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Our shovel-ready USofA jobs going to China which is rebuilding our infrastracture |
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Written by Larry Henry
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:08 |
by Larry Henry VNS contributing columnist
I am very happy to learn that our Democratic Party leaders such as Pres. Obama, Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Jerry Brown truly realize the need to upgrade our infrastructures which are deteriorating from age. However... Andrew Carnegie and Henry Bessemer must be turning over in their graves. When I was young, Pittsburgh, PA was known as "the Steel City" for its many bridges and former steel manufacturing base. Birmingham, AL was the "Pittsburgh of the South". I hope that by the time each of you finish reading this, your blood is, boiling. Due to "clean air" fanatics, beginning in the late 1980s, the city shifted its economic base to education, tourism, and services, largely based on healthcare/medicine, finance and high technology such as robotics. The downturn of the steel industry left no steel mills within the City of Pittsburgh and only two remaining mills in the county. Although Pittsburgh successfully shifted the focus of its economy and remained a viable city, the city's population never rebounded to its industrial-era highs. While 680,000 people lived in the city proper in 1950, the population diminished to just 330,000 in the year 2000.
The Pittsburgh of the South
Birmingham, AL was founded in 1871. Most of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry. The city was planned as a place where cheap, non-unionized, and African-American labor from rural Alabama could be employed in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces, giving it a competitive advantage over industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast.
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Troubling disclosures about the mysterious Obama: Who is he really? |
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Written by John P. Kuchta Jr.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:05 |
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by John P. Kuchta Jr. VNS Columnist
An intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose Social Security number (SSN) is being used by President Obama: Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890, immigrated to the United States in 1924, and was assigned SSN 042-68-4425 (Obama's current SSN) on or about March 1977. Ludwig lived most of his adult life in Connecticut.
Because of that, his SSN begins with the digits 042, which are among only a select few reserved for Connecticut residents.
Obama never lived or worked in that state! Therefore, there is no reason on earth for his SSN to start with the digits 042. None whatsoever! Now comes the best part! Ludwig spent the final months of his life in Hawaii, where he died. Conveniently, Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, worked part-time in the Probate Office in the Honolulu Hawaii Courthouse, and therefore had access to the SSNs of deceased individuals.
The Social Security Administration was never informed of Ludwig's death, and because he never received Social Security benefits, there were no benefits to stop and therefore, no questions were ever raised.
The suspicion, of course, is that Dunham, knowing her grandson was not a U.S. Citizen, either because he was born in Kenya or became a citizen of Indonesia upon his adoption by Lolo Soetoro, simply scoured the probate records until she found someone who died who was not receiving Social Security benefits, and selected Mr. Ludwig's Connecticut SSN for Obama.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:46 |
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Fair Tax only tax salvation - Obammie doesn't get it! |
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Written by John P. Kuchta Jr.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:53 |
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by John P. Kuchta Jr. VNS Columnist
It’s difficult to imagine that, contrary to the 2008 campaign, not one of the Republicrat candidates for President has adopted the FAIR TAX as their own solution to the economic malaise that is chocking the life out of our economy.
Back in 2008, Mike Huckabee “got it.” Huckabee realized that the FAIR TAX would energize the economy by creating certainty in the minds of entrepreneurs and established businessmen and women.
Current tax rates and provisions are open to “negotiation” by powerful political lobbyists and politicians. With the lobbyists come heavy campaign contributions.
No politician likes to give-up power. It’s as simple as that. Does it matter that the country would thrive? Hell no or the FAIR TAX would have already been adopted.
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How time flies when you are in love: Morris & Shirley married 51 years ago today |
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Written by Editor
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Friday, 20 January 2012 22:10 |
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What a difference time makes. Fifty-One years ago today, January 21, 1961, in a little Hillbilly church deep in the Bible Belt mountains of East Tennessee, with 17 inches of snow on the ground, Shirley and I dived in, head over hills. We got married in a blizzard, colder than an Alaska night.
The day started out simple enough, me and three redneck buddies piled into a 1940 Ford to go get flowers. It took 8 hours to drive 12 miles round trip. Just about didn’t make it back in time for the wedding! I don’t even remember how many times my three buddies had to help push the ole ’40 out of ditches in our slip sliding way to town and back.
Shirley’s uncle had to carry her, in her georgous wedding dress handmade by her grandmother, into the church in nearly knee-deep snow. Damn if a bunch of people didn't show up anyway, not just family. Rugged people we Hillbillies are.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:39 |
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Written by Larry Henry
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Sunday, 22 January 2012 09:50 |
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By Larry Henry VNS contributing columnist
Can you name a political leader who exhibits the following?
Glibness/superficial charm, grandiose sense of self-worth, need for stimulation/proneness to boredom, pathological lying, cunning/manipulative, lack of remorse or guilt, shallow/lack of experience, callous/lack of empathy. A number of Republicans are like that, but I’m referring primarily to leaders of the Democratic Party. Barney Frank is a good example. This politician believes he hung the moon, while lying out both sides of his mouth.
So do Congress Critters Waxman, Pelosi, Reid, Holder, Stark, Hoyer, Schumer, and Wasserman.
But Barack Hussein Obama takes the cake.
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Obama: Most corrupt administeration in recent history |
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Written by John P. Kuchta Jr.
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Sunday, 22 January 2012 09:32 |
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by John P. Kuchta Jr. VNS Columnist
It is difficult to imagine an administration so inept and corrupt as the bunch of Chicago gangsters we have had the displeasure to see ruining our country over the last three years.
Obama and his minions have sued states for carrying-out federal immigration law, halted the trials of accused Muslim terror conspirators, failed to assist the rioters in Iran, given huge loan guarantees to insolvent “green” companies who were cronies of Obama, failed to approve the Keystone pipeline, punished the oil drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico, turned the bankruptcy laws on their heads, begun negotiations with Muslim terror organizations over Egypt’s future and our defeat in Afghanistan, and on and on and on.
But, nothing compares with the treasonous behavior of Obama, Eric Holder and the so-called U.S. Department of (In)Justice in the scheme that we all know now as “Fast and Furious,” (AKA GUNS FOR GOONS)! There have been denials, cover-ups, accusations and more denials; but, this past week marked a new low in the corruption run wild in the Obama-led DoJ.
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Lukenbach - as much a western shrine to country outlaw music as the Grand Ole Opry is in Nashville. Thousands flock to this almost impossible to find little crossroads annually to wander through with the sounds of Willy, Wayland, and the boys ringing in this head as they suck down a few brews - even at 9 a.m. and discuss they never thought Lukenbach would be like this. We recently stopped in Lukenbach and will have several more photos in the coming days of what it really looks like: A wide angle lens on a camera would capture it all in one shot!
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