If the story is true, Obama is accepting campaign
contributions from overseas sources. His supporters have verified where
some of these overseas sources are. Is Obama using these contributions?
Come on now, we all should use caution on who we vote for. It has been
reported Obama is getting support and contributions from places like Saudi
Arabia, Iran and other Middle Eastern countries as well as China. It is
believed there is a serious problem here and an investigation and audit should
be made in Obama's online fund raising campaign. What is
Obama up to? He is running for President of the US, not President
in any other country.
Give the money back Obama.
Although it is important to get along with all countries
and have peace around the world, this man has gone beyond the norm to raise
money in hopes of becoming the next President of the US. Surely Obama has
not accepted these funds and surely he has not used any of these funds. If the
answer is YES that he did accept and use these funds, this is NOT AMERICAN!
An article was published in the New York Times by Maureen Dowd on June 29,
2008.
It would not matter WHO was running for President.
If any candidate accepts and uses campaign funds that came from countries
outside the US, they should be disqualified to continue running for office.
These kind of people SHOULD NOT hold the highest position of our great country.
Question is: What other Presidential candidate(s) in
the past have accepted and used funds from countries outside the US? We
all know even though people in other countries cannot vote in the US elections.
But they do have their preferences as to who they would like to run this
country. Other countries have an interest in what's happening here, just
as the US has an interest in rulers of other countries. Any funds accepted
and used that come from supporters in other countries, that candidate is
accepting DIRTY money.
I hope this is investigated and if it can be proven Obama
spent any of that foreign money, I vote right now for him to not be allowed to
continue campaigning for President. You know what this means! Hilary
Clinton would be in the running against McCain. This is only fair.
Not that I would vote for Hilary, BUT, hopefully she is more AMERICAN and would
not accept or use foreign money for her campaign.
Here's the story:
By
MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 29, 2008
OBAMA'S TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING
Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating phone call I have
received during this election cycle came this week from one of the Obama's
campaign internet geeks. These are the staffers who devised Obama's internet
fund raising campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so far.
That is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in history – and
this was all from the internet campaign.
What I learned from this insider was shocking but I guess we shouldn't be
surprised that when it comes to fund raising there simply are no rules that
can't be broken and no ethics that prevail.
Obama's internet campaign started out innocently enough with basic e-mail
networking , lists saved from previous party campaigns and from supporters who
visited any of the Obama campaign web sites.
Small contributions came in from these sources and the internet campaign staff
were more than pleased by the results.
Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake
multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security monitors
began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly coming in from
overseas internet service providers and at the rate and frequency of
transmission it was clear these donations were 'programmed' by a very
sophisticated user.
While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due to
firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they were able
to collate the number of contributions that were coming in seemingly from
individuals but the funds were from only a few credit card accounts and bank
electronic funds transfers. The internet
service providers (ISP) they were able to trace were from Saudi Arabia, Iran,
and other Middle Eastern countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was
also located in Saudi Arabia.
Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with a
similar pattern of limited credit card charges.
It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from sources other
than American voters.
This was discussed at length within the campaign and the decision was made that
none of these donations violated campaign financing laws.
It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign to audit
these millions of contributions as to the actual source (specific credit card
number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure that none of these internet
contributors exceeded the legal maximum donation on a cumulative basis of many
small donations. They also found the record keeping was not complete enough to
do it anyway.
This is a shocking revelation.
We have been concerned about the legality of 'bundling' contributions after the
recent exposure of illegal bundlers but now it appears we may have an even
greater problem.
I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started to come
out. We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet contributions were
from $10.00 to $25.00 or so.
If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $15.00, that
would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would also be 13
million contributions would need to be processed. How did all that happen?
I believe the Obama campaign's internet fund raising needs a serious, in depth
investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of internet fund
raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps new laws to insure it
complies not only with the letter of these laws but the spirit as well.
I am available to do research in and around the Harris Co., TX area. I have access to the Clayton Genealogy Library in Houston, TX. I also have connections to researchers who are involved in local cemeteries in Harris Co., TX.
Family Bible
In April 2008, I received an
email from a lady in San Antonio, TX who said she had a Bible that belonged to
my parents. I wrecked my brain thinking "what Bible" and how would she
come in possession of it? I thought it was a joke.
I emailed her back and while
waiting for her response, I contacted my sisters to ask them if they knew
anything. During a family reunion about 6 years ago my older sister
Jenelle gave a large Bible to our nephew. This Bible was sent to our
parents from Viet Nam in 1968 by our brother, Stephen. He spent over 18
months there, sacrificing his life during the war.
When our mother died and we all
had the tearful job of clearing out her house to sell it, we each took mementos.
By the time the reunion came, our brother had died and from the time our mother
died in 1990 and our brother died in 1999, we lost contact with our
ex-sister-n-law Janice and our nephew Daniel. Neither was nowhere to be
found when we buried our brother. Between 1999 and 2001, I finally located
Daniel. A great surprise for the reunion too was our nephew Wayne came
from Indiana. This was the first time meeting his half-brother Daniel.
