Robot or simply brainwashed?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXfGWhT3044

Mission Accomplished
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa-2QYcqpOw&feature=related

The FastFix (video)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/the-fast-fix/?video=119

http://www.texasgopvote.com/military-salute/it-proper-president-render-military-hand-salute-002816
Excerpt:
The answer is quite simple. The President of the United States is a civilian. He is not a member of the US Military and is therefore not entitled to salute. The military salute is a privilege earned by honorable service in the military. It is also a privilege that can be taken away. Military prisoners are stripped of the privilege of saluting. While the President is Constitutionally the CINC, he is not a member of the military.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/is-rick-perry-too-george-w-bush-y/2011/06/20/AGb8HKeH_blog.html
Excerpt:

Is Rick Perry too George W. Bush-y?

By Aaron Blake

Plenty of people think Rick Perry sounds like a candidate for president these days.
In fact, the Texas governor not only sounds like a candidate, but also like an actual president. Specifically, George W. Bush.
As Perry inches closer to a run for president, some of his opponents maintain his one big vulnerability is not his record or the team around him, but rather his voice, accent and his mannerisms. In other words, he’s just too Bush-y.
Perry’s accent is similar to his fellow Texan, as is the swagger and the way Perry enunciates his points when he speaks. He pronounces “American” like Bush, smiles like Bush and drops the ‘g’ at the end of words – lovin’, spendin’ – just like Bush.
Some Republicans say the physical and verbal similarities are more of a problem than the fact that Perry was Bush’s lieutenant governor.

http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2011/07/01/clarification-rick-perry-was-not-george-w-bushs-running-mate-in-texas/
Rick Perry was elected Lieutenant Governor on his own merits and not as George Bush’s running mate. See Wikipedia’s explanation here. (notice that this Wikipedia is not that of simply any LG but that it is of Texas?) ...cal

The Lieutenant Governor assumes the powers of the Governor of Texas when the governor is out of the state or otherwise unable to discharge the office. The Lieutenant Governor is elected separately from the Governor, rather than on the same ticket; it is therefore possible for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor to be from different political parties (which was the case during Governor George W. Bush’s first term and also during Bill Clements’s two nonconsecutive terms). The Lieutenant Governor becomes Governor if the elected Governor resigns or dies while in office (current Governor Rick Perry took office upon George W. Bush’s ascendance to the office of President of the United States on December 21, 2000).

The idea that Rick Perry was George Bush’s running mate is a common misconception and appears to be a significant negative for Perry as voters consider a GOP nominee for POTUS. I hope the Perry campaign is aware of this misconception and takes every opportunity to clarify.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry
Excerpst:
1) Elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998, he assumed office as governor in December 2000 when Governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States. Perry was elected to full terms in 2002, 2006 and 2010, an unprecedented feat in Texas political history. With a tenure in office to date of 10 years, 194 days, Perry is the longest continuously serving current U.S. governor, and the second longest serving current U.S. governor, after Terry Branstad of Iowa.
2) Trans-Texas Corridor
In January 2001, Perry proposed the Trans-Texas Corridor, a $145+ billion-dollar project that would build multi-lane highways, rail lines and data lines from Oklahoma to Mexico, and from east to west in southern Texas. Instead of paying for the project with taxes, Perry proposed that it be partially financed, partially built and wholly operated by private contractors who, in exchange for a multi-billion dollar investment, would receive all toll proceeds, notably Cintra, a Spanish-owned company, and its minority partner, San Antonio-based Zachry Construction Corporation, one of Texas' largest road construction companies.^[57] Some of the more controversial aspects of the project include tolls, private operation of toll collections (at rates set by local municipalities), and extensive use of eminent domain (or the option for landowners to maintain a lucrative equity stake in the project) to acquire property.
Opponents portrayed the proposal as a "land grab", and criticized Perry for opposing the public release of the actual terms of the 50-year deal with Cintra to the public for fear they would chill the possibility of the company's investment; Perry's former liaison to the legislature, former State Senator Dan Shelly, returned to his consulting/lobbying work with Cintra after securing the TTC deal while on the state payroll. All of Perry's gubernatorial opponents opposed the corridor project, as did the 2006 state party platforms of both the Democratic and Republicans parties.^[58]^[59] After much contentious debate between supporters and opponents, an official decision of "no action" was issued by the Federal Highway Administration on July 20, 2010, formally ending the project.
In 2001, Perry appointed Ric Williamson of Weatherford, an old friend and former legislative colleague, to the Texas Transportation Commission. Williamson became the commission chairman in 2004 and worked for the improvement of the state's transportation infrastructure until his sudden death of a heart attack on December 30, 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Texas
Excerpt:
Compared to Other Lieutenant Governors
Texas is one of the few states that vests significant power in the office of Lieutenant Governor, making it among the most influential. By contrast, the Lieutenant Governor position in other states has few (if any) legislative responsibilities, akin to the Vice President of the United States. The consequence of a strong Lieutenant Governor of Texas is that the Governor of Texas is weaker than other states' Governors.
In 2010, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst was absent from a meeting of the National Lieutenant Governors Association; he was quoted as saying "I’m too busy to go to any conferences."[1]

