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Aging Gracefully?

August 2, 2007

Old Couple:

The Seniors Breakfast Special
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Even non-seniors will appreciate this!!!!

It often pays to think “outside the box”!

    Recently, my wife and I went to breakfast at

a local restaurant where the “Seniors’ Special”
was two eggs, bacon, hash browns and toast

for $1.99.

“Sounds good,” my wife said. “…..But I don’t

want the eggs, thank you.”

“Then I’ll have to charge you two dollars and

forty-nine cents because you’re ordering the

toast, bacon, and hash browns a la carte,”

the waitress warned her.

“…..You mean I’d have to pay for NOT taking

the eggs?” my wife asked incredulously.

“Yes…” stated the waitress, “…it’s the policy.”

“O.K., I’ll take the Special then.” my wife said.

“….And how do you want your eggs?” the

waitress asked.

“Raw and in the shell,” my wife replied.

        She took the two eggs home.

HEY!! DON’T MESS WITH US SENIORS!!!

We’ve been around the block more than once!!
 

                A TRIP TO WALMART
You are in the middle of some kind of

project around the house.  

Mowing  
the lawn, putting a new fence in, painting the living room, or whatever.     
You are hot and sweaty.  Covered in dirt or paint.  You have your old  
work clothes on.  You know the outfit; shorts with the hole in crotch,  
old t-shirt with a stain from who knows what, and an old pair of tennis

shoes.
    Right in the middle of this great home improvement project you realize   
you need to run to Wal-Mart to get something to help complete the job.   Depending on your age you might do the following:   

In your 20’s:

Stop what you are doing. Shave, take a shower, blow dry your hair, brush

your teeth, floss, and put on clean clothes.  Check yourself in the mirror

and flex.  Add a dab of your favorite cologne because you never know, you

just might meet some hot chick while standing in the checkout lane.  You
went to school with the pretty girl running the register.

In your 30’s:
Stop what you are doing, put on clean shorts and shirt. Change shoes. You

married the hot chick, so no need for much else. Wash your hands and comb

your hair. Check yourself in the mirror. Hey! Still got it. Add a shot of your

favorite cologne to cover the manly smell.  The cute girl running the register

is the kid sister to someone you went to school with.

In your 40’s:
Stop what you are doing.  Put a sweatshirt that is long enough to cover the
hole in the crotch of your shorts.  Put on different shoes and a hat.  Wash
your hands.  Your bottle of Brute Cologne is almost empty so you don’t want

to waste any of it on a trip to Wal-Mart. Check yourself in the mirror and
do more sucking in than flexing.  Now the spicy young thing running the
register is your daughter’s age and you feel weird thinking she is spicy.

In your 50’s:
Stop what you are doing.  Put a hat on, wipe the dirt off your hands onto

your shirt.  Change shoes because you don’t want to get dirt in your new

sports car.  Check yourself in the mirror and you swear not to wear that

shirt anymore because it makes you look fat.  The cutie running the
register smiles when she sees you coming and you think you still have it.  
(…Then you remember the hat you have on is from your buddy’s bait shop

and it says, “I Got Worms”.)

In your 60’s:
Stop what you are doing.  No need for a hat anymore.  Hose the dog

poop off your shoes.  The mirror was shattered when you were in

your 50’s.  You hope you have underwear on so nothing hangs out the

hole in your pants.  The girl running the register may be cute but you

don’t have your glasses on so you are not sure.

In your 70’s:
  
Stop what you are doing.  Wait to go to Wal-Mart until they have your
prescriptions ready too.  Don’t’ even notice the dog poop on your shoes.
The young thing at the register smiles at you because you remind her of

her grandfather.

In your 80’s:
Stop what you are doing.  Start again.  Then stop again.  Now you

remember that you needed to go to Wal-Mart.  You go to Wal-Mart and

then aimlessly wander around trying to think what it is you are looking for.  

Bending over to tie your shoes, you pass gas out loud and you mistakenly

think it was someone calling out your name.  The old lady that greeted you

at the front door went to school with you ….and was three years behind.

 

A senior couple pulls up to a gas station:

Attendant: How may I help you?

