<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342</id><updated>2012-02-16T04:14:46.911-08:00</updated><category term='WORLD'/><category term='BILL OF RIGHTS'/><category term='OBAMA'/><category term='GOVERNMENT'/><category term='FREEDOM'/><category term='REPUBLICANS'/><category term='SATIRE'/><category term='POLITICAL'/><category term='OSAMA BIN LADEN'/><category term='ECONOMICS'/><category term='DEMOCRATS'/><category term='POLITICS'/><category term='BARRACK OBAMA'/><category term='CONSTITUTION'/><category term='UNEMPLOYMENT'/><category term='DICK CHENEY'/><category term='SARA PALIN'/><category term='BUSINESS'/><category term='UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE'/><category term='IMPORTS'/><category term='SARAH PALIN'/><category term='EXPORTS'/><category term='JUSTICE'/><category term='HEALTH CARE REFORM'/><category term='BARACK OBAMA'/><category term='PRESIDENT'/><category term='OBL'/><category term='PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS'/><category term='REPRESENTATION'/><category term='ECONOMY'/><category term='US'/><title type='text'>BLOG1NE</title><subtitle type='html'>THE WORLD TOMORROW...TODAY.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>41</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-2844350511049324420</id><published>2010-03-21T12:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-21T12:08:43.092-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DEMOCRATS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='REPUBLICANS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HEALTH CARE REFORM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='US'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UNEMPLOYMENT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WORLD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='POLITICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ECONOMICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BARRACK OBAMA'/><title type='text'>IMMEDIATE EMPLOYMENT uncommon common sense JOBS NOW</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The NEXT ORDER of BUSINESS:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Government Insured Reemployment Projects, whereas the unemployed are hired for Federal and State initiated / controlled work projects, paid for by State Unemployment Insurance, and matching funds from the Federal Government, &amp;nbsp;the cost of which is offset by taxing the matching funds as unearned income.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hire them, pay them, and let them pay you back... uncommon common sense.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Health Care Reform as well as Public Work Projects, both will reduce the bankruptcy rate and the jobless rate while stimulating the economy.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-2844350511049324420?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/2844350511049324420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/03/immediate-employment-uncommon-common.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2844350511049324420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2844350511049324420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/03/immediate-employment-uncommon-common.html' title='IMMEDIATE EMPLOYMENT uncommon common sense JOBS NOW'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-6613265897677206007</id><published>2010-03-19T16:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-19T16:22:27.537-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DEMOCRATS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='REPUBLICANS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HEALTH CARE REFORM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BARACK OBAMA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='POLITICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ECONOMICS'/><title type='text'>HEALTH CARE REFORM uncommon common sense ANONYMOUS ACTS OF HUMANITARIANISM</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;There are those that wish to subvert Health Care Reform because they didn't initiate it, they don't want to be on the bandwagon... unless they lead it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;There are those that wish to subvert Health Care Reform because their wealthy constituents and contributors don't need it, now... as much as the masses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Here is an analogy:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;There is a major disaster and you are unscathed. You have food, clothing, shelter, and money. &amp;nbsp;But your neighbors didn't fare so well. &amp;nbsp;What are you going to do? &amp;nbsp;Help distribute the aid, maybe share a little of what you have... or are you going to turn your back on them and tell them they should have been smarter, like you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Yet those same Government Representatives, (and their constituents), that won't vote for Health Care Reform, I'm sure, advocated relief for Haiti... (although I'm not sure they themselves contributed out of their own pockets).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;What's up with that kind of hypocrisy?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The Health Care Reform Act is major legislation, just like the Social Security Act and Medicare, and will need modifications, just like they did, after the bills were passed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Don't be fooled by those that wish to subvert Health Care Reform for their own selfish reasons... uncommon, common sense requires the performance of unselfish acts of humanitarianism, remember?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-6613265897677206007?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/6613265897677206007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/03/health-care-reform-uncommon-common.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6613265897677206007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6613265897677206007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/03/health-care-reform-uncommon-common.html' title='HEALTH CARE REFORM uncommon common sense ANONYMOUS ACTS OF HUMANITARIANISM'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-2368240069345219084</id><published>2010-03-12T11:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-12T12:41:22.622-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ECONOMY'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='POLITICAL'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='US'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WORLD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='POLITICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ECONOMICS'/><title type='text'>SPENDING THE ECONOMY uncommon common sense OR SAVING THE ECONOMY</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;A NEWS ANCHOR stated today that we, the citizen of the US, need to increase our SPENDING in order to allow our economy to recover.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;What ever happened to SAVING?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;For the last 50 years, we have imported goods and services with lower labor costs and subsequently lower manufacturings costs than we could produce the same goods domestically.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;We have imported those goods and services long enough to force our domestic manufacturers and suppliers out of business or to offshore manufacturing until we have very few domestic jobs left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;We have neglected enforcement of our immigration laws, employing illegal aliens until we have very few domestic jobs left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;We have provided education, social services and health care services for anyone working in the US regardless of their immigration status. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Now + 10% of us are out of work, collecting unemployment insurance, no health care, facing foreclosure, and homelessness... and we are being told to SPEND MORE MONEY?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;"What's up with that?" &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;60 years ago, the message was SAVE MONEY for the future: &amp;nbsp;emergencies; education / training; sickness; unemployment; and retirement.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Then came "CREDIT" and the BANK CREDIT CARD...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;We need to go back to a "pay as you go" government and citizen and economy.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;uncommon common sense...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-2368240069345219084?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/2368240069345219084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/03/spending-economy-uncommon-common-sense.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2368240069345219084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2368240069345219084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/03/spending-economy-uncommon-common-sense.html' title='SPENDING THE ECONOMY uncommon common sense OR SAVING THE ECONOMY'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-8139576657659768569</id><published>2010-03-09T23:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-09T23:34:32.173-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CONSTITUTION'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ECONOMY'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FREEDOM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='POLITICAL'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='US'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='REPRESENTATION'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GOVERNMENT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BILL OF RIGHTS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WORLD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='POLITICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ECONOMICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='JUSTICE'/><title type='text'>THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (PREAMBLE) uncommon common sense and The NEW CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;There ought to be a new constitutional convention once every decade...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top" width="8%"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #006633; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Preamble&lt;br /&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="92%"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #006633; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;2.1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #006633; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;2.2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;consent of the governed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt; That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #006633; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;2.3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #006633; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;2.4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #006633; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;2.5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #006633; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Charges&lt;br /&gt;3.1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till its Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, it has utterly neglected to attend to them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness it's invasions on the rights of the people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing its Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has made Judges dependent on it's Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving its Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;For abolishing the free System of American Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these States:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of its Protection and waging War against us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty &amp;amp; perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" height="77" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;[Excised passage on slavery]&lt;br /&gt;see&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.duke.edu/eng169s2/group1/lex3/roughpl.