Role call of H.R. 2454

Quick & Dirty roll call of Cap & Trade bill.  See source here
 
Alabama
No
AL-1
Bonner, Jo [R]
No
AL-2
Bright, Bobby [D]
No
AL-3
Rogers, Michael [R]
No
AL-4
Aderholt, Robert [R]
No
AL-5
Griffith, Parker [D] [...]

Cap and Trade: Stand Up Today; Take Back Your Government – Make A Call

Call and tell your representative they work for YOU, tell them YOU want them to vote NO and YOU will actively organize to ensure they do not get re-elected if they do not represent YOUR wishes. This is YOUR country, take it back, take back YOUR government.

Freedom of Speech: Now Playing in Tehran, but Not Toledo

I’ve been following the Iranian protests these last days – like a lot of people.  I’ve been on Twitter (too much) retweeting credible information in a small effort to help.
But it’s made me wonder: what are these courageous people really doing?  Standing up and demanding to have their voices heard.  Standing up and demanding that [...]

To My Representatives Re: Cap and Trade

Here is a copy of the email I sent to my representatives yesterday via Visible Vote:
 
My name is {insert name}. You are my elected representative.  As you know, Ohio has some the of the highest corporate, income and personal taxes as well as unemployment and utilities rates in the nation. 
The cost of living continues [...]

Cap and Trade – End of the American Lifestyle

From the Heritage Foundation:
Cap and Trade Top Ten List1. Cap and Trade Is a Massive Energy Tax2. It Will Not Make A Substantive Impact on the Environment3. It Will Kill Jobs4. It Will Cause Electricity Bills and Gas Prices to Sharply Increase5. It Will Outsource Manufacturing Jobs and Hurt Free Trade6. It Will Make You [...]

I, American – There must be someone…

The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you’re willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now.

And there will be bread lines…

Does it not seem that the Obama administration is doing everything it can to ensure that American is cast into a position of being a ‘third world country’?
It’s a frightening thought.   How much damage will this guy do before it stops?  How many of his policies will be irreversible?   So much of what he has [...]

Finally! Someone grows a spine…

Lots of scary stuff going on out there right now.
And amazingly, there seems to be increasing push-back against it.  One of which is the number of states proposing state sovereignty. 
http://www.therightsideoflife.com/?p=5944
More amazing, my state of Ohio is one of them.
http://ohiorepublic.blogspot.com/2009/05/state-sovereignty-resolution-to-be.html
You know the federal government has gone too far when states (which typically have their hands [...]

On Tea Parties & Tyranny

Newt Gingrich has some interesting and depressing numbers here.
An ever-lasting legacy
Your obligation on the INTEREST (not principal) of the Obama budget deficit:
If you’re 50 years old: $81,000If you’re 40: $132,000If you’re 20: $114,000
Why so many people remain okay with this outrage is mystifying.
Please find a tea party. Attend it. Focus on what’s right, not [...]

Some old fashioned common sense – Wake Up America!

That Thomas Paine, he still speaks common sense.
Please view this video – it’s excellent!  Then send your tea bags.  I will be addressing my envelopes tomorrow.

It’s our country, take it back now!
We the People stimulus package

All laws that apply to us should apply equally to congress.
No more allowing them to vote [...]

Obama and his Bear Market

Blaming George Bush for the majority of the economy’s decline is illogical. This is Obama’s mess.

Just say No!

Personal responsibility is an inherent part of personal freedom. You cannot have one without the other…

Unless you’re in government.

Time to Stand Up

It’s time to stand up. It’s time to reclaim our country. It’s time to stop being afraid. It’s time to stop thinking it’s someone else’s job to do the work. It’s time to stop letting political correctness erode our constitution. It’s time to let our government know they have overstepped their bounds. It is time to declare that their arrogance has awakened the sleeping giant and filled it with a terrible resolved and the giant is us, the American people. It is time to stop allowing the government to stop seeing us as taxpayers and start treating us as citizens and their employers.

Paying off your debt

At my current rate of pay, I would have to turn over my entire paycheck (gross, not net) to the federal government and work for more than 1,500 years to pay off the stimulus spending bill that is about to be voted on.
This bill is wrong and obscene.
The Representatives and Senators who vote for this [...]

63 million little dictators

I awakened this morning not surprised, but bitterly disappointed.
Sixty three million Americans elected a man who is unqualified for the job of President of the United States.  A man who evaded, hedged, and lied throughout the process.  A man who befriended racist clergy, domestic terrorists, crooks and former spokesman for an international terrorist group.  A [...]