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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (57101)	9/20/2011 8:08:36 PM
From: John	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Buddy wrote: That's the "word", is it? Yes, Buddy, that's the inside word from retired Major General Paul E. Vallely. He is a retired US Army Major General and senior military analyst for Fox News. Due to his current and former positions, he has many contacts who are in positions to know these things. If he says that the inside word is that Congress is afraid to investigate or impeach Obama because they fear Black riots, then, yes, that's the inside word. Do you think he would make statements like that just for the hell of it? youtube.com wnd.com

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (57101)	9/20/2011 9:07:35 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

"I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't chew and I don't go with girls that do," Ricker said. "In other words, on that income you don't do very much outside the home." After finishing high school in 1956, Ricker earned an associate degree in electronics engineering and went to work selling and repairing marine electronics. He later earned a theology degree and served as a pastor at churches in New Hampshire and Vermont. But times were hard on a pastor's salary, so he returned to Maine, eventually becoming a cameraman and studio engineer for a TV station. After being laid off in the 1980s, he was hired to do some carpentry for an inn. His first day on the job, the floorboards gave way. With his injuries, he could no longer tend to the three-unit apartment house he and his wife owned. They sold it, bought a used trailer for $7,000 and settled on a lot in Hartford, a town of about 1,000 people. Ricker and his second wife, Judith Odyssey, divorced around 1995 and she moved out. But he offered to let her move back in nine years ago when she was going through a rough time, and she now lives in the other end of the trailer. She gets $674 a month in Social Security. Besides his back and shoulder injuries, Ricker has diabetes, eye and breathing problems, and his hands shake. Odyssey has congestive heart problems, asthma and arthritis. It's hard to make ends meet. Rent for the lot is $150 a month; Ricker has to buy insurance and gas for his minivan and pay bills for electricity and a phone. He shops at a discount grocery store, gets canned goods from a food pantry, scours garage sales for clothes. It cost $3,200 last winter to heat the poorly insulated trailer with kerosene, which was partially offset with about $1,000 in heating assistance funds. Inside the trailer, ceiling tiles are coming loose and electrical wires dangle in the bathroom where a light fixture once hung. An old dryer, a mattress, a snow blower, discarded chairs and other junk are strewn about outside. Still, Ricker keeps his sense of humor.