan for getting people back to work is to provide 99 weeks of unemployment checks (to not work).</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Being self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Politicians think that stripping away the amendments to the constitution is really protecting the rights of the people.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">The rights of the Government come before the rights of the individual.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">You can write a post like this just by reading the news headlines.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">You pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying iphones, TV&#8217;s and new cars) and the government forgives his debt and reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars).</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">You know you live in an Upside-down Land if&#8230;</span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Your government can add anything they want to your kid&#8217;s water (fluoride, chlorine, etc.) but you are not allowed to give them raw milk.</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">You know you live in an Upside-down Land if&#8230;</span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you &#8220;safe&#8221;.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">You have to have your parents signature to go on a school field trip but not to get an abortion.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;">Using the &#8220;N&#8221; word is considered &#8220;hate speech&#8221; but writing and singing songs about raping women and killing cops is considered &#8220;art&#8221;.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Unfortunately, this list could go on and on. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Our world has been turned upside-down. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">We are in distress. Where do we go from here?</span></p>
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		<title>Young illegal immigrants coming out of the shadows</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 16:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young illegal immigrants coming out of the shadows She was tiny and trembling and looked so very vulnerable. Barely 15, having already experienced a lifetime of hardships since losing her mother at 5 and crossing the desert with her father, &#8230; <a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16580">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #800000; font-size: large;">Young illegal immigrants coming out of the shadows</span></strong></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16580/mexico-2" rel="attachment wp-att-16584"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16584" title="Mexico" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Mexico-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>She was tiny and trembling and looked so very vulnerable. Barely 15, having already experienced a lifetime of hardships since losing her mother at 5 and crossing the desert with her father, she clutched a microphone before a crowd in New York&#8217;s Union Square.</p>
<p>&#8220;My name is Diana,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I am undocumented and unafraid.&#8221;</p>
<p>With those words last March, another young woman stepped &#8220;out of the shadows.&#8221;</p>
<p>It began several years ago, tentatively, almost furtively, with a few small rallies and a few provocative T-shirts. In the past two years it has grown into a full-fledged movement, emboldening thousands of young people, terrifying their parents, and unsettling authorities unsure of how to respond.</p>
<p>Full Story Here:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://apnews.myway.com//article/20120519/D9US0O5O1.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Young illegal immigrants coming out of the shadows</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">With the ILLEGAL loving President we have in office right now, and the ILLEGAL loving President that preceded him, it&#8217;s no wonder that authorities are unsure as to how to respond.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">This is one issue where I can&#8217;t just point a finger at Barack Hussein Obama and say <em>&#8216;well, there ya go, that&#8217;s the way the Democrats do it&#8217;</em> because it&#8217;s NOT just the Democrats.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Many say the only reason that Obama and Company won&#8217;t enforce immigration laws is because they see the ILLEGALS as *future Democratic voters*. I don&#8217;t necessarily buy into that one, not 100%, and here&#8217;s why; George W. Bush loved him some ILLEGALS too, was he looking at them and seeing *future GOP voters*?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Bush wanted his version of *The Dream Act* put in place, one that included full amnesty, and was a plan that opened up many eyes as to what kind of RINO George W. Bush really was.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>From California to Georgia to New York, children of families who live here illegally are &#8220;coming out&#8221; &#8211; marching behind banners that say &#8220;undocumented and unafraid,&#8221; staging sit-ins in federal offices, and getting arrested in the most defiant ways &#8211; in front of the Alabama Capitol, outside federal immigration courts and detention centers, in Maricopa County, Ariz., home of the sworn enemy of illegal immigrants, Sheriff Joe Arpaio.</p>
