RE: Never has been more obvious than now

Hey Sarah, I just watched 60 minutes last night, and it was the last bill of the 2000 congress that somehow slipped in the override of the states rights on“gaming laws” (literally gaming) that had made credit default swaps a felony crime.  This law over rode the states, and credit default swaps grew from almost nothing, to $62 trillion by 2008 (about 5 times the value of all real estate in the US.  And this is what crashed the financial system as these swaps were all based on mortgages, and as mortgages failed, the Lehman bros of the world ran out of money to pay up on these side bets.

 

So now, I can’t blame Bush for this.  Clinton signed this.  I think they knew not what they did, but Greenspan was really pushing for this “de-regulation” that had originally been outlawed in 1907 and was a felony!!!

 

Damn,

bro

 

 

From: Sarah Martin [mailto:NapaRose@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 8:47 PM
To: Sarah Martin
Subject: Re: Never has been more obvious than now

 

George, what an analysis! I am going to forward (bcc) it to some of my contacts to whom I forwarded the article. You go!
This is hot!

Your admiring Sis


On 8/28/09 11:59 AM, "George Martin" <gmorgjr@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Sarah,
 
This is great.  I think I might frame it.  It really summarized what has been percolating in my brain for years.   
 
I think all presidents run up against the fact that they only can do so much against this infrastructure, and if they go too far, they are gotten rid of one way or another.  
 
I think we have to look at 1 key metric, and that is the distribution of wealth.  I believe Clinton moved it in the right direction, and look at the 6+ years of un-relenting all out sophisticated assassination against him…and of course he made minor but healthy moves in the right direction and we all were doing pretty well because of it.
 
Obama has to figure out something he can actually do, but look at the machinery that has already been put in place against him in 8 months..
 
Jimmy Carter only got wise post-office
 
So, I’m reading this excellent series of books by Kim Robinson that starts with Red Mars   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson
 
I’m on the third and last of the three, bummer.  But he has a great skill at observing Earth from afar over the next 150 years.  In the book, there develops THE definitive history of the human race, written about 100 years from now.   In that history, they describe the evolution of government, and part of it goes like this:
 
“Monarchy, Feudalism then capitalism.  And capitalism = Feudalism + democracy”.  Well, that is how it has worked for me!  I’m a capitalist serf, waiting to see what the lords will allow me and my family to have and do.  And observing as they decide what is important to salvage as we devastate our living quarters.
 
I thought that is fantastically brilliant, it’s an equation doomed to fail, but does help shape a new future system of post capitalism, no private property, with sustainability between human and the worlds we live on the fundamental axiom of the “future” social contract.  There’s really no need for money under this.
 
Anyway, Larry Flynt Bad…haven’t heard from him in a long time..
 
Thanks,
 
Bro
 
 
 

Subject: FW: Never has been more obvious than now

FYI - From Huffingtom's post. I have been hearing/reading more and more about this subject lately. It seems there are more Americans than ever questioning what is going on. The next few lines are just a short summary of what many are starting to notice. The author knows a lot about exposing "obscenity". In this case, political-financial - Alberto

Common Sense

The American government -- which we once called our government -- has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "economic royalists," who choose our elected officials -- indeed, our very form of government. Both Democrats and Republicans dance to the tune of their corporate masters. In America, corporations do not control the government. In America, corporations are the government.

This was never more obvious than with the Wall Street bailout, whereby the very corporations that caused the collapse of our economy were rewarded with taxpayer dollars. So arrogant, so smug were they that, without a moment's hesitation, they took our money -- yours and mine -- to pay their executives multimillion-dollar bonuses, something they continue doing to this very day. They have no shame. They don't care what you and I think about them. Henry Kissinger refers to us as "useless eaters."

But, you say, we have elected a candidate of change. To which I respond: Do these words of President Obama sound like change?

"A culture of irresponsibility took root, from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street."
There it is. Right there. We are Main Street. We must, according to our president, share the blame. He went on to say: "And a regulatory regime basically crafted in the wake of a 20th-century economic crisis -- the Great Depression -- was overwhelmed by the speed, scope and sophistication of a 21st-century global economy."

