Republican gun raffle in Giffords' county draws criticism

DH received this in the mail. I filled it out for him and at the end where they asked for donations, put a zero in and wrote in big letters "Ha Ha!" Officials of both parties are sharply criticizing a fundraising mailing from Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele they say could be confused with official correspondence regarding this year’s census. The fundraising letter comes in the form of a “survey,” a frequently used device for partisan fundraising, but this ...

SETTING: The Champions Club suite at Modern Woodmen Park, a MINOR LEAGUE baseball park in Davenport. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2015/07/17/scott-walker-davenport-iowa-visit/30303371/ ...

Over the weekend, when both men stumped across Iowa, rampant controversy raged across websites about their respective audiences. Trump insisted his crowds at the State Fair were the largest for any candidate. Sanders' supporters upheld their claim to the same distinction. More objective observers tended to side with Sanders, while also noting that Trump's throngs were at least partially drawn to his helicopter, in which he gave rides to children, among others. http://www.npr.org/s ...

My husband and I are in the middle of a really interesting conversation after seeing the latest progress that Congresswoman Giffords is making. On one of the news reports a few days ago, we saw that they had removed quite a bit of her skull as a precaution for anticipated swelling. Now what? Is there a way they can put that part of her skull back or will she have to have a titanium plate? Just curious ...

of 10 PEOPLE!!! ROFLMAO ...

Gabby Giffords went to Newtown to visit with families of shooting victims, originally a low-key event that did not involve the press. Despite advance reports of her visit, GOP CN State Representative Debra Lee Hovey went on a FB rant, decrying the "pure political motives" behind her CN trip and alleged lack of prior notice of the visit. After the ensuing uproar over her cringe-worthy statements, Hovey then had the gall to claim in a hasty apology that HER motives had nothing to do wi ...

Please listen to what Mr. Olbermann is saying, even if you do not agree with his politics... this should not be a political issue. There are some things that simply are above left right and center. There are some things that are just more important. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq38Nnf4pOw ...

"We're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, but the thing is that the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district, and when people do that, they've gotta realize there are consequences to that action." Disturbing, isn't it? ...

It's important for all leaders ... to say, 'Look, we can't stand for this," Giffords told MSNBC last March, when a window in her Tucson office was smashed after Congress passed President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare overhaul. Giffords said she faced a deluge of threats for her support of the healthcare bill. "We've had hundreds and hundreds of protesters over the course of the last couple of months," Giffords told MSNBC. "Our office corner has really become ...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/08/arizona.shooting/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1 ...

Rep. Jim Clyburn on Sunday said Sharron Angle's endorsement of "Second Amendment remedies" in her losing Nevada campaign against Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid contributed to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Clyburn, the House assistant Democratic leader, said of Giffords' alleged assailant, Jared Lee Loughner: "It seems like this gentleman was not satisfied with the way the election came out. "There's no way you cannot make that connection (with Angle's rh ...

Representative Gabrielle Giffords' heartsick husband told lawmakers he blames inflammatory rhetoric for the assassination attempt on his wife. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/01/10/2011-01-10_hubby_blames_rhetoric_astronaut.html#ixzz1AfG0fWTP ...

Anthony Foxx, mayor of Charlotte, has issued a city proclamation for "A Day of Reason." Penny Nance, evidently an opponent of reason, argues on Fox news that reason gives way to moral relativism, which is what caused the holocaust: "You know the Age of Enlightenment and Reason gave way to moral relativism. And moral relativism is what led us all the way down the dark path to the Holocaust." ...

It's interesting to see a liberal Brit's point of view. ...

...it's really a surprisingly small crowd considering that Seattle is one of our flagship communist cities, two clicks worse than San Francisco, even, with a dozen colleges and universities of well over 100,000 combined student bodies. 15,000 is meh! We Seattle locals affectionately call it "Moscow On the Sound". For fun, on Saturdays we Moscovites line up at vacant grocery stores (of which we have been "liberally" supplied - pun intended) and practice waiting for hours f ...

