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06 February
Well, well
ain't it nice that the
Instapundit, National Review, and
the others have finally noticed something
I harp on continuously
forever and a day
04 February
Bobby Bright (US Rep, Al, 2)
02 February
Bobby Bright (US Rep, Al, 2) PacMan
Bobby Bright
Individual Contributions $262,929 (35%)PAC Contributions $489,128 (65%)
Candidate self-financing $0 (0%)
Other $4 (0%)
Martha Roby (R)
PAC contributions $34,500 (12%)
Individual contributions $258,777 (88%)
Candidate self-financing $0 (0%)
Other $0 (0%)
Rick Barber (R) Tea Partier
PAC contributions $0 (0%)
Individual contributions $11,050 (72%)
Candidate self-financing $2,400 (16%)
Other $1,858 (12%)
Open Secrets
So, it looks like Bobby Bright is a bought and paid for politician by PAC's while Barber (my favorite) and Roby are supported by the people
31 January
Tea Partier, Rick Barber
run for Al, 2, the seat currently held by Democrat Bobby Bright is worthy of notice and support.
One of the volunteers on Brown's campaign is now running for Congress in Alabama, and emulating the "straight talk, no BS" theme. Rick Barber, a small businessman and ex-Marine, is challenging Democrat Rep. Bobby Bright in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District and was featured in an ABC "Good Morning America" segment on the impact of the Brown campaign.
Link to Rick Brown's
campaign website
I worry because Alabama seems to be dominated by populists--What can the government do for me with someone else's money?
29 January
Obama took foreign campaign donations?
You mean somebody remembered it besides
redneckin?
Does it really matter since the media and the Justice Department are going to fixate on more important things like the
College Football BCS
That the Obama campaign received foreign donations as a result of this scheme may be the only thing agreed-upon by both Pamela Geller and Charles Johnson. Indeed, Obama for America has admitted receiving foreign contributions. The fact that the Federal Election Commission is not investigating the allegations necessitates a special counsel.
Channeling his inner Obama
Alabama Governors Race - Democrat gubernatorial candidate Artur Davis said the challenge for the Artur Davis, Democrat candidate for governor, campaigned in Scottsboro today.next governor will be "to draw people together and give them a sense of purpose."
Remember: He is a
Moderate Liberal Populist Democrat
28 January
When GF and I
first moved out here to Rabbit Run, we didn't have tv and I have to say I didn't miss it much. As a matter of fact, I was pretty vocal when GF wanted Dish so she could watch Auburn football. Vocal or not, I didn't win the argument
But now, GF has decided that "we" waste to much time on tv and has canceled Dish. Fine by me, I didn't like having all those channels when we watched less than ten.
Anyway, it looks like it's back to liberal taxpayer radio, talk, a few shows on local tv and rental dvd's. The news I get online.
Speaking of the liberal taxpayer radio
I’m a man of varied musical taste.
I started off life listening to the Porter Waggoner show on Saturday while my mother ironed the clothes that had waited patiently in the refrigerator . I had less interest in the music than in the Lone Ranger show that came on next.
From old country to surfing, to the overrated Beatles (the early years) to hard core rock, to metal, to blues, to rhythm to jazz to religious, most have been staples in my listening repertoire at one time or another.
Well, except hip hop, gansta, classical and opera. That is until my radio reception limited me to NPR. In my Walden days (I'll post on that one day) and later in the limited reception of the Pathfinder with the coathanger antenna and Rabbit Run, Opera and Classical, became old familiars.
Saturday mornings on my way to rabbit hunts, it is classical. You know when you’ve been listening to it way to much when there is a trivia show and you start getting the right answers
While Obama
rants and raves about campaign finance reform, I thought I would share a couple of redneckin's posts about Obama own very questionable donations
Just how venal will an Obama administration be?
We know that he tries to intimidate opponents by using the courts and representatives of the law.
And we know that he is getting massive donations from unknown sources, large amounts of it are coming from overseas sources that might have issues with our Constitution. And this is just to get elected
"Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” just as Good Will had done.
....
Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including such friendly places as North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran."
and
One thing is for sure Obama certainly has some interesting donors
"A donor named Hbkjb, jkbkj
City: Jkbjnj Works for: Kuman Bank (doesn't exist)
Occupation: Balanon Jalalan Amount: $1,077.23
or the donor Doodad, The # of transactions = 1,044
The $ contributed = $10,780.00
This Doodad character works for FDGFDGF and occupation is DFGFDG "
Maybe some of them might want to get a few of Alabama absentee ballots. I've heard that they are real easy to get and investigations into abuse is limited,....if you're a Democrat
and just to take a shot at the media
I see that the public's opinion of the news media is pretty much the same all over.
"Perhaps most troubling for the press corps, though, was this finding: "55% said media bias is a bigger problem for the electoral process than large campaign donations.""
Being in the tank for Obama and all, you know
Update: an excerpt from a Obama email following the SOTU.
I have no illusions -- there have been setbacks, and there will be more to come. The special interests who have shaped the status quo will keep fighting tooth and nail to preserve it.
