Chatroom Arguments: 2010

Thursday, December 30, 2010

ToeChopper Truck in the December Snow Storm (LaGuardia Airport)

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Federal pay ahead of private industry

Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds . . . Read the Article

Friday, December 17, 2010

Veterans Benefit Resource

Many thanks to Tidal Pool for the following:

Many thanks to mac_talla for this contribution:

YULE LIKE SOLSTICE

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle light.
In summer, quite the other way.
I have to go to bed by day.

-Robert Louis Stevenson-

Solstice- either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator. The winter solstice (also referred to as Midwinter and Yule) occurs on 21 December.

An utterly astounding array of ancient cultures built their greatest architectures -- tombs, temples, cairns and sacred observatories -- so that they aligned with the solstices and equinoxes. Newgrange, is a beautiful megalithic site in Ireland. This huge circular stone structure is estimated to be 5,000 years old, older by centuries than Stonehenge, older than the Egyptian pyramids. It was built to receive a shaft of sunlight deep into its central chamber at dawn on winter solstice. Maeshowe, on the Orkney Islands north of Scotland, shares a similar trait. Hundreds of other megalithic structures throughout Europe are oriented to the solstices and the equinoxes. The blossoming field of archaeo-astronomy studies such sacred sites in the Americas, Asia, Indonesia, and the Middle East. Recent research into the medieval Great Zimbabwe in sub-Saharan Africa (also known as the "African Stonehenge") indicates a similar purpose. In North America, one of the most famous such sites is the Sun Dagger of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, built a thousand years ago.

Many medieval Catholic churches were also built as solar observatories. The church, once again reinforcing the close ties between religious celebration and seasonal passages, needed astronomy to predict the date of Easter. And so observatories were built into cathedrals and churches throughout Europe. Typically, a small hole in the roof admitted a beam of sunlight, which would trace a path along the floor. The path, called the meridian line, was often marked by inlays and zodiacal motifs. The position at noon throughout the year, including the extremes of the solstices, was also carefully marked.

Neolithic peoples were the first farmers. Their lives were intimately tied to the seasons and the cycle of harvest. In modern times, when so few of us are involved in the production of our own food, we have lost that awareness of just how dependent we truly are on the abundance of mother earth. Midwinter day gives the least period of light followed by the greatest period of darkness. For those who watched the heavens in ancient times, it must have seemed as if the sun was standing still or diminishing entirely. Indeed, the word-solstice-means standing sun.. Many, many cultures the world over perform solstice ceremonies. At their root: an ancient fear that the failing light would never return unless humans intervened with anxious vigil or antic celebration. Virtually every culture has its own special celebration to encourage the light on this day, but a common theme of solstice celebrations, everywhere, is the burning of fires to rekindle the dwindling sun. Throughout northern Europe where winters are severe, the solstice fires were lit indoors.

The rebirth of the sun. The birth of the Son.

Christmas was transplanted onto winter solstice some 1,600 years ago, centuries before the English language emerged from its Germanic roots. Is that why we came to express these two ideas in words that sound so similar? The yule log in your fireplace and the coloured lights on your Christmas tree are your solstice fires. They come to you in a direct line from your neolithic ancestors attempting to rekindle the sun.

Stand in the sunlight at mid-day on 21 December, and face your shadow. This is the longest it can be all year. Consider the deeds of your life, the extent at which the shadow of your own influence has fallen on the earth. Upon whom has it fallen? How have you affected the world in which you live?

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For the first time ever, the 2007 Winter Solstice illumination of the passage and chamber at Newgrange was streamed live on the internet. The video is about about an hour long and well worth the time.

http://www.newgrange.com/webcast.htm

For those with shorter attention spans or more pressing issues, a far shorter video on New Grange and the solstice can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0MCWL3wcis&feature=related

And finally, for those who wish to know the precise time their shadow is longest:

http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/2011.shtml

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Informative Wall Street Journal Article on Assange/Freedom of Press

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703814404576001921148451638.html

ToeChopper First Amendment Expression

Sunday, December 5, 2010

State By State Welfare Assistance: From NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/25/us/20090126-welfare-table.html

Funny Video About the TSA

Thanks Andrea 2-U:

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Food Safety Bill Passes with Amendment for Smaller Farmers

Thanks to leesah_1.

Excerpt: "Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is a farmer, added an amendment approved by the Senate that would exempt small farmers and those who sell directly to consumers at markets and farm stands."

