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WHO IS MR. HSU? PART II (INTERESTING UPDATE BELOW)
And what about the judge, Rick? Who is the judge that allowed Hsu to write a check and walk?
Want to take a guess the first stop the black Suburban made? I pick....................LAX.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 1.09.2007 @ 15:09
Who was the judge who allowed the felon to make bail? What is to prevent him from getting on a plane to Beijing and blowing off the $2,000,000.00 check he just wrote. So what if he is out $2 mil? That seems to be not much more than the money he has been funneling into the DNC and Democrat politicians.
He has already proven he is a flight risk. Can someone please explain the thinking in letting him make bail? Was the judge really so stupid as to think this was an amount that he could not possible make after all he's dumped into the DNC?
Comment Posted By retire05 On 1.09.2007 @ 10:52
StoutRepublican; if Craig resigns, and I am sure he will tomorrow, then that story goes cold. The Dems are really quite lately. Could it be that they are trying to give a low profile over Hsu?
Comment Posted By retire05 On 31.08.2007 @ 19:25
Rick, you made my point for me. The MSM will bury this story under some other Republican scandal or faux scandal. That's where we come in as conservatives. We need to be ringing the phone in the halls of Congress and the Senate off the walls on Tuesday letting Republicans know it is time they grow a set and make hold the Democrats to the same "culture of corruption" standards they held us to last year.
This is a deep story and it is up to those like you with a following to make sure it doesn't die.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 31.08.2007 @ 19:23
Step #1: lock Hsu's financial accounts. Then sit back and see who makes his bail.
Step #2: put federal pressure on the Paws. They will fold like cheap (Chinese) suits if they think they are facing long, long visits to Club Fed.
In the meantime, start looking into IRS records on Hsu's businesses, seal his bank records including all transactions such as checks, deposits, wire transfers from other nations. If Hsu was in the garment business (which he wasn't) he would have invoices from jobbers, vendors of fabric, notions, trim and a labeling company. This is easy to find. Any IRS audit of a garment manufacturer (which was my business for
15 years) can request those invoices.And the NYTs should have checked for those addresses in Beijing, not New York City.
It seems to me that any Republicans with spines are all serving in Afghanistan or Iraq but if there are any left inside the Beltway, they need to start pushing this as it is BIG, BIG, BIG. This could make the Abramoff scandal look like a church picnic.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 31.08.2007 @ 17:32
JESUS, LORD! ARE THEY ALL HYPOCRITICAL BASTARDS?
Wow! Every blog I have been on in the last few days wants to quote the police report but fails to see the discrepancy in the report. From my point of view, this was a bad bust. I will leave it up to you to determine if you can find the holes in the officer's statement.
I have read how the GOP needs to clean house. How Republicans cannot be gay and yet oppose gay marriage. Why not? Are you under the impression that all gays are lockstep with the verbal crowd we see marching down the streets of San Francisco? Craig says he is not gay. So what if he is? Does that mean that he is some sort of diviant that we need to purge the GOP from? And if he is, since when has the left started bashing gays? Has this happened since they all pandered in front of the cameras for a gay TV debate? Or is Craig one of the diviants that the Democrat candidates have been pandering to for so long saying they need the right to be diviant? Oh, but we hold GOP members to a higher standard. Really? Is that to say that the Democrats are so depraved that we cannot hold them to "high standards"? It is OK for John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy to tout their Catholicism while the support shoving a rod into the head of an unborn child to kill it because that child is an "inconvenience" for the mother?
Rick blames the attitude toward the GOP and sex on the Reverends Jameson and Dobson. Why? Do they speak for Americans any more than Louis Farrakhan speaks for black Americans? They are not politicians, they don't make laws and they don't speak for anyone but themselves and to use them as an excuse for the GOP taking a pounding over what is standard operating procedure for Democrats is moronic. Are we Republicans weak minded sheeple who cannot make decisions regarding our own beliefs for ourselves? It would seem so.
Now, #1, Craig plead out to the charge of "Invasion of privacy" NOT lewd conduct. Did he think that he could just make it go away? Probably. Was that a bad decision. Most certainly. Does that make him guilty of a crime of lewd conduct, solicitation, pandering? No. Was Craig accutely aware of how the GOP eats it's own in trying to keep Democrats for slamming them? Yes, the Mark Foley incident was probably quite fresh in his mind. Does it make the GOP hypocritical? No. We still have the same standards, even if someone has slipped off the pedestal. Do we all agree? No, as the Log Cabin Republicans example.
Are the actions of Craig, Foley, or any other fallen Republican the reason for the lack of support in the 18-29 year old age group? Only if you do not take into consideration that that very age group has just recently been "indoctrinated" by left leaning teachers and professors. What was it Churchill said? "Anyone under 30 who is not liberal is heartless, etc?" But we are in the blame game here so I acquiesce to the fact that we are our own worst enemy.
Instead of eating our own, instead of letting this play out, we must act. To do nothing would show weakness, so dig out the bar-b-que sauce and put Craig on the pit. He's burnt.
