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Subject: Economic Collapse - from San Francisco Chronicle - WORTH WHILE TO READ
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:10:30 +0000

Most of the liberals and Democrats will try to deny the facts in the
article below - but I challenge you to write down the "names" and keep a
scorecard when the FBI starts to make indictments or if McCain is
elected, his AG. If Obama is elected - maybe even the FBI will be
chased out of town on this one. As the article states Obama (nor his AG)
certainly won't do anything about the crooks in Congress (including
Republicans).

Oh - one more thing - go check out for yourselves how much stock Nancy
Pelosi ($2.5 million) and a number of other prominent democrats had in
AIG and you will understand why AIG was BAILED OUT. (The largest amount
held was by a republica n - $11.0 mil). I guess they didn't have enough
stock in Lehman Brothers to bail them out. It was not any secret in the
insurance industry that AIG has been in trouble for years.

> *For those interested in what really is causing our economic
> crisis this is a great article published by the **San
> Francisco** Chronicle, an extremely liberal newspaper in the most
> liberal town in our nation. They had it in them to publish this
> within 40 days of the election. The article is factually accurate
> and worth the read………..*
>
> **
> *'The average American listening to all the news of bank failures,
> and Fann ie Mae and Freddie Mac (who?) being taken over by the
> government, and now a“bail-out” of large, privately owned and well
> known companies, is at first bewildered, and then angry. The
> average American should be furious.*
>
> *But whom should Americans be furious? That seems to be the big
> question as political finger s are pointing in every direction.
> Was it greedy CEO’s with their “golden parachutes?” Was it the
> Democrats? Was it the Republicans? Was it Wall Street? (Who,
> exactly IS “Wall Street?”) The simple answer is that it is all of
> the above.
>
> Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Jr., and Federal Reserve
> Chairman Ben S. Bernanke were on Capital Hill taking a verbal
> beating from some of the very people who should not be asking the
> questions, but answering them and answering those questions under
> oath.*
>
> *Senator Chris Dodd, (D-Co nn.) and Congressman Barney Frank,
> (D-Mass.) are the first two who should be grilled, not by fellow
> politicians, but by an independent and hopefully very clever,
> angry, and mean attorney hired by the American people. No one from
> the present Justice Department need apply. Both should be asked
> how much money they have taken from lobbyists hired by the CEO’s
> of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Since that is public record, they
> should then be asked what Fannie and Freddie got in return for
> that money.
>
> Barney Frank should be questioned about his House Bill, H.R. 3838,
> that is clearly designed to keep Fannie and Freddie afloat as long
> as possible despite all the signs that there was serious trouble
> ahead. But all his bill did was make the hole bigger in the side
> of the Titanic. Basically all H. R. 3838 did was: “To temporarily
> increase the portfolio caps appli cable to Freddie Mac and Fannie
> Mae, to provide the necessary financing to curb foreclosures by
> facilitating the refinancing of at-risk subprime borrowers into
> safe, affordable loans, and for other purposes.”
>
> Barney Frank and his counterpart in the Senate, Chuck Schumer,
> (D-N.Y.) did everything they could to delay and cover-up the
> outright fraud and book-cooking that was going on within Freddie
> and Fannie. As far back as 2003, Freddie and Fannie were $9
> billion dollars in debt because of bad loans that continued to be
> accepted on a daily basis. Pressure from liberals in Congress to
> continue giving out bad loans was relentless and for years it
> continued with CEO’s, who happen to be friends of Dodd, Frank,
> Schumer, and Clinton, leaving with millions in their bank
> accounts as the companies they ran went under.
>
> The truth is that this financial disaster for the American
> taxpayer didn’t begin under George Bush, or Bill Clinton, or
> George Herbert Walker Bush, or Ron ald Reagan. It started under
> Jimmy Carter. It started with the passing of The Community
> Reinvestment Act in 1977.*
>
> ** *Basically, this act pushed local community banks and lenders,
> to “bend” the rules a little and give loans to low-income
> families. Like many liberal schemes, it seemed like a good idea
> at the time. There was a provision that protected the nervous
> lender in the clause that stated that loans should be given “in a
> safe and sound manner.” This gave the bank some leeway and choice
> in the loans that were given out. Under Bill Clinton, The
> Community Reinvestment Act was revised. Basically, the revision
> started to put pressure on lenders to take more financial risks.
> It was felt that lenders were not being “fair” to minor ities and
> the poor who only wanted to share in the American dream of owning
> their own home. Janet Reno began to outwardly threaten banks and
> mortgage lenders with prosecution if home loans were not approved
> for those who wanted to purchase homes that, in truth, they could
