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There are 16 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Fw: Sounds logical!]Guest worker explained.
From: "Jean D. Beard" <dale98@tampabay.rr.com>
2. Jug Varner "New Blood Needed"
From: "Jean D. Beard" <dale98@tampabay.rr.com>
3. Fwd: Fw: We Need A Teddy Roosevelt
From: PAULKARREN@aol.com
4. Re: Addition
From: PAULKARREN@aol.com
5. Re: Fwd: Fw: We Need A Teddy Roosevelt
From: Vike2001@aol.com
6. NOT HEALTH RELATED Mexican Solution to Immigration
From: James Ret <alamostation@yahoo.com>
7. FW: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein responding to your message
From: "J. R. Santos" <saintjim@earthlink.net>
8. FW: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein responding to your message
From: "J. R. Santos" <saintjim@earthlink.net>
9. what I posted today on http://diodon349.com/ 04-04-06
From: "J. R. Santos" <saintjim@earthlink.net>
10. [Fwd: Emailing: article]
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
11. [Fwd: TRICARE FEES MUST RAISE ACCORDING TO VICE CHIEF OF AF]
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
12. [Fwd: Jug Varner "New Blood Needed"]
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
13. Good reading
From: Jack Hollinsworth <jackhollinsworth@yahoo.com>
14. Lost email
From: <hkaribian@yahoo.com>
15. Email
From: <hkaribian@yahoo.com>
16. Brown Bag/FAX/Web Form summary
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 07:20:13 -0400
From: "Jean D. Beard" <dale98@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Fw: Sounds logical!]Guest worker explained.
This is too good not to pass along.
Have a good one,
Jean
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----- Original Message -----
From: Merle Scoggins
To: burnett96@cox.net
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:45 PM
Subject: Sounds logical!]Guest worker explained.
GUEST WORKERS EXPLAINED
Since hearing the liberals plan for treating illegal immigrants as guest workers
I have had an epiphany.
I stupidly used to believe that the definition of guest
is one who is invited. Now I have a greater understanding of the word.
For instance, if a burglar breaks into my home, he really becomes a guest who is
only looking for a better life. Because he broke in for that reason, I must
accept the obligation to provide health care, education, transportation, and
living quarters. In return, he has to agree to pay for repairing the damage he
did while breaking in, and learn enough English to say, Pass the potatoes, and
Where are the keys to the car?
Further, he will agree to handle jobs that we don't like, such as bringing out
the garbage, mowing the lawn, and cleaning windows.
I feel so much better now.
Author unknown
My opinion:
-Our school systems are in financial crisis, some of our hospitals are also in
crisis and the national debty is out of sight YET we, by law, must give all
these "benefits" o people who are in this country illegally.
And what really pisses this old man off is seeing therm flaunt the Mexican flag
and in some instances fly it above OLD GLORY!!! You don't respect this country
go to Mexico and see how many rights you will have there.
Here is what I have told my congress people.
For all illegals, Stop citizenship by birth. Close off WIC and ADC, food stamps,
drivers's license and make fines it so expensive for the businesses that hire
illegals that would be better hiring U.S. citizens. (Note: The illegal help is
cheap because businesses do not have to provide and of the aforementioned
benefits-that is left to the taxpayers.)
In addition, we need a nationwide cleansing of the welfare sugar tits. If you
are able bodied, you work or starve- no more free loading or having a house full
of babies just to qualify for all the bennies.
Now having said that I feel better and another set of e mails and letters are on
the way to my congress people, the pres and VP.
If you want to write to your congress persons use the following addresses:
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
Merle Scoggins
The Ole Bear
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 07:38:12 -0400
From: "Jean D. Beard" <dale98@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Jug Varner "New Blood Needed"
Please pass this on to anyone you know that Jug's "mission" applies to.
Jean
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBDTPN7KLE.html
Excerpt: New Blood Needed
Jug Varner is on a mission to recruit members for the
Golden Pelican Squadron, a group of former military pilots and crewmen that
meets regularly in Sarasota.
"For many years, the membership has been those with World War, Korean and
Vietnam experiences," Varner said. "But members from that era are in a declining
senior age group. To keep [the] squadron afloat, we need to recruit some younger
folks to carry on."
