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 I keep thinking that white Liberals have finally hit a new low, but they keep on digging. This time it?s Chris Matthews. Either a ratings ploy for MSNBC, or as Matthews might be thinking these days, "I forgot I was stupid!"By now everybody has heard his comment about Obama, ?I forgot he was black.? Matthews then attempted a mea culpa by saying that he credited Obama with closing the racial divide?Matthews? second stupid comment that night. There is no recovery from the first statement, ?I forgot he was black.? So just I decided to give my Top Ten reasons Chris Matthews ?forgot he [Obama] was black:? 1, He?s so bad at basketball, I forgot he was black. 2. He?s so inept at being the black first president, I forgot he was black. 3. He?s so pro-abortion, I forgot he was black. 4. He?s so hates the church, I forgot he was black. 5. He?s so keeps black people down, I forgot he was black. 6. He?s so light-skinned with no Negro dialect, I forgot he was black. 7. He?s so articulate and clean, I forgot he was black. 8. He?s so educated, I forgot he was black. 9. He?s so intelligent AND married to a domineering black militant woman, I forgot he was black. 10. He got me so wee weed up, I forgot he was black. Matthews then attempted to correct the record to say that what he meant to say is that Obama is the person who closed the racial divide in America. Really? I think Obama was the benefactor of the racial divide being closed...by Republicans! And there are many black Republican soldiers still battling against the racial divide that continues to this day, because of racists like Matthews, Reid, Biden, Dean. Does Clarence Thomas ring a bell Pavlov? Read more here... Kevin Jackson is an author of four books in sales and politics, as well being the author of The Black Sphere blog. He has been published in Africa News and Hoovers. Visit Kevin at http://theblacksphere.blogspot.com or email him at theblacksphere@gmail.com.
The Black Sphere online magazine is at www.openzine.com/theblacksphere, and you can catch Kevin on The Black Sphere radio show every Thurs 9P-11P Central (times subject to change) http://blogtalkradio.com/TheBlackSphere   Obama and his team are clever in their presentation, because the middle-class quickly forgets this little factoid: It?s YOUR money he is using as an incentive! What are the overtures?the bait?Obama uses to fishhook middle-class Americans? According to this report from ABC news, one of the incentives Obama is offering is a tax incentive on child care. Big whoop. These days the average ?working American? now works through August for the government. At this rate, why not just turn the kids over to the government, and let the government raise them! I'm sure the media won't mind! This tax incentive essentially rebates part of YOUR money, but is limited to people who make less than $115,000?about two seconds of interest on the national debt. To ignorant people, $115K sounds like a lot of money. I assure you this is not much money for a family of four, particularly when those kids get to college age. The bigger picture is that here again, Obama is setting the hook on what is rich and what is not. And more than $115K is apparently rich. That?s not even Paris Hilton's purse budget for a month! Read more here... Kevin Jackson is an author of four books in sales and politics, as well being the author of The Black Sphere blog. He has been published in Africa News and Hoovers. Visit Kevin at http://theblacksphere.blogspot.com or email him at theblacksphere@gmail.com.