> not afford.*
>
> *Fearing federal retribution, loans started being approved for
> people who had no down-payment, no jobs, no collateral, and
> absolutely no hope of ever being able to meet any mortgage payment
> after the grace period of low interest ran out. Then, the greed
> took over. Banks would “bundle” up loans, good and bad, and sell
> them to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, making all their money up
> front for loans they knew would default eventually. As these loans
> did default, in larger and larger numbers, even Fannie and Freddie
> could no longer stand up under the hemorrhage of money loss. Wall
> Street panicked and so did the federal government.
>
> Were there warning signs that a disaster was looming? Of course,
> there were. But there was money to be made and politicians and
> CEO’s alike were not about to give up the gravy train of money
> being crammed in their pockets. The CEO’s of Freddie and Fannie
> would hire lobbyists to slip money into the pockets of Senator
> Chris Dodd, (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate banking committee, who
> was supposed to be overseeing the banking industry, to the tune o
> f $133,900 since 1989. Barack Obama was number two at the trough
> with over $120,000 which was no small feat since he has only been
> in the Senate for three years. Dodd and Obama were closely
> followed by the last Democratic nominee, John Kerry, (D-Mass.) and
> then Senator Hillary Clinton, (D-N.Y.)
>
> What were these lobbyists buying for the milli ons they sprinkled
> around the Senate and House of Representatives? They were buying a
> blind eye. They were buying little or no oversight into the
> juggernaut that has finally crashed on the heads of the American
> taxpayer. CEO’s got rich, politicians got rich and they got votes,
> being able to tell minorities and the poor, “See what we are doing
> for you?” For years, the red flags were stuffed under the desk and
> ignored.
>
> Early in his administration, George Bush sounded an alarm over the
> small amount of working capital Fannie and Freddie had on hand. He
> urged them to sell more shares to increase their reserve in
> funding and put them on more stable ground. He urged them to be
> more selective in the loans they bought. This suggestion was
> declined because the current stockholders would not make as much
> profit.
>
> Franklin Raines, the Fannie Ma e CEO from 1999 to 2004, decided to
> retire early, taking millions with him, under a cloud of
> accusations that he had cooked the books to make it appear the
> company was making20money instead of going head-long into debt.
> Another player in this financial kabuki dance is Jamie Gorelick.
> That name should ring a bell with every American. She seems to
> surface right at the heart of every American disaster in the last
> 15 years. Ms. Gorelick was vice-chair of Fannie Mae from 1997 to
> 2003. Like all the others, she left with millions in her pocket
> while declaring that Fannie Mae “is among the handful of
> top-quality institutions.'
>
> The next year it was found that Fannie was $9 billion dollars in
> the red. Oddly, this $9 billion had been overlooked in the books
> Ms. Gorelick and Mr. Raines kept.
>
> Let’s put Mr. Raines and Ms. Gorelick on the stand. The Ameri can
> people deserve to hear how much they gave lobbyists to pass on to
> their friends in Congress to keep the blinders on. That number is
> a staggering $16.2 million dollars since 1997. That amount bought
> very large blinders. And, it bought time. It bought time for the
> likes of Raines and Gorelick to make their millions and bow out
> before the bottom fell out.
> *
>
> *Republican nominee John McCain raised the alarm two years ago but
> his plan for more oversight was killed in the Democrat-controlled
> committee. Over 20-year span, McCain took $20,000 but this did not
> stop him from voicin g his concerns.The problem was that Democrats
> didn’t want to hear about it.
>
> President Bush’s warnings were also ignored. Should Bush have done
> more? Yes. Unfortunately, Bush was distracted by the 9/11 attack
> and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. So now, nearly ever y hour
> Americans watch as a pompous Chris Dodd or Barney Frank struts to
> a microphone to declare the “failed economic policies of the Bush
> administration are responsible for this mess.”
>
> No, Senator, he is not. YOU and your greedy friends are
> responsible. It took three decades to reach the point of no return
> and some were there with their hands out nearly all of those years.
>
> The Federal Bureau of Investigation is launching a full
> investigation into all of this. This investigation will abruptly
> end should Barack Obama win in November. The last thing Democrats
> want is the American people learning how complicit so many of them
> are in the illegal practice at Fannie and Freddie that led to the
> taxpayers bearing the brunt of the their unbridled greed.
>
> While politicians want oversight over the “bail-out,” there has
> been little outcry for a n investigation into how all of this evolved.
>
> It’s time for Americans to go to their windows and throw them open
> and yell, “We are mad as hell and we aren’t going to take it
> anymore!”
>
> Then, in November, vote the lot of them out of office.'
>

