tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18777501141768569852024-03-13T13:53:59.552-07:00Speaking-of-SaratogaNews of America's Greatest City.Kyle Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227858368649647978noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1877750114176856985.post-25443475819287721052013-03-29T11:16:00.002-07:002013-03-31T05:50:06.257-07:00Mayor Johnson and the SSPF<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: orange; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">FOR YEARS, there have been efforts by
hard-working and seriously-dedicated city officers to document the
myriad hazards at 66 Franklin Street. Over the last DECADE the City’s
files are filled with Code Violations, negative Engineering Inspections,
warnings from Fire Officials, and urgent Complaints from Public Safety
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">There were SO MANY SAFETY CONCERNS that a DEMOLITION HEARING
was requested...BY THE CITY... and the Hearing was held on SEPTEMBER 3,
2010 before Judge James DOERN. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">On that day, Judge Doern ISSUED a
SIGNED DEMOLITION ORDER and presented it to THE CITY... as per the
CITY's request. VICTORY for THE CITY!!!!!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">As expected, SSPF challenged the Demolition Order with an
Appeal. So a Hearing was held before Judge JEFF WAIT on OCTOBER 6, 2010. Now,
just like you see on TV, THE CITY was certain to DEFEND their HARD-WON
DEMOLITION ORDER by bringing in a bevy of important WITNESSES-- Code
Enforcement & Building Inspectors & Engineers & Fire Officials
& Public Safety Spokesman and City Attorneys...right?</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">And like the Charter Change fight, the Mayor would surely
not hesitate to hire OUTSIDE legal expertise to DEFEND the Demolition Decision
that was celebrated by TWO offices—The MAYOR’s Building Inpectors AND the PUBLIC
SAFETY officers. If ever there was a time for a VIGOROUS defense of a city
VICTORY, THIS was the CASE…right?<br />
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Well guess what--<br />
On the Hearing date, only ONE person showed up from the City.... and that was
Assistant City Attorney Tony Izzo. All alone.<br />
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JUDGE WAIT was so stunned by the one-man turnout that he remarked on the
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REASON that no City Official showed up is that they had all received orders
from HIZZONER to NOT SHOW UP. They were all TOLD to sit in their offices and
offer no testimony, to make ZERO EFFORT to defend the City's valid DEMOLITION
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This made for many happy SSPF blue-bloods who vociferously support the Mighty
Mayor. And it made for a VERY happy SSPF attorney who faced no certified
experts. The Owner has been forced to spend THOUSANDS in the two-year fight to
RESTORE the original VICTORY for the Safety-Oriented city. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That victory came on</span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #38761d;">March 12, 2013 when Supreme Court Justice Thomas Nolan ruled </span><i>"Here, the
administrative record compiled was extensive, if not massive, and
contained substantial evidence and provided reasonable basis for the
conclusion that 66 Franklin Street's structural failure and overall
deterioration posed a danger to public health, safety, and welfare."</i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i></span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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So did the Mayor choose to leave City Residents at risk from an unsafe
structure that would be gone if not for the Mayor's interventions? So was the
Mayor/Lawyer… who spends freely to contest every legal LOSS… was he actually
WALKING AWAY from a legal VICTORY???</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Here's a link to help navigate the file of the Legal Process--</span> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">http://nowherethisnews.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=3</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></b></div>
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Deputy Mayor Shauna do his talking for him.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">COULD the mayor have intervened inappropriately by
insisting that no city officials testify against the interests of the SSPF? And
might he have received funds from SSPF members for crippling the City’s legal
argument? Or does mayor Scott simply “like” the SSPF?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">COULD the mayor have denied the advantage of outside legal
assistance to the City to allow the SSPF to face the weakest city defense?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And might he have received funds from SSPF
members for his crippling the City’s legal argument? Or does mayor Scott simply
“like” the SSPF?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">COULD the mayor have arrogantly abandoned the city’s
hard-won Demolition Order and left the city’s fight to a private individual?
And might he have received funds from SSPF members for his crippling the City’s
legal argument? Or does mayor Scott simply “like” the SSPF?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">COULD the mayor have appointed the SSPF Director to his
13-member Planning Commission as a Thank You in political payback? And might he
have received funds from SSPF members for giving them a seat at a very
important table? Or does mayor Scott simply “like” the SSPF?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">While I CAN track donations to the mayor’s campaigns, I can
NOT match the individuals against the membership of the SSPF… because the SSPF
has refused to provide a list of their members.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">SO considering the Court proceedings of October 6, 2010...
is anyone still so certain the mayor has allowed the SSPF to beat the city in
Court without <i><span style="color: black;">“sacrificing his honor, integrity and soul?”</span></i> And in those same
Court proceedings, do you believe the mayor’s actions showed </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><i>“nothing
nefarious” </i></span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">as victory was hand-delivered to the SSPF? And do you still look at
the mayor’s “do-not-testify” instructions and <i style="color: black;">“see no Mayoral involvement at
all”</i>?</span></b></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">I am most thankful for all the sources in City Hall who
spoke openly and angrily as they were forced by the mayor’s edicts to abandon
the work they do with such dedication and commitment. I share their sincere
disgust and I will protect their wishes to remain anonymous.</span></b></i></div>
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Kyle Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227858368649647978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1877750114176856985.post-22431971405640871682012-08-24T09:47:00.000-07:002012-09-14T22:56:47.990-07:00JUSTICE DENIED IN SARATOGA DEMOLITION<div style="color: orange; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">JUDGE WAIT UNFIT TO RULE ON </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">ANY PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ISSUES.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">City Judge Jeffrey D. Wait, a contribution-paying supporter of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation (SSPF), is now using his authority as sitting City Judge to actively delay/postpone/obstruct the demolition of Saratoga's most egregious Safety Hazard-- </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">The FireTrap at 66 Franklin Street.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The most recent pro-SSPF ruling by Judge Wait is detailed here:</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Judge Wait attended the 2012 SSPF Annual Fundraiser Dinner held WHILE HE WAS ASSIGNED the SSPF case. The photograph is from the May 11, 2012 SSPF dinner at the Saratoga Auto Museum:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.saratogapreservation.org/news/uncategorized/2012-spirit-of-preservation-celebration-success">http://www.saratogapreservation.org/news/uncategorized/2012-spirit-of-preservation-celebration-success</a></div>
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<b>Before the SSPF removes the photo, here is what the SSPF's <i>"Fundraiser Story" </i>looked like online on August 29, 2012:</b></div>
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<b>For those who question the truthfulness of SSPF, a local paper covering the 2012 SSPF Fundraiser wrote <i>"The special evening is one of the foundation’s largest
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<b>So it is an undisputed fact that Judge Jeffrey Wait voluntarily attended the SSPF major fundraising dinner of 2012. He did not attend as a featured speaker or to take a house tour. The ONLY question is did he contribute $65 to further the legal efforts of SSPF at the door that evening... or did he pay only the "member's rate" of $55 to the SSPF? The very very funny question is <i>"Jeffrey Wait, are-you-now-or-have-you-EVER-been-a-member?"</i> </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE LEGAL COURT-ORDERED DEMOLITION</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;">OF 66 FRANKLIN IN <u>SIX</u> EASY STEPS:</b></span></div>
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<b>The City Charter and NYS Fire Code clearly authorize City Code Official Daniel Cogan and Public Safety Commissioner Richard Wirth to Order the demolition of unsafe structures <i><span style="color: red;">"...without notice or hearing"</span>--</i></b><br />
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<b>City Code Administrator Daniel Cogan prepares a thorough report with detailed substantiation requesting the demolition of 66 Franklin. In the report prepared on September 1, 2010 Mr. Cogan concludes <i><span style="color: red;">"As a Public Safety Officer I feel that it is within my duties to ask for an order to demolish this structure (66 Franklin Street) in order to mitigate a serious safety hazard and remove the threat of harm."</span>--</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>City Judge James Doern reviews the report prepared by Daniel Cogan and issues a three-part Order in which he orders the Owner Joe Boff <i style="color: red;">"...to demolish and remove said building (66 Franklin Street) from the premises and to make the premises safe." </i>This Order is issued on September 3, 2010--</b></span></div>
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<b>Through some process, City Judge Jeffrey Wait takes control of the entire case from Judge James Doern. Wait orders a Hearing to nullify the Demolition Order issued by Judge Doern and in which Wait states <i style="color: red;">"I strongly disagree even if the</i></b><b><i style="color: red;"> Code Enforcement could or would have the authority to order demolition." </i>The Hearing is held on October 6, 2010--</b></div>
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<b>When Daniel Cogan learned of the Hearing held by Judge Wait and the dismissal of the demolition Order issued by Judge Doern, Mr. Cogan expressed outrage at the process, writing <i style="color: red;">"If a Public Safety Officer, whether they be Fire Chief, Building inspector or any certified Code Enforcement Officer, does not have the authority to take action on behalf of the City <span style="color: black;">(see "Step 1" above)</span>, then why have these people and positions in place."</i> The single-page note was written on October 8, 2010--</b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;">DOES JUDGE DOERN recall Judge Wait asking for the case at 66 Franklin</span></i><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt;"><i>, </i>or does he have
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<b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;">DID JUDGE WAIT EVER PRO-ACTIVELY
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt;">Judge Wait’s words indicate he was willing to lighten the work load of
Judge Doern whom he called a “part time Judge.” </span><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;">WHAT OTHER CASES DID JUDGE DOERN “ask”
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<b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;">HAS JUDGE WAIT <u>EVER</u> ATTENDED ANY SSPF FUNCTIONS</span></i><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt;"> in addition to
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<i><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;">HAS JUDGE WAIT <u>EVER</u> BEEN A MEMBER OF THE SSPF?</span></b></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;">ARE ANY MEMBERS OF JUDGE WAIT’S CLOSE FAMILY active members of the SSPF </span></i><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt;">such as to give
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Any questions?</span></b>Kyle Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227858368649647978noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1877750114176856985.post-10717785663525596982012-03-18T09:44:00.007-07:002012-03-18T10:03:23.546-07:00Darkening Skies<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark/> <w:dontvertaligncellwithsp/> 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I’ll lay it out here and forever hold my peace. And I pray I’m horribly laughably wrong.</p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE WAR’s PREPARATION</span></span>- </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><em><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >We are today witness to the early dawn of Israel's attack on Iran. Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu met with President Obama to get three things- 1) The assurance of US intelligence from the ground and our satellites… 2) Information on all we know and installed of Iraq’s air defenses… 3) Assurance that we’ll provide at least two bunker buster bombs and the B-2s to deliver them. Each American “Massive Ordnance Penetrator” is urgently needed for Iran’s buried facilities, each weapon a 30,000-pound behemoth too heavy for any Israeli aircraft.</span></em></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">THE WAR’s EXECUTION</span>-</span></em></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><em><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >Israel’s strike force of 80 aircraft will launch before early May. The butcher/leaders of Syria are Sunni butchers so they hate the Shias leading Iran… and so Syria airspace is open. The disintegrating butcher/leaders of Iraq are Sunni butchers so they too will “look the other way” when the Israelis fly eastward at dawn with their sights on Northern Iran. The Israelis will hit at least five sites while high-flying American B-2s drop their cave-smashing hardware in a closely-coordinated attack.</span></em></p> <p style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">THE WAR’s AFTERMATH</span>-</span></em></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><em><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >ANY way you look at it, it’s bad— An Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz…An Iranian attack on any tanker afloat…Iran’s immediate shipment of weapons into Gaza and Lebanon and the West Bank…Rockets rain down on Israel from every direction including the Mediterranean. Iran’s government will prove America’s role in the attack by producing pieces of the “Bunker Buster” bomb casings. And a bad situation gets worse. </span></em></p> <p style=" font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">THE OIL CRISIS OF 2012-</span></em></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><em><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >The price of oil soars into the stratosphere. Republicans learn that Obama does not dictate the price of oil. Democrats will learn the price of unflagging alliances. America will get an entirely new education on The Costs of War.</span></em></p> <p style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2012</span>-</span></em></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><em><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >The sudden oil problems sends global markets into a nosedive. Europe’s shaky nations unravel… Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy. International banks feel the hits. The fledgling joke that is the “US Recovery” goes into a sudden death spiral. The DOW plummets through 10,000 on its unerring journey to 7,000 or lower.