Houston Area Liberty Campaign

Very interesting video on how McCain has repeatedly and over the course of years failed the state of AZ as to border protection.  And he wanted to be YOUR PRESIDENT??  WTF?!!!  I think NOT!!

Also read some very good comments here on the Daily Paul’s blog and in a related World Net Daily story.  My oh my what a difference five years and a run for President will make!!

McCain’s new “I Pinky Swear” border security plan!

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.” (Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, October 12, 1915)

Rep. Poe, we can’t capture the thousands of people who cross the border on the southern border of the United States because the members of the Committee on the Judiciary, the  Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Membership, and the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security,  like YOU, keep giving retarded speeches that don’t do a damn thing except expel tons of CO₂, which Mr. Gore is so fond of exploiting.  Except maybe you can inflate your preening ego so you can try to keep attracting those 18-24 yr old females of whom you’re so fond… but I digress.

Rep. Poe Compares Immigrants To Grasshoppers

Besides Rep. Poe, you just voted to let Puerto Rico decide if they want to be annexed by voting YEA on one of the earlier votes for HR 2499, home to approximately 3.6 million people.  In fact, you were a co-sponsor of H.R. 2499.  Never mind the fact that Puerto Rico has had similar proposals on the ballot at least three times in the past 2o yrs and overwhelmingly turned it down EVERY time.

The median income (in 1999 dollars) for “households” is $14,412 and $16,543 for “families”.  Per capita income (in 1999 dollars) is $8,185; of all ages of Puerto Ricans, 48.2% have  income below the poverty level (in 1999 dollars) and an astounding 58.3% of related children under 18 yrs of age are living below the poverty level (in 1999 dollars).  [See U. S. Census Bureau income and poverty statistics in 1999 & 2000 for Puerto Rico.]

Only 46% of Puerto Ricans are employed.  (Ironically, “puerto rico” means “rich port” or “rich harbor.”)  Of the Puerto Ricans who are employed, nearly half of those salaried people work either directly or indirectly for the government.  Welfare payments (transfer payments) paid to individuals have increased drastically, skyrocketing from $69 million in 1968 to well over $8 billion in 2002.  One-fifth of the islanders’ personal income is received in the form of disability, unemployment, and welfare payments. “This massive social spending, which began in the 1970s and continues today, has resulted in severe domestic disinvestment in the economy. Domestic capital investment has declined from 32 percent of GDP in 1970 to 16 percent in 2000. This means that the Puerto Rican government, rather than supporting the creation of jobs and market incentives, relies primarily on tax-induced revenue and foreign investment for any growth in the island’s GDP.”

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Enjoy the Switzerland of Central Asia

Can you find Kyrgyzstan on a map? Hint - it's in green, just northeast of Afghanistan.

I know many of you are psyched about the big Tea Party Rallies today, and I hope you have a great time and really show everyone the spirit of taking back your country.  I also hope you don’t run into any phony Tea Pary activists.  Hey, maybe you could carry a fold-up sign that says, “Phony Tea Party Activist” with a big arrow pointing to one side.  Than way, when some faker holds up a big sign for the camera with all sorts of swastikas and hate speech all over it to prank all the Tea Partiers, you could sneak up behind him and hold up your sign for the camera, pranking him.  It’d serve him right.

But if she gets there first, she gets to use her whip on him all the way back to the starting line.

But hey, all this organizing for freedom and liberty is hard work.  If it gets you down, you need a break.  You need to go to some nice, pleasant place to relax, unwind, and just get away from it all.

I recommend beautiful, sunny Kyrgyzstan.
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FDA Grants Monopoly For Centuries-Old “New” Drug

They say that if you have your health, you have everything, and I’m sure glad that I don’t have a painful disease like gout.  Gout is a painful joint disease caused by buildup of uric acid in the blood.  About 75% of the time, people who come down with gout first find out about it when they get an extremely painful inflammation right at the base of the big toe.  Nowadays, when someone gets the gout, doctors usually treat it with a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) like Advil or Aleve.  You can’t take aspirin for the gout…aspirin only makes it worse.

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[Story by HALC.us staff.]

A federal appeals court issued an opinion on Tuesday, April 6 that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Justice Department (DOJ) do not have authority to manage network practices of internet service providers (ISPs).  (The case granted a Petition for Review for Petitioner, Comcast, and vacated the prior Order.  The DC Circuit found that the FCC did not have the authority that it claimed to be using to regulate ISPs. This decision calls into question the FCC’s authority to regulate any ISP or do anything to protect consumers on the Internet.

This case was brought forth on the concept of net neutrality, a concept in which companies perating telecommunications networks shouldn’t be able to play favorites with content being transmitted over their networks.  For example, one movie company shouldn’t be able make a deal with Verizon to get preferential treatment and have its movies download quicker than another movie company. If/when that does happen, then those companies are influencing your decisions by allowing one service to operate better than a similar service in which the carrier does not have a financial interest.

Net neutrality is a holdover from the Communications Act of 1934, which prohibited telephone companies from playing favorites. However, in 2005 the FCC changed its rules so that some services, such as Internet services, would be exempt from those consumer protections.

