I got a quick reply from Michigan Lawmaker

It doesn't say a darn thing,
but it was quick

Thank you for e-writing to the office of State Senator Bruce Patterson. Due to the economic challenges being confronted by every sector of our economy, Sen. Patterson has chosen to automate various functions of his Lansing office in order to save taxpayer dollars. This decision has resulted in Sen. Patterson being able to return $40,000 or 70% of his allocated office account for the last Fiscal Year. But it also means he has fewer staff personnel than authorized.

As a consequence of this decision, certain requests from constituents may take longer to fulfill. With a smaller staff, and due to the Committee assignments of the Senator, e-mails are triaged and then delegated based on pre-determined factors. For instance, e-mails are answered if they come from within the sixteen municipalities of the Seventh Senate District. Moreover, individualized e-mails take priority over form mail.

Again, we hope you understand the Senator's desire to be responsive all the while being fiscally sensitive to the demands on taxpayers and their respective financial circumstances.

You may want to check out the e-office of Sen. Bruce Patterson. There you can find interesting items and other ways to provide input. Below you will find the link.

http://senate.michigan.gov/gop/senator/patterson

In order to assist you more quickly, please be sure to provide your home mailing address and phone number since your inquiry may necessitate a follow-up call for additional information.

Again, thank you for contacting us. Please let us know if we can ever be of additional assistance in the future.

Sincerely,

Bob Mauseth
Sen. Bruce Patterson's office

They are going after Bloggers.

A Michigan lawmaker wants to license reporters to ensure they’re credible and vet them for “good moral character.”according to Fox News
Senator Bruce Patterson(This idiot is a Republican too. If you want to contact him, click here) is introducing legislation that will regulate reporters much like the state does with hairdressers, auto mechanics and plumbers. Patterson, who also practices constitutional law, says that the general public is being overwhelmed by an increasing number of media outlets--traditional, online and citizen generated--and an even greater amount misinformation.

It is not just Michigan. The Federal Trade Commission wants Federal Control.

Mark Tapscott, over at the Washington Examiner says.....

* Journalists must understand that there is no way the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press will survive if the federal government regulates the news industry as envisioned by the FTC. Those who accept at face value protests to the contrary or the professions of pure intentions by advocates of government takeover of the news business are, at best, incredibly naive.

* Journalists who remain silent or apathetic about what is being prepared by the FTC for their profession become unintentional accessories in the strangulation of independent journalism.

* Journalists who support or assist, for any reason, the FTC process are accomplices in the strangulation of independent journalism.

I sent a quick email to this State Senator...

I don't know if you read the Constitution recently.
The 1st amendment says....
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

That applies to Michigan Senate too.
All it will do is put the licensing of the press into hands of politicians and bureaucrats and we can say good-bye to the First Amendment. It will close down blogs, alternative media, and talk radio. It will close down freedom.
If journalists were licensed in the 18th century, we would not have had Thomas Paine, or the Federalist Papers.

Remember Our Heroes

Obama's Memorial Day Cancelled Due to Rain

President Obama's Memorial Day speech was delayed and eventually canceled by torrential rainfall and the threat of lightning at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Ellwood, Ill.I wonder if the fallen soldiers fought in the rain?

Political Cartoon by Ken Catalino

Political Cartoons by Ken Catalino

Cross of Peace is subject of Lawsuit.

Bald Knob Cross

It is 11 stories high.
It has 650 porcelain panels.
It is a Major Tourist attraction.
The State of Illinois gave a Tourism grant.
The state uses part of structure for storage.
Now an athiest Rob Sherman wants to sue over the 20K.
He says that it is unconstitutional "pork"

Some bathing suits or such

Sophia LorenMarilyn Monroe
Kim Novak
Carole Lombard
Raquel Welch

Another Round of Shameless Plugging

The Other McCain's Rule 5 Sunday
Nicole Scherzinger makes her presence known at the Classic Liberal

I am not sure how Ordered Liberty got into Rule 5 Sunday, but it sounds beautiful.Well the piece is called "Gloria"

InstaPundit links us to 15 Hot conservative women. He did have some omissions such as Megan Kelly and Mary Katherine HamAt least he had the good sense to include Michelle

Proof Positive there was life before Medium for Patricia Arquette

My son was checking out a pic of Jessica Simpson. Polyphemus has a few pics of here

Paco has a little thigh showing on Park Ave

Congrats to Righty Blogs

Swacgirl stays on top again.
Congrats to all the Right Thinking Blogs of Blognetnews.com/Virginia/
Remember to keep on clicking, linking& commenting.
You know the mainstream media isn't telling anything but Dem talking points.

