Navy SEAL cleared in Iraq prisoner abuse case
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2498099/posts
[Friday Updates]
Nearly 25,000 people have been killed in Mexico since the government launched an offensive against drug cartels in late 2006.
http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/mexico-bodies-found-every-day-there-are-stories-like-this/
Judge scoffs at pre-emption argument in AZ lawsuit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2557710/posts?page=1
“It didn’t take long for federal judge Susan Bolton to zero in on the holes in the Obama administration’s argument in their lawsuit”
Sarah Palin strikes back at Journolist’s ‘sick puppies’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2557252/posts?page=49
Palin takes shot at McCain camp for not defending her
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2557421/posts
RNC fails to report $7M in debt to FEC - Party treasurer faults Steele
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2557439/posts
“In a memo to RNC budget committee members, RNC Treasurer Randy Pullen on Tuesday accused Chairman Michael S. Steele and his chief of staff, Michael Leavitt, of trying to conceal the information from him by ordering staff not to communicate with the treasurer - a charge RNC officials deny.”
DOJ Won’t Say if Kagan Took Full Pay After She ‘Ceased’ Full Duties as Solicitor General
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2557291/posts
FEC investigation: What does Biden know and when did he know it?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2557232/posts
AP: Homeland Security probed FOIA requesters, delayed data based on politics
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2557202/posts
Romanoff Pledges Cooperation With Issa Jobsgate Probe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2557289/posts
House Panel Finds Evidence That Rangel Violated Ethics Guidelines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2557340/posts
AP scoop: Why Alvin Greene was discharged from the Air Force
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2557341/posts
Turns out he had a problem with … performing basic duties. Greene is “usually capable of handling mundane tasks with supervision” but is “not able to adapt to any changes to daily routine,” the reviewer wrote, also noting that Greene had received multiple disciplinary actions for failing to perform his duties. [unquote]
— Rats sure know how to pick’em!
Saturday Updates 1
Kerry Docks New Yacht In RI To Duck MA Taxes...
http://bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view.bg?articleid=1269698
VIDEO: ‘Armed neo-nazis’ patrolling AZ border...
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6704475n
Frustration grows as AIDS science, politics clash...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66M19W20100723
Congress’ Food Tab: $604,000 for Bottled Water...
http://www.aolnews.com/house-money/article/congress-spent-604000-on-bottled-water-397000-on-catering/19541719
Congressman: Frivolous House votes an ‘absolute embarrassment’...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100723/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_sports_bills_1
[Research from FR pings coming up ...]
PAPER: Leaked War Files Expose Identities of Afghan Informants...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/27/leaked-afghan-war-files-expose-identities-informants/
White House: No attempt to stop WikiLeaks news reports
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2559340/posts
[Ergo — through deliberate inaction, Obama backstabs informants who risked lives to combat terror — impeachable, and only one example of Obama’s bizarre relationship with Islamic radicals and terrorists.]
Obama’s religion adviser in bed with – guess who [radical Muslim group]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2559554/posts
“... named a Chicago Muslim, Eboo Patel, to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.”
Righthaven’s attack against our forum and others:
Righthaven Victims - shake down lawsuits that are causing irreparable harm to blogging
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2571079/posts
RightHaven LLC Opposition Organizing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2570904/posts
Website operators use new defenses to fight R-J copyright suits
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2573270/posts
An Acorn Whistleblower Testifies in Court
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533169940482893.html
- WSJ.comAnita MonCrief also says that Acorn was given lists of potential donors by several Democratic presidential campaigns, including that of Barack Obama, ...
Anita MonCrief
http://www.anitamoncrief.blogspot.com/
[She now blogs in EmergingCorruption.com ...]
Suspicious Fire, Massive Voter Registration Fraud Plague County with ACORN-tied Congresswoman
http://emergingcorruption.com/?p=1097
August 31, 2010 by Anita MonCrief · 10 Comments
An article posted at the site Texas GOP Vote highlights the close connection between Representative Kristin Thibuat and ACORN: “The Republican Party of Texas today unveiled a new website, kristiworksforacorn.com. The site documents Democrat state Rep. Kristi Thibaut’s sordid past and her involvement … [Read More...]
ACORN-Like Vote Fraud in Houston, TX
http://emergingcorruption.com/?p=968
August 26, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston · 14 Comments
Houston Votes group submitted false voter registrations in ‘systematic attack’ on voting rolls similar to ACORN strategies: Harris County voter registrar … [Read More...]