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Jefferson's draft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;It has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended it, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidels powers, is the warfare of the Federal Government. It has prostituted its negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce determining to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, it is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which it has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom it also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which it urges them to commit against the lives of another.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #006633; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Conclusion&lt;br /&gt;4.1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Government whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Federal brethren.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #006633; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;5.1&lt;br /&gt;Summation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these States, solemnly publish and declare, That these United States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Federal Government, and that all political connection between them and the Federal Government, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" valign="top"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img 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anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-5697618264076405224</id><published>2010-03-03T11:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-03T11:20:41.383-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DICK CHENEY'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OBL'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='US'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OSAMA BIN LADEN'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WORLD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='POLITICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SATIRE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SARA PALIN'/><title type='text'>OBL uncommon common sense OSAMA BIN LADEN</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The last time someone saw and recognized OBL he was trying out his new look and identity close to his new home in a relatively small city in a western state... not long after 9/11.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;These days, anytime his actual whereabouts are suggested, news articles by qualified researchers appear placing his probable location far from his home base.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;So, forget it folks... or should you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Why not do a reality show for private investigators, gumshoes, detectives, anybody that thinks they can find him, offering a giant reward for his apprenhension?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Talk about it? &amp;nbsp;What does Dick Cheney, or Barack Obama, or Sarah Palin, think about the situation.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ask those who wish to lead... uncommon common sense.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-5697618264076405224?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/5697618264076405224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/03/obl-uncommon-common-sense-osama-bin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5697618264076405224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5697618264076405224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/03/obl-uncommon-common-sense-osama-bin.html' title='OBL uncommon common sense OSAMA BIN LADEN'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-6964866784940887534</id><published>2010-02-28T12:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-28T12:57:08.698-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ECONOMICS uncommon common sense TOP SECRET</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; height: 90%; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;BANKS, having delayed foreclosures because they can not absorb the loses on their balance sheets, have made the the economy appear to be recovering and it's social problems less than dire, when in fact the tsunami is still rolling ashore.&lt;br /&gt;There are HUNDREDS of BANKS in danger of FAILING and yet there is a "system" in place that WILL NOT DISCLOSE who they are publicly, even to their depositors, nor will they disclose a ranking of banks based on their solvency, although a list must surely exist.&lt;br /&gt;THEREFORE, you might as well ENTER a Ramen Noodle (or any pasta) COOKING CONTEST since you will surely be eating more of it in the years to come.&lt;br /&gt;I have provided the link which is easier to navigate to than the banking law makers and regulators that you should be contacting in order to gain transparency in our banking and monetary system.&lt;br /&gt;TOP (SECRET) RAMEN NOODLE CONTEST&lt;br /&gt;http://freeramentomorrow.blogspot.com/2010/02/top-secret-ramen-noodle-contest.html &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-6964866784940887534?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/6964866784940887534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/02/economics-uncommon-common-sense-top.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6964866784940887534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6964866784940887534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/02/economics-uncommon-common-sense-top.html' title='ECONOMICS uncommon common sense TOP SECRET'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-4233740950534273109</id><published>2010-02-26T10:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T11:29:40.957-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ECONOMY'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EXPORTS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BUSINESS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IMPORTS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='US'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WORLD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='POLITICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ECONOMICS'/><title type='text'>FIXING AMERICA... uncommon common sense FIRST</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;Let's get over the key phrase umbrella semantics of the politicians and the Health Care "Carrot on the Stick" and get down to actionable steps to fix America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;#1.   TAX goods / services, manufactured / performed, outside the US, SUFFICIENTLY, in order to encourage those manufacturers / service providers to manufacture goods or provide services domestically within the US.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;#2.  ENFORCE Immigration, Visa, and Work Permit Laws, expelling all Illegal Immigrants, and shutting down all services for same (i.e. Dept. of Motor Vehicles License and Registration; Private, Public, and Non Profit Health Care Clinics and Services; Public and Private School Education; Business Licensing).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;These are the first steps to FIXING AMERICA... the GLOBAL ECONOMY will DESTROY AMERICA if Individuals and Corporations doing Business within the US are allowed to outsource for PROFIT, or our own Government is allowed to provide goods and services while selectively enforcing Immigration Laws, at the expense of our own citizenry. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-4233740950534273109?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/4233740950534273109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/02/fixing-america-uncommon-common-sense.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/4233740950534273109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/4233740950534273109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/02/fixing-america-uncommon-common-sense.html' title='FIXING AMERICA... uncommon common sense FIRST'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-9201386656687862723</id><published>2010-02-12T11:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T11:20:07.573-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ECONOMY'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SARAH PALIN'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BARACK OBAMA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='US'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WORLD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='POLITICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ECONOMICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SARA PALIN'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OBAMA'/><title type='text'>SARAH PALIN... uncommon common sense... "JOURNALISM" ?   "</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; height: 90%; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;It is of great interest, observing the "Science of Journalism", DISECT Sarah Palin, and anyone that supports her (re: personal weapons and survival gear TPM). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been a SAD period for objective journalism for some time now.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Publishers and Reporters CAVING IN because they have to feed their families.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't heard an HONEST REPORT in a long time.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These reporters keep their jobs by CREATING CONFLICT, and then going back and forth between the combatants getting "their side of" the story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of the time "MALIGNING BY ASSOCIATION" the person they are assigned to DISCREDIT!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uncommon common sense... DON'T BE FOOLED ANYMORE by pseudo intellectuals,  reporters, speechwriters, and puppets.     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-9201386656687862723?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/9201386656687862723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/02/sarah-palin-uncommon-common-sense.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/9201386656687862723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/9201386656687862723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/02/sarah-palin-uncommon-common-sense.html' title='SARAH PALIN... uncommon common sense... &quot;JOURNALISM&quot; ?   &quot;'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-1726909037699633617</id><published>2010-02-11T12:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T10:31:04.461-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PRESIDENT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SARAH PALIN'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='POLITICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ECONOMICS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OBAMA'/><title type='text'>SARAH PALIN:  "UNDER GIRL"</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SARAH PALIN, "UNDER GIRL", I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T CALL HER AN "UNDER DOG",  although she is considered to have no chance against "MR. CHARISMA",  which is my point.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;From now, through this presidential race, they will call her everything, malign her character, integrity, and intelligence, BECAUSE they are SCARED.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;And that is GOOD FOR SARAH !&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I'm going to license a Sarah Palin "Under Girl" line.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hey they are all into Politics for the POWER (MONEY), except Sarah who is in it for REVENGE.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Uncommon Common Sense&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-1726909037699633617?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/1726909037699633617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/02/sarah-palin-under-girl.