This'n'That; August Eighth #3; A Cuppla Articles....

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MIT Students Accused of Scamming Massachusetts State Lottery For Years;Total of $8 million

Staff Report,
the360experiment.com
August 6, 2012
    The MIT “brainiacs” have been at it again, using their superior math skills to run a scheme that some say violated the public trust.  Ten years ago, a professor and some students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology were able to extort money from Las Vegas casinos by counting cards. Now, a new scam team has emerged again at MIT. A researcher and some students have run a scam on the Massachusetts Lottery. The researcher and students were not the only ones behind the scam; the Massachusetts Lottery knew and was also cashing in on the scam.
    The scam started when the students were working on a school project and two of them realized that buying $100, 000 in tickets guaranteed a win in the Cash WinFall game. When the jackpot went up to $2 million, the members of the group contributed to the seed money and they shared the winnings. According to the Boston Globe, by 2005,the group’s winnings were close to $8 million. The Globe reports that even after the Massachusetts Lottery officials realized what the MIT students were doing, they allowed them to buy tickets by the hundred of thousands. But there are some who say that the students weren’t scamming anyone, and were instead utilizing superior mathematical capability to take advantage of a natural arbitrage opportunity. The scheme basically worked because when the jackpot in a lottery did not produce a winner, the money carried over to the next jackpot drawing which was even more money. If there were [....]
http://www.the360experiment.com/2012/08/world-news/mit-students-scammed-massachusetts-state-lottery-for-yearstotal-of-8-million/

Finally, a Woman Will Officiate an NFL Game

by 'bowatkin,'
the360experiment.com
August 7, 2012
    For the first time in its history, the National Football League will have a game officiated by a female referee. The move is huge for a league that is known for being dominated by men. Shannon Eastin will join the crew officiating the game when the Packers and Chargers go head-to-head on Thursday. The decision to add a woman to the mix is long overdue, and likely made in conjunction with the league’s marketing of female apparel. Eastin has been a referee in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and is in line to officiate the preseason game in just a few weeks. She has called football games for 16 years–the past four in the MEAC– and will serve as [....]
http://www.the360experiment.com/2012/08/world-news/finally-a-woman-will-officiate-an-nfl-game/
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"Clown Prince" Weekly Blather; April 21st

A Patriotic Response To The "Clown Prince;" 04/21/2012
barackingham Palace,
District of Corruption

