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Gold</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DNJntVab0Ok&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DNJntVab0Ok&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Federal Reserve is going to print the dollar into oblivion" - Peter Schiff&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-1447932582546650514?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/nv0UFVguqJg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/1447932582546650514/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=1447932582546650514&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/1447932582546650514?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/1447932582546650514?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/nv0UFVguqJg/peter-schiff-gold.html" title="Peter Schiff - Gold" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/peter-schiff-gold.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEIAQ3o9eCp7ImA9WxNaFEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-7110297471247507405</id><published>2009-11-29T00:26:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-29T00:29:02.460-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-29T00:29:02.460-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Humor" /><title>The Obama Plan</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2009/11/29/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SxIGPQWwRJI/AAAAAAAADjU/0rXXBDQnOLc/s400/daybyday112809.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409392961583596690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stacking the deck indeed.&lt;br /&gt;So much for Hope and Change.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-7110297471247507405?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/v83_VzDSpGw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/7110297471247507405/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=7110297471247507405&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/7110297471247507405?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/7110297471247507405?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/v83_VzDSpGw/obama-plan.html" title="The Obama Plan" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SxIGPQWwRJI/AAAAAAAADjU/0rXXBDQnOLc/s72-c/daybyday112809.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-plan.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEcEQHgyfSp7ImA9WxNaFE0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-7025954714922899036</id><published>2009-11-28T06:00:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-28T06:00:01.695-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-28T06:00:01.695-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Satire" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Parody" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Humor" /><title>Saturday Satire - Infomercial</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1WvjzyG636g&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1WvjzyG636g&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Billy Mays - We miss you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-7025954714922899036?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/11lRHcm3eqk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/7025954714922899036/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=7025954714922899036&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/7025954714922899036?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/7025954714922899036?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/11lRHcm3eqk/saturday-satire-infomercial.html" title="Saturday Satire - Infomercial" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/saturday-satire-infomercial.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUUERHw7eyp7ImA9WxNaEk4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-2174067338738442528</id><published>2009-11-26T06:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-26T06:00:05.203-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-26T06:00:05.203-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Holidays" /><title>Happy Thanksgiving!</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SS2UTDYs8DI/AAAAAAAACvs/_75vS666gvM/s1600-h/firstThanksgiving.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SS2UTDYs8DI/AAAAAAAACvs/_75vS666gvM/s400/firstThanksgiving.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273033793768058930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;General Thanksgiving (see &lt;a href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/thanksgiving/original.html"&gt;original document&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;By the PRESIDENT of the United States Of America&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/thanksgiving/thankstext.html"&gt;A PROCLAMATION&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houfes of Congress have, by their joint committee, requefted me "to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to eftablifh a form of government for their safety and happiness:"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and affign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of thefe States to the fervice of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our fincere and humble thanksfor His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the fignal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpofitions of His providence in the courfe and conclufion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have fince enjoyed;-- for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to eftablish Conftitutions of government for our fafety and happinefs, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;-- for the civil and religious liberty with which we are bleffed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffufing useful knowledge;-- and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been pleafed to confer upon us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And also, that we may then unite in moft humbly offering our prayers and fupplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and befeech Him to pardon our national and other tranfgreffions;-- to enable us all, whether in publick or private ftations, to perform our feveral and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a bleffing to all the people by conftantly being a Government of wife, juft, and conftitutional laws, difcreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all fovereigns and nations (especially fuch as have shewn kindnefs unto us); and to blefs them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increafe of fcience among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind fuch a degree of temporal profperity as he alone knows to be beft.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(signed) G. Washington&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: The Massachusetts Centinel, Wednesday, October 14, 1789 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/thanksgiving/"&gt;Historically speaking&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;While there were Thanksgiving observances in America both before and after Washington's proclamation, this represents the first to be so designated by the new national government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After their first harvest, the colonists of the Plymouth Plantation held a celebration of food and feasting in the fall of 1621. Indian chiefs Massassoit, Squanto and Samoset joined in the celebration with ninety of their men in the three-day event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first recorded Thanksgiving observance was held on June 29, 1671 at Charlestown, Massachusetts by proclamation of the town's governing council.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the 1700s, it was common practice for individual colonies to observe days of thanksgiving throughout each year. A Thanksgiving Day two hundred years ago was a day set aside for prayer and fasting, not a day marked by plentiful food and drink as is today's custom. Later in the 18th century each of the states periodically would designate a day of thanksgiving in honor of a military victory, an adoption of a state constitution or an exceptionally bountiful crop. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"Consent of the Governed" wishes you and yours a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider the blessings we enjoy in this country, despite the problems that we are experiencing. May we all continue to work to preserve liberty and freedom so that our Republic and it's people can prosper through life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. My thoughts and prayers are to all serving our country in the military who are unable to be with their families this season, and my hope is that they will all be kept out of harm's way and that they will return home soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope that each and everyone of you will also be protected from the financial turmoil which now plagues our nation and that if you are touched by unemployment,  financial hardship, and other difficult life lessons, that you weather it and emerge from it stronger. I pray that everyone can take proper measures to protect their health and their assets in these difficult times. We should take some time at Thanksgiving to take stock of that which is good and positive in our lives as well as that which needs to be attended to or changed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please try to remember that really the most important thing is our family and friends and the caring and love that we give and receive.  