Tuesday, December 2, 2014

House Votes to Stem Tide of White House Vacation Spending

The First lady Will Leave for Hawaii Christmas Vacation Ahead of the President Again this Year

The Toleration of Intolerance Shall Not Be Tolerated

Another Government Backed “Green Energy" Company Disappears (along with your money)


Your tax money which flowed to the plethora of “green energy" projects in 2009-2010 was“special welfare for the rich.” The green energy initiative was politically connected money and was a direct line from taxpayers to the pockets of “investors.” But everybody felt fine about it because “they were doing good while doing well.”

And  if you buy that I've got an algae farm to sell you. 
"The Economist magazine wrote a dispatch about Xunlight and its 100 employees under the headline “Greening the Rustbelt:” “Green investment presents new hope,” the magazine declared.
Federal Election Commission records show the company’s founder, Xunming Deng, donated $3,000 to the campaigns of Marcy Kaptur, a Democratic congresswoman from Ohio. In 2010, he gave $4,500 to the campaign of Ohio’s governor, Ted Strickland, a Democrat, Ohio state campaign finance records show.
U.S. Senate lobbying records show Xunlight spent $100,000 total in 2008 and 2009 to hire lobbyists at the PMA Group, which closed in 2009 after being raided by federal prosecutors..."
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Monday, December 1, 2014

Remembering Frank Page

This Time of year it’s hard not to remember a gentle man who left a legacy to be admired by all who work in the broadcast or music business where I live.  Frank Page, who's voice boomed across the airwaves of the south on radio station KWKH for more than 65 years was also the legendary voice and producer/director of the Louisiana Hayride radio broadcast in the 1940s and 50s.

A tour of the Municipal Auditorium dressing rooms where the Hayride broadcast originated reveal walls signed by those who came to perform over the years at the historic venue.  Scrawled on the walls like a an unfinished puzzle are the signatures of  some of the greats of the music business of the 1940s, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and Xavier Cugat. In the Hayride years you find the signatures of Hank Williams, Faron Young, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Slim Whitman and later still you find the likes of Jerry Lee Louis, Buddy Holly and Fats Domino.  In the 1960s, before rock concerts were moved to the larger Hirsch Coliseum, you will find the signatures of Joni Mitchell,  Mick Jagger, Grace Slick and Jimi Hendrix, who performed even despite death threats. 

But one performer's autograph will always remain to many a reminder of the man who we called Papa Frank. 

In 195os, at the height of Country Western music and the Louisiana Hayride popularity, 25,000 watt KWKH radio and the Hayride broadcast could be heard on a clear night as far as Denver, and on 25 smaller stations across the country and Arm Forces radio.   

On an October night in 1954, Frank Page stepped to the microphone and introduced a 19 year old young man who's voice would be heard by most of America for the first time, and began to change the course of American Music forever. That young man was Elvis Presley.

Elvis continued to performed for Frank and the Hayride for next year as his popularity grew. Months after his first appearance, Frank was responsible for first uttering the iconic phase ”Elvis Has Left the Building” after the crowd demanded more. 

The gentle and humble radio announcer was always helpful to the people of his business.  I became friends with Frank after entering the Music business myself,  and only one of many who owe much to him and his knowledge of the ropes he passed on to those here where I live.  
We lost Frank 2 years ago this Jan 9th.  

Below is a short clip of Frank Page and a recollection of Elvis Presley and his time at the Hayride. 

Rest in Peace Frank Page. You touched so many with your kindness.




Photo: Noel Memorial Library Archives - LSU Shreveport

Choom Gang Sends Early Christmas Gift to WH

In anticipation of the Presidents Christmas vacation visit to the Hawaiian Islands again this year, his fellow Choom Gang members sent a gigantic genetically modified, Grade A Maui Wowie Bud to the WH. for the Holidays.


Poor Kids in Baltimore Have It Worse Than Those in Nigeria

Obama's America Continues to Deteriorate 

The destruction of black America under the leadership of Barack Obama is unprecedented since the abolition of slavery, yet they follow blindly, yelling racism.

Vocativ
"When a teenager from East Baltimore was asked to describe his neighborhood, he spoke of “big rats going around in people’s trash, vacant houses full of squatters and needles on the ground.” A young woman in New Delhi, asked the same question, described the dirt and the “dirty water found lying on the roads,” while a young man in Ibadan, a large city in Nigeria, spoke of the smell of urine and streets “littered with paper and other refuse.”
All three teenagers live in the poorest neighborhoods in their communities and were surveyed as part of the WAVE” study, a global research project that examines the well-being of adolescents in vulnerable environments around the world. Led by Dr. Kristen Mmari, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, the survey assessed health challenges faced by 2,400 15- to 19-year-olds from impoverished areas in Baltimore, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Ibadan and New Delhi, as well as their perceptions of their environments.
The researchers found many similarities—in all five cities, adolescents were exposed to unsanitary conditions, substance abuse and violence—but the differences between each area were especially compelling. Overall, teenagers in Baltimore and Johannesburg, despite being located in comparably wealthy countries, had far worse health outcomes and tended to perceive their communities more negatively."
 

Obama's Amnesty End Run Around the Law May Not Work Out, if Republicans Grow a Pair.


by Robert Janicki
Law suits are a possibility, but they take time.  Impeachment is technically possible, but is simply not realistic since, in the end, it might cast Obama as some kind of martyr.  The best and most promising means to forestall President Obama's amnesty is through the Congress's 'power of the purse'.  Obama claims his amnesty funding will come from service fees and thus his 'shamnesty' will be free of congressional funding restrictions and oversight.
Hold on there President Obama.  You may have been an adjunct instructor in Constitutional Law, but that doesn't mean you actually know what you are doing or saying about congressional oversight.  Reasonable people have come to learn not to place much faith in what you have to say, since you have repeatedly lied to America on dozens of issues, not the least of which is the ongoing disaster called Obamacare.  A rising number of constitutional scholars are reaching a consensus that there are legal means for Congress to forestall your 'shamnesty' for illegal immigrants. 
"In a letter last week to Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, the Congressional Research Service said federal courts have recognized broad congressional powers to stop the president by denying him funding for his proposed actions...... 
lawmakers have to decide what leverage to use against the president on immigration. Suggestions ... include tying all of this year’s spending bills to a decision to block the deportation amnesty, tying only homeland security money to the deportation amnesty, and kicking the issue into next year, when Republicans will control both the House and Senate......"
Republicans may have difficulty in blocking Obama's illegal amnesty in the last nine working days of the current congressional term, but they will surely have every opportunity in the new congressional term beginning January 3, 2015. 
We should know what Republican strategy will be employed in the next two weeks before the Christmas recess. 
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Rob Janicki is a retired educator, strong supporter of the 2nd amendment and all around good guy, as well as owner/operator of the website Wired Right  and owes me 20 bucks. 

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