tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88170982539238750362024-03-14T05:50:12.097-05:00The Progressive Oil-field TrashThe Official Blog of
THE THINK TANK FOR FREEDOM IN AMERICA TO THINK (IN A TANK)
TTFFIAT(IAT)A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-66384575857438348992016-05-22T11:15:00.000-05:002016-05-22T11:15:13.700-05:00Legislator Train Wreck
In February, some members of the Kansas Legislature were
so upset with the judiciary that they introduced to bill to impeach judges who
"usurp the authority of the legislature"; but then this month, the legislature
gave away their precious authority to make a budget. They had the Governor make
the decisions how to cut $97 Million. More cuts to services, following cuts made
A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-68968822206595169682016-01-20T17:53:00.001-06:002016-01-20T17:53:21.812-06:00MERIT PAY FOR LEGISLATORSA system for Merit Pay for Kansas legislators is being debated by a committee of teachers meeting this week in Topeka. “There should be a way to reward the good ones with bonus pay and a way to run out the bad ones,” said Mrs. Brown, a veteran teacher from Elm Heights Elementary. The committee seemed divided on a method of determining the legislators who deserve merit pay.“It would be easy to A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-41621533722899454622016-01-16T15:23:00.002-06:002016-01-16T15:23:59.804-06:00Planned Parenthood InvestigationThe Kansas Board of Healing Arts announced that an investigation of
Planned Parenthood in Kansas found no violations of the laws concerning
fetal tissue donation. This comes soon after Governor Sam Brownback's
order that Planned Parenthood be punished with a loss of Medicaid funds
for "selling baby parts"; actions which we now have confirmed, never
occurred. In other Brownbackistan news, A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-54116682048397921462015-05-24T14:45:00.001-05:002015-05-24T14:45:33.784-05:00Islamaphobe Cartoon ContestOur Muslim radio friend, Dean Obeidallah, sponsored the Draw Your Favorite Islamaphobe Contest (you can hear Dean's show Saturdays, Ch 121 Sirius/XM). We here at TTFFIATT(IAT) can not pass up a contest, so we had two entries, lampooning Lindsay Graham and Pamela Geller. One a professional fright-monger and the other a professional hate-monger. Not that there is anything wrong with A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-23644313212996120092015-05-23T21:34:00.000-05:002015-05-23T21:34:15.255-05:00KS Legislature april 15
GOP stands up for individual rights - unless you are poor
"25 bucks is all you get, scum! (Although many ATMs give out cash in multiples of $20) so, $20 is all you get, scum, because of FREEDOM!"
Cash is fungible, you won't be able to tell if a
recipient is using his/her benefits "correctly". A person who uses TANF cash to
pay rent will free up money earned at work to A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-87957490470095471662015-03-07T11:51:00.001-06:002015-03-07T11:51:30.476-06:00Could Something of Interest be Happening Somewhere Other Than Kansas?
Minnesota Kansas
Just in case you didn’t read this in the news, in 2010 the people of Minnesota elected a Democratic Governor, Mark Dayton, an heir to the Target fortune. Gov. Dayton raised income taxes on individuals making more than $150,000 a year, and onA B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-79391376730121954912014-11-23T17:15:00.002-06:002015-05-24T15:03:37.771-05:00NCIS: Gilligan's IslandInside sources are telling me that CBS is adding to it's multi-platform NCIS franchise. NCIS: Gilligan's Island is currently being cast. Eric
Stonestreet is regarded as the favorite for the lead role of Chief
Investigator Thurston Howell V. Other names mentioned are The Rock, Vern
Troyer and that "You can call me Ray, you can call me Jay" guy who,
despite what you thought, is still alive.