If we don't have anything else, we have each other.&lt;br /&gt;Let's take the time to celebrate not so much what we have in "stuff", but the strength and quality of our relationships with one another, and to thank whatever higher power that each of us may believe in, for all the goodness that we individually enjoy in our life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Thanksgiving!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SS2TVXOqgNI/AAAAAAAACvk/xLSOm9zIDEM/s1600-h/Rockwell_freedomWant.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SS2TVXOqgNI/AAAAAAAACvk/xLSOm9zIDEM/s400/Rockwell_freedomWant.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273032733942776018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-2174067338738442528?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/iWjKp0MrYvI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/2174067338738442528/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=2174067338738442528&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/2174067338738442528?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/2174067338738442528?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/iWjKp0MrYvI/happy-thanksgiving.html" title="Happy Thanksgiving!" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SS2UTDYs8DI/AAAAAAAACvs/_75vS666gvM/s72-c/firstThanksgiving.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-thanksgiving.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0UDR3c7eip7ImA9WxNaEUg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-7544466462660093785</id><published>2009-11-25T06:30:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-25T07:14:36.902-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-25T07:14:36.902-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Global Warming" /><title>Global Warming Fraud - A Really Inconvenient Truth</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ydo2Mwnwpac&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ydo2Mwnwpac&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well it looks like the Climate Change Cat (at least , the anthropogenic global warming, AGW, theory) is really out of the bag: and just in time for the &lt;a href="http://www.erantis.com/events/denmark/copenhagen/climate-conference-2009/index.htm"&gt;Copenhagen Summit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/global-warming-exposed-un-funded-fraud"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a great article&lt;/a&gt; about the fraud perpetrated on everyone in order to line certain people's pockets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Russian computer hackers have published emails and source code from the UN-affiliated Climate Research Unit &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;showing profound corruption, fraud, and criminal activity&lt;/span&gt;. What's really behind the Copenhagen treaty?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, Russian hackers published over 160mb of scientific emails and source code taken from the primary 'climate research unit' -- the University of East Anglia, which is the center of UN/IPCC-promoted global warming alarmism. What the emails and data prove is shocking, and may represent the greatest scandal in the history of science...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Here is a small sample of the underlying political agenda:&lt;/span&gt; Billions in new taxes, International regulatory control under the UN, Goldman Sachs/CCX carbon trading, Obliteration of national sovereignty, extreme forced austerity and reduction of the standard of living, deindustrialization of the First World countries, and implementation of Orwellian state policies for the purposes of "carbon tracking". &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The science does not matter -- the politics does.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the emails, these UN-funded scientists talk about deleting data under FOIA request, faking data for journals such as Nature, conspiring to keep opposing science out of peer-reviewed journals (which they controlled the editorial boards), using "tricks" to "hide the cooling [period]" etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A picture emerges of big science funded to the tune of billions of dollars for the purposes of an underlying international political agenda. The degree of collusion between big media, the UN, and corrupted scientists involved in frank criminal activity is deeply disturbing. As I have detailed before, the purpose here is a political one. Global warming, or now abstractly identified as 'climate change', has been chosen by international banks and think tanks as the method of induction of vast political and social engineering never before seen in the history of the world. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blogpost hits on the following aspects and reasons behind AGW climate change fraud and its political ramifications:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Global Warming and Orwellian State Policy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Global Warming and New Taxes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Global Warming and Personal Autonomy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Global Warming and Forced Austerity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Global Warming and Systemic Financial Fraud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Scientific corruption at the highest levels&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Climate Research Unit FORTRAN code backs up claims of fraud and corruption&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So tell me, how is it that this AGW 'global warming' nonsense (i.e. cow farts are making the Earth hotter, etc.)  has permeated every aspect of civilization on our planet, and so many people have become so obsessed with it (even compelled to buy mercury laden light bulb curls and bringing their own bags to supermarkets to carry home the groceries), and claiming global warming as the biggest issue facing mankind, and yet now it has finally been revealed that the evidence supporting &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the claims by Al Gore etc. has been fabricated, falsified and that the truth has been withheld?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Where is the outrage?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is this not front page news on every newspaper worldwide?&lt;br /&gt;Instead, we see media sources running damage control stories!&lt;br /&gt;(And they wonder why newspaper revenues are down?? Who flippin' believes what they write anymore?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The disgrace is that:&lt;br /&gt;-So-called "scientists" have perpetrated a huge lie for political and financial gain&lt;br /&gt;-Portions of the scientific community have been silenced.&lt;br /&gt;-Public policy has been initiated that is costing the taxpayer billions!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank goodness there are scientists, and others, who insisted on fact and worked to expose the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(H/T Project Mayhem and Zerohedge)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-7544466462660093785?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/SfogDiFdJNQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/7544466462660093785/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=7544466462660093785&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/7544466462660093785?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/7544466462660093785?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/SfogDiFdJNQ/global-warming-fraud-really.html" title="Global Warming Fraud - A Really Inconvenient Truth" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/global-warming-fraud-really.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DE8EQX8_cSp7ImA9WxNaEUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-4842097212989629328</id><published>2009-11-25T06:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-25T06:00:00.149-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-25T06:00:00.149-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Business" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Commerce" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Economy" /><title>More Economic News - Truck Tonnage Declines</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/Swy6wYSsCBI/AAAAAAAADjM/CB9eezfwvro/s1600/11+23+09+tonnage+graph.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/Swy6wYSsCBI/AAAAAAAADjM/CB9eezfwvro/s400/11+23+09+tonnage+graph.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407902592882444306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American Trucking Association &lt;a href="http://www.truckline.com/pages/article.aspx?id=614%2F%7B8E1C7279-ED27-4C03-B189-CEEEE26BBB12%7D"&gt;Truck Tonnage Index Dipped 0.2 Percent in October&lt;/a&gt; following a 0.3 percent contraction in September.  In September, the index was down 7.3 percent from a year earlier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello said that the latest reading reflects an economic recovery that is still trying to gain balance, although it is on more solid ground than a year ago. “Repeating what I said last month, the trucking industry should not be alarmed by the small decreases in September and October...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Since consumer spending and manufacturing are not surging, trucking shouldn’t expect robust growth either. However, both retail sales and manufacturing output are exhibiting mild upward trend lines, which is the path I expect truck freight to take.