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I am proud to announce my
nominee for the next Justice of the United States Supreme Court: Judge
Sonia Sotomayor. This decision affects us all -- and so it must involve us all. I've recorded a special message to personally introduce Judge Sotomayor and explain why I'm so confident she will make an excellent Justice. Please watch the video, and then pass this note on to friends and family to include them in this historic moment. 
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OFF TO THE RACES
A Bit Of Advice, Madam Speaker
Nancy Pelosi should stick to what she does best.by Charlie Cook
If I were a confidant of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, my advice to the California Democrat would be, "No more news conferences. No more television appearances. Keep your public profile low. Focus on what you do best." Pelosi is like the student who gets A's in some subjects but D's and F's in others. She needs to avoid the areas where she tends to fail.
Arguably, Pelosi has amassed and centralized power more successfully than any other speaker in modern history. Committee chairmanships aren't what they used to be. The leadership -- specifically, the speaker -- now drives this car.
Her on-camera performance contributes to the misimpression that she is a lightweight.
In terms of behind-the-scenes machinations, she is as good as pols come. People who have underestimated Pelosi have done so at their own peril. But her public persona, the way she comes across on television, and the caricatures that have developed around Pelosi do her and her party no good.
First, look at the numbers. In January, CNN/Opinion Research polling pegged Pelosi with a 51 percent approval rating and a 22 percent disapproval rating. By early March, her approval rating had dropped 5 points. It dropped 7 more points in a poll conducted May 14-17, bringing her down to 39 percent. Meanwhile, her disapproval scores soared -- from 22 percent in January, to 30 percent in March, to the current 48 percent. While Congress's job-approval rating has gone up, even doubling over some past readings, to 37 percent according to Gallup and 41 percent in Fox News polling, the speaker's popularity has plummeted.
Polling by Research 2000 for the liberal blog Daily Kos shows a slightly different pattern in favorability ratings but leads to essentially the same conclusion. In four January surveys, the speaker's favorable ratings, ranging from 39 percent to 42 percent, barely exceeded her unfavorable ones, which were 36 percent to 38 percent. In two surveys this month, she registered 34 percent and 37 percent favorable ratings, with her unfavorables at 46 percent and 50 percent. Considering how few people actually pay attention to Capitol Hill, these are pretty lousy numbers.
Two main caricatures of Pelosi have developed. In the world of conservative talk radio, she is depicted as a lightweight, ultraliberal, San Francisco-socialite-turned-House-speaker, more a source of amusement than of fear, because these adversaries don't respect her enough to fear her. This cartoon image ignores Pelosi's Baltimore roots, however. She learned politics at the knee of her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, who over a 40-year career served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, deputy state tax collector, Baltimore City Council member, Charm City mayor, and U.S. representative.
His was the era of Big City machine politics when the accumulation and exercise of power was a high art.
His daughter learned her lessons well. Those who dismiss Pelosi's behind-the-scenes political talent do so out of ignorance, not firsthand observation. She has taken down some pretty formidable players in her rise to the top.
However, a second caricature of Pelosi has developed among those who are neither Republican nor conservative. On television, Pelosi often appears treacly and superficial, not the tough, fiercely determined woman she is behind closed doors. Her on-camera performance contributes to the misimpression that she is a lightweight.
Pelosi's disastrous May 14 news conference projected a third negative image, that of a politician caught overreaching and then mishandling the damage control. No matter how opaque the Central Intelligence Agency was in its briefing of Pelosi and other members of Congress in September 2002, after her news conference the score was CIA 1, Pelosi 0.
The speaker's constituents, outside of San Francisco, are the 434 other members of the House, particularly the other Democrats. There is no need for her to be a fixture on television sets across the country, and TV is certainly not her best venue.
When you are very good at one thing, stick to it.
AFL-CIO Opposes Panama Deal, Calls for Trade Policy Review by James Parks
BREAKING: President Obama has delayed moving the Panama trade deal because of union objections. Read more here.
Congress should not consider the U.S.-Panama trade agreement until Panama implements labor law and tax reforms and the Obama administration lays out a comprehensive, principled trade strategy for the United States.
Testifying before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee today, AFL-CIO Policy Director Thea Lee said the union movement will oppose the Panama deal unless these issues are resolved.