</span></em></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">THE REPUBLICAN’s RESPONSE</span>-</span></em></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><em><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >The Israeli attack is a HUGE Game Change. Voters suddenly recognize that a Wartime Government is no place for on-the-job training… and the momentum suddenly shifts to the Old War Horse- Gingrich. Proven, tested, been-there done-that. The War also fires up the angry anti-war base for Ron Paul. The Republicans go into Tampa for an Open Convention… and a completely new face might emerge as their Presidential candidate. With war at hand, I’ll scratch Palin ASAP. It will be wild. But in the end, my money is on a ticket of Newt Gingrich with Jon Kyl as VP.</span></em></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">THE DEMOCRAT’s RESPONSE</span>-</span></em></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><em><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >I dread even thinking my thoughts, much less writing them. But violent and furious forces are set loose by Obama’s aid to Israel. Iran’s clerics call for Jihad and issue Fatwahs for the killing of the American President. Muslim Extremists and Al Qaeda seek vengeance for the War, the Koran burnings, and ALL the slaughters by the American Infidels. A’murkin rednecks have a thousand more reasons to hate Obama, the Muslim who used war to enrich fellow Muslims, an unqualified man of color in a war that calls for Red White & Blue leadership. The political campaign of 2012 demands that the President goes out on the campaign trail. And out there is where he is murdered. I shudder to write this.</span></em></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><em><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >In the aftermath, the Democratic party comes together in a bitter fight to create a wartime ticket. In the end, the ticket will be John Kerry with Veep Hillary Clinton at his side as Biden leads the nation through the last months of the Obama administration. An Open Democracy has a price, God help us all.</span></em></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">THE NOVEMBER ELECTION</span>-</span></em></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><em><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >The economy is in shambles, a nation mourns its slain President, in their deepening hopelessness the minority vote belongs to no party, Warhawks pound the drums furiously, and Ron Paul emerges as a STRONG independent candidate based on his pledge to avoid war and foreign entanglements. In the end, I think the Republicans win a tight one.</span></em></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">LONG-TERM ALIGNMENTS</span>-</span></em></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><em><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >All too impossible to be certain. But Europe and the Western World are relieved that Iran’s nuclear ambitions are dealt a blow. They try to take a unified stance in the U.N… ironically, they call for sanctions on Israel for being the “aggressor.” ANYTHING to placate and defuse the Arab/Muslim furor. The West will do everything possible to ensure the Mideast is forever divided by the Shia vs. Sunni hatred and distrust. NATO will be pleased to see intra-national infighting keep instability in Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Libya, Sudan, and Iraq. China does not miss the opportunity to be the new Big Cheese on the global scene. Beijing will condemn Israel and thus ensure its access to oil and the global market that is moving farther and farther from the “Western Puppets of The Zionists.”</span></em></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><em><span style="Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italicfont-family:";" >A <span style="font-weight: bold;">New </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Global Divide</span> is coming and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">only </span>question is <span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW MANY SEAMS</span> will there be??? 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mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:auto; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:auto; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;" align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><u>MAYA FAVORITE YEAR</u></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight:normal">While 2012 won’t be a walk in the park, it WILL be the year that I finally get my timing right. For years I’ve been shining light on the fundamental problems, so I’ll skip the boring details. What is new for 2012 is the release of all the pressure safeties, the myriad contraptions that have kept so many lids on for so many years. So here’s a sneak peek at the Mother of All TrainWrecks—</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><u style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">Afghanistan</u><span style="font-weight:normal">- <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Taliban reclaims this bloody mess</span>, village by village. We’re getting out nine years too late and not a minute too soon. There can be no “Nation Building” in a tribal land of no single “Nation,” and so the death of President Karzai is a meaningless sideshow. But as a symbolic act, it freaks out the US media. We'll care...for a nanosecond.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><u style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Pakistan</u><span style="font-weight:normal">- <span style="font-weight: bold;">The military finally turns against America’s strong arm-twisting.</span> And as the Military goes, so goes the Nation. There won’t be a coup to unseat President Zardari, not when the Courts are ready to do the work. And so we get booted out of the entire AfPak theatre. The drones will still fly, albeit in fewer numbers and with NO friendly cheerleaders on the ground. Pakistan was ALWAYS the key, wicked tricky, but national leaders ignored the warning of analysts from pre-9/11 days.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><u style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">India</u><span style="font-weight:normal">- As Pakistan moves away from UN influence, the Taliban’s Haqqani network steps up anti-India operations from North Waziristan. More bombs in the streets of India, more tension, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">the cold war between Muslims and Hindus goes Hot…again. </span>When bullets fly across the India/Pakistan border, let’s hope the nukes all stay on the ground.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><u style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">China</u><span style="font-weight: normal;">- In case you missed it, their booming economy is a bubble… and it will burst in 2012. Things aren’t helped when all foreign demand comes to a halt. <span style="font-weight: bold;">A huge nation of so much unrest could be troubling. </span>While the military could be used to maintain control, there’s a long-shot chance that China’s leaders could unite the country with a push into Siberia… that would be Russia’s Siberia. China has a huge need for land that is actually LIVABLE space for its population.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><u style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Russia</u><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"></span>- I'm clueless. Ask Putin.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><u style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">North Korea</u><span style="font-weight:normal">- It’s time for the nation to <span style="font-weight: bold;">open up to the West</span>, just like China did. They have too many needs to stay bottled up in Never-NeverLand. It’s a great new place to make Facebook friends.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><u style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">Iraq</u><span style="font-weight:normal">- <span style="font-weight: bold;">All-Out Civil War.</span> The BIG split is the Shi’a<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>vs. Sunni bloodlust. Iran steps in to back the Shiites, Saudi Arabia steps in to back the Sunnis as THE great rift in the region opens up along the religious divide that crosses all of the meaningless borders created by Europe in the early 1900s. Iraq’s majority Shiites seize most of the country while the Sunnis fight to keep the oil-rich land in the south. American forces were the cork in the bottle… but we’ve always known that (see earlier years). As always, the Kurds are left on their own to fight for an independent state surrounded by enemies. They fight on three fronts against the Shiites, the Turks, and the Syrians. The US <span style="font-style: italic;">might </span>step in to support the only “friends” left in the region. Lord knows we want to protect the dignity of their oil fields.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><u style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Iran</u><span style="font-weight:normal">- This is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ground Zero for the Big Mess.</span> And their leaders hold the key to just HOW BIG the Mess will be. <span style="font-style: italic;">Watch </span>Iran after Israel’s surgical strike on the nuke production facilities. <span style="font-style: italic;">Watch </span>Iran as American warships returning home approach the Strait of Hormuz. If they press a retaliatory attack on all of Israel, Tel Aviv will knock the crap out of Iran’s oil industry. An Iranian attack on the sixth fleet will be a short and furious conversion of Iran’s Navy from a Surface force to a navy of sleepy submarines. <span style="font-style: italic;">Watch</span>-- No matter HOW the dice roll, Americans will thank Iran for $6/gallon gas. And THEN gas gets expensive.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><u style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Israel</u><span style="font-weight:normal">- A pretty bleak scenario. With Egypt's Mubarak out, <span style="font-weight: bold;">they’re surrounded by enemies.</span> Iranian-backed militias pop up everywhere. Of course the BIG deciding factor is how Iran responds when the Israeli Air Force delivers their 80-plane attack on the Mullahs' nuclear-weapon sites. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><u style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Europe</u><span style="font-weight:normal">- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Utter collapse.</span> Greece and Italy refuse to live the lifestyle demanded by German bankers and so the Euro disintegrates. Ireland, Spain, and Portugal implode under their massive debts. France and Germany may saunter away to create their own currency as turmoil sweeps the continent. Mankind has to hope that there will be no return to the time-tested knee-jerk response of military solutions. The US suffers as banks see their foreign investments go belly-up… all at the same time as the international foundation of the Stock Market crumbles.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><u style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">America</u><span style="font-weight:normal">- The nation goes on the hunt for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Messiahs and Miracles.</span> The DOW freefalls through 5000 with gold and silver surviving as the only safe haven. Forget real estate as the pent-up sea of 4 million foreclosures adds to the unsold inventory. Shell-shocked Banks MIGHT give you a loan if you really don’t need it. The National crisis finds new fuel in the collapse of Commercial Real Estate— The Big Boys were also part of the buying frenzy of 2006 and now THEIR loans are coming due because of terms that are longer than those for individual homeowners. Empty office towers and padlocked mini-malls dot the landscape.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hordes of disgruntled and desperate individuals make for an unsafe nation. If you can accept the moral argument for guns, buy a 9mm Glock and learn to use it. If you are not comfortable with weapons, find religion and become a born-again believer. It’s good for the soul.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight:normal">The ridiculous hyper-extension of unemployment benefits end. And All-American households are suddenly REALLY out of money. And very desperate. I can't tell you how to distinguish the fine line between between Shoplifting and a Food Riot. But the news pundits will make it clear. With expert analysis.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In a NATION gripped by unprecedented CRISES, BOTH political parties need Super-Candidates. The Republicans gather around the shiny constitution-encapsulated bus of Sarah Palin. To soothe a nervous nation, she travels with </span><span style="font-weight:normal">John Kyl or a super-strong pro-military southerner</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">. If Obama runs, Republicans Rule. If the Dems are smart, Obama will find a sudden "family reason" to step aside so that Hillary takes the helm with </span><span style="font-weight:normal">her VP selection of General Wesley Clark</span><span style="font-weight:normal">. And if the showdown comes to those ladies, it’s too close to call.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:180%;" >If the Maya are right about the lights going out on December 21…</span></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:180%;" >...we'll owe them plenty of thanks.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight:normal"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I’ll end<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>with a Benediction from one of my favorite writers, shamelessly stolen word-for-word—</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >“Don't imagine for a moment that your grandchildren will be zinging across the landscape in electric cars sampling one theme park after another while ‘networking’ with ‘friends’ on cyborg social networks implanted in their brain jellies.”</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" > </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >-James Kunstler</span><span style="font-weight:normal"><br /></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" align="center"><span style="font-weight:normal"><a href="http://kunstler.com/blog/2012/01/2012-forecast-bang-and-whimper.html">http://kunstler.com/blog/2012/01/2012-forecast-bang-and-whimper.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight:normal"> </span></p>Kyle Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227858368649647978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1877750114176856985.post-45314609519579649682011-08-05T20:08:00.000-07:002011-09-08T18:52:49.320-07:00Our Secret Sculpture Unveiled - "Tempered by Memory"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yocja1Hy-VM/TlR3qu512pI/AAAAAAAAAVs/NfHaIOv56Sg/s1600/l%2BSculpture%2Bproposal.jpg"><br /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">UPDATE </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">August 24-<br /><span style="font-size:100%;">SEE and COMPARE what was PROMISED...<br />and what was DELIVERED.<br />SCROLL to BOTTOM, TWO PIX<br /></span><br />* * *</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">UPDATE </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">August 19-</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >WHY the sculpture will never have a home...<br />below the comments below the pix.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">* * *</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">UPDATE August 17-</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Read the critics NOT heard by the City Council, below pix.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">* * *</span><br /></span></span><br />HAVE YOU SEEN</span> our city's </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">almost</span>-here memorial to 9/11-- </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">"Tempered by Memory"?</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" > </span><br /></div><span style=" color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />No newspaper</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> has published even a </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >sketch</span><span style="font-size:130%;">.