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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:23:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: OHIO TO CREATE 57,000 JOBS</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,59859,66511#msg-66511</link>
      <author>kurt</author>
      <description><![CDATA[8 times that many people left the state last year.These &quot;jobs&quot; will pay 1/3 as much as existing jobs.The day that GOVERNMENT CREATES JOBS is the day Hades freezes over.The ONLY thing that government creates is lots of red ink.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:23:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>&quot;Dana Summers 'POWERBALL' cartoon is not that funny&quot;, Tues. July 8, 2008</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,66505,66505#msg-66505</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Leon Harrison
West Carrollton, Ohio 
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

To: The Editor

Subject: Dana Summers “POWERBALL” retirement-plan cartoon


    “Dana Summers ‘POWERBALL’ cartoon is not that funny”


	This enlarged newspaper-clipping copy of this Dana Summers “POWERBALL” bad-retirement-planner cartoon is not as funny, at least to me, as it once would have been: before I let a few commissioned professional investment and financial-planning experts [salespersons] con me into buying/investing in their/my loser mutual funds and a life insurance policy that I neither needed nor wanted; in addition to my buying stock in Kmart and a couple of airlines before they all went bankrupt.
	After a dozen years of these costs and losses, I finally stopped laughing at and ridiculing the gambling fools and their friends who have been buying lottery tickets, instead of these mutual funds and stocks that have dropped like rocks. I stopped laughing when I looked at those alarming and depressing charts, graphs, statements and notices of bankruptcy. At least, inside a casino, you can get cheap meals and a few free drinks, and see some sexy sensational spectacular shows, like ya know. It makes me feel rather good and noble, or at least a little better, when I aid, contribute, donate, enable and help pay for the education of our village children with my biweekly lottery investments. At least, I and my friends know that the house always wins and that it is all a con. 


Leon Harrison
West Carrollton, Ohio]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:14:32 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Racism in 2008?!?!?!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,66358,66373#msg-66373</link>
      <author>frenchie77</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Once they found out that their was a black drummer, they said that the band couldn't play there because there was a black guy in the band. They went on to say the band could play if there was a replacement drummer. The band didn't go on further with the conversation, because obviously they were dealing with morons. It was apparent what the reasoning was, they gave it! I would never put that strong of a brand on someone if they didn't come forth and boldly state their values/opinions.]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:40:26 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Racism in 2008?!?!?!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,66358,66359#msg-66359</link>
      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Exactly what happened? Did they say you can't play if there is a person of color in your band? What reason did they give? I hope you are not reading between the lines and interpreting your version. It's a strong accussation to make.]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:15:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Racism in 2008?!?!?!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,66358,66358#msg-66358</link>
      <author>frenchie77</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I just wanted to let everyone in Springfield know that there continues to be so much racial discrimination in our city! I wanted to make everyone aware that a group called &quot;The Machinist Club&quot; are nothing but a pack of ignorant people who give the white race a bad name. If you get invited to entertain at a party for them, let's hope you don't have anyone in your band that is &quot;of color&quot; or you don't get the gig. However, if you would like to compromise your beliefs and get another member to replace them who is of an acceptable race, you can by all means entertain! Is it worth the $400 that will need to be split 6 ways? Is it worth the gas and time and energy it takes to travel across town to play music for these bigamists?? I think not. Go ahead, Machinist Club, have your &quot;4th of July&quot; party, get sloppy drunk and burn a couple crosses while you are at it! After all, you are celebrating Independence Day....and that independence goes for everyone, no matter what color!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:52:21 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>lets get the poor,there's more of em' and their dumber</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,65798,65798#msg-65798</link>
      <author>alwaysuptuit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[so let's vote in another conservative Congress and President and cut off all social programs including social security so we have more money to kill,imprison and torture 'suspected terrorists'which includes any country that doesn't want to live like we do as it is your duty ordained by God.  I would also like to see all the big corporations ship every single american job overseas and stop all pension plans. Also disband all charities, food pantries and volunteer agencies including the Red Cross. As a conservative I think all americans should stand on their own two feet, pay tribute to their governments and expect nothing back. If your a new born,very young,old,blind,lame or dumb that's your problem not ours, pray hard, listen to your pastor and God will provide, not us. Remember,'conservatism' is big business and big government capitalism at it's finest and, of course, you can keep a third of what you earn and everything you can steal so long as you have political clout. God bless a 'conservative America..what a wonderful place it would be if you voted Republican.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 14:58:30 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>&quot;Bikeway engineers made mistakes&quot;</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,65777,65777#msg-65777</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Leon Harrison
West Carrollton, Ohio
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

