Thank God for you, CW. You have so much information at hand to refute some of the ridiculous charges against Perry.
What I want to know is ... is Rick Perry actually Lord Voldemort, i.e. he who must not be named?
Nobody’s daring to say his name lately. they’ll mention Huntsman, Bachmann and Santorum - usually in connection with statements about their faults and how little chance they have but they NEVER SAY PERRY’S NAME anymore.
I heard Rush discuss every candidate today and never mention Rick Perry ... admittedly I only heard 5 minutes of his show.
Is there really a Rick Perry? Or did we imagine this dream candidate, a great conservative, a time-tested administrator of the Great State of Texas and a true and proven espouser of all our conservative ideals.
Is he really just a dream?
I sure hope not.
Federal rewrite of labor laws causing a flap down on the farm (Feds, Feds, Feds, Feds..Feds, Feds..) “LANSING, Mich. — Sparking outrage across the country’s rural heartland, the Obama administration is proposing rules to curb the ability of children on farms to engage in “corn sex” for pay.
Farmers call it corn detasseling, a time-honored but physically demanding chore designed to promote cross-pollination in the field. For decades it has been a way for teens to earn extra spending money — and forge some good-natured field hand camaraderie — for a few weeks each summer.
The Obama administration is considering revisions to federal agricultural work rules that effectively would bar teens younger than 16 from engaging in a number of traditional chores for pay — including detasseling.
Opponents of the rules across the Farm Belt argue that they are in part an attack on a way of life, one foreign to Beltway bureaucrats and one that should be encouraged in an era of rising childhood obesity rates and increasingly sedentary lifestyles.
“We need more young farmers in Oklahoma, not less. We need more young people who know where their food comes from, not less,” Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and state Agriculture Secretary Jim Reese said in a Nov. 30 letter to Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis.
“Any policy that would hinder the opportunities of young Americans to experience life in our agricultural communities is misguided indeed.”
The American Farm Bureau is heading a coalition of more than 70 agriculture organizations that have petitioned the Labor Department in Washington to reconsider what would be the first major rewrite of farm labor standards since the 1970s.
......“At first I thought it was a joke,” Iowa corn farmer Henry Hemminghaus recently said....“It would eliminate 40 [percent] to 70 percent of my workforce. It would probably eliminate about 1,200 out of the 2,000 kids I hire.”