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;So, the ATA pretty much states that all is well, and the industry is just having its ups and downs.. but in any case, trucking serves as a barometer of the U.S. economy, representing nearly 69 percent of tonnage carried by all modes of domestic freight transportation, including manufactured and retail goods.  There have been many trucking company failures and the freight for those companies are just being picked up by others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just thought I'd share... trucking IS an important part of our economy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-4842097212989629328?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/bozkwELvqCg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/4842097212989629328/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=4842097212989629328&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/4842097212989629328?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/4842097212989629328?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/bozkwELvqCg/more-economic-news-truck-tonnage.html" title="More Economic News - Truck Tonnage Declines" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/Swy6wYSsCBI/AAAAAAAADjM/CB9eezfwvro/s72-c/11+23+09+tonnage+graph.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-economic-news-truck-tonnage.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUEER3s-fCp7ImA9WxNaEEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-3884886612130316519</id><published>2009-11-24T08:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T08:00:06.554-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-24T08:00:06.554-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Monetary Policy" /><title>The Dollar Bubble</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eZA0qNsf4m0&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eZA0qNsf4m0&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 minutes - but it's worth watching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the latest Dollar Index showing 1000 day historical view... do you recall what happened in late 2008?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwtiU9fES0I/AAAAAAAADjE/P-QxX4npTBk/s1600/dollarindex112309.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwtiU9fES0I/AAAAAAAADjE/P-QxX4npTBk/s400/dollarindex112309.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407523889830185794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-3884886612130316519?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/mYlL4lQMmT4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/3884886612130316519/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=3884886612130316519&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/3884886612130316519?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/3884886612130316519?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/mYlL4lQMmT4/dollar-bubble.html" title="The Dollar Bubble" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwtiU9fES0I/AAAAAAAADjE/P-QxX4npTBk/s72-c/dollarindex112309.bmp" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/dollar-bubble.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkMEQXo8fSp7ImA9WxNaEEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-4125501391762498643</id><published>2009-11-24T06:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T06:00:00.475-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-24T06:00:00.475-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Federal Reserve" /><title>End The Fed Rally NYC - Nov 22</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4vkF6SIQYX0&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4vkF6SIQYX0&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.campaignforliberty.com/campaigns/AuditTheFed-home.php"&gt;Audit The Fed&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://endthefedusa.ning.com/"&gt;End The Fed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-4125501391762498643?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/shg8UywVr3k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/4125501391762498643/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=4125501391762498643&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/4125501391762498643?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/4125501391762498643?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/shg8UywVr3k/end-fed-rally-nyc-nov-22.html" title="End The Fed Rally NYC - Nov 22" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/end-fed-rally-nyc-nov-22.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkcEQno9fCp7ImA9WxNbGUo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-796726192820156709</id><published>2009-11-23T06:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-23T06:00:03.464-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-23T06:00:03.464-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Peter Schiff" /><title>Peter Schiff Speaks In Woodbury, CT</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JveEyhBviOw&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JveEyhBviOw&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His analysis of the rise in college education tuition is spot on.&lt;br /&gt;Health care costs will rise just the same with more government involvement. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We can't even afford all the stupid programs we already have, how are we going to afford the new ones?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's obvious that Peter Schiff knows what he is talking about.&lt;br /&gt;CT needs him in the US Senate.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-796726192820156709?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/QEcrbzIj_rE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/796726192820156709/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=796726192820156709&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/796726192820156709?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/796726192820156709?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/QEcrbzIj_rE/peter-schiff-speaks-in-woodbury-ct.html" title="Peter Schiff Speaks In Woodbury, CT" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/peter-schiff-speaks-in-woodbury-ct.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUEEQ3k4cCp7ImA9WxNbGEU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-6302906167625118739</id><published>2009-11-22T06:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T06:00:02.738-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-22T06:00:02.738-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technology" /><title>Architecture In Motion</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oSvABtzUviw&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oSvABtzUviw&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is really pretty cool - but not for those who suffer from motion sickness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using the building to produce energy from wind is also quite interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And why do we have such innovations?&lt;br /&gt;Capitalism, Entrepreneurial Spirit and the Desire to Solve Problems.&lt;br /&gt;Investors hope to make money on this, and at $3000 per square foot - they probably will.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-6302906167625118739?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/5ZrtMDIhKGo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/6302906167625118739/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=6302906167625118739&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/6302906167625118739?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/6302906167625118739?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/5ZrtMDIhKGo/architecture-in-motion.html" title="Architecture In Motion" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/architecture-in-motion.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CU8AQX4zcSp7ImA9WxNbGE0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-8804870134338461703</id><published>2009-11-21T06:44:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-21T06:44:00.089-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-21T06:44:00.089-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Satire" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Humor" /><title>Saturday Satire - Two For Today</title><content type="html">From The Onion...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ReKUSzo8Y-s&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ReKUSzo8Y-s&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and this one...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aXQTaWjMoFw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aXQTaWjMoFw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit the &lt;a href="http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/"&gt;Teleprompter Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-8804870134338461703?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/HRYo4ZJ-hQs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/8804870134338461703/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=8804870134338461703&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/8804870134338461703?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/8804870134338461703?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/HRYo4ZJ-hQs/saturday-satire-two-for-today.html" title="Saturday Satire - Two For Today" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/saturday-satire-two-for-today.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0EERH0-cCp7ImA9WxNbF08.