The Black Sphere online magazine is at www.openzine.com/theblacksphere, and you can catch Kevin on The Black Sphere radio show every Thurs 9P-11P Central (times subject to change) http://blogtalkradio.com/TheBlackSphere 
“Republican Tom Feeney was elected in the first election for the district in 2002 and was reelected subsequently. Feeney was defeated in the 2008 election by Kosmas, a former member of the Florida House of Representatives and a small business owner.” Suzanne Kosmas is winding down her first term in that seat. Wiki tells us that Kosmas “campaigned on issues such as fiscal conservatism, support for veterans, and values like integrity and transparency.” Let’s see if her one-term voting record bears that out, given all the shenanigans that have been going on up in DC while she’s been there…and look at the details about the race for this House seat in 2010, after the jump? <!--break--> I’m starting to sound like a broken record in Florida…Kosmas forgot about fiscal conservatism and transparency and that whole “integrity” thing once she got to DC. She has a nearly identical record to the ones of her buddies over in FL-8 and FL22…but just for posterity, I’ll say it AGAIN: no on banning Federal funds for abortion, a yes on TARP, yes on Cap & Trade, and yes on the Stimulus and Health Care bills. What is it with these Democrats? Anyway, on to the primaries. As reported earlier, the Florida primary is August 24. Kosmas has one opponent. On the GOP side, there are 5; St. Rep. Sandra “Sandy” Adams, Karen Diebel, G. Tom Garcia, Ometrias Deon Long, and Craig Miller. CQ Politics, calling this one a “Toss Up”, sorts it all out for us:
Well, if I may, the Health Care vote was one of MANY votes in which Kosmas showed her inexperience…and lack of understanding about the needs and desires of her constituents… Miller was on to something there. So, here are the websites: St. Rep. Sandra “Sandy” Adams, Karen Diebel, G. Tom Garcia, Ometrias Deon Long, and Craig Miller. Like always, please visit their sites to learn more about them and lend your support. Follow through after the primary, and do everything you can to support the winner through to the General…Kosmas needs to be fired. Note: This post originates at 73Wire. [The Liberty First PAC has endorsed several candidates thus far, with more to follow as the campaign heats up. Anyone interested in supporting the Liberty First PAC can go here to contribute, and help make a difference in these critical upcoming mid-term elections. Donate now, donate often!]
“The 22nd district encompasses the coastline of South Florida from northern Broward County to the northern end of Palm Beach County, with a long finger jutting out into the northeastern part of Palm Beach county and another finger encompassing Boca Raton, Deerfield Beach, and Coconut Creek. Also included in the district are the towns of Oakland Park and part of Cooper City.” “The district was created after the 1990 Census. Republican E. Clay Shaw, Jr. was elected in the first election for the district in 1992 and was subsequently reelected for six terms until he lost to Democrat Ron Klein in the 2006 election.” “The 22nd district was the center of the disputed 2000 presidential election in Florida and the ensuing Florida election recount In the 2008 presidential election, 52 percent of the votes cast in the district went for Barack Obama.” Ron Klein is winding down his second term in that seat having barely won his first term by a 51-48 margin. He has a horrible voting record (very similar to that of Grayson’s over in FL-8) and needs to be replaced. Liberty First PAC has already endorsed retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Allen West in this race, but we’ll still look at the details about Mr. West, and about the race for this House seat in 2010 after the jump… <!--break--> Like Grayson, Klein was a no on banning Federal funds for abortion, a yes on TARP, yes on Cap & Trade, and yes on the Stimulus and Health Care bills…and like Grayson, Klein has got to go. Florida’s primary is August 24. Klein has one opponent. So, too, does Allen West. Here’s what CQ Politics (which by the way calls this one “Likely Democrat”) has to say about this race:
Allen West was in contention last time around, and he has gained favor and support from a growing number of people and organizations, including Liberty First PAC. Last election was carried, in large part, by all the excitement of Obama’s campaign and all that Hope and Change stuff that has since been flushed spirally downward. THIS time around, wanting to start un-doing Obama’s mess, West should be a no-brainer. Visit his site, learn where he stands on the issues, and help him clear the primary and kick Klein out of that seat. Note: This post originates at 73Wire. [The Liberty First PAC has endorsed Allen West for this seat in FL-22…with more endorsements to follow as the campaign heats up. Anyone interested in supporting the Liberty First PAC can go here to contribute, and help make a difference in these critical upcoming mid-term elections. Donate now, donate often!] Years ago, my wife and I recounted our early public school experiences to our children. My wife boasted that she finished her schoolwork before her classmates and then got to help the teacher put up elaborate...
The longer President Obama refuses to acknowledge the direction of our nation's economy the greater the impact will be when the looming depression that awaits is named in his honor. For a leader who has had the... We all know how the alphabet news stations (aka liberal media) like to selectively report the news, so you'll only know what THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW. But refusing to run this ad is ridiculous...
