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It’s summer!!
And that means that there is NO general meeting. However, we WILL have a BOARD MEETING.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 9:30 a.m.
At the home of Jackie Russo, 21811 Merridy Street, Chatsworth
All Board members are requested to attend – anyone else who would like to attend is also invited.
Call Jackie at 818 709-0383 if you need directions.
The most important item to discuss is our fashion show. But there are more items as well.
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We are delighted that Armineh Chelebian won as our Republican nominee for State Assembly in the 40th district. Now we have to get both her and McCain elected. Don’t forget that Tuesdays are our day to work at the Republican headquarters, located at 20121 Ventura Blvd. Suite 106, Woodland Hills. Come anytime between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Register Voters at Topanga Plaza Saturdays and Sundays, July 12 & 13 and July 26 & 27. Cleo Reynolds is in charge of this event.
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We need you at this party - every one of you on Monday, July 14th at noon!!!!! We need your friends and family as well. We are not going to throw rocks at the police or anyone else. We are simply going to show up on those steps and stand there until someone realizes "Wait a minute, what are all those people doing there?" And you can bring a baggie of garbage, a little sign (or a big one) a small flag of the USA, whatever, if you like.
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Monday, July 14, 2008 is the rally on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall at noon. This is the rally that Ron Kaye talked about at our last General Meeting.
We all received the official notice from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works, Bureau of Sanitation this month telling us of their plans to increase the monthly fees for trash collection from 26 dollars a month on July 1, 2008 to $36,32 a month starting September 1, 2008.
If you have not done the math, this latest fee will cost us $435.84 a year. And remember, we were not charged as a fee for trash collection until this year. So this increase is like an afterthought, "Nobody objected, so let us go for more" kind of thinking. This week they are talking about raising the city sales tax by one half cent.
I don't know how many of you make six figures every year, but I do know that most of Los Angeles, already coping with price increases in every facet of our lives, DO NOT HAVE A SIX-FIGURE INCOME. (unlike our City Council and the Mayor and Department Heads).
Additionally, trash pickup is one reason we have a city charter, our taxes on our homes and property are supposed to pay for trash pickup, for pot-hole repairs, for sewer services, for fire and police protection. We keep seeing new little delights like warnings about how fast we are going, How much did some good ole boy get to install that system? You know what I mean. Enough is enough.
Remember July 14 on the City Hall steps at noon. That is when the powers that be will learn of our rejection of garbage fees and all the other sneaky ways the Council has devised (look at your water and power bill) of taxing us by calling them "fees"!
I need to know if you are going to City Hall on Monday, July 14th at noon. Please mark your calendar. We need to arrange for car pools or a bus if there are enough to fill a bus. Ask your neighbors, family and friends to go. It is time to stick up for each other and ourselves.
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“We are progressing to Success!”
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Dear All,
I wish to send to you all a special message to cover the highlights of our recent, but much worked on activities as follows :
With many tasks already accomplished by a terrific team , in preparation to our great upcoming fundraiser event, “The Summer Daze” Fashion Show Brunch, I am happy to once again remind you that the day is quickly approaching, SATURDAY JULY 19TH, 2008 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. We could still use your help between now and then, so if you should decide to do so, please do not hesitate to call me.
For those who may have missed the June General meeting, please note that we will have a board meeting (Committee members only) Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 at Jackie Russo’s residence.
I am delighted to inform you that we have our own website up and running even though several phases are still being worked on.
The public site is : cpwhrwf.org
Thank you Linda and Gary Starr for all the work of a wonderful setting and continuous support of this much awaited site!
As per request of a few members, our newsletter will soon enclose an advertisment/networking section at a cost of $ 100.00 per year, which includes the membership. The announcement will appear each month for 12 months consecutively. Therefore, if you still desire to do so and have not yet done it, please let me know as soon as you can.
Janet Fisher, Cheryl Sullivan, Arline Fiorito and myself have attended the LACFRW county meeting and were part of a great day together and heard from some interesting speakers. I strongly encourage all of you to consider in the future to join us also. The LACFRW meets on the last Wednesday of each month. Though off for the summer, the next time they will meet is September 24th 2008!
Our club has signed up for the fair, voter registration for September 11, 2008 and will also add a second day in September. We will need to have 4 members sign up for each day.
Happy Birthday USA. Have a great celebration July 4th!