The AFL-CIO has called on Panama to bring its labor laws into compliance with the International Labor Organization’s (ILO’s) minimum standards. For example, Panama’s laws effectively prohibit the forming of a union in most workplaces and seriously limit the right to strike. A growing problem in Panama are the laws that allow employers to circumvent unions by repeatedly hiring the same workers on a temporary basis, rather than hiring them as full-time workers, Lee said.
Even when the laws meet international standards, the Panamanian government does not effectively enforce them. Lee pointed out that child labor is a concern in Panama because the age limits for workers are not enforced.
The Panama agreement does not reach the standards that Barack Obama set for trade deals during the 2008 presidential campaign, Lee said. In the Democratic Party platform, Obama emphasized the need for trade policy to “be an integral part of an overall national economic strategy that delivers on the promise of good jobs at home and shared prosperity abroad.” Now, instead of laying out a new trade policy, the administration is pushing a “patchwork policy” left over from the Bush administration, Lee said.
The nation’s global competitiveness should not be determined based on the profitability of U.S. multinational corporations operating abroad, but rather on the ability of U.S.-based producers to compete and thrive on American soil in a dynamic global economy, Lee told the panel. By this standard, she said, our trade policy needs deep reform.
Current U.S. trade policy has failed to deliver good jobs at home; equitable, democratic, and sustainable development abroad; or a stable global economy. We need to review and reform our trade policy with respect to the overall framework of rules; our chronic and large trade imbalances; and the impact of our trade and investment policies on U.S. manufacturers, farmers, service providers, consumers, workers, and the environment.
This review is especially urgent in light of the current economic crisis and the weakness of the U.S. labor market, Lee said.
As long as we continue to run trade deficits on the order of 5 percent of GDP [Gross Domestic Product], the arguments that we need more trade liberalization to succeed in the global economy ring hollow—especially to our members, who have seen too many jobs go offshore while their wages and benefits stagnate.
At the same time, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), among others, has raised serious questions about Panama’s self-advertised role as a tax haven for multinationals. This is a serious problem, especially since the Obama administration has signaled its interest in closing egregious tax shelters.
In addition to the Panama agreement, the AFL-CIO opposes Bush-negotiated trade pacts now on the table with Colombia and South Korea, Lee told the committee.
Colombia continues to be the most dangerous country for trade union members with more than 2,700 trade unionists murdered since 1986, including more than 500 since President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002. Forty-nine trade unionists were killed in 2008—a 25 percent increase over the previous year. Seventeen trade unionists have been murdered this year as of May 15.
The Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, as negotiated, would decimate our auto sector and increase pressure on other key industrial sectors, potentially costing tens of thousands of good U.S. jobs, said Lee. South Korean labor unions also have concerns about the agreement, as their government and employers have recently cracked down on union activities and exploited loopholes in Korean labor law.
We stand with them in demanding that both of our governments respect all the International Labor Organization’s core labor standards, in both law and practice.
If you lost your job today, would you know where to turn for help? The new online Unemployment LifeLine from Working America and the AFL-CIO is a one-stop resource center to guide jobless workers to local services and advice from others coping with unemployment.
YOUR COMMENTS
DAILY GRILL
"[Torturing terror detainees] prevented the violent death of thousands,
if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent people."
-- Vice President Cheney,
5/21/09
VERSUS
"A top-secret 2004 CIA inspector general's investigation found no conclusive
proof that information gained from aggressive interrogations helped thwart
any 'specific imminent attacks.'" -- McClatchy,
5/21/09
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"I have never felt that Guantanamo was this huge recruiting tool." Fox
News Chris Wallace,
5/22/09
VERSUS
"[T]here are serving U.S. flag-rank officers who maintain that the first and
second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq -- as judged by
their effectiveness in recruiting insurgent fighters into combat -- are,
respectively the symbols of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo." -- Former Navy
general counsel Alberto Mora,
6/17/08
Quotes of the Day
LIMBAUGH: Do I want her to fail? Yeah. Do I want her to fail to get on the court? Yes! She’d be a disaster on the court. Do I still want Obama to fail as President? Yeah. AP you getting this? He’s going to fail anyway, but the sooner the better.
