ONE FOURTH OF WOOLWORTH'S STORES IN BRITAIN HAVE SHUT THEIR DOORS FOR GOOD

The remainder of the 200 stores are to close within about a week unless a last-minute buyer surfaces for the failed retailer.About 27,000 people are expected to lose their jobs.

The company's debt-ridden predicament is a far cry from the clamour that greeted the first British store, which open in Liverpool, northern England, in 1909 under the FW Woolworth's brand-a subsidiary of the US company.The original US parent stores closed in 1997.Woolworths Australia is a thriving unrelated business-the largest supermarket chain in Australia and a major employer.

BRITONS ARE AFRAID OF THEIR CHILDREN

More than half of all adults in Britain fear the nation's children are beginning to behave like animals, according to a new survey.The children's charity Barnardos found that adults had an overwhelmingly negative attitudes towards towards children,even though most children are managing to stay out of trouble.

54 per cent of adults thought children behaved like animals, while 49 per cent felt children were increasingly a danger to each other and adults.Forty-three per cent said they wanted something done to protect adults from children and 45 per cent believed that many children were branded feral because of their behavior.

Half disagreed with the statement that children who get into trouble were misunderstood and in need of professional help.The survey has uncovered a disturbing intolerance of children in Britain.Words like animal, feral and vermin were used daily reference to children.

50 THINGS YOU MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT-ELECT: BARAK OBAMA

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball
• His name means "one who is blessed"20in Swahili
• His favorite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguine
• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed
• He has read every Harry Potter book
• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream
• His favorite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars
• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
• He can speak Spanish
• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
• His favorite drink is black forest berry iced tea
• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't
• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia
• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
• He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name
• His favorite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived
• His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
• He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 mi llion) last year, with much coming from sales of his books
• His favorite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck
• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.
• His favorite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees
• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date
• He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker
• He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol
• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician
• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine
• His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)
• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
• His house in Chicago has four fire places
• Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita
• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry
• He uses an Apple Mac laptop
• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300
• He wears $ 1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits
• He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes
• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)
• His favorite fictional television programs are Mash and The Wire
• He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers
• He was nicknamed "Bear" by his late grandmother
• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds
• His favorite artist is Pablo Picasso
• His specialty as a cook is chili
• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"
• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life
• His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government

GENERAL MOTORS OPENED A NEW PLANT LAST WEEK IN CHINA

While asking US taxpayers for money, GM is opening a new plant in China.Why not transfer some of the profits from China to the US operations? The joint venture plant will open in Shenyang City and will mass produce the compact Chevrolet Cruze.
This is a pledge to grow operations in China, stated Kevin Wale, president of GM China Group. This is the second plant to open in China. The first plant makes the Buick GL8's and the Buick FirstL and executive wagons.

CHIPPING AWAY AT OBAMA'S CABINET

It seems that the conservatives are chipping away at President-Elect Barak Obama's cabinet little by little. A federal grand jury is investigating whether a financial firm improperly won more than $1.4 million dollars in work for the State of New Mexico shortly after making contributions to PAC'S of Governor Bill Richardson. Mr. Richardson is President-Elect Barak Obama's nominee for Commerce Secretary.

IS PRESIDENT-ELECT BARAK OBAMA CHARTING OUT HIS SECOND TERM WHEN HE HASN'T BEGUN HIS FIRST ?

It seems that President-Elect Barak Obama is doing exactly that. With some of the appointments he has made.I am just flabbergasted that he did not chose other ministers who would have been excellent choices for the invocation. There are mega church ministers in the Washington D.C.area.

I am surprised that none of his transition team has quit. I thought that many of his young group of associates would have been selected, with new ideas. But instead he chose many of Clinton's cronies.

RICK WARREN GIVING THE INVOCATION AT OBAMA'S INAUGRATION, I WILL NEVER LISTEN TO BARAK OBAMA SPEECHES AGAIN !!

I will not give my vote to Barak Obama again. Rick Warren told America that Senator John McCain was in a secured location and did not hear the questions to Senator Barak Obama. When in fact, Senator McCain was en-route to the forum and heard every one of the questions.

I think Barak Obama is trying to win over some of the evangelicals.But Obama is speaking with a forked tongue, and this will come back and bite him. The evangelicals were polled after the forum and all of the crowd said they would not vote for him.

Barak Obama is bending over backwards to please everyone. He and his team are trying to be too perfect and I think that is impossible. I will not be surprised if some of the people he has selected will drop out now.This is not what they came on board for.

WHAT WILL JESSIE JACKSON JR.'S LEGACY BE ? CRUSADER FOR JUSTICE OR SNITCH ?

My hopes were dashed when I heard that he was giving the FBI information for years. Why was that information released ?. I am shocked that he was doing that. He knew that if he became a whistle blower, his career would be ended. Now it seems that it is the case anyway.

I was so impressed with him. He is a better orator than his dad. But I think the powers that be were dreading the thought of Jessie Sr. strolling down the halls of the senate and the White House. I had the same thoughts. Now the politicians in Chicago are wondering what Jessie Jr. told the feds about them.

Now the people in the legislature are going to be leary of him, and will not want to say anything around him. I think it will be very uncomfortable for him in the future. He might be shunned.

WHAT IS GOV. ROD BLAGOJEVICH'S TRUMP CARD ?

The Illinois Governor is not going down without a fight.He is kicking ass and taking names. And he will tell all if he doesn't get a deal. He doesn't want to spend thirty years in prison. He will take a lot of people with him.

People are shaking in their boots that their name will be mentioned. And the conservatives are foaming at the mouth that Jessie Jackson Jr. will go down with him. Blagojevich has shown no sign of breaking down and is still signing bills.

This reminds me of Larry Flynt of Hustler Magazine who was being prosecuted by the government. He put out a reward for any information of wrong doing by polititians.
He released the info on a few small fry but I believe he kept the big ones in his vault in case the government came after him again.

GIFT CARDS AND STORES CLOSING DOWN

Some are just closing stores and not going bankrupt altogether.
Anyway, just in case anyone was planning to buy giftcards for the season, Consumer Reports says that cash is better this year - or maybe the VISA giftcards?


Stores that are planning to close after Christmas are still selling the
cards through the holidays even though the cards will be worthless
January 1. There is no law preventing them from doing this. On the
contrary, it is referred to as 'Bankruptcy Planning).

Below is a partial list of stores that you need to be cautious about.

Circuit City (filed Chapter 11)

Ann Taylor 117 stores nationwide closing

Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine's to close 150 stores nationwide

Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January

Cache will close all stores

Talbots closing down specialty stores

J. Jill closing all stores (owned by Talbots) Pacific Sunwear (also
owned by
Talbots)

GAP closing 85 stores

Footlocker closing 140 stores more to close after January

Wickes Furniture closing down

Levitz closing down remaining stores

Bombay closing remaining stores

Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January

Whitehall closing all stores

Piercing Pagoda closing all stores

Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.

Home Depot closing 15 stores 1 in NJ ( New Brunswick )

Macys to close 9 stores after January

Linens and Things closing all stores

Movie Galley Closing all stores

Pep Boys Closing 33 stores

Sprint/Nextel closing 133 stores

JC Penney closing a number of stores after January

Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.

Wilson Leather closing down all stores

Sharper Image closing down all stores

K B Toys closing 356 stores

Loews to close down some stores

Dillard's to close some stores

(UNICEF) HOW 25 WEALTHY NATIONS TREAT THEIR YOUNG

The United Nations Children's fund, (UNICEF) has just completed a survey of how 25 wealthy nations treat their young people. There were 10 benchmark indicators outlining basic minimum standards for early childhood services.

Public expenditures on child care and preschool education services are at just 0.4 per cent of GDP. UNICEF recommends 1 per cent of GDP as an appropriate level of expenditure. Nearly 80 per cent of the world's three-to six-year old's. are now in some form of early childhood education and care.

INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING FORCE SHOULD BLOW PIRATES OUT OF THE WATER

I think this would be the best solution. An Ethiopian -led force is leaving soon and the US wants to put an international peacekeeping force in Somalia. I think this would be a mistake. The US had to withdraw in the past, their mission failed.

The administration states that the US Navy is the world's predominate sea power and believes in freedom of navigation. Now the pirates are targeting cruise ships. Some countries are saying if they capture these pirates, where would they hold them and where would they go on trial. They do not want another Guantanamo Bay.

I believe that with our advanced technology, we could dispatch some fighter jets to the area of these freighters that are being approached by unknown boats and blow them out of the water.

GEORGIA TO START PRIVATIZATION OF STATE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS

Earlier plans were for limited privatization, now talks are underway to hire for-profit companies to build and operate three new psychiatric facilities to replace all seven existing state hospitals.

This would end 150 years of state-provided psychiatric care in Georgia.There is now an investigation of the hospitals by the Justice Department. Other states have mixed reviews after turning over care to the private sector.Just look at what happened to the state prisons. Florida can't track any difference in care and North Carolina auditors said the state wasted $400 million after allowing unqualified private companies perform treatments.

GETTING PSYCHED UP FOR THE INAUGURATION

Quite a few relatives and friends are going to Washington D C to Barak Obama's inauguration. I do not see how they can put themselves through that. There will be so many people with their own agendas and their signs there. Also it will be liken to the Hajj and a Greatful Dead Concert. I think it will remind me of the sixties.

Washington wants to make much money off the event. Since they will keep the bars open 24 hours a day there will be many arrests for loitering, drunk in public,brawling, etc. The city should fill their coffers to the brim. Just think how many fender benders and DUI's they will have.

To get myself psyched up, the day before, I will look at Spike Lee's 1996 movie, "Get On The Bus".It was about the bus trip to "The March On Washington".
It was a wonderful movie.