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style=" color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br />The Saratoga Arts Council </span><span style=" color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >shares it... <span style="font-style: italic;">quietly</span>.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> <span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style=" color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Selectively</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">Under duress.</span><br /><br />With thanks to a reporter who was granted viewing privileges by the Arts Council,<br />you are cordially invited to view the piece... <span style="font-weight: bold;">CLICK </span>pix to enlarge, <span style="font-weight: bold;">BACK </span>ARROW to return-- </span><br /><br /><span style=" color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >I present a recent photograph of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">25-foot high sculpture</span>, homeless for the moment...</span> <span style=" color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />A Graphic Designer took the image to create a view with <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">blue sky</span> as the background...<br /><br />A photo posted <span style="font-weight: bold;">AUGUST 9</span> on the website of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Arts Council</span>...</span> <span style=" color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />The Plaque to commemorate the <span style="font-weight: bold;">appointed/anointed artists</span> was provided by the Council...</span> <span style=" color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />...and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">description </span>is taken from the website of the Arts Council--</span><br /><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >"The arrangement of these pieces will help us temper our memories of September 11 and send a message about the transformative power of art, the strength of communities, and the ability of creativity and vision to carry a community beyond tragedy."<br /><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MMs6uSbJvto/Tj_j0zzsF1I/AAAAAAAAAU8/9TwsCu5vYs0/s1600/a%2BSculpture%2BProposed.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 288px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MMs6uSbJvto/Tj_j0zzsF1I/AAAAAAAAAU8/9TwsCu5vYs0/s200/a%2BSculpture%2BProposed.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638475754890860370" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9RevrFV1mTQ/TkHAduhemMI/AAAAAAAAAVE/1rKDOywN3Cs/s1600/a%2BSculpture%2B9.11%2Bblue.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 254px; height: 380px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9RevrFV1mTQ/TkHAduhemMI/AAAAAAAAAVE/1rKDOywN3Cs/s200/a%2BSculpture%2B9.11%2Bblue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638999825381759170" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The visionary </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">sketch </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">of a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">concept </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">of a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">notion </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(above)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">...</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">versus the sizable-ridable </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Real Thing</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(below)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">--</span><br /><br /></div><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n53to0-g0e8/Tjy0EXSMeHI/AAAAAAAAAUk/ymPsEHO1zwQ/s1600/Art%2B6.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 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10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 420px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TWols-4yzSw/TkK3rGMEbWI/AAAAAAAAAVM/WLL5VR57-lg/s200/a%2BSculpture%2BWhite.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639271634444774754" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Finally</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, an official Arts Council-approved photo</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">posted on their website late on </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">August 9</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(Excellent Larry White photography!)<br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6OxJuNodLUQ/TkoOkgXFehI/AAAAAAAAAVk/DpSX3bQm0Mg/s1600/f%2BArtist%2Band%2BWork.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 413px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6OxJuNodLUQ/TkoOkgXFehI/AAAAAAAAAVk/DpSX3bQm0Mg/s200/f%2BArtist%2Band%2BWork.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641337503559809554" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8ex1dWcGSxA/TkgJgbGej4I/AAAAAAAAAVU/bt_zyAu0kBE/s1600/CU%2Bjagged%2Bedge.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 276px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8ex1dWcGSxA/TkgJgbGej4I/AAAAAAAAAVU/bt_zyAu0kBE/s200/CU%2Bjagged%2Bedge.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640768985916936066" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Forehead-level detail...<br /><br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G0powXakIM0/TkgJosn-fiI/AAAAAAAAAVc/7imIDfzhNrk/s1600/CU%2Bbase.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; 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color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >is </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">a lovely plaque.<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">UPDATE August 17-</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Council Public Hearing was jam-packed by Mr. Reed's Art Council.</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For whatever their reasons, at least 24 non-cheerleaders DID NOT appear...</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">so the one voice of dissent was mine.</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Those "other" opinions exist...and I reprint a mere few here--</span></span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> 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style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >FourStarDave</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 3:00 PM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"If this is going to be Saratoga Springs' Memorial to 9/11 then by all means we, the residents of Saratoga Springs, should have a say as to how our memorial should be and look. To just dogmatically accept this as our memorial because some artists or artistic organization wants us to is just not fair. I have a right to voice my opinion and I see no value in displaying a 25-ft pile of blood-stained wreckage as our tribute to those who lost their lives to such a despicable act. The 9/11 Memorial at World Trade Center is a much better and more fitting tribute as Mayor Bloomberg stated- ‘The void leaves it to one's imagination to imagine what stood and then to reflect’."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >jrm62 </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >wrote on Aug 16, 2011 9:30 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"Why did they make it a twisted monstrosity? The war memorial in the park is a better example- you don't see twisted tanks and plane wreckage. If I died in 9/11 I would not want to be remembered this way. I'd be glad to be in heaven as far from that man made scrap as I could get. Is this some kind of a joke? Another stupid Saratoga idea- Ugly,waste and a terrible way to remember innocent victims."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >OutOfTowner</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 5:07 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"It is ugly, not hideous, but ugly. I openly admit that I probably don't have an artistic bone in my body, but I do know what I like to see and what I don't. It is not appealing in any way and does not draw my attention at all. And it really makes me wonder why the art counsel needs $196,000 donated towards this thing."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >whisper</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 7:31 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"The sculpture is not a good thing. It is not a good memorial to the poor people who died 9/11. I wouldn't want it as a memorial if I had died like that--I would want the world to have more beauty, not less."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >smartenup</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 9:32 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >" Not only is that work of art truly "ugly", the whole debate has become "ugly." If someone doesn't like it, they are disparaged. People are now FORCED to like a work of art that does not speak to many nor does it appeal to most except to some whole believe they are the intelligentsia of artistic design and creations. Arrogance rules the day. We have become an ugly culture. Shame on all of us and on these new idols being generated in these dark times."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >Frodo</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 1:26 PM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"The fact that the steel itself is rubble from the WTC is really it only memorial value. If it weren't for that, this 'statue' would have no expression on its own and in no way appear to have any connection, artistically or otherwise, to 9/11.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >uthink</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 8:50 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"This certainly belongs somewhere else...far away. Contacting city officials is a waste of time, they should have planned the parameters and approved the design with tax payer input. The council put the cart before horse."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >gottalovesaratoga</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 8:30 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"Dear god that thing is a MONSTER. I'm sorry but this does not belong anywhere in our beautiful downtown. "</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >Bluedog</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 12, 2011 1:11 PM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style=" Times New Roman","serif"; font-family:";font-size:12pt;color:windowtext;" >"Ugly, doesn't fit in the city. Unfair process. Let's hope the City Council gives this a thumbs down."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >twopondsnorth</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 10, 2011 10:11 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"The Arts Council should pay attention to this letter. The purpose is to connect people to art, not force someone's choice down the public's throat."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >racing city</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 10, 2011 4:15 PM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"Lets say you have seen the Arts Councils statue. Now lets say you HAD to choose between putting 1 Italian sculpture from Congress Park or the steel statue on your front lawn. Would you still choose the Arts Council's 24-foot high pile of steel?"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >saratogakid</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span><span style="font-family: times new roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" >wrote on <span class="simpleblog-date">Aug 13, 2011 12:34 AM:</span></span><span style="font-family: times new roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" ></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;"><span style="Times New Roman","serif"font-size:12.0pt;" >“I think the citizens should have a large input on where this one would go and once a piece like this is placed on Broadway does this open the door for more art of the like to also be placed there? We have a beautiful park right across the street that could make a great home for a memorial statue along with the other tributes."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="Times New Roman","serif"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >spacity4life</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 8:35 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"I could put together a 20-foot high pile of Dog POO and call that art, but should we have to see it on Broadway? Just saying..."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >spatastic</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 7:59 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"The use of the material could have been a very exciting emotionally-charged abstract expression of that horrible day and our ability as a country to grow from it… but I "don't see it." It is missing the point... it looks like 25 ft of scrap."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >treadlefish</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 8:00 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"It’s big and incredibly ugly. It belongs nowhere in Saratoga.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >IRONMAN</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 8:17 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"It wasn’t just Saratogians that observed that tragedy nor should we imagine that this artistic expression will make us all more patriotic. The stark expression of the twisted steel sculpture may very be well too disquieting an image in front of either the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">small</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">public space</i> that is left in front of the City Center or the last remaining <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">large public space</i> in front of the Saratoga Springs Visitor’s Center – one that can accommodate a variety of seasonal exhibits – and ones that do not have to remind us solely of that tragic day in September. "</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >broadway billy</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 9:42 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"Put it in front of the Riggi's shack on North Broadway. It will fit right in."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >Mr Bluster</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 10:02 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"As stated in the blog <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Nanoburgh</i> the ‘art’ belongs at the train station. It is too ugly for downtown. People will ridcule it."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >listening</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 10:40 AM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"The State park is a consideration for this project. It’s on Broadway, has lots of parking and lots of room for a monument. I agree that the Mayor should have been involved in the planning process. Surely we have artists in Saratoga Springs."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >Jesus was a Liberal</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 12:32 PM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"I look at that sculpture and see DEATH and MALFEASANCE. Nothing positive about it. Keep it out of Saratoga Springs."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >saratogasprings2010</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 12:54 PM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;"><span style=" Times New Roman","serif"; font-size:100%;" >"You can't be serious. This looks like a piece of junk. Has someone lost their mind? This trash should not even be under consideration no matter where it came from. Send it back to NYC."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" ></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >connie</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 5:42 PM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"Do not subject our downtown to this ugly piece of steel that carries no message at all. The Navy base out Rt. 29 might like to have it or some other community might welcome it. We do not need it, especially at the Visitor's Center."