Varner can be reached at (941) 929-1169.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 10:42:37 EDT
From: PAULKARREN@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: Fw: We Need A Teddy Roosevelt
In a message dated 4/3/2006 9:11:41 PM Atlantic Daylight Time, tdw70@sbcglobal.net
writes:
Subject: we need a Teddy Roosevelt
Amen to this! 99 years later. What a visionary that Teddy R.
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in
good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be
treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to
discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin But
this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and
nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who
says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We
have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but
one language here, and that is the English language... And we have room for but
one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 10:59:41 EDT
From: PAULKARREN@aol.com
Subject: Re: Addition
In a message dated 4/3/2006 11:53:01 PM Atlantic Daylight Time, hkaribian@yahoo.com
writes:
Please add to my last message: How many of the 22 Republicans on the House
Budget Committee are up for reelection? With selective targeting of the few, we
can get the attention of the "mob".
All of them. 435 Representative is up for re-election. Senators are treated
different and are elected on a piece mill basis. In their case, I suggest we
change the constitution and fire every damm one of them.
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 11:11:27 EDT
From: Vike2001@aol.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Fw: We Need A Teddy Roosevelt
In a message dated 4/4/06 8:53:50 AM Mountain Standard Time, PAULKARREN@aol.com
writes:
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but
something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag,
the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the
English language... And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that
is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
It seems to me that, ONCE AGAIN, the silence of America is deafening !!!!!
I just don't understand how our "representatives" in D.C. can be sooooooooooooooo indifferent to the desires of "Americans" !!!!!
This "accepting" of ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS must
stop... And, the first thing to STOP DOING is referring to them as "immigrants",
"undocumented" or otherwise... They are ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS and that is all
there is to it... Calling them anything else is merely pandering for potential
votes...
Morrie B.
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 09:12:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Ret <alamostation@yahoo.com>
Subject: NOT HEALTH RELATED Mexican Solution to Immigration
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:55:44 -0700
From: "J. R. Santos" <saintjim@earthlink.net>
Subject: FW: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein responding to your message
-----Original Message-----
From: senator@feinstein.senate.gov [mailto:senator@feinstein.senate.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 1:02 PM
To: saintjim@earthlink.net
Subject: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein responding to your message
April 4, 2006
Mr. and Mrs. James Santos
XXX Saratoga Avenue
Apt. XY
Santa Clara, California XXXX
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Santos:
Thank you for contacting me regarding the
"Military Retiree Survivor Benefit Equity Act of 2005"
(S. 185). I appreciate hearing from you and I welcome
the opportunity to respond.
Our nation's men and women in uniform are the
most important resources this country has to protect our
interests and freedoms. It is our responsibility to ensure
that service members who have selflessly served our
nation are adequately compensated. Moreover, I
understand the hardship many surviving spouses have
faced, and I feel that we must recognize those who have
stood beside their loved ones in their service to this
country.
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and former Senator
Jon Corzine (D-NJ) introduced S. 185 on January 26,
2005. This legislation would allow spouses of service
members killed in action, along with spouses of 100-
percent disabled military retirees, to collect full benefits.
More specifically, the bill would let these surviving
family members collect annuity premiums at the same
time they receive compensation from the Veterans
Administration (VA).
Under current law, Defense Department annuity
payments for such widows and widowers are reduced by
the amount of the VA compensation they receive. S. 185
would eliminate this offset, allowing surviving spouses
or children to receive both. It also would make effective
immediately plans to allow 70-year-old military retirees
who have paid Survivor Benefit Plan premiums for at
least 30 years to stop paying premiums and retain their
coverage.
On November 4, 2005, Senator Nelson offered S.
185 as an amendment to the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (S.AMDT. 2424
to S. 1042). I voted for this amendment and it passed the
Senate by a 92-6 vote. The House version of the bill,
however, failed to include this legislation and it was left
out of the final version of the Defense Authorization bill.
S. 185 is currently under review in the Senate Committee
on Armed Services. Although I am not a member of this
committee, I am a cosponsor of the bill. Please be
assured that I support this legislation and other efforts to
assist the spouses of those who served our country with
honor, courage, and distinction.
Once again, thank you for taking the time to write
me. I hope you will continue to keep in touch with me
on issues of importance to you. If you have any
additional questions or comments, please call my
Washington, D.C. office at (202) 224-3841. Best
regards.
