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Iran has taken command of its nuclear technology and could have an atomic bomb in a year, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz was quoted as saying Wednesday, citing Israeli intelligence. (emphasis added)

Now I read the Putin of Russia is preparing for a "full scale invasion’ of the Georgian breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to begin upon the believed to be imminent attack upon Iran by the United States."

Meantime, the U.S. has dispatched another carrier group into the Persian Gulf:

During a visit to Mexico City, US defense secretary Robert Gates said April 29 that the arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf should be seen as a reminder of US military power in the region. He flatly denied the US was preparing the ground for military strikes against Iran. But as DEBKAfile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly have reported in the last ten days, the carrier’s arrival and additional US military steps have underscored the hardening of US rhetoric against Iran.

Looking at the Percentage Price Oscillator (PPO),

The Percentage Price Oscillator is found by subtracting the longer moving average from the shorter moving average and then dividing the result by the longer moving average.

What does all the mean? It means that Treasury Bonds are set to continue higher resulting in lower long yields. It means that interest rates are set to come down a lot! Bonds go up, yields go down.

The lows since since December, 2007 have been 4.26%, then 4.23% and lastly in March, 2008, at 4.17%. We are currently at 4.51%, just off from 4.61%. I could see the long bond trade at 4% and below!

BTW, the Two Year Treasury Yield ($UST2Y) looks like the rally is over. It could go back and test the 1.35% low set in March. It is currently at 2.29% The Ten Year Treasury Yield ($UST10Y) also looks like the rally is over . It could test the low yield of 3.34%. It currently is at 3.77%.

What does it all mean? It may mean the economy is weaker than we are being led to believe. It may mean there is a flight to safety. It may mean that the huge flows of capital directed at banks are finding their way into purchases of safe items rather than take a chance on loaning money.

map 2.3 2008/04/29 04:26:44 45.121N 120.939W 19.5 13 km ( 8 mi) ESE of Maupin, OR

Back to Back 2.3s!

Maupin Earthquake Mover Mike

I was checking out some of the other blogs that have been invited to blog for the Forbes.com Business and Finance Blog Network and came across Two Pennies Earned and Amy L. Fontinelle's Eight Financial Tips For Young Adults

One of the tips. if you want to have a comfortable and prosperous life is:

5. Start saving for retirement now.

Fontinelle mentions compound interest. It is much easier to understand the magic if you see the power this hoary chart presents. I think it was developed by Richard Russell, who writes Dow Theory Letters many years ago.

As you can see, if you had invested, when you were 19, $2,000 each year in an IRA for only seven years ($14,000), you would have more money at retirement than if you had waited seven years to start. And, as a result of waiting, you would have had to invest 11 times as much to get near the same result.

That's a huge lesson to learn at 19!

Chris Goldfinger and colleagues at Oregon State University, Corvallis, analysed sediment records from deep sea canyons that stretched back over the last three thousand years, looking for the disturbed strata that are the hallmarks of big earthquakes.

Their evidence also suggests that the Cascadia is 90 years overdue for a "big one".

Welcome! Here's what you will find at Mover Mike: I was a stockbroker for almost 30 years so I post about The Economy, The Trade Deficit and the Dollar, Troubled Companies, Precious Metals, Gold, Inflation, and Government Statistics. I like to illustrate my points with charts and graphs

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April 18 marked the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart, in which it rejected legal challenges to the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.

While opponents of the ban claimed numerous lawsuits would be brought forth to challenge the Supreme Court's ruling, thus far no challenges have been filed.

Snow made spectacular sights in the winter of 2007 (photo Tiffany Boothe, Seaside Aquarium)

The Beach Connection, covering 180 miles of Oregon coast from Astoria to Florence, has pictures of the beach snow and reports about the impact on tourism.

map 3.1 2008/04/28 00:39:07 45.129N 120.940W 18.8 12 km ( 8 mi) ESE of Maupin, OR

map 1.4 2008/04/27 10:34:52 44.985N 121.186W 9.2 20 km (13 mi) SE of Pine Grove, OR

Maupin Earthquake Mover Mike

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Long Valley Caldera Earthquake Reno Earthquake Swarm

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Wikipedia defines Peak acceleration (%g) as

Peak ground acceleration (PGA) is a measure of earthquake acceleration. Unlike the Richter magnitude scale, it is not a measure of the total size of the earthquake, but rather how hard the earth shakes in a given geographic area.