TheA B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-41385106245071385992014-11-22T20:49:00.001-06:002014-11-22T20:49:46.213-06:00What's The Problem In Kansas?When commenting on the State of Kansas’ budget shortfall, House Speaker Ray Merrick is quoted as saying, “We do not have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem." In Mr. Merrick’s mind the fact that you, as a Kansas citizen, want drivable highways, is a problem. The fact that you want restaurants inspected before you contract e-coli is a problem. The fact that you would like BTK and the A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-38741240235249955382014-09-24T21:47:00.001-05:002014-09-24T21:47:29.140-05:00Welcome to Kansas, Pat and Sarah !Headline: Sarah Palin to appear at pancake breakfast with Pat Roberts in Independence, Kansas
Note of welcome to the state from the TTFFIATT(IAT):
So
happy that you and Mrs. Palin are visiting Independence! I have made a
Google map that highlights some things you two can look at. I've marked a
car dealership that employs local people selling cars built in America.
Remember how you wanted to A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-63901171880664715082014-05-12T19:02:00.000-05:002014-05-12T19:02:49.554-05:00Hey, State of Kansas, send me some informationThe State of Kansas is one of the stingy states that has decided not to expand Medicaid to cover those citizens who do not qualify for subsidies under "Obamacare"; you know, one of the states that has an excuse to let citizens of low to moderate means get sick and then die.
We here at the Think Tank have written the following letter/Open records request to agencies in Topeka as small reminder to A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-13049374767415126422013-12-15T20:01:00.001-06:002013-12-15T20:01:27.199-06:00I Would Rather Talk About Obamacare, Thank You
My latest letter designed to annoy the Foxwatchers who also read the Hays Daily News.
A co-worker told me that Obamacare is “messing up the country”, I replied that making health care available to more of our fellow citizens is actually “fixing up the country”. I was struck by how nice it is that we were discussing the minutia of the insurance industry, as opposed to subjects that concerned us A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-25816853597094618322013-10-27T19:55:00.000-05:002013-10-27T19:57:44.274-05:00We Need RepresentationThe following letter was published in the Hays Daily News, another in a series of letters wherein the Think Tank For Freedom in America to Think (In A Tank) tells the world how to behave. We suggested the headline, Damn, Tim Huelskamp Sure Does Suck, but the newspaper had their own ideas.
The agreement ending the recent government shutdown included a provision that a conference committee will A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-15209018827426586642013-06-22T15:55:00.000-05:002013-06-23T07:21:17.400-05:00The Tim Huelskamp Small Business AwardRepresentative Tim Huelskamp, in a recent column, observed National Small Business Week by calling on the government to “get out of the way” of small business owners by reducing tax and regulatory burdens. To further recognize those small business owners who spend hours at the kitchen table reading the complete IRS tax code and the entire printing of Obamacare regulations instead of doing A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-39005359755826486462013-04-20T10:32:00.000-05:002013-04-20T10:40:46.574-05:00Pat Roberts, Jerry Moran, and the Guy at the Co-op
Senators Roberts and Moran have been working for us on
Second Amendment issues in Washington. There is a bill in the Senate that would
allow/direct the President to confiscate all privately owned firearms. I looked
for the bill number but could not find one; I'm sure the bill exists because a
guy at the co-op told me so.
Our Senators also voted against the background checks
bill A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-57662503305898325642013-03-13T20:23:00.000-05:002013-03-13T20:23:48.949-05:00Obama Wants You to Dispaly the American Flag: will his evil never end???
President Obama, in an Executive Order, declared May 1,
2012 to be Loyalty Day, a day when Americans are encouraged to display the
American flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The first Loyalty Day was
declared by President Eisenhower in 1959 and has been repeated each May 1 by
every President, including Ronald Reagan and two George Bushes. Loyalty Day
neither new nor is it evil. I A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-12586100285885173152013-01-13T14:33:00.002-06:002013-01-13T14:33:31.986-06:00How to Handle The "Debt Ceiling Crisis"Nowadays we like to label everything a “crisis” and there is another one on the way, “The Debt Ceiling Crisis”. Sometime next month the federal government will no longer be able to pay the bills Congress has run up because we will have reached the debt limit, a number established two years ago when we had a “Debt Ceiling Crisis”. Unless Congress acts, it presumably will fall to the President and/A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-34452858149930165302012-12-16T15:23:00.001-06:002012-12-16T15:23:07.951-06:002nd Amendment - I'm Sure This is What They Wanted The
current reading of the 2nd Amendment gives every American the right
(in all caps.. THE RIGHT) to commit suicide and also take out any number
of other people. Current "tools" make it possible to wipe out a large
number of people in a short time, and Americans are allowed to choose who
else is going to die. Nuns, school kids, babies, Christmas shoppers,
postal employees, soldiers, movie A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-79033552691402801692012-12-09T10:25:00.000-06:002012-12-09T10:26:58.581-06:00And then Tim said, "I don't get no respect..."Republican Tim Huelskamp has been removed from his assignments on the House Budget committee and the Agriculture committee by Republican Speaker John Boehner. This political move diminishes the influence of the citizens of Kansas on two committees important to the general welfare of our state. The Speaker is pushing us aside, despite our consistent support of Republican policies and candidates. A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-74814359252196916642012-10-14T19:52:00.000-05:002012-10-14T19:52:14.349-05:00We're In The Big TimeA follow-up to my formal objection to the inclusion of Willard "Mitt" Romney on the ballot in the state of Kansas.
