Peoria Baseball Chiefs Make Headlines in Today's Journal Star

What say now, Mr. know-it-all, Roger Monroe, Column writer for the Community Word and lightweight JS sportswriter, Kevin Capie??

Club President Vonachen says club will around for next 30 years.

Hmmmmmmm.

4th Best President? Count on Liberal "60 Minutes" to Propagandize Obama

60 Minutes edits Out Obama's claim - he's the 4th Best President | Video


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/60-minutes-edits-out-obamas-claim-that-hes-the-fourth-best-president/


The Constitution is not an instrument for the Government to restrain the People;

it is an instrument for the People to Restrain the government

lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
- - Patrick Henry

No Bush, No Christie, No Ron Paul

Read Columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz, my favorite WSJ writer for a sum-up of why we don't need a Ron Paul or his type to run against Obama. (Opinion page Dec. 22, WSJ) No more Bushs' for at least 2-3 decades, and Christie couldn't win either.

In fact, with Obama's win on the payroll tax issue; this win supported by the mostly well-meaning divisive and inept Republican leadership, Obama's stacking of the NLRB with hard core union supporters, Lisa Jackson ruling on supposedly saving the climate and the planet (I'd put her on a row boat to China if I could) her intentions promoted by Obama to put fossil fuel producers out of business so we can have more greens' taxpayer funded poor energy solutions like cellulose, wind farms, wood chip gasoline and electric cars, Obama has satisfied enough of his voting base that I guarantee you it will be no Republican rout in November 2012.

Plus the Obama supported staying power of this countries largest financial disasters, Fannie and Freddie. Those who benefit from the waste of hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars by these two politically supported country wrecking institutions, will all vote for Obama in 2012.

Obama could be photographed in bed with Hillary and Barack wouldn't lose a thousand votes.

Most voters will enter this November election believing it is the Republicans who are the problem in the economy. Those who support him benefit from his actions that will eventually destroy this country. Most of them are greedy people more interested in personal gain than they are the long-term future of this country.

How can I say this? 50% of the country believes Obama is doing a good job. Why? Because he is a phony charming charlatan who stepped into a vacuum created by George Bush, Jr. and the "Republican good old boy and girls club" led by too many weak Central Committees.

In the meantime, Democrats are praying that Newt is selected. Their researchers and script writers are working day and night. Democrats are also hoping Ron Paul will try to create a third party which Paul is just vindictive enough to do.

The liberal journalists and pundits are having a ball and will all the way through 2012. I never thought I would live to see so many people mis-led by propagandists even the worst dictators could have ever dreamed of creating.

I see little change. Many of us who support the Tea Party Movement are going to be diappointed. The election of 2012 will not be the election of 2010, at least on the big one that counts the most.

So sad.

Chavez Should Know

Forwarded to me by a friend. Whether Chavez said these words or not, they are correct. Every word except I don't believe even Obama wants to attack----what's the name of that country?? I know the name of the dictator who runs it.

That's enough.

Merle

When I agree with Hugo Chavez, you know the world is upside-down, but the man's right:



“Mr. Obama decided to attack us,” Chávez said. “Now you want to win votes by attacking Venezuela. Don’t be irresponsible. You are a clown, a clown. Leave us in peace … Go after your votes by fulfilling that which you promised your people.”

“Focus on governing your country, which you’ve turned into a disaster,” Chávez said, according to The Guardian

Holiday Trees My Ass

I'm telling Obama and his pacifist and One World crappers to have plastic signs made saying "Holiday Trees" instead of their rightful name, Christmas trees and ask that they stick these signs up their individual orifices where they belong.

Crap excretes crap. The message forwarded to me by a friend follows:

And a Merry Christmas to friends and followers. Enjoy all Christmas trees. I, of course, am politically correct and I don't want to offend anyone.

Ha.

Merle

I'm sure, like me, you've read this -- but it was good to see it again at this time of year -- have a Merry Christmas and healthy New Year -- CC


From: ramonaelden@comcast.net [mailto:ramonaelden@comcast.net]
A Very Merry Christmas to You!!!!!!

Amen

Apparently the White House referred to Christmas Trees as Holiday Trees for the first time this year which prompted CBS presenter, Ben Stein, to present this piece which I would like to share with you. I think it applies just as much to many countries as it does to America .


The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:


I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.


It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.


I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.


Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God ? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.


In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.


Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina).. Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'


In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.


Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.


Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.


Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'


Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.


Are you laughing yet?


Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.


Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.


Pass it on if you think it has merit.



