Russet Dead/ NBC Coverage

Congratulations and thank you NBC.

Thank you for proving me right in what I have been saying for many years now that your network would be much better suited as that of professional pallbearers rather than claiming to be "newscasters".

Perhaps you should consider moving your net work to China were indeed that is a legitimate profession and is at the present time seeing a shortage in professional mourners.

Poor Tim was not even cold and your team of "grievers" donned their bleary eyes, tissues, choked out sobs and broke out hours of stored footage always a hand to barrage us with "moments" in an unending barrage of tributes that still continue.

While I understand that he has left a major "vacuum" at your network you will be hard pressed to fill, I must ask you if whether or not you bothered learning anything at all from him?

He was but a man, a person I am sorry to say. Not a head of state, foreign leader, religious icon or political influential person assassinated in some horrible way.

He simply died. As hundreds of thousands of people do around the globe do everyday without so much as a "by the way", yet he was one of your own so we have been subjected to a never-ending eulogy/montage continuing even as I write.

You have allowed much more pressing and pertinent news of the day of much more value and concern to your viewers to slide the wayside in your self deluded, self centered, self aggrandizing selfish attempt to ensure you enshrined his memory well enough in viewers minds as to covers your past crimes of coverage.

You allowed entire cities, counties and states of our country to slide under water without even a word while you had person after person tout how wonderful and terrific an interviewer Tim was. 1,100 people escaped from a prison in Afghanistan and are still on the loose, but, the number of interviews Tim had or what he was doing prior to his collapse was far more important than informing your viewers. More of our soldiers died in both Iraq and Afghanistan but Tim's bond with his father was more important than their lives on these days, what misguided priorities. Malikies statements that he believed his country would not sign the pending treaty proposed to his country involving permanent bases and committal of our troops did not even warrant a mention during your continual monologue of Tim's prowess, not that this should surprise your viewers in any way as Iraq has fallen off your radar entirely unless it includes some more talking points provided by the White House. Al Sadir announced they would not partake in the upcoming elections and fight the occupiers, but yet pictures of Tim and his father were far more important to show on your screens ad nauseous.

It would have been bad enough had you dedicated only one channel to this nonsense, but no, you had to monopolize each and every channel you control so that no matter where one went looking for some relief, there was none to be found. Unless that is as a last resort, one went to FOX. Was that your intent? To drive away your viewers in your attempt to memorialize your icon?

In closing I can only restate my disappointment in your coverage of this sorrowful event and remind you of the simple fact that now matter how much you loved and respected Mr. Timothy Russet, he was simply a man. He will not be lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda, he will simply be buried at home in Buffalo like any of us would naturally be [give them some privacy, please]. And as you now ponder the demise of your other aging press corps members [of which there are many], please do not make this same mistake again.

Wherever Tim is now be sure he is looking over your shoulders shaking his head from side to side with dismay saying to himself, "gosh, I thought I taught them better than this".

Madame Feinstein

May 20, 2008
Madame Feinstein,
Please take careful note of my salutation because the title is not one of respect. Quite the contrary, I am using it to portray the depths to which you have allowed yourself to fall in the hallowed halls we the people of California have for far too long allowed you to remain.
What better way to explain the latest fiasco piece of “tuck and run” legislation in which you have participated? Attempting to slide a one-hundred page piece of legislation pertaining to Amnesty for millions of ILLEGAL immigrants during the dead of night defies comprehension. To what depths have you sunk that the only support for this scheme you could find [trolling the dark halls and empty stalls of the Capital?] where you found amid the empty stalls none other than “wide stance toe tapping” Larry Craig of Idaho? Out of 99 other Senators was this the best you could do? A man who has no reputation left? A man who has sworn to resign more than once to the public on national television, but yet continues blathering on on a daily basis helping no one but himself, trying to hold onto his political life. Was this issue not put to rest last year with the resounding sound of OUR voices when this travesty was first brought to the floor? What part of the country’s outcry did you not understand? Was the crashing of the Capitol’s switchboard not enough? Was the overwhelming number of e-mails received not enough? Perhaps even the tons of snail mail received by the Capitol never caught your attention.
Whatever reason this public outcry escaped your attention matters not at this point, what matters now is the way you have conducted yourself against the peoples you have been elected to represent. You have violated that ill-founded trust by your actions for whatever reasons you have chosen and we deserve an explanation NOW. This is not a minor issue that effects but a few of your constituents, as you would have your fellow conspirators in Congress believe. What I would like to know, and feel many of my fellow Californians as well many millions of other Americans would like to know is what special interest groups you are now representing instead of us. What possessed you to attaché this amendment to the back of a War Spending Bill [which is bad enough in its own right] in the dead of night? Why are you trying to torpedo our country’s already shaky security by opening our borders to a new flood of illegal immigrants that would be sure to arrive under the asinine provisions of your new amendment? Did you even stop to think of the ramifications the provisions you were putting into this bill?
Rather than even attempting the fruitless routine of e-mailing or calling your office I am instead sending this letter out via alternative means. I have grown sick and tired of receiving your stereotyped, canned, pre-packaged generic e-mailed responses to my previous correspondence or petitions which I have either signed or sent to your office. Your staff is either unresponsive or ill informed and cared not a bit what people have to say; they simply provide a canned rapid fire response to get people off the phone as quickly as possible. [What better way to be able to have those “vital statistics’ as to the volumes and numbers of people your office “helps”?]
In closing let me say you have become an even greater embarrassment to our state. I thought that your low point had been when you voted to approve the now Attorney General, against any grain of common sense to a logical person who watched or listened to his confirmation hearings. But no, now you have perpetrated this in the dead of night, fitting because this is the time when prostitutes make their money. And you Madame Feinstein have become the United States Senate’s Number One Largest Prostitute.
Alan Stuart
Palm Springs California

