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John Brantley was no Tim Tebow, though Auburn’s Cameron Newton, who was once a Gator, did a pretty good imitation of the former Florida star. Texas didn’t want Garrett Gilbert to have to carry the offense the way Colt McCoy used to, but the Longhorns’ new starting quarterback might have to.

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Redeye bass forms as the Shoal, Alabama, or Apalachicola bass. Apalachicola bass have dark spots about the tail base, which the fish is spotted in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. The Apalachicola River runs through Georgia, where Redeye Shoal may have got its name in this form. Redeye bass are aggressive species. Redeye bass will fight or jump hooks when captured.

Redeye bass are commonly known as “Flint River Smallmouth,” Coosa, or Shoal bass. One of the common fishes is the Alabama Redeye. The fish is famous for its caudal fins, red-tone dorsal and blue spots on the upper sides of its body. Redeye bass also have a blue-tone underneath, yet the fish colors vary, depending on where the fish is spotted.

Redeye bass are freshwater sunfish species, which come from the family of Micropterus Coosae. Redeye bass are spotted in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia, etc. Colorado and Michigan waters also house the bass. Redeye is distinguished for its red eyes. As well, Redeye bass are noted for the greenish or brownish sides that comprise vertical bars. Moreover, Redeye bass have gill covers that comprise dark spots, as well as a jaw line that extends near the rear eye. Its lateral bands are similar to that of the smallmouth bass.

The fish are often attracted to crayfish, worms, hellgrammites, minnows, minute spinners, minute surface lures, nymphs, and so on. Crayfish seems to be a popular lure for attracting Redeye, black bass, largemouth, smallmouth, and related bass. You will find Redeye bass along minute streams near headwaters, or areas where black bass will not appear. To find Redeye bass you can also look along the main-channels or areas where the water temperature is around 65 degrees.

Hitting the Records Redeye bass is recorded in the World Record book, in which the largest Redeye weighed 8 pounds and 3 ounces. The fish was apprehended in Georgia at Flint River. Basic Length and Weight Common length of Redeye bass reach up to 8.9 inches in Alabama, and the Shoal reaches up to 21.5 inches. The standard weight is 5.5 at a length of 20 inches. The fish enjoy feasting on smaller fish, larval insects, crayfish, terrestrial insects, etc. Redeye bass often live up to 10 years. The common spawning habits start in spring. During spring Redeye, bass will spawn in 69 degrees water temperature, or 62 degrees. Contrasting the female guard, male Redeye bass guard the fry and eggs prior to fry.

If you are planning a fishing trip, go online to view the guides. Guides online will take you on tours around lakes where Redeye bass, largemouth, smallmouth, black bass, and related bass swim. Some people prefer to hunt a specific fish, and if you are one of these people, having a guide available can take you to the hot fishing spots. Now that you have an idea about Redeye bass, you may want to learn more about black bass, since these creatures may offer a surplus of catch whereas the Redeye bass may not provide you.

They were called Beerhalls.  They were the Town Council’s answer to a Social Gathering point and Entertainment Centre for the poor.  The beer was brewed from ropoko, a type of locally grown millet, and the ‘masese’ (pronounced ma-ses-se) was the left over sediment from the brewing process.  It had a strangely pleasing smell.  Sour and fruity.

 

Pigs ate it enthusiastically probably because it was intoxicating and it made excellent fish bait.  Two or three handfuls thrown into the water thirty minutes or so before dropping in the fishing line meant that the fish were gathered there, just ready to be hooked.  (That was the fisherman’s wish anyway!)  As an alternative, a few people would get into the water with nets. Great jubilation always followed such occasions.  More commonly though one would hook a type of catfish known locally as barbel. (pronounced barbil)

 

The sewage ponds which served the village where we lived in Southern Africa were full of barbel. Sewage suited them perfectly and the reason for saying so is that they grew.  Really grew.  Both in size and in numbers.

 

My father-in-law had a photograph of a barbel – though not from the sewage ponds.  Two men were holding it up, shoulder high.  It’s tail touched the ground.  They can grow very big and when they do they provide the angler with a real challenge. 

 

The unfortunate part of the sewage pond barbels was that local people fished them.  This could hardly have the making of a healthy diet for them.  Some things make one feel helpless and this was one.  Why wasn’t there a better source of food for the poor?  There are plenty of fruit bearing trees, pleasing to the eye, which could be planted rather than those which are primarily for ornamental purposes.  Oh woe to the powers that be!

