About two weeks ago I visited Congressman Chet Edwards’ (D-TX 17) Bryan, Teas office. I commented about that here.

Chet Edwards - "Please just answer the question."

I went back today.

Leila, who was very cordial to me before, was not at all like that this time. Seems one of the things they do at that office is Google your name after you visit, which brought her to my Redressing My Grievances post. As I was sitting myself down, she asked me if I had brought my recorder with me this time. I said I had, and she asked me to turn it off and said something about it not being allowed in a federal office, or some such. I turned it off prior to that, because I’m a nice guy and my primary purpose for visiting is to redress my grievances, not get anybody in any “gotcha” situations.

I use a digital recorder for all my client visits and taking notes. A one-eyed guy doesn’t have a lot of resources to spend on a notepad and pen, so my recorder is with me wherever I go. Note that I never posted the audio on the blog, or anywhere else on the web. (more…)

Today’s American Thought is posted to Twitter twice a day, mid-morning and mid-evening Central Time. They are quotes, or condensed quotes from Americans and others around the world who have embodied the American Spirit with their words. I post the same quote twice to catch those people who have different schedules and may find my morning post gets so far down on the list of tweets they are trying to catch up with that they might miss these meaningful mentions.

This listing is updated weekly here on this page to give the full quotation and the citation…something that is difficult to do in the 140 character limit of Twitter.

I hope you enjoy! (more…)

As reported on CNSNews.com

Conyers Sees No Point in Members Reading 1,000-Page Health Care Bill--Unless They Have 2 Lawyers to Interpret It for Them

And this is after telling constituents in April:

I want everyone from my district in southeast Michigan and across the country to know that I will do my best to help bring coverage to all Americans.

In case you missed it, here’s the video:

Thanks to Doc for sending this info to me. Doc is a regular commenter on American Writes. (more…)

Here’s a map you and your money will follow if the Socialized Obamacare Medical Plan gets passed.

See if you can follow this bouncing ball… (more…)

And here’s how… (more…)

Mr. Obama had a conference call with Liberal Bloggers on Monday, 20 July 2009.

In the audio attached below, the following exchange occurs:

During the call, a blogger from Maine said he kept running into an Investors Business Daily article that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance. He asked: “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.” (The quote begins around 17:10 into the call)
(As originally reported in The Morning Bell) (more…)

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So I went to Congressman Chet Edwards office in Bryan today.

There was a nice lady there (sorry, left her card in my car or I’d tell you her name, but it’s on the audio), Leila, who was certainly an advocate for Mr. Edwards…but i don’t think she was ready for all my concerns.

We covered healthcare and veterans and stem cells…the latter two were not my reason for going, but they are all connected.

She took my name and address (cleaned that off tha the audio…sorry!) and seemed to jot down one or two words…but I suspect I’ll get a form letter response, if anything. But I’m looking forward to opening a dialog here…I think she can be turned to the dark side. Maybe I should make it a point to visit every Friday. Hmmm… weekly reports on my redressing…

Anyhoo, here’s the audio. It’s about 12 minutes long.

(Oops! My audio editor isn’t working…I’ll post the audio as soon as I get it going!)

Update (29 July 2009): Got my audio editor working, but never posted the audio. That relates to my visit on 29 July that I comment about here.

Let’s follow the bouncing ball here, shall we.

First: Read the CIT Press Release Here

Second: Who owns one of the largest lending companies in America? That’s right…ostensibly you do, but really your President does. That company is GMAC.

Those first two letters stand for General Motors.

Here’s how GMAC’s ownership stacks up as of June 1, 2009, according to their own Investor FAQs: (more…)

I think you should take a look at this. It’s really interesting. Event hough it is easy to connect dots with any preconceived notion or hypotheseis (the usual modus operandi of conspiracy theorists), I think it is of value to recognize that things could be in the works regardless of whether or not one singular person or entity is driving it. (more…)

Our liberal friends went for a party and a regime broke out…