Judy DeHaas © The Rocky Tom Tancredo's Iowa presidential campaign chairman Bill Salier, of Nora Springs, says that there are very few things as sweet as a baby pig as he holds one one of his month-old of piglets.
Posted on 05/06/2007 9:57:57 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
Judy DeHaas © The Rocky
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She's a new mom again. Recently gave birth to about a dozen more little piglets. She's looking a little skinny. And she's moody, too.
The friendly farmer knows she needs a little extra attention.
Long and lanky Bill Salier stoops in his patched-up jeans. He stares her in the snout. He tells a visitor how he wants her to regain her strength before he lets her out of this musty, farrowing shed and back to the barnyard with her muddy-hooved lady friends.
Suddenly, there's a call on the cell phone that's always wired into the farmer's right ear.
It's somebody from Rep. Tom Tancredo's presidential campaign staff.
They talk for a few minutes about the congressman's next round of Iowa barnstorming. Salier tells the caller they need to get the best voter database anywhere.
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One of the best moments of the first GOP debate:
Tancredo (?): After 40 million dead because we have aborted them in this country, I would say that that would be the greatest day in this country's history when that, in fact, is overturned.
Of course there are a lot of producers contributing to the food supply who don’t get subsidies. I wonder what Salier’s “living wage” is.
| American Revolution (1775–1783) | |
| Total servicemembers | 217,000 |
| Battle deaths | 4,435 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 6,188 |
| War of 1812 (1812–1815) | |
| Total servicemembers | 286,730 |
| Battle deaths | 2,260 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 4,505 |
| Indian Wars (approx. 1817–1898) | |
| Total servicemembers | 106,0001 |
| Battle deaths | 1,0001 |
| Mexican War (1846–1848) | |
| Total servicemembers | 78,718 |
| Battle deaths | 1,733 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 11,550 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 4,152 |
| Civil War (1861–1865) | |
| Total servicemembers (Union) | 2,213,363 |
| Battle deaths (Union) | 140,414 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Union) | 224,097 |
| Nonmortal woundings (Union) | 281,881 |
| Total servicemembers (Conf.) | 1,050,000 |
| Battle deaths (Conf.) | 74,524 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Conf.) | 59,2972 |
| Nonmortal woundings (Conf.) | unknown |
| Spanish-American War (1898–1902) | |
| Total servicemembers | 306,760 |
| Battle deaths | 385 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 2,061 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 1,662 |
| World War I (1917–1918)3 | |
| Total servicemembers | 4,734,991 |
| Battle deaths | 53,402 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 63,114 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 204,002 |
| Living veterans | fewer than 500 |
| World War II (1940–1945)3 | |
| Total servicemembers | 16,112,566 |
| Battle deaths | 291,557 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 113,842 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 671,846 |
| Living veterans | 4,762,0001 |
| Korean War (1950–1953) | |
| Total servicemembers | 5,720,000 |
| Serving in-theater | 1,789,000 |
| Battle deaths | 33,741 |
| Other deaths in service (theater) | 2,827 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 17,730 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 103,284 |
| Living veterans | 3,734,0001 |
| Vietnam War (1964–1975) | |
| Total servicemembers | 8,744,000 |
| Serving in-theater | 3,403,000 |
| Battle deaths | 47,410 |
| Other deaths in service (theater) | 10,789 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 32,000 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 153,303 |
| Living veterans | 8,295,0001 |
| Gulf War (1990–1991) | |
| Total servicemembers | 2,225,000 |
| Serving in-theater | 665,476 |
| Battle deaths | 147 |
| Other deaths in service (theater) | 382 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 1,565 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 467 |
| Living veterans | 1,852,0001 |
| America's Wars Total | |
| Military service during war | 42,348,460 |
| Battle deaths | 651,008 |
| Other deaths in service (theater) | 13,998 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 525,256 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 1,431,290 |
| Living war veterans | 17,578,5004 |
| Living veterans | 25,038,459 |
Are you recieving ag subsidies?
Now go check your spread sheets and see if that adds up.
In what war did we capture Iowa?
Which wars weren’t fought to defend Iowa?
How many other businesses in the US were defended in all the wars? Salier is a hog and Tancredo is two-faced.
Namecalling so soon?
gimee-gimee-gimeeeeeee
You’ve already got it. You’re here. You’re free. You can walk around on this hallowed ground. Enjoy it while it lasts.
That is quite impressive. 4`% while being outspent 10-1 by someone with real name recognition...I can understand why other campaigns wanted him.
Not so.
The fact is, Salier is not anti-tax or anti-big govt.
What did you personally do to keep Tommy Harkin (stem cell research champion) from being reelected? Would you have supported Greg Ganske over Salier? By the way, Ganske is supporting McCain now. Does that make you proud?
I know those opposed to Tancredo don't like him over the term limits issue, but most of that crowd who came into the House in 1992 ran on term limits and then ignored them when their time was up.
I'm not saying it's right, but Tancredo believes he should have stayed in because he was a lone voice on immigration, and I don't disagree with that.
You wallowed in the trough when you started calling Salier and Tancredo names.
How much government subsidy have you ever left on the table?
Do you have kids under 18? If so, do you refuse the $1000/Child Tax Credit on your tax return? If not, go ahead and tell us you’d refuse it if you had the chance.
And no, I don’t receive farm subsidies, either.
What the free traders fear the most is an end to corporate welfare.
Yep. Ganske was a disgrace.
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