Alway$ follow the money

Is there any doubt, that the hierarchy of Bear Sterns will still receive huge bailout payments? Why that JP Morgan is will retain the rights to purchase the building even if their purchase FAILS within the 60 day time frame? Who else but our present administration could would and did concoct such a sweetheart deal to "rescue" their friends in time of need?
From the day, Mr. Greenspan walked into his office at the Fed, his assault on the banking system, as we knew it began. His primary goal was the abolition of the Sarbanes-Oxley Law which had kept the banks regulated from the types investing they could peruse with their institutions monies.
Everything else that our government/congress has deregulated in their infinite wisdom has had calamitous effects on our infrastructure. Like an octopus with its many legs stretching out to its fullest length, then quickly dragging back everything within its reach to its mouth.
Therefore, has it been with communications companies, where there once many few independent owner/operators now only mega corporate exist very willing to aid the administration in their illegal wire tapping programs.
Newspapers, magazines, radios and television stations now live under the same umbrella able to monopolize, as they so desire. Restrictions once protected shattered into the winds in pieces never again recoverable. Yet again the corporate monster grows in this feeding frenzy grows, although with this change major alterations with information sharing are now discerned. “Main stream media” [MSM] rather than the News as it once was known is thrown by the wayside as “corporate” leaders are now concerned with entertainment opposed to factual news. Our “news” has now become “censored” by and with what the “spin” doctors belonging/controlling the administration demand they say. How else to explain while when fighting a war three days are spent discussing the death of a blonde bombshell whose claim to fame was marrying an old codger and an appearance at the Supreme Court. Alternatively, day upon day of addle-minded “celebrity” publicity seeking stunts is she wearing panties or not?
Energy/oil companies alike once numbered in the hundreds are now gone. Oil wells once peppered the countryside now lay fallow and abandoned thanks to monstrous large corporations that have sucked our very own recourses dry. Electrical companies so huge they now cover numerous states not merely cities as they once did, powered not out of concern for their customers as once was the case, now it is only profit based. How else to explain massive blackouts which have occurred in the not to recent past? They care for their profits but not in the maintenance or replacement of long outdated equipment along the very power grids, they utilize. Rather they wait for the next performance Mother Nature lashes out then cry as they make the minimums of repairs necessary to keep he lines running. Hoping as they know will certainly be the case, an event of calamitous proportion aka Katrina, only larger, that wipes out an entire sector or massive grid or supply sector, only then will the Federal Government will be forced to take action. Only then will it be “discovered” with shock and dismay by these very owners, how out of date, and lack of functional ability their systems have been. “It shall take trillions upon billions” of taxpayers’ dollars to install such a fix and bring back the system, only better to 21st Century Standards this time. Just as been accomplished with the levees in New Orleans. The only trick question in this pop quiz is who repays the taxpayer for their initial outlay for repairing the downed electrical grid? If an answer is required, you shall remain in class for the rest of your life.
Mr. Greenspan would now like us all to believe he is or has been the “victim” in/with the unfolding disasters that are unfolding around the financial world today. Suffering as he is now the doddering old man from “poor me” syndrome, allows him continuous access thru above-mentioned newspapers, published books and paid speaking tours. This paragon of virtue on a recent trip to our oil producing friends encouraged them to switch their currency to the now richer than our own Euro. With friends like this…….as the saying goes.
Forget not that every time this man during his years of dis-service, at every hearing before committees he harped on one topic in his dry boring financial language that very few understood. His topic was simple his message always the same, to ensure continued growth of our economy, to ensure our way of life as we then saw it, we/they the congress-people MUST repeal that terribly restrictive Sarbanes-Oxley law that had been so rudely put on the books so many decades ago.
As you will now see, I will let others cover the ground necessary for me allowing me to end this.
U.S. News & World Report reported that, "Few can confuse Wall Street as thoroughly as Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan can."[17] Greenspan was In the wake of the subprime mortgage and credit crisis in 2007, Greenspan admitted that there was a bubble in the US housing market, warning in 2007 of "large double digit declines" in home values "larger than most people expect."[21] However, Greenspan also noted, “I really didn't get it until very late in 2005 and 2006.”[22]
"Besides sustaining the demand for new construction, mortgage markets have also been a powerful stabilizing force over the past two years of economic distress by facilitating the extraction of some of the equity that homeowners have built up over the years
However, Greenspan's policies of adjusting interest rates to historic lows contributed to a housing bubble in the US. The Federal Reserve acknowledges the connection between lower interest rates, higher home values, and the increased liquidity the higher home values bring to the overall economy.
