Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Grating Communicator
by  Ann Coulter
10/21/2009


The Obama administration has attacked Fox News in order to prevent government corruption stories broken on Fox from bleeding into the other media, which are all-consumed with daily updates on Levi Johnston's Playgirl spread and Carrie Prejean's breast implants.
  
That's understandable. But I think the administration should have picked someone other than David Axelrod to deliver the claim that Fox News is "not really news," inasmuch as Axelrod was behind the leak of scurrilous allegations in Jack Ryan's sealed divorce papers when he was running for a Senate seat against Obama. Talk about vicious personal gossip.
  
Now that Fox has been branded an untouchable, the teacher's-pet media are jubilant.

 In Newsweek, Jacob Weisberg wrote a column saying liberals should refuse to appear on Fox News, pointedly concluding, "And no, I don't want to come on 'The O'Reilly Factor' to discuss it." Considering that Weisberg is a 107-pound weasel with a speech impediment, this is on the order of Weisberg's announcing that he's not interested in appearing in the next "Ocean's Eleven" movie with George Clooney.
  
The strangest thing about all the invective against Fox is that it is happening in a world that contains MSNBC. At least Fox News primetime hosts, and many of their guests, know something about politics. MSNBC's primetime lineup presents an array of people who sound like earnest college kids who just walked up to a Common Cause table, and the sum-total of what they know about politics is what they read in the brochures.
  
In the past week, both Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann have rolled out the Willie Horton ad, claiming that it marked the beginning of vicious personal attacks in politics, as opposed to what it was: The most devastatingly relevant campaign commercial in all of American history.
  
You can always astonish college kids by telling them the true story of Willie Horton. Among the jaw-dropping facts are:
  
-- In the '80s, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that a prison furlough policy had to be extended to convicted murderers, who were ineligible for parole.
  
-- Even the Massachusetts Legislature, which contained about three Republicans, realized this was insane, and quickly passed a bill excluding first-degree murderers from the weekend furlough program. But in a desperate bid for the ACLU's Brain-Dead Liberal of the Year Award, Gov. Michael Dukakis vetoed the bill.
  
-- Horton, who was later released under this program, was in prison for carving up a teenager at a gas station and then stuffing his body into a garbage can. (He had already been convicted of attempted murder in South Carolina -- through no fault of his own, the victim survived.)
  
-- Even after Horton used his Dukakis-granted furlough to rape and torture a Maryland couple in their home for 12 straight hours, the Greek homunculus issued a statement reaffirming his strong support for furloughing murderers.
  
-- The Bush campaign commercial about Dukakis' furlough program never showed a picture of Horton. In fact, the actors playing "criminals" passing through a revolving door in the ad were all white.
  
-- Voters considered it relevant that a candidate for president was so beholden to the ACLU that he backed an idiotic furlough program that released first-degree murderers.
  
Every informed student of the 1988 campaign knows that the Bush ad didn't show Horton's picture. And yet in Keith's discussion of Bush's allegedly vile, racist use of Willie Horton, he used a phony version of the ad, doctored to include a photo of Horton.
  
I don't blame Keith personally for this blatant distortion: He gets all his research material from Markos Moulitsas and other left-wing bloggers, so he can't be held responsible for the content of his show. Keith's principal contribution to the program is his nightly display of self-congratulation and pomposity.
  
Remember, Keith, like his MSNBC colleague Contessa Brewer, majored in "communications" in college, not a research-related field, such as political science. In his coursework, he learned such skills as: Dramatically Turning to Camera, Hysterical Self-Righteousness, Pausing Portentously and Gravely Demanding Apologies/Resignations From Various Public Figures.
  
Given this background, it's understandable that Keith will make errors. As viewers witnessed recently, he can't even pronounce the name of prominent American economist and philosopher, Thomas Sowell. (Although he did spend three weeks at a Berlitz course in Arabic honing his pronunciation of "Abu Ghraib" to razor-sharp prissiness.)
  
