STRAIGHTS NEED NOT ATTEND

      STRAIGHTS  NEED  NOT  ATTEND


THE ROMEOS (Retired Old Men Eating Out): who hang out in the Brookshire's Deli
for their daily bread and gravy need to spice up their conversational fare with the new
ways of Wimberley.  FORGET City Hall!  The action has shifted to the Wimberley Play-
house.  The closest this bunch has ever been to a play is to having their oil changed at
the Lube Shop next door.

The brou-ha-ha over the controversial play - "SORDID LIVES" - scheduled for November
by The Wimberley Players points up that many Wimberleyites are still influenced by
Christian-Judeo mores and are greatly offended by having a home grown cultural estab-
lishment like the Wimberley Playhouse cater to a supposed audience not here to fore
found in Wimberley; but, that the play would find enthusiastic embracement in cities
like San Francisco and Austin.

Evidently, the  "Artistic Director" thinks that Wimberley has or should come of age, and
that there is a an ample segment of the Wimberley population that would identify with
the characters and the story line of the play.  Maybe, maybe not, in any event, ticket sales
and attendance will bear that out. 

What's next, Gay Pride Week in Wimberley?  What a parade that would make!

Clint Frankmann

"TROUBLE, RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY"

  "TROUBLE, RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY"


ATTN:   PLEASE FORWARD TO:  Professor John Hood

Professor Hood,

Did you THINK that the Community of WIMBERLEY would JUST ROLL OVER & "SUCK IT UP"????

Below, is the First email that went out to 200 or so Friends of mine in the Wimberley area, including San Marcos, Buda, Kyle and Dripping Springs, along with one attachment - your letterl  ONLY one NEGATIVE came back.


The MAIN BODY went out yesterday to the same numbers with two attachments and as this AM, ONLY one NEGATIVE has come back. 

GEE, what NICE FRIENDS that I HAVE???

Chuck Peterson
Wimberley, TX.

#1

Chuck, Here is letter! Enjoy!

With the above line and Attachment, forwarded to me a week or so, WE, HERE in WIMBERLEY, ENTERED into A NEW STRUGGLE - with the IDEA of a "raunchy" PLAY COMING here to THE PLAYERS Theater on Nov. 8.  There was a LITTLE HOPE at Monday's MTG, that there MIGHT BE a GOOD RESOLUTION to the situation; BUT, such was NOT the OUTCOME!!  So, IT IS TIME to PUT THIS OUT INTO the Wimberley Community for YOUR INPUT.

Folks, I am getting the rest of this letter looked at BEFORE sending out; BUT did NOT want to hold this part up.

Should you WANT TO BE TAKEN OFF THIS LIST, JUST LET ME KNOW.

Chuck Peterson

#2

Friends, this is WRITTEN to you NOT for an audience in a paper etc., so it is easier to express MY
THOUGHTS personally.

I have heard the BACKGROUND INFO on this STORY from the MAIN PEOPLE here in WIMBERLEY
who I HAVE the UTMOST RESPECT FOR - such as those that WROTE the Letters to the Editor in last
Saturday's (8th) Wimberley View and other people in this community that I TALKED TO at length.  ALL
three were just EXCELLENTLY WRITTEN, and one of them, Lee's, took the WORDS right OUT OF MY
MOUTH!!  Some time you are JUST SO IN TUNE with LIKE MINDED People!!  I also think Charles
McClure's front page was VERY FAIR and GAVE US MUCH AMMUNITION AGAINST the other side. 
But NOW, it has COME TO LIGHT in the Sept. 12 edition of a MAJOR ERROR:  His wife, Gina, DID
NOT VOTE against the Production of "SORDID LIVES" by Del Shores, as there NEVER was a VOTE by
the Board of Directors while she was out of town.  Her Letter to the Editor on the back page clarifies the
above and ends with this quote: "I have been very open with the board that I personally do not feel
Sordid Lives is good material for our audience due to the fear of damage it may cause for the Players.
But with that said, I stand behind my fellow board members and the democratic process of majority
decision".

I am FORWARDING these TWO Attachments that establish the commitment between Prof. John Hood 
at State Texas University who also serves as the Artistic Director for The Wimberley Players. This is felt
by OUR GROUP as PURE CONFLICT of INTEREST and REVEALS an AGENDA.  But, basically, for
you WHO HAVE NOT been following this story in Wimberley, I will NOW EXPRESS MY THINKING
on this ISSUE.  Most of you that KNOW ME, I LIKE to use CAPS for EMPHASIS - NOT ANGER!!

FIRST, we have Professor  HOOD who HEADS up the HONORS CLASS in the LGBT Studies at Texas
State Univ. - (LGBT  =  Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender).  NOW, the Prof. CAME HERE to Texas
State from "OUT EAST - YALE UNIV." where he was a Prof/Dept. Head.  I have ALWAYS been LEARY
with PROFESSORS that COME OUT of the "IVY LEAGUE" schools,YALE, HARVARD etc.  IS IT NOW
AGENDA TIME IN TEXAS??