. . . Read the FULL ARTICLE

BBC - Doctors 'deny elderly treatments

"Researchers writing in the Quality and Safety in Health Care journal said it demonstrated doctors in the NHS were guilty of ageism", according to a BBC report . . .

. . . Read the FULL ARTICLE

Child Abuse Cases Rise in Australia

"An Aboriginal child was 7½ times as likely to be abused than a non-indigenous child and more than nine times as likely to be placed in care . . ."

Read FULL ARTICLE from WAToday.com

The Population of Palestine Prior to 1948

http://www.mideastweb.org/palpop.htm

Monday, November 29, 2010

Quantitative Easing Explained

Thanks to MosesKnows for bringing this video to the attention of the room:

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Interview: Tidal Pool Knighted

WHEN
US EST: 9 pm, Dec 2
GMT: 1 am, Dec 3
SYDNEY: 2 pm, Dec 3

TOPIC
In October 2010, TidalPool, a regular chatter in 2 Way Street, traveled to Europe to be knighted. Tidal pool will talk about his experiences.

INTERVIEWER
MopNGlow

INTERVIEWEE
TidalPool

DETAIL

Tidal's family motto is "helfen, wehren, heisen", meaning "help, defend, heal". He is now a member of the Teutonic Knights of the Hospital of St marys in Jerusalem, founded in the 1000's and early 1100's. His family has been part of it since the 1300's.

Materials
tbd

Links
tbd

Audio
http://www.archive.org/details/MopnglowShow12-02-2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

The rainbase / toechopper interview

Many thanks to Lazerlupine for recording the following:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheOutOfTheRainShow.SpecialGuest.Toechopper11222010

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Echoes Of 1930s In Health Care Debate

Thanks to bellarosa_2 for bringing this article to our attention:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112345150

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Dancing With the Stars

How to vote !

1-800-868-3407

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Take the Political Compass Test

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Capitalism

MosesKnows took this picture at the 912 Freedom Rally. Thanks Moses:

Thursday, November 11, 2010

My Name is Lazer L.

Thanks to Lazerlupine for the following:

Am I addicted to PalTalk? OMG A question surely pondered by we international cyber travelers who find ourselves in these rooms. It appears whenever I have spare time, I find myself here, tuned into my friends and acquaintances from all corners of the globe discussing the important issues of our day, and the not so important issues that add an extra measure of fun to my existence. Sometimes, I really feel like I have a monkey on my keyboard.

For those few eyes that may find these words in a Paltalk blog, and don’t know of what I speak, Paltalk is an international voice and text chat program located on the web at www.Paltalk.com. My best analogy for Paltalk is 21^st century HAM radio where you have the opportunity to get to know a very diverse group of people from every background imaginable. From dead wood to doctors, educated to obtuse and friendly to cruel, Paltalk is your anonymous avenue to a perpetual parade of anagrams analysis and assholiness (or is it assholier than thou?). We have shitheads, show offs, shut-ins and saints, we have Paltalk prophets, Paltalk millionaires, and Paltalk professors. You can be anything you like in chat.

I assume, like most compulsive behaviors, paltalk can be an escape from ordinary daily life. Being a “people watcher” I often find myself jonzin’ for my regular fix of these friends and foes I have grown to know and appreciate. At any moment of my choice, I can be whisked away to this perpetual pit of opinion, insight and outsight (so I am told). Transported to a land where I find Birthers, Truthers, Marxists, Fascists and Fart blossoms all defending their points of view. Where room wars, admin wars, and personal vendettas lure me into the underlying drama that keeps me chasing the dragon. God help me, I love it so.

I guess I’ll need to seek professional help to break this spell. A nice 12 step program where I might be able to de-program from this program would be in order, me thinks. I have taken the first step by admitting I have a problem, and like most addicts, I think that is enough for today. LOL I’ll work on it tomorrow. Meanwhile.. Wonder what’s going on in chat.

Well this is my sad story of descent into the subculture of the Paltalk text-tard and if you think I have divulged something in me that isn’t in most of us, you are an idiot and on permanent ignore for Gross Retardation.

A Kentuckian who Voted for Rand Paul

walkingwithbagonhead is a regular in 2Way Street Politics who had the privilege of voting for the Aqua Buddha candidate in Kentucky last Tuesday.

