The number ONE reason the pesents will revolt

This is what will lead to the next revolution because i am affraid we will not wake up tell it is to late here is more scary prof of how asleep we are.

Madoff and the Failure of the SEC

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Daily Article: Thursday, December 18, 2008 by Briggs Armstrong

Madoff is a perfect case study showing that the SEC is incapable of protecting investors as well as free-market institutions can. The SEC is becoming increasingly irrelevant and people are beginning to take notice. It failed to save investors from the house of cards made up of mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps, and collateralized debt obligations that resulted from the housing bubble. Now it has failed to protect thousands more individuals and charities from something as simple and old as a Ponzi scheme!

Madoff and the Failure of the SEC

Daily Article by Briggs Armstrong | Posted on 12/18/2008 12:00:00 AM

Ex-Nasdaq Chairman Bernard Madoff

Few Wall Street gurus or members of the financial press, if asked on December 11, would have said that the news of Senate Republicans spurning Bush and killing the automotive bailout would not be the next day's top headline. They would have been sadly mistaken.

News broke on December 12 that Bernard Madoff, former chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, was arrested for committing fraud. This was not in the form of some minor chicanery, but a fifty-billion-dollar scam. Lest the reader think that the word scam is too harsh, I will put it in Madoff's own words; he referred to his operation as "all just one big lie" and "basically, a giant Ponzi scheme."

For those unfamiliar with the nature of a Ponzi scheme, it relies on funds from new investors to pay falsified, and abnormally high, returns to existing investors. As Madoff demonstrated, as long as there is sufficient money coming in, it can reach massive proportions and continue for years.

Madoff managed to lure billions of dollars away from huge charities, as well as wealthy individuals in both the United States and Europe by getting them to invest in his hedge fund. He did so by claiming extraordinary returns (generally in the low double digits). His scheme eventually reached a staggering $50 billion under "management." This all came crashing down around him after market conditions led to a considerable amount of redemptions (investors asked for their money back).

Hedge funds are different from mutual funds in many respects. Most notably, hedge funds are not burdened by the same government regulatory requirements that mutual funds are. They also generally have much different compensation structures and considerably higher barriers to entry for potential investors. Due to hedge funds' relative freedom from excessive government intervention and regulatory burden, they are often able to generate higher returns than the average mutual fund; indeed, most mutual funds underperform compared to the S&P 500 benchmark.

As shocking and unprecedented as this scandal is, many in the financial press are beginning to ask "Where was the SEC?" This is perhaps the most important lesson to be gleaned from this tragedy, which has left countless bankrupt. It seems that everyone wants to know how anyone could be so clever as to run a fifty-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme without the SEC — which has seemingly limitless power and resources at its disposal — ever noticing. After all, if the government couldn't protect people who could? The answer is simple: the free market.

This is not a case in which free-market proponents are forced to theorize countless what-if scenarios regarding a solution that would not involve the government. The free market did spot the problem; it even reported it to the SEC. Perhaps unsurprisingly, all of the warnings were ignored by the SEC, which failed its fiduciary obligation to investors.

Due to the lack of government intervention and regulation with respect to hedge funds, consumers demanded some sort of policing of hedge funds in order to protect investors who lack the knowledge or resources to properly investigate the funds in which they plan to entrust their money. The free market responded to the consumer demand and so-called "due-diligence firms" emerged. Individuals seeking to invest in a hedge fund frequently pay one of these due-diligence firms for their opinion about specific hedge funds.

Due-diligence firms use the fees collected from their clients to hire professionals to meticulously review hedge firms for signs of deceit. One such firm is Aksia LLC. After painstakingly investigating the operations of Madoff's operation, they found several red flags. A brief summary of some of the red flags uncovered by Aksia can be found here. Shockingly, Aksia even uncovered a letter to the SEC dating from 2005 which claimed that Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. As a result of its investigation, Aksia advised all of its clients not to invest their money in Madoff's hedge fund.

This is a perfect case study showing that the SEC is incapable of protecting investors as well as free-market institutions can. The SEC is becoming increasingly irrelevant and people are beginning to take notice. It failed to save investors from the house of cards made up of mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps, and collateralized debt obligations that resulted from the housing bubble. Now it has failed to protect thousands more individuals and charities from something as simple and old as a Ponzi scheme!

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It seems that this event will place people into one of two camps. Either people will be disillusioned with the SEC and realize that the only function that it seems to be able to do well is to stand in the way of the free market's self-policing mechanism, or they will come to the erroneous conclusion that there is too little regulation and that the SEC needs more power to protect investors.

I fear that the latter will be the majority, but even so, many will come to see that less government is the real way to protect people. Tragically, it is in the nature of government, when its failures are exposed, to claim that if only it had more power it could have performed its duties in the manner it had promised.

PREPARE FOR AFRICA BOYS!!!

The Somali Pirates are becoming more and more agressive, and nations are saying enough is enough. A Hollywood President. Were going to Africa Boys begin prepareing now.
Things to look at "Ukrainian ship, the Faina, with 32 battle tanks aboard." What the F*&% was a Ukrainian ship doing with 32 battle tanks on board? Where the hell was it going origanly? With the resent bed buddys of Russia we can only gess? What else did that ship have aboard that they are not talking about and that is now arming the Pirates? And if you got 32 tanks on deck how the hell do a couple of skinny africans in a dingy take you over?
We will be fighting an Africa very diffrent from the one we left. More hostile better armed and extreamly battle ready and exsperianced.

Hijacked by Somali pirates, Centauri, a Greek cargo ship, was released last month. (The Associated Press)

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Shipowners losing this battle of wits

By Mark McDonald

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HONG KONG: A nightmare scenario has shipowners, insurers, seafarers and naval officers in something of a panic, given a sharp increase in brazen pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden.

The scenario unfolds with the Somali pirates in control of the Saudi supertanker Sirius Star becoming frustrated in negotiations over their ransom demands. They pump 50,000 gallons of crude oil into the water - a fraction of the tanker's load - and they threaten to leave the pumps running until their demands for $15 million are met. To reinforce their message, they toss a crew member over the side, and he drowns in the oily muck.

The scenario is horrifying but plausible. In the Gulf of Aden alone, the huge expanse of water between Yemen and Somalia, 14 ships are being held for ransom, including the Sirius Star and a Ukrainian ship, the Faina, with 32 battle tanks aboard. Rumors are swirling in the region that both ships could soon be released.

