The Next Meeting of Texas County Republicans will be at 7PM Tuesday, October 23 at The Lion’s Den on US 63 north of Houston. The meeting will be preceded by a pot luck supper at 6PM.

 

The Next Regular Meeting of Texas County Federation of Republican Women will be in Licking, Saturday, November 10, with Mr. Doug Russell, Chairman of the Missouri Republican Committee as guest speaker. There will be no regular meeting in October. The 8^th Congressional District meeting will be at Zeno’s Restaurant in Rolla on November 3. Details about both meetings will be in the next issue.

 

Paving the Way for Bridge Safety Governor Matt Blunt signed House Bill 2 opening the way to repair or replace more than 800 Missouri bridges by 2012. This bill is the result of the governor’s call for a special legislative session which allows contractors to access the bonds needed to finance the projects under the Safe and Sound Bridge Improvement Program. (Governor’s News Release)

 

Five Million Missourians Have Health Coverage but 719,000 are yet to be covered. Much of the problem stems from the difficulty small businesses have in finding affordable coverage for their employees. Part of the solution can be found in House Bill 818 (signed by the governor earlier this year) which expands the opportunities for coverage to high-risk Missourians and those who are just entering the workforce. Another part of the solution is Insure Missouri. This new health care initiative will be based on a sliding scale according to income. For example, a four person family making $17,500 per year will not have any premiums associated with their health coverage. A family of four with income of $24,000 will pay no more than $100 per month. A family of four with $35,000 income will pay no more than $145 per month. This initiative will be carried out in three phases, starting in February 2008 and be available to families of four making less than $20,650 per year. Phase two starts in the summer of 2008 for families with $38,000 income. The third phase will help small employers gain access private insurance markets. It is expected than 200,000 Missourians will gain access to health insurance through Insure Missouri.  (Governor’s News Release)

 

Missouri Sets Another Record $9.6 billion in exports through June, up 14 percent over the same period in 2006 which was a record year. Twelve categories topped the $100 million mark: transportation equipment $2.6 billion, chemicals $1.1 billion, machinery $573 million, food and food products $339 million, electrical equipment $328 million, agricultural products $268 million, electronic products $239 million, fabricated metal products $216 million, minerals and ores $187 million, metal manufacturing $152 million, waste and scrap $131 million and plastics and rubber products $117 million. (Governor’s News Release)

 

Missouri is One of Only Six States to earn a bond rating of AAA by Standard & Poor’s. The other states are: Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Utah and Virginia. This rating means Missouri bonds are judges to be the highest quality and carry the smallest degree of investment risk. (Governor’s News Release)

 

The Workers’ Compensation Reform of 2005 is having a positive impact on Missouri’s employers while providing protection for Missouri workers harmed on the job. The dramatic 10 percent reduction in costs to Missouri employers as reported by the National Council on Compensation Insurance is helping attract and retain more jobs and promote continued economic growth for Missouri. On a seasonally adjusted basis Missouri added 11,000 jobs in August. (Governor’s News Release)

 

Good News, Just Received The U.S. District Court has affirmed Missouri’s pro-life House Bill 1055 that prohibits abortion providers from teaching in Missouri classrooms and makes the Alternatives to Abortion program permanent. In addition, Missouri has been recognized for its outstanding access to the food stamp program by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Missouri’s Department. of Social Services will receive a bonus of $2,254,344. (Governor’s News Release)

 

 

In the future we will call these the good old days

 

  <>The Ethics Bill passed August 2 by a wide margin in both houses that was dedicated to transparency will actually make it easier for the Senate to pass pet projects without the public or many senators being aware of it. Until now, one or two senators could block a provision from being inserted into a bill. The new rules will require 40 senators to block a provision from being inserted into a bill. And to help assure its passage the bill was held up so the president could not use a pocket veto (by not signing it) while the Senate was in recess and could not override the pocket veto. Senator Tom Coburn (R- OK) said this bill is a landmark betrayal. (From an article by Robert Novak in TownHall.com)

 

An Attempt to Remove Earmarks from a bill has failed. Amendment 2812 would have stripped three earmarks from the bill: $500,000 for a baseball stadium in Montana, $450,000 for an International Peace Garden in North Dakota and $400,000 for a “Discovery Center” in Louisiana. A “YEA” vote was to fund these pork projects. Only 32 Senators voted “NO,” 31 were Republicans. Neither of Missouri’s Senators voted “NO.”  (Chuck Muth’s News & Views)

 

The Swiss Health Care System spends 40 percent less per capita than the U.S. system. You never hear it touted by the media but Switzerland uses market forces, not government rules and red tape to create a private, affordable, high quality-health-care system for its 7.5 million citizens. The Swiss system works sort of like our car insurance. You must buy health insurance but you can choose from among many plans and private companies. Senator Tom Coburn, (R-OK) a practicing physician has proposed a health-care reform bill …the Universal Health Care and Access Act…based on the Swiss system. The key elements of the bill uses tax credits to pay for individual or family health care and phases out reliance on employer-based insurance and allows people to choose their own doctor and health insurance and stresses preventive care. But don’t expect it to become law anytime soon. (Article by Bill Steigerwald in TownHall.com) U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt has said that  he supports a system of tax credits to pay for health insurance. Ed.