 

In most parts of Southern Africa, only the larger rivers flow all the year round.  Even some of these shrink to a series of pools, connected by a meandering thread of slow-flowing water, too shallow for fish to swim in.  The fish are then restricted to the pools.  If, as often happens, the first meaningful downpours of the rainy season are late in arriving, the life-giving trickle between pools dries up, and most of the fish are in big trouble.  The smaller pools dry up completely and fish species like bream and silver are stranded, gasping, at the mercy of birds of prey, carnivores such as jackals and hyena and of course, man.  Only the barbel escape.  They do so by burrowing deep under the mud before it is altogether dry, and there they lie hidden until the rain revives the river and they can wriggle free, ready to continue life as usual.  There have also been reports of their ability to move across dry land looking for water, although they can only survive doing this while their skin stays moist, which would not be for long.

 

They derive their name from the whiskers, or barbels, growing out sideways from the front of their heads like a spiky moustache, tendrils 6? or more in length, giving them an aggressively fearsome appearance. Those found in Southern Africa have distinctively flat heads with wide mouths, unlike the more fishy-faced types elsewhere. 

 

Remember June 25, 1987?  President Ronald Reagan established National Catfish Day to recognise the value of farm-raised catfish.  Catfish as food were introduced into Southern United States by migrants from Europe and Africa.  Channel catfish and Blue catfish are now mainly consumed and are predominant in both the wild and in fish farms.  They are a popular food choice, rich in vitamin D and with low levels of Omega 3.  Having no scales however, they are not considered ‘kosher’ food.

 

If you want to do some fishing, there are many different types of fishing crafts to choose from. But before that, there is an excellent website called landbigfish dot com which offers a search for fish species and location, by state in North America.  Just as an example a search turns up the Coosa River in Alabama as having both blue catfish and channel catfish.

 

The following three boats are a bit unusual and just might pique your interest.

 

Classic Accessories have the Colorado XT Pontoon Boat.  Pontoon boats are notably stable.

 

KL Industries have the Square Back Fishing 156 canoe with the built-in benefit of a motor-transom.  The canoe tracks well and has a capacity for 3 people.

 

Classic Accessories offer the <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.theboatingstore.co.cc”>Bighorn Pontoon Float Tube</a>.  It has a raised seat for drier and warmer fishing with improved visibility. 

 

If you think you would find the history of pontoons of interest then read ‘Pontoons are in Favour – Parts One & Two’.  Or you might find ‘Choose An Inflatable Kayak – An Overview of Main Brand Names’ useful.

 

 

Alabama House of Representatives District 53 candidate Anthony Johnson gives a call to action.

There is still a week left in both the seasons of Missouri and West Virginia and in that week Missouri has to beat a strong Oklahoma team and West Virginia has to avoid looking past Pitt. But if both teams win on Saturday they will finish #1 & #2 in the polls and the match-up for the national title would be good for college football much to the dismay of fans of others schools like Ohio State, et al who are bemoaning how they should be in the national title game even after losses to unranked opponents throughout the season and other pitfalls.

Why would WVU facing Mizzou be good? Because maybe, just maybe, it will get some of the people holding up an actual playoff system for the national title off the dime.

Every year I hear bitching and moaning from teams out of the national title hunt complaining about how they should be considered. But this year the pitch is fevered, fed by the vast number of discontented fans of other legitimate title contenders from OSU, LSU, USC to Kansas just to name a few.

Mizzou (then #4) beats Kansas (then #2) and Missouri moves to #1 while Kansas fans decry a drop to fifth and no hope at all of a national title? Hey, I’ve never liked the way that the voters punish a quality team for playing and loosing to another quality team. But it’s not like the drop is that unfathomable and Kansas should be lower than Mizzou. What ticks Kansas fans off is that they are now behind the 10-2 Bulldogs of Georgia who weren’t even “good enough” in their mind to make their conference title game.

Ok, maybe. Yes, the Bulldogs have two losses. One was to the Gamecocks who are always eager to play anyone in the nation and one tough team every year. The other was to then unranked, but now #14 Tennessee. They beat then #16 Alabama, then #11 Florida, then #18 Auburn, and then #23 Kentucky. They’ve earned that #4 ranking no matter what you believe.