March 17, 2012
[Corrected to:]
April 21, 2012    Hi, everybody. As I’m sure you’ve noticed over the past few weeks, the price at your local pump has been going up and up. And because it’s an election year, so has the temperature of our political rhetoric.  What matters most to me right now is the impact that rising prices have on you. When you’ve got to spend more on gas, you’ve got less to spend on everything else. It makes things harder. So I wanted to take a minute this weekend to explain what steps my Administration is taking when it comes to energy – most importantly, producing more of it while using less of it.  The truth is: the price of gas depends on a lot of factors that are often beyond our control. Unrest in the Middle East can tighten global oil supply. Growing nations like China or India adding cars to the road increases demand. But one thing we should control is fraud and manipulation that can cause prices to spike even further.
[What I'm not telling you: You have me to thank!!?!!  I'll continue to try to convince my subjects that everyone but me; every country but mine; every reason but mine, is responsible for America's astronomical rise in fuel prices.  As I--your exalted ruler--may have mentioned previously, gas prices have gone from $1.83 at my immaculation to the current $3.87; an increase approaching 120%!!  The primary causes are my non-existent domestic energy policy relating to fossil fuels as well as my socio-fascist mindset of pricing said fossil fuels out-of-existence!!
    George Soros as well as other members of the Bilderberg Group are urging me to hammer the incorrect concept of 'oil speculators!'  While I--your exalted ruler--continually whine about them, no one has pointed to an individual or group as actual 'oil speculators.'  I--your exalted ruler--could drop the gas prices by 18-cents per gallon with a stroke of my pen, temporarily staying the federal fuel price.  But.... why do that?!?  It will not follow the aforementioned mindset!!]    For years, traders at financial firms were able to game the energy markets, distort the price of oil, and make big profits for themselves at your expense. And they were able to do all that because of major gaps and loopholes in our regulations. When I took office, we did something about it.  The Wall Street reforms I signed into law are helping bring energy markets out of the shadows and under real oversight. They’re strengthening our ability to go after fraud and to prevent traders from manipulating the market. So it’s not just wrong, but dangerous that some in Congress want to roll back those protections and return to the days when companies like Enron could avoid regulation and reap enormous profits, no matter who it hurt.  What’s more, at a time when big oil companies are making more money than ever before, we’re still giving them $4 billion of your tax dollars in subsidies every year. Your member of Congress should be fighting for you. Not for big financial firms. Not for big oil companies.
[What I'm not telling you:  Lies, more lies and dam' lies!!  Sorry folks, I--your exalted ruler--don't think there's room for a single "Clown Prince" truism in this week's blather opportunity!  Aside from my blather in the negative, commodities traders perform a vauable service for the wholesaler and the largest of fuel consumers.  They establish prices of some commodities where none previously existed.  They provide regional, national and international prices of the more common commodities, rather than 'one-price-fits-all,' which would be my regime's approach.  That 'Enron' reference:  what'a stretch that was!  Enron was nothing more than a "Bernie Madoff-esque scam," not at all common, although the regime would like to see more.  We--socio-fascists in the District of Corruption--consider scams of that type to be private sector wealth re-distribution, and while they take the socio-fascist 'out-of-the-loop' they do accomplish the owe-bama Regime's monetary objectives!  
    One of the grandest, most outrageous lies Soros and Bilderberg want me to promote is the 'subsidies for Big Oil!'  What's going on with 'Big Oil' are not "subsidies" by any stretch of the imagination!!  This $4 Billion I--your exalted ruler--keep whining about is nothing more than LEGAL tax deductions written into the current IRS Code!!  My use of the words subsidy, subsidize and subsidies serve no other purposes than to constantly vilify 'Big Oil' in the public eye as well as continuing to promote my "class warfare" campaign platform!!]