Here's the proof:

Detrik Wins Factoid of the Day Award 1/11/2010

Good one detrik:

detrik: speaking of Gordon Lightfoot, the WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD happened on this day..

From Wikipedia:

SS Edmund Fitzgerald (nicknamed "Mighty Fitz," "The Fitz," or "The Big Fitz") was an American Great Lakes freighter launched on June 8, 1958. At the time of its launching, it was one of the first boats to be at or near maximum "St Lawrence Seaway Size" which was 730 feet (220 m) long and 75 feet (23 m) wide. From its launching in 1958 until 1971 the Fitzgerald continued to be one of the largest boats on the Great Lakes.

See Wikipedia Article

Thursday, November 4, 2010

You're Making My Leg Tingle

Thanks SLINK:

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Right to Choose

Dear Pragmatist,

The problem with talking about a woman's right to "choose" is that accepting the language in your questions about it gives credence to the false premises buried in your deceptive and presumptive choice of terminology.

In any case, constitutional conservatives believe the issue of abortion should be handled by the several states and not by the federal government.

This has been carefully explained to you before; but if you ever forget again, you can just ask for a link to this blog post.

Warmest regards,

-MOP-

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Scan your Vote Sticker

Mop

Midterms 2010

Thanks to Lazerlupine for the following:

It is the midterms, the halftime of the Obama Presidency. It is the time when coaches take their teams to the locker room and make adjustments to their strategies. It is the time for the politicians to assess whether their ideas and beliefs are working in the real world, or if they need a little pragmatic adjustment. In my estimation, the crowd is stomping their feet and demanding some major adjustments.

The Left feels they have been sold a bill of goods because many of their positions on worker’s rights and social justice haven’t been addressed. The Right feels that the controlling party is over regulating the economy, growing the public sector and is obsessed on taxing the rich. And both sides seem to want to saddle the other with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Guess what? You’re all right. Unfortunately being right and getting everything you want are worlds apart.

The 111th Congress started out as a supermajority with basically unlimited control over the agenda and a President of the same party spurring them on to pass his plan. We have seen how the animosity and stubborn environment of contention has resulted in Legislation that most of the nation rejects. I suggest that a super majority feels empowered to roll over their counterparts because they can, whether it is wise or not. In my opinion, supermajorities are to be avoided because they try to violently upset the balance of systems that have evolved over time.

I believe the Founding Fathers in their zeal to create a form of Government that would withstand the test of time took examples from social and physical laws, as they understood them at the time, and tried to structure the government with these laws in mind. Create a system to encourage majority rule and minority rights, compromise over gridlock, and balance and stability in all facets of our Government. There are times that social issues and other external forces offset our balance and threaten our stability. When this happens, it is up to us to regain equilibrium in a way we design. Otherwise balance will find it’s own equilibrium (Usually with unintended consequences)

My sincere hope is that the midterms will result in a change in House leadership, a rearrangement of the Senate leadership, and a very loud, vocal public, demanding an atmosphere of working together to achieve, not everything you want, but everything you need for a reasonable amount of taxes. Division is a radical mismatch of our expectations and is a danger to our overall stability. There is too much we agree on. It is time for some team players to get us on the winning path again.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Sweat v Painter

This important case set the stage for Brown v School Board of Topeka:

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Reflections on the Celtic holiday of Samhain*

Many thanks to mac_talla for this contribution:

Happy New Year!

In parts of the world where Christianity has had a profound influence, time, historically, has been depicted as a line moving steadily from beginning to end. This makes sense to the human mind, as we experience life in a sequential process moving from birth to death. The Celts, however, had a way of understanding time not based on a birth-life-death linear sequence, but rather on the cycles of nature, such as fall,-winter-spring-summer or dusk-night-dawn-day-dusk. Spiritual holidays were not based on events in linear time (such as the birth and death of a great leader) but rather on recurring events in cyclical time.

In the ancient Celtic mind, a day began not with midnight or at sunrise, but actully at sundown. Night precedes the light, and together they form a single unit of time. In a similar way, the Celtic year began not at the coming of midwinter or the new spring but with the end of the harvest time. Thus, Samhain (summer's end), celebrated on or near 31 October, marked not only the end of autumn and the onset of winter, but also the Celtic new year.

