Tea Parties Are Everywhere!
April 7, 2009 by OpinionHead
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If you have been looking for a tea party in your area, odd are that there is one! The map below is a link, click it and you will go to the Google Search page. I am absolutely impressed! I have to say it, it sure looks like “We The People” are standing up to be heard!
I had wanted to go to San Antonio, to the Alamo Tea Party, but now that one is in my area, I am planning on going to that one, and if everything goes right, with several friends. I am placing the contact info below, so if you are in the Bryan/College Station Texas area, please RSVP to the email address listed. I hope to see you all there!
Tanglewood Park
3900 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan, Texas
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What are those little flags at the bottom of the page?
April 4, 2009 by OpinionHead
Filed under News
What are those little flags? In case you were wondering, I just thought I would tell you. Everybody has a “counter” on their site, that is what this is, only not quite so boring. If you would like to get your own, for your site, follow this link to FlagCounter.com.
As you can see, we are getting visitors from all over the world, and the issues that are covered here, must be important to more than just us Americans, the world is watching.
You can click the link below the flags to see a more detailed report, or, you can click here. Please note, at the time of writing this, the screenshot is after just a few hours.
Thanks World for Visiting and thank you FlagCounter.com for providing this tool!
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An email from Michael McCaul 4/3
April 4, 2009 by OpinionHead
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April 3, 2009
Dear Friends,
This week I continued to stand up for the taxpayers in my district by voting against President Obama’s and Speaker Pelosi’s $3 trillion a year budget. Unfortunately, it passed. Over the next five years it will double the national debt. Over ten years it will triple our debt and raise taxes by $1.4 trillion. I encourage you to visit my new website, where you can see how quickly our debt is adding up, and view my speech on the House floor before yesterday’s vote.
I voted for an alternative to this massive spending bill called The Path to American Prosperity. It’s a blueprint for economic recovery that keeps spending and debt under control, keeps taxes low, and still addresses the country’s core needs. The Republican plan:
- Spends $4.8 trillion less than the Democrats’ budget over 10 years
- Brings spending back down to 20.7% of GDP, in line with the historical average, instead of climbing to 24.5% of GDP as proposed in the Obama budget
- Freezes non-defense/non-veterans spending, instead of increasing non-defense spending by more than 9% as proposed in the Obama budget
- Borrows $3.6 trillion less than the Obama budget over 10 years
- Increases the Defense budget by $5 billion over the cuts in the Obama budget
- Increases Veterans funding by $540 million over the President’s budget
- Institutes pro-growth tax cuts instead of $1.5 trillion in tax increases on small businesses and families as proposed in the Obama budget
- Creates 2.1 million more Jobs than the Democrats’ Budget
- Suspends capital gains taxes through 2010 instead of increasing taxes on investment
- Institutes needed entitlement reforms to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security and Medicare
Today I am heading back home for the April District Work Period. Over the next two weeks I hope to see many of you as I travel the 10th District to discuss our economic situation, and continue to offer solutions.
Free Taxpayer Seminars!
Congressman McCaul will be hosting Taxpayer Seminars on Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Representatives from the IRS will be available to answer your tax questions in Tomball and Pflugerville. There will be presentations on the IRS resources available to you and an opportunity for you to get your general tax questions answered. Please contact our Austin district office at (512) 473-2357 for more information.
Tomball 6:30-7:30pm
Community Library at Lone Star College, Building 9
30555 Tomball Parkway
Click here for a campus map.
Pflugerville 7:30-8:30pm
Pflugerville Public Library
102 S 10th St
VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE!
The address is the same: www.house.gov/mccaul.
We are proud of our new communication tool The objective is to give you more ways to be in contact with me, and more ways for me to hear what’s important to you. Government is all about serving the people, and this new technological tool we have will help us do a better job. Our new features include:
- News stories featuring my work on big issues are more accessible
- Floor speeches and hearing video are readily available
- A Survey and Blog will give you a new opportunity to voice your opinion and generate discussions
- National Debt Clock
I wish you and your family a great weekend, and a Happy Easter and Passover.