<p>In &#8220;outing&#8221; their families as well as themselves, they know they risk being deported.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Actually, no, they risk little and face a very small threat of deportation, the Department of Justice and some very LIBERAL U.S. District and Appeals Courts are stopping every state from enforcing the LAW OF THAT LAND, the laws that the Federal Government will not enforce.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">States like Georgia and Arizona pass immigration and reform laws,</span> <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Arizona SB 1070</span></a></span></strong> <span style="color: #000080;">and</span> <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://americancityandcounty.com/administration/immigration-reform-states-20110517" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Georgia immigration reform</span></a></span></strong><span style="color: #000080;">, then the Federal Courts strike them down. States are only trying to do what our own government won&#8217;t do; enforce the laws of the land.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>But as states pass ever more stringent anti-illegal immigration laws &#8211; and critics denounce their parents as criminals &#8211; these young people say they have no choice.</p>
<p>Even critics who are sympathetic to their cause say the federal government has failed to secure the U.S. borders and that it&#8217;s too costly to provide schooling, hospital care and other public services to non-citizens. Offering a path to citizenship for those brought into the country illegally as children, they say, simply rewards the parents&#8217; law-breaking.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><span id="more-16580"></span>We have all that we can do to take care of Americans, LEGAL Americans. To overlook the children of ILLEGALS, and to give them a *<em>free pass</em>*, is a <em><strong>slap in the face</strong></em> to ALL Americans, especially those that are here because they chose to be here and did it the right way; they came here <em><strong>legally</strong></em> and worked their way to citizenship.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Maybe we need to consider adopting these following laws as <em><strong>our</strong></em> guidelines.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>1. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools, no special ballots for elections, and all government business will be conducted in our language.</p>
<p>2. Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote, no matter how long they are here.</p>
<p>3. Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold political office.</p>
<p>4. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, nor any other government assistance programs.</p>
<p>5. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.</p>
<p>6. If foreigners do come and want to buy land that will be okay, BUT options will be restricted. You are not allowed to own waterfront property. That property is reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.</p>
<p>7. Foreigners may not protest; no demonstrations, no waving a foreign flag, no political organizing, no &#8220;bad-mouthing&#8221; our president or his policies. If you do you will be sent home.</p>
<p>8. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be hunted down and sent straight to jail.</p>
<p>Too harsh, you say?</p>
<p>The above laws happen to be the immigration laws of MEXICO.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #000080;">America has lost its way, lost its <em>moral compass</em> and we are rapidly descending into an unrecoverable tail spin.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">We will NEVER regain the direction needed under the Democrats, sadly, I don&#8217;t believe there is anyone in a position of power on the GOP national stage that has the GUTS to stand up, tell it like it REALLY is and guide this nation back from the edge of total destruction.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">We can start by securing the borders of this nation and vigorously enforcing the laws of the land. A criminal is a criminal, I don&#8217;t see a difference in <em>degrees of lawlessness</em>, and no one in this nation should be allowed to blatantly break American law and be given a *free pass*, a college education and a fast track to U.S. citizenship for doing so!</span></p>

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		<description><![CDATA[Political vulnerabilities in Sen. Rubio&#8217;s past? MIAMI (AP) &#8211; For freshman Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising GOP figure seen as a possible Mitt Romney running mate, there are questions about whether potential vulnerabilities in his personal and political background might &#8230; <a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16568">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Political vulnerabilities in Sen. Rubio&#8217;s past?</span></strong></span></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16568/marco-rubio-2-3" rel="attachment wp-att-16570"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16570" title="marco rubio (2)" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/marco-rubio-21-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><strong>MIAMI (AP)</strong> &#8211; For freshman Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising GOP figure seen as a possible Mitt Romney running mate, there are questions about whether potential vulnerabilities in his personal and political background might hold him back.</p>