This professor and his associates from the university have gradually INFILTRATED OUR LOCAL
theatrical group and IMPOSED their LIBERAL IDEAS which have MORPHED into the PRESENTATION
of this Controversial play.  Many of the current Board of Directors and Past Presidents HAVE SIDED with
THEM.  NOW, THEY are RUNNING IT "WITH THEIR CORE VALUES"!!! 

In MY OPINION, Wimberley's "CORE VALUES" are MUCH DIFFERENT. Being a Retirement Community
mainly, whose long time residents established The Wimberley Players decades ago CERTAINLY maintained 
the "CORE VALUES" of this Community which were maintained during the Presidency of petitioner Allan 
Eastwood from 2000 to 2006.


DIRECTION of Allan Eastwood, they CERTAINLY maintained the "CORE VALUES" of this Community.
MY MAIN "CORE VALUE "is that of being a CHRISTIAN BELIEVER for nearly 30 years, as many are in
this Community. OR, they have developed "MORAL & ETHICAL VALUES" through out their life to lead
them to where they are NOW.

Personally for ME, I DO SEE THIS as CHRISTIAN VALUES vs NON-CHRISTIAN VALUES!!  GOOD vs
EVIL here!!  NO "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" here ( I DO NOT BELIEVE in that "CRAP" which became
popular in the 90's) - this IS FOR THE LEFTIST PROGRESSIVES - USING WORDS they "LOVE TO USE"
AGAINST 'US'":  "YOU are NOT TOLERANT   -   YOU HATE  -  YOU ARE DISCRIMINATING" for just
a few folks.  They LOVE TO "TRY & SHOVE IT DOWN OUR THROATS" which IS ALL THEY ARE
ABOUT!!

So, let us LOOK at these THREE PHRASES:

"TOLERANT".  YES, WE ARE and have been TOLERANT of you Prof. HOOD and your associates.  We
have LISTENED to YOU with your IDEAS.  BUT, as TOLERANT people, WE HAVE "the RIGHT" to
"OUR CONVICTIONS" - perhaps from CHRISTIAN VIEWS (mine) or people with their VALUES IN LIFE. 
Gilbert K. Chesterton has wrote a EXCELLENT article on "TOLERANCE".  If you would like me to SEND
this, just let me know.

"YOU HATE", this IS SO COMMONLY HEARD from the LEFTIST ORGANIZATIONS because IT IS A
FACT that 80% of the DEMOCRATS "DO NOT BELIEVE in GOD".  As CHRISTIANS  "WE ARE TAUGHT
TO LOVE" - WE PRAY for you "LOST SOULS", that the "HOLY SPIRIT" might "HIT YOU UPSIDE THE
HEAD" for a revival of YOUR MIND.  FOR ME, I THINK THIS for OBAMA & his CZARS - I do NOT SEE
ANY "REDEEMING GOOD" in this current ADMINISTRATION and HOW THEY ARE TEARING DOWN
"OUR COUNTRY".  So, Prof. HOOD, you CAN TAKE YOUR "Ingrained prejudiced" ATTITUDE that YOU
THINK "WE HAVE" and DROP IT IN THE San Marcos SEWER system and LOOK BACK IN THE MIRROR
at YOURSELF!! 

"DISCRIMINATING" - AGAIN, ONLY in "YOUR MIND" Professor HOOD - your LGBT Studies Group can
MEET & LIVE as YOU WANT - WE could care less; BUT, WE WILL NOT LET YOU COME IN & SHOVE
THIS "ATTITUDE" DOWN "OUR THROATS or OUR COMMUNITY"!!  IT IS NOT SOMETHING WE
HAVE TO ACCEPT!!  I think Prof. Hood sums IT ALL UP RIGHT HERE: He "has Published a blanket
response, which basically tells the Petitioners to 'SUCK IT UP' BECAUSE, LIKE IT OR NOT - 'SORDID
LIVES' IS HAPPENING"!!!   WHAT "ARROGANCE & CONDESCENSION" for the LACK OF ANY KIND
OF RESPECT" for the PEOPLE of WIMBERLEY!!!  IF I WAS THE MAYOR of WIMBERLEY, I WOULD ASK
Prof. HOOD FOR A APOLOGY TO THE COMMUNITY - don't YOU THINK????

What IS THE PROBLEM here Prof. HOOD - DID Texas State "TURN YOU DOWN" for putting this PLAY
ON in the WONDERFUL Theater there??  YOU COULD EASILY TAKE this PLAY TO AUSTIN and FILL
a Theater "WITH LIBERAL MINDED PEOPLE" - which I BELIEVE "YOU WILL HAVE TO DO THAT
HERE"!!! 

IF The Wimberley Players Org. DOES NOT manage to SURVIVE - DUE to lack of Attendance,  lack of
Monetary Funds, and Memberships NEXT YEAR,  WE CAN POINT TO YOU "AS THE FAILURE" - NOT
US GOOD PEOPLE OUT HERE in WIMBERLEY!!   WE WILL CONTINUE to "KEEP WIMBERLEY
BEAUTIFUL" in SPIRIT!!

JUST MY HONEST CHRISTIAN THOUGHTS!!  PTL

"OBAMA 2016" - the MOVIE

OK, I KNOW many of you all WILL NOT SEE - "OBAMA 2016" for various REASONS, so I am Posting my NOTES as BEST that I can READ my WRITING in the DARK. IT IS SO IMPORTANT that YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS OUTSTANDING MOVIE!!