With best regards,
Michael T. McCaul
Member of Congress
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Tax Day Coalition: Get Involved Now!
April 3, 2009 by OpinionHead
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Join the Tax Day Coalition Now! These folks have put togather a beatiful website to help link us all together, so spread the word! Go to the site and submit your tea party group, or just sign up as one of us protestors! It is a very simple process, just takes a xouple of seconds, so, go there and register now! Either click this link, or the image below and it will take you there!
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Mad Magazine: I think they got it right!
February 14, 2009 by OpinionHead
Filed under Opinions and Attitudes
While browsing the web, I found an article telling about Mad Magazines current issue, sorry, I forgot where, but that got me curious, so I eventually went to Mad’s website to see about this myself. (If you want to see it for yourself, just click the image and it will take you to Mad’s site.) Mad is usually a bit left leaning, but always funny, I think I am going to subscribe, I used to get it, hmm, I wonder why I stopped? Anyway, if you click the image and go to their site, you can preview the issue, it is funny!
Anyway, it makes me stop and think, what would that first 100 minutes really be like? Ok, you know that the first 100 minutes went by so fast, he probably didn’t have time to think about anything, it was all just ceremony, pretty stuff for the press, things that didn’t really matter to the rest of us. I guess if I was one of his cult like followers, maybe I would have been impacted by the whole scene, but, me, personally, I was just sick!
Watching the hoards of people that endured God only knows what to just be there, I was reminded of Jonestown and the Kool-Aid. I have to admit, whatever it is that must be passed around at his rallies, has to be good stuff! It is going to be funny when the buzz wears off and reality hits!
You may have noticed that I wasn’t posting much since the election, as I said above, I was sick! The thought of where this water walking twin of the antichrist is going to take this country, I didn’t want to just start writing and say something based only on emotion, heck, at that point, the secret service may have wanted to talk to me, I was absolutely furious! I have to admit, waiting to write has been a good decision, now, I can write based on things that have happened, like that porkulus spending bill, wow, whodathunkit? Me, thats who! That is, me and everyone else who isn’t drinking the Obama Kool-Aid! Follow the porkulus link and read more about it, I still cannot believe it! I am having flashbacks to when I was a kid and Jimmy (Peanut-head) Carter was president, remember the gas shortages, the cost of living, unemployment, oh boy, I am glad that I am not a clueless teenager anymore, like the people that voted for Obama! Why do I say that, hey, I am 46 now, I know what is coming, and it will be worse than when Peanut-head was in charge!
I know, they are going to blame Bush, but only the Kool-Aid drinkers will believe that, I mean did Bush bring down the whole world economy? Not likely, these things, just like the weather, come in cycles, that old “what goes up must come down” thing, ya know? Just as (Man-Made) Global warming is being proven false, the truth will come out, eventually, and my Grandchildren will hopefully read the history books and wonder, why did Obama do the same thing they did to cause the great depression? Think about it, you cannot spend your way out of debt! You know, last I heard we are in the weather patterns simular to the 30′s and 40′s, hmm, just like the economy, what a coincidence.
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OpinionHead: Now you can follow me on Twitter!
February 13, 2009 by OpinionHead
Filed under Opinions and Attitudes
I have checked out all of the “Social” pages, like MySpace, FaceBook, and so on, and have finally found one that I like, Twitter! This one just works for me, and now, I have installed a plugin that will make it easy for you Twitter fans to keep up with my Ranting! Well, the goal is to get others to come here and Rant with me, maybe I should say, against me?
If you use WordPress and Twitter, just click on the TWITME logo below, it will take you to the WordPress site where you can download the plugin for yourself. I have added a Twitter Badge to a sidebar where you can go to my Twitter Account and Follow Me, when you see something here that you have an “Opinion” about, come here and post a comment, whether you agree or disagree, come join in! We also have a forum to get into more of a discussion if you like. For those that are interested, I could sure use some help, this site is supposed to be for everybody’s opinions, not just mine! See ya on Twitter!
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