Shipowners and governments are desperately seeking successful countermeasures to address what has clearly become a crisis situation. On Monday, the European Union began a yearlong naval operation in the pirate-infested gulf, the EU's first maritime mission ever.

Eight countries are participating in the flotilla, which will be backed up with three airplanes. Ground-based personnel are at Northwood Headquarters in Britain.

Today in Africa & Middle East

Bomb kills at least 18 as Brown visits Baghdad

UN Security Council backs U.S. plan to combat piracy

China preparing to send navy ships to Gulf of Aden

Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, said the mission would have "robust rules of engagement" while coordinating with other navies operating in the region, including those of the United States, India and Russia.

This week the UN Security Council passed a resolution allowing navies to breach the 20-kilometer, or 12-mile, territorial limit and enter Somali waters in pursuit of pirates.

In the gulf this year 102 ships have been attacked and 40 have been hijacked. With 21,000 ships passing through the region each year and only a handful of international navies to run interference, the risk-to-reward ratio for impoverished Somalis has been unbeatable.

"Somali fishermen simply changed their business model, and they've got military hardware in the meantime," said Dieter Berg, head of marine underwriting for the huge reinsurance company Munich Re. "Piracy is now a real industry in Somalia. Whole clans are living off it."

Berg said some pirate outfits were now getting inside information in Europe about upcoming shipments of dangerous cargo and shipping routes, the better to plot and pick their attacks.

Interviews with owners, insurers, security companies and anti-piracy experts suggest that many technical innovations are being tried now, everything from high-tech sonic cannons to jury-rigged electrified wires strung around the hulls of their boats.

Some ships have put on extra crew to stand 24-hour watches. Sonic guns and night-vision goggles are now in such demand in the region that they have doubled in price. Nonlethal weapons like low-impact claymore mines and laser-light rifles known as "dazzle guns" are being considered.

Foam sprayers and high-pressure fire hoses have been used to drench the speedboats of approaching hijackers. Huge floodlights have been installed on ships and gasoline bombs prepared. Some ships are stocking special sprays developed by the U.S. military to make decks so slippery that the pirates, if they do come aboard, will not be able to stand up. Some ships have built - and actually used - panic rooms for crews to hide in.

Private enterprise also is getting involved. A number of the world's best-known security companies, including Blackwater and Aegis, are trying to expand into the maritime-security business. They are offering teams of onboard guards - most of them former military combat veterans - to repel the pirates.

"Blackwater offered to put a couple ships in the water, but they don't have the UN mandate," said Arthur Bowring, managing director of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association, referring to the legal protections afforded national navies. "I've had lots of e-mails from these security companies offering us their services - at vast expense."

The effectiveness of security guards remains to be seen, and most anti-piracy experts and insurers do not endorse the use of armed guards. But without armed guards, some analysts say, there is no real deterrent for the pirates.

"How do pirates in a small boat stop a 30,000-ton ship? It's firearms, that's all it is," Andy MacDonagh, a director of the private military contractor Raven Special Projects, said in an interview with Lloyd's List. "But as soon as you fire back, they are going to turn round and go the other way because they're so vulnerable."

An unarmed three-man team was overwhelmed by pirates who captured the chemical tanker Biscaglia in the gulf last week. The guards, two Britons and an Irishman, jumped overboard as the pirates clambered onto the ship. They were pulled from the water by a helicopter deployed from a nearby French frigate.

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Dont forget to lay your pimp hand down Today

I saw this and just had to laugh it comes from a blogg i found by just clicking next, somthing i highly recommend doing i always click threw a couple times before closing down and have found more good info that way then any other

Monday, December 08, 2008

Remember this day

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers - Home

December 17th is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. This event was created to call attention to hate crimes committed against sex workers all over the globe. Originally thought of by Dr. Annie Sprinkle and started by the Sex Workers Outreach Project USA as a memorial and vigil for the victims of the Green River Killer in Seattle Washington. International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers has empowered workers from over cities around the world to come together and organize against discrimination and remember victims of violence. During the week of December 17th, sex worker rights organizations will be staging actions and vigils to raise awareness about violence that is commonly committed against sex workers. The assault, battery, rape and murder of sex workers must end. Existing laws prevent sex workers from reporting violence. The stigma and discrimination that is perpetuated by the prohibitionist laws has made violence against us acceptable. Please join with sex workers around the world and stand against criminalization and violence committed against prostitutes.

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Interesting look at it

Don't Cave

Daily Article by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Posted on 12/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

"If a dystopian nightmare of the totalitarian state finally arrives in the United States, it will be the result of a compromise…"

If you write about and follow politics enough, you eventually realized that most evil in this world is brought about by those seeking a lesser of two evils. And those who assist in this very much resent it when you point out that they are promoting evil.

My inbox has been inundated in recent days with people who think along these lines. Consider the Detroit bailout for example. Now, this idea is preposterous on the face of it. One of the glorious aspects of this recession is that it will finally deal the crippling blow to this industry, which has been a decades-long drag on American productivity.

Wicked unions have thoroughly looted the capital stock of these companies, and the workers themselves are wholly focused on their own well-being rather than that of the company and the consumer. The management is deeply embedded in the regulatory structure of the state, working to effectively turn the American car industry into a public-private partnership of the sort Mussolini would have applauded.

You don't have to be a technician to know that foreign makers — whether building abroad or residing in the United States — make a superior car at a better price, no matter how much the "Big 3" waste on hopped-up advertising campaigns. In fact, we should welcome their complete bankruptcy. Maybe they can regroup or maybe they can't. That's for the market to decide.

In the meantime, not cranking out these endless cars would be a welcome relief, freeing up labor and capital for more-economically-useful purposes.

To bail them out with tax dollars is an amazing insult to American consumers. What Americans have chosen not to buy, the government is now effectively forcing them to buy. You want a Toyota and paid for it with your money but your government is now saying that you should have bought a Pontiac, so it is tapping into your bank account to make it happen — and then not even giving you a car for your money!

But let's return to the problem of those who have caved in. I'm getting messages from people who believe in free markets saying that we have to do this bailout anyway, otherwise we will face worse consequences. The unions will strike back. There will be massive protectionism to prop up the industry. Free-market people will get a bad name for not supporting the little guy. Our industrial base will further erode. Unemployment will soar and then the masses will riot and we'll get Bolshevism. And so on.