Because, Samhain marks the end of the old year and the beginning of the new, it meant a break in the flow of time. This break meant the "veil" separating our world from the otherworld was temporarily opened. The otherworld, being simply, the spiritual dimension of the physical universe. The belief in the immanence of the otherworld was important to the Celts, along with the possibilities of the average person inte acting with it. Immanence is a theological term, literally meaning "remaining within". It is used to suggest God's presence is within the world, as opposed to transcendant, which suggests God is far away. The Celtic idea of immanence meant the spiritual dimension was very close to the material.

Samhain was a time when fearsome beasts and monsters could walk the earth, but more than just ghosties and ghoulies could visit. To the Celt, and the modern day pagan, Samhain is a solemn and reverent holiday, filled with transformational "magic". It is the best night of the year to make contact with the spirits of loved ones who have passed to the otherworld-the ancestors from whom we received our life and our DNA.

In my household we set up a "dumb supper". A meal where friends and family eat in silence. An extra place is set for our loved ones on the other side. As we eat, we reflect on their lives, their love, and the wisdom they imparted to us.

Samhain shona daoibh, go léir!

*said SOW-en, with sow as in female pig.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Move On Staged Violence at Rand Paul Debate?

Monday, October 25, 2010

Companies Examine Health Care Laws Effect on Employee Coverage

Thanks to LIBERAL BS FILTER:

Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the U.S. with coverage for generations . . .

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/24/companies-examine-health-care-laws-effect-employee-coverage/

Sunday, October 24, 2010

SuperJim's Aircraft Carrier

SuperJim made this in China. Thanks Jim.

Canada's Slum Series

ROBERT MATAS
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
February 13, 2009 at 11:59 PM EST

VANCOUVER — It has been nearly a decade since three levels of government signed a landmark agreement designed to transform Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside, but the neighbourhood remains a vortex that sucks in junkies, the mentally ill and other desperate souls from across the country . . .

Globe and Mail: Canada's Slum series (Part 1)
Globe and Mail: Canada's Slum series (Part 2)
Globe and Mail: Canada's Slum series (Part 3)
Globe and Mail: Canada's Slum series (Part 4)

Halloween: The Obama Graveyard

Thanks Search4liberalhonesty:

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Telecasterdude in a Video

Displayed with the permission of Telecasterdude:

Monday, October 18, 2010

Living with Liberals in the United States of America

Thanks to sugarland47 for submitting the following:

Why do liberals get so very upset about anyone who believes in "God"? I heard one liberal minded person say the other day that religion, dogma, should be completely done away with. And the sad thing about that statement was that so many liberals were cheering him on.

Now, my response to this statement is that one's belief in God is their own business. And the reason so many of us non-liberals and God believers get so upset with the liberal/progressives, is because those people really want God to be done away with. They want religion completely out of their way so that they can fulfill their liberal agendas.

What is the liberal agenda? Well, I have come to believe they actually want a world in which they can rule......... they want to be able to spread their ideologies freely and corrupt our youth into believing that anything and everything is ok to do as long as it does not hurt anyone else. But, here is the irrational clincher to their reasoning....... anyone who does not follow their belief system, their ideologies, doesn't have any right to disagree.

The liberals use the arguments of the crusades, all the liberal media attention on the Catholic church about pedophile priests (there have not been that many incidents of that occurring in the last 40-50 years and the number of priests who were accused of that is small. In fact, most cases of child molestation are by non-religious and in the USA, are family members.... they go mostly unreported, but it is the Catholic church who is taking the brunt of the media cruelty), and lastly here is the most prevalent argument liberals use...... There is no God. It is a fairy tale.... blah blah blah.

Well, I happen to believe in God, as do the majority of us citizens. But, if liberals were to have their way, such things as the sacrament of marriage between man and woman, the idea that aborting a fetus is ok would be a main stay, we would not be allowed to defend our homes or our lives with guns, they would do away with the constitution, claiming that it is archaic, and the USA will not survive until "all the old people are dead and buried."

Here are my opinions on the aforementioned:

1} Belief in God is faith. You either have it or you don't. You cannot prove God's existence, but in the same token, you cannot disprove God's existence. I guess you will have to wait until you die before you believe, if you don't believe now, and that is your choice......... kinda goes along with free will and our united states constitution.

2} Marriage is a religious term, a holy sacrament from God between a man and a woman. You can change the definition by going to urban dictionary, if that will make you happy. But don't you dare go trying to force our churches to accept man on man, woman on woman unions. And it should be a state decision whether or not to make those unions legal. If you believe in those unions, that is your right, but it should still be a state law that makes that decision. I personally don't think it is right, because it goes against God. But if you don't believe in God, why do you care anyway, one way or another about the word marriage?