OBAMA 2016

The theater was 1/2 filled for the NOON showing, probably 95% Seniors. I recognized a gentleman behind me and we talked after the show briefly. Also ran into another couple coming to the theater when we were leaving, good friends of ours.

The movie started off with the Revolution in India, 1947, and in Kenya in 1963, as both Dinesh and Obama's dad's were involved in both.

Moving on to the DEMO Convention in Denver, OBAMA is saying, "CHANGE HAS COME" and "Whether you are Black or White, I WILL BE YOUR PRESIDENT too"! People were saying that - OUR President IS the FUTURE.

Dinesh grew up in Mumbai (Bombay) and was very interested in History, studying the Roman, British and American Empires. He always thought that the USA was different kind of Empire - it was one of IDEAS. And, in 1978, he came to America to Dartmouth
College and was very involved in the Int'l Student Assoc. Had he stayed in India, there was the caste and dowry system, and he would have NEVER traveled more than a ONE Mile radius of his home. He was active on the Dartmouth Review, and the Liberals
called them Renegade Conservatives.

Now, OBAMA came out of NOWHERE. He came for HOPE, as he had a World View and had in mind a Global Structure. His Actions in his First Term: there has been a Loss of Wealth by 40% - the Greatest since the Depression. One of the First things he
did was to return the BUST of Winston Churchill. Than he was backing Argentina on the Falkland Islands issue with Great Britain. He delayed the Keystone Project and Blocked Oil Drilling; BUT, yet he was GIVING money to Brazil for Oil Development.
He decides to USE NASA as a Outreach to the Muslim Community. And, we saw in the Middle East what took place with USING Force in Libya; BUT, NOT in Syria. He seems to WANT Iran to HAVE Nukes; BUT, he WANTS to Slash our Nukes while Russia KEEPS theirs. His Baffling Behavior AGAINST
Israel while Supporting Palestinians.

What IS his DREAM?? "Dreams From MY Father" - NOT of his father??

He seems TO BE "Still Searching" for his IDENTITY!!

His father, born in '34, married in '52 - had two children, went to Hawaii where he met Ann and married her, and Obama was Born in 8/4/61 in Hawaii as Dinesh notes. So, we see that his father is a Polygamist. They do Divorce in '64. His father heads off to a Univ. in the states where he meets another women and he brings her back to Kenya. Obama does NOT see his Father again until '71, and he is Only 10. Than Obama gets a call from a Aunt Jane in '82 telling him that his Dad died in a car crash. They had corresponded over the years.

So, we have a Absentee father, and many would feel Abandoned and Hostile to his father BUT NOT Obama. His mom always continued to Build him UP in a very favorable light and Obama revered him.

Obama thinking that - I am NOT a Disappointment to my father. Having a IMAGE to live up to American and Africans alike.

At age 6 he moves to Jakarta, Indonesia as his Mom marries LoLo. Obama starts to hear things from his parents about Anti-Colonialism - how other countries were taking advantage of the people - their minerals and crops. Dinesh grew up in India and saw the same thing from the British - as they OWNED India. They DID encourage Education in India but there was always a Ceiling. This promoted a Anti-White feeling in Obama.

He hears his parents arguing and she is NOT happy with Lolo's capitalistic Ideas. Lolo was Pro Government which Ann hated. She continued to PASS on Ideas to Obama of his father. Finally, she sent Obama to live with grand parents in Hawaii. On Hawaii, Obama started hooking up with all kinds of Radical Orgs, especially dealing with American Colonization of Hawaii and
Occupation.

It was McKinley 100 years ago, at that time, that Hawaii became a State to the Dislike of many there from other countries and the original Hawaiian people. Since the 60's and 70's, there has been people trying a Legal Recourse for the pillaging of Hawaii's Pineapple & Sugar Industry by the Americans.

The grandparents thought that OBAMA needed a Mentor and hooked him up with Frank Marshall Davis, a know Communist and on the FBI list. He mentored OBAMA for 8 years. A Dr. Kangore talked about Marshall and all the DANGERS he presented. The Left call him the McCarthy person of this era.

Interesting enough, 1/3 of Obama's Book was about his trip back to Kenya when his father died. The Kenyan Government considered OBAMA's father a Diplomat.

Now, Obama's dad did have 5 wife's, and really abused his last one in Kenya. When Dinesh was going to meet with the grandma, Obama's 1/2 sister told her NOT to do the Interview. This was in Koyelo, the police had been called, so Dinesh and his crew feeling that IT WAS NO LONGER SAFE THERE, left.

So, Dinesh left for Nairobi where they located Obama's 1/2 brother, George, living in one of the WORST slums there. Last time he saw Obama was when he was 5 or 6. George feels that Obama is too busy with World affairs to assist him. Dinesh mentioned about the biblical verse Obama has mentioned -
"I am MY Brother's KEEPER". But, George said that he does NOT want anything from Obama. (Rick) - IT would be GOOD to know a little more about this Book that George wrote - who got the money etc??