"Like other asset prices, house prices are influenced by interest rates, and in some countries, the housing market is a key channel of monetary policy transmission." —Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 2005
In a speech in February 2004, Greenspan suggested that more homeowners should consider taking out Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs) where the interest rate adjusts itself to the current interest in the market [7]. Greenspan based his recommendation on a fed study, which had shown that homeowners with ARMs had saved thousands of dollars during the last decade (a period during which interest rates had greatly decreased). Greenspan has come under fire for his recommendation, since it came at a time when interest rates were historically low. The fed own funds rate was at an all-time-low of 1%. A few months after his recommendation, Greenspan began raising interest rate, in a series of rate hikes that would bring the funds rate to 5.25% about two years later [8]. Hence, Greenspan's recommendation came at a time when interest rates bottomed out making it a particularly bad time to take out an ARM. A triggering factor in the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis is believed to be the many subprime ARMs that reset at much higher interest rates than what the borrower paid during the first few years of the mortgage.
Furthermore, in a speech on February 23, 2004, Greenspan suggested that lenders should offer to home purchasers a greater variety of "mortgage product alternatives" other than traditional fixed-rate mortgages.[29] Greenspan also praised the rise of the subprime mortgage industry and the tools with which it uses to assess credit-worthiness in an April 2005 speech:
"Innovation has brought about a multitude of new products, such as subprime loans and niche credit programs for immigrants. Such developments are representative of the market responses that have driven the financial services industry throughout the history of our country … With these advances in technology, lenders have taken advantage of credit-scoring models and other techniques for efficiently extending credit to a broader spectrum of consumers. … Where once more-marginal applicants would simply have been denied credit, lenders are now able to quite efficiently judge the risk posed by individual applicants and to price that risk appropriately. These improvements have led to rapid growth in subprime mortgage lending; indeed, today subprime mortgages account for roughly 10 percent of the number of all mortgages outstanding, up from just 1 or 2 percent in the early 1990s."[30]
Greenspan describes himself as a "lifelong Libertarian Republican [34]". On March 3, 2005, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid attacked Greenspan as "one of the biggest political hacks we have here in Washington"[35] and criticized him for supporting Bush's 2001 tax cut plan.[36] Greenspan has also received criticism from Democratic Congressman Barney Frank and others for his support of Bush's plan to phase out Social Security in favor of private accounts.[37][38][39] Greenspan had said Bush's model has "the seeds of developing full funding by its very nature. As I've said before, I've always supported moves to full funding in the context of a private account."[40]
Economist Paul Krugman, a frequent Greenspan critic, wrote in the New York Times that Greenspan was a "three-card maestro" with a "lack of sincerity" who, "by repeatedly shilling for whatever the Bush administration wants, has betrayed the trust placed in the Fed chairman."[41]
Charges that Greenspan was veering beyond the Fed's purview of monetary policy into fiscal and political matters traditionally left to lawmakers became more prevalent, coming for example from sources such as Republican Senator Jim Bunning who voted against reconfirming him.[42] Then-Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi stated that in 2005 there were serious questions about the Fed's independence because of Greenspan's public statements.
On February 26, 2007, Greenspan forecast a possible recession in the U.S. before or in early 2008.[48] Stabilizing corporate profits are said to have influenced his comments. The following day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 12,216.24 dropping by 416 points and losing 3.3% of its value, the worst one day loss since September 17, 2001, when the Dow Jones lost 684 points (7.1%) after reopening in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This drop is not thought to be entirely due to Greenspan's recent comment, whose opinion is nonetheless substantially influential
In middle January 2008, hedge fund Paulson & Co employed Alan Greenspan as an adviser on economic issues and monetary policy.[9] This is the third private role given to Alan Greenspan, the first two being given by Deutsche Bank and bond Investment Company known as Pimco. As an adviser, Greenspan will advise Paulson & Co on economic issues surrounding United States and world financial markets.[10]
He will also counsel on monetary policy and falling housing prices and about a possible recession in the United States. Paulson & Co is famously known for its record profit making during 2007 by conducting bets against mortgage derivatives, which earned the firm billions of dollars last year, the only company known to make such a profit during the bursting of US housing bubble. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed and Greenspan must not, under the agreement, advise any other hedge fund manager while working for Paulson. [11]
In February 2008, he spoke at the Jeddah Economic Forum [12].