LSU fans are tweaked because after loosing to Arkansas they fell from first to seventh behind Ohio State, Georgia, Kansas, and Virginia Tech and are so far out of title contention that the only way they are going to the game this year is to buy tickets. That drop isn’t that awful considering both that it was their second loss of the season and came to an unranked foe.

Then there are the Ohio State fans are seething because they still believe the Buckeyes are the best team in the nation. That may well be, but the same was thought last year and it did not pan out quite the way OSU fans hoped. This year they lost to then unranked Illinois who, despite beating two top five teams also lost twice to unranked teams and also a very questionable Michigan squad.

Hawaii fans? I don’t feel your pain that much but I think you should be higher than 12th. I’d put your team somewhere around 8th if I had a say. Listen, if the champion of Conference USA was undefeated would anyone who is sane say they deserve a shot at the national title? No. Well, the WAC is in that same league as that conference.

Mizzou’s only loss so far came at the hands of then #6 Oklahoma who they have to play once again on Saturday. They beat an overrated #25 Nebraska team, a tough then #24 Texas Tech team (who beat then #2 Oklahoma) and also #2 Kansas. Remember this too, Missouri wasn’t even ranked to start the season! That tells you that they made some serious impressions along the way. Missouri is probably the feel good story of the season pending the outcome of Saturday’s games.

West Virginia? Well their single loss was to a ranked South Florida team who was unbeatable until their self destruction. Remember, this is an SFU team that debuted at #2 in the BCS after that victory. WVU also beat then #25 (and probably over ranked) Rutgers, then #22 Cincinnati, and most recently #20 UConn who is certainly not as weak of a team as some of the naysayers hope for you to believe they are. They also defeated Louisville who, despite not being a contender now, was picked very high in the preseason and whose aerial attack gives the best defenses in the NCAA fits.

So before anyone starts whining about who doesn’t deserve to be where they are right now, just remember that we can go through all of the “so and so” lost to “so and so” who beat “so and so” who beat “so and so” scenarios you want. In the end it’s just a wash however. You can sit there as an OSU or LSU fan and bellyache all you want about how neither Missouri nor West Virginia could beat you if you were in the national title game. And you probably thought the same about Illinois and Arkansas when they played you too. But we see how well that theory worked out huh?

So Mizzou versus Vest Virginia would be good for the championship series. And it would be even better if the “big boys” each and every year for the next five or six years are shut out and we see teams like these continue to end the season one and two.

If that happens? Well, you will see a lot of schools and conferences who are fighting against a playoff today getting on board with the idea of such a system. It’s not fun to be on the outside looking in. Of course all you will hear from these people decrying a possible WVU Mizzou match up in the title game IF it happens will be about how the game is illegitimate and the BCS is busted … but just this year. When they win it, it’s legitimate of course.

But don’t fret. Mizzou and West Virginia still have to win one more game each. But if they don’t and a team like Ohio State gets back to the dance? Well it will just prolong the establishment of a real and meaningful playoff system.

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Participants in the Sugarland Optimist Club’s 7-on-7 high school football camp Tuesday at New Iberia Senior High certainly got a big bang for the buck, NISH head football coach Rick Hutson said following the afternoon-long event.

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Throughout 2009, while the country and it’s citizens were facing a terrible economy, foreign wars, extreme Congressional partisanship and sniping, no improvements in the major issues facing this country such as the soaring national debt, high unemployment, failing public schools, wide spread drug addiction problems, rising health care costs, and other major issues, what were the politicians worried about? Looking back on 2009, there appears to have been three distinct categories of American political class behavior: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

The Good

By all accounts, 2009 was a rough year in America. The good news is that I could actually identify some areas where the political class did some good things. The bad news is I could only come up with three examples where the actions of the political class had taxpayers and fellow citizens in mind when they executed their actions:

1) The first example is based on personal experience. I live in Pinellas county in Florida and over the past four years my property taxes have gone down on a year over year basis. They have gone down so much that I now pay about 40% in less in property taxes today than I paid four years ago with a significant portion of that decrease occurring in 2009. There are probably a number of factors, both political and non-political, that have gone into this decrease but the bottom line is that they have gone down significantly. And here is the good news: I still have police protection, I still have fire protection, the schools are still open, the parks are still open, most of the libraries are still open and the roads and traffic lights are still in good shape. This is proof, that on a very local level, excess waste can be taken out of government without substantial reduction in essential protection and services. The primary word in that previous sentence is essential.