I have suspected some problems with snopes for some time now, but I have only caught them in half-truths. If there is any subjectivity they do an immediate full left rudder.
www.truthorfiction.com www.truthorfiction.com> is the better source for verification, in my opinion.
I have recently discovered that Snopes.com is owned by a flaming liberal and this man is in the tank for Obama. There are many things they have listed on their site as a hoax and yet you can go to Youtube yourself and find the video of Obama actually saying these things. So you see, you cannot and should not trust Snopes.com....ever for anything that remotely resembles truth! I don't even trust them to tell me if email chains are hoaxes anymore.
A few conservative speakers on Myspace told me about snopes.com a few months ago and I took it upon myself to do a little research to find out if it was true. Well, I found out for myself that it is true. This website is backing Obama and is covering up for him. They will say anything that makes him look bad is a hoax and they also tell lies on the other side about McCain and Palin.
Anyway just FYI please don't use Snopes.com anymore for fact checking and make your friends aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think Snopes.com is neutral and they can be trusted as factual. We need to make sure everyone is aware that that is a hoax in itself.

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FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER....

Looks to me like the Aussies have a better handle on American politics than a heck of a lot of Americans do. Wish these could be seen by more here in the USA. - so I'm sending to all of you to pass them along. These are the best I've ever seen, and how true!! These are not American cartoons. God Bless the Aussies! Remember these are from Australia ... they have a handle on our politics

PLEASE READ TO THE VERY END,
IT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!



































'MEET ME IN THE STAIRWELL'

You say you will never forget where you were when
you heard the news On September 11, 2001.
Neither will I.

I was on the 110th floor in a smoke filled room
with a man who called his wife to say 'Good-Bye.' I
held his fingers steady as he dialed. I gave him the
peace to say, 'Honey, I am not going to make it, but it
is OK..I am ready to go.'

I was with his wife when he called as she fed
breakfast to their children. I held her up as she
tried to understand his words and as she realized
he wasn't coming home that night.

I was in the stairwell of the 23rd floor when a
woman cried out to Me for help. 'I have been
knocking on the door of your heart for 50 years!' I said.
'Of course I will show you the way home - only
believe in Me now.'

I was at the base of the building with the Priest
ministering to the injured and devastated souls.
I took him home to tend to his Flock in Heaven. He
heard my voice and answered.

I was on all four of those planes, in every seat,
with every prayer. I was with the crew as they
were overtaken. I was in the very hearts of the
believers there, comforting and assuring them that their
faith has saved them.

I was in Texas, Virginia, California, Michigan, Afghanistan.
I was standing next to you when you heard the terrible news.
Did you sense Me?

I want you to know that I saw every face. I knew
every name - though not all know Me. Some met Me
for the first time on the 86th floor.

Some sought Me with their last breath.
Some couldn't hear Me calling to them through the
smoke and flames; 'Come to Me... this way... take
my hand.' Some chose, for the final time, to ignore Me.
But, I was there.

I did not place you in the Tower that day. You
may not know why, but I do. However, if you were
there in that explosive moment in time, would you have
reached for Me?

Sept. 11, 2001, was not the end of the journey
for you.. But someday your journey will end. And I
will be there for you as well.. Seek Me now while I may
be found. Then, at any moment, you know you are
'ready to go.'

I will be in the stairwell of your final moments.

God
During the next 60 seconds, stop whatever you are
doing, and take this opportunity. (Literally it
is only 1 minute.) All you have to do is the
following:

Stop and think and appreciate God's power
in your life, for doing what you know is pleasing to
Him. If you are not ashamed to do this, follow the
instructions. Jesus said, 'If you are ashamed of Me, I will be
ashamed of you before My Father'

If you are not ashamed, copy and send this message...only
if you believe 'Yes, I love my God. He is my
fountain of Life and My Savior. He Keeps me going day and
night. Without Him, I am no one. But with Him, I can do
everything. Christ is my strength.'












Prayer chain for our Military...please don't break it
THIS NEEDS TO GO AROUND THE USA MANY TIMES SO
KEEP IT GOING

The photo below captures a disturbing trend that is beginning to affect wildlife in the US .


Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party... as they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance. This photo is of a Democrat black bear in Montana nicknamed 'Bearack Obama'!

Another version of the missing flag pin campaign, this time with more piss and outrage. Thanks Nicole.

