Must Read Posts
UCLA Tenured African American Dr. Christian Head Depicted as Gorilla & Subject To Severe Discrimination (VIDEO)
PLEASE SIGN PETITION BELOW. I JUST DID! It is shameful that a respected African American faculty surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center could be intentionally demeaned based on his race and that university officials could ignore blatant acts of racial discrimination. But that is what is happening at UCLA. Imagine being graphically depicted [...]
Gridlock in Congress? Blame the Republicans- CNN.com
That gridlock in Congress is mostly caused by Republicans is not new to most fair thinking Americans. What is sad is that the reason Republicans got away with this for so long is that the supposedly Liberal mainstream media allowed their unpatriotic obstructive behavior to be interpreted by their listeners and viewers as just a [...]
Lone Star C0llege Kingwood’s Dr. John J Theis Named “Innovator Of The Year”
Dr. John Theis was named Innovator of the Year by Lone Star College Kingwood. He created a Public Achievement youth engagement initiative focused on the most basic concepts of citizenship, democracy and public work under the Center for Civic Engagement at LSC-K. His initiative was effected at both Splendora High School and Quest High School. [...]
2012 Elections
Cory Booker Is Wrong. Both Private Equity Firms And Wall Street Are Parasites In Our Economy
Cory Booker Is Wrong. Both Private Equity Firms And Wall Street Are a Parasites On Economy Ask yourself a simple question. What does Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan, do for a living? What does he produce? Under his leadership the company lost north of 2 Billion dollars. For that failure he kept his [...]
Romney’s Brand Of Capitalism Destroys Jobs & The Middle Class–He Must Atone To Become President
Mitt Romney wants to be elected based on his business acumen. It is fact that Mitt Romney is successful. It is also fact that he followed all the rules of capitalism to accumulate his wealth. Mitt Romney likely broke no laws while amassing his wealth. At Bain Capital Mitt Romney’s fiduciary responsibility was to his [...]
President Barack Obama’s Remarks at the Ready to Go Rally in Columbus, Ohio
This was a very good speech that President Obama gave in Ohio, a swing state. He did a good job in detailing where we came from. He is making the election a choice not a referendum on the economy. The Republicans would love to make the election a referendum on the economy that they originally [...]
Bringing It Back To Jobs
The April jobs report out today is a reminder that it all comes down to Americans’ top priority: jobs. Regardless of the economic issue at hand, here’s how to bring the focus back to jobs. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Republican politicians admit their top priority is defeating Obama. It’s no wonder they fought so hard to cut [...]
Meet Texas Democratic Party’s Promesa Project Fellows (VIDEO)
Austin–The Texas Democratic Party today released a five-minute video introducing their student Fellows participating in their Latino engagement program – the Promesa Project. The Fellows discuss the project, what motivated them to apply and why young people should be involved in politics. Fellows were selected from eight campuses across the state which have both large [...]
Harris County TX Politics
Root Of Evil by Cody Pogue (Letter to Editor Printed In Kingwood Observer)
Cody Pogue’s letter to the editor below knocks it out of the park. It brings the truth home. Anyone that claims Christianity as their faith and religion should read this article, step back, and examine their hearts. Cody used the current news of the day and shows implicitly that Jesus would definitely not deal with [...]
A Personal Message from former Houston City Councilmember and Citizen Warrior Jolanda "JO" Jones
Jolanda Jones My son & I voted 2day!!!!! Have u? 1 of the persons I voted 4 was Judge Steven Kirkland because he is more than qualified, as verified by 1 Bar Poll which rated Judge Kirkland "OUTSTANDING" & another Bar Poll which rated Judge Kirkland "WELL-QUALIFIED, the highest rating while that same poll rated [...]
Steven Kirkland Must Be re-elected
Generally speaking I prefer to stay out of the Democratic primaries and simply support the candidate most Democrats choose. I would only get involved for two reasons. Reason number one is if a Blue Dog is running against a real competent Liberal. My values dictate that I support a competent Liberal Democrat who will likely [...]
Harris County Democrats Deserve A LOYAL Democrat As Their Chair Not One Bankrolled by Republicans!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 3, 2012 Douglas Funded By Big Republican Donor and Activist Houston, Texas – Lane Lewis for Harris County Democratic Party Chair today calls on Douglas to explain why her campaign is being funded by a Republican donor and activist. Half of Douglas’ campaign contributions have come from Paul Kubosh, who has [...]
27 Days: Important Message from Lane Lewis–Harris County Democratic Party Chairman
I’m a proud Democrat and this year there is a lot at stake. I intend to lead a well funded, efficient and effective grassroots effort here in Harris County so we can keep the Democrats we have in office now and increase our numbers all the way from the courthouse to the White House. That’s [...]