The book refers to Felix's web site iceagenow.com . Climate Patrol.com has a video of Felix making a presentation in Coeur de Alain in March of 2007. This sure runs counter to Al Gore's claims:

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From the AP in The Oregonian, Snow could slow campground openings.

Many campgrounds in eastern Washington and northern Idaho will be opening later than usual because of heavy snow and a cold spring...

Some sites may not open by Memorial Day, the traditional start of the heavy camping season and snowdrifts could block access to lookout towers well into July.

Some scientists worry about the "albedo effect" The classic example of albedo effect is the snow-temperature feedback. If a normally clear area is snow covered, the area cools and the snow doesn't melt, the albedo increases, less sunlight is absorbed, and the temperature tends to decrease. The converse is true.

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

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China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century.

In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.

Wallowa Lake is a perfect morainal lake, which means it was formed by a glacier (about 9 million years ago). The lake is 5 miles long, and a mile wide, with a depth of 283'.

Wallowa Lake has a problem and the problem may have a negative effect on the community surrounding the lake and farmers dependent on the waters for irrigation. The problem: Wallowa Lake is frozen!

The condition of this glacial lake at a 4,300 feet elevation typifies something that worries farmers, ranchers and county officials across much of eastern Oregon: Snowpacks aren't melting, storage reservoirs aren't refilling, and chilly spring temperatures have delayed the growing season.

In addition to the lakes staying frozen, the water content of the state snowpack is averaging 185% of normal for this time of year.

"It has been gaining; it hasn't been melting," (Jon Lea, a hydrologist with the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service) said of the snowpacks, which ordinarily would be sending millions of gallons of spring runoff frothing downstream into storage reservoirs.

Grey Canada carried a chart showing sea levels for the last 24,000 years. It shows that sea levels started rising 22,000 years ago and plateaued 7,000 years ago. Glaciers stop growing, then melt and sea levels rise. Water vapor comes off the ocean, rises and makes snow, the snow packs build, the sea levels fall and we go into an ice age. The last ice age ended 11,500 years ago. IMO, Wallowa Lake and the heavy snowpacks are telling us that the next ice age has begun.

Do you think it racist because it shoes a picture of Obama as a black man?
Did you know he was black before you saw this ad?
Do you care whether he is black or white?
Suppose the ad used William Ayers and quoted him saying he was sorry he didn't bomb more buildings as a Weatherman. Would that be wrong?

Rush Limbaugh, who has no love for the Republican Party's nominee, takes McCain to task for proudly presenting himself as a independent maverick, but wants the Republican party to toe the line. Rush says, "What's wrong with the rest of us being independent mavericks?" Rush challenges McCain to tell us what is racist about the ad.

Wednesday, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., in an interview with Bill Moyers, said his words were twisted taken out of context. If you are wondering, check out this piece by Brian Ross at ABC News on March 13, 2008. I think if my minister speaks like this, I am tacitly or explicitly agreeing with him, if I continue to sit in his church. It certainly seemed to rub off on Mrs. Obama when she finally was proud of America referring to her husband running for president. How can it not have rubbed off on Sen. Obama? What is the difference with this hate speech and the hate speech that goes on in the Muslim mosques around the world?

