Question Of The Week, 8/31/08

Good morning. Two Questions Of The Week with nothing between them again. Yes being a Constitution Party of Missouri Co-Chair from Buchanan County is keeping me busy. The Constitution Party of Missouri's web site crashed and was down for several days this week. If I was a conspiracy theorist I could read something into that. I read an interesting column by Pat Buchanan in Human Events. The column focuses on " the issue of race in this campaign." (Continue Reading). This weeks Question Of The Week is. Do you feel an Obama loss could cause racial problems/maybe even rioting in the streets in some parts of the United States?

I'll post my answer in the Comment Section Tuesday morning.

God Bless America, God Save The Republic.

Thanks go to:
Human Events.

Question Of The Week, 8/24/08

Good morning. Yesterdays papers all across the country pretty much ran the same article which answered a question many folks had been asking. "WASHINGTON (AP) _ Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues." (Continue Reading). This weeks Question Of The Week is. Since Obama's campaign has been all about "change" do you suppose that some Democrats/Obama supporters might have felt that they had been duped when he announced he had selected a running mate that has been a member of the United States Senate for the past 36 years?

I'll post my answer in the Comment Section Tuesday morning.

God Bless America, God Save The Republic.

Thanks go to:
The St. Joseph News-Press

It's Party Time!!

Recently I received an e-mail from the Sunlight Foundation telling about a new blog site they have set up "so you can track the lavish parties lobbyists and big companies put on for our politicians. On the Web site, you're able to search for your member of Congress and see who has been throwing parties for them, and we even have a special section set up for the upcoming Democratic and Republican conventions." The good folks over at the Sunlight Foundation must have heard that old saying "The more the merrier" because they ask me to invite some friends over to check out their party. Come on, it's just getting started lets go see who's there. It's Party Time!

God Bless America, God Save The Republic.

Thanks go to:
The Sunlight Foundation

Question Of The Week, 8/17/08

Good morning. I have a good excuse (IMO) for not posting anything for a week. I've (We've) been busy. My Wife, Sue and I have agreed to be the Constitution Party of Missouri Co-Chairs for Buchanan County. This will be on an interim basis until the October Convention. At that time a vote will be taken to see if we keep the position or not.

This weeks question deals with a statement a candidate for President from one of our two major parties made this past week. I have heard that (candidate) Senator John McCain said former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge's pro-choice position would not rule him out as a running mate. This weeks Question Of The Week is. Would a pro-choice running mate hurt or help the McCain campaign?

I'll post my answer in the Comment Section Tuesday morning.

God Bless America, God Save The Republic.

Question Of The Week, 8/10/08

Good morning. We have a real important election coming up in the very near future now. It is up to us to decide who is going to run our country for the next four years. We count on the news media to provide us with the information we need so we will be informed voters when we go cast our votes. This weeks Question Of The Week will be multiple choice. When it comes to getting this information out to the voters would you say the media does (A) An excellent job. (B) A good job. (C) A fair job. (D) A poor job. (E) A very poor job.

I'll post my answer in the Comment Section Tuesday morning.

God Bless America, God Save The Republic.

City Has Fastest-Growing Hispanic Population In U.S.

Here's a question for you and it isn't even Sunday. What United States city has the country's fastest growing Hispanic population? According to an August, 8, 2008 article in my local paper and the United States Census Bureau the answer is Saint Joseph, Missouri. "The Hispanic population in Buchanan County grew from 2,397 people in July 2006 to 2,980 in July 2007, a 24 percent increase. The majority of the growth occurred in St. Joseph, where a 21 percent jump was the largest by percentage in the nation." (Continue Reading) I live in the part of Saint Joseph that a good deal of these new residents have set up house keeping in. When I first heard that Triumph Foods was going to put a pork packing plant in Saint Joseph I knew we would see an increase in our Hispanic population but I never would have guessed that we'd be able to say we're number one. I don't have a problem with immigrants. I don't even have a problem with immigrants moving into my neighborhood, I wish they'd learn to speak English. I guess Mr. Ochoa and I will have to disagree there. I wonder, do auto shops in Mexico have English speaking mechanics to help United States citizens that take trips into Mexico? I do have a problem with people that come into our country illegally. They are not immigrants, they are illegal aliens and they should be deported as soon as they are caught. I have a problem with companies that knowingly hire illegal aliens. When ever they are caught doing this they should be fined lets say one thousand dollars per illegal caught. The fines should be doubled for a second offence, tripled for a third and so on. They should also pay all legal fees involved with the illegals deportation hearing and the transportation cost to get them back to the country they came from.

God Bless America, God Save The Republic.

Thanks go to:
The St. Joseph News-Press

Question Of The Week, 8/03/08

Good morning. Oh man it's the third of August, our oldest Great-Grand-Child's second birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Heather! I didn't have any problems coming up with a question this week. Because of an article in my local paper you almost got a question about Internet Addiction. I said almost because a column by Chuck Baldwin won out. In that column Mr. Baldwin says, "It is hard for this writer to laud President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but in this case, even the socialist Roosevelt showed more integrity than our so-called "conservative" President, George W. Bush. When the 1936 Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany, President Roosevelt refused to attend those ceremonies for fear that his presence would give honor and prestige to the notorious Adolf Hitler. And so it would have. And, by the same token, when President Bush attends the opening ceremonies in China, he is giving honor and prestige to the bloody butchers of Beijing who have persecuted, tortured, and murdered multiplied thousands of the Chinese people since the communist regime took power in 1949." (Continue Reading) This weeks Question Of The Week is. By attending the opening ceremonies is President Bush condoning actions China has taken which many people in the United States and in other parts of the world feel are human rights violations?

I'll post my answer in the Comment Section Tuesday morning.

God Bless America, God Save The Republic.

Thanks go to:
The St. Joseph News-Press
Chuck Baldwin