<p>The 40-year-old Florida lawmaker has close ties to a colleague accused of questionable financial dealings. He once was enmeshed in a controversy over the use of the state party&#8217;s credit card for his personal expenses. Since emerging on the national political scene, he has faced increased personal scrutiny. There are conflicting details about his parents&#8217; immigration from Cuba and his recently disclosed ties to the Mormon faith.</p>
<p>The effect of those issues on his political fortunes is the subject of debate in Republican circles in Washington, Florida and elsewhere as the Cuban-American senator with solid conservative credentials works to raise his profile beyond his home state and possibly position himself for a national role.</p>
<p>&#8220;Marco Rubio is a huge star in the Republican Party in much the same way that Barack Obama was in the Democratic Party between his convention speech in 2004 and his candidacy for the president,&#8221; said Steve Schmidt, a top adviser to GOP Sen. John McCain&#8217;s 2008 presidential campaign. &#8220;There are a lot of pluses when you look at Marco Rubio as a potential vice presidential candidate, but there are also unknowns.&#8221;</p>
<p>Full Story Here:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://apnews.myway.com//article/20120519/D9URRVL80.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Political vulnerabilities in Sen. Rubio&#8217;s past?</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The GOP already has their work cut out for them trying to *sell* Mitt Romney to American voters, to attach Marco Rubio to the ticket makes it even harder for me to support, and vote for Mitt Romney.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The GOP has got to realize this, <em>NO MORE RINOs</em> is not just a pipe dream. Some of us really do mean it when we say those words, we want true Conservatives, not hyphenated Americans with *issues*. We got that in Barack Hussein Obama!</span></p>
<p><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16568/no-more-rinos-2" rel="attachment wp-att-16569"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16569" title="No More RINOs 2" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/No-More-RINOs-2-300x207.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="207" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Marco Rubio is a RINO! A <strong>R</strong>epublican <strong>I</strong>n <strong>N</strong>ame <strong>O</strong>nly!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Why do I say that? Just think *The Dream Act*.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Marco Rubio has his own ideas of what a *Dream Act* should be, and it all starts with the words “<em><strong>allowing ILLEGALS to</strong></em>…”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">When a sentence starts with the words *<em>allowing ILLEGALS to</em>&#8230;* do <em>ANYTHING</em>, unless it&#8217;s followed with the words *<em><strong>do time in jail</strong></em>*, the speaker of those words is <em><strong>NOT</strong></em> a Conservative.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">They are ILLEGALS for crying out loud, they aren’t entitled to ANYTHING other than deportation. They have NO rights as U.S. citizens, they have no basis for being here and deserve NO education at the expense of LEGAL American taxpayers.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">I have posted this before, there <em>IS</em> one part of Rubio’s *Dream Act* that I can agree on; if the person(s) serve a hitch in the U.S. military, serve honorably and are then discharged, they should have a right to some sort of *fast track* to citizenship, and as they have served this nation, they have also earned a right to an education as a part of their GI benefits.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><span id="more-16568"></span>That&#8217;s not a fast track for someone that just happens to be here, that is a fast track for someone that actually <em><strong>EARNED</strong></em> a place in the USA!</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Both Rubio&#8217;s ties with U.S. Rep. David Rivera, a fellow GOP freshman who now is facing a federal probe into tax evasion, and the state party credit card matter surfaced during Rubio&#8217;s 2010 Senate campaign. While they didn&#8217;t have much effect, that doesn&#8217;t mean they would get a pass on the national stage.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Then there&#8217;s his family&#8217;s background.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Rubio long claimed his parents fled Fidel Castro&#8217;s rule. But it was recently disclosed that they arrived several years before Castro took power, although they quickly embraced the Cuban exile community as Castro turned toward communism. Rubio has said the dates he gave were based on his parents&#8217; recollections.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s another part of Rubio&#8217;s upbringing that long had gone undisclosed, and the revelation is one that could turn off evangelicals who make up the base of the GOP.</p>
