Papers have been filed for an Exploratory Committee for a Ron Paul of President bid!!! Hell yeah, Go Ron Go!!!
Links for this good event:

• http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243200,00.html
• http://wonkette.com/politics/ron-paul/save-america-ron-paul-for-president-228158.php
• http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/012065.html
• http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/11/ron-paul-for-president/
• http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/11/ron-pauls-presidential-chances/

I don't know how this slipped by the radar but tonight the Round Rock City council will have a hearing to raise the tax rate. I encourage all citizens to attend the meeting and voice your opinion of higher taxes!

1. The region that includes Williamson, Travis, Hays, Bastrop, and Caldwell Counties was home to approximately 1.2 million people in 2000. This region is expected to more than double in population by the year 2035. If this growth occurs, which of the following statements best describes how you think the region should grow?

• Continue to grow as we have in the past, with most population growth being accommodated in new single-family residential subdivisions on the edges of Austin and neighboring cities.
• Accommodate more growth in central Austin by constructing new condominiums, apartment buildings, townhouses, and office towers.
  

CAMPO Survey

Considering the attitude that the CAMPO board has displayed at the toll road meetings I am surprised to see this on their web site.

If this is anything short of dissolving a regional authority and leaving the mobility planning to the elected officials, then they can count on a poor score from me.

(CNN) -- A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the U.S. government's warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered it ended immediately.

In a 44-page memorandum and order, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, -- who is based in Detroit, Michigan --struck down the National Security Agency's program, which she said violates the rights to free speech and privacy.

"NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional" (2006) CNN website: www.cnn.com
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Texas Crushed Stone Co. estimates about 80 years worth of mining remains on the more than 6,500 acres the Sneads' companies own near what has become a prime development intersection in this rapidly expanding city.

"No, no, no," said Jim Stendebach, Round Rock's planning director. "Not 80 years, not 80 years."
(Austin American Statesman, 8/7/2006))

If you have been reading the news lately you can't help but NOT miss that the City of Round Rock is planning to annex TEXAS CRUSHED STONE company (TCS). You also read that TCS has been giving material, land, and money to Round Rock for years.

Williamson County Precinct 4 Commissioner Frankie Limmer assumed office in 1999. Since then he has expanded his real estate development activities in eastern Williamson County -- the area he represents on the court -- to include several major development companies currently building large housing subdivisions. Several of Limmer's business associates are also doing business with the county: Charles Crossfield, the Round Rock city attorney who has been negotiating many of the rights-of-way acquisitions for the county's $350 million road-bond projects; Dan Hejl, of the consulting firm Hejl, Lee & Associates, has done engineering work for at least one of the county's road-bond projects within Limmer's precinct; and Ted Hejl, the Taylor city attorney, who has also recently been cut a host of county checks for road-related bond work.

Under the law, passed by the Republican-led state legislature in January 2006, paid voter registration workers must personally submit the voter registration cards to the state, rather than allow the organizations overseeing the drives to vet and submit them in bulk.

By requiring paid canvassers to sign and put their addresses on the voter registration cards they collect, and by making them criminally liable for any irregularities on the cards, the rules have made it more difficult to use such workers, who most often work in lower-income and Democratic-leaning neighborhoods, where volunteers are scarce.

Link to Yahoo news

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - High-tech passports touted as advances in national security can be spied on remotely and their identifying radio signals cloned, computers hackers were shown at a conference.

Radio frequency identification technology, referred to as RFID, used in cash cards and passports, can be copied, blocked or imitated, said Melanie Rieback, a privacy researcher at Vrije University in the Netherlands.

Computer hackers get lesson on cloning passport, cash card tags (2006) Yahoo News Website

The federal government keeps two sets of books.

The set the government promotes to the public has a healthier bottom line: a $318 billion deficit in 2005.

The set the government doesn't talk about is the audited financial statement produced by the government's accountants following standard accounting rules. It reports a more ominous financial picture: a $760 billion deficit for 2005. If Social Security and Medicare were included — as the board that sets accounting rules is considering — the federal deficit would have been $3.5 trillion.

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