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This article was sent to us by LACFRW President Mary Lou Terranova. It was written by syndicated columnist, Thomas Sowell, a black man.
He wrote it in a humorous way in a column titled
'Random Thoughts' and published it in newspapers nationally, so maybe you've already seen it. If not:
Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.
After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John McCain for President. I have always voted for the person and have not voted for anyone because some political party was telling me who I should vote for.
We all know the choices by now and, that said, I do believe that the process of selecting a chief executive is deeply flawed. The words 'money' and special interests' come to mind, among many others.
Here's the way I see it: Barack Obama, you are a fine public speaker. You are also an extremely liberal Senator from the State of Illinois , which has a long and rich history of political corruption of the first magnitude. You are indeed a child of that system.
You have finally insulted my intelligence far beyond my capacity to tolerate your insults. It has nothing at all to do with your skin color. As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have an African-American for President. What a great statement that would be to the entire world that we are indeed the greatest country on earth! But, unfortunately, General Colin Powell is not running, and YOU are NOT the man for this job !
Barack baby, you want me to believe that you have never heard the sermons of your own pastor, the Right Reverend 'God Damn America' Jeremiah Wright. It is a matter of record that this has been your church for over 20 years. It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor, and that your children were baptized there. The good Reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you and to give a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people. We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the airwaves by now. And you have publicly stated that this man IS your 'spiritual mentor'.
BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason I am NOT voting for you. His words were disturbing enough, but it is your own HUGE church congregation, seen jumping hooting and howling to his words in the background that disturb me the most And please don't tell me you attended church there and never once heard a discouraging word' in the 20 years you attended there. Don't tell me, that in addition to the good reverend, that you are now not having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling out in the audience in the background of his fiery tirades.
Even Oprah Winfrey got disgusted and walked out on your
campaign. I am no Oprah fan, but still she did the right thing. Now YOU look me in the eye and ask me to believe that you never heard such language in all the years you attended there! This is like me telling you that I attended dozens of Klan rallies and never once heard the 'N' word. Yep. And Bill Clinton 'did not inhale'. Yes, Mr. Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked me to believe something that is so incredibly stupid that you are telling me that I am just stupid enough to believe you. THAT is the main reason that I will never vote for you.
I am deeply sorry, that in a country teeming with enormously talented African Americans who would make a good President, that the political system has chosen YOU. You are a pathetic and plastic excuse for an American, who will not even salute the Flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office. Now, did I mention Bill Clinton?
AH YES! This brings us to MRS. WLLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, who this candidate really is, in spite of all the other names she may care to call herself. This 'feminist' piece of work of course would like to be referred to as MS. And we all know who wears the pant suit in that family.
(Editor’s note: I thought of cutting out this section on Hillary, but then I changed my mind. Hillary is NOT out of the race until the Democrat Primary is OVER. We can’t count her out yet.)
MS. Clinton, it is just as depressing to realize that there are dozens of women who would also make great Presidents. But, unfortunately, the horrible state of the selection process has selected YOU. Ms. Clinton, I'm sorry, but you could not tell the truth if we waterboarded your worthless 'rear end'! Still you play the role of the 'embarrassed but dignified noble wife'. What utter malarkey! I am not voting for you for a world of reasons, but the main one is the same as my not voting for Senator Obama. You persistently insult my intelligence. It COULD be conceivably possible that you did not know about Monica Lewinsky,
extremely remote, but possible if we stretch our maginations a bit.
But you turn around and then ask me to believe that you also did not know about Paula Jones and the legion of other women who were chewed up and spit out by your lecherous excuse for a husband Puleese turn off this broken record !!!
But let's set aside your hubby's flagrant peccadilloes. The real reason I will never vote for you is that I don't think the country can survive EIGHT MORE YEARS of Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Sandy Berger stuffing his socks with classified intelligence, Janet Reno's goon squad, and the myriad other corruptions that seem to stick to you like your ugly face. So our former President can't keep his thingy in his pants. The REAL issue is that he committed perjury under oath when he lied about it and the pathetically- attempted coverup that followed. Like you, he is totally incapable of telling the truth. He could not do it if you tortured him, and in voting for you, we would get the BOTH of you, all over again. The same folks who could have taken out Osama Bin Laden over 4,000 dead Americans ago !
And please stop telling me that you have '8 years of experience' to lead us. You were the freakin' first lady already, not the Com-mander in Chief. Jeez ! The sum of your 'experience' is that of the most worrisome and incompetent meddling in the history of the White House.
