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Reader Mail: Delirium Tremens

Delirium tremens

Alcohol intoxication and alcohol withdrawal

For some reason, our governments last year infusion of a massive stimulus into the retrenched and dying economy and later withdrawing it reminds me of the parallel in alcohol intoxication and alcohol withdrawal both of which cause delirium tremens (DTs) and are potentially fatal. Although I am not an economist, I see very little wisdom in the governments drunken behavior and wild mood swings. I wish Washington would act more thoughtfully and avoid these dangerous CT like gyrations.

 

Assad Meymandi, MD, PhD, DLFAPA

Editor's Note: Dr. Meymandi, born in Iran,  is a Raleigh-based psychiatrist who has been published on a number of subjects.  He has previously written for this blog and has been a Republican activist.  His love for our country is unparalleled.

Doomsday or Victory Day? (Video)

The Wake County Republican Party recently released a new ad explaining what's at stake in this Fall's elections, and it applies statewide.   The video explains what we can do NOW, rather than wait until after Labor Day.  

The Wake GOP is ready.Are we?

The Republican Response (Video)

Newly elected Governor, Bob McDonnell (R-VA) did an excellent job in his response to President Obama's pack of lies and mis-truths.  He is now a rising star on the national political scene and is a figure to watch. He'll also be at CPAC, and this blogger is looking forward to seeing him.  

 Here is his speech, exactly as delivered:

Obama's State of the Union Speech

Your blogger is providing commentary on the President's speech on her Twitter account, rather than on her blog.  Additionally, read the entire,  speech, here.   There is no limit to the amount of giveaways this man has plans for.  Let's just hope that the 2010 elections go our way and turn back his agenda.

Please forgive any mild profanity.  KCC is quite upset at the lies and mis-truths she is hearing.  

Read Gov. Bob McDonnell's (R-VA) response here.  It's a huge honor for him as he was sworn in to his new post only 11 days ago.

Rand's Out, So Who Is Next?

With former NC Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand (D-Cumberland) having stepped down, supposedly to take over the chairmanship of the State Parole Board, inquiring minds have to wonder, who is going to be next?

Naturally, the rumor for several years, has been that the Feds have been "after" NC Senate President Pro Tempore, Sen. Marc Basnight (left). However, your blogger feels that if that was the case, it would have already happened.  You can't prop a rumor up forever.

However, Basnight has Parkinson's Disease, an affliction KCC wouldn't wish on her worst enemy.  The disease has steadily been slowing Mr. Basnight down and he just doesn't look "himself".  The diagnosis also caps a series of personal tragedies for Basnight.  Several years ago, a restaurant he owned in Dare County burned, and later his wife passed away.

Even if Basnight  turns out to be clean as a whistle, you blogger feels he will not run again for re-election and will leave the Senate by the start of the long session in 2011.  However, the Basnight/Rand fundraising machine hummed along like a well-oiled machine, fanning the flames that something just isn't quite right in Democratland.

The Raleigh News and Observer, Thursday, opined that with an increasingly liberal  Democratic Party, old dogs like Rand and Basnight are being on the verge of being outflanked from the left.  Oddly, their brand of old-style, back-room dealing, moderate politics, is on the way out and being replace with a more modern, more liberal version.  

Though it will be a good change to see the old warhorses in other pursuits, the  left wingers being increasingly elected should bring a chill to the spine of every moderate and conservative North Carolinian.  Liberals like to spend your money, and lots of it.  

If we are ever going to have a crack at taking back the NC General Assembly, we must look close to home, at our own legislators and ask them the tough questions.  Keep up with how they voted on key issues.

Meanwhile, mums the word on Basnight's future.  However, your blogger is betting it will be a short one in the NC Legislature.

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Governor Sleezey Faces Judgement From BOE

It's finally judgement week, Part I for Michael Easley (left, prior to wrecking yet another race car. Photo courtesy Greensboro News and Record), former Governor of the Old North State.  Part I, because there will certainly be more hearings in court in the months to come.  This week, the North Carolina Board of Elections has taken the first shot at Easley.