So tonight, I'm asking you to join me in the work ahead. I need your voice. I need your passion. And I need your support.
Can you help fuel our fight for the middle class with a monthly donation of $15 or more?
No word if Hbkjb, jkbkj, and Doodad, will be contributing
26 January
If this is a massive weapons cache
If this is
a massive weapons cache, then I'm glad they haven't looked into my gun safe.
Heck, or search me when I'm going to Opelika
So,
Obama is claiming the populist mantle.
Quick, what is redneckin's definition of populism?
"What can the government do for me with someone else's money"
25 January
Who really runs the
Alabama government school system?
If you said the teachers union, AEA, you would be correct.
But Alabama's application for $181 million basically says that schools here would use the money to expand existing programs. More extensive reforms, including performance-based pay for teachers, were killed after Alabama Education Association leader Paul Hubbert wrote state Superintendent Joe Morton a letter on Jan. 5 opposing them.
22 January
Sit it out?
Birmingham-area attorney Bill Barnes is challenging Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, in November's general election for U.S. Senator.
Everybody knows that I've been
critical, heck,
hysterically critical of Senator Shelby. I've often wished for a candidate to run against him. Therein lies the dilemma.
A democrat would give the liberals that are running the nation a potential 60th Senator if Barnes is elected.
But then again, Senator is Alabama's King of Pork.
Sigh! The best the Democrats can get from me is that I'll sit out the election and won't vote....unless the Tea Party runs someone. Yes, I know that a split vote is the Democrats best chance.....So be it. The Republicans deserve what they get
Head Start
I dropped a line
to Rep. Ken Guin of Carbon Hill, Alabama asking
I would like some information on the Lea Fite Child Protection Act
What is the house number of the bill, so I can read the actual text?
Since I'm a knee jerk little "l" libertarian, do you have safeguards built into the bill?
Age difference?
Do you regard it as violating the VIII about excessive fines?
Define "computer" since cell phones and personal assistants are pretty much the same thing?
Shouldn't teachers fall into this bill since they violate "trust" given by the public?
Is this "all" property, down to the gold fillings in the teeth? Before you think I'm being silly asking this, I've read of just such a case.
Buying the vote in Alabama
Nothing unusual about that.
Barron’s bill would get $1 billion from the $2.5 billion Alabama Trust Fund. The trust fund was built over three decades with money from natural gas wells drilled in state-owned waters along the Alabama coast.
This is on top of half a billion from the feds for Alabama Roads in the first stimulus package and the Feds are considering giving Alabama another half a billion. If all goes as planned that would give Alabama $2,000,000,000 for roads.
My question is where does the money collected from the tax on gasoline go? I mean besides bike paths, river walks, parking lots and other projects that are mostly pork.
Will this stimulate the Alabama economy?
Not if previous efforts are any indication
An Associated Press analysis of stimulus spending found that it didn’t matter if a lot of money was spent on highways or none at all: Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless. And the stimulus spending only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, the analysis showed.”
The most likely result will be a " Lowell Barron Higway" crisscrossing Fyffe.
Remember that redneckin repeatedly warned that Alabama would set up rainy day funds and them raid them on a regular basis.
20 January
Stiff Sentences
for cockfighting.
Don't miss the comments
May I suggest
they target Senator Richard Shelby (Al, R), Alabama's resident pork in chief?
Run a challenger in the Republican primary.
I see nothing but abuse
coming from this bill
The Alabama House voted 95-0 to pass a bill by Democratic Rep. Ken Guin of Carbon Hill that allows authorities to confiscate the property of a person convicted of using a computer to lure a young person to meet for sexual reasons. An exception is the house, car or other property can’t be confiscated if it is needed by a spouse or child who did not know the computer was being used to solicit a child.
I would never defend a child predator, but I sincerely see problems on the horizon. Part of the problem will be define "computer" since cellphones and personal assistants can fall in that category. Age differences? Entrapment?
Never mind my long standing demands that the US Constitution remain supreme in not imposing excessive fines.
Heh
And you thought
electing Obama would change the way the US was viewed by other nations.
Well, you were right.
Let me tell you what a major leader said to me recently. “We are convinced,” he said, “that he is not strong enough to confront his enemy. We are concerned,” he said “that he is not strong to support his friends.”
It's not just his domestic policy that is in shambles
Teabag this
52% SCOTT BROWN (R) 1,153,808
47% MARTHA COAKLEY (D)D: 1,052,391
It's time to go after Bobby Bright (2,Al,D), Alabama's blue dog Democrat.
In order to stop the leftist agenda, we must remove those in power at the top of the food chain in the House and Senate such as Pelosi and the committee heads.
To do that, the Democrat majority must be defeated, no matter how Conservative your own congressman is.
Bobby Bright tested the winds and ran as a Democrat. As a Democrat he empowers Pelosi.
He must be defeated
14 January
Catching up to redneckin
After some prodding, yesterday the Obama administration released the long-overdue first grade evaluation of the federal Head Start program. As expected, the results show that the $7 billion per year program provides little benefit to children – and great expense to taxpayers.
redneckin: No problem with that at redneckin since the "singular we" around here regard HeadStart as a glorified government babysitting service
Any real difference?
