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Imagine if instead of bombs and weapons, if terrorists used our own economy against us? What would be the outcome? Jimmy Carter lost an election because of overt terrorist actions. The Twin Towers were bombed out of existence as the result of overt terrorist actions. But what if terrorists, rather than loading planes with suicide bombers intent on a paradise complete with 72 virgins, instead focused on the grease that runs us, and by that I mean money.

There have been signs before, but we didn't grasp them. The precipitous rise in oil prices when the supplies were adequate. The strange altering of the international economic landscape as the EU tried to circle the wagons and much of Asia, especially China, used fire sale prices to entrench themselves in the American economy through purchasing corporations outright or making them partners with factories in less expensive Asian locations. Who benefits from this?

On one hand, you can say that stockholders benefit because they see return on their investments. But if you undercut the value of dollars, then you shortchange the value of the return. CEO's might get a golden parachute, but if their worth is based in corporate stocks, then their parachute could crash and burn just as easily as the average worker with a 401K.

The push of the federal government as far back as the Clinton years to make home loans to underserved communities is documented fact. There is no argument over that. The way they were implemented and the type of Congressional manipulation that put these funds into play in risky, often unqualified loans is part of the story. Franks, Dodds and other do not want that story out in the press. So what better way to distract the American public than to create a diversion. In this case, it's a pretty catastrophic diversion.

But who would have the economic leverage to pull of such a stunt? And why would they do it? My money is on George Soros and his like. They want to push America to a socialist reality at all costs. And they mean to force us if we won't go willingly. By pulling money for no particularly good reason from the stock market, they create the type of emotional response that makes other less financially solid stockholders leave as well. And if you force the market lower, you can come back in and buy the same doggone stocks at fire sale values. If in addition, you can to stage manage the economic views of the media to support your candidate, then you can shape the vote. If that's not warping the intent of the freedom of Americans to vote, then I don't know what is.

Mark my words-you heard it here first. If the day after an Obama election, the market soars to 14000, the you will know that we have been had, that our votes were bought and that our legislators have sold out to the highest bidder. Don't believe me? Then read on...
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People like to talk about how smart Senator Obama is, how he ranked highly in his classes at Harvard and how he is from the pristine halls of academia. Now as I recall, there were definitely some professors that we considered kooks. They had not so hidden agendas and frankly, when we could, we avoided being in their classes. Nobody likes being lectured. So Obama's personal history as a law professor is not comforting. Especially after viewing this film clip: Film Clip Here

I found this column to be factual and to the point regarding the meltdown of Freddie and Fannie. Here's a quote:

"...One can say that banks should not have made the loan. But the fact is the law gave them the incentive to do so — all the more so because such loans in low-income ZIP codes were easily sold to Fannie Mae under pressure from Congress and HUD to meet its "affordable housing goals and subgoals."

These included a mandate that no less than 32% of the loans that Fannie Mae purchased come from "central cities, rural areas and other underserved areas.."

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This column told me two things. First, that Barney Frank is either hiding something or a total boob. Second, that I was right all along and the government forced lenders to give a specific percentage of their loans to what is euphemistically termed "underserved communities". That can mean inner city, rural or anything in between. It doesn't necessarily address ethnicity and as such, the claims of some that this is a racial issue is simply a wild hare designed to throw people off track. I think you will see "racism" thrown around as an attack in order to create an excuse for a great deal of egregiously bad behavior.

'ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS' By JEANE MacINTOSH PAWNS IN 'FRAUD':
Freddie Johnson, yesterday in Cleveland, and Lateala Goins told of filling out voter registrations multiple times in the ACORN scandal revealed by The Post yesterday.

CLEVELAND - A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

"Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they'll give me a dollar to sign up," said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

"The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, 'You are?' I say, 'Yup,' and then they say, 'Can you just sign up again?' " he said..."