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-2019274807859747181</id><published>2009-11-20T09:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T09:00:05.358-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-20T09:00:05.358-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Economy" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Connecticut" /><title>CT Unemployment Jumps to 8.8%</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwYnNF2x6vI/AAAAAAAADi0/GZVEwMWujTw/s1600/unemployment2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwYnNF2x6vI/AAAAAAAADi0/GZVEwMWujTw/s320/unemployment2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406051508568582898" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.courant.com/business/hc-connecticut-unemployment-1119,0,3234671.story"&gt;The Courant reported today&lt;/a&gt; that the CT State Department of Labor reported &lt;a href="http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/lmi/laus/laus.pdf"&gt;CT's October unemployment numbers&lt;/a&gt; up 8.8% from September's number of 8.4%. (&lt;a href="http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/lmi/laus/lmlaus.htm"&gt;more here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Septembers job loss total was 6,200, and for the 12 months ending in October, the state has lost 71,100 jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things may not improve anytime soon. &lt;a href="http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/hartford_cty/aetna-job-cuts"&gt;Aetna said yesterday it is now eliminating 160 Connecticut jobs&lt;/a&gt; and will lay off more by March.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nationally, the unemployment rate was 10.2 percent in October. Of the 15.7 million Americans who are currently jobless, nearly 36 percent, or 5.6 million, have been unemployed for six months or more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With an unemployment rate of 8.8 percent, Connecticut now has the dubious distinction of being classified by the federal government among the "high unemployment states."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That makes the state's jobless workers eligible to receive up to 93 weeks of unemployment benefits, under an extension approved by Congress earlier this month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the jobless rate averages 8.5 percent over three months, the extension provides an additional six weeks of benefits for a total of 99 weeks -- the current three-month average is about 8.4 percent, said Salvatore DiPillo, the state's labor statistics supervisor.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where exactly are those green shoots we have heard so much about?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-2019274807859747181?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/W1PLw0UpjJM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/2019274807859747181/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=2019274807859747181&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/2019274807859747181?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/2019274807859747181?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/W1PLw0UpjJM/ct-unemployment-jumps-to-88.html" title="CT Unemployment Jumps to 8.8%" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwYnNF2x6vI/AAAAAAAADi0/GZVEwMWujTw/s72-c/unemployment2.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/ct-unemployment-jumps-to-88.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Dk8EQHg_eyp7ImA9WxNbF0w.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-5031527884684266265</id><published>2009-11-20T06:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T06:00:01.643-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-20T06:00:01.643-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Privacy" /><title>Town Will Photograph Every Vehicle Entering And Leaving</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwYbziBakvI/AAAAAAAADis/LzNvkX_hkSY/s1600/outdoor_camera_real.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 168px; height: 177px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwYbziBakvI/AAAAAAAADis/LzNvkX_hkSY/s320/outdoor_camera_real.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406038974824878834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Tiburon Town Council (a northern suburb of San Francisco) voted on Wednesday by 4 to 0 &lt;a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10402181-71.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesArea.0"&gt;to install cameras to photograph every single car&lt;/a&gt; that enters or leaves in order to "make the community safer". Funny thing is that the town doesn't enjoy high crime figures. The idea is to photograph the license plates of every car that travels Tiburon's roads and compare the information with the police's list of the stolen and suspicious vehicles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is on a peninsula, from which there are only two roads. Luckily for them, it won't be too costly to install a few cameras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One might ask: Don't people have the right to move around WITHOUT being monitored by the government at all times? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probably not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fight technology with technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One could get &lt;a href="http://www.jammersstore.com/anti_photo.htm"&gt;one of these license plate photo shields&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-5031527884684266265?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/5bi3Qkwyp94" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/5031527884684266265/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=5031527884684266265&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/5031527884684266265?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/5031527884684266265?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/5bi3Qkwyp94/town-will-photograph-every-vehicle.html" title="Town Will Photograph Every Vehicle Entering And Leaving" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwYbziBakvI/AAAAAAAADis/LzNvkX_hkSY/s72-c/outdoor_camera_real.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/town-will-photograph-every-vehicle.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0UEQXo4fyp7ImA9WxNbFk4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-4373235505815552159</id><published>2009-11-19T09:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-19T09:00:00.437-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-19T09:00:00.437-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Activism" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Federal Reserve" /><title>End The Fed Rallies - November 22nd</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwTB8oSgv5I/AAAAAAAADik/YrnGDaMBGVk/s1600/endthefed.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwTB8oSgv5I/AAAAAAAADik/YrnGDaMBGVk/s320/endthefed.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405658700102811538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.endthefed.us/"&gt;End The Fed&lt;/a&gt; Rallies are happening at every Federal Reserve office across the nation this weekend - (&lt;a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/otherfrb.htm"&gt;Here is a map&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/fraddress.htm"&gt;addresses&lt;/a&gt; and other &lt;a href="http://www.frbservices.org/aboutus/bank_offices.html"&gt;info&lt;/a&gt;) Closer to CT one will be in Boston at 600 Atlantic Avenue and the other in New York City at the NYC Federal Reserve building at 33 Liberty Street. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Rally in New York City starts at Noon and ends at 3:00PM&lt;/span&gt;. For details of all cities.. &lt;a href="http://endthefedusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/full-list-of-cities"&gt;go here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WBLHrKvvJxg&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WBLHrKvvJxg&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" id="kickWidget_115679_216903" width="203" height="250"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://serve.a-widget.com/service/getWidgetSwf.kickAction"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value="affiliateSiteId=115679&amp;amp;widgetId=216903&amp;amp;width=203&amp;amp;height=250&amp;amp;kaShare=1&amp;amp;playOnLoad=0&amp;amp;autoPlay=0&amp;amp;revision=41"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://serve.a-widget.com/service/getWidgetSwf.kickAction" name="kickWidget_115679_216903" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="affiliateSiteId=115679&amp;amp;widgetId=216903&amp;amp;width=203&amp;amp;height=250&amp;amp;kaShare=1&amp;amp;playOnLoad=0&amp;amp;autoPlay=0&amp;amp;revision=41" width="203" height="250"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704782304574542280971009044.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Americans Deserve a Transparent Fed&lt;/a&gt; - by Ron Paul and Jim DeMint&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;For nearly a century the Federal Reserve has operated in the shadows, away from the prying eyes of Congress, journalists and the American people. Created in 1913, the Fed was given enormous responsibility to protect the value of our currency. Yet in the last 96 years the U.S. dollar has lost more than 95% of its purchasing power. The Fed's unprecedented actions over the past year in attempting to stabilize the financial system have now forced it into the spotlight, and caused millions of people around the country to question the opacity of the Fed's financial transactions....