    In the next few weeks, I expect Congress to vote on ending these subsidies. And when they do, we’re going to put every single Member of Congress on record: They can either stand up for oil companies, or they can stand up for the American people. They can either place their bets on a fossil fuel from the last century, or they can place their bets on America’s future. So make your voice heard. Send your representative an email. Give them a call. Tell them to stand with you.  And tell them to be honest with you. It’s easy to promise a quick fix when it comes to gas prices. There just isn’t one. Anyone who tells you otherwise – any career politician who promises some three-point plan for two-dollar gas – they’re not looking for a solution. They’re just looking for your vote.  If we’re truly going to make sure we’re not at the mercy of spikes in gas prices every year, the answer isn’t just to drill more – because we’re already drilling more. Under my Administration, we’re producing more oil here at home than at any time in the last eight years, that’s a fact. We’ve quadrupled the number of operating oil rigs to a record high, that’s a fact. And we’ve opened millions of acres on land and offshore to develop more of our domestic resources.  Those are the facts. But we can’t just rely on drilling. Not when we use more than 20 percent of the world’s oil, but still only have 2 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. If we don’t develop other sources of energy, and the technology to use less energy, we’ll continue to be dependent on foreign countries for our energy needs. That’s why we’re pursuing an all-of-the-above strategy. As we develop more oil and gas, we’re also developing wind and solar power; biofuels, and next-generation vehicles – and thousands of Americans have jobs right now because of it. We need to keep making those investments – because I don’t want to see those jobs go to other countries. I want to create even more of them right here in America.  And after three decades of inaction, we raised fuel economy standards so that by the middle of the next decade, our cars will average nearly 55 miles per gallon. That’s nearly double what they get today. That means you’ll only have to fill up every two weeks instead of every week. And that will save the typical family more than $8,000 over the life of the car – just by using less gas.  Combined, these steps have helped put us on a path to greater energy independence. Since I took office, America’s dependence on foreign oil has gone down every single year. In 2010, for the first time in 13 years, less than half the oil we used came from foreign countries.  We can do even better. And we will. But what we can’t do is keep being dependent on other countries for our energy needs. In America we control our own destiny. So that’s the choice we face – the past, or the future. And America is what it is today because we have always placed our bets on the future.
[What I'm not telling you:  Furthermore, I--your exalted ruler--actually expect Members of Congress to stand up for the American people BY STANDING UP FOR 'Big Oil;' for keeping the fuel prices from rising any faster than I--your exalted ruler--can make them rise.  To vote a change in the IRS Tax Code as it relates to the 'Big Oil' tax deductions is a complete disservice to the American consumer by creating instantaneous gas-price increases!!  Almost by definition, any and all corporation(s) pass all increases onto the consumer.  That's just the nature of business; complying with the corporations' fiduciary responsibility to their stockholders!!  
    Fact-checking as proven the 20%-2% statistic is but another in the long line of my blatant lies!!  The blogosphere were the fact-checkers; the national pamphleteer 'corpse'--at George Soros' direction--has 'decided' to not to comment in any manner.  So long as he allows me, I--your exalted ruler--intend to use "20-2" as long as it plays into my "economic-warfare" plans.  With respect to fossil fuels, why does anyone subscribe to my version of logic?!?  If more drilling won't solve the nation's energy problems; why drill at all?!?  That's just nuts; just more of my bullshit!! 
    At some point-in-time, fuel efficiency will have reached it's upward limit.  The government socio-fascists can continue to demand higher-and-higher mpg results, but at some point these demands can not be met.  Already, the auto manufacturers are putting occupant safety on the back burner.  Have you seen some of these "shit-boxes" the consumer is expected to embrace as the next generation of vehicles?!?  They're little more than plastic coffins, ready to implode at the slightest provocation!!  So we've reached the upward limit of the "steel-to-plastic" conversion in these "shit-boxes;" do we have technology on the horizon to increase mpg results, 'mechanically?!?'  Again, I--your exalted ruler--think--privately--we've reached the limit there, as well.
    The primary reason we've cut back on the use of foreign oil?!?  Do you really want to know?!?  I--your exalted ruler--had absolutely nothing to do with it.  The reason we're using more domestic oil is that more-and-more drilling permits issued by that evil President George W. Bush are coming to fruition!!!!  Simple-as-that!  Evil triumphed!!]