Old Man: Please fill it up.


Old Lady: What did he say?


Old Man [yelling]: He asked what we wanted,

 and I told him to fill it up.

Attendant: So, where are you heading?

Old Man: To Chicago to see our grandchildren.


Old Lady: What did he say?


Old Man [yelling]: He asked where we’re going.

I told him we’re going to see the grandkids.

Attendant: It sure is a nice day for a drive.


Old Man: Yes, it’s been quite pleasant.


Old Lady: What did he say?


Old Man: He said its good weather.

Attendant: Where are you coming from?

Old Man: We started our trip from Pittsburgh.


Old Lady: What did he say?


Old Man: He asked where we’re from and I said

Pittsburgh.

Attendant: I dated a girl from Pittsburgh once.

She wouldn’t shut up, was a nag and a lousy cook, 

and was lousy in bed, too.

Old lady: What did he say?


Old Man: ….He says he knows you.

Considering The Circumstances . . .

     A man boards an airliner, takes his seat,
and is surprised to find a large purple parrot
seated in the seat next to him.
     The aircraft takes off and a pretty young
flight attendant walks down the aisle past the
man and his unusual seat mate.
    The man orders a Vodka Martini with ice,
and the attendant smiles and says she will be
right back. But minutes pass with no drink
coming …even after a second order from the
man.
    The next trip the FA makes down the aisle,
the mans seat-mate pipes up.
     “Hey, you stupid broad,” says the parrot,
“….bring me a whiskey and soda, and make
it snappy!”
     The FA looks visibly annoyed, but walks
on.  A minute later, she walks back up the
aisle, and the parrot pipes up again: “….You
dumb blonde lazy floozy, where’s my whiskey? 
Hurry it up! ”
     Visibly VERY flustered, the FA hurries up
the aisle and returns quickly with the parrot’s
drink.
     Impressed with the parrot’s technique, the
man decides to try and get some quick service
for himself.
     “Hey, you moronic excuse for womanhood,”
says the man, “….get me a vodka martini!  And
don’t be dragging your sorry @#%$ – I want it
right now! ”
     The FA says nothing, turns red with anger
and runs to the front of the plane. In a moment
she returns with the First Officer and two burly
male flight attendants. The crewmen seize the
passenger and the parrot, drag them from their
seats, jerk open the emergency door, and hurl
them both out of the airplane at 31,000 feet.
     As the two are hurled out the door, the parrot
says to the man, “…You know, for someone who
can’t fly, you’re pretty danged rude!”

MEDICARE COVERAGE IN A NUTSHELL

The phone rings and the lady of the house answers,
“Hello.”
“Mrs. Ward, please.”
“Speaking.”
“Mrs. Ward, this is Doctor Jones at the Medical Testing Laboratory.

When your doctor sent your husband’s biopsy to the lab yesterday,

a biopsy from another Mr. Ward arrived as well, and we are now

uncertain which one is your husband’s. Frankly the results are either

bad or terrible.”

“What do you mean?” Mrs. Ward asks nervously.
“Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer’s, and the

other one tested positive for AIDS. And unfortunately, we can’t tell

which is your husband’s.”

“That’s dreadful! Can’t you do the test again?” questioned Mrs. Ward.
“Normally we can, Ma;am, but your Medicare plan will only pay for

these expensive tests one time.”
“Well, what am I supposed to do now?”
“The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your
husband off

somewhere in the middle of town. Then, if he finds his way home,

don’t sleep with him.”  

Three Hillbillies are sitting on a porch shootin’ the breeze.

1st Hillbilly: “My wife sure is stupid!

    She done bought an air conditioner.”

2nd Hillbilly: “Why’s thet so stupid?”

1st Hillbilly: “We ain’t got no danged ‘lectricity!”

2nd Hillbilly: “Hey! Thet’s nothin’! My wife is so

    dang stupid, she done bought one of
    them new fangled warshin’ machines!”

1st Hillbilly: “An’ why is thet so stupid?”

2nd Hillbilly: “…Cause we ain’t got no plummin’!”