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>
> > > I just can't believe anyone in their right
> mind would> > vote for this idiot.> > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > >
> Obama explains why he doesn't salute the US Flag >
> > > > > > > > I sure hope this gets
> around before Nov.!!!> > > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008
> 18:48:04 -0400, '#########.
> forwarded> > the following: > > > > Hot on
> the heels of his explanation for why he no longer> >
> wears a flag pin,> > > > presidential candidate
> Senator Barack Obama was forced to> > explain why he
> > > doesn't follow protocol when the National
> Anthem is> > played. > > > > According to
> the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10,> > Sec.
> 171, > > During rendition of the national anthem when
> the flag is> > displayed, all> > present >
> > except those in uniform are expected to stand at
> attention> > facing the flag > > with the right
> hand over t he heart. > > > > 'As I've
> said about the flag pin, I don't want> > to be
> perceived as taking > > sides,' Obama said.
> 'There are a lot of people in> > the world to whom
> the > > American flag is a symbol of oppression. And
> the anthem> > itself conveys a > > war-like
> message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and> >
> all. It should > > be swapped for something less par
> ochial and less > > bellicose. I like the> >
> song > > 'I'd Like to Teach the World to
> Sing.' If that> > were our anthem, then I> >
> might > > salute it.' > > > > Yes,
> ladies and gentlemen, this could possibly be our> >
> next president!! > > I, for once, am speechless. He
> has absolutely NO pride > > in this> >
> country!!!!! > > This is outrageous!!!! He doesn't
> deserve to be > > dogcatcher!!! > > (Oh, sorry
> dogcatchers, I mean you no disrespect.) > > LET'S
> SEND THIS CLOWN DOWN THE ROAD KICKING ROCKS!!!!> >
> > > Forward this to EVERYONE YOU KNOW>

Do you know what happened this week back in 1850, 158 years ago?
California became a state.
The State had no electricity.
The State had no money.
Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
There were gunfights in the streets.

So basically, it was just like California today except the
women had real breasts and the men didn't hold hands.

From my right-wing father-in-law. Ugh. -Alissa

I hope this will make everyone take a second look and think again
about who they are giving their support come election time!

Revelations -- Chapter 13

This will make you think: A Trivia question in Sunday School:

How long is the beast allowed to have authority in Revelations?

In Revelations, Chapter 13 tells us it is 42 months, and you know what that is. Almost a four-year term of a Presidency.
All I can say is 'Lord, Have mercy on us!' According to The Book of Revelations the anti-Christ is: The anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40's, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with p ersuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal...the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything..

Do we recognize this description?? I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to post this as many times as you can! Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet.. do it! I refuse to take a chance on this unknown candidate who came out of nowhere.

From: Dr. John Tisdale

Dear Friends, As I was listening to a news program last night, I watched in horror as Barack Obama made the statement with pride. . .'we are no longer a Christian nation; we are now a nation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, . . .' As with so many other statements I've heard him (and his wife) make, I never thought I'd see the day that I'd hear something like that from a presidential candidate in this nation.

To think our forefathers fought and died for the right for our nation to be a Christian nation--and to have this man say with pride that we are no longer that. How far this nation has come from what our founding fathers intended it to be. I hope that each of you will do what I'm doing now--send your concerns, written simply and sincerely, to the Christians on your email list.

With God's help, and He is still in control of this nation and all else, we can show this man and the world in November that we are, indeed, still a Christian nation!
Please pray for our nation

Consider this map in NYC mortgage defaults in the context of Clinton’s gutting of loan requirements back in 1995 because after all, the need to have an income when buying a home is a form of discrimination. Not having the money for a down payment is a form of discrimination. Looking at one’s past credit history is a form of discrimination...thus the crisis we are in. And why shouldn’t welfare recipients not use their welfare checks (err I mean their “public assistance” checks) to buy homes???

This is exactly why liberal democrats block any form of regulatory oversight of Fanny and Freddie. They were too busy shoveling out the money and letting their friends walk off with $100Ms in bonuses and salaries as they defrauded Fanny and Freddie.

And with the help of the liberal media...the blame for this crisis is falling into the republican’s laps – and McCain’s lap –WHEN McCAIN WAS ONE OF THE WHISTLE BLOWERS ON THIS MESS. HE TRIED TO STOP IT!!! I am not a fan of McCain but facts are facts.

I wish this map was available for income rather than race/ethnicity...but it does tells a tale none the less.

No one is against helping people to some level...but the notion that “everyone deserves a home” has proven dangerously reckless and has helped bring the world’s banks to their knees. Poison paper = blended risk instruments. That was what Fanny was selling banks all over the world – poison paper where the underlying assets where a mix of good mortgages and bad mortgages...this is why this is so hard to sort out. Lending had no choice but to freeze-up – YOU CAN’T LEND (or BORROW) AGAINST ASSETS OF UNDETERMINED VALUE!!!

And remember the Clinton Administration imposed this lending on the banks – Fanny served to make the impractical not only possible...but in the short term – very profitable. With a government gun to their heads and ACORN storm troopers weeding out the unwilling and with money to be made...few banks would not fall into line.

And Obama helped ACORN threaten the banks that would not lend into this madness.