So here we are, I did not know that this little cretin was back on the government dole advising them on yet another one of his disastrous creations but I would be willing to bet the farm it was his brilliant idea to bailout Bear Stearns in the way it was done over this past weekend. Especially when you stop and consider the statement made by Paulson yesterday when confronted by a reporter yesterday who questioned saving banks over homeowners and Paulson’s reply was “what about the poor Investors?” What about them? Well, they were just that, investors that took a chance with disposable monies they had to play with and lost. Unlike John And Jane Schmuck who were legitimate homeowners minding their own business until a predatory lender convinced them to refinance their homes at a much better rate. Not bothering to explain what would happen to that rate later. Moreover, who was the one that created this fiasco, why Mr. Greenspan of course.
Follow the money: The Federal Reserve is a privately owned corporation>made up of other regional Federal Reserve’s which are also privately owned> the largest of these if the Federal Reserve Of New York> located of course in the heart of Wall Street>this is the fed that negotiated and carried out the sale of Bear Stern to JP Morgan. Who are the members of the cooperation or who owns the Federal Reserve? You might inquire the major corporate members who are in control of all the entities mentioned above as well as influential members of foreign governments and the new influx of foreign capital bailing out some of the institutions own it.
Myself, me and I believe the following is what is actually going down with our financial mess: This has, will and continue to be a deliberate concentrated full out assault on our economy that has been put into play since January 20, 2001. Beginning with Cheney’s energy “secret” meeting to plan and plot our unnecessary war to secure Iraq’s oil to this current dollar devaluation we are currently facing.
What could possibly the gained by the devaluation of the dollar? Wrecking the economy would not help them raise the price of oil would it? How could de-valuing the entire housing market be of any value to the administration? What happens if there is massive unemployment, who wins then? What about the election won’t that change things when he and company are booted out?
All very valid questions that deserve valid answers that I unfortunately am unqualified to give, I can however give my best assumptions to some of the above. I believe the inflated price of oil is based purely on speculation. Since this reign has taken office the major companies have all boasted “record profits” we have heard, but profits on what? They have done neither new exploration nor any substantial increases in the sizes of their reserves; however, what they have done is an incredible expansion of “BUYBACK” in their own company’s shares of stocks. In a twisted bizarre corporate sense of logic, this can make sense if you think about it. If you started buying, back your company’s stock back in 2001 when oil was roughly $35 a barrel, and continued until it reached say $ 75-$100 then stopped and sat on it waiting for it to go higher you would have already made a tidy profit. Take it one step further and say you also owned yet another corporation that had an arm involved with hedge funds that could sell LONG on oil futures ensuring the price of oil would keep on rising, would that not help your profit margin go up? Think of all those annoying shareholders you would no longer have to pay those annoying dividends to, would that not be the best of all corporate world thinking?
As to all of the other questions, they direct us to the police state which we stand on the precipice of, if the Senate passes SR 1959 that nonsense bill authorizing the thought police initiated by Harmon in the house we are all in big trouble. The Violent Radicalization of Homegrown Terrorism I believe is its name, yet more insanity following the Patriot Act and all acts that followed including but not forgotten the Military Commissions Act.
It was this administration that lead us hook line and sinker down the path of the WTO, removed us from long signed treaties, conventions, and honors we once held around the world. NAFTA, CAFTA more names and initials I can name all in the best interest of other countries yet having the same results here at home. We no longer manufacture anything of substance; we have allowed our country to become one of “importers” only running up a staggering trade imbalance in the process. Our spineless congress allowed to be taken into not one but two unnecessary wars by a president who rather than raising taxes to pay for his folly asked the people of his country to “go shopping”.
Go shopping indeed made no sense at the time, for none of us realized that the items we were shopping for [all made in China] in fact should be called “double dipping.” Not only were we shopping for all these “cheap” things we have grown accustomed to buying; no matter if they fell apart after two times, it was cheap, throw it away, but our country did not have the necessary funding to fight the very wars we had launched, so we went to the very country we were building the largest trade deficit ever recorded with and started borrowing yet more BILLONS of dollars that we did not have, adding yet more to the daily interest we have to pay. Did our president bother telling us any of this? I do not remember hearing about it from him, do you?
Back to the dollar and the bang for the buck what this all boils down to be that I am going to leave you as I started, with a question:
Is it possible that this has been the plan all along, to ditch the dollar, make it worthless as the Peso once was, then drag us kicking and screaming into something none of us want, the expansion of NAFTA with its superhighways