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/1726909037699633617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/1726909037699633617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/02/sarah-palin-under-girl.html' title='SARAH PALIN:  &quot;UNDER GIRL&quot;'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-8355498652932759163</id><published>2010-01-27T20:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-27T21:20:10.229-08:00</updated><title type='text'>FIXING AMERICA, Uncommon Common Sense</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;The CORE PROBLEM, and this is not bashing, is the way we allow U.S. and MULTI NATIONAL CORPORATIONS to operate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Basically, they avoid Taxes, Tariffs, and the Laws of the U.S. (regarding unfair competition) by creating Subsidiaries, Corporations, Companies, and Operating Units, designed to maximize their profits through the use of the cheapest foreign labor to manufacture products that are then imported to the U.S. at costs that Domestic Manufactures cannot compete with because of the higher living standard and subsequent cost of Domestic Labor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;That fact has forced more and more U.S. Manufacturers to not only import from a third party importer, or directly from a foreign manufacturer, but to manufacture from their own plants now located on foreign soil.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Lower U.S. retail prices meant the U.S. worker didn't need as much money to purchase products and therefore they could have more...or they could be paid less and have the same.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;This logic, THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, is defined as...Those who have a higher standard of living must sacrifice, and have less, so that those that have a lower standard of living may may prosper, and have more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;SO...the Multi National Corporations got richer, and the Foreign Governments got richer, and the Foreign Worker got richer...and the U.S. Government, and it's People got poorer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;TO BE CONTINUED, I'm tired.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-8355498652932759163?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/8355498652932759163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/01/fixing-america-uncommon-common-sense.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/8355498652932759163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/8355498652932759163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/01/fixing-america-uncommon-common-sense.html' title='FIXING AMERICA, Uncommon Common Sense'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-3384309711749390181</id><published>2010-01-09T23:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-10T00:16:35.185-08:00</updated><title type='text'>COMMENTS, uncommon common sense</title><content type='html'>Why is Yemen such a big deal now...it should have been all along...since it is OBL's ancestral home!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The stupidity that we are accused of is such a slam...like we are idiots.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We waste our time, as encouraged, on unimportant matters, and leave our selves no time for important research...just like our government representatives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To divide us between Palin and Obama, or to waste our time with someone's infidelities (while the rest of the pragmatic world laughs at us), is absurd.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Come on folks, get rid of YOUR AGENDA.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Truth, Justice, and Humanitarianism...those are noble values.  They should be your agenda...NOT FOR PROFIT!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Forget your favorite sport...the "me" "me" "me", and spend ALL YOUR TIME thinking about  important problems and solutions (not "issues"):  Unemployment; Terrorism; Health Care Reform; and anything else you can think of, and it will be resolved.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"DIVIDE and CONQUER", learned from the "bad guys" and adopted by the "good guys", to reap the benefits.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;HOW SAD.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-3384309711749390181?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/3384309711749390181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/01/comments-uncommon-common-sense.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3384309711749390181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3384309711749390181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/01/comments-uncommon-common-sense.html' title='COMMENTS, uncommon common sense'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-5571635914435627033</id><published>2010-01-03T20:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T21:03:31.235-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I love the tactic of ridicule.  (Although I am above it.)  It requires no evidence.  And of course, "the challenge", "prove it to me", when someone is incapable of conducting their own (successful) research.&lt;div&gt;Isn't there someone here that is just plain honest?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-5571635914435627033?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/5571635914435627033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-love-tactic-of-ridicule.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5571635914435627033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5571635914435627033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-love-tactic-of-ridicule.html' title=''/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-3692674790074259772</id><published>2010-01-01T21:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T21:05:30.292-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE SKY OPENED UP</title><content type='html'>HI, I'm back...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It's a new year...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;OBL in the states?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let's get started...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-3692674790074259772?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/3692674790074259772/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/01/sky-opened-up.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3692674790074259772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3692674790074259772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2010/01/sky-opened-up.html' title='THE SKY OPENED UP'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-6241176375051291709</id><published>2009-09-14T22:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-14T23:08:15.682-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The GLOBAL Economy</title><content type='html'>That is the problem!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Multi National Corporations and Deluded Humanitarians propound the benefits of a global economy, BUT here are the problems associated with the New World Order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Independent Manufacturers are encouraged to produce for the higher profits associated with their export market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This in turn encourages the foreign market to produce for the same higher profits associated with their export market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result is an average commodity pricing system for the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, while this seems fair, the Independent Manufacturers have now placed their destiny in the hands of the Multi National Corporations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To Be Continued...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-6241176375051291709?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/6241176375051291709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/09/global-economy.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6241176375051291709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6241176375051291709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/09/global-economy.html' title='The GLOBAL Economy'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-5144881563036405127</id><published>2009-09-11T23:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T00:07:04.896-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SPY I.E.S</title><content type='html'>Spy International Espionage Service, SPIES.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Everyone is a spy from the day they are born until the day they die."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone wants to be a spy until they understand that nobody likes a spy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you ask a person if they are a spy, and they answer "no". they are telling the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you ask a person if they are a spy, and they answer "yes", they are lying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you ask a spy if they are a spy, and they answer "no", they are lying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's the point?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-5144881563036405127?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/5144881563036405127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/09/spy-ies.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5144881563036405127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5144881563036405127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/09/spy-ies.html' title='SPY I.E.S'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-7156866510447456521</id><published>2009-08-03T13:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T14:19:44.247-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IS WELLS FARGO BROKE?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;BEWARE OF WELLS FARGO!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A cash deposit was made, in branch, to my checking account on Saturday, August 1st, and I was assured that the cash was immediately available for withdrawal.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUT the funds were not available until after 11:00am on Monday, August 3rd.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, a debit item posted and funds were advanced from my overdraft protection account along with bank fees.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE, when I tried to debit my account for a Orchid Lei from Hawaii for my daughters birthday, the purchase was declined because the cash deposit had still not been posted.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OF COURSE I WENT INTO MY BANK, AND CALLED CUSTOMER SERVICE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THEIR ANSWERS:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It has to be a cash deposit... IT WAS!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It has to be made in branch... IT WAS!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Teller was new... THIS IS THE SECOND TIME?  DIFFERENT TELLERS, DIFFERENT BRANCHES.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WELLS FARGO DOES NOT POST CASH DEPOSITS MADE IN BRANCH ON WEEKENDS UNTIL THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY (MONDAY).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That's news to me, coming from a customer service supervisor.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She said that has been their policy for the 13 years she has worked for Wells Fargo.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So I asked her if she and Wells Fargo would notify their employees and their customers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AND SHE DID NOT ANSWER ME.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AND... I ASKED TO FILE A FORMAL COMPLAINT, AND TO RECEIVE A COPY OF THE COMPLAINT, WHICH SHE REFUSED.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SO I ASKED FOR THE ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF THE GOVERNMENT REGULATORY AGENCY WHERE I COULD FILE A COMPLAINT, AND SHE TOLD ME TO CALL THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Then she transferred me to another department about another banking problem...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AND I WAS DISCONNECTED!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IS WELLS FARGO FLOATING OUR MONEY BECAUSE THEY ARE BROKE?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEWARE!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-7156866510447456521?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/7156866510447456521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-wells-fargo-broke.