Subject: AS YOU READ THIS, ASK YOURSELF, WHERE DID THE $$ COME FROM.

To All My Friends, this is long, but very important, please take the time to read it, and then send it to everyone in your address book. We have to get this circulated before it is too late.


This election has me very worried. So many things to consider. About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since than. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC , CNN, and Fox News , you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking 'where did the money come from for Obama'. I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.


I started looking into Obama's life.


Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California . He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. 'Barry' (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan . During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a 'round the world' trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia , next Hyderabad in India , three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate's family, then off to Africa to visit his father's family. My question - Where did he get the money for this trip? Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York . It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack - not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia ? It's not cheap! to say the least. Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia , he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year. Why Chicago ? Why not New York ? He was already living in New York .


By 'chance' he met Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria , and a real estate developer in Chicago . Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named 'Entrepreneur of the Decade' by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association'. About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School . Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School ? Where did he get the money for Law School ? More student loans? After Law school, he went back to Chicago . Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented 'Rezar' which Rezko's firm. Rezko was one of Obama's first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with 'seed money' for his U.S. Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans - Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko's wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama's new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.


Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama's boss. She is now Obama's chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz , Iran ! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?


On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was 'sacked' after the press found out he was having regular contacts with 'Hamas', which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran . This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama's visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will 'Take care of things'.


Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan ? They are in charge of all those 'small' Internet campaign contribution for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East ?


And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on 'This Week' with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, 'My Muslim faith'. When questioned, 'he make a mistake'. Some mistake!


All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it - Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times - September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.


Now the BIG question - If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven't all of our 'intelligent' members of the press been reporting this?


A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear - 'Beware of the enemy from within'!!!

> > Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
> >
> > BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it
> was time for a
> > change! The chicken wanted change!
> >
> > JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the
> road because he
> > recognized the need to engage in cooperation and
> dialogue with all
> > the chickens on the other side of the road...
> ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz
> > SARAH PALIN: BECAUSE, PRAISE JESUS, I WAS GONNA
> SHOOT HIS SORRY
> > LIBERAL ASS OFF FOR BLOCKING MY VIEW OF RUSSIA!
> >
> > HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally
> helped that
> > little chicken to cross the road. This experience
> makes me uniquely
> > qualified to ensure right from Day One that every
> chicken in this
> > country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road.
> But then,
> > this really isn't about me.
> >
> > GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the
> chicken crossed the
> > road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our
> side of the
> > road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for
> us. There is
> > no middle ground here.
> >
> > DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?
> >
> > COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can
> clearly see the
> > satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
> >
> > BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that
> chicken. What is
> > your definition of crossing?
> >
> > AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
> >
> > JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross
> the road, I am
> > now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I
> was misled
> > about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it
> now, and will remain
> > against it.
> >
> > AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need
> some black
> > chickens.
> >
> > DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this
> chicken won't
> > realize that he must first deal with the problem on
> this side of the
> > road before it goes after the problem on the other
> side of the road.
> > What we need to do is help him realize how stupid
> he's acting by not
> > taking on his current problems before adding new
> problems.
> >
> > OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having
> problems, which
> > is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead
> of having the
> > chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which
> is a part of
> > life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that
> he can just drive
> > across the road and not live his life like the rest of
> the chickens.
> >
> > ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there
> is a chicken,
> > but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the
> other side of
> > the road.
> >
> > NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because
> he's guilty! You
> > can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
> >
> > PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent,
> hardworking American.
> >
> > MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way
> that chicken
> > was going. I had a standing order at the Farmers
> Market to sell my
> > eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No
> little bird gave
> > me any insider information.
> >
> > DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross
> it with a
> > toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it
> crossed I've not
> > been told.
> >
> > ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.
> >
> > JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't
> you people see the
> > plain truth? That's why they call it the other
> side. Yes, my
> > friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that
> chicken, you will
> > become gay, too. I say we boycott all chickens until
> we sort out
> > this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes
> with seemingly
> > harmless phrases like the other side. That chicken
> should not be
> > crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as
> that.
> >
> > GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken
> crossed the road.
> > Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and
> that was good
> > enough.
> >
> > BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few
> moments, we will
> > be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time,
> the heart
> > warming story of how it experienced a serious case of
> molting, and
> > went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing
> the road.
> >
> > ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the
> road.
> >
> > JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world
> crossing roads
> > together, in peace.
> >
> > BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which
> will not only
> > cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important
> documents, and
> > balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an
> integral part of
> > eChicken2008. This new platform is much more stable
> and will never
> > crash.
> >
> > ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the
> road, or did the
> > road move beneath the chicken?
> >
> > COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