There was an Interview with a guy WHO knew his father well. Who talked about his father's drinking and killing someone driving home. He was with him his last day when he left the bar at 1:30 PM, and was killed in a accident. This is when Aunt Jane called Obama to tell him: "Your father is dead"!

Obama felt the need TO GO TO Kenya to confront his Father's GHOST. He did have a sense of Abandonment. The scene at the grave is very moving as written in his book. He also talked about the PAIN that he felt but LET IT GO while at the grave as I remember. He talked about wanting TO BE WORTHY of his Father's LOVE. The IDEA of being LIKE ONE!!! The IDEA of taking THE NATION Radical to the Left. He was ANGRY about AMERICA taking over the Colonization of the World. He BECAME: Anti-Capitalization - Anti-Christ - Anti-Color!!

When he started running for President in 2008, he realized that THESE PEOPLE WANT TO LOVE ME - I WILL LET THEM. I WILL LET THEM HELP ME COME TO THE WHITE HOUSE!!! And, IT WAS a REAL ACCOMPLISHMENT for a 1/2 Black 1/2 White TO DO THIS!!! He was ABLE to HIDE Elements of his PAST to GAIN the White House.

OBAMA's Founding Fathers are: Frank Davis, Bill Ayers, a Prof. Said, another radical Prof. Unger from Brazil, his Pastor Jeremiah Wright, a couple Radical Left Profs at Harvard whose Names did NOT come to LIGHT - Ed was one, forgot the other, (Rick).

They talk about Wright being his Pastor for 20 years, Baptizing his children, and serving as a Surrogate father to Obama as Wright was PREACHING 3rd World Black Radical Theology - Anti-Colonization. There was talk of Wright being PAID $150,000 to NOT to talk. NOT SURE if it was OBAMA or Wright who said: "YOU have TO TELL the TRUTH"!!

He had this Natural Sense of what Race Relations WAS in the US and his Thinking was: "IS the U.S. the MOST EVIL NATION in the World. ALL THIS was Conveniently SWEPT UNDER THE RUG.

CHANGE HAS COME TO AMERICA, 221 years, BLOCK by BLOCK!! So, in 2009, CHANGE HAS COME!!!

NOW, the DREAMS of HIS Father CAN LIVE - as IT WAS UNDERSTOOD by the SON.

His BUST RETURN of Winston Churchill - IT was WC that CRUSHED the Mau Mau in Kenya.

NASA - A ORG. NOW to do INT'L RELATIONS to REACH OUT TO MUSLIMS.

He would LIKE to See the Falkland Islands RETURNED to Argentina.

George W. ATTITUDE about Anti-Colonization on his mind too.

Than there is the 1% but he is THINKING on a Global scale. OUR Poorest Americans are RICHER than others in the World.

He SEES many Groups as Anti-Colonist. He Supports the OCCUPY group.

He IS in the PROCESS of REMAKING AMERICA.

He SEES a Vicious AMERICA. Also the ISLAM NATION stretching from Libya across Africa into the Middle East to Iran. Bringing Israel TO IT'S KNEES.

The DEBT of AMERICA as a Means of REDUCTION!! There WILL BE A Tipping Point by David Walker - FORMER US CONTROLLER GENERAL, saying: WE are ONLY 2-3 years FROM BEING GREECE!!

WE are STILL the LARGEST ECONOMY in the WORLD and also a
SUPER POWER.

OH, than there were the Little Girls Singing: "WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD"!!!

CHANGE HAPPENS as AMERICA NEEDS Different POLITICS FOR
A NEW TIME!!

TIME FOR US TO CHANGE AMERICA!!!

THE END!!!

I LED the CLAPPING at the END, and THE PEOPLE FOLLOWED!!

PROGRESSIVE LIBERTARIAN ON A RAGE WITH REPUBLICANS

HERE HE GOES AGAIN, Looks like the Progressive Libertarian "Rocky" is still doing his HATE MONGERING of George Bush and Dick Cheney. He REALLY THOUGHT that SOMETHING was going to HAPPEN - FOR SURE - at the VERY LAST MOMENT - a COUP by GEORGE W!!!
I could CONDENSE his extensive diatribe as "HOGWASH", Rocky.
First thing that got my JUICES FLOWING was the INTRO to Rocky's article on the WIMVIEW site. That the REPUBLICANS that are NOW in DC would probably be WANTING OBAMA, to "STEP TO THE REAR OF THE BUS". NOW that he can NOT pick on President Bush, he NOW decides to go after the REPUBLICANS in DC. Man, do you HAVE A PROBLEM Rocky!!IS your HATERED that bad???
YEP, OBAMA is off to a GREAT START.Besides this new Secty. of the Treasury NOT having the DECENCY of stepping down for his gross TAX violations which any Republican would have had to within HOURS. Atleast Daschle did the HONORABLE thing, the GOV in NM and the lady!!WAY TO GO OBAMA. But, we Christians are PRAYING for you that the Holy Spirit will instill in you to do THE RIGHT THING for OUR NATION!! Would love to see that MIND of SOCIALIST - MARXIST MUSH completely changed 180 degrees.
Hey, Rocky one more thing for the record. You must be part of Ron Paul's "CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY" run by Craig Young??? WE do NOT need your STINKING THINKING in the Republican Party, especially when the County Chair. goes to St. Paul and does NOT even attend the Republican Convention but JOINS the 10,000 Ron Paul IDIOTS!!
JUST SOME THOUGHTS, I will have to put this on my BLOG: www.wimberleytaxpayer.blogspot.com
Chuck Peterson, Wimberley

Would The Last HONEST Reporter Please Turn On The Lights?