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >topknotch</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > wrote on Aug 16, 2011 9:27 PM:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >"Lay this to rest somewhere near the national cemetery. We don't need this in town it looks terrible. I'm an Art major. Next will be having a horse laying dead, all twisted up. This is not attractive."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" > </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" >wary</span></b><span style=" font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" > wrote on Aug 10, 2011 7:44 AM:</span></p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Unfortunately, I cannot see anything about the 'memorial' that is meaningful. It is ugly. I do not want to take my visitors around the city to view all the beauty and have to "explain" another questionable, hard-to-explain structure.”</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;" >* * *</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHY "Tempered by Memory"<br />will never have a permanent home:</span><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Q- Puh-leeeeze... WHERE and WHEN have "DANGEROUS" sculptures been cited and removed?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">A- History teaches-- </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"The Arts Commission voted unanimously to dispose of the piece due to safety considerations. The sculpture had been a magnet for kids to climb and sit upon. It had been donated to the city by an artist not versed in the unique demands of public art works and had rusted both inside and out and was thus deemed a safety hazard."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://lbindy.com/2011/03/10/rusting-sculpture-removed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Richard Serra’s site-specific sculpture “Tilted Arc” was removed from a Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan after complaints that the sculpture was a safety hazard and prevented the public from using the space for recreation."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/files/123.WL_.VARA_.pdf</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"The metal cow is a hazard that should be removed, said a city policeman who had to remove the cow twice yesterday from the street. The cow, cut from a steel plate and intended as a piece of art, has sharp horns that the police officer said are like "swords" that could impale somebody either accidentally or during a scuffle."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://articles.mcall.com/1985-07-31/news/2487809_1_cow-police-officer-policeman</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">" 'Tracing the Fore', an undulating steel sculpture will soon be installed in a private sculpture garden. One businessman said the jagged steel 'waves' designed to evoke currents in the nearby Fore River reminded him of razor blades. Soon after, the city’s Public Art Committee began a process considering whether to relocate the piece or get rid of it altogether. Ultimately, the city decided to sell it at auction."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://portlanddailysun.me/node/27026</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"In 2008, the sculpture was removed from campus. After being subjected to decades of inclement weather, it had greatly deteriorated and was quickly becoming a safety hazard to all who frequented the courtyard in which it previously stood."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://www.mc.uky.edu/medicine/administration/Deans_Newsletter/2011_04.pdf</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Q- Ummm, Puh-leeeeze... In a NATION this BIG, you got only FIVE problems? Not many “Child Killers,” eh Yorkie???</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">A- Most Public Sculptures are SAFE</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> because they follow the universally-used 11-step Public Process, see pages 1 and 10-13:</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://www.art-stl.com/assets/pdfs/PublicArtGuide.PDF</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />You'll note that step number SIX (6) calls for preparation of a formal RFP. You can use the internet to find THOUSANDS of RFPs, virtually ALL use the same "boilerplate" language to ensure a SAFE design. For example:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"The Cultural Arts Commission is seeking existing sculpture available for a temporary exhibit. Design and materials must mitigate any potential hazard to the public; such as a safe surface for climbing children."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://www.ssf.net/DocumentView.aspx?DID=903</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Artists will be required to submit a proposal and rendering/photos of the work to be displayed. The Town is not liable for any issues related to the artwork such as potential injury liability, fire hazard, traffic accident, etc. Artist is responsible for acquiring his/her own property insurance."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://www.matthewsnc.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=zjHOEbMUiXg%3D&tabid=126</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Particular attention needs to be given to ensure artworks do not represent any danger to adults and children; as such issues such as sharp edges and secure attachment should be considered prior to submitting entries."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/ArtGallery/pdfs/CSW06TermsConditionsEntryForm.pdf</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Works deemed unsafe, overly fragile, or otherwise unsuitable will not be considered for the exhibition."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://www.sculpture.net/community/showthread.php?t=2785</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Work deemed unsafe will not be accepted."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">www.ulm.edu/~fassett/u-links/contracts/images/stu-garden-poster.doc</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Q- Oh. Please... WHY would experienced ARTISTS and wise ARTS COUNCIL LEADERS do something so…well, so STUPID?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">A- The chosen Artists make sculptures for PRIVATE owners.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">So an individual can pay $120,000 and be delighted to have the sculptor jab them in the eye with a red hot piece of rebar. And when their larger pieces are on display in Galleries, plenty of signs and security ropes keep visitors from getting hurt. As far as leadership, this disaster is a sad example of on-the-job learning. But there IS a future for the steel and there IS still HOPE for an appropriate memorial: </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">NEXT STEPS</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">-</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our City’s Director of Risk and Safety Marilyn Rivers has not yet weighed in on the sculpture. Ms. Rivers takes her responsibilities seriously. </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> EXTREMELY </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">seriously. You might want to see her opinion once she submits it to Commissioner Franck. But while we wait for Ms. Rivers emphatic warning/rejection, the way forward is Tempered by Reality-</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">With the current predicament of an unusable sculpture made with 13 tons of WTC steel, now is the time for the City Council to re-start the Art program… only THIS time City guidance can assure a proper process by following the 11-step process (see PDF pages 10-13).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Let the City Council appoint a “Planning Committee” without delay, and to welcome ideas that use “raw” steel AND designs using melted steel to fulfill creative visions and fill the Public Space with a safe and accessible creation.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For the immediate future, the sculpture will be moved to the DPW Garage on the West Side, secure behind the lot's fencing. The upper ten-foot “neck” extension will be cut off without delay in the event of unauthorized access.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But any work by the "Siting Committee" is doomed to failure...unless the fenced-off DPW Lot tops the list.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Q- Please... HOW is it that YOU are smarter than the ENTIRE City Council?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">A- I am not smarter.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">They simply haven’t heard from their Expert, Marilyn Rivers.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But they will.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yocja1Hy-VM/TlR3qu512pI/AAAAAAAAAVs/NfHaIOv56Sg/s1600/l%2BSculpture%2Bproposal.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yocja1Hy-VM/TlR3qu512pI/AAAAAAAAAVs/NfHaIOv56Sg/s320/l%2BSculpture%2Bproposal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644267809030920850" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Proposed...</span><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wY7gKILLOAU/TlR3zZRJunI/AAAAAAAAAV0/McA3g8DVvRY/s1600/l%2BSculpture%2B%2Breal.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 283px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wY7gKILLOAU/TlR3zZRJunI/AAAAAAAAAV0/McA3g8DVvRY/s320/l%2BSculpture%2B%2Breal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644267957841934962" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Delivered...perhaps.</span><br /><br /></div></div></div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></span></span>Kyle Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227858368649647978noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1877750114176856985.post-70452998186705454482010-12-21T13:03:00.000-08:002013-03-09T08:38:13.179-08:00Genting- NYRA's Losing Bet<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">UPDATE (T-U) FEB. 26, 2013</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">* Saratoga want Tracks to have Full-Casino priority,</span><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">* City locals push for GUARANTEED income.</span><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">http://www.saratogacospotlight.com/news/2013/feb/26/group-wants-racing-considered-casino-talks/</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 180%;">* * *</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">UPDATE (T-U) JAN. 19, 2012</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">* Cuomo praises Convention Center plans,</span><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">* Cuomo professes love for GENTING pros.</span><br /><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/nyregion/cuomo-portrays-queens-convention-center-plan-as-risk-free.html?_r=2&ref=nyregion</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 180%;">* * *</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">UPDATE (T-U) SEPT. 5, 2011</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">* NYS Legislator moves forward</span><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">to allow non-Native Casino gambling,</span><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">* Catskill Casino is back in play.</span><br /><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 85%;">http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Scoring-casino-game-2155748.php</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 180%;">* * *</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: 130%;">ALL telling us that<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> GENTING MALAYSIA</span> has "<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">SAVED NYRA</span>" with their winning bid to operate a "<span style="font-weight: bold;">VLT RACINO</span>" at <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Aqueduct Race Track</span> in New York City.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UNFORTUNATELY </span>for us Spa Locals... and our horsemen expecting <span style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;"><br />$11 million </span>in 2011... and fans of the<span style="font-style: italic;"> Race Course</span> expecting improvements worth <span style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">$77 million</span> over five years...but <span style="font-weight: bold;">ALL LOCAL</span> revenue will be a <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">PERCENTAGE </span>of Genting's projected <span style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">GROSS </span>revenue. And <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Genting </span>is expecting <span style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">$650 MILLION</span> in gross annual gaming revenue.<br /><br />THE PROBLEMS appear everywhere in the<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> GENTING PROPOSAL</span>...<br />in <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">THEIR</span> words.<br /><br /><span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">GENTING's belief is that Albany will re-write the gaming laws, allowing GENTING to open a full-service tables-and-craps <span style="color: red;">CASINO </span>with no Tribal ownership. Their belief is that <span style="color: red;">the horsetrack <span style="color: #3333ff;">can be</span> paved over.</span> The crime is that New York's officials never informed GENTING of the TRUE realities of The Empire State.<br /><br />They've started their campaign for a FULL-ON CASINO, as reported by James Odato of the Times-Union... but GENTING's dreams fall a few chips short of NYS reality. (<a href="http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Lobby-dollars-and-a-dream-1441442.php">story</a>)</span><br /><span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">When <span style="color: red;">realitiy </span>hits, GENTING will need SOMETHING to serve as their <span style="color: red;">MAIN ATTRACTION</span>. And so it has come to pass that talk of a <span style="color: red;">CONVENTION CENTER</span> is going around. GENTING has deep pockets, so deep that "The Big A" will be a horseless buggy, all <span style="color: red;">CONVENTION </span>and in the end, all <span style="color: red;">CASINO</span>. But there is ZERO CHANCE for a return on their investment as a chintzy little RACINO.</span><br /><br />But we hear only <span style="font-weight: bold;">NYRA's</span> numbing <span style="font-weight: bold;">MUZAK </span>for our <span style="font-weight: bold;">HAPPY TRACK</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">YOU</span> </span>have every right to see<br />the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">GENTING PROPOSAL</span>,<br />the smiley-faced <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">NYS VLT AWARD</span>,<br />and the <span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">remarkable insights</span><br />of the outside <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">EXPERTS</span>.</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: 130%;"><br />Here's the <span style="font-weight: bold;">full story</span>... a <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">12-page Report</span> with the original documents...<br />along with <span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">45 pages of Appendices</span>, directly from <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">GENTING</span>...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: 130%;">...the <span style="color: #cc33cc; font-size: 180%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">PINK SHEET</span> to make your </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">WAGER</span> </span>of a <span style="color: red; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">LIFETIME</span>-- </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Foreword</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 85%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To view links:</span></span> <span style="font-size: 180%;"> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/nyregion/13aqueduct.html">i</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/nyregion/westchester/08casinowe.html">ii</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Genting Brand, a Global Force</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">15<span style="color: white;">......................... </span>16<span style="color: white;">............................ </span>17</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">.......</span>18<span style="color: white;">...................... </span>Trends<span style="color: white;">....................</span>Quotations</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">APPENDIX C</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Track Improvements, a 5-year plan</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">1<span style="color: white;">............................ </span>2<span style="color: white;">..............................</span> 3</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">APPENDIX D</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Map of NYC, JFK & VLTs</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">APPENDIX E</span></span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Casino... or Racino?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">APPENDIX F <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regional Competition</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">1<span style="color: white;">............................ </span>2<span style="color: white;">.............................. </span>3</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">4<span style="color: white;">............................ </span>5<span style="color: white;">..............................</span> 6</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;">APPENDIX G</span></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">Aqueduct Today, the Real Thing</span></span></span></div>