Mysterious Fire Destroys Voting Machines in Texas County with ACORN-like Voter Fraud
http://emergingcorruption.com/?p=982
August 27, 2010 by Anita MonCrief · 13 Comments
Another blow has been dealt to voters in Harris County, Texas just days after the Harris County Voter Registrar Leo Vasquez released a 72 page PowerPoint … [Read More...]
[Corruption outside voter fraud coming up ...]
Obama goes to church to hear a Muslim speaker!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2593133/posts
Female Leftist Activists Routinely Raped By Palestinians Silenced By Activists
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2594178/posts
Revered Jeremiah Wright, “former Muslim” (?!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998120/posts
The New Republic | March 07 | Ryan Lizza
Summary of the strange question — is Obama a Closet Muslim?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1998120/posts?page=78#78
Obama’s favorite sound — muslim call to prayer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1998120/posts?page=67#67
How Closet Muslims are Possible [“al-Taqiyya”]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2496737/posts?page=1033#1033
Canadians Walk Out on Ahmadinejad at UN – US Officials Stay Put
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2593785/posts
Barack Obama: We can absorb a terrorist attack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2593944/posts
Ground Zero Imam Exposed Off-Mic—reveals “game plan” for achieving an Islamic State without borders
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2594187/posts
ANOTHER TERRORIST SPREADING THE RELIGION OF PEACE ATTEMPTS BOMBING IN CHICAGO
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2593224/posts
AP Stringer[s] Arrested for Working for .... the Taliban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2594570/posts
“Two journalists were actually detained. One was a stringer for the AP named Rahmatullah Nekzad who also did freelance work for al Jazeera. The other guy is named Mohammed Nader and worked for al Jazeera.”
Significant Developments in Terror Threats Since 9/11, Officials Say
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2594502/posts
Obama’s Surge Was Never Intended to Win the War in Afghanistan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2594355/posts
[verumserum.com studies Washington Post report]
Islam’s Encounters With America
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2593452/posts
Dangerous legislation coming up as early as Tuesday:
Stop the illegal alien...DREAM Act Senate phone list; Update: Vote scheduled Tuesday 2:15pm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2592996/posts
Quix and Ex-Texan detail more legislation threats [in Monster Ping]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2496737/posts?page=1099#1099
US House puts oceans, coasts under UN: Senate vote will seal the deal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2594883/posts
Via private message:
Pelosi’s Clear Act: HR 3534 is a MULTI-BILLION Dollar UN LAND GRAB EMAIL YOUR SENATORS HERE http://bit.ly/BTXqP Oppose ~ Senate Votes TODAY!
http://theintelhub.com/2010/09/22/17314/
Here’s the bill
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3534
A weird parallel: Gorelick & Donilon
Jamie Gorelick, Mistress of Disaster
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/09/jamie-gorelick-mistress-of-disaster.html
Sep 15, 2008 ... Put simply “Jamie Gorelick was one of the Fannie executives who benefited from inflated bonuses based on Enron-style accounting.” ...
Jamie Gorelick’s wall - Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/apr/15/20040415-094758-5267r/
Apr 15, 2004 ... The disclosure that Jamie Gorelick, a member of the September 11 commission, was personally responsible for instituting a key obstacle to ...
Obama transition adviser undermined Fannie Mae oversight as lobbyist (Anyone surprised?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2604074/posts
Obama’s new national security advisor called a ‘disaster’ by Gates
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2604816/posts?page=3
Donilon’s résumé: Policy, law and Fannie Mae
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2604341/posts
[Tom Donilon, national security adviser] “... the six years he spent as a top executive of Fannie Mae at the height of the housing boom ...”
Geithner’s Goal: Rebalanced World Economy [so it is less reliant on U.S. consumers]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611490/posts
GAME: FEDS REVISE LAST WEEK’S UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS UP TO 475,000; CLAIM DOWN THIS WEEK...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39775378
[Uups — wasn’t supposed to come out until after election]
YES on Prop 23 — Fight to suspend AB 32—“The Global Warming Final Solutions Act”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611199/posts
(D-IL — Video) Schakowsky Urges Dems to Intimidate Voters: Oct. 18, 2010
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611314/posts
[U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias and Governor Pat Quinn in attendance]
Rove: Obama’s Incoherent Closing Argument...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304741404575564383870852928.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion
GOP leader hopes to work with Obama on some issues [WHO ?!]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101021/ap_on_bi_ge/us_senate_republicans_obama_11
[Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell]
Vulnerable Dem threatens pro-life leader with jail...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39498&page=1
ORDER GIVEN: Military Can Respond to Domestic Cyber ‘Threats’...
http://deskbar.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&topic=t&ncl=dXauuVNs89IbcxMjR6sx8hKA7PqoM
White House takes credit for Bush-era wind farm jobs...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39759042/ns/business/
Military suicides on the rise
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2610640/posts
[Make me furious, but who is surprised? Look at the Commander in Creep.]
