<?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-2217659252623799600</id><updated>2012-01-02T12:48:18.643-08:00</updated><title type='text'>RJ Bell Reports</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>30</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-2663700765164145903</id><published>2012-01-02T12:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-02T12:48:18.650-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Quiet Year from Me in 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; With all the immediate Tweets and Texts WE all have been kept up to the Moment with all the latest&amp;nbsp;News.....that is why I felt there was no reason to take&amp;nbsp; my time to write. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;ALL sides of the Political spectrum Want Change&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So WE must ALL&amp;nbsp;vote&amp;nbsp;this year to "CLEAN HOUSE" !!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Incumbents that have had more than 2 terms in office have too much "baggage", and too many "commitments" to 'Special Interest .Orgs.' .&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;They cannot help the "Average American", the "Average Family", the "Struggling Worker".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They cannot "see" the damage that has done to the Country since the 2007 Katrina disaster, which sparked the fear-mongering from the Merchatile Exchange 'experts' about oil shortages, starting the climb to $150.00/brrl oil, which was the final straw that broke the back of the "Global Economy".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They don't realize that the trillions of dollars given out as "band-aides" allowed businesses the time to re-structure while raising prices to offset they 50 to 100% increase in operating expenses. Bloomberg News has been reporting for many months that these companies are sitting on "Piles-of-Cash", waiting to do something with it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; But, it isn't just the "Companies" that experienced a 50 to 100% increase in expenses....EVERY American Family did too!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The Incumbents in Government, if they really represented Americans would be telling all these companies to start giving Cost-of-Living raises to the people they have left on their payrole.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It is a problem for Americans to have people that 'read-a-book' about economics and running companies than people that have "done-it" in Office making decisions. The reason OUR Country started so strong was that every leader in power was a businessman AND experience, giving the "Wisdom", something we don't have in leadership today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;If you doubt me, then check the point-of-view of a Russian Professor &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://mat-rodina.blogspot.com/"&gt;Matt Rodina&lt;/a&gt;. You can review his remarks and viewpoints to understand our folly here....OR.....you can read about the History of China, because their underlying interest is what is best for China's People in the long run.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-2663700765164145903?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/2663700765164145903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=2663700765164145903' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2663700765164145903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2663700765164145903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2012/01/quiet-year-from-me-in-2011-with-all.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-3212980201220100153</id><published>2010-11-07T05:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-20T13:56:53.499-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Scary Ignorance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;When a panel includes billionaire investor &lt;a title="Search News" href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=George%20Soros&amp;amp;site=wnews&amp;amp;client=wnews&amp;amp;proxystylesheet=wnews&amp;amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;filter=p&amp;amp;getfields=wnnis&amp;amp;sort=date:D:S:d1&amp;amp;partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&amp;amp;lr=-lang_ja"&gt;George Soros&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="Search News" href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Larry%20Summers&amp;amp;site=wnews&amp;amp;client=wnews&amp;amp;proxystylesheet=en10_wnews&amp;amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;filter=p&amp;amp;getfields=wnnis&amp;amp;sort=date:D:S:d1&amp;amp;partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&amp;amp;lr=-lang_ja"&gt;Larry Summers&lt;/a&gt;, director of President &lt;a title="Search News" href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Barack%20Obama&amp;amp;site=wnews&amp;amp;client=wnews&amp;amp;proxystylesheet=wnews&amp;amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;filter=p&amp;amp;getfields=wnnis&amp;amp;sort=date:D:S:d1&amp;amp;partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&amp;amp;lr=-lang_ja"&gt;Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;’s National Economic Council, dealing with selling carbon-emissions permits which might generate $38 billion and a financial transactions tax maybe adding $27 billion, you should be nervous. If you have payed attention since the Kyoto agreement there has been billions of dollars made buying "Carbon Credits". It is about making money! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Soros is there because he sees another naive buffoon willing to make laws and rules that makes him money. He 'history' is using "the useful idiots" (as Stalin put it), with their naive, child-like minds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;If you read about history you would have information, so you would stop doing stupid things that only make the World a worse place to live in. They don't add value to your lives, only burden you. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-05/soros-panel-draft-says-bank-taxes-c02-auctions-can-fund-climate-aid.html"&gt;FULL STORY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-3212980201220100153?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/3212980201220100153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=3212980201220100153' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/3212980201220100153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/3212980201220100153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2010/11/scary-ignorance-when-panel-includes.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-2363576951266598671</id><published>2010-10-16T04:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-16T04:36:20.840-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Can we afford to service this debt?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As is the case with mortgages, it's not so much the amount of debt you carry but the interest rate you pay that determines whether national debt is affordable. Interest rates have fallen rapidly in the past two years, and the government issues a lot of short-term debt. Last week the &lt;a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_upshot/bs_yblog_upshot/storytext/faqs-what-does-a-trillion-dollar-federal-deficit-really-mean/38040323/SIG=11s8pktif/*http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/119xx/doc11936/SeptemberMBR.pdf"&gt;Congressional Budget Office estimated&lt;/a&gt; that the government spent $228 billion on interest alone in Fiscal 2010. That's about what the government spent on debt service in Fiscal 2006, when the national debt was significantly smaller.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Affordable? Why in, good conscience, would anyone consider spending $228 billion on interest 'affordable'?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$228 billion of your tax money wasted, just thrown away, and you wonder why we can't afford healthcare? This has gone on for years and must stop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cash is power. Gold based standard is power. Mining for gold was down this year and must be stepped up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We must have the power of a cash based Nation back.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-2363576951266598671?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/2363576951266598671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=2363576951266598671' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2363576951266598671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2363576951266598671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2010/10/can-we-afford-to-service-this-debt-as.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-7394210930573770873</id><published>2010-10-06T19:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-06T19:08:05.021-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;Scientists found that a decline in the Sun's activity did not lead as expected to a cooling of the Earth, a surprise finding that could have repercussions for computer models on climate change.&lt;br /&gt;The Sun's activity is known to wax and wane over 11-year cycles, which means that in theory the amount of radiation reaching Earth declines during the "waning" phase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new study was carried out between 2004 and 2007 during a solar waning phase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The amount of energy in the ultraviolet part of the energy spectrum fell, the researchers found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, contrary to expectation, radiation in the visible part of the energy spectrum increased, rather than declined, which caused a warming effect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The investigation, based mainly on satellite data, is important because of a debate over how far global warming is attributable to Man or to natural causes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Climatologists say that warming is overwhelmingly due to man-made greenhouse gases -- invisible carbon emissions from coal, gas and coal that linger in the atmosphere and trap solar heat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But a vocal lobby of sceptics say that this is flawed or alarmist, and point out that Earth has known periods of cooling and warming that are due to variations in the Sun's output. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6f90940f6d9bb44d73f1c586d3a44fbb.8c1&amp;amp;show_article=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#330033;"&gt;Full Story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-7394210930573770873?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/7394210930573770873/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=7394210930573770873' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/7394210930573770873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/7394210930573770873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2010/10/scientists-found-that-decline-in-suns.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-339396572864238122</id><published>2010-07-25T05:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T06:07:13.661-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>For the large population of the U.S. that understands "common sense" must guide the way you run a Country.&lt;br /&gt;Patricia (from the Czech Republic) is one of those people who have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can understand them. This quote came from her in the the Czech Republic . She has it figured out...... We have a lot of work to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from Patricia Murphy-van der Velde&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-339396572864238122?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/339396572864238122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=339396572864238122' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/339396572864238122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/339396572864238122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2010/07/for-large-population-of-u.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-308771451141033541</id><published>2010-06-20T08:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-20T08:34:57.698-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/E744C01438F6DB698625774700815937?OpenDocument"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;More Reports; Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Created the Bank Meltdown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From NEW YORK TIMES&lt;br /&gt;06/20/2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took over a foreclosed home roughly every 90 seconds during the first three months of the year. They owned 163,828 houses at the end of March, a virtual city with more houses than Seattle. The mortgage finance companies, created by Congress to help Americans buy homes, have become two of the nation’s largest landlords."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Our business is the American dream of home ownership,” Fannie Mae declared in its mission statement, and in 2001 the company set a target of helping to create 6 million new homeowners by 2014. Here in Arizona, during a housing boom fueled by cheap land, cheap money and population growth, Fannie Mae executives trumpeted that the company would invest $15 billion to help families buy homes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fannie and Freddie increased American home ownership over the last half-century by persuading investors to provide money for mortgage loans.&lt;strong&gt; The sales pitch amounted to a money-back guarantee:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; If borrowers defaulted, the companies promised to repay the investors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the &lt;a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/E744C01438F6DB698625774700815937?OpenDocument"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Complete Article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-308771451141033541?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/308771451141033541/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=308771451141033541' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/308771451141033541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/308771451141033541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-reports-fannie-and-freddiemac.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-1601116337394394853</id><published>2010-03-22T08:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-22T09:12:03.736-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Now that Health Care has passed, and as many State's Attorney Generals start lawsuits against the Federal Gov't for violating the Constitution and States Individual Rights, lets look back at what has happened in MA... the State the Health Care Bill was modeled after.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am self-employed so I pay 100% of my Health Ins. Premiums. At the time the Bill was passed, I was paying $575/mo., now a short couple of years later I am paying $1100/mo. (w/no change in my health ). Every business has been hit with amazing increases and their employees contribution amount has gone up too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are two factors that have caused this;&lt;br /&gt;First, You must have insurance or pay fines, so the law gives power to Insurance Co.'s to raise premiums.&lt;br /&gt;Second, Having to cover people with pre-existing conditions, the Insurance Co.'s had to raise the rates in order to pay this expence.&lt;br /&gt;Now, the whole Nation will experience this increase in rates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Health Bill didn't create open-borders for Interstate competition, it left the monopolies within state borders.&lt;br /&gt;The Bill doesn't have 'tort' reform to manage fraudulant lawsuits. (Remember, most representative in our Gov't are lawyers)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is some more Info. from Ann and Michelle and Newt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Ann Coulter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://michellemalkin.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Michelle Malkin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  or &lt;a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36142/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Newt Gingrich&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-1601116337394394853?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/1601116337394394853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=1601116337394394853' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/1601116337394394853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/1601116337394394853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2010/03/ann-coulter-michelle-malkin.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-3501165438391269220</id><published>2010-03-07T08:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-20T06:51:06.727-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Behind the Curtain”&lt;br /&gt;2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(UK) Daily Mail&lt;br /&gt;On Feb.14th, the director of the CRU, Phil Jones “conceded the possibility that the World was warmer in Medieval times than now - suggesting that global warming is not man-made“. He also agreed, “that he lacked organizational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper, and that his record keeping is not as good as it should be“. He also admitted “that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of information”.&lt;br /&gt;On Feb 12th, the IPCC released a ‘background note,’ admitting that its 2007 report wrongly stated that 55 percent of the Netherlands lies beneath sea level. In fact, only 26 percent of the country lies below sea level. “This admission is another example of how the IPCC work is riddled with sloppiness.”&lt;br /&gt;The statement, “NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies temperature analysis for 2009 tied with the second warmest year in the 130 years of global instrumental temp. records”, by James Hanson on Realclimate.org (a climate-scientist hangout), was all faked. Meteorologist Anthony Watts and Joseph D’Aleo (co-founder of the Weather Channel) demonstrate that NOAA, which shares temperature data with GISS and CRU, systematically eliminated weather-measuring stations in a deliberate attempt to manipulate data. Nixed were stations in higher elevations, higher altitude, and rural areas (in other words, cooler stations) to keep temps. Artificially hotter to ‘prove’ AGW. Watts and D’Aleo chronicle the elimination of stations from 6000 down to 1500 along with outright rigging the numbers. Their conclusion: “Instrumental temperature data for the pre-satellite era (1850-1980) have been so widely, systematically, and unidirectionally tampered with that it cannot be credibly asserted there has been any significant ‘global warming’ in the 20th century.”&lt;br /&gt;??????????&lt;br /&gt;IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri said in The Guardian, “You can’t expect me to personally be responsible for every word in the 3000 page report” when asked if he would apologize for false claims. In the New York Times he said, “My conscience is clear”, on accusations that he has profited from his IPCC position. His company, The Energy and Resources Institute(TERI), September 2008, was approved a $500,000 one-time grant by Carnegie Corp. to the Iceland-based Global Centre towards research on water-related security and humanitarian challenges to South Asia posed by the melting Himalayan glaciers (Rajendra Pachauri’s The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) in New Delhi directly or indirectly, through the Global Centre in Iceland, which was supposedly working with Teri on the crisis presented by vanishing glaciers) The US charity’s money wasn’t squandered on a Himalayan blunder, did the centre and Carnegie smell a rat? The grant never happened despite being approved in September 2008.