You even cursed your pitiful staff and the Secret Service agents who were and still are unfortunately charged with risking their lives to protect your worthless, thieving hide, and all at the expense of other people who have to work for a living.
Your single pathetic platform is to finance the illegal drugs,
alcoholism and bad habits of the very lowest and most irresponsible freeloaders in America and to then 'garnish the wages' (your own words) of every law-abiding and hard-working American to pay for it.
This disaster you refer to as 'Universal Health Care.' Where have you been the last 30 years? Did you not see that socialism is a failure wherever it has been tried? Did you not notice that the Soviet Union has collapsed since it gave no reward to those who worked the hardest for the fruits of their own labors to pay for those who will not?
It is interesting to see all the dead bodies that you and your hubby have left in your wake. Suicides, mysterious deaths, cover-ups that make Richard Nixon look like a rank amateur. The utter contempt and unbelievable arrogance of some of your strongest supporters, most notably the recently resigned and disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer, the epitome of hypocritical and malevolent arrogance gone wild, one of your most ardent, wealthy and powerful political supporters. A man the news media refuses to admit IS a super delegate' in your own political machine, a fine example of your own adopted' state of New York . No wonder you moved there to run for Senator! The environment there is perfect for the likes of you! Yes, I would vote for a woman, but I will NOT vote for YOU!
Which leaves us with Senator John McCain.
John, you are a flawed man. You are a bit old, a bit looney, and you have a notoriously bad temper. This perfectly qualifies you, in my humble opinion, to lead us for the next eight years. I WANT your trembling hand on the nuclear button.
Think about it. We have Kim Jong IL , Chavez and Ahmadenijad all running around like lunatics threatening America and threatening to plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon. We have Putin and the Chinese blustering and rattling their sabers at us. I want John McCain in the Oval Office and I want him to be really ticked off at all these other nut jobs around the planet.
John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Office and throw one of your perfect FITS. Jump up and down and throw something through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down and foam at the mouth a bit. And I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it. I want ALL of these 'world leaders' to lay awake at night and to break out in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of America . I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your night stand. I want pictures of this to be sent to Iran , Russia , China , Venezuela , Cuba , Libya , Syria , Pakistan , and those other dopes in the sheets, the Saudis.
On the domestic front, poor John did try and reach across the aisle to the opposition in a desperate effort to compromise and to get the Congress to do something. You may not agree with his efforts, but at least he TRIED. For all his efforts, all he got handed to him was his head in a basket. The liberals are ticked at him and the conservatives are ticked at him. Just my kinda guy.
I predict that John will select Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Good choice. I want a Jew whose memory of the Holocaust is still fresh in his mind and who is royally ticked off at all of these towel-headed morons in the Middle East to be the next in line if something should happen to John.
Shalom, Vice President Joe. One heartbeat from the Oval Office.
Finally. John McCain knows on a most personal level what it is to suffer horrible torture for years and to see others die, right in front of you, for their love of America . When you ask him about it, he will tell you that what he did was 'nothing special.' Even more incredibly, he states that ANY American who truly loves his country would do exactly the same as he did in that situation. You and I will have a hard time believing that, but the real point is that John McCain believes that about the 'average American,' and that, dear friends and neighbors, is why I will cast my one poor ballot for on election day for John McCain -- warts and all.'
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This is an interesting article as not much has been known about her. She was on Leno the other night and it was an interesting interview. It turns out that she is a character as she is or has been a race car driver and is also a pilot. She flies John around the country to his rallies.
Election 2008: Cindy Hensley McCain has been disparaged as a trophy wife, a Barbie, an heiress with fancy purses, even the Paris Hilton of politics. But there's more to the picture than meets the eye.
Yes, Mrs. McCain is the perfectly coifed blonde standing dutifully behind the senator during his speeches. And yes, she wears stylish clothing and carries a Prada purse. And it's true she doesn't say much. But feminist critics who write her off as a "stand-by-your-man"shrinking violet are selling her short. In many ways, Cindy McCain stacks up sturdier than Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama. And she'd make a more impressive first lady.
Mrs. McCain: More than meets the eye.
While Obama's wife has been hating America, complaining about the war and undermining our troops serving in Afghanistan, McCain's wife has been worrying about her sons who actually are fighting or planning to fight in the war on terror. One, in fact, was until a few months ago deployed in Iraq during some of the worst violence.