> BIDEN SECRET SERVICE CODE NAME: 'ASSASSINATION INSURANCE'
> by Ann Coulter
> October 1, 2008
>
> While Gov. Sarah Palin is being grilled on her position on mark-to-
> market
> accounting rules, the press can't bother to ask Joe Biden if he
> could give
> us a ballpark estimate on when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president
> -- or
> maybe take a stab at guessing the decade when televisions were first
> available to the public.
>
> Being interviewed by Katie Couric on the "CBS Evening News," Biden
> said:
> "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the
> television
> and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He
> said,
> 'Look, here's what happened.'"
>
> For those of you who aren't hard-core history buffs, Biden not only
> named
> the wrong president during the 1929 stock market crash, he also
> claimed a
> president who wasn't president during the stock market crash went on
> TV
> before Americans had TVs.
>
> Other than that, the statement holds up pretty well. At least Biden
> managed
> to avoid mentioning any "clean" Negroes he had met.
>
> Couric was nearly moved to tears by the brilliance of Biden's brain-
> damaged
> remark. She was especially intrigued by Biden's claim that FDR had
> said the
> new iPhone was the bomb!
>
> Here is Couric's full response to Biden's bizarre outburst about FDR
> (a)
> being president and (b) going on TV in 1929: "Relating to the fears
> of the
> average American is one of Biden's strong suits."
>
> But when our beauteous Sarah said that John McCain was a better
> leader on
> the economy than Barack Obama, Couric relentlessly badgered her for
> evidence. "Why do you say that?" Couric demanded. "Why are they
> waiting for
> John McCain and not Barack Obama? ... Can you give us any more
> examples of
> his leading the charge for more oversight?"
>
> The beauteous Sarah had cited McCain's prescient warnings about
> Fannie Mae
> and Freddie Mac. But Couric, the crackerjack journalist who didn't
> know FDR
> wasn't president in 1929, demanded more examples from Palin.
>
> We are currently in the middle of a massive financial crisis brought
> on by
> Fannie Mae. McCain was right on Fannie Mae; Obama was wrong. That's
> not
> enough?
>
> Not for the affable Eva Braun of evening TV! "I'm just going to ask
> you one
> more time," Couric snipped, "not to belabor the point. Specific
> examples in
> his 26 years of pushing for more regulation?"
>
> This would be like responding to someone who predicted the 9/11
> attacks by
> saying: OK, you got one thing right. Not to belabor the point, but
> what
> else?
>
> Obama was not merely wrong on Fannie Mae: He is owned by Fannie Mae.
> Somehow Obama managed to become the second biggest all-time
> recipient of
> Fannie Mae political money after only three years in the Senate. The
> biggest beneficiary, Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, had a 30-year head
> start
> on receiving loot from Fannie Mae -- the government-backed institution
> behind our current crisis.
>
> How does the Democratic ticket stack up on other major issues facing
> the
> nation, say, gas prices?
>
> Shockingly, Sen. Joe Biden was one of only five senators to vote
> against
> the first Alaskan pipeline bill in 1973. This is like having been a
> Nazi
> sympathizer during World War II. If Sarah Palin does nothing else,
> she has
> got to tie that idiotic pipeline vote around Biden's neck.
>
> The Senate passed the 1973 Alaskan pipeline bill by an overwhelming
> 80-5
> vote. Only five senators voted against the pipeline on final
> passage. Sen.
> Biden is the only one who is still in the Senate -- the other four
> having
> been confined to mental institutions long ago.
>
> The stakes were clear: This was in the midst of the first Arab oil
> embargo.
> Liberal Democrats, such as senators Robert Byrd, Mike Mansfield, Frank
> Church and Hubert Humphrey, all voted for the pipeline.
>
> But Biden cast one of only five votes against the pipeline that has
> produced more than 15 billion barrels of oil, supplied nearly 20
> percent of
> this nation's oil, created tens of thousands of jobs, added hundreds
> of
> billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and reduced money transfers
> to the
> nation's enemies by about the same amount.
>
> The only argument against the pipeline was that it would harm the
> caribou,
> an argument that was both trivial and wrong. The caribou population
> near
> the pipeline increased from 5,000 in the 1970s to 32,000 by 2002.
>
> It would have been bad enough to vote against the pipeline bill even
> if it
> had hurt the caribou. A sane person would still say: Our enemies
> have us in
> a vice grip. Sorry, caribou, you've got to take one for the team.
> But when
> the pipeline goes through and the caribou population sextuples in
> the next
> 20 years, you really look like a moron.
>
> We couldn't possibly expect Couric to ask Biden about a vote that is
> the
> equivalent of voting against the invention of the wheel. But
> couldn't she
> have come up with just one follow-up question for Biden on FDR's
> magnificent handling of the 1929 stock market crash?
>
> Or here's a question the public is dying to know: "If Obama wanted a
> historically delusional vice president, why not Lyndon LaRouche?" At
> least
> LaRouche didn't vote against the Alaskan pipeline.

