Freedom Caucus crazy and Idaho mashed potato Raul Labrador gets hisself in the news

Reported in GOP congressman: “Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care".  (CBS News, 5/6/2017)




Her 1st of 4 top 10 hits, DeeDee Sharp's "Mashed Potato Time" debuted at #77 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending March 3, 1962.  It spent 18 weeks on the chart, peaking at #2 for 2 weeks.

Other Raul posts:
51 U.S. House members implore Trump to legalize LGBT discrimination.  (5/3/2016)
Donald Trump declares war on Freedom Caucus:.  (4/4/2017)
Freedom Caucus crazy Raul Labrador knows exactly how you feel, unquestionably.  (3/15/2016)
Freedom Caucus 'crazy' Raul Labrador still trying out for lead role in remake of "Wag the Dog".  (1/7/2016)
One of the House 'crazies', Raul Labrador, thinks Paul Ryan is a good man, Charlie Brown.  (10/22/2015)
Meet 'the crazies' in the U.S. House of Representatives.  (10/2/2015)
Rep. Raul Labrador's "First Amendment Defense Act" has 145 Republican co-sponsors (0 Democrats).  (7/30/2015)
Meet the members of the Republican Study Committee.  (7/8/2015)
No friend to the environment.  (12/17/2014)

What sort of man uses Playboy All Over Body Spray?

And which flavor does he like best?  Hollywood?  New York?  Vegas?

Perhaps it's this guy, reaching for what looks like the Hollywood scent.

Source:  Trendland

Rep. Daniel Riemer teaches Scott Walker a lesson in governing

The beholden Scott Walker.

His biggest fans in the insurance industry.

Source:  Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

The succinct Daniel Riemer

Reported in After outcry Gov. Scott Walker vows to keep protections for Wisconsin patients with pre-existing conditions.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/5/2017)

Out with the old, in with the new: The Brooklyn-Queens Kosciusko Bridge

3 New Bridges Rise in New York, With Looks That Could Stop Traffic.  (The New York Times, 4/27/2017)

In the last half-century, while New York was out of the bridge-building business, cable-stayed bridges were proliferating around the world. They were relatively easy and economical to build. And they almost couldn’t help but look beautiful, with their slender pylons and radiating cables. 

It’s as though a race of giant harp makers had been roaming the planet, threading it together with gossamer strands of steel.

Kosciuszko Bridge Project 

Greetings from La Jolla, California, where airplane noise complaints are in the news

From Retiring Guy's postcard collection

La Jollans: Airplane noise isn’t going anywhere.  (Lo Jolla Light, 5/3/2017)

A new demographic of complaints — composed of younger people with small children — showed up at the meeting. Bird Rock resident Krishna Ratnam told attendees the first word from his 2-year-old was “airplane.”

Airport Noise Advisory Committee agenda for April 26, 2017.

Other greetings:
Hope, Arkansas.  (5/4/2017)
Bakersfield, California.  (5/3/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (5/1/2017)

California.  (4/28/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (4/19/2017)
Superstition Mountain, Arizona.  (4/15/2017)
Tucson, Arizona.  (4/12/2017)
Phoenix, Arizona.  (4/8/2017)
Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah.  (4/8/2017)
Dothan, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Mobile, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)

51 U.S. House members implore Trump to legalize LGBT discrimination: The Joe Wilson edition

50 men, 1 woman, all conservative Republicans.

Full text of letter is found at Scribd.
Illustration credit: The Surge
(Snopes sez it's true)

Source:   On the Issues

Joe Wilson was elected to a 9th term in the U.S. House representing South Carolina's 2nd Congressional District with 60.2% of the vote. 

Wilson is not a member of the Freedom Caucus.