You seem to expect perfection. If my history is correct, the last time we had a man who was perfect, the Romans nailed him to a cross. The moral hypocrits are the ones who are demanding Craig's head on a silver platter while not having reached perfection themselves.
I don't care if David Vitter visits two hookers a day or Craig is a gay man who was stupid. I care that they do their jobs which is to make my nation secure from terrorists, to allow me to keep more of my paycheck and not to have my socks taxes off for a Democratic socialist/collectiveness program.
And all you holier than thou moralists should not care either.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 29.08.2007 @ 14:07
Is smoking a pack of cigaretts a greater "sin" than consuming a quart of White Horse? Or eating two Big Macs with large fries? The tax on cigarettes, as with alcohol is a "sin" tax. So some politician decided what "sin" we are permitted to engage in freely [two Big Macs] and what sin we have to be punished through our wallets for. Is the smoker who developes a hacking cough a greater sinner than the 340 lb. man who eats fast/junk food everyday contributing to his heart/lung/et al problems?
Comment Posted By retire05 On 23.08.2007 @ 10:48
What is the tax on a quart of White Horse? Is the state tax $1.00 a bottle? Is the federal tax greater? What percentage of the cost of alcohol is tax compared to the percentage of the cost of a pack of cigarettes?
For all of you who think that it is not enough that smokers [like Rick and myself] are banned to the dark corners of our own homes/cars because we inconvenience someone who claims to have an allergy to smoke [when did that become vogue?] and want to tax us out of our socks, what about the other people who cause inconvenience to our lives because of their personal behavior? When I pay $600.00 for a flight to New York and then have some morbidly obese person next to me with their Wal-Mart bag of junk food taking up half of my seat, does their behavior not make me uncomfortable? Can't the government stop his behavior by taxing his Fritos an extra $1.00 a bag? How about the woman who wears cheap perfume that I happen to be allergic to standing next to me in the grocery line giving me a banging headache and making my eyes water so badly that I can hardly drive. Does that person not have a responsibility to me? Can't the government regulate where she can wear her cheap perfume? Why do I think that in those cases you would tell me that I have a right to move MY location if their behavior bothers me or gives me a headache?
The practice of using tobacco taxes to fund schools and medical treatment is socialist philosophy at it's best. Like I ask in my original post, what if everyone stops smoking? Then what? And should't the person who loads up on Big Macs and Fritos everyday giving them cardiac stress have to pay for the burden they place on society? You have no sympathy for the person who smokes if they get lung cancer so then would you agree to taxing sex if a person contracts HIV/AIDS due to irresponsible behavior? How would you do it? Per act? Per number of irresponsible acts? Or using the analogy that smokers understand the risks, can we not say that in this day and age, people understand the risks of irresponsible sex or the person who orders a biggie fries and two Big Macs knows that it is unhealthy and should be responsible to society for what they eat?Behavioral modification thru taxation does not work. And will never work. It wasn't meant to. It is a cash cow that the governments have latched onto because smokers are the people you love to hate. Do you have the same disdain for the person who does not bathe and makes you gag when you are in any proximity of them?
Perhaps the government will tax cigarettes and cigars right out of usage. Then, when 90% of American smokers quit and you have to pick up the tab for your school taxes and the free health care given to others and your pay check is less than it was since you are now picking up the tab, you will wish for the smokers to return. And then we can go after your Big Mac's and Snickers bars. After all, what goes around comes around.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 23.08.2007 @ 09:04
Texas recently increased the taxes on a pack of cigarettes to $1.00 "It is for the kiddies" was the rallying cry. To fund our schools. Somewhere there is insanity in that policy.
If our schools are funded by tobacco tax, and every damn Texan like myself who smokes, quits, then what? Where is the money for the schools going to come from? Let's say that every damn pork project that D.C. bellies up to is funded on cigarette taxes and all Americans quit smoking; then what?
To base "it's for the kiddies" is just bullshit of the highest order. It's because someone got a thorn in their butt over tobacco and the trial lawyers jumped on board demonizing all smokers.
Why don't we hear "let's tax all potato chips a $1.00 a bag. It's for the kiddies and we have to make sure that Americans eat right."
Maybe Frito Lay hires better lobbyists than R.J. Reynolds.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 22.08.2007 @ 17:54
THE CONSPIRACY TO UNIONIZE NORTH AMERICA?
Matt, when the governor of Texas tells us that the TTC is necessary for the transfer of people/goods across the state, all you have to do is look at the route of the highway to know what is happening.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 22.08.2007 @ 17:44
As to a Spanish consortium getting the TTC contract because it could handle it, one has to wonder why Dean Word was not given the contract and why the Spanish company has admitted that it will have to borrow money to build the TTC. So could Dean Word and they are an American company building highways in Texas NOW.
And yes, Texans are against the TTC and it will probably cost Rick Perry his next election. Kay Bailey Hutchison will run against him. She could very well win if she comes out against the TTC.