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If you are wondering why anyone would dare to besmirch the name of Barak Obama by asking what he was doing in Chicago as a "community organizer", consider that the very term is a euphemism for someone who goes into areas and tries to organize groups of people to complain. Granted, some complaints are valid and some wrongs need to be righted. But it is also very evident that groups like ACORN and others are using legal processes to do very illegal things. Among those actions include illegal aliens being registered to vote, people being registered who are ineligible due to incarceration or citizenship status, people who are dead, or random people like the recent slew of Dallas Cowboys who showed up on the Nevada voter rolls. If you wonder why conservatives are wary of this election, look no further than the way Democrats are using what should be legal actions to flood the voting lists with people who cannot vote. What worries me is if people may be registered in multiple counties and then driven to other areas by "volunteers". There were accounts in Florida of former residents of New York City voting absentee in New York state and voting a residents of Florida. Frankly, this election already stinks and it hasn't even really begun.

I will quote what I wrote on a DMN blog earlier. I feel like a customer in a bank lobby during a hold up. I am not the main target, but I am going to get robbed nevertheless.

Is it just me?
Or does it seem that our entire nation is sick at heart?
Only the radical extremes are enthusiastic at all, the rest of us are resigned at best to the inevitability of what will come.
I have worked so hard. My husband and kids have worked so hard. And for what? So we can bear the burden of those who will not work, of those who use services for which they are not entitled and for which they do not pay?
Who then will pay for us when we are too tired, too overwhelmed, too broken to go forward? Who will bear the burden then, when they have clogged the system with too many gimme's and not enough responsibilities?
I am just not sure what to do at this point.
Both parties have left us stranded, too busy bickering over phrases and stats to look at what they have done to our nation.
I don't think I am alone in this.
I feel manipulated and used.
I see rich men from other countries who play our markets like crap tables. They buy our companies on the cheap, gut them of their value and move them to other countries leaving American workers without jobs, without hope.
I see manipulators, men like Soros, like sheiks rich in oil, like speculators from China who use their current wealth to fund loans that we may never be able to repay.
I see the syncophants who mouth sweet words into the ears of the likes of Olberman and Gibson. Those folks who shape the election battlefield with a ripe turn of phrase or a well place lie.
I have always had the sense to know when someone is using me. My gut instincts are seldom wrong. And my gut instincts say that this election is already a fraud, set up by the media, with hand-picked candidates for a predicated outcome. Think back some months ago, did anyone,ANYONE, think Obama and McCain would be the chosen ones?
Who would benefit from a weak Chief Executive? One with age as his burden, the other with a doubtful past, one with inexperience, the other with too many strings attached?
Follow the money, follow the money, follow the money
The answer always lies in where the money flows. Look at who is getting rich off of the failure of banks. Look at the banks that are now stronger for having absorbed others' assets. Look at foreign money that is flowing into sources other than stocks. The answer is there somewhere, if we could just get someone with the ability to ask REAL QUESTIONS to have the guts to find it.

Circe was one smart lady-She knew how the game played out. Where is our prophet?

When voting this year, remember a few things-
1. Being a member of any ethnicity doesn't necessarily confer attainment of any particularly higher plane of morality. Plenty of people of all colors have done noble, and not so noble things. To deny this is to admit you are a racist no matter what your ethnicity.
2. Being religious doesn't necessarily make you moral. Plenty of immoral things have been done with the blessings of a religion. At the same time, avoiding religion just on principle is just as bad as claiming religion for the wrong reasons.
3. Truth is always seen in action, never in writing. While contracts, bills and laws are written, the action and morality that enforces the law is the result of good people doing the right thing. Laws are not always just. And justice is not always blind.
4. Money is not evil in itself, but love of money is the source of most of our problems. To envy another person's success rather than motivating your own achievement is destructive behavior. That is the trend in our society today.
5. While it is not wrong to aspire to a better existence, too many people want the frills without doing the sweat equity that is involved. Sure people win the lottery and maybe somebody wins on The Price is Right, but in the real world most of us inhabit, work equals stuff. When our stuff owns us, then we need to get back to the idea of Need vs. Want. It's a lesson most of us should have learned as children, and frankly we had better teach our kids soon because it looks like they will be paying for the foibles of this generation.
6. One thing I have always likes about the Optomists Club is their creed:
"Promise Yourself-

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble."
Optimists Club site
I think we could all do with a solid dose of optimism these days.