• SWAC Girl (1)
• Yankee Philip (2)
• From On High (3)
• Below The Beltway (4)
• Fishersville Mike (5)
• Tertium Quids (6)
• Virginia Virtucon (8)
• Bearing Drift (9)
• Virginia Right! (10)
• BLACK VELVET BRUCE LI (11)
• United Conservatives (13)
• Crystal Clear Conservative (18)
• snapped shot (19)

Obama Nominee Loves Rationed Healthcare

During the debate over ObamaCare, the bill’s opponents were excoriated for talk of rationing and “death panels.”.....

Well the President Hired Dr.Ration

Dr. Donald Berwick

If President Obama wanted to keep a lid on that particular controversy, he just selected about the worst possible nominee for director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services..... Obama’s pick, Dr. Donald Berwick, is an outspoken admirer of the British National Health Service and its rationing arm, the National Institute for Clinical Effectiveness (NICE).....

“I am romantic about the National Health Service. I love it,” Berwick said during a 2008 speech to British physicians, going on to call it “generous, hopeful, confident, joyous, and just.”

With the creation of NICE, the U.K. government has effectively put a dollar amount to how much a citizen’s life is worth. To be exact, each year of added life is worth approximately $44,305 (£30,000). Of course, this is a general rule and, as NICE chairman Michael Rawlins points out, the agency has sometimes approved treatments costing as much as $70,887 (£48,000) per year of extended life.

To Dr. Berwick , this is exactly how it should be. “NICE is not just a national treasure,” he says, “it is a global treasure.”

And, Dr. Berwick wants to bring NICE-style rationing to this country.
“It’s not a question of whether we will ration care,” he said in a magazine interview for Biotechnology Healthcare, “It is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”

Read more here

Hypocritical Racist SOB Maher.

Divisive, Racist, Hypocrite.

"I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with BP's CEO's, you know, where he lifts up his shirt so they can see the gun in his pants.We got a mother f***ing problem here. Shoot somebody in the foot." -Bill Maher

Zo on Taxes

Dennis Hopper R.I.P. (1936-2010)

Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic "Easy Rider," died on Saturday. Hopper was 74.
Hopper starred in Speed with Keanu Reeves. He was also in Apocalypse Now His film career spanned over 54 years
Easy Rider

Apocalypse Now

Where's Obama??

Golfing again?? Vacation in Chicago?

Five weeks into the oil rig disaster and the best President Obama can do is force his underlings to attempt to rewrite the events. The mandatory administration catch phrase “we were there from day one” is spewing from the mouths of Obama’s spokesmen and apologists faster than the oil in the gulf. Yet everyone knows that Obama was not there. And he’s still not there.

Fort Hood, nothing from Obama for days. Airline attempts? Again, Obama is missing for days. ....Where was Obama? Missing........

In fact, the only time Obama has been in front of a situation involved a Harvard Professor and apologies over beers. And he was wrong about the police acting stupidly. Turns out, only the president acted stupidly.

See the full story at VaRight

Tea Party Person Fired for Being a Tea Party Person

Florida Fires State Attorney
For Being A Citizen.
Thomas Jefferson warned “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”KrisAnn Hall was fired for speaking up.

State Attorney Robert "Skip" Jarvis says,"....I would love to have the old KrisAnn back, Before she wanted to become the next Sarah Palin....".
I guess he figures a woman's place is to keep quiet and follow his orders?
"If we don't stand up for our rights,Somebody is going to take them from us." says KrisAnn Hall

She is getting support from many quarters.
Here
and here
and here
You can read one of her speeches here

Leak plugged, Thanks Bill.....

See more at Redstate

The Spill Continues

Political Cartoons by Bob Gorrell

National Debt is Growing Faster Than Oil Slick in Gulf

Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel

Is the Gadsden Flag becoming tabboo?

The Warren Rhode Island Fire Department got in trouble Friday morning when they raised one of the nation’s oldest from one of three flagpoles they have at the Warren Town Common. They raised the Gadsden Flag.

Some RI Libs protested and the firemen were ordered to take it down.

“At first I thought it was a joke,” said Warren Fire Chief Al Galinelli. “The flag was put up because it’s a flag from the revolution and a lot of Warren guys fought in the revolution. It was only put up to memorialize them. Flying the flag does not mean we’re supporting any political party or movment.” See more here

Rush Limbaugh Has 10 Questions for Obama.