If not, then just discard it.... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.


My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,


Ben Stein






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Lowes Succumbs to Bigots?

Under pressure from a group called the Florida Family Association, Lowes pulled their ads from the new reality TV show "All-American Muslims". I haven't seen this show so my only comment is that all American Muslims need to loudly deny radical Islams, Shariah law and portions of the Koran that instruct Muslims to kill the unbelievers.

Diversity and inclusion sound great just as did "America, the great melting pot".
However, facts speak louder than words. We were at one time a great melting pot but then, we were largely a Christian nation.

Just food for thought, with continued reading and learning from and about the new immigrants while maintaining the movements that did make this country the greatest country in the world, now under attack from so many sources including our president.

Remember the "Bridge to Nowhere" Now Comes Obama and LaHood Pushing a High-Speed Rail to Nowhere

As Ray LaHood fumbled around in the Peoria area supporting an Interstate from Peoria to Chicago starting near a new far north bridge that would be built to accommodate Caterpillar, just as he fumbled around on an unpopular Rt. 29 interstate to Rt. 80, as he fumbled around with an unpopular (with the ordinary citizens) a ring road from Morton to this new bridge and direct highway to Chicago, he tried to force high speed rail from Tampa to Orlando, 80 miles away, his gift of billions wisely declined by the Republican Governor) he is now trying to convince Congress that California needs a bullet train from Merced? to Fresno, nowhere to nowhere, and in the next thirty years, connecting these two cities to Anaheim to San Francisco and other more populated areas.

If the public will allow the politicians to continue to spend money they don't have nor no guarantee of any return except for union jobs and a few major corporations.

Remember the union motto, 'We don't care what you build, just build it. We need jobs."

As LaHood pleads with Congress, California voters are clamoring for a new referendum which they say would defeat this boondoogle by a 2-1 margin today.

In 2008, voters approved a $10 million bond to fund the 500-mile bullet train, but cost estimates have exploded to $100 billion and the mirage of federal and private funding has disappeared. The state has no money to build and electrify the tracks and the federal government is broke and deeply in debt to China all due to the likes of politicians like LaHood who love to spend OPM and support their big financial supporters who like all special interest groups have dozens of lobbyists in Washington, confusing an already confused body politic.

Give credit to the Republicans who have refused to appropriate funds while of course the private investors want a guarantee (think FireFly, Pro-Bass and the new Marriott Courtyard, the City Councils biggest boondoogle to date.

Why Socialists and Populists Are Wrong About Tax Rate Inequality

Alan J. Reynolds, a leading Cato Economist writes in the December 6 edition of the Wall Street Journal, "A recent report of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says that income of the top 1% grew from about 9% in 1979 to 17.3% in 2007. Why did the report stop at 2007? The CBO didn't say, although its report briefly acknowledged that 'high income taxpayers had especially large declines in adjusted gross incomes between 2007and 2009'.

No kidding. (Didn't most of us. My comment) Once these two years are brought into the picture, the share of the after-tax income of the top 1% fell to 11.3% in 2009 from the 17.3% that the CBO reported for 2007.

The larger truth is that recessions always destroy wealth and small business incomes at the top. Perhaps those who obsess over income shares should welcome stock market crashes and deep recessions because such calamities invariably reduce 'inequality'. Of course, the same recessions also increase poverty and unemployment.

If Congress raises top rates on capital gains and dividends,the highest income earners would report less income from capital gains and dividends and hold more tax-exempt bonds. Such tax policies would reduce the share of reported income of the top earners almost as effectively as the recession the policies would likely provoke. The top 1% would then pay a much smaller portion of Federal income taxes, just like they did in 1979 And the other 99% would pay more."

The Obama regime, in which our own Ray Lahood is a major player, is out to destroy the wealthy and dole out money in a more egalitarian manner. At the same time creating a fear in all small businesses and investors as to their fate and the fate of the unemployed and the fate of the economy.

If even some of the Democrats (evidently some have) haven't figured it out yet, Obama is a long term destroyer of this country as Casto and Chavez are destroyers while increasing their own power and the power of those whose destiny is tied to the success of these despots.

It's the Senate, Stupid

Copied from the Townhall Spotlight.

I strongly agree.

Merle

Fellow Conservatives:

You may remember the slogan "It's the economy, stupid" used by Bill Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign to make the point that George H. W. Bush had not adequately addressed the poor economy.

Clinton's political strategist, James Carville, posted the phrase inside campaign headquarters as a way to keep the team focused and on message. The phrase later became the de facto slogan for the Clinton election campaign.