3rd Hillbilly: “Yoall….that ain’t nuthin’! My wife is

    dumber than both yer wifes put together!  I

    was a-goin’ through her purse the other day

    a-lookin’ fer some change, an’ I done found

    six condoms in thar!!”

1st and 2nd Hillbillies (after thinkin’ on it some…):

    “Well heck, man, what’s so dumb about that?”

3rd Hillbilly: “Dude….she ain’t got no danged pecker!”

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Legion official lauds attempt to shine light on problems

July 24, 2007

In keeping with Texas Fred’s current theme having to do with the shoddy, at best, treatment of our Veterans I decided to post this story from the Rocky Mountain News.

A former national commander of the American Legion who is based in Colorado said Monday that he is generally supportive of the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, although he added he does not know the details of it.”The fact that it’s bringing attention (to the issues) to the public – that’s admirable,” Tom Bock said by phone Monday from the headquarters of the Colorado American Legion.

“The general public needs to know there are shortcomings inside a good system,” Bock said.

Bock, who served as the national commander for the American Legion from 2005-2006, said delays in processing benefits for soldiers have been a problem for years.

“The claims processing is way behind,” he said, adding that there are currently 400,000 disability claims nationwide that still need to be processed.

Bock said veterans with mental health issues are a major concern, because the numbers have grown, running as high as 30 percent to 35 percent of returning soldiers.

“It is critical that we take care of our soldiers at this time when they come home,” he said. “The VA needs to start more mental health centers.

However, he said he does not know if a lawsuit is the way to get the VA to make changes. Instead, he said the American Legion has concentrated on getting the VA properly funded.

“I don’t know if the VA alone can fix it,” he said. “What services you have depends on what you can provide the dollars for. When it comes to expanding coverage and taking better care (of soldiers), that’s where Congress needs to step up.”

He said that one problem is that while a great deal of publicity and debate has taken place over whether the war on terrorism should be fought, little attention has been paid to what happens to soldiers when they return home.

“We have to remember that these are our sons and daughters and grandsons and granddaughters,” he said. “They’re protecting our freedoms and we need to stand up for that – both when they’re gone and when they come back home.”

Keep up the good fight Tom!

Responsive Government

July 24, 2007

Colorado’s Governor, Bill Ritter, ran on a platform of responsive government, among other things. Just what does that mean though? I emailed him about something that is very important to myself and others. Here, is the response;

Your message

To: Governor Ritter
Subject: SB 34
Sent: Mon, 14 May 2007 23:44:24 -0600

was deleted without being read on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:04:36 -0600

Why am I thinking that I would have received a response if I would have emailed him about some leftest agenda item?

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John Doe, and civic responsibility

July 23, 2007

In Washington, a House-Senate conference committee on a homeland security bill is considering whether to include a measure to protect, from lawsuit, Americans who report suspicious behavior.  The so-called “John Doe” measure comes in response to a lawsuit by six imams who were booted from a plane that was about to fly from Minneapolis late last year because they were acting very suspiciously, refusing to sit in their assigned seats, asking for metal seat belt extenders, and speaking loudly and disparagingly about the United States.  The imams plan to sue not only the airline but the passengers who reported their behavior — a step that, if successful, could have a chilling effect on whether other Americans come forward to report such behavior or whether they decide that doing so isn’t worth the legal fees.  Without this protection, Americans would have no reason to follow the motto of law enforcement agencies: “If you see something, say something.”

Separately, the “John Doe” legislation passed both the House and Senate by overwhelming margins.  But key Democrats are trying to drop it from the homeland security bill, which would kill it.  House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson isn’t enthused about it, and Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy spoke against it on the Senate floor.  The conference committee is meeting and will make a final decision on this vital legislation in the coming days.

If you agree Americans should be encouraged to report suspicious behavior, if you agree they should not be intimidated by the threat of a lawsuit that could bankrupt them, now is the time to act.  Call or e-mail your own Senator and your House member.  You can find their contact information at http://www.congress.org – just enter your zip code.  Tell them to insist that the conference committee include “John Doe” protection in this bill.  And after calling or e-mailing your own Senator and House member, contact Congressman Thompson and Senator Leahy.  Also contact House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Senate Assistant Majority Leader Richard Durbin.