Here is piece from a small newspaper. It is the third thing I have read in the last three days where a Democrat is speaking out in a fair and common sense manner for the reporting of facts regardless of party. Bravo!!


Remember when our media actually provided the checks and balance through tireless research and honestand truthful reporting? Please read the following--maybe there is yet some hope.---
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?

by Orson Scott Card

Editor's note: Orson Scott Card is a Democrat and a newspaper columnist, and in this opinion piece he takes on both while lamenting the current state of journalism.

October 09, 2008

An open letter to the local daily paper - almost every local daily paper in America:

I remember reading All the President's Men and thinking: That's journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.

This housing crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.

It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.

What is a risky loan? It's a loan that the recipient is likely not to be able to repay.

The goal of this rule change was to help the poor - which especially would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these people to give them a loan that they can't repay? They get into a house, yes, but when they can't make the payments, they lose the house - along with their credit rating.

They end up worse off than before.

This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.

Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It's as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of congressmen who support increasing their budget.)

Isn't there a story here? Doesn't journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren't you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?

I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. "Housing-gate," no doubt. Or "Fannie-gate."

Instead, it was Sen. Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.

As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled "Do Facts Matter?" (http://snipurl.com/457to): "Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury."

These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was ... the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was ... the Republican Party.

Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!

What? It's not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?

Now let's follow the money ... right to the presidential candidate who is the number two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.

And after Fred Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate's campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.

If that presidential candidate had been John McCain, you would have called it a major scandal and we would be getting stories in your paper every day about how incompetent and corrupt he was.

But instead, that candidate was Barack Obama, and so you have buried this story, and when the McCain campaign dared to call Raines an "adviser" to the Obama campaign - because that campaign had sought his advice - you actually let Obama's people get away with accusing McCain of lying, merely because Raines wasn't listed as an official adviser to the Obama campaign.

You would never tolerate such weasely nit-picking from a Republican.

If you who produce our local daily paper actually had any principles, you would be pounding this story, because the prosperity of all Americans was put at risk by the foolish, short-sighted, politically selfish and possibly corrupt actions of leading Democrats, including Obama.

If you who produce our local daily paper had any personal honor, you would find it unbearable to let the American people believe that somehow Republicans were to blame for this crisis.

There are precedents. Even though President Bush and his administration never said that Iraq sponsored or was linked to 9/11, you could not stand the fact that Americans had that misapprehension - so you pounded us with the fact that there was no such link. (Along the way, you created the false impression that Bush had lied to them and said that there was a connection.)

If you had any principles, then surely right now, when the American people are set to blame President Bush and John McCain for a crisis they tried to prevent, and are actually shifting to approve of Barack Obama because of a crisis he helped cause, you would be laboring at least as hard to correct that false impression.

Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That's what you claim you do, when you accept people's money to buy or subscribe to your paper.

But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie - that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad - even bad weather - on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.

If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth - even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.

Because that's what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don't like the probable consequences. That's what honesty means. That's how trust is earned.

Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naiveté time after time - and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.

Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter - while you ignored the story of John Edwards' own adultery for many months.

So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?

Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for?

You might want to remember the way the National Organization of Women (NOW) threw away their integrity by supporting Bill Clinton despite his well-known pattern of sexual exploitation of powerless women. Who listens to NOW anymore? We know they stand for nothing; they have no principles.

That's where you are right now.

It's not too late. You know that if the situation were reversed, and the truth would damage McCain and help Obama, you would be moving heaven and earth to get the true story out there.

If you want to redeem your honor, you will swallow hard and make a list of all the stories you would print if it were McCain who had been getting money from Fannie Mae, McCain whose campaign had consulted with its discredited former CEO, McCain who had voted against tightening its lending practices.

Then you will print them, even though every one of those true stories will point the finger of blame at the reckless Democratic Party, which put our nation's prosperity at risk so they could feel good about helping the poor, and lay a fair share of the blame at Obama's door.

You will also tell the truth about John McCain: that he tried, as a senator, to do what it took to prevent this crisis. You will tell the truth about President Bush: that his administration tried more than once to get Congress to regulate lending in a responsible way.

This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.

If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe - and vote as if - President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.

If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats - including Barack Obama - and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans - then you are not journalists by any standard.

You're just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it's time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a daily newspaper in our city.


This article first appeared in The Rhinoceros Times of Greensboro, North Carolina, and is used here by permission.