Dick Blossom Baby a satire

Dick Blossom Baby returned from his travels spreading good will and cheer throughout the Middle East, as is his custom around this time each year. All of the countries he visits have long-standing traditions in place to ensure that he is never disappointed. Knowing that he is but a mere humble spokesperson representing his president whom he worships and adores there is a request that will not be granted, within reason of course.
Rumors have it, he finds soaking in the perpetual sparkling flowing fountains located in his favorite respite hide-away places only the rich and famous can attend, such as Jerusalem, Golan Heights and of course floating upon the Dead Sea.
He is often quoted as saying after these relaxing soaking trips that he feels as though his “batteries have been recharged” and that “walking in JC’s footsteps really kinds of gets to him.”
Always on the move, he delighted the people in neighboring Palestine where they greeted him as usual with throngs of well-wishers who that were so over come with good tidings for him; in some places, the crowds were so overjoyed, at times they had to be moved and restrained behind chain link fences.
After constantly badgering his annoying keepers, they finally allowed him to go mingle amidst some of the shopkeepers in an outdoor market that had reminded him of one he had just yesterday walked thru unaccompanied in Bagdad and wanted to purchase some souvenirs. He was especially interested in those vests that all the young people seemed to be wearing in all of the countries he had been visiting, certain that all he brought them to would be delighted at their uniqueness.
Delighted over this outpouring of adoration he had one of his faithful dedicated freshly castrated Nubian associates contact the King of Arabia to postpone his arrivals there telling his aid ever so politely to “make up some fucking excuse or the other.” His new associate never having heard of such a thing, simply following instructions, called and left the message, verbatim.
Not daunted by such trivial things as schedules, Dick Blossom Baby left the confines of his security detail, bulletproof vehicles and even his “every ready battery charged defibrillator” behind to walk the streets of the Gaza Strip in search for a quiet Bistro to have luch with his friends.
The display of rockets bursting in the air over his head almost brought tears to his eyes that they had gone to all of this trouble just for him. Just the sight of the children and mothers running and screaming as they ran in his direction with open arms, really gave his heart that extra boost he so often needed.
The numbers of people shared tearful joyful goodbyes at the airport where yet again he was surprised in attendance. How he wished yet again he could read the language, the signs they were waving were so colorful and numerous, he just knew they had the kindest of messages. Atop the steps of Air Force Two he turned to wave his final good-bye when he saw what these wonderful people had done as a parting gesture his composure finally cracked and a tear fell down his check.
In the twilight that was now falling, all of the terrific people had taken off their outer jackets in this chill night air, laying them on the ground to spell out a farewell message just for him. He thought again about not being able to read what it said as he ducked and went into the plane then the door closed behind him and he forgot all about the message.
Had he bothered to look out of any the many windows, the message written very precisely so he would understand, it simply said:
FUK U GO HOM

Occupant@1600 PennsylvaniaAvenue

Dear Occupant,

I would like to begin here with a few quotes from a person you might have heard of. He was is somewhat famous, a hero to many, one of my favorites and you drive by his monument frequently. I will let President Thomas Jefferson Speak for himself:

" Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrants will, and always so when it violates the will of the individual. "

"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit; by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. "

" I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. "

Isn't it amazing that that words written hundreds of years ago are so profoundly accurate today. What was it that he saw in the makings that alerted and frighted him so ? The truth has sure come to pass hasn't it.
I would like to now direct your attention to the numbers below. I obtained them from The Department of the Treasury web site this morning http://www.tres.gov/tic/mfh.txt, titled Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities-2000-2005. I then pulled up the tally for the latest of 2007 which happened to be October 2007. Now these figures show the entire year but for the sake of space I will only show the columns of figures from Dec of 2000 and Oct 2007 and lets see what we find, shall we.

You are if I am not mistaken, as of late been referring to yourself as being and having been
"FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE"
these last seven years. Well lets just take a look at part of that record in black and white.
MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES
(IN BILLIONS OF DOLLARS)
HOLDINGS 1/ AT END OF PERIOD

OCTOBER 2007 DECEMBER 2000
JAPAN 591.8 /3317.3
CHINA,MAINLAND 388.1 /60.3
UNITED KINGDOM 2/ 296.5 /50.2
OIL EXPORTERS 3/ 130.3 /47.7
BRAZIL 112.8
CARIB BNKNG CNTRS 4/ 78.1 /37.4
LUXEMBOURG 70.1 /29.6
HONG CONG 54.2 /38.6
TAIWAN 53.4 /33.4
GERMANY 44.1
KOREA 43.3
SINGAPORE 35.9 /27.9
MEXICO 33.2 /15.3
SWITZERLAND 31.7 /16.4
TURKEY 26.5
CANADA 21.4 /14.2
THAILAND 20.0 /13.8
NETHERLANDS 19.5 /11.4
SWEDEN 15.3
RUSSIA 14.9
FRANCE 14.7 25.1
INDIA 13.7
ITALY 13.6 /20.8
IRELAND 13.1
POLAND 12.3
BELGIUM 11.3
ISRAEL 10.2
ALL OTHERS 139.5 /157.8
GRAND TOTAL 2,309.5 /1,015.2

OF WHICH
FOREIGN OFFICIAL 1,446.6/609.2
TREASURY BILLS 180.2 /150.3
T-BONDS & NOTES 1,266.3/456.2

DECEMBER 17, 2007 NOVEMBER 16 2007 ( 2006 REVISED)