Don’t leave Americans who do the right thing by reporting suspicious behavior out in the cold.  Don’t let Americans be intimidated into keeping quiet.  In the war on terror, there’s too much at stake for all of us.

 

SOURCE: Vigilant Freedom

The latest on Second Amendment rights

July 23, 2007

On 12 July, the House Appropriations Committee successfully blocked gun-control advocates from gaining access to gun-purchasing data restricted by the Tiahrt amendment. The 2004 amendment, which Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) had sought to unravel, protects the privacy of law-abiding gun owners by restricting disclosure of federal records of gun purchases to third parties. 

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court may hear an appeal by the city government of Washington, DC, in a major test case on the meaning of the Second Amendment—specifically, whether it protects one’s right to have guns in the home. The city will be defending what they deem to be the “constitutionality” of their local gun-control law, the strictest in the nation. After all, it worked so well when it was in effect.

Also, the Labor Department published a notice in the 17 July Federal Register announcing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) “proposes to revise the explosives and blasting-agents standard.” Their absurd recent proposal sought to classify ammunition and various reloading supplies indiscriminately as explosives, which would have dried up ammo sales. After the massive response from gun owners, it’s no wonder that OSHA is putting the safety back on a bad idea.

SOURCE; PATRIOT POST

Justice Served?

July 23, 2007

SOURCE: Patriot Post 

Justice served? (Part 1)

As a former uniformed law enforcement officer, I can tell you that, sometimes, frontier outlaws are best deterred with frontier justice.

On 17 February 2005, two U.S. Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, were patrolling the El Paso County, Texas, frontier with Mexico in order to secure our border. Both men were experienced agents—Ramos was a 10-year veteran and a former nominee for “Agent of the Year”; Compean had served for five years.

At midday, Ramos and Compean attempted to stop a known drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, and check his vehicle. Aldrete-Davila fled from his vehicle and ran toward the Mexican border with the agents in hot pursuit on foot. Ramos and Compean fired 15 rounds at the smuggler at intervals when he turned toward them, but were unable to capture him before he crossed the border.

Border Patrol supervisors responded to the scene, and the agents did not file a report on the shooting because they assumed Aldrete-Davila had not been injured. Upon inspection, it was determined that the vehicle Aldrete-Davila abandoned contained 743 pounds of marijuana.

Two weeks later, Aldrete-Davila’s mother called a friend in the U.S. and complained that her son had been shot. A Department of Homeland Security investigator, Christopher Sanchez, contacted Aldrete-Davila and learned that he indeed had been shot in the buttocks.

Sanchez contacted Johnny Sutton, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, and a Bush administration insider. He worked for then-Governor George Bush’s General Counsel for five years before the President-elect asked him to be policy coordinator for the Bush-Cheney Transition Team in 2000. (“Policy coordinator”—that explains why the Bush administration is sideways with everyone else in America on the immigration issue.) Sutton was appointed to his current U.S. Attorney post by President Bush on 25 October 2001.

Second-guessing field agents from the comfort of his leather chair and air-conditioned office in El Paso, Sutton concluded that the agents had violated rules of engagement that require an officer to believe he is subject to threat of deadly assault before using deadly force. He then granted Aldrete-Davila a “humanitarian visa” and immunity from the drug-smuggling charge if he would return to the U.S. and testify against Ramos and Compean. Sutton then drew up criminal charges against the agents for assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting serious bodily injury and violating Aldrete-Davila’s civil rights.

“Civil rights,” my buttocks. There was no ethnic, religious or racial motivation for this shooting. (It is worth noting that El Paso County is 80 percent Latino, and Ramos, Compean and Aldrete-Davila are all Latino.) This was a case of two agents, charged with securing our borders from the plague of illegal aliens (including those smuggling drugs), two agents trying to do their job against all odds.