This'n'That; March Thirtieth #1; Unremarkable Remarks

Unremarkable Remarks
Continuing Demonization of 'Big Oil'
barackingham Palace,
District of Corruption
March 29, 2012
Today, members of Congress have a simple choice to make: They can stand with the big oil companies, or they can stand with the American people.  Right now, the biggest oil companies are raking in record profits –- profits that go up every time folks pull up into a gas station. But on top of these record profits, oil companies are also getting billions a year -- billions a year in taxpayer subsidies -– a subsidy that they’ve enjoyed year after year for the last century.  Think about that. It’s like hitting the American people twice. You’re already paying a premium at the pump right now. And on top of that, Congress, up until this point, has thought it was a good idea to send billions of dollars more in tax dollars to the oil industry.  It’s not as if these companies can’t stand on their own. Last year, the three biggest U.S. oil companies took home more than $80 billion in profits. Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour. And when the price of oil goes up, prices at the pump go up, and so do these companies’ profits. In fact, one analysis shows that every time gas goes up by a penny, these companies usually pocket another $200 million in quarterly profits. Meanwhile, these companies pay a lower tax rate than most other companies on their investments, partly because we’re giving them billions in tax giveaways every year.
I might have said:  (this is being written post-Senate vote!)  What the hell kinda ruler can't even get his own party's support?  The Senate has voted to let those evil oil companies keep the subsidies that really aren't subsidies.  What I disparagingly call 'subsidies' are more correctly defined as tax DEDUCTIONS!  They're nothing more-or-less than your mortgage interest deduction or your deduction for a home-office; but on a grander scale.  These are completely legal--NOT shameful as I characterize them--written into the tax code, as are said individual tax deductions.  
    That $4 billion to those evil oil companies in annual tax deductions must be returned to my energy slush-fund!!  One the average year, I blow through 15-18 billion dollars, essentially  wasted on green technology that--in it's current direction--will never be sustainable!  The evil oil companies' aforementioned $4 billion would allow me to fund other supporters and donors and continue to bribe my current supporters and donors.
    Is the United States Senate losing it's socialistic frame of mind, or is it just ME?  Any other ruler could have gotten this evil oil company tax vote to go their way; I know "Slick-Willie" Clinton would have gotten it done!!  This leads me into my regime's 'signature' piece of legislation; owe-bamaKare!  I've not been able to exert the influence on my appointees to the Supreme Court that I had hoped.  Those socio-fascists--namely, Sotomayor and Kagan--had agreed to vote in the regime's favor should they be confirmed to the empty court seats. That seems to not be the case, likely either the mandate or the entire scam will go-down-in-flames!!  The only possibility I had for even a partially positive re-immaculation campaign was owe-bamaKare; alas, that's not to be!  With absolutely no publically-accepted accomplishments to run on, it'll be a dismal campaign at best.
Now, I want to make clear, we all know that drilling for oil has to be a key part of our overall energy strategy. We want U.S. oil companies to be doing well. We want them to succeed. That’s why under my administration, we’ve opened up millions of acres of federal lands and waters to oil and gas production. We’ve quadrupled the number of operating oil rigs to a record high. We’ve added enough oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some. And just yesterday, we announced the next step for potential new oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic.  So the fact is, we’re producing more oil right now than we have in eight years, and we’re importing less of it as well. For two years in a row, America has bought less oil from other countries than we produce here at home -– for the first time in over a decade.  So American oil is booming. The oil industry is doing just fine. With record profits and rising production, I’m not worried about the big oil companies. With high oil prices around the world, they’ve got more than enough incentive to produce even more oil. That’s why I think it’s time they got by without more help from taxpayers who are already having a tough enough time paying the bills and filling up their gas tank. And I think it’s curious that some folks in Congress, who are the first to belittle investments in new sources of energy, are the ones that are fighting the hardest to maintain these giveaways for the oil companies.  Instead of taxpayer giveaways to an industry that’s never been more profitable, we should be using that money to double-down on investments in clean energy technologies that have never been more promising -- investments in wind power and solar power and biofuels; investments in fuel-efficient cars and trucks, and energy-efficient homes and buildings. That’s the future. That’s the only way we're going to break this cycle of high gas prices that happen year after year after year. As the economy is growing, the only time you start seeing lower gas prices is when the economy is doing badly. That’s not the kind of pattern that we want to be in. We want the economy doing well, and people to be able to afford their energy costs.  And keep in mind, we can’t just drill our way out of this problem. As I said, oil production here in the United States is doing very well, and it's been doing well even as gas prices are going up. Well, the reason is because we use more than 20 percent of the world’s oil but we only have 2 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. And that means we could drill every drop of American oil tomorrow but we’d still have to buy oil from other countries to make up the difference. We’d still have to depend on other countries to meet our energy needs. And because it’s a world market, the fact that we’re doing more here in the United States doesn’t necessarily help us because even U.S. oil companies they’re selling that oil on a worldwide market. They’re not keeping it just for us. And that means that if there’s rising demand around the world then the prices are going to up.