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/7156866510447456521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/7156866510447456521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-wells-fargo-broke.html' title='IS WELLS FARGO BROKE?'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-8412752345070321188</id><published>2009-05-26T11:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-26T12:04:23.714-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SOTOMAYOR, A REPUBLICAN ALBATROSS</title><content type='html'>The Republicans should have begun  their investigation and research of SOTOMAYOR and any other front runners for Supreme Court Justice &lt;strong&gt;when&lt;/strong&gt; the pending vacancy was announced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is due diligence.  SLOWING DOWN the approval process now is simply POLITICAL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another reason why we need educated and ethical Representatives and Senators in our government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GET RID of the clowns.  How embarrassing they are to our country.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-8412752345070321188?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/8412752345070321188/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/sotomayor-republican-albatross.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/8412752345070321188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/8412752345070321188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/sotomayor-republican-albatross.html' title='SOTOMAYOR, A REPUBLICAN ALBATROSS'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-6846073515072999438</id><published>2009-05-24T19:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-24T20:01:14.219-07:00</updated><title type='text'>GITMO</title><content type='html'>Being that the war was fought by Multi National Forces, the GITMO detainees should be the responsibility of all those nations.  A United Nations distribution / allocation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, if all else fails, there is always Haiti.  A nation that could use the revenue.  And Bill Clinton is there to help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE, the world tomorrow... today.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-6846073515072999438?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/6846073515072999438/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/gitmo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6846073515072999438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6846073515072999438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/gitmo.html' title='GITMO'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-5433290974732967043</id><published>2009-05-19T21:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T21:27:28.978-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The BIG Mistake</title><content type='html'>THE WORLD TOMORROW...TODAY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The BIGGEST MISTAKE the President could make, with all the social reforms he has in motion, would be to legislate GUN CONTROL!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those that are saying we are losing our freedoms to socialism / communism / Nazism/ etc. would certainly revolt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't make that mistake, please Mr. President.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not belong to / support any group or organization. I have no agenda. I just want you to succeed without hurting our country. I believe in our constitution, and individual freedom. People need the means to protect themselves from those that may become dangerous, whether they be individuals, groups, or governments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-5433290974732967043?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/5433290974732967043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/big-mistake.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5433290974732967043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5433290974732967043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/big-mistake.html' title='The BIG Mistake'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-6099401805984769506</id><published>2009-05-14T19:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-14T19:39:58.990-07:00</updated><title type='text'>DEEP THROAT... WANTED... NEEDED</title><content type='html'>Here's the story,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dick C is protecting Bush, Bush Sr., They don't care about Bush Jr., they only used him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush Sr. wanted to take over the world through control of the Middle East. His NEW WORLD ORDER.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in order to get there he needed a reason so they let Saddam invade Kuwait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desert Storm was too short.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We needed to go back. What this time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's get Osama Bin Laden to front an attack on New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will blow them out of the sky but have a reason to go back to the Middle East, they said...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But others wanted a stronger case so... they let the planes thru... and enhanced the attack, the tumbling of the Twin Towers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, we're there, but we need WMD's to stay there...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LOOK... it just makes sense... we allowed ourselves to be attacked... we made our own OBL vidoe tapes... we gave OBL a new identity... and he's living... somewhere...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DC, he's trying to stop the trail back, that's his cover up... it's not really about waterboarding, per se.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-6099401805984769506?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/6099401805984769506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/deep-throat-wanted-needed.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6099401805984769506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6099401805984769506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/deep-throat-wanted-needed.html' title='DEEP THROAT... WANTED... NEEDED'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-2160710318697604705</id><published>2009-05-13T16:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-13T17:02:26.930-07:00</updated><title type='text'>HEALTH CARE SOLUTIONS, UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE</title><content type='html'>BESIDES Health Care Reform, and fine tuning the system, there should be an amount paid by every worker, and it should be deducted by the employer from the workers pay check, much like Social Security Security Retirement Benefits.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-2160710318697604705?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/2160710318697604705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/health-care-solutions-uncommon-common.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2160710318697604705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2160710318697604705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/health-care-solutions-uncommon-common.html' title='HEALTH CARE SOLUTIONS, UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-779298359970046671</id><published>2009-05-03T20:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-03T21:27:53.019-07:00</updated><title type='text'>FEAR vs UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Nothing adds up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hillary Clinton goes to Mexico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;WHY? Drugs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;A U.S. Government advance man contracts the flu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;WHY?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Barack Obama goes to Mexico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;WHY? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Swine Flu / H1N1 is there waiting for them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;WHY?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;A Mexican Health Official dies the day after the President's visit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;WHY?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;"&gt;A new name "H1N1" for the Swine Flu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;"&gt;WHY?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;"&gt;A Vice President doesn't want his family to be in congested, confined places.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;"&gt;WHY?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;A United Airlines flight is diverted from Washington D.C. to Boston.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;WHY?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;"&gt;A man in Canada infects the pigs with H1N1, not the other way around... a first.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;"&gt;WHY?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;this blog is not done, but I thought I would let you see the skeletons...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-779298359970046671?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/779298359970046671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/fear-vs-uncommon-common-sense.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/779298359970046671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/779298359970046671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/05/fear-vs-uncommon-common-sense.html' title='FEAR vs UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-8025908636425923656</id><published>2009-04-30T11:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T11:39:37.576-07:00</updated><title type='text'>DID YOU HEAR ABOUT JOE BIDEN and the MISS AMERICA RUNNER-UP?</title><content type='html'>He should be able to express his own personal views as should she.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a free country, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAH... RIGHT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nobody should be trying to explain his remarks or her remarks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They expressed their personal positions on questions posed to them, and I salute their answers, whether or not I &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;personally&lt;/span&gt; agree with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE LARGER ISSUE is, the CALLOUSNESS of the AIRLINE OFFICIALS who are more interested in the BOTTOM LINE than HUMAN LIVES.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Concerning the MISS AMERICA &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;PAGEANT&lt;/span&gt;, the judge got his point across that if someone doesn't agree with his/her opinion, THEY WILL BE CRUSHED.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a step back for HUMAN RIGHTS... &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;that's right&lt;/span&gt;, we're not talking gay rights, we are talking human rights!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-8025908636425923656?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/8025908636425923656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/04/did-you-hear-about-joe-biden-and-miss.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/8025908636425923656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/8025908636425923656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/04/did-you-hear-about-joe-biden-and-miss.html' title='DID YOU HEAR ABOUT JOE BIDEN and the MISS AMERICA RUNNER-UP?'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-2773015235152167854</id><published>2009-04-28T13:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-28T18:41:49.904-07:00</updated><title type='text'>FLU POLITICS</title><content type='html'>HOW TO AVOID A PANDEMIC IN OUR SCHOOLS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT'S THE PLAN? NOBODY HAS TOLD US! SO HERE IS MY UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE SOLUTION...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every SCHOOL should be monitoring their students as soon as they arrive at school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every TEACHER should refer any student that has chills / is sweating / coughing / sneezing to the nurses office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every NURSE should send any referred student home that has a temperature of 100 degrees or more, with a referral to a health clinic..