Republicans in Congress push for religious liberty executive order.  (USA Today, 4/24/2017)

Other posts in series.
Warren Davidson.  (4/25/2017)
Jim Banks.  (4/25/2017)
Vicky Hartzler.  (4/25/2017)
Trent Franks.  (4/25/2017)
Gary Palmer.  (4/25/2017)
Jeff Duncan.  (4/26/2017)
Bob Gibbs.  (4/26/2017)
Robert Aderholt.  (4/26/2017)
Mark Meadows.  (4/26/2017)
Thomass Massie.  (4/26/2017)
Glenn Grothman.  (4/27/2017)
Barry Loudermilk.  (4/27/2017)
Mike Johnson.  (4/27/2017)
Steve Russell.  (4/27/2017)
Randy Hultgren.  (4/27/2017)
Doug Lambert.  (4/27/2017)
Brian Babin.  (4/27/2017)
David Rouzer.  (4/28/2017)
Jim Jordan.  (4/28/2017)
Dave Brat. (4/28/2017)
Blaine Luetkemeyer.  (4/29/2017)
Jack Bergman.  (4/29/2017)
Tim Walberg.  (4/29/2017)
Doug LaMalfa.  (4/30/2017)
Jody Hice.  (4/30/2017)
Keith Rothfus.  (4/30/2017)
Ted Budd.  (5/1/2017)

Andy Harris.  (5/1/2017)
Steve King.  (5/1/217)
Raul Labrador.  (5/2/2017)
Jeff Fortenberry.  (5/2/2017)
Louie Gohmert.  (5/2/2017)
Jodey Arrington.  (5/3/2017)
Randy Weber.  (5/3/2017)
Kevin Cramer.   (5/3/2017)
John Carter.  (5/4/2017)
John Duncan Jr.  (5/4/2017)
Walter Jones.  (5/5/2017)
James Comer.  (5/5/2017)
Don Bacon.  (5/5/2017)
Mark Walker.  (5/6/2017)

51 U.S. House members implore Trump to legalize LGBT discrimination: The Mark Walker edition

50 men, 1 woman, all conservative Republicans.

Full text of letter is found at Scribd.
Illustration credit:  Huffingotn Post

Source: Congressman Mark Walker (emphasis added)

Mark Walker was elected to a 2nd term in the U.S. House representing North Carolina's 6th Congressional District with 59.2% of the vote. 

Walker is not a member of the Freedom Caucus.

Republicans in Congress push for religious liberty executive order.  (USA Today, 4/24/2017)

Other posts in series.
Warren Davidson.  (4/25/2017)
Jim Banks.  (4/25/2017)
Vicky Hartzler.  (4/25/2017)
Trent Franks.  (4/25/2017)
Gary Palmer.  (4/25/2017)
Jeff Duncan.  (4/26/2017)
Bob Gibbs.  (4/26/2017)
Robert Aderholt.  (4/26/2017)
Mark Meadows.  (4/26/2017)
Thomass Massie.  (4/26/2017)
Glenn Grothman.  (4/27/2017)
Barry Loudermilk.  (4/27/2017)
Mike Johnson.  (4/27/2017)
Steve Russell.  (4/27/2017)
Randy Hultgren.  (4/27/2017)
Doug Lambert.  (4/27/2017)
Brian Babin.  (4/27/2017)
David Rouzer.  (4/28/2017)
Jim Jordan.  (4/28/2017)
Dave Brat. (4/28/2017)
Blaine Luetkemeyer.  (4/29/2017)
Jack Bergman.  (4/29/2017)
Tim Walberg.  (4/29/2017)
Doug LaMalfa.  (4/30/2017)
Jody Hice.  (4/30/2017)
Keith Rothfus.  (4/30/2017)
Ted Budd.  (5/1/2017)

Andy Harris.  (5/1/2017)
Steve King.  (5/1/217)
Raul Labrador.  (5/2/2017)
Jeff Fortenberry.  (5/2/2017)
Louie Gohmert.  (5/2/2017)
Jodey Arrington.  (5/3/2017)
Randy Weber.  (5/3/2017)
Kevin Cramer.   (5/3/2017)
John Carter.  (5/4/2017)
John Duncan Jr.  (5/4/2017)
Walter Jones.  (5/5/2017)
James Comer.  (5/5/2017)
Don Bacon.  (5/5/2017)

Then and now: The corner of East Washington and North Webster, Madison, Wisconsin

Late 2014

Now.