Obama Screws Doctors - Promised No 20% Medicare Reimbursement Cut... So He Cuts Them 30%!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611075/posts
Forget New Black Panthers, feds think whites intimidate
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=217741
Nightsticks? No problem. DOJ worried about claim poll watchers were ‘hovering’
More evidence ties Obama to socialist party
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=217661
‘He was blunt about his desire to move’ Democrats ‘off the cautious center’
Coons Has 2-1 Record In Political Vengeance
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611425/posts
NPR Axes Juan Williams for Saying Truth about Muslims
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2611554/posts?page=3
Mr. O’Reilly said, “The cold truth is that in the world today jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet.”
[Williams agreed]
Pelosi’s Favorable Rating as Speaker Drops to 29%, a New Low
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611078/posts
[Whitwashing border-related murder ...]
(Falcon) Lake killing blamed on blunder (Mistaken Identity)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2607319/posts
Chavez Backs Iran ‘Under Any Circumstances’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2610997/posts
[In recent ping — Obama allowing Chavez to nuke up]
Chavez, Ahmadinejad Say US Is Headed For ‘The Graveyard’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611346/posts
[But let Chavez nuke up.]
DOJ goes after tea partiers, leaves club-wielding Black Panthers alone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2611147/posts
Even more: Obama omits “Creator” from Declaration (more than 4 times)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2611352/posts
Candor7: “LOCKdown. Obama is about to lock the country down when the Dems loose the election big time. As I speak ( I know I am flying internationally in November) everyone who has an international reservation now has to reverify their reservations WITH PASSPRT NUMBERS , ONLINE, before the reservation is re-secured, new travel rules for the terrorist no fly watch list, and this will be used to freeze up our freedom of movement , the rules becoming effective guess when? ....Nov.2nd.Many so called conserative “tea party terrorists” will be grounded.)”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2610749/posts?page=244#244
FBI informant to Congress: Investigate Ayers, Dohrn now
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=218777
Warns that Weather Underground networks still could be operating
Reid defends million-dollar RITZ-CARLTON condo...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43989.html
Presidential entourage books all 570 rooms in 5-star Taj Mahal Hotel...
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Barack-and-Michelles-Mumbai-darshan-plans/articleshow/6797379.cms
138 bank failures this year
http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/Regulators-close-6-banks-in-apf-1135619637.html?x=0
Extremely Graphic Abortion Ad Airs in DC...
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/10/ad-watch-extremely-graphic-abortion-ad-airs-in-dc-metro.html
Obama-nomics Update [spookier than ever]
Insider Selling Volume at Highest Level Ever Tracked
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2615250/posts
60 Minutes Blew The Lid Off The Unemployment Situation in the USA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2613754/posts
U.S. sells debt with a negative yield for 1st time
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2614290/posts
Will the Federal Reserve Cause a Civil War?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2610988/posts
“[Nov 3rd] could be the most important meeting in Fed history ...”
Fiscal disaster set to explode—Commentary: States’ unemployment bill has come due
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2615805/posts
Companies that received bailout money giving generously to candidates
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2613814/posts
Recession? Not in D.C.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2613787/posts
Treasury Hid A.I.G. Loss, Report Says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2614771/posts
Who needs sports with all this hard hitting news?
“14, 27, 11, 25! 23 - hut!”