This is nonsense.

The reason Wall Street was able to game the system the way it did -- knowing that they would become rich at the expense of the American people (oh, yes, they most certainly knew that) -- was because the financial elite had bribed our legislators to roll back the protections enacted after the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

Congress gutted the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial lending banks from investment banks, and passed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which allowed for self-regulation with no oversight. The Securities and Exchange Commission subsequently revised its rules to allow for even less oversight -- and we've all seen how well that worked out. To date, no serious legislation has been offered by the Obama administration to correct these problems.

Instead, Obama wants to increase the oversight power of the Federal Reserve. Never mind that it already had significant oversight power before our most recent economic meltdown, yet failed to take action. Never mind that the Fed is not a government agency but a cartel of private bankers that cannot be held accountable by Washington. Whatever the Fed does with these supposed new oversight powers will be behind closed doors.

Obama's failure to act sends one message loud and clear: He cannot stand up to the powerful Wall Street interests that supplied the bulk of his campaign money for the 2008 election. Nor, for that matter, can Congress, for much the same reason.

Consider what multibillionaire banker David Rockefeller wrote in his 2002 memoirs:
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

Read Rockefeller's words again. He actually admits to working against the "best interests of the United States."

Need more? Here's what Rockefeller said in 1994 at a U.N. dinner: "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order." They're gaming us. Our country has been stolen from us.

Journalist Matt Taibbi, writing in Rolling Stone, notes that esteemed economist John Kenneth Galbraith laid the 1929 crash at the feet of banking giant Goldman Sachs. Taibbi goes on to say that Goldman Sachs has been behind every other economic downturn as well, including the most recent one. As if that wasn't enough, Goldman Sachs even had a hand in pushing gas prices up to $4 a gallon.

The problem with bankers is longstanding. Here's what one of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, had to say about them:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their father's conquered."

We all know that the first American Revolution officially began in 1776, with the Declaration of Independence. Less well known is that the single strongest motivating factor for revolution was the colonists' attempt to free themselves from the Bank of England. But how many of you know about the second revolution, referred to by historians as Shays' Rebellion? It took place in 1786-87, and once again the banks were the cause. This time they were putting the screws to America's farmers.

Daniel Shays was a farmer in western Massachusetts. Like many other farmers of the day, he was being driven into bankruptcy by the banks' predatory lending practices. (Sound familiar?) Rallying other farmers to his side, Shays led his rebels in an attack on the courts and the local armory. The rebellion itself failed, but a message had been sent: The bankers (and the politicians who supported them) ultimately backed off. As Thomas Jefferson famously quipped in regard to the insurrection: "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Perhaps it's time to consider that option once again.

I'm calling for a national strike, one designed to close the country down for a day. The intent? Real campaign-finance reform and strong restrictions on lobbying. Because nothing will change until we take corporate money out of politics. Nothing will improve until our politicians are once again answerable to their constituents, not the rich and powerful.

Let's set a date. No one goes to work. No one buys anything. And if that isn't effective -- if the politicians ignore us -- we do it again. And again. And again.

The real war is not between the left and the right. It is between the average American and the ruling class. If we come together on this single issue, everything else will resolve itself. It's time we took back our government from those who would make us their slaves.

Larry Flynt

Publisher of Hustler magazine and free speech advocate
Posted: August 20, 2009 08:15 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-flynt/common-sense-2009_b_264706.html?www.GoldmanSachs666.com <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-flynt/common-sense-2009_b_264706.html?www.GoldmanSachs666.com>

RE: Never has been more obvious than now

Sarah,

This is great. I think I might frame it. It really summarized what has been percolating in my brain for years.

I think all presidents run up against the fact that they only can do so much against this infrastructure, and if they go too far, they are gotten rid of one way or another.

I think we have to look at 1 key metric, and that is the distribution of wealth. I believe Clinton moved it in the right direction, and look at the 6+ years of un-relenting all out sophisticated assassination against him…and of course he made minor but healthy moves in the right direction and we all were doing pretty well because of it.

Obama has to figure out something he can actually do, but look at the machinery that has already been put in place against him in 8 months..