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Kyle Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227858368649647978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1877750114176856985.post-41788468854619825712010-10-04T14:34:00.000-07:002010-10-04T20:24:23.623-07:00IRAQ AT THE EDGE<div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">.</span><br />With all eyes on the Khyber Pass, virtually everyone is missing THE story of DC's Bipartisan Post-9/11 Democracy Dementia. One single sentence in today's NY Times--<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">.</span></span></span></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >"Iraq's fate is at the tipping point."</span></em></strong></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">.</span></span></span></div><div align="left"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></span></em></strong></div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><em></em></strong></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" >Pronounced this day, October 4, 2010...<br />so much MORE than the most overlooked understatement of the year. Perhaps it would made it to the front page with-- </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /></span></div><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ></span></strong><div align="center"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;" >"IRAQ's TORCH INCHES </span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;" >FROM THE FUSE"</span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong><br /></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">FOR THOSE OF YOU who still care about the CORE WAR and the KEY PLAYERS, the news all wrapped and spun a "Progress for the Parliament" is the "End of Everything."<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;" >I'll serve it all up in TWO versions--<br /></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:180%;">#1- The super short Cliff Note version for the Tweet nation.<br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);"></span></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;" >#2- The key conflicts, the players, and the Dogs of War gone rabid.</span></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >#1- <span style="font-size:85%;">The NY TIMES Reporting</span> </span><br /></span><br />From today's New York Times<br />Copyright October 4, 2010<br /><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>News Analysis:<br />As Maliki Clings to Power, </strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Iraq’s Fissures Deepen</strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />BAGHDAD — When Nuri Kamal al-Maliki began his bid for re-election as prime minister he pledged to unite a population splintered and suspicious after years of war. He has not, and while he is hardly alone in blame, the consequences could haunt Iraq for years to come.<br /><br />Mr. Maliki secured the nomination for a second four-year term on Friday, but he did so with the support of many fellow Shiites, in particular the followers of a radical cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, who not long ago were involved in the fighting that plunged Iraq into civil war.<br /><br />Mr. Maliki now has the support of at least 148 members of the new 325-seat Parliament, just short of a majority. With the support of the Kurds, who have 57 seats in all, he could easily form a government that excludes Sunnis almost entirely.<br /><br />The challenge now is for Mr. Maliki to overcome the divisions and suspicions — among Sunnis, above all — that have dogged Iraq since its creation in 1920 under British rule, cobbled together out of disparate Ottoman provinces. Even though Mr. Maliki is all but assured of leading the next government, it could take weeks or months more for him to persuade the Sunnis to join the government in some way.<br /><br />Among Iraq’s Sunnis the view is acute and disturbing, given the disenfranchisement that once provided Al Qaeda and other Sunni extremist groups succor. Baghdad was split, like the neighborhoods that even now are defined as either Sunni or Shiite, separated by checkpoints and blast walls.<br /><br />In the Sunni quarters on Sunday, despair, anger and fear prevailed. A common view blamed Iran, Iraq’s Shiite neighbor, for orchestrating Shiite dominance of a multicultural nation. Many accused Mr. Maliki of resorting to political expedience to retain power, rather than exercising national leadership.<br /><br />The sole Sunni in Mr. Maliki’s bloc, Hajim al-Hassani —said Sunday in an interview that Mr. Maliki intended to create a governing coalition that distributed posts in correlation to the percentage of votes. “We have to create an environment where there is no marginalization,” he said. “Iraq today is a democratic society. We must represent all Iraqis.”<br /><br />The question is whether Mr. Maliki now can. The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq, a Sunni organization, said Mr. Maliki’s sectarianism was merely a reverse of the Sunni domination of Iraq under Mr. Hussein’s dictatorship.<br /><br />“Iraq’s fate,” the organization said in a statement, “is at a tipping point.”<br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></span><div align="center"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>#2- The KD YORK forebodings</strong></span><br /><br /></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" >Since the March 2010 election, the Iraqi Parliament has met in session for a total of 18 minutes. It is because the FIVE factions have not been able to agree to team up to form a majority. The FIVE factions are- </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong>MALIKI's-CORRUPT-SHIITES who are in power and close to USA... </strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong><br /></strong></span></div><strong></strong><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong><em></em></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong><em>AL*SADR's-MILITANT-SHIITES who are well-armed and close to Iran...</em></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">.</em><br /></strong></span></div><strong></strong><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong>ALAWI's-SHIITE/SUNNI-BLEND with the Sunni's who will never be forgiven for being SADDAM's religion...</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong>INDEPENDENT-SUNNIS-UNITED against everybody else seeking revenge...</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><strong>KURDS-IN-KIRKUK where there's oil and the hills where they hide.</strong><br /><br />TODAY'S world-changing news is that MALIKI is joining with AL-SADR and they are ABOUT to form a genuine coalition with THE KURDS.<br /><br />IFFFFFF that happens, EVERY SUNNI will see their enemies gathered in force. Driven by reasonable paranoia, SUNNIs will IMMEDIATELY leave the government, take up arms, and the Civil War is back with a vengeance.<br /><br />The MYSTERY is how this "peace" has suddenly been made between ALAWI (America's Shiite) and AL-SADR (Iran's Shiite). The two have hated each other with a vicious contempt made nastier at every moment. And yet together, their political power is immense. But NOT enough to rule.<br /><br />And so MYSTERY #2 is why THE KURDS are now promising to join ALAWI and AL-SADR. Together the three groups can dictate the nation's future... but WHY would they suddenly announce their intentions to form a coalition today, Oct 4?<br /><br />Simple. But terrifying. Terrifyingly simple--<br />They all hate the Sunnis and agree to wipe them out.<br />MALAKI gets political power over ALL of Baghdad...IF the Sunni population, now 50%, are displaced, eliminated, or dead. AL-SADR gets a nation less-fearful of political alignment with Iran. And the KURDS, still angry at the Sunnis relocated by Saddam to Kurdish lands, the Kurds now have the green light to displace, eliminate or kill the Sunnis with no interference from the Shiite-controlled Army/Police.<br /><br />The Sunnis see ALL of this coming and if today's coalition is officially finalized (perhaps Sunday, maybe sooner)...<br /><br />...the Sunnis leave the government, go home to their hidden weapons, and all Hell breaks loose. And we've still got 50,000 spectators trapped, betrayed by America's Delusional Dream of Democracy under Penalty of Death.</span></div>Kyle Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227858368649647978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1877750114176856985.post-30342813438951434912010-09-01T11:34:00.000-07:002010-09-01T22:53:39.017-07:00Mid-Point Predix Review<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
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<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;" >Far too many have proven far too accurate.</span><o:p style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"></o:p></span> <p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >PLEASE UNDERSTAND that I take no pleasure, no pride, and I am not gloating. NEITHER am I a gifted soothsayer. I am only shocked that </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><u><span style="">experts</span></u></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" > on politics cannot put my amateur musings to shame.<o:p></o:p></span> <p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >MY ONLY “SOURCES” are History, Ethnology, and Technology. And they can be applied all too simply.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><o:p></o:p></span> <p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >ANYWAY…<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span>
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played its hand, and the economy is still in deep trouble. The central problem is not lack of money to hire workers or make loans or rates that are too high. It is lack of hiring and lack of lending. As long as the economy is weak and getting weaker, employers will be reluctant to hire new workers and banks will be reluctant to lend to small businesses. As long as hiring and lending are constrained, consumers will be reluctant to spend, and the economy will be weak.</span></span></h6><h6 style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/opinion/12thu1.html?ref=opinion">www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/opinion/12thu1.html?ref=opinion</a></span></h6>
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Jim Bunning (remember him?) was the one vote to keep writing checks in </span><i style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic;">May</i><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic;">. In </span><i style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic;">July</i><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic;">, the vote to keep writing checks passed by a single vote, after waiting for the successor to Robert Byrd of W Va. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Next </span>vote is in November—</span></span><b style=""><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p face="arial">
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<![endif]--></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Unemployment benefits: Bunning relents, Senate passes extension</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">March 3, 2010- In a sprint on Tuesday night, the US Senate passed an extension of federal unemployment insurance benefits, then raced it to the White House for President Obama’s signature. The battle over how or whether to pay for it became a focal point in the Senate – especially for Sen. Jim Bunning (R) of Ky. who held up consideration of the legislation unless it found a way to pay for it. Congress has already passed legislation requiring it to pay for any new spending, but it waived that requirement for the unemployment legislation.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0303/Unemployment-benefits-Jim-Bunning-relents-Senate-passes-extension">www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0303/Unemployment-benefits-Jim-Bunning-relents-Senate-passes-extension</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Congress approves unemployment extension</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">July 22, USA TODAY- A day after the Senate advanced the measure, the House voted 272-152 to send the benefits extension to the White House for President Obama's signature. But the debate over the cost the legislation continues to dominate House and Senate races across the country. The legislation extends benefits for those who have already used up their standard 26 weeks of unemployment, which Democrats said is necessary to help millions of out-of-work Americans. Republicans say they also support extending the benefits but argue the government should not borrow the $34 billion needed to pay for it.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/07/congress-approves-unemployment-extension/1">www.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/07/congress-approves-unemployment-extension/1</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/07/congress-approves-unemployment-extension/1">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">MARCH 7- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Iraqi election results in— Civil War wins.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7Mtk2zlmI/AAAAAAAAACc/XOA43tNAkxU/s1600/iraq-civil-war.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 232px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7Mtk2zlmI/AAAAAAAAACc/XOA43tNAkxU/s320/iraq-civil-war.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512068077307795042" border="0" /></a>The voting was disputed, the “elected” Parliament is split. BOTH parties are BigTime Shi’a, but one wants to give a teeny bit of power to the Sunnis. Although the two parties have not made ANY progress, hard-line Shi’a are protecting their turf by killing the few Sunni leaders. Of course, we’ve left the country and The Civil War has begun… but we’ll just blame “insurgents” for the first few months. May God help our last 50,000 soldiers to get out safely—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Sunnis Killed in Iraq Suicide Attacks</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">July 18, 2010- The bomber struck early Sunday in Radwaniya, a largely Sunni neighborhood southwest of central Baghdad. An official at the Ministry of the Interior said at least 43 people were killed and 40 were wounded. The dead were mainly members of the Awakening movement, the organization composed mostly of Sunni former insurgents. Hours later, another attack aimed at Awakening members killed four of them in Al Qaim, a city in Anbar Province in western Iraq. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">The violence follows a series of assassinations and attacks in recent months against the former insurgents, adding new urgency to questions about how long they will remain loyal to a government they blame for not protecting them. The concern, and an apparent goal of the attackers, is that nearly 90,000 armed former militants could hit the street again as the United States is sharply reducing the number of troops in Iraq.
