Congressman Ron Paul appeared on The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart last night (September 29th, 2009) to discuss his new book, End the Fed. In all, I thought it was a pretty fair interview with Stewart genuinely asking questions about Ron Paul’s solutions. It gave Dr. Paul a chance to explain how the Fed promotes bigger government by financing social and corporate welfare programs and never-ending wars.
This video probably won’t be up long since it’s on YouTube, but here you go. Enjoy!
Texas GOP Chair Rina Benkiser has announced plans to resign effective October 5th so she can serve on Rick Perry’s campaign for governor.
The Texas State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) will be filling the vacancy within the next 30 days.
Though a replacement has yet to be chosen by the SREC, right now is a great time for the Liberty movement to pick someone to fill this position during the next state convention.
During the 2008 convention, incumbents Tina Benkiser and Robin Armstrong were challenged by Ron Paul supporters Paul Perry and Debra Medina for the GOP Chairman/Vice-Chairman positions. Perry and Medina garnered nearly a third of the vote.
Fast forward a year, Debra Medina is now running for governor against Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primaries and Paul Perry is serving as the Vice-Chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas.
Who will we choose in 2010? The answer is unclear right now, but I can assure you that we will be prepared and ready when the time comes.
Lubbock lawyer Ben Webb was strip-searched and jailed because he refused testify against his former client as ordered by Judge Jim Bob Darnell. Yes, his real name is Jim Bob.
Webb’s courage to stand up for his former client’s rights is a shining example of true patriotism.
A Lubbock attorney this morning was exculpated after a judge signed an order finding him not guilty and releasing him of his bond obligations.
Ben Webb was arrested and jailed in June of this year after he refused to testify against a former client on trial in the 140th District Court.
Judge Jim Bob Darnell found him in contempt and ordered him arrested.
He was strip-searched and jailed before another judge released him on a personal recognizance bond.
Darnell also stipulated he must pay back any attorney fees he collected for representing the defendant he refused to testify against, Donald R. Johnson.
Visiting Judge Paul Davis, appointed after Darnell recused himself, freed Webb by signing the order agreed upon by Rod Hobson, Webb’s attorney and John Grace, who represents the county.
“I feel two things today: pride and vindication,” Webb said at a news conference on the courthouse lawn. “It feels good to know what I felt was right was right.”
The teenager – named in reports as Natalie Morton – died on Monday in hospital shortly after receiving the HPV1 Cervarix jab at the Blue Coat Church of England School in Coventry.
She apparently suffered a “rare but extreme reaction” after being given the injection, with a number of other girls also suffering dizziness and nausea and being sent home.
Health bosses in Coventry have launched an immediate investigation into her death, also quarantining the batch of Cervarix allocated to the school as a “precautionary measure”.
Charmaine Dunn-Myria, 15, who was in the same year as Natalie, said pupils were in tears after being told about the death.
She told the Daily Telegraph: “There was panic around the school when we found out what happened. Girls were in tears in the corridors and everyone was in shock. I had my jab as well and I was really worried about it and that something was going to happen to me.
“They never told us that there was any danger in these jabs. I didn’t know you could get sick or die from them.
Cervarix was chosen for the NHS programme because it offered ‘best overall value for the NHS’.
The vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline, beat off its rival Gardasil, made by Merck, for the lucrative contract last year.
The jab is currently being offered to girls aged 12 and 13 years to protect against strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is sexually transmitted and causes most cases of cervical cancer.
Both vaccines are equally effective against HPV strains, but Gardasil also protects against 90 per cent of genital warts.
However, the Department of Health secured a deal which meant a catch-up programme could be offered to older girls.
Around £100 million was earmarked for the programme involving young girls, while the two-year catch-up programme was expected to cost a further £20 million.
The NHS pays £80 a dose, plus admin and staff costs, and three jabs are given altogether.
In yet another shocking video of the cult following of Barack Obama, we witness a crowd exclaiming “Hear our cry, Obama” and “Deliver us, Obama!” during a speech from a clergywoman. Invoking the prophet Jeremiah and prophet Martin Luther King, Jr., a clergywoman advocates for health care for all. The transcript is below.
TRANSCRIPT:
CROWD: EVERYBODY IN, NOBODY OUT! (walking into building)
CLERGYWOMAN: We are here for the healing of the nation.
CROWD: YES!
CLERGYWOMAN: With the prophet Jeremiah, we cry out. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of my poor people not been restored?
CROWD: HEAR OUR CRY, OBAMA! (some say “OH GOD”)
CLERGYWOMAN: With the prophet Martin Luther King, Jr., we cry out: Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is most shocking and inhumane!
CROWD: HEAR OUR CRY, OBAMA! (again some say “OH GOD”)
CLERGYWOMAN: From health care systems and industries that place profit over people.
CROWD: DELIVER US, OBAMA! (again some say “OH GOD”)
CLERGYWOMAN: From lobbying efforts that block access to quality health care to all.