Jimmy Carter only got wise post-office

So, I’m reading this excellent series of books by Kim Robinson that starts with Red Mars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson

I’m on the third and last of the three, bummer. But he has a great skill at observing Earth from afar over the next 150 years. In the book, there develops THE definitive history of the human race, written about 100 years from now. In that history, they describe the evolution of government, and part of it goes like this:

“Monarchy, Feudalism then capitalism. And capitalism = Feudalism + democracy”. Well, that is how it has worked for me! I’m a capitalist serf, waiting to see what the lords will allow me and my family to have and do. And observing as they decide what is important to salvage as we devastate our living quarters.

I thought that is fantastically brilliant, it’s an equation doomed to fail, but does help shape a new future system of post capitalism, no private property, with sustainability between human and the worlds we live on the fundamental axiom of the “future” social contract. There’s really no need for money under this.

Anyway, Larry Flynt Bad…haven’t heard from him in a long time..

Thanks,

Bro

Subject: FW: Never has been more obvious than now

FYI - From Huffingtom's post. I have been hearing/reading more and more about this subject lately. It seems there are more Americans than ever questioning what is going on. The next few lines are just a short summary of what many are starting to notice. The author knows a lot about exposing "obscenity". In this case, political-financial - Alberto

Common Sense

The American government -- which we once called our government -- has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "economic royalists," who choose our elected officials -- indeed, our very form of government. Both Democrats and Republicans dance to the tune of their corporate masters. In America, corporations do not control the government. In America, corporations are the government.

This was never more obvious than with the Wall Street bailout, whereby the very corporations that caused the collapse of our economy were rewarded with taxpayer dollars. So arrogant, so smug were they that, without a moment's hesitation, they took our money -- yours and mine -- to pay their executives multimillion-dollar bonuses, something they continue doing to this very day. They have no shame. They don't care what you and I think about them. Henry Kissinger refers to us as "useless eaters."

But, you say, we have elected a candidate of change. To which I respond: Do these words of President Obama sound like change?

"A culture of irresponsibility took root, from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street."
There it is. Right there. We are Main Street. We must, according to our president, share the blame. He went on to say: "And a regulatory regime basically crafted in the wake of a 20th-century economic crisis -- the Great Depression -- was overwhelmed by the speed, scope and sophistication of a 21st-century global economy."

This is nonsense.

The reason Wall Street was able to game the system the way it did -- knowing that they would become rich at the expense of the American people (oh, yes, they most certainly knew that) -- was because the financial elite had bribed our legislators to roll back the protections enacted after the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

Congress gutted the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial lending banks from investment banks, and passed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which allowed for self-regulation with no oversight. The Securities and Exchange Commission subsequently revised its rules to allow for even less oversight -- and we've all seen how well that worked out. To date, no serious legislation has been offered by the Obama administration to correct these problems.

Instead, Obama wants to increase the oversight power of the Federal Reserve. Never mind that it already had significant oversight power before our most recent economic meltdown, yet failed to take action. Never mind that the Fed is not a government agency but a cartel of private bankers that cannot be held accountable by Washington. Whatever the Fed does with these supposed new oversight powers will be behind closed doors.

Obama's failure to act sends one message loud and clear: He cannot stand up to the powerful Wall Street interests that supplied the bulk of his campaign money for the 2008 election. Nor, for that matter, can Congress, for much the same reason.

Consider what multibillionaire banker David Rockefeller wrote in his 2002 memoirs:
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

Read Rockefeller's words again. He actually admits to working against the "best interests of the United States."

Need more? Here's what Rockefeller said in 1994 at a U.N. dinner: "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order." They're gaming us. Our country has been stolen from us.

Journalist Matt Taibbi, writing in Rolling Stone, notes that esteemed economist John Kenneth Galbraith laid the 1929 crash at the feet of banking giant Goldman Sachs. Taibbi goes on to say that Goldman Sachs has been behind every other economic downturn as well, including the most recent one. As if that wasn't enough, Goldman Sachs even had a hand in pushing gas prices up to $4 a gallon.

The problem with bankers is longstanding. Here's what one of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, had to say about them:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their father's conquered."