"Better Late Than Never?"

Number one: Do you prefer golf or basketball when avoiding the hard work of being president?

Number two: Approximately 70% of the American people approve of Arizona's immigration law and want the border sealed. What do you do, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Felipe Calderon know about these matters that we don't?

Number three: You say that you won't rest until every American has a job and the Gulf oil spill is capped and the area cleaned up. Well, why are you vacationing in Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend and then returning to Washington for a Paul McCartney concert?

Number four: Speaking of Memorial Day, why not commemorate the day at Arlington National Cemetery? Are you avoiding Arlington due to the fact that you embarrassed yourself there a few years ago when you said, "On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today, our sense of patriotism is particularly strong." Remember him saying that? He saw many of our fallen heroes in the audience, meaning he saw the walking dead. Remember he said that?

Number five: When you do deliver your Memorial Day remarks, if the word "corpsman" pops up on your teleprompter, how will you pronounce the word, "corpsman" or "corpesman"?

Number six: did you learn to solve big problems by putting your boot on people's necks from Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, or Rahm Emanuel?

Number seven: When you said to your staff, "Plug the damn hole," was it your impression that BP had not yet thought of that, and did it take you five weeks to come up with that solution? What were some of the other ideas you had, if this was your latest and greatest idea, plug the hole?

Number eight: When it comes to Gulf oil spill, would you say that better late than never is your motto, or is it, why do today what can be done tomorrow?

Number nine: Should the American people be saying "thank you" for the economy and for your response to the Gulf oil spill?

Number ten: Does the Mexican president ever object to what you tell him to say?

Hillary Clinton doesnt let facts get in the way of ideology

"The rich are not paying their fair share in any nation that is facing the kind of employment issues [America currently does] — whether it's individual, corporate or whatever [form of] taxation forms,"-Hillary Clinton

Who Pays Income Taxes and how much?

Tax Year 2007

Percentiles Ranked by AGI	AGI Threshold on Percentiles	Percentage of Federal Personal Income Tax Paid
Top 1%	$410,096	40.42
Top 5%	$160,041	60.63
Top 10%	$113,018	71.22
Top 25%	$66,532	86.59
Top 50%	$32,879	97.11
Bottom 50%	<$32,879	2.89
Note: AGI is Adjusted Gross Income Source: Internal Revenue Service

What is fair?
Should the top 25% pay 100%, or top 10%, or top 5%

GOTUS,Barack Obama, Golfs, While Gulf Oil Spreads.

10 Hours Golfing??
Highest Priority?

10 Hours Golfing??
Highest Priority?

The First Golfer brought his duffer’s game to Martha’s Vineyard this week. By Thursday, Mr. Obama had logged three golf games in four days, appearing at one island course after another. He spent five hours on Monday afternoon playing 18 holes at the Farm Neck Golf Club here, two and a half hours on Tuesday playing nine holes at Mink Meadows Golf Club in Vineyard Haven, and several hours playing Thursday afternoon at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, according to the NY Times

10 Hours Golfing??

Highest Priority?

10 Hours Golfing??

Highest Priority???

10 Hours Golfing??
Highest Priority?

10 Hours Golfing??
Highest Priority?

Tavis Smiley recounts all the Christians bombings in US

Tavis Smiley Interviews
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Does she look incredulous at his remarks?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Tavis Smiley interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali and he responds to her "Christians do that every single day in this country...People walk into post offices.....There are so many more examples"
He mentions Columbine.(That was attempted bombing in 1999)
I wonder if the two boys went to church first and prayed before they went to school?

Here is the list of Christian bombings in US in the last two decades......
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Chris Christie tells it straight

Chris Christie tells it straight.

He tells a teacher that her union has lost all credibility. When they say that a pay freeze and paying for some of their own benefits is "The greatest assault" on education, who can take them seriously? There are other jobs out there for college educated people, but not many pay 80K with 1/2 the year off.

See more here

NRSC Ad

Where was Obama? 1/2 Measures?

Latest Newsbusted

"Jihad is a... legitimate tenet of Islam" says Obama Admin

"Jihad is a... legitimate tenet of Islam"

The president's top counterterrorism adviser,John Brennan on Wednesday called jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam," arguing that the term "jihadists" should not be used to describe America's enemies.....