Libyan state television showed footage from an unidentified hospital of what it called victims of the "colonial enemy." Ten bodies were wrapped up in white and blue bed sheets, and several people were wounded, one of them badly, the television said. Western intervention, after weeks of diplomatic wrangling, was welcomed with a mix of apprehension and relief in Benghazi, where the main hospital was filled with men, women and children wounded in Saturday's assault on the city by Gaddafi' ...

For the simple fact so many posters on this board claim Romney has no budget. Maybe it was another Obama "composite". Maybe Debbie Wasserman Schultz is dropping the ball on getting out the info to the devoted few (she did an interview on 08/12 slamming Romney budget). What do they know that the devotees on this board do not? Are these 2, Obama and DWS, lying again/still, or is it posters so consumed with getting out misleading info they are not following their l ...

Open mouth, insert foot . . . (he struck me as a little Stepford-like) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/20/rand-paul-tells-maddow-th_n_582872.html ...

If they get jobs inside the jail, do they have to pay for their shoes, etc? tia ...

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik suggested Saturday, in the aftermath of the shooting, that those exercising their rights to free speech would do well to consider the effects of their words. "When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous," said Sheriff Dupnik. "And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become ...

This is lengthy but a must-read for all Americans. It will be a real EYE OPENER for most of you. What has happened in this particular county (no, I do not live there) is happening with alarming frequency all across the country. Why your property taxes, sewer fees, etc. are continually going up. Is your County really a government -- or is it a Corporation? How to find out if your local government has the fiscal woes that it claims to have. WHAT DOES IT DO with the money it ...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/01/accused-bell-officials-want-cash-strapped-city-to-pay-their-legal-bills.html ...

The last garment factory that survived for 112 years is now gone. They just couldn't hang on any longer. They did last 4 years longer than the 90 year old company, but imports killed all of those factories. It was nothing to have 3-4 garment factories in each town. Some of the workers were employed there for 40 years and that's all they knew. The only opportunities they have now is Wal-Mart or picking orders in big box warehouse jobs 20 miles away or whatever is left in the closest ci ...

Hard to know just what to think. The governor's race was the first thing that popped into my mind. It is no secret that Bill White can count on a huge turn-out in his favor from here for that bid against Gov Slick Texas Big Hair (He Shoots Coyotes, Doesn't He?) Perry. Even though King Richard is still ahead in that poll in a redder than red state, the numbers have been closing in on him, even though the campaign season has not really started j ...

Walker’s Gone, But We Are Still Stuck With His Bills Jan 14 2011 The seasons are being reflected in Milwaukee County government. Last month, most of us were celebrating Christmas. There were parties, family gatherings over sumptuous meals, and, of course, presents. Good times were had and there was a certain feel of warmth and joy that only comes with Christmas. But then in January, people return to the daily grind of work and school, errands, the occasional need to s ...

It was only 9.7% in May 2009, and in December, it was 10.9. This doesn't include those who ran out of benefits. I just can't imagine how many are really out of work here. They stated we have 8,300 people out of work. That doesn't sound like much, but I think our county only has a population of 30,000, and most of them have had to leave the county to find jobs. ...

By Daniel TencerWednesday, April 14th, 2010 -- 12:04 pm Forty years after a Mississippi school district was ordered to desegregate its schools, a federal judge has finally enforced the order. A US District Court judge in southern Mississippi has ordered the Walthall County school board to stop segregating students by allowing white students to transfer to a predominantly-white school outside of their residence area and by "clustering" white students into separate classrooms in predominantly bl ...

are reportedly stumped over what one maintenance worker found in a dilapidated downtown Columbus warehouse earlier this week. According to sources, Randall Prince, a Columbus-area electrical worker, was doing a routine check of his companies wiring and electrical systems when he stumbled across approximately one dozen black, sealed ballot boxes filled with thousands of Franklin County votes for Hillary Clinton and other Democrat candidates. “No one really goes in this building. It’s ...

Republican gun raffle in Giffords' county draws criticism

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