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            <title>January 5, 2010: NOTICE OF MISCONDUCT and NEGLIGENCE, by USA-DHS and all agents, for discovery</title>
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;Tuesday, January 5, 2010&lt;br /&gt;Morning Roundup - January 5th&lt;br /&gt;From the Associated Press, on the President’s meeting with his national security team:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The government has added dozens of people to the ominous lists of suspected terrorists and those barred from U.S.-bound flights, a crackdown that comes as President Barack Obama is poised to announce changes to the nation’s watchlists.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the White House on Tuesday, Obama will speak in fresh detail about the findings of the urgent, sprawling reviews he ordered of how the government screens airline passengers and how it works to detect and track possible terrorists. Obama’s remarks, to come after his meeting with top security and intelligence officials, will outline steps designed to strengthen the watchlisting effort and to thwart future terrorists attacks, the White House said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The move comes after what officials call a botched effort by a Nigerian man to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas, one that exposed cracks in the nation’s security system, which is built upon the ability of agencies to share information and connect dots.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, people flying to the U.S. from overseas will continue to see enhanced security. The Transportation Security Administration has directed airlines to give full-body pat-downs to U.S.-bound travelers from Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and 11 other countries the U.S. believes have terrorism activity - a move criticized by one Muslim advocacy group.&lt;br /&gt;—————–&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Phone: +1 888-282-0870&lt;br /&gt;Email: &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:soc@us-cert.gov&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666&quot;&gt;soc@us-cert.gov&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tuesday, January 5, 2009&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DHS, all concerned, chill riot, or disband for cause:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have urgent media, to intervene in any court or agency, and for DHS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Flight 253 from Detroit was interrupted, by a deliberate, FAKE attack, not intended to actually destroy, but to cause review, as sympathy crimes are incited, severally, by rioters, illegally continuing at administration and courts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;UMAR the Nigerian was chosen for the non-attack, intended to warn, of need for dialog, since he resembles Ugandan MOSES MUSISI, an exhange student at former Awalt HS in Mtn.View, California, now MOUNTAIN VIEW HS, Truman and Bryant Aves.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Spring, 1968, MOSES MUSISI administered ‘The MOSES TEST,’ known to radical Islam, at that time. Young Americans did not understand the significance, but Idi Amin used it for profiling, as much as Nixon did, since Nixon was about to be elected President, Fall 1968.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;UMAR FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB intended no casualties, but you have refused to notice how JEWS ARE FROM ETHIOPIA, HITLER WAS PART IRISH AND JEWISH, AND SO HE DIVERTED ATTACK FROM THE UK, TO INVADE RUSSIA, TO DELIBERATELY FAIL AT WAR, BY DEGREE, ALSO CONTROVERTING DEFENSE FOR D-DAY AND USE OF THE ME-262.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You are despicable, at digesting fact.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You are rioting and inciting riot, in the several nations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You administer Bureau of Indian Affairs SO BADLY, the PRC is about to sue us out of anywhere we have no cause of action, to inhabit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You suppressed how the 1430s White Fleet of Ming wrecked in a hurricane, and sent wayfarers to England, bestowing cast arrowheads on the English, who didn’t pay, and so crossbows in 1800 years service since Han wound up shooting Europe, until Isabella sent Columbus, to find KFP, Edgar, Bengie, and Yao Ming’s people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YOU ARE ABOUT TO GET SUED OUT OF OFFICE, BY ANY MLB OR NBA ATTORNEY, WHO SUES.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The I-Ching was kept by China, which sent the Mayan Calendar, to the new world, without making the immigrants into eunuchs, you know?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On December 21, 2012, the world does NOT end, but China acquires a cause of action, to sue you frauds out, for alleging your use of energy is appropriate, at riot, where you incite mayhem, in nations, and in China, invading the last Emperor, from Taiwan and Tibet with B-24 Liberators for the CIA, and from the Yalu perimeter, where you got everybody killed, all the way back, to Inchon and Parallel 38.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You may not harbor Panmunjon and $800 billion, in Nixon’s unsecured, illegal, riotous, fraudulent DEBT.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do the MATH. You do NOT do history, math, law, ethics, or accounting, well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MOSES MUSISI was in Rear Admiral Ricketts Algebra II class, Spring 1968, and then you let his kid JAMES buy the Cubs! Don’t go the Ruthless House, with Rudy still at 3B, trying to draw a led zeppelin, to the on-deck circle, or to suck a two-man sub, into the Santa Barbara Channel, just because the Cubs used to do Spring Training, on Catalina Island.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ALL RIOT! CHILL. DESIST AT MAYHEM. Read on, as to WHY Damoclean attacks loom. Your riot contaminates all commerce, for order to chill.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DISBAND, you which remain at enmity, with the law and my courts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You need to notice, IMMEDIATELY, and react, and issue media, of apology, for injuring me and a class, for many years, and keeping us out of court:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. President Obama was out-dove, by a superior Bush-pilot, and so, we are stuck with a riotous, inciting administration, with ‘tude, from trying to lose to Joe Plumber, barking at Blago, and inciting cops to shoot young blacks, including Oscar Grant III, in California;&lt;br /&gt;2. He lost Prop.8 in Cali and Janet’s Governorship, and since she has neglected her afterthought, she prima facie EVADES REVIEW, at a riot;&lt;br /&gt;3. On March 22, 2009, at riot incited by the President, and deliberately unreported at that time, Lovelle Mixon shot five OPD, four to death, and he himself died, in the replying gunfire;&lt;br /&gt;4. Obama ignores all my writings, to any agent, and has beerS, with bozos, and the State of California lets gangs attack me, and performs false arrests, pro forma, SINCE BUSH, RIDGE, CHERTOFF, and CHENEY are still the real masters, of the Department of Homey Saxaphoney;&lt;br /&gt;5. Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize, makes Bill Crystol faces in the maudlin acceptance, since per Isaiah, even the ten tribes are from Cush, or ETHIOPIA, as non-stoners call it, where even Swiss scientists can find the origin of something Mussolini wanted;&lt;br /&gt;6. Obama gives himself a solid B+ for the first year, after bailing the same AIG I was warning in 2002, so it blew up and sent our tax money, to all the same Chinese bankers Nixon wooed, to burn us and the Peoples’ Army, while talks at Panmunjon languished, and the US swung toward stomping Shiites, after smearing the Sunnis;&lt;br /&gt;7. Tiger Woods learns, hookers have been stepping out on the billion-dollar Obama campaign bubble, poses for Annie Liebowitz, and gets caught, pro forma, in the jungle way, so WATCH OUT, FOR THAT TREE!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When do ANY of you liars with lawyers read Isaiah? Jews are from Ethiopia. The US and UK did a secret treaty, and bumped Aaron to bad guy, while repairing Abraham, and so riot, by his hand, under Isaac.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When do any of you seditious conspirators reply to my reports, or admit you lie, in print and broadcast, SO BADLY, the Chinese are about to blow past Dougie MacArthur’s plan to nuke them, to sue you, right out of every building in the US mainland, and give back 2 more?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THAT’S RIGHT!! You call the natives INDIANS and burn them, but they are CHINESE, usually, including from the Ming’s 1430 White Fleet, which you and the British like to hide.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No Renaissance ensues, without that White Fleet wrecking in a hurricane, and in the course of repairing and sending part back to China, to decommission April 6, 1437, some units made way, to Britain. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The cast arrowheads made longbows effective, for Robin Hood, and since he paid so badly, crossbows in 1800 years of Chinese service since Han went to Europe, where they shot it all up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Isabella sent Columbus, as an afterthought, to Hispaniola, where he reported he had found a way, to CATHAY, and so Queen Isabella and the Vatican concocted a way out of the world’s sudden round nature, with the distorted ruse, about how the New World housed INDIANS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You may not retreat in error, from CIA missions to overfly China in 1948, or from the Yalu perimeter in 1952-3, to Inchon and Parallel 38, without some accounting, for how you suppressed ME, injured ME, and injured the FBI, which tried to report how 911 terrorists were already in the USA!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why do the NSA and CIA get to collar the FBI, and defeat alarm, and then you suppress how JEWS ARE FROM ETHIOPIA, again?!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You have been suppressing the SAME ISSUES, in my witness, since Spring 1968, when I was a 16-year-old HS junior, at Chester F. Awalt HS, in Mtn.View, California, now called Mountain View High, but then, we were in Admiral James Ricketts’ Algebra II class, for bright but not overwhelming little adders, since smarties were in Captain Capito’s smart-as-animals math class, for cool crips like Steve Hawk.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Both Captain Capito and Rear Admiral Ricketts helped plan D-Day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We were under the same surveillance, which Time-Warner and Guthy-Renkar would soon use, to fabricate false media, as all popular music from AC-ZZ, in catalogs, for punk, funk, gospel, jazz, anything.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At CAL, the illegally continued corporations and connections flipped Windows, to Gates and Jobs, and sold music, made from my playing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The same people on all sides of entertainment were watching that math class, in old CF Awalt HS. These included many Muslims, including some from Uganda, where our 17-year-old exchange student MOSES MUSISI was from. Moses administered the MOSES TEST, as Nixon ran, faster.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Idi Amin saw, how our class and DAN MASDEO were comical, but uninformed, about how historic Moses and Aaron were distorted, as the US and UK prepared illegal religious media, from illegal establishment of the riot of Abraham, in the USA, constitutionally forbidden, and severally profiteering, in violation of RICO.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Israel was illegal, under our laws, THEN, and as when RICHARD NIXON was elected, AND when Richard Reid pretended to attack, but rather demonstrated a shoe-Jew media, which has been suppressed, in bad faith, the several years since 2001.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Israel and media affected by this are removing all accounting, law, history, and math, from any effective education, and so no school or hospital will admit deregulated power cooked its bond issues, and yet Mr.Obama just let Congress burn energy with a Senate, and the states burn energy with 49 senates, while Nebraska pretends it cannot fathom, why its state never borrows money!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, Jews really are from Ethiopia. Do we fetch Judge Mazz (Michael Mazzariello, Street Justice), for dire review?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Your failure to assess how the mob of Abraham killed Moses, Aaron, and any Ethiopian aspirants like Moses’ wife and kids escaped you, as did the Santorini-Thera eruptions, responsible for ending both the Minoans, and later, the Habiru occupation, of Egypt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Flight 253 subject UMAR FAROUK ABDUMUTALLUB was chosen, as an evocative actor, not as a destructive actor, but you seek to blame him, for taking a message, which is typical of you trash, which suppress my cost-testimony, ever since deregulation of energy was touted, and yet you prosecute me, with foreigners, in SCCo.Super.Ct., like KEVIN SOLOMON of MVPD, who known to all and al Quaida is an Irish clown, over here enforcing Art.I Sec.9 violating attainders, including Megan’s Law, illegally modified at class, WITH NO HEARING.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AL QUAIDA knows, when you don’t hear class issues.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In fact, you are injuring me, with State of California, this moment, to profiteer, and so, you must contact me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When our Algebra II class didn’t know Moses too well, IDI AMIN killed millions. I didn’t think it concerned us, until I was ripped for music AND Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson made Entebbe movies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then, I could see a lot of overproduction media, aimed at me, like David Bowie’s YOUNG AMERICAN, made from my guitar playing, or he would have no resurgent career, foreshadowing the Iranian Revolution.