"Nor do we describe our enemy as 'jihadists' or 'Islamists' because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children," Brennan said.

This is the same guy who last week wouldn't call Jerusalem "Jerusalem"

Hey Johnny Boy, There was a Jerusalem before there ever was Islam, There was a Jerusalem before there ever was Christianity. Stop Your Revisionist History.

Why?

A 55-year-old Julia Gnuse who initially got a tattoo to cover scars from a skin disorder has been named as the world's most tattooed woman.She has tattoos covering 95 percent of her body and has used the same artist for every design.The tattoos include many of her favorite actors, cartoons and jungle scenes.

Legal Immigrant will go home........

According to VaRight, with following conditions......

The conditions are as follows……………
1) that you or the United States government,will pay my way to go back to New Zealand

2) that you or the United States government will pay to ship my personal belongings….I will make it cheaper for you by selling my car and furnishings,and take nothing but photographs,clothing,my record and CD collection,some family heirlooms,my entire Boyd’s bears collection including the 4 foot Moose and also my Conservative and political book collection

3) that you or the United States government will also give me the sum of $25,000.00 to begin my new life and not be a burden on New Zealand society immediately upon my arrival, ( You have to admit,that is a drop in the bucket compared to what ONE illegal alien can do to drain the system of any and all resources that they can ,besides,after the newest bail out that we have all heard about for the mortgage industry,I am letting you off very cheap ) , lets call it an investment for the betterment of American society by having one less Tea Partying Conservative to worry about.

Go see the full letter at VARIGHT

I Am Going Home Baby, Chicago Style.

Obama is skipping
wreath laying in Arlington

Obama is itching for a slice of deep dish pizza so bad.
He just is "Jonesing" for some good Chicago style munchies.
He wants it so bad, that he is blowing off the fallen soldiers at Arlington.
According to WaPo, he will be missing the usual tradition of presidents speaking at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day.

Amazing Video, Fast Action, Race Car Crash

3 Cheers to the 1st respondersOn the 3.3 mile Brno Czech race track, there was a terrible car crash involving Giorgio Bartocci. It takes about 1 minute for the first firefighters to arrive at the fire. The driver is out of the car and on the ground in about 20 more seconds. There are 2 dozen people fighting the fire in less than 2 minutes. The fire is basically under control 2 1/2 minutes after the crash. 3 Cheers to the 1st responders

Obama Noshes on $17,600 Meal

"Let Them Eat Cake"

Was this the table setting??

Mr. Obama's 19-hour whirlwind Bay Area fundraising trip filled Sen. Barbara Boxer's wallet with $1.75 million and he used a $17,600 a person dinner at the Getty Mansion in San Francisco to bring in the big bucks.
The president's 80 dinner guests were treated to an elaborate meal prepared by chef Jennifer Johnson, according to SF Gate, who got the scoop on the menu.Diners were treated to quail egg with caviar and salmon ceviche with jicama and avocado on a tortilla chipas their starting hors d'oeuvres. Next they were served a spring onion-asparagus tartlet with Meyer lemon vinaigrette-dressed frisee salad.

Workers Told, Stay Home, You Are A Security Risk ! ! !

Obama Visit Sidelines Workers
How will that help the economy??

Construction workers at the Solyndra Plant in Fremont will be spending the day at home Wednesday without pay as President Obama visits the company to praise its work on solar panels.
Union workers have been told not to come back until Thursday because of security concerns associated with the President's visit. Workers tell KRON 4's Kate Thompson this day off means they won't get paid, according to Real Clear Politics and KRON

NY Times story neglects to mention worker furlough

Sarah Salutes Ronnie James Dio ???

The Census Bureau may be playing games.

A Whistle Blower, Naomi Cohn, told The New York Post that she was hired and fired a number of times by Census. Each time she was hired back, it seems, Census was able to report the creation of a new job to the Labor Department.

John Crudele reports that he received letters

"John: I am on my fourth rehire with the 2010 Census.
"I have been hired, trained for a week, given a few hours of work, then laid off. So my unemployed self now counts for four new jobs.
"I have been paid more to train all four times than I have been paid to actually produce results. These are my tax dollars and your tax dollars at work.
"A few months ago I was trained for three days and offered five hours of work counting the homeless. Now, I am knocking (on) doors trying to find the people that have not returned their Census forms. I worked the 2000 Census. It was a far more organized venture.
"Have to run and meet my crew leader, even though with this rain I did not work today. So I can put in a pay sheet for the hour or hour and a half this meeting will take.