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Every PARENT should be notified if ANY STUDENT was sent home from their child's school, ON THE SAME DAY THAT THE ACTION TO PLACE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WAITING FOR FLU CONFIRMATION BEFORE THE PARENTS ARE NOTIFIED WILL BE TOO LATE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT SHOULD BE THE RIGHT OF THE PARENT TO DECIDE IF THEY WANT THEIR CHILDREN TO GO TO SCHOOL DURING THIS TIME.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT IS NOT THE SCHOOLS DECISION.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I DON'T WANT TO HEAR "I'M SORRY".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND, ANY SCHOOL THAT PUTS ATTENDANCE (IN ORDER TO RECEIVE GOVERNMENT MONEY) OVER THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF OUR KIDS SHOULD BE CLOSED.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not PANIC... it is PRUDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of which, in order to avoid panic many "OFFICIALS" have said that wearing a respirator is ineffective, YET all our doctors and nurses wear them... WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? PUT THEM ON FOLKS, better safe than DEAD!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-2773015235152167854?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/2773015235152167854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/04/flu-politicis.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2773015235152167854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2773015235152167854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/04/flu-politicis.html' title='FLU POLITICS'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-793168693501830033</id><published>2009-04-24T21:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-27T12:54:44.715-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The World's Best "MAC and PCHEESE" Education</title><content type='html'>UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FIRST:&lt;br /&gt;I support the president's plan to make higher education more affordable for more students, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, we need to ready our kids for higher education.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SECOND:&lt;br /&gt;A laptop computer, Mac or PC, should be provided for every student in our public education system K - 12, just as we provide text books at no charge to the same students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a matter of fact, the students would have no use for most of those text books, and that would help pay for their laptops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This should be a program paid for, half by the federal government and half by the state government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The poorest schools should receive the laptops first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This program would encourage people to reconsider public education rather than fleeing to private schools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This use of computers will prepare the student for their higher education as well as the hi tech &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;computerized&lt;/span&gt; work force.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIRD:&lt;br /&gt;(Recognizing that not every parent is capable or has the time to teach their kids)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every elementary school should offer on campus homework tutoring, and some middle school classes, after the regular days schedule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every middle school should offer on campus homework tutoring, and some high school classes, after the regular days schedule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every high school should offer on campus homework tutoring, and some lower division college prerequisite classes, after the regular days schedule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FORTH:&lt;br /&gt;Every elementary school, middle school, and high school, should offer a summer school program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FIFTH:&lt;br /&gt;Every teacher should be provided with a laptop TOO!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOW we can talk "EDUCATION"!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-793168693501830033?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/793168693501830033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/04/worlds-best-mac-and-pcheese-education.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/793168693501830033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/793168693501830033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/04/worlds-best-mac-and-pcheese-education.html' title='The World&apos;s Best &quot;MAC and PCHEESE&quot; Education'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-5357773058976536327</id><published>2009-04-03T10:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-03T12:16:46.927-07:00</updated><title type='text'>WELLS FARGO RIP OFFS:  BANKING REFORM FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE</title><content type='html'>11:59 pm April 01, 2009: Outstanding Check(s).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#1. Dated&lt;/strong&gt; March 18, 2009 $100.00 Issued at 10:00 pm. Check #1004&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11:59 pm Available Account Balance: $85.00.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#2. Dated&lt;/strong&gt; April 01, 2009 $100.00 Issued at 10:00 pm. Check #1006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 02, 2009:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10:00 am Available Account Balance: $85.00.&lt;br /&gt;10:00 am Cash Deposit: $130.00.&lt;br /&gt;10:01 am Account Balance: $215.00&lt;br /&gt;10:01 am Available Account Balance: $85.00.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10:01 am Pending Account Deposit: $130.00.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;02:02 pm Notified of Insufficient Funds (email)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$35.00 Overdraft Protection Fee. Re: Check #1004 Dated March 18, 2009.&lt;br /&gt;$35.00 Overdraft Protection Fee. Re: Check #1006 Dated April 01, 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE'S THE WELLS FARGO SCAM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is how they pull it off!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They hold your cash deposit and wait for withdrawals against the account. Then, they make the withdrawals before they credit your deposit. Then, they charge you the Overdraft Protection Fees before they credit your deposit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this instance, because the latest dated check was April 01, 2009, they told the customer they had received it on April 01, 2009 when they in fact had insufficient funds in their account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT, the Business that deposited the check(s), because it had been received so late in the evening on April 01, 2009, did not deposit it until midday on the April 02, 2009, when in fact the account HAD sufficient funds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Wells Fargo was asked for the date and TIME STAMP to prove when they had actually received the checks, they refused to produce them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And therein lies the problem. THE TIME STAMP should be mandatory and should appear on all checks in order to show when a payment demand is made. &lt;strong&gt;Otherwise, an unscrupulous bank will delay cash deposits and post demands against an account based upon the date that appears on the check, rather than when the demand was actually made, &lt;/strong&gt;in order to create insufficient fund scenarios and charge Overdraft Protection Fees. A la WELLS FARGO BANK.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-5357773058976536327?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/5357773058976536327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/04/wells-fargo-rip-offs-banking-reform-for.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5357773058976536327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5357773058976536327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/04/wells-fargo-rip-offs-banking-reform-for.html' title='WELLS FARGO RIP OFFS:  BANKING REFORM FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-8089132616141050759</id><published>2009-03-31T22:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-31T22:33:19.095-07:00</updated><title type='text'>FOOLS!</title><content type='html'>Over the last couple of weeks I've listened to congressmen, and senators "grand stand".  Showing emotions (fake or real), while they touted their private or public agendas. &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;     And what struck me was that they sounded uneducated, and insincere.  Furthermore, they were hateful.&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;     That is SCARY!&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;     In a modern nation, in today's' world, we need educated leaders.  People with a sufficiently high I.Q. / native intelligence that are able to reason, think accurately and fast, for the common good, who possess uncommon common sense..&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;     The day of the orator that sounds good but makes no sense should be behind us.  The snake oil salesman that mimics our hopes and feeds on our fears... the down home politician... needs to be replaced by a representative that understands finance, ethics, justice, rather than another lawyer that understands none of those things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     I don't care what party they belong to, but please don't reelect these fools!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-8089132616141050759?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/8089132616141050759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/fools.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/8089132616141050759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/8089132616141050759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/fools.html' title='FOOLS!'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-2918301532546824376</id><published>2009-03-19T14:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-19T14:41:37.983-07:00</updated><title type='text'>MUDDYING THE WATER &amp; THE IDIOTS THAT WANT TO SWIM IN THE POND</title><content type='html'>Liddy agreed to dismantle AIG in an organized manner in order to save the economy. He did not agree to alter the Retention / Bonus Agreements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The WORLD'S ECONOMY is THE PRIORITY. Not this petty jealousy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no one that wants to lose their bonus because of circumstances beyond their control. To believe that the people at AIG are responsible is ludicrous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was the Representatives, and the Senators, and the past Administrations, that passed or killed legislation and oversight, they are the ones that brought this country to it's knees. They are the ones that have "Muddied the Water".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To have these idiots, these "Law Makers" break a contractual agreement is SCARY! So much for our CONSTITUTION!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THOSE VOTING FOR&lt;/strong&gt; A TAX, on these Retention / Bonus Agreements, OR IMPOSING SAME ON ANYONE, &lt;strong&gt;SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE&lt;/strong&gt;, for failure to uphold the Constitution Of The United States Of America! &lt;strong&gt;IT'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best thing you can do now is &lt;strong&gt;support our President and his Staff&lt;/strong&gt;, please don't be sucked into the divide and conquor regime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p.s. If you want to catch fish when the water is dirty, either use a net, or drop some dynamite in the pond...forget the hook line and sinker!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-2918301532546824376?