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe Moses made it, to Canada.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;UMAR of Flight 253 was chosen because he closely resembles Moses Musisi, in frame and face, with more hair, like Barack Obama now has.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;UMAR of Flight 253 was chosen because he has an ominous look, similar to #23 MICHAEL JORDAN, see the famous shot of the rachet-jam, at the exact moment, when the ball hits the rim. This shows UMAR’s features.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This well-planned media is made, merely to communicate, how YOU RIOT, per your President Nixon, in different roles, defining misconduct, for generations to come.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9/11 hijacker Kaleed Sheik Mohammed looked like my CAL college classmate SAM BEGLER, from Beverly Hills. This attack happened mere days, after an incident at BAKER BEACH in SF-GGNRA, where a gang allowed to occupy North Baker attacked my friend, and then the hijackings went down. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What a coincidence, but this repeated, soon, with the London and Mumbai attacks, concurrent with local police and agency misconduct.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But weirder was how on September 30, 2005, I was arrested at local Bubb School, and transported to Santa Clara Co.DOC, to be abused in custody as civil rights attack, by up to eight COs, including SHAB, ZOMPOLIS, SIGNORINO, and WHEELER, who may be related to a corrupt person on the local school board, trying to hide energy costs like AIG, and yet pay out to foreigners or any other tainted person, here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They broke my wrists, elbows, shoulders, and right front tooth, and evaded all reviews and investigations, to abscond, in a RICO gang, conspiring to violate all laws and our local Brown Act, by agendas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Simultaneously, radical Muslims bombed Australians, in Indonesia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Something is up. UMAR of Flight 253 looked like MOSES MUSISI.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My illegally continued BB940085 in D87 Palo Alto Division, Judge KOH, SCCo.Super.Ct. is represented illegally, by Public Defender MARK DAMES, who is like a sword of Damocles, over our peace.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This court is located at 270 Grant Avenue, Palo Alto. Nearby is the PHOENIX SELF-HELP CENTER, where I am typing this report.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I believe the Flight in Detroit bisects these addresses, deliberately. A gang of persons, connected to both INNVISION of Santa Clara County’s OPPORTUNITY CENTER and to County of Santa Clara is trying to establish a whorehouse, at the 231 Grant Avenue address, known to Palo Alto Police, SCCo.Sheriff, and all, across the street AND ALL OVER THE WORLD, for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I may be a known material witness, which YOU must submit, or suffer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The hookers and pimps here have been wrecking our PCs, and trying to establish interstate bookings, from their behavior, installing SKYPE and MOZILLA, on Windows XP, which is always a disaster, but the subjects here want a whorehouse, since the offices next door closed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Right now, all radical Muslims know your riot and resistance to notice are the same, SINCE RICHARD NIXON OR RICHARD REID.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Right now, all radical Muslims know you suppress me, and they know your misconduct and malfeasance runs, RIGHT BETWEEN 270 GRANT COURTHOUSE AND 231 GRANT PHOENIX DROP-IN CENTER, where the PCs are inclined to malfunction.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You allow city attorneys in California, to injure us, while Jerry Brown slept with Linda Ronstadt, to profile us, for so much surveillance, he cannot prosecute Dr.Conrad Murray, for fear I will make court, to denounce all of them, for making my music with Michael Jackson, while the entire riot, the Lakers won championships, but look at Kobe and Magic at the funeral, together, with a busy-panties case and a dose of HIV, since they were profiteers, at the same riot, attended by Whoopi Goldberg, who just tainted current Coach Phil Jackson, with the same overproduction feed, to my music, used by Nixon and Elizabeth II patrons, always illegally favored!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DON’T KEEP IGNORING ME AND MY INFORMATION, TO ALLOW R.S.MUELLER III, to continue in re CR98-0087, where he fabricated and destroyed three sets of evidence including trial evidence, he upset the ice-skating media for years in re Yamaguchi-Kerrigan-Harding incidents, and yet you pretend, to administer, without chilling riot, since Eisenhower!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YOU MUST CONTACT ME, OR FAIL, BEFORE USDC, or when the PRC sues you out, for calling their children, INDIANS, and cheating them, of value, while burning energy, like pigs at their own racetrack!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YOU DO NOT MANUFACTURE ANYTHING, BUT FALSE EVIDENCE AND FRAUD ON COURT. YOU HAVE NO WAY OF CONTINUING, WHEN THE CHINESE PUT THE MAYAN CALENDAR, ON RECORD, WITH THE I-CHING AND WHITE FLEET FACTS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You need a new Director, NOW, if only to keep Cheney from red-stating all over your negligence, as you blow your election lead, to ZERO.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don’t underestimate EID MUBARAK, as something to avoid crossing, CRUSADERS. Jews are from Ethiopia, Cush-smoking, crackhead PRESIDENT! The original gangster may have been ABRAHAM. His mob devised, to slay Moses, by stoning.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That Flight from Detroit numerology is too tight. The planners intend you should enter me into evidence, or fear your own fraud on court, already discovered, already sentenced, IF YOU FAIL TO REFORM, NOW!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call me, in good faith, since you and your Harvard creeps kept me out of ALL of Obama’s tainted media, since 2006.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Clean up your act and your riot, before somebody meaner than you hurts us, as lawful or simply deserved coercion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You may not assert Panmunjon and debt, to China, and threats, to all of us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You may not tempt volcanoes, tsunamis, hazmats, nuclear bombs, unfair business practices, and riotous incitement, to coerce misconduct.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also call:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1-866-289-9673&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:1-866-289-9673tsa-contactcenter@dhs.gov&quot;&gt;tsa-contactcenter@dhs.gov&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt;