Dick Cheney himself is reported to have gone around to Republican senators to tell them to pass the bailout, even if they disagree. Otherwise, they will be like Hoover, not having done anything about the Depression. Leaving aside his stupid historical point (Hoover did plenty, all of it wrong), it is never right to do evil that good may come of it.

I grant that all the predicted results of failing to pass it would be bad. They might even be worse than a bailout — who is to say? But these are speculations about the future. What we face right now is the terrible evil of a bailout, and great good comes from its failure to pass. What's more, if free-market people can't bring themselves to oppose that, what good are they anyway?

People who think along these lines imagine that they personally can control the political process in clever ways, giving a bit here to get more later on. I actually heard these same arguments about the first round of bailouts back in September: we'd better support this now else it will be worse later.

What is striking about these arguments is how tyrants always use them. Hilary Clinton used to claim that we either pay for her healthcare program now or pay more later. FDR said we needed to support the New Deal now, else face full-scale socialism later. Actually Hitler was the same way: his entire program was justified on the idea that only National Socialism could stop Bolshevism.

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"The management is deeply embedded in the regulatory structure of the state, working to effectively turn the American car industry into a public-private partnership of the sort Mussolini would have applauded."

If a dystopian nightmare of the totalitarian state finally arrives in the United States, it will be the result of a compromise, and there will be people around until the very end who will insist that we should be grateful because it could be much worse.

This kind of strategizing also works as a cover for selling your soul. The temptation to do this is very great indeed. The state loves nothing more than a seeming libertarian who weighs in from time to time with a pro-state position. This allows the state and its minions to justify their oppression even from the standpoint of libertarian intellectuals. When you sell out, this is the role you are playing (and this is the role that some DC organizations have been appointed to play).

There is only one sure way that you can know you are on the right side of history, and that is by saying what is true and defending what is right, without exception. It is not left to intellectuals to play political games. Intellectuals are supposed to tell the truth, regardless of the moment. That means, in these days, completely opposing all increases in state power under the cover of "countercyclical policy."

Let evil people take responsibility for their evil policies. Those who know better should stick to the right and true.

Do we need any more reasons to get rid of Orin Hatch

I dont think i needed any more reasons to get rid of Orin Hatch and maybe get someone from Utah in the Senate for Utah but here is another

Bob Lonsberry on Orrin Hatch pardoning a druggie

From Bob Lonsberry’s blog at KNRS in SLC:

A little harsh?

How to get a presidential pardon.

Orrin Hatch is a United States senator.

No one knows why.
The people who first sent him to Washington are all dead now. They went extinct before the last ice age.

But still he lingers, one of the longest-mooching Republicans in the Senate, waiting hopefully each week for a call to appear on “This Week” or “Face The Nation” or one of those other shows normal people don’t watch.

To be honest, I like him. He has integrity.

Unfortunately, he’s also clueless, and he does dopey things

Like John Forte.

John Forte is a drug dealer, and soon he will be an out-of-jail-free drug dealer.

Thanks to Orrin Hatch.

Seven years ago, John Forte was caught at an airport back east in possession of 31 pounds of cocaine. The retail value was something in the neighborhood of $1.5 million.

Which is against the law. They’re very specific about that. If you go traipsing around with what is scientifically known as a whole crapload of cocaine, the cops are going to take poorly to it.

They’re going to think you’re a drug dealer.

They’re going to think that you’re the WalMart of drug dealers.

And, doggone it, they’re going to lock your skanky backside up. They’re going to lock you up and throw away the key. You will go to prison and you will stay there.

Unless Crazy Uncle Orrin thinks you can help his songwriting career.

Which, honest to goodness, strikes me as a potential warning sign of Alzheimer’s. If you’re 105 years old and you think you’re a songwriter, you need a brain scan, stat. Especially when your chicken scratching is as pathetic as this guy’s.

He scrawls out the most vapid stuff imaginable, but because he’s a big senator who’s not afraid to reward his friends, the occasional used-to-be celebrity will record one of his tunes. When you’re cut 14 on Tony Orlando’s latest release, you don’t really need to rent a tux for the Grammys.

But back to John Forte, Bishop Hatch’s drug-dealing friend.

It turns out that there is a connection between the two. And that connection got John Forte sprung from the big house. A 14-year mandatory sentence is about to vaporize into thin air.

Pay attention, this might be hard to follow.

John Forte went to a swanky school named Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. He went there to study violin.

Which, naturally, prepared him for a career in rap.

A very short career.

In 1996 he produced two “songs” for The Fugees. That went so well that they broke up the next year. Which led to John Forte, the year after that, releasing an album of his own.

Which fell flat on its face.

Which is what happens when you suck.

But back to the connection between drug dealer Forte and clueless centenarian Hatch.

It turns out that while at Phillips Exeter, John Forte became friends with Ben Taylor.

Who is the son of Carly Simon.

Who was the wife of James Taylor, who I love but who last had a hit song when my middle-aged carcass was still in high school.

Tangent: You’d think with all that money he makes singing “You’ve Got A Friend” on PBS fundraisers that James Taylor might have been able to afford braces for young Ben.

But I digress.

Forte knew Ben who is the son of Carly who recorded a song for Orrin who knows W who pardoned Forte.

See how that works?

It’s like the passing of a social disease, and we know that’s nothing to clap about.

John Forte isn’t from Utah – which Crazy Uncle Orrin theoretically represents in the Senate – and he has no contact with or relevance to Senator Hatch. There is nothing whatsoever about Brooklyn-native John Forte that would draw the get-out-of-jail-free attention of a Utah senator.

Except Orrin Hatch’s vain and self-absorbed view that he is a song writer.

Carly Simon – whose last song of any note came out just in time for Richard Nixon’s second inaugural – is proof positive that even older women can look good with enough air brushing. But I digress.
She is not a constituent of Crazy Uncle Orrin. But she did record one of his songs.

Dozens of people heard it.

All of them are surnamed Hatch or are relatives of his congressional staffers.

But Carly Simon records one of his songs – which makes him money, right? – and she had an entre. And so former Mormon bishop Hatch takes up for a gigantic drug dealer.

Which is pretty much all that’s left for you when your rap album tanks.

Orrin Hatch went so far as to describe this guy as a “genius” whose musical talents need to be returned to society.

In case you forgot: He produced two songs and had an album that was stillborn.

Yeah, that’s what society needs.