Coffee Party Posts
Coffee Party Austin Lobbies for a Constitutional Amendment
In October 2010, four local Coffee Party members organized Coffee Party Austin to both educate voters on the outsized influence of big money on Texas politics and to advocate for campaign finance and electoral reforms that will give voters a greater voice in state government. Last year our goal was to build public support for [...]
Occupy Movement
Occupy Kingwood – Sustainable Occupy 22 Weeks Strong (2012-05-19)
Occupy Kingwood VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Our sustainable informational Occupy Kingwood completed its 22nd consecutive Occupy. We no longer do much planning. It has become an organic event. Everyone simply knows that every Saturday between 9:00 AM and 10:30 AM we meet at the corner of Kingwood Drive and West Lake Houston Blvd with [...]
Occupy Kingwood – Sustainable Occupy 21 Weeks Strong (2012-05-12)
Occupy Kingwood VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL This was our 21st consecutive week of Occupy Kingwood. Every week seem to be a bit more eventful. Today was graduation day at Kingwood’s Lone Star College. As such many of our regular students and professors were absent. Moreover some of our members headed over to senatorial candidate [...]
Occupy Kingwood – A Sustainable Form Of The Occupy Movement (2012-05-05) (VIDEO)
Occupy Kingwood (2012-05-05) VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Our 20th Occupy Kingwood was one of our most eventful Occupies this season. First of all I want to thank Nikki, Merry, and Sean for driving over from The Woodlands Texas real early to join our informational weekly rally. They came to both provide some interesting and [...]
Occupy Kingwood – A Sustainable Form Of The Occupy Movement (2012-04-28) (VIDEO)
Occupy Kingwood VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Occupy Kingwood at week 19, growing, strong, and continually effective. This week we had many missing as it it’s the Saturday of Unite Against The War On Women Rally in Austin Texas. That notwithstanding, we had an effective Occupy and engaged a few people from their cars. Most [...]
Occupy Kingwood – A Sustainable Form Of The Occupy Movement (2012-04-21) (VIDEO)
Following are the pictures from Occupy Kingwood week 17. I was unable to attend because I had to attend the Senate District Convention. Luckily Dr Theis was kind enough to provide the pictures. My Books– Follow Me– Visit Me
General Blog
What Eduardo Saverin owes America. (Hint: Nearly everything.) | PandoDaily
Let me be clear, Mr. Saverin is no different than many of the wealthy in America trying to avoid paying their fair share in taxes. His case is just exacerbated in that absent America he would likely neither have gotten as successful as he did or might not even be alive. It is time that [...]
ALEC – The American Legislative Exchange Council – Explained in 5 Minutes
ALEC – The American Legislative Exchange Council – Explained in 5 Minutes Published on Apr 30, 2012 by pursuitofinjustice ALEC is a 501 c3 non-profit organization. According to the group: "It is the nation’s largest nonpartisan (sic) individual membership association of state legislators (sic), with nearly 2,000 members across the nation and more than 100 [...]
Priorities in Student Loans Debate–Read The Facts
Today the Senate will vote to keep student loan interest rates from doubling on July 1. Instead of paying for it by closing a corporate tax loophole or ending tax handouts for Fortune 500 oil companies, Republicans are insisting on raiding a prevention health fund. We should be helping our kids build their futures, not [...]
Marc Croes of Kingwood TX Editorial In Kingwood Observer 2012-05-02–Points of View
Marc Croes in his normal demeanor decided to respond to the negative letters to the editor with regards to some of my Kingwood Observer articles and other articles from Kingwood Area Democrats. Marc without being negative was able to convey both the tone and the substance to address the criticisms. I am happy that he [...]
Egberto’s Published Articles
Immorality of Health Insurance
I submitted the article below to the Kingwood Observer about two weeks ago. There is a new editor so I was concerned that the article would not be printed.Moreover my last few articles received a lot of push back from the readers and I was concerned that said push back would be used to suppress [...]
The Anti-American Response To My Fact Based Liberal Op-eds In Kingwood
I was in Eugene Oregon this week until Wednesday at a Move to Amend executive committee meeting. Interesting enough we were discussing stuff about power. Who has power? Why do they feel entitled to power? We also discussed many other topics including how progress is stifled. This group among one of its tenets is to [...]
Gamed By Healthcare Debate by Egberto Willies (Reprint)
This is the same article I wrote and got printed in the Kingwood Observer last week. My wishful thinking is that healthcare is such an important issue that has been maligned by both Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Ted Poe in the Observer that they decided to reprint for the sake of balance and to undo [...]
Gamed By Healthcare Debate
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Long Flight IDs America’s Problem
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Egberto Mentioned In Media
Quoted at This Just In CNN.com – How does same-sex marriage factor into voters’ decisions?