2) The second example comes from the U.S. Senate and it was a suggestion and formal proposal to the Senate from Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. His reasoning: since the Federal government paid about $60 billion of U.S. taxpayer money to acquire a 60% share of General Motors and theoretically save it from bankruptcy, shouldn’t each American taxpayer get stock certificates and partial ownership of GM rather than the Washington bureaucrats? After all, since government is able to function only because it takes money from taxpayers, if government acquires ownership in a private company, doesn’t that mean that the taxpayers own the company since it was their money? Senator Alexander was the single politician this year that showed he understood the relationship between paying taxes and government spending. Giving individual citizens those shares of GM would ensure more interest in how GM performed going forward since each citizen would have had a stake in its survival, probably giving GM a better shot at survival than it has with government ownership. Unfortunately, the Senator’s suggestion was not approved by the Senate.

3) The final example comes from a small town in south Florida, Miami Gardens. In the past year, Miami Gardens city government took the following actions:

The city payroll grew. Most everywhere else in the country unemployment increased.
City employees still got cost of living raises and merit raises. Most everywhere else in the country salaries and wages were frozen or reduced.
The city increased its financial reserves by about $300,000. Most everywhere else in the country, local and state governments dipped into their reserves to cover operating costs.
The city upgraded 17 parks and 4 schools. Most other government entities were reducing or eliminating maintenance projects.

How was Miami Gardens able to do all of these positive things in light of a very, very deep recession and the fact that they are not a city of wealthy residents? According to interviews with city officials:

City employees share both personnel resources and other resources.
The city hires only those people they actually need to do the work needed to be done.
City officials claim they have the ability and backbone to say “No” to non-essential projects and programs, claiming that they cannot be everything to everybody.

Thus, much like the first example above, the Miami Gardens politicians have shown that running a lean, efficient government operation is possible if you are respectful of taxpayers’ dollars. All it takes is a little planning and the ability to just say No.

The Bad

In life you have to take the good with the bad so now let’s review some of the less than glorious antics that the political class served us with in the second half of 2009:

Ginny Brown-Waite, a Congresswoman from Florida, was actively investing in bank stocks at the same time she was sitting on the House banking committee to determine which banks got what levels of bailout money and support from the American taxpayer through the Federal government. This is a blatant conflict of interest. Ordinary Americans would probably have gone to jail for insider trading if they did the same thing, apparently conflict of interest and insider trading activities do not apply to Congressional members.
Senator Hillary Clinton apparently also does not understand conflict of interest theory. She helped pass a bill that allowed a mall developer in New York state to get preferential tax treatment, shortly after the developer made a significant donation to Bill Clinton’s foundation.
Hawaiian Senator Daniel Inouye’s staff helped a bank in Hawaii get bailout money from the FDIC after the the FDIC determined the bank was not worth saving. Turns out that the Senator had invested heavily in the bank and stood to lose a load of money unless the bank was saved by the American taxpayer.
Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut received substantial campaign donations from Fannie Me and Freddie Mac. Two things wrong here. First, Dodd was chairman of the Senate banking committee responsible for overseeing the activities of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a clear cut case of conflict of interest. Second, how do two Federal organizations that exist now solely because of taxpayer support and bailout money get to use taxpayer money to support specific candidates for office? Shouldn’t government organizations remain non-partisan and not a piggy bank for the politicians who are supposed to oversee them?
Ex-Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana was convicted of taking bribes and was sentenced to 13 years in prison. You may recall that Mr. Jefferson was caught with frozen bribe money in his home freezer. This continues the hall of shame tradition of the political class who recently included Congressman Randy Cunningham who was sentenced to eight years in prison for taking $2.4 million in bribes, Congressman Bill Ney who was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for taking bribes, Congressman James Traficant who was sentenced to seven years in prison for taking bribes, and the majority of ex-Governors of Illinois who are either serving prison time, have served prison time, or may soon face prison time.
60% of the Congressional members sitting on the House Armed Services Committee received campaign contributions from the very companies that they had previously earmarked pork barrel budget money for.
Congressman Charles Rangel of New York is being investigated for a number of ethics violations including, but not limited to, non-declaration of rental income, certain assets, and other income.
In the area of “who really cares about this bill”, Congresswoman Anna Eshoo of California and her staff are working on legislation to Federally regulate the sound volume on television commercials. Never mind that TV watchers can mute the sound, change the channel, leave the room to get something to eat, fast forward on their DVR machines, or just ignore the TV for 60 seconds. Why work on Iraq, Afghanistan, soaring deficits, unemployment, failing public schools, etc. when the TV commercial sound volume issue is so pressing?
In the same vein as Ms. Eshoo’s contribution to America, Congressman Jim Moran and his staff are investigating whether certain television commercials alluding to a specific male health problem should be banned. I did not know this was so important either. As with Ms. Eshoo, let’s ignore real issues facing America and work on television commercial issues.
And it never ends. Congressman Thaddeus McCotter and his staff is working on legislation to provide up to $300 a month in income tax deductions so that the unemployed do not have to put their pets up for adoption. Maybe if his staff and he were working on how to get America working again, there would be no need for this ridiculous program that would never be able to be tracked and would be rife with fraud.
Worse than individual Congress people and their staffs working on trivial bills, how about an entire House subcommittee worked on legislation aimed at forcing the NCAA to go to a playoff format to determine the best Division One college football team? Where would this issue rank with the vast majority of Americans today? Probably not very high.
The fence along the border between America and Mexico was the work of the entire Congress. A 2009 report documented that the construction of the fence is seven years behind schedule, it will cost $6.4 billion to maintain the fence over the next twenty years ($870,000 a day!), and there have been at least 3,000 breaches of the fence where illegal immigrants were able to enter the country despite this billion dollar fence.
The new Washington D.C. visitors’ center was completed but only after it overran it’s construction budget by about 50%.
California Congressman Henry Waxman was quoted as saying: “I certainly don’t claim to know everything’s that’s in this bill” in referring to the massive cap and trade legislation that is likely to come before Congress in 2010. The troubling aspect of this statement is that Waxman is the official co-author and writer of the bill!
Recently, who could forget the blatant bribes the recently passed health care reform bill required where a handful of Democratic Senators were able to get breaks for their individual states to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in exchange for their final vote in support of this bill.