Wednesday afternoon, your blogger watched the former governor, shift his eyes and squirm in his seat, in response to questions. That indicates that perhaps he wasn't telling the truth each time he stated that he "didn't remember" or that he "wasn't involved".  KCC's favorite was "someone else handled that" even though he could rarely remember who.  

He claimed to be "trying to help y'all out" yet he rarely had solid answers in the Wednesday afternoon round of questions.  We realize it is difficult to sit for five hours of questioning and recognize the fact that Easley didn't have to take the stand.  

Your blogger credits one man for opening this huge can of worms, the John Locke Foundation's Don Carrington.  Carrington wrote stories the Carolina Journal for months about Easley's misdeeds and finally the Raleigh News and Observer picked it up.  Other papers realized that the story was nearly too good to be true and jumped in on it.  

Part of the investigation involves Easley's sweetheart deal in the Cannonsgate subdivision in the Town of Bogue, near Morehead City, at the NC coast.   Carrington was the first to look into that, too, before the News and Observer furthered the investigation.  

Meanwhile, during Wednesday's hearings, your blogger was amazed that someone like the former Governor, who has been in the political trenches for years, didn't  know how the political system works.  In fact, during questioning regarding in-kind contributions, he said he didn't know about any type of in-kind contributions, because "they could be anything."

Easley went on to say, much to your blogger's amazement, that people "putting up signs for the campaign" were in-kind donors.   Those folks are actually called volunteers!

KCC is sure that Republican State Elections Board member, Bill Peaslee, must have either felt extremely sad or been forced to suppress a chuckle.  Peaslee later told WRAL news that he felt Easley did the best he could have, given all the years that have passed.

A veteran volunteer and staffer campaigns , KCC understands that in-kind donations can include the donation of food at a fundraiser, the donation of cars to a campaign, and the like.  

In the afternoon session his Democrat majority buddies on the State Elections Board mostly asked softball questions, which were extremely leading.  Peaslee, meanwhile asked the tough questions but got nowhere.

Frankly, KCC would think that the Democrats, would have thrown the former guv to the wolves by now.  They know they are in trouble for the 2010 elections.  If the Republicans in this state are smart, they will hang Easley around every Democrat's neck, and force it to be an issue. 

Yet, NC Board of Elections Chairman Larry Leake, an appointee to that position by the former Governor, failed to recuse himself from chairing the hearings.  Your blogger thinks current Governor Perdue should do the right thing and remove Leake from his position.  

Even current Governor Beverly Perdue should be held accountable to many of Easley's deeds.  She was his Lt. Governor.  She's supposed to be the "transparency governor" but there have been many instances that she's been caught being just he opposite. More on that in another post.

Meanwhile, in attendance, was Claudia Rodgers, a Raleigh and coastal NC Republican activist.  The sleuth and sometime researcher normally prefers to keep a low profile at political and other such events.  Today, however, she was seated directly behind the former Governor, right in view of cameras.   

At 4 p.m. Wednesday,  Larry Leake adjourned the meeting, which is being held at the Clarion Hotel in downtown Raleigh.  He stated he only has one more witness to call, Scott Falmlen, the former executive director of the state Democratic Partyl.  That means he's not calling McQueen Campbell and many others.  

Even Ruffin Poole, a former special aide to Easley, won't be called to testify, and the reasons are being kept secret, reports the N&O. 

Tune in tomorrow and watch the hearings live  in North Carolina on Statewide Cable News Channel News 14.  If that is unavailable to you, or if you live out-of-state, you may log on to the WRAL-TV Live Coverage and stream it online.    

Additionally, Locke Foundation blogger's have a play-by-play of who was called when and be sure to check out WRAL's along  video archive.

The hearings conclude on Thursday.  At that time, the Board can fine Easley, recommend the case to the District Attorney, or do nothing.  

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Wake GOP Scores Big Victories

The Wake County Republican Party sent a strong signal it has rebounded from its disappointing year in 2008 in today’s voting in local races.  The party endorsed nine candidates in races for Wake County School Board, Raleigh City council and the Cary Town Council.