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No matter how direct the questions are, Fed chairmen answer with a vagueness common to bureaucrats. The whole process is window dressing for public consumption, not any sort of attempt to exercise oversight or gain any real insight into the Fed's actions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is needed is a full audit of the Fed, something that has never happened. We need to know who the Fed is giving money to, what types of securities are being purchased and what backs those securities, how much money is being paid for those securities, etc. ...( &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704782304574542280971009044.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"&gt;read more here&lt;/a&gt;. WSJ)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/L-cR0i2YP3A&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/L-cR0i2YP3A&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.campaignforliberty.com/campaigns/AuditTheFed-home.php"&gt;Audit the Fed&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://endthefedusa.ning.com/"&gt;End the Fed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=consofthegove-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=0446549193&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr" style="width: 120px; height: 240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-4373235505815552159?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/Q4yhINgrynY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/4373235505815552159/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=4373235505815552159&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/4373235505815552159?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/4373235505815552159?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/Q4yhINgrynY/end-fed-rallies-november-22nd.html" title="End The Fed Rallies - November 22nd" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwTB8oSgv5I/AAAAAAAADik/YrnGDaMBGVk/s72-c/endthefed.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/end-fed-rallies-november-22nd.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkMEQH0_fip7ImA9WxNbFk8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-5691720238792676015</id><published>2009-11-19T06:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-19T06:00:01.346-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-19T06:00:01.346-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Family Life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Food Safety" /><title>Keep It? Or Toss It?</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwS6638KYbI/AAAAAAAADic/5mur_L12ZR8/s1600/expired+food.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwS6638KYbI/AAAAAAAADic/5mur_L12ZR8/s320/expired+food.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405650973362905522" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stilltasty.com/"&gt;Still Tasty&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent website about food and its shelf life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It supplies you with answers to questions like:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Is Frozen Turkey still good after 6 months?&lt;br /&gt;- How Long Will Thawed Ground Beef Remain Safe?&lt;br /&gt;- Is it OK to Put Hot Food Directly Into the Fridge?&lt;br /&gt;- Are Eggs Still Safe After the Expiration Date?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check it out, and see if that fruitcake you got 5 years ago is still safe to eat or if that Bloody Mary mix that you have had in the liquor cabinet will still taste ok.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best of all - it gives a real thorough explanation of &lt;a href="http://stilltasty.com/articles/view/5"&gt;expiration dates and what they mean&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(H/T Leann S.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-5691720238792676015?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/67n0E2pkSHc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/5691720238792676015/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=5691720238792676015&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/5691720238792676015?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/5691720238792676015?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/67n0E2pkSHc/keep-it-or-toss-it.html" title="Keep It? Or Toss It?" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwS6638KYbI/AAAAAAAADic/5mur_L12ZR8/s72-c/expired+food.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/keep-it-or-toss-it.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CE8EQHcyfip7ImA9WxNbFEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-7989361768040817763</id><published>2009-11-17T08:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T08:00:01.996-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-17T08:00:01.996-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Money" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Monetary Policy" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Free Trade" /><title>Barter Exchange Networks</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwIhJjiMJmI/AAAAAAAADiU/fMk6oeHzfxY/s1600/barter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 247px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwIhJjiMJmI/AAAAAAAADiU/fMk6oeHzfxY/s320/barter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404918950839199330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found this over at the &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.opencurrency.com/"&gt;AOCS Website&lt;/a&gt; and thought that I'd share it with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bartering is a medium in which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods and/or services without a common unit of exchange (i.e. without the use of money).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's interesting to me that there are many barter networks set up. Some have been around for quite awhile.  People buy what they need and sell what they want without using Federal Reserve Notes (&lt;a href="http://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/usdollar-index/"&gt;which are becoming increasingly worth less in value&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;So here is a sampling of what's out there:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl class="profile first"&gt;&lt;dd class="state"&gt;&lt;a href="http://itex.com/" target="_blank"&gt; ITEX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="desc"&gt;"ITEX is the leading marketplace for cashless business transactions. Put your cash and credit cards away and buy and sell using ITEX dollars! With ITEX dollars, money will never be the same."&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;          &lt;dl class="profile"&gt;&lt;dd class="state"&gt;&lt;a href="http://greenapplebarter.com/" target="_blank"&gt; Green Apple&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="desc"&gt;"Green Apple has been in business for more than 17 years and has managed over $500,000,000 in barter transactions. No more one-on-one direct trades, where you must take back from the business that bought from you. Green Apple serves as a clearinghouse for its members' transactions as well as a marketing agent for their businesses, generating new business for its members. Green Apple is your partner in business."&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;          &lt;dl class="profile odd"&gt;&lt;dd class="state"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mbebarter.com/" target="_blank"&gt; Midwest Business Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="desc"&gt;"SouthWest Michigan's premier local barter exchange."&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;          &lt;dl class="profile"&gt;&lt;dd class="state"&gt;&lt;a href="http://imsbarter.com/" target="_blank"&gt; IMS Barter Network and Trade Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="desc"&gt;"Since its inception in 1985, IMS has continued to expand its membership roster by way of acquisitions and a strong program of internal growth. As a result, the company now serves a client base of more than 18,000 business and professional people. By exhibiting a high level of integrity and solid reliability, International Monetary Systems has earned a great degree of respect and has developed a reputation as a dominant player in the barter industry."&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;          &lt;dl class="profile odd"&gt;&lt;dd class="state"&gt;&lt;a href="http://americanexchange.net/" target="_blank"&gt; American Exchange Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="desc"&gt;"The American Exchange Network (AMX) is one of the leading companies in the business to business trade industry. Established in 1982, today AMX has affiliates around the world with a trading network of thousands of companies worldwide. AMX is affiliated with both the National Association of Trade Exchanges and the International Reciprocal Trade Association."&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's an upcoming &lt;a href="http://www.newenglandtrade.com/barter-expo/default.aspx"&gt;Barter Expo in New England&lt;/a&gt; in December.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exchanging goods and services has always been around - and indeed we see it on Craigslist and other sites. So if you are short on cash - you might still be able to barter for things especially if you have a skill like designing websites or cutting hair or doing landscaping.