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/2918301532546824376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/muddying-water-idiots-that-want-to-swim.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2918301532546824376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2918301532546824376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/muddying-water-idiots-that-want-to-swim.html' title='MUDDYING THE WATER &amp; THE IDIOTS THAT WANT TO SWIM IN THE POND'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-5242573669675516902</id><published>2009-03-09T12:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T13:19:22.546-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LUMP SUM POLITICS</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;DIVIDE and CONQUER?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NO...NOW IS THE TIME FOR UNITY!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lumping people or ideas into semantic arguing groups, Democratic or Republican or Independent, is archaic.  That is counter-productive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now is the time for solutions and actions, with out delay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Support Our President.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have an idea, or what you think is a better idea, let someone know.  But, be ready with a solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone can point to a problem, but few offer solutions. This is the time for solutions.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-5242573669675516902?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/5242573669675516902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/lump-sum-politics.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5242573669675516902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5242573669675516902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/lump-sum-politics.html' title='LUMP SUM POLITICS'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-1688827715873390930</id><published>2009-03-06T15:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T16:10:05.311-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE "GHOST" OF THE SELF EMPLOYED</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES DO NOT ACCOUNT FOR THE SELF EMPLOYED WHO HAVE LOST THEIR BUSINESSES DUE TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC DEPRESSION.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they owned their own business, and then lost it, &lt;strong&gt;THEY CANNOT COLLECT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHERE, &lt;strong&gt;Mr. President&lt;/strong&gt;, IS THE SAFETY NET &lt;strong&gt;for these entrepreneurs&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-1688827715873390930?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/1688827715873390930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/ghost-of-self-employed.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/1688827715873390930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/1688827715873390930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/ghost-of-self-employed.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;THE &quot;GHOST&quot; OF THE SELF EMPLOYED&lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-6256806241689865453</id><published>2009-03-06T11:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T11:20:14.110-08:00</updated><title type='text'>CREDIT AMNESTY</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;A SOLUTION TO STOP THE DEVASTATION OF THE DEPRESSION!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-6256806241689865453?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/6256806241689865453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/credit-amnesty.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6256806241689865453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/6256806241689865453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/credit-amnesty.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;CREDIT AMNESTY&lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-3029692267508177522</id><published>2009-03-05T11:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-05T12:46:33.417-08:00</updated><title type='text'>BANKRUPTCY AND CREDIT FORGIVINESS-LIFE MUST GO ON</title><content type='html'>You have a family of eight (Grandparents, Parents, Kids, and Grandchild).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, you couldn't afford Health Insurance so you used the emergency room entrance to the hospital and then you couldn't afford to pay those bills.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then your Adjustable Rate Mortgage rates went through the roof and you couldn't keep up on your Mortgage Payments unless you refinanced...and you did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then your car is repossessed because you can't keep up on those payments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, then you lost your job and couldn't afford your payments and now you're in default.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, maybe you will qualify for a Loan Modification Program, but maybe you won't. in any case, you've destroyed your credit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now bankruptcy is all you have left to do...but you can't afford to file the papers or you will be on the streets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, did I mention there is no credit card debt!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOW WHAT?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-3029692267508177522?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/3029692267508177522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/bankruptcy-and-credit-forgiviness-life.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3029692267508177522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3029692267508177522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/bankruptcy-and-credit-forgiviness-life.html' title='BANKRUPTCY AND CREDIT FORGIVINESS-LIFE MUST GO ON'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-5770395304271141700</id><published>2009-03-05T11:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-05T11:29:37.799-08:00</updated><title type='text'>DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE-PREDICTIONS</title><content type='html'>5000! That's right, it should have gone down to 2500 BUT...Obama's lightning action on all fronts will stop the slide around 5000. That's why I bought NOODLE stocks. "Free Ramen Tomorrow", I don't think so...tomorrow never comes...but that's what everyone is eating...not just college students...during this depression.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-5770395304271141700?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/5770395304271141700/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/dow-jones-industrial-average.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5770395304271141700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5770395304271141700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/03/dow-jones-industrial-average.html' title='DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE-PREDICTIONS'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-5717073403031929430</id><published>2009-02-19T11:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-19T12:14:09.215-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE GLOBALIZATION OF ONE NATIONS ECONOMIC DEPRESSION</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;LET'S FACE IT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;If you want your neighborhood to weather the economic storm, you better entertain, live, and conduct your business there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same goes for your Nation, your State, your County, your City, your Borough, your District, your Village, your Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit and do business with your neighbors, save your money for an emergency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tourism is not a sustainable option or solution. Production jobs are, whether they are in a scaled down service sector, or manufacturing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quit making things we don't need because no one should responsibly purchase them. Price your products so that your kids can go to public schools just like your customer's kids, (unless those products sell so well that private school is once again an option).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basic necessities: CLOTHING, Old; FOOD, Ramen; WATER, Bottled; SHELTER (Mortgage, Lease, Rent); Utilities (Electricity, Gas, Water); Services (Trash); Communications (Cellular phone / Telephone, Radio / Television, Computer, Mail); Transportation (Personal, Public).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-5717073403031929430?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/5717073403031929430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/02/globalization-of-one-nations-economic.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5717073403031929430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/5717073403031929430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/02/globalization-of-one-nations-economic.html' title='THE GLOBALIZATION OF ONE NATIONS ECONOMIC DEPRESSION'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-4128338929186119797</id><published>2009-02-14T11:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T12:33:13.308-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE ECONOMIC SOLUTION-UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE</title><content type='html'>It's obvious, our law makers don't have time to read the economic stimulus package, and even if they did, it's more obvious that those who wrote it don't know how to get the economy stabilized in a simple maner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, since nobody reads this blog, I might as well explain, SIMPLY, HOW TO SAVE THE ECONOMY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;0. OUR GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO PLACE AN INJUNCTION / MORATORIUM ON FORECLOSURES AND EVICTIONS IMMEDIATELY and then needs to provide the following to those people that have lost their jobs / place of residence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Our Government needs to hire and pay people to work.&lt;br /&gt;They can create new jobs, however this will take time, therefore they need to hire and pay people to work IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR until such time as the government jobs are ready to be filled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Our government needs to provide sliding scale no cost - low cost health care at this time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Our Government needs to provide subsidized basic utilities such as water, gas, electricity, telephone, television service, and transportation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These steps will stimulate the economy. People will be able to pay for their basic necessities. Businesses will have customers. And those that needed help will receive it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF YOU THAT STILL HAVE YOUR JOB? Your good fortune will continue because the less fortunate received these benefits...OTHERWISE, YOU MIGHT BE NEXT...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE at its best!  Price tag...less than the Stimulus Package.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-4128338929186119797?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/4128338929186119797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/02/economic-solution-uncommon-common-sense.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/4128338929186119797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/4128338929186119797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/02/economic-solution-uncommon-common-sense.html' title='THE ECONOMIC SOLUTION-UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-2111176660176562069</id><published>2009-02-01T15:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-01T15:29:45.602-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE "DEPRESSION" WORD</title><content type='html'>I CAN NOT TRUST ANYONE THAT REFUSES TO PUBLICLY ADMIT THAT WE ARE IN AN ECONOMIC "DEPRESSION".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there an index or a number that I haven't heard of that defines the moment it is correct to call this a depression?  If not, WHY NOT?