 Of the nine, five won election outright. Two additional candidates are expected to win after dominating their three way races.

 “This is a terrific showing,” Wake County GOP Chairman Claude E. Pope, Jr. said.  “Our candidates worked very hard, and effectively presented a message of fiscal conservatism, personal responsibility, the primacy of families and neighborhoods and government accountability. 

 “In addition, I want to thank the thousands of dedicated volunteers who worked hard to make these victories happen,” Pope added.

 The outright Republican winners were, school board candidates; Chris Malone, Deborah Prickett and Debra Goldman, Raleigh City Council  candidate John Odom and Cary Town Council candidate Jack Smith.

 Republican-endorsed candidates John Tedesco for school board and Jennifer Robinson for Cary Town Council are expected to win, but may face runoffs.  Both candidates finished far ahead in a three way race, but were not clearly across the 50% margin needed to declare victory.

 Pope said the party organization would not rest on its laurels.  “The elections on November 3, both the runoffs from today’s voting and town elections in various communities throughout the county, are our next focus,” he said.  We will spare no effort in trying to elect each and every one of our endorsed candidates in those races,’ he said.

 Pope said he was particularly pleased that all four Republican-backed candidates in the school board races had either won or were in the runoff.  “That means we still have a chance to reverse the current policies of the status quo board."

Natl News: Dems Rushing Energy Tax! Help Stop This NOW

Here are some odds and ends today from the various national blogs about the Democrats' Energy Bill Tax: 

The Dems are RUSHING this energy bill through and Congressman Spencer Bachus blogged about it: http://www.redcounty.com/house-leadership-bypassing-key-committees-cap-and-tax

Congressman Mike Pence, who recently spoke at the NCGOP State Convention urges you to "Call your Congressmen NOW if you Oppose a National Energy Tax"
http://www.gop.gov/press-release/09/06/25/pence-if-you-oppose
 
Reminders:

Warren Buffett called cap and trade “a huge tax and there’s no sense in calling it anything else.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM9yZDMEQ14

Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.): “Cap and trade is a tax and it’s a great big one.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_VqTQiQsp4

Someone, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va) claims there is “not a penny of tax in this legislation.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M6RxHs2JjM

Boucher is obviously misleading the American people with what he says.

Sign the Petition against Government Run Health Care HERE:
http://joinpatientsfirst.com/

Check out the real story behind today’s universal health care rally:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32428

Economists at the WSJ Say Waxman’s Energy Bill is Full of HOT AIR:

Despite House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman's many payoffs to Members, rural and Blue Dog Democrats remain wary of voting for a bill that will impose crushing costs on their home-district businesses and consumers. The leadership's solution to this problem is to simply claim the bill defies the laws of economics.
 
...Americans should know that those Members who vote for this climate bill are voting for what is likely to be the biggest tax in American history. Even Democrats can't repeal that reality.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124588837560750781.html#printMode

Check out Mike Pence on Fox News talking about the B.H. Obama's  support for the Iranian people (“better late than never.”)
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=6260297&referralPlaylistId=62f160c4ad50103a40c63f3bef45da415ef95101
 
If you haven’t seen it, Rep. Eric Cantor’s office has a new video out, “Number One Priority”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6yeo65Ni7k

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Amazon Dumps NC Associates: High Taxes to Blame

Your blogger received this note on Wednesday from Amazon.com   Thank you, liberal General Assembly.  Thank you very much.  You put little wage earners like this blogger (and thousands of others in our state) out of business:

We regret to inform you that the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) appears ready to enact an unconstitutional tax collection scheme that would leave Amazon.com little choice but to end its relationships with North Carolina-based Associates. You are receiving this e-mail because our records indicate that you are an Amazon Associate and resident of North Carolina. 

Please note that this is not an immediate termination notice and you are still a valued participant in the Associates Program. All referral fees earned on qualified traffic will continue to be paid as planned. 