 Reps. Eric Cantor of Virginia, Kevin McCarthy of California and Paul Ryan of Wisconsin More proof that the Democrats are totally out of ideas. Well, good ideas, anyway. With hypocrisy so thick you could cut it with a knife, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission against the promotion of the ?Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders? book by Reps. Eric Cantor of Virginia, Kevin McCarthy of California and Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. In addition to the book they have a promotion tour and released a video. The DCCC’s argument is that promoting the book violates election law. That’s right , folks. According to the Democrats a publisher cannot promote a book if it is political. Pathetic! Which prompted this statement: ?After a year of failing to get Americans back to work, with a president embarrassingly off message, and with candidates hemorrhaging in the polls, it?s no wonder the DCCC is hyperventilating,? said Brad Dayspring, Cantor?s spokesman. As Soren Dayton at Redstate points out -
I couldn’t agree more. Yes, yet another example of the Right Reverend Al Sharpton preaching love, brotherhood and charity. Via The Blaze: “It’s bad enough when ya’ll get a little apartment… get a house… can’t pay the rent…get evicted…but it’s worse when your relatives loses HEIR property. “ [...] “This is an HEIR District!” These are the words of Al Sharpton addressing a rally for (black) Johnny Ford in a primary run off against (white) pharmacist Billy Beasley in July 2010. THE MAJORITY AFRICAN AMERICAN DISTRICT DISAGREED. Bill Beasley won the run off! Fortunately there are fewer and fewer people that are listening to Sharpton’s nonsense. Here’s another example of Sharpton’s “shocking racism”. He is a disgrace! What an embarrassment. If it were not for the fact she was blonde, I’d say let’s just shoot her. Paris Hilton has now showed us even more clearly how stupid she is… in case she had not already. How? After her arrest which was brought about by a traffic stop, where the smell of pot led [...] Today, in a long diatribe at Ft. Bliss, Texas, Barry was speaking to troops who had served in Iraq. I don’t think any of the rest of the media caught it, but I did. During the monologue, Barry made the usual overtures the left is required to do in the presence of or when they [...] I remember going to work on that morning, not expecting anything out of the ordinary. I lived in Fort Worth, Texas at that time, and I taught music at a private Christian school. I was also the attendance secretary, and so I was in the office doing the normal attendance that morning. I will never forget when our administrator came over the P/A system and made the announcement. I didn't understand what happened first. It sounded like a plane had crashed or maybe even a bomb had gone off. He didn't have all the information--none of us did. I remember trying to get online, and quite literally, I could not. Evidently the entire world was online. I could not connect. As time went on, we began to understand what happened. I remember going to teach my first graders this morning and they were so scared that a plane was going to come and crash into the school building. Our administration decided under the circumstances to close the school down early. All parents were contacted. I had to contact my then husband to come and pick me up since we were a one-car family. He said he hadn't heard until our next door neighbor came into the house and switched the TV to news. When I finally got online (right before I left the school), I was absolutely horrified at the scenes I pulled up. I truly felt as though I was in shock. When I got home, I was glued to the TV set. What made everything so hard in the days to come was my then husband's response to the situation. He seemed to think that the Arabs who had done this act hadn't done something so dreadful. He didn't see it as terrorism. He thought people were really making too bid a deal of it. That made it very hard for me. I shall never forget that day, and I pray none of us will! --Ruth H. of My Devotional Thoughts Never Forget. Where were You on 9.11.2001 and what were you doing? What were you thinking? How has 9.11.2001 impacted your life? 
--Keep America Safe Never Forget. Where were You on 9.11.2001 and what were you doing? What were you thinking? How has 9.11.2001 impacted your life? 