So Crazy Uncle Orrin, prompted by his “friend” from the “music community,” overlooked any number of his constituents who might actually deserve a presidential pardon – as well as two Border Patrol agents unjustly sitting in federal prison – and pulled the strings on George W. Bush to get him to pardon a New York City drug dealer.

In case you forgot: It was 31 pounds of cocaine.

And it wasn’t actually a pardon, it was a commutation – which is a French word meaning, “Homey be home for Christmas.”

Now, some might find it odd that of all the drug dealers in all the prisons, Senator Senile chooses to help the one who is recommended to him by the former singer who – if she is so inclined – can make him money by recording his songs.

They might also find it odd that a guy from the most morally conservative state in the Union – where drug use is not only against the law it’s against God – is standing up for someone who distributed drugs.

Which brings up another point. In defending his action to a reporter, and praising his new-found delinquent friend, Crazy Uncle Orrin said that John Forte wasn’t such a bad criminal because he didn’t actually USE drugs, he only SOLD them.

That’s right, the people who transport and sell the drugs that kill untold Americans every year, they’re not so bad. Using is worse than selling.

But only in Orrin Hatch’s world.

The only thing more disappointing than this Orrin Hatch break with lucidity is the fact that George W. Bush has allowed his presidential power to be co-opted by a piece-of-trash drug dealer, a long-forgotten singer and a deluded old man who has confused the recording industry’s fawning before his senatorial power as some sort of admiration for his tuneless drivel.

Sorry to be harsh, just trying to be honest.

John Forte doesn’t deserve to be free, and if Orrin Hatch believes he does, then Orrin Hatch doesn’t deserve to be a senator.

John Forte got sprung after just seven years . The people of Utah have been doing hard time under Orrin Hatch for 32 years, and there’s no parole date in sight.

Where are we going?

Everyone knows my very very outspoken rages against the current actions being taken by the government the people and the Fed reserve.
I have made a killing on the current collapses and have spoken about that a little. And have only spoken about what i think is next with a few. I would love to open up a descusion on this matter and i want to hear from all view points because the fact of the matter is. It could go anyway, and we can all make money either way. You just have to understand the beliefs of the way we go and how to position yourself to prosper in those beliefs. So hear are your reading assignments and there are alot
first
Robert Kiyasoki http://www.richdad.com/
most people know of him as the rich dad poor dad guy little do people know that that is just the starter in his serioise of books it might peak your intrests that he predicted the market crash in the 70's and 80's and pin pointed it so well that it is shocking

Go to the sorce of all knowledge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
Wikipedia and study the great depresion after i set up my financial plan and read roberts books i have been studying anything i could get my hands on over the great depression and if you are lucky enough to know people that lived threw it and are still able to tell you about it you are stupid to not suck there brain dry
http://www.mises.org/
LewRockwell.com

I am also reading financial Armagedon and some others if the prove to be helpful i will let you know

there are alot of theroys 3 verys diffrent ecanomic idiolagys but with those three

Austrian Economics
Keynesian,
Marxist

Dont let the names throw you off you will be shocked wich ones you yourself fall under after you study them

But knowing what these theroys are and how they will effect the markets is very importants suchding as maybe you would be interested in knowing that are current FED Chairman
Ben Bernanke, Believes one of these theroys and only one and with the stupid acts of are representitives he has been given full power and authority over this a whole other subject wich we wont go into now

but Monetarists, including Milton Friedman who Bernanke has padurned all of his recent desicions after is maybe somthing you should look into

another thing is consalt your bible's, Book of Mormons, Qurans, and spiritual leaders people think that secound comming nut job talk dosnt help the matter but it is needed to know what people are thinking and are looking at doing to understand what they will do.

please lets talk

The Day has come

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

Alexis De Tocqueville

need i say more

Happy Birthday Marines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On this are 233 Birthday I think it is time we reflect on are history and the cause for which we were started.
In 233 years we have laid more blood on the alter of freedom then any other group of people we have brought more freedom to people then any other fighting force and we have remained true to the cause of liberty. We have freed others held by the hand of terany and not taken over there land as other forces but turned it over to the people to live in the freedoms we enjoy. Sadly while we have been freeing the world of terany and tirants those who sleep under the blanket of protection we provide have destroyed are freedoms at home. We return to a destrot nation wich we must take back.

A big thank you to Robert Kiyosaki

Thanks to this man as the rest of the nation crys over there spilt 401k milk
im dipping my cookies in it and loveing it
this is what he had to say about the bail outs




Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 12:00AM

As we all know, the world changed drastically on Sept. 11, 2001, when the twin towers of the World Trade Center fell.

This year, on the eve of Sept. 11, the twin towers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac crumbled. Then, on Sept. 15, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch disappeared. Actually, that was a triple-tower collapse if you count AIG.

In a few years, the biggest pair of towers will collapse: Social Security and Medicare. Even today, they're looking shaky. How many ground zeros can we as people, a nation, and a world withstand before we admit something is very wrong with our global financial systems? What will it take to wake us up?

Government Can't Fix It

Personally, I believe the biggest it's a problem that so many Americans are looking to this year's presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, to save our financial system. How did we become so financially weak that we surrender our economic independence to politicians? Where does it say in the Constitution that the government should solve our financial problems?

And why have so many people throughout the world come to expect financial life-support from their political leaders? It seems most people will vote for anyone who promises a chicken in every pot and a guaranteed mortgage payment.

We're in the midst of a problem neither candidate can solve: A lack of comprehensive financial education in our school systems. What else explains the economic blunders committed by our political and financial leaders? Or why so many consumers are in debt up to their eyeballs? Or why millions of people expect a quick government fix of some kind?

Under Water

A few months ago, a friend of mine from Hawaii asked me if I wanted to buy his new powerboat with twin motors. Apparently, in late 2007, he purchased it brand new for approximately $85,000. His plan was to refinance his house when it appreciated in value and use the difference to pay for the boat.

Failing to obtain new financing, he called to ask me if I would buy the boat from him -- just take over the payments and it was mine. I passed, and the bank eventually repossessed his boat. Later, his wife called to tell me he's now having problems making his mortgage payments. Apparently, my friend planned to pay for his house the same way he planned on paying for the boat, by refinancing his debt.

I mention this story because it illustrates the problem Obama or McCain face: Limited financial education and diminished financial common sense. Apparently, my and the nation's business leaders all went to same school of finance.

A Cynical Aside

If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin. It's not an easy book to find, but once you start reading it's to put down. In fact, in many ways it's a murder mystery about the financial "murder" of the middle class.