<br /></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/world/middleeast/19iraq.html">www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/world/middleeast/19iraq.html</a></span></div> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Coordinated Attacks Strike 13 Towns and Cities in Iraq</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">August 25, 2010, BAGHDAD — In one of the broadest assaults on Iraq’s security forces, insurgents unleashed a wave of roadside mines and a more than a dozen car bombings across Iraq on Wednesday, killing dozens, toppling a police station in the capital and sowing chaos and confusion among the soldiers and police officers who responded.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">“A bloody day,” Khalil Ahmed, a 30-year-old engineer, said simply. “From the day of the fall of Saddam until now, this is what we have — explosions, killing and looting,” he said. “This is our destiny. It’s already written for us.” </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>“The beginning of the storm,” said Saleh Khamis, a 38-year-old teacher in Buhriz.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/world/middleeast/26iraq.html?_r=1&hp">www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/world/middleeast/26iraq.html?_r=1&hp</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Sovereignty Day</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal">June 29, 2010- Tomorrow, June 30, has was named "Sovereignty Day" because on June 30, 2009, the American forces were no longer in control of security in Iraqi cities – they had handed over the security to the Iraqi government, according to the security agreement signed between the two "sovereign" countries. After that date U.S. military convoys were not to enter Iraqi cities unescorted by Iraqi forces or to undertake any military action without the prior approval of the Iraqi authorities, including raids and detentions.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Last year Sovereignty Day was celebrated by the Iraqi government and by the Iraqi people who wanted so very badly to believe that this was the end of the occupation and the beginning of a return to normal life. The celebration was held in Zawraa Park, with music, singing and dancing that continued late into the evening. Hundreds of young people participated.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">This year, however, we heard no announcements of activities. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">I called the defence ministry media office, and they had nothing scheduled. I called our source within the interior ministry – Maybe he had an idea.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">"Sovereignty Day?? What sovereignty?? And who is to hold the celebration?? The government? What government??"</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Indeed – What sovereignty? And what government?</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">This occupation opened the door for powerful winds – and they entered and are blowing, still.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Iraq has become a plain on which international and regional forces are struggling for supremacy. A tug of war between the Shiites in Iran and the Wahabis in Saudi – between the Kurds, whether in Iraq, Turkey or Iran, and the Arabs – between forces that want to keep the country together and forces that want to rip it apart.</p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/2010/06/sovereignty-day.html</span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">APRIL- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eh, sooner. US Commercial Loan crash.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7NDhZWatI/AAAAAAAAACk/kV8WadCY210/s1600/comm+loa.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 89px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7NDhZWatI/AAAAAAAAACk/kV8WadCY210/s320/comm+loa.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512068454336064210" border="0" /></a>MY BAD. My timing was off. The Commercial Debt Crisis begins in 2011 and gets bad in 2012. But those huge loans are a small part of the Debt Crisis—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">US ECONOMY “DEBT CANCER”</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">July 11, 2010- Erskine Bowles said that unlike the current economic crisis, which was largely unforeseen before it hit in fall 2008, the coming fiscal calamity is staring the country in the face. "This one is as clear as a bell," he said. "This debt is like a cancer."</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/11/AR2010071101956_pf.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/11/AR2010071101956_pf.html</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/11/AR2010071101956_pf.html">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">APRIL- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Adjustable mortgage consumers get wiped out.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7NXA_qWFI/AAAAAAAAACs/p1yL8esOGG0/s1600/Foreclosure+notice.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 152px; height: 101px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7NXA_qWFI/AAAAAAAAACs/p1yL8esOGG0/s320/Foreclosure+notice.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512068789235767378" border="0" /></a>Uncle Sam has stepped in planning to save FOUR MILLION mortgages… only 800,000 rescued so far. But with or without help, far too many homeowners are falling behind, values are “underwater”… and we’re gonna’ be DEEP in it—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Mortgage Payments One Month Overdue Increase as U.S. Economic Growth Slows</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal;">August 26, 2010- Home loans overdue by a month rose to 3.51 percent according to a report today. The gain suggests a slowing economy may increase foreclosures as mortgage holders lose their jobs. The Obama administration’s Home Affordable Modification Program resulted in 340,459 modifications by the end of May. In addition, 467,672 trial modifications were under way. The Obama administration set a goal of up to 4 million modifications by December 2012 when the program was announced last year.</span><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-26/mortgage-payments-one-month-overdue-increase-as-u-s-economic-growth-slows.html">www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-26/mortgage-payments-one-month-overdue-increase-as-u-s-economic-growth-slows.html</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Plunging home sales could sink recovery</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">August 24, 2010: NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- With home sales plunging to their lowest level in 15 years, economists warn that a double-dip in housing prices is just around the corner, threatening to further slow the overall recovery.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">"Home sales were eye-wateringly weak in July," said economist Paul Dales of Capital Economics. "It is becoming abundantly clear that the housing market is undermining the already faltering wider economic recovery. With an increasingly inevitable double-dip in housing prices yet to come, things could get a lot worse."</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/24/real_estate/existing_home_sales/">http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/24/real_estate/existing_home_sales/</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Thousands seeking mortgage help line up at Palm Beach County Convention Center this morning (8/27)</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">August 27, WEST PALM BEACH — Thousands of people are lined up this morning outside the Palm Beach County Convention Center hoping the Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America will help them save their homes. They are here from throughout the country, including Detroit and California. The non-profit group opened the doors at 9 a.m. to begin a five-day marathon of around-the-clock loan modifications. The event, which is free, aims to get homeowners cheaper monthly mortgage payments through interest rate reductions, extending the life of the loan and a reduction in loan amount.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/real-estate/thousands-seeking-mortgage-help-line-up-at-palm-882338.html">www.palmbeachpost.com/money/real-estate/thousands-seeking-mortgage-help-line-up-at-palm-882338.html</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/real-estate/thousands-seeking-mortgage-help-line-up-at-palm-882338.html">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">MAY- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Upswing in “Small-American” localized violence.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7NqU3TG6I/AAAAAAAAAC0/j9BNkwLy1_s/s1600/violence.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7NqU3TG6I/AAAAAAAAAC0/j9BNkwLy1_s/s320/violence.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512069120986913698" border="0" /></a>The “Unemployment Extensions” have kept the lid on this deadly pressure cooker. But the evidence of Civil Unrest and “senseless” violence aren’t hard to find. Far too many stories… this one should suffice—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >MURDER-SUICIDES: Economic worries taking toll in recent deaths</span></span>
<br /></div><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Victims' families blame financial stress</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">August 30, 2010- Donald and Barbara Romano had been residents of Las Vegas for more than 50 years. On Aug. 20, a Friday, the couple was found dead in the bedroom of their million-dollar home, Las Vegas police said. A gun was found in Donald's hand and a note was left near the bed. Both were 74. Their deaths are the latest in a wave of murder-suicides in the Las Vegas Valley this month.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">From Aug. 7 to Aug. 20 there were five murder-suicides, 10 deaths total, Las Vegas police said. A gun was used in each case. Homicide Lt. Lew Roberts, speaking in general terms, said several of the recent cases can be traced to the same cause. "At this point it appears that maybe the economy is starting to take effect, which is something we haven't seen before," he said.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/economic-worries-taking-toll-in-recent-deaths-101744543.html">www.lvrj.com/news/economic-worries-taking-toll-in-recent-deaths-101744543.html</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/economic-worries-taking-toll-in-recent-deaths-101744543.html">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">MAY- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Elections in Afghanistan…hahahahaha. No, really.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7WuuXSLNI/AAAAAAAAAFE/sgmUAe6JGVA/s1600/Afghan-President-Hamid-Ka-001.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 76px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7WuuXSLNI/AAAAAAAAAFE/sgmUAe6JGVA/s320/Afghan-President-Hamid-Ka-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512079092156083410" border="0" /></a>The election was…I AM SHOCKED!—POSTPONED until September 18. Whatever. It will surely be dominated for the SECOND time by the corrupt antics of US-backed President Karzai—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Afghan vote runs up against fear, disenchantment</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">August 24, AP-- After a fraud-ridden presidential election last year that threatened to undermine President Hamid Karzai's legitimacy and international support, the Sept. 18 parliamentary ballot is being watched closely as a test of whether the Afghan government is serious about reform.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">A second flawed ballot would devastate Karzai's reputation abroad and threaten U.S. congressional support for the government at a decisive phase in the nearly 9-year war.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">The Afghan constitution required a parliamentary election by May 22, but the balloting was postponed by four months because of security concerns and lack of funds from international donors, which were withheld until Karzai replaced top election officials who ran the presidential vote.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">With fighting escalating in much of the country and bitter memories of the presidential vote fraud, many Afghans wonder what's the point.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">"We don't know if we will be alive tomorrow and you are talking about the election?" said Abdul Jabbar Aghnozada, a farmer.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100824/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_election_fear">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100824/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_election_fear</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Unrest Is Undermining Hopes for Afghan Vote</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">August 12, KABUL, Afghanistan — Worsening insurgent violence in many parts of the country is raising concern about Afghanistan’s ability to hold a fair parliamentary election in little more than a month. Security has worsened, making it harder to get election observers to polling centers. Candidates have complained that they cannot reach districts where they need to campaign because it is too dangerous. Already Western diplomats and observers are lowering expectations for the election, while Afghans are increasingly disillusioned and fatalistic about the prospects for democracy.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/world/asia/12karzai.html?_r=1&hpw">www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/world/asia/12karzai.html?_r=1&hpw</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/world/asia/12karzai.html?_r=1&hpw">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">LATE SPRING-<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pakistani coup, truce with Taliban. </span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7OsrW5-ZI/AAAAAAAAADM/eq-yOgF9OZ4/s1600/pakistan_seh_rishtaa_kiyaa_zabta_198.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 110px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7OsrW5-ZI/AAAAAAAAADM/eq-yOgF9OZ4/s320/pakistan_seh_rishtaa_kiyaa_zabta_198.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512070260896430482" border="0" /></a>MY BAD. No coup…not necessary. We keep using drones without telling them... because they'll warn their tribal brethren. SO the Pakistanis ARE making their peace with the Taliban, born, bred and beloved in Pakistan’s Pashtun regions—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Afghanistan war logs: whose side is Pakistan on?</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">The storm of controversy raised by the accounts of alleged collusion between Pakistani intelligence and the Taliban in the Wikileaks logs has resurrected one of the most vexed questions of the nine-year Afghan war: whose side is Pakistan on? The reports have galvanised the opinions of some Americans who view the Pakistani military, which runs the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, as a double-dealing entity that accepts $1bn a year in US funding while quietly helping Afghan insurgents.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/26/afghanistan-war-logs-pakistan-military">www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/26/afghanistan-war-logs-pakistan-military</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/26/afghanistan-war-logs-pakistan-military">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">JUNE- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NYS & NYC collapse, bankrupt beyond belief. </span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7O-NhsLHI/AAAAAAAAADU/AgbuhGCygXc/s1600/NYC.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 130px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7O-NhsLHI/AAAAAAAAADU/AgbuhGCygXc/s320/NYC.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512070562126244978" border="0" /></a>MY BAD. The disastrous NY STATE Budget just recently got passed… overdue since April 1. The sickly statewide damage will need some time to trickle down to downtown Manhattan. Soon, it will be a test for all Noo Yawkas. But for now, it is almost comical—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Local pain from state's sickness</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">August 8, ALBANY -- The pain of the state's money woes will hit home in coming months, as local governments cope with aid cutbacks, retailers see spending reductions and landlords lose state tenants as offices are consolidated.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Local-pain-from-state-s-sickness-607358.php">www.timesunion.com/business/article/Local-pain-from-state-s-sickness-607358.php</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Sliced Bagels, Taxes on Top</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">AUGUST 24, 2010- State tax officials, under orders from cash-strapped Albany, have begun to enforce one of the more obscure distinctions within the state's sales tax law. The extra charge, about eight cents a bagel, depending on the local rate, has filled customers with boiling rage.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">In New York, the sale of whole bagels isn't subject to sales tax. But the tax does apply to "sliced or prepared bagels (with cream cheese or other toppings)," according to the state Department of Taxation and Finance. And if the bagel is eaten in the store, even if it's never been touched by a knife, it's also taxed.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704340504575448033463314628.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704340504575448033463314628.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704340504575448033463314628.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">JUNE- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maybe sooner. Oil Tanker sunk near Hormuz. </span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7POvblOEI/AAAAAAAAADc/N7sBMhMv068/s1600/Tanker.