The slogan could make a comeback in 2012 as Republicans highlight Barack Obama's dismal economic record, but if you consider yourself a freedom-loving American, then I have a different slogan for you.

"It's the Senate, stupid."

That's right. It's the Senate, stupid.

Most Americans are focused on the presidential race right now, especially as the GOP nomination process is about to shift into high gear. But winning the White House — as critical as it is — won't be enough to save the country we love without a strong, conservative majority in the United States Senate.

Without a conservative Senate, we won't repeal Obamacare.
Without a conservative Senate, we won't balance the budget.
Without a conservative Senate, we won't secure our borders.
Without a conservative Senate, we won't stop the bailouts.
And without a conservative Senate, we won't enact the pro-growth policies needed to get America back to work.
If you're reading this letter, chances are, you follow current events more than most and you probably understand the point I'm making — winning the Senate is the key to restoring America's greatness.

Not only do the Democrats currently control the Senate but the rules of the Senate make it extremely powerful. If conservatives control the Senate, we not only can pass the reforms needed to undo Obama's mess, but we can also stop even more bad policies from being adopted.

The simple fact of the matter is this: a good president without a conservative Senate is a waste of a good president.

A president can campaign on great policies, but he doesn't write the bills. As long as liberals are in charge of writing legislation, it will be difficult for a Republican president to sign the right bills into law. Does anyone think Harry Reid will ever send a bill to the President's desk to repeal ObamaCare? The answer is no and that's why I am entirely focused on packing the Senate with strong conservatives who will one day make that a reality.

There are 23 Democrat Senate seats up this cycle, and Republicans stand a strong chance of taking the Senate back. But it's not enough to just have a majority. We must have new senators who deeply believe in the principles of freedom and are willing to fight for them each day.

As we head into the most important election year in our lifetimes, my challenge is to you is to keep your focus on winning a conservative majority in the U.S. Senate. These races and the candidates running in them aren't getting the same media attention as the presidential candidate, but they're no less important.

That is why I founded and chair the Senate Conservatives Fund, a political action committee that helps elect rock-solid conservative leaders to the U.S. Senate.

We have endorsed the following four standout leaders for the 2012 elections: Josh Mandel in Ohio, Ted Cruz in Texas, Don Stenberg in Nebraska, and Mark Neumann in Wisconsin.

These candidates share a strong belief in the principles of freedom that make America great and they understand the critical role the U.S. Constitution plays in preserving those principles.

These leaders also have records that prove they not only talk the talk but also walk the walk. And each of them has shown the courage to stand up to their own party's leaders when it was necessary to support and defend our principles and values.

So if you agree that winning a conservative majority in the U.S. Senate is vital to our nation's future and if you're willing to engage in these races even at a time when the media ignores them, then please do three things today.

First, visit SenateConservatives.com and sign up for our email updates so you're informed.


Second, make a contribution either to SCF or directly to one or more of our candidates. Without financial support, these candidates won't be able to get their message out and win.


Third, forward this email to your family and friends. As politely as you can, tell them "It's the Senate, stupid" and encourage them to join our effort to take America back.
Thank you for your commitment to principles of freedom. We live the greatest country in the world and if we work together in smart and effective ways, I'm confident we can preserve it for generations to come.

Major Sports Coaches Out in the State of Illinois - 2012

Last year, I predicted two head coaches should be removed. I missed as only Jim Les from Bradley was fired. Ron Zook from Illinois football should have been but the Board of Directors lacks guts. This year, guts or not, he is gone.

Only the color his skin saved Lovie Smith, Bears head coach. If the Bears want to ever again become the "Monsters of the Midway" color of ones skin should have no bearing on who is selected as head coach. If a black coach can get the job done, OK with me but Lovie has had his chances.

I've lost so much interest in the NBA I've forgotten who coaches the Bulls. With no talented big man, the Bulls will be an also ran despite Rose and a a year older Boozer.

But those of us who have more important things to do than to be entertained by endless relays of overpaid and overpriced circuses and participants, who really should care??

Who should care? Those who have noticed the direction our country is heading. But, we, like the Romans, will still have our endless circuses to watch sitting on our butts as the country grows more obese. Obese people do not make good warriors and our enemies are aware of this fact.

Neither do welfare people or the uneducated which includes the roughly 50% who don't pay income tax but our president still wants to give them tax refunds. But still have mney to buy high priced sporting event tickets.

Sad part. is that most of them expect income tax refunds whether they contributed of not. Same as highly paid head coaches don't believe they should be fired.