BRITAIN DEPORTS HIV PATIENTS

The UK is accused of double standards for permitting the deportation of HIV patients. to countries where they may not get the drugs to stay alive. They are sending them back to places where they may not get medications, even though they were given the drugs in the UK.

The UK has supported the G8 pledge to get treatment to people who used it in poor countries. The African HIV Policy Network is attempting to change the UK'S policy.

THE SUPREME COURT THROWS OUT CASE QUESTIONING OBAMA'S CITIZENSHIP

Phillip J Berg filed a case before the Supreme Court about his citizenship.The case has been dismissed for lack of standing. This case hinges on his place of birth because only a natural born citizen can be eligible for the office of President.

Mr. Berg is claiming that Barak Obama was born in Africa.

ARE YOU AFRAID OF GETTING THAT 3 AM CALL ?

I was speaking to friends last month about the millions of jobs being lost and worried if I may get a call. The solution I had to the problem was to get a house in the south and put those cousins and others in it. I would pay the mortgage and give them some seeds so they could grow their gardens. This would apply to the slackers. I would ask them to recycle.I was wondering if they would survive.

ICELAND IS SHOOTING POLAR BEARS THAT STRAY FROM GREENLAND

In Reykjvik, Iceland, A commission has recommended that polar bears be shot and not offered a free haven. Two polar bears were shot affter they landed on the northern coast of Iceland. They were swept to sea on floes from Greenland. This sparked protests from conservationists and animal rights groups.

The commission head, Hjalti Gudmundsson said the polar bears pose a threat to humans and there are large costs of moving the large mammals back to Greenland or a zoo. Police were forced to shoot one bear in June when it charged a group of reporters "in a panic".

O.J.SIMPSON DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THE MOST HATED MAN ALIVE

I think the judge in the case was fair, but she gave a complicated sentence. Simpson wouldn't just go away, he flaunted around in public. He was a jock and a very strong man. Most athletes are like that. I think the judge should have taken into account that the policemen were giving each other high-fives, and screaming, " we got him".

I think he could have got some leniency because it was entrapment, and the ex-cons colluded with the " powers that be" to tape him for dropping charges against them.

A DOCTOR GOES ON AN ORGANIC DIET FOR THREE YEARS AS AN EXPERIMENT

A doctor in California went on an organic diet for three years to see if there were any benefits.

DECEMBER 1st WORLD AIDS DAY

The stigma surrounding aids is still strong, but the tradition of polygamous marriage adds to the challenge of preventing transmission. Most people infected are often diagnosed too late to be saved. Some are living with HIV became infected through contaminated needles while injecting drugs.

Swaziland has the highest HIV infection in the world, with more than one-fourth of it's population is infected.

WORLD ECONOMIC GROWTH WILL SLOW TO 1 PERCENT IN 2009

DOHA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - World economic growth will slow to 1 percent in 2009 from 2.5 percent this year as the financial crisis bites and the global economy may even contract if stimulus packages prove too little too late, a U.N. report said.
The report on World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009, an advance copy of which was issued at a development conference in Doha on Monday, urged coordinated international stimulus packages to limit the impact of a downturn in Western economies on poorer countries.
Next year's growth forecasts compare to global growth rates of 3.5 to 4 percent from 2004-2007 and the report said the economic environment for developing countries had deteriorated sharply after early complacency.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8103822

THE DEATH OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURING

This is a portion of a post by Michael Kilgus:


THE DEATH OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURING

If we don't start forcing our elected officials to pay attention to the people of this country, if we don't start using our heads and learning about our leaders and their policies, we will head our country down the road to financial ruin, and destroy the safety factor for every single American. We need to protect our borders, build up our own resources, and end our reliance upon nations who care little about the US, other than as a "Shopping Center" for outside interests' wealth! Pay attention to who is running for office, learn all you can about them, and vote for the person who truly wants to stand up for us, the citizens of this country, and make our lives better. Stop voting for looks and promises; both will fail with time. Vote for sincerity and honesty, vote for past accomplishments, not promises, and vote for those who have the experience, not the "shadow" of experience, to run this country for the people, not foreign interests who pay for their influence. Vote to rebuild our manufacturing base, not to force it overseas, and to rebuild the pride that once made this country strong.

Michael J. Kilgus


Visit Mike's web site at: http://michaelkilgus.com/

FOOD FOR MY SOUL

The blog that I read everyday is the one by Jon Taplin. I consider it "Food For My Soul"



http://jtaplin.wordpress.com/


My favorite posts are :

America Since Reagan
The Fascist Impulse
Liberal fascism

ARE BIG CORPORATIONS CANCELLING THEIR ENDORSEMENTS

GM has cancelled their endorsements with Tiger Woods. Woods was representing the Buick line. The contract was for 8 million dollars a year. The endorsement has lasted for 9 years.

I wonder what's in store for the other athletes ? Are there endorsements spared or will they be cancelled.

ANOTHER VIEW OF THE OBAMA ELECTION NIGHT RIOT.

This is another account of the goings-on in Jonesboro,Arkansas at the University of Arkansas.




http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2008/11/the_obama_riot_at_asu.aspx

MORE THAN 200 WHALES ARE TRAPPED IN THE CANADIAN ARTIC

There are more than 200 Narwhal Whales in Canada's Artic trapped by winter ice and they face starvation or suffocation. Hunters from the village of Pond Inlet on Baffin Island discovered them near Bylot Island on November 15th.

Local hunters are allowed to harvest only 130 whales each year for food. These are the standards by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.Hunters have been given authorization to cull them because it's unlikely they will survive the winter according to Keith Pelley, department spokesman.

There were over a dozen areas where they could come up for air but they weren't large enough for them to squeeze through.

ARNOLD SCHWARZNEGGER STILL TRYING FOR PRESIDENCY

Arnold Schwarznegger is willing to work for Barak Obama's Admimistration. He says he would be available when his term as governor of California ends in February 2011.Since politicians know that Obama is appointing people across the aisle, everyone is elbowing each other to get the prize.It's like stepping on the head of a drowning man to promote yourself.

G M PLAYING GAMES WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS

General Motors Acceptance Corporation, which is an arm of General Motors, is playing games with their customers. Persons who are paying mortgage payments to GMAC Mortgage are in limbo.

The company has been sold to Midland Mortgage Company. A letter was sent out that explained the situation. The people have been told to make their payments payable to Midland Mortgage Company . The letter stated the address would be enclosed when it was not.

There was a phone number for Midland, but the recording said not to call and do not send them mail because it will take two weeks to get all information on new customers. They said they do not take checks or credit cards. What are the customers to do ? By the time the customers know where to send their payments, there will be a late fee to pay.

ARGENTINA PROPOSING TO NATIONALIZE PRIVATE PENSION PLANS

President Cristina Kirchner of Argentina is proposing to nationalize private pension funds. She has justified spending the proposed seizure of $30 billion dollars in pension assets. Kirchner is accusing the funds of having instrumental "Policies of Plunder". She said Argentina was setting an example of how to deal with the global financial crisis.

U S GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE FARMERS AND RANCHERS $ 77 MILLION

The U S Department of Agriculture will give farmers and ranchers $77 million dollars in Emergency Conservation funds to repair farmland damaged by natural disasters in 2008.

The recipients can use the money to remove debris, restore fences and other structures damaged by floods,tornadoes, hurricanes, storms, wildfires and to correct any emergency water conservation issues after severe drought.

“These funds will allow farmers and ranchers to repair the severe damage to conservation systems caused by disaster conditions from hurricanes Ike and Gustav, as well as the 2008 Midwest floods,” said Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer.

NEWSPAPER DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE BARAK OBAMA AS PRESIDENT

On November 5th, 2008 ,the Petit Jean Country Headlight News in Morrilton, Arkansas did not print in their weekly edition the winner of the Presidential Election. The headline was "Voters Go For McCain".

The only mention of Barak Obama was that the Obama/Biden ticket received 3,144 votes in Conway County, Arkansas. When their subscribers reacted against it , the next week they put an article and picture in a small corner of the first page.

Arkansas is a red state. The paper chose not to let their readers on Wednesday morning know who the president was. This is a disgrace, that they did not recognize Barak Obama because he is black. I now know that the world knows that the Petit Jean Country Headlight News will not acknowledge President-Elect Barak Obama.

And to think I was going to spend the Christmas Holidays in Morrilton doing my genealogical research. Now I will have to make other plans. I will not contribute to their economy. I could spend less money if I went to Hawaii or Mexico.

WHY ARE JONESTOWN'S REPORT STILL DECLASSIFIED ?

A young neighbor two doors down and her young child perished in Jonestown. After the tragedy people would drive by the house and point and tell the story of the young mother. Her father died here in South Los Angeles a few years ago. He was 90 years old.

One of my friend's mother had invited me to go to a service at the People's Temple. She was a member but I never got around to it.

Time to declassify?


Over the years, there have been rumors of CIA involvement. Some people believe CIA agents were posing as members of the Peoples Temple cult to gather information; others suggest the agency was conducting a mind-control experiment.

In 1980, the House Select Committee on Intelligence determined that the CIA had no advance knowledge of the mass murder-suicide. The year before, the House Foreign Affairs Committee had concluded that cult leader Jim Jones "suffered extreme paranoia."

The committee -- now known as international relations -- released a 782-page report, but kept more than 5,000 other pages secret.

Without those documents, it's hard to confirm or refute the speculations that have sprung up around Jonestown, said Melton, who planned to be in Washington Wednesday to ask for the documents' release.

George Berdes, chief consultant to the committee at the time of the investigation, told the San Francisco Chronicle the papers were classified to assure sources' confidentiality, but he thinks it is time to declassify them.