HOW MANY ELECTIONS DID THE DEMOCOMMIES STEAL?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2620394/posts
An Insomniac’s Recap of the Elections
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2620365/posts
Marxist Leftwing Icon Calls for Violent Revolution
http://gulagbound.com/8334/marxist-leftwing-icon-calls-for-violent-revolution
“Leftist hero, Kennedy Award Winner and Pulitzer finalist Ted Rall is calling for a violent socialist revolution in America. The far left hero wants leftists to take up arms and kill tea partiers.” [snip]
MSNBC Host Calls for Revolution: ‘Real Change…Perhaps Through Violence’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2625019/posts
Dylan Radigan
Indonesia: 15,000 hit the Streets to Protest Against Obama, and Call for Islamic Law
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2624747/posts
Openings Give Obama Chance to Shape Military - mass exodus of military brass “virtually unheard of”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625047/posts
[digging deeper coming up]
(TN State Rep Curry) Todd (R) explains ‘rats’ comment (ILLEGALS, video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625753/posts
“... refused to back down Thursday from comments he made earlier in the week about illegal immigrants he believes are taking advantage of the system.”
Report: White House altered drilling safety report
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2624977/posts
“White House edited a drilling safety report in a way that made it falsely appear ...”
[related ...]
Bobby Jindal hammers Barack Obama in new book
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2626240/posts
New Jersey Politicians Want a List of NRA Members and Their Employers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2626300/posts
Soros, Kenya, and UK Riots
Soros’s Role in Kenya Chaos
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625777/posts
Violence at Tory HQ overshadows student fees protest (Soro’s Behind Riots?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2626281/posts
Student fees protest: ‘This is just the beginning’ (Riots, Bloodshed by Leftists in UK)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625189/posts
The NGO Army of George Soros & Maurice Strong
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625586/posts
Is THIS fair?
More federal workers’ salaries skyrocket past $150,000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2624956/posts
— contrast with this —
Presidential Panel: “Freeze Military Pay” [day before Veterans Day]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625559/posts
US govt under Obama funded conference that accused US military of atrocities
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2626015/posts
CAIR Tells Muslim Women Wearing Hijabs to Allow ONLY “Head and Neck” Pat Downs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2626260/posts
[Sensitivity trainging isn’t enough — hyper-sensitivity training]
outrage over airport turban searches
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2624366/posts
[Digging Deeper coming up ....]
Updated.
US History — Roaring 20s
“In 1923, the United States produced 49% of all products worldwide. 6 In the years between 1919 and 1927, the American economy grew ten times as fast as in the years of 1900-1919. 7”
[Twenty years dominated by Teddy and Woodrow Wilson — 1900-1919. Even sharper than that — a depression that spilled into 1921. 1919 and 1927 ... sharper than that ... the Harding Recovery from 1921 policy / Roaring Twenties, leaping out from a depression through tax cuts AND spending cuts! It would be interesting to compare Teddy’s Panic of 1907 on through to Wilson’s depression into 1921 with Harding’s 1922 - 1927]
It is no wonder that this economic success attracted attention from other nations. The German public, dominated by middle class and intellectuals, never tired of praising the American accomplishments in economic issues. Even those from a socialist background, such as the Social Democrats and unionists saw the United States as a model for future German development. The US capitalist system seemed to create a population without the polarization into extreme left and right wings that was present throughout the whole Weimar Republic. Not only did it provide a solution for economical problems, but it also solved political problems. 8
The American economy was highly impressive to the Germans of the time. American practices which were believed to improve the economy streamed into Europe. The US was seen as a land of rationalisation and pragmatism. Two concepts were applied, Taylorism and Fordism.
Another expression for Taylorism is “scientific management”. Frederik Taylor, an engineer in the “Midvale Steel Company”, invented this kind of management even before the First World War. The kernel of his program was the division of labour in hundreds or thousands of exactly calculated small steps. This rationalisation was made possible by a scientification of management and production. The elimination of all useless steps led to an increase in production by forty times. 9
Fordism was invented by Henry C. Ford. His use of the assembly line in the production of his famous “Model T” car made it possible for him to produce fast and cheap automobiles in high numbers. This is the basis for mass consumption. Division of labour was also part of his philosophy. The “Model T” was produced in 7882 small steps.10 Labour became stricter and was determined by stop-watch and assembly line. [snip]
Fordism especially was warmly welcomed in Germany and found a supportive audience in the general public. It also spurred a big backdraft of secondary literature, examining and analysing Henry Ford’s writings, whose autobiography was soon to become Germany’s economic bible. 11 [snip]
http://www.nomediakings.org/malte/ha/ha_weiku.htm
5 Detlef Junker, “Die Aussenpolitik der USA 1920-1940”, in: Otmar Franz ed., Am Wendepunkt der europaeischen Geschichte (Goettingen, 1981), p. 202.
6 Hermand, p. 49.
7Ibid., p. 52.