And Some Who Think The November 2012 Ousting of Obama is a "Sure Thing"

Think again, Republicans, you still don't have a winning candidate.

Merle

Subject: FYI contributors...


I ADDED UP THE TOTAL OF THE BELOW DONATIONS.....

$486,440,870

OF COURSE THE TAX PAYERS WILL MAKE UP THE UNDERFUNDED

PENSION OF THE UNIONS (NOT THE CORPORATIONS OR SMALL BUSINESSES)

If you know someone in one of these Unions, ask them if they were ever ASKED

where the donations should go...... we have the best government money can buy!



Interesting read.

Democrat contributors aka "Obama's Army"

The labor unions, particularly government employee unions, check out these Union contributions.



Leading Union Political
Campaign Contributors
1990-2010

Democrats
Republicans

American Fed. Of
State, County, & Municipal
Employees
$40,281,900
$547,700

Intel Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers
29,705,600
679,000

National Education
Association
27,679,300
2,005,200

Service Employees
International Union
26,368,470
98,700

Communication Workers
Of America
26,305,500
125,300

Service Employees
International Union
26,252,000
1,086,200

Laborers
Union
25,734,000
138,000

American Federation
Of Teachers
25,682,800
200,000

United Auto
Workers
25,082,200
182,700

Teamsters
Union
24,926,400
1,822,000

Carpenters and
Joiners Union
24,094,100
658,000

Machinists &
Aerospace Workers Union
23,875,600
226,300

United Food and
Commercial Workers Union
23,182,000
334,200

AFL-CIO
17,124,300
713,500

Sheet Metal Workers
Union
16,347,200
342,800

Plumbers &
Pipefitters Union
14,790,000
818,500

Operating Engineers
Union
13,840,000
2,309,500

Airline Pilots
Association
12,806,600
2,398,300

International
Association of Firefighters
12,421,700
2,685,400

United Transportation
Workers
11,807,000
1,459,300

Ironworkers
Union
11,638,900
936,000

American Postal
Workers Union
11,633,100
544,300

Nat'l Active &
Retired Fed.. Employees
Association
8,135,400
2,294,600

Seafarers
International Union
6,726,800
1,281,300

Source: Center for
Responsive Politics, Washington ,
D.C.




Wouldn't it be nice if the unions put all that money in their pension funds???

And how much better off we would all be!

Matters Not Who Wrote This - Read my Older Blogs on Self-Esteem

Blame everbody in Congresss for not putting the unemployed to work. Also blame big labor who whould not allow these people to work for the government like welfare and the unemployed people worked in govnernmen jobs like the CCC, etc. Big labor would insist they join a union and be paid prevailing wage.

And don't confuse the G.I Bill and Social Security with welfare.

This was written by a 21 yr old female who gets it. It's her future she’s worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare big government state that she’s being forced to live in! These solutions are just common sense in her opinion.

This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX Nov 18, 2010


Put me in charge . . .


Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.


Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.


Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?

You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.


In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..”


Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.


If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.




AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

Now, if you have the guts - PASS IT ON.....
















Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.




Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.




Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?

You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.




In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..”




Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.




If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.




AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

Now, if you have the guts - PASS IT ON.....

It Ain't God That is the Problem in This Country, It's the Economy You Stupid Republicans

Rich Perry should go back to his god, his cattle and his oil fields. He ain't going to be pres of the U.S. Neither is Bachmann, Santorum nor Huntsman. And most likely not Romney or Gingrich. And certainly not Ryan. Some of his ideas have merit but he presents them like offering a fruitcake to a friend who does not like fruitcakes.

Where god might enter in, "if these candidates are the best the Republicans can bring out, 'God save this country'.

I suggest reading "God and the Economy in Iowa" by one the the best writers in the country, Kimberly Strassel, in today's WSJ.

On the same Opinion page read David Feith, "Boot Camp For Citizens", summarized by Peter Berkowitz. The evidence of civic illiteracy is abundant. out of thousands of of primary and secondary students across the U.S., took a history exam administered by the education dept. more than half failed and less than 10% were as proficient as they should be".

No surprise hear as on who sat thru many a classroom as an observer and one who sees the results in ordinary people I come in contact with. Especially many of the people who vote today.

A College Degree is a Hunting Licence - Nothing More

I was told this by my first intelligent manager. Here is what blogger and law professor Glenn Reynolds wrote in the Washington Examiner on December 3 and re- printed in the WSJ on December 6:

"The reason why a bachelor's degree on its own no longer conveys intelligence and capability is that government decided that as many people as possible should have bachelor's degree.