My sister Jenelle gave the
Bible to Daniel. Sometime while he or his mother was living in San
Antonio, this Bible was found by a remodeling crew in a vacant house. It
was on a trash pile. A nice man carried the Bible home and then his wife
tried to locate an owner of it. This would have been in about 2004.
Sometime in a 4 year period, Daniel or his mother decided they didn't need it
around. I learned in 2001 that the man Janice was with (ex good friend of
my brother) did not want her associating with our family. Why? Just
because she and our brother were divorced did not mean she had to divorce all of
us. She was the mother of our nephew. I believe it is important to
keep in touch with exes, especially when there are children involved. Some
people do not share my beliefs.
This nice lady was doing some
remodeling and cleaning around her home and came across the Bible. She got
online and tried one more time to locate an owner. She found me.
Within two weeks, she mailed it to me. Now the Bible is back in the hands
of sentimental, loving and caring hands. We haven't had any communication
with Daniel or his mother Janice since 2001. When our mother died, they
both were given quite a bit of stuff that belonged to our mother. They
seemed to care about our family back then. We can't think of a thing we
did to deserve being forgotten about. If they had a problem with our
brother, that is not our fault.
My sister Debbie found a "myspace"
page for Daniel but apparently he hasn't visited it since he created it.
He did show where he was working and what he was doing for a living in 2007.
I did locate 3 tattoo shops in San Antonio that he could be working at but have
no intention of contacting him. I want to ask "why" he left the Bible
behind. I want to ask "why" he chooses not to associate with any of his
family.
We were living in a house we were renting in Galena Park, TX (a suburb of Houston). It hit Galveston on Aug. 18, 1983. It was a Cat 3 with winds of 115 mph. We had been married nearly 7 months. Our street was like a river. We were without a phone for about 3 weeks and without electricity for about 2 weeks. It was hot. The
mosquito's were bad.
The name of this storm replaced Alicia as this name was retired and never to be used again. It made landfall in Freeport, TX, south of Houston on Jun. 5, 2001. It moved a little north/northeast and then drifted south hitting us again on Jun. 7. We were living in east Houston where we now live. It actually hit twice. It dumped a lot of
rain and then kind of back tracked and dumped more rain. It was estimated we got about 35 to 40 inches of rain in our area. I am 5 foot 3 inches and in the middle of my street, the water was to my chin. Our home suffered a total loss as well as
we lost nearly all our contents. We were rescued by the man my daughter met during this time and later married. We lived with relatives for 7 months
until our Small Business Administration disaster loan was granted.
It was predicted for quite sometime for Rita to make landfall near Houston. It caused a major panic and everyone decided to evacuate. This caused a major traffic jam. Yes me and my family were among those who got caught in all that traffic on Sep. 23, 2005. But after Hurricane Katrina's destruction and the fact this storm was a Cat 5, it was
expected for people to be fearful.
On Dec. 23, 2001 about 10pm, a severe storm came from the west, a "bow echo" with winds estimated at 75 mph. It blew down a weakened tree which fell on our home. It caused about $32,000.00 in damages. We had been in our new manufactured home less than a year.
On Jun. 18, 2003 about 6am (Father's Day), a severe storm came from the west, a "bow echo" with winds estimated at 75 mph. It blew down a weakened tree which fell on our home. It caused about $30,000.00 in damages. It rained so much that we got about 18 inches of rain which got into our cars (floor and trunk). Our street was a river.
Example of a bow echo
I remember very little about
Hurricane Carla in Sep. 1961. I was living in Kingsville, TX. It flooded our neighborhood and blew shingles off of our house. This is about all I can remember. I was 7 years old at the time.
I created a profile here and two communities with one related to the high school I graduated from and one for family and friends. I hope to get reacquainted with people from school. Visit me there sometime.
I get a lot of SPAM mail. I use Outlook Express because of the many email addresses I have and I can get all my email through O/E. I am trying this spam fighter program. I hope it will work for me. I spend too much time deleting all the SPAM.
Being that I am a mobile home dweller, the threat of high
winds, hurricane's and tornado's sends me into a frenzy. I suffer from
anxiety when these threats are approaching my neighborhood. Many
people tell me I just need to move. Other people (who live in houses)
welcome me into their homes. A house can be totally destroyed during a
tornado or hurricane. I understood the consequences of mobile home
living. I must live within my financial means. As long as some
of my compassionate family continue to open their homes and hearts to me
when I "freak out", I will continue to live in my home. But that photo
above is REAL!!! I want to remain alive as long as I can to enjoy
growing old with my husband, children and grandchildren and hopefully great
grandchildren. I don't want to be criticized or laughed at because I
fear my home may end up like that one above with me in it. My husband
is a good man and humors me when I freak out over possible severe storms.
He waits for me to tell him "it's time" and helps me gather the pets and we
go hang out at what we feel is a safer haven.