Paradise becomes a prison
What is known about the end of Jonestown is that on November 18, 1978, Jones ordered more than 900 of his followers to drink cyanide-poisoned punch. He told guards to shoot anyone who refused or tried to escape. Among the dead: more than 270 children.

Only two years before, Jones -- the charismatic leader of the Peoples Temple, an interracial organization that helped the desperate -- was the toast of San Francisco's political circles.

But after an August 1977 magazine article detailed ex-members' stories of beatings and forced donations, Jones abruptly moved his flock to Jonestown, a settlement in the jungle of Guyana, an Idaho-sized country on South America's northern coast.

The plan was to create an egalitarian agricultural community. But Peoples Temple members who worked the fields and subsisted mostly on rice soon learned it was more like a prison, recalls Jonestown defector Deborah Layton.

Dissent was unthinkable, she says. Offenders sweltered in "The Box," a 6-by-4-foot (1.8-by-1.2-meter) underground enclosure. Misbehaving children were dangled head-first into the well late at night. Loudspeakers broadcast Jones' voice at all hours.

GLENN BECK TO JOIN FOX NEWS

Glenn Beck has signed a multi-year agreement to join Fox News, announced by Roger Ailes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox News beginning next spring. Beck will host a daily program as well as a weekend show on the network.

I for one am elated.I have always felt that he belonged on the Fox Network . Now he is in good company with Karl Rove, Dick Morris,Hannity, Bill O'Reilly ,Huckabee and the other mavericks. The only person missing is Joe Scarborough, he needs to relocate to Fox News.

Now I can enjoy looking at CNN Headline News Channel again. I don't have to listen to his ranting and raving anymore.

545 PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STATE OF THE US

Charley Reese
Infowars
October 24, 2008

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don’t set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don’t control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 235 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.

I excluded all but the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it.

No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislation’s responsibility to determine how he votes.



Don’t you see how the con game that is played on the people by the politicians? Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of Tip O’Neill, who stood up and criticized Ronald Reagan for creating deficits.

The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating appropriations and taxes.

O’neill is the speaker of the House. He is the leader of the majority party. He and his fellow Democrats, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetos it, they can pass it over his veto.

REPLACE SCOUNDRELS

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 235 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts - of incompetence and irresponsibility.

I can’t think of a single domestic problem, from an unfair tax code to defense overruns, that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.

When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red. If the Marines are in Lebanon, it’s because they want them in Lebanon.

There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take it.

Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exist disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people and they alone are responsible. They and they alone have the power. They and they alone should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided they have the gumption to manage their own employees

EU CALLS FOR "NEW DEAL FOR NEW WORLD " WITH OBAMA

Economic Times | November 6, 2008

BRUSSELS: The head of the European Union (EU)’s executive body, the European Commission, on Wednesday congratulated Barack Obama on his victory in
the US presidential election and called on him to work with the EU to shape a "new deal for a new world".

"This is a time for a renewed commitment between Europe and the US. I want to assure Senator Obama of the support of the European Commission and of my personal support in forging this renewed commitment to face together the many challenges ahead of us," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said.



"We need a new deal for a new world. I sincerely hope that with the leadership of President Obama, the US will join forces with Europe to drive this new deal - for the benefit of our societies, for the benefit of the world," he said in a statement.

Ahead of Tuesday’s election, politicians across Europe had expressed the hope that the successor to US President George W Bush - whether Obama or his rival, John McCain - would abandon Bush’s unilateral stance in favour of more cooperation with the EU.

THE CULTURE WARS ARE OVER

With the election of Barak Obama, Lord Chris Patten, one of the world's leading conservative thinkers has voiced this. The Republicans in the 1980's protected the interests of the very rich. They focused on abortion, gun control, the nastiness of foreigners, and gay marriage to keep from the real issues.

Lord Patten is promoting his latest book, "What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century" which tackles the big problems of the world-terrorism, nuclear prolifferation, climate change drugs, etc. Conservative governnments are not on top in the English-speaking world, except Canada and New Zealand , not because of conservatism, but because of the incompetence in the US and the UK.

SOUTH AFRICAN SINGER MARIAN MAKEBA DIES AT THE AGE OF 76

Miriam Makeba took ill near the southern Italian town of Caserta following a concert. She fell ill after having sung for half an hour in support of Roberto Saviano, a writer threatened with death by the Mafia, at Castel Volturno, near Naples.

She died at a nearby clinic of a heart attack. Miriam Makeba was South Africa's first superstar,although she was banned and exiled for more than 30 years. She sang for President John F Kennedy and addressed the United Nations. She was granted honorary citizenship to 10 countries.

She married black power activist Stokely Carmichael and moved to Guinea in the 1960's. Makeba was invited back to South Africa by Nelson Mandela in 1990.

FEMA CRITICIZED AT HEARING ON RESPONSE TO HURRICANE IKE

The Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee held a hearing in Austin Texas recently. The state leaders accused FEMA of insensitivity and foot dragging in delivering mobile homes to help victims.

Residents are living in tents and cars on their property. The vouchers FEMA gives them for motels can't be used because no rooms are available. FEMA had promised 300 trailers a week but they haven't received them.

There are 350 mobile homes on individuals properties awaiting sewer and power hookups. A site has to be inspected to verify a mobile home can be placed there.Jack Calley, the state's director of emergency management said he believes FEMA should be removed from the Homeland Security Department and placed under the president.

The lack of housing is causing a problem for refinery and chemical workers whose plants are expanding. FEMA is "running out the clock" for reimbursements on debris removal. So I guess that will be left up to President-Elect Barak Obama to solve the problems.

LEADING ECONOMIST IN THE UK SAYS INTEREST RATES NEED TO BE SLASHED

Charles Goodhart, a founding member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee is making the claim that interest rates should be cut to 0% to avoid depression.

Mr Goodhart is a professor emeritus of banking and finance at the London School of Economics and a member of the MPC between 1997 and 2000. Interests went to zero in Japan in the 1990's when the Japanese had a recession or depression which was long and severe.

CHINA HAS BECOME THE BIGGEST PRODUCER OF PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENTS IN THE WORLD

Bayer, the German company that created aspirin in the 1890's is being produced in China. Rhodia, a company in France makes acetaminophen, which is found in Tylenol is closing down.

China is producing about two-thirds of all aspirin and will soon be the world's sole supplier.

We wonder if China's meds are safe ? If the big corporations are buying it, it's O K .But if an average person goes to Canada or Mexico to buy meds, the government says the meds are not safe.

NEVER IN MY LIFETIME

Never in my lifetime would I have thought that a Black man would be the President of the United States of America. Being from the South, Little Rock, Arkansas, I lived through the sixties. I remember having to ride on the back of the bus, going to the movies in the balcony through a separate entrance, and not being able to sit on a stool at Woolworth's.

When Governor Orval Faubus closed the schools in Arkansas, I missed a year of school. I operated an elevator in the Marion Hotel and washed dishes in a restaurant. Blacks had to come to the back and order food or sit at a table in the kitchen to eat.

The park we had to go to was on the outskirts of town, called Gilliam Park. It was way down in the woods. Now I have heard that the area has been turned into a natural preserve. In one year my family relocated to Los Angeles where I resumed my education.

INTEL CHIEF SEES INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT INCREASE IN NEXT TWO DECADES

U S Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell told an intelligence conference those words in Nashville, Tennessee. Rivalries are most likely to revolve around trade, demographics, access to natural resources,investments and technological innovation .

By 2025 if current trends persist, China will become world's largest economy. A major military power and will likely the world's largest importer of natural resources . India and Russia will be close behind with more wealth and power.

SIX BLACKS WILL HOLD SEATS IN THE IOWA HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES

It is a milestone in Iowa's history, and they are all Democrats. Iowa will begin a movement that will no more be left or right, but more understanding and tolerant to people of color. Iowa has largely moved beyond race as an issue. There are many minorities that can do the job, they just need an equal playing field.

CHINA REFUSES IMPORT OF AUSTRALIAN MILK PRODUCT

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said nine tons of Ausnutria milk powder, produced by Tatura Milk Industries in Victoria, failed the standard for Enterobacter sakazaki, a bacteria that in infants can cause meningitis, inflammation of the brain's protective membranes, developmental problems and death.

Reuters reported that more than 14 tons of Pauls milk, produced by Parmalat Australia, a subsidiary of the Italian food giant, also failed a bacteria test.

The rejected Australian milk products were part of 2719 consignments of imported food and cosmetics rejected by the administration in the first seven months of this year, China Daily reported.

AN EXCERPT FROM ONE OF BARAK OBAMA'S SPEECH'S

This is an excerpt from one of Barak Obama's speeches on the last day before election.




"You can put an end to the politics that tries to divide a nation, that pits region against region, and city against town, Republican against Democrat, and asks us to fear when we need hope," he said. "We are at a defining moment in history and you can give this country the defining moment we need."

I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN AGAIN !!!

Being an undeclared voter, I vote for a person that I can identify with. It doesn't matter which party they are from. But I will never vote for a Republican again. They will say "I don't condone the actions of this group," or whatever, but they don't come out and speak agains't it.

The Republicans have hit a new low this election year, and it will not soon be forgotten by the masses of the people.

IF I HAD TO STAND IN LINE FOR FIVE HOURS, I WOULD NOT VOTE.

I am sorry to say that , but that's the way I feel. The Election Commission should devise a better way for people to vote. Why don't they give appointments ? Or give out numbers ? They could have people go to stadiums and vote.

I do not think we will ever see another election with crowds like this again.This was a once in a lifetime event. Rachel Maddox said on her show that this was like the poll tax, making it difficult for people to vote.

If these boards are overwhelmed with the crowds and can't handle them, absentee ballots should be made available to everyone.