Sincerely yours,
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator
http://feinstein.senate.gov
Further information about my position on issues of concern to California and the
Nation are available at my website
http://feinstein.senate.gov . You can
also receive electronic e-mail updates by subscribing to my e-mail list at
http://feinstein.senate.gov/issue.html.
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:56:11 -0700
From: "J. R. Santos" <saintjim@earthlink.net>
Subject: FW: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein responding to your message
-----Original Message-----
From: senator@feinstein.senate.gov [mailto:senator@feinstein.senate.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 1:02 PM
To: saintjim@earthlink.net
Subject: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein responding to your message
April 4, 2006
Mr. and Mrs. James Santos
XXX Saratoga Avenue
Apt. XY
Santa Clara, California XXXX
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Santos:
Thank you for writing to me regarding enrollment fees and the deductible change
for Tricare beneficiaries. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue
and welcome the opportunity to respond.
First, let me say I have great respect for those who have
answered the call to duty and have selflessly sacrificed for our nation. I
firmly believe that legislation and other efforts to assist those who have
served our country with honor, courage, and distinction deserve serious
consideration.
On February 6, 2006, the President introduced his budget
proposal for Fiscal Year 2007. This proposal included provisions to increase
Tricare enrollment fees and annual deductibles for military retirees not
eligible for Medicare. In addition, the proposal would increase co-payments for
prescriptions for all Tricare beneficiaries, except active duty enrollees. I
appreciate hearing your opposition to this proposal and the effect it will have
on Tricare beneficiaries. I, along with my colleagues, will review this latest
proposal thoroughly to ensure that it does not put an undue burden upon our
military retirees and service members.
Again, thank you for writing. Should you have any further
questions or comments, please feel free to contact my Washington, D.C. staff at
(202) 224-3841.
Best regards.
Sincerely yours,
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator
http://feinstein.senate.gov
Further information about my position on issues of concern to California and the
Nation are available at my website
http://feinstein.senate.gov . You can
also receive electronic e-mail updates by subscribing to my e-mail list at
http://feinstein.senate.gov/issue.html.
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:03:19 -0700
From: "J. R. Santos" <saintjim@earthlink.net>
Subject: what I posted today on
http://diodon349.com/ 04-04-06
Shipmates & Friends:
Here is what I posted today on <http://diodon349.com/>
http://diodon349.com/ 04-04-06
Date: 04/04/06
In the
http://diodon349.com/Conservative_Corner/The_Conservative_Corner.htm
Conservative Corner under General Focus added:
*
http://www.adjunct.diodon349.com/Attack_on_USA/mckinneys_a_racist_conservative_black_leader_says.htm
McKinney's A Racist, Conservative Black Leader Says
*
http://www.adjunct.diodon349.com/Attack_on_USA/you_cannot_pull_our_ads_moveon_org_tells_NBC.htm
You Cannot Pull Our Ads MoveOn.org Tells NBC
In the
http://diodon349.com/Conservative_Corner/The_Conservative_Corner.htm
Conservative Corner under Illegal Immigration added:
*
http://www.adjunct.diodon349.com/Attack_on_USA/help_stop_amnesty_for_illegal_aliens.htm
Help STOP Amnesty for Illegal Aliens
In the
http://diodon349.com/Conservative_Corner/The_Conservative_Corner.htm
Conservative Corner under The Islamofascist Enemy added:
*
http://www.adjunct.diodon349.com/Attack_on_USA/theopendoor.pdf
The Open Door - How Militant Islamic Terrorists entered and remain in the United
States, 1993-2001 - an Adobe PDF file
In the
<http://diodon349.com/Conservative_Corner/The_Conservative_Corner.htm>
Conservative Corner under The Islamofascist Enemy under Give them any excuse and
they become bloody killers added:
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http://www.adjunct.diodon349.com/Attack_on_USA/depictions_of_mohammed_throughout_history.htm
Depictions of Mohammed Throughout History So, now why do Muslims go Crazy and
Blood Thirsty to Kill when such has been
so for centuries with these images?