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map 1.7 2008/04/23 10:50:07 47.610N 120.296W 5.8 10 km ( 6 mi) SW of Entiat, WA
Entiat is directly north of Maupin)

map 1.0 2008/04/22 19:35:53 44.488N 122.702W 8.0 10 km ( 6 mi) E of Waterloo, OR

map 1.5 2008/04/22 18:51:13 45.135N 120.935W 14.9 12 km ( 8 mi) ESE of Maupin, OR

map 1.4 2008/04/22 16:44:21 45.153N 120.911W 20.5 14 km ( 8 mi) E of Maupin, OR

map 1.9 2008/04/22 11:41:24 43.646N 122.232W 3.7 22 km (13 mi) ESE of Oakridge, OR

map 1.9 2008/04/21 04:30:40 45.119N 120.934W 13.2 13 km ( 8 mi) ESE of Maupin, OR

map 1.7 2008/04/21 01:15:45 42.622N 122.407W 5.7 16 km (10 mi) NE of Butte Falls, OR

map 2.2 2008/04/20 19:11:18 45.480N 117.491W 8.1 5 km ( 3 mi) WSW of Lostine, OR

map 2.4 2008/04/20 03:01:33 45.136N 120.954W 14.0 11 km ( 7 mi) ESE of Maupin, OR

Maupin Earthquake Mover Mike

Is American Idol rigged for a stand off between the two Davids? Are Americans nuts to keep Jason who should have been gone two or three weeks ago?

It used to be that we penalized those who screwed up on the live show.

The two women who sang their hearts out, landed in the bottom two and one had to leave. Syesha or Carly? I can't believe America voted Carly off. She easily should be in the top two. I can't believe these two were even in the bottom two. From now on, if I watch, it will only be to watch Syesha and David Cook sing.

The structure...rises about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above the surrounding sections of the (Mid-Atlantic) ridge, coming within 1,300 feet (400 meters) of the surface.

At its base the volcano is approximately 30 miles (50 kilometers) across. The peak contains a depression known as a caldera that is 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide.

Here's the tie to Oregon. So much of the earth is covered by water that "...ocean scientists studying a swarm of earthquakes off the Oregon coast are having a hard time pinning down the temblors' source, because much of the seabed is poorly mapped.

BTW, the fifth earthquake in one day was a 3.8!

MAP 3.8 2008/04/22 15:54:07 43.011 -126.109 10.0 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

Oregon Earthquake Mover Mike

MAP 3.9 2008/04/22 05:35:21 43.311 -126.444 10.0 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

MAP 4.0 2008/04/22 03:58:51 43.212 -126.223 10.0 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

MAP 4.1 2008/04/22 03:17:04 42.967 -126.748 10.0 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

Oregon Earthquake Mover Mike

Jobs Americans Won't Do? We don't think so!

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My friend T. Fraser Stern at T F Stern's Rantings writes

I was watching the Astros game a while ago and watched as the Rockies center fielder (Ryan Spilborghs) attempted to catch a fly ball; what should have been a lead off double by (with the score 3-2 Rockies) Blum turned into the first out. Had he (Ryan) caught it “on the square” it would have been a great play; but the ball momentarily was dislodged from his glove, rolled on the grass and he was able to gather it back quickly. His back was to the infield and the umpire couldn’t see how the ball had gotten out and quickly retrieved.

The fans booed Ryan Spilborghs for several minutes. Astros fan TF says "What kind of hero would intentionally lie in front of an entire stadium full of fans just to record a single out?"

Apparently, some think it's ok to cheat. Rarely does it happen in golf.

Droke writes in his latest article, "...the message of the bond market is one of the more exciting and optimistic messages being sent anywhere in the financial markets right now and it behooves us to pay close attention to what bonds are saying."

Droke first looks at the Libor Rate Chart since the first of the year.

...the Libor rate has been coming down conspicuously ever since then and has not approached the high levels of fear of over two months ago. The public remains afraid, yet the monetary powers are clearly not as worried over the state of U.S. financial affairs as they were earlier this year.

The Treasury yield curve is calculated by dividing the 10-year Treasury yield into the 3-month T-bill. On a very basic level tells you gross profit margins of financial institutions. They borrow short-term money and loan it out at long-term yields.

The next chart Droke looks at is the 2-year Treasury yield minus the Fed Funds Target Rate

Whenever this graph shows a rising trend, it indicates improving monetary liquidity. Whenever the graph goes above the “zero” line and into positive territory it means that monetary liquidity has been turbo charged and the results will be powerful. The trend has been rising for some time and isn’t far from going into positive territory.