Today I submitted an iReport on President Obama’s decision to continue evolving on his support for same sex marriage. CNN picked it up for its CNN.com website and other properties. Many like California ex-Speaker Willie Brown and MSNBC Chris Matthews thinks he is doing the right thing for winning the election. Their contention is that [...]
CNN iReport Political Pundits Debate Top Issues–Join The Fold
iReport Pundits share top election issues To kick off the iReport Debate – an invitation for you to let the decision-makers know what issues matter to you most – we reached out to some folks in our community who regularly sound off on politics: our former iReport Pundits of the Week! We wanted to [...]
Quoted at This Just In CNN.com Blogs – Supreme Court mulls health care law
I have been watching tweets and getting emails on my thoughts on whether the Affordable Care Act will be struck down. After reading excerpts of the transcripts I thought it would be upheld 6/3 as it seemed that Kennedy and Roberts were looking for a reason to back it. After listening to Toobin on CNN [...]
CNN Names Egberto Willies iReport Pundit of the Week
This week I was named CNN iReport Pundit of the week. CNN iReport is a platform I jumped on when they came out because it gave me the opportunity to get arguments and positions out. Think about it. You are watching the news and they are just not making sense or they are missing a [...]
Quoted At This Just In CNN.com Blogs – Time to bring troops home? Afghan massacre makes some wonder
I actually agree with Ron Paul quite a bit on foreign policy only (ONLY FOREIGN POLICY). We need to stay out of other countries’ business. The reality is the top one percent reap the rewards for what the average American taxpayer pays for and the average soldier bleeds and dies for. We have a big [...]
Netroots 2011
Netroots Nation Keynote Address By Minnesota Rep Keith Ellison #NN11
Minnesota Democratic Representative Keith Ellison gave a great keynote speech. He made a very important point to the Netroots that I hope resonated in the room and I hope it will resonate throughout the country. The “Yes We Can Movement” did not start with President Obama. It was in effect from the instantiation of Governor [...]
2010 Virginia Candidate For Congress Krystal Ball Telling Her Story of Sexism At Netroots Nation
Kystal Ball came to Netroots Nation to tell her story about the extreme sexism she endured during her run for Congress in Virginia. She said she endure a lot of misogyny but she wanted to speak specifically on what occurred when a Republican blogger dug up some old college pictures and posted it. While her [...]
Women’s Campaign Forum President Siobhan “Sam” Bennett At Netroots Nation On Electing Women
The Women’s Campaign Forum (WCF), a nonprofit non-partisan organization focused on electing women had a breakfast that focused on women candidates for office. It presented one of the better breakouts at Netroots Nation in that it gave researched information to candidates on how to fight attacks that women from all parties usually face. Siobhan “Sam” [...]
Greenville MS Mayor Heather McTeer Challenges Powerful Mississippi District 2 Congressman Bennie Thompson
One of the most informative breakouts at Netroots Nation was the breakfast sponsored by the Women’s Campaign (WCF). There we met several women that had run or are running for national political office. One could not help but be impressed by Heather McTeer. Heather McTeer is the mayor of Greenville Mississippi. She has been the [...]
Watch Women Campaign Forum(WCF) At Netroots Nation
Netroots Nation meant a lot to the Women’s Campaign Forum this year because of you. You joined hundreds of other attendees in pledging to support pro-choice women leaders in government. You cheered our endorsed-candidates at our breakfast. You celebrated your own political ambitions at our recruitment training. You shared your frustration with misogyny in the [...]
Egberto On TV
my FOXaustin 7 Coverage of War On Women Rally
I was in Austin for the War On Women Rally with the Kingwood Area Democrats and other organizations including the Coffee Party. I got an email yesterday saying I was on Fox 7 and then went to their website to check it out. WOW, I got a whole five seconds of coverage. I was busy [...]
My Daughter Ashley Willies Was Featured on CNN/HLN Series “I Am America”
My daughter submitted an iReport for the “I Am America” series at CNN. She Skyped me up from Austin and said “Daaaad, guess what. CNN just emailed me and said they wanted to interview me for the iReport submission I made. What should I do?” I said “Duh, do the interview!” She was a bit [...]
KTRK Report On The Firework Attack On My Home
KTRK ABC13 picked up the story of the firework attack on my home from my local newspaper the Kingwood Observer. KTRK never called me for the story. Activist’s home targeted in fireworks stunt KINGWOOD, TX (KTRK) — A political activist in Kingwood wants answers after he says someone shot fireworks at his home. It was [...]
KHOU Report on The Firework Attack On My Home
I am always concerned with the media spinning a story in a direction for dramatic effect as opposed to the reality of the event. It is for this reason that when I was approached by KHOU that I did not want to be interviewed on camera because of concerns of how the story would be [...]