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 &lt;div&gt;My first blog post of the New Year is a political one.&amp;#160; I was hoping to have finished reading Terry Pratchett&amp;#39;s, &lt;em&gt;The Color of Magic&lt;/em&gt; and writing a review about that, but I haven&amp;#39;t finished it yet, and this story is rather important, politically.&amp;#160; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But first, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and had a blast on New Year&amp;#39;s as the ball dropped!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, back to the politics.&amp;#160; I hope my next blog post is a novel review.&amp;#160; lol...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, here it is.&amp;#160; The article is from the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_democrats2010&quot;&gt;Associated Press&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - via Yahoo News:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;cite class=&quot;vcard&quot;&gt;By LIZ SIDOTI, AP National Political Writer&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;cite class=&quot;vcard&quot;&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;cite class=&quot;vcard&quot;&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;abbr class=&quot;recenttimedate&quot; title=&quot;2010-01-02T13:28:33-0800&quot;&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;p&gt;WASHINGTON – An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To minimize expected losses in next fall&amp;#39;s election, President Barack Obama&amp;#39;s party is testing a line of attack that resurrects &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_0&quot;&gt;George W. Bush&lt;/span&gt; as a boogeyman and castigates Republicans as cozy with Wall Street.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Four
House Democrats from swing districts have recently chosen not to seek
re-election, bringing to 11 the number of retirements that could leave
Democratic-held seats vulnerable to Republicans. More Democratic
retirements are expected.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Over the holiday break, another Democrat, freshman &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_1&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;&quot;&gt;Rep. Parker Griffith&lt;/span&gt; of Alabama, defected to the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_2&quot; style=&quot;background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;&quot;&gt;GOP&lt;/span&gt;.
&amp;quot;I can no longer align myself with a party that continues to pursue
legislation that is bad for our country, hurts our economy, and drives
us further and further into debt,&amp;quot; said Griffith, who voted against
Democrats&amp;#39; three biggest initiatives in 2009: health care, financial
regulation and reducing global warming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the Senate, at least four Democrats — including &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_3&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;&quot;&gt;Majority Leader Harry Reid&lt;/span&gt; of Nevada and five-term &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_4&quot; style=&quot;background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;&quot;&gt;Connecticut&lt;/span&gt; Sen. &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_5&quot;&gt;Chris Dodd&lt;/span&gt; — are in serious trouble. The party could also lose its grip on seats Obama held in Illinois and &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_6&quot; style=&quot;background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;&quot;&gt;Vice President Joe Biden&lt;/span&gt; long occupied in Delaware.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Going
into 2010, Democrats held a 257-178 majority in the House and an
effective 60-40 majority in the Senate, including two independents who
align themselves with Democrats.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But they face
an incumbent-hostile electorate worried about a 10 percent unemployment
rate, weary of wars and angry at politicians of all stripes. Many
independents who backed Democrats in 2006 and 2008 have turned away.
Republicans, meanwhile, are energized and united in opposing Obama&amp;#39;s
policies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The one thing that heartens Democrats
is that voters also don&amp;#39;t think much of the GOP, which is bleeding
backers, lacking a leader and facing a conservative revolt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;House
Democrats began an ad campaign in December assailing Republicans for
opposing legislation restructuring federal financial rules and
recalling the final days of the Bush presidency, when the economy
tanked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Remember? We all know we should never
let this happen again,&amp;quot; the ad says. It lays into Republicans for
voting &amp;quot;to let Wall Street continue the same risky practices that
crippled retirement accounts and left taxpayers on the hook for $700
billion.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maryland &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_7&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;&quot;&gt;Rep. Chris Van Hollen&lt;/span&gt;,
who heads the House Democrats&amp;#39; campaign arm, said his party wants to
remind voters who was on their side at a difficult time. &amp;quot;&lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_8&quot;&gt;The Republican Party&lt;/span&gt; in Washington today is no different than the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_9&quot;&gt;Republican Party&lt;/span&gt; that ran the Congress before,&amp;quot; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But
that was three years ago. Democrats have been in control since, and
Bush is long gone. This is Obama&amp;#39;s country now. Democrats tried to use
Bush against &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_10&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;&quot;&gt;Republican Chris Christie&lt;/span&gt; in the New Jersey governor&amp;#39;s race in November — and &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_11&quot; style=&quot;background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;&quot;&gt;Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine&lt;/span&gt; still lost.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A
top Democratic priority is minimizing losses among nearly four dozen
seats the party now holds from moderate-to-conservative districts that &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_12&quot; style=&quot;background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;&quot;&gt;Republican John McCain&lt;/span&gt; won in the 2008 presidential race. The most vulnerable in that group include Democratic Reps. &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_13&quot; style=&quot;background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;&quot;&gt;Mary Jo Kilroy&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_14&quot;&gt;Ohio&lt;/span&gt;, Harry Teague in New Mexico, &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_15&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;&quot;&gt;Frank Kratovil&lt;/span&gt; in Maryland, &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_16&quot;&gt;Tom Perriello&lt;/span&gt; in Virginia and &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_17&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;&quot;&gt;Travis Childers&lt;/span&gt; in Mississippi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reps. &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_18&quot;&gt;Bart Gordon&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_19&quot;&gt;John Tanner&lt;/span&gt;, both of Tennessee, were in that group until they chose to retire. So was Griffith, before he switched to the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_20&quot;&gt;GOP&lt;/span&gt;. Retirement announcements from Reps. &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_21&quot;&gt;Dennis Moore&lt;/span&gt; of Kansas and &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_22&quot;&gt;Brian Baird&lt;/span&gt; of Washington put two more Democratic seats in swing-voting districts on the GOP&amp;#39;s target list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Democrats
insist that Gordon, Tanner, Moore and Baird are leaving for personal
reasons and are not the first ripple in a wave of retirements akin to
1994 when 28 Democrats chose not to run, and Republicans won control in
part by winning 22 of those seats.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Republicans don&amp;#39;t agree.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Democrats
are beginning to see the writing on the wall, and instead of choosing
to fight in a difficult political environment, they are taking a pass
and opting for retirement,&amp;quot; said Ken Spain, a spokesman for the House
GOP&amp;#39;s campaign arm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The GOP will be defending
at least a dozen open seats because of retirements, with several