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 97px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7POvblOEI/AAAAAAAAADc/N7sBMhMv068/s320/Tanker.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512070846105335874" border="0" /></a>MY BAD. The Bad Guys in Yemen were moving slower than I expected. As always, THEY are on Muslim Time while I race on Noo-Yawka’ Pragmatic-Yankee time. But the sinkings will come from NEW shore-based insurgents—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Gunmen attack Yemen security offices, al Qaeda blamed</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">July 14, Reuters- "A large number of gunmen attacked the Political Security and the General Security (police) offices at the beginning of the workday, a police source said. "It is believed that the attackers were members of al Qaeda," he added. The assault was the second by suspected al Qaeda gunmen on Yemen security offices in less than a month. In June, al Qaeda attackers raided the regional headquarters of the political security office in the southern port city of Aden, killing 11.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">"We're witnessing a major shift in al Qaeda's policy," Mustafa Alani, of the Gulf Research Center in Dubai, said. "We're entering a stage where there is a real, face to face confrontation between the security community and al Qaeda."</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66D0VM20100714">www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66D0VM20100714</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66D0VM20100714">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">JULY-<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> US troops exit Pakistan. Let’s just be friends.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7PnR-GIVI/AAAAAAAAADk/tXNU21bW7J8/s1600/pak+peace.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 98px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7PnR-GIVI/AAAAAAAAADk/tXNU21bW7J8/s320/pak+peace.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512071267693764946" border="0" /></a>We are WAY overdue for getting out. The catastrophic floods have turned attention from cooperation to cholera. The government may simply collapse in this damn crisis… Lord knows Pakistan sure as hell can’t, or won’t, fight—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Pakistan's leader says world losing Afghan war</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Aug 3, LONDON – The U.S.-led coalition's battle against the Taliban has already been lost because of its failure to win over the Afghan people, Pakistan's president warned Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, who has accused the country of exporting terrorism. U.S. and NATO commanders have repeatedly said the war cannot be won unless Islamabad does more to tackle extremists on its side of the border.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100803/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_pakistan">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100803/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_pakistan</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Pakistan’s Double Game</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">NYT: July 26, 2010- If Mr. Obama cannot persuade Islamabad to cut its ties to, and then aggressively fight, the extremists in Pakistan, there is no hope of defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/opinion/27tue1.html?ref=opinion">www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/opinion/27tue1.html?ref=opinion</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/opinion/27tue1.html?ref=opinion">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">JULY- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mexico surrenders to drug cartels. Shots for all! </span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7P2wV06vI/AAAAAAAAADs/9-gKCZxdDLg/s1600/mexico.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 165px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7P2wV06vI/AAAAAAAAADs/9-gKCZxdDLg/s320/mexico.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512071533544401650" border="0" /></a>Few are watching this mess. Dealers have moved from killing foes to eliminating the real problem- The Government. With the cops dead or bought-off, our borders are little more than lines on paper. Lines that will be re-written in blood. Oh, Mexico is dependent on their Gulf Oil-sucking PEMEX… and their oil reserves are near depletion—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Rising death toll in Ciudad Juarez</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">06/28/2010- Look at these numbers for the death toll for Ciudad Juarez, the northern border city across from El Paso. It is a comparison of the first six months of this year with the past two years. The source is the Diario newspaper in Juarez.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">2008--Jan-June: 520 homicides</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">2009--Jan-June: 871</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">2010--Jan-June 27: 1,363</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Two Mexican-Americans were shot and killed in a bar in Juarez on Saturday. The trend is obvious. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/mexico/2010/06/rising-death-toll-in-ciudad-juarez.html">http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/mexico/2010/06/rising-death-toll-in-ciudad-juarez.html</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/mexico/2010/06/rising-death-toll-in-ciudad-juarez.html">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">JULY- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Khalid trial in NYC triggers attacks on aircraft.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7QFwlildI/AAAAAAAAAD0/PV38S3HSXtI/s1600/KSMohammed.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 140px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7QFwlildI/AAAAAAAAAD0/PV38S3HSXtI/s320/KSMohammed.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512071791308346834" border="0" /></a>Damned if I know what happened to Khalid. His heinous crimes now take back seat to the sick vitriol of a nation lashing out at mosques that are NOT MOSQUES, attacking Muslims who are AMERICANS, and declaring that religious freedoms do NOT apply to all religions. Oh, did you know WTC was built on a community, a neighborhood established in 1847? To the NY/NJ political machine, it was “urban blight.” So they obliterated 325 stores and the livelihood of 30,000 owners, employees and their families. It was a pocket of immigrants… from the MidEast. Not so well-known as “Little Italy” or “Chinatown”… but it was “Little Syria.” And they had mosques long before slavery was made illegal. I shared that in my walking tours of WTC, the weekend tours I lead with great joy for 12 years. Today’s rampant ignorance makes me sick. New York is better than that. America is better than that. And gosh darn it, one legendary leading Republican agrees with me—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Hatch backs 'Ground Zero Mosque’</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">August 31, 2010 (CNN)- In an interview on Monday with Fox13now in Salt Lake City, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch said he would be “the first to stand up” for the rights of Muslims to build an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero. Well, he’s not exactly the first, but I’ll take it.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/31/a-mormon-with-a-memory-hatch-backs-ground-zero-mosque">http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/31/a-mormon-with-a-memory-hatch-backs-ground-zero-mosque</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/31/a-mormon-with-a-memory-hatch-backs-ground-zero-mosque">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">AUGUST- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A hot summer, bruised America on the ropes.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7QttPKUsI/AAAAAAAAAEE/13q9tg9SGEA/s1600/distress.gif"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 120px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7QttPKUsI/AAAAAAAAAEE/13q9tg9SGEA/s320/distress.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512072477603943106" border="0" /></a>It has been bad… but worse if congress had not buried this DEPRESSION under buckets of money. First TARP at $700 BILLION, then DETROIT at $34 BILLION, then HOUSING at $275 BILLION, then CAR CREDITS of $5G each, then HOME LOAN CREDITS of $8G per house… and the endless shower of generous UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. That DEBT has caught our attention... and trouble when the FREE MONEY ends—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">By Laurence Kotlikoff, August 10, 2010 - Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. Our country is broke and can no longer afford no-pain, all-gain “solutions.” </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-11/u-s-is-bankrupt-and-we-don-t-even-know-commentary-by-laurence-kotlikoff.html">www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-11/u-s-is-bankrupt-and-we-don-t-even-know-commentary-by-laurence-kotlikoff.html</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-11/u-s-is-bankrupt-and-we-don-t-even-know-commentary-by-laurence-kotlikoff.html">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">SEPT-<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Arrival of a Great American Conservative.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7RDIGCNAI/AAAAAAAAAEM/26F8Hd4SQyI/s1600/Beck.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 93px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7RDIGCNAI/AAAAAAAAAEM/26F8Hd4SQyI/s320/Beck.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512072845590672386" border="0" /></a>Glenn Beck got his start as a reasonable “everyman” when he had his first TV program on HNN. Now at FOX, he has a blackboard, long crying jags, and he's the “Great American Conservative” prophet. He scares the Hell out of me—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Beck Says US Has 'Wandered in Darkness' Too Long</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Glenn Beck: the pudgy, buzz-cut, weeping phenomenon of radio, TV and books. Our hot summer of political combat is turning toward an autumn of showdowns over some of the biggest public-policy initiatives in decades. The old American mind-set called "the paranoid style" — the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country — is aflame again, fanned from both right and left. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">It is Beck — nervous, beset, desperate — who now channels the mood of many on the right. "I'm afraid," he has said more than once in recent months. "You should be afraid too." His fears are many — which is lucky for him, because Beck is responsible for filling multiple hours each day on radio and TV and webcast, plus hundreds of pages each year in his books, his online magazine and his newsletter. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">One of his Fox News Channel colleagues, Shepard Smith, has jokingly called Beck's studio the "fear chamber." Beck countered that he preferred "doom room."</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1924348-1,00.html">www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1924348-1,00.html</a></span>
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<br /></span><!--[endif]--></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">NOVEMBER- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republicans sweep the mid-term elections.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7RYdWpy5I/AAAAAAAAAEU/-Xabak02bAM/s1600/election.bmp"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 221px; height: 139px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7RYdWpy5I/AAAAAAAAAEU/-Xabak02bAM/s320/election.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512073212074773394" border="0" /></a>I don’t have any reason to doubt it. But with the environment they’ll inherit, I have reason to fear it. No matter who wins, I fear the harsh intrusion of ONE reality- There IS no “Recovery.” There WILL BE no “Double-Dip Recession.” There will be ONLY the REALITY predicted so long ago by my Dad-the-Retired-Brilliant-Bank-President— We are DEEPLY immersed in what ARRIVED in late 2007, and that REALITY is a 100% DEPRESSION—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">This Is Not a Recovery</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">August 26, NYT- What will Ben Bernanke say in his big speech Friday? We can predict what he will say about where we are now: that the economy is continuing to recover, albeit more slowly than they would like. Unfortunately, that’s not true: this isn’t a recovery. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Policy makers are in denial. After its last monetary policy meeting, the Fed released a statement declaring that it “anticipates a gradual return to higher levels of employment.” Meanwhile, Tim Geithner says that “we’re on the road to recovery.” No, we aren’t. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Why are people who know better sugar-coating economic reality? The answer, I’m sorry to say, is that it’s all about evading responsibility. It’s time to admit that what we have now isn’t a recovery, and do whatever we can to change that situation.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/27/krugman-this-is-not-a-recovery/</p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/opinion/27krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">NOVEMBER- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Israel attacks an Iranian nuclear facility.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7RnghyuEI/AAAAAAAAAEc/xzkCv7TSWLo/s1600/israel-air-force-jet.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 152px; height: 107px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7RnghyuEI/AAAAAAAAAEc/xzkCv7TSWLo/s320/israel-air-force-jet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512073470624839746" border="0" /></a>YES, I’ve been REPEATING this for years. Israel KNOWS Iran has the stuff of TWO nukes.So THIS is the YEAR. I’m even predicting the moonless night of December 5… while the much wiser experts say “Next Spring”—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">US shares Medvedev worries on Iran</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">July 12, 2010, WASHINGTON — The United States saluted Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's criticism of Iran and said it shared concerns that the Islamic republic could reach a "tipping point" in its nuclear drive.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gm9qBObS0I5ezzhNjY-Qb6oVtm3w">www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gm9qBObS0I5ezzhNjY-Qb6oVtm3w</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">The Gulf heats up</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">July 25, 2010- Concerns about Iran’s nuclear weapons program and negative involvement in the region are heard these days more in Arabic than any other language, including Hebrew. There is a worry that an Iranian bomb will enable it to set the future strategic agenda in the region.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=182575">www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=182575</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">The Point of No Return</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">September 2010, ATLANTIC magazine- Based on months of interviews, it is a near-certainty that Israel will act against Iran soon if nothing or no one else stops the nuclear program. One day next spring, Israeli advisers will telephone the White House and the Pentagon, to inform them that Israel has just ordered roughly 100 aircraft to fly toward Iran.<span style=""> </span>The Obama administration knows it is a near-certainty that Israel will act against Iran soon.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/the-point-of-no-return/8186/">www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/the-point-of-no-return/8186/</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/the-point-of-no-return/8186/">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">DECEMBER- <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Congrats</span>! You’ve made it. Now what?</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7SIbiVOmI/AAAAAAAAAEk/AepmYr8dLRQ/s1600/bad+economy+-+SXC.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 155px; height: 116px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7SIbiVOmI/AAAAAAAAAEk/AepmYr8dLRQ/s320/bad+economy+-+SXC.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512074036220607074" border="0" /></a><p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">In my interminably detailed predictions I warned that the Dow (now at 10,000) would dive THIS YEAR… landing at 5,000 to 6,000. It seems I may not be alone in my madness—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Dow Faces Bouncy Ride to 5,000: Strategist</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">AUGUST 24- The Dow Jones Average will lose about half of its value over the next couple of years as it follows a Nikkei-like pattern of several sharp rallies in an overall decline, according to Charles Nenner, founder and president of Charles Nenner research. Stocks are currently in a bear-market rally, and looking at charts and past trends, unemployment and leading indicators suggest the Dow will drop to 5,000 in the next two to two-and-a-half years, Nenner told CNBC in an e-mail.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/38826988">www.cnbc.com/id/38826988</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7ScCXPANI/AAAAAAAAAEs/HR111Z9U4Ag/s1600/unemployment.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 114px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7ScCXPANI/AAAAAAAAAEs/HR111Z9U4Ag/s320/unemployment.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512074373060559058" border="0" /></a><p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">My urgent warnings about social unrest have also lacked any<span style=""> </span>vocal support. But some now dare to speak the unspeakable—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Defining Prosperity Down</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">August 2, NYT-- Not long ago, anyone predicting that one in six Americans would be unemployed or underemployed, and that the average unemployed worker would have been jobless for 35 weeks, would have been dismissed as outlandishly pessimistic. But what’s worse is the growing evidence that our governing elite just doesn’t care — that a once-unthinkable level of economic distress is in the process of becoming the new normal. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">And I worry that those in power, rather than taking responsibility for job creation, will soon declare that high unemployment is “structural,” a permanent part of the economic landscape — and that by condemning large numbers of Americans to long-term joblessness, they’ll turn that excuse into dismal reality. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">Here’s what I consider all too likely: Two years from now unemployment will still be extremely high, quite possibly higher than it is now. As the long-term unemployed lose their skills and their connections with the work force, and become unemployable. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">While Americans are indeed angry, their anger is unfocused. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/opinion/02krugman.html?ref=opinion">www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/opinion/02krugman.html?ref=opinion</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/opinion/02krugman.html?ref=opinion">