Downtown's new AC Hotel: European flavor, dramatic Wisconsin views.  (Wisconsin State Journal, 4/28/2017)

A standard guest room starts at $229 and goes up to $389 for one of four king suites or one of two queen suites. The suites can host business meetings since the bedroom area of each suite is separated from the common area. Each suite has a spectacular view of the Capitol.

William MacKenzie (1950-2017) Warren Area High School class of 1967

Source:  Warren Times Observer

1966 Dragon yearbook

1967 Warren City Directory

• McKenzie Wm (Gloria) driver Tionesta Sand & Gravel rClarendon Pa

1983 Warren City Directory

• Mac Kenzie Charles E emp Car-Go Auto Part r12901 Griff Hill Rd
• Mac Kenzie Gloria M Mrs waitress Penn Glade Hotel h12901 Griff Hill Rd
• Mac Kenzie Wm H & Diane Sue; emp NF h12901 Griff Hill Rd

The popularity of 'William as a baby name is graphed here.

Source:  Social Security Administration

'Gloria' experienced an impressive period of consistency from the mid-1920s into the mid-1950s.  She peaked at #20 in 1925 and spent 42 years in the top 100. (1922-1963)

Other class of 1967 graduates:

Fritz Shoup.  (3/5/2017)
William Lucia.  (2/22/2017)

Dorothy McClain Zimmerman.  (7/31/2015)

Susan Shaver.  (3/30/2015)

  

Trump's America: Snookered in Bryan County, Oklahoma

Trump’s budget would hit rural towns especially hard — but they’re willing to trust him.  (Washington Post, 4/2/2017)

The president’s proposed budget would disproportionately harm the rural areas and small towns that were key to his unexpected win. Many red states like Oklahoma — where every single county went for Trump — are more reliant on the federal funds that Trump wants to cut than states that voted for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Durant is the county seat of Bryan County.

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Source:  Wikipedia

Source:  CNN

Other Trump's America posts:
Greene County, Pennsylvania.  (5/3/2017)
Huntington County, Indiana.  (4/27/2017)
Lawrence County, South Dakota.  (4/27/2017)
Gaines County, Texas.  (4/26/2017)
St. Martin Parish, Louisiana.  (4/26/2017)
Morgan County, Colorado.  (4/25/2017)
Oneida County, Wisconsin.  (4/24/2017)
(Trending) Trump's America.  Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. (4/22/2017)
Van Wert County, Ohio.  (4/12/2017)
(Impatient) Pennsylvania's 8th Congressional District.  (4/18/2017)
New Jersey's 7th Congressional District.  (4/14/2017)
Bryan County, Oklahoma.  (4/3/2017)
Trumbull County, Ohio.  (4/3/2017)
lMarion County, Tennessee.  (4/1/2017)
Illinois 16th Congressional District.  (3/26/2017)
New York 19th Congressional District.  (3/26/2017)
Granger, Indiana, bad hombre.  (3/26/2017)
Clark County, Kansas.  (3/21/2017)
Defiance County, Ohio .  (3/21/2017)
Williams County, Ohio.  (3/21/2017)
Sawyer County, Wisconsin.  (3/20/2017)
Clark County, Wisconsin.  (3/19/2017)
Taylor County, Wisconsin.  (3/19/2017)
Highland County, Ohio.   (3/19/2017)
Buffalo County, Wisconsin.  (3/19/2017)
Pepin County, Wisconsin. (3/19/2017)
Union County, North Carolina.  (3/9/2017)
Buffalo County:  The Wisconsin Dairyland dilemma.  (3/7/2017)
Franklin County, Illinois.  (2/27/2017)
Knox and Whitley counties, Kentucky.  (2/17/2017)
Cabell County, West Virginia.  (2/9/2017)
Where voters abandoned the Democratic Party in droves.   (2/7/2017)
Poweshiek and Webster counties, Iowa.  (2/7/2017)
Adams and Waushara counties, Wisconsin.  (2/6/2017)
McHenry County, Illinois.  (2/5/2017)
Essex County, New York.  (1/29/2017)
Mitchell County, Kansas.  (1/29/2017)
Fayette County, West Virginia.  (1/24/2017)
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, home of the Little League World Series.  (1/24/2017)
Johnson Creek, Wisconsin.  (1/21/2017)
Get me rewrite: Buncha white people in Boone County, Iowa, talk about Trump.  (1/15/2017)
UPDATE. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania is a Trump election success story.  (1/14/2017)
Monticello, Iowa. New York Times joins the search for Trump's America, a very white place.  (1/13/2017)
UPDATE. Boston Globe reporter continues to explore Trump's America, where mostly white people live.  (1/13/2017)