The bloggers and Keith bring different skill sets to the game. They provide the tendentious half-truths, phony opinion polls and spurious social science, while Keith provides his booming baritone, gigantic "Guys and Dolls" suits and gift for ridiculous, fustian grandiloquence. Keith is far better equipped than, say, the pint-sized, girly-voiced, Frito Bandito-accented Markos Moulitsas to deliver the party line.
  
But here's the fly in the ointment: Keith has once again been victimized by left-wing blogs into thinking that the 1988 Bush ad showed Willie Horton's picture, when in fact, Horton's race was deliberately scrubbed from the ad.

Brodie Myers

For those of you following Brodie Myers, a 3rd grade student at Westwood Elementary who was a semi-finalist for the Today's Show Kid Reporter, I wanted to let you know that he won!!!! He will now go back to New York for the finals! Thank you to all of you for your support and encouraging words for Brodie and his family!!!!! Jill Metzger, Principal Westwood Elementary 502 S Kings Stillwater, OK 74074 405-533-6370

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Madison Ann.... first Moffat flu victim... hopefully the last...

From Ann to me just now....


Maddie is home with the flu, they put her on the tramaflu or whatever and sent her home to get better. So they may not be able to make this weekend for Kaitlyn's birthday, she was really upset about that. She just started running a fever last night, will have to see how she does in the next couple of days.


To our family...  Maybe won't be too sick, anyway, just remember to wash your hands and don't let people cough all over you.


remember...  5 days after fever goes to normal is the time to stay away from others... 

This is regarding our old neighbors to the east... used to buy feed from us...


This is what I know relayed from Pam Cartmell
Hello all....
I just spoke with Rocky (Malinda's mother). Malinda is in the end stages of her battle. Greg has taken her back to Tulsa because she did not want to pass away at home. They have said she only has a matter of days now. They have increased her pain medication and she is not responsive. Rocky said that the kids were supposed to come and visit tonight.
I'm writing this with a heavy heart and I know you have one as you are reading this. However, Malinda's faith is what has allowed her to fight as long as she has and has earned her a place in God's beautiful kingdom. It will be our faith that will take us forward in our lives and to heal. I ask that you pray now for all of Malinda's family as they prepare for this transition.
I will let you know of any more news that I hear.
Love in Christ,
Pam

Monday, October 19, 2009

hehe from Heather...


HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!



             


Two brooms were hanging in the closet and after a while they got to know each other so well, they decided to get married.

One broom was, of course, the bride broom, the other the groom broom.

The bride broom looked very beautiful in her white dress. The groom broom was handsome and suave in his tuxedo. The wedding was lovely.

After the wedding, at the wedding dinner, the bride-broom leaned over and said to the groom-broom, 'I think I am going to have a little whisk broom!'

'IMPOSSIBLE !' said the groom broom.


Are you ready for this?






'WE HAVEN'T EVEN SWEPT TOGETHER!'


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Oh for goodness sake...Laugh, or at least groan.
Life's too short.


Vote Brodie....


To vote again, text your choice of #2, to 622639. Standard text messaging rates apply and voting ends on Tuesday, October 20 at 5pm EST.

you can log in here on computer to see the main page and find out more...

If you download music and like Lyle Lovett... here is a link to buy the new album

Lyle Lovett - 'Natural Forces" new record comes out today.

You can purchase the entire CD for 3.99 today  at

http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Forces/dp/B002SDSDEW/ref=dm_tw_lyle_lovett#productPromotions

enjoy!

This record rocks.. you can preview it before buying but it's only at this price for 24 hours, not sure how much longer.. shhhhh don't tell Ann I bought it.. she will kill me.. haha....

From my friend Ragan comes this review of the movie "Where the Wild Things Are"

Best little blurb to describe the best movie of the year (for me) "Where the Wild Things Are":
"It’s not a kid’s movie. It’s not a movie for kids. It’s a movie made from the mindset of a child. We’re not ever going to truly know the impact of this film, because it’s near impossible to understand the child’s mind. They think every is OK, awesome, or boring, and most can’t articulate beyond that. And if you’re sitting there thinking my kid is different it probably means you’ve fed them some answer to the question. The lessons learned are subtle and almost not worth stating … Don’t bite your mom, you can’t make everyone happy, be sorry for being mean. We know these things. Maybe kids need to hear them. A book that didn’t have much to say (it’s nine sentences long) might just be a movie that could speak volumes."
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rock star in the wings...