<p>Rubio was baptized as Mormon when his family lived for a few years in Las Vegas, thanks to the influence of cousins who belonged to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Rubio returned to the Catholic Church as a young teen, and as an adult he has also frequently attended Baptist services.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The stories about Rubio&#8217;s parents and the <em>Cuban exile thing</em> should have been vetted and dispelled long ago. I don&#8217;t know if Rubio refers to himself as a Cuban-American or if that is the name the press pawned off on him, but if Rubio <em>DOES</em> call himself <em>Cuban-American</em>, that is ALL the reason I need to say NO to Rubio!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Is Rubio highly *conflicted* where religion is concerned? I don&#8217;t know and personally, I just don&#8217;t care. </span><span style="color: #000080;">Rubio can attend whatever church he wants. To me, that part is a non-issue.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The ISSUE is that Rubio is a wheeler-dealer, has played loose and fast with the money, has his own ideas about a pathway to citizenship for <em><strong>ILLEGALS</strong></em>, and there can only be one pathway, the <em><strong>LEGAL</strong></em> one, and the fact that Rubio is <em>wet behind the ears</em>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">What would he be like if given the opportunity to learn at the hands of master crooks and liars?</span></p>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOP Senate hopes once again rest on insurgents WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; For Senate Republicans, 2012 is starting a lot like 2010. They have a shot at taking control away from Democrats as long as insurgent conservatives who are defeating the &#8230; <a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16560">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">GOP Senate hopes once again rest on insurgents</span></strong></span></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16560/dead-elephant" rel="attachment wp-att-16561"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16561" title="Dead Elephant" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Dead-Elephant-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><strong>WASHINGTON (AP)</strong> &#8211; For Senate Republicans, 2012 is starting a lot like 2010.</p>
<p>They have a shot at taking control away from Democrats as long as insurgent conservatives who are defeating the party&#8217;s more establishment candidates in primaries don&#8217;t frighten too many independent voters like they did two years ago.</p>
<p>Deb Fischer, a little-known state senator, became the latest unexpected Senate GOP nominee Tuesday, rallying late to upset the favored &#8211; and better funded &#8211; choices of both the party&#8217;s mainstream and tea party establishments: Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning and state Treasurer Don Stenberg.</p>
<p>Her victory occurred just a week after tea party and other conservative groups embraced Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who scored an arguably bigger upset &#8211; knocking off six-term Sen. Richard Lugar, the Senate&#8217;s longest-serving Republican.</p>
<p>The message for the GOP: Insurgents are back.</p>
<p>Full Story Here:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://apnews.myway.com//article/20120517/D9UQAVHG1.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">GOP Senate hopes once again rest on insurgents</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The GOP, and ALL of the candidates had best pay attention!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">This isn&#8217;t a *game*, we&#8217;re not playing with the GOP. Conservatives in the USA are PISSED OFF! It&#8217;s a fact, it&#8217;s the way things are rolling and we&#8217;re tired of the *BIG TENT* GOP line of BS where it all comes out to being just another case of *<em>Dem Lite</em>*.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Obviously, the GOP is NOT listening. If they were we would have a REAL Conservative running for POTUS and not some *<em>the third time&#8217;s a charm</em>* moderate like Mitt Romney.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The GOP doesn&#8217;t think that Conservatives are ANGRY apparently, they think we&#8217;re going to acquiesce to their beliefs and rally around Romney and call him the new *chosen one*.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The GOP is WRONG!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Will I cast a vote in favor of Romney? Yes, I will, BUT, it&#8217;s not going to be a vote FOR Mitt Romney, it is a vote against Barack Hussein Obama.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Folks, that is a sad statement of affairs when the best we can do is vote AGAINST a sitting President and not FOR the opposition.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Here&#8217;s the real danger of that; in 2008 most Republicans and nearly ALL Conservatives voted against Obama by voting in favor of the weakest presidential candidate the GOP has thrown out there in recent memory, John McCain. There is a strong possibility that if Romney can&#8217;t get the GOP and Conservative base fired up, Obama could once again take the White House.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">If that happens, this nation is DONE!</p>
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<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s yet to become clear is whether they exemplify 2010&#8242;s class of conservative upstarts &#8211; Florida&#8217;s Marco Rubio, Kentucky&#8217;s Rand Paul, Utah&#8217;s Mike Lee and Wisconsin&#8217;s Ron Johnson. All were early underdogs in the primary season and are now U.S. senators.</p>