Here is a quick look into 3 former Fannie Mae executives who have brought down Wall Street.
Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregularities in Fannie Mae's accounting activities. At the time of his departure The Wall Street Journal noted, ' Raines, who long defended the company's accounting despite mounting evidence that it wasn't proper, issued a statement late Tuesday conceding that 'mistakes were made' and saying he would assume responsibility as he had earlier promised. News reports indicate the company was under growing pressure from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of findings that the company's books ran afoul of generally accepted accounting principles for four years.' Fannie Mae had to reduce its surplus by $9 billion.
Raines left with a 'golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear.http://housingdoom.com/2006/12/18/fannie-charges/ . The Government noted, 'The 101 charges reveal how the individuals improperly manipulated earnings to maximize their bonuses, while knowingly neglecting accounting systems and internal controls, misapplying over twenty accounting principles and misleading the regulator and the public. The Notice explains how they submitted six years of misleading and inaccurate accounting statements and inaccurate capital reports that enabled them to grow Fannie Mae in an unsafe and unsound manner.' These charges were made in 2006. The Court ordered Raines to return $50 Million Dollars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated Fannie Mae profits.
Net windfall . . . $190 million!
Tim Howard - Was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard 'was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a 'stable pattern of earnings' at Fannie. In everyday English - he was cooking the books. The Government Investigation determined that, 'Chief Financial Officer, Tim Howard , failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting functions within Fannie Mae,'
On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., asked the Justice Department to investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to Congress in October 2004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance giant's income statement to achieve management pay bonuses. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004.
Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!
Jim John son - A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. A look at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside Fannie Mae, and you'll see some interesting things about John son. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of John son's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million.' John son is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae.
Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
FRANKLIN RAINES? Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor
TIM HOWARD? Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama
JIM JOHNSON? Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee

IF OBAMA PLANS ON CLEANING UP THE MESS - HIS ADVISORS HAVE THE EXPERTISE - THEY MADE THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Would you trust the men who tore Wall Street down to build the New Wall Street ?

"Got this from my Dad. Wasn't this in Truly Tasteless Jokes, circa 1986?" -Scott

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"very nice that the body count in Iraq IS mentioned-- strange circuitous logic here" -Fran

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And he says he is gonna 'fix' Washington politics? I don't think so!!!!

