This was my email to Representative Northup 3rd District Kentucky today:
Representative Northup: As an elected official, I expect you recognize the importance of one's right to express themselves freely in a public forum. Please vote AGAINST cutting federal funding from public television and public radio. If the public does not support these media outlets, effectively, you have censored these outlets by making them subject to corporate sticture.
In closing, I know that you are conservative, but that you try to do what is best for the public good. Public radio and television is best as a government subsidized unbiased forum.
I know it will get nowhere. I sound almost sorry for her, that she is conservative. Check out her website, she is standing with Tubby Smith, who is probably the only black person she's met. http://northup.house.gov/index.asp
Actually, ironically, she has the African American vote in this state. She got them on abortion and she pumps a huge amount of money into the West End. They love her over there. (far away, across the I-65 freeway that sadly but effectively divides this city into Black and White).
I also got into a fight at Bill Collins' Ford today. http://www.billcollinsford.com/
My son takes gymnastics there, at a place within the Bill Collins complex. The first area in which one can park was blocked by some a$$sneeze, who had parked taking up two spaces. So I drove on to the nearest unassigned space. I get out of the car with my son and daughter and this sales person comes up and asked me to move my car to Siberia, so as to not block his (at this point) imaginary customers. I told him off, considering that there were at least eight open spaces adjacent to my car and no Nissan purchasers... He made this other woman move her car: she is in class with Sweatone, the woman has adopted two unwanted female children from China, one of whom has medical problems, and made her walk all the way with these two little girls. That really pissed me off. Basically, I think a lot of people are adopting kids from China, b/c its the hip thing to do, but at the same time, he should bow down and kiss that woman's ass, not make her move her car with two baby girls. And when we came out, there was no one parked in the customer spaces. Apparently, no customers materialized. Fucker!