RECAP-
Some guy at the vet school in Manhattan got a lawyer to file an objection to the inclusion of Barak Obama on the presidential ballot in Kansas. A Board of Objections,comprised of the Secretary of State, the Lt. Governor, and the Attorney General can decide who is or is not on A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-58121272120858158912012-09-28T22:15:00.001-05:002012-09-28T22:15:48.512-05:00An "Entitlement Society"? Yes, indeed.Despite the efforts of some to make “entitlements” a dirty word, we have always been an entitlement society. The Declaration of Independence says just because we are human beings we a entitled to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Jefferson wrote “to secure these rights (One could also call them entitlements) Governments are instituted among men.” Here is one example of how our A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-67341224377502599792012-09-15T12:57:00.001-05:002012-09-15T12:57:52.730-05:00Formal Objection to Mitt Romney's Certificate of NominationA triumvirate of august officials in Kansas is apparently burnishing their TEA Party street cred by considering removing Barak Obama's name from the general election. See article here.
We here at the TTFFIATT(IAT) have realised for some time that the objections to Mr.Obama holding the office are identical to the objections to the candidacy of Mitt Romney. (Father not a citizen, etc etc...)
I haveA B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-27073818095660959712012-05-20T21:17:00.000-05:002012-05-20T21:23:24.551-05:00Can you believe it? Obama plays golf!?!
Some people have criticized President Obama for playing golf. That is just
not right.
If you want to slam him for getting the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 8046 to 12,369; then go ahead.
If you want to castigate him for increasing the number of American private
sector jobs in 26 consecutive months; OK.
If you want to denounce him for ending The War to Find Saddam’s WMD; all
right.
IfA B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-68196154742316661722012-05-12T19:59:00.000-05:002012-05-12T20:03:09.856-05:00Mitt's Memory vs My MemoryTurns out that Mitt Romney was a real life Scut Farkus.
A Romney spokeswoman dismissed the reports of Mitt's school days misbehaviour as being unimportant, because it happened so long ago. Her opinion was that this subject was not worthy of discussion.
Below is an e-mail I sent my favorite Sexy Liberal Radio Yak-Show Hostess, Stephanie Miller. It briefly tells about an incident from ManhattanA B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-4322461197135979002012-03-21T20:58:00.001-05:002012-03-22T18:01:08.669-05:00Senator, You Got Out-VotedThe Hays Daily News, March 20, included a letter from Sen. Pat Roberts lamenting Friday’s second anniversary of the passage of Obamacare. One of the reasons he is working to repeal health care reform is that “the law…increases premiums for families by $2,100 a year.” I wondered, “Where does that figure come from?”
A quick search showed that same statement had also been made by Sen. Kay Bailey A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8817098253923875036.post-86953151464608644952012-03-04T08:32:00.000-06:002012-03-04T08:32:42.239-06:00This time it is actually true! War on ReligionThe follow-up to It's All True! War On Religion!
This time the letter contains actual truth.
Last week in the Readers Forum section of this paper a letter was published under the headline "Well Done". The letter decried the Obama administration's "war on religion" and extolled the work done on our behalf by our representatives in Congress; Pat Roberts, Jerry Moran and Tim Huelskamp. I A B Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13755266188848382616noreply@blogger.com0