But because the new law is drafted to go into effect once enacted – which could happen in the next two weeks – we will have to terminate the participation of all North Carolina residents in the Amazon Associates program on or before that same day. After the termination day, we will no longer pay any referral fees for customers referred to Amazon.com or Endless.com nor will we accept new applications for the Associates program from North Carolina residents. 

The unfortunate consequences of this legislation on North Carolina residents like you were explained in detail to key senators and representatives in Raleigh, including the leadership of the Senate, House, and both chambers’ finance committees. Other states, including Maryland, Minnesota, and Tennessee, considered nearly identical schemes, but rejected these proposals largely because of the adverse impact on their states’ residents. 

The North Carolina General Assembly’s website is http://www.ncleg.net/ , and additional information may be obtained from the Performance Marketing Alliance athttp://www.performancemarketingalliance.com/ . 

We thank you for being part of the Amazon Associates program, and we will apprise you of the General Assembly’s action on this matter. 


Sincerely, 

Amazon.com

AFP Launches Website to Combat Perdue' Proposed Tax Increases

Tuesday, the North Carolina chapter of Americans for Prosperity released the following statement:

One week after thousands of grassroots activists from all across the state converged on the North Carolina State Legislative Building in Raleigh to tell lawmakers "No Increase in North Carolina Taxes,"  Americans for Prosperity today announced the creation of a new website, www.NoNCtaxhike.com, to help taxpayers contact their lawmakers in opposition to proposed increases in income, sales, service and other taxes.  (sic)

The website will allow activists to sign letters and emails to North Carolina legislators stating their principled opposition to the $1 billion in new taxes already proposed by Gov. (Beverly) Perdue and the North Carolina General Assembly.   

 “There are no tax increases that will not hurt our economic recovery. These will be job-killing tax increases,” said Americans for Prosperity State Director Dallas Woodhouse. “Our legislators need to know that citizens are taxed enough already and will not stand for a $1 billion tax increase.” 

 The website was created by Americans for Prosperity because of the attempts by both Gov. Perdue and the General Assembly to increase taxes on sales, income and everything from automotive repairs to downloading music.  

Other activities under serious consideration for dramatically increased taxation include digital properties, warranties, alcohol, cigarettes, as well as tangible personal property services such as plumbing repairs.  

Editor's Note:  Your blogger has long been active with the Americans for Prosperity and she finds it one of North Carolina's most valuable groups regarding fiscal issues.  Don't miss their fall national conference in Washington.  Watch this space for details.  Your blogger will be there.  

 

Bowles: Mary Easley Contract Terminated (updated)

UNC System president Erskine Bowles has just announced that he will follow the reccommendation of the UNC System's Board of Trustees and terminate the contract of former first lady, Mary Easley. This does not end the Easley scandal and your blogger is sorry that two top officials from NC State University were made to be "fall guys" for this ugly episode. Blogging from her iPhone ... More to come.

UPDATE:

*According to Donna Martinez, speaking to WPTF AM 680 Monday afternoon on the Bill LuMaye show, the chancellor and provost were not "fall guys" as your blogger opined, above.  Mrs. Martinez says it was quite the opposite.

*Additionally, the communications office of North Carolina State University has posted certain information to their webstite, including links to documentation. Check it out here.

*Finally, your blogger's huband, an alumnus of NC State, received several e-mail messages this afternoon regarding the scandal.  One was from the president of the NCSU Alumni Association:

Dear Robert Benningfield:

As executive director of the NC State Alumni Association, I’m saddened to report to our members a series of circumstances that has led to the chancellor’s resignation.

James L. Oblinger has resigned as NC State’s 13th chancellor, effective immediately. His departure follows the resignations of McQueen Campbell, chair of the NC State Board of Trustees, on May 15 and Larry Nielsen, provost, on May 22.

The resignations of NC State’s top administrative officers and board chairman stem from investigations into the hiring and compensation of Mary Easley, former N.C. first lady. The NC State Board of Trustees called a special meeting today and voted to terminate Easley as executive in residence in the Provost’s Office.

