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Education: ea Party Patriots Farmer Relief and Freedom Relay - Kern County Rally

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:19:10 PST

Saturday November 21, 2009 5:00pm to 8:00pm - Pandol and Sons Farms (M & L Cold Storage) 33164 Pond Road, Delano CA 93215

The Farmer Relief & Freedom Relay will be a partner with Saving the Valley that Hope Forgot – A Tea Party Patriots™ relief effort across the nation to assist the farmers of California’s Central Valley. In actions that can only be described as lacking the most basic humanity, the U.S. Congress has turned off the water to Central Valley farmers, leaving their land dry, their fields fallow, and their dreams and ambitions scattered in the dust.

There will be speakers, music, and food for the entire family!

Keep this date and location handy as you tell friends, family, and acquantances about the national relay rally coming to the North Kern County area as

its final stop before reaching the final destination of Fresno. The relay begins on November 8 in three locations on the east coast and they will trek

across the nation and end in Fresno. The Southern Route will pass through Kern County and make a stop between McFarland and Delano on November 21, 2009.

I call on all patriots across Kern County to stand united and show our support for valley farmers and farm workers who are suffering economically under

the policies and court orders of our government!

Any support that you can give to this effort will be greatly appreciated. This will be the first Tea Party Patriot Rally held in the McFarland/Delano area. We will rally in Kern county on Saturday night and then we invite people to follow the caravan into Fresno on Sunday afternoon for the finale!

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/FarmReliefFreedomRelay/

http://www.savingthevalley.org

Democrats Really are Runnin' Scared!!!!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:02:55 PST

Dems Seek Fundraising Boost in War With Palin

by FOXNews.com

With the media spotlight squarely on Sarah Palin and her "Going Rogue" book tour across the nation, Democrats are gearing up for a battle -- and trying to cash in.

President Obama's political arm, Organizing for America, has sent a fundraising e-mail seeking to raise $500,000 in the next week to stop a "dangerous" Palin from derailing the Democrats' effort to overhaul health care.

"Remember, this is the person who coined the term 'Death Panels' -- and opened the flood gates for months of false attacks by special interests and partisan extremists," the e-mail read.

"Whatever lie comes next will be widely covered by the media, then constantly echoed by right-wing attack groups and others who are trying to defeat reform," the e-mail said.

Palin began a promotional tour this week for her memoir, with plans to travel through several states that were key to the 2008 election. The memoir was released Tuesday but has topped best-seller lists for weeks.

Her tour has already attracted controversy

The U.S. Army had planned to ban the media from Palin's book signing next week at Fort Bragg, fearing it would turn into political grandstanding against Obama. But the Army decided to allow the media limited coverage after the the Associated Press and a local newspaper protested.

Insiders who've spoken with Palin recently said she seems eager to run in 2012, and opinion polls show she has the most public support of any Republican hopeful.

Among self-identified Republicans in a recent Fox News poll, Palin gets the highest favorable ratings (70 percent) amid a group of other possible contenders for the GOP nomination, including Mike Huckabee (63 percent), Mitt Romney (60 percent) and Newt Gingrich (58 percent). Palin's favorable score among all voters is 47 percent, up 9 percentage points over last July's reading of 38 percent.

"Going Rogue" follows Palin from childhood to her departure last summer as Alaska governor. The title refers to her independent streak as a candidate, stemming from complaints within the campaign of GOP presidential nominee John McCain that she had gone "rogue" by disagreeing with the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan last October.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Comments:
MadMan commented:

The Democrats are not scared of Sarah Palin. Ask a Democrat who he or she wants to be the Republican nominee in 2012. Sarah Palin guarantees President Obama a second term.

witterpitters commented:

Only in your dreams (nightmares I would guess) MM.

Deanz70 commented:

Palin, Huckabee, Gingrich, & Romney.............LMAO............now there's a group you can believe in!!!!...PLEASE run Palin..........and then you can quit just before election day!!............She cannot be serious.........oh, wait..............

NancyII commented:

Sounds like you guys think the only way obama can win next go round is if Palin runs. Doesn't say much for your guy now does it?

Deanz70 commented:

Nancy.....sounds more like you're the only one thinking that.................wow............always twist it to your needs..........how convenient.

NancyII commented:

C'mon Dean, open your eyes. All I see on here is "oh boy, I hope she runs, that way obama is guaranteed to win."

I didn't say it, remember that.

savvydude commented:

Mao-bama has dropped below 50% approval rating. He is so vapid, so unaware, so leftist that he will not win in 2012. And beyond that, he is destroying the Democrat party with every proposal. You need not look at 2012 anyway - the watershed will occur in about a year.

Just watch.

It's a Mad, Mad World: Parasailin' with Sarah Palin

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:44:57 PST

Hilarious video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75QlTG3m9vs

No holds barred: Lies and cover ups tarnish California Air Resources Board

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:33:08 PST

It’s not the lie, it’s the cover up that’ll get you.

How many times does this wisdom have to be pounded into the heads of bureaucrats?

The scandal over how a lead researcher behind California’s new diesel truck rules lied about his credentials continues to grow.

At Thursday’s California Air Resources Board meeting, one of the board members said the legitimacy of the rule is in question because of the lie and subsequent cover up and asked for a legal opinion on what should be done next.

The problem started with Hien Tran, the lead author of the report on which the new diesel rules were based, who lied about having a Ph.D. degree in statistics from U.C. Davis.

Though the lie was brought to some CARB bureaucrats’ attention well before the vote on the draconian rules last December, it was kept “in house” until I and an editorial writer for the San Diego Union Tribune got wind of it and started hammering on it early last spring.

Turns out, not all the board members, who voted on the rules based on Tran’s report, were told of his lies.

But some were — and kept mum.

The issue was brought to the full board’s attention at its September meeting in Diamond Bar by regular citizens.

At the time, board member John Telles, a medical doctor, was quite upset, saying, “This is the first time I’ve actually been apprised that there was fraud in the organization here.

“In my world, if an article was published by somebody who didn’t have a Ph.D. and said he had a Ph.D., the whole thing would be nixed...I just find it incredible.”
Well, he did some of his own digging and at this week’s meeting he asked that CARB’s legal counsel issue an opinion on what more should be done.

Telles also laid out a stunning chronology that revealed many CARB muckey-mucks, including chair Mary Nichols, knew about the lie before the vote and never said anything.

Tran’s lie was first brought up by Dr. Stan Young in November 2008 to the California Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency, who sent Young a letter dated Nov. 4, 2008, assuring him of Tran’s credentials.

Then on Dec. 3 and 4, 2008, UCLA professor Jim Enstrom contacted three CARB board members telling them of Tran’s indiscretion.

One of those board members, who I’ve reported was John Balmes, asked CARB staffers to investigate.

By Dec. 10, Tran had confessed. Those in the know included Nichols, Balmes and at least five other top CARB members.

The vote on the diesel rules using Tran’s report was the next day, Dec. 11, 2008 and the full board wasn’t told.

Even after the cat was out of the bag at last September’s meeting, Telles said, “Staff never mentioned that they had this information prior to the vote.”

Based on all that, Telles said, the legitimacy of the vote is in question as well as the legitimacy of the truck rule “and CARB itself.”

“How we handle this reflects on the future credibility of CARB.”

Yes, it does. Just ask Richard Nixon.

No holds barred: Lies and cover ups tarnish California Air Resources Board

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:32:50 PST