Maybe it's just me, but I am tired of the news. I am tired of this feeling of impending doom, which frankly someone must consider a winning programming policy because just about every single outlet is trying to out do the others on their dire predictions. Frankly, I am tired of trying to tell people of the very serious problems that exist, because it's becoming increasingly clear that we are headed to an Idiocracy-where the stupidest people have more sway over those who actually do things like READ! WRITE! and THINK! This campaign has been far too long and its length has done more to divide this country than unite it. The players are just that, players pretending that if they nudge this issue one way or the other that they can win the entire enchilada. They are playing at what is known as brinksmanship, with the American public being the sole commodity at stake. Aren't you guys tired of it? Aren't you tired of the arguing, the bickering, the false accusations that permeate every single blog? I think the stock market drop after the bailout/pork barrel is largely due to the continued haranging on the part of the press. Stop it. Leave us alone. We need facts, not your opinions!

As someone who has lost a family member to a DWI accident, I know what the implications are down the road for the suvivors. It's something that they live with the rest of their lives. I get online at 3:00 and find two definite manslaughter deaths attributed to DWI and two other fatality accidents that can probably be attributed to alcohol or drug abuse. First, we have to make the laws harder on first time offenders. No more "you can drive to work or school" nonsense. They can learn to use public transit or walk or ride a bike. Maybe by having their wings clipped they will stay out of trouble. Secondly, given the numerous young people that drive without licenses but with their parents negligent approval, we must raise the legal driving age. I hate to say this, but I see and hear about kids driving to places that their parents would be appalled. You cannot monitor your underage child if you don't know where they are or who they are with. Sure, I know the story about "my kid has to work." My kids had to work too, and when they didn't drive, I took them there or they found a ride. It's not easy, but it is doable. Too many parents use a driver's license as a carrot and stick that they can use for leverage. Frankly, many of them use it because they also don't want to be bother taking their kids places. It's a dirty little secret, but a reality. I know of kids who are palling around with older kids who go to clubs and places that really are not safe for young teens. But parents don't want to know this. Heck, I can even go to downtown Denton and see very young kids hanging out in clubs until the wee hours of the morning. It's time to start taking back responsibility. And if people won't do it on their own, then it's up to the law and courts to make that happen, no matter what it takes.

I was trying to find out who or what the Alliance for Protection of the Planet is and found this nifty website that has graphic analysis of organizations and the people that run them. The specific one I searched is listed here:
Muckety-really that's the name
This is just as nifty as opensecret.org for sifting out who is linked to whom and what cause and why. Anyway, the actually organization was, as I suspected, another Al Gore production and the staffing and board of directors is largely the DNC committee and chief financial donors. No surprise there. But I did enjoy finding this website. I will explore other organizations and see what comes up.

Regardless of political views, there is a little thing called the Bill of Rights. Remember that "we hold these truths to be self-evident" stuff they tried to make you learn in high school. Well those rights, the ones our forefathers and mothers fought and died for are on the chopping block today. The spirit of "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" of revolutionary heroes like Patrick Henry are currently and actively being mitigated by the powers of the left. Namecallling aside, this should be worrisome for ALL citizens because such acts that deny any person the ability to freely express their views without fear of governmental retribution will eventually escalate to the point where nobody is allowed to express opinions.

We have already seen this with the willful co-opting of the American news media. While liberals like to couch themselves as victims, there are precious few outlets for conservative thought in mainstream media outside of talk radio. And they are actively seeking to limit that. From troofers to "truth squads" to "active lines"-the current Obama campaign has far more in common with the takeover of eastern Europe by the bad old USSR than a real election of issues and ideas. I am sure that there are those idealists who think that because Obama is a minority that he holds some higher moral and ethical ground. But if you shall "know them by their fruits," as said in the Bible, then you need to consider the discord and doubt that has cycled around this campaign. If you think this is just some crackpot entry, considering the following:

"...But the politics of free speech has been subtly shifting. Opponents of the ACLU on the Right are increasingly worried about overreaching rules against "hate speech" defining legitimate opinions as out of bounds. Meanwhile, the same people who forever decry the country's imminent descent into the dark night of fascism are now comfortable regulating political speech in federal law and banning speech on college campuses. The Left has learned to like some chill with its free speech.