These developments have stunned us all. My staff and I have received messages and calls from concerned alumni and, like you, we’ve followed the developments as they’ve been disclosed.

This is a sad day and many of us are disappointed. I don’t know more than what I’ve read in the newspapers, but what I do know is this: NC State deserves our continued support and loyalty as alumni.

We have 32,000 students who worked hard to be here—and are working even harder to earn a degree that carries value throughout the world. We have more than 6,000 faculty and staff who are committed to offering the best in education, research and outreach.

I believe NC State can turn this dark day into an opportunity for change and renewal. We need to offer our support to Interim Chancellor Jim Woodward and to NC State’s deans as we choose new leaders who will direct the course of our future. Woodward, an aeronautical and mechanical engineer who taught at NC State early in his career, is chancellor emeritus of UNC-Charlotte. Check our blog, redandwhiteforelife.com, for more information about him tomorrow.

Because of its mission as a land-grant institution and its commitment to educating the leaders of tomorrow, NC State will continue to set the pace for higher education in this state and beyond.

Sincerely,

Lennie Barton '77, '81 MS, '87 DED
Executive Director

Editor's Note: More information as it becomes available. Both your blogger and her husband are members of the NCSU Alumni Association and of the Wolfpack Club.

NCGOP: Taxpayers Should NOT Pay Price For Democrat Mistakes

Governor Beverly Perdue publicly stated Thursday that she is considering proposing additional tax increases on top of the cigarette and alcohol taxes included in her original budget proposal.

Longtime political reporter Rob Christensen, writing in Friday's edition of the Raleigh News and Observer, stated:

 "Gov. Beverly Perdue said Thursday that a tax increase might be needed to prevent 'horrific' cuts in government services as state leaders try to close a projected $4.6 billion shortfall in North Carolina's budget.

Perdue didn't say what tax increases she might support. But she noted that her budget proposal made to the legislature earlier this year called for an increase in the excise taxes on cigarettes and alcohol. She said she would not rule out other tax increases."  

 

Chairman Linda Daves, North Carolina Republican Party, made the following statement:

 "Governor Perdue has already broken her promise to refrain from raising taxes with her original budget proposal.  Now she wants even more money from the pockets of North Carolina's working families.  It is not the fault of North Carolina citizens that the state is facing a $4.6 billion budget shortfall.  Years of mismanagement, oversight, and neglect have produced this crisis as Democrats in the General Assembly, including the Governor herself, have been derelict in their duty to protect North Carolinians from the predictable outcome of profligate spending.  Good leadership should put state government in a position to survive not just in a robust economy but in lean times as well.  Governor Perdue should start providing that leadership instead of scapegoating North Carolina taxpayers when they are most vulnerable." 

Editor's Note: The N&O's Senior political reporter, Rob Christensen, has been covering the NC GOP for years.  He's never been a favorite among Republican circles but he's got the vote of your blogger.  After chatting with him at a University of Tennessee alumni "Football Watching Party" a number of years ago, KCC became a big fan.

Christensen knows North Carolina politics as well as anyone and can tell you what will happen before it does.  In the State GOP chairman's race, your blogger's money is on Christensen.   

Follow the NCGOP on Twitter.  Navigate to http://www.twitter.com/ncgop and click follow.  

Follow your blogger on twittter.  Point your browser to http://www.twitter.com/katys and click follow.  

Gov. Beverly Perdue - Where ARE You? (Video)

North Carolina, has been forced to put up with the continuing mess of Democrat corruption in State Government for years.  Former Raleigh Mayor Tom Fetzer wonders in this latest video, what is current Governor Beverly Perdue doing about it?

In North Carolina, we Republicans deal with our own, who have strayed.  In the Democrat party, they continue to put up with them, standing by them all the way until they leave for the big house.

In other news regarding the State GOP Chairman's Race, Chad Adams has announced several endorsements from Wake County. It would appear to this blogger, that Adams is focusing on bringing in the Wake County vote, as being the host county at the State Convention, that will be the largest county in attendance.  