To: The Editor, Dayton Daily News

Subject: Bikeway engineers made a couple of 
mistakes

“Bikeway engineers made mistakes”

What a yuppie I am! Now, I too show off my bicycle [Chinese HUFFY], attached to the rack on the back of my little Chevy HHR car. Hhhmmm...maybe, I ought to keep it hanging there as a spare? I rode my new bike to Carillon Park, yesterday evening, having to return to West Carrollton before it got dark. Whoever engineered that bikeway made a mistake because it is not downhill or downwind both ways. Maybe, besides saving gasoline and Mother Earth, I might even start buffing my bulging belt-level muscle up, if I ride it enough and don’t quit riding it. So far, I resist buying and trying to wear a streamlined helmet and tight form-fitting bicycle riding pants, at the risk of missing some kissing and romance that might be made by friendly young bikeway babes.

Leon Harrison
West Carrollton, Ohio]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 23:21:50 -0400</pubDate>
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      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,65492,65492#msg-65492</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV2wg5f9]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 12:31:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>would you</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,64680,64680#msg-64680</link>
      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[If there was a Forum placed on the net that was broken down into catagories very similar to those here. Where you could cut, copy and paste. Sign in under forum names you choose. Would be able to preview and edit before posting or after. Would you support such a site? No sign up fees ever. 100% free.

You don't have to register to read

http://vmva.aforumfree.com/]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 14:18:21 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Force them to invest with 5th 3rd Securities and Nelson Financial Services!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,62511,63681#msg-63681</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[They damn sure punished me, and kept me from joining their ranks with no thanks.]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:33:26 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Investment Professionals have cost and lost me about $50,000 in bad investments, with lost compound interest that I could have got from CDs and savings.</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,63680,63680#msg-63680</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Two airlines of mine went bankrupt.

My $5,000 in Kmart stock became worthless, used to sell to SEARS.

5th 3rd Securities cost and lost me $6,000 in six months, my GM buy-out not making enough money in savings.

Nelson Financial Services was working for Realistar Insurance instead of me, their supposed client, my 1996 investment of $60,000 now worth $67,000 in inflated devalued 2008 dollars, BEFORE taxes taken, Realistar taking about $25,000 in life insurance premiums, taken during a dozen years, a policy that I did not want nor need. Realistar made money from my investment and wast still taking premiums from diminishing remainder.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:32:08 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Miami Valley Area Must Read Before Home Hunting.......</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,53104,63130#msg-63130</link>
      <author>usarulz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[This trustee and his affiliated company are trying to stick around Montgomery County. People, here is a list of his transactions in that county. And again, make sure he has building permits!!!

link to page is here =} http://www.mcrecorder.org/searchname_action.cfm?letter=n]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:50:04 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Let's get the rich</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,62511,62511#msg-62511</link>
      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[After listening to Obama Wednesday I finally believe I get it. He's right!!!! I have been a fool. His plan is so simplistic. To get 50 or so Hedge Fund Managers who make $50,000,000.00 per year you double the  Capital Gains Taxes on 100,000,000 people even if it will mean less revenue to the Government which will mean higher individual taxes to recoup the lost revenve so we can be FAIR.

What a visionary!!! How hard can it be to work yourself into the position to be oferred that salary? It's not even close to the effort that goes into getting $15,000,000.00 a year to sit in front of a teleprompter reading the news or $20,000,000.00 to throw a ball hard or catch one or hit one or run fast with one. I got me a G.E.D. Must be someone looking for a C.E.O.

It doesn't bother me a bit that the American People want to go after the rich and blame them for everything.  I'm perfectly happy where I am, at the bottom. I have no aspirations to achieve, to better myself. I have no goals in life and the last thing I want is for my children to be successful.

Those rich people who close their plants and move overseas so they can compete in the marketplace took MY job. Not that I had anything to do with creating it or investing money in start-up capital or chipping in when the company got fines because I broke an OSHA Rule, or when the company filed bankruptcy after doing everything to cut costs to keep as many jobs as possible. I BUILT THAT COMPANY!!! 
I may have been unemployed before they hired me for one of THEIR JOBS but it's MINE now.