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He huffed and puffed and bout blew the house down...



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poor Sooners.. poor Heather.. haha..yeah right!!

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Aunt Marilyn enjoying some fine chili.. too.. she didn't want this taken and the button accidently was pushed... on accident.. of course!

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Kaitlyn Brook and Dylan Scott enjoying lunch sitting on Ann's great Grandmothers table set that is handmade.. they won't be on it for long...

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Grandma made her famous homemade chili... lots of takers and lots of full tummys...

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Jon's Birthday Saturday.. family celebration...

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Grandma Ann and Isabella Ann playing...

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Richard and I went to school together.. a year or two ago.. haha


Time-tested tradition continues for Perkins family
Watchmakers have been in business 61 years, still love work

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Buzz up!

BY AMANDA O'TOOLE
Published: October 19, 2009

PERKINS — Richard Coate works behind magnified lenses at his worn wooden desk, wielding a tiny magnetic tool inside the guts of a dainty watch face. Pieces of other watches scatter the desk’s surface, sacrificed for their spare parts.

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The vanishing trade of watchmaking is a Coate family tradition.
Richard Coate shares his workspace with his father, Burt Coate, and some of the tools he uses belonged to his late grandfather, Omer Coate.
He works in the shop his father opened on Perkins’ Main Street in 1958, where the younger Coate started helping out when he was in high school. The family business started 10 years earlier in the house next door, where Richard and his four sisters grew up.
Of all of his siblings and all their children, Richard Coate, 55, is the only one who has picked up the trade.
"It’s a sense of pride that we can do a service that not everyone can do,” he said.

Watching history
Their shared passion for fixing watches is evident in how the men talk about their work.
"When you open a watch, it’s like you’re opening a door to a room you’ve never been in,” Burt Coate, 85, said. "You know it’s going to have furniture, but every room looks different.”
Sometimes he ponders the journey each watch has taken, especially pocket watches, he said.
Burt Coate comes to the shop less and less as the years go on, but father and son still have coffee each day, and Richard Coate still seeks advice when a hard fix has him stumped.
The best lesson he’s learned from his father is to know when to walk away, Richard Coate said.
"When his father comes here and works on a watch, it’s like extra training for Richard,” Janice Coate, Richard’s wife, said. "(Burt) has had a little bit more experience than him.”
Richard and Janice Coate bought the business in 1998. They service watches from all over the state, a practice Burt Coate started in the 1970s.
About 10 jewelry stores send them work regularly from places like Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

A vanishing trade
Richard Coate trained at Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee, which continues to be one of a handful of schools in the country to teach watchmaking.
The school, which teaches the prestigious Swiss American Watchmakers Training Alliance curriculum, enrolls a maximum of 12 students each year, said Jason Champion, one of the two faculty members who teach watchmaking at the institute.
Although the cell phone has reduced watches’ importance, he said heirloom timepieces are still being passed among families, and high quality watches still need regular service.
"It’s kind of interesting to be able to take a watch that may not be running and bringing it back to life,” he said. "We have to be in some instances a psychiatrist, in other in-stances a mechanic and at other times, an artist. It’s a very illustrious craft where you can combine different arts into one skill.”
He estimated the demand for professional watchmakers is 400 percent above the number of people learning the trade at a time when many people are preparing to exit the workforce.
"There’s not very many people in (the watchmaking profession) right now, and most of them who are doing it are in their 60s,” Champion said. "There’s a lot of information that people have got in terms of vintage timepieces and vintage brands, and a lot of skill sets that are not being passed down from generation to generation.”
Richard Coate is hoping that although watchmaking skipped a generation in his family, his 7- and 8-year-old granddaughters will take a deeper interest in the field.
They come to the shop from time to time and rubber stamp the company envelopes with the store’s mailing address.
"They’re amazed what their Papa works on,” Janice Coate said.
She said Richard Coate plans to run the family business for several years before passing Burt’s Jewelry to one of his daughters.
Although she’s unsure whether the store will always offer watch repair, the important thing is that the store stays in the family.
"I really don’t know how long the watch repair trade will last,” she said.