So Mr. Occupant, are you please with yourself yet ? Not only did you manage to more than double the amount but you also managed to ADD an astounding 11 more unsuspecting countries to the list. I imagine we now can bestow yet another new title to you as well, THE DEBTOR IN CHIEF.
1/ Estimated foreign holding of US Treasury marketable and non-marketable bills, bonds and notes reported under the Treasury International Capitol (TIC) reporting system are based on annual Surveys of Foreign Holdings Of US Securities and on monthly data.
2/United Kingdom includes Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
3/ Oil exporters include Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gabon Lybia, Nigeria,
4/ Caribbean Banking Centers include Bahamas. Bermuda, Caymen Islands, Netherlands Antilles ,Panama and British Virgin Islands.
What I personally astounding is your ability to show the amount of contempt of others for doing no more than yourself in the past seven years much less the last one. How do you possibly have the audacity to beret the Democratic Congress for "spending like a teen with a credit card" and try and pawn yourself off as have being "fiscally responsible" these same years is incredible to say the least. You, the very same individual who single handily been the root cause of this country's fiscal instability since the great depression of 1929 have the nerve to speak out against others spending.
Was it not you who came into office to a balanced budget and a national debt of $ 5 trillion dollars?
You took this country into an unjust war based on your lies and did not have the nerve to ask your fellow countrymen to pay for it. You knew the lies would not hold up for long, so you came up with plan B ( I would never give you the credit for any of this on your own, by you I mean your army of adviser's) borrow the money and label the request "EMERGENCY SPENDING BILLS" for the wars. Perfect who could deny you that request. Worse still, who did you go to borrow the money from ? Communist China. Are you pleased that we now owe them more than $2.5 trillion dollars. It was also under your watch that they became members of the WTO, and allowed them the luxury of now tariff"s on their exports but retaining unbalanced tariff's on our imports. But this is the way you sought it to be on all of our trade agreements is it not ? This year was also the year of all the recalls from that same country. Which also proved to show how glaringly inefficient our FDA has become and how obnoxious its secretary is. How proud you must be.
I for one do not believe in coincidences. Your tax cuts helped only your friends. The richest of the rich. These very same people who have also stripped this country of all of its manufacturing infrastructure in lieu of slave labor at a tenth of production price. Bottom line is what counts, right. These same friends by the way have also managed to ensure that their businesses now live in off shore accounts so they maneuver around paying taxes as well. Coincidence yet again.
The price of oil is at an all time high (again) this week, and you must be pissing your britches with glee. What is the running excuse this week. Turkey going to bomb the pipeline ? Fog in the Gulf of Mexico , Instability in Nigeria ? Duck future's are down? How about that all of your crooked friends are speculating with the futures market and are holding on until oil tops $ 100 a barrel ? That a possibility ? Considering that when you took office a barrel of crude was $ 25 what additive has been put in to a barrel to make it jump so high? Are your Saudi friends masturbating in it, I just do not get it.
We have all (except for your flunkies in congress and that pesky 29%) concluded that Iraq has been about oil and nothing but all from the very beginning. But this is taking your travesty to far. Your game plan is now affecting real people at home in a real time way. Thanks to you gasoline is back to $3.00 a gallon, the price of home heating fuel is UP and inventories are DOWN. To further your lust to enrich yourself and friends in the ludicrous mandates of a not proven, environmentally unfriendly oil needing to producing product called Ethanol you have further exacerbated the problem.
The cost of goods are up, especially food. Foods that require corn. Corn that is needed for Ethanol. Yet another coincidence ?
Not only does Ethanol require oil products to produce it, corn is a soil poor crop. It requires vast amounts of Nitrogen to fertilize it and tremendous amounts of water usage to make it grow. These issues are bad enough considering the drought conditions the Midwest has experienced. But the issue extends further still. It is known as the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The is believed to be caused by the runoff from the chemicals coming down the Mississippi ending up in the Gulf. Fishermen are having to travel out further to catch fewer shrimp, crabs and muscles.

Home ownership has been something you chirped about during your campaign and your first term. Between you and Greenspan you certainly got your wish. I think this entire mortgage will eventually be traced back you you et al. But that is my opinion. Yet you have waited until there was no hope for millions of families and then came out with a half assed plan to help the least amount of people you could. I expected no more, no less. What does astound me is that this situation has spiraled so out of control. Did not anyone anywhere have any concept of lending outrageous amounts of money to people they KNEW would never be able to repay would never turn around and bite them all on the ass ? Or was this part of some bigger ominous plan to stagger the economy in general. If so, your master plan is working.
The environment that has been created has the banks running scared they are afraid to lend any money. The dollar is sinking as badly as the Titanic. Fuel is up, Food is up, Consumer Confidence is down, the Stock Market (already over-inflated) is like a yo-yo, Unemployment is rising, Housing Market not expected to rebound until 2009, Building Non-Existent, Home Sales Nada.
Yet according to you THE ECONOMY IS DOING JUST GREAT.
Well Mr Occupant, I beg to differ. Yet again your taking down a slippery slope with no end in site. The only comforting thought is that you'll soon be gone.
By the way.....never mind.

Pocket veto a gift IF............................