Yes, I am one happy American. Where else can I live next door to those who worked harder than me, scrimped and saved to put a down payment on a house. Bunch of Suckers. They didn't know you can get Section 8 and live there too and won't cost me a dime because I'm on welfare and Section 8 is based on income and I don't have any income. Food Stamps are the only coupons we cut out. Johnny asked what's for breakfast? I don't know. I'll check the school menu to see what they're serving you today.

The only thing that would make me happier is if the Rich would just pay their fair share like the rest of us.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:39:30 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Lookie, lookie, see! Here are some East Kentucky Magazine pictures, from the Buckeye Bureau Chief, for FREE!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,62138,62138#msg-62138</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[http://ohsnap.daytondailynews.com/recent]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:20:08 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>I have it right now</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,61700,61700#msg-61700</link>
      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Sorry for all the edits on the &quot;APPALLED&quot; . It's why I work offline and then post. It's correct now. Thank you for your support. Remember never believe anything unless you have investigated it yourself.]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:23:59 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>APPALLED</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,61696,61696#msg-61696</link>
      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I was personally appalled with today’s edition of the Springfield News and Sun.  I couldn’t believe they would dedicate an entire page hidden under the pretense of Historical Perspective, Lynching’s. 
Though a horrible part of American History the article as in many of this particular paper’s articles are one-sided leaving one to believe that this despicable activity was carried out on only one race. If a supposed reputable newspaper is going to run a full page condemnation (as it should) include ALL information. In no way do I agree with the mentality of a mob nor could I ever understand what would drive supposed fair minded people to do such acts I cannot either stand for portrayals that are slanted to fit an objective whatever that may be. Most will take the information at face value and not investigate any further. The following are links from the TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchcauses.html

HTTP://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingyear.html]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:08:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>&quot;How big is Hollywood's carbon footprint?&quot;</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,61680,61680#msg-61680</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Leon Harrison
West Carrollton, Ohio 
Monday, April 14, 2008

To: The Editor

Subject: Hollywood hypocrisy regarding carbon footprints


	    “How big is Hollywood’s carbon footprint?”


	I just got back from (driving to and from) seeing “Street Kings”, today’s violent action-packed cop-thriller-killer matinee movie. Now, I wonder about how big Hollywood’s carbon footprint is. The Screenvision “Go Green” preshow will continue until April 24, host Bradford Howe, activist actress [aren’t they all?] Aisha Tyler, and The Alliance for Climate Protection pestering the rest of us to do likewise, with fifteen minutes of nagging-nanny agenda-driven environmentalist propaganda.
	Tommy Lee Jones narrates a gloomy black-balloon energy-usage piece, followed by Dave Schlafman’s “Sky is Falling” cartoon. I have to laugh when Ms. Tyler reminds us that we can use video/audio conferencing instead of flying. Has she informed these Gore Whores, Jimmy Carter, and three presidential candidates? She also tells us that we can find out how big our carbon footprints are by getting online.
	During the first Go Green preshow that I had to sit through (now a half-dozen or so ago), this hypocritical Hollywood nagging had me angry and gagging. Especially while I am watching previews of spectacular action-packed movies, seeing aircraft and racing roaring vehicles with squealing tires, fires, explosions and gunfire. How big is the carbon footprint of a typical movie crew, with all of those SUVs, trucks and trailers?
	Finally, I could not resist yelling at Bradford and Aisha, while they smiled and babbled at me from that big movie screen: “WE COULD QUIT DRIVING TO THE MOVIES!” Other audience members seemed to agree with me. Ah, who can stay home and away from Indiana Jones? PLEASE, LEAVE US ALONE! 

Leon Harrison
West Carrollton, Ohio]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:29:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Effectively stopped</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,61473,61604#msg-61604</link>
      <author>Redeemed</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Conservative, don't quit. I was having the same problem. Go to the faith and values page. Sawber and Ble$$ed One gave the fix and it is not hard to correct.]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:49:04 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Effectively stopped</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,61473,61473#msg-61473</link>
      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Since the copy and paste option is no longer available I must leave not to return. It must be the News and Suns' way of expressing themselves. I cannot imagine myself spending the time on this site trying to put together a reasonable thought to share or have to leave for whatever reason only to have to start over again because you can not save your work either. In fairness, it is their forum not ours. As you can see, if you are willing to spend the time here, it will post.]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:34:42 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Copy and paste</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,61155,61155#msg-61155</link>
      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Am I the only one who cannot copy and then paste a new topic. I write off line to gather thoughts and sometimes run across articles of interest that I thought others may not see and would like to read but I am unable to copy and paste. It works setting it up but will not post the new Topic.]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:45:21 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Can anyone post?</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,60861,60861#msg-60861</link>
      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have not been able to for 4 days.]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:16:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Here we go again</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,60375,60375#msg-60375</link>
      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Apparently, Hillary Clinton's nose is growing longer by the day. Here's 
      the latest from the imagination of the former First Lady.