Gerald Celente joins Shepard Ambellas on The Intel Hub to discuss the cause of the economic meltdown and how to ride out the looming depressionary storm. "The farmers are going to have the Lamborghinis in the future, not the brokers on Wall Street."  by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. 08-30-10
If Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke honestly believes what he said at Jackson Hole on Friday ? that he can save the economy by printing more money and buying more bonds ? he?s hallucinating. Through the first quarter of this year, he printed $1.5 trillion of paper money and promptly bought $1.5 trillion in mortgage bonds, government agency bonds, and Treasury bonds. But the entire effort was a dismal failure; the U.S. economy is still sinking and most large American banks are still weak. The underlying reason: While the government has been borrowing massively, nearly everyone else has embarked on unprecedented debt LIQUIDATIONS. In other words ? FULL STORY  Courtesy of Ed: The conservative rebirth When Democrats took control of Congress in 2006, and again when Barack Obama won the Presidency in 2008, many observers made foolish predictions that conservatism as a political movement had come to an end. Certainly, none of them mourned the presumed death; rather, they did everything but dance on its supposed grave. However, those reports turned out not only to be exaggerated, but self-delusional, as Peter Berkowitz explained in yesterday?s Wall Street Journal... Keep going.    Charles Krauthammer, who never fails to write with dynamic precision, takes a look at The Last Refuge of a Liberal.Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the "bitter" people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging "to guns or religion or" -- this part is less remembered -- "antipathy toward people who aren't like them." Keep going.  A A A A I know right now in our current economic meltdown that this may seem trivial to some. However, I think this issue should be brought to the attention of the officials in the City of Rocky Mount. I recently attended a free concert at Down Town Live here in Rocky Mount. The Holiday Band played and put on a great show. Everybody had a great time and I think it is a good thing that the City is doing with the outdoor concerts. My issue doesn't have anything to do with the concerts. My issue is with the so called "art" that the City has chosen to display in and around the Imperial Centre. Granted, the Centre is all about The Arts and I have no issue with art. I do have an issue with nude art that children will see .The Centre has a childrens museum that has great educational things for the kids to see and do. No problems here, however just outside the door leading to the museum, there is a "nice little piece of art" on display. As you can plainly see in the pics, kids really do not need to see this. I am sure someone will say, "well they see more than that on television", or "it is art, there isn't anything wrong with it". I say to you, there is something wrong with it. It needs to be relocated to an indoor room where only adults will see it, or it needs to be removed completely. Please help me let the Mayor of Rocky Mount know that this is unacceptable! You can email Mayor David Combs here. You can find the rest of the City Council here. Thanks for your help!    I have been really slack lately as have let other committments keep me from blogging. I promise I will get back to this soon. Until then, y'all take care !  A A The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him, must be calculated to produce evil to someone else. The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. Jon Stuart Mill - "On Liberty"  RealClearPolitics - The Same Old Equality of Result Brillian piece by Victor Davis Hanson........... American vs. French The notion of freedom then butts up against equality, as if they are as often antithetical as symbiotic. (NB: note the French Revolutionary sloganeering of "fraternity" and "egalitarianism" versus the American Revolutionary emphasis on "Give me liberty, or give me death", "Don't Tread on Me!", "All men are created equal" [by opportunity rather than by result]. And note Obama's references to the French ideal.) In response, the state has two choices to preserve its original ideal of equality (and we see elements of this further debate voiced in the Old Oligarch, Aristolte Plato, Hobbes, Hume, etc, as well as in histories of the middle and late Roman Republic). One, the state and culture at large can be coercive to ensure a equality of result-in the modern liberal world by high redistributive taxes, generous means-tested entitlements, inflationary monetary policies to diminish the power of capital (in the ancient world by forbidding the alienability of land, mandating the maximum size of estates, coining cheap bronze/silver coated money in vast amounts, redistribution of property, cancellation of debt, etc.). Such efforts at commonality are what we are now witnessing with income take hikes, $1.7 trillion dollar deficits, inflationary federal spending and borrowing, along with huge new entitlements. Its extreme form is the European Union, its extreme, extreme manifestations are the failed -isms and -ologies of the bloody 20th century where authoritarian elites broke the requisite eggs for the omelet of "for the people" and in service to "equality."  If you haven’t heard the latest, while Barack Obama was on vacation the White House spent taxpayer cash to makeover the Oval Office with a style as bland and boring as he is. The makeover included a new presidential rug with famous quotes woven on it. One of which, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” is wrongly attributed to Martin Luther King Jr., when the words were actually from abolitionist Theodore Parker. King did frequently use the quote but always rightly attributed it to Parker. Do I care? Not really, but I find it hysterical. I love the blog headline Smartest President in History Botches Oval Office Quote from American Thinker because it describes, oh so well, why this is hysterical. Can you imagine if the Bush administration laid this thing out? Can you imagine of Sarah Palin did? They would have been ripped to shreds and this one example used as evidence of how strikingly moronic they were. For the President who thought he visited 57 American states, who said on Memorial Day he was there to honor the fallen heroes who were in the audience, who said unemployment would go down if we passed his bill, who looked into his crystal ball and said the surge wouldn’t work in Iraq before claiming repeatedly it wasn’t working while it was happening, for this President the mishap must be an oversight and not a sign of a lacking intellect in himself or his administration. Not at all evidence this administration is asleep at the switch. He is, afterall, brilliant. Why you know he won a Nobel Prize! Anyone who wins a Nobel Prize must know what they are talking about.