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are we so stupid to believe this is a recession just because no one has told us it's a depression?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anyone wants me to consider their point of view, I need them to address this question of semantics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are we in a recession, or are we in a depression, what is the defining difference, EXPLAIN IT TO ME PLEASE, MR. PRESIDENT.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-2111176660176562069?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/2111176660176562069/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/02/depression-word.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2111176660176562069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/2111176660176562069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2009/02/depression-word.html' title='THE &quot;DEPRESSION&quot; WORD'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-3452463123260237263</id><published>2008-12-21T11:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-21T12:40:05.881-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HYDROGEN and THE POLITICAL PYRAMID SCHEME</title><content type='html'>Many years ago I submitted a plan to the DOD/DOE suggesting that we reduce our dependence on foreign oil by building hydrogen fueled vehicles and converting existing internal combustion engines to run on hydrogen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While this concept wasn't new, the rest of the concept was revolutionary...and that was the problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem was, and still is today, no one was/is in a position to monopolize the production of hydrogen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me back up for a second. The reason/logic/excuse why we were not yet using Hydrogen was that first an enormously expensive massive infrastructure had to be built in order to produce and then distribute the hydrogen to hydrogen pumping stations where you could fuel your vehicles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that sounded plausible, but it delayed the realization of a hydrogen fueled economy for 30 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except I had the solution that would make it possible to have a hydrogen economy today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I told the DOD/DOE, or maybe I should say I reminded them, that the technology exists today, and was in fact already in use for mobile units in remote areas, to manufacture small scale solar/electrical powered HOME hydrogen generating units, storage tanks, and fueling systems capable of fueling up to four vehicles. (Remember the Natural Gas/Propane Tanks that you've seen in all rural areas?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And of course, as I said before, all internal combustion engines can be converted to hydrogen while we wait for our automobile industry to design something expensive and unaffordable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the DOD/DOE classified my documents and that was that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I wasn't through!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I took the opportunity to email my plan to OBAMA, MCCAIN, and PICKENS. But the responses were always automated. No one cared. Every one was just building their MULTI LEVEL MARKETING PYRAMID. Asking me to join their team and make a donation to The PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS PONZI SCHEME.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TODAY, my daughter told me that Chevy was promoting their Hydrogen Vehicle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(So it takes plummeting us into THE GREAT DEPRESSION in order for a tiny bit of the GREED to be revealed/curtailed.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But we still don't have a hydrogen economy because the power people haven't set up their infrastructure to control it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BEWARE. The plan now will be for Governments at all levels to legislate away your right to economically produce, store, pump, use/sell hydrogen from your home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They won't be happy with just collecting direct road taxes based on odometer readings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and I have the solution for financing this so that everyone can afford it...but for now I just want to get this much of my post out...so I will be back later for the economics of my solutions.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-3452463123260237263?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/3452463123260237263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2008/12/hydrogen-and-political-pyramid-scheme.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3452463123260237263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3452463123260237263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2008/12/hydrogen-and-political-pyramid-scheme.html' title='HYDROGEN and THE POLITICAL PYRAMID SCHEME'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-1134077402463164580</id><published>2008-12-16T12:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-16T12:34:33.221-08:00</updated><title type='text'>(UN)HEALTH(LY) CARE...Let's get rid of the parenthesis.</title><content type='html'>TODAY December 16, thru December 31, 2008, YOU have your chance to CHANGE the Health Care Policies of the United States of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've enclosed the downloads from the President Elect which will give you all the necessary information to enter into the disussion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please remember that this is a non partisan issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My own beliefs, in order to start this conversation...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Government should provide Total Health Care to everyone without discrimination, the receipent charged on a sliding scale based on their ability to pay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do YOU think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please read the following items before you respond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1&lt;br /&gt;PARTICIPANT GUIDE FOR&lt;br /&gt;HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS&lt;br /&gt;POLICY BACKGROUND AND KEY QUESTIONS&lt;br /&gt;The President-elect believes that every American should have high quality and affordable health care, and to&lt;br /&gt;reach this goal, we must modernize our health care system in order to:&lt;br /&gt;• Improve health care quality and cut costs;&lt;br /&gt;• Expand coverage and access; and&lt;br /&gt;• Increase the emphasis on primary care and prevention.&lt;br /&gt;As we work to revamp our health care system, we need to hear from you. There is no problem that we cannot&lt;br /&gt;solve together—and it is out of our collective wisdom and experience that we will identify potential solutions to&lt;br /&gt;the many health care challenges that we face. We need to hear your ideas and your stories so that we can report&lt;br /&gt;them to the President-elect. What follows is brief background information to help you start a discussion and a&lt;br /&gt;set of key questions. Your answers to them will guide our collective effort to reform the U.S. health system.&lt;br /&gt;I. OVERVIEW OF THE PROBLEM&lt;br /&gt;The potential of health care in America is enormous and ever expanding. Diseases that once were lifethreatening&lt;br /&gt;are now curable; conditions that once were devastating are now treatable. We have the knowledge&lt;br /&gt;to extend and improve lives.&lt;br /&gt;But, as the stories of those who participated in the recent on-line discussion at www.change.gov testify, our&lt;br /&gt;system is flawed and fails to deliver affordable, high-quality health care to all Americans. Our system faces&lt;br /&gt;three interrelated problems.&lt;br /&gt;First, health care costs are skyrocketing, hurting our families as well as our economy:&lt;br /&gt;• Health insurance premiums have doubled in the past 8 years, accompanied by increasing co-pays and&lt;br /&gt;deductibles that threaten access to care.1&lt;br /&gt;• Large medical bills have contributed to half of bankruptcies and foreclosures.2&lt;br /&gt;• Rising health care costs place a burden on American businesses, as they try to balance health benefit costs&lt;br /&gt;with job growth and competitiveness. American manufacturers are paying more than twice as much on&lt;br /&gt;health benefits as most of their foreign competitors (measured in cost per hour).3&lt;br /&gt;• Problems with health care quality and administrative “waste” contribute to these costs:&lt;br /&gt;o Medical errors result in as many as 100,000 deaths per year in U.S. hospitals.4&lt;br /&gt;o On average, American adults received just 55 percent of recommended care for the leading causes of&lt;br /&gt;death and disability.5&lt;br /&gt;• The U.S. spent $412 per capita on health care administration and insurance in 2003—nearly 6 times as much&lt;br /&gt;as other developed countries.6&lt;br /&gt;2&lt;br /&gt;Second, over forty-five million Americans have no health insurance:&lt;br /&gt;• Nearly 160 million Americans have job-based insurance, but many are just a pink slip away from joining the&lt;br /&gt;ranks of the uninsured. For every 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate, over one million&lt;br /&gt;people become uninsured.7&lt;br /&gt;• Being uninsured leads to delayed care—late diagnoses for cancer when it is harder and more expensive to&lt;br /&gt;treat, and preventable complications due to untreated diabetes. It also leads to denied care— a child without&lt;br /&gt;health insurance is less likely to receive medical attention for recurrent ear infections or for asthma.&lt;br /&gt;Uninsured trauma victims are less likely to be admitted to the hospital and are 37 percent more likely to die&lt;br /&gt;of injuries.8&lt;br /&gt;• Even people with coverage are increasingly finding that it is insufficient or simply not there when needed.&lt;br /&gt;Nearly one in five Americans either delay care or have unmet needs despite having health insurance.9&lt;br /&gt;Third, our nation’s investment in prevention and public health is inadequate, leading to rapid spread of&lt;br /&gt;chronic diseases, many of which could be prevented entirely or managed:&lt;br /&gt;• One in 3 Americans—or 133 million—have a chronic condition,10 and 5 chronic diseases—heart disease,&lt;br /&gt;cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes—cause over two-thirds of all deaths.11&lt;br /&gt;• Approximately 1 in 3 children born today will develop diabetes in their lifetime.12&lt;br /&gt;• Only four cents out of every health care dollar is spent on prevention and public health.13&lt;br /&gt;II. THE PRESIDENT-ELECT’S HEALTH CARE PLAN&lt;br /&gt;President-elect Obama presented a framework for health reform to achieve three goals:&lt;br /&gt;Modernize the Health Care System to Improve Quality and Reduce Costs:&lt;br /&gt;• Invest in a national health information technology system that will allow us to coordinate care, measure&lt;br /&gt;quality, reduce medical errors, and save billions of dollars;&lt;br /&gt;• Reward health providers that provide high quality care and coordinated care;&lt;br /&gt;• Expand disease management programs and self-management training to help patients;&lt;br /&gt;• Lower drug costs by increasing the use of generic drugs in public programs, and taking on drug companies&lt;br /&gt;that block cheaper generic medicines from the market;&lt;br /&gt;• Require hospitals and providers to collect and report health care cost and quality data.&lt;br /&gt;Expand Coverage to All Americans:&lt;br /&gt;• Build upon and strengthen employer coverage;&lt;br /&gt;• Allow people to keep the coverage that they have and maintain patients’ choice of doctor;&lt;br /&gt;• Establish a National Health Insurance Exchange that offers a range of private insurance options as well as a&lt;br /&gt;new public plan option;&lt;br /&gt;• Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health&lt;br /&gt;status or history can get comprehensive benefits at fair and stable premiums;&lt;br /&gt;• Expand Medicaid and SCHIP and provide sliding-scale premium assistance for low-income people.&lt;br /&gt;Improve Prevention and Public Health:&lt;br /&gt;• Require coverage of clinical preventive services such as tobacco cessation services and cancer screenings, in&lt;br /&gt;public programs and private health plans;&lt;br /&gt;• Invest in community-based prevention that will lead to healthier schools, worksites, and communities;&lt;br /&gt;• Tackle the health and public health workforce shortage and bolster the public health infrastructure.