Read more: http://newsok.com/perkins-family-continues-tradition/article/3410261?custom_click=lead_story_title#ixzz0UOdFd7Ay

Oklahoma Bears

Oklahoma Dept of Wildlife says 16 bears have been harvested this year to date  in Oklahoma's Bear Season and it is still open...

www.wildlifedepartment.com/bearquota.htm

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Joe knows... go get'em Joe... shame more don't have steel ones as well...


Ariz. sheriff launches immigration sweep
SURPRISE, Ariz. — An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on people who are in the country illegally launched a crime and immigration sweep in northwestern metro Phoenix on Friday, a half day after officials in Washington limited his powers to make federal immigration arrests.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose sweeps have led to allegations of racial profiling, said the rebuff from Washington won't stop him. He said he can still arrest immigrants under a state smuggling law and a federal law that gives all local police agencies more limited power to detain suspected illegal immigrants.
"It doesn't bother me, because we are going to do the same thing," said Arpaio, whose deputies had arrested 16 people by Friday evening on unspecified charges. "I am the elected sheriff. I don't take orders from the federal government."
The officers were participating in a federal program that grants a limited number of local police departments special powers to make immigration arrests and speed up deportation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stripped Arpaio of his power to let 100 deputies make federal immigration arrests, but renewed another agreement that allows 60 jails officers to determine the immigration status of people in jail.
The sheriff's sweeps in some heavily Latino areas of metro Phoenix have drawn criticism that Arpaio's deputies racially profile people. Arpaio said people pulled over in the sweeps were approached because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes and that it was only afterward that deputies found many of them were illegal immigrants.
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Arpaio's office over allegations of discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures.
"He is doing this to thumb his nose at the Obama administration," said Lydia Guzman, president of the Hispanic civil rights group Somos America.
The sweeps have discouraged some Hispanics who have witnessed or been victims of crime to refuse to call Arpaio's deputies, for fear of mistreatment, Guzman said.
Observers who are part of Guzman's group fanned out across the area of the sweeps with video cameras to record exchanges between deputies and motorists.
Arpaio said volunteers will use cameras owned by his agency to video-record deputies so viewers can see for themselves that they weren't doing anything wrong. Arpaio responded angrily to a question during a news conference about the costs of the cameras, saying they were paid through seizures in drug cases. "Dope peddlers bought the cameras," Arpaio said.
A dozen anti-Arpaio protesters yelled throughout the news conference. At one point, they chanted: "Order equals K-K-K — here's what Arpaio has to say."
Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and an advocate of expanding local immigration efforts, said Arpaio's office — like every other local police agency — can detain people suspected of immigration violations for a day or two until federal authorities come to pick them up.
In the past, Arpaio could have held such immigrants for longer than two days and conducted investigations of smuggling rings, Kobach said.
"It's really a slight narrowing, but it's not much," said Kobach, who worked as an immigration law adviser to then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft from 2001-2003.
Dan Pochoda, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing people who filed a lawsuit over the sweeps, said Arpaio still can't pull over motorists solely because they are suspected of being illegal immigrants.
"He can't do it under the terms he is claiming. He has indicated that he can stop people without the suspicion, based on what they look like, what they sound like," Pochoda said.
Arpaio said the Bush administration had no complaints about his use of the special federal powers, but all that has changed with the Obama administration.
"What's changed?" Arpaio asked. "Politics has changed, because they don't like us going on the streets to catch illegals."
This round of sweep, Arpaio's 12th, is set to end late Saturday.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Some things just make us sooooo proud...