Finally, Droke has a chart of Securities Lending and Permanent Open Market Operations:

Droke says "The Fed has been loaning securities at a rate not seen in its history."

That's why he says, “Look forward, not backward. Better times are coming!”

map 1.6 2008/04/18 01:55:04 45.140N 120.934W 16.1 12 km ( 8 mi) ESE of Maupin, OR

map 1.5 2008/04/18 00:26:30 45.318N 121.732W 8.5 19 km (12 mi) ESE of Mount Hood Village, OR

Maupin Earthquake Oregon

Robert Frank looks at the lives and culture of the wealthy.

It’s posted daily in the Wall Street Journal. So much is made lately in politics about class envy and class warfare, soak the rich, penalize the rich, the rich are not paying their fare share etc. that it’s interesting to read recent PNC Wealth Management survey of 1,500 Americans with $500,000 or more in investible assets. It “found that 69% of respondents made most of their fortune through work, business ownership or investments. Only 6% made their wealth by inheriting it, while 25% made it through a combination of inheritence and earnings.”

Think of the businesses that were started like Google (GOOG) or Microsoft (MSFT) or Exxon (XOM), where the owners are fabulously rich and see how many are employed in the businesses: GOOG has 16,805 employees, MSFT has 79,000 and XOM 107,100.

In Another Reason the Middle Class Resent the Rich The Wealth Report reports on a Pew Research survey of the middle class and found conflicting views of the rich:

* They are split on how the rich got there. Fully 47% of those surveyed say the wealth of the wealthy is mainly the result of having good connections or being born into wealth, while 42% say it’s mainly the result of hard work, ambition and education.

* Those in the upper classes (56%) are more inclined to cite hard work, ambition and education as reasons behind their wealth than are those in the middle (42%) or lower (32%) classes.

* Asked if success in life is determined by forces outside one’s control, the upper class disagreed (69%) more than the middle (62%) or lower (51%) classes.

Clearly, the class warfare that is practiced in this country is detrimental to our economic health because it spreads disinformation about the way to wealth and the impact of new business on the employment needed for our growing and changing population.

PS, I feel so strongly about this issue of class warfare that I'm co-posting it at my blog, The Landfair Retail Focus, at Home Accents Today.

Do you see that the highest 20% and the second highest 20% paid more in taxes aftwer the tax cuts than before. Now why would any of us in the lower income levels want to roll back the tax cuts and allow the rich to pay a smaller percentage?

The WSJ has a column that leads to another question. Why would anyone vote for Obama if they are concerned about taxes and government spending. Obama wants to raise the capital gains tax (CGT) back to 28% (Clinton would like it back to 20% from the current 15%). The WSJ points out as did Charlie Gibson, by the way, that every time we lower the CGT we increase tax revenues. Both Obama and Clinton want to penalize the rich for being successful and promise not to raise taxes on those earning less than $250,000. According to the IRS and the WSJ

Both candidates would have voters believe that taxes on investment income only affect the rich. But that's not what Internal Revenue Service returns show. The reality is that the Clinton and Obama rate increases would hit millions of Americans who make well under $200,000. In 2005, 47% of all tax returns reporting capital gains were from households with incomes below $50,000, and 79% came from households with incomes below $100,000.

One more thing, if your issue is the war in Iraq, only the Democrats have called for bringing back the draft. Ostensibly, to energize the peace movement. But it still would mean a loss of freedom for your children.

Ceres, which is partly owned by XL Reinsurance America Inc (XL.N:)

and Stanfield Capital Partners had assets of $1 Million and liabilities between $50 million and $100 million! "SIV assets have been difficult to value since the mortgage market collapse..."

Scientists say Ohio's earthquakes are linked to an ancient scar six-thousand feet deep that is known as the Akron Magnetic Boundary. The fault runs diagonally through Summit County and into Geauga, Lake and Ashtabula counties and was formed when North America tried unsuccessfully to split a billion years ago.

The (5.4M) earthquake occurred in the Wabash Valley fault system, adjacent to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, (Dave) Applegate, (USGS senior science adviser), said.

