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Brooke Ann Coats Killed at Florida Rodeo

There are a lot of things I would let my sixteen year old daughter do. Go to Disneyland with friends, get a belly button piercing, maybe even a small tattoo.

But riding bulls? Looking at the photos of Brooke, I do not know if she would be strong enough to handle the situation. Perhaps the word “NO” would be in order here. JD

A teenage bull rider died after one of the animals threw her off and kicked her in the chest.

Brooke Ann Coats collapsed in front of her parents, who had been watching her take part in an amateur rodeo in Tampa, Florida.

The 16-year-old managed to stand up and walk out of the ring after sustaining the massive chest blow, but she began complaining of breathing difficulties and later collapsed.

She was rushed to hospital but died in surgery just 90 minutes after the accident.

Authorities said Miss Coats was wearing a protective vest and helmet when she was tossed from the bull at the 301 Rodeo in Tampa.

Her parents were in the stand and had signed a waiver allowing the pretty teenager to take part in the twice-monthly event, held on Friday.

Rodeo regular Erik Schmitz said Miss Coats was injured during an exhibition ride, an event that uses smaller bulls and is for less-skilled riders.

He said: ‘Brooke is known by almost everyone out there. Everyone was upset that she had got hurt. Nobody knew how bad.’

A YouTube video uploaded on January 17 shows Miss Coats riding a bull at a previous rodeo. She is flung from the animal after about three seconds, but two men grab hold of the bull and she runs to safety.

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For Democrats, Bipartisan means our way or no way

After the stunning defeat of Obama’s policies in last November’s elections, Republicans were once again handed control of congress by the people.

It seems the people had grown weary of a president and a congress that simply disregarded the words “will of the people” and went forward with an agenda that the people did not want.

What was really interesting to me was that once the democrats had lost control of the house and had last seats in the senate as well, we the people had the opportunity to see the democratic hypocrisy in action once again.

This hypocrisy came in the form of words from the left like “bipartisan cooperation” and “willing to work with the republicans.” The leftist media, unwilling to accept the stunning defeat of Obama’s November Rebuke by the people, went all out trying to make the newly elected Republicans out to be charlatans and snake oil salesmen.

All of this came after two years of of blatant ignorance of the people and their input with regard to health care reform and all of the other socialist crap from the left.

Flash forward to the last week in Wisconsin, where democrats have lost control of the state legislature. Along comes legislation that they don’t like and what do the democrats do?

They refuse to show up for a vote. Rumor has it that they are holed up in a hotel (probably at the tax payers expense) somewhere in Illinois, and flatly refuse to come back to Wisconsin for a vote on dismantling part of their own socialist plank.

That would be a vote to end collective bargaining agreements with unions, that are bankrupting the state of Wisconsin.

What is even more amazing is that the media refuses to call these democrats for their piss poor behavior. No, the media, hell bent on turning America into France, blames the republican governor for daring to hold the democrats collective feet to the fire by forcing a vote on the issue.

Meanwhile, the liberal Wisconsin courts refuse to back the people and more importantly, the children of the people of the great state of Wisconsin and instead, back the unionized teachers and the democrats by refusing to force the democrats back to the legislature.

What this country needs is a revolution. I’m not talking about a call to arms. I am talking about taking control of America back for the people and by the people.

America has not had a “representative government” in fifty years. Politicians from both sides of the isle get into office and completely disregard what their constituents want.

How do we revolt? Well one simple way to revolt is to simply not file a tax return. They can still take our taxes out of our checks, but if we all stopped filing a tax returns they would be unable to cook the books and figure out what they have to spend.

Another way is to not vote. If no one voted, and I mean mo one, there could be no election process, therefore there could be no congress.

Just a thought. One day the people of America will revolt. With any luck it will be in my lifetime.

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