I have been pretty silent lately, with all of the craziness of the campaigns, I am NOT a witch Christine ODonnell, Ginny Thomas's phone message to Anita Hill asking for an apology WTF? This on top of her secret donations to her Tea Party PAC
LA Times; As Virginia Thomas tells it … the story of her involvement in the "tea party" movement is the tale of an average citizen in action. "I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve
liberty along with you and other people like you," she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. Thomas went on to count herself among those energized into action by President Obama's "hard-left agenda."
She is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and she has launched a tea-party-linked group that could test the traditional notions of political impartiality for the court. In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit lobbying group whose website will organize activism around a set of conservative "core principles," she said.
I watched two of America's favorite television parents passed away this week, Barbra Billingsley (Leave it to Beavers mom) and Tom Bosley as
Henry Winkler yesterday paid tribute to his Happy Days co-star Tom Bosley – saying he was like a real-life father to him off-screen.
Winkler, who played the iconic role of Fonzie, appeared on US TV's Today Show to pay tribute to Bosley, who played the understanding father Howard Cunningham in the classic TV comedy series.
Talking about Bosley, who died yesterday of heart failure, aged 83, Winkler said: 'He was our father in television for 10 years – but he was our father figure for the last 33
Those were the make believe years when families played the best of American life, now we are dealing with some of the ugliest years of American life, we now have TEA Party's claiming they want to "reclaim our America" excuse me reclaim it from whom?
Our nation has evolved since Happy Days went off the air, just as we we have evolved since the very beginning my first ancestor came here in 1635 I don't want that "nation" back most of us would not even want to live in the period of the Revolutionary War, when then we were revolting against our King, due to his taxation of Tea, and then in order to pay our bills for the Revolutionary War we started taxing Whiskey to pay off our bills, which led to the Whiskey Rebellion
By 1794 the Whiskey Rebellion had broken out into the open. Tax collectors who were sent to western Pennsylvania were routinely threatened and tarred and feathered, making it impossible to collect the whiskey tax from that area. In June of that year, local officials ordered the arrest of the leaders of the whiskey tax resistors. However, all this did was incite the farmers of western Pennsylvania to more violence. A month later, in July, the commander of the local militia, James McFarlane was shot and killed by federal troops defending a besieged tax official named John Neville. This enraged the local anti-tax settlers who went on to burn down the buildings belonging to Neville as he was hustled to safety by the federal troops.
In reaction to this, President George Washington recruited a militia force in August, 1794 from the Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia. This force was derisively nicknamed the “Watermelon Army” by the western Pennsylvania whiskey tax rebels.
When negotiations between federal commissioners and the rebels failed, Washington himself put on his Revolutionary War uniform again and personally led the army of over 12,000 troops into Western Pennsylvania. This force easily put down the Whiskey Rebellion because the farmers, faced with such a large force and notable commander, quickly dispersed. Most of the prisoners that Washington’s army captured were later released due to lack of evidence. Two of the rebels were convicted of treason but were subsequently pardoned by Washington who perhaps did not want to leave bad feelings lingering from this greatest crises of his administration.
Although the Whiskey Rebellion did mark the supremacy of the federal government, it also made the citizens of the states wary of this power. The question of states rights versus the powers of the federal government was not to be fully resolved until after the Civil War.
(What is not noted here is that by the time of his death George Washington was the nations largest whiskey producer/distiller at the time of his death)
My grandfather was the tax collector in Eastern Arizona appointed by the President in 1876 as he was also the Postmaster and he owned the town store and was the Magistrate and town Marshall, being the owner of the town store and saloon had his hands in all the money that actually was passing thru the cash registers or cash boxes at the time. Since the only federal stream of revenue was alcohol tax it made sense to make the saloon owners the federal tax collectors.
I realize this diary is pretty disjointed but so has this election period, I am watching the wife of a sitting Supreme Court Justice run a PAC that does not disclose where her funds come from and I have seen 2 large donations one for 300,000 and another for 200,000. There have not been any other reports since then, but do these people expect some sort of help if they have a case come before the Supreme Court and if they do will their donations to Ginny Thomas become public knowledge? Will Justice Thomas recuse himself from their case?
It is improper for a family member of a Supreme Court Justice to be involved in undisclosed donations for any reason let alone for politics. It leaves the appearance of something wrong, it may not be, but the simple fact of the matter is that we will never know unless one of the people donating funds ever opens their mouths, will we?
Certainly Ginny Thomas has a right to make a living, I don't know how much she is paying herself, or how she uses the funds for travel expenses, (I doubt she flies coach) or stays at a Days Inn like most of us.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be above reproach, we expect "justice" to be handed down from that bench, we may not always agree with it, but there should not be a "taint" to any SCOTUS decision. As long as Ginny Thomas is taking funds from undisclosed people or companies, then the "taint" will be there as long as Justice Thomas sits on that bench.
In order to remove that "taint" then the names of the donors needs to be made public, Ginny Thomas is not a housewife of a "normal man" he is one of the 6 men of the Supreme Court, I would be making the same comments if the husband of any of the 3 women Justice's were doing the same thing, taking undisclosed donations for politics is wrong, regardless of what party is doing it, Republican, Democratic or TEA Party's, or any other parties.
She also went way to far in calling Anita Hill to ask her to pray and to apologize for what she did to Justice Thomas in 1991, BS apologize for telling the truth, lady you are not Jenny Sanford thats obvious your issue is with Clarence not Anita after 19 years you just had to go there why? Have you lost all of your marbles? You are destroying your husbands credibility on the bench, are you pushing for him to retire? Is that what all of this is about, make it to hot for him to stay?
You have to know you are causing him problems with the other Justice's and the public, why? What has Clarence done now that you are hell bent on totally embarrassing him? Because your actions sure are not helping him.