 

Higher Tax Rates don’t necessarily increase revenues. New Jersey Governor Corzine predicted that upping the tax on cigarettes by 17.5 cents (to $2.575) would increase revenue by $30 million and help balance the state’s one billion dollar deficit. An analysis by the Center for Policy Research in New Jersey found that the state collected $23 million less than it did in the year before. Residents are not smoking less. They are just not buying as many cigarettes in New Jersey. (Chuck Muth’s News & Views) The governor apparently doesn’t understand human nature; consequently his understanding of economics is flawed. (Editor’s opinion.)

 

“The Two Men Best Qualified to give an honest and comprehensive account of events in Iraq have marched through Congress to say, and show, that the surge is working and America’s goals are within reach. Yet it’s a sign of the U.S. political debate that the evidence of progress made the headlines in none of our leading newspapers.”  Wall Street Journal Editorial, 9/12/07

 

$140 Million in Bonuses Were Paid in 2006 by federal agencies to recruit, retain and relocate employees.  Large agencies, especially the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments used recruitment bonuses to attract employees in health care and engineering. The Commerce Department paid 287 recruitment bonuses totaling $2.1 million for the Patent Office to handle the surge of applications from inventors. (TownHall.com)

 

Labor Unions Gave $65.8 Million in contributions to political parties in 2006. Of this $57.6 million was given to the Democrats. Unions have been pushing Congress for higher wages on public projects and easier rules for unionizing workplaces, but veto threats from the President have kept these proposals from becoming law. Labor lobbyists say they are setting the stage for 2009 when they expect a Democrat in the White House. (Chuck Muth’s News & Views)

 

Hispanics are Now 8 Percent of the electorate, but they are projected to become 20 percent by 2020 and one fourth of the population by 2050. The political reality is that going forward Hispanics will have to play a bigger and bigger role in keeping the GOP competitive nationally. It is hard to see how Republicans have any hope of building a permanent majority if Hispanics start voting for Democrats in the percentages that blacks already do. (Wall Street Journal)  Leslie Sanchez, in her new book Los Republicanos, states that Republicans need 35 percent of the Latino vote to stay in power.

 

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Lord Acton)

 

I Have a Plan to Destroy America

By Richard Lamm, former governor of Colorado       

 

I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe as many do, that America is too smug, too white bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and they all fall.  And an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide. Here is my plan:

 

1.  We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two                 competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual. It is a curse for a society to be bilingual. One scholar, Seymour Martin, put it this         way: 

    

      “The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension  

     and tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon, all face crises of national existence in which  

     minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria 

     suppressed an ethnic rebellion, France faces difficulties with its Basques, Bretons and Corsicans.”

     (And now with Muslims).

 

2.  I would than invent ‘multiculturalism’ and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal: That there     are no cultural differences that are important, I would declare it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination     by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.

 

3.  We can make the United States an ‘Hispanic Quebec’ without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the             Atlantic Monthly :

 

     The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not  

     by tolerance but by hegemony (influence of dominance over others) that once dictated ethnocentricity (the  

     attitude that one group is superior) and what it meant to be an American. We are left with only tolerance

     and pluralism to hold us together.

 

    I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting-pot metaphor with a salad-bowl metaphor. It is important to             insure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America reinforcing their differences rather than Americans emphasizing their similarities.

 

4.  Having done all this, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated and         antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50 percent drop out rate from school.

 

5.  I would then get the big foundations and big business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of victimology.     I would get all minorities to think their lack of success was all the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority         population.

 

6.  I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would ‘celebrate diversity.’ Diversity is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses the differences         rather than the commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each others…that is when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful     or stable society is against most historical precedents. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together, and we can take advantage of this myopia. Look     at the ancient Greeks. Dorf’s World history tells us:  (Continued on the following page)

 

Just because you don’t take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you (Pericles 764 A.D.)

 

    The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; possessed a common language and literature;   

     and they worshiped the same gods. All Greeks took part in the Olympic Games in honor of Zeus and

     all Greeks venerated the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. But, a common enemy, Persia, threatened their

     liberty.  Yet all the bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors….their patriotism was local 

     and the topography of the land nurtured political divisions. (They lacked unity)

 

    If the emphasis of “E Pluribus Unum” is placed on Pluribus instead of Unum, we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo.

 

7.  Then I would place all subjects off limits….make it taboo to talk about. I would find a word similar to “Heretic” used in the 16^th Century that stopped discussion and     paralyzed thinking, just as today the words “Racist” and “Xenophobe” (fear of foreigners) halts argument and conversation. As Noam Chomsky, American linguist and     U.S. media and foreign policy critic said: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion

 

    Having made America a bilingual-bicultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of “victimology” I would next         make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra that as past immigration has been good for America, it must always be good.

 

8.  Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson’s book Mexifornia. This book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America.

 

Richard Lamm delivered this five minute speech in Washington, D.C. in June 2005.  Mr. Lamm, a Denocrat,, served as governor of Colorado from 1975 until 1987.