lawmakers leaving the House to run for higher office.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
The situation for Democrats in the Senate is nearly as grim.
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Democrats crowed after six Senate Republicans — four from &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_23&quot;&gt;swing states&lt;/span&gt; Florida, Ohio, Missouri and New Hampshire and two from GOP-leaning Kansas and Kentucky — announced retirements.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spirited GOP challenges are now expected in all six states, and
Republicans say they are optimistic they retain the seats. An
emboldened GOP also is looking to put a pair of senior Senate Democrats
our of office.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reid, who is seeking a fifth term, is faring poorly in surveys
in a hypothetical matchup with Nevada GOP chairwoman Sue Lowden, one of
several Republicans competing for chance to challenge him.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dodd, the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee chairman
who has taken heat for a discounted VIP mortgage loan he got from a &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_24&quot;&gt;subprime lender&lt;/span&gt;,
has been consistently behind potential GOP challenger Rob Simmons in
Connecticut polls. Simmons, a former House member, has his own
challenger in World Wrestling Entertainment co-founder Linda McMahon,
who also is seeking the Republican nomination for Dodd&amp;#39;s seat.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Also vulnerable are &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_25&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;&quot;&gt;Sen. Blanche Lincoln&lt;/span&gt;, a moderate Democrat in GOP-leaning Arkansas, and Sen. Michael Bennet in Colorado, who was appointed when &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_26&quot;&gt;Ken Salazar&lt;/span&gt; became Obama&amp;#39;s interior secretary.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Republicans have high hopes for picking up Senate seats in
Illinois and Delaware that were held by the president and vice
president, respectively. Neither of their appointed successors is
seeking election to the seats.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Early polling shows GOP &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_27&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;&quot;&gt;Rep. Mark Kirk&lt;/span&gt;
leading among Republican candidates in Illinois. Veteran GOP Rep. and
former two-term Gov. Mike Castle is running in Delaware. Biden&amp;#39;s son,
Democratic state Attorney General &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1262467729_28&quot;&gt;Beau Biden&lt;/span&gt;, is considering whether to challenge Castle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, the Dems are worried.&amp;#160; They should be, and so should the Republicans.&amp;#160; People are pissed at a government that spends too much and bailing out bastards who shouldn&amp;#39;t be.&amp;#160; I hope this coming Mid-Term Election both parties reap what they have sown.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until next time...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Wil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial, sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;Nothing
is more fashionable nowadays than dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction
with our possessions, our living standard, our social status, society
itself. &amp;quot;Those youths are getting worse by the decade!&amp;quot;
some proclaim. &amp;quot;This sure can&amp;#39;t be everything!&amp;quot; others
presume. The common question appears to be: &amp;quot;Where are we
going?&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial, sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;We
are raised to identify with the idea of never having enough and
usually further it throughout adolescence, until we finally find
ourselves financially independent enough to afford us all the
luxuries we could possibly desire. Some of us succeed in this
mission, some of us fail. What is striking, though, is that there
seems to be no tangible difference in personal happiness between
people who achieve mentioned material ideal and those who don&amp;#39;t. As
far as reason goes, there is no direct proportion between material
wealth and overall satisfaction with life – yet the modern media
and, more dangerously, schools - are still adamantly lecturing us
otherwise. It is popularly said that our children are our future; we
might very well be painting a gloomy prospect for them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial, sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;Students
frequently have no choice but to ditch the arts, music and humanities
in order to focus on more “marketable” subjects such as
mathematics and foreign languages. Changes to curricula are made,
more “business-like” topics introduced and made mandatory.
Students questioning the purpose of certain content or the importance
of assignment grades will commonly be confronted with the argument
that selected topics and “good” exam results (which are often
derived from repetition rather than understanding) are vital in
increasing their chances to land a high-paying job. What hardly
anyone asks or explains is why students, or anybody else for that
matter, are supposed to need a high-paying job in the first place.
Education is profoundly tainted by the circumstance that individuals
in our time are forced to study for mere business purposes instead of
being given the chance to appreciate knowledge for what it should be,
namely the expansion of one&amp;#39;s personal horizon, not an enforcement of
one&amp;#39;s own commodification. A materialist society, however, does not
covet an excessively educated individual; it instead desires the
cultivation of dedicated consumers bound by brand-loyalty, which is
best enforced from infancy onwards. And while museums, scientific
research units, libraries and theaters struggle to survive,
politicians and journalists alike hypocritically mourn over the
unprecedented decomposition of culture and inflation of academic
certificates.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial, sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;Both
conditions are self-induced and self-inflicted. Growing up in a
materialist society, one is “educated” to erroneously believe
that wealth equals happiness. While there is indeed an indication
that basic financial stability contributes to contentment, there is
no proof that amassing any material possessions beyond the
comfortably need-meeting standard really does equal an increase in
happiness. Quite the contrary: &amp;quot;status symbols&amp;quot; are often
paid for by the equivalent of longer working hours as well as more
stressful working conditions, leading the individual to spend less
time in their own freedom and more time devoting themselves to the
generation of income, at the expense of their social and physical
health.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial, sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;In
order to be able to support a materialist lifestyle as propagated as
highly desirable by modern society, its education and media, people
are increasingly forced to devote the better part of their waking
hours to a profession they feel no commitment to, but are compelled
to execute solely for its monetary reward. In such, workers - this
may include the picker in the factory as well as the lawyer - are
required to sell, and therefore partially become, a product which
frequently reflects themselves in no way at all. In a time where
company ideologies swallow humans whole, there is little room for
progressive non-conformity and free-thinking esprit - at the cost of
entire generations&amp;#39; personal ideas, potential for growth, mental
health and overall enjoyment. The latter are attempted to be
compensated for by the individual in his scarce spare time, which,
naturally, comes at an additional price - as the entertainment,
leisure and pharmaceutical industries line up to ensure to sell it
back to us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial, sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;We
have already cultivated a society in which the majority know how to
engineer a website, but on the other hand have no inkling of what
their purpose in society, let alone life, might consist of. Instead
of assisting in the pursuit of this existential question, materialism
reduces the validity of an individual&amp;#39;s existence to the contents of
their living room. &amp;quot;Success&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;failure&amp;quot; are
words that are no longer attributed to features of character, but
merely reflect society&amp;#39;s evaluation of the figures on one&amp;#39;s bank
account.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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in the face of all this, we seriously bemoan the cultural decadence
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; &quot;&gt;I say Mr.Obama gets an F, and fuck him, for his CIA history profiles.