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barter usually replaces money as the method of exchange in times of monetary crisis, when the currency is unstable and devalued by hyperinflation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just thought you should know.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-7989361768040817763?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/IhG5WcnSRUs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/7989361768040817763/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=7989361768040817763&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/7989361768040817763?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/7989361768040817763?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/IhG5WcnSRUs/barter-exchange-networks.html" title="Barter Exchange Networks" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwIhJjiMJmI/AAAAAAAADiU/fMk6oeHzfxY/s72-c/barter.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/barter-exchange-networks.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUMEQX84cSp7ImA9WxNbFEg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-2681587088282093341</id><published>2009-11-17T06:30:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T06:30:00.139-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-17T06:30:00.139-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Economy" /><title>Geography Of A Recession</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwIRQmXN46I/AAAAAAAADiM/E641BhhDXrs/s1600/unemployment.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwIRQmXN46I/AAAAAAAADiM/E641BhhDXrs/s400/unemployment.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404901479671522210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html"&gt;Pretty amazing flashplayer movie&lt;/a&gt; of the progression of this recession based on unemployment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  (Thanks to flashplayer movie creator Latoya Egwuekwe)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The maps don't take into account &lt;a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the latest 10.2 figures&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but the progression shown in the movie linked above is quite sobering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Employment Situation for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 2009&lt;/span&gt; is scheduled to be released on December 4, 2009, at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(H/T Ricky G.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-2681587088282093341?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/cUSPh5Caloo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/2681587088282093341/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=2681587088282093341&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/2681587088282093341?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/2681587088282093341?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/cUSPh5Caloo/geography-of-recession.html" title="Geography Of A Recession" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwIRQmXN46I/AAAAAAAADiM/E641BhhDXrs/s72-c/unemployment.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/geography-of-recession.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEEARX4zeCp7ImA9WxNbFE4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-8554859136716584267</id><published>2009-11-16T23:24:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T23:37:24.080-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-16T23:37:24.080-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Peter Schiff" /><title>Peter Schiff - Gold &amp; Silver Surge, Dollar Falls, Obama In Asia</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/90m6qCVGbkE&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/90m6qCVGbkE&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schiff continues to speak common sense.&lt;br /&gt;I hope you will support his campaign with &lt;a href="http://schiffforsenate.com/"&gt;the money bomb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/tiny-mauritius-tells-us-shove-its-dollar-buys-2-metric-tons-gold-imf-1115-ounce"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tiny Mauritius Tells US To Shove Its Dollar, Buys 2 Metric Tons Of Gold From IMF At $1,115 An Ounce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The International Monetary Fund announced Monday it has sold two tons of gold to the central bank of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius for nearly $72 million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sale came as gold prices surged Monday to an all-time high of $1,136.72 per ounce. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- This is not a gold/silver bubble. This is flight from the US Dollar.... and it's just the beginning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-8554859136716584267?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/PIaWPQLTOlM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/8554859136716584267/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=8554859136716584267&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/8554859136716584267?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/8554859136716584267?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/PIaWPQLTOlM/peter-schiff-gold-silver-surge-dollar.html" title="Peter Schiff - Gold &amp; Silver Surge, Dollar Falls, Obama In Asia" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/peter-schiff-gold-silver-surge-dollar.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkAMQXk_fyp7ImA9WxNbE0o.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-7887819055150244068</id><published>2009-11-16T07:33:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T07:33:00.747-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-16T07:33:00.747-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="War" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Obama" /><title>700 Sent Off To Iraq From CT</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/hartford_cty/ct-army-national-guard-deployment"&gt;CT Army National Guard deploying 700&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Hartford (AP) - Two units of the Connecticut Army National Guard are sending 700 soldiers to the Middle East in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the largest single deployment of Connecticut guard members since the Korean War&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A send-off ceremony is being held at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford on Sunday afternoon. Gov. M. Jodi Rell is scheduled to attend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rell's office says the 102nd Infantry will help train Afghanistan's Army, police and border police forces. Its units are located in Norwalk, Manchester, New Britain, Branford and Southington.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The departing troops also include members of the 250th Engineer Company of New London. Their job will be to ensure safe routes for troops on the move in Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wait... wasn't Obama supposed to bring troops home and end the war?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4LsSppYxSHk&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4LsSppYxSHk&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...Take that to the bank, yeah huh.... Which bank - the Federal Reserve?&lt;br /&gt;or maybe one of the ones that went belly up this year.(&lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1939510,00.html"&gt;123 so far in 2009&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how's that Hope and Change working out for ya?&lt;br /&gt;What a pity those 700 won't be spending the holidays with their families.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I pray they all come home safe and sound.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-7887819055150244068?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/KNmYWIm4QY0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/7887819055150244068/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=7887819055150244068&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/7887819055150244068?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/7887819055150244068?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/KNmYWIm4QY0/700-sent-off-to-iraq-from-ct.html" title="700 Sent Off To Iraq From CT" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/700-sent-off-to-iraq-from-ct.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0UEQHozfCp7ImA9WxNbE0s.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-8843463603737582026</id><published>2009-11-16T06:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T06:00:01.484-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-16T06:00:01.484-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="China" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Obama" /><title>Oba-Mao</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwDF8_iVY8I/AAAAAAAADiE/4PDgI723n0k/s1600/Oba-mao2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 244px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwDF8_iVY8I/AAAAAAAADiE/4PDgI723n0k/s320/Oba-mao2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404537204482859970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwDF1D_lzjI/AAAAAAAADh8/nOWqjPI6iKo/s1600/Oba-mao.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 209px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwDF1D_lzjI/AAAAAAAADh8/nOWqjPI6iKo/s320/Oba-mao.