A very important lesson in the book is how political leaders use financial spin to deceive the public. The very, very rich use the system to legally steal from the rest of us by appealing to our sense of patriotism. When our leaders say, "We're bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because we want to protect the American people," they really mean "We're saving our rich friends."

All the bankers and politicians have to do is wave the red, white, and blue, play a few bars of "Yankee Doodle," and the masses get teary-eyed and pledge greater allegiance to legalized robbery. Yes, it's true that ignorance is bliss -- but ignorance is also expensive, and it cost us our freedom.

Freedom at Peril

A bailout can be different things. First, printing more money is a kind of bailout that leads to higher inflation. Rather than protecting people, it makes life for the poor and middle class more expensive. The other kind of bailout is protection for our rich and incompetent friends. If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

As a former Marine and a Vietnam War veteran, it saddens me to see some of the freedoms I thought I went to war to protect being stolen from us by bankers and politicians. Unfortunately, few Americans know the difference between the words "nationalize" and "socialize." Socialize means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise. It means we as a people grow weaker and need a higher power -- the same power that got us into this mess -- to protect us.

In short, when the towers of Fannie, Freddie, Merrill, Lehman, and AIG came crashing down, more came down than just money. What we're losing is the very freedom this country was founded on, and what most of the world yearns for.

The Peoples house no longer for the people

Failed missrably were is the out rage where is the fight


Are failers
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 681
(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)

H R 1424 YEA-AND-NAY 3-Oct-2008 1:22 PM
QUESTION: On Motion to Concur in Senate Amendments
BILL TITLE: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

Yeas Nays PRES NV
Democratic 172 63
Republican 91 108
Independent
TOTALS 263 171


---- YEAS 262 ---

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Alexander
Allen
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Bachus
Baird
Baldwin
Barrett (SC)
Bean
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Boustany
Boyd (FL)
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Buchanan
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carson
Castle
Clarke
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Cohen
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Cooper
Costa
Cramer
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cubin
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis, Tom
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
Dicks
Dingell
Donnelly
Doyle
Dreier
Edwards (MD)
Edwards (TX)
Ehlers
Ellison
Ellsworth
Emanuel
Emerson
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Everett
Fallin
Farr
Fattah
Ferguson
Fossella
Foster
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Gerlach
Giffords
Gilchrest
Gonzalez
Gordon
Granger
Green, Al
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Herger
Higgins
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Hoyer
Inglis (SC)
Israel
Jackson (IL)
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Johnson, E. B.
Kanjorski
Kennedy
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King (NY)
Kirk
Klein (FL)
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Knollenberg
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LaHood
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Lee
Levin
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Loebsack
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Lowey
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Maloney (NY)
Markey
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Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Mitchell
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Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Patrick
Murtha
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Pastor
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Price (NC)
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Weller
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Wilson (OH)
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth


The Few Smart ones


---- NAYS 170 ---

Aderholt
Akin
Altmire
Bachmann
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Becerra
Bilbray
Bilirakis
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Blackburn
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Broun (GA)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Buyer
Capito
Carney
Carter
Castor
Cazayoux
Chabot
Chandler
Childers
Clay
Conyers
Costello
Courtney
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Lincoln
Deal (GA)
DeFazio
Delahunt
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doggett
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Drake
Duncan
English (PA)
Feeney
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Flake
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Fortenberry
Foxx
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Gallegly
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Gillibrand
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Goode
Goodlatte
Graves
Green, Gene
Grijalva
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Hayes
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Hill
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Jefferson
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jordan
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Kingston
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Latta
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Lucas
Lynch
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Matheson
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McCotter
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Mica
Michaud
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Miller (MI)
Moran (KS)
Murphy, Tim
Musgrave
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Paul
Payne
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Petri
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Platts
Poe
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Rehberg
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Renzi
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Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
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Sherman
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Smith (NJ)
Stark
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Taylor
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Tiahrt
Turner
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Udall (NM)
Visclosky
Walberg
Walz (MN)
Westmoreland
Whitfield (KY)
Wittman (VA)
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

Vote results

here is the list of the votes on the Bail out plan strait facts and the fact of the matter is anyone in the for side should resign today and hand over there pension. It only firms up my plan i have to move to wyoming.

Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Following is the final vote for the financial rescue plan from the U.S. Senate.

