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From our February 2012 edition of Senior Beacon:

2012 Senior Citizen of the Year

Senior Life Festival 2012

Observations From the Cave

 

2012 Senior Citizen of the Year

May 2012 is Older Americans Month and citizens have the opportunity to nominate and honor a very special senior citizen during the annual Senior Life Festival being held April 27, 2012 at the Sangre De Cristo Arts Center.

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.

 

15th Annual Seniors Life Festival

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.

 

Observations From the Cave

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.

The truth of the matter is: the Dems controlled the last two years of GWB’s administration stopping cold anything he wanted to do and absolute control of the first two years of BHO’s term and still owns the Senate which stops anything and everything the House wants to do. BHO has nothing to run on. His policies are abject failures: His treatment of illegal aliens is abhorrent (read the Chieftain’s Ruben Navarette sometime), 99 week unemployment welfare - come on, the 2 million jobs taken off the roles so as he can show that the unemployment rate is dropping when the effective rate is nearly 17%, a stagnate economy although his book-cooking might get him re-elected. His wife’s $10 million worth of vacations, his infamous Wednesday night parties at the White House featuring the "who’s who" of the entertainment industry performing and guesting. His attacking of our debt as if he’s had nothing whatsoever to do about it. His Pikes Peak of regulations that stifle everything the private sector tries to do, his miserable foreign policy and let’s not forget his refusal to allow the pipeline from Canada to our refineries in Texas and Oklahoma which really are shovel-ready jobs. Does this guy do anything except play golf and take vacations and lie a lot? No ladies and gents, BHO is by far the worst president of my lifetime (since 1949) and running against the Republican "congress" in which the House has held for one year is laughable and it is laughable that anyone from the Left would embrace this nonsense. But the media and the bloggers will drumbeat this lie all year.

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.

Then I read another comment that in two years the Panana Canal is going to open locks that are 50 percent wider to accommodate ships that can carry some 18,000 containers of goods, up from 9,000. Problem is, these moving mountains need at least to be able to port in 50 feet deep water and none of our southeastern ports are that deep. So, of course, the usual BHO regulatory agencies, lawsuits, enviro impact studies, and etc. will slow the dredging of these harbors in Charleston, Wilmington, Savannah and Jacksonville among others. Some estimates say it will take upwards of ten years to make happen. Problem is, these cargo ships will be ready and moving through Panama in 2014. Guess we should really turn up the global warming so the sea will rise so we can get our goods. I read the Chieftain’s op-ed page religiously, along with many periodicals, blogs, internet-based columnists and magazines on the Left and the Right. One of the folks I read all the time is Ruben Navarrette who constantly calls out the Republicans on behalf of the folks from south of the border. To be fair he has been pounding BHO for his heavy-handedness when it comes to deporting undocumented aliens these past three years. But concerning his and the rest of the media’s "Republicans as racist rants," wasn’t it Ronald Reagan (a Republican President from 1980-1988) that gave the south of the border denizens amnesty? I’m sure it was so why all the hating on the folks from the Right?

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.

 

 

 

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