&lt;br /&gt;It’s terribly odd for a receiver of a grant to turn down generous funding unless the centre felt the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that climate change was likely to melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 was far-fetched.&lt;br /&gt;Recently, TERI received a large grant to hire Syed Hasnain to research his own speculative remark from 1999.&lt;br /&gt;Feb. 3rd&lt;br /&gt;“The Carnegie Corporation of New York, one of America’s leading and oldest charities, on Wednesday refused to be dragged into the ‘Glaciergate’ scandal”.Times Online reported that bogus claims about the Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035 helped Teri get £310,000 from Carnegie. It said the money was initially given to the centre(Global Centre in Iceland), which channeled it, with Carnegie’s involvement, to Teri.&lt;br /&gt;The Telegraph said bogus claims — now disowned by Pachauri — helped Teri win a substantial share of a $500,000 (Rs2.3 crore) grant from Carnegie along with a share in a 3million euro research study funded by the European Union.”&lt;br /&gt;IPCC’s reports are based on ‘articles’, not scientific data(in other words “hear-say”). “Warmists” including the WWF, New Scientist and Guardian reported Fred Pearce have been used as ‘sources’, setting the IPCC up for humiliation as fact-based, scientific data started coming out.&lt;br /&gt;Each week, each day, as new scientific data is released contradicting the IPCC’s reports, we will all find that ‘behind the curtain’ was and is billions of dollars and euros paid to the people and organizations involved. It was all about ‘the money’.&lt;br /&gt;The quote, “ Tell a lie long enough until it is believed to be true” by what Stalin called, “The useful idiots”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-3501165438391269220?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/3501165438391269220/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=3501165438391269220' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/3501165438391269220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/3501165438391269220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2010/03/behind-curtain-uk-daily-mail-on-feb.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-3653563438039145468</id><published>2010-02-27T10:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-28T11:27:08.245-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Distracted by IPCC's "Funhouse Mirrors"?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/S4liY7G-2zI/AAAAAAAAAT4/frcLIKha-Z4/s1600-h/How+Tequila+Works.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 313px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442989804977314610" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/S4liY7G-2zI/AAAAAAAAAT4/frcLIKha-Z4/s400/How+Tequila+Works.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;( &lt;strong&gt;Just trying to "lighten-up" everyone on another day that the Earth changes)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;???????????????????????????????????????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By RJ Bell,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"As Earthquakes shake up and destroy countries and cities around the world, shifting wind currents and altering ocean currents, let us remember we are nothing more than the "fleas" on the back of the Earth, and like a dog, it shakes us off whenever it wants.... killing thousands or millions at a time".&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;  Disastors around the World are very advantageous to the U.N.'s IPCC and their co-conspiritors of "Global Warming", because it distracts the honest, hard-working citizens of the World. It allows the IPCC to sneak back into the background while it tries to figure out the proper "spin" on the increased number of Earthquakes and how it could be linked to global warming. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;  Reality is that as the "Caring Citizens of the World" figure out what they can do to help their "Fellow Citizens in Crisis", they are the ones actually  improving the planet.....and .............&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;  As the Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Sunamis, Solar Flares continue the Earth is taking care of itself as it always has, warming, cooling and shifting for millions of years. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We Cannot Stop "Earth"!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;__________________________________________&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quoted from Christopher Booker's article in the Telegraph.co.uk&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"Almost as revealing as the leaked documents themselves, however, was the recent interview given to the BBC by the CRU's suspended director, Dr Phil Jones, who has played a central role in the global warming scare for 20 years, not least as custodian of the most prestigious of the four global temperature records relied on by the IPCC. In his interview Jones seemed to be chucking overboard one key prop of warmest faith after another, as he admitted that the world might have been hotter during the Medieval Warm Period 1,000 years ago than it is today, that before any rise in CO2 levels temperatures rose faster between 1860 and 1880 than they have done in the past 30 years, and that in the past decade their trend has been falling rather than rising.&lt;br /&gt;The implications of all this for the warming scare, as it has been presented to us over the past two decades, can scarcely be overestimated. The reputation of the IPCC is in shreds. And this is to say nothing of the personal reputation of the man who was the mastermind of its 2007 report, its chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri.&lt;br /&gt;It was in this newspaper that we first revealed how Pachauri has earned millions of pounds for his Delhi-based research institute Teri, and further details are still emerging of how he has parlayed his position into a worldwide business empire, including 17 lucrative contracts from the EU alone. But we should not expect the truth to break in too suddenly on this mass of vested interests. Too many people have too much at stake to allow the faith in man-made global warming, which has sustained them so long and which is today making so many of them rich, to be abandoned. The so-called investigations into Climategate and Dr Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann seem like no more than empty establishment whitewashes. There is little reason to expect that the inquiry into the record of the IPCC and Dr Pachauri that is now being set up by the UN Environment Programme and the world's politicians will be very different. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Since 1988, when the greatest scare the world has seen got under way, hundreds of billions of pounds have been poured into academic research projects designed not to test the CO2 warming thesis but to take it as a given fact, and to use computer models to make its impacts seem as scary as possible. The new global "carbon trading" market, already worth $126 billion a year, could soon be worth trillions. Governments, including our own, are calling for hundreds of billions more to be chucked into absurd "carbon-saving" energy schemes, with the cost to be met by all of us in soaring taxes and energy bills.&lt;br /&gt;With all this mighty army of gullible politicians, dutiful officials, busy carbon traders, eager "renewables" developers and compliant, funding-hungry academics standing to benefit from the greatest perversion of the principles of true science the world has ever seen, who are we to protest that their emperor has no clothes? (How apt that that fairy tale should have been written in Copenhagen.) Let all that fluffy white "global warming" continue to fall from the skies, while people shiver in homes that, increasingly, they will find they can no longer afford to heat. We have called into being a true Frankenstein's monster. It will take a mighty long time to cut it down to size." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-3653563438039145468?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/3653563438039145468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=3653563438039145468' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/3653563438039145468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/3653563438039145468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2010/02/just-trying-to-lighten-up-everyone-on.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/S4liY7G-2zI/AAAAAAAAAT4/frcLIKha-Z4/s72-c/How+Tequila+Works.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-7149828499129484178</id><published>2009-11-06T08:35:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T09:18:50.935-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SvRXopAVz8I/AAAAAAAAATw/b-75HqHvj2A/s1600-h/arms_cargo+Nov+5+09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 297px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401038208837734338" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SvRXopAVz8I/AAAAAAAAATw/b-75HqHvj2A/s400/arms_cargo+Nov+5+09.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Only People With The Naive Mind Of A Child!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;It doesn't matter where you look at violence in the world, the constant deaths of hard-working men and women and their children comes back to the lack of 'decisiveness' to eliminate the enemies of these honest families.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;History is the proof that "long-term Peace" has only followed after a 'decisive' war, it has never happened after a 'peace-agreement'. The enemy uses the weakness and naivete of the negotiating countries to further their warring ability.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Think About It:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;North Korea, we have wasted decades with these people as they built up a nuclear arsenal.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iran, the same thing.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kosovo, Somalia, Palestinians, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Afghanistan ...... Every country that is having their honest, loving families killed is because of the lack of a decisive war to eliminate the terrorizing of their countries. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is true anti-family policy by the leaders of the world involved in the 'negotiations' with the killers of societies.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Everyone braggs about reading "The Art of War", but don't understand what the enemies of the World have been doing all these years. They are naive! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;You cannot be "Nice" and have "Peace"!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;That is the way a child thinks, not a responsible, loving adult. Be cautious of what you let your own children be exposed to in school and college. Tell them the 'Truth'. Help them "grow up" to be good adults, loving parents and protective of their children and their society. They must know that until an enemy has been reduced in numbers (killed) to the point that they surrender un-conditionally their families are in danger. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;History has many examples of 'Good Leaders' that made the easy decision to WIN at All Costs, to save their families, their friends and their Nations.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-7149828499129484178?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/7149828499129484178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=7149828499129484178' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/7149828499129484178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/7149828499129484178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/11/only-people-with-naive-mind-of-child-it.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SvRXopAVz8I/AAAAAAAAATw/b-75HqHvj2A/s72-c/arms_cargo+Nov+5+09.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-2513198353743995924</id><published>2009-10-11T07:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T08:26:33.861-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;More &lt;strong&gt;Factual&lt;/strong&gt; evidence about Global Warming causes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know (?) the fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.&lt;br /&gt;It is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Research conducted two years ago, and published by the Royal Society, seemed to rule out solar influences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But one solar scientist Piers Corbyn from Weatheraction, a company specialising in long range weather forecasting, disagrees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He claims that &lt;em&gt;solar charged particles&lt;/em&gt; impact us far more than is currently accepted, so much so he says that they are almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures.&lt;br /&gt;He is so excited by what he has discovered that he plans to tell the international scientific community at a conference in London at the end of the month.&lt;br /&gt;If proven correct, this could revolutionise the whole subject.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Again, I request that we all stop being Led-like-Lemmings by the manipulation of pieces-of-research.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt; Yes, We as responsible Citizens-of-the-World need to work toward less pollution, but WE all also have the responsibility of keeping a balance between Best for Civilization and Best for the Environment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Most of the "Building of America" happened before the strangling-of-society restrictions of 1975 with the creation of the EPA, Endangered Species Act and OSHA. The problem with these fiefdoms is that there is no regulatory group to maintain a balance for the good of our Country and Society.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;China is now starting to experience this too. The Environment regulators are hampering the advancement of their Nation and while China is trying to look good in the "World's Eyes", they have the advantage of Communism. The Government will not allow an imbalance between what is good for the environment and what is best for their Country.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;We are ignorant, slow learners. While the majority of the working people of the USA have been raising families we allowed people with naive,child-like, "Polly-Ann-ish" minds to get into power positions that have been detrimental to the "Good-of-Our-Nation".&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I must say that I am bothered to witness the demise of Our Nation, but it was predicted by Ben Franklin in 1776.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-2513198353743995924?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/2513198353743995924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=2513198353743995924' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2513198353743995924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2513198353743995924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-factual-evidence-about-global.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-3341292321344837578</id><published>2009-08-03T06:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T06:46:22.671-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Why did liquidity disappear?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　 Financial Institutions in the U.S. considered operating with two trillion dollars in cash and 50 trillion dollars in credit to be OK, but when liquidity disappeared everyone tried to settle at once. Financial Institutions ceased to function in the normal manner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question that should be asked by not just people in the Financial sector, but by Investigative Reporters is: “What are the ‘factors’ which caused the liquidity to disappear?” The term investigative reporter has become an oxy-moron which we witness on a daily basis in print, on the radio and on TV. There are few investigative reporters, just news readers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A majority answer to that question is OIL PRICES between 2006 and 2008. Over 4000 products come from oil. It is part of everything we buy and need. When the cost of an ingredient triples in price over two years who do you think pays for this, as the Mercantile Exchange Traders got RICH, consumers around the World!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over time the economies around the World will all reset at a lower debt to cash ratio. Unemployment will remain high for many years, because there will not be a need to re-hire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The consumers will not go back to their wasteful ways they will continue to be thrift full, like their ancestors that live through the Great Depression. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-3341292321344837578?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/3341292321344837578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=3341292321344837578' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/3341292321344837578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/3341292321344837578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-did-liquidity-disappear-financial.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-7849936220925268855</id><published>2009-08-02T12:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T13:01:54.650-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Over 6 million un-employed in the USA and counting…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  As the numbers rise there is also the fall-out of those un-employed that are at the end of receiving un-employment moneys from the Government, lessening the burden on tax-payers, but sending those people into ruin and bankruptcy, with little hope of finding a job soon.&lt;br /&gt;  Those let go are the “surplus” of employees no longer needed to make a company profitable. They will not be needed again and when they do find work it will be for a lot less pay. Squeezed out of careers by the “glut” of oil traders around the world, that made millions of dollars as the hard working people sank into poverty. Proof that there is a problem with “free trade” without “regulation”.&lt;br /&gt;  What impact is this having on your family? If they are at the top of their field, they will probably keep their job, but won’t see any “cost-of-living” increases in pay anytime soon.&lt;br /&gt;  It is easy to “point fingers” at other countries and their policies, but we should understand that the deception taught to us from professors and businessmen since the ‘60’s was “flawed” and has led the World to this demise.&lt;br /&gt;  Throwing money at the financial problems from governments around the World will not fix it, just put off what really needs to be done……take pride enough in “ones” country to regulate in a manor which is best for “ones” citizens.&lt;br /&gt;  Let’s all start today to demand each of “our” countries regulate business and trade to benefit each of our own countries individually.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-7849936220925268855?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/7849936220925268855/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=7849936220925268855' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/7849936220925268855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/7849936220925268855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/08/over-6-million-un-employed-in-usa-and.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-7841995375167821720</id><published>2009-07-20T07:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-29T08:19:50.180-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The BBC Report on 7/14/09&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In their report on FOOD, they touched on the price and link to oil&lt;br /&gt;I have heard few reports putting the impact of $147/ barrel oil in detail.&lt;br /&gt;Since they grazed over oil in your food report, I will continue in the context of FOOD.