Brawl damages Cowboy Travel Plaza

A group of about 30 people caused damage to the Cowboy Travel Plaza at the intersection of Interstate 35 and State Highway 51 after a fight broke out early Friday morning, Payne County Sheriff R.B. Hauf said.

Here comes homecoming
Thrills, chills at Walkaround
Darla Slipke
Everyone and everything — from strollers and wagons, to dogs and kids, to trees and buildings — were decked out in black and orange Friday night during Walkaround at Oklahoma State.

Thousands flooded the streets, sidewalks and lawns surrounding Greek houses and residence halls starting at 6 p.m. to view giant lawn displays set up in front of sororities and fraternities. As darkness set in and the night wore on, the crowd grew larger until there was room to do little more than shuffle from one display to the next. Music pumped through the air and vendors lined the streets selling giant drumsticks, caramel apples, hot cocoa and more.

Walkaround is one of the university’s biggest and most beloved homecoming traditions. Sorority and fraternity members and dorm residents spend hundreds of hours each year designing and welding display decks and then stuffing colored tissue through wire, or pomping, to create giant interactive displays. This year’s theme was “Branded for Life.”

Displays featured images like Bullet riding into the sunset, a scrolling scoreboard where Missouri was constantly playing catch-up with points, and Pistol Pete holding a branding iron to a tiger cub. Many of them had moving features, and one had a carnival set up behind the display.

Inside the carnival, children enjoyed a variety of attractions, like a mechanical bull, inflatable slides and more.

Reed Stallsmith, 10, and his brother argued about who won an inflatable obstacle course competition called The Rat Race. Each one insisted that he had defeated the other.

“I think it was a tie,” their dad, Jay Stallsmith, said.

He and his wife attended Oklahoma State. They live in Bixby now, but they enjoy bringing their kids back to Stillwater for homecoming festivities.

Bailey Thompson and her mom, Ann, toured the displays together with a friend. Bailey is a sophomore at OSU. She was a member of a sorority last year and helped with a Walkaround display.

Thompson said it was fun to be on the other side of Walkaround this year as a visitor.

“You don’t have circles under your eyes,” her mom teased.

OSU freshman Avesta Ehsan, a pledge for Sigma Alpha Epsilon, sat in a white wicker chair outside the fraternity house just before sunset and watched people walk by.

He hadn’t slept in more than 24 hours because the fraternity spent all night pomping. Ehsan said it felt like a waste of time while they were working, but once they finished he was proud at what they had accomplished.

Stillwater residents Dale and Malinda Shipley grew up in Stillwater and remember coming to Walkaround when they were kids.

Dale Shipley said it was fun to run into old friends. Malinda Shipley said the displays and the art keep getting better.

“It just seems like it changes every year,” she said. “I love it. I want my kids to grow up enjoying it, too.”

On Friday, she and her husband walked around with one of their sons while their other kids enjoyed the festivities on their own.

Walkaround is also a family affair for Judy and Roy Lindsey of Cordell.

They attended OSU, and so did their three sons and two daughters-in-law. Judy Lindsey said they come for Walkaround almost every year.

“It’s a tradition that seems to get better every year,” she said.

Friday, October 16, 2009

here are two videos from Austyn for Halloween and then there are two below not on youtube... total of four..

some Austyn Entertainment for you for Halloween...

Enjoy!

Austyn/ first video

Austyn/ second video...

Ok... now here ya go... we don't want you to spend it all in one place... haha...


President Barack Obama called on Congress Wednesday to approve a $250.00 payment to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year.
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Gosh Mr. President - can the country afford it? I mean think what a senior with all that cash in his or her pocket might do with it.. I mean wow.. 250  wow.. now that's alot with you spending trillions everyday... to give so much to the old folks you are wanting to kill off anyway...
Let's see...  
If you tried hard, you could spend this on dinner with your life's partner at the Eagles Nest in OKC... or you could buy two tires for your car, or get it serviced, or by 8 bags of grub, or buy 5 100 dollar savings bonds to take with you when you die, or (in my case) pay 1/2 of your pill bill for one month so you can just live....  and if you rent this might pay a half or less months rent... or your electric for one month or might even buy you a winter coat, or put 4 tanks of gasoline in your car to stay warm this winter when you lose your home due to no job???  Now that 250 is a real stimulus!
We sure don't want to help too much. Got to much Important Stuff to do with all this printed money fresh off the press... no need to waste it on things that are of substance, right.
so in this country now, the cool belief has become...