That zone, named for the town of New Madrid, Missouri, was the site of a series of huge tremors in 1811 and 1812.

map 1.3 2008/04/17 14:53:51 45.322N 121.707W 9.2 21 km (13 mi) E of Mount Hood Village, OR

map 1.5 2008/04/17 12:44:40 45.324N 121.725W 8.6 20 km (12 mi) E of Mount Hood Village, OR

map 1.9 2008/04/17 08:05:07 45.320N 121.732W 8.5 19 km (12 mi) E of Mount Hood Village, OR

Mount Hood Village, OR Earthquake Mover Mike

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Both would extend our deterrant umbrella to Israel meaning if Iran attacks (or wipes out) Israel with nukes, then we would drop the almighty hammer on Iran in retaliation. Both insist that Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons. Now if I am a cowboy on my horse and a rattlesnake is about to attack, do I wait until he bites or shoot first? Wait, shoot first? Wait or shoot first?

"Credit-default swaps (CDS) worldwide expanded to cover $62.2 trillion of debt in 2007 as investors rushed to protect against losses triggered by the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market." so reports the the New York-based International Swaps and Derivatives Association as reported in Bloomberg. The market has grown from $34.5 Trillion in 2006.

The CDS swamps the subprime market in size 6-fold. The entire U.S. mortgage market is $11 Trillion and the subrime is only $1 Trillion. Some are worried that 10% of the CDS market or $6 Trillion could go bad, dwarfing the subprime problem.

Credit-default swaps, traded by banks and securities firms including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., are the fastest-growing part of the $454.5 trillion market for over- the-counter derivatives, financial instruments derived from stocks, bonds, loans, currencies and commodities, or linked to specific events like changes in the weather or interest rates.

Under a CDS, a bank originates loan to a company. A second bank (or other financial institution) can agree to cover the credit risk for the loan, by agreeing to make payment to originating bank if the company defaults on the original loan.

What happens if your loan goes bad, but the counter-party is overwhelmed with losses and can't make good on the insurance? Since everyone is trying to manage risk with derivatives and the biggest risk is the counter-party risk, expect to see some kind of hedge used in conjunction with CDS to manage that risk. It's just junk piled upon junk!

map 2.3 2008/04/15 14:41:01 42.386N 122.826W 4.6 5 km ( 3 mi) S of White City, OR

Maupin Earthquake Mover Mike

I am “clinging to religion” because it guides my moral compass and helps me make the right choices. I am clinging to my gun to protect my home and family because I live too close to Detroit. I cling to view on immigration because my country is being invaded and over run with slave laborers who are driving down wages and bankrupting our social services.

I think he has tapped into something. There is an anger out there. An anger about the ever increasing spending by our government, but some things don't get any better. Our highways are falling apart, our kids don't all get a good education even though we keep spending more money on the schools. Our country is overrun by aliens and our government can't secure the borders. The drug war has been lost a long time ago and we've lost how many generations to drugs.

We spend a trillion dollars on a war, yet we have some 40 million people without health care. Compared to Japan, Taiwan, Germany, the Nordic countries and tiny Switzerland who insure that all citizens have universal health care, we in the U.S. are facing ever higher health insurance premiums and 16% of our GDP is spent on health care. We have the most expensive system and the fewest covered. It is unheard of for a family to declare bankruptcy over health cost in the aformentioned countries. Here 700,000 people declare bankruptcy every year because of medical costs. But the government keeps promising they will fix the problem if we spend more money on the solution.

Damn right the middle class is fed up with politicians.

Another thing that makes me outraged is the YouTube video on Mish's site about lawyers training corporations and HR departments on how "to game the immigration system."

"[O]ur goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker," says Lawrence Lebowitz, director of marketing for the Pittsburgh law firm Cohen & Grigsby, before an audience of employers at the firm's conference.

The trick, according to Cohen & Grigsby attorneys, is to only go through the motions of hiring Americans without ever intending to.

It makes me sick to see Americans teaching others how to screw fellow Americans. Shame on them!