http://www.democratichub.com/posts/3433/rick-perry-seems-to-have-been-in-favor-of-the-bailout.aspx

Excerpt:

Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/01/was-rick-perry-for-the-bailout.html

According to this report, Rick Perry was in favor of a bailout before he was against it. This is ironic because Perry has been attacking his opponent Hutchison for being in favor of the bailout. It seems that Rick Perry will have a hard time twisting this thing around now. What do you guys think? Was he for the bailout or not?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/6377814.html
Excerpt:
AUSTIN — With the fiery rhetoric of a prairie populist, Gov. Rick Perry calls on “Texas patriots” to protest against “bailouts, all this stimulus, all this runaway spending” in the nation’s capital.

For weeks, the Republican governor has ratcheted up his railing against the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress. Perry’s call for “states’ rights” and a suggestion that Texas could leave the union if it wanted to made national news this week.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/will-rick-perry-run-for-president-in-2012/2011/05/23/AF4CRz9G_blog.html

Excerpt:

2. Perry was the first major elected official to attend a tea party rally, embracing the nascent movement when many establishment politicians were openly leery about being associated too closely with it. That gives him a baseline credibility with a group of people looking to exert their influence in the 2012 presidential race in the same way they did in the 2010 midterms.

Is Rick Perry being groomed for the presidency? video
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/06/20/rick_perry_really_sounding_like_hes_running_for_president

George Bush one finger victory salute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79XOmAkzMZE

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Perry
Excerpt:

Gardasil controversy

On February 2, 2007, Perry "issued an executive order that made Texas the first state to require girls entering the sixth grade to receive the HPV [human papilloma virus] vaccine, beginning in September 2008." The only HPV vaccine at the time was Merck's Gardasil, which had received FDA approval in June 2006. ^[3]
Some questioned why Perry, a social conservative, would be so eager to mandate a new and controversial vaccine for a sexually-transmitted disease. "One of [Merck]’s three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, Perry’s former chief of staff," reported Associated Press. Perry "also received $6,000 from Merck’s political action committee during his re-election campaign." ^[4]

^{http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gardasil}

HPV Legislation at the State Level
In early March 2007, Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine said "he would sign legislation requiring all sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer," reported Associated Press. [4]
The previous month, Texas Governor Rick Perry had "issued an executive order that made Texas the first state to require girls entering the sixth grade to receive the HPV [human papilloma virus] vaccine, beginning in September 2008." [5]
Some questioned why Perry, a social conservative, would be so eager to mandate a new and controversial vaccine for a sexually-transmitted disease. "One of [Merck]’s three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, Perry’s former chief of staff," reported Associated Press. Perry "also received $6,000 from Merck’s political action committee during his re-election campaign." [6]

We salute George W. Bush - The legendary Commander in Chief (OMG!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUljdvoHQlI

http://peureport.blogspot.com/2011/04/texas-gov-rick-perry-peu-venture.html
Excerpt:

Friday, April 8, 2011

Texas Gov. Rick Perry: PEU Venture Capitalist

Governor Rick Perry can make equity investments in private companies through the Texas Emerging Technologies Fund. This is in addition to grant monies the Governor awards. A Senate bill updates the reporting requirement, but does not have Perry showing his investment performance.

a brief description of the equity position that the governor, on behalf of the state, may take in companies receiving awards and the names of the companies in which the state has taken an equity position.