Adding insult to injury, according to concealed evidence from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Aldrete-Davila, while awaiting the trial of Ramos and Compean (and still subject to the immunity grant from Sutton), became, and remains, a prime suspect in the smuggling of 750 pounds of marijuana from Juarez, Mexico, to Clint, Texas. That evidence was not presented at the Ramos and Compean trial, however—ostensibly so as not to tarnish the name of a known drug smuggler…

To the dismay of their fellow agents and the nation, Sutton secured convictions against Ramos and Compean based on Aldrete-Davila’s claim that he was unarmed. For the record, major drug dealers travel armed and dangerous, and any law-enforcement officer who wants to get home for dinner had better assume the same.

Ramos and Compean were sentenced to 11 and 12 years in prison, respectively, and began serving those sentences on 17 January 2007. Both men leave behind wives and three children, each.

While the agents violated the law and agency policy by firing on the suspect, assuming Aldrete-Davila was telling the truth about being unarmed and assuming the agents did not believe he was armed—even if both assumptions are correct—the sentence does not fit the crime.

Meanwhile, Aldrete-Davila, understandably emboldened by the lottery element of American justice, has filed a $5-million lawsuit against the U.S. government for violating his civil rights.

Upon further investigation, it turns out that Ramos and Compean are not Sutton’s only “uniformed victims.”

On 14 April 2005, Edwards County, Texas, Sheriff’s Deputy Guillermo Hernandez stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation. Once Hernandez had exited his patrol car, the driver attempted to run him down and flee. Hernandez fired several shots at the vehicle, attempting to flatten a tire. One of those shots pierced the trunk of the car and wounded one of several illegal aliens whom the driver had concealed there. The Texas Rangers investigated the shooting and cleared Hernandez of any wrongdoing.

A year later, however, Sutton reopened the case, and on 16 December 2006 he got a conviction against Hernandez for violating the civil rights of the injured illegal. Hernandez was sentenced to a year in prison and is now serving that sentence.

El Paso has strong cultural and economic ties to Mexico, so strong that Latino juries are willing to convict Latino law enforcement officers who pursue Latino illegals. Clearly, however, justice has not been served in either of these cases.

In the Ramos and Compean case, California Reps. Duncan Hunter and Dana Rohrabacher have vigorously defended the agents and called on President Bush to commute the sentences prior to incarceration.

“This is the worst betrayal of American defenders I have ever seen… [President Bush] obviously thinks more about his agreements with Mexico than the lives of American people and backing up his defenders,” said Mr. Rohrabacher. “Our border agents risk their lives daily to uphold our immigration laws and defend our borders. If the conviction of Ramos and Compean is an indication of how our government will repay them, we can be certain good men and women will soon flee the ranks of Border Patrol service.”

Mr. Hunter added, “This is the most severe injustice I’ve ever seen with respect to the treatment of U.S. Border Patrol agents or, I might add, the treatment of any uniformed officers.”

Yet President Bush has refused to consider a commutation, fearing he might offend some of his Latino constituents. Consequently this week, 180 days after Ramos and Compean surrendered to U.S. Marshals to serve their sentences, Senate Republicans and Democrats responded to the national outrage and held hearings on the case.

At the conclusion of those hearings, liberal Sen. Dianne Feinstein and conservative Sen. John Cornyn called on President Bush to commute the agents’ sentences, noting that the hearings “confirmed the concerns raised by many members of the public: that this penalty levied on these agents is excessive and that they deserve the immediate exercise of your executive-clemency powers.”

President Bush says he will review the case prosecuted by his “dear friend” Sutton but has not committed to commute the sentences of Ramos and Compean.

Please take a moment to sign Free the Texas Three and Secure our Borders, a national petition calling on President Bush to commute the sentences of both former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, and their colleague, former Sheriff’s Deputy Guillermo Hernandez; asking Congress to insist that the DEA prosecute Mexican national Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila on felony drug distribution charges; and demanding that Congress and the Bush administration secure our borders. (If you don’t have Web access, you can sign this petition by sending a blank e-mail to: <sign-borders@PatriotPetitions.US>)

Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, and their colleague, formerSheriff’s Deputy Guillermo Hernandez

July 23, 2007

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Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, and their colleague, former
Sheriff’s Deputy Guillermo Hernandez; asking Congress to insist
that the DEA prosecute Mexican national Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila
on felony drug distribution charges; and demanding that Congress
and the Bush administration secure our borders.