Wisconsin Assembly transportation plan is a giant step backwards

Reported in Assembly GOP plan overhaul fuel taxes, steers state toward flat income tax.  (Wisconsin State Journal, 5/56/2017

How about an excise tax on these guzzlers?

How about a transportation plan that addresses more than automobiles and ever-widening controlled-access highways?

51 U.S. House members implore Trump to legalize LGBT discrimination: The Don Bacon edition

50 men, 1 woman, all conservative Republicans.

Full text of letter is found at Scribd.
Illustration credit:  If You Only News

Source:  Nebraska Voter Guide

Don Bacon was elected to a 1st term in the U.S. House representing Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District with 48.9% of the vote. 

Bacon is not a member of the Freedom Caucus.

Republicans in Congress push for religious liberty executive order.  (USA Today, 4/24/2017)

Other posts in series.
Warren Davidson.  (4/25/2017)
Jim Banks.  (4/25/2017)
Vicky Hartzler.  (4/25/2017)
Trent Franks.  (4/25/2017)
Gary Palmer.  (4/25/2017)
Jeff Duncan.  (4/26/2017)
Bob Gibbs.  (4/26/2017)
Robert Aderholt.  (4/26/2017)
Mark Meadows.  (4/26/2017)
Thomass Massie.  (4/26/2017)
Glenn Grothman.  (4/27/2017)
Barry Loudermilk.  (4/27/2017)
Mike Johnson.  (4/27/2017)
Steve Russell.  (4/27/2017)
Randy Hultgren.  (4/27/2017)
Doug Lambert.  (4/27/2017)
Brian Babin.  (4/27/2017)
David Rouzer.  (4/28/2017)
Jim Jordan.  (4/28/2017)
Dave Brat. (4/28/2017)
Blaine Luetkemeyer.  (4/29/2017)
Jack Bergman.  (4/29/2017)
Tim Walberg.  (4/29/2017)
Doug LaMalfa.  (4/30/2017)
Jody Hice.  (4/30/2017)
Keith Rothfus.  (4/30/2017)
Ted Budd.  (5/1/2017)

Andy Harris.  (5/1/2017)
Steve King.  (5/1/217)
Raul Labrador.  (5/2/2017)
Jeff Fortenberry.  (5/2/2017)
Louie Gohmert.  (5/2/2017)
Jodey Arrington.  (5/3/2017)
Randy Weber.  (5/3/2017)
Kevin Cramer.   (5/3/2017)
John Carter.  (5/4/2017)
John Duncan Jr.  (5/4/2017)
Walter Jones.  (5/5/2017)
James Comer.  (5/5/2017)

51 U.S. House members implore Trump to legalize LGBT discrimination: The James Comer edition

50 men, 1 woman, all conservative Republicans.

Full text of letter is found at Scribd.
Illustration credit:  Huffington Post

Source:  James Comer for Congress

James Comer was elected to a 1st term in the U.S. House representing Kentucky's 1st Congressional District with 72.6% of the vote. 