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                                  Dem., Ind. Term    Financial Rescue Plan
Senator                            or Rep.   Expires     For       Against
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Democrats                             49       n/a       39          9
Republicans                           49       n/a       34          15
Independent                           2        n/a        1          1
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Baucus, Max (D-MT)                   Dem.      2009       X
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. (D-DE)         Dem.      2009       X
Durbin, Richard (D-IL)               Dem.      2009       X
Harkin, Tom (D-IA)                   Dem.      2009       X
Johnson, Tim (D-SD)                  Dem.      2009                      X
Kerry, John F. (D-MA)                Dem.      2009       X
Landrieu, Mary L. (D-LA)             Dem.      2009                      X
Lautenberg, Frank R. (D-NJ)          Dem.      2009       X
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                                  Dem., Ind. Term    Financial Rescue Plan
Senator                            or Rep.   Expires     For       Against
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Levin, Carl (D-MI)                   Dem.      2009       X
Pryor, Mark L. (D-AR)                Dem.      2009       X
Reed, Jack (D-RI)                    Dem.      2009       X
Rockefeller, John D., IV (D-WV)      Dem.      2009       X
Bayh, Evan (D-IN)                    Dem.      2011       X
Boxer, Barbara (D-CA)                Dem.      2011       X
Dodd, Christopher J. (D-CT)          Dem.      2011       X
Dorgan, Byron L. (D-ND)              Dem.      2011                      X
Feingold, Russell D. (D-WI)          Dem.      2011                      X
Inouye, Daniel K. (D-HI)             Dem.      2011       X
Leahy, Patrick J. (D-VT)             Dem.      2011       X
Lincoln, Blanche L. (D-AR)           Dem.      2011       X
Mikulski, Barbara A. (D-MD)          Dem.      2011       X
Murray, Patty (D-WA)                 Dem.      2011       X
Obama, Barack (D-IL)                 Dem.      2011       X
Reid, Harry (D-NV)                   Dem.      2011       X
Salazar, Ken (D-CO)                  Dem.      2011       X
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                                  Dem., Ind. Term    Financial Rescue Plan
Senator                            or Rep.   Expires     For       Against
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Schumer, Charles E. (D-NY)           Dem.      2011       X
Wyden, Ron (D-OR)                    Dem.      2011                      X
Akaka, Daniel K. (D-HI)              Dem.      2013       X
Bingaman, Jeff (D-NM)                Dem.      2013       X
Brown, Sherrod (D-OH)                Dem.      2013       X
Byrd, Robert C. (D-WV)               Dem.      2013       X
Cantwell, Maria (D-WA)               Dem.      2013                      X
Cardin, Benjamin L. (D-MD)           Dem.      2013       X
Carper, Thomas R. (D-DE)             Dem.      2013       X
Casey, Robert P., Jr. (D-PA)         Dem.      2013       X
Clinton, Hillary Rodham (D-NY)       Dem.      2013       X
Conrad, Kent (D-ND)                  Dem.      2013       X
Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA)             Dem.      2013       X
Kennedy, Edward M. (D-MA)            Dem.      2013
Klobuchar, Amy (D-MN)                Dem.      2013       X
Kohl, Herb (D-WI)                    Dem.      2013       X
McCaskill, Claire (D-MO)             Dem.      2013       X
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                                  Dem., Ind. Term    Financial Rescue Plan
Senator                            or Rep.   Expires     For       Against
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Menendez, Robert (D-NJ)              Dem.      2013       X
Nelson, Bill (D-FL)                  Dem.      2013                      X
Nelson, E. Benjamin (D-NE)           Dem.      2013       X
Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI)              Dem.      2013                      X
Tester, Jon (D-MT)                   Dem.      2013                      X
Webb, Jim (D-VA)                     Dem.      2013       X
Whitehouse, Sheldon (D-RI)           Dem.      2013       X
Lieberman, Joseph I. (ID-CT)         Ind.      2013       X
Sanders, Bernard (I-VT)              Ind.      2013                      X
Alexander, Lamar (R-TN)              Rep.      2009       X
Allard, Wayne (R-CO)                 Rep.      2009                      X
Chambliss, Saxby (R-GA)              Rep.      2009       X
Cochran, Thad (R-MS)                 Rep.      2009                      X
Coleman, Norm (R-MN)                 Rep.      2009       X
Collins, Susan M. (R-ME)             Rep.      2009       X
Cornyn, John (R-TX)                  Rep.      2009       X
Craig, Larry E. (R-ID)               Rep.      2009       X
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                                  Dem., Ind. Term    Financial Rescue Plan
Senator                            or Rep.   Expires     For       Against
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Dole, Elizabeth (R-NC)               Rep.      2009                      X
Domenici, Pete V. (R-NM)             Rep.      2009       X
Enzi, Michael B. (R-WY)              Rep.      2009                      X
Graham, Lindsey (R-SC)               Rep.      2009       X
Hagel, Chuck (R-NE)                  Rep.      2009       X
Inhofe, James M. (R-OK)              Rep.      2009                      X
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)              Rep.      2009       X
Roberts, Pat (R-KS)                  Rep.      2009                      X
Sessions, Jeff (R-AL)                Rep.      2009                      X
Smith, Gordon H. (R-OR)              Rep.      2009       X
Stevens, Ted (R-AK)                  Rep.      2009       X
Sununu, John E. (R-NH)               Rep.      2009       X
Warner, John (R-VA)                  Rep.      2009       X
Bennett, Robert F. (R-UT)            Rep.      2011       X
Bond, Christopher S. (R-MO)          Rep.      2011       X
Brownback, Sam (R-KS)                Rep.      2011                      X
Bunning, Jim (R-KY)                  Rep.      2011                      X
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                                  Dem., Ind. Term    Financial Rescue Plan
Senator                            or Rep.   Expires     For       Against
============================================================================
Burr, Richard (R-NC)                 Rep.      2011       X
Coburn, Tom (R-OK)                   Rep.      2011       X
Crapo, Mike (R-ID)                   Rep.      2011                      X
DeMint, Jim (R-SC)                   Rep.      2011                      X
Grassley, Chuck (R-IA)               Rep.      2011       X
Gregg, Judd (R-NH)                   Rep.      2011       X
Isakson, Johnny (R-GA)               Rep.      2011       X
Martinez, Mel (R-FL)                 Rep.      2011       X
McCain, John (R-AZ)                  Rep.      2011       X
Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK)               Rep.      2011       X
Shelby, Richard C. (R-AL)            Rep.      2011                      X
Specter, Arlen (R-PA)                Rep.      2011       X
Thune, John (R-SD)                   Rep.      2011       X
Vitter, David (R-LA)                 Rep.      2011                      X
Voinovich, George V. (R-OH)          Rep.      2011       X
Barrasso, John (R-WY)                Rep.      2013                      X
Corker, Bob (R-TN)                   Rep.      2013       X
============================================================================
                                  Dem., Ind. Term    Financial Rescue Plan
Senator                            or Rep.   Expires     For       Against
============================================================================
Ensign, John (R-NV)                  Rep.      2013       X
Hatch, Orrin G. (R-UT)               Rep.      2013       X
Hutchison, Kay Bailey (R-TX)         Rep.      2013       X
Kyl, Jon (R-AZ)                      Rep.      2013       X
Lugar, Richard G. (R-IN)             Rep.      2013       X
Snowe, Olympia J. (R-ME)             Rep.      2013       X
Wicker, Roger (R-MS)                 Rep.      2013                      X
============================================================================

Bailout Fails

There is a huge debate over why the bailout failed. I dont care why it failed i finaly breathed because it did! i dont know if it was stoped because of the stupidity of are people in washington or because maybe a few wised up but thank god it failed
one more breath and then back to holding because the come back one might be worse
and it just might have enough pork to make more people stupid
Maybe Hatch will get us some more cvtd busses maybe will build a bridge to no where toole the pork is going to be scary


Pauls Thoughts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFh6PU6qM9Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eFeDOd7MC0

Justice Scalia

Sep. 15, 2008 Justice Scalia came and spoke at USU. It was a great speach and a great opertunity i couldnt pass up the thing i came away the most with was. The relif that not all in washington is lost i was amazed to hear someone had the same love and passion for the country that i do.
He is dead on with the saying that his court has moved into relems that it was never ment to do and his love for the constitution i thought was shown very strongly
the ? that i know he never would have awnsered in that forem but i would love to ask in a private conversation. I ask all of you the same question. We know that the system is broken! Can we depend on the broken system to fix itself? I say know we continue to send the same back to washington and we exspect it to get better. Is that not the defenition of stupidity. When you have a thrown rod in your engine you dont keep driving it and hope it fixes itself. You tear it apart and rebuild it or get a new one. I dont see a diffrence with washington are mean american 8 cylender is running on maybe 4 its time to rebuilt the motor.