HOW POLL TAXES AFFECTED ME

Growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas, we lived a few blocks from the governor's mansion. But my parent's couldn't afford to vote. They were charged two dollars to vote. My father was a carpet, tile and linoleum worker. He worked for Steinkamp's Furniture Store. He only made fifteen dollars a week.Some of the domestic workers made nine dollars a week.

Thankfully we owned a lot of heirs property, so we didn't have to pay a mortgage or rent. In addition to buying groceries, my father would go to Helms Bakeries for their day-old bread and pastries . We had our own garden where we would get our vegetables and my father would go hunting and fishing to supply food.

We had a few chickens and rabbits.My mother was a housewife and she did ironing for the furniture store owner's wife. Poll Taxes was a tax required for voting in some parts of the U S .It was often designed to disenfranchise poor people, mostly blacks, and keep them from voter registration and voting.

The 24th amendment, ratified in 1964, outlawed poll tax as a pre-condition in voting in Federal Elections.

OBAMA DOES NOT WANT A REPEAT OF THE DEWEY ELECTION

Every one expected Thomas Dewey to win the 1948 election by a landside. Elmo Roper said he would take no further polls because he had something better to do. Harry Truman was called the " little man", he was the underdog, but he won anyway.

Truman traveled 32,000 miles and gave 355 speeches in six weeks. He traveled in his pullman car. The Chicago Tribune wanted to be the first to break the news and put on the cover a Dewey victory. The next morning Truman won. It was an upset.

That's why Barak Obama tells his workers to keep on pushing and don't give up. In 2004, 129,000 voters in Ohio were weary from standing in long lines, and they went home without voting.

DON'T LET THEM PUT THE FEAR IN YOU ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY

The GOP is pushing the idea of privatizing social security. Don't be fooled by their projections that it is going bankrupt.The american public is tired of being told lies.

There is a reason that social security should be in the news right now. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office just came out with its updated analysis of the program's finances (pdf). The analysis projects that social security will be able to pay all scheduled benefits through the year 2049, with no changes whatsoever. Even after 2049, when the program is first projected to face a shortfall, the payable benefit is projected to be more than 30% higher than what the average retiree gets today, and the payable amount would continue to rise from that level every year.

REPUBLICANS SCOFFED AT COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS, THE LAUGH IS ON THEM

Barak Obama's work as a community organizer has paid off for him. He has had the most thorough campaign ever devised for a presidential election. He has been ruthlessly consistent. People from all over the world have come to the U S to volunteer in his campaign.

I was surprised that kids would travel that far to help in a campaign in a foreign country. I guess that is from the magnetism that Obama gives out. People are naturally drawn to him. When he was a professor , I guess he affected the students the same way.

IF MCCAIN LOSES , IT WILL BE BECAUSE OF HIS OWN PARTY

Elizabeth Dole's attack ad on her opponent, Kay Hagan is the nastiest ad of this whole campaign. Kay Hagan is Presbyterian and a Sunday school teacher. Dole has said Hagan is Godless and doesn't believe in God.

Also many other persons in the Republican party have sponsered ugly ads. This has scared many Republicans and caused them to flee the party and go to other parties. These negative ads have bought many crackpots out of their bat caves. Cartoons such as the Obama dollar and showing Obama with a donkey body.

These ads are degrading. The last time I have seen a polished campaign in the Republican party was in San Diego . The college students were out in mass with their red and white outfits and their straw hats. It was very impressive.

A MUST READ

This is a good post from Matt Mendelsohn in the Huffington Post



McCain: A Tragedy in Three Scenes



Scene 1. A polling place.

First Witch:
When shall we three meet again,

Second Witch:
In Florida, Texas, or in Maine?
When the hurly-burly's done,
When the 'lection's lost and won.

Third Witch:
That will be ere the set of sun.

First Witch:
Where the place?

Second Witch:
Upon the plain.

Third Witch:
There to meet with John McCain.
He's getting desperate, just our style.
Let's let his anger stew awhile.

First Witch:
But first, the Tar Heel state doth beckon.

Second Witch:
Yes, it's sister Liddy, I do reckon.

Third Witch:
Anon!

All:
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
North Carolina needs some godless air.

Exeunt

Scene II. A field outside Raleigh.

First Witch:
Sister Liddy, how goeth it?

Second Witch:
So fareth, so goodeth, Sister Ann.
When we're through with that Pagan woman,
the voters will thinketh she be one of us.

Third Witch:
'Tis good. But methinks her name be Hagan, not Pagan.

Second Witch:
Pagan, Hagan, whoeth is counting, Sister Bachmann?
Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.
But voting in November, facts they won't remember.

Third Witch:
Too trueth, too trueth!
Though facts were scarce, folks got the gist
When I called Obama a terrorist.

(The witches laugh and dance.)

First Witch:
What be the weapon of choice, Sister Liddy?
The dagger or the poison?

Second Witch:
Worse, Sister Ann. Character assassination!

Upon the hour an ad will air,
Which goeth beyond the bounds of fair.
We'll have her claim there is no God,
A ring and run and I'll get the nod.

All:
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
'Tis always good to get the voters pissed.
By labeling one an atheist.

Exeunt

Scene III. A Campaign Plane.

First Witch:
A drum, a drum!
McCain doth come.

McCain:
Speak, if you can: what are you?

First Witch:
All hail, McCain! Hail to thee, thane of Tempe!

Second Witch:
All hail, McCain, hail to thee, thane of Temper!

Third Witch:
All hail, McCain, thou shalt be president hereafter!

First Witch:
Lesser than Obama, and greater.

Second Witch:
Not so eloquent, and lots more air quotation marks.

Third Witch (to Palin):
Thou shalt get presidents, though thou be none:
So all hail, McCain and Palin!

Palin:
You betcha, witches!
Though English Lit is not my bag,
I know enough to respect a hag
Who telleth me good things will come,
Wink wink, nudge nudge, my brain is numb.
Though Todd may be a simple musher,
My ambition runs straight through to Russia.
Big things, bright lights, the world 'tis mine,
Just one week more, must tow the line.
Keep up pretense to Lady McCain,
and four more years will be thy reign.

What troublest thou, McCain?
They said you would be president.
Is that not what those witches meant?

McCain:
They said your children shall be presidents. Methinks they meant
pregnant, not president.

Palin:
Heyest, now -- don't goest there.

McCain:
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
this 'lection were done with quickly.
I can hold on five more days,
no matter what Chris Matthews says.
I can scare a nation straight,
with talk of Marx, of tax, of hate.
My men can pull some 'lection pranks,
and cause dissent among the ranks.

But I am afraid to think what I have done;
Once a maverick, when I was young.
But now I'll do just what it takes,
I'll say anything, for goodness sakes.
And when you though things couldn't get dumber
I hung my hopes on Joe the Plumber.
Ambition is a funny thing --
Change -- no, not that change! -- it doth bring.
These weird witches, the truth they speak;
I might be president this time next week.
But witches messeth with your head,
It just might be Barack instead.

Exeunt.

ARE THESE POLITICAL PUNDITS GROVELING AND BEGGING FOR JOBS, SUCH AS SPEECH WRITING ?

It seems to me to be the case. These guys are on cable every night praising Governor Sarah Palin and Joe the plumber. Sometimes they can't get the words out and stumble over them if asked a question out of their talking points.

They think the American public is so dumb and is dumbing down the public for their own gain. It is so disgusting. I don't know when the spinning stops and the real conversation begins. I am just thinking about their children and if they have any respect for them.

When I go to San Diego and stay at one of their luxury hotels and two blocks away there are hundreds of homeless and runaway kids camped out on the sidewalk. Some of these kids parents say "do as I tell you and not as I do". I believe they think their parents are hypocrites.

The parking at this hotel was valet parking only and costs 22.00 a night. There was no other option. I guess it was for the guests safety.