&lt;br /&gt;At it‘s peak, $147 per barrel was more than three times the price in Fall 2006 when Hurricane Katrina hit the USA. Speculation by the Mercantile Exchange and the Media sent prices soaring in the US based on the “fear-mongering” about possible shortages and people at the “merc.” got rich overnight. This was followed by the promotion of the idea of $100 per barrel oil and then $150 per barrel oil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;So here’s some of the impact $147 per barrel oil had on FOOD; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gas and Diesel for transportation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gas and Diesel for Farming and Harvesting equipment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oil for heat I factories, farming, homes, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lubrication of machines and equipment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fertilizer, insecticides, cleaning agents&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Plastic packaging&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tires &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And more&lt;br /&gt;There are more than 4,000 different petrochemical products, that means more than 4000 different products that tripled in cost when Crude Oil hit $147 per barrel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those which are considered as basic products include ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene, ammonia and methanol. The main groups of petrochemical end-products are plastics, synthetic fibres, synthetic rubbers, detergents and chemical fertilisers. Other useful products which are not fuels can also be manufactured by refining crude oil, such as lubricants and asphalt (used in paving roads). A range of sub-items like perfumes and insecticides are also ultimately derived from crude oil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A barrel of oil yields these refined products (percent of barrel):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;47% gasoline for use in automobiles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;23% heating oil and diesel fuel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;18% other products, which includes petrochemical feedstock — products derived from petroleum principally for the manufacturing of chemicals, synthetic rubber and plastics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;10% jet fuel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;4% propane&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;3% asphalt &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Percentages equal more than 100 because of an approximately 5% processing gain from refining.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most common products from petroleum are energy products: gasoline, heating oil, and diesel fuel. Other petroleum products are: ink, crayons, bubble gum, dishwashing liquids, deodorant, eyeglasses, records, tires, ammonia, and heart valves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, the tripling of crude oil impacted almost everything in our economy, especially our family budgets. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All businesses in the World had expenses triple in cost and what did they do? They cut jobs and pay instead of demanding higher prices for their services and passing on a 40% cost-of-living to their employees. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Families were forced by the cost-of-living increase to cut back and/or spend on credit, stopping the cash flow to businesses and then the banks. Many finally were forced to file bankruptcy.&lt;br /&gt;Hence, the collapse of the World economy over a 2 year period, starting after Hurricane Katrina hit the USA in the Fall of 2006. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, do you see the connection of the price of crude oil to the Global Financial Crisis now?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-7841995375167821720?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/7841995375167821720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=7841995375167821720' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/7841995375167821720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/7841995375167821720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/07/bbc-report-on-71409-in-their-report-on.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-1536593822019973888</id><published>2009-07-09T06:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-29T08:21:33.881-07:00</updated><title type='text'>You weren't "Freed" yesterday!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SlX1U6f6huI/AAAAAAAAATo/SNOx4nCopyM/s1600-h/lincoln-emancipation-proclamation-8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356457071476377314" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SlX1U6f6huI/AAAAAAAAATo/SNOx4nCopyM/s400/lincoln-emancipation-proclamation-8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lincoln &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;Freed&lt;/span&gt; the slaves over 165 years ago, but still they want somebody to take care of them instead of them "stepping up" and taking care of themselves.&lt;br /&gt;Generation after generation living on Social Services provided by Governments and always asking for more like they're "entitled". The latest example of wanting the Government to take care of them instead of them taking "&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;responsibility&lt;/span&gt;" is the &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Naacp&lt;/span&gt; in Harrisburg,PA.&lt;br /&gt;Shootings there have increased so they want the governor to declare martial law and bring in the National Guard.&lt;br /&gt;Why do we let them do this over and over? Why aren't the honest, working tax-payer demanding them to be responsible and making sure our &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;Representatives&lt;/span&gt; in G&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;ov't&lt;/span&gt; follow through?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=103445"&gt;Complete Story from &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;WND&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-1536593822019973888?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/1536593822019973888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=1536593822019973888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/1536593822019973888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/1536593822019973888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-werent-freed-yesterday.html' title='You weren&apos;t &quot;Freed&quot; yesterday!'/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SlX1U6f6huI/AAAAAAAAATo/SNOx4nCopyM/s72-c/lincoln-emancipation-proclamation-8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-5321200952369801157</id><published>2009-07-09T05:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-29T08:24:30.508-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 237px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 157px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356446109476580818" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SlXrW13f7dI/AAAAAAAAATY/0RkotjQTIPE/s320/ginsburgsnooze1.jpg" /&gt;Actual artist rendition of&lt;br /&gt;Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg&lt;br /&gt;asleep during a hearing in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is the only time she and her&lt;br /&gt;liberal ACLU friends on the 'bench'&lt;br /&gt;aren't damaging American Culture and American Families.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Let us reflect on the damage a Justice with an agenda can do from the "Bench", as Judge Sotomayer is questioned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=103457"&gt;WND&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ginsburg: I thought Roe was to rid undesirables.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Justice discusses 'growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an astonishing admission, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace, or as she put it "populations that we don't want to have too many of."&lt;br /&gt;Her remarks, set to be published in the New York Times Magazine this Sunday but &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12ginsburg-t.html?pagewanted=print"&gt;viewable online now&lt;/a&gt;, came in an in-depth interview with Emily Bazelon titled, "The Place of Women on the Court."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 190px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356450993420189474" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SlXvzH-ZPyI/AAAAAAAAATg/MDQfMEbw-Rw/s320/ginsburg_190_2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:&lt;/strong&gt; a 76 yr. old liberal - born on March 15, 1933 in Brookly, N.Y. In the '60's she actively participated with the ACLU. She became the first director of the ACLU's Special Pojects and proceeded to work her way up the ladder.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-5321200952369801157?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/5321200952369801157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=5321200952369801157' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/5321200952369801157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/5321200952369801157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/07/ginsburg-i-thought-roe-was-to-rid.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SlXrW13f7dI/AAAAAAAAATY/0RkotjQTIPE/s72-c/ginsburgsnooze1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-8664538874437472679</id><published>2009-07-05T07:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-05T08:12:38.508-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;As we reflect on our beginnings on this 4th of July weekend..... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vision of the Founding Father that wrote the Declaration Of Independence, Thomas Jefferson.&lt;br /&gt;One of the wonders of the modern political world is that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.&lt;br /&gt;Without question, pride of place must go to Jefferson as the author of the Declaration of Independence. That document established Jefferson as one of America’s great political poets, second only to Abraham Lincoln.&lt;br /&gt;That abstract truth, of course, was that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”&lt;br /&gt;At the same time, Jefferson believed that constitutions must keep pace with the times. If the people wished to alter their frame of government, say, to fund public improvements or education, they were free to do so. But they should do so by constitutional amendment and not by allowing their representatives to construe the powers of government broadly. He particularly objected to the Court’s sitting in judgment on the powers of the legislative and executive branches, or acting as an umpire between the states and the federal government. To cede to the judiciary this authority, he believed, would render the Constitution a “ball of wax” in the hands of federal judges. In his battles with Chief Justice John Marshall, he defended the principle of coordinate construction, as Lincoln (and almost every strong president since then) did after him, arguing that each branch of government must determine for itself the constitutionality of its acts.&lt;br /&gt;Jefferson also believed that Republicanism was more than just a set of institutional arrangements; at bottom, it depended upon the character of the people. To keep alive this civic spirit, he championed public education for both boys and girls, with the most talented boys going on at public expense all the way through college.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Today’s attitude…. Ignore the Heroes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, no history textbook is let out unless it highlights the insignificant, reduces absolutes to local accident, and eliminates grand narratives in favor of a collection of tales, full of sound and fury, whose chief goal is to elicit pity, sympathy or guilt.&lt;br /&gt;Where are all the heroes? Great deeds somehow keep on being done, but we have lost a capacity to see them as great.&lt;br /&gt;Today, in this age of post-heroism that somewhere, we can be sure some voice will tell us that this is all farce---that this person cannot be a hero because he/she was a racist, or that he/she was rotten, exploitative, capitalist, war-mongering, imperialist, Christ-loving, minority-massacring, etc., etc.&lt;br /&gt;The post-World War One cultural malaise, which inaugurated an era of literary debunking and political minimalism, curved the arc downwards, away from the wise and heroic.&lt;br /&gt;The price we pay for this, in our schools and in our public discourse as well as in our statuary, is a steep one. Political systems, whether constitutional regimes or political parties, rest on a bedrock of culture—of certain shared assumptions, rituals, and unexamined attitudes—which can sometimes seem to have the stolid immovability of granite, and which at others can seem to have the fragility of snow crusts. The difference is made by confidence, which itself is composed in equal parts of practical results and constant reminders. So a constitutional regime appears to be a collection of laws and statutes; but those laws and statutes depend first on a reverence for words, for reason, and for orderliness. And that reverence must grow both from the confidence that words, reasons, order, laws and statutes really do protect and assist them, and from the constant dinning into the ears of its citizens that same confidence.&lt;br /&gt;For the well educated parents, they understand what has been done over the past 80 years. This “demonizing”, “playing-down”, and “editing of history” has increased dramatically since the ‘60’s. The damage to our culture and society is now so apparent you see it everywhere you turn.&lt;br /&gt;Finding good schools that educate students, independent of Government meddling is very hard, but one of those schools is &lt;a href="http://www.hillsdale.edu/"&gt;Hillsdale College&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;__________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;And, for those of us that don't know in entirety what the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Declaration of Indepedance&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; said I have printed it out......&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SlDBXuX4-iI/AAAAAAAAATQ/N_7E7B1iDxM/s1600-h/Declaration+of+Independance.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 257px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354992570272905762" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SlDBXuX4-iI/AAAAAAAAATQ/N_7E7B1iDxM/s320/Declaration+of+Independance.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.&lt;br /&gt;The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,&lt;br /&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;br /&gt;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain 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;br /&gt;He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.&lt;br /&gt;He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.&lt;br /&gt;He 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;br /&gt;He 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;br /&gt;He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.&lt;br /&gt;He 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;br /&gt;He has endeavoured 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;br /&gt;He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.&lt;br /&gt;He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.&lt;br /&gt;He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.&lt;br /&gt;He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.&lt;br /&gt;He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.&lt;br /&gt;He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:&lt;br /&gt;For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:&lt;br /&gt;For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:&lt;br /&gt;For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:&lt;br /&gt;For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:&lt;br /&gt;For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:&lt;br /&gt;For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences&lt;br /&gt;For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring 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 Colonies:&lt;br /&gt;For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:&lt;br /&gt;For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.&lt;br /&gt;He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.&lt;br /&gt;He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.&lt;br /&gt;He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat 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;br /&gt;He 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;br /&gt;He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.&lt;br /&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 Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.&lt;br /&gt;Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. 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. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. 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;br /&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 Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, 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. 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;br /&gt;The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:&lt;br /&gt;Column 1&lt;br /&gt;Georgia:&lt;br /&gt;Button Gwinnett&lt;br /&gt;Lyman Hall&lt;br /&gt;George Walton&lt;br /&gt;Column 2&lt;br /&gt;North Carolina:&lt;br /&gt;William Hooper&lt;br /&gt;Joseph Hewes&lt;br /&gt;John Penn&lt;br /&gt;South Carolina:&lt;br /&gt;Edward Rutledge&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Heyward, Jr.&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Lynch, Jr.&lt;br /&gt;Arthur Middleton&lt;br /&gt;Column 3&lt;br /&gt;Massachusetts:&lt;br /&gt;John Hancock&lt;br /&gt;Maryland:&lt;br /&gt;Samuel Chase&lt;br /&gt;William Paca&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Stone&lt;br /&gt;Charles Carroll of Carrollton&lt;br /&gt;Virginia:&lt;br /&gt;George Wythe&lt;br /&gt;Richard Henry Lee&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;br /&gt;Benjamin Harrison&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Nelson, Jr.&lt;br /&gt;Francis Lightfoot Lee&lt;br /&gt;Carter Braxton&lt;br /&gt;Column 4&lt;br /&gt;Pennsylvania:&lt;br /&gt;Robert Morris&lt;br /&gt;Benjamin Rush&lt;br /&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;br /&gt;John Morton&lt;br /&gt;George Clymer&lt;br /&gt;James Smith&lt;br /&gt;George Taylor&lt;br /&gt;James Wilson&lt;br /&gt;George Ross&lt;br /&gt;Delaware:&lt;br /&gt;Caesar Rodney&lt;br /&gt;George Read&lt;br /&gt;Thomas McKean&lt;br /&gt;Column 5&lt;br /&gt;New York:&lt;br /&gt;William Floyd&lt;br /&gt;Philip Livingston&lt;br /&gt;Francis Lewis&lt;br /&gt;Lewis Morris&lt;br /&gt;New Jersey:&lt;br /&gt;Richard Stockton&lt;br /&gt;John Witherspoon&lt;br /&gt;Francis Hopkinson&lt;br /&gt;John Hart&lt;br /&gt;Abraham Clark&lt;br /&gt;Column 6&lt;br /&gt;New Hampshire:&lt;br /&gt;Josiah Bartlett&lt;br /&gt;William Whipple&lt;br /&gt;Massachusetts:&lt;br /&gt;Samuel Adams&lt;br /&gt;John Adams&lt;br /&gt;Robert Treat Paine&lt;br /&gt;Elbridge Gerry&lt;br /&gt;Rhode Island:&lt;br /&gt;Stephen Hopkins&lt;br /&gt;William Ellery&lt;br /&gt;Connecticut:&lt;br /&gt;Roger Sherman&lt;br /&gt;Samuel Huntington&lt;br /&gt;William Williams&lt;br /&gt;Oliver Wolcott&lt;br /&gt;New Hampshire:&lt;br /&gt;Matthew Thornton &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy the gift of your Freedom and Greatness from our Founding Fathers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy 4th of July,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;RJ Bell&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;***************************************************&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-8664538874437472679?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/8664538874437472679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=8664538874437472679' 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-2366533417291513625</id><published>2009-07-02T07:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T05:19:16.587-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Why is everyone so stupid?