The Pueblo Area Agency on Aging and the Pueblo Advisory Council on Aging will honor an outstanding Pueblo County senior citizen who has made significant contributions to our community through volunteer services. The nominee must be 60 years of age or older.

Nomination forms are available through the Pueblo Area Agency on Aging 719-583-6120. Nominations will be accepted through March 9, 2012.

Great news everyone!!!!! The 15th annual Senior Life Festival has a new home this year!!!! The Sangre De Cristo Arts and Conference Center!!!!!! We are very excited about our move and hope all of you will join us to Celebrate our annual tribute to Older Americans Month. Don’t forget the date!!!! April 27, 2012. For info please call 719-634-2343. Thanks, Kathilee Champlin.

Does anyone else think the congressional bill passed a while back that makes it impossible for any elected member of their "hallowed halls" to be prosecuted for insider trading is a direct slap in the face of ‘we the people?’

QUOTES: "Once the state promises to take care of the citizen, the citizen believes that more subsidies are still never enough. And once voters believe that defense spending is an impediment to greater entitlements, the fewer impediments they will pay for. The net result is something like the squabbling, soon-to-collapse European Union: trillions in unfunded entitlement liabilities, and unable to defend itself."

Victor Davis Hanson

So the latest from the Left is that Obama’s administration has been hamstrung for the past 3 years because of the Republican congress’s intransigence. That’s rot gut of the highest order. In BHO’s first two years in office he had filibuster-proof majorities in the House and Senate. He rammed through a totalitarian health bill (Obamacare - as Nancy Pelosi then-Speaker of the House infamously trumpeted: "We have to pass the bill to see what’s in it." He ran up $5.1 trillion in deficit spending, more spending than all the presidents before him combined, has some 50 czars with seeming unfettered and unlimited power who were never vetted and answer only to the President and even now BHO makes recess appointments when congress isn’t even in recess (I believe the man thinks he’s a king). Don’t swallow this malarky from BHO and his sycophants that the reason why things are so rotten here is because of the Republicans who have control of the House for just this past year and have passed bill after bill that would help our country if not for Harry Reid (Senate leader-Democrat) who won’t even take up these bills in the Senate.

Ah yes. Remember the Arab Spring? The Left’s term for democracy in arab lands. Well, in Eqypt the democrats were wiped out literally; the pogrom of the Coptic Christians is ongoing and anathema to democracy and the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists have control now. The numbers were 78 percent to 22 percent. Guess who got the 22 percent? Next to go is the Camp David Accords that kept the peace with Israel all these years. I know everyone can hate on the Jews, Enagelicals and Catholics, that’s not racist I guess. Oh yes and Sharia law will be in full force. Tough to be a female in any arab land now.

Quote: "Freedom is liberty coupled with responsibility to something bigger or higher than the self. It is a self-less freedom. It is a sacrificial freedom. It is the pursuit of our dreams with an eye towards the common good." Rick Santorum

I read recently two things that seemed to contradict each other big time! According to the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project (has to be tax-payer funded) that since the 1950’s (those were the years that we were told we were heading into global cooling) global temps have increased nine-tenths of a degree Celcius and during the next century, because of our lifestyles, estimates are we will get 2 to 5 degrees warmer Celcius which means species won’t survive and the seas will rise and the ice caps will melt and on and on.

And finally, we’ve heard from BHO that the mess that was left by GWB was much messier than anyone thought. He said it again in 2011 when he wanted to be president for four more years. He said he needed more time to fix the mess. So we all must believe that growing government, increasing regulations on business and not allowing the pursuit of new sources of gas and oil are making things better, not worse?

The simple truth is BHO’s last federal budget was almost $1 trillion larger than GWB "outlandish" 2008 budget. We now owe over $4 tillion more than we did in 2008 and unemployment is approximately double what it was. Never have more people been on food stamps. Our credit rating has dropped. I rest my case. Boeing can’t move its plant.

Godspeed.