EDITOR'S NOTE: Your blogger has previously endorsed Tom Fetzer for State Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party.

NC AFP Annual "Take Back Our State" Rally Draws Thousands

They came in buses from all parts of our state.  They came with their signs of protest and they signed petitions to Governor Beverly Perdue saying "Don't Raise Our Taxes".   It was also billed as a Tea Party, designed to draw in the "Tea Party crowd", and come they did.  

Featured speakers included "Joe the Plumber", Jonathan Krone (the 14 year-old conservative prodigy, left with your blogger), and Raleigh's own Fox News Commentator, Mary Katharine Ham.  Your blogger circulated through the crowd, ate Eastern NC style bar-be-que, listened to the band, and overall, had a grand old time.

Kudos to the staff at the North Carolina Americans for Prosperity for making it all happen.  

PLEASE NOTE:

ALL PHOTOS BELOW ARE COPYRIGHT 2009, KATY BENNINGFIELD/KTCREATIONS AND CANNOT BE USED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER.  

After e-mailing your blogger and obtaining the proper permission, please  give photo credit to Katy Benningfield and Katy's Conservative Corner.  We feel is unkind to "rip off" the hard work of another.   

Enjoy the photos taken at the Rally, below:

RED China Blocks Twitter on 20th Anniversary of Tinanmen Murders (video)

According to news sites world wide, on Tuesday, blocked Twitter access from within its borders ahead of today's 20th anniversary of the Tinanmen Square massacre.  Twitter is a "microblogging" site  where one gets "followers" (readers) and sends tweets (microblog posts).  It's extremely popular as anyone can send a tweet from a cell phone via a text message, a laptop computer, and via a number of other ways.

The Massacre was horrible.  Your blogger was in summer school that summer, finishing up the last of her college coursework.   Every night, Ted Koppell was on ABC's Nightline talking about the subject and the tension built.  Many of we young conservatives at the time were inspired to fight communism and to work towards freedom and democracy for everyone, and for every nation.  KCC became more dedicated to freedom than ever.  

Then it was over and blood covered the streets of the Chinese capital city.  The freedom-seeking university students were dead and we could do nothing about it.  

According to Janet Watson (photo courtesy, left), writing for the Ottawa Citizen,  and a student backpacking through Southeast Asia at the time,

"On May 13, thousands of pro-democracy students had occupied Tiananmen Square beginning a hunger strike to press for political reform. At the same time, international media had descended upon Beijing in anticipation of a state visit by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the first summit in 30 years between the two countries.

At the conclusion of Gorbachev’s visit, the government declared martial law, but it was half-hearted. Protesters blocked the army from entering Beijing and it retreated.

As we made our way north toward Beijing by train, boat and bus, we watched the growing democratic movement flourish, in villages and cities. With universities and colleges closed, students and workers, protesting corruption and inflation, marched through the streets chanting democratic slogans and carrying red and white banners to display their solidarity with the Beijing protesters.

Businessmen, shopkeepers and even the elderly cheered them on. I spoke with a retired professor in Chengdu, Sichuan, who said there had never been so much spirit in China. He said he wished he could be a student again.

We watched students climb aboard trains and buses headed for Beijing to join their comrades. Everywhere we went it seemed people were swept up in the students’ fervour for democracy.

We arrived in Beijing on May 30. Every day, after visiting tourist sites, we stopped at Tiananmen Square to speak with the protesters in their scattered village of tents.

The atmosphere was festive as the protesting students barbecued, sang along to rock music piped from loud speakers and huddled around guitars, strumming quietly in the hot afternoon sun.

As foreigners, we enjoyed celebrity status. The students often approached us, wondering what the world was hearing about their demonstration. They showed off their Goddess of Democracy statue, asked us to sign T-shirts and wanted to practice speaking English. A few said they were anxious to get back to their studies.

But on June 2, Deng Xiaoping and other Communist party leaders, humiliated by the international attention, ordered a military crackdown to end the crisis. On the afternoon of June 3, returning from an outing to the Great Wall, we dropped in at Tiananmen Square which was surrounded by army vehicles and tanks.