You don't hear the McCain's talk about it, but their 19-year-old Marine, Jimmy, is preparing for his second tour of duty. Their 21-year-old son, Jack, is poised to graduate from Annapolis and also could join the Marines as a second lieutenant. The couple made the decision not to draw attention to their sons out of respect for other families with sons and daughters in harm's way.
Cindy also says she doesn't want to risk falling apart on the campaign trail talking about Jimmy who was so young when he enlisted she had to sign consent forms for his medical tests before he could report for duty and potentially upsetting parents of soldiers who are serving or have been killed. The McCain's want to make sure their boys get no special treatment. Same goes for their five other children, including a daughter they adopted from Bangladesh. During a visit to Mother Teresa's orphanage there, Cindy noticed a dying baby. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save her life. So she brought the child home to America for the surgery she desperately needed. The baby is now their healthy, 16-year-old daughter, Bridget.
Though all seven McCain children including two Sen. McCain adopted from his first marriage are supportive of their father, they prefer their privacy to the glare of the campaign trail. Another daughter, Meghan, 23, helps him behind the scenes. Cindy McCain not only cherishes her children, but also her country, which in an election year filled with America-bashing, is a refreshing novelty. She seethed when she heard Michelle Obama's unpatriotic remarks that she only recently grew proud of America. "I am very proud of my country,"Mrs. McCain asserted.
She also may be tougher than the other women in the race. While Hillary thinks she's come under sniper fire on mission trips abroad, Cindy has actually seen violence. She witnessed a boy get blown up by a mine in Kuwait during a trip with an international group that removes land mines from war-torn countries.
Mrs. McCain also is a hands-on philanthropist. She sits on the board of Operation Smile, which arranges for plastic surgeons to fix cleft palates and other birth defects . She also has helped organize relief missions to Micronesia.
During a scuba-diving vacation to the islands, Mrs. McCain took a friend to a local hospital to have a cut treated. She was shocked, and saddened, by what she saw. "They opened the door to the OR, where the supplies were, and there were two cats and a whole bunch of rats climbing out of the sterile supplies," she recalled. "They had no X-ray machine, no beds. To me, it was devastating because it was a U.S. trust territory." As soon as she returned home, she arranged for medical equipment and teams of doctors to be sent to treat the island children.
Michelle Obama may contribute to CARE, which fights global poverty and works to empower poor women. Cindy sits on its board.
While the Democrat women talk about helping the poor and needy, Cindy McCain actually rolls up her sleeves and does it. Who's the out-of-touch elitist?
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Support Our Republican State Legislators
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Our Republican Legislators have an excellent plan to handle the Budget crisis. They need our support and encouragement. They are making a tough stand against raising taxes, and being ignored by the opposition and the press. Please phone or email the following:
Mike Villenes Assembly Minority Leader (916) 319-2029 assemblymember.villenes@assembly.ca.gov
Roger Niello Assembly Budget Vice Chair (916) 319-2005 assemblymember.niello@assembly.ca.gov
George Runner Senate Rep. Caucus Chair (916) 651-4017 senator.runner@senate.ca.com
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Saturday, July 12, 2008 is the meeting of the West Valley Republican Club at the home of Mary Hawkins, 23115 Park Contessa, Calabasas. This will start with a buffet dinner at 5:30 p.m.
This is a fundraising event for the club, and the donation is $35 per person. Remember, this is the club which sponsors our Republican Headquarters.
Cameron Smyth, Assemblyman in the 38th district will speak.
Let Mary Hawkins know if you plan to attend:
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To sum up our discussion of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, here are some excerpts from remarks made by John McCain. They were made in reference to his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
"As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive packages from home. In some of these packages were handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of clothing."
A young prisoner named Mike Christian "got himself a bamboo needle. Over a period of a couple of months, he created an American flag and sewed it on the inside of his shirt."
"Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang Mike's shirt on the wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance."
"I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell, it was indeed the most important and meaningful event."
"One day the Vietnamese searched our cell...and discovered Mike's shirt with the flag sewn inside and removed it. For the benefit of all of us , (they) beat Mike severely for the next couple of hours, then they opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as well as we could."
After the excitement died down, I looked in the corner of the room and sitting there beneath the dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating...making another American flag. He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to pledge our allegiance to our flag and country."
"So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build out nation and promote freedom around world."
"You must remember our duty, our honor and our country."
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