In
http://diodon349.com/Vets_stuff/main/military_veterans_page.htm
Military & Veterans' Page - Information for Active Duty, Reserves and Veterans
within
http://diodon349.com/Vets_stuff/main/military_retiree_information.htm
Military Retiree Information added:
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http://www.adjunct.diodon349.com/Vets_Stuff/mrgrgmstalk__digest_number_1125.htm
mrgrg-ms-talk - Digest Number 1125 - 10 messages in this issue
Jim Santos
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:34:47 -0500
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
Subject: [Fwd: Emailing: article]
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:37:12 -0500
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
Subject: [Fwd: TRICARE FEES MUST RAISE ACCORDING TO VICE CHIEF OF AF]
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:51:01 -0500
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
Subject: [Fwd: Jug Varner "New Blood Needed"]
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Message: 13
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 21:13:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jack Hollinsworth <jackhollinsworth@yahoo.com>
Subject: Good reading
FYI. Jack H Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic
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FOX News Delivers Strong Combat PTSD Piece
By ilona
04/04/2006 09:02:38 PM EST
I've been out of it a bit since having the flu last
week; have I woken up from its haze in an alternate universe or something?
Tom DeLay shuts his campaign down, Chris Matthews covers posttraumatic stress
disorder [PTSD] on Hardball, and FOX News delivers a great piece of reporting on
PTSD -- currently the featured story on their Politics page.
As if that weren't enough, FOX News cites and links back to my PTSD Combat blog (taking notes AP?) and the PTSD Timeline at ePluribus Media.
I want to thank reporter Kelley Beaucar Vlahos for her efforts in presenting PTSD to the FOX News audience. She wrote a solid piece any veterans health advocate should be glad to be associated with. And she eased my worries (this was the first time I was approached for an interview on the subject). Now, I can't say my experience with FOX News is anything at all like the deserved crush John Gibson has on Maryscott O'Connor; but, I'm really happy to see that every now and again FOX News surprises us.
More below the fold...
So, let's jump right into the article (first, the intro):
Blaming what they say is a shortsighted, under-funded system that does not learn from past mistakes, some advocacy groups say they are concerned that the federal government is unprepared to help the wave of troops returning from Iraq seeking mental health care.
"We should have been ready for this," said Steve
Robinson, director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, a veterans advocacy
organization. "It's simple math: If there is an increase in demand, and there is
not an equal increase in dollars to hire new people to buy more equipment or
provide more services, the person who suffers is the returning veteran."
Vlahos goes on to share some veteran mental health stats that come from a study
published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in March.
She refreshingly included my main criticism I have with the data: you simply can't use these statistics (which are from the first year of the war) to reliably conclude what the current mental state of our soldiers is.
As ground-breaking as this study was (and it honestly deserved the credit and attention it received), today's Iraq battlefield is entirely different than the one that existed in 2003 -- and that difference has a direct bearing on the number and intensity of PTSD cases we're seeing today.
The numbers were based on screening and follow-ups of more than 300,000 troops returning from Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia from May 2003 to April 2004, leading many to surmise that the number with mental health problems has increased since then, since the rate of battlefield casualties among U.S. service members has also risen.
"[The study] is only marginally relevant to what
condition our troops currently find themselves in," said [the] editor of PTSD
Combat: Winning the War Within. "A lot has changed since that time, including
increased number of troop deployments ... and an escalation in [improvised
explosive device] attacks."
She'd asked me if I believed that the nation is prepared to deal with the needs
of our returning veterans coping with PTSD. I was glad to see that she included
my response:
[A]n alarming rate of violent incidents, suicide, homelessness and unemployment among recent veterans has been documented, but the issue has not garnered much national attention. "We simply have not been the beneficiaries of that type of substantial coverage by the media these past three years," she said. "So, how exactly would the public be expected to be prepared for what's to come -- in fact, what is already here?"
Vlahos moves on to include a response by the VA, listing some of their efforts in providing the best health care possible to our returning veterans: the record-setting $80 billion set aside in Bush's 2007 VA budget is mentioned as is the addition of PTSD specialists in every VA facility.
Republican Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho, chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, said the government is already meeting the new demands. "The president has always made it clear that military veterans are among his highest priorities, and this budget demonstrates his dedication to all who have worked in uniform," he said.
In any case, advocates ... say they hope the government
will stick to its promises. "How loudly we cheered them onward as they laced up
their boots has no relevance once they've done their job. It's how well we took
care of them when they return that really defines our true moral character."