Action Item — Please Sign Petition

by Irene Davis at ADMC

After passing the Secure Fence Act last year, certain members of Congress "gutted" the legislation and along with it any hope that a real fence would be constructed.

Roughly 25 miles west of Naco, AZ, the U.S./Mexican border is delineated by a seven-strand, barbed wire fence. The fence here is divided by a simple cattle guard, often used by drug runners. The two-wheeled dirt road leading into the U.S. is remotely sensored to monitor any traffic heading north. photo credit "Robert Ludwig/GWP"

A double-layered fence was promised to the American people, and I am holding leadership accountable and demanding they make good on their promise.

Two bills are currently in Congress that seek to reform and reinstate the Secure Fence Act. I support these bills, and urge you to do so as well.

I have created a petition at Grassfire calling on leadership to put the will of the people first and take the necessary steps to protect our borders from invasion.

The "Restore The Fence" petition will be presented at this Thursday's press conference on Capitol Hill. We'd like to add as many signatures as possible before then. So please go here and sign the petition:

Build the Border Fence as Promised!

Then telephone and email as many friends as possible and ask them to sign it as well.

Thanks for joining with me.

Ms. Irene Davis

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map 1.5 2008/04/12 16:37:18 45.139N 120.928W 16.7 13 km ( 8 mi) ESE of Maupin, OR

Maupin Earthquake Mover Mike

I posted last week that Linens 'n Things May File Chapter 11 Tuesday. Gifts & Decorative Accessories wrote Sunday

...at least two retail liquidators have already conducted inventory valuations and store closing assessments in upward of 100 Linens ’n Things (LNT) units that might be shuttered.

At the same time, many suppliers, including at least some of its majors, have either stopped shipping LNT or placed them on COD status, people familiar with the situation said.

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The beleaguered retailer has apparently been preparing for that eventuality for at least two weeks, not long after its fourth quarter conference call in which it reported a steep net loss of $62 million on anemic sales of $962.9 million. During that time, LNT merchants and others have been calling around to vendors gathering formal corporate information on them — including mailing addresses and names of senior executives — the kind commonly included in court filings listing unsecured creditors.

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A GE spokesman confirmed that its Commercial Finance unit is the lead agent on a $700-million revolving credit facility to Linens 'n Things, but declined to comment further.

Apollo Global Management bought Linens in a LBO and has filed a prospectus to go public "and is negotiating (with a couple of other firms) to buy $US12 billion of leveraged debt from Citigroup," which would help Citigroup.

Like Sun Capital "some of Apollo's other buyouts are said to be finding it tough, including real estate group, Realogy, the parent of the real estate companies Coldwell Banker and Century 21, and another chain, Claire's Stores, a jewelery, cosmetic and accessories chain catering for young women."

While I was watching the John Adams final hour on HBO last night, it occurred to me the fight between statists and those loving personal liberty was going on, hot and heavy back then just as now. The Hamiltonian branch pushed Adams for a standing army and a national bank similar to the FED. Jefferson, who understood Hamilton, and Adams argued about these topics for years:

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" Thomas Jefferson*

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, (i.e., the "business cycle") the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States 1801-1809

Then there's Sen. Barack H Obama and his comments about the little guy and bitterness. Here's one comment posted at PoliPundit:

I am “clinging to religion” because it guides my moral compass and helps me make the right choices. I am clinging to my gun to protect my home and family because I live too close to Detroit. I cling to view on immigration because my country is being invaded and over run with slave laborers who are driving down wages and bankrupting our social services.

This Elitist snob is so out of toch it’s scarry.

MAP 4.3 2008/04/14 06:40:03 44.744 -128.935 10.0 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

MAP 4.8 2008/04/14 05:38:34 44.331 -129.322 10.0 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

MAP 4.2 2008/04/14 05:20:45 44.390 -129.360 10.0 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

Oregon Earthquake Mover Mike

The true costs of illegal immigration: Healthcare!

100% Preventable! Americans continue to pay the bloody price for open borders. When will the madness end?

100% Preventable follow up: One family faces the crushing grief caused by open borders and lax enforcement.

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