Joe Cooks Message

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLMa7hXAOhU



I think he say enough

Here we go again

Ex-Marine to Face Trial as a Civilian in Killing of Iraqi Prisoners
It will mark the first time that a little-known federal law is used to prosecute a former service member for actions taken during
combat.
August 18, 2008
LA Times
Tony Perry

Here is the first use of MEJA and not to prosecute a contractor in a war zone, but a former military member. It will be interesting to see whether a civilian jury will be more sympathetic or less so than a military jury. Of note, the defendant was a probationary police officer in Riverside when federal charges were levied against him. He was immediately fired - so what happened to innocent until proven guilty?

SAN DIEGO -- When the trial of a former Marine begins Tuesday in federal court in Riverside, it will mark the first time a little-known federal law has been used to prosecute a former Marine or soldier for actions during combat.

A jury of civilians will decide the fate of former Marine Sgt. Jose Nazario, 28, who is accused in the killing of four Iraqi prisoners.

The law wasn't originally crafted to target military personnel. Passed by Congress in 2000, the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act was designed to allow the prosecution of civilians employed by the Department of Defense for crimes committed while overseas on official business.

Full Story

War Profits!!!

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=823818699



War has always been the most profitable business threw out history. Modern war fare is no diffrent and it will never change the best minds the best bodys and the best ideas will always be used in the war seen.
I was known in my unit as the Mormon Mercenary, love that name always have and i am proud of it. There is nothing wrong with being a Mercenary when in the right way.

The constatutions foriegn polacy has always been the United States as a nation is to remain neutral until attacked. With all of the things in the modern world and the idea that a free man is never free while another is opressed. I have had a hard time of how we follow the constatutions forign polacy
As you read on i think here is how. we are to have free trade with everyone. I think we can effect foreign nations the most threw monatary and are private business sectors. If private business can fund Mercenaries to go into and protect there intrests in foriegn nations. Governement stays out and i beilieve the idea of democracy being spred has a better chance of working and if it back fires its not a nation that is hated.
What do you think ?

Now my ?

What does God want us to do?
This is driveing me nuts. The current going ons in Georgia and the hole happenings of China and with the recent pass port denial of Darfur suporter. And the bringing up of Sudan war lord killer ass hole ^$%#%$# fleeing to china to avoid his nous from the war court.
I got to ask what does God realy want from us. Are we to spend are time fighting and suporting these far off nations and trying to fix there problems. I recently said on the for the people chat that i hope Blackwater gets a contract to go to Georgia because i will except it. but is that the place for me. Would not God be more happy if i had gone down to Ogden and fixed the Ladys sprinkler. Or maybe even not have watched that dirty bad movie the other night.
I have a great love for Georgia and that area of the world
The day we started bombing Afgahnistain i was playing pool in a refugee camp with a 7 year old girl )from Afgahnistain ( she had the darkest eyes you would lose yourself in because the contained more sadness that an adult who had lived 9 lives would not have) The Kurdish boys who were refugees as well from Iraq were making fun of her and telling me i should be mad at her because of were she was from ' she was the ones who bombed my country " little did they know were i would be 2 years later. On the same note 1 year prior to that i had met my best friend from Kurdistan and thought to myself as i looked over the personal pictures of his intir villiage being gased by chemical ali. That i could take my fire team in and take out this kind of crap one fire team why do we not do it?
But as i think about this on what do we do? I ask is any of this more important then me takeing time to play with my boy? Am i not sinning a greater sin by denying him time with me why i look up info on these happenings and bitch about the no responce on my blogg
What should i do? My time away from my family while fighting a war to free opressed people is that realy the best thing that i should be doing or should i be teaching my son how to become a good man by example by takeing care of the people around us? I think the scripturs teach that that is by far a fare more important priority!!!!
What are your thoughts i would love to hear more?

What does God Realy want from you?

President Bush has realy been scrutiniced for his interview with Bob Costas and his going to church in China.
I have realy been thinking alot about how to ask this question and get this post going and i think this is a perfect way into it.
I do not like alot of the things the Bush admin. has done but the more and more i reserch it i put the blam there at the admin. I respect President Bush alot himself and i think he was dead on in China he has done perfect in his keeping it about the sport and the spirit of what we have in common and not are diffrences and that is what the Olympics are for.
But he has not missed out on chances to talk with Puttin. Or visit and see the China people
If you watch the hole video on the nbc website and see the hole interview. I have not been able to get a hole interview link just blurps that make a stupid sentence the focal point. President Bush talks about how we are there to respect THE PEOPLE OF CHINA THE PEOPLE!!! I think if you listin its a slap in the face of the Government and ruleing athority in China. He never once talks about respecting them or there regims in fact the exact opisit but he does talk about respecting the people and getting out among the people and how the people and churchs and outside influance is in the people and there is wear the true revolution and freedom will come from as the people find it in themselves and then fight for it THEMSELVES this is why respecting and suporting the Chinies PEOPLE is so important!

7 Years after defeting the Taliban the war rages on

I hate most of the things John Stewert says and does most of the time but he had a Lady who has been in the news a bit but she got it spot on right here

The real reason to drill or not to drill

BEIJING, Aug 10 (Reuters) - The White House on Sunday deplored Russia's actions in the Georgia conflict as "dangerous and disproportionate."

"We're alarmed by this situation," James Jeffrey, U.S. President George W. Bush's deputy national security adviser, told reporters in Beijing where the president was attending the Olympics.