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ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ

The translation of a Spanish newspaper article by Sebastian Vivar Rodriguez

 

I walked down the streets of Barcelona and I suddenly discovered a terrible truth…Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity and talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

 

The contribution of these people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

 

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

 

They have turned our beautiful Spanish cities into a third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive from the government, they plan murder and destruction of their naïve hosts.

 

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

 

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

 

What a terrible mistake was made by a miserable Europe.

 

Facts don’t cease to exist just because they are ignored.

  

 

8 Reasons Why Conservatives Must Defeat Hillary

by John Hawkins as published in TownHall.com

 

Today’s Democratic Party and its likely nominee, Hillary Clinton, have moved well to the left of where we were in the pre-George W. Bush era. That could have some rather serious consequences if she becomes the next President of the United States. Consider the following:

 

Kyoto: Clinton is a supporter of the Kyoto Protocol, which would cause energy prices to soar and would seriously damage the American economy even though most environmentalists admit that it won’t significantly cut the amount of greenhouse gases being produced by mankind.

 

Corruption:  Her brother was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to help get pardons from her husband. During Hillary’s previous stay in this White House, trips to the Lincoln bedroom were handed out as campaign contributions. She drew up legal documents that were used in the Whitewater land scheme and she got away with being bribed through a crooked cattle futures deal.

 

Tax Hikes: Hillary, a diehard socialist, will certainly slow the economy and take more money out of the American people’s pockets with a tax hike. She even voted against the marriage penalty and child credit.

 

Amnesty and Open Borders: Hillary is a big supporter of immigration reform for illegal aliens and with a Democratic Congress to help, it’s possible she could succeed where George W. Bush failed with amnesty.

 

Losing Iraq: In 1975 Democrats deliberately delivered South Vietnam into the hands of the Communists by cutting off aid and air support that we had promised because the Democrats believed it would benefit them politically. The result was a Communists takeover of Vietnam, genocide and a crisis of confidence in our military that wasn’t reversed until George Bush won the Gulf War. If Hillary Clinton becomes president and we are still in Iraq she will deliberately lose the war early on in her presidency because she believes she can blame it on George Bush; a huge victory for Al-Qaeda and a loss of American prestige.

 

Disaster in the War on Terror: When Bill Clinton was in power, the Al-Qaeda launched terrorist attacks at America almost without impunity. He turned down an offer of Sudan to hand over Osama Bin Laden. Pakistan and India built nuclear programs and we believe North Korea built nuclear weapons. If Hillary becomes president, expect North Korea to become a permanent nuclear power, Iran to start a nuclear arms race and Hillary would be more concerned about whether Europe likes us than stopping another 9/11. In addition she would curtail wire tapping of terrorists and treat them as mere criminals instead of unlawful combatants, hurting our intelligence gathering and make another 9/11 much more likely.

 

Socialized Medicine: If Hillary gets her way and we have socialized medicine in this country. Taxes will soar, the quality of medical care will decrease and the waiting time to get surgery will grow enormously.

 

Supreme Court: Currently the Supreme Court is balanced on a knife’s edge. There are four judges who believe in sticking to the constitution, four liberal judges who view the court as a super legislature that can be used to push left-wing agenda, and one moderate judge. The next nominee to fill a vacancy will likely tip the court dramatically to the left or right. A judge nominated by Hillary would be surely be liberal.

 

We don’t know who the Republican nominee would be but he would be an enormous improvement over the earthquake a Hillary Clinton presidency would be for America.

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George B. Shaw)

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The following is from an e-mail making the rounds. Author unknown.

 

We will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until we defeat it, wherever that is. It will not go away. We cannot ignore it. It is messy, uncertain and sometimes bloody and ugly. The real world is like that.

 

If we can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we have an ally, like England, but in the Middle East. It could be a platform from which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of the world is the clash between forces of relative civility and civilization versus the barbarians clamoring at the gates to conquer the world.

 

The Iraq War is merely another battle in this ancient and never ending war. Now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons. Unless they are stopped……..We have four options:

 

1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.

 

2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which may be as early as next year if Iran’s 

    progress in their ability to produce nuclear weapons is what they claims it is.)

 

3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle East now, in Europe in the years to  

    follow and ultimately in the United States.

 

4. OR…We can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better

    armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany and possibly most of the rest of  

    Europe.

 

The history of the world is the history of the clashing between civilizations and cultures. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilizations should be like, and those who are the most determined always win. Pacifists always lose; the ruthless win.

 

Remember, perspective is everything, and America’s schools teach too little history for perspective to be clear. The Cold War lasted from about 1947 until the Berlin wall came down in 1989…Forty two years!

 

Europe spent the first half of the 19^th century fighting Napoleon and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany!

 

The stakes are high. A world dominated by representative governments with civil rights, human rights, personal freedom….or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law). It is difficult to understand why the average American does not grasp this.

 

“Peace Activists” always seem to demonstrate here in the United States, where it is safe. We don’t see Peace Activists demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Sudan, North Korea…the places that need peace activism the most. And you know why….they would be killed.

 

Liberals are supposed to favor human rights, civil rights and democracy…but if the Jihad wins, and wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights and democracy. Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst enemy!

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