8 Ibid., p. 49.
9 Ibid., p. 51.
10 Ibid., p. 52.
11 Mary Nolan, Visions of Modernity: American Business and Modernization of Germany (Oxford, 1994), pp. 30ff.
[And note that we were in a depression in 1920. The Harding Recovery.]
Digging Deeper [Certifigate section]
Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias (D) did not pay taxes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2547017/posts
Are SEIU Members Really Counting Ballots in Tight CA House Race?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625281/posts
Just Spoke W/ Very Senior USN Officer. Says MSM and public school-educated citizenry have No Clue.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2624713/posts
Green Dreams Shattered: EU Biofuels Program Will Increase Carbon Emissions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625504/posts
Palestinian held for Facebook criticism of Islam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625809/posts
Muslim Slavery Resurgent as Sudan Arabs Kidnapping Black Africans
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625107/posts
John Kerry’s bucks stop where? (Still no tax payment on the yacht)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2621971/posts
certifigate:
BORN IN THE USA? Officer’s brother: ‘Obama could have made this all go away’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625334/posts
Jerome Corsi Digs Deeper - Reveals How Congress Was Prepped To Deflect Obama Eligibility Queries
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2626102/posts
Letter to Oahu Judge accusing the Hawai’i courts of corruption in dealing with public Obama records
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2625715/posts
Obama’s Childhood Keeps Getting Weirder and Weirder
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625116/posts
Certifigate and Vattel ...
2003 Supreme Court: For 200 years domestic law of the US recognizes the Law of Nations(Vattel)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625035/posts
EDITORIAL: The U.N.’s global tax scheme—As one global-warming tax fades, another rises
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2626447/posts
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup ( Midterm election impact )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2624918/posts
Warning! — Lame Duck Congress Biting ....!
TSA patdowns, tax debate, and body scans are a diversion!
Here are the two big dangers:
Danger ONE ...
NATO MISSILE SHIELD [WITH RUSSIA?]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11711042
Danger TWO ...
Trying to sneak through mass amnesty to neutralize our vote and to create anarchy via balkanization.
Harry Reid: I’m bringing the DREAM Act to the floor — for a standalone vote
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2629618/posts
President Obama has made it clear: He wants Congress to deliver the DREAM Act
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2630157/posts
BREAKING: Sen. Reid Will Bring DREAM Act to a Vote As a Stand-Alone Bill
http://gulagbound.com/8999/reid-promises-to-bring-dream-act-to-a-vote-as-stand-alone-bill
[Dated 11-17. Wish I had checked Gulag Bound before Friday ping.]
Democrats expected to support in lockstep. Six RINOs on the Fence [coming up ...]
Michelle Malkin IDs The RINOs On The Dream Act Fence - Including John McCain
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2629507/posts
SEN. OLYMPIA SNOWE 202-224-5344; 207-874-0883: Staff says she “hasn’t released a statement.”
SEN. SUSAN COLLINS 202-224-2523; 207-945-0417: Staff says she “hasn’t released a public statement.”
SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI 202-224-6665; 907-271-3735: Staff says she’s “still reviewing the bill.”
SEN. SAM BROWNBACK 202-224-6521; 785-233-2503 Staff says he “hasn’t had a chance to look at it” and remains non-committal.
SEN. KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON 202-224-5922; 214-361-3500: Staff says she “hasn’t released a statement,” but will probably do so later today.
SEN. GEORGE LEMIEUX 202-224-3041; 904-398-8586: Recorded message informs callers that he’s “in a meeting.” He has yet to publicly state his position as open-borders extremists step up pressure…”
[Digging Deeper and TSA coming up.]
I don’t know of a single depression in an industrialized nation that wasn’t due to bureaucratic meddling. Here’s something I recently heard about:
Great Depression and Austria
There’s an economic theory that Austria’s treaty-based debt problems led to the Great Depression. [Treaty of St. Germain.]
In the 1920s, the Austrian National Bank teamed up with the House of Rothschild and tried to bail out Austria’s leading bank [the Creditanstalt]. Amsterdam triggered a series of international bailouts that spilled over to the U.S.
Source: excerpts from Charles Kindleberger’s book “The
World in Depression.”
http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/03/1931.html
Seems to me that international bailouts are a terrible idea. While we protect our banks from runs, ‘runs’ on currencies [aka inflation] could be even more harmful [something the Weimar Republic learned the hard way].
Digging Deeper Updated:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2636478/posts?page=34#34
[Economic meltdown review in post 20.]