TACTICS TO KEEP COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM VOTING

TOP STORY
Friday, October 31, 2008State laws pose hurdles for student votersBy Christina M. Wright, Special to Stateline.org
College students who registered to vote in the state where they attend school have faced sometimes daunting regulations that vary from state to state. And they may confront one more hurdle — showing acceptable identification at the polls.
While the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1979 that students can register to vote at their college address, a wide range of state laws, some made stricter since the 2004 elections, and some questionable interpretation by local registrars have deterred some young voters from registering.
Seven states, most of them battleground states, have laws that make it more difficult than others for out-of-state students to establish residency where they attend school, register to vote there and verify their identity at the polls, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School. They are Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Virginia.
The center, which studies how voting laws affect students, flagged Indiana and Florida as having the most rigorous residency verification.
In Florida, each voter must present a photo ID with a signature and an address in the voting district. That can pose problems for students whose driver’s licenses often carry their home address and whose student IDs often don’t have a signature or address.
Indiana requires voters to present a photo ID that has an expiration date and is issued by the state of Indiana or the federal government.
While some states allow others forms of identification to register, such as utility bills, colleges often pay dorm utilities from student fees, leaving students without these documents.
Student voter rights are a hot topic this election season because college students voted in record numbers during the primaries and subsequent voter registration drives on campuses produced even more potential voters.
“This is the most active student electorate ever,” said Michele Jawando, a manager with the People For the American Way Foundation, which works to clarify state laws. “And the best tool for them to have is to know their rights.”
But student voter registration drives haven’t been without glitches. Permanent residency is the most debated registration regulation. College students usually claim their home address on official paperwork and their school address for paperwork mailed throughout the school year, creating confusion for state officials.
College students have been deterred from registering to vote in some states by fears or warnings that changing permanent residency could adversely affect the validity of their driver’s licenses and their parents’ claiming them as dependents on tax forms, financial aid, health and car insurance.
In August, a registrar in Montgomery County, Va., where Virginia Tech is located, issued statements — later reversed — warning students that they should weigh the consequences of changing permanent residency, prompting some students to quickly withdraw their registration. The official said that by registering at college, “you have declared your independence from your parents” for tax purposes and that the students could lose scholarships and were required to change addresses on driver’s license and car registration within 30 days.
Local officials later issued similar warnings in North Carolina and Colorado.
Jennifer Rosenberg, a Brennan Center fellow, said the project found none of those concerns valid. Almost nothing is affected by claiming permanent residency in another state for voting purposes, she said, and residency for voting is different than residency for federal matters.
“Students have had problems voting before,” Rosenberg said. “A lot of the local registrars don’t understand the rules; the poll workers don’t understand the rules.”
Another concern of advocates are states that look for some assurance that students will stay. Virginia requires a voter to “have a physical location where they intend to stay for an unlimited time,” according to the state’s elections board. The regulation is a bit unclear, but Rosenberg said it cannot require students to declare that they will remain in Virginia after graduation.
“We believe states that require students to stay in-state after graduation are unconstitutional,” Rosenberg said.
Out-of-state college voters aiming to skip local voting issues by using absentee ballots from their home states also have run into various requirements.
Alaska, Missouri, Wisconsin and North Carolina require absentee ballots to be witnessed by at least one person. First-time Mississippi voters who registered by mail must supply a copy of an ID in the return packet, and all absentee ballots must be witnessed by a notary.
By far, the most strenuous regulation in all the battleground states is in Michigan, which requires first-time voters to either register in person or vote in person.
Rashawn Mitchner, a Howard University senior from Michigan, said she registered in person this year while she was home for winter break and will vote from Washington, D.C., by absentee ballot. But some fellow Michigan students are not sure of their state’s laws.
“I know there is some confusion,” she said. “I did hear someone say on campus that they couldn’t vote because they have to be in person.”
Some states make it quite easy for out-of-state students to vote, according to the Brennan Center. Montana accepts a wide range of documents establishing residency, including cell phone and student housing bills. Iowa, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Wisconsin are other battleground states with the least-daunting regulations.
“Some states just make it easier or understand the needs of these students,” Rosenberg said.
In response to these issues, the Student Voter Act of 2008, introduced by U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) in July, would require universities that receive federal funds to offer voter registration to students when they register for classes. “We should be making it easy,” Schakowsky said at a recent Capitol Hill conference.
Rosenberg said she thinks states make it harder for out-of-state persons to register in an effort to prevent these voters from taking control of the ballot, such as in a swing state where a few thousand votes could make the difference.
Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. made a plea in September to the 10,500 eligible students at his fundamental Baptist institution in Lynchburg, Va., to register locally. “Wouldn't it be something if Liberty's votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself,” Falwell said in a statement.

UNITED NATIONS REPORT ON THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT AND GROWING INEQUALITY

Growing inequality in US cities could lead to widespread social unrest and increased mortality, says a new United Nations report on the urban environment.
In a survey of 120 major cities, New York was found to be the ninth most unequal in the world and Atlanta, New Orleans, Washington, and Miami had similar inequality levels to those of Nairobi, Kenya Abidjan and Ivory Coast. Many were above an internationally recognised acceptable "alert" line used to warn governments.

JOHN MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN LINKED TO VOTER REGISTRATION FIRM

John McCain's campaign has directed $175, 000.00 to the firm of a Republican who has been accused of voter registration fraud in several states. The RNC, McCain-Palin campaign and the California Republican Party made the payment to the group Sproul and Associates (former name of Lincoln Strategy ) for registering voters.

The managing partner of that firm is Nathan Sproul. He has been investigatedmany times for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registrations of minorities,and helping to get Ralph Nader on ballots to hinder the Democratic ticket.

TALIBAN HAS BEHEADED UP TO 30 PEOPLE

The victims were passengers on a bus in southern Afghanistan. They were being accused of being soldiers travelling in civilian clothes. 6 bodies were found. They were beheaded, mutilated and dumped.
24 others have been killed but their bodies have not been found yet.The attack occured on the main road from the southern city of Kandahar to the western town of Herat. It took place in Maiwand District.

TAINTED FEED KILLS 1,500 DOGS IN CHINA

The 1,500 raccoon dogs were bred for their fur that is used to trim coats and other clothing. The feed was tainted with melamine, it causes kidney stones.

The dogs died of kidney failure after eating the tainted feed, Zhang Wenkui, a veterinary professor at Shenyang Agriculture University said.

There is a crisis where the dairy products caused kidney stones in tens of thousands of children and has been linked to the deaths of four children.

The chemical has also been found to be in the edible body paint.

ACORN OFFICES VANDALIZED AND STAFF GETTING DEATH THREATS

For two weeks employees of Acorn have been attacked. John McCain told a national audience that Acorn was " maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy",and after that Acorn's Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized.

The staffer who appeared on tv received a death threat.There have been racist and threatening voicemails and emails.

SURGE IN ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS IN ITALY

With the economic crisis under way, they are blaming the immigrants. People have been beaten and killed recently because they are accused of stealing work from Italians.

3.6 million legal immigrants were admitted last year. Italy needs the immigrants because of low birth rates and to boost the economy. A minister said the spectre of fascism is returning to Italy.

IMMIGRATION MINISTER IN UK WANTS TO CAP NUMBER OF PEOPLE GETTING IN

The reason for the cap is because of tough economic conditions & people losing their jobs. There will be a balance of number of people coming in and people leaving.

MEXICAN POLICE SEIZE LIONS AND TIGERS IN A RAID ON COLUMBIAN DRUG DEALERS

An impressive collection of rare big cats including an albino tiger is under Mexican police control after being seized in a raid on the Mexico City mansion of alleged Colombian drug traffickers. The private zoo was also home to an ordinary white tiger, a couple of black panthers, two African lions and a chimpanzee.
The house was covered in elaborate wooden carvings in styles ranging from ancient Greek to Indian. An artificial lake in the grounds contained fibreglass sculptures of two crocodiles and a hippopotamus. One room in the house contained a very large buddha.
The raid, on Saturday, resulted in the arrest of 11 Colombians, two Mexicans, a Uruguayan, and a US citizen.

DID THE SECRET SERVICE SPIRIT BARAK OBAMA OUT OF THE MAINLAND !

I was just sitting here wondering if the Secret Service had to get Senator Barak Obama out of the mainland ? Since Colin Powell endorsed him yesterday, some of the anchor persons, politicians, and talking heads have been spewing hatred like rabid dogs.

I am thinking they could not protect him adequately here on the campaign trail. I am enthusiastic that we know who these racist people are and people all over the world know also.

I hope that in the future it will hurt them in their pocketbook in their book sales and speaking engagements. Their fellow co-workers will not call them out on it but I know they will never forget .

NORMANDY HIGH SCHOOL IN ST. LOUIS : AIDS SCARE

Parents were notified that as many as 50 students may have been exposed to the HIV VIRUS. They will not give the name of the infected person, but they want kids to be tested.

The testing will start in two weeks. Why does it take this long to be tested? I am wondering if the testing will start on election day or the day before. We will have to wait and see, if this is a tactic to keep people from voting.

DOES THE AVERAGE AMERICAN HAVE TO READ THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER TO GET THE NEWS ?

It seems that way to me. It seems like the media is shying away from the news because of the fear of bashing someone. Like Joe the plumber. Why are the republicans mentioning his name after the fact that he was a liar.

Whenever I turn on the t v and he is on, I click the clicker. He was caught in so many lies that I don.t believe anything that he says. I know his neighbors and family members alerted the media that he was not all he cracked up to be.

When I look at Joe the plumber, I think about the people who pad their resumes and people who wear medals and claim they were highly decorated vets.

THIS IS AN EYE-OPENING BLOG

This is a must read blog which speaks truth.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com-anitathompson:NotetoMcCainforPickingacutebuffoon/

UNEMPLOYED BANKERS IN BRITAIN

Unemployed bankers in Britain are now being advised to seek work in Shanghai or Mumbai amid warnings that the "square mile" will be permanently reshaped by the crises.

THE AVIATION INDUSTRY IS AT RISK

Willie Walsh, the British Airways Chief executive, is predicting that up to 30 airlines worldwide will go bust. Some airlines in the states are having reduced flights,and dropping some cities.

I AM SO GLAD THAT JOHN McCAIN SHOWED SOME CLASS

I am so glad that John McCain showed some class by renouncing the bigots at his rally. He knows that whether he wins or loses, he will have to work in Washington. And he does not want to be shunned.

His supporters and handlers didn't want him to come out and stop the attacks on Barak Obama. But that shows he has some decency left. He is bringing out the David Dukes and the Timothy McVeigh's at those rally's.

If someone leaves his rally and group attack someone, he will get blamed for riling them up . I hope he isn't looking at those talking heads on cable. I don't look at fox and sometimes I have to turn off NPR because they go too far left sometimes.

The way things are going now I think it will be a toss-up as to who will win this election. It is so close.

WILL YOU CARE WHO THE PRESIDENT IS IF YOU LOSE YOUR JOB AND HOUSE NEXT YEAR ?

All this fretting over a Black man being elected president will be furthest from your mind if you have to stand in a soup line or sleep in your car next year. In Santa Barbara, some of their wealthiest citizens are sleeping in their cars in a park.

I have been working in political campaigns since 1965 and they were White men. I did not show any prejudice to them and they accepted me and respected me.

With these two political parties , there are two cliques in Washington, and they change places every two or four years.That's why the Jehovah Witnesses do not vote, it is the same old thing, no matter which party gets in.

I am just worried about the Supreme Court Justices and Administration officials that will be hired. And I want the people in their cities to rise up and replace their leaders in Washington that do not have the best wishes of the people in heart.

WHY DO SOME WHITES THINK ALL BLACKS ARE VOTING FOR OBAMA ?

There are some Black Republican Clubs all over America. They are voting for McCain. They are not voting against a Black man, they are voting for the party of their choice. I know many Black Republicans.