WE Older Republicans & OUR FEELINGS On This Election

Chuck: Go right ahead. You have my permission. I'm not sure how other people my agefeel, but these last 2 or 3 weeks have been devastating for me. I know John McCain &Sarah Palin, & our Fox News people like Bill O'Reilly have done all they can.Seemingly sensible people that I have gotten to know, have shown during thiscampaign season have shown the most reprehensible judgement recently. I'm talkingabout their political stance. Back in my Brazoria County days I would have creditedit to youth, & inexperience. But now I constantly run across people with grey &white hair leaning to the left. It makes me wonder if I'm out of touch, or the worldhas passed me by, & I didn't even notice it. My wife & I meeting up with all the people of WVRG has been an absolute life linefor me. I've always known prayers were answered, & you guys are the latest example.Everett --- On Thu, 10/16/08, Chuck Peterson <cpeterson888@txwinet.com> wrote:From: Chuck Peterson <cpeterson888@txwinet.com>Subject: Your NOTE on your feelingsTo: "Everett Connie Kaminsky" <skykam1937@yahoo.com>Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 10:32 AM Nice to see you last night, Everett. I think our guys DID GOOD!! I went over to the Rec Room at 7A Ranch, and we two dozen or sohad a good time watching the debate, eating pizza and snacks and CHEERING for McCain with his ZINGERS!! I had Joyce on my left,Judge Henry and George Morovitch on the right. WE were the FRONTROWERS, ha. Say, your write up was so good, and I know that is the THOUGHTS that many in our 65 and over group have at this point in our life. IFyou would like, I would be happy to send that out on Wimberley Taxpayer, but ONLY with your permission? Thanks, Chuck

One Person's VIEWPOINT in WVRG

Chuck: As a 71yr old senior citizen now, I learned long before I retired, to takeextra long term precautions if a project(namely this election) doesn't turn outright for me. I'm not giving up(that'll never happen), however, it makes me wonderwhat my lifestyle, along with others, will be like next year & years after that.Should I become a recluse, grow a beard, lose contact with friends & especiallyfamily down towards the coast, or what. I wonder how many other older conservatives,seeking financial transparency in our national financial institutions, & higherintegrity among our Congressional leaders, will have to change the way they go abouttheir everyday lives, & still be able to hold their heads up. I know it'll be hardfor me. I'm upset, since some of the friends & acquaintences we've gotten to know out here,have shown definite liberal bias, & I'm having an extremely hard time maintainingeven a short non-commital convesation with them. Start cultivating a new circle ofacquaintences, & even change, or drop some of the groups we've joined. I wonder howmany other people are in this predicament. When I see the sign we're all so familiarwith: "Change you can believe in", I think to myself, "Some things I can neverchange, as it's a part of me as sure as my sore back". .Back many years ago, when Iwas a Republican precinct chairman down in Brazoria County(Pearland area) otherprecinct chairmen & I, thru networking, could identify liberal Democraticbusinessmen & we all vowed to not trade with them at all. Well, that didn't seem todo much good. This 71 yr old retired hospital adminstration worker, part-time life insurance &long term health rep, used to be part time farmer, & now guitar picker is more thana little fed up with the slanted media coverage, sheer absolute ignorance of so manyotherwise normal people. I'm just 2nd guessing where all this cr-p will take us..Everett --- On Wed, 10/15/08, Chuck Peterson <cpeterson888@txwinet.com> wrote:From: Chuck Peterson <cpeterson888@txwinet.com>Subject: Fw: PLEASE CHECK OUT & PASS ON, IF YOU SO CHOOSE

INCIDENT @ ACE TODAY!!!, April 6, 2007

This AM. Dale Dugger (retired Police Officer from Houston) was my BODY GUARD, as I told him, when he arrived at ACE this am. to SELL tickets for the EASTER Community Breakfast from 10 - 12 noon.

Lo and behold who SHOWS UP!! Dale, this is Jim Evers the SUPER's husband coming. He bought one ticket and I said, you're NOT going to buy a ticket for your wife? I really do NOT remember his answer. Dale and I introduced ourselves as we usually do. He was LOOKING at me KIND OF LIKE - DON'T I KNOW YOU?? I really THINK that HE HAD SEEN A GHOST, ha!!

I THINK he started off with, my wife would certainly like to meet with you. I don't think that would do any good at this point. WHY?? Well, after the meeting in Jan. when they messed with Dr. Jim - THAT ABOUT DID IT WITH OUR GROUP of NO BOND people. I said, in the earlier meeting Pigg even mentioned that we shouldn't even be discussing this, WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT BUSINESS TO DO. Well, HE WAS RIGHT, for once. Yet, in the second meeting when Dr. Jim was outsted HE HAD THE GAUL to take the VP position. AND, PIGG shouldn't even be on the board AFTER THE BEER PARTY HE HELD last year!!

Jim said, I suppose you are having people sign the petition in your folder there?? NO, I am showing Dale my fuel business info as you can plainly see. Are we doing any PETITION signing Dale? No, we aren't, said Dale - selling tickets and talking.

He mentioned about our sheet being in error about the academics DUE to there only being a few schools that passed. Well, that is TRUE about there NOT being many schools achieving. That was ONLY one year PLUS I am NOT the expert in that area. You see Jim, we have about 5 or 6 people who are EXPERTS in their area of dealing with WISD. I am only the facilitator to bring them all together - The Silent Majority. SOMEONE has to do it!!