If you haven't heard much, if anything about this in the "lamestream media", don't be surprised.  They want you to pretend that Communism is dead.  It's not and your blogger can tell you this FIRST HAND.  

Read an interesting history of the events leading up to the massacre, here.  Also, watch the video, produced by the BBC on June 4th, 1989.   If you are too young to remember this event, please educate yourself on this.  Do not think for one moment that China is not our enemy.  

Even President Reagan disappointed me when he dealt with Communist China.  He continued to allow trade with this nation and assisted our efforts to trade with them, allowing this enemy to grow into the huge economic and military threat it is to us today. 

In the opinion of this blogger, the opening of trade with China, not Watergate, is the terrible legacy of the Richard M. Nixon presidency.

Reader Mail: The Obama-Congressional Dem Agenda

Hello Katy:

Something needs to be done to discredit and turn the American people against the Obama-Congressional Democratic agenda.

 

I believe an aggressive campaign that defines the Obama-Democratic agenda as “Not the American Way” would be an effective and succinct way to defeat their un-American plans. It would be a simple way to contrast their socialist agenda with the conservative American agenda that favors individual Americans as opposed to a bigger, more powerful government. It could help change public opinion against their agenda, their party and their candidates in 2010 and 2012. And it would provide a unified rallying cry that all conservatives could get behind and support.

 

EXAMPLES:

 

1. Bailouts For Corporations Is Not The American Way.

 

2. Earmarks (Pork Barrel Spending) For Politicians’ Special Projects Is Not The American Way.

 

3. Imposing Socialist Healthcare On The American People Through The Budget, Not By The Legislative Process, Is Not The American Way.

 

4. Imposing Excessively High Taxes On The American People Is Not The American Way.

 

5. Not Protecting American Citizens Against Terrorism Is Not The American Way.

 

6. Making The Federal Budget A Higher Priority Than The Individual Budgets of American Citizens Is Not The American Way.

 

7. Obama’s firing of General Motors Chief Executive Rick Wagoner Is Not The American Way.

 

If you agree this campaign has merit, I hope you will use the “Not The American Way” slogan at every opportunity.

 

I have no proprietary claims on this slogan. My only desire is for the Obama-Democratic agenda to be defeated and to be replaced by proven conservative principles.

 

Thank You,

Dennis Parker

Raleigh, NC 

 

Say No to Welfare for Politicians and New Taxes - HB 120 Postponed Again

Please keep those calls to your legislators coming.  Calls change minds, especially if they receive enough of them.  

House Bill 120 has once again been postponed, this time until 3/30/09, in Monday night's session.  Could it be that your calls and letters are working so well that the Liberal leadership has realized that they don't have the votes to get this to pass?

For more information on this terrible piece of legislation, please see KCC's previous blog post, here.  It details how to contact your NC House Rep.

Tell your representative that you've had enough of welfare and goodies for politicians and to just say NO to this bad bill!

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words...

1:00 p.m. Friday, Asheville Tea Party (one of hundreds held simultaneously, nationwide):

 

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Guest Column: Dangerous Bills in the NC General Assembly by Andrew Dunn

A number of bad bills have begun to pop up in the North Carolina Legislature. With all the media's attention on President Obama's shenanigans in Washington, we can't afford to sit by and let the troublemakers in Raleigh go unnoticed.

Below are some of the bills that have been introduced with action items to take for defeat.  Please contact your representatives in the NC House and the NC Senate and urge them to oppose these bills.

To find out who represents you in Raleigh, CLICK HERE and use the "who represents me" search by zip code on the lower-right side.

H88 - The Healthy Youth Act (aka. comprehensive sex education)

Last year's "comprehensive sex education" bill never made it out of committee thanks to grassroots conservatives like us. But now, the bill is back and so once again we need to take action. Note how the primary sponsors have titled this the "healthy youth act." What a fraud! This revised bill tries to calm the fears of parents opposed to immoral sex education in the public schools by giving parents a choice of abstinence or "comprehensive sex education." But, as that old saying goes: the devil is in the details.