Comer is not a member of the Freedom Caucus.

Republicans in Congress push for religious liberty executive order.  (USA Today, 4/24/2017)

Other posts in series.
Warren Davidson.  (4/25/2017)
Jim Banks.  (4/25/2017)
Vicky Hartzler.  (4/25/2017)
Trent Franks.  (4/25/2017)
Gary Palmer.  (4/25/2017)
Jeff Duncan.  (4/26/2017)
Bob Gibbs.  (4/26/2017)
Robert Aderholt.  (4/26/2017)
Mark Meadows.  (4/26/2017)
Thomass Massie.  (4/26/2017)
Glenn Grothman.  (4/27/2017)
Barry Loudermilk.  (4/27/2017)
Mike Johnson.  (4/27/2017)
Steve Russell.  (4/27/2017)
Randy Hultgren.  (4/27/2017)
Doug Lambert.  (4/27/2017)
Brian Babin.  (4/27/2017)
David Rouzer.  (4/28/2017)
Jim Jordan.  (4/28/2017)
Dave Brat. (4/28/2017)
Blaine Luetkemeyer.  (4/29/2017)
Jack Bergman.  (4/29/2017)
Tim Walberg.  (4/29/2017)
Doug LaMalfa.  (4/30/2017)
Jody Hice.  (4/30/2017)
Keith Rothfus.  (4/30/2017)
Ted Budd.  (5/1/2017)

Andy Harris.  (5/1/2017)
Steve King.  (5/1/217)
Raul Labrador.  (5/2/2017)
Jeff Fortenberry.  (5/2/2017)
Louie Gohmert.  (5/2/2017)
Jodey Arrington.  (5/3/2017)
Randy Weber.  (5/3/2017)
Kevin Cramer.   (5/3/2017)
John Carter.  (5/4/2017)
John Duncan Jr.  (5/4/2017)
Walter Jones.  (5/5/2017)

51 U.S. House members implore Trump to legalize LGBT discrimination: The Walter Jones edition

50 men, 1 woman, all conservative Republicans.

Full text of letter is found at Scribd.
Illustration credit: God's Original Design Ministry
Senate adopts 'pray away the gay' bill

Source:
The Good, Bad, and Ugly for Religious Liberty and LGBT Rights in Defense Bill
(ACLU, 6/20/2013)

Walter Jones was elected to a 12th term in the U.S. House representing North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District with 67.2% of the vote. 

Jones is not a member of the Freedom Caucus.

Republicans in Congress push for religious liberty executive order.  (USA Today, 4/24/2017)

Other posts in series.
Warren Davidson.  (4/25/2017)
Jim Banks.  (4/25/2017)
Vicky Hartzler.  (4/25/2017)
Trent Franks.  (4/25/2017)
Gary Palmer.  (4/25/2017)
Jeff Duncan.  (4/26/2017)
Bob Gibbs.  (4/26/2017)
Robert Aderholt.  (4/26/2017)
Mark Meadows.  (4/26/2017)
Thomass Massie.  (4/26/2017)
Glenn Grothman.  (4/27/2017)
Barry Loudermilk.  (4/27/2017)
Mike Johnson.  (4/27/2017)
Steve Russell.  (4/27/2017)
Randy Hultgren.  (4/27/2017)
Doug Lambert.  (4/27/2017)
Brian Babin.  (4/27/2017)
David Rouzer.  (4/28/2017)
Jim Jordan.  (4/28/2017)
Dave Brat. (4/28/2017)
Blaine Luetkemeyer.  (4/29/2017)
Jack Bergman.  (4/29/2017)
Tim Walberg.  (4/29/2017)
Doug LaMalfa.  (4/30/2017)
Jody Hice.  (4/30/2017)
Keith Rothfus.  (4/30/2017)
Ted Budd.  (5/1/2017)