We all know that the first American Revolution officially began in 1776, with the Declaration of Independence. Less well known is that the single strongest motivating factor for revolution was the colonists' attempt to free themselves from the Bank of England. But how many of you know about the second revolution, referred to by historians as Shays' Rebellion? It took place in 1786-87, and once again the banks were the cause. This time they were putting the screws to America's farmers.

Daniel Shays was a farmer in western Massachusetts. Like many other farmers of the day, he was being driven into bankruptcy by the banks' predatory lending practices. (Sound familiar?) Rallying other farmers to his side, Shays led his rebels in an attack on the courts and the local armory. The rebellion itself failed, but a message had been sent: The bankers (and the politicians who supported them) ultimately backed off. As Thomas Jefferson famously quipped in regard to the insurrection: "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Perhaps it's time to consider that option once again.

I'm calling for a national strike, one designed to close the country down for a day. The intent? Real campaign-finance reform and strong restrictions on lobbying. Because nothing will change until we take corporate money out of politics. Nothing will improve until our politicians are once again answerable to their constituents, not the rich and powerful.

Let's set a date. No one goes to work. No one buys anything. And if that isn't effective -- if the politicians ignore us -- we do it again. And again. And again.

The real war is not between the left and the right. It is between the average American and the ruling class. If we come together on this single issue, everything else will resolve itself. It's time we took back our government from those who would make us their slaves.

Larry Flynt

Publisher of Hustler magazine and free speech advocate
Posted: August 20, 2009 08:15 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-flynt/common-sense-2009_b_264706.html?www.GoldmanSachs666.com <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-flynt/common-sense-2009_b_264706.html?www.GoldmanSachs666.com>

Please read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19dowd.html

George Martin, Comments on the Commentary:
July 19, 2009

Response to Maureen Dowds' Column, July 19, 2009

This is a great column, that broadly sums up for me what Ms. Dowd kindly calls hypocrisy, but we, the electorate have to conclude is the incurable insanity and total dysfunction of our Washington elected officials. Not only to they thrive only on chimerical sound bytes, that consistently make no sense, show no reason, conservative or liberal, no legitimate debate. A real conservative would applaud the district court ruling on a complex law that ruled on precedent and established law, but the current crop of both parties just can't seem to do anything that makes sense, shows consistency, or principal. However, the legislation being created is consistent, in representing the voice of the commercial power brokers who surround our capital like fungi. All of this supported by cable news pundits who just regurgitate the official sound bytes with unparalleled vim, vigor, and allegiance to this weeks official party line.

 

It certainly is leaving us a country that has lost the ability to imagine common sense, carry on a reasonable discussion, or elect repesentatives that can actually do something to address the huge crisis' we are drowing in, and where the rights of the many are being buried by the desires of the few, and where if you tried to find away to fix this believing "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 abolish it, and to institute a new Government", you would undoubtedly be put on the No-Fly list.

Well, how could we do this today, when the clowns that have these responsibilities now, and the media machinery that is supposed to provide information to the electorate just seems unable to do that job of being constructive in securing our rights to solve our huge problems and put judges in place that can make us confident that we do have three branches of government that actually work like they are supposed too? Supposed too, meaning representing the rights and will of the people to fix education, obesity, wars, growing poverty, and stop our mad march to becoming a poor, third rate debtor nation?

I propose that we hold a hearing on capital hill, with Maureen Dowd as the sole investigator and interrogator justice committee of the recent Sotomeyer hearings! And we should carry on this process for all of what passes for "deliberations" going forward! How can we restore these senate and house's responsibility to reason and honesty? Thanks Maureen for saying what is driving so many of us nuts out here!

 

 

From george

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
  - Abraham Lincoln

 

Document2

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 abolish it, and to institute a new Government

 

RE: Why the New iPhone Sucks

Sarah,

I'm all for this, but, I think this kinda reeks of "I want my toys" . there are really well understood ways to crack the Iphone and put them on T-Mobile, or whatever—guys at work do it all the time and it works great apparently. I didn't do it because I still have some months left on my apple care, like 7, and so I don't want to lose that total protection. Plus, I get such a good deal with the family plan…everyone is on our plan, and it's only $6000/week!!!