Enter the Obama campaign, which reflects the new ethos. It twice issued "Obama Action Wire" alerts for activists to call a Chicago radio station and try to shut down appearances by two Obama critics, writers Stanley Kurtz and David Freddoso. No "chilling effect" here. CNN and the Chicago Tribune reported on the effort to silence Obama's detractors, but mostly by way of noting the Obama camp's tech-savvy mustering of its supporters.

When an outside group ran TV ads pointing out links between Obama and the former Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, the Obama campaign asked the Bush Justice Department -- yes, that Bush Justice Department, the fount of all evil -- to open a criminal investigation.

The Obama campaign's effort dovetails with the work of an outfit called Accountable America, run by a former MoveOn.org operative. It is devoted to threatening conservative donors with legal action and exposure of any embarrassing details of their private lives if they give money to groups running ads against Obama. The New York Times account says the group hopes to create "a chilling effect," but the phrase is used non-pejoratively...."

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The scariest part of the entire process is how the media has shifted from reporting the story, to becoming the story. I have found that the press by and large glosses over some serious concerns, or dismisses people who express doubt as ignorant or racist. Why is it that opposing a candidate has to be based on racism? Could it be that as someone with the most liberal record in the Senate, Senator Obama doesn't hold views that I support? Yet in countless forums, the troofers and followers automatically vilify anyone who says something opposed to the apotheosis of Obama. (apostheosis for those of you who don't know, was the process where Roman emperors attained divinity and became gods in their own rights-a symptomatic detail that led to the fall of the Roman Empire....)

If you want an absolute reason why you should beware of the glittering generalities of the Obama/Biden campaign, consider this quote from Joe Biden:
"we should be allowing bankruptcy courts to be able to re-adjust not just the interest rate you're paying on your mortgage to be able to stay in your home, but be able to adjust the principal that you owe, the principal that you owe. That would keep people in their homes, actually help banks by keeping it from going under..."

For those of you who don't understand the implications, interest is what makes payroll and keeps the doors open of you local bank. It pays depositors for the use of their money to fund other loans. This judiciary fiat of simply lowering the interest rates AND THE PRINCIPLE means that all a borrower has to do is become delinquent, and they get to set their own price. This is no way to run a bank or any other business. When you sign the contract to purchase ANYTHING, you commit to paying the cost on that paper. This dissolves legal contracts and creates a situation where more banks will fail because borrowers will simply stop payments. So if you are enjoying this current bailout-which is absolutely chock full of pork, then you will love the next one two years down the road.

A word of caution: The Obama campaign has offered everything to everyone. Another Illinoian Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." I realize Americans are short on math knowledge, but income and outgo must balance. What we have now is an already overloaded budget that will be made more cumbersome by implementing costly programs while claiming to reduce taxpayer burden. At some point you have to get the money from somewhere, or print it and drive up inflation. Beware the candidate that comes to offer you the moon, it isn't theirs to give, and it never was. It's your money they are after.

"we should be allowing bankruptcy courts to be able to re-adjust not just the interest rate you're paying on your mortgage to be able to stay in your home, but be able to adjust the principal that you owe, the principal that you owe. That would keep people in their homes, actually help banks by keeping it from going under"--Joe Biden, on the debate...

I must admit I was busy writing tests, but I did hear this quote. Is there anyone who was sleeping this past week and didn't get that much of the meltdown was due to credit being extended to people that defaulted on loans? And Obama/Biden would allow a court, presumably appointed or elected, to wave their magic gavels and lower the interest and/or the principle on a loan. Banks are businesses. They have to make a profit in order to open the doors and pay people a living wage.I'm not talking about CEO's I am talking about tellers and cashiers and loan officers-the little guys.Interest on loans keeps the lights on. Likewise, the money that those silly fools like me put in the bank, is used to fund loans. The interest is paid back to people who have savings in the form of interest as a benefit for letting other people use their money. so Obama and Biden seem to think that we should continue funding subprime loans, and when they go belly up, nobody gets hurt. When small banks go under, somebody has to pay the bills. And as it goes up the food chain, that somebody is usually the taxpayer. With this kind of policy on economics, we would have to pass another gigantic bill in four more years. Is this really the kind of change that will improve your life? Never mind the idiocy of trying to hoodwink the public to the idea that 95% of taxpayers will get a refund AND we will still have all these shiny new programs. Folks, it doesn't add up. And as I keep trying to tell you There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

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