There's something of a pattern here. The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class have. If middle class people go to college and own homes, we'll have more middle class people.

But home ownership and colleges aren't causes of middle class status, they're markers for possessing the kind of traits-self discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc.-that let you enter, and stay in, the middle class.

Subsidizing the markers doesn't produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them. One might as well try to promote basketball skills by distributing expensive sneakers."

I've written on this subject many times. I quoted Garrison Keilor who quipped that all college graduates would be "Indian Chiefs" with no on to do the hard work.

That's what we have folks and that is the reason so many people enter our country illegally because they know they will find work that our citizens won't do, college graduates or not.

Someone Else IS Telling You How to Run Your Lives - Obama, Big Labor, Radical Environmentalists, Democrat and Republican Do-Gooders

Merle,

"My primary concern is that someone else will be telling me how to best care for my son," explained Pam Harris.

You see, Big Labor wants a cut of the subsidy Harris spends to take care of her son with special needs.

Now with free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, she and seven other Illinois in-home care providers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a scheme enacted by Governor Pat Quinn and his disgraced predecessor, Rod Blagojevich, aimed at forcing them into union ranks.

SEIU and AFSCME union bosses are battling over the power to force personal care providers to pay union dues.

I'm sure you'll agree with me that this is just plain wrong -- and unconstitutional. That's why Foundation attorneys have filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court.

In fact, Foundation attorneys will appear at the Supreme Court next month taking on yet another corrupt SEIU forced-unionism scheme.

If you haven't already, I hope you'll read Mark Mix's message below about that case.

And if you can, please chip in with a tax-deductible contribution of $10 or more today to help the Foundation provide free legal aid to compulsory unionism victims in crucial cases like these.

Sincerely,

Sheila W.


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From: Mark Mix [mark.mix@righttoworkfoundation.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 1:18 PM
To: Sheila W [sheila@righttoworkfoundation.org]
Subject: SEIU running scared

Florida Alleviates Stress For This Blogger

Vacationing Florida in truly lovely weather has relieved a lot of the stress I have built up over a number of years. And playing tennis helps. I register my age as 75 which gets me more more invitations to play. I compete quite well, always against younger players. I play in two groups allowing me to play 5 days a week. If you forgot, and I have, I'm 86.

For outsiders reading this blog, my home is both occupied and armed.

I continue to read, listen and watch but have put blogging on a hiatus.

My views have not changed. I don't like what the radical sector of the "occupiers" are doing. I like being paid for performance which pits me against most union bosses. I am an environmentalist but am absolutely opposed to the radicals disrupting business and costing thousands of jobs, I want all [people to make more money so they can spend more creating more jobs creating more tax money to support government that doesn't spend more than they take in.

I have never opposed the wealthy except when they cheat, get arrogant or try to tell the rest of us what we need. Around $640,000 was spent "supposedly" by the wealthy to pass a new museum referendum by 400 votes out of 30,000+ total votes.

And the Peoria Park Board could expand their bloated bureaucracy by taking over the 33,000 square foot Lakeview Museum building to go along with the thousands of square feet they now occupy in the old IDOT buildings on N. Knoxville.

I have turned from being an independent Republican to a conservative independent. To reelect Obama and most congressional Democrats will be the greatest disaster this country has ever known.

I support immigration but not illegal immigration. Read my past stance on illegal immigration by typing in "immigration". My stance hasn't changed much and some presidential candidates appear to agree on some of my solutions.

I believe that the entire Peoria City Council should be voted out with the exception of newomers, Weaver and Akeson. And probaly Sandberg whoud be retained for another year. I thank all of them for their standing for election but disagee on how they are handling other peoples money. The ex-Peoria County Adminstrator did a reasonab;y good job. But county spending was kept under reasonable control by conservatives like myself although I didn't have much support in the last two years of my ten year board sevice.

As far as Peoria Public Schools are faring, their overall history has not been too good; the future appears to be about the same as all inner school systems. nationwide. Not very good. Blame it on the colleges who turn these teahcer out, the power of the unions, and unpaid weak school boards.

I oppose cumulative voting and support term limits. On the peoria County Board, one member is in her 25 year and never saw a dime of OPM she didn't want to spend. The opposite is with one council member.

Enough for now. Plus the problems with my computer are stressfull enough. I can't use my spell-check again and this blog keep publishing before I hit enter.

Best I can do right now. You read any subject of past blogs by entering any subject word like PRM or PPD on my search bar above.