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With all the ‘financial wizards’ in the news and Gov’t, how can they not recognize what has happened to the U.S. and the Global economies and how we got here?&lt;br /&gt;It is one thing to remember that that oil spiked after Hurricane Katrina in ‘06, because of the speculation fear promoted by people in the Mercantile Exchange and the Media followed by the promotion/speculation and finally hitting of $150 barrel oil, but the Global response by businesses around the world is inexcusable.&lt;br /&gt;Where in the history of “business” does a manufacturer/ retailer experiencing 40% increases in costs, not raise their rates.&lt;br /&gt;Heating costs tripled in price, lubrication for machines went up 40%, distribution went up 40%, petroleum ingredients went up 150% and on and on. Every product in the world uses oil in its manufacturing and distribution. So I ask you, if every business in the world is experiencing these pressures where was the unified increase in rates charged? Is it because of the ‘theories’ being taught at Universities since the ‘60’s, or are there too many managers in positions they are not ‘right’ for , “playing it safe”?&lt;br /&gt;If your CFO goes before the Board and tells them ( with numbers) that they need to raise their prices to stay in business, why didn’t they? We know that businesses were told by the lay-off’s and pay cuts. What kind of business just takes more and more from their hard working employees/tax-payers so it can meet their ‘bottom line’?&lt;br /&gt;If all businesses had met the price increases with a 40 to 50% increase in rates they would have averted most of the damage done to the Financial Institutions around the World, plus having money to give “cost-of-living” increases to their employees staving off most of the bankruptcies and home foreclosures.&lt;br /&gt;This whole ‘pile of cards’ is linked to the irrational decisions, maybe fear, from every business in the World.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe it is just a reflection of “Human” nature that “things will turn-around and get better”. Guess what…It Didn’t!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-2366533417291513625?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/2366533417291513625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=2366533417291513625' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2366533417291513625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2366533417291513625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-is-everyone-so-stupid-with-all.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-952868572626123915</id><published>2009-06-15T05:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-15T05:35:45.376-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Food Crops at risk as temperatures fall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is now more than 200 years since the great astronomer William Herschel observed a correlation between wheat prices and sunspots. When the latter were few in number, he noted, the climate turned colder and drier, crop yields fell and wheat prices rose. In the past two years, sunspot activity has dropped to its lowest point for a century. One of our biggest worries is that our politicians are so fixated on the idea that CO2 is causing global warming that most of them haven't noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, with all the implications that has for whether we get enough to eat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three factors are vital to crops: the light and warmth of the sun, adequate rainfall and the carbon dioxide they need for photosynthesis. As we are constantly reminded, we still have plenty of that nasty, polluting CO2, which the politicians are so keen to get rid of. But there is not much they can do about the sunshine or the rainfall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is appropriate that another contributory factor to the world's food shortage should be the millions of acres of farmland now being switched from food crops to biofuels, to stop the world warming, Last year even the experts of the European Commission admitted that, to meet the EU's biofuel targets, we will eventually need almost all the food-growing land in Europe. But that didn't persuade them to change their policy. They would rather we starved than did that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-952868572626123915?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/952868572626123915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=952868572626123915' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/952868572626123915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/952868572626123915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/06/it-is-now-more-than-200-years-since.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-2679565361694667422</id><published>2009-06-09T13:12:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-15T05:37:31.415-07:00</updated><title type='text'>REPRINT</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://rjbell57newsletter.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#993399;"&gt;Newsletter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://hotlinkstodiscounts57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Sales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://activities57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#993399;"&gt;Activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://homeimprovementandtools57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Home Improvement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://selectelectronicsandcomputers57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#993399;"&gt;Technology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://fasteasyprinting57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Printing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://findyourticketshere57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#993399;"&gt;Concerts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://onlinedating57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Dating Stories&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I have only heard one financial manager from Wall Street point out that the &lt;em&gt;tripling of the price of oil&lt;/em&gt; devastated the Global Economy, WHY?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlMdDFhyTI/AAAAAAAAALE/vJ3LRkY198k/s1600-h/oil+rig.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253814502232803634" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlMdDFhyTI/AAAAAAAAALE/vJ3LRkY198k/s400/oil+rig.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Follow The &lt;em&gt;OIL&lt;/em&gt; !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Everything that has happened to American Families, and the Financial Markets is linked to &lt;strong&gt;OIL&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There have been questionable mortgages made over the past few years, but this does not account for the millions of American Families and Businesses that cannot pay their bills. &lt;em&gt;It's the&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;45 to 50% increase in the Cost-of-Living&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did Wall Street run out of money&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Primarily, defaults on mortgages, business loans and credit cards.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why can't people pay their mortgages, business loans and credit cards&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Cost-of-Living&lt;/strong&gt; has&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;gone up &lt;em&gt;45 -50 %&lt;/em&gt;. Businesses cannot raise their prices enough to keep paying their own bills just to stay in business, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;or&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to give employees the &lt;em&gt;45 to 50%&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Cost-of-Living&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;raises &lt;/em&gt;they need to keep paying their bills.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;When did this start&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;After Hurricane Catrina.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When did the housing market dramatically slow down&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;After Hurricane Catrina. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What happened when Hurricane Catrina hit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;The "Fear Mongers" around the Mercantile Exchange threatened OIL shortages. Did the Media do investigative research, NO! With help from the naive Media, the "Merc." drove prices so high that Traders were reportedly making a whole years income in One Week of Trading!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Was there ever a shortage of OIL&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;NO!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What happens next&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;The "cost of living" starts going up, about a 20% increase, putting strain on the budgets of every family in America. Mortgage defaults start, along with more debt being put on credit cards as the "Working Americans" wait for the cost of living to drop back down from Government intervention or normal Capitalism self-adjustment. We all saw that it didn't happen. So, the &lt;em&gt;American Family&lt;/em&gt; choose "Family" first, Credit Corporations last. Thus the current Wall Street Crisis.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What happened that drove up the Cost-of-Living&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The "speculators" in the Mercantile Exchange using &lt;em&gt;fear&lt;/em&gt; to artificially drive the price of &lt;strong&gt;OIL&lt;/strong&gt; over $145.00 a barrel, causing a "ripple-effect" into every manufactured product in the world. Not just the gas and diesel prices to transport it. Everything we buy either has petroleum products in them or are distributed for consumers using petroleum products. The "media" focuses on the "&lt;em&gt;small picture&lt;/em&gt;" of the price of gas at the pump, that is not the real story.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why does OIL have so much Power-Over-America&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Starting in 1975 with the creation of OSHA, Endangered Species Act and the EPA companies could not afford to run businesses in the USA anymore. Rather than working together, these new agencies with their power, feeding their "ego's", started giving out ultimatums, so companies left to find more friendly countries, and they did. &lt;em&gt;This includes oil companies&lt;/em&gt;. Even with new technology, they are given so many "hoops" to "jump through" by special interest groups and their friends in the EPA, OSHA, DEP, etc. that there has been no new refineries built in the US since the '70's. This is not about R O I of the oil companies, it's about the restrictions from a few impacting the "Working American". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;In 1977, Nuclear energy and "spent" Uranium bills were signed. This has put us decades behind France and other European Countries that produce most of their electricity with Nuclear Plants and use the "spent" Uranium for advancement in Health, Science and other areas, reducing the &lt;em&gt;uranium&lt;/em&gt; "footprint" that has to be stored safely away from civilization.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The working citizens of America are "&lt;strong&gt;Paying-the-Price&lt;/strong&gt;" now for the "&lt;em&gt;Naive&lt;/em&gt;", "&lt;em&gt;Child-like&lt;/em&gt;" thinking from years ago that has finally caught up with us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlM08dtIsI/AAAAAAAAALM/PyvYf10zU94/s1600-h/crude+oil+blob.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253814912772022978" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlM08dtIsI/AAAAAAAAALM/PyvYf10zU94/s200/crude+oil+blob.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have "WE" as a Nation learned from this&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sort-of&lt;/em&gt;. A bill recently passed and signed has &lt;em&gt;America's&lt;/em&gt; interests in it. A bill that allows offshore drilling as a "short-term" fix, as more and more tax dollars are spent trying to develop new efficient types of energy for the "long-term". This is what is called a "Win-Win" solution, to quote Dennis Waitley. &lt;em&gt;This is probably the most mature, "adult" action from our elected servants in Washington that has come out of their in a Century!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;*************************************&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlNwFnXaQI/AAAAAAAAALU/HWYV7kMbC0o/s1600-h/Wall+Street+Banks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253815928840743170" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlNwFnXaQI/AAAAAAAAALU/HWYV7kMbC0o/s200/Wall+Street+Banks.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What About The &lt;em&gt;Bad Loans&lt;/em&gt; Made By The Banks?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, there has been a small percentage of bad loans made, but that is not the primary problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;This is called an "easy target", which has been made popular since the '60's, of attacking the Government and "big" Business by special interest groups, college professors and the "media".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"Fairness In Reporting" was elimanated in the '80's, so now the "media" mostly gives you just one side of the story. Usually the one the editorial staff and owners support.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Investigative Reporting has been replaced by "News Readers". We see this or hear this on every News report. The stories come from AP,Reuters, BBC, al-Jazeera, not professional journalists in these companies doing the investigations themselves. We, the American Working Public are left with mediocre reporting from the media. This is not the "Walter Cronkite" quality of the '60's that we should trust.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The hard working &lt;em&gt;American Family&lt;/em&gt; has little time to do their own research into news stories, though it is easier and done more frequently now because of the internet. This works out well for the "media", they tell the story the way they want or were told and collect their paycheck. Truth and Quality doesn't matter, this is evident in their actions. That is where the nickname "drive-by-media" comes from. ( I believe it was a reported as a quote from Rush Limbaugh years ago )&lt;strong&gt; Remember&lt;/strong&gt;, the media is never "held accoutable" for bad reporting, even when they report lies that destroy people and companies. They don't apologize, because that could mean they were "liable" and could be sued. They only offer "corrections" buried way in the back of the paper.Hense, the "weak" reporting of the "housing and mortgage" problems. I believe a "High School Student" would have done a better job.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;.&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlOta9EMII/AAAAAAAAALc/fbFshfpvSYA/s1600-h/Bank+Paperwork.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253816982540923010" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlOta9EMII/AAAAAAAAALc/fbFshfpvSYA/s200/Bank+Paperwork.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Now, Back To The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Loans;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;So&lt;/em&gt;, what's the background leading up to the "mortgage" crisis?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Where do you start?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's start with Honest Ideals.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1968&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/6500-200.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Truth in Lending Act&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;was to assure a meaningful disclosure of credit terms so that the consumer will be able to compare more readily the various credit terms available to him or her. This bill opened the door for vehicle leasing and other durable goods.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honesty Leaves America!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1977&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jimmy Carter&lt;/em&gt;, then the President,&lt;br /&gt;signed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ffiec.gov/cra"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"&lt;em&gt;The Community Reinvestment Act&lt;/em&gt;" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;("CRA").&lt;/span&gt; Congress debated the Act, because &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;critics &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;charged that the law would "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;distort credit markets, &lt;/strong&gt;create unnecessary regulatory burden&lt;strong&gt;, lead to unsound lending, and&lt;/strong&gt; cause the governmental agencies charged with &lt;strong&gt;implementing the law&lt;/strong&gt; to allocate credit&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The Act charged the Federal Reserve System to implement the CRA through ensuring banks and savings and loans met their CRA obligations. The CRA is also enforced by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&amp;amp;sid=44059fe1dfc00c61e5a82d909ebafac0&amp;amp;rgn=div8&amp;amp;view=text&amp;amp;node=12:4.0.1.2.33.1.3.1&amp;amp;idno=12"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;CRA Statute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;You can find more details in the Sunday 9/28 edition of the Wall Street Journal "Weekly Guide To Managing Your Money"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1989&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/8000-3100.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;As part of a general reform of the banking industry, it increased public oversight of the process of issuing CRA ratings to banks. Also required was a four-tiered CRA examination rating system with performance levels of "Outstanding," "Satisfactory," "Needs to Improve," or "Substantial Noncompliance."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This law&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;greatly increased the ability of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;advocacy groups, researchers, and other analysts &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;to "perform more-sophisticated, quantitative analyses of banks' records,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;thereby&lt;em&gt; influencing&lt;/em&gt; the lending policies of banks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1992&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/8000-3100.html"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/8000-3100.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.This act required the Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as &lt;a title="Fannie Mae" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Fannie Mae&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, commonly known as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Freddie Mac" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Freddie Mac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, to devote a percentage of their lending to support affordable housing. This in part, contributed to increased Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pooling and selling of such loans as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Security (finance)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_(finance)"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;securities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, (i.e. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Securitization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitization"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;securitization&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;), and expanded the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Secondary market" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_market"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;secondary market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; for those loans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1993&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jefferson_Clinton"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;President Clinton&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; asked regulators to reform the CRA in order to reduce paperwork and reward performance. Using federal home-loan data broken down by neighborhood, income group, and race; encouraging community groups to complain when banks were not loaning enough to specified neighborhood, income group, and race;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;allowing community groups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;that marketed loans to targeted groups to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;collect a fee from the banks.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1995&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a title="William A. Niskanen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Niskanen"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;William A. Niskanen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, in congressional hearings,and chair of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Cato Institute" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Cato Institute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, criticized the proposals for &lt;em&gt;political favoritism&lt;/em&gt; in allocating credit and micromanagement by regulators.He predicted they would be very costly to the economy and banking system.&lt;em&gt; He recommended Congress repeal the Act&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1999&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;a href="http://banking.senate.gov/conf/index.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; , also known as the "Financial Services Modernization Act". Senators &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Christopher Dodd" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dodd"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Christopher Dodd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" title="Charles E. Schumer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Schumer"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Charles E. Schumer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; broke a deadlock by forcing a compromise between Gramm and the Clinton administration which wanted to prevent banks from expanding into insurance or securities unless they were compliant with the CRA.President Clinton said that it, "establishes the principles that, as we expand the powers of banks, we will&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;expand the reach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;of the &lt;em&gt;Community Reinvestment Act&lt;/em&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;2005&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.ots.treas.gov/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Office of Thrift Supervision&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; implemented new rules that – according to Congressional Democrats – substantially weakened the CRA. A letter protesting these changes, because they undercut the ability of the CRA to "meet the needs of low and moderate-income persons and communities". (quotas)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2007&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/bbernankebio.html"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ben Bernanke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; suggested further increasing the presence of Sallie Mae and Freddie Mac in the affordable housing market to help banks fulfill their CRA obligations by providing them with more opportunities to securitize CRA-related loans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/gse/gse.cfm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;HUD's &lt;/span&gt;new role with Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;What do all these laws have in common&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; They all promote the "strong-arming" of the financial institutions to provide loans to under-qualified borrowers to meet quotas set up by politicians and "CRA". The FDIC strong-arming HUD, the HUD strong-arming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac strong-arming the Financial Institutions to give out loans to "poor risk" borrowers. &lt;em&gt;All the while, each "agency" giving the next the "wink" that they will all work together to bail each other out if the Financial Institutions collapse&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;strong&gt; AND HERE WE ARE !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;K. Engel and P. McCoy published a study of the predatory lending implications of the CRA, noting that by the late 1990s, predatory high cost mortgages to “gullible borrowers” were leading to foreclosures against low-income people of color and the elderly. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I Am Not Blaming The Banking Industry For The Mess Our Country is in Today.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The money "crunch" came from the 45 to 50% increase of the Cost-of-Living of Every American, because of Oil Prices.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;We are not now and were not then (Catrina) preparing for the future of America or for our Children and Grandchildren. We have let "special interest" groups influence our leaders, betraying America's "Long-Term" interests. The foundation and "life-blood" of every country is Energy! Energy independance is VITAL forr every Countries Stability.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A diverse America with Multiple Sources of Energy and Refineries (in safe areas) is what is needed now and for the "long-term" stability of &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;America &lt;/span&gt;and the &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;American Family&lt;/span&gt;! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;_________&lt;a href="http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/"&gt;Back To Top&lt;/a&gt;___________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;G&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;g&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; 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WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 185px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332375618324625810" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SgBnX2sxeZI/AAAAAAAAAS4/4z4r1B57zus/s400/monckton-gore.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/ba&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/a/429/Report-Democrats-Refuse-to-Allow-Skeptic-to-Testify-Alongside-Gore-At-Congressional-Hearing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Democrats Refuse to Allow UK's Lord Christopher Monckton to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Washington, DC&lt;/strong&gt; -- UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;“The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/a/429/Report-Democrats-Refuse-to-Allow-Skeptic-to-Testify-Alongside-Gore-At-Congressional-Hearing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;"&gt;Complete Story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;ALSO.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SgBpkaE7SmI/AAAAAAAAATI/AOTF2K8m9RI/s1600-h/ocean_storm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332378033002859106" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SgBpkaE7SmI/AAAAAAAAATI/AOTF2K8m9RI/s320/ocean_storm.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/ba&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5067351/Rise-of-sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;"&gt;Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, it is the belief that we face a disastrous rise in sea levels. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe.&lt;br /&gt;Although the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only predicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth went much further, talking of 20 feet, and showing computer graphics of cities such as Shanghai and San Francisco half under water. We all know the graphic showing central London in similar plight. As for tiny island nations such as the Maldives and Tuvalu, as Prince Charles likes to tell us and the Archbishop of Canterbury was again parroting last week, they are due to vanish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5067351/Rise-of-sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;"&gt;Complete Story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-1325099781924792458?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/1325099781924792458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=1325099781924792458' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/1325099781924792458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/1325099781924792458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/05/democrats-refuse-to-allow-skeptic-to.html' title='No &quot;Freedom Of Speech&quot; in Congress'/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SgBnX2sxeZI/AAAAAAAAAS4/4z4r1B57zus/s72-c/monckton-gore.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-2221745152503248077</id><published>2009-03-24T19:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-24T21:27:32.932-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://rjbell57.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316952089082573090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/ScmbwS2JsSI/AAAAAAAAASo/06kmNHYCUl0/s400/denver+blizzard.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=92557"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Global Warming Ends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Washington, 3/23/09:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;This may come as bad news for Al Gore. The modest global warming trend has stopped – maybe even reversed itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not just the record low temperatures experienced in much of the world this winter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;For at least the last five years, global temperatures have been falling, according to tracking performed by Roy Spencer, the climatologist formerly of NASA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Arctic sea ice has grown more on a percentage basis this winter than it has since 1979.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The number of polar bears has risen 25 percent in the past decade. There are 15,000 of them in the Arctic now, where 10 years ago there were 12,000.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"The most recent global warming that began in 1977 is over, and the Earth has entered a new phase of global cooling,"&lt;/em&gt; says Don Easterbrook, professor of geology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, confidently. He maintains a switch in Pacific Ocean currents &lt;em&gt;"assures about three decades of global cooling. New solar data showing unusual absence of sun spots and changes in the sun’s magnetic field suggest ... the present episode of global cooling may be more severe than the cooling of 1945 to 1977."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Complete story at: &lt;a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=92557"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Global Warming Ends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Scmb5g028pI/AAAAAAAAASw/LORQMUksw6M/s1600-h/Blizzard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316952247454069394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Scmb5g028pI/AAAAAAAAASw/LORQMUksw6M/s400/Blizzard.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-2221745152503248077?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/2221745152503248077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=2221745152503248077' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2221745152503248077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2221745152503248077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/03/washington-32309-global-warming-ends.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/ScmbwS2JsSI/AAAAAAAAASo/06kmNHYCUl0/s72-c/denver+blizzard.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-6225094500869442878</id><published>2009-03-09T09:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T22:15:59.104-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SbVBKwdqkpI/AAAAAAAAASg/6yCHdl6-EjU/s1600-h/GWconference+2009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311222988617192082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 239px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 91px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SbVBKwdqkpI/AAAAAAAAASg/6yCHdl6-EjU/s400/GWconference+2009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#999999;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=439146"&gt;Scientists meet to dispute global warming theory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;The "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A- list&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" of climate-change skeptics is meeting in New York City for the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;The Conference is international in scope.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Featured at the conference will be more than 70 scientists who do not subscribe to the notion that so-called global warming is driven by manmade emissions of carbon dioxide, one of those being Harrison "Jack" Schmitt -- one of the last astronauts to walk on the moon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"What we are trying to accomplish with this conference is to present to the politicians and to the public that the debate is not over about global warming or climate change; that there is plenty of room for disagreement; and that sound science shows that the earth is not warming,"&lt;/em&gt; says Miller. &lt;em&gt;"For much of the latter part of the 20th century there's been a mild warming as we come out of an ice age -- but the planet today is much cooler than it was a thousand years ago."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;Besides the 70+ scientists at this conference, more than 650 scientists worldwide have expressed skepticism over manmade climate change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=440562"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Bucking the media trend on global warming 'crisis'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; \&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Why Be Lead By The Nose Like A Bull !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;_______________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://acme-people-search.com/1237348117ZPSM"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;***People Search***&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:30;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-6225094500869442878?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/6225094500869442878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=6225094500869442878' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/6225094500869442878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/6225094500869442878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/03/scientists-meet-to-dispute-global.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SbVBKwdqkpI/AAAAAAAAASg/6yCHdl6-EjU/s72-c/GWconference+2009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-8858213559883731513</id><published>2009-03-02T06:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T22:16:23.771-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Not Allowed To Protect Your Child, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Your Pet or Yourself !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Savt-GZHBZI/AAAAAAAAAQg/AHSabu5KEEs/s1600-h/Coyote_Snowboarder_Confrontation.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308598236909864338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 350px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 233px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Savt-GZHBZI/AAAAAAAAAQg/AHSabu5KEEs/s400/Coyote_Snowboarder_Confrontation.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A &lt;a href="http://blog.outdoorzy.com/2008/02/20/coyote-attacks-at-copper-mtn/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;coyote attacked a young skier at Copper Mountain ski resort in Colorado&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; last week. The coyote bit the kids parka and had bitten the snowboard of another. The picture above was apparently taken by the childs mother as she watched on. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;That's right, &lt;em&gt;just watch&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;as you child is attacked&lt;/em&gt;, but get a picture for the news and your '15 minutes of fame'. What a selfish bitch!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/592071"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coyote attacks in Toronto, Canada&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; prompt city to take action.&lt;br /&gt;Attacks on pets and children are on the rise and YOU cannot protect them.&lt;br /&gt;Unlike in a time of "common sense" from years ago, when you could kill a predator attacking you, your family, pets or livestock, you must now let your child or pet be mutilated by a predator until an 'authority' shows up.&lt;br /&gt;If you do protect your child or pet you will be arrested for any number of charges, even violating the 'animals rights'.&lt;br /&gt;Aren't 'animal activists' wonderful? They don't value you, your child or your pets, just animals, even if they would KILL. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308606373806490530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Sav1XuscQ6I/AAAAAAAAARI/TOPbYcOMc9g/s320/Coyote+Attack+Vid..jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT6sePYyeL0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Coyote Attack Video&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=69167"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Denver-area coyote attacks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coyote attacks on the rise&lt;/strong&gt; in San Fernando Valley. Southern Californians know all too well of the dangers of the coyote, a creature that preys on the small, helpless lapdogs found in backyards across the Valley. A coyote killed Jeff Shulman's Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named, Crosby in Tarzana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SavvGLjUiSI/AAAAAAAAAQw/8EmCkg5SElQ/s1600-h/Coyote.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308599475245451554" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 187px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SavvGLjUiSI/AAAAAAAAAQw/8EmCkg5SElQ/s200/Coyote.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=110619&amp;amp;provider=top"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coyote attacks man, bites his arm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; A coyote lunged at a man and bit him on the arm as he was walking his dogs Monday night, according to the Broomfield Police Department in Colorado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Even along the East coast in populated areas, where you cannot fire a weapon for self defense within 100' of a dwelling or within town limits, there are an increase of attacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Near Atlantic City, NJ a &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18054490/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an 11 yr. old boy foils coyote attack on his 22 month old nephew&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Playing in the back yard of his Middletown Township home with his 22-month-old nephew over the weekend, 11-year-old Ryan Palludan first thought the animal that bolted into the yard just before dark was a deer.