Are the Obama folk playing games with the employment numbers?
Are they running a Ponzi type scheme?
Are the Labor Department folk aware of the scamming at Census?

Latest Newsbusted

Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel

Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel

Iknow mybuddies in SWVa will understand.

Freedom is Colorblind. Listen, Great Visuals

Raising Arizona... Fun Starts at 45 Seconds

University of Arizona,
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
Professor Soto has some fun on the dais.

“The new Arizona law generally known as SB 1070 is considered the strictest anti-immigrant legislation in the country and is explicitly intended to drive undocumented immigrants out of the state. One reason it has instigated a boycott is because to a whole lot of people, myself included, it appears to not only invite but require the police to engage in racial profiling.”
Says Prof.Soto

I am guessing Legal Studies is not part of the curriculum. She obviously did not read the law.
H/T Real Revo

Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative is having an election.

At 7 PM on Thursday, June 10,2010, at the James Madison Convocation Center in Harrisonburg there is going to be an election for 3 members of the Board of Directors for the Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative (SVEC)

If you are a member, please come out, say hi, and vote. There is a familiar face on the ballot this year. And you can win a prize for showing up too. They are giving away a vehicle and 7 Gift Certificates.

The Journey got me thinking of architects

The Journey has a post on
Benjamin Banneker

This is on another architect,
Joseph François Mangin
The old St. Patrick's Cathedral (1809-15, at Prince and Mott Streets)

Joseph François Mangin,(1764-after 1818)Born a slave in Haiti, Mangin escaped in 1791 during a slave rebellion and fled to France. In Paris he studied architecture until the French rebellion when once again he was forced to flee, this time to New York City. Mangin became a U.S. citizen in 1796 and worked for several years as a city surveyor in New York. He also worked on harbor fortifications in 1801 and in 1813, during the War of 1812. Mangin is primarily known as an architect. Among his most noted achievements are New York City Hall (1802, with John McComb, Jr.), and the old St. Patrick's Cathedral (1809-15, at Prince and Mott Streets).New York City Hall

Mangin, a cultivated Frenchman in exile from revolution, arrived here in 1794. Mangin was quickly designated a city surveyor, one of a handful of men effectively licensed to do private and public surveys. In 1797, the city contracted with Mangin (and a partner who soon died) to conduct the first comprehensive survey of the city since the Revolution and issue a detailed city plan. Mangin walked the city and its suburban fringes by day and worked his calculations and field notes by night. When another surveyor asked for a look at the progress of his plan, Mangin refused, with the remarkable statement that it was “not the plan of the city the city such as it is, but such as it is to be.”
Finally, in early 1803, Mangin released to the city government his map, 6 feet square. It, indeed, was not the accurate plan of the existing city that it was supposed to be. It was a plan for how the city ought to develop, from the drafting table of a refined European. In the city proper, Mangin idealized crooked Dutch-era streets by straightening and widening them. He widened the city itself with streets that had not yet been created by river landfill. Moving north into the countryside — up to what became 14th St. — he plotted sections of rectilinear grid, set at acute angles to each other. Some grid sections had wide and long streets, others had narrow and short streets: each by its particular dimensions had an individual character, for commercial, residential or mixed use. Mangin linked this network of grids from the south with relatively numerous radiating roads, some being extensions of existing roads, others new. In the triangular and trapezoidal intersections between grids and between grids and radiating roads were almost countless opportunities for parkland, ornament or open space. Mangin’s plan was irregularity made regular, regularity made irregular. It was European urbanity adapted to a narrow island. Had it been accepted and its concept extended up the island, Manhattan would have become a weak magnet for metal cars and trucks.

After a few months’ enchantment, Mangin’s plan was rejected. The reasons are unclear: powerful jealousies over Mangin’s contemporaneous City Hall design competition victory; American Francophilia that had turned to Francophobia; Mangin’s own arrogance (he always wrote in French); the simple fact that Mangin’s fantastic plan was not the real estate map for which he was hired.

A very small street under the Williamsburg Bridge in NYC

But no sooner was Mangin’s plan dismissed than the city fathers realized that having a development plan was actually a pretty good idea. Joseph Browne, the city street commissioner, was asked to report a plan of his own. But Browne, who had been the leading detractor of Mangin’s plan, was soon off to western adventures with his brother-in-law Aaron Burr (who had prematurely assured Benjamin Latrobe that he would win the City Hall competition).

Read more here, here, here