From Westley at da-parish.com Tue Oct 20 07:31:23 2009 From: Westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:31:23 -0500 Subject: [StBernard] WARNING ON SEASONAL FLU VACCINE Message-ID: <0eca01ca5178$db1ee1c0$915ca540$@com> I heard about this myself just today. Really, most people have no clue exactly what is in the vaccines that we put into our bodies and those of our children. I recently read The Vaccine Book by Dr. Sears. It should be required reading for anyone who is considering becoming a parent. LISA ----------------------------------------------------- Ok...the story in the link below is scary...especially since I just received the seasonal flu vaccine last week!! http://www.generationrescue.org/desiree_jennings.html From Westley at da-parish.com Tue Oct 20 07:37:16 2009 From: Westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:37:16 -0500 Subject: [StBernard] here's a new sign for you from Casa D' Ice Message-ID: <0ed401ca5179$ad64fd90$082ef8b0$@com> I wanted to share with you the latest sign that I've posted outside of my restaurant. Obama Keeps One Promise Regarding Transparency Transparency Means Clear It's Abundantly CLEAR Obama And Congress Don't Know What They're Doing 10-19-09 From Westley at da-parish.com Tue Oct 20 07:45:37 2009 From: Westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:45:37 -0500 Subject: [StBernard] Time Running Out to Stop this Radical Obama Nominee Message-ID: <0ee801ca517a$d82e66a0$888b33e0$@com> Was curious as to who this was from (I hate seeing a name but not title or indication of what organization the person's with). Mark Mix: http://www.nrtw.org/media/mam.php JY ----------------------------------------------------- At Big Labor's demand, the Senate Labor Committee is preparing to vote on radical union lawyer Craig Becker's nomination to the National Labor Relations Board without even holding a hearing. Aside from the Wall Street Journal, the media is turning a blind eye to this forced unionism extremist's record. Please read this urgent message below to learn more about Craig Becker and then please contact your Senators and urge them to oppose this outrageous nomination to the federal agency tasked with overseeing America's private sector workplaces. ________________________________ "[Secret ballot] elections are profoundly undemocratic." Those are the words of Big Labor lawyer Craig Becker, Barack Obama's latest nominee to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). . . . . . and the man your U.S. Senators could be asked to confirm any day now. That's why it's vital you call your U.S. Senators TODAY and demand that they vote against the nomination of Craig Becker to the NLRB. Here are your Senators' numbers: Senator Mary Landrieu: 202-224-5824 Senator Dave Vitter: 202-224-4623 You see, Craig Becker's record proves that he is a radical -- even by Big Labor's standards. In fact, as ACORN founder Wade Rathke stated, the appointment of Big Labor's "secret weapon" Craig Becker would be a "big win no matter how you shake and bake it." As the quasi-judicial agency that administers federal labor law, just one of the functions of the NLRB is to oversee secret ballot elections and resolve unfair labor practices committed by union organizers. That's why the union bosses see a militant NLRB as one of Big Labor's most treacherous accomplices in increasing its radical forced-dues power. Under a union-label NLRB, workers who try to dismiss unwanted union monopoly bargaining agents -- or even try to stop their forced dues from being used to elect handpicked Big Labor candidates -- would be denied even the most basic protections. And, considering Craig Becker's record, it's not a stretch to believe that -- should he be confirmed by the U.S. Senate -- Mr. Becker wouldn't think twice about rubber stamping even the most abusive forced-unionism schemes cooked up by union militants. You see, as a former AFL-CIO and SEIU union lawyer, Becker is solely responsible for forcing tens of thousands of workers under union boss control. In one case, reports from a Los Angeles SEIU Local union revealed that almost 63,000 people rejected membership in the union in 2007, but thanks to Becker, were still forced to pay dues. And Becker's own words explain why. He was even so bold as to say unions were "formed to escape the evils of individualism and individual competition . . . their actions necessarily involve coercion." So, it should come as no surprise that Becker supports "home visits," in which union militants repeatedly harass workers at home until they sign union authorization cards. The fact is, Craig Becker is so extreme he actually believes the only choice workers should have is WHICH union they should be FORCED to pay dues to. And should one refuse, he and the rest of Big Labor's lackeys on the NLRB