<p>Or will the 2012 class turn out to be more like Christine O&#8217;Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada and Ken Buck in Colorado? They, too, emerged from relative obscurity to defeat more established Republicans early in the election season, only to stumble later and cost the GOP three seats many thought it should win.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The AP conveniently forgot about Joe Miller in Alaska. Miller was also a Sarah Palin pick, and he got his ass handed to him in a *write in* campaign by the most vile, disgusting and least Conservative asshat imaginable in one Lisa Murkowski.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The GOP has got to realize this, NO MORE RINOs is not just a pipe dream.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">I may anger some readers with this statement, that&#8217;s the breaks, but Marco Rubio is a RINO! A <strong>R</strong>epublican <strong>I</strong>n <strong>N</strong>ame <strong>O</strong>nly!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Why do I say that? Just think *The Dream Act*. Marco Rubio has his own ideas of what a *Dream Act* should be, and it all starts with the words &#8220;allowing ILLEGALS to&#8230;&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">They are ILLEGALS for crying out loud, they aren&#8217;t entitled to ANYTHING other than deportation. They have NO rights, they have no basis for being here and deserve NO education at the expense of LEGAL American taxpayers.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Now there IS one part of Rubio&#8217;s *Dream Act* that I can agree on; if the person(s) serve a hitch in the U.S. military, serve honorably and are then discharged, they should have a right to some sort of *fast track* to citizenship, and as they have served this nation, they have also earned a right to an education as a part of their GI benefits.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>While the GOP establishment has the presidential candidate it wanted in former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the jolts to its strategy for winning the Senate may not be over.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The GOP establishment may have the presidential candidate it wanted but Romney is NOT what so many in this nation wanted, he is merely the *survivor* and was the chose one by the GOP establishment long before the primaries even started. Mitt was a *shoo-in* right from the start!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">I posted this on Oct. 6th, 2011 and I intend to keep posting it as often as the opportunity presents itself:</span> <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/12367" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Romney to be GOP nominee – Elections no longer required</span></a></span></strong><span style="color: #000080;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Ladies and Gents, the GOP thinks THEY know what&#8217;s best for the voters. They don&#8217;t! And somehow, we have got to show them that their idea of *The BIG TENT* is not what is going to sustain America, and is certainly NOT what will make America a great nation once again!</span></p>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Bush: &#8216;Arab Spring&#8217; Is ‘Broadest Challenge to Authoritarian Rule Since Collapse of Soviet Communism’</span></strong></span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16547/george-w-bush" rel="attachment wp-att-16551"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16551" title="George W. Bush" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/George-W.-Bush-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>(CNSNews.com)</strong> – Former President George W. Bush said Tuesday that the Arab Spring is “the broadest challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet Communism.&#8221;</p>
<p>“These are extraordinary times in the history of freedom,” Bush said in a speech in Washington, D.C., sponsored by his presidential foundation, the George W. Bush Institute.</p>
<p>“In the Arab Spring we have seen the broadest challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet communism,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;Great change has come to a region where many thought it impossible.</p>
<p>“The idea that Arab people are somehow content with oppression has been discredited forever,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;Yet we’ve also seen instability, uncertainty, and the revenge of brutal rulers. The collapse of an old order can unleash resentments and power struggles that a new order is not yet prepared to handle.”</p>
<p>“Freedom is a powerful force,” Bush said, “but it does not advance on wheels of historical inevitability.” The event at which Bush spoke was entitled “Celebration of Human Freedom.”</p>
