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A Major Victory for Texas
I am pleased to report that last week we received notice that the Texas Department of Transportation will recommend the I-69 Project be developed using existing highway facilities instead of the proposed massive new Trans Texas Corridor/NAFTA Superhighway. According to the Texas Transportation Commissioner, consideration is no longer being given to new corridors and other proposals for a new highway footprint for this project. A major looming threat to property rights and national sovereignty is removed with this encouraging announcement.
Public outcry was cited as the main reason for this decision. I was very impressed to learn that the TxDOT received nearly 28,000 public comments on this matter, and that some 12,000 Texans attended the 47 public hearings held earlier this year. They could not ignore this tsunami of strong public opinion against the proposed plans. I was especially proud of how informed my constituents became on the subject, and how eloquently and respectfully they spoke and conducted themselves, considering how upsetting the plans were for our communities in Texas .
This is a major victory for the people of Texas , and a reminder of what we can accomplish with civic involvement. The informed and active citizen truly is a force to be reckoned with, as we have seen with the defeat of this proposal. We must keep fighting the good fight, and remain ever diligent against the encroachments of big government. We must do this if we wish to maintain our traditional standard of living in this country. As tempting as it may be to simply live our lives with no regard to government, apathy will inevitably be punished by ever more government intrusion. That is what this fight was all about. We can win if we stick together.
However, now is not the time to rest on our laurels. The bittersweet aspect of this victory is that we had to fight at all. We took time away from family and friends, doing other things, to attend these meetings, inform others, write letters, post signs and submit our complaints, and we should not have had to. Government should let us be, if we are peaceful citizens, harming no one. In a perfect world, government could be trusted to act in the best interests of the people without overwhelming pressure of this kind. This is not a perfect world. Constant pressure is needed to keep government in check, and we succeeded this time. But this will not be the last time citizen efforts and involvement will be required. We still face many unreasonable encroachments of big government today, from confiscatory, economy-strangling taxation to creeping disregard of the right of habeas corpus and other Constitutional rights, to thousands of nuisance bureaucratic regulations interfering with our every day lives. We have drifted far from what the founding fathers envisioned for this nation. Last week was just one victory towards getting back on the right path. We must continue to hold politicians' feet to the Constitutional fire. If I had to guess, they will probably try to implement the NAFTA Superhighway again sometime in the future.
It is a never-ending battle, but it must be fought, and can be won. I am proud to stand with my constituents in this fight, and in the other fights we have .. ahe
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as for the comments well, think this is the fifth sequel of this episode starring Scott
go Texas
and isn't that a sad thing? five sequels and they still don't get it?
go scott!
Good for those Texans ..
July 12th should be another eye opener
for the guys up on the hill ..
Remember the Words you say keep them soft and sweet You never know from day to day which one's you'll have to eat! www.tiptopwebsite.com/liberty4us
One Texans thoughts about ABC programing
Jim Neugent is a coach in Childress , Texas
Jim writes:
My name is Jim Neugent. I wrote to ABC
(on-line) concerning a program called "THE PRACTICE." In last nights episode, one of the lawyer's mothers
decided she is gay and wanted her son to go to court and help her get a marriage license so she could marry
her 'partner.' I sent the following letter to ABC yesterday and really did not expect a reply, but I did get one.
My original message was:
ABC is obsessed with the subject of homosexuality. I will no longer watch any of your attempts to convince
the world that homosexuality is OK. ' THE PRACTICE' can be a fairly good show, but last night's program was
so typical of your agenda. You picked the 'dufus' of the office to be the one who was against the idea of his
mother being gay, and made him look like a whiner because he had convictions. This type of mentality calls
people like me a "gay basher." Read the first chapter of Romans (that's in the Bible) and see what the apostle
Paul had to say about it.... He, God and Jesus were all 'gay bashers'. What if she'd fallen in love with her
cocker spaniel? Is that an alternative life style? (By the way, the Bible speaks against that, too.)
Jim Neugent
Here is ABC's reply from the ABC on-line webmaster:
How about getting your nose out of the Bible
(which is ONLY a book of stories compiled by MANY different writers hundreds of years ago) and read the declaration of independence (what our nation is built on), where it says "All Men are Created equal," and try treating them that way for a change!
Or better yet, try thinking for yourself and stop using an archaic book of stories as your lame crutch for your existence. You are in the minority in this country, and your boycott will not affect us at ABC or our freedom of statement.
Jim Neugent's second response!
To ABC:
Thanks for your reply. From your harsh reply, evidently I hit a nerve. I will share it with all with whom I come in contact. Hopefully, the Arkansas Democrat Newspaper will include it in one of their columns and I will be praying for you. Jim Neugent
Note: Wouldn't Satan just love it if people stopped using the Bible for a crutch? Please resend this to everyone in your mailbox.