will choose for them. Nothing would be more disastrous for American workers! With the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) due to take up the nomination next week, right now is the most crucial time to expose Becker's forced unionism record. Of course, to stop Becker's appointment, the full Senate must reject him, but if the HELP Committee doesn't do it's job by probing his radical views, it's safe to say that won't happen. That's why it's vital you call your U.S. Senators today urging them to vote against the confirmation of Craig Becker at every opportunity. Senator Mary Landrieu: 202-224-5824 Senator Dave Vitter: 202-224-4623 And, if at all possible, please make your most generous contribution today to help the National Right to Work Committee keep Craig Becker off the National Labor Relations Board. But most importantly, call your U.S. Senators IMMEDIATELY and demand that they vote against union militant Craig Becker's nomination to the NLRB. Sincerely, Mark Mix President P.S. The U.S. Senate could vote any day now to confirm militant union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). That's why it's vital you call your U.S. Senators at once and demand they vote against Craig Becker's NLRB confirmation. From Westley at da-parish.com Tue Oct 20 09:42:28 2009 From: Westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:42:28 -0500 Subject: [StBernard] Rocky & Carlos Message-ID: <0fdd01ca518b$2a8f7870$7fae6950$@com> Rocky & Carlos will be closed today due to the passing away of Rocky himself. Please keep the family and staff of Rocky's in your prayers. Westley From Westley at da-parish.com Tue Oct 20 10:21:23 2009 From: Westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:21:23 -0500 Subject: [StBernard] Alienated & Radicalized Message-ID: <102a01ca5190$9aea5770$d0bf0650$@com> THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - October 20, 2009 Alienated & Radicalized by Pat Buchanan In the brief age of Obama, we have had "truthers," "birthers," Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the "Oath Keepers." And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where one stands, are "either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia." Formed in March, they are ex-military and police who repledge themselves to defend the Constitution, even if it means disobeying orders. If the U.S. government ordered law enforcement agencies to violate Second Amendment rights by disarming the people, Oath Keepers will not obey. "The whole point of Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here," says founding father Stewart Rhodes, an ex-Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer. "My focus is on the guys with the guns, because they can't do it without them. "We say if the American people decide it's time for a revolution, we'll fight with you." Prediction: Brother Rhodes is headed for cable stardom. And if the Pelosi-Reid progressives went postal over town- hall protesters, calling them "un-American," "Nazis" and "evil-mongers," one can imagine what they will do with the Oath Keepers. As with Jimmy Carter's long range psychoanalysis of Joe Wilson, the reflexive reaction of the mainstream media will likely be that these are militia types, driven to irrationality because America has a black president. Yet, the establishment's reaction seems more problematic for the republic than anything the Oath Keepers are up to. For our political and media elite seem to have lost touch with the nation and to be wedded to a vision of America divorced from reality. Progressives are the folks who, in the 1960s, could easily understand that urban riots that took scores of lives and destroyed billions in property were an inevitable reaction to racism, poverty and despair. They could empathize with the rage of campus radicals who burned down the ROTC build- ing and bombed the Pentagon. The "dirty, immoral war in Vietnam" explains why the "finest generation we have ever produced" is behaving like this, they said. We must deal with the "root causes" of social disorder. Yet, they cannot comprehend what would motivate Middle America to distrust its government, for it surely does, as Ron Brownstein reports in the National Journal: "Whites are not only more anxious, but also more alienated. Big majorities of whites say the past year's turmoil has diminished their confidence in government, corporations and the financial industry... Asked which institution they trust most to make economic decisions in their interest, a plurality of whites older than 30 pick 'none' -- a grim statement." Is all this due to Obama's race? Even Obama laughs at that. As he told David Letterman, I was already black by the time I was elected. And he not only got a higher share of the white vote than Kerry or Gore, a third of white voters, who