I might have said:  I have opened millions of acres of federal lands and waters to oil and gas exploration.  I've just not allowed the Department of Energy to issue and/or approve drilling permits.  Those drilling rigs in the federal waters?  They're operating on permits wisely approved by that evil President George W. Bush.  The pipelines approved had nothing to do with me or the regime; they're intra-state or interstate.  The only one that I had any control over, I DISAPPROVED!  The "Keystone XL Pipeline" project was the only one to come before the regime that is international; it crosses the U.S.-Canadian border.  Disapproval could--as is my desire--result in much of the Canadian oil being sold to the Chinese.  Within days of my DISAPPROVAL, the Canadians were in negotiations to redirect the pipeline to the Canadian west coast for shipments to China.
    As an illustration of the phrase:
Ya can't fix STUPID!!
check this out: If we can't 'drill our way out' of this kerfuffle, how did the United States become the third-largest oil producing country on the planet?!?  Is that a stupid statement, or what?!?
    We most certainly can drill our way out of the owe-bamaDepression, but we should have started on Day One of my regime!  Had we, the owe-bamaDepression--or at the very least, the worst affects--might have been averted.  Even when drilling might solve America's petroleum problems, we still have the EPA to contend with.  This group of UNELECTED socio-crats have formulated policies that do not allow for more oil refineries to be built in the United States.  This continues an already choking bottle-neck in the production and processing end of the industry.  One direct result of the aforementioned problems in domestic energy production is the purchase of foreign oil!
    The owe-bama Regime only invests in those green energy companies that are weeks or days away from bankruptcy.  That's the primary--in addition to the 'union dues system'--method of rewarding and repaying my supporters and donors.  To double-down on this system of quasi-legal, political money-laundering is the ultimate DISSERVICE to the hardworking, taxpaying Americans!  These green energy sources are better researched and developed on someone's "kitchen table;"  that's where Henry Ford figuratively developed his automobile engine; that's figuratively where Thomas Edison developed his lightbulb and the multitude of other popular inventions.  
That’s not the future that I want for America. I don’t want folks like these back here and the folks in front of me to have to pay more at the pump every time that there’s some unrest in the Middle East and oil speculators get nervous about whether there’s going to be enough supply. I don’t want our kids to be held hostage to events on the other side of the world.  I want us to control our own destiny. I want us to forge our own future. And that’s why, as long as I’m President, America is going to pursue an all-of-the-above energy strategy, which means we will continue developing our oil and gas resources in a robust and responsible way. But it also means that we’re going to keep developing more advanced homegrown biofuels, the kinds that are already powering truck fleets across America.  We’re going to keep investing in clean energy like the wind power and solar power that’s already lighting thousands of homes and creating thousands of jobs. We’re going to keep manufacturing more cars and trucks to get more miles to the gallon so that you can fill up once every two weeks instead of every week. We’re going to keep building more homes and businesses that waste less energy so that you’re in charge of your own energy bills.  We’re going to do all of this by harnessing our most inexhaustible resource: American ingenuity and American imagination. That’s what we need to keep going. That’s what’s at stake right now. That’s the choice that we face. And that’s the choice that’s facing Congress today. They can either vote to spend billions of dollars more in oil subsidies that keep us trapped in the past, or they can vote to end these taxpayer subsidies that aren’t needed to boost oil production so that we can invest in the future. It’s that simple.  And as long as I’m President, I’m betting on the future. And as the people I’ve talked to around the country, including the people who are behind me here today, they put their faith in the future as well. That’s what we do as Americans. That’s who we are. We innovate. We discover. We seek new solutions to some of our biggest challenges. And, ultimately, because we stick with it, we succeed. And I believe that we’re going to do that again. Today, the American people are going to be watching Congress to see if they have that same faith.
I might have said:  Reducing America's dependency on foreign oil will help to solve the increasing pump prices.  That reduction will come about with more oil refineries, more APPROVED drilling permits, more APPROVED international pipelines; all which fall under my purview!!  I have not been successful in strangling the oil sector of the energy industry.  I shall continue in that effort.  In the meantime, the oil sector is successful--where green-energy sectors are dismal failures--simply because oil is sustainable; green-energy is not!  When using the private-sector numbers--ignoring the federal government-created prognostications--the United States has enough oil reserves to contine at current demand, for three-hundred, plus years (300+ years)!!
    In conclusion I'm going to comment on a recent event, namely the Trayvon Martin tragedy.  While it is a tragedy, the family deserves much, much more than they're currently getting.  The racist I installed as the Attorney-General, eric holder is clearly as racist as I am incompetent!  After our friends in the New Black Panthers organization put a $10,000 bounty on George Zimmerman's head; after our friends in the New Black Panthers organization formed a posse to hunt the guy down, no one from the regime--to include those in barackingham Palace; to include those in the Socio-Justice Department--has taken the first step to have said 'panther' miscreants arrested and charged with several appropriate felonies!!  I--and again, Ya can't fix STUPID!!--would have to be completely ignorant to believe that these recent felonious actions by our friends in the New Black Panthers organization; actions like voter intimidation, by our friends in the New Black Panthers organization won't become THE topic of campaign debates; THE topic of campaign advertising!!
Remember: 
"There are some rulers who are too stupid to realize just how stupid they actually are!!"