CROWD: DELIVER US, OBAMA! (again some say “OH GOD”)
CLERGYWOMAN: From greed and fear that replace the reality of God’s abundance and the power of community with a mix of scarcity and isolation.
CROWD: DELIVER US, OBAMA! (more people start to say “OH GOD”)
CLERGYWOMAN: From scapegoat-ism of immigrants, from blaming the poor, from all simple attitudes which deem health care as a right of the privileged rather than a basic human right
CROWD: DELIVER US, OH GOD (fewer people can be heard saying “OBAMA”)
CLERGYWOMAN: Protect all those who face illness without good health care insurance.
CROWD: *sings* “OH WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN…”
The City of Lubbock has begun implementation of its new logo. The new logo has a much simpler, cleaner feel to it than the current logo does. The graphic to the left of the text is supposed to be symbolic of a windmill.
The older logo was very cluttered and bright, but in the shape of the top of a jukebox.
This new implementation affects quite a bit as it will require updating all letterhead, business cards, reports, etc. Among the largest changes are updates to city vehicles and street signs. The overall cost to implement the change is unknown at this time. However, I will submit an information request on the cost of implementation soon and will keep you posted.
Lubbock Police officers used a stun gun on a Texas Tech student Saturday afternoon during the “Tour de Tech Terrace”. The student was charged with evading arrest with a vehicle, resisting arrest, failure to identify and public intoxication.
Hunter Temperton, a student in the College of Arts and Sciences, was arrested at about 6:40 p.m. Saturday at the Tech Terrace Park at 23rd Street and Gary Avenue, according to Lubbock Police Department officer Sgt. Jon Stewart. Sgt. Stewart said the subject was in the street when officers told him to go into the park. Temperton did not comply with officers and was subsequently arrested, he said.
However, students witnessed Temperton walking to a group of students while one of the officers was writing him a ticket and then the officers tackled him from his bicycle and pinned him to the ground.
As you can see in the video, it appears as though Temperton is subdued on the ground by two officers and is offering little resistance.
However, in the audio, one of the officers can be heard saying “keep your hand down.” The officers then stun him with a stun gun and say, “Now give me your other hand or I’m going to tase you again.” The student’s hands are obscured by the body of one of the police officers in the video.
The former president will speak at a dinner to benefit Lubbock Christian University this Tuesday night at 7pm at the Civic Center.
The event is sold out. Nine hundred people are expected for the dinner portion of the event and 1,400 people are expected for a speech afterward. LCU hopes to raise between $125,000 and $175,000 for scholarships. It will be his first stop in Lubbock since he was Governor. The President did not visit Lubbock while he was in office in Washington. The former First Lady made an appearance during the Vatican Art Exhibit in 2002.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.
“The real story is what’s missing,” said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.
Trentadue gave copies of the tapes to The Oklahoman newspaper, which posted them online and provided copies to The Associated Press.
The tapes turned over by the FBI came from security cameras various companies had mounted outside office buildings near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They are blank at points before 9:02 a.m., when a truck bomb carrying a 4,000 pound fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb detonated in front of the building, Trentadue said.
“Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain’t no such thing as a coincidence,” Trentadue said.
He said government officials claim the security cameras did not record the minutes before the bombing because “they had run out of tape” or “the tape was being replaced.”
“The interesting thing is they spring back on after 9:02,” he said. “The absence of footage from these crucial time intervals is evidence that there is something there that the FBI doesn’t want anybody to see.”
A spokesman for the FBI in Oklahoma City, Gary Johnson, declined to comment and referred inquiries about the tapes to FBI officials in Washington, who were not immediately available for comment Sunday.
This is sure to set off the conspiracy blogs! The question is: what is the FBI hiding and why? I’m certainly not trying to make any specific allegations, but I really am curious as to why the FBI would edit out the most important minutes in each of the videos.
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – TxDOT will close parts of I-27 next week. It’s for routine maintenance paid for by stimulus funds.
Starting Tuesday, TxDOT will begin work on the fly-over at I-27 and the south Loop 289. Traffic will be reduced to one lane on the bridge, and motorists should expect delays.
During the next several weeks, drivers will also see lane closures at the 24th Street bridge, the 34th Street entrance ramp, and the 19th Street exit ramp.
I find it funny that we are spending “stimulus” money on highway maintenance. We already pay to build and maintain our roads and highways through the gas tax, so spending funds meant to stimulate the economy on such a project seems a bit absurd.
The term stimulus is a bit of a joke in itself, as well. We take money away from individuals and successful businesses and spend it on special interest projects to “stimulate” the economy. The government is creating a false economy by pushing funds into an area that would otherwise not receive them in the free market. This is what happened to create the housing bubble. Money was spent to promote home ownership which created a bubble.
Don’t be surprised if we experience another bubble soon; only this time the bust will affect the economy much worse.