A A The Obama administration is set to launch its most ambitious effort at reducing mortgage balances for homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth. Officials say between 500,000 and 1.5 million so-called underwater loans could be modified through the program. Crane hoists 50-foot, 300-ton blowout preventer to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the massive piece of equipment that failed to stop the gusher four months ago **Written by Doug Powers This morning, President Obama was asked if he regrets his administration branding the past three months of economic misery as “Recovery Summer.” His answer: “I don’t…” I can’t blame him, really. Who couldn’t be fully recovered after this kind of a summer:  I feel more rested & recovered just looking at the pictures. When they dubbed it “Recovery Summer,” nobody thought they were talking about us, did they? Update: By way of HotAir, here’s an actual Time headline: What’s good about rising unemployment Note the distinct lack of a question mark at the end. Update II: Robert Reich didn’t get the memo that Recovery Summer was a huge success. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe **Written by Doug Powers Harry Reid is a genius when it comes to military tactics — just ask him. The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently questioned the Harry Reid and Sharron Angle campaigns on various issues. Here’s part of the Reid campaign’s explanation for why the Nevada Senator once said “the war is lost”:
Sun Tzu himself couldn’t have thought up a more brilliant strategy. Congratulations, General Reid. And all along we thought Reid was being pathetic and weak — I for one feel bad for ever criticizing him. Here’s a flashback to when Harry “Patton” Reid rallied our brave men and women to victory with his trademark Churchillian leadership style: There’s a big difference between “we can’t win unless…” and “we lost.” Harry Reid hopes nobody can tell the difference. (h/t WZ) **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe Obama sees the war in Afghanistan as an unwanted interference with his true vocation.  The only hope for liberals is to play the race card. A A Jean Evener commented on Bruce Morris Jr.'s video 'Alfonzo Rachel - DC - Tea Party HD'  I love this guy! Spread the word Alfonzo Jean Evener Sick and tired of all the Liberals —— Best stuff can be found between :55 and 2:30 when Angie Harmon talks about her politics and then goes on to inform Handler that she has two Republicans working for her who are afraid to say so. Always some truth in good humor. The biggest surprise comes a little later when we learn Angie Harmon — Angie Harmon! — almost packed up the acting gig and moved to Texas because she couldn’t find a job in Hollywood. Crazy. Director Robert Rodriguez?s spoof trailer for ?Machete? was easily the best part of his and Quentin Tarantino?s failed attempt to return to those glorious days of early ?70s exploitation flicks with 2007?s ?Grindhouse.? And it made sense that the fan reaction would eventually result in a feature film the director has wanted to make since the mid-nineties. If nothing else, Rodriguez is as famous for delivering low-budget, high concept genre films as he is for directing them. He?s even better at marketing himself and his latest project, exploiting to the hilt an intriguing concept that, unfortunately, usually fails to pay off in a satisfying way on screen. Politics aside, never has this been truer than with ?Machete? (though the truly dreadful ?Once Upon a Time in Mexico? is a close second).