If these actions were not serious and far reaching, they would be comical. Conflicts of interest, trivial projects, wastes of money, sad but true in 2009.

The Ugly

It has been said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. However, it is difficult to find much beauty in any of the following Federally funded projects since they waste Federal tax dollars on local projects that contribute nothing to solving the major, national issues facing the country today. The only beauty is in the eye of incumbent politicians who waste these taxpayer dollars to support their re-election efforts:

Exhibits at the Teddy Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation – $150,000
Restoration of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Music Hall – $1,000,000
Restoration of the Uptown Theater in Philadelphia – $350,000
Construction of the Monroe County (Kentucky) Farmers’ Market – $250,000
Restoration of the Murphy Theater in Ohio – $250,000
Restoration of the Slater Mill in Rhode Island – $194,000
Restoration of the Pregone Theater in the Bronx – $150,000
Construction of the Santa Ana River Trail in California – $100,000
Funding for the Myrtle Beach International Trade and Conference Center – $100,000
Funding for the Washington (state) Opera – $200,000
Funding for the Montana World Trade Center – $134,000
Funding for the Arkansas Commercial Driver Training Institute – $200,000
Funding to study and educate citizens about the role and importance of the U.S. Senate, located in Massachusetts – $18,900,000
Funding for the Brown Tree Snake Program, funding that was embedded in the 2010 Defense Department budget – $500,000
Renovation of the Ritz Theater in Newburgh, New York – $400,000
Renovation of the Laredo Little Theater in Lardeo, Texas – $200,000
Widening of Bristol Street in Santa Ana, California – $350,000
Construction of a bike path in Port Sanilax, Michigan – $250,000
Funding for the Museum Of Aviation – $350,000
Funding for the World Food Prize in Iowa – $750,000
Questionable Medicare claims including such, as an example, paying for blood glucose strips for sexual impotence – $47,000,000,000
Government waste due to improper payments across all Federal government departments – $98,000,000,000
Conversion of 21 cabooses into a caboose motel in Pennsylvania – $500,000
Funding for a remote Pennsylvania airport that serves about twenty passengers a day – $200,000,000
Funding for a state of the art radar system for that remote Pennsylvania airport that has never been used – $8,000,000
Funding for a remote Montana border checkpoint at the Canadian border that handles about three travelers a day on average and less than $200 of freight a day on average – $15,000,000
Funding for the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawaii – $238,000
Funding for the Forage Animal Production Research Lab in Kentucky- $1,600,000
Funding for Swine Odor and Manure Management Research in Iowa – $1,790,000
Funding for oyster rehabilitation in Alabama – $800,000
Support of health and economic development activities for the Arctic region – $19,600,000
A loan to a California company to develop and build an expensive hybrid sports car…. in Finland – $529,000,000