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404537068240358962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IvxbIK0d9jo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IvxbIK0d9jo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmhuZBEfFI8"&gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and this from CNN:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oZlnVlg00Cs&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oZlnVlg00Cs&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hah! "The shirt might offend him"... Are you kidding me? A Maoist like Obama would welcome that kind of glorification. He will probably buy one for each member of the White House staff and force them all to wear it under their uniforms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Communist Capitalists.. now that's Change we can believe in.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-8843463603737582026?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/LDnBXzLzNuM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/8843463603737582026/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=8843463603737582026&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/8843463603737582026?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/8843463603737582026?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/LDnBXzLzNuM/oba-mao.html" title="Oba-Mao" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwDF8_iVY8I/AAAAAAAADiE/4PDgI723n0k/s72-c/Oba-mao2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/oba-mao.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ak8HQH08fip7ImA9WxNbF0s.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-4778733493241046711</id><published>2009-11-15T21:10:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T21:00:31.376-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-20T21:00:31.376-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Obama" /><title>Obama Bows Down Again</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5U6fL7Y4BZA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5U6fL7Y4BZA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And before anyone says this was a cultural gesture ... No other world leaders bow to Emperor Akihito. Are all those other leaders lacking respect for Akihito? I think not.&lt;br /&gt;In a proper cultural meaning that gesture would have been simultaneously returned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;It wasn't.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And for men, the hands are at the sides.&lt;br /&gt;This bow wasn't even executed properly in accordance with Japanese custom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK - here's the full video...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aLBIMqHUm2A&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aLBIMqHUm2A&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By subordinating himself to other world leaders, this U.S. President has damaged the prestige of the office﻿ he holds and of the country. The press in other countries are now running stories with &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1228039/Obama-branded-Groveller-Chief-exaggerated-bow-Japans-Emperor-Akihito-son-ruler-authorised-Pearl-Harbour-attack.html#ixzz0WyVZWSQE"&gt;headlines calling him the Groveller-in Chief&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama did not bow to Queen Elizabeth. Michelle patted her on the back though. (hint: You don't touch the Queen)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/04/well-at-least-there-were-no-knuckle.html"&gt;He bowed to the Saudi King Abdullah&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Maybe Obama just grovels before people who buy our debt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;all men are created equal&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US President should bow down to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO ONE&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwdJmSR1TaI/AAAAAAAADi8/IvvC0rHlu18/s1600/Obamabow.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwdJmSR1TaI/AAAAAAAADi8/IvvC0rHlu18/s400/Obamabow.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406370799772061090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-4778733493241046711?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/Wf7XwBKn3Ro" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/4778733493241046711/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=4778733493241046711&amp;isPopup=true" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/4778733493241046711?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/4778733493241046711?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/Wf7XwBKn3Ro/obama-bows-down-again.html" title="Obama Bows Down Again" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/SwdJmSR1TaI/AAAAAAAADi8/IvvC0rHlu18/s72-c/Obamabow.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-bows-down-again.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0MCQX48fip7ImA9WxNbEkQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-8724166339458532780</id><published>2009-11-15T09:31:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-15T09:31:00.076-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-15T09:31:00.076-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Taxes" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Constitutional Rights" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="IRS" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Constitution" /><title>IRS And Alleged 5th Amendment Violations - Was The 16th Amendment Really Ever Ratified?</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/Sv9wSut3OFI/AAAAAAAADh0/g2ASSBVvATo/s1600-h/IRS.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 192px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/Sv9wSut3OFI/AAAAAAAADh0/g2ASSBVvATo/s400/IRS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404161544948234322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently, the Federal government sued William J. Benson &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;to censor and punish his speech&lt;/span&gt; disclosing &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;a major government fraud with respect to the federal income tax&lt;/span&gt;. Even as the Fifth Amendment protects our right to due process of law and prohibits the government from denying a person charged with illegal conduct the ability to defend himself, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the government &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thelawthatneverwas.com/new/home.asp"&gt;has refused to hear Benson's evidence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; proving government fraud!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, &lt;a href="http://fightbacknow.us/fight.aspx"&gt;the Federal Judiciary refuses to enforce the Constitution!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The authority of the federal government to collect its income tax depends upon the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the federal income tax amendment, which was allegedly ratified in 1913. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;After a year of extensive research, Bill Benson discovered that the 16th Amendment was not ratified by the required 3/4 of the states&lt;/span&gt;, but nevertheless Secretary of State Philander Knox &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;fraudulently announced ratification.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ongoing &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://fightbacknow.us/words.aspx"&gt;litigation in U.S. v Benson&lt;/a&gt; is a fight for all of us ...  and now includes an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1984, William J. Benson traveled to the capitols of all forty-eight states. There he obtained official, certified, copies of each State's legislative journals pertaining to the State's activities in ratifying, or not ratifying, the proposed 16th Amendment. Benson also traveled to Washington, D.C. and obtained from the United States National Archives, certified copies of the official documents pertaining to the proposed 16th Amendment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The legislative journals conclusively establish, that despite not having the power to do so, several States intentionally modified the language of the proposed amendment. &lt;/span&gt;Having done so, the States violated Article V of the United States Constitution, and their votes cannot be counted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Benson discovered other discrepancies too. He wrote and published a book on what he discovered, The Law That Never Was, Vols 1 and 2, available on his web site at &lt;a href="http://www.thelawthatneverwas.com/new/home.asp"&gt;www.TheLawThatNeverWas.com&lt;/a&gt; . &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The 17,000 official, certified, documents conclusively show that less than the constitutionally required thirty-six States voted to ratify the proposed Sixteenth Amendment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Without a validly ratified Sixteenth Amendment, the federal income tax is unconstitutional.&lt;/span&gt; Bill accused the government of a massive fraud and cover-up and urged the American people to exercise their rights under the First Amendment to petition the government to correct this fraud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2004, the government filed a lawsuit against Bill Benson. That lawsuit alleged Bill was falsely telling people the 16th Amendment was not ratified. The government asked the United States District Court in Chicago to issue an order preventing Bill from telling people what he found and preventing him from selling the supporting information through the Internet. The lawsuit also asked for the names and addresses of everyone who obtained Bill's information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bill attempted to defend against the allegations that he was lying by filing with the Court the evidence which proves he is telling the truth. The government, being wholly unable to refute the fact that the documents prove Bill is telling the truth, instead asked the Court to strike Bill's evidence from the court record.