My Interview with Teresa Allen at Occupy Houston
The video I did of Teresa J. Allen at OccupyHouston made it into the CNN TV loop this afternoon. They chose the perfect sound byte out of the interview. She laid out the plight of the middle class perfectly. She also used and touted a morality that every one arguing against taxes should heed.
Podcasts (Politics Done Right)
Politics Done Right w/Egberto Willies–Black/Latino/Gay Divide–Jeremiah Wright–Job Creators–12Noon Central 1PM Eastern
Politics Done Right with Egberto Willies 12:00 Noon Central/1:00 PM Eastern Call In, talk and/or Listen: (646) 929-2495 Listen And Chat Here at your computer or smartphone This was another politically eventful week. It is evident that this is going to be a very long election cycle and it will be very dirty. This week [...]
Coffee Party Radio:Politics Done Right-Topics: Local Organizing, Same Sex Marriage Decision, & More 12 Noon Central Time
Politics Done Right with Egberto Willies 12:00 Noon Central/1:00 PM Eastern Call In, talk and/or Listen: (646) 929-2495 Listen And Chat Here at your computer or smartphone This was an eventful week. President Obama came out in full support of gay marriage. We found out that Mitt Romney was not only a corporate bully. He [...]
Coffee Party Radio:Politics Done Right–Jobs Report, Bad Analysis–Let’s Talk Solutions
Politics Done Right with Egberto Willies 12:00 Noon Central/1:00 PM Eastern Call In, talk and/or Listen: (646) 929-2495 Listen And Chat Here at your computer or smartphone Yes! I am mad. I am tired of seeing less than optimal unemployment reports that would be much better if our government were functional. I am tired [...]
Andrea Gardner On KPFT’s The Progressive Forum Promoting War On Women Rally In Austin, TX
Coffee Party USA member, Democrat, and Longshorewoman Andrea Gardner was on the the KPFT show, The Progressive Forum today. She did a wonderful job raising awareness of not only the Unite Against The War On Women’s rally in Austin, Texas, but awareness of all the damaging policies being promoted by Republican politicians. I saw Andrea [...]
State Board of Education District 6 Primary Debate w/Democrats Traci Jensen, Patty Quintana-Nilsson, David Scott.
KPFT, The Coffee Party of The Woodlands, and The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund sponsored a State Board Of Education District 6 Primary Debate on April 26th, 2012 that I moderated. The participants were Traci Jensen (D), Patty Quintana-Nilsson (D), David Scott (D). Republican Donna Bohorich and Libertarian Gene Clark that did not have opposition [...]
Food And Cooking
Fritura – A Panamanian Treat That Is Easy To Make
The thing I miss most about Panamá is the food. Luckily living in the Houston suburbs, arguably the most diverse city in the country, affords me my native foods less than 25 miles away. In this video I prepare 4 staples that are common in a meal we call fritura; fried just about everything. The [...]
A Nutritious & Filling Meal Under 500 Calories (Sautéed Cabbage, Pineapples, & Sardines)
Sauteed Cabbage ½ Head Cabbage ½ Bell Medium Bell Pepper ½ Cup Purple Onions ½ Cup Celery 5 Cloves Garlic 1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil Black Pepper To Taste Season Salt To Taste Ginger Powder To Taste Cut up all vegetables. Add tablespoon of Olive Oil to hot sauté pan. Add onions, [...]
Another Nutritious & Filling Meal Under 500 Calories (Tuna Infused Cabbage Soup)
http://www.guidetohealthcareschools.com/ can teach you what it takes to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Tuna Infused Cabbage Soup ½ Head Of Cabbage ¾ Cup Carrots 1 Can fat free chicken broth. 1 cup celery ½ Bell Pepper ½ Cup Onions ¼ Cup Green Onions Palm full of Parsley Palm Cilantro 2 Tablespoons of cornstarch 1 Tablespoon of [...]
Making Panamanian Ojaldas
Panamanian Ojaldas (fried bread) is a staple in Panamá that is eaten right through the day. You can always find somebody walking the streets with a greasy bag with ojaldas. Mango trees are easy to find with the mangos falling off the trees. Ojalda Recipe: 2 Cups Flour ¾ Cups Water 1 Teaspoon Salt [...]
Panamanian Arroz Con Bacalao (Cod Fish Rice) – One of My Dad’s Signature Dishes
Arroz Con Bacalao (Rice With Cod Fish) This was one of my father’s signature dishes. He visited us from Panamá twice a year and this was one of his best treats. Unfortunately he will never fix it again as he passed away unexpectedly last week. My neighbor loved this dish and suggested that I share [...]