China&amp;#39;s White Fleet led to the Renaissance, including of European weapons of war, unnoticed, suppressed, since the 1430s, leading to the known outcome, of WWII:
All the TV, movie, and book media leads to 2012, when the world&amp;#39;s oldest book, the I-Ching, wraps up its mysterious nature, with the Mayan Calendar, which definitely ends, December 21, 2012. 

This is probably because all those years of Victoria, Beth of Death, Nixon, Bush, and Cheney left all the Dickies at riot, in no condition to manage a nation. 

ALL RIOT! Chill, desist at mayhem, and disband, if you don&amp;#39;t get it. 

If you UNDERSTAND, I can get a court, to give you benefit of doubt, like in Islam! Wouldn&amp;#39;t that be nice? 

If not, eat PRC agendas, puppies. I won&amp;#39;t hang around, for PRC, attorneys, other creditor nations, and USDOJ to sort you haters out: 
1. The WHITE FLEET sailed the world, in the 1430s, left hurricane-wrecks in the mis-named Indies, re-built, and sailed home, leaving many persons, behind, on islands; 
2. Some person(s) landed in England and bestowed cast-arrowhead design, in service since Han, for 1800 years; 
3. Robin Hood didn&amp;#39;t pay enough, so the longbow was doomed to be eclipsed, by the Chinese CROSSBOW, which turned up in Europe and killed many thousands, until Isabella wised up, and sent Cristopher Columbus, to find Chinese on Hispaniola; 
4. ISABELLA incited riot in the several continents, since 1492 or whenever the Europeans and Vatican devised to distort the origin of the land-bridge and naval occupied Asians they found, and abused, by killing them and calling them, &amp;#39;INDIANS;&amp;#39; 
5. GET OUT OF MY POOL, STANDING ARMIES WHO CANNOT STOP SHOOTING AT SITTING BULL!!~!!! The PRC, Koreas, Japan, Russia, and any other abused person may sue you American rioters, out of your homes and offices, TODAY, pigs!! 

So MEANWHILE, geeks with little, tiny, crossed-up heads try to hog all the haggle, preventing notice of fraud, waste, and abuse, leading to FATAL CROSS-CONTAMINATION OF ALL AMERICAN TRANSACTIONS, when the Chinese sue your stupid, ignorant, unenameled butt, right out of USDC and out of your house, if you continue at riot, stupidly. 