Guess you do NOT know that a group of NO BOND people started meeting last Dec. with three of the school board members to iron things out: Melissa Young, David Junkin and Dr. Jim. We were doing VERY WELL in our communication. Than the school board meeting in Jan. when Dr. Jim was axed - THAT DID IT!!

He kept on pressing that I meet with the SUPER. Well, Mickey met with her and that did NOT really produce anything of substance. No, I don't think that will be necessary. I am NOT going to change your bind or her mind; AND, you sure as heck are NOT going to CHANGE MINE. I think you just need to MOVE ON and we will see what happens.

My wife talked to the Mayor who was going to talk to you, Jim said. Well I saw him Monday night and he did NOT say anything. I really don't know what good that is going to do I DON'T take any marching ORDERS from the Mayor in this area. My only ALLEGIANCE is to the ONE up ABOVE - that is what counts. He kind of rolled his eyes on that one, folks.

I think I also mentioned about receiving the email from Gibson Consulting from Chayenne about meeting next week and that I sent out an email to the group BUT have heard back from only one so far. Will just have to wait and see what happens with the group I said.

He was sill UPSET because we call his wife MAID MARIAN. WHY do you have to do that, she has a doctorate? I said that someone in the group came up with it, NOT me, and it stuck with us. What kind of education background do you have?? Like I told you the other day, my Phd is from the EIB Institute. Well, he must have looked it up because he said, well, I am a Republican too. You sure don't ACT like one, I said. WELL, do you have ANY CHILDREN in the school system?? I told you before that I did NOT, BUT that does NOT mean I am NOT active in supporting the kids. I mentioned about doing the EXTRA paper for last years STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME which he acknowledged. Dale said that he was part of the 60 and over group at the football games that support the kids too.

Somewhere in the above conversation, I did say that I do carry the LOCK BOX in the trunk which I went to the trunk and produced that for Jim. He seemed to be disqusted.

After he left, I told Dale, you watch, he will go home, call his wife and probably have people CALL RICHARD at the store to say, THOSE PEOPLE or PETERSON are having people sign THE PETITION while selling tickets. No, he wouldn't do that, said Dale.

Within the hour, Richard and an associate, Gary, came out. GEE, Richard, I KNOW WHY you are here, I said. I think Richard spoke first, YOU ALL aren't doing anything with a petition here for sign up? WE HAVE HAD A FEW PEOPLE CALL that said you were doing it. Dale, are we DOING anything with people about signing a PETITION?? No, we aren't. I said, didn't I tell you Dale, that Jim would go and call people and HAVE THEM CALL RICHARD?? Yep, you did. Well, there he goes again, RICHARD, just LYING to get back at me in particular. We just had to check, Richard said.

MAN, CAN YOU ALL BELIEVE THIS GUY. WHAT a DUFFUS or whatever!! A little HATEFUL DO YOU ALL NOT THINK??

RUMOR from THE Chili Cook Off, Feb. 17, 2007

This is THE RUMOR that percipitated the EVENTUAL DOWNFALL OF THE WISD
SUPERINTENDENT


Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 2:53 PM
Subject: RUMOR from THE Chili Cook Off

Marlys and I just got back from the Chili Cook Off at the VFW. Boy, there is a rumor going around about Maid Marion that the Bond WILL BE DEAD UPON ARRIVAL due to what happened last Monday Night at the WISD Board Meeting and the "preception" that she was the one who orchestrated Dr. Jim's ouster, the Land Deal that she was trying to pull in the last failed Bond and than probably the undeserved firing of Gene Ritter, a volunteer at the WFD, by Carroll Czichos. I sat one over from Gene and while he should not have been making a few of the remarks he did to Clint and I while in WFD shirt, we think those claiming what he did had ulterior motives going back to a dance teacher that was fired and Gene's daughter being part of that dance team. As I understand it, the teacher wanted to appeal it to the State but Maid Marion would not let her. So, DO WE have some retribution here. MOST LIKELY. STUDENTS, PARENTS and TEACHERS do NOT cross certain Principals or they are sent to MAID MARION for discipline or what for. What I am hearing is that the PEOPLE WANT HER GONE - NO BOND WHILE SHE IS HERE. About 5 people approached me IF I had heard different parts of the above. Even talked to Gene who was there for some verification.

Chuck

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2008

ONE month from TODAY, Nov. 5th, we will wake up and MAYBE know
who OUR next President is. But, WHO KNOWS, it could be ANOTHER
CRAZY situation!! Thousands of LAWYERS are already heading for
Florida and probably other states - sent out by the ACLU or ACORN,
right!!!

I feel that this is TOO IMPORTANT an ELECTION for US not to
comment on and have a dialogue. There are many in our WVRG like
Frank, Linda, Nick, Everett, Mary Joe and others VERY CAPABLE of
producing some EXCELLENT oratory on this election. Of course, IF
we were to send them into the VIEW, they would NOT be published.
So, HERE IS YOUR CHANCE to share your political thoughts - mainly,
on the MOST LEFTIST LIBERAL in the Senate of the U.S. of America,
Barrack Hussein OBAMA.