&lt;br /&gt;But when it grabbed little Liam Sadler in its jaws, Palludan instinctively sprang into action, yelling and kicking at the attacker which was later determined to be a coyote. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18807033/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second child attacked by coyote in Middletown,N.J.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; For the second time in as many months, officials believe a coyote has attacked a child in this wooded, suburban town in central New Jersey.&lt;br /&gt;Police and state wildlife officials set traps Tuesday, and were looking for the animal that attacked 5-year-old Brayden Gazette. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SavviS2CQII/AAAAAAAAAQ4/YlpuQp4JNrk/s1600-h/abc_coyote_attack_080508_mn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308599958239330434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SavviS2CQII/AAAAAAAAAQ4/YlpuQp4JNrk/s320/abc_coyote_attack_080508_mn.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In MA, &lt;a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8490247.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a coyote attacked a 3yr. old child&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;A coyote sprang from the woods and attacked the 3-year- old boy Wednesday&lt;br /&gt;evening as he played on his back yard swing set near Sandwich, MA on Cape Cod,&lt;br /&gt;the first documented case of a coyote attacking a human in Massachusetts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://salemnews.com/punews/local_story_331221118.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Police Officer says he thwarted coyote's attack on woman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in Beverly, MA. Will you,&lt;br /&gt;your child or your pet be so lucky ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailynewstribune.com/archive/x1899504434"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Waltham, MA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;., Coyotes attacked an 11-pound dog. Penny, the injured animal, was taken to the Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Center of New England, a 24-hour animal hospital on Bear Hill Road, where she was euthanized (KILLED). UNDERSTAND THIS!! Predators are more important than your pet according to "authorities and activists. God forbid you are allowed to save them on your own !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Sav1BTWa2qI/AAAAAAAAARA/xiaKG2lp4i4/s1600-h/Zoe+coyote+attack+-+Canada.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308605988509244066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Sav1BTWa2qI/AAAAAAAAARA/xiaKG2lp4i4/s200/Zoe+coyote+attack+-+Canada.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Weymouth, MA, a &lt;a href="http://mainehuntingtoday.com/bbb/2007/05/14/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coyote Attacks And Kills 100-lb Rottweiler&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Do you understand how big a 100lb Rottweiler is? Do you think your child or pet has a chance?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have seen and heard of Coyotes hunting in packs and taking down deer near my home for years. When these packs get too big they split up and move into another area. There now are packs hunting in the villages. &lt;strong&gt;This could be YOUR HOME!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have recently started seeing one walk through my backyard, which means that within a few months there will be a pack of them here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a hef="http://www.varmintal.com/attac.htm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;News Articles of Coyote Attacks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; are on the rise and you have to sit and wait for the "right authority figure" to show up to "handle the situation". We are "FORCED" to wait for "big brother" to "help" us. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;We are no longer allowed to protect our Families, our Children without fear of arrest or retaliation from lawyers and activists. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;WE LOOSE !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;You Must At Least Take A Gun Safety Course So You Can LEGALLY Purchase and Carry Mace or Pepper Spray when you're out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;For You, Your Pet and Your Childs Safety !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://acme-people-search.com/1237348117ZPSM"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#333399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;***People Search***&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-8858213559883731513?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/8858213559883731513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=8858213559883731513' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/8858213559883731513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/8858213559883731513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/03/coyote-attacked-young-skier-at-copper.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Savt-GZHBZI/AAAAAAAAAQg/AHSabu5KEEs/s72-c/Coyote_Snowboarder_Confrontation.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-8842013409580137621</id><published>2009-03-01T12:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T22:15:26.181-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Are Birds More Important &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Than Your Children,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Your Family ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Sar3k7cxuGI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/qDgl94nbbIU/s1600-h/monk_parakeets01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308327324615293026" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Sar3k7cxuGI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/qDgl94nbbIU/s200/monk_parakeets01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The mental illness that is 'liberalism' strikes again.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;It runs rampant among the elitists, primarily (I believe) because of boredom from their wealth and guilt of undeserved wealth. This is most apparent among people that marry into wealth or 2nd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&amp;amp; 3rd generations of wealth, they didn't do the work to create the wealth and wouldn't have known how to do it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Sar3z2TY22I/AAAAAAAAAQY/tZt7ZhcB2wU/s1600-h/monk-parakeets.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308327580931775330" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Sar3z2TY22I/AAAAAAAAAQY/tZt7ZhcB2wU/s200/monk-parakeets.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;They try to mask this with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"elitism" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;and "snobbishness". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;In Darien, CT. there is a problem with Monk Parakeets nesting on power lines and poles causing fires, power outages and danger to the public. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;There was a '&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;do-good-er' effort to get the parakeets to use man-made nesting areas, but that didn't work. The power companies, in an effort to protect the public, including children that may be playing under or near these poles, are now killing some of them to reduce the threat to public safety and power outages. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Unconcerned with the well-being of children and the public, the "Friends of Animals" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;of Darien, CT. have filed to prevent the Power Companies from doing what is necessary to serve the public. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes, the birds are cute, but I find 'children' much more cute and deserving than birds&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would you place the life of a bird over that of your child ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;It is hard for mature, responsible parents to understand this naive, child-like thinking. It is even harder for the "working class" to stop their nonsense, because they have all the money, lawyers and environmental activists. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;While we're working, trying to survive and raise a family, they're sneaking around making our lives harder.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Could you imagine what our lives would be like if we had life so easy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;At least with the internet we, the 'working class' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;can readily have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;our voice heard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://acme-people-search.com/1237348117ZPSM"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;***People Search***&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&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/2217659252623799600-8842013409580137621?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/8842013409580137621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=8842013409580137621' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/8842013409580137621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/8842013409580137621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/03/are-birds-more-important-than-your.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/Sar3k7cxuGI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/qDgl94nbbIU/s72-c/monk_parakeets01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-6136963134782451119</id><published>2009-02-21T06:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T22:17:23.523-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Climate News Alert!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;Update, 3/2/09&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;While a few people showed up to protest about global warming, Nancy Polosi D-Calif. and Global Warming Chairman Edward Markey (D-Mass.), who were scheduled to speak at the global warming event canceled their appearances, because of the Blizzard that hit the East coast, dumping more than a foot of snow from Alabama to Maine with below normal temperatures. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;Update 2/25/09&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500327,00.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scientist: Global Warming Evidence, Claims Exaggerated&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Claims about the allegedly dire effects of global warming may be exaggerated, Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, said during a Thursday lecture at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;As you read, just remember when you were 11 or 12, you were also a naive, 'brainwashed by teachers' child.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#6666cc;"&gt;More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#6666cc;"&gt;December 10, 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SaBo5mLzThI/AAAAAAAAAP4/VqkPubYjoUY/s1600-h/Greenlandmain+ice+field.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305355699754323474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 241px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SaBo5mLzThI/AAAAAAAAAP4/VqkPubYjoUY/s320/Greenlandmain+ice+field.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated for Weeks Due to Faulty Sensor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Alex Morales &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), &lt;strong&gt;a California- size area&lt;/strong&gt;, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said. ( This means Larger, or More ice)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The center said real-time data on sea ice is always less reliable than archived numbers because full checks haven’t yet been carried out. Historical data is checked across other sources, it said.&lt;br /&gt;The NSIDC uses Department of Defense satellites to obtain its Arctic sea ice data rather than more accurate National Aeronautics and Space Administration equipment. That’s because the defense satellites have a longer period of historical data, enabling scientists to draw conclusions about long-term ice melt, the center said. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&amp;amp;sid=aIe9swvOqwIY"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Complete Article&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SaBmPTbilGI/AAAAAAAAAPY/wpberRKzqRw/s1600-h/Greenland+Geology.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305352774142301282" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 142px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SaBmPTbilGI/AAAAAAAAAPY/wpberRKzqRw/s200/Greenland+Geology.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last interglacial period, the Eemian, is critical for understanding climate change, because it offers a period of warmth like our present one, in which there was unequivocally only natural forcing. It also appears to have been warmer than the present by 5 deg C in Greenland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Figure 1. The Radio Echo profile along the flow line leading to the NEEM drill site. The location of the line is&lt;br /&gt;shown on the Greenland map of surface slopes as the part of the ice ridge flow line colored black.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goals;&lt;br /&gt;• To obtain a reliable high-resolution northern hemisphere ice core record of the onset of&lt;br /&gt;the Eemian period and if possible even the previous glacial period which implies&lt;br /&gt;• Obtaining an undisturbed Greenland ice core record of climate covering at least 140,000&lt;br /&gt;years&lt;br /&gt;• Find a location where the precipitation from the atmospheric driven circulation is&lt;br /&gt;unchanged during climate variations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://neem.ku.dk/neeminfo.pdf"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Complete Study&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greenland ice core analysis shows drastic climate change near end of last ice age&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(June 2008)&lt;br /&gt;Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ice cores -- analyzed with powerful microscopes -- were drilled as part of the North Greenland Ice Core Project led by project leader Dorthe Dahl-Jensen of the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Neils Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/19/greenland.ice.core.analysis.shows.drastic.climate.change.near.end.last.ice.age"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Complete Document&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SaBoL9VG9yI/AAAAAAAAAPw/w5TB6wQzGDM/s1600-h/Greenland+deep+ice+core+camp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305354915693393698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SaBoL9VG9yI/AAAAAAAAAPw/w5TB6wQzGDM/s400/Greenland+deep+ice+core+camp.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims, &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;which is 12 times the number that 'sighed on'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? - Warming Fears in ‘Dustbin of History’ POZNAN, Poland - The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. &lt;strong&gt;The over 650 dissenting scientists are&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.&lt;/strong&gt; The U.S. Senate report is the latest evidence of the growing groundswell of scientific opposition rising to challenge the UN and Gore. Scientific meetings are now being dominated by a growing number of skeptical scientists. The prestigious International Geological Congress, dubbed the geologists’ equivalent of the Olympic Games, was held in Norway in August 2008 and prominently featured the voices and views of scientists skeptical of man-made global warming fears.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC “are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri’s asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it’s hard to remain quiet.” - Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society’s Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?” - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” - Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;# # In addition, the report will feature new peer-reviewed scientific studies and analyses refuting man-made warming fears and a heavy dose of inconvenient climate developments. (See Below: Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? - Warming Fears in ‘Dustbin of History’) The Senate Minority Report is an update of 2007’s blockbuster U.S. Senate Minority Report of over 400 dissenting scientists. See here: This new report will contain the names, quotes and analyses of literally hundreds of additional international scientists who publicly dissented from man-made climate fears in just 2008 alone. The chorus of scientific voices skeptical grow louder as a steady stream of peer-reviewed studies, analyses and real world data challenge the UN and former Vice President Al Gore’s claims that the “science is settled” and there is a “consensus.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Meanwhile, while the UN climate conference is in session here in Poznan, the bad scientific news for promoters of man-made climate alarm just keeps rolling in.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This report shows that maybe 4% of the climate change is from humans. 92% is generated by the earth itself, 4% or more from increased 'solar flares' from the sum since 1998, leaving only 4% or less from human activity. What this means to you is that if humans stopped their 4% contribution to climate change the earth would continue this warming cycle anyways.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;It is good to reduce polution, but understand, at 4% &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"we" (humans) &lt;/em&gt;don't&lt;em&gt; make a difference!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sksboards.com/smf/index.php?topic=47350.0"&gt;Get More Facts Now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1828971,00.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ice Boring Info.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ...........&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/new_ice_core_drilling/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Niels Bohr Institute&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; documents&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://acme-people-search.com/1237348117ZPSM"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;***People Search***&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&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/2217659252623799600-6136963134782451119?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/6136963134782451119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=6136963134782451119' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/6136963134782451119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/6136963134782451119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/02/climate-news-alert-arctic-sea-ice.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SaBo5mLzThI/AAAAAAAAAP4/VqkPubYjoUY/s72-c/Greenlandmain+ice+field.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-1946572607851094760</id><published>2009-02-08T09:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T22:18:01.764-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Beware of the "Media Complex"</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;people will eventually come to believe it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;____________________________________&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300486558617952850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 210px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SY8ccR8n4lI/AAAAAAAAAPA/UzuiTn5Y56A/s320/Arctic+Sea+Ice.