Got a cross? Put it where Jesus&amp;#39; dust cannot impose itself, or toss it, cross-creeps. 

You RIOT, against the Jews, to claim an end to their simple volunteerism, and to confuse the criminal ABRAHAM, with Moses brother, Aaron, who with Moses fashioned a calf, to explain how Santorini-Thera erupts, and how it ended the Minoans before, and in 1350 BCE, he wanted the Habirus to go HOME, TO ETHIOPIA. 

They stoned him as soon as the tablets broke. 

Get your gay, crusading asses and depleted uranium shooters, OUT OF THE REST OF THE WORLD. 

You war-creeps let foreign Nixonians walk into our police stations, and abuse the natives. We are NOT from India, pigs, etc. Stuff your yogurt back in there and learn to say, &amp;#39;Namaste!&amp;#39; 

You took the Egyptians six-point star, causing Germans to take the Hindus&amp;#39; swastika and invade Ethiopia, in WWII. 

The next try at making SH*T out of everybody for your narcissistic, floppy-eared OBAMA will have a tragic result. 

You will NOT achieve your stinking, two, gay-as-Christ goals, to stay in Jerusalem, namely, to stomp Sunnis like flop, push through SHIITES, and wind up in CHINA, talking crap. 

You will drop your loads along the roads, AND WALK AWAY CONTENTED, or we sue piggies and piggar-Obama.

The reason for our word CRAP is Tommy invented the commode. 

The reason for the more famous offal slang, is the BRITS got their TITS twisted by Saladin, and to stay in Jerusalem now, they want to invade China AND the Shiites, and smear the Sunnis, which they have done in part, with US support. 

Ugly Shitters do not deserve to live, without a Chinese coloscopy, since the Chinese are going to have to fund our healthcare, anyway. 
&amp;quot;After all, the people of Germany trusted Hitler because he was a moving and powerful leader that rescued the nation from a crushing depression and restored national pride lost during World War I. Look what happened to that nation when trust was given rather than doubt.&amp;quot; -Katie 

&amp;quot;As much as I am OBAMA supporter, I believe. . .&amp;quot; -trapped 

The Chinese Mings sent a White Fleet, which disgorged any passenger, responsible for both the Renaissance and for weapons, in service for 1800 years, since Han, to wind up first, as cast arrowheads with longbows, in English service, then as crossbows, in European wars, which inspired Isabella of Spain to send Columbus. 

He found CHINESE SAILORS from the 1430s White Fleet, wrecked in a hurricane, and their descendants, on Hispaniola. 

Cris told Izzie he had found a way, to Cathay. Instead, the Vatican and Euro-trash royals cooked up the crock, of Indian migration, to thwart Chinese claims, despite their shattered dishes and other remnants, all over the Caribbean. 

See KFP on 3B, SF Giants, with Edgar at short? You WILL pay rent, to pass this, Dodgers, Meats, and all. You know that, as sure as Bake gets up early, as sure as Cosby had Robbie and Cedric Fielder on, to sketch Kung Fu Panda, 20 years ago! 

You may not distort the very nature of natives, these years, and assert debt or Indians, dewds and tripping chickens. 

Yao Ming and T-Mac are bound to get better, and crash the Rockets&amp;#39; lineup. And then, they can sue you and your CIA, right out of your problems, as soon as you fart. 

Mr.Hitler was an Austrian, part Irish, from mercenary involvement in continental wars. 

Mr.Hitler threatened, to invade Russia, at any time, his subject Germans threatened to kill a lot of Jews, since Alois Hitler, Adolf&amp;#39;s grandfather, was a Jew. 

Hitler therefore killed all the Germans, sundries, AND Russians he could kill, and then he delayed preparation for D-Day defense and deployment of the critical ME-262 fighter, by designating it as a bomber, until moved. 

Of course, Rommel and any several thousand relatives of the now-scarce Stauffenbergs perished, trying to kill him. Ambiguous reference to Ashkenazi Jews neat of NDAP clarifications as to how they called themselves &amp;#39;NAZI,&amp;#39; because of Adolf and any other assimilated Semites is the source of much deadly confusion. 

Of course, Israel shows how Americans eat royal British spam-penis, at media, since the Brits co-opted our entire media, so none of you US DDs knows, Jews are from Ethiopia, despite all the O.G. you meats smoked yourselves with. 

KUSH is Ethiopia, DDs. The original gangsta was ABRAHAM, a converted 10-tribe-bastard, from a dump, called UR. As in, &amp;#39;ERROR!&amp;#39; Most of you are too stoned to think, but you didn&amp;#39;t do any Rommy to get there, either. You know? 

When the Kennedys didn&amp;#39;t pan out and Stalllone sketched Rudy and Ruth coming in, the law was NOT going our way. 

We have until 2013 to sort this out, or the Chinese can sue us down, piggars. See my blogs, for details and class action issues. 

As for Obammy, he slammed me and tried to lose the election, by out-diving experienced Bush-pilots McCain and Palin, by leaving THEIR DD Joe Wurz on Debate III, for an unexplainable half-hour, while Bammy crammed Fred Armison faces, into the production, to make up for two years of whoring, on a billion dollar campaign budget, while coming up with nothing, but clean coal, only tards from Pennsylvania could masturbate at. 

Obammy is going home, as into the Lynyrd Skynyrd files, DDs and hostages, 2011. 