Section 5, part A of H88 reads "Teaches respect for marriage and committed relationships" - a green light for the schools to equate gay, lesbian, transgendered and any other type of relationship with the sacrament of marriage between one man and one woman.

Section 5, part D reads "Teaches about the effectiveness and safety of all FDA-approved contraceptive methods in preventing pregnancy." In other words: birth control and abortion. Bills such as H88 are a gold mine for supremacist judges and activist plaintiffs. Her

e's what could happen if H88 passes and is signed into law: A gay-rights group could sue the NC public schools, demanding that books like "Heather Has Two Mommies" be taught under Section 5, part A of the bill. Representatives from the abortion industry could also sue for their agenda to be included in the public schools under Section 5, part D. Please contact the leaders of the Committee on Education where H88 currently resides. CLICK HERE for committee members.

H207 - The Safer Communities Act (aka. hate crimes)

Like H88, the sponsors of this bill have made sure to cover up their agenda with "safer communities act." Again, the devil is in the details. Section 2 starts off with "Ethnic intimidation; teaching any technique to be used for ethic intimidation"

Part A goes on to clarify ethnic intimidation to include "real or perceived sexual orientation" in addition to the descriptions of every other human being on the face of the earth. First of all, we already have laws against assaulting, stalking and making threats, so this new bill is not needed. H207, if passed and signed into law will be another green light for militant plaintiffs and supremacist judges.

Faith-based groups who minister to convert homosexuals could find themselves prosecuted for "ethnic intimidation" under H207. Anyone who wants to play the victim could file a lawsuit charging "ethnic intimidation."

Our First Amendment rights would be assault. H207 has been assigned to the Committee on Judiciary I. Please contact members of this committee and urge them to shelve this intimidating bill. CLICK HERE for committee members.

H161 - Require Six-Year-Olds To Attend School (anti Home school bill)

Every parent who home-schools their child should get on the phone right away to their representative in the NC House and members of the Committee on Education where H161 resides.

Section 1 requires parents/guardians to make sure their child between age six and 16 attends school continuously for a period equal to the time which the public school to which the child is assigned is in session.

Section 1 clarifies "school" as  "all public and non-public schools as have teachers and curricula that are approved by the State Board of Education." Parents of children who continue to miss "school" for what the public schools deem unexcused absences must work with a "school attendance counselor" to "eliminate the problem".

This is a nanny-state, Hillary Clinton, "it takes a village" bill that will intimidate the rights of parents who choose private, parochial and home school for their children.

Section 1 could turn out to be especially dangerous if people like Bill Ayers or Ward Churchill wind up on the State Board of Education and start determining approved curricula. Please contact members of the Committee on Education and urge them to oppose this bill. CLICK HERE for committee members.

H177 - Healthy Families and Healthy Workplaces Act (anti-small business bill)

North Carolina's unemployment rate is now higher than the national average so why on earth should we pass a law that will drive more employers out of business and out of our state?

That's what H177 will do by requiring that all workers have paid sick leave to address their own health needs and those of their families.

Many small business simply can't afford to provide 32 hours of accrued paid sick leave for every employee and large businesses can afford leave North Carolina for other states (or countries) where the government won't require them to provide 56 such hours per employee. H177 is with the Committee on Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship. CLICK HERE to contact members of this committee.

S14 - Create Employment Safety and Security Commission

Here's another anti-business bill that will halt entrepreneurship and chase job providers out of North Carolina.

S14 creates a new taxpayer-funded bureaucracy and intimidates employers with big-brother oversight and costly business modifications. Part III, section 9 of the bill defines this new commission's "advisory council" to include representatives from labor (unions) and a "representative with a knowledge of migrant labor" (illegal aliens).

 CLICK HERE to contact members of the Commerce Committee; tell them to defeat this job-killing bill.

Editor's Note: James Andrew Dunn is state president of the Eagle Forum North Carolina.  Your blogger thanks him for this informative, yet frightening update.