<p>Full Story Here:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/bush-arab-spring-broadest-challenge-authoritarian-rule-collapse-soviet-communism" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Bush: &#8216;Arab Spring&#8217; Is ‘Broadest Challenge to Authoritarian Rule Since Collapse of Soviet Communism’</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">It&#8217;s been a while since I made this statement on the blog; <em>George W. Bush is a MORON</em>. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">It&#8217;s as true now as it was 4 years ago, to the day, a day when George W. Bush convinced even his most ardent supporters that he truly IS a dim bulb when it comes to having an understanding of the FACT that there will NEVER be peace among Arabs and Muslims.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The above story is from May 15, <strong>2012</strong>, the story below is from May 15, <strong>2008</strong>, the original story and my commentary. Coincidence perhaps? Or repetitive mind lapses?</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Bush envisions a democratic Middle East free of oppression</span></strong></span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>JERUSALEM (AP)</strong> – President Bush feted Israel on Thursday in honor of the 60th anniversary of its founding and predicted that its 120th birthday would find it alongside a Palestinian state and in an all-democratic neighborhood free of today’s oppression, restrictions on freedom and extremist Muslim movements.</p>
<p>Delivering this rosy forecast for the Middle East in 2068 during a speech to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, Bush limited his mention of Palestinians to just one sentence. “The Palestinian people will have the homeland they have long dreamed of and deserved, a democratic state that is governed by law, and respects human rights, and rejects terror,” he said.</p>
<p>This scant talk of the other side of one of the world’s longest-running disputes contrasted jarringly with the more expansive treatment of the subject by Bush’s Israeli hosts.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the lawmakers that he is working hard for an accord and believes “when the day comes for a historic peace agreement” that both the Knesset and the Israeli public will support it “by a large majority.” The chamber reacted with silence and nervous laughter, which Bush briefly joined. Two hardline lawmakers walked out of the chamber in protest during Olmert’s address.</p>
<p><span id="more-16547"></span>Full Story Here:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080515/D90M3RLG1.html" target="_top"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Bush envisions a democratic Middle East free of oppression</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">Can the POTUS be forced to take a drug or alcohol test?? I don’t know who Bush thinks he stroking here but if he believes that BS he’s either drunk or stoned.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">There will never be peace in the Mid-East, not as long as there is one Islamic radical left alive, if there is so much as one of the followers of Mohammad left breathing he will be doing everything in his power to destroy Israel, the Jews or any Christian he can find.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">I guess Bush and Company have never studied history, recent or far past, if they had then they would know that what we’re seeing in the world now is a modern day version of The Crusades, and the outcome will not be any different now, or 60 years from now, than it was throughout the rest of history,</span> <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades"><span style="color: #0000ff;">The Crusades</span></a></span></strong><span style="color: #000080;">.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">Islam will never peacefully coexist with Jews or Christians, it can’t happen, Islam is NOT a democratic religion or peaceful religion, it is a religion of dominance and violence against any who don’t submit to it’s teachings, the very thought of democracy or freedom is foreign to a Muslim, and why in the world George Bush thinks 60 year will change that, when hundreds of years hasn’t, well, it is beyond me.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">There is only one way for democracy to reign in the Mid-East, and that will be for ALL Muslims to renounce their teachings and accept ALL Christians and Jews, male and female, as equals, once that happens there may be a slight chance of freedom spreading throughout that region of the world as oppression becomes a distant memory.</span></em></p>
<blockquote><p>“From Cairo and Riyadh to Baghdad and Beirut, people will live in free and independent societies, where a desire for peace is reinforced by ties of diplomacy, tourism and trade,” he said. “Iran and Syria will be peaceful nations, where today’s oppression is a distant memory and people are free to speak their minds and develop their talents. And al-Qaida, Hezbollah and Hamas will be defeated, as Muslims across the region recognize the emptiness of the terrorists’ vision and the injustice of their cause.”</p></blockquote>
<p><em><span style="color: #000080;">As Golda Meir said “</span></em><span style="color: #000080;">Peace will come only when Palestinians love their children more than they hate Jews</span><em><span style="color: #000080;">.”, and she was entirely correct, Mr. Bush seems to think he is talking about a sane people when he espouses his vision of peace, Mr. Bush, you may not want to accept it but al-Qaida, Hezbollah and Hamas are fairly good representations OF the true desires of Islam, it’s all about dominance and submission, and until that changes, nothing else will either.</span></em></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/1186" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Bush envisions a democratic Middle East free of oppression</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Ladies and Gentlemen, it appears to me that George W. Bush hasn&#8217;t gotten ANY smarter regarding Islam, Arabs, freedom and democracy for Muslims and Arabs than he was 4 years ago.