Got STAR TREK? Episode 49, A piece, call him SPOCKO. Episode Merrickus? I deserve a pardon, yo. Sweet home is not where we live, forever, Obama-fannies.

O&amp;#39;Fool gave himself a SOLID B+, for year one! Go back, to STANFORD, Mr.O&amp;#39;bozo!

Tiger Woods got into that Caddy and whacked a tree, to take us back to the old school, since he has been piping all kinds of Obama hookers, and some of them are getting big, Debbie Rowe money.

Watch out for that tree, as George&amp;#39;s Jungle is in the bunghole, O&amp;#39;pigs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt;

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major portion of an American-Indian reservation&amp;#39;s economy. Annually, thousands
of tourists visit reservations and most will not leave without purchasing at
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was able to outsell his competitors in the sale of wooden dolls by selling them
at only a fraction of the cost others had to charge. On examination of his
dolls they found that where traditionally hard wood was used, this Indian would
use cheap pine on which he glued thin pieces of fine mahogany, thus being able
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&lt;p class=&quot;section1&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;&quot;&gt;While he claimed his
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;i just heard another one of the democratic scum, that say they represent america, calling anybody that didn&amp;#39;t want this socailist healthcare bill passed a right wing terrorist.who the hell do these people think they are,what country were they elected to office,what makes a congressman or a senator think they can say this... first pelosi then reid and now whitstone,all three of them should be tried for treason,shot and buried in some other country.since when does a elected official get to stand up in congress and tell the american people they are not americans for disagreeing with them,they should be impeached and then arrested. 

    
    
    
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;This morning, I read an interesting blog post by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulareed.blog-city.com/the_left.htm&quot;&gt;Paula Reed.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160; Her entry was based on a quote she&amp;#39;d received by email:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“The Left: People who demonize those with whom they disagree.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My first thought was to think of how so many neocons today are masters at the art of projection: they take what is commonly done by neocons and turn it around saying it&amp;#39;s really liberals doing it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Personally attacking one&amp;#39;s opponents, instead of coming up with reasoned rebuttals to their ideas is intellectually dishonest and is a symptom of the creeping anti-intellectualism in this country; an example of the dumbing-down of America.&amp;#160; It&amp;#39;s much easier to blame liberals for everything that&amp;#39;s wrong in our world today, than to come up with ideas on how to fix these problems together.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gone are the days of erudite conservatives, such as William Buckley. Also largely gone are those conservatives, such as Barry Goldwater, who was able to often put ideological differences aside and work in a bi-partisan manner with his Democratic colleagues (now, I bet that is a word you don&amp;#39;t hear too much in Washington nowadays) for the good of the country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, it&amp;#39;s neocon pundits, such as Limbaugh, Savage, and Coulter, among many others, who have brought the black and white, simplistic tactic of using ad hominems against their opponents in from the far right fringes of the tinfoil hat brigade into mainstream conservative thought.&amp;#160; Or what passes for thought.&amp;#160;&amp;#160; This is not to say that the left is entirely free of such nonsense -- there are liberals, such as Rosie O&amp;#39;Donnell, who could hardly be called intellectual.&amp;#160; But those such as O&amp;#39;Donnell hardly have the reach or the influence tha those in the pantheon on the right wing do&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I heard a prime example of this type of anti-intellectualism the other night while listening to the radio.&amp;#160; A man called the Dennis Miller show to express why he rejected intelligent design.&amp;#160; Miller didn&amp;#39;t give him much of a chance to speak.&amp;#160; Instead he cut him off to say that he couldn&amp;#39;t get on board with Darwinism because he just couldn&amp;#39;t get into the idea of &amp;quot;worshipping a pile of amino acids&amp;quot; and that he liked the idea of an intelligent being creating life on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My jaw dropped when I heard this nonsense.&amp;#160; I could not believe that Miller, a former liberal and former cast member of Saturday Night Live -- in other words, someone who should know better -- was spouting off such simplistic ideas.&amp;#160;&amp;#160; There was once a time when being a conservative did not mean one also had to accept intellectually bankrupt, fundamentalist Christian beliefs as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of the Buckley types being the mainstream of conservatism, we now have the Archie Bunkers of the world running the Republican party, which is a sad thing for old-school Republicans and the party in general.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt;

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addition to appearing in films, Stewart has been spending much of the
last decade performing on the British stage. He is to be knighted by
the queen on this year&amp;#39;s New Year&amp;#39;s Honours list. (The news isn&amp;#39;t
official yet; the newspaper bases its report on anonymous sources.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Palace sources said the Queen is a huge fan of the 69-year-old, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;If he is knighted, Stewart will join fellow &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; star Ian McKellen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Thought some of you may also be a fan, and might think this was cool as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a more seasonal note, I want to thank those of you who actually read my blog.&amp;#160; I truly do appreciate the fact that you find the stuff I post interesting enough, that you are willing to come here to read and participate.&amp;#160; And I thank you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas - or, if you are of a different faith, whatever the equivalent is to you - and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.&amp;#160; May your Christmas be white, and your beverage warm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May your God(s) - and Goddesses - be with you this season.&amp;#160; And if you don&amp;#39;t have a god, then may you be plentiful with family, and gifts.&amp;#160; But most importantly, love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merry Christmas.&amp;#160; Until next time...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Wil&lt;br /&gt;

                        

                       

														
			
												


			



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