Andy Harris.  (5/1/2017)
Steve King.  (5/1/217)
Raul Labrador.  (5/2/2017)
Jeff Fortenberry.  (5/2/2017)
Louie Gohmert.  (5/2/2017)
Jodey Arrington.  (5/3/2017)
Randy Weber.  (5/3/2017)
Kevin Cramer.   (5/3/2017)
John Carter.  (5/4/2017)
John Duncan Jr.  (5/4/2017)

'Bell Curve' geezer visits Madison while most people move on with their lives

Reported at Libertarian speech goes off in Madison without protesters' planned 'noise'.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/3/2017)

The 115-plus folks who attended this non-event hummed this tune on their way home.

"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" frisson of horror

Sources:

• USA Today, 5/3/2017
• YouTube

The PK speaks out: Welcome to the National Day of Christian Prayer

2017

Source:  National Day of Prayer (annotated)

1952

Source:  Government Publishing Office (highlight added)

Synagogues?  Meh!  Mosques?  Fuggedaboutit!

It's a Make America Great White Again kinda day.

From Retiring Guy's postcard collection

Yowsah!

Greetings from Hope, Arkansas, where a clinic hopes to hire another dentist

From Retiring Guy's postcard collection (Tapley's Motel)

Source:  Dental Post

Hope is home to one of four locations.

Hope is also Bill Clinton's hometown.

Other greetings:
Bakersfield, California.  (5/3/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (5/1/2017)

California.  (4/28/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (4/19/2017)
Superstition Mountain, Arizona.  (4/15/2017)
Tucson, Arizona.  (4/12/2017)
Phoenix, Arizona.  (4/8/2017)
Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah.  (4/8/2017)
Dothan, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Mobile, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)

51 U.S. House members implore Trump to legalize LGBT discrimination: The John Duncan Jr. edition

50 men, 1 woman, all conservative Republicans.

Full text of letter is found at Scribd.
Illustration credit: Nashville Scene (3/14/2013)
Senate adopts 'pray away the gay' bill

Source:  Our Campaigns

John Duncan Jr was elected to a 15th term in the U.S. House representing Tennessee's 2nd Congressional District with 75.6% of the vote. 

Duncan is not a member of the Freedom Caucus.

Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation.

Republicans in Congress push for religious liberty executive order.  (USA Today, 4/24/2017)

Other posts in series.
Warren Davidson.  (4/25/2017)
Jim Banks.  (4/25/2017)
Vicky Hartzler.  (4/25/2017)
Trent Franks.  (4/25/2017)
Gary Palmer.  (4/25/2017)
Jeff Duncan.  (4/26/2017)
Bob Gibbs.  (4/26/2017)
Robert Aderholt.  (4/26/2017)
Mark Meadows.  (4/26/2017)
Thomass Massie.  (4/26/2017)
Glenn Grothman.  (4/27/2017)
Barry Loudermilk.  (4/27/2017)
Mike Johnson.  (4/27/2017)
Steve Russell.  (4/27/2017)
Randy Hultgren.  (4/27/2017)
Doug Lambert.  (4/27/2017)
Brian Babin.  (4/27/2017)
David Rouzer.  (4/28/2017)
Jim Jordan.  (4/28/2017)
Dave Brat. (4/28/2017)
Blaine Luetkemeyer.  (4/29/2017)
Jack Bergman.  (4/29/2017)
Tim Walberg.  (4/29/2017)
Doug LaMalfa.  (4/30/2017)
Jody Hice.  (4/30/2017)
Keith Rothfus.  (4/30/2017)
Ted Budd.  (5/1/2017)

Andy Harris.  (5/1/2017)
Steve King.  (5/1/217)
Raul Labrador.  (5/2/2017)
Jeff Fortenberry.  (5/2/2017)
Louie Gohmert.  (5/2/2017)
Jodey Arrington.  (5/3/2017)
Randy Weber.  (5/3/2017)
Kevin Cramer.   (5/3/2017)
John Carter.  (5/4/2017)