3} Roe vs Wade is a precedent set by the US supreme court that simply states a woman's privacy issue with her physician. It is up to the states to say if abortion is allowed. So you do have the legal right to kill a baby, a human life in the womb, that should be protected by the mother. And no matter what you say, it is a human life at conception. Why liberals do you not know when it is a baby and feel the need to have that changed also? Is it perhaps that you know in your hearts that by aborting the baby you are killing a human life? You want the federal government to tell you when life begins, to make that determination for you, to ease your consciences?

4} The right to own guns and defend ourselves; criminals will always be able to purchase weapons whether you make it illegal or not. Yet, you don't want good honest people to own them for self-defense? What is the logic in that?

5} The USA constitution........ you want to do away with it completely because you aren't intelligent enough or have the backing of others to support your liberal ideologies and get it amended?

6} And the last argument that "old people are causing all of your idiotic liberal agenda propaganda problems........ Well, all i have to say to that is that someday you will be old too. From my own aging growth, I can tell you that your liberal ideologies will change over the years. And those of us with children, grandchildren, have helped in their mind growth and you cannot control them all the way that you think you can. So, good luck with wishing us all dead.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Sorry folks, we are re-designing

Google changed their blog templates and I will have to do some work on the blog to accomodate the changes.

-MOP-

Not Yours to Give

Thanks to Shawn Rogers

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Quote of the Week

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

-- Bertrand Russell --

Sunday, October 10, 2010

It Is Not About Economics (or is it?)

The laws of economics are rooted in human psychology.

Human psychology is a product of evolution, right; because if the humans that created the 2010 "civilization" on planet earth did not evolve, then how all of this happen?

So what does evolution do?

Evolution stands at the finish line and it declares whatever species or dna cluster to get there first to be the winner. In other words, evolution is biology's Monday morning quarterback. Evolution does not plan ahead.

Because the definition of evolution and "survival" of the fittest is so fatalistic, there is no way humans can ever escape evolution. Nonetheless, humans have evolved to the point where they can exercise awareness of evolution and survival of the fittest and begin to make conscious decisions about where the human species is headed.

A relatively small number of humans on the planet are behaving in just the way they have been programmed by hundreds of thousands of successful evolution of the species. In pure biological terms, this is very successful, but in terms of overall happiness on the planet, it is a miserable failure.

What to do?

Black Purdue documentary film

Thanks to Wisdom X for contributing the following link;

If the embedded version in this post is not wide enough just go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMaQyMyQpDc

Saturday, October 9, 2010

MOONDOG: The Economy Will Improve by May 2011

The Economy Will Improve by May 2011

by Moondog950
Saturday November Ninth Two Thousand Ten

Room

I’ve been asked to put my predictions on the economy and the reasons why I have come to these conclusions on this Blog.

Most know I believe the Democrat party to gain power in desperation destroyed a working economy. This is how and why the dems went to these lengths.

I believe George W. Bush is one of America’s most maligned presidents and this is why.

The democrats felt the George W. Bush was given the election in 2000 by the Supreme Court making him the first selected president.

http://webspace.webring.com/people/hs/smooth345_2000/gwb.html

G.W.B. inherited a mild recession and corrected this problem with small tax pre bate (a rebate before paying the tax). http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/july-dec01/tax_rebate.html

The balance of this tax plan called Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 which was outed as The Tax Cut for The Rich by the Democrats.

The First major attack in this century on the United States soil known as 9/11 happened on G.W.B's watch. He was blamed for acting poorly and by some knowing and or taking part in the destruction of this attack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZOu65YIXfA

Democrats felt they were coned into voting for The Iraq War Resolution. This resolution allowed America’s first preemptive war. http://uspolitics.about.com/od/wariniraq/a/jt_resolution.htm

This war started in 2003 http://www.australianpolitics.com/news/2003/03/03-03-19.shtml

This was the start of the Democrats attack on the economy of the United States.