This'n'That; October Seventeenth #2; Scam?!?

A Financial 'Mailer'
    Over the weekend, we received one of those mailings everyone gets.  You know the ones; "you're pre-qualified for a KaZillion bucks, just fill in the blanks and return or go to our website....;"  those kinds!  This mailing--from Springleaf Financial Services--is probably local to the Rochester, N.Y., MSA*
    This offer says I'm pre-qualified for a secured loan** up to $5,250 at an APR of {just} 24.14%; a payment of $171.56 for 48 months.  Oh.... and this offer comes with my very own 'Pre-Qualification Number: (9-digits)'  I gotta tell'ya:  This less-than-wonderful offer smells of a legal scam, if there is such a thing!!  Legal in that Springleaf Financial Services*** can rightfully charge what ever interest rate they think they can get away with; Scam in that--excluding my family and I--Springleaf Financial Services*** is--presumably, allegedly--praying upon the folks who can least afford it, with rates that can be 'bettered' elsewhere.
    Let's 'do the math' on this one:

24.14% equals $1.21 added to every five-dollar-bill borrowed from these--alleged, presumed--miscreants.
If I actually--and stupidly--took this deal, over the four-year life of the note, I'd pay back $8,229.60; that's right, $2,979.60 just in interest, alone!!!

    Anyone who gets one of these mail offers and thinks it's the best they can do; then by all means, goffer'it!!  But bear-in-mind, you're gonna pay dearly for the priviledge!!
   If someone needed this amount of money--for once,--they'd be better served to put the purchase on a credit card at the prevailing rate in the 17++%, range!!  When has anyone ever heard that advice before?!?  No one I know would be that 'financially strapped' to take dis-advantage of this offer!!
NOTES:
Bold text-MY emphasis.
*MSA: (Metropolitan Statistical Area) A geographical region with a large population density and economic ties throughout.
**a secured loan:  a loan for which the borrower must put up an asset of equal value; a car, property, gold or silver coins, the wife's engagement ring, etc.
***Springleaf Financial Services
      1600 Ridge Rd., West;  Ste 11
      Rochester, N.Y., 14609
(It's presumed this is but a regional office of a franchised business.)
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This'n'That; November 2nd[obama;Palin;Bail-out;Charity]