      Clinton has been eliciting tears and anger with her story about a pregnant 
      women who was denied care for herself and baby at an Ohio hospital 
      resulting in her death. 

      But according to the hospital, the story is not entirely accurate. In 
      fact, it's not very accurate at all. Actually, it's a lie:


        The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby 
        boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. 

        But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the 
        care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she 
        was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured. 

        “We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating 
        this story,” said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O’Bleness 
        Health System. 

        Linda M. Weiss, a spokeswoman for the not-for-profit hospital, said the 
        Clinton campaign had never contacted the hospital to check the accuracy 
        of the story, which Mrs. Clinton had first heard from a Meigs County, 
        Ohio, sheriff’s deputy in late February. 
      Oooops. 

      Of course, she can say that it's not her fault the story is incorrect 
      because she heard it 3rd hand. But one wonders the standards of truth her 
      campaign uses when these &quot;misstatements&quot; are exposed.

      Update: Clarice Feldman adds, Hillary lies so much that if she ever told a 
      half-truth it would improve her credibility.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:39:08 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>I always needed and held just ONE at a time, despite the whines.</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,59859,60071#msg-60071</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I never had me more than one at a time.]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:18:15 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>OHIO TO CREATE 57,000 JOBS</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,59859,59859#msg-59859</link>
      <author>alwaysuptuit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Gee, I'd better go grab one fast.. you to.. lest you be standing in a long line ..can you still handle a pick and shovel. It's a stimulus package so get off your sorry butts, on your dying feet and get to work.]]></description>
      <category>Miami Valley Issues</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:54:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Who says that MY cyber-chatter does not matter? It is at least good enough for Leon Harrison to steal my stuff, and maybe even improve it a little bit.</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,59840,59840#msg-59840</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Leon Harrison
West Carrollton, Ohio
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

To: The Editor

Subject: Leon Harrison should direct WSU Bolinga Center


	 “Harrison should be WSU Bolinga Center Director!”


	Wright Sate University alumni, parents and students, demand that Leon Harrison be immediately appointed as the Director of the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center! This especially applies to those people among you who are passionate about affirmative action and disciples of diversity, if not PC perversity, if multicultural mingling gets you to tingling. Mr. Harrison will then represent YOU at WSU. 
	If Mr. Harrison gets some passionate action with job satisfaction, he might even stop writing and bitchin’ about wasted taxes and tuition; taken from the taxpaying working masses who have to pay for useless agenda-driven perpetual- professional-victim black-PAC activist political-propaganda classes that take and waste their time and taxes. Of course, Mr. Harrison will soon interview and choose attractive young friendly female assistants and interns who are willing to learn, especially if they are Clinton fans (who still envy Monica Lewinsky) and are willing to pose for East Kentucky Magazine covers and centerfolds (with or without clothes), in addition to auditioning for screen tests at and for Harrison Studios…where he will likewise be The Director if not the rejecter. Hey, at least he tries to be a nice polite sensitive white guy.


Leon Harrison
West Carrollton, Ohio]]></description>
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      <title>WSU parents and students, demand that Leon Harrison be immediately appointed as the Director of the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center!</title>
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      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[WSU parents and students, demand that Leon Harrison be immediately appointed as the Director of the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center! Especially those among you who are passionate about affirmative action and disciples of diversity, if not PC perversity. He will then represent YOU at WSU.]]></description>
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      <title>Better than eenie, meenie, minie, moe</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,59741,59741#msg-59741</link>
      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[To see who gave what to the super-delegates and how those contributions may have garnered their endorcements, visit and read carefully. Ask yourself, why are they using contributions given to the campaigns of the candidates to support these individuals? If you are a member of the Democratic Party doesn't it make you feel like your vote means nothing. Business as usual.

http://www.capitaleye.org/superdelegates.asp]]></description>
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      <title>iraq withdrawal date</title>
      <link>http://discussions.western-star.com/read.php?5,59738,59738#msg-59738</link>
      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[March 31, 2008 
      Today Is Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Day
      By Lee Cary
      On January 30, 2007, Senator Barack Obama introduced the Iraq War 
      De-escalation Act of 2007 in a speech from the floor of the U.S. Senate.  
      In describing the proposed legislation he said,


        &quot;This plan would not only place a cap on the number of troops in Iraq 
        and stop the escalation, more importantly, it would begin a phased 
        redeployment of U.S. forces with the goal of removing all U.S. combat 
        forces from Iraq by March 31, 2008.


