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I see where Jesse Jackson has said the black Alabama Congressman who voted against the House Health Care Bill can no longer call himself a black man. Does that mean that all the white Congress members who voted for it can no longer be considered white-men? Is this some form of reverse incrimination?

I hear that Rep. Cleaver (D, 5-MO) is introducing legislation to declare one day a week as "No Complaining Day" Has the Congressman considered why the people are complaining and that maybe he should listen? Also, if this is all our Congress has to do maybe they should all come home, get off our payroll and do some useful work for a change.

When the politicians get through blaming Bush, the say the cause of our economic dilemma is due to unsafe business practices of the large banks like Goldman-Sachs, et al. Then why is it they are the only ones profiting from the massive government bail-outs? They said General Motors was too big to fail. GM only employs several tens of thousands. They received billions in bail-out funds. The small businesses employ several million. They have received not one dime in financial help. Are they too small to succeed? Why are they not being given any help by this government?

After 30 years and $13B in construction costs, the Yucca Mountain Spent Uranium fuel depository is ready for operation. President Obama, true to a campaign promise, immediately ordered it padlocked. In keeping with past closings of facilities (Gitmo) he ordered the closing with no plan in place for the disposal of the spent Uranium fuel from the 100 or so nuclear power plants operating in the U.S. Existing storage ponds will soon fill, forcing a shutdown of the plants, which supply 20% of the nation's electrical power.

Since when did it become the resposibility of the Federal Government to provide any of its citizens with health care? From http://www.kevincraig.us/generalwelfare.htm
The Federal Government only has the powers which "We the People" delegated to it in the Constitution.
The New American Magazine listed all of the enumerated powers and duties of Congress. That list, which should be at the fingertips of every congressman, follows.

It is time the American people insisted on term limits of members of congress and effectively rid ourselves of the professional politician. Under the present system the Senators and Representatives maintain a presence in Washington so long they forget the people who sent them there. They become enamored of their own importance, begin seeking their own enrichment and become the pawns of influential lobbyists.

Other cities have Saturday Night Movies in the Park. Independence has Weekend Fights in the Parks. Channel 41 just ran a clip of teens fighting in one of the city parks (I came in too late to identify the park) Why the devil did not somebody with the city arrange to have that shown Monday evening? The city did a miserable job of selling the police services sales tax.

In a few short six months the Obama administration has made a shambles out of what was the best economic system the world has ever seen. They have completely derailed a system that gave this country a level of prosperity that was the envy of the world. Now they are focusing on doing the same thing to our health care system. In order to give health care to 2% of the population they are ruining it for the other 98% and spending $one trillion in the process. We all should contact our national legislators and tell them to stop this madness.

A Marine vet posed an interesting question to Sen. McCaskill at her Health Care forum. He was of the opinion that the governments entry into the health care field is unconstitutional, per Article I, section 8. I post section 8 here. Read it and let us know what you think. Is any of the current government actions constitutional, going back to TARP1 and continuing through the auto takeovers, cap and trade and health care overhaul. What do you think?
Article I, section 8.

I think the time has come for me to wrap up my contribution to the police services sales tax issue. Most people have made up their minds on how to vote on it by this time. Further discussion is fruitless. Time to close the debate. I am surprised at how little push the city has made for the tax. Should it not pass they have 3 more opportunities; February's primary, April's final and again in August 2010. After that they may have to amend 82.875 to ease up the population restrictions. One last note.

In his recent newsletter Rep. Dougherty (district 53) has a pic of the Arch. drawing of the  combined Police and Fire building planned for East Independence. Good looking structure.

I suppose all of you are aware of the push to create an Arts District in Englewood with the theater as the central show piece. Here is the consultant;s idea for a PR piece to advertise it:

STUD  ROOSTER

A farmer went out one day and bought a brand new