Palin Scammed Alaska Governor Sarah Palin spent six minutes speaking with someone she thought was French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The two discussed politics, the perils of hunting with Vice President Dick Cheney and Sarkozy's "beautiful wife." The call was made by a well-known Montreal comedy duo Parc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel. The two are notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads-of-state. Bailout Stuff During the week ended Oct 31, the Treasury Department released $125 Billion to nine banks. ***Those nine banks [ticker symbol][how many $]: Bank of America.........................[BAC].....................................................$25Billion Citigroup....................................[C]..........................................................$25Billion JP Morgan Chase.......................[JPM].....................................................$25Billion Wells Fargo................................[WFC]....................................................$25Billion The Goldman Sachs Group........[GS]........................................................$10Billion Morgan Stanley.........................[MS]........................................................$10Billion Bank of New York.....................[BK]............................................................$2Billion State Street Bank......................[SST]...........................................................$2Billion This cash will buy taxpayers preferred shares in those banks and increase the banks' liquidity. The Bailout Promise: If the taxpayers provided the funds, the banks would resume lending, thawing a frozen credit market. The devil is in the details: The Treasury Department agreed to the loans with fairly weak strings attached. There was no actual requirement to lend the money provided by the feds and there are some weak restrictions on executive compensation. So far, the money is going to pay either bank dividends, satisfy old debt or to shore up the banks' bottom lines. NONE OF THESE will address the problem of frozen credit markets. Using nearly half of the funds to pay dividends to stockholders instead of fueling the credit markets, leaves the taxpayers on the "short end of the stick." Some [primarily] non-financial sector companies are lining up for Bailout funds. The automakers are claiming that they should be included due to their lending subsidiaries. They are arguing that because they have these financial subsidiaries, they are banks and thus should be included in the bailout. Bailing out ANYONE BUT bona fide banking institutions will create a dangerous precedent. The government will then be put in the position of picking-and-choosing what they consider winning versus losing industries/companies. As noted in the Weekly Wastebasket, an on-line publication of Taxpayers for Common Sense [ http://www.taxpayer.net/ ], Wall Street needs to get off it's collective "dead ass and on it's dying feet [I paraphrase]" and get back to work.... the business of the American economy. Is His Word Reliable; Will He Take Care Of Us? Well,IS o-bomb-a's word reliable? Take for instance, his pledge of tax reduction for those making "less than [insert number here...]. This pie-in-the-sky promise initially started at [those incomes less than] $300,000. It was then changed in the following digression: ***o-bomb-a [his-own-majestic-self] reduced it to $200,000. ***The Dolt [that foreign affairs genius] reduced it to $150,000. ***NM Governor Bill Richardson reduced it to $120,000. I'll bet in reality, the reductions don't stop until they reach the $40-50,000 range. o-bomb-a would replicate that "Slick Willie" moment: " I worked as hard as I could on this tax problem, as hard as I ever have........" Early in "Slick's" first term, he not only raised taxes after making campaign promises not to, he MADE THE INCREASE RETROACTIVE, back to January First!!!!! The first president in history to do so!!!! Well, WILL o-bomb-a take care of us? With all this "spread-the-wealth-around" talk, will he really take care of us? If that's really the case; if all these campaign promises are to be believed, then why hasn't he undertaken the same caring and compassion with his own family? ***o-bomb-a has a brother George, living in a hut in Kenya. George has an annual income of just $12; that's three-cents a day!!! If o-bomb-a, who's promised to take care of us, practically cradle-to-grave, tossed George a fifty-dollar bill, George's annual income would increase 400 percent!!!!! ***o-bomb-a's aunt was recently found living in a Boston slum. This aunt, Zeituni Onyango, is in the U.S. illegally-having been denied asylum from her home country of Kenya. In 2007, Money Magazine estimated the o-bomb-a net worth at $1.3 MILLION. The o-bomb-a 2007 Federal tax return indicated a $4.3 MILLION income. Seems like o-bomb-a could "get off soma that greed" and take care of his own family first. What would it take...... maybe twenty grand a year??? That would be about .00047% of the family's 2007 income [$4,238,826]!!! These folks, the o-bomb-as as a family, are a "really giving, charitable" couple. Check this crap out..... Year.....Income.....Donations...percentage 2000.... 240,505..... 2,350 .........00.9% 2001 ....275,123 .......1,470 .........00.5% 2002 ...260,824....... 1,050........ 00.4% 2003 ...238,327....... 3,400 .........01.4% 2004 ...207,642 .......2,500 .........01.2% 2005 ...1.6Million ...77,315 .........04.7% 2006....983,826......60,307........06.1% [Reference: www.msnbc.com/id/23796726/ ] So............ for those seven years they earned a whopping $3,806,247. As charitable donations, they claimed a Federal deduction for the paltry sum of $148,392 [equalling just 00.04% of income !!!] Don't his compassion jis makeya feel warm and fuzzy all over ?!?!?! Til Nex'time......