I haven't seen much of them lately, maybe because they are afraid they may get stoned, Ha-Ha-Ha.I think some Whites think that if Obama gets elected, he will cater to Blacks.

I do not think this is so. He was not reared around Blacks. He lived a cosmopolitan life. He is tolerant of many cultures. Do you think that Oprah Winfrey caters only to Blacks? When she rewards people on her show for their good works, color doesn't even matter.

Also Tiger Woods, he is not surrounded by Blacks. He is not in the regular guys world. He is surrounded by his handlers. So is the case with Barak Obama. If a person thinks he will get to see him, they are mistaken.

They will have to go through so many handlers, he may not ever get a message. So to think he will desecrate the White House, that is ignorance. He is a very educated, intelligent man and he has street smarts.He has traveled all over the world, so he will not fall for the okey-doke.

JOHN McCAIN IS BRINGING OUT THE CRAZIES

Why is he doing this ? It seems like Sarah Palin is catering to the fringe groups. Do they want the Aryans, skinheads, stoners and militia in their camp? How are they going to distance themselves from these groups if they win the election? The world is watching. I would hope they would take note of the foreign press and get their take on this.

IF McCAIN WINS WHAT WILL HIS APPROVAL RATING BE IN THE FIRST FEW DAYS ?

I think the approval rating will be lower that George Bush has now. I am shuddering to think about it. He will be the O J of politics. How low can you go.

I have never seen gutter politics like this and I have worked in campaigns since 1965. I don't think the stench will ever go away.

THE MOST COSTLY SAVINGS AND LOAN FAILURE EVER

In 1987 the federal regulators were investigating Charles H Keating Jr. of Lincoln Savings and Loan. He was a big contributor to senators Dennis DeConcini and John McCain of Arizona, Alan Cranston of California, John Glenn of Ohio, and Don Riegle of Michigan.

He urged the senators to stall and block the regulators. But by 1989 the regulators seized Lincoln. Some of the Senators were censured and some were reprimanded on the senate floor. Lincoln S& L collapsed in 1989 and was bailed out by the government for 2 billion. 23,000 pensioners lost their savings.

The Arizona Republican Assembly voted unanimously to censure State Senator John McCain in June of 2005, during it's annual state convention. The reasons were the Amnesty Bill for Illegal Aliens, ignoring constitutional concerns with his campaign finance reform law.

KATHLEEN SEBELIUS GOVERNOR OF KANSAS REPORTS FOR JURY DUTY

Governor Sebelius reported to the Shawnee County Courthouse and was part of a jury pool for a personal injury lawsuit. She knew the plaintiff's attorney , so she was excused. After that brief interlude, she had to return to her day job as governor.

MOSCOW CALLS FOR ANTI-U S ALLIANCE

The President of Russia has called on Europe's leaders to create a New World Order that would minimize the role of the United States. Dimitry Medvedev arrived in Evian France Wednesday to woo his fellow leaders into creating an anti-U S front.

Medvedev outlined plans for a new security pact to ban the use of force in Europe. He was playing the divide-and-rule tatics of Vladimir Putin. He proposed creating new financial systems to challenge the dominance of the IMF and the WTO, both of which had fallen under Washington's spell.

IF JOHN McCAIN ISN'T ELECTED WILL HE BE WELCOMED BACK INTO THE SENATE ?

If he isn't elected, will he be welcomed back into the senate with open arms? Or will he be shunned? He upset many legislaturers when he went to Washington and cancelled his campaign.

He was not on the committee so he could not sit in on the negotiations.He was just doing it for a photo op. Also when he went to the White House for the meet with President Bush.

He did not say anything in the meeting or ask any questions. They were confused as to why he wanted the meeting and did not say anything when they convened.I know he says he is a maverick but is this to his detriment ?

TRAGEDY AND HOPE : A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN OUR TIME

Professor Carroll Quigley was the renowned, late Georgetown macro-historian. He was mentioned by former president Clinton in his first nomination acceptance speech.

This documentary is a three and a half hour fast-paced non-fiction, historical piece that explains how international bankers manipulate America.


"The Moneymasters.com"

CADBURY, A BRITISH CONFECTIONER HAS RECALLED 11 OF IT'S CHINESE - MADE CANDY PRODUCTS

The candy was made in the company's plant in Bejing. Almost 53,000 children in China are sick from the formula with traces of melamine in it. Some babies have died.

Some of this candy is tainted with this milk. Mothers should be concerned because of halloween this month. Whenever I would go to the discount stores I would buy those giant bars with almonds or hazelnuts.

A DARK TIME IN JOHN MCCAIN'S LIFE

Senator John McCain has written that the Keating Five period was a dark time in his life, and he believed he made serious errors in judgement. He was reprimanded by the senate for his part in the scandal.

THE ALASKA PERMANENT FUND

The Alaska Permanent Fund at this time holds $ 22 million dollars in Sudan-linked investments, even though Governor Sarah Palin has said they had divested in them.

This is according to the non profit Sudan Divestment Task Force. The fund does not need the state legislature to divest itself of these holdings.

AARON RUSSO'S FILM : A MUST SEE

A view of Aaron Russo's film: Freedom to Fascism



http://www.freedomtofascism.com

SARAH PALIN IS A SMEARMONGER

Sarah Palin is being used as a tool of the Republican Party for their advancement. I do not think she is doing justice to women of the world. I would not let someone use me to lose all self respect and inegrity for myself.

I am wondering how her children will view her in the years to come of her behavior. I wonder what she thinks when she looks in the mirror, does she have a shred of decency left.

She is so hungry for power that she would do anything for it. But she will realize that after the election she will not be accepted into the old boys network.

RUDY GIULIANI TO PROFIT FROM THE WALL STREET BAILOUT

Former Mayor Rudy Giulani has begun to advise corporate clients on how to profit from the government's 700 billion dollar bailout. Bracewell and Giulani LLP has formed a corporate task force to advise investment funds, financial institutions, and investors about the package.

U S MINT HAS SUSPENDED THE SALE OF 24-KARAT GOLD COINS

The U S Mint can't keep up with the soaring demand as investors seek the safety of gold. Mint spokesman Michael White said sales were being suspended because of demand for the coin.

McCAIN IS USING PALIN AS HIS ATTACK DOG !!

Senator John McCain is using Governor Sarah Palin as his attack dog so he cannot be blamed for any damaging smears to the media. She will put anything out there that is put before her.

I hope that she would have enough gumption to say no against anything that she will not tolerate, and not let herself to be put out there with talking points.

DONALD TRUMP TO SUBPOENA NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHER

Donald Trump will subpoena the New York Times publisher because a book written by a reporter Timothy O'Brien described him as a millionaire rather than a billionaire.

THE NEW YORK SUN TO CLOSE

The paper was founded in 2002. It was said to be an alternative to the New York Times. The senior managers say the paper needs "tens of millions of dollars" to survive.

WILL WARREN BUFFETT CHANGE THE MICKEY MOUSE EARS AT DISNEYLAND !!!

Since Warren Buffett has saved GE, will he change the look at Disneyland? He pumped $ 3 billion dollars into GE. GE also owns ABC and Disney. He stands to profit with $20 billion dollars.

SARAH PALIN HOLDING HER OWN BABY

Yesterday when Sarah Palin embarked off the plane, she was holding her own baby. Usually that task is delegated to someone else. I had never seen her holding the baby.

Was that just a photo op, or just in case she did not do well in the debate, she would get empathy from all the moms. She also had her arm bandaged from the fall she had at John McCain's compound.

COULD A FIFTH GRADER ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT KATIE COURIC AND CHARLIE GIPSON ASKED ?

It is a question that I would like to know the answer to. I was wondering. There was a show on recently by that title and some of the questions were difficult for the parents to answer.

POLITICIANS WHO ADDED PORK TO BAILOUT SHOULD BE CENSURED !!

I think that the politicians who added pork to the Bailout Bill should be censured .It is a disgrace. Have they forgotten about the people from Galveston and the victims of Hurricane Ike ? We want to know their names so they will not do another term in Washington.

WHO DOES FOX WANT TO REPLACE GWEN IFILL WITH ? HANNITY ???

Fox News wants Gwen Ifill replaced from the VP Debates. Who do they want to replace her ? Hannity ?

Ifill has published a book about Obama and they think it is grounds for Ifill's dismissal. No trick or gimmick will change the outcome of the debate.

Palin reminded me of Miss South Carolina in all of her interviews.

SOME BELIEVE THAT AMERICA HAS FALLEN FROM POWER

John Gray, wrote an article in The Observer, Sunday, September 28, 2008 about America' s position in the world:




The global financial crisis will see the US falter in the same way the Soviet Union did when the Berlin Wall came down. The era of American dominance is over


Our gaze might be on the markets melting down, but the upheaval we are experiencing is more than a financial crisis, however large. Here is a historic geopolitical shift, in which the balance of power in the world is being altered irrevocably. The era of American global leadership, reaching back to the Second World War, is over.

" THE DEBATES HAVE ABOUT AS MUCH INTEGRITY AS A WWF WRESTLING BOUT !!!

This is the view of the Washington Diarist Gary Younge. He spoke of the debates in the Guardian Weekly Global Network. All I can say is WOW !!

IS TODD PALIN THE REAL GOVERNOR OF ALASKA ?

It seems to me that Todd Palin is the real governor of Alaska. He is always there, instead of being a stay at home dad. It was said he attended all meetings of the governor in Alaska. And now he is on the platform at every rally.

He also travels with the campaign.I wonder if Sarah can deliver if Todd is not there ? Has he been the one that has been coaching her all these years ? Has he put her in the forefront, and he has stayed in the background ? Were all those ideas his instead of hers ?