These are just a couple dozen programs that waste hard earned taxpayer dollars. The 2010 budget bills have over 11,000 other such programs, even though President Obama campaigned to keep the number of pork projects like these well under 2,000. The reasons we have state and local governments is to handle state and local needs. It should not be the role of the Federal government to fund local bike paths, widen local roads, renovate theaters, etc. It diverts time, money, and resources from the truly national problems like the two wars we are currently involved in, soaring Federal deficits, high unemployment levels, Social Security and Medicare heading for insolvency, failing public schools, high drug addiction rates and the associated crime problems, the lacking of a national strategic energy plan, etc.

Then why does the political class spend/waste time and money on these clearly local issues and needs? It helps guarantee them re-election by attempting to prove to their own voters that they are adept at stealing money from other U.S. taxpayers and funneling into their home districts and states. Remember, the government pays for nothing, it funds programs with taxpayer money taken from all American taxpayers. Thus, the bike trail in Michigan is being financed in part by taxpayers in Arizona who will never ride that trail. The Polynesian Voyaging Society is being funded in part by taxpayers in Vermont who will never get any benefits from the Society.

A long time ago, the Statue Of Liberty, an enduing symbol of this entire country and its freedom, was in badly need of repair and renovation. The country rose up to privately donate enough funds to restore this national symbol. If the Statue Of Liberty did not merit Federal money several decades ago, why do farmers’ markets and bike paths merit such Federal support today?

This pilfering of national tax dollars possibly hides a more dangerous reality. It could be that this generation of politicians, and the ones that have come immediately before them, do not know how to solve the real national problems facing America today. In the 1960s, Nixon declared war on drugs but we still have a major drug problem in this country. In the 1970s, Carter was President when we lived through the energy crises but we still no do not have a national strategic energy program in place. In the early 1980s, the Reagan administration identified the danger of our failing public school systems but today many of our public schools are still failing. In the 1990s, despite numerous wake-up calls (first World Trade Center attacks, U.S. embassy terrorist bombings in Africa, USS Cole attack, etc.) we still do not have the terrorist threat under control, as witnessed by the almost catastrophic airline security breakdown on the Christmas day KLM flight into Detroit.

Thus, it could be that our current politicians work on useless and wasteful local spending programs and worry about the sound volume on television commercials because they are incapable of doing anything else. If they were, than many of our national problems would have been addressed and solved already. That is why the following steps need to be taken to start reducing “The Bad” and “The Ugly” and expanding the “The Good” from the political class:

Step 1 – start reducing Federal spending by 10% a year, for five years, in order to begin weeding out the wasteful, but politically convenient, local wastes of money.
Step 2 – allow only individual citizens to contribute to political election campaigns since many of the wasteful programs are really bribes, directing taxpayer dollars to companies, unions, and lobbyists in order to get reciprocal campaign donations for incumbents’ re-election campaigns.
Step 3 – hold Congressional committee and subcommittee members accountable for their performance, removing them from committee posts when their efforts are unsatisfactory and wasteful.
Step 4 – establish term limits for all Senators and Congressmen since allowing them to serve forever is not working. If the President, the most important elected official in the world, has term limits, less important Senate and House of Representative seats should also be limited in term length.
Step 5 – no Federal money could be spent on any program or project unless it materially affects a substantial number of residents in at least five states, i.e. spend Federal tax dollars on national needs, let state and local governments and private citizens handle the local needs.

While “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” made for a good Clint Eastwood movie, it does not make for effective and efficient governance. Let’s hope that 2010 is better and that somehow some of the steps listed above take hold this year, resulting in a 2010 list of wasteful spending programs and negative political antics that is far smaller than in 2009.

Note: only credible, well known news sources were used for the information included in this article. These sources included, but were not limited to, the New York Times, the St. Petersburg Times, CNN, the Associated Pres, The Week Magazine, and Reason Magazine and does not include personal opinions or information from highly partisan sources. For detailed information on the sources please refer to www.loathemygovernment.blogspot.com where all of these facts and figures have been previously identified and discussed.
 
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Glenn’s Sporting Good Celebrates 40 Years in Business
Glenn’s Sporting Goods celebrated a milestone 40th anniversary on Friday.

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