Recent Senate Votes
Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2009 - Vote Passed
(90-5, 4 Not Voting)
The Senate passed this bill that would impose restrictions on credit card
issuers, including their ability to raise interest rates and charge late
fees.
Sen. Mitch McConnell voted YES
Sen. Jim Bunning voted YES
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 - Vote Passed (86-3, 10
Not Voting)
The Senate passed this $91.3 billion bill providing funds for the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq. The bill now goes to a conference committee with the
House.
Sen. Mitch McConnell voted YES
Sen. Jim Bunning voted YES
FAA Reauthorization Act - Vote Passed (277-136, 20 Not
Voting)
This bill authorizes $70 billion in Federal Aviation Administration funding
through September 2012.
Rep. Brett Guthrie voted NO
Rep. John Yarmuth voted YES
THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN BEGINS: Right-wing groups have already begun distorting Sotomayor's record. Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network admitted that the conservative case against Sotomayor rests on a single out-of-context quote taken from a YouTube video. Motivated in no small part by a desire to stir their donors to pour money into right-wing coffers, conservatives have questioned Sotomayor's intellect, despite the fact that she graduated at the top of her class from Princeton University. They have accused her of "judicial activism," despite being unable to cite a single case where she ignored the law. They have also attacked her for refusing to twist the law in order to benefit white people. Indeed, right-wing attacks on Judge Sotomayor has been so strident and unhinged that even the RNC refuses to risk "political peril" by joining their smear campaign. According to talking points leaked to the media, the RNC claims that it "will reserve judgment" on Sotomayor "until more is known" about her judicial record.
HEALTH CARE -- TEA PARTY SPONSOR AFP LAUNCHES ANTI-HEALTH REFORM ADS: Today, the right-wing Americans for Prosperity (AFP) will launch a $1.7 million TV ad campaign claiming that President Obama's health care plan is the same as "Canadian-style health care." The ad fearmongers on the issue of wait times, featuring a Canadian woman who intones, "As my brain tumor got worse, my government health-care system told me I had to wait six months to see a specialist." "I would have died" under Canada's system, she said. AFP is a classic "astroturf" group representing big polluters and right-wing lobbying groups, responsible for helping stage the conservative "tea parties" last month. The AFP ad's narrator says, "Liberals in Washington want to bring Canadian-style health care to the U.S." In fact, neither Obama nor Democratic leaders in Congress are proposing a single-payer government system. But conservatives don't care about the facts: In an interview with the New York Times, conservative pollster Frank Luntz admitted that he would continue raising the false specter of a "Washington takeover" of health care -- whether or not that was Obama's actual proposal. "I'm not a policy person. I'm a language person," Luntz said.
One hundred days ago, President Obama signed the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a bill
designed to jump-start the economy and put Americans back to work.
Yesterday, Obama sounded a cautiously optimistic note when speaking about
ARRA in Las Vegas. "From where we stand today, the
road to economic recovery is still long. ... But after four months of
this administration and one hundred days of the Recovery Act, we have carved
out a path toward progress," Obama said. According to Recovery.gov,
$31.1 billion of the $787 billion package has been spent thus far.
Yesterday, White House officials Jared Bernstein and Rob Nabors said that
most of the released funds have been
spent in the form of middle-class tax cuts, unemployment benefits and
food stamps, and federal assistance to states to stop Medicaid cuts. The
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the rate of expenditure is
"consistent with the assumptions" of the CBO and
that "ARRA will boost the
level of GDP by the end of this year by between 1.4 percent and 3.8
percent." Although only a small percentage of the recovery funds have been
spent so far, the results have helped slow the continued
hemorrhaging of the economy.
RADICAL RIGHT -- ROVE ATTACKS SOTOMAYOR, CALLS HER A 'SCHOOLMARM,' SAYS SHE'S 'NOT NECESSARILY' SMART: During a debate at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Wednesday, host Charlie Rose said Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor "is very smart." "Not necessarily," former Bush adviser Karl Rove replied. After Rose noted that Sotomayor graduated with honors from Princeton and attended Yale Law School, Rove said, "I know lots of stupid people who went to Ivy League schools." Rove's claim is ironic considering that in an interview previewing the debate, he cited President Bush's experience at Harvard and Yale to mock claims that Bush is stupid. "The myth was that this guy, who was a Yale history grad and a Harvard MBA, was not smart," Rove told the Chicago Tribune. And on Fox News Wednesday, Rove offered another demeaning and subtly-sexist putdown of Sotomayor. Rove complained to host Greta Van Susteren that Sotomayor pays too much attention to grammar and claimed that she's "sort of a schoolmarm." "I was talking to people about the Second court of appeals. ...What she would do is she would mark them up like she was your English school teacher and -- with your typos and misspellings and other words that she wanted to have changed and send it back to her colleagues. Not exactly the best way to ingratiate yourself with your colleagues," Rove said.
