You get a chance to fire the troublemakers May 29

Here are three types to vote against:
Have you ever gotten the notion that when you cast your ballot, you're actually making a decision on who you want to hire - or fire?


Reprinted from a "Business Week" article - 


1. The Victims
 - “Can you believe what they want us to do now? And of course we have no time to do it. I don’t get paid enough for this. The boss is clueless.” Victims are people who see problems as occasions for persecution rather than challenges to overcome. We all play the role of victim occasionally, but for some, it has turned into a way of life. These people feel persecuted by humans...

2. The Nonbelievers
 - “Why should we work so hard on this? Even if we come up with a good idea, the boss will probably kill it. If she doesn’t, the market will. I’ve seen this a hundred times before.” We love the Henry Ford quote: - “If you think you can or think you cannot, you are correct.”

3. The Know-It-Alls
 - “You people obviously don’t understand the business we are in. The regulations will not allow an idea like this, and our stakeholders won’t embrace it. Don’t even get me started on our IT infrastructure’s inability to support it. And then there is the problem of ….”

Obama on judicial activism legislating from the bench

Tornado tosses pumpkin wagons through the air

Dallas truck yard scrambled like eggs

Dallas County - A fierce tornado sent ten-ton empty tractors and trailers in southeast Dallas County flying as it passed through the Lancaster area in late afternoon today. Television cameras caught the sight of empty dry box Schneider Trucking Services trailers sailing through air like so many toys.

Marine calls fellow grunts to the fort to plan tactics

Caleb Duty, a U.S. Marine and multi-tour veteran of the Iraq War, filled out his claim for compensation and pension, and waited to hear from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He called once a month; then he waited some more.

And waited, called again, then waited some more.

“It finally got to where it was kind of an embarrassment, where it seemed like they were just waiting for me to give up.”

Then he found a savvy veterans service officer employed by McLennan County who helped him fill out his paperwork with the quality of answers the questions it takes for the VA to honor the evidence of disability required to perfect a claim.

It wasn't good enough for the combat grunt.(click here to listen to the Director of the American Legion lay out the organization's plan for returning veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.)

He reverted to an old pattern. That's what he always did when he was a kid, even a high school student. You get a bunch of the guys together and camp out over the weekend on the family ranch near Robinson. That is how you thrash out your problems; you cut for the fort and talk it over, make your plans, devise a strategy and take the tactical approach that strategy indicates.

Get his fellow veterans together for a weekend of fun, sun, country music and cold brew.

But there he ran into a snag. The neighbors along the rural road protested his permit application. Traffic congestion could make it hard for ambulances and other emergency vehicles to get to homes along the route.

Fortunately, the gang found a place for the Moonlight Music Festival planned for May 25-27 at the Bosque Bottoms National Barbecue Cook-off grounds in Meridian. Billy Joe Shaver will headline dozens of country and western acts for the three day affair, tickets for which sell for $30 a head, plus camping or RV fees.

But that's the point. The money will be used to help veterans thread the maze, find the solution, tackle the bureaucracy and find compensation and pension benefits, housing financing, educational benefits and continuing health care.
How?

It's not easy. In fact, there is a an entire Title of the U.S. Code Annotated that deals with nothing other than Veterans Affairs.

That's where the American Legion comes in. With the help of the National Veterans Legal Services Program, the Legion educates hundreds of certified Veterans Services Officers to help veterans assemble the evidence and process the paperwork that it will take to convince a hearing officer and review board that he or she is eligible. (click here to learn about NVLSP)

That's going to take money for training, books, materials, computers, internet hook-ups and transportation to and from Veterans Affairs Regional Offices such as the one at 701 Clay in Waco.

Caleb Duty envisions a system of American Legion and VFW Posts in which a designated member has the proper training and access to information it takes to help a veteran perfect a claim.

Kickapoo Doctor establishes Jango Radio on Facebook

Dig Barnaby T. Bynum, equally at home in roadhouse or coffee house, coming at you in stereo with "Suitcases full of money," and the like.

The Legendary recommends the tender mercies of Mr. Bynum's tuneful evolutions in sound. Stay tuned.

You have nothing to lose but your sanity.

Artists featured include Dr. Demento, Warren Zevon, Merle Haggard, Loudon Wainwright, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan and The Band, and other assorted en-tuh-tain-uhs - ah, yes. Indeed.

Another blast from the past brought to you under the imprimatur of the Big Chief Tablet Tale series. (click here for the minority report)

- The Legendary

Click here to get right with the program:

http://www.jango.com/music/Barnabas+T+Bynum

Women under 50 fuel Obama's 9-point lead on Romney

GOP blames loss on a focus on contraception

Conservative concerns with reproductive issues appears to have cost the Republican presidential frontrunner key support among younger women in the nation's swing states over the past month.

A USA Today/Gallup Poll shows President Barack Hussein Obama now enjoys a 51 percent to 42 percent lead over Governor Mitt Romney in the nation's dozen top battleground states.

A shift in new support in battleground states breaks out along gender lines, where the president's chief supporters are now to be found in the category of women under 50.

This represents a surge to more than six in 10 from a factor of less than half of those polled in February, while Governor Romney's support among the same group fell by 14 points over the same period to 30 percent.

Mr. Obama leads Mr. Romney by 2 to 1 in this group, according to the fifth poll done in swing states since last fall.

The main advantage for Mr. Romney shown in the latest poll is among men over 50, where he leads 56 percent to 38 percent.

A top Republican strategist, Sara Taylor Fagen told “USA Today” that “The focus on contraception has not been a good one for us – and Republicans have unfairly taken on water on this issue.”

Among men of all ages, Mr. Romney leads by a single point in Colorado Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Pollsters noted a plus or minus margin of error of four percentage points.

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