BILL CLINTON IS A DETRIMENT TO BARAK OBAMA

Bill Clinton is not helping Barak Obama at all. His heart is not in it. And if anyone can read through the lines, they will know this is true. He should just back away.

He thought this was Hillary's time and Obama should step aside this year. I think this will backfire on him and hurt Hillary's legacy. People are really listening to him and watching his body language.

I don't think Obama needs him just like he didn't need Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.When Bill Clinton does go out on the stump, he only wants to talk about his new projects and not Barak, which is the reason he is there.

DO YOU WANT FAT CATS OR CHINA TO OWN WALL STREET !!

I for one do not want the fat cats to buy Wall Street. They will be as rich as the rulers in Saudi Arabia. Also I do not want China to buy Wall Street. They already own many skyscrapers in New York.

WHY BARAK OBAMA USED KID GLOVES IN DEBATE

Barak Obama used kid gloves on John McCain because that is his makeup. He has been taught to respect his elders. He has more tolerance than most. If McCain had collapsed on stage, then Obama would be devastated.

It reminds me of high school. After school we would go to the park and sometimes play basketball. We knew the boys were afraid to play aggressively so we would take advantage of the situation.

We would jab them with our elbows and play very rough.

ALL INCUMBENTS SHOULD BE KICKED OUT !!

We need some fresh blood in Washington, D.C. All the incumbents should be kicked out. Many of them have been there too long and are ineffective. It showed this week.

Americans still have a chance to elect Barr and Nader. I think the candidates are clearing the way for many Libertarians, Greens, and Independents to forge ahead.

IS McCAIN'S CAMPAIGN FOR HIM OR AGAINST HIM !!

I don't know who planned his strategy last week, but they should be fired. It was a disgrace. I am wondering whoever that person was, does he want McCain to win ?

Each week there seems to be some kind of stunt or something. They will throw anything out there and hope it will stick. I think McCain should follow his own gut instincts. There are so many people telling him these pranks will work.

He is trying to re-invent himself every week. He is trying to call Obama's bluff and it is not working. It has Karl Rove written all over it.

CCPOA LAUNCHES RECALL OF GOVERNOR

The California Correctional Officers Association has taken this stance because they feel betrayed by the governor.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had a plan to reduce salaries to mininum wage for correctional officers. The officers have been working without a contract for two years.

TWO BORDER PATROL AGENTS ARE POLITICAL PRISONERS

I want to know what the two nominees are going to do about the two border patrol agents that are in federal prison. Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean have been sentenced to ten years in prison for shooting a Mexican drug dealer.

Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila was given immunity for testifying against the border patrol agents. The drug smuggler has American counsel and is sueing the Border Patrol for five million dollars for violating his civil rights.

The White House is upholding the conviction of the Border Patrol Agents. I hope the new president will pardon and release these officers from federal prison. I feel like they are like the National Guard and the military protecting americans like you and me.

IS JOHN McCAIN OVEREXPOSED !!

I do not like to see John McCain on tv everytime I turn it on. When there is breaking news, I see his face. I do not want to see him until after the election.

I want to see my president, George Walker Bush hold a press conference and want to see what he has to say.His time is not up until January.

Everytime I see McCain I think about the guys that like to have their photos taken with celebrities and no one knows who they are.

BARR NADER & BALDWIN ON ALABAMA BALLOT

Voters will have a choice when they cast their ballots.

Contsitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin, founder of Crossroads Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida.

Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr, a former Georgia congressman.

Ralph Nader, a consumer activist

They were required to submit at least 5,000 signatures to be placed on the ballot.

A MUST READ IF YOU ARE VOTING FOR McCAIN !!

Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason Magazine has written a biography on John McCain. It is a in depth and character study on this senator.

The title is: MCCAIN: THE MYTH OF A MAVERICK

In this book are references of occurrences, voting records, public records and documented history. This is a must read before the 2008 election.

SARAH PALIN'S INTERVIEW WITH KATIE COURIC REMINDED ME OF MISS SOUTH CAROLINA

I thought I would never see anything like that ever again. I was speechless and sitting on the edge of my seat. It was an embarrassing time for Sarah Palin. She knew that she was not doing so well in the interview.

MR. JOHN RUBINO PREDICTED THE FALL OF THE STOCK MARKET LAST YEAR

His site is: www.dollarcollapse.com. He has a book that is a must read, " The Coming Collapse Of The Dollar."


Also another good site is:

www.doctorhousingbubble.com

MCCAIN WANTS TO CANCEL VP DEBATE

According to CNN's Dana Bash, Mccain's officials are trying to postpone the VP debate to another date. It is not known why McCain wants to go to Washington. They say he hasn't been there since April. He can't even go into the room where the negotiation's are taking place.

The White House meeting was just a photo op.Mccain has skipped more votes this session than any member of the senate. Mccain acknowledged he had not even read the three page bail out proposal.

CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS WANT TO CENSURE LIEBERMAN

The Democrats are campaigning the resolution to censure for Senator Joseph Lieberman.

He has campaigned for the Republican presidential candidate and critic zed his own party's nominee . They have agreed to wait until after election day.

They want to publicly censure and repudiate his words and actions and ask him to resign from the party. Lieberman has said he is surprised by the move to censure him.

THE BUSH DOCTRINE

President Bush's Doctrine has been used in the last eight years and that's why we have this diseaster.

Thomas Donnelly of the American Enterprise Institute wrote in 2003 an article entitled "The Underpinnings of the
Bush Doctrine" We will suffer from this policy for years to come.

The policy is that the US has the right to and will start wars against countries even if they have not attacked us and were not going to do so.

Ron Paul said " The Bush Doctrine of premptive war is not a minor change, this is huge".

THE AVERAGE AMERICAN'S TAKE ON THE BAILOUT !!

The people I have talked to have no pity for Wall Street. They had no compassion for the little guy. I think about the guys that took their own lives after losing everything because of day trading.

The employees of Enron got no support when the company went bust. The government did not step in to help the workers. The CEO's walked away with a lot of money.

These big corporations will not budge if a person wants to negotiate
their loans.They will not meet them half way.

SCHWARZENEGGER PLAYS HARDBALL

Schwarzenegger signed a $145 billion dollar 2008-2009- California budget. It was the longest overdue budget in California history. The Governor eliminated $510 million dollars in spending for elderly renters and homeowners, and lower prescription drug prices.

More that 80,000 state vendors will now be able to pay their outstanding bills. Some child care providers had to close their doors.

REPUBLICANS MAKE UP 30 PERCENT OF THE ELECTORATE

McCain needs Independents and Democrats to win. The evangelicals were Palin's main impact, but the voters shifted back to Barak Obama after the RNC

BLOGGER SENT TO DENTENTION FOR TWO YEARS WITHOUT A TRIAL

In Kaula Lumpur Malaysia, the leading blogger is in dentention under internal security laws. He is being accused of insulting Islam.

Raja Petra Kamaruddin's wife said he was sent there on the order of the house minister. He is a government critic and founder of the Malaysia Today website.

SARAH PALIN'S MOTHER IN LAW

Sarah Palin's mother-in-law says she enjoys hearing Barak Obama speak. But she still hasn't decided which way she will vote.

I guess that's why some of the news anchors say when the curtain on the voting booth closes, who knows?

WRITER DAVID FOSTER WALLACE FOUND DEAD

Writer David Foster Wallace Found Dead

Acclaimed writer David Foster Wallace, best known for his literary masterpiece Infinite Jest, killed himself over the weekend by hanging. Wallace was just 46-years old.
Wallace was discovered by his wife, Karen Green, who returned home to find that he had hanged himself, Claremont police said. He was 46.
The novelist, essayist and humorist hailed for his ironic wit gained international prominence with Infinite Jest, a 1,079-page novel that takes place in a drug rehabilitation centre and an elite tennis academy.
Wallace is also known for his first novel, The Broom of the System. He is survived by his wife Karen.

MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN IS RESHAPING PALIN'S IMAGE

This is to limit embarrassing disclosures. They are coordinating any information that's released. They are in charge of disclosing information about Alaska's government's operations forthe past 20 months. Reporters are referred to the presidential campaign.

The RNC and a dozen researchers and lawyers from McCain's campaign are in Alaska to go over Palin's background and respond to questions about her tenure as governor and mayor of Wasilla.Critics of Palin are called "Alaska's Mythbusters". They are elected officials who have opposed Palin and critized her work.

IT IS TIME FOR THE G8 TO MEET

What has been going on in their last few summits? Was there only talk of oil, wars, and money? Why didn't they forsee the collapse of the world's markets and banking institutions?

Though the G8 is an informal forum, not like the United Nations or the World Bank, this is a crisis.