IF
In and of itself a small and almost meaningless word. A precursor to a threat or a question even as a qualification. Yet as in the past we have learned that such small words can and have great meaning. Because now we all know how important the meaning of the word is, is.
If, the now democratic controlled Congress in their collective stupor's can open their eye's and realize the opportunity that the putz-in-chief has just handed them with the pocket veto, they might actually succeed in doing what they were sent there to do.
I doubt that even the putz has realized the bonanza he has inadvertently handed back to the Congress. On his worst of days he would never have given anyone one such an opportunity as this.
What he has done and what I hope Reid and Pelosi realize is give them a New Years present that even he cannot touch, because a pocket veto need not be re-voted on needing a two third majority win.
The Defense Spending Bill is now back in their hands to either take the offensive provision out of fight it out with the putz.
BUT, while the bill is in Congress hands IF they do not tell the clerk to do something STUPID like to REMOVE the offending provision, but instead just leave the bill sit until they return from their extended holiday break, then the fun can begin.
For you see, in this massive bill, is also $ 186 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afganistian. How many of you even realized that these lily livered, spineless wimps of alleged leaders whe have in the Congress slipped this puppy into the defense spending bill so that the public would not come and tear down the capitol stone by stone. This amount is in ADDITION to the $ 70 billion dollar supplemental that they were forced to pass with "no strings attached".
SO THE $ 186 BILLION DOLLARS IS BACK IN THEIR HANDS.
The $ 70 billion is a done deal, we can forget about that. But at the rate that they are eating money in Iraq this will only be 2 MONTHS WORTH. ( 15 BILLION A MONTH).
So now, if there ever was a time in their pitiful existence as leaders of both these house's of government, to ever bold stand up with a straight posture and rigid spine and Mr. Reid and Mrs Pelosi both having finally grown a pair of balls to look Mr. Bush in the eye and proudly say FUCK YOU.
As for the metaphor's, the ball is in their court, there is no time like the present, you will never have an opportunity like this again, the goose has laid a golden egg (?), this has been handed to to you on a silver platter, strike while the iron is hot and most importunately YOU NOW HAVE AN IRON GRIP ON THE PURSE STRINGS.
He has inadvertently given you back the opportunity to finally do the mandate that was given to you in November of 2006. Stop this idiotic war. BRING OUR TROOPS HOME.
Once again you have that power, a power that has slipped thou your grasp time after time this year out of your cowardice. Your outright fear of being labeled as "not supporting the troops".
That has been the biggest nonsense bit of propaganda but out by the GOP and you have fallen for it hook line and sinker.
The stupidity of you blunders this year are only outweighed by your cowardice by your actions in both the House and the Senate. In the Senate Mr Reid, more than 60 times you let the GOP force you to cloture. Why ? Why not let them filibuster until they turned purple ? Why not let the entire country see for themselves what the tactics are really all about ? But no, in your infinite wisdom you choose to stand at your podium stooped over like the old man that you are and whine. At that you are quite accomplished. Almost as good as Bohner is at crying on demand. I won't even bother going into all of your private earmarks sir, I believe Americans have already made up their minds about you.
As for you Mrs Pelosi, before you even had the gavel in your hand, these words that will live in infamy "impeachment" is off the table. Excuse me, but the last time I checked there were 434 other members of the House, as well as roughly 300 million people in the country. So who in the fuck are you to come up with such an all uncompromising statement on your own ? To whom did you arrive at this decision with ? Was it while you were watching the torture tapes that by law you should have put a stop to (per your oversight responsibilities) ? Or where you distracted when you were directing earmarks to your husband's business ? Or perhaps the earmarks to spruce up the waterfront where you just happen to be a slumlord ?
One just has to wonder of you both , other than yourselves, just who are you working for ?
Explain to us please, if you can, how this opportunity will be any different from times past ?
Will you, are you, for once and for all be capable and show the fortitude required of you to take the stance required of you that is of and for the people for whom you represent ?
Which leads us back to IF?
IF
If only I had the hope that these people,this body of our government would do what is required of them, I might, perhaps maybe feel more confident.
If this wasted past year in any indicator of what is to come, well, we are in deep shit.
If only a portion of these Congressional rug rats are even remotely of the opportunity here, there is a hope. No matter how minute.

Your Congress people are home for the holidays.
Find them, call them, e-mail them, seek them out, point out this opportunity and demand that they take the proper course of action and BRING OUR TROOPS HOME.

HILLARY WHO ?

I don't know about the rest of your out there but there are some things about this woman that really bug me and I have a few questions that I would really like answered.

1- What rock did you crawl out from with this notion you could possibly become president ?

2- Every day without fail you speak of your " strength hand experience ". Would you stop dodging questions and try answering some ?

3- On that same note, why is it that you have never answered a question directly ? Oh, you ramble on around the periphery of the subject but I for one have never heard you give a definitive answer to a direct question.

4- Why is it that you have never taken a direct concrete position on anything ? Yet again you hem and haw but never commit to anything.

5- Since when did being the WIFE of ANYTHING qualify as a qualification as a stepping stone towards anything ? If that were the case, would not a Drs. spouse not then be able to write prescriptions ? Or a lawyers spouse charge for dispensing advice to someone ? So HOW can being the wife to the President count as any type of qualification for YOUR campaign ?