That's right: Robertson seems to suggest the Haitians brought the earthquake on themselves, in a deal with Satan.
Obama today:
Except for the Grace of God, go us"
13 January
For the survivors
The earthquake may be the best thing that ever happened to them, at least in Port-au-Prince, if not the whole nation.
Sort of like when a house in disrepair and threatening to collapse from rot bursts into flames and the insurance company rebuilds a new home
12 January
Let me see
The proposed constitutional amendment by Democratic Sen. Lowell Barron of Fyffe would allow the state to take $100 million a year from the savings account for road projects. Barron has called the plan Alabama's "own stimulus package."
Meanwhile
“A federal spending surge of more than $20 billion for roads and bridges in President Barack Obama’s first stimulus has had no effect on local unemployment rates, raising questions about his argument for billions more to address an ‘urgent need to accelerate job growth.’ An Associated Press analysis of stimulus spending found that it didn’t matter if a lot of money was spent on highways or none at all: Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless. And the stimulus spending only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, the analysis showed.”
08 January
Wish in one hand,
This is the kind of questioning I would like to see in our media, both national and local.
But our own media keeps giving us the contents of the other hand
04 January
Getting rid of Bobby Bright (2, Al, D)
and the other Alabama Democrats in Congress is the only way
“Only a fourth of all Americans approve of the direction Obama and Congress are taking the country, according to a Gallup survey. A similarly dismal proportion approve of the job being done by Congress under the leadership of Reid and Pelosi. Nearly three-fourths of those surveyed prefer that Congress do nothing to reform health care rather than take final action on either the Senate or House versions of Obamacare. And 79 percent of Americans view government corruption as the most important issue facing the country.”
Remember,
it doesn't matter how conservative your local Democrat is, if voting for him keeps Pelosi, Ried and Liberals in overall charge of the committees of the House and Senate
A word of warning to the Republicans. You listening Mike Rogers?
24 December
Bobby Bright (US Rep, Al, 2)
has to go
TPM-Earlier today I asked the office of Rep. Bobby Bright (D-AL), now the only remaining conservative Democrat from a McCain district in Alabama, whether he could end up following in the footsteps of Rep. Parker Griffith and leaving the Democratic Party -- and I received a very...
I figure he should be defeated whatever party he is in. He declared as a Democrat because of the tailwind. The damage is done with Pelosi in control and healthcare passed. He needs to pay the price no matter how conservative his vote is
You should have listened to me
“When it comes to the public outrage that will emerge based on the deals that took place to secure passage of the Senate health-care bill, the degree of tone-deafness among Democrats is nothing short of startling. . . . These people strike me as hermetically sealed off from how most of the rest of the country view this subject. As these backroom deals become more and more widely known, anger will swell up among voters. It is bad enough to jam through a bill on a strict party-line-vote against overwhelming opposition from the public; for it to have happened only because various Members of Congress were (legally) bribed will magnify the intensity of the opposition. And for politicians to take such obvious pride in the pay-off will make things even worse. The populist, anti-Washington wave out there, which is already quite large, will only grow, and grow, and grow.”
You should have listened to me
via
Instapundit
Prediction for 2010
and beyond.
The Democrats healthcare will rapidly grow in size, scope and cost.
Media blames Republicans
23 December
How's that open
and transparency thing working out?
For an added and disturbing wrinkle, INTERPOL's central operations office in the United States is within our own Justice Department offices. They are American law enforcement officers working under the aegis of INTERPOL within our own Justice Department. That they now operate with full diplomatic immunity and with "inviolable archives" from within our own buildings should send red flags soaring into the clouds.
The Democrats are fast setting up the US to be subjugated under international control.
It's as much their desire that the US be on the same level with every other country under a world government as it was their accomplished goal that the States were to be mere geographical political subplots of the federal government.
22 December
Some of you
might wonder that if U.S. Rep. Bobby Bright (D, 2 Al) were to
switch parties like U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith (Al-5) from Democrat to Republican would I quit bashing Rep Bright?
Maybe just a little less since the
issue of Bobby Bright empowering Nancy Pelosi and the left wing of the Democrat party would be removed. But
his love of spying on the people of Alabama would still give me pause.
Couldn't a real tea partier step into the breach?
Anybody remember acid rain?
The global warming solution proposed by Nathan Myhvold involves Nathan Myhrvold's Anti Global Warming Scheme of running a hose up to the stratosphere with balloons and using that hose to pump out enough sulfur particles to dim the sun's heat just enough to counteract the effects of global warming.
19 December
Meanwhile
I found out that
Middle Boy has become Mortal Like Me
16 December
What a crock
"The intent is not to produce revenue but to slow people down, be more safe and allow police officers to be in neighborhoods looking for the true crooks," Pruitt said after the meeting Tuesday.
Montgomery has a tradition of using cameras. Just ask
Democrat Bobby Bright
It's always about the money.
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