said in August 2008 that race was an important consideration in voting, said they were going to vote for Obama. With black voters going 24 to 1 for Obama, he almost surely won more votes than he lost because of his race. Moreover, the alienation and radicalization of white America began long before Obama arrived. He acknowledged as much when he explained Middle Pennsylvanians to puzzled progressives in that closed-door meeting in San Francisco. Referring to the white working-class voters in the industrial towns decimated by job losses, Obama said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Yet, we had seen these folks before. They were Perotistas in 1992, opposed NAFTA in 1993, and blocked the Bush- Kennedy McCain amnesty in 2007. In their lifetimes, they have seen their Christian faith purged from schools their taxes paid for, and mocked in movies and on TV. They have seen their factories shuttered in the thousands and their jobs outsourced in the millions to Mexico and China. They have seen trillions of tax dollars go for Great Society programs, but have seen no Great Society, only rising crime, illegitimacy, drug use and dropout rates. They watch on cable TV as illegal aliens walk into their country, are rewarded with free educations and health care, and take jobs at lower pay than American families can live on -- then carry Mexican flags in American cities and demand U.S. citizenship. They see Wall Street banks bailed out as they sweat their next paycheck, then read that bank profits are soaring, and the big bonuses for the brilliant bankers are back. Neither they nor their kids ever benefited from affirmative action, unlike Barack and Michelle Obama. They see a government in Washington that cannot balance its books, win our wars or protect our borders. The government shovels out trillions to Fortune 500 corporations and banks to rescue the country from a crisis created by the govern- ment and Fortune 500 corporations and banks. America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right. From Westley at da-parish.com Tue Oct 20 17:48:44 2009 From: Westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:48:44 -0500 Subject: [StBernard] The Senate Begins Voting on Obamacare This Week Message-ID: <03cb01ca51cf$18cb57a0$4a6206e0$@com> TUESDAY, OCT 20, 2009 The Senate Begins Voting on Obamacare This Week After thousands of Americans attended hundreds of townhalls this summer, after the President of the United States delivered a rare speech to a Joint Session of Congress, after endless coverage of legislative markups in the relevant congressional committees, what if the Senate began actual floor votes on the health care overhaul and the drive-by media refused to cover it? Couldn?t happen? It already is. This week the Senate is set to vote on a measure that would approve spending for almost one quarter of Obamacare?s $1 trillion price tag. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) has introduced, and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is moving to the floor, S. 1776 which, as we explained yesterday , raises Medicare provider reimbursement rates by $247 billion over the next ten years and $3 trillion over the next 75. Under current law , doctors nationwide are set to take a 21.5% pay cut for every Medicare patient they see starting in January 2010. Such a cut would lead many doctors to abandon Medicare patients, thus significantly undermining our entire health care system. Doctor?s reimbursement rates do need to be fixed. But such a fix must be part of comprehensive reform of our health care system. Instead, Reid and the White House are trying to pull a fast one on the American people, claiming ?the Medicare doctors? payment discrepancy is a budgetary problem? while ?health insurance reform tackles a serious regulatory problem.? The Obama administration is trying to add $247 billion in deficit health care spending one week, and then turn around and claim their health care plan is deficit neutral the next. The trickery has come in for some heavy bi-partisan criticism. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said he thought the tactic is a ?mistake?, and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) told Politico : ?I am for the fix, but I don?t think we should blow the roof off the deficit ? not at a time when we are already running record deficits.? Robert Bixby, Director of the nonpartisan, grassroots Concord Coalition clearly articulates why the Medicare reimbursement fix must be considered part of health care reform: Dealing with the ?doc fix? in a separate bill, outside of health care reform, would change the scoring of the bills but not the effect on the deficit. If policymakers believe that the current SGR [Sustainable Growth Rate] formula is unrealistic, they should replace it with a more