Think Fast
House Energy and Commerce Committee approved "the most ambitious energy and global warming legislation ever debated in Congress," with Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) joining 35 Democrats to vote for the bill. CAPAF CEO John Podesta praised President Obama and Chairmen Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), who "demonstrated tremendous leadership by bringing together states, business, labor, and environmentalists to reach these essential agreements."
Democratic strategist Paul Begala "is circulating a point-by-point
rebuttal of GOP consultant Frank Luntz's widely read
strategy memo on health care." The memo urges "congressional Democrats
to push back hard against 'Republican Orwellian rhetoric.'"
"Because they know they cannot win the argument honestly, Republicans are
resorting to mendacity," Begala wrote in the memo. "Democrats must
not let them get away with it."
President Obama will attend a fundraiser for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in Las Vegas later today. Republicans have been targeting Reid's seat for 2010. Reid says he will raise as much as $25 million for his campaign.
A CNN poll released yesterday found that former Secretary of State Colin Powell is more popular than Vice President Cheney and Rush Limbaugh. While 70 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Powell, Cheney and Limbaugh are only viewed favorably by 37 percent and 30 percent, respectively. Even Republicans prefer Powell over Limbaugh, 64 percent to 62 percent.
Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said in response to Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination yesterday that Republicans need to be "very cautious and careful" about criticizing her as it could damage their "standing with Hispanics." Former Bush adviser Mark McKinnon remarked, "If Republicans make a big deal of opposing Sotomayor, we will be hurling ourselves off a cliff."
"The average family with health insurance shells out an extra $1,000 a year in premiums to pay for health care for the uninsured," a new report by Families USA finds. The group concludes that this "hidden tax" demonstrates the urgency of "extending coverage to all the 50 million Americans who are now uninsured."
"President Obama directed his national security adviser and senior Cabinet officials yesterday to examine whether the government keeps too much information secret." Acknowledging "that too many documents have been kept from the public eye for years," Obama tasked Gen. Jim Jones with examining procedures for handling classified information making recommendations about better information sharing.
HUMOR
"On his radio show yesterday,
Rush Limbaugh called Supreme Court nominee
Sonia Sotomayor a 'reverse racist.' I got to hand it to Limbaugh. That
guy is a reverse genius." --Jimmy Fallon
"Well, the big story is the Supreme Court.
President Obama has found his nominee. She is a Federal appeals judge.
Sonia Sotomayor, I think her name is. A Latino woman, how about that? So,
you know what that means. Ruth Bader Ginsburg no longer the hot chick on the
court." --Jay Leno
"Judge Sotomayor said she seemed overwhelmed today, and she said it really
won't sink in until she hears Rush Limbaugh say he hopes she fails." --Jay
Leno
"Actually, the Republicans were a little disappointed. When they heard Obama
said he might appoint a minority, they went, 'Oh, great, a Republican!'"
--Jay Leno
"There are some people who are saying that maybe
Dick Cheney is setting himself up to actually run for president. You
know, it makes sense. Republicans are looking for fresh blood, and Cheney
just had some yesterday." --Bill Maher
"The other day
George Bush gave a speech at a graduating high school class. He told the
kids it's interesting the way life turns out, and now he finds himself
walking the dog and picking up poop. Finally, something he can actually
find. He couldn't find Osama, he couldn't find the weapons of mass
destruction. If only we'd be attacked by dog s**t, we'd be OK. … Oh, poor
George Bush, picking up after some unthinking creature's mess. Well, now he
knows how Obama feels." --Bill Maher
"History was made today when President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor
as the first female Hispanic justice to serve in the U.S. Supreme court.