So far, I think the only thing ATT has hijacked is the tethering technology, where you can use Bluetooth or Wi-Fi from your laptop to connect to the 3G network through the phone. They still want to sell their $50.00 /month 3G WAN packages. Which absolutely sucks!!

But, they are supposed to get over that soon. So I'm all for getting them to lower their rates, they suck at $40.00/month to run the Iphone internet services. But I don't know who is doing any better. All the companies should be busted for price collusion, and monopolizing the our air waves.

But, I think google is leading the charge to make the old analog airwaves available for the citizens that own them, and their android operating system is based on Linux. But the Palm Pre isn't doing too well compared to the Iphone. And the Iphone is the gadget of the millennium so far, and they built a brilliant operating system that spawns all the billions of great apps that you can put on the thing..

So I don't know if this guy is the right spokesman. What we need to do is keep the freed up air waves from the DTV transition out of the hands of those bastard phones companies. But, then we get to the problem that is yet to be solved, which is how do we get the people back in charge of their government?

I'm posting this to my blog…

Becky, how to I get the entire universe to read my blog?

Bro

From: Sarah Martin [mailto:NapaRose@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 8:28 AM
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Subject: FW: Why the New iPhone Sucks

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APATHY

Rick said he was too apathetic to look "it" up. My response was

 

Yeah, my apathy has overwhelmed my enuii, leaving my lethargy a dim dim memory.

 

 

gmorgjr.morgan@blogger.com

 

 

Test this a posting from my iPhone !!

The End of the Age of Mindless Consumerism

The End of the Consumer Age

George Martin

December 5, 2008

So, your donation was successful in Georgia.

i don't disagree with you about a divided executive and leg. branch. the big problem has been the the republicans in the senate have voted as a block and stopped more legislation more in the last two years, than all of the rest of modern history.

this is crap. there needs to be "DELIBERATION" not blind party loyalty.

People diss Pelosi all the time for doing nothing. but they have sent over a lot of good legislation to the senate, passed bi-partison in the house, where it has all died.

so, I'm thinking Barrack will succeed in getting enough republicans to be effective, LORD willing (I know she is looking out for someone). we need a government that does smart things.

if you notice, i always return to the same themes, no left or right, just dumb and smart. Deliberation, the way John Adams designed the government to work.

i really like that republican guy on the senate i can't remember his name, who just says no to the Auto companies. his arguments are sound, and the car companies aren't. his name Slayer, or something like that. and I like the governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford. he has great reasons why continuing to bail everything out just ends up in the long run making us poorer, by further weakening of the dollar.

Instead of running all those bullshit commercials, why doesn't chevron and Exxon bail out Detroit? they and haliburton, and blackwater have all our money anyway?

and someday, you have to get straightened out about the unions. Yeah, they blew it starting in the 70's, but without them in the early years we would never have built a middle class. the idea of "united we stand, divided we fall" is true. but they did really blow it and piss off everyone back in the fat years.

and it's the middle class which is the engine of the economy. too bad the "trickle down" people have won, and look at the results.

i really think we are entering the end of the age of consumerism. I think the age of everyone in my block owning a honda lawnmower, a leaf blower, and all this other frivolous crap is over. the world just can't sustain nor has the resource to keep making all the crap the economy has depended on for "good holiday sales" . we are going to go into an austere time, where people buy food, clothes, and things they really need. I don't think the "old economy" which really died this year will ever come back. the planet just cannot sustain the EU, USA, India, China, and all the developing world driving SUV's and buying honda lawnmowers. the stuff is no longer available.

that's really why i started this company, and you will see it become a pioneer in the 21st century grid.

okay, that's my rant for today!

George

FECES CRISIS STRIKES AMERICA

March 5, 2006

The spreading feces crisis in America

THE CRISIS OF CRAP IN NORTH AMERICA, IT'S SPREADING RAPIDILY.

ACTION MUST BE TAKEN

The state of the Culture from the toilette perspective-America's conflictions as seen from the toilet bowl!

Today's toilet says it all.

