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The Bracken Bat Cave Meshweaver, an absolutely worthless spider, has stopped a $15 million highway project. What the ---- is a spider that was not even thought to exist good for? The sun has been rising and setting without dinosaurs, and I have no reason to believe that it will implode if a spider is not around to keep the earth rotating.
The EPA is forcing a large number of coal fired power plants to close. The environmentalists are upset about hydraulic fracking; nuclear power plants are too dangerous. Have the folks that are against the way that electricity is generated consider what us old codgers had to contend with. There is nothing that I enjoy more than reading by kerosene lamp light, sleeping under a tree in the back yard in the summer time because it was too hot to sleep in the house, or maybe you would like to put your eggs, butter, milk and other items in a bucket and lower it down in the hand dug well to keep the butter from melting and eggs from hatching.
I have been looking for a solar or wind powered tractor so I can do my spring plowing. Diesel is getting too expensive, thanks to Washington. The green energy projects have cost the nation millions of dollars. The petroleum industry has provided good paying jobs. There is a $25 billion commitment to electric car companies. Federal Financing Bank is making low cost loans, guaranteed by the Department of Energy — $8.4 billion has been loaned and the rest will be doled out before 2019. With the closing of power plants and production of electric cars there should be plenty of jobs for college graduates, hand cranking generators to charge the batteries.
For those that plan on voting for President Obama, I would like to issue you a little advice. The man is destroying this nation, slowly but surely, and if he and his czars get another four years he will beguile the ignorant. He will pass out Obama phones, more parties to promote food stamps and who knows what else he will think of to screw the middle class, all under the guise of taxing the rich. Those in Washington are the only people in America that think you can spend yourself into prosperity.
Some folks are concerned about big banks. Well, the best way to teach them a lesson is to let them go bankrupt. Letting them fail would be the best thing that could happen, and jail those that caused the failure instead of bailing them out.
Thomas Jefferson said: “The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.” The federal reserve is the monster in our banking system. No private corporation should be bailed out with tax payer money.
P.S. Have you noticed how the First Lady’s school lunch menu is being received? More food goes in the trash than in the kids, but that’s alright, the taxpayers can afford it.
Richard Feuilly is a guest columnist. He is a retired ditch digger and a resident of Weatherford.
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CNHI EDITORIAL: Seizure of AP phone records an insult to independent press
Distrust of government secrecy has been elevated to an exceptional level with the disclosure the Justice Department covertly examined two months of Associated Press phone records to determine who leaked details to the AP about a foiled terrorist plot.
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NOW HEAR THIS: ‘What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate’
This famous quote addressing communication failure is a classic line from the 1967 movie “Cool Hand Luke,” starring Paul Newman. Strother Martin, who played the role of the warden in a southern prison, would use this phrase every time he gave Luke a good whack with his baton. The concept resonated so well with moviegoers that it was voted No. 11 of the 100 all-time favorite movie quotes according to the American Film Institute.
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Letters to the Editor – May 19, 2013
Do you remember the “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” sign that the personnel on the USS Abraham Lincoln displayed to greet President Bush when he went out to greet them?
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Guest opinion: Campaign with honor
All politics is local and personal! I hope that you and your family have a wonderful summer, filled with relationship building experiences and times of relaxation. As you do all the things that re-charge us for the next round at work and involvement in community and political activities, let’s reflect on the 2013 local elections for a moment.
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TISCIONE: Woe for calling evil good
You don’t often see “woe” used in an article. It’s a word that has fallen out of usage in our day. But it’s a word that ought to be understood and taken seriously.
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Letters to the Editor – May 17, 2013
As mercury pollution threatens our waterways and carbon pollution-fueled climate change worsens extreme weather, we need someone in Washington who knows how to get things done.
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Letters to the Editor – May 15, 2013
I just wanted to express my heartfelt thanks to the slobs, idiots and inconsiderate people who continually decorate the beautiful Texas landscape with their trash. I guess it’s really a form of art with beer bottles and cans, boxes, plastic drink containers, food packaging and just about anything else you can think of. It just doesn’t appeal to me. Thank you.
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NOW HEAR THIS: Not by the hairs of my chinny chin chin
I had never really considered this possibility, but every one of the Three Little Pigs was almost certainly a guy. I know that assumption is not particularly popular from an equal opportunity standpoint, but the fact is fairly certain. How do I know? They all three had hair on their chinny chin chins.
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ESTES: Securing a bright future for Texas
Texas businesses have created more than 500,000 jobs since November 2011. Our economy is growing nearly 50 percent faster than the rest of the country and our cost of living remains low.
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TISCIONE: ‘It’s not about me’
“It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning and your faithfulness by night.”
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