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This report just in:

After spending 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle dress, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys, the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army will be returning to the U.S.

On the face of it this sounds like good news, doesn’t it? Except for this very important fact:

Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.

This new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.

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Take a look back at the debate of 2000 when Al Gore, then Vice President and the Democrats’ candidate for POTUS met in debate with our current president, then Governor George Bush of Texas.

As we watched we thought of the way we were. How naive we were then; how gullible to think he was tellin’ us the truth and nuthin’ but! The lyrics of the song “Ain’t It Funny How Time Changes Things” come to mind.

We’ve already discussed the GOP’s nefarious use of the direct marketing industry list development technique called caging. The Republican party counts this technique among its many useful dirty tricks to disenfranchise voters of a certain socio-economic class.

Reports out of Michigan indicate the Macomb County GOP plans to use the list of foreclosures in the state to challenge the eligibility of voters in targeted areas.

Do not be fooled citizens. Michigan is not the only place where you can expect to see this method used to slow down, delay and cause confusion at the polling places. This technique will most likely be used all around the nation (more…)

James Carabelli, chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, recently announced plans to challenge voters eligibility by using a list developed from home foreclosures. The election challenge would be based on residency. “We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses.” (more…)

Here’s a look at how some imagine the future will be if busy hockey mom Sarah Palin, who last we heard put herself at the top of the Republican ticket–calling it Palin/McCain, becomes Vice President of the United States:

Thanks to K. Gulick

This current picture of the U.S. dollar was supplied by a reader:

Thanks Mystic.

John Q. Public and Jane Taxpayer ask:

Why should Wall Street get bailed out by me when I’m getting screwed?

Your congressional representative is in a position to demand from Wall Street certain conditions in return for the blank check. Here are a list of five suggestions from former Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration, Robert Reich:

“1. The government (i.e. taxpayers) gets an equity stake in every Wall Street financial company proportional to the amount of bad debt that company shoves onto the public. So when and if Wall Street shares rise, taxpayers are rewarded for accepting so much risk.

2. Wall Street executives and directors of Wall Street firms relinquish their current stock options and this year’s other forms of compensation, and agree to future compensation linked to a rolling five-year average of firm profitability. Why should taxpayers feather their already amply-feathered nests?

3. All Wall Street executives immediately cease making campaign contributions to any candidate for public office in this election cycle or next, all Wall Street PACs be closed, and Wall Street lobbyists curtail their activities unless specifically asked for information by policymakers. Why should taxpayers finance Wall Street’s out-sized political power – especially when that power is being exercised to get favorable terms from taxpayers?

4. Wall Street firms agree to comply with new regulations over disclosure, capital requirements, conflicts of interest, and market manipulation. The regulations will emerge in ninety days from a bi-partisan working group, to be convened immediately. After all, inadequate regulation and lack of oversight got us into this mess.

5. Wall Street agrees to give bankruptcy judges the authority to modify the terms of primary mortgages, so homeowners have a fighting chance to keep their homes. Why should distressed homeowners lose their homes when Wall Streeters receive taxpayer money that helps them keep their fancy ones?

Wall Streeters may not like these conditions. Well, you should tell them that the public doesn’t like the idea of bailing out Wall Street. So if Wall Street doesn’t accept these conditions, it doesn’t get the blank check.”

We concur wholeheartedly. No bailout for inept Wall Street money managers without specific conditions and proper oversight regulations. We’ve been around long enough to know for sure whenever we hear the words, “deregulation is good for consumers” we realize we need to hold on to our skivvies, ’cause we’re ripe for the rip-off.

Call 1-888-426-0462 Senator Harry Reid. He’s the majority leader in the United States Senate.
Tell him to just say “NO!” to the current proposed bailout for Wall Street. You know the one designed by BushCo and Treasury Secretary Henry “Hank” Paulson.

If the proposed bill does not provide for the taxpayers, aka the government–that’s you and me, that’s us, to have an equity stake in every company we bail out. Reid should reject the proposal. (more…)

It is being reported the McCain campaign is sending absentee ballot applications to registered Democrats or people who have donated to Senator Obama’s  campaign. These ballots are deliberately misleading and have postage paid return addresses that are for an election clerk that is outside of your city or town. What this will do is either have your vote not counted, or if you return one of these, you could be cited for election fraud, saying that you already voted as an absentee.

These ballots are only being sent out in “purple states” otherwise known as swing states. This is a big deal. This practice is called voter caging.  It is a huge problem. (more…)

With more and more evidence of J Mack being out of touch with current events and the conditions of ordinary citizens comes another ad from the Obama campaign, along with a previous ad which points to good old John McCain’s shortcomings.