        &quot;In a civil war where no military solution exists, this redeployment 
        remains our best leverage to pressure the Iraqi government to achieve 
        the political settlement between its warring factions that can slow the 
        bloodshed and promote stability.&quot;


      Obama's proposed legislation came in the wake of President Bush's 
      announcement of the troop surge.  In a statement dated January 19, 2007, 
      Obama said,


        &quot;I cannot in good conscience support this escalation.  It is a policy 
        which has already been tried and a policy which has failed.  Just this 
        morning, I had veterans of the Iraq war visit my office to explain to me 
        that this surge concept is, in fact, no different from what we have 
        repeatedly tried, but with 20,000 troops, we will not in any imaginable 
        way be able to accomplish any new progress.&quot;


      No new progress. &quot;Not in any imaginable way.&quot;  The surge would fail, he 
      said. Things didn't go as he predicted.  Limited imagination perhaps.


      But at least the Senator has been consistent during the last two years in 
      his withdrawal position concerning Iraq.  And, he's also had a consistent 
      cut-&amp;-paste view of the role of Syria and, more importantly, Iran as 
      benign actors in the Iraq ordeal.  


      November 20, 2006 Speech: &quot;A Way Forward in Iraq&quot; 


        &quot;...neither Iran nor Syria wants to see a security vacuum in Iraq filled 
        with chaos, terrorism, refugees, and violence, as it could have a 
        destabilizing effect throughout the entire region - and within their own 
        countries.&quot;


      January 19, 2007 Statement: Senate Floor 


        &quot;...neither Iran nor Syria wants to see a security vacuum in Iraq filled 
        with chaos, terrorism, refugees, and violence, as it could have a 
        destabilizing effect throughout the entire region - and within their own 
        countries.&quot;


      Later though, a surprise source tossed a wrench into the Senator's notion 
      of Iran's intent:


        August 28, 2007, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 
        boldly declared Tuesday that Iran is ready to help fill an imminent 
        power vacuum in Iraq, while also defending the neighboring country's 
        embattled Shiite prime minister who has been criticized by U.S. 
        politicians.


      And then, the Elusive One himself seems to have just recently elevated the 
      importance of Iraq to jihad.


        March 20, 2008 (CNN) -- Al-Jazeera broadcast on Thursday an audiotape on 
        which a voice identified as Osama bin Laden declares &quot;Iraq is the 
        perfect base to set up the jihad to liberate Palestine.&quot;


      So, Obama, Clinton and the entire Democrat Party are caught in a 
      conundrum.  The surge is working, conditions in Iraq are improving, Iraqis 
      are fighting for their country, and the deadline for Obama's withdrawal in 
      the face of his unrequited expectations for failure in Iraq is passing, 
      today.


      All that's left for Democrats to hope for is that our economy stalls.


      If Obama is the Democrat nominee, his understanding of the use of U.S. 
      military force, compared to that of Senator McCain, will be one focal 
      point in the general election as we ask ourselves the question: Who shall 
      be the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.


      In the November 20, 2006 speech quoted above, Obama offered valuable 
      insights into his understanding of the historical use of American arms.


        &quot;[W]e should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy 
        on a country through military force. In the past, it has been movements 
        for freedom from within tyrannical regimes that have led to flourishing 
        democracies; movements that continue today...It's in our interest to 
        help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at 
        our disposal.  But even as we provide such help, we should be clear that 
        the institutions of democracy - free markets, a free press, a strong 
        civil society - cannot be built overnight, and they cannot be built at 
        the end of a barrel of a gun.  And so we must realize that the freedoms 
        FDR once spoke of - especially freedom from want and freedom from fear - 
        do not just come from deposing a tyrant and handing out ballots; they 
        are only realized once the personal and material security of a people is 
        ensured as well

      &quot;In the past, it has been movements for freedom from within tyrannical 
      regimes that have led to flourishing democracies.&quot; Really? When and where?