</span></p>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pro-Dewhurst super PAC unloads $1M on ads in attempt to bury Cruz A super PAC supporting Senate front-runner David Dewhurst has made a $1 million media buy, according to the Federal Election Commission. In ads that Texas Conservatives Fund chief &#8230; <a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16534">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Pro-Dewhurst super PAC unloads $1M on ads in attempt to bury Cruz</span></strong></span></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://texasfred.net/archives/16534/david-dewhurst-2" rel="attachment wp-att-16539"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-16539" title="David Dewhurst" src="http://texasfred.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/David-Dewhurst-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>A super PAC supporting Senate front-runner David Dewhurst has made a $1 million media buy, according to the Federal Election Commission. In ads that Texas Conservatives Fund chief Rob Johnson said began to air Tuesday, the group trashes Dewhurst&#8217;s GOP rival, Ted Cruz. We&#8217;ll do more about this ad later because it twists almost beyond recognition the facts of Texas&#8217; 2005-2006 school finance debate, much as Cruz has done in accusing Dewhurst of promoting a state corporate income tax.</p>
<p>All you need to know is that Cruz grew up in Houston, as a boy veritably drinking from that city&#8217;s open fire hydrant of libertarian-leaning conservativism &#8212; some of it, a tad on the whacky side. I reported on that in depth in this profile of Cruz last month.</p>
<p>Now, though, voters unfamiliar with Cruz will be given a narrative that he is a phony conservative in ads by Johnson&#8217;s group, which is the Austin-based, pro-Dewhurst super PAC &#8212; there are two, you know. That would be a very hard sell with anyone well-informed about Cruz. But of course, that&#8217;s the point of political advertising, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>The ad&#8217;s punch line:</p>
<p>&#8220;Ted Cruz a conservative? You gotta be kidding &#8230; No way!&#8221;</p>
<p>Full Story Here:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/05/pro-dewhurst-super-pac-unloads.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Pro-Dewhurst super PAC unloads $1M on ads in attempt to bury Cruz</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><center><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HfQYIIaY9QE" frameborder="0" width="460" height="315"></iframe></center><span style="color: #000080;"><br />
Bury Ted Cruz? What a marvelous idea!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Somehow, I don’t think the writer for the Dallas Morning News meant for his post to be a SUPPORT DEWHURST post, but in MY opinion, it just became one!</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Ted Cruz: China&#8217;s legal mercenary</span></strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Trial lawyer Ted Cruz represents thieves from a Chinese conglomerate in its attempts to deny justice to an American entrepreneur. Ted Cruz&#8217;s profiteering has aided, and continues to aid, a Chinese billion-dollar conglomerate, Shandong Linglong, in killing American jobs.</p>
<p>Ted Cruz decided to completely betray America in the ongoing struggle to combat intellectual property theft by Chinese companies. Even more shocking is the fact that Ted Cruz consciously decided to help decimate an American business and cripple American inventor and entrepreneur Jordan Fishman by further delaying justice. <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://realtedcruz.com/ted-cruz-chinas-legal-mercenary" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">SOURCE</span></a></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Trial lawyer Ted Cruz: Defending Chinese intellectual property thieves in the courtroom</span></strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Chinese intellectual property thieves stole 74-year-old Jordan Fishman’s life’s work. The thieves were found liable on every claim at trial in federal court (Jury Verdict, 7/15/10). They were instructed to pay American inventor and entrepreneur Jordan Fishman $26 million (Court Order, 7/19/10).</p>
<p>Unwilling to pay for their wrongdoing, the thieving Chinese company hired the one man they knew who would accept the bounty against an American businessman: shameless legal mercenary Ted Cruz (Appearance of Counsel, 11/18/10).</p>
<p>Trial lawyer Ted Cruz knew in advance he was representing a Chinese company that a U.S. jury found had stolen Fishman&#8217;s life work. But the dollar signs in Ted Cruz’s eyes helped him make the wrong decision.</p>
<p>Ted Cruz took up the pirate banners as lead counsel for Chinese conglomerate Shandong Linglong and is trying to help destroy intellectual property theft victim Jordan Fishman (Texas Monthly, 10/3/11).</p>
<p>As a trial lawyer, “Ted Cruz will put profit over America.” <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://realtedcruz.com/ted-cruz-chinas-legal-mercenary" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">SOURCE</span></a></span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Is a Pro-Chinese trial lawyer what Texas needs as a U.S. Senator? I think not&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">SUPPORT DAVID DEWHURST for U.S. Senator from Texas! The TexasFred Blog does!</span></p>

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