This is an ELECTION, WE MUST WIN, IF WE ARE TO CONTINUE
OUR WAY OF LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY. For those of you who have
read his books or those written about him or have studied him by way
of conservative commentators, OBAMA will PUT US IN A SOCIALIST,
IF NOT A SOCIALIST-MARXIST SYSTEM by the end of his FIRST
TERM. And, he will be able to do this with the help of a DEMO Senate
and Congress which we will NOT be able to gain this time around. WE
would LOSE EVERYTHING that President Ronald Reagan did for us
when he was able to BRING DOWN THE BERLIN WALL. Most of us,
NEVER THOUGHT that we would see this IN OUR LIFETIME, right.

This guy's ASSOCIATION of FRIENDS and LACK OF TRUTHFUL-
NESS should leave any "sound of mind person" to think that HIS
CHARACTER is such that he would DO GREAT HARM as COMMAN-
DER IN CHIEF!! DEFINITELY, "NOT FIT FOR DUTY"!!

WE, of the CONSERVATIVE and CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE con-
viction realize that the people on the "other side" DO NOT THINK
ANYWAY NEAR THE WAY WE DO. So, WHAT GIVES? My personal
opinion coming from a Christian Conservative viewpoint is quite easy,
since ONLY 20% of the DEMOS CLAIM to be Christians, this leaves a
lack of MORAL & ETHICAL FIBER MISSING in their life. And, IT
SHOWS in the way the DEMOS (DEMOLITION TEAM, I prefer) have
taken PRAYER out of the Public School system in our country and have
taken away the SANCTITY of HUMAN LIFE (through OUR TAX
DOLLARS going to PLANNED PARENTHOOD).

On the other hand, 80% of REPUBLICANS CLAIM to be Christians. WE
still BELIEVE that OUR COUNTRY was FOUNDED UNDER GOD and it
shows in most all the writings that have been passed down in our 200
year history. The reference to GOD is all around us in our GOVERNMENT
BUILDINGS. As WE ALL KNOW, the DEMOS are trying to tear down
these symbols of yesteryear and change OUR BOOKS to show THEIR
SLANT, especially through using the LIBERAL JUDGES in our courts. WE
ALL KNOW about the OUTRAGEOUS DECISIONS that have come out of
the Ninth Court in California. Fortunately, most of them have been OVER-
TURNED by the SUPREME COURT. But, this will NOT BE FOR LONG IF
OBAMA has HIS WAY folks!!

WE were NOT A PERFECT UNION than, and we are NOT one now, more
like 35% Republicans, 35% Demos and 30% Independents. With the "DRIVE
BY MEDIA" doing their POLLING (FAIR & BALANCED, I don't think so),
they would have us believe, that the ELECTION WAS OVER!! THEY STILL
THINK THAT THEY ARE RUNNING AGAINST GEORGE W, do they NOT?
HAVE YOU EVER seen such HATRED from a PARTY? Could it be BECAUSE
President BUSH is a BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN? I THINK SO, because of
their HATRED TOWARD ANYTHING DEALING WITH RELIGION. You
even have to wonder about these 20% people in their party (Christians). I
know several people in this community that fall into that category. Having
been a BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN for the last 25 years IS THE GREATEST
EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE, and I know others would say the same thing.

The problem I saw in the BUSH presidency was that he was UNEQUALLY
YOKED with a man, Dick Cheney, who I NEVER saw as a COMMITTED
CHRISTIAN. I could be wrong but that is my perception. Anytime you are
UNEQUALLY YOKED with a partner, there will be problems down the road.
I would put Karl Rove in there also. It is the old saying, "where two or more
are gathered in MY NAME, there will be STRENGTH" in what you do. IF
you have ever been to a "SPIRIT FILLED" church you know what I mean.
The PRAISE & WORSHIP in such a church will make your knees want to
kneel and you will feel like you are in the presence of the LORD (ask me, and
I will tell you where that church is as I plan to REVISIT it later in Nov.). I
think that President BUSH did an EXCELLENT JOB after 911, and we all
saw how the Stock Market recovered WITHOUT ANY BAILOUT. But, as
many of us know, it was VERY DISAPPOINTING the way that he took his
base for granted in the two elections.

I am afraid that John McCain might be doing the same thing. NOT too many
of us were very excited about his run for the presidency UNTIL he chose his
VP, Sarah Palin. WE ALL SEEMED TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS LADY!!
I mean, even RUSH was going to send a contribution into the RNC!! She has
most certainly UPHELD her side of the ticket IF ONLY John could have come
through the other night. He had his chances. The WARRIOR in him NEEDS
to come out next week!!! This DEBATE with Tom Brokaw hosting was
ANOTHER "drive by media" set up. NO QUESTIONS on Immigration, Gun
Control, and Infanticide - GIVE ME A BREAK!!

You folks that have children and grandchildren and even relatives that fall on
the "OTHER SIDE" believing that OBAMA is THEIR SAVIOR, PRAY FOR
THEM. WE have been doing that in our Sunday School Class for a month or so.

AND REMEMBER, "IT IS ONLY WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DO NOTHING,
THAT BAD/EVIL PEOPLE SUCCEED".

JUST SOME THOUGHTS.