&lt;br /&gt;3&lt;br /&gt;III. QUESTIONS&lt;br /&gt;1. Briefly, from your own experience, what do you perceive is the biggest problem in the health system?&lt;br /&gt;2. How do you choose a doctor or hospital? What are your sources of information? How should public policy&lt;br /&gt;promote quality health care providers?&lt;br /&gt;3. Have you or your family members ever experienced difficulty paying medical bills? What do you think&lt;br /&gt;policy makers can do to address this problem?&lt;br /&gt;4. In addition to employer-based coverage, would you like the option to purchase a private plan through an&lt;br /&gt;insurance-exchange or a public plan like Medicare?&lt;br /&gt;5. Do you know how much you or your employer pays for health insurance? What should an employer’s role&lt;br /&gt;be in a reformed health care system?&lt;br /&gt;6. Below are examples of the types of preventive services Americans should receive. Have you gotten the&lt;br /&gt;prevention you should have? If not, how can public policy help?&lt;br /&gt;7. How can public policy promote healthier lifestyles?&lt;br /&gt;EXAMPLES OF RECOMMENDED PREVENTIVE SCREENINGS&lt;br /&gt;Screening Mammography:&lt;br /&gt;• All of the major professional societies that make recommendations about breast cancer&lt;br /&gt;screening recommend that women by age 50 and older get a routine annual screening&lt;br /&gt;mammography for breast cancer. Many of these societies recommend that women&lt;br /&gt;should undergo such screening at age 40.14&lt;br /&gt;• Yet, only 71.8 percent of women age 50-64 and 63.8 percent of women 65 or older&lt;br /&gt;received a screening mammogram in 2005.15&lt;br /&gt;Flu Shots:&lt;br /&gt;• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all adults over the&lt;br /&gt;age of 50 receive an annual vaccine against influenza.16&lt;br /&gt;• Yet, in 2006, only 45.9 percent of adults over the age of 50 received a flu shot.17&lt;br /&gt;Cholesterol Screening:&lt;br /&gt;• The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that doctors routinely screen&lt;br /&gt;men ages 35 years and older and women ages 45 years and older for high cholesterol.18&lt;br /&gt;• Yet, according to data from 2007, only 74.9 percent of adults in the U.S. had their&lt;br /&gt;cholesterol checked within the past five years.19&lt;br /&gt;4&lt;br /&gt;PARTICIPANT SURVEY FOR HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY DISCUSSION&lt;br /&gt;(Please Give Your Survey To Your Host—Thank You!)&lt;br /&gt;1. What do you perceive is the biggest problem in the health system?&lt;br /&gt;a. Cost of health insurance&lt;br /&gt;b. Cost of health care services&lt;br /&gt;c. Difficulty finding health insurance due to a pre-existing condition&lt;br /&gt;d. Lack of emphasis on prevention&lt;br /&gt;e. Quality of health care&lt;br /&gt;2. What do you think is the best way for policy makers to develop a plan to address the&lt;br /&gt;health system problems?&lt;br /&gt;a. Community meetings like these&lt;br /&gt;b. Traditional town hall meetings&lt;br /&gt;c. Surveys that solicit ideas on reform&lt;br /&gt;d. A White House Health Care Summit&lt;br /&gt;e. Congressional hearings on C-SPAN&lt;br /&gt;3. After this discussion, what additional input and information would best help you to&lt;br /&gt;continue to participate in this great debate?&lt;br /&gt;a. More background information on problems in the health system&lt;br /&gt;b. More information on solutions for health reform&lt;br /&gt;c. More stories on how the system affects real people&lt;br /&gt;d. More opportunities to discuss the issues&lt;br /&gt;5&lt;br /&gt;References&lt;br /&gt;1 Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust, “Employer Health Benefits 2008” (Menlo Park,&lt;br /&gt;CA), Kaiser Family Foundation (2008), available at http://ehbs.kff.org/pdf/7790.pdf.&lt;br /&gt;2 C.T. Robertson, R. Egelhof, and M. Hoke, “Get Sick, Get Out: The Medical Causes of Home Foreclosures,” Health&lt;br /&gt;Matrix, 18 (2008): 65-105, available at http://works.bepress.com/christopher_robertson/2.&lt;br /&gt;3 Len M. Nichols and Sarah Axeen, “Employer Health Costs in a Global Economy: A Competitive Disadvantage for U.S.&lt;br /&gt;Firms,” New American Foundation (May 2008).&lt;br /&gt;4 Linda T. Kohn, Janet M. Corrigan, and Molla S. Donaldson, Editors; Committee on Quality of Health Care in America,&lt;br /&gt;Institute of Medicine, To Err is Human, Washington, DC: National Academy Press (2000).&lt;br /&gt;5 Elizabeth A. McGlynn et al. “The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States,” NEJM 348 (26):&lt;br /&gt;2635-2645 (June 26, 2003).&lt;br /&gt;6 McKinsey &amp; Company, “Accounting for the Cost of Health Care in the United States” (January 2007).&lt;br /&gt;7 Stan Dorn et al., “Medicaid, SCHIP, and Economic Downturn: Policy Challenges and Policy Responses,” Kaiser&lt;br /&gt;Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (April 2008), http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/7770.pdf.&lt;br /&gt;8 Institute of Medicine, “Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late - Report Brief,” Washington, DC: National Academy&lt;br /&gt;Press (2002), available at&lt;br /&gt;http://books.nap.edu/books/0309083435/html/73.html#pagetop.&lt;br /&gt;9 P.J. Cunningham, L.E. Felland, “Falling Behind: Americans’ Access to Medical Care Deteriorates, 2003-07,” Center for&lt;br /&gt;Studying Health System Change, Tracking Report No. 19 (June 2008).&lt;br /&gt;10 Gerard Anderson, Robert Herbert, Timothy Zeffiro, and Nikia Johnson, “Chronic Conditions: Making the Case for&lt;br /&gt;Ongoing Care,” Partnership for Solutions, Johns Hopkins and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2004).&lt;br /&gt;11 Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “Chronic Disease Overview,” http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/overview.htm.&lt;br /&gt;12 Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “Preventing Chronic Diseases: Investing Wisely in Health,”&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/factsheets/Prevention/pdf/diabetes.pdf.&lt;br /&gt;13 Jeanne M. Lambrew, “A Wellness Trust to Prioritize Disease Prevention,” The Hamilton Project, Brookings Institution&lt;br /&gt;(2007), available at http://www3.brookings.edu/views/papers/200704lambrew.pdf.&lt;br /&gt;14 Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, “Screening for Breast Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force”&lt;br /&gt;(February 2002), available at http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf/uspsbrca.htm; American Academy of Family Physicians,&lt;br /&gt;“Periodic Health Examinations: Summary of AAFP Policy Recommendations &amp; Age Charts,” available at&lt;br /&gt;www.aafp.org/exam.xml; Feig, SA, D'Orsi, CJ, Hendrick, RE, et al., “American College of Radiology Guidelines for&lt;br /&gt;Breast Cancer Screening,” American Journal Roentgenology, 171:29, 1998; Amir Qaseem et al, “Screening Mammography&lt;br /&gt;for Women 40 to 49 Years of Age: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians,” Annals of&lt;br /&gt;Internal Medicine (April 2007) Volume 146, Issue 7, Pages 511-515, available at&lt;br /&gt;http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/146/7/511.&lt;br /&gt;15 National Center for Health Statistics, “National Health Interview Survey in Health, United States, 2007 with Chartbook&lt;br /&gt;on Trends in the Health of Americans,” Table 87, available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus07.pdf.&lt;br /&gt;16 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “2008-09 Influenza Prevention and Control Recommendations,” available at&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/acip/flu_vax_adults0809.htm#box2.&lt;br /&gt;17 National Center for Health Statistics, “National Health Interview Survey in Health, United States, 2007 with Chartbook&lt;br /&gt;on Trends in the Health of Americans,” Table 85, available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus07.pdf.&lt;br /&gt;18 Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, “Guide to Clinical Preventive&lt;br /&gt;Services,” (2008), available at www.ahrq.gov/clinic/prevnew.htm.&lt;br /&gt;19 National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention &amp; Health Promotion, “Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System:&lt;br /&gt;Cholesterol Awareness 2007,” (2007), available at&lt;br /&gt;http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss/list.asp?cat=CA&amp;yr=2007&amp;qkey=1487&amp;state=All.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-1134077402463164580?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/1134077402463164580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2008/12/unhealthly-carelets-get-rid-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/1134077402463164580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/1134077402463164580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2008/12/unhealthly-carelets-get-rid-of.html' title='(UN)HEALTH(LY) CARE...Let&apos;s get rid of the parenthesis.'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-3726836422130555185</id><published>2008-12-13T12:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T12:40:54.723-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Hydrogen Project</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;WANTED&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;UNEMPLOYED PHDS&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Mechanical Engineers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Chemical Engineers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Theoretical Physicists&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;No Pay, but what else are you going to do...might as well help the world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;email me&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;this is not a competition&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;everyone accepted &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-3726836422130555185?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/3726836422130555185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2008/12/hydrogen-project.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3726836422130555185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3726836422130555185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2008/12/hydrogen-project.html' title='The Hydrogen Project'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-3379433204085506971</id><published>2008-12-12T10:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T11:00:34.306-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Uncommon Common Sense</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Did you get your free bowl of ramen...oh...that's right...tomorrow&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-3379433204085506971?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/3379433204085506971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2008/12/uncommon-common-sense.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3379433204085506971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3379433204085506971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2008/12/uncommon-common-sense.html' title='Uncommon Common Sense'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786770742337265342.post-3015230031684547757</id><published>2008-12-11T10:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T11:00:34.306-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Worlds Greatest Economic Depression</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Free Ramen Tomorrow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2786770742337265342-3015230031684547757?l=blog1ne.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/feeds/3015230031684547757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2008/12/worlds-greatest-economic-depression.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3015230031684547757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2786770742337265342/posts/default/3015230031684547757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog1ne.blogspot.com/2008/12/worlds-greatest-economic-depression.html' title='The Worlds Greatest Economic Depression'/><author><name>the anonymous expatriate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03707939009989729498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