Jeffrey said the United States would be "very, very concerned" if reports of Russian ground attacks in Georgia were accurate. (Editing by Keith Weir)


This is what we are saying about The Georgian Russian conflict. Let me open peoples eyes
Hell yes the reports of what the Russians are doing are true!!!!!!!!!!! My hell we are fighting in Afgahnistain seeing are mistakes that from leaving them hanging after they YES THEY!!!!!!!!!!!!! saved are ass from the Soviets in the 80's my hell we made a movie about it last year! Charlie Willsons war it was a good movie watch it watch it repedidly watch the part with the Afgahan refugee camps and what the Russians were doing in Afgahnistain watch what happend to the people
The fact is are people dont know how to win a war the people can not stomach what it takes to win the Russians know how. And they are using the same tactics in Georgia now and it is for the same thing. When Russia lost the areas of Afgahnistain Georgia and the Bulkin area they lose there path way to middle east oil. Why the people of the United States bitch and mon that we are fighting a war over oil they keep there eyes closed to the other more intense war for oil.
Russia, China, and India all need Middle East oil Russia is makeing the first move. We sit on much larger reserves Utah its self has more then Saddie Arabia. But the fact is Russia knows if it does not break the backs and get to it threw starving poor people there people will be starving poor people?
Now that your eyes have been opened to a bigger picture. I ask what do we do? because there are more things to the story.

A thinker

I got this and as a total work aholic i can not get it off my mind how true it is why do we give are best to those who do not care and are worst to those who care the most?


F A M I L Y

I ran into a stranger as he passed by,
'Oh excuse me please' was my reply.

He said, 'Please excuse me too;
I wasn't watching for you.'

We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said goodbye.

But at home a different story is told,
How we treat our loved ones, young and old.

Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
My son stood beside me very still.

When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.
'Move out of the way,' I said with a frown.

He walked away, his little heart broken.
I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.

While I lay awake in bed,
God's still small voice came to me and said,

'While dealing with a stranger,
common courtesy you use,
but the family you love, you seem to abuse.

Go and look on the kitchen floor,
You'll find some flowers there by the door.

Those are the flowers he brought for you.
He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.

He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes.'

By this time, I felt very small,
And now my tears began to fall.

I quietly went and knelt by his bed;
'Wake up, little one, wake up,' I said.

'Are these the flowers you picked for me?'
He smiled, 'I found 'em, out by the tree.

I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.
I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue.'

I said, 'Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;
I shouldn't have yelled at you that way.'
He said, 'Oh, Mom, that's okay.
I love you anyway.'

I said, 'Son, I love you too,
and I do like the flowers, especially the blue.'

FAMILY
Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company
that we are working for could easily replace us in
a matter of days.
But the family we left behind will feel the loss
for the rest of their lives...

And come to think of it, we pou r ourselves more
into work than into our own family,
an unwise investment indeed,
don't you think?
So what is behind the story?

Loss of a great one

We lost another great WWII vet today

The Great escape look it up read about the amazing things these men did
because if we dont learn about it now while they are here to tell there storys i promice. They will never be told corectly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III

http://www.google.com/search?q=Roger+Bushell&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

rest in peace Sir. you were an insperation to all who have ever warn the uniform

Another Marine Death

Hello I just placed an order and feel it is right of me to inform you of the recent loss of my son, LCpl Wilson, Ivan I . He was KIA in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on July 21, 2008... all so fresh in my mind, from the 5 am knock on the door to now as I simply write this. I ordered some items and wanted to share with you this. I am attaching a pic of him just sent to me from his Marine buddies from the sand!

Thanks again,
Denise Wilson A Very Proud Marine Mom



God Bless you Mrs. Wilson and the rest of your family! The harts and prayers of every Marine goes out to you. Rest asured that your son was welcomed at the gate by his fellow Marines that stand as sentenals. You and yours will continue to be watched over by the best.

Interesting Graduation UHHRaHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I would like to tell you about my son who became a Marine this year. It has been his dream since he was very young to be a Marine. Last summer he found out he could become a Marine before he actually graduated high school. He had a enough credits to finish school in December. On January 8, he left for MCRD. He was home in time for his High school graduation. He wanted to graduate in his Marine uniform but the principal told him he had to wear his cap and gown.

This upset him very much because he was so proud to be a Marine. I told him to wear his uniform under the cap and gown and before he received his diploma he should take off the cap and gown. He did just that. I was so PROUD of him. You should have heard the applause he got for that. It was a most awesome day for me. My son had already achieved a couple of his dreams by the time he graduated from high school.

Semper Fi
Dorothy Hampton
Proud mother of a Marine

Naval Smack down

Has anyone heard about this?

USS George Washington Investigation Complete, Senior Leadership Relieved
Story Number: NNS080730-13
Release Date: 7/30/2008 4:58:00 PM

From Commander Naval Air Forces Public Affairs

NAVAL STATION NORTH ISLAND, Calif. (NNS) -- Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Adm. Robert F. Willard, issued a final endorsement to the investigation of a fire that occurred aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73) on May 22. As directed by Adm. Willard, Commander, Naval Air Forces Pacific, Vice Adm. Thomas J. Kilcline, Jr., relieved the Commanding Officer of USS George Washington (CVN 73), Capt. David C. Dykhoff, today due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command and his failure to meet mission requirements and readiness standards.

As directed, Kilcline also relieved the George Washington Executive Officer, Capt. David M. Dober, for substandard performance.

Capt. J.R. Haley, previously assigned as Deputy Chief of Staff to Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, has taken command of Washington. Haley commanded the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) from June 2005 to January 2008.

Capt. Karl O. Thomas, who has been serving as executive officer of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) since July 2007, has been reassigned as George Washington's executive officer.

The Chief of Naval Operations directed the Manual of Judge Advocate General investigation headed by the Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet. The investigation determined that the likely cause of the fire was unauthorized smoking that ignited flammable liquids and other combustible material improperly stored in an adjacent space. The fire and the subsequent magnitude of the fire were the result of a series of human acts that could have been prevented. Specifically, the storage of 90 gallons of refrigerant compressor oil in an unauthorized space contributed to the intensity of the fire.

The fire, which occurred in an unmanned Auxiliary Boiler Exhaust and Supply space, took approximately 12 hours to extinguish due to the location and geometry of adjacent spaces and ventilation systems that created a chimney effect. Thirty-seven Sailors were treated for minor injuries incurred during fire fighting efforts, with one Sailor requiring treatment for first and second degree burns. Approximately 80 out of over 3,800 total spaces aboard the carrier were damaged by the fire.

The estimated cost of repairs to George Washington as a direct result of the shipboard fire is approximately $70 million. This includes cost for material and labor cost from the public and private sector ship repair activities.

Repairs to George Washington are nearly complete and she will depart San Diego, Calif., on Aug. 21, with an arrival in Yokosuka, Japan expected in late September. George Washington's turnover with the U.S. Navy's last conventionally-powered aircraft carrier, USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), will begin upon Kitty Hawk's arrival in San Diego on Aug. 7.