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The UnFairness Doctrine

July 23, 2007

Not content with  wrecking your rights at every turn, now they are intent on destroying their opposition.

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org

Friday, July 20, 2007

Even while we are busy defending our Second Amendment rights against
efforts to enhance the Brady Law, there is a movement afoot to
restrict our First Amendment rights as well… a movement that can
make the defense of our liberties that much harder.

You may have heard of this effort as the “Hush Rush” bill or, just
simply, as the Fairness Doctrine. No matter how you look at it,
however, there is nothing fair about it.

Better termed the UnFairness Doctrine, it would radically limit the
type of information you hear in the media and would greatly restrict
access by Gun Owners of America to the airwaves.

Access to talk radio has been crucial for GOA. If we had to depend
on network news alone, one would think that crime is out of control.
Talk radio has given Second Amendment supporters the opportunity to
present the data that more guns in the hands of the public has
actually lowered crime.

On June 28, the House of Representatives voted 309 to 115 for an
amendment — offered by pro-gun Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) — to defund
enforcement of the unFairness Doctrine. This was a great victory.
But even though the amendment — which was added to a Federal
Communication Commission appropriation (HR 2829) — was a victory for
supporters of the First Amendment, it does not give lasting comfort
to supporters of free speech.

The vote on the appropriations amendment applies only to FCC actions
in 2008. Since no one thinks that the Commission would move to
reimpose the UnFairness Doctrine until after 2008, what is needed is
enactment of S. 1748, the Broadcaster Freedom Act which was
introduced by Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN).

The so-called Fairness Doctrine is openly touted as a way to squelch
conservative’s market-driven dominance of talk radio. For example,
Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma reports overhearing a conversation
between Senators Hilary Clinton (NY) and Barbara Boxer (CA). The two
Senators were complaining about conservatives’ success in the free
market of ideas on radio and said “We’ve got to have a balance.
There’s got to be a legislative fix for this.”

The UnFairness Doctrine is on its face an attack on free speech.
Were folks like Senators Clinton and Boxer truly interested in
balance, they would want to extend their UnFairness Doctrine to the
Public Broadcasting System and the network news programs, almost all
of which tilt to the left.

The anti-free speech forces in Congress may want to gag talk radio
because Air America has staggered into bankruptcy. Air America,
which was the left’s failed attempt to compete with conservative talk
radio, has almost no audience. It got its clock cleaned and has only
itself to blame. It should not be allowed to hide behind a phony
“Fairness Doctrine.”

Remember, the First Amendment protects free speech, not fairness.
Free speech is a constitutional doctrine; using the power of
government to mandate political “fairness” is a socialist doctrine.

ACTION: Please help keep our First Amendment freedoms intact. You
can use the letter below to help direct your comments to your two
U.S. Senators. Please visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center
at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send the letter as a
pre-written e-mail message to your Senators.

—– Pre-written letter —–

Dear Senator:

I hope you will strenuously OPPOSE any effort to reimpose the
misnamed “Fairness Doctrine,” which was soundly rejected by the
courts in the late 1980s.

On June 28, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted for an
amendment to defund enforcement of the UnFairness Doctrine. But
though this was a great victory for supporters of the First
Amendment, it does not give lasting comfort to supporters of free
speech.

The vote on the Pence amendment (to HR 2829) applies only to FCC
actions in 2008. Since no one thinks that the Commission would move
to reimpose the UnFairness Doctrine until after 2008, what is needed
is enactment of S. 1748, the Broadcaster Freedom Act which was
introduced by Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN).

The misnamed Fairness Doctrine is on its face an attack on free
speech. Were the supporters of this “UnFairness” truly
interested in
balance, they would want to extend this doctrine to the Public
Broadcasting System and the network news programs, almost all of
which tilt to the left.

The First Amendment protects free speech, not fairness. Free speech
is a constitutional doctrine; using the power of government to
mandate political “fairness” is a socialist doctrine.

Thus, I hope you will work to retain the Pence amendment in HR 2829
AND will cosponsor the Coleman bill (S. 1748).

Sincerely,

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