>
> THEY GAVE YOUR MORTGAGE TO A LESS QUALIFIED MINORITY
> by Ann Coulter
> September 24, 2008
>
> On MSNBC this week, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter tried to connect John
> McCain
> to the current financial disaster, saying: "If you remember the
> Keating
> Five scandal that (McCain) was a part of. ... He's really getting a
> free
> ride on the fact that he was in the middle of the last great financial
> scandal in our country."
>
> McCain was "in the middle of" the Keating Five case in the sense
> that he
> was "exonerated." The lawyer for the Senate Ethics Committee wanted
> McCain
> removed from the investigation altogether, but, as The New York Times
> reported: "Sen. McCain was the only Republican embroiled in the
> affair, and
> Democrats on the panel would not release him."
>
> So John McCain has been held hostage by both the Viet Cong and the
> Democrats.
>
> Alter couldn't be expected to know that: As usual, he was lifting
> material
> directly from Kausfiles. What is unusual was that he was stealing a
> random
> thought sent in by Kausfiles' mother, who, the day before, had e-
> mailed:
> "It's time to bring up the Keating Five. Let McCain explain that
> scandal
> away."
>
> The Senate Ethics Committee lawyer who investigated McCain already had
> explained that scandal away -- repeatedly. It was celebrated lawyer
> Robert
> Bennett, most famous for defending a certain horny hick president a
> few
> years ago.
>
> In February this year, on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes," Bennett
> said, for
> the eight billionth time:
>
> "First, I should tell your listeners I'm a registered Democrat, so
> I'm not
> on (McCain's) side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John
> McCain for a
> year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate
> Ethics
> Committee in the Keating Five. ... And if there is one thing I am
> absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man. I
> recommended
> to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that
> there
> was no evidence against him."
>
> It's bad enough for Alter to be constantly ripping off Kausfiles.
> Now he's
> so devoid of his own ideas, he's ripping off the idle musings of
> Kausfiles'
> mother.
>
> Even if McCain had been implicated in the Keating Five scandal --
> and he
> wasn't -- that would still have absolutely nothing to do with the
> subprime
> mortgage crisis currently roiling the financial markets. This crisis
> was
> caused by political correctness being forced on the mortgage lending
> industry in the Clinton era.
>
> Before the Democrats' affirmative action lending policies became an
> embarrassment, the Los Angeles Times reported that, starting in
> 1992, a
> majority-Democratic Congress "mandated that Fannie and Freddie
> increase
> their purchases of mortgages for low-income and medium-income
> borrowers.
> Operating under that requirement, Fannie Mae, in particular, has been
> aggressive and creative in stimulating minority gains."
>
> Under Clinton, the entire federal government put massive pressure on
> banks
> to grant more mortgages to the poor and minorities. Clinton's
> secretary of
> Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, investigated Fannie Mae
> for
> racial discrimination and proposed that 50 percent of Fannie Mae's and
> Freddie Mac's portfolio be made up of loans to low- to moderate-income
> borrowers by the year 2001.
>
> Instead of looking at "outdated criteria," such as the mortgage
> applicant's
> credit history and ability to make a down payment, banks were
> encouraged to
> consider nontraditional measures of credit-worthiness, such as
> having a
> good jump shot or having a missing child named "Caylee."
>
> Threatening lawsuits, Clinton's Federal Reserve demanded that banks
> treat
> welfare payments and unemployment benefits as valid income sources to
> qualify for a mortgage. That isn't a joke -- it's a fact.
>
> When Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches,
> political correctness was given a veto over sound business practices.
>
> In 1999, liberals were bragging about extending affirmative action
> to the
> financial sector. Los Angeles Times reporter Ron Brownstein hailed the
> Clinton administration's affirmative action lending policies as one
> of the
> "hidden success stories" of the Clinton administration, saying that
> "black
> and Latino homeownership has surged to the highest level ever
> recorded."
>
> Meanwhile, economists were screaming from the rooftops that the
> Democrats
> were forcing mortgage lenders to issue loans that would fail the
> moment the
> housing market slowed and deadbeat borrowers couldn't get out of their
> loans by selling their houses.
>
> A decade later, the housing bubble burst and, as predicted,
> food-stamp-backed mortgages collapsed. Democrats set an affirmative
> action
> time-bomb and now it's gone off.
>
> In Bush's first year in office, the White House chief economist, N.
> Gregory
> Mankiw, warned that the government's "implicit subsidy" of Fannie
> Mae and
> Freddie Mac, combined with loans to unqualified borrowers, was
> creating a
> huge risk for the entire financial system.
>
> Rep. Barney Frank denounced Mankiw, saying he had no "concern about
> housing." How dare you oppose suicidal loans to people who can't repay
> them! The New York Times reported that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were
> "under heavy assault by the Republicans," but these entities still had
> "important political allies" in the Democrats.
>
> Now, at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, middle-class
> taxpayers
> are going to be forced to bail out the Democrats' two most important
> constituent groups: rich Wall Street bankers and welfare recipients.
>
> Political correctness had already ruined education, sports, science
> and
> entertainment. But it took a Democratic president with a Democratic
> congress for political correctness to wreck the financial industry.
>
>

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> Subject
>
> Fw: The Birk Economic Recovery Plan
>
>
>
> -------------- Forwarded Message: --------------
> From: ...
> Subject: Fw: The Birk Economic Recovery Plan
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:15:28 +0000
>
>
>
>
>
> I vote for this guy!!!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
>
> Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in
> a We Deserve It Dividend.
>
> To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000
> bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+.
>
> Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman
> and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..
>
> So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals
> $425,000.00.
>
> My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a
> We Deserve It Dividend.
>
> Of course, it would NOT be tax free.
> So let's assume a tax rate of 30%.
>
> Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes.
> That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.
>
> But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.
> A husband and wife has $595,000.00.
>
> What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?
> Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.
> Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads
> Put away money for college - it'll be there
> Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
> Buy a new car - create jobs
> Invest in the market - capital drives growth
> Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves
> Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else< > Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks
> who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company
> that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed
> Forces.
>
> If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead
> of trickling out
> a puny $1000.00 ( "vote buy" ) economic incentive that is being
> proposed by one of our candidates for President.
>
> If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every
> adult U S Citizen 18+!
>
> As for AIG - liquidate it.
> Sell off its parts.
> Let American General go back to being American General.
> Sell off the real estate..
> Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.
>
> Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't.
>
> Sure it's a crazy idea that can "never work."
>
> But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!
>
> How do you spell Economic Boom?
>
> I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion
> We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in
> Washington DC .
>
> And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because
> $25.5 Billion is returned
> instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.
>
> Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest.
> Kindest personal regards,
> Birk
> T. J. Birkenmeier,
>
>
> A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic
>
>