Natural Resources:

As we strive ever so weakly to try and address the obvious exhausting of resources this Earth has provided us, the toilet has been redesigned to flush with less water.

While on the surface, this is a good thing, the truth is, however, that it requires that small loads be the targets of those flushes.

To you investors out there, consider this a recommendation to increase your holdings in household product companies that focus on emergency toilete clearing products and devices. More specific companies will be listed at the end for those paid subscribers to this authors stock report.¹

WHATS WRONG WITH TODAY'S TOILETS?

The dilemma: while flushing power is reduced, a good thing, the size of the loads deposited by the average American are increasing at an alarming rate².

As people let fly with increasingly large turds, and massively increasing amounts of wiping paper are required to clean todays' massive asses, four events are happening with alarming frequency:

1. Forrest Products:

   More rainforest products are being denuded by mass production to produce evermore ass wipe; this is increasing the planet's inability to process carbon dioxide.

2. Water Usage:

   More and more toilets have reduced flushing capabilities; in order to rid ones bathroom of noxious collections of turds, stuck in their toilets, there is actually far more good, fresh, potable water being flushed into the sewer in usually vain attempts to clear the overwhelmed plumbing fixtures-It's like light cigarettes, those fools who smoke them are actually sucking in more toxins than a straight normal cigarette..
   

3. Commercial Manufacturing Eco Load:

   Since the first line of defence for crap clearing remains the plumbers helper, The demands for these products is increasing dramatically. However, this again presents a dilemma for a culture that must reduce its' individual eco burden. These are listed here:

1. Plumbers helpers lifecycles have dramatically reduced from a typical twenty years, to 3 months. This results in three environmental loading issues:

3.1.1: The energy used and pollution caused by mass production of these items in Asia is filling local environments with more volitle, toxic chemicals used in these short lived products,

3.1.2: Local rainforests and forrest health is being assaulted at even greater rates to supply the expotential demand for wooden and/or plastic handles

3.1.3: U.S. Landfills have an increasing burden of discarded short life time no biodegradible plastic broken plunger heads, handles, and wood wastes from the discarded handles.

4. Disease Etiology

   Since the ability of Americans to flush away their ever increasing volumes of fecal waste has been greatly diminished, the exposure to feces born disease in concomitantly increasing. Just imagine the amount of crusted feces under the finger nails of those wide ass people you see next to you in the internet cafe, typing away..
   
   This adds the additional eco burdens of:
   
   4.1 Family members being exposed more frequently to feces transmitted diseases
   4.2 Treatment for those diseases adds to the US eco burden in production, packaging, and excretion of treatment medicines and eco burden of treatment protocols³
   4.3 Productivity declines to due more missed days from work
   4.4 Organic increases in rates of fecal bourne disease from those stricken but continue to work anyway, exposing at higher rates their colleagues to fecal bourn disease.

The etiology stems from two unrelated factors: First, as one fights vigorously to clear a clogged toilet, the fecal bourne disease microbes are giving proportionally more probability of landing in a successful transfer situation. In other words, more crap particles can find their way onto tooth brushes, prescription bottles, children's hair and teeth, and pets.

And unrelated, but occurring under similar circumstances, as the american ass continues to expand to extra normal size, the ability to reach to appropriate areas around the anus and interior of the butt checks is greatly diminished, therefore exposing laundry workers and others to the severe fecal transmitted diseases such as Hepititus A, B, and even C, mono, and the other yet undefined diseases transmitted by this most successful transmission arrangement.

Recommended Corrective Actions:

The society for the reduction of fecal matter (SFTRFM) (a K street lobbying firm founded by Jack Abrahmoff) has issued several recommendations to reverse these disturbing trends. However, as always, it is the individual who can have the most impact, if they in-turd become the change they wish to see in the world.

I will summarize those recommendations here. However, if you would prefer to skip this section, please go to the closing remarks and the investment recommendations from this organizations portfolio committee.

SFTRFM Recommendations:

1. Introduce legislation mandating that toilette plungers have a minimum design lifetime of 1 year. This will reduce the eco load by a factor of 3, however this is far less than the technology of 10 years ago provided.