In 2004 Bush economies still weaken by the attack of September 11, 2001 having only housing asn’t limping along. The Bush’s economy was in a housing boom with little sign of weakening other sectors were weak with no sign of improvement. More American families owned homes than at any other time in our history. Housing prices had also hit new highs, which prompted President Bush to ask for controls on the loan companies guaranteed by the federal government Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I believed then and now controls were needed. Barney Frank and other members of the congressional Banking committee made it sound that the President was trying to make it harder for the poor to buy homes. I believe that president and his advisers had it right controls were needed. Congress refused to offer a Governing Agency bill for these government guaranteed lenders. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4A0RuXhnQA

The Democrats believed the above and other slanders were enough to make G.W.B. the first Republican one term president since Hoover. They ran John Kerry who lost his election against the weakened George W. Bush. Democrats claimed the election was stolen by Diebold the electronic voting machine maker and started an investigation. This investigation found some
reason to ask for improvement in the machines but no reason for a revote. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm

In August 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast causing a great deal of havoc and loose of property. The hurricane also caused a spike in gasoline prices nationwide. The havoc of this storm and the increase in oil price were again blamed on President Bush. http://www.katrina.noaa.gov/

Retail gas chart http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx

The Bush housing boom was starting to weaken due to poor ob numbers and fuel costs. The foreclosure rates were increasing with help of the Bush’s harsh press and power hungry loyal opposition the Democrats spent the time between the 2004 election and the 2006 election weakening President Bush‘s ratings and were able to make many Americans believe that this was the worst economy since 1929.

Foreclosure chart http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/historial-foreclosure-rates-1979-2007/

Bush’s approval polls slide and the 2006 election is in question. Bad press wreaking housing and high fuel prices all become issues in the 2006 election.

Approval polls http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/archive/?poll_id=19

The 2006 election was a victory in both the house and the senate. Democrats had a slime majority in the senate and controlled the house. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/bop/

The 2007 Congress lead by Nancy Pelosi promoted the end the war in Iraq impeach Bush for war crimes and control fuel cost during the elections. The impeachment was first taken off the table, a fight over the Iraq war an increase in troops and spending was needed and the congress felt otherwise. Harry Reid told America the war was lost, Hilary Clinton told us the government was lying about progress in Iraq. The Dow industrial average was nearing an all time high which it hit in Oct of 2007. Even with the high foreclosure rate and increasing fuel costs unemployment was still low in December 2007 the unemployment rate was only 5%.

http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=LNS14000000

If the economy was good could they retake the White House? What could they do to weaken the economy housing? Remember the loan companies that were government guaranteed, Fannie and Freddie in April of 2007 they told congress they were going to make subprime mortgages. Congress could have stopped them but congress knew this was the lynch pin to their victory in
2008. If they could time Fannie and Freddie’s failure in late in 2008 the President would be blamed and his party defeated badly in the election. ttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1738401820070417

The congress went to work telling big oil that they either lower prices or they will be investigated and or taxed. The congress never acted to reduce oil prices in anyway one of their promises. Oil hit an all time high in July of 2008 145 dollars a barrel. I believe the Democratic
controlled house and senate knew what they were doing killing the economy to win an election.

http://www.nyse.tv/crude-oil-price-history.htm

The NBER called the start of the recession in December 2007, I ask why? Unemployment was low 5%, GDP was up from previous quarters then why were we in recession?

http://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/TableView.asp?SelectedTable=5&ViewSeries=NO&Java=no&Request3Place=N&3Place=N&FromView=YES&Freq=Qtr&FirstYear=2006&LastYear=2010&3Place=N&Update=Update&JavaBox=no

I believe the NBER isn’t non partisan as they state. I believe the recession started in March 2009 after two consecutive quarters of declining GDP and increasing unemployment.

The NBER claims the recession ended in July 2009 if this is true why is unemployment increasing in November 2010?

I believe the recession should end before March 2011 and the recover should be underway by April or May 2011.

Yours Moondog950

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Germany 20 Year Reunification Interview

WHEN
US EST: 9 pm, Oct 7
GMT: 1 am, Oct 8
SYDNEY: 12 pm, Oct 8

TOPIC
20 years of German reunification.

INTERVIEWER
MopNGlow

INTERVIEWEE
Tosca Puccini

DETAIL
On the 3rd of this month Germans celebrated twenty years of reunification, meaning that East Germany and West Germany were combined into one unified state of Germany, after having been split apart since the end of World War II.

Tosca will discuss the personal impact of German reunification and the political implications.

Materials
View Berlin Wall Background Notes
Download Berlin Wall Background Notes

Links
Map of German Territorial Losses
20 Years of a United Germany

Audio (thanks Lazer)
http://www.archive.org/details/MopnglowShow10-07-2010Tosca