Pro Life - keep babies - Pro Choice - kill seniors! 

(cost effective, saves billions, less strain on system, society speeds up, more gets done, less old influence on youth, goodness, lots of pluses!)
some say it has a wonderful ring to it...  
One thing missed... all those young voting for this healthcare bill, etc.. will someday and before long - be those seniors...  !

but wait... where did they all go??? It is getting harder and harder to find someone who did... hummmmm

FOXNEWSPOLL: 43 Percent Would Vote To Re-Elect President Obama... http://tinyurl.com/yf7luo6

Sounds like my old highschool... haha...

At One High School, 115 Girls Are Pregnant... http://tinyurl.com/yjxldqo

Thank God there are folks in America who stand up for their beliefs!

Thousands protest Obama in San Francisco... http://tinyurl.com/yjoz5x5

Red River Mudcats! rock on... make Oklahoma proud!!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Happy Birthday Jon Boy... and many more....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONATHAN SCOTT MOFFAT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONATHAN SCOTT MOFFAT

AND MANYMANYMANYMANYMANY MANY MOREMORE MOREMOREMORE MORE!!!

Steel Guitar Association to hold annual country show

Steel Guitar Association to hold annual country show

The Oklahoma Steel Guitar Association will be presenting their 4th Annual Country and Gospel Show and Concert on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, from 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. at the Payne County Expo Center. Live music will be featured from some of the best steel guitar players from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas. Admission is $5 and includes a free drawing for hourly door prizes. A concession will be provided. Cowboy Church will be held at 10 a.m. For more information, please call Allen Cain, 405-612-1177 or Ron Fields, 405-742-7426.

From Heather this am...


 Caught near Oktaha and Oktaha is just southwest of Muskogee ...just north of Checotah. 
The reason for snake boots during dove season.  Just under 8 foot and weighs 89 pounds. 
Probably gonna quit dove hunting, unless I can get the wife to walk in front of me.....



your money at work.. from several this am.... WOW


36 have been accused of spousal abuse

7 have been arrested for fraud 


19 have been accused of writing bad checks 


117 have directly or indirectlybankrupted at least 2 businesses 


3 have done time for assault 

71 
repeat 71 
cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting 


21 
currently are defendants in lawsuits, 
and 
84 
have been arrested for drunk driving 
in the last year 


Can
you guess which organization this is? 

NBA Or NFL 
? 

 
Give up yet? 
Scroll down, 






Neither,
it's the 535 members of the
United States Congress 


The same group of Idiots that crank out
hundreds of new laws each year
designed to keep the rest of us in line. 

We already know this.. they say the best humor is based on the truth.. this speaks volumns

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

A taste of Madrigal

Food tasters gave their opinions on three kinds of soup, three different vegetables, two salads, three sides and three meat dishes earlier this week to help pick the menu for the 35th annual Madrigal Dinner at Oklahoma State University.

Missy sent this note along today... Best Idea To Date!!

Dear Mr. President,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America's economy. Instead
of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on
lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay
them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the
following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire..  Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.
2) They MUST buy a new American CAR.  Forty million cars ordered -  Auto Industry fixed.
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.
It can't get any easier than that!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress and their constituents pay their  taxes... even get old tax cheat himself Sec of Treasury Tim Giethner to pay his too... and of course Senate Ways and Means Chairman Wrangle to pay his tax due...
If you think this would work, please forward to  everyone you know.  If not, please disregard. and Mr. President...while you're at it...make
congress retire on Social Security and Medicare...I'll bet both programs would be fixed...pronto!!

DON HARRELL