      Germany, Japan and Italy became flourishing democracies &quot;at the end of a 
      barrel of a gun.&quot;  England's freedoms would have been smothered had it not 
      been for the gun barrels of Hurricanes and Spitfires. Singapore and the 
      Philippines were liberated from tyranny at the end of a barrel of a gun.  
      Israel has often defended her freedom with guns, yet today.  France, 
      Belgium, Norway - all liberated from tyranny at the end of gun barrels.  
      South Korea is free today because of them, gun barrels.  Eastern European 
      countries are discovering democracy today because of all the unfired guns 
      of NATO at-the-ready that helped bring about the implosion of the USSR. 
      Iraq and Afghanistan would never have had a chance at freedom had their 
      struggling quests not begun after the diplomats fell silent and the guns 
      spoke. One wonders if Senator Obama's educartion at Hawaii's most elite 
      private academy, Columbia and Harvard included any history lessons.


      He began his March 18th &quot;A More Perfect Union&quot; speech with the opening 
      words of the Constitution of the United States of America, a document he 
      knows well, since he was once a lecturer in constitutional law at the 
      University of Chicago Law School.  After a bitter debate within the 
      states, the Constitution went into effect on March 4, 1789.  Today, we see 
      it as the culmination of an extraordinary linage of documents that 
      included the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and 
      the Federalists Papers.  Obama states, &quot;we must realize that the freedoms 
      FDR once spoke of...do not just come from deposing a tyrant and handing 
      out ballots.&quot;  


      Certainly that's true.  But neither did freedom for Americans come at the 
      end of a language event, at the successful conclusion of an exercise in 
      diplomatic rhetoric.  It came when 400 siege guns dropped 36,000 rounds 
      into the British lines at Yorktown and Cornwallis surrendered on October 
      19, 1781.  Nearly eight years before the Constitution went into effect.


      We owe much to the framers of the Constitution, to the men of words. But 
      we owe at least as much to Joseph Plumb Martin. He joined the Continental 
      Army in 1776 at age 16, and stayed at the butt end of the barrel of a gun 
      until victory.  While Martin and others were engaging the British, the 
      Continental Congress was an ongoing lesson in gross incompetence. Even 
      Washington, who kept his political thoughts very much to  himself, in a 
      letter to a friend during particularly dire times for his army, let down 
      his guard and asked, rhetorically, where have all the big talkers gone.   


      The militia came and went throughout the war, as they had families to 
      feed.  But a cadre within the Continental Army, a force of Joseph Martin's 
      never numbering as many as in the Iraq surge, lived a hardscrabble life - 
      fighting, losing, and fighting again.  Until, at the Battle of Cowpens 
      with Daniel Morgan, they decimated the British and their Loyalists allies 
      (freedom does not require unity within the nation that would have it). 
      After years of being at the end of a barrel of the gun, they'd become 
      professional soldiers who could fire, reload and maneuver - at the same 
      time.  


        &quot;We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on 
        a country through military force,&quot; Senator Obama says. One wonders...


      Deep down, does Barack Obama believe that language and diplomacy are the 
      primary arms in gaining freedom, and in keeping it?]]></description>
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      <author>obama08</author>
      <description><![CDATA[P ING!]]></description>
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      <title>New House</title>
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      <author>conservative</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Reverend Wright's New Digs
Ethel Fenig

Clad in  dashiki clerical vestments, Senator Barack Obama's  (D-IL) pastor and mentor screamed about the evil of white folks and middle classness while promoting a black centered theology, all to the shouting and clapping approval of a large and growing congregation.
  
So where his new 10,340 square foot, $1.6 million house being built?  


Wouldn't you know, the demographics of Tinley Park, IL,a suburb of Chicago,  which will soon count Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr as a resident.. Steve Gilbert of Sweetness &amp; Light reports:
The racial makeup of the village was 93.16% White, 1.92% African American, 0.13% Native American, 2.38% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.11% from other races, and 1.27% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.13% of the population. 


The top five ancestries reported in Tinley Park as of the 2000 census were Irish (25.5%), German (23.1%), Polish (19.7%), Italian (14.3%) and Dutch (5.3%).[5] …


The residents' incomes are solidly middle class




The median income for a household in the village was $61,648, and the median income for a family was $71,858. Males had a median income of $50,595 versus $34,401 for females. The per capita income for the village was $25,207. About 1.1% of families and 2.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.5% of those under age 18 and 3.6% of those age 65 or over.


Not that Reverend Wright is a hypocrite or a preacher who doesn't practice what he preaches of course]]></description>
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