Obama said this should help keep the court from leaning too far to the
white." --Jimmy Fallon
"Let me tell you something. These Supreme Court nominees have it a lot
tougher being interviewed by President Obama because he used to be a
constitutional law professor. So he knows what questions to ask. See, when
Bill Clinton had female nominees, he just had the one question: 'Let's
see how you look under that robe.'' --Jay Leno
"North
Korea tested another nuclear bomb. The fear is that North Korea will
sell this nuclear weapon to some unstable, volatile world leader, you know,
like Dick Cheney." --Jay Leno
INTERESTING
RNC fumbles Sotomayor talking points
Whoops. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has apparently inadvertently released its list of talking points on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Included on the released list were a few hundred influential Republicans who were the intended recipients of the talking points. Unfortunately for the RNC, so were members of the media.
Here are the talking points:
o President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is an important decision that will have an impact on the United States long after his administration.
o Republicans are committed to a fair confirmation process and will reserve judgment until more is known about Judge Sotomayor's legal views, judicial record and qualifications.
o Until we have a full view of the facts and comprehensive understanding of Judge Sotomayor's record, Republicans will avoid partisanship and knee-jerk judgments - which is in stark contrast to how the Democrats responded to the Judge Roberts and Alito nominations.
o To be clear, Republicans do not view this nomination without concern. Judge Sotomayor has received praise and high ratings from liberal special interest groups. Judge Sotomayor has also said that policy is made on the U.S. Court of Appeals.
o Republicans believe that the confirmation process is the most responsible way to learn more about her views on a number of important issues.
o The confirmation process will help Republicans, and all Americans, understand more about judge Sotomayor's thoughts on the importance of the Supreme Court's fidelity to the Constitution and the rule of law.
o Republicans are the minority party, but our belief that judges should interpret rather than make law is shared by a majority of Americans.
o Republicans look forward to learning more about Judge Sotomayor's legal views and to determining whether her views reflect the values of mainstream America. President Obama on Judicial Nominees
o Liberal ideology, not legal qualification, is likely to guide the president's choice of judicial nominees.
o Obama has said his criterion for nominating judges would be their "heart" and "empathy."
o Obama said he believes Supreme Court justices should understand the Court's role "to protect people who may be vulnerable in the political process."
o Obama has declared: "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old-and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
Additional Talking Points
Justice Souter's retirement could move the Court to the left and provide a critical fifth vote for:
o Further eroding the rights of the unborn and property owners;
o Imposing a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage;
o Stripping "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance and completely secularizing the public square;
o Abolishing the death penalty;
o Judicial micromanagement of the government's war powers.
UPDATE: These points were represented in RNC Chairman Michael Steele's statement on the nomination: "Republicans look forward to learning more about federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor's thoughts on the importance of the Supreme Court's fidelity to the Constitution and the rule of law," he said. "Supreme Court vacancies are rare, which makes Sonia Sotomayor's nomination a perfect opportunity for America to have a thoughtful discussion about the role of the Supreme Court in our daily lives. Republicans will reserve judgment on Sonia Sotomayor until there has been a thorough and thoughtful examination of her legal views."
- Aaron Blake
Buy American Mention of the Week, By Roger Simmermaker
Making your cookout All American
Many Americans will be firing up their outdoor grills for what has become the traditional start of the grilling season. Most will be throwing chicken, ribs, or beef on to the grill, but there’s another American favorite you might consider that may be a little less traditional for grilling but certainly no less American.
Shrimp is not only America’s favorite seafood; it’s my favorite seafood as well. I’ll be grilling my own shrimp this year just like I have in many years past, and I’ll be going to the same reliable place to order my shrimp at www.TexasLonghornShrimp.com. TexasLonghornShrimp.com has the reputation of having the biggest shrimp available anywhere, and I can personally tell you they have the best-tasting shrimp anywhere, too.
If you’re in the mood for some serious grilling, you definitely don’t want to go down to your local supermarket to buy your shrimp, which is almost certain to be imported from and farm-raised in China or Vietnam. Avoiding imported shrimp not only bodes well for the health of the U.S. Shrimp industry, but it also bodes well for your personal health.