appropriate policy and pay for the change in keeping with their pledge to reform health care in a deficit-neutral way. If paying for this SGR change means there would be fewer offsets on the table to pay for expanded coverage, then policymakers would be forced to appropriately weigh their priorities and make the necessary tough choices ? either scale back other costs in the health reform package or find more ways to pay for the larger bill. The Tea Party movement that swept the nation this summer is already making life difficult for politicians that say they care about deficit spending but then support policies that undermine that goal. The Boston Tea Party of 1773 set the stage for the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Will the debate over S.1776 set the stage for something much larger and important? QUICK HITS Not wanting to admit their $787 billion stimulus failed, the Obama administration is planning a ?Stealth Stimulus? expected to cost another $100 billion. According to a new Politico poll , 62% of Americans agreed that ?economic growth should be given priority, even if the environment suffers to some extent.? Just two weeks after agreeing to send its nuclear fuel to Russia and France for enrichment, Iran is already threatening to back away from the agreement . The Senate Finance Committee finally produced the legislative text of their health care bill yesterday, all 1,502 pages of it. The Canadian dollar is now almost at parity with its U.S. counterpart. From westley at da-parish.com Tue Oct 20 18:26:01 2009 From: westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:26:01 -0500 Subject: [StBernard] Co-founder of Rocky and Carlo's dies after fall Message-ID: <042001ca51d4$4eb43530$ec1c9f90$@com> Co-founder of Rocky and Carlo's dies after fall By Chris Kirkham, The Times-Picayune October 20, 2009, 12:36PM Rocky Tommaseo, a community pillar in St. Bernard Parish and longtime owner and co-founder of Rocky and Carlo's Restaurant in Chalmette, died early Tuesday morning after suffering a fall several weeks ago. He was 94. Mr. Tommaseo started the restaurant with his brother and three friends in 1965, just months before Hurricane Betsy struck. The restaurant's owners continued to serve food after the storm, endearing them to the community. Hurricane Katrina proved a much more daunting challenge, but the popular restaurant opened 18 months after the storm to long lines of eager patrons. Mr. Tommaseo immigrated from Alcamo, Sicily in the early 1950s. His son, Tommy Tommaseo, took over as general manager of the restaurant about 15 years ago, but the elder Mr. Tommaseo continued to report to work at the eatery every day until his fall. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at St. Bernard Memorial Gardens. The restaurant, which was adorned with black wreaths Tuesday, will remain closed until Friday. From Westley at da-parish.com Tue Oct 20 18:27:03 2009 From: Westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:27:03 -0500 Subject: [StBernard] Festival Message-ID: <042101ca51d4$72ff21c0$58fd6540$@com> Where: Da' Parish ThanksGiving Music Festival Address: 8201 W. Judge Perez Dr. [behind St. Bernard Cultural Center @ Torres Children's play area] When: November 15, 2009 Time: 12:00 noon till 9:30 p.m. Contact Person: Jimmy Besson` Off: 504.271.3219 Cell: 504.452.9093 NO ADMISSION Featured bands: August Rush, Harvey Jesus, Bobby Cure, Orleans, Rockin Jerry, The Chee Weez, and Juilet Secret.. Food Booths, and Arts and Crafts Booths and more.... Jimmy Besson` 1201 Camille Pl. Chalmette, LA. 70043 504.271.3219 hom. 504.452.9093 cell 504.279.5465 fax From Westley at da-parish.com Tue Oct 20 18:46:12 2009 From: Westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:46:12 -0500 Subject: [StBernard] Think Obama is scary enough for Halloween? Message-ID: <043e01ca51d7$1fda7730$5f8f6590$@com> Think Obama is scary enough for Halloween? Now with Illegal aliens bill about to be passed, it's a sure thing for the Halloween Prize. --Just when you thought the ObamaCare socialist communist healthplan was bad enough. Whoops, here it is!! http://tinyurl.com/lu3w8n --jer-- From westley at da-parish.com Tue Oct 20 18:53:22 2009 From: westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:53:22 -0500 Subject: [StBernard] At least I didn't vote for him Message-ID: <044e01ca51d8$20499740$60dcc5c0$@com> Imagine if for one moment George W. Bush ever said he would never appear on CNN because they were too liberal? How can a sitting President get away with saying he will never appear on Fox News Channel because they are a "wing of the Republican Party"? Actually, I'm trying to figure out how this is even a threat, since to the best of my knowledge, Obama has never been on any Fox News talk show to begin with. http://tinyurl.com/yg5yyma Westley