[Rubbing eyes...] Whoa! Hold everything.
That was my quote Ms. Vlahos and FOX News decided to end this piece on?! OK, someone just try to get me to believe I'm not still in my flu-induced haze of an alternate universe. Go ahead and try... :o)
Although I'm having a bit of fun here, and beaming a bit at having been given the chance to advocate on behalf of our vets coping with PTSD, this article would have received a recommend from me even if I wasn't fortunate enough to have been a part of it.
I'm beaming tonight to see this issue dealt with in a serious manner on a media outlet we often consider to be broken. Although this one article is but a grain of sand in a sandstorm of spin, I welcome it (and I'll keep fingers crossed for more of its kind). Bit by bit, hopefully people of all political stripes can come together on this of all issues. Can we all agree that our soldiers should be taken care of -- for their own good, as well as that of the society at large?
Again, I'd like to personally thank Ms. Vlahos for
writing this piece.
It personally gives me much to be hopeful for: the plight of our soldiers and
Marines weighed down by PTSD is reaching a wider audience, one that probably
doesn't hear enough about this issue. Or, what it hears of the issue falls more
along the lines of what's found in a recent Oliver North column -- that the mere
public discussion of PTSD seems to be causing the high unemployment rates of our
returning troops:
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the national unemployment rate is hovering around 4.8 percent. But for veterans of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), the unemployment rate is more than three times higher -- 15.6 percent.
Why?
Part of the answer is found in the fact that so few corporate executives and personnel managers are veterans themselves. Couple that with a drumbeat of adverse publicity about the war, a mainstream media fixation on military "atrocities" and the constant harping about post-traumatic stress disorder -- PTSD -- and one has to wonder how any war veteran gets hired.
On a recent flight to Texas, my seatmate, a corporate
CEO, asked if "all the troops coming back from 'over there' were 'screwed up.'"
He cited a study alleging that, "more than a third of those who served in Iraq
and Afghanistan needed psychological treatment." The actual number -- according
to the American Medical Association -- is 35 percent -- a figure compiled by
psychiatrists who have made diagnosing PTSD a self-employment program.
Um, Ollie: 35% actually equals "more than a third" the last time I checked. And
the last time I checked, an organization that goes by the name of the Veterans
Administration has an entire website devoted to combat-related PTSD. An entire
website! Is the VA also merely trying to stay in business with its PTSD
conspiracy ploy?
So, I applaud Ms. Vlahos' solid reporting. A larger cross-section of people are
learning more about combat-related PTSD tonight -- and, hopefully, a few more
will rally around the cause as we have here. As great as it is for us to talk
amongst ourselves, sometimes it's even better to have the opportunity to reach a
wider audience -- and Ms. Vlahos' excellent piece allows us that opportunity.
And so, please:
- Read the entire article.
- Email it to those friends and family members who only believe things they hear
from FOX News.
- And thank FOX News (yes!) for this effort to educate their readers.
And, finally, an ever greater heartfelt thanks goes out to you guys. You know
who you are. I personally never would have been approached by FOX News, never
would have started up a PTSD blog, never would have stuck with this issue
without the awesome support of everyone here at Political Cortex, ePluribus
Media, My Left Wing, Daily Kos, Soap Blox/Chicago, and most recently Booman
Tribune. Thank you all for taking on this issue and spreading the news far and
wide.
We're making a difference. You can count on it.
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Message: 14
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 23:14:58 -0500
From: <hkaribian@yahoo.com>
Subject: Lost email
I don't remember which, of these two, that you lost.
1. Remember the "Shock and Awe" when the Democratic minority leader was booted.
Just imagine how much greater that shock and awe would be if we could nail the
speakers of the House and Senate. I am willing to work towards that end, even
though they are not from my state.
2. Two weeks of honest government from new blood is more than we will ever get
from the present incumbents.
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Message: 15
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 23:18:05 -0500
From: <hkaribian@yahoo.com>
Subject: Email
I tried to get this one to Hastert but it bounced or was rejected.
If HR 602 does not come up for a vote this year I am willing to bet you will not
be speaker of the House, or even in congress, at your next election cycle. What
was that minority leaders name last year!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, Tom Daschle.
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:12:19 -0500
From: Floyd Sears <fsears@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Brown Bag/FAX/Web Form summary
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