Recently, Rodriguez has furiously tried to backpedal away from the racial bomb he exploded into the middle of the Arizona immigration debate back in May with his cravenly cynical attempt to market ?Machete? using a racist trailer. After the backlash and with Texas tax credits on the line, the director?s now selling ?Machete? as a goof, a ?Mexsploitation? flick that harmlessly employs the same kind of over-the-top politics that have always defined the genre. But nothing could be further from the truth. The story of a former Mexican ?Federale? (the great Danny Trejo) framed for the attempted assassination of a racist Texas State Senator (the hammy Robert DeNiro) is both racial and racist. ?Machete? isn?t about a political call for the powerless to fight THE corrupt MAN, it?s a call for revolution; Mexicans against Americans ? and in the words of the character meant to be our evolving conscience, Jessica Alba?s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Sartana, it?s about how those who believe in only LEGAL immigration ?deserve to be cut down.? This is her rousing fist-in-the-air message to a gathered army of illegal day laborers who have been patiently waiting for the call away from their jobs as dishwashers, gardeners and hotel maids to wage war against a cruel America whose immigration laws, by the way, are nowhere near as harsh as Mexico?s. Still, ?Machete? offers no middle ground, no reasonable, non-racist position against wide open borders for those fleeing from what one character describes as the ?personal hell? that is Mexico. And that character is Luz, (Michelle Rodriguez), a taco stand operator and the underground leader of a network dedicated to smuggling illegals across the border. However, she?s also stockpiling weapons of war for the coming ?revolution? and represents SHE (an obvious reference to mass-murderer Che — nice, huh?), the mythical, female revolutionary figure who inspires illegals everywhere to fight for their right to be in America. Because, as Sartara sees it: We didn?t cross the border, the border crossed us!
Director Rodriguez attempts to disguise his toxic and racist message as something more accessible, the simple fight against DeNiro?s corrupt pol, his slimy aide (Jeff Fahey), and Steven Seagal?s Mexican drug kingpin. But this disguise doesn?t work. SHE? is not a figure representing the fight for justice against injustice but rather of a coming and necessary revolution against America. Furthermore, when the Alba character stands on the hood of a car to kick off the film?s incredibly un-exciting and poorly choreographed race war climax, the war she calls for is not to stop violent racists but against an America (or Texas) that, in her delusional mind, is keeping people off land that is rightfully theirs (remember, the border crossed us). And yet, never once does the movie bother to explain exactly what it is that makes America so special and attractive to those willing to risk their lives to get here. Can?t have that. Nor does anyone suggest that maybe the best place to wage revolution would be, I don?t know, that ?personal hell? called Mexico. Can?t have that, either. Not when your protagonists are driven only by seething radical resentments, a misplaced sense of entitlement, and that warm, smug feeling of superiority that comes with assuming the role of the victim. But not victims of their own country, mind you, victims of America. Hey, no one said hate had to make sense.
Who the illegals fight against on screen is one thing. What their words mean is altogether something else. That?s the shell game Rodriguez plays and his racially divisive messaging goes way beyond the normal cinematic political posturing and button-pushing. And you will never see a more stereotypically racist portrayal of Southerners, who, in an obvious reference to the border Minute Men, are not only played for cheap laughs but portrayed as sub-human animals who hunt and murder illegals ? kill a helpless pregnant woman and say ?Welcome to America.? And if all that?s not an artistically bankrupt and cheap enough outrage for you, Cheech Marin plays a violent, foul-mouth catholic priest who records confessions and there?s an explicit incestuous three-way sex scene involving Machete, Lindsay Lohan?s drug-addicted Internet porn star character, and her ? mother. Other than that, though, ?Machete? just isn?t very good. After a promising opening that?s cut, scripted, scored, and performed to look like something that played in urban downtown theatres during the Nixon years (including a scratchy and dusty print), Rodriguez decides to play it straight, which is a fatal mistake. Trejo makes for a compelling protagonist and the girls are plenty