In 2006, the “net neutrality” was included by the FCC in the agreement that allowed AT&T to buy BellSouth.  In part, the agreement stated:

“AT&T/BellSouth also commits that it will maintain a neutral network and neutral routing in its wireline broadband Internet access service. This commitment shall be satisfied by AT&T/BellSouth’s agreement not to provide or to sell to Internet content, application, or service providers, including those affiliated with AT&T/BellSouth, any service that privileges, degrades or prioritizes any packet transmitted over AT&T/BellSouth’s wireline broadband Internet access service based on its source, ownership or destination.”

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Product is Energy Star Certified, But Not Available To The Public

The gas-powered Black-Gold model clock radio is sleek, durable, easy on your electric bill and surprisingly quiet.

Most of us want to be good stewards to the environment, and in these tough economic times we’d all like to save a buck or two in the process.  If that’s true for you, you’re probably interested in the government’s Energy Star program, a joint venture between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DoE) that is intended to help “us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices“.  Energy Star is all about recognizing products that meet strict energy efficiency guidlines so that we can all make smarter choices, and reward companies that are making superior products.

So, as a service to consumers out there, I’d like to recommend the Black-Gold model alarm clock-radio manufactured by Spartan Digital Electronics, Inc.  According to their website, it is gas-powered, easy on your electric bill, and Energy Star certified.  It also approximates the size of a small portable generator for “increased ease while traveling”.

A gasoline-powered alarm clock?  Is this for real?
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Even your time doesn’t belong to you

Non-"For-Profit" Intern With Supervisor

“If you’re a for-profit employer or you want to pursue an internship with a for-profit employer, there aren’t going to be many circumstances where you can have an internship and not be paid and still be in compliance with the law.”

Have you lost your job in the last year, or do you know someone else who has lost their job?  Most of us have…these are hard times.  When the economy gets tough, one strategy is to take an unpaid internship with an established business.  The reasoning goes something like this:  you’re not going to be working anyplace else for a while, and you’ve decided that you’re not going to have a job like your old one, for whatever reason.  But, you have no experience doing some new kind of work that you think you’d enjoy.   So, you talk someone into “hiring” you, working for nothing for a few weeks or months.  You get relevant experience and on-the-job training without paying for tuition, and your new “employer” gets to try you out for nothing.  He or she might even get some useful work out of you for nothing…or next to nothing, since you’ll be taking up time and space while you learn the business.  At the end of it all, you might even be able to parlay your internship into a paid position…good for you, since you are no longer unemployed.  It’s also good for your new employer, who gets to hire someone who already has a track record with the company, instead of some unknown who fails to live up to their resume.

So, in these precarious economic times, what could possibly be wrong with this arrangement?
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A group identified as “The Guerilla Effect” just released their parody of the Texas Gubernatorial race. The video is a bit long (23 minutes) but offers a rolling mix of overt and subtle humor. It appears no candidate was spared ridicule however we couldnt help notice that Medina’s criticisms stem largely from her pro-gun stance and simply knowing too much about every topic.

Texas Gubernatorial Debate 3 from guerilla.effect on Vimeo.

Rick Perry seems portrayed as a Bush-like frat boy more concerned about condescending to the questioneers and his hair than answering the questions and Kay Bailey Hutchinson gets featured as a soft-spoken follower, with no real opinions of her own.

The video borders on offensive in some cases when Kay is playing a hand-held video game entitled Fetus Flush 2 or when the video’s “host” Billy Kerboppler seems to do all of his scenes without pants on. However, the video is sure to make you smile and even laugh all the way through.

Our favorite part: Medina’s epic speech starting around 10 min 10 sec.

Hitler reacts to the news that Glenn Beck has created a new public relations debacle in Texas, that everyone in Texas owns guns and that’s why he never invaded Switzerland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySfEZlpN2OE&feature=player_embedded

Q: In less than ten hours, how do you raise over $50,000 (via online, already in-the-bank donations, with more to come via paper check) and get over 1,000 new Facebook subscribers?

A: Go on internet show put on by loudmouthed, crocodile tear crying shill who pushes agenda of those with the most bucks.  Get asked a ”have you stopped beating your kid?” type of kamakazee question unrelated to office candidate is seeking.  Interviewer has a baited response he wants to get from candidate.  Interviewer says, “see, she just admitted she hasn’t stopped beating her kid!! She’s a horrid person!!”  Interviewer cuts off interviewee before she has a chance to tell interviewer she can’t answer the question as it was stated, since it’s a “have you stopped beating your kid?” question. Viewers/listeners see you for the bought-and-paid for shill you are.

Incumbent then mysteriously has a negative ad already recorded and robocalling registered voters, in an hour.

You as the interviewee, however, then get multiple standing ovations at a local function six hours later.  The audience calls  for bad interviewer’s head on a platter.

Watch the money roll in to the bank…  $20, $50, 100 at a time, much of it from new donors.  Some of those new donors tell their friends.  Counting up, $20,000, now $30,000 …. up to $50,000 now!! You have people calling their friends, those friends write checks and drop them in the mail. Ka-ching! $$ Ka-ching! $ Ka-ching…$$$$ Where will it stop!??

Thanks unmentioned, loudmouth, obnoxious, fake blonde hair, tan and crocodile tear crying shill!! Maybe we can use you again for our advantage?  You’re such a dear!

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