My First Time Volunteering In a Political Event

Today I volunteered at campaign headquarters for Patricia Sullivan in Florida's 8th district. I decided to volunteer because I met Patrica and her husband in the local Costco and liked them. I was even more impressed at our training session. Patricia refused, even in the safety of her own headquarters, to belittle or besmirch her opponents, and insisted that we do the same. Talk about your clean campaigner!

She is intelligent and ethical. I believe we have a truly ethical person here. I have no qualms that she will be able to do the job of congress person with distinction. She is more interested in serving her constituents than in serving the party or the political establishment. Or as she says, she is a patriot not a politician.

This is a truly grass roots candidate and campaign. Of the 25 of us there for training, only 2 had ever worked on any kind of political campaign or project before. Three of us can't even vote for her, because we aren't in her district! But I think (as do the other two people) that is important that we get as many real people, people who are patriots, not politicans in Washington. Getting people like her in will help us all. Since I can't go home to help in my district, I will help her here.

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I want a job like the Washington Elites

I was watching Beck, and had an epiphany. I keep seeing the same names on the boards of these big foundations. Valerie Jarod, Bill Ayers, Franklin Raines, Barak Obama, and other. I keep seeing them over and over again. Now how can you be on the board of The Tides Foundation, The Chicago Climate Exchange, ACORN, The Joyce Foundation and others, and have a job on top of this, if they are legitimate jobs?

Can I please have one of those jobs? Just one job that I only have to show up periodically for a few hours and get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the show up? Please? Pretty please with sugar on top?

No wonder there is such a disconnect from mainstream America by those "leaders" or as I say "bullies". These people all have their buddies filling all of their jobs and are all washing each others backs; laughing all the way to the bank. Then they get up on their platforms and say how much they are for the working class. Yeah, right.

Funny little rap.

I was looking for something else, and saw this on Beck's site. It was too funny to pass up.

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Video of the Day - April 30, 2010

A Hero We Should Be Hearing About.

This came around in an email today, and I have to wonder why we keep hearing about the childish and rude antics of the so-called celebrities, instead of the the wonderful actions of heroes like this.
Courage.You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .. It's November 11, 1967. LZ (landing zone) X-ray.
Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter. You look up to see a Huey coming in. But ... It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it. Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.
Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway.And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!! Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.
He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise, Idaho . May God Bless and Rest His Soul. I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods.
Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
Shame on the American media !!! Now ... YOU pass this along to YOUR mailing list. Honor this real American. Please.

First real motorcycle ride here in Florida.

OK. Bob is planning a nice little ride for just the two of us, since his dad isn't here to take our son on his bike. We are riding to Ocala State Park and packing a picnic. Bob has been riding ever since he got down here, and he took me on a couple of short rides, but this will be the first real one. We will take the camera and post the trip.

Is it just me?

I was watching the news today with growing atonishment and bewilderment. How can our congress sit there and point their fingers at the people from Goldman Sachs, when half of them were on the dole, and at leats 6 former members of the company are in the Whitehouse? And why are they so into blaming the private sector, when THEY were saying nothing was wrong, each of the 16 or 17 times this was brought up before them before the crash?

Do you remember the kid in school who caused the trouble and then sat there and tattled on everyone else? Remember how that kid was always in the center of the storm, but always wiggled out by blaming the noisier children? Sounds like our congress. No wonder we hate the weasels so badly!

I think 80%+ would sell their own mothers to the devil for a vote. What will they do to this country for a vote? They are short-sighted, spoiled, self-indulgent, untrustworthy, spineless, and some are down right traitorous. We need to get fresh blood and not keep them long enough to get corrupt. While we are at it, this was never meant to be a career path! How about we do away with perks and pensions?!?

How can we seriously expect people who call Arizona a police state, and at the same time call for the Guard to rule Chicago to be intellectually honest? Stop and think about that. They are calling Arizona a police state, because police can ask for both license and proof of residency at traffic stops, but they want marshal law instituted in Chicago. And they see no conflict of interests, no irony, no hypocrisy in that?

Really!! Is it just me?