pretty, but the story is tediously episodic and confusing, with no momentum whatsoever. Other than a couple of inspired ideas within surprisingly dull action scenes, there?s not much here to satisfy action fans, even racist ones who hate Southerners and despise America. For the record, I believe in the American melting pot. My wife was born in Mexico, English is her second language, and she didn?t become an American citizen until she was in her twenties. For that reason, and others, my family is more racially diverse than the bus passengers in ?Speed.? So I guess that what I?m really trying to say is, fuck you Robert Rodriguez. by Melissa Thompson, Treasurer Gainer to speak at August 10 meeting County Commissioner George Gainer, recently reelected without opposition to his third term on the Commission, will be the speaker at the August 10 meeting of the Roundtable. He will present an update on the Commission's activities and will take questions from the floor. Meeting and dinner reservations info The Roundtable meets at the St. Andrew Bay Yacht Club, 218 Bunkers Cove Rd., in Panama City. A dinner buffet begins at 6:00 p.m. and costs $15.00 per person, including tax, tip and non-alcoholic beverage. Reservations are necessary so that the Yacht Club staff can plan for adequate food and seating. To make your dinner reservations, please contact Melissa Thompson at Melissa@efileamerica.com or 527-7384. A short business meeting will begin at 6:45 p.m., and the program will begin at 7:00 p.m. Bring a guest and your opinion! Candidate soapbox at every meeting All Republican candidates are invited to take to the candidate soapbox for three minutes at every Roundtable meeting. This is a great opportunity for candidates to get out their message and interface with voters. Candidates, remember to bring your campaign stuff! Roundtable membership The Roundtable's annual dues are $30.00 per person. If you would like to renew your membership or become a new member, please make your check payable to BCRR and mail it to the Roundtable's treasurer: Melissa Thompson, P.O. Box 15044, Panama City, FL 32406. Or you may simply turn in your dues at the August 10 meeting. Thank you for your support! Subscribe to Roundtable newsletter Simply click this link: http://republicanroundtable.com/subscribe.html Panhandle Federated Republican Women The Panhandle Federated Republican Women will host a Meet and Greet for Republican candidates--local, state and federal--on Tuesday, August 17, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., in the Language Arts Building at Gulf Coast Community College. For more information, contact President Lorraine Odom at 624-2544 or lorraineodom@marykay.com. Bay County Republican Executive Committee The Bay County Republican Executive Committee (BCREC) will meet on Monday, August 23, at 6 p.m. in the School Board meeting room at 1311 Balboa Ave. The REC is hosting a pancake breakfast for Republican candidates on Saturday, July 24. For more information about the REC and the breakfast, contact BCREC Chairman John Salak at john.salak@L-3Com.com or 276-2872. Coffee, donuts and great conversation Roundtable member Ken Ford opens the Republican Headquarters, located at 1607 Lisenby Avenue in Panama City, every Saturday from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. Bring your coffee cup and your point of view for any part of the three hours you can spend there. You'll be glad you did! The number at HQ is 763-8656. Republican HQ needs volunteers If you'd like to help staff the Republican Party's headquarters during the election season, please contact HQ Manager Glen Leirer at geleirer32@comcast.net or 276-2168. . . . . . For more information about the Bay County Republican Roundtable, contact Vicki Doolittle, President, at 319-0105 or doolittlg@comcast.net. Other Roundtable officers are: Richard Plantec, 1st Vice President, Programs Chair Sue Bynum, 2nd Vice President, Events Chair James Waterstradt, Secretary Melissa Thompson, Treasurer  The BCREC is sponsoring this event: Who: Republican Candidates for U.S. Representative (Congressional District 2), State Representative (Districts 6 & 7), 14th Circuit Judge (Group 2), County Commission (District 4) and School Board (Districts 1 & 5) What: Waffle Breakfast Cost: $1.00 per person When: Saturday, July 24 7 ? 10 a.m. Where: Sonny?s Real Pit Bar-B-Q 2400 St. Andrew?s Blvd. , Panama City
This event is open to the public. The candidates will be serving waffles, but they?ve been asked not to waffle on the issues. Don?t miss these two opportunities to meet the Republican Party?s great field of candidates in this year?s Primary Election cycle!  |
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