HENRY T SAMPSON: THE BLACK MAN WHO INVENTED THE CELL PHONE

Henry Thomas Sampson - 1934 Inventor of the Gamma-Electric Cell

On July 6th, 1971, Henry T. Sampson invented the "gamma-electric cell", which pertains to Nuclear Reactor use. According to Dr. Sampson, the Gamma Electric Cell, patented July 6, 1971, Patent No. 3,591,860 produces stable high-voltage output and current to detect radiation in the ground.
Born in Jackson, Mississippi, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University in 1956. He went on to the University of California, Los Angeles where he graduated with an MS degree in engineering in 1961; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, MS in Nuclear Engineering in 1965, and a PHD in 1967.
Mobile Communications took a big step forward in 1983 with the invention of the Cellular System regulating the portable telephones, which use radio waves to transmit and receive audio signals. Before this time, mobile telephone service in the United States, consisting mainly of car phones, was extremely limited because metropolitan areas had only one antenna for these purposes. In addition, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) assigned only 12 to 24 frequencies to each area, which meant that only that many calls could occur at a time. These limitations often meant a wait of up to 30 minutes for a dial tone and a five to 10 year waiting list just to acquire the service. With the invention of cellular phone service in 1983, personal communications no longer depended on wires. In the 1990s it would become possible to connect to the Internet from virtually anywhere in the world using a portable computer and a cellular modem with satellite service. Technologies that developed from different fields, such as personal communications, computation, and space exploration often worked together to serve the constantly evolving human needs of the information age.
Henry T. Sampson worked as a research Chemical Engineer at the US Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California. 1956-61. Henry T. Sampson then moved on to the Aerospace Corp, El Segundo, California. His titles include: Project Engineer, 1967-81, director of Planning and Operations Directorate of Space Test Program, 1981-, and Co-inventor of gamma-electric cell.
He holds patents related to solid rocket motors and conversion of nuclear energy into electricity. He also pioneered a study of internal ballistics of solid rocket motors using high-speed photography.
He was also a producer of documentary films on early black filmmakers and films, a member of the board of directors of Los Angeles Southwest College Foundation, and a technical consultant to Historical Black Colleges and Universities Program.
Sampson's Awards and Honors:
Fellow of US Navy, 1962-1964
Atomic Energy Commission, 1964-1967
Black Image Award from Aerospace Corp, 1982
Blacks in Engineering, Applied Science, and Education Award, Los Angeles Council of Black Professional Engineers, 1983

ALASKANS PROTEST PALIN

There was an "Anti-Palin" protest at the Anchorage Loussac Library against Sarah Palin.Many people who were there heard about it on the Eddie Burke radio show. He called the anti- Palin organizers "socialist maggots", gave out their phone numbers to have his listeners call them.

Many callers threatened the organizers, and the tv station ran a news story on it. Over 1400 people showed up for the Anti-Palin rally and for the Pro-Palin people there were 93. The Anchorage Police Department was there, but there were no problems.

There were signs supporting Barak Obama. Lots of people passing by were honking their horns.

CANADIANS ARE FEELING UNEASY ABOUT THE U.S.

To quote their former Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau:


Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. Pierre Trudeau

JUST BECAUSE HE'S BLACK

A white man asked his black friend,"Are you voting for Barak Obama just because he's black ?

The black man responded by saying, "Why not ? Hell, in this country men are pulled over everyday just because they're black; passed over for promotions just because they're black; considered to be criminals just because they're black ;and there are going to be thousands of you who won't be voting for him just because he's black ! However , you do not seem to have a problem with that !

This country was built with the sweat and whip off the black slaves' back, and now a descendent of those same slaves has a chance to lead the same country, where we weren't even considered to be people, where we weren't allowed to be educated, drink from the same water fountains, eat in the same restaurants, or even vote. So yes! I am going to vote for him!

But it's not just because he's black, but because he is hope, he is change, and he now allows me to understand when my grandson says that he wants to be president when he grows up, it is not a fairy tale but a short term goal.

He now sees, understands and knows that he can achieve, withstand and do ANYTHING just because he's black !

"WHILE THE WHITE HOUSE SLEPT"

While the White House slept, America went to hell in a handbasket. With AIG having to be bailed out, people are very upset.

The White House was so dedicated with the war, they failed to notice what was going on in the other departments. I think heads should roll. Whoever President Bush entrusted to manage these brokerage firms failed.

JOHN MCCAIN IS LOOKING DAPPER THIS WEEK

John Mccain has been looking very presidential this week. In the past he had rumpled suits that looked like they came off the rack. He looks very GQ the last two days.

He looks very Brooks Brothers like. His hair looks like it had been bleached, sprayed, and laid. I thought of John Edwards $700 dollar hair cut.

ADAK ALASKA CAN'T PAY THEIR OIL BILLS

This Native community will be left out in the cold this winter. The oil company that delivers there is cutting them off. This city did not get a $1200 energy relief check.

Adak was formerly a military station.In the past they had to shut off power at night to conserve. They are wondering if Palin will show up for the Rural Energy Conference.

Residents and lawmakers are dissapointed with her previous Rural vetoes, and energy vetoes, (except the oil ones). She has vetoed funding for some Rural energy relief for the Yupit School District"s energy costs when they were high.

WILL PALIN BE BANISHED TO QUARTERS AFTER THE ELECTION ?

I think Sarah Palin will be banished to quarters after the election. She will never be a member of the good old boy network. I don't think she will be admitted to the inner circle or high level meetings

I think the GOP is using her as a tool to get elected. I think she will have a rude awakening. Just like Colin Powell and Condelezza Rice were never in the inner circle. It seems like Condelezza Rice has been banished to Europe and the Middle East.

L A COUNTY RECORDER FORCING PEOPLE TO VOTE BY MAIL

Dean C Logan, Los Angeles County Recorder has notified a neighborhood in Los Angeles that they will have to vote by mail. This has never happened to them before.

They were told that their precinct had only 250 persons and they had no polling place to send them to , so they had to vote by mail. The people in the community are very upset. There have always been polling places in their community.

MCCAIN'S CAMP ASKED RON PAUL FOR ENDORSEMENT

On Tuesday Ron Paul, Texas Congressman recieved a call from McCain's campaign asking him for his endorsement. Paul turned them down.

Paul said "They thought he would do less harm that the other candidate." Paul has a big following on the internet and among independents.

Paul suggests backing non-major party candidates. He had his convention in Minnesota at the same time as the RNC were having their's.

OKLAHOMA'S RON PAUL DELEGATES WERE DISENFRANCHISED

Out of the delegation's 41 votes, 39 went to Senator John McCain, and 2 should have gone to Libertarian Ron Paul. But after the 39 votes were announced, the microphone cut off.

RNC Convention organizers said the mistake could not be corrected, and all 41 votes were recorded for McCain. One of the Paul delegates was so disgusted he ripped the Oklahoma patch off his blazer and stormed out of the convention center.

HILLARY CANNOT BE REPLACED

That is the sentiment of the persons that I have interviewed. Even my sister said that she wanted Hillary, and no one could replace her. Hillary Clinton has worked her entire life for the disenfranchised and women know she will sympathize with their problems.

Or at least she will know what women have gone through.Hillary was discriminated against when she was working on the health care and childrens programs.

MCCAIN'S VETTING PROCESS

Tim Pawlenty was the first runner up for Vice President pick. There were orginally 20 names vetted. It was soon pared down to six, then two,and finally Palin.

The four other finalists were Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and U S Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat turned Independent fron Conneticut.

According to the Post, relying on unnamed sources, Palin disclosed her seventeen year old daughter's pregnancy the day before McCain offered her the VP post.

NEVADA REPUBLICANS HAD TO PAY FOR OWN FOOD AT RNC

Nevada Democrats at the RNC had a daily breakfast sponsored by some of the state's leading corporations and political players.

When the Republicans asked some companies to do the same they were rebuffed.

And I thought that Nevada was a Republican state.

NORTH CAROLINA'S DELEGATES WERE TREATED LIKE ROYALTY AT RNC

Novartis, a health care products company is building a $600 million dollar vaccine plant in the state.

They bussed the delegates to a country club at the lake where the delegates took tours, and downed drinks and had a buffet lunch.

This seems like a little lobbying to me.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY GROWS IN HAWAII

The Hawaiian's Democratic Party's rolls spiked by 36,000 in one day following Barak Obama's win in the February Caucuses.

The citizens are taking great pride that he grew up in Hawaii, and his roots are there. The party hopes to gain back the governors seat in 2010.

The hope is that the next president and congress give Native Hawaiians the same federal recognition that Native Americans have."

THE ARMY OPENS A PREP SCHOOL

The Army has formally opened its first prep school last week. The Army is providing studies for a GED before they are ready to begin basic training.

Jeffrey Sanderson, Chief of Staff at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, is the head. Fort Jackson is the home of the Army's largest basic training school. He says it's academic immersion.

Studies show that only three out of ten people of military age are being capable of joining the Army. The Army expects to fill it's ranks in Iraq and Afghanistan.

ARMY NATIONAL GUARD TRAINS IN THE REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA

The Army National Guard of Atlanta will train in the Republic of Georgia. They went for joint military exercises, and will be a part of "Immediate Response 2008" .

This will amount to the largest U S group near the border of Asia and Europe since the cold war began. The three week operation will provide training for the 48th Infantry Brigade's 1st Battalion 121st Infantry Regiment just months before a pending deployment to Afghanistan.

Atlanta's Maj. Matt Smith, 36, took over command of the 1-121 last month.

JOHN McCAIN IS BEATING A DEAD HORSE INTO THE GROUND !!

I for one am tired of hearing John McCain talk about his prisoner of war days. He talks about it every time he speaks.

We all know the story and are impressed about it, but we want to know more about his future plans.

I was very impressed when CNN showed his family history. But it seems like every time someone asks him a question, he reverts back to the time when he was a POW.

Like when he was at the Rick Warren forum and on the Jay Leno show. That is the only time he can talk without a teleprompter.When he doesn't know how to answer a question, he will go for his POW talk.

LAND ROVER CUTS BACK PRODUCTION

British carmaker Land Rover, recently taken over by Indian industrial giant TATA, has told employees it will scale back production because of a slowdown and credit crunch.

They are avoiding a backlog because of market conditions in Britain and the United States. Production will go from 5 days to 4 and the night shift will be halted. Land Rover employs around 5000 people in England.

DUTCH NEWSPAPER:U S ATTACK ON IRAN IMMINENT

Holland's largest newspaper, TELEGRAAF,reports that a decision has been made by the United States to attack Iran in the next few weeks.

ACLU DENIED ACCESS TO PROTESTORS IN DENVER

Protestor's are being denied access to attorneys and forced to appear in court barefoot and their legs in shackles.

They cannot use phones to post bail. Denver law enforcement refused to let arrestee's meet with the Peoples Law Project and the ACLU.