Governor Perry's 2011 TETF report states:

The Texas Emerging Technology Fund has made awards under Subchapter D, Incentives for Commercialization, to recipients that included the issuance to the Office of the Governor, on behalf of the state, of either:

• a warrant exercisable to purchase shares of common stock of the company receiving the award, subject to the occurrence of certain vesting events; or

• a right to purchase shares of common or preferred stock of the company receiving the award, subject to the occurrence of certain vesting events.

The bill heads to the House, which failed to hold Perry accountable for problems with the Emerging Technologies Fund or prior excesses with a sister fund, the Texas Enterprise Fund. Ironically, Governor Perry tapped the Rainy Day fund for his corporate welfare projects.

Governor Perry has the skills to work for a shadowy, private equity underwriter (PEU). When will he do so? My guess is it will be after his Presidential run. There's bigger payola to share with donors.

Update 4-12-11: The Texas House will consider a bill incentivizing solar projects in Texas by charging a fee on residential, commercial and industrial electric bills. It's expected to provide $300 to $400 million in rebates to solar producers over a five year period. The logic is: "Our goal is, we want to see these companies come to Texas. But these are people who, if we don't create the program, they will go somewhere else and these other states will reap the benefits of the sales tax, the sales dollars and job growth." Isn't that what the Texas Enterprise Fund and Texas Emerging Technology Fund are for, incentivizing firms to come to Texas?

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-energy/energy/with-little-help-texas-solar-use-grows--slowly/
Excerpt:
Gov. Rick Perry, who appoints the PUC commissioners, indicated during the session that he would oppose a bill, sponsored by Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, that would have created this type of incentive, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
When asked the governor's position on non-wind renewables requirement, spokeswoman Lucy Nashed said Perry "expects the PUC to act in the best interest of Texans, and he continues to support a diverse energy portfolio that allows all types of energy providers to compete in the marketplace without imposing burdensome and costly mandates."
There is one piece of history, however, that's worth considering. Perry has said he's thinking about a presidential run. And if his administration were to approve a clean-energy incentive — a issue with some degree of bipartisan support around the country — it wouldn't be the first time a Texas governor has done so before running for president. Another governor, George W. Bush, signed SB 7, the bill that created, among other things, a renewable energy requirement, thus launching Texas' wind revolution, on June 18, 1999. That was six days after he declared he would enter the presidential race.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/29/989977/-Top-10-Reasons-Rick-Perry-Should-Not-be-President

Most of these are stories the MSM reported on, once upon a time when Perry was not the darling of the Koch Brothers. One by one, these stories are getting scrubbed from the Internet. In a few years, the press will insist that Perry has never done a controversial/illegal thing in his life.
The Axis of Oil is desperate to get back in the saddle again. World oil supplies are dwindling. Sooner or later, all the big industrialized nations will switch to using alternative fuel. Demand for crude will drop. Before that happens, the nation's big oil companies need a guy on the inside who can invade countries that have nationalized their oil reserves. They need a guy like Rick Perry if they are going to topple the government of Venezuela and invade Iran. They need that oil. And they need Rick Perry to help them get it.
Here, in no particular order, are the Top 10 Reasons Rick Perry Should Not be President. Make that eleven. The biggest reason is because his BFFs are oilmen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_(film)
Excerpt:
Mission Accomplished was a short 1943 propaganda film produced by the United States Office of War Information about the B-17 Flying Fortress.

http://www.thepowerhour.com/news2/vdot_virginia.htm

Heavens Task Force

Sunday, July 3, 2011