Thanks, Jim Neugent
I wonder if the person from ABC considered how many people would read this e-mail! This is one we should definitely pass on.
Its better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt!
Ummmm....Here is another one of those TV shows where all of the writers are going to hell...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhGk6eF65Fo
You know, I think that President guy said it better than I did...
good find. i never watched the west wing. looks like a good show. i'll give it a shot sometime.
that is not a response from ABC. i've communicated via email with with media customer relations people before. that kind of response would get a man fired. i call bullcrap on your silly made up story and your silly bible notions.
as far as homosexuality is concerned: why did jesus, a grown man, hang out with twelve other grown men all the time? i'm just saying...
http://webminister.com/apologe1/apol0010.htm
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/practice.asp
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/abc-practice.htm
The first site includes the entire email conversation between the complainant and ABC. Snopes validates it.
I know, I know... Snopes? Snopes has some pretty good accuracy in determining what is true and what is not. I also included a link to another sites that validates this story too, but Snopes seems to have really dug into the entire matter and provides ABC's "official response" (as does the first site) as apparently, the original response came from a tech employee and not from ABC's PR or viewer communications department.
Having said that, from what I could find, it occurred in 1999 - is old news - and has done nothing to change ABC's programming practices or NAFTA.
Joyce, This KATV and Mr. Neugent are from Mena, Arkansas (which is approximately 100 miles north of the Texas border) and not from Texas, so I'm not sure what it has to do with anything. Apparently Mr. Neugent was a member of Dallas Baptist church (in Mena, Arkansas). I personally don't appreciate about 99% of the programming on ABC for various reasons, but I try to leave my spiritual feelings out of the mix. ABC just has bad programming. I rarely watch any television, but I will admit that I am a huge fan of syndicated Seinfeld episodes and I watch the Simpson's faithfully.
In any respect, one man riding an overzealous religious bandwagon sending an email to ABC with no specific threats other than to turn off ABC; and no specific violation of any viewership rights is really pointless. The fact is, he can turn off ABC just like I have done. His rights weren't violated, and really, only his personal religious beliefs were. There's no point in debating with awesomo, Scott, or any other person who does not share your religious beliefs - because they won't change just because you shared a true story on a half-baked lie in regards to a completely unrelated event.
And coming onto this forum and displaying bigoted opinions against those who are homosexual really doesn't lend to the credibility of anything you post - I'm thinking there is at least one BTM member who is homosexual and probably won't read anything you have to say with anything more than a grain of salt -- so if you did put anything substantive and enlightening out there, if you posted a cure for cancer, if you solved the mysteries of Machu Pichu -- they would miss it... In effect, you are censoring your own words through your own words. It's sad... really it is.
To Awesomo5000 - Why you gotta go and blaspheme Joyce's beliefs like that? Yours is no better than hers. Man, matters of spirituality need to figure out how to stay out of these public forums because they always degrade into juvenile bantering...
> To Awesomo5000 - Why you gotta go and blaspheme Joyce's beliefs like that?
< it's simple, really. i despise religious mambo jumbo it goes against my own mumbo jumbo. that is why.
> Yours is no better than hers.
< yes it is. it is infinitively better in every way.
> Man, matters of spirituality need to figure out how to stay out of these public [...] into juvenile bantering...
< so blame the people that bring it up not the ones that put it down. just imagine what content you'd have here if none of this bible nonsense went unchecked.
he was alone with in the garden have nothing on but a white robe, which came off pretty easily when the guy took off? :)
Tom Mullen
www.tommullen.net
www.myspace.com/skepticsongs
I happen to believe in the Bible !
Everyone has a right to their beliefs.
You have no right to say its "bullcrap"
IF you can't say something positive Don't
say anything. Thats the problem with this world!!
> I happen to believe in the Bible !
< ok
> Everyone has a right to their beliefs.
< true
> You have no right to say its "bullcrap"
< yes i do.
> IF you can't say something positive Don't say anything.
< i will consider this advice.
> Thats the problem with this world!!
< the bible? i agree.
Ummmm, so if it is in the bible, then it must be true?
Do you condone killing people who work on the sabbath?
Do you condone stoning unruly teenagers to death?
Do you agree that you may beat your slaves, just not kill them?
Yes or No?
I am embarrassed for you. I truly am.
Well ..
Scotty >>
According to your age on your profile, You are the Master of What?,
and an agitator of many. Just what motivates you? Where are your
beliefs in what? Do you plan on being here for long?
Its better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt!
Ummmmm, You didn't answer my questions...
(I know, they are indeed tricky because I am tricky!)
Well it sounds to me like you friend has had to many cups of
"Ummmmm So if its the bible"
Mabey what he needs is a good dose of "Hmmmm What do I mean"
Thats just my observation!
Let the Truth Be Known!
awasmund