2. Reduce Ass acreage by 18%. This would allow the normal paper user the opportunity to clean better, using less resources, and would lower the probabilities of ancillary support people exposure the turd bourne disease found on shirt sleeves and under finger nails.
   

3. Develop flush assist technology. This could take the place of today's typical gravity feed type flush designs... It could include high pressure gas discharge toilettes, electric pumps, or backup high volume emergency water suppliers to clear out America's toilettes. All of these approaches would introduce new eco burdens, that would have to be carefully included into the design criteria for such solutions

4. Provide high volume public toilete facilities where those large people with challenging bowel movement circumstances could go, to use SUV size toilett facilities, and receive assistance as needed. To be effective, this approach would require control with data technologies similar to those so effectively deployed in the terror watch lists, in order to identify and enforce success.

In addtion, we believe that government regulations on the testing for low volume toilettes should be imposed. This would require using actual extreme case testing with human subjects, instead of the psuedo tests used by our toilette manufacturing industry today.

Please feel free to make comments or suggestions on this important topic here on this blog.

INVESTMENT ADVICE-As promised

We all now it's easy to point out weakness and problems facing our country today. But it is the belief of this organization that we must also provide a clear path to profit from today's crisis's. Therefore, we have prepared a targeted list of two categories of investments that we can all make in two areas; The first A. is to enjoy the profits from the inordinate volumes of supplies and technologies necessary to sustain the current in effective and dangerous methods used today to mitigate defective toilette flushing, and secondly, B: for those willing to bet on a future where solutions will be implemented, those companies and products that will solve the crap crisis in America today. Follow or click one or both of the links below is you are interested:

Investment A: Continue the Status Quo

Investment B: Bet on the Future Mitigations

Foot Notes:

1Crapper Stocks recommendations, MLI Investors Newsletter, March, 2006

2The size of feces, and the quantity of wiping materials has increased expotentially since 1960. source: the american plumbers association annual state of the sewer system report, 2002

3Centers for Disease Tracking, March, 2006

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Subject:"I Like Ike"

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things.
Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.²

­President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952

Double Speak and Today'f Front Page: May 12, 2005

Today's Headlines, and what they really mean.

If we take a clear eye to the headlines today, we have to give some credit to the SF Chronicle for at least dancing near the real stories.

For example, the top headline today "UC, Bechtel Team up for Nuclear Bid" (Here's the link: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/12/UCLABS.TMP

The news here really is "Bush Government continues to transfer the nation's wealth from the private sector, in this case, academia, to the military industrial complex" --So buy more bechthel, northrup, or martin lockheed stock today...

Or, the next headline: Tally of civilian deaths depends on who's counting" (link:) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/12/MNG9UCML2E59.DTL

The real news is "Thousands, most likely more than 100,000 innocent civilians, have paid the price of death as a result of the US war in Iraq. The question has to be, is this the price of democracy? and why is a country like the US making those decisions?

We have to give the chronicle credit for at least dancing very close to the real questions we should be having vigorous public discourse on.

George, May 12, 2005

Isn't It Strange?

If you listened to our govinators' fine speach last tuesday, you heard a great example of the power of oratory...

but isn't it strange, that this supposedly "populist" politician really targeted only two groups as the targets for bringing control to the chaos of the california government budget. the cure for our budget woes are teachers, and public servants' pensions.

How is it we have gotten to a place in this country and in this state, where the people rise up, vote in a candidate who pledges to represent "the people", who then gets in office and goes after the security and lifestyle of the those with the least to give?

We seem to be riding a tide where every government initiative, federal or state, is designed to deminish the economic foundation of the rapidily shrinking middle class. the data says clearly that a few wealthy people are getting more and more of the wealth of this great country, while the rest of us are still trying to make it between paychecks, send our kids to school, all while we earn less and less time and resource to live healthy, happy, and secure lives.

How can this be? why would the electorate vote continue to vote for tickets that are sponsored and designed by the wealthy few.

how could our governor say with a straight face that it's up to teachers, cops, and other hardworking government employees to give up even more to balance the billions and billions of mismanaged dollars our representatives have doled out the wealthy few?

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