Nine out of every ten pounds of shrimp Americans consume every year is imported, and the vast majority of that imported shrimp is raised through aquaculture (the farming of fish) in crowded, dirty ponds making them susceptible to disease. Vietnam, for example, has been documented to routinely use antibiotics and other contaminants banned in the United States by the FDA. Foreign shrimp farmers use these banned substances to guard against failure of their industry since the constant threat of disease can destroy their shrimp crop.
In July 2006, Canada moved to protect their consumers by requiring the government of Vietnam to certify all their seafood exports were free of antibiotics like chloramphenicol. Japan imposed similar safeguards requiring in December 2006, that 100% of shrimp imported from Vietnam be tested for various contaminants. Even so, Japanese authorities discovered no less than 54 shipments of shrimp from Vietnam were contaminated with chloramphenicol in the first half of 2007 alone.
The livelihood of our domestic shrimp industry is also threatened by illegal transshipment (routing an original product from China, for example, through a different country and labeling it with a different country of origin). In March 2006, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) found that 54 different shrimp importers falsely labeled imported Chinese shrimp as originating from Indonesia, avoiding over $65 million in antidumping duties. Some countries like Malaysia have refused to cooperate in preventing the transshipment of Chinese products.
Sixty-five million dollars my not sound like a lot compared to our huge national economy, but these duties would go a long way in offsetting subsidies by foreign governments in support of their own industries that increases the production of farm-raised shrimp well beyond the market demand. The artificially high supply of shrimp causes our U.S. market to be flooded with subsidized, contaminated shrimp offered at unfairly low prices that threaten to drive out the existence of U.S. industry by denying our American industry a level playing field.
By asking American workers to compete directly with lower wage earners in lower-living-standard countries, we cause our own citizens to lower their earning power and ultimately their affluence as consumers.
Let’s not lower the affluence and buying power of those in the U.S. Shrimp industry that go out every day and work hard to make the best shrimp found anywhere available to people like you and me. If you love shrimp like I do, really big shrimp, you’ll want to visit www.TexasLonghornShrimp.com. Or, if you’re in the mood for the more-common shrimp found in restaurants and other eating establishments, then try www.USAAmericanShrimp.com.
By ordering from either of these two websites, you can get next day service. Your shrimp is individually quick-frozen when caught at sea. Then it comes right off the boats to the packaging plant where it is counted, packaged and individually frozen again before it is sent to wherever you happen to be.
USA American Shrimp and Texas Longhorn Shrimp are also proud members of the Go Texan campaign, which promotes Texas agriculture. The Go Texan logo is certified by the Texas Department of Agriculture and can only be used by product members on products grown, processed or manufactured in Texas. So it’s safe to say shrimp imported from China and elsewhere does not have the convenience of having this logo applied to their product.
You can also do as I’ve done by ordering Texas Longhorn Shrimp or USA American Shrimp as unique gifts for family members. I ordered Texas Longhorn Shrimp for one of my brothers and his family years ago for Christmas and was promptly told that I would never have to think about asking what they wanted for Christmas ever again and to keep this American shrimp as a “standing order.”
So if you love shrimp or know someone who does, you owe it to your taste buds to visit www.TexasLonghornShrimp.com or www.USAAmericanShrimp.com, where you’ll find out how to score one pound of free cocktail shrimp with your order. You’ll be glad you did.
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Roger Simmermaker is the author of How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism and writes "Buy American Mention of the Week" articles for WorldNetDaily.com and his website www.howtobuyamerican.com. Roger is a member of the Machinists Union and National Writers Union, has been a frequent guest on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, and has been quoted in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Business Week among many other publications.
GOOD NEWS
NONE THIS WEEK
VIDEOS
Olbermann, Mancow Interview: Mancow Discusses Being Waterboarded (VIDEO)
Keith Olbermann interviewed conservative radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller tonigh about his experience being waterboarded. Mancow said he agreed to be interviewed because Olbermann is a "stand up guy" for agreeing to donate $10,000 to a charity benefiting veterans (an offer previously extended to Sean Hannity) after Mancow was waterboarded.
Mancow reaffirmed that the practice was indeed torture and said that his "psychological state" going into the experiment was that he was "laughing at it. I was willing to prove, and ready to prove, that this was a joke, and I was wrong. It was horrific. It was instantaneous. And look, I felt the effects for two days."
Mancow also revealed that his friend Sean Hannity "called me and said 'it's still not torture.'"
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