6- Does the fact that your screwed up so royally in your misguided attempt at health care count as one of your " qualifications" ? If so, please explain how.

7- While you first lady did you as your husband did hold a super duper security clearance ? Were you included in his daily briefing from the various inelegance agencies ? Were you allowed into the situation room downstairs ? Did you attend cabinet meetings ? Did you broker deals with Congress.

8- If you did any of the above (which you should not have been), Is this why you have sealed your papers in the National Archives so no-one may see them?

9- What else are you hiding in those papers and documents ? Is it not part of a campaign to be as open and forthright as is humanly possible with the public ? Seeing as you never give a straight answer would it at least be better to have some idea of what transpired during those eight years so we would all have an understanding of your outrageous claims of experience ?

10- What have you accomplished as a Senator ? Have you sponsored any major or minor for that matter any piece of legislation of any consequence since you have been there ?

11- Why is that before each any every major important vote (if you happen to be there), you wait on the sidelines to see how the vote is going, how the wind is blowing, how the tide is turning so to speak, before you cast your vote ?

12- Do your feel like (how did you put it) "the old boys club" when you cast your vote like a true Roman in the Coliseum with your thumb up or down vote ? I do watch C-Span. A lot.

13- Was your move to New York, as opposed to going back to Arkansas a political ploy to make you more electable in a state with much more money as well as well as more vastly well more connected people than back home ?

14- Why New York ? Your from Chicago. Were the wife of the governor of Arkansas (why didn't you run for governor of Arkansas based on that experience ?). Then became first lady where you accumulated all of this vast immense body of experience in everything from running a massive government monster to balancing a budget to manging the entire armed services of millions of men and equipment not to forget the justice department as well as all of the other federal programs that you became so well versed in not to forget their millions of employee's. Lest we not all of the intrigue of intelligence both foreign and domestic. My oh my how busy you must have been.
Also we must remember all of the careful planning that you put into planning dinners of state, planning menus, choosing the right wines and heavens, choosing the proper the right couture, can not do with the first lady looking like a frump can we ? What to wear, what to wear ? So many decisions, so much to do. Lets see now is a Ben Laden a red or a white wine ? Do you think I can get my hair done while we bomb Serbia ? So much to do, so much to do.
Did you invite that sweat girl Monika something or other to diner this week ? Poor ugly girl, looks so alone, I feel so sorry for her, maybe that Ambassador from Schmukastan will take a shinning to her. All their women look like goats..
Considering you had to start planning decorating the White House for CHRISTMAS in MARCH, however did you get all of this experience under your belt ?

15- Back when your husband was dealing with terrorism, and the poor dear Monika scandal was festering.? Did you advise him as to whether or not to bomb the Sudan or Afghanistan ? How involved in the process were You ? Did you and your husband discuss these matters with the Joint chiefs of Staff as well as intelligence ?

16- What exactly once and for all is your position on this endless, wasteful, destructive war in Iraq ?

17- How naive and stupid do you really thing We The People Are ? Do you think for a moment we believe that Mr. President Bill Clinton as actually going to take a second seat to YOU ? Are we supposed to believe that he will sit in some obscure office in right field having fun with interns while you attempt the run a country ? I think not.

Now for the final few questions.

18- What are you prepared to do in your first few days in office to UNDUE the damage to our Constitution that the current administration has done ?

19- How will you assure the country that you are not yet another megalomaniac with an insatiable power hungry motive behind all you intend to do ?

20- Will you guarantee that all returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan are tested , no matter the cost, for uranium poisoning ?

21- What will you do to address the National Debt which will be more than 10 trillion dollars ?

22- How will you effectively deal with the distrust and animosity the country has towards both the Congress and the Office of the President in General ?

23- Will you do away with unconstitutional laws that have been created by this administration ?

And finally:

24- Will you as President do the following:

a) Hold George W.Busch and his administration accountable for their crimes committed against this country and its peoples ?

b) Will you insure that the innocent people being held hostage that have been tortured and abused at our secret prisons and at Guantanamo and wherever else they may be, are either set free or brought to a legitimate speedy trial ?

c) Declare and sign a Proclamation or law that states the the United States will NEVER AGAIN stoop to the levels of depravity, deceit and dishonor as has occurred during this administration in the past seven years ?

d) On the day you take your oath of office, in your very the very first words you utter, the you as President would commit to honoring all of the conventions of the world that have been honored prior to Jan 20, 2001.

e) As one of your first acts see to it that George W Bush and his entire administration are brought before any and all tribunals world wide for the crimes against humanity, use of depleted uranium, and genocide.

I have written the above in the hope of getting some honest answers but realize I have no chance in hell of that ever happening. But is was fun to write and get of my chest and maybe, perhaps show some other people who think this woman who has been anointed by the biased media from the get-go (clue number one) might see some valid points to questions who this person really is and what her claims to fame really are.

A BIG FAT NOTHING.