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Court struck Bill's evidence from the record, then ruled that Bill had provided no evidence to refute the government's allegations that his statements were false. The Court then issued an injunction making it illegal for Bill to tell the people what he had discovered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bill then filed an appeal with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Bill argued that when the District Court refused to look at and consider his evidence, he was denied fundamental due process of law. The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution mandates the government give a defendant, charged with violating the law, a fair hearing in which the Court must consider the defendant's evidence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, just like the government attorneys, refused to address this issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 4 states listed below are among the 38 states that Philander Knox claimed ratification from.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  * The Kentucky Senate voted upon the resolution, but rejected it by a vote of 9 in favor and 22 opposed.&lt;br /&gt;  * The Oklahoma Senate amended the language of the 16th Amendment to have a precisely opposite meaning.&lt;br /&gt;  * The California legislative assembly never recorded any vote upon any proposal to adopt the amendment proposed by Congress.&lt;br /&gt;  * The State of Minnesota sent nothing to the Secretary of State in Washington.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attorney Jeffrey A. Dickstein, will be filing an appeal to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and &lt;a href="http://jeffdickstein.com/pleadings.aspx"&gt;you can review the pleadings&lt;/a&gt; filed in this case so you can see for yourself the tyranny being practiced in our courts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8038065740979259195#"&gt;Interesting video here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-8724166339458532780?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/yRj9XVsncTo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/8724166339458532780/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=8724166339458532780&amp;isPopup=true" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/8724166339458532780?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/8724166339458532780?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/yRj9XVsncTo/irs-and-alleged-5th-amendment.html" title="IRS And Alleged 5th Amendment Violations - Was The 16th Amendment Really Ever Ratified?" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fKjCZyqaAaU/Sv9wSut3OFI/AAAAAAAADh0/g2ASSBVvATo/s72-c/IRS.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/irs-and-alleged-5th-amendment.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkcEQ3o6eSp7ImA9WxNbEk0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-4099685327746923433</id><published>2009-11-14T07:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T07:00:02.411-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-14T07:00:02.411-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Satire" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Humor" /><title>Saturday Humor  - Ford Unveils 2010 Car Model</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P8UtRNCztVI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P8UtRNCztVI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wheels to go from Mother-in-Laws to the Unemployment office and back .... hah!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another chuckle from the Onion.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-4099685327746923433?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/pIXScmf4Yew" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/4099685327746923433/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=4099685327746923433&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/4099685327746923433?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/4099685327746923433?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/pIXScmf4Yew/saturday-humor-ford-unveils-2010-car.html" title="Saturday Humor  - Ford Unveils 2010 Car Model" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/saturday-humor-ford-unveils-2010-car.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUUEQXo5fSp7ImA9WxNbEUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-3572438911710129790</id><published>2009-11-13T08:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T08:00:00.425-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-13T08:00:00.425-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Constitution" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="States Rights" /><title>Judge Andrew Napolitano - Secession 10th Amendment</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bPTbKMnxWGA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bPTbKMnxWGA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gov. Rick Perry had some &lt;a href="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/firstreading/entries/2009/11/12/_perry_midland_find_more.html"&gt;pretty strong comments&lt;/a&gt; about the Obama administration on Wednesday in Midland, saying, “This is an administration hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kRsMWaeDz8o&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kRsMWaeDz8o&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Washington - we don't want you mandating how to run our states" - Gov. Rick Perry &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Don't mess with Texas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1026295143562724742-3572438911710129790?l=yedies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~4/PIRrwe5kG5U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://yedies.blogspot.com/feeds/3572438911710129790/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1026295143562724742&amp;postID=3572438911710129790&amp;isPopup=true" title="8 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/3572438911710129790?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1026295143562724742/posts/default/3572438911710129790?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/COTG/~3/PIRrwe5kG5U/judge-andrew-napolitano-secession-10th.html" title="Judge Andrew Napolitano - Secession 10th Amendment" /><author><name>Judy Aron</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16590716396477486313</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09774387042582475265" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">8</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yedies.blogspot.com/2009/11/judge-andrew-napolitano-secession-10th.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkcERHk-eyp7ImA9WxNbEUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1026295143562724742.post-2799846325468350933</id><published>2009-11-13T06:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T06:00:05.753-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-13T06:00:05.753-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oathkeepers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Constitution" /><title>Oathkeepers - Educational Care Packages - OK4Troops</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Spq1N8ELHj8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Spq1N8ELHj8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;This is a drive to put &lt;a href="http://ok4troops.com/"&gt;Oath Keepers educational care packages&lt;/a&gt; into the hands of active duty military. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;This drive runs from Veterans Day, November 11, 2009, to Bill of Rights Day, December 15, 2009&lt;/span&gt;, honoring both those who served, and what they defended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tyranny cannot come to America if our military members refuse unconstitutional orders. We must remind them that their oath is to the Constitution, not to any politician or party; we must teach them about the Constitution they swore to defend; and we must steel their resolve to keep that oath. If we reach enough of them, it is game over for any attempt to destroy this Republic. Whether we reach enough of them will depend on what you do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Why This Mission is So Vital:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like ripples in a pond, you never know what ultimate effect each care package will have. Even one could lead to a whole company or battalion being good-to-go on their oath. But the more packages we get out there the faster the message of the oath will go viral, spreading far and wide, which is exactly what the enemies of this Republic dont want (which tells you precisely what needs to happen!). Make no mistake, the enemies of our Republic do not want the brave men and women in our military to understand the Constitution, their oath, or their obligation to refuse unconstitutional and unlawful orders. Would-be tyrants prefer blind obedience. The Founders understood this, which is exactly why they made the oath to the Constitution, not to any man or office, and why they put the oath requirement right in the Constitution itself. The oath is like kryptonite to tyrants, as the Founders intended. 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