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FACT&lt;/strong&gt;: The temperature has only increased 0.6C in the last 100 Years (IPCC)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FACT&lt;/strong&gt;: 89% of U.S. temperature stations are biased by +2.0C (&lt;a href="http://www.surfacestations.org/"&gt;Surfacestations&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SY8dJ9_t8jI/AAAAAAAAAPI/eiRrx-RiLvA/s1600-h/Arctic+Sea+Ice+Graph.png"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300487343536206386" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SY8dJ9_t8jI/AAAAAAAAAPI/eiRrx-RiLvA/s200/Arctic+Sea+Ice+Graph.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FACT&lt;/strong&gt;: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is not pollution and Global Warming has nothing to do with pollution. The average person has been misled and is confused about what the current Global Warming debate is about, greenhouse gases. None of which has anything to do with air pollution. People are confusing Smog, Carbon Monoxide (CO) and the pollutants in car exhaust with the life supporting, essential trace gas in our atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Pollution is already regulated under the Clean Air Act and regulating Carbon Dioxide (CO2) will do absolutely nothing to make the air you breath "cleaner". Regulating Carbon Dioxide (CO2) through either 'Carbon Taxes' or 'Cap and Trade' policies will simply make energy (electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, propane, heating oil, etc...) much more expensive and severely cripple the economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supporting Article: &lt;/strong&gt;No significant global warming since 1995 by Jarl R. Ahlbeck&lt;br /&gt;The writer is D.Sc. and lecturer at Abo Akademi University, Finland , Oct. 25, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The recovery of the earth's climate from the little ice age started about 200 years ago, but the concentration of the atmospheric carbon dioxide started to increase significantly as late as in the 1950s, probably due to rapidly increased burning of fossil fuels.&lt;br /&gt;The climate recovery is still an ongoing process today. A natural warming rate of roughly 0.5 deg C /100 years has been the baseline for more than 100 years, but both short (a few years) and long (20 years) fluctuations around the baseline have occurred for natural but highly speculative reasons, for example a rapid warming in the 1930s followed by a cooling period, and recently again warming until about 1998.&lt;br /&gt;According to the UK climate panel IPCC, this last warming period has been forced by increased carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere. There is however no proof of that and the theory of how carbon dioxide influences the global mean temperature is complicated and unreliable. And if the global temperature again starts to increase slower than the natural long-term trend of 0.5 deg C/100 years, or even starts to cool, we can be quite certain that the recent faster warming trends have been natural too.&lt;br /&gt;It has been widely discussed if the satellite-derived global temperature measurements that show only little warming should be more reliable than the temperatures obtained on the ground that show more warming. But after 1995 both sources show about the same, (see graphs below drawn from Hadley-data (ground) and satellite data (NASA)).&lt;br /&gt;A good reason to start a diagram from 1995 is that since that year no big (cooling) volcano eruptions have disturbed the temperature trend. Contrary to common belief, there has been no or little global warming since 1995 and this is shown by two completely independent datasets.&lt;br /&gt;The curves look very normal and it seems probable that the natural recovery from the little ice age has went on without any significant decelerations or accelerations caused by human activity.&lt;br /&gt;It is impossible to say what is going to happen in the future. But so far, real measurements give no ground for concern about a catastrophic future warming.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;: &lt;/em&gt;Animal populations in the arctic regions will decrease with less food to sustain herds. Harsh weather also kills of the weak, leaving strong herds for better reproduction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SY8dbyZ6LHI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/AHcQT6lgbLY/s1600-h/Antarctic+Sea+Ice+Area.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300487649662479474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 247px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SY8dbyZ6LHI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/AHcQT6lgbLY/s320/Antarctic+Sea+Ice+Area.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remember&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt;In the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt; '70's, the same 'global warming' activists were 'global freezing' activists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#330033;"&gt;___________________________________&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;If you do your 'homework', &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;and not be led like a naive child by people with an agenda,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;you will gain Wisdom and feel better about yourself!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your Family is the most important thing in your life.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wisdom&lt;/strong&gt; only comes from combining &lt;strong&gt;Knowledge&lt;/strong&gt; with &lt;strong&gt;Experience&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;something that professors and teachers never acquire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://acme-people-search.com/1237348117ZPSM"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;***People Search***&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&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/2217659252623799600-1946572607851094760?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/1946572607851094760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=1946572607851094760' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/1946572607851094760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/1946572607851094760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/02/if-you-tell-lie-big-enough-and-keep.html' title='Beware of the &quot;Media Complex&quot;'/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SY8ccR8n4lI/AAAAAAAAAPA/UzuiTn5Y56A/s72-c/Arctic+Sea+Ice.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-3811518047934621582</id><published>2009-01-27T07:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T22:18:15.498-07:00</updated><title type='text'>All Is Fair "If We Get Our Own Way"!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SX8mNGqHWUI/AAAAAAAAAO4/6VHIHsnYf3U/s1600-h/UN+Partition+Plan+(Resolution+%23+181)For+Palestine+1947.png"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295993693378402626" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 175px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SX8mNGqHWUI/AAAAAAAAAO4/6VHIHsnYf3U/s320/UN+Partition+Plan+(Resolution+%23+181)For+Palestine+1947.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I could be talking about Liberals and Democrats, but I am referring to the Arab League.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_UN_Partition_Plan"&gt;UN Resolution 181&lt;/a&gt;, 1947. The Arab League didn't like the proposal, but lost the vote. The UN Resolution Passed. Approved by the General Assembly on November 29, 1947 to terminate the British Mandate of Palestine by August 1, 1948, and facilitate the creation of two states, one Jewish and one Arab.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1937, the "League Of Nations" would not go along with a mandate. A proposal to partition Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state started.&lt;br /&gt;Using the politics of lobbying and partitioning, Jewish Leaders gained support. The "Holocost" pushed it over the edge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discontent amongst the Arabs soon led to violence, attacking the Jewish people. Murders, reprisals, and counter-reprisals came one after the other, killing dozens of victims, esculating into War. The Arab attacks started the war of 1947-1948. In the course of this attack and future attacks starting wars the Arabs lost more and more territory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel used these areas as 'buffers' to protect their Nation. That is what "responsible" leadership does in a country. Only naive, child-like minds don't realize and understand this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The UN has gone after Israel every time they are forced to protect their children from Arab attacks. Why doesn't the UN want to protect Jewish Children?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, Israel has stopped their "Defensive" under another "peace treaty" and they are under attack again by Hamas. I guess that "mortor attacks" don't count in Israel, only in your neighborhood, right UN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://acme-people-search.com/1237348117ZPSM"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;***People Search***&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&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/2217659252623799600-3811518047934621582?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/3811518047934621582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=3811518047934621582' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/3811518047934621582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/3811518047934621582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2009/01/all-is-fair-if-we-get-our-own-way.html' title='All Is Fair &quot;If We Get Our Own Way&quot;!'/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SX8mNGqHWUI/AAAAAAAAAO4/6VHIHsnYf3U/s72-c/UN+Partition+Plan+(Resolution+%23+181)For+Palestine+1947.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217659252623799600.post-6197956870541224447</id><published>2009-01-11T12:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T22:19:10.107-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Your Dead Children?</title><content type='html'>&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290086774069792994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SWop5JdsEOI/AAAAAAAAANY/u6H6dUWBkWk/s400/Map+-+Israel.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How many attacks in your town, killing your friends and children would you allow before you would demand that your Government do something to protect you and your children? How many days would it be? Would you wait 3 years? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"&gt;How many of your children would you let die?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290096901858484674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SWozGqarYcI/AAAAAAAAANo/2Kx6yblRJ-U/s320/israelflaggazaburn.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Since 2005, when &lt;em&gt;Israel &lt;/em&gt;turned over Gaza to the Palestinians, there has been hundreds of rockets and mortars fired into their towns killing children, destroying families. Would you tolerate your families being attacked for 3 years?&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290087705824124050" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 247px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SWoqvYhO3JI/AAAAAAAAANg/xM4-H3LIGDk/s320/GR49_hamas_bomb2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.israelnewsagency.com/gazaterrorismisrael990924.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Turning over Gaza&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was to appease the naive, child-like thinking in the UN and peace groups. The historians and investigative reporters told us what would happen, but nobody wanted the truth, based on historical facts. Those of us that are "learned" also knew what would happen. Hamas took over and destroyed the industries that were built and left by the Israelis that were forced out of their homes by this peace deal and started attacking Israel. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Three years later and there is no advancement or improvement of the 'quality of life' in Gaza. Why, Hamas took power and Waged War instead of Helping Their People. They did not advance their society and build for the future 'good' of their people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290102977092307250" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 203px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SWo4oSbSyTI/AAAAAAAAANw/1FP4nMbPC20/s320/Israeli+Security+Fence.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;After many attacks, &lt;em&gt;Israel &lt;/em&gt;built a security fence as a "passive" way to try to protect their people and there were protests. &lt;strong&gt;What is wrong with trying to protect your children from harm? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do these protestors and groups really hate children so much or just Jews? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Now, Israel was forced to make a move to protect it's people, routing out the terrorists in Hamas and immediately the cries from the naive protesters and the UN for Israel to stop rang out. &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290114117240551954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SWpCwutm-hI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/m8dwF-JEqmw/s320/Disproportionality.png" border="0" /&gt;The Jewish leaders calling for a 'cease-fire', even as their children and friends are dieing from attacks by Hamas, are a just another example of wealthy, naive, liberals. Human Rights Watch and Caritas Internationalis are more examples. &lt;strong&gt;Where were the demands from these elitist for the past 3 years for Hamas to stop? Nowhere!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;These are all examples of the liberal, elitism mindset,"we expect people like Hamas to act like this", so they don't demand for them to be "civil". "That's just the way they are".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290104414712896386" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 134px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SWo579-wG4I/AAAAAAAAAN4/GyBwG2mTt2w/s200/Israeli+woman+after+Hamas+attack.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do these protesters and groups &lt;strong&gt;hate Jews and their children&lt;/strong&gt; so much that they just want to let them die at the hands of Hamas? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;So now there is a "peace deal" again. Israel is to stop attacks on Hamas. &lt;strong&gt;What demands are being placed on Hamas?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Nothing!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290115394956453714" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 146px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SWpD7Gk0Z1I/AAAAAAAAAOg/swh24V5SPEE/s200/Hamas+Rocket+Attacks.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;There was no mention of Hamas anywhere in this new peace deal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USTRE50A1KZ20090111"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evolving talks over Gaza ceasefire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are now addressing 'sticking' points, like "demands" on Hamas. &lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://current.com/items/89673929/us_says_ceasefire_must_include_end_to_hamas_rocket_fire.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;US says ceasefire must include end to Hamas rocket fire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290119747736684770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 284px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SWpH4d8fyOI/AAAAAAAAAOw/cEfzgUVJqmE/s400/Child.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;So again I ask you,&lt;/span&gt; "How many of your children would you let die before you would act? Are only your children important enough to defend? Are you naive to the 'ways of the world and terrorists' or just selfish?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.asininity.com/archives/A2005071/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;More News...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;_________________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Learn More and Develop Wisdom;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290106958365089666" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 134px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SWo8QB0sX4I/AAAAAAAAAOA/cy3xOezhvmM/s200/Jimmy_Carter_Palestine_Book_Love_the_Intifada_hate_israel.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/motopoet/25581"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Pres. 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, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://hotlinkstodiscounts57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Sales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://activities57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#993399;"&gt;Activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://homeimprovementandtools57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Home Improvement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://selectelectronicsandcomputers57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#993399;"&gt;Technology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://fasteasyprinting57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Printing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://findyourticketshere57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#993399;"&gt;Concerts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://onlinedating57.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Dating Stories&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I have only heard one financial manager from Wall Streetpoint out that the tripling of the price of oil devastated the Global Economy, WHY?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlMdDFhyTI/AAAAAAAAALE/vJ3LRkY198k/s1600-h/oil+rig.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253814502232803634" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlMdDFhyTI/AAAAAAAAALE/vJ3LRkY198k/s400/oil+rig.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Follow The &lt;em&gt;OIL&lt;/em&gt; !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Everything that has happened to American Families, and the Financial Markets is linked to &lt;strong&gt;OIL&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There have been questionable mortgages made over the past few years, but this does not account for the millions of American Families and Businesses that cannot pay their bills. &lt;em&gt;It's the&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;45 to 50% increase in the Cost-of-Living&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did Wall Street run out of money&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Primarily, defaults on mortgages, business loans and credit cards.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why can't people pay their mortgages, business loans and credit cards&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Cost-of-Living&lt;/strong&gt; has&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;gone up &lt;em&gt;45 -50 %&lt;/em&gt;. Businesses cannot raise their prices enough to keep paying their own bills just to stay in business, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;or&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to give employees the &lt;em&gt;45 to 50%&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Cost-of-Living&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;raises &lt;/em&gt;they need to keep paying their bills.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;When did this start&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;After Hurricane Catrina.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When did the housing market dramatically slow down&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;After Hurricane Catrina. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What happened when Hurricane Catrina hit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;The "Fear Mongers" around the Mercantile Exchange threatened OIL shortages. Did the Media do investigative research, NO! With help from the naive Media, the "Merc." drove prices so high that Traders were reportedly making a whole years income in One Week of Trading!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Was there ever a shortage of OIL&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;NO!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What happens next&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;The "cost of living" starts going up, about a 20% increase, putting strain on the budgets of every family in America. Mortgage defaults start, along with more debt being put on credit cards as the "Working Americans" wait for the cost of living to drop back down from Government intervention or normal Capitalism self-adjustment. We all saw that it didn't happen. So, the &lt;em&gt;American Family&lt;/em&gt; choose "Family" first, Credit Corporations last. Thus the current Wall Street Crisis.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What happened that drove up the Cost-of-Living&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The "speculators" in the Mercantile Exchange using &lt;em&gt;fear&lt;/em&gt; to artificially drive the price of &lt;strong&gt;OIL&lt;/strong&gt; over $145.00 a barrel, causing a "ripple-effect" into every manufactured product in the world. Not just the gas and diesel prices to transport it. Everything we buy either has petroleum products in them or are distributed for consumers using petroleum products. The "media" focuses on the "&lt;em&gt;small picture&lt;/em&gt;" of the price of gas at the pump, that is not the real story.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why does OIL have so much Power-Over-America&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Starting in 1975 with the creation of OSHA, Endangered Species Act and the EPA companies could not afford to run businesses in the USA anymore. Rather than working together, these new agencies with their power, feeding their "ego's", started giving out ultimatums, so companies left to find more friendly countries, and they did. &lt;em&gt;This includes oil companies&lt;/em&gt;. Even with new technology, they are given so many "hoops" to "jump through" by special interest groups and their friends in the EPA, OSHA, DEP, etc. that there has been no new refineries built in the US since the '70's. This is not about R O I of the oil companies, it's about the restrictions from a few impacting the "Working American". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;In 1977, Nuclear energy and "spent" Uranium bills were signed. This has put us decades behind France and other European Countries that produce most of their electricity with Nuclear Plants and use the "spent" Uranium for advancement in Health, Science and other areas, reducing the &lt;em&gt;uranium&lt;/em&gt; "footprint" that has to be stored safely away from civilization.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The working citizens of America are "&lt;strong&gt;Paying-the-Price&lt;/strong&gt;" now for the "&lt;em&gt;Naive&lt;/em&gt;", "&lt;em&gt;Child-like&lt;/em&gt;" thinking from years ago that has finally caught up with us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlM08dtIsI/AAAAAAAAALM/PyvYf10zU94/s1600-h/crude+oil+blob.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253814912772022978" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlM08dtIsI/AAAAAAAAALM/PyvYf10zU94/s200/crude+oil+blob.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have "WE" as a Nation learned from this&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sort-of&lt;/em&gt;. A bill recently passed and signed has &lt;em&gt;America's&lt;/em&gt; interests in it. A bill that allows offshore drilling as a "short-term" fix, as more and more tax dollars are spent trying to develop new efficient types of energy for the "long-term". This is what is called a "Win-Win" solution, to quote Dennis Waitley. &lt;em&gt;This is probably the most mature, "adult" action from our elected servants in Washington that has come out of their in a Century!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;*************************************&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlNwFnXaQI/AAAAAAAAALU/HWYV7kMbC0o/s1600-h/Wall+Street+Banks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253815928840743170" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlNwFnXaQI/AAAAAAAAALU/HWYV7kMbC0o/s200/Wall+Street+Banks.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What About The &lt;em&gt;Bad Loans&lt;/em&gt; Made By The Banks?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, there has been a small percentage of bad loans made, but that is not the primary problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;This is called an "easy target", which has been made popular since the '60's, of attacking the Government and "big" Business by special interest groups, college professors and the "media".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"Fairness In Reporting" was elimanated in the '80's, so now the "media" mostly gives you just one side of the story. Usually the one the editorial staff and owners support.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Investigative Reporting has been replaced by "News Readers". We see this or hear this on every News report. The stories come from AP,Reuters, BBC, al-Jazeera, not professional journalists in these companies doing the investigations themselves. We, the American Working Public are left with mediocre reporting from the media. This is not the "Walter Cronkite" quality of the '60's that we should trust.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The hard working &lt;em&gt;American Family&lt;/em&gt; has little time to do their own research into news stories, though it is easier and done more frequently now because of the internet. This works out well for the "media", they tell the story the way they want or were told and collect their paycheck. Truth and Quality doesn't matter, this is evident in their actions. That is where the nickname "drive-by-media" comes from. ( I believe it was a reported as a quote from Rush Limbaugh years ago )&lt;strong&gt; Remember&lt;/strong&gt;, the media is never "held accoutable" for bad reporting, even when they report lies that destroy people and companies. They don't apologize, because that could mean they were "liable" and could be sued. They only offer "corrections" buried way in the back of the paper.Hense, the "weak" reporting of the "housing and mortgage" problems. I believe a "High School Student" would have done a better job.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;.&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlOta9EMII/AAAAAAAAALc/fbFshfpvSYA/s1600-h/Bank+Paperwork.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253816982540923010" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlOta9EMII/AAAAAAAAALc/fbFshfpvSYA/s200/Bank+Paperwork.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Now, Back To The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Loans;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;So&lt;/em&gt;, what's the background leading up to the "mortgage" crisis?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Where do you start?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's start with Honest Ideals.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1968&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/6500-200.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Truth in Lending Act&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;was to assure a meaningful disclosure of credit terms so that the consumer will be able to compare more readily the various credit terms available to him or her. This bill opened the door for vehicle leasing and other durable goods.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honesty Leaves America!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1977&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jimmy Carter&lt;/em&gt;, then the President,&lt;br /&gt;signed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ffiec.gov/cra"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"&lt;em&gt;The Community Reinvestment Act&lt;/em&gt;" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;("CRA").&lt;/span&gt; Congress debated the Act, because &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;critics &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;charged that the law would "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;distort credit markets, &lt;/strong&gt;create unnecessary regulatory burden&lt;strong&gt;, lead to unsound lending, and&lt;/strong&gt; cause the governmental agencies charged with &lt;strong&gt;implementing the law&lt;/strong&gt; to allocate credit&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The Act charged the Federal Reserve System to implement the CRA through ensuring banks and savings and loans met their CRA obligations. The CRA is also enforced by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&amp;amp;sid=44059fe1dfc00c61e5a82d909ebafac0&amp;amp;rgn=div8&amp;amp;view=text&amp;amp;node=12:4.0.1.2.33.1.3.1&amp;amp;idno=12"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;CRA Statute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;You can find more details in the Sunday 9/28 edition of the Wall Street Journal "Weekly Guide To Managing Your Money"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1989&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/8000-3100.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;As part of a general reform of the banking industry, it increased public oversight of the process of issuing CRA ratings to banks. Also required was a four-tiered CRA examination rating system with performance levels of "Outstanding," "Satisfactory," "Needs to Improve," or "Substantial Noncompliance."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This law&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;greatly increased the ability of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;advocacy groups, researchers, and other analysts &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;to "perform more-sophisticated, quantitative analyses of banks' records,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;thereby&lt;em&gt; influencing&lt;/em&gt; the lending policies of banks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1992&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/8000-3100.html"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/8000-3100.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.This act required the Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as &lt;a title="Fannie Mae" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Fannie Mae&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, commonly known as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Freddie Mac" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Freddie Mac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, to devote a percentage of their lending to support affordable housing. This in part, contributed to increased Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pooling and selling of such loans as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Security (finance)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_(finance)"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;securities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, (i.e. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Securitization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitization"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;securitization&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;), and expanded the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Secondary market" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_market"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;secondary market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; for those loans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1993&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jefferson_Clinton"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;President Clinton&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; asked regulators to reform the CRA in order to reduce paperwork and reward performance. Using federal home-loan data broken down by neighborhood, income group, and race; encouraging community groups to complain when banks were not loaning enough to specified neighborhood, income group, and race;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;allowing community groups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;that marketed loans to targeted groups to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;collect a fee from the banks.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1995&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a title="William A. Niskanen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Niskanen"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;William A. Niskanen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, in congressional hearings,and chair of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Cato Institute" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Cato Institute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;, criticized the proposals for &lt;em&gt;political favoritism&lt;/em&gt; in allocating credit and micromanagement by regulators.He predicted they would be very costly to the economy and banking system.&lt;em&gt; He recommended Congress repeal the Act&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;1999&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;a href="http://banking.senate.gov/conf/index.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; , also known as the "Financial Services Modernization Act". Senators &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Christopher Dodd" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dodd"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Christopher Dodd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="mw-redirect" title="Charles E. Schumer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Schumer"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Charles E. Schumer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; broke a deadlock by forcing a compromise between Gramm and the Clinton administration which wanted to prevent banks from expanding into insurance or securities unless they were compliant with the CRA.President Clinton said that it, "establishes the principles that, as we expand the powers of banks, we will&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;expand the reach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;of the &lt;em&gt;Community Reinvestment Act&lt;/em&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;2005&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.ots.treas.gov/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Office of Thrift Supervision&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; implemented new rules that – according to Congressional Democrats – substantially weakened the CRA. A letter protesting these changes, because they undercut the ability of the CRA to "meet the needs of low and moderate-income persons and communities". (quotas)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2007&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/bbernankebio.html"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ben Bernanke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; suggested further increasing the presence of Sallie Mae and Freddie Mac in the affordable housing market to help banks fulfill their CRA obligations by providing them with more opportunities to securitize CRA-related loans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/gse/gse.cfm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;HUD's &lt;/span&gt;new role with Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;What do all these laws have in common&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; They all promote the "strong-arming" of the financial institutions to provide loans to under-qualified borrowers to meet quotas set up by politicians and "CRA". The FDIC strong-arming HUD, the HUD strong-arming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac strong-arming the Financial Institutions to give out loans to "poor risk" borrowers. &lt;em&gt;All the while, each "agency" giving the next the "wink" that they will all work together to bail each other out if the Financial Institutions collapse&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;strong&gt; AND HERE WE ARE !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;K. Engel and P. McCoy published a study of the predatory lending implications of the CRA, noting that by the late 1990s, predatory high cost mortgages to “gullible borrowers” were leading to foreclosures against low-income people of color and the elderly. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I Am Not Blaming The Banking Industry For The Mess Our Country is in Today.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The money "crunch" came from the 45 to 50% increase of the Cost-of-Living of Every American, because of Oil Prices.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;We are not now and were not then (Catrina) preparing for the future of America or for our Children and Grandchildren. We have let "special interest" groups influence our leaders, betraying America's "Long-Term" interests. The foundation and "life-blood" of every country is Energy! Energy independance is VITAL forr every Countries Stability.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A diverse America with Multiple Sources of Energy and Refineries (in safe areas) is what is needed now and for the "long-term" stability of &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;America &lt;/span&gt;and the &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;American Family&lt;/span&gt;! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;_________&lt;a href="http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/"&gt;Back To Top&lt;/a&gt;___________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;G&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;g&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://search.yahoo.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Yahoo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.live.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;MSN &lt;/span&gt;Live Search&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msn.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;MSN&lt;/span&gt;.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ask.com/?o=0&amp;amp;l=dir"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ask&lt;/span&gt;.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F&amp;amp;tag=34alyone34ipd-20&amp;amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;amazon.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=3&amp;amp;campid=5335883995&amp;amp;toolid=10001&amp;amp;customid=&amp;amp;ext=ebay.com&amp;amp;satitle=ebay.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc66;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"&gt;Craig's List&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2217659252623799600-2500689240857050981?l=rjbell57.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/feeds/2500689240857050981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2217659252623799600&amp;postID=2500689240857050981' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2500689240857050981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2217659252623799600/posts/default/2500689240857050981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rjbell57.blogspot.com/2008/10/newsletter-activities-home-improvement.html' title=''/><author><name>RJ Bell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SLrnTaBEfgI/AAAAAAAAAB0/0sduSipIfEo/S220/me+-+Copy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e76ktZtOpEA/SOlMdDFhyTI/AAAAAAAAALE/vJ3LRkY198k/s72-c/oil+rig.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