<br /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7Sy7tRKhI/AAAAAAAAAE0/gndjkw6r25Y/s1600/coffin3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 263px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7Sy7tRKhI/AAAAAAAAAE0/gndjkw6r25Y/s320/coffin3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512074766410918418" border="0" /></a><p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">I will be blunt— My rage and my fury have absolute ZERO tolerance of forgiveness for LYING officials who send our SOLDIERS off to DIE. For GOD’s sake, was ANYBODY else ALIVE during VIETNAM? Did ANYBODY else learn the folly of NOT UNDERSTANDING the CULTURE/HISTORY/RELIGION of your ENEMY? Did ANYBODY else learn the STRAIN on SOLDIERS sent to fight insurgents who BLEND INTO the community? But ONCE AGAIN, voices are now slowly rising in retrospective WISDOM—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">The Lunatic’s Manual</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">August 2, 2010 (NYT)- War is a meat grinder for service members and their families. It grinds people up without mercy, killing them and inflicting the worst kinds of wounds imaginable, physical and psychological. The G.I.’s have fought valiantly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands have died and many, many more have suffered. But the wars have been conducted as if their leaders had been reading from a lunatic’s manual. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">This is not Germany or Japan or the old Soviet Union that we’re fighting. But after nearly a decade, neither war has been won and there is no prospect of winning. It’s time to bring the curtain down for good on these tragic, farcical wars. The fantasy of democracy blossoming at the point of a gun in Iraq and spreading blithely throughout the Middle East has been obliterated. </p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">And it’s hard to believe that anyone buys the notion that the U.S. can install a successful society in the medieval madness of Afghanistan.</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/opinion/03herbert.html?_r=1&ref=opinion">www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/opinion/03herbert.html?_r=1&ref=opinion</a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7TEicLyfI/AAAAAAAAAE8/6Tg5nLeFdbo/s1600/mortens.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 166px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wLL6B86-sjo/TH7TEicLyfI/AAAAAAAAAE8/6Tg5nLeFdbo/s320/mortens.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512075068866021874" border="0" /></a><p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">In my relentless tirades against the war and the bogus WMD garbage, the usual response was “SO…what would YOU do?” I would have improved communities in the lands of our enemies… improvements AS DEFINED by the locals. And author Greg Mortenson literally “wrote the book”—</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">1 Soldier or 20 Schools</p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: normal;" class="MsoNormal">July 29, NYT- The latest uproar over Pakistani hand-holding with the Afghan Taliban underscores that billions of dollars in U.S. military aid just doesn’t buy the loyalty it used to. In contrast, education can actually transform a nation. For the cost of just one soldier in Afghanistan for one year, we could start about 20 schools there. Hawks retort that it’s impossible to run schools in Afghanistan unless there are American troops to protect them. 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When.<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;" ><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;" > It was not the year we hoped for.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">2010 Part A-<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The Cliff Notes version suitable for Twitter:</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">“We just keep thinking we can do it all —</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> be focused, frightened and frivolous.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> We can’t. We don’t have the money.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> We don’t have the time.”</span></span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > <span style="font-size:85%;">-Thomas Friedman,<br />NYT, Jan. 16, 2010<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">2010 Part B-<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Kyle's 18- The All-Star Line-Up. Play Ball:</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">JANUARY 1</span>-</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The world imposes sanctions on</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" > Iran</span>.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span>FEBRUARY 14</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Poor January US sales reported</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">FEBRUARY 28</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Many see the last unemployment check</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">MARCH 7</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iraqi election results in— Civil War wins</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">APRIL</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Eh, sooner. US Commercial Loan crash</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">APRIL</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Adjustable mortgage consumers get wiped out</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">MAY</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Upswing in “Small-American” localized violence</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">MAY</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Elections in Afghanistan…<span style="font-style: italic;">hahahahaha</span>. No, really</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">LATE SPRING</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Pakistani coup makes truce with Taliban</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">JUNE</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >NYS & NYC collapse, bankrupt beyond belief</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">JUNE</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Maybe sooner. Oil Tanker sunk near Hormuz</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">JULY</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >US troops exit Pakistan. Let’s just be friends</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">JULY</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Mexico surrenders to drug cartels. Shots for all!</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">JULY</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Khalid trial in NYC triggers attacks on aircraft</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">AUGUST</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >A hot summer, bruised America on the ropes</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">SEPTEMBER</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Arrival of a Great American Conservative</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">NOVEMBER</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Republicans sweep the mid-term elections</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">NOVEMBER</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:arial;">I</span><span style="font-family:arial;">srael attacks an Iranian nuclear facility</span></span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">DECEMBER</span>- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Congratulations! You’ve made it. Now what?</span></span></span><style></style><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">2010 Part C-<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Where I've gone wrong, Why I'll be right:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I have had many failures with my past predictions.<br />There were two problems and I have fixed them both.<br />This analysis of 2010 is one you can truly bet on.<br />And the thing we must ALL pray for is that my FIXES are UTTER failures. God, how I hope I am more wrong than ever in my final attempt at star-gazing.<br /><br />What you will see here, if you’re fool enough to read on,<br />you will see a year of failure, collapse, and suffering.<br /><br />For your personal comfort, far better to simply read<br />the quote above from <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Thomas Friedman</span>. It says enough. He makes his point. And it just so happens that he wrote it on the day I <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">started </span>writing this <span style="font-style: italic;">lonnnnng </span>rant.<br /><br />My tragic flaws of the past are DATES, my friends.<br />They have caused my great failings in all past efforts at predicting the future. My FACTS are still unchanged, absolutely sound and sane. Or not.<br /><br />But in my youth, I failed to understand the dissimilar role<br />of DATES in the Muslim tradition AND the American tradition. A brief look at the folly of my youth.<br /><br />Dates…and the passage of time… mean virtually NOTHING to the Muslims I study so passionately. My error has been to think like an American, like a pragmatic Yankee—<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Don’t just sit there, DO something!”</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;">It’s why Yanks were bombing Afghanistan barely a month after 9/11. Like most Americans, I live totally connected to the 24/7 power grid with hi-speed internet & hot/cold running water & paved streets & Fast Food & music downloads & City Council meetings every other week. And I know everything about <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Tiger </span>and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Haiti</span>, </span>LIVE as it HAPPENS.<br /><br />The Muslims we are fighting don’t live like we do. If they are very VERY fortunate, they have instant access to breathable air. They live in a world of tribal loyalties, long traditions, immense faith, and the poor bastards have never heard of <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Balloon Boy</span>.</span><br /><br />Their timeless traditions include hatreds that are measured in centuries, searing incompatibilities that cannot be cooled even by a good long soaking in a high mountain stream of blood.<br /><br />Fool that I am, I expected them to come out swinging like a Personal Injury Lawyer for an All-American Worker who pinched a finger while changing the toner cartridge of the office copier. <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Horror</span>.</span><br /><br />In every theater of conflict and in every Muslim nation covered by the umbrella of American Apaches, A-10s, and Predators… they have waited. Or they’ve walked to the next valley. Or poppy field. Or they’ve set down their AK-47 in a safe place and went to the unpoliceable cities and waved to the passing American convoys.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">But 2010 is the year they stand and fight.</span><br />They’ll fight with a fury and on every front because suddenly we have SPECIFIC DATES that will trigger the fight. The dates are NOT on their calendar nor were they established by Osama Bin Laden from his cave/villa/spiderhole/mobilehome/grave.<br /><br />With that behind us, let’s see what the Village Idiot sees ahead for us.<br /><br /><br /></span><style></style><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">2010 Part D-<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >How many mistakes are in this picture?:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Because DATES make all the difference, I can approach this in “chronological” order. But as always, there could be a bit of a time lag. Like the time it takes a fuse to burn after it’s lit. Like the time it takes for hot water to get to your showerhead. Like the time it takes for a newscaster to actually GET to the story he/she promised was “just ahead” at the beginning of the dang broadcast.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">JANUARY 1- </span><br />Iran fails to meet Obama’s deadline for cooperation.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />Israel now has “The Green Light” to attack Iran.<br /><br />Israel will not tolerate a nuclear Iran. Period. The Mossad sees an Iran with weapon capability in 2011, no concern for other opinions. But the global PR vice is tough, especially after the bloody 2009 Gaza incursion. Thanks to Obama, the world will now try Iran sanctions with absolutely zero impact. Summer will pass, then the cold thick air of November or December will allow the heavily-laden IAF jets to strike Natanz. The attack earns global public condemnation. But through political back channels, there is an international champagne toast.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">FEBUARY 14- </span><br />Government reports poor post-holiday January sales.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />Could trigger The Great Stock Collapse of 2010.<br /><br />The stock market at 10,000 is all hype. Hype by self-serving analysts, hype by government officials… worst of all is the flood of TV spots for the damn “home stock trade” companies. They play to every cheap human emotion, primarily greed and <span style="font-style: italic;">somethin’-for-nothin’.</span> But those greedy bastards make THEIR money whether you buy or sell, win or lose. There are plenty of possible triggers for the crash that will bottom out at around <span style="font-weight: bold;">5000-6000</span>. The month will also deliver some bad earnings results for big banks and corporations.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">FEBRUARY 28-</span><br />Extended unemployment cash ends for millions.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />The dawn of civil unrest from penniless hopeless masses.<br /><br />Congress has continued to extend unemployment benefits to put off the inevitable. By the end of February over three million people see their last check. When it’s about food, that’s as serious as it gets. Watch for a spike in “easy” crime- Hit Pizza delivery kids, Cab drivers, the Teens on the convenience store night shift. It gets worse when “normal” folks at the supermarket simply leave without paying. It’ll start in the inner cities and quickly spread to the “underwater” suburbs. It could even degrade into Food Riots by year's end, smashed store windows and all.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">MARCH 7- </span><br />Elections in Iraq… the next step for the US August exit.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />All-out Civil War. Suicide bombings everywhere. US flees.<br /><br />The majority Shi'a have played the US like a chump. They promised to share with Saddam’s Sunni, they even promised to make nice with the Kurds. So we kept the “Nation” together for them. Now they take all the marbles. The minority Sunni played the US like a chump. The “Surge” was never anything more than bribery- We paid each Sunni $100 a month to NOT kill Americans. Oh, you think they helped us to eradicate Al Queda? No, Al Queda simply walked away and laid low. And my beloved Kurds have NEVER been part of “Iraq.” Although they own the north, Civil War will rage in Mosul and Kirkuk. As the election ignites this ferocious Civil War, retreating Americans will turn to the Kurds to provide the fastest/safest land route out. Then we have to convince Turkey to allow us passage to get to the Mediterranean ships. So THEN… we are EVERYBODY’s chump—The Kurds will ask us to support their efforts to absorb the Kurd population and "their" Turkish lands… and the Turks will insist we guarantee that them pesky Iraqi Kurds stay out of Turkey.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">APRIL- </span><br />...or sooner. Collapse of the Commercial Loan market.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />Financial hell USA. Stocks tumble. MORE lay-offs.<br /><br />This ticking financial bomb makes the sub-prime crisis of 2009 look like an episode of “Happy Days.” Individuals weren’t the only happy-go-lucky big spenders since 2000. Companies borrowed to expand their capacity. Firms paid lots of money to create lucrative mega-mergers. Shipping lines invested in new container ships for the booming global economy. These were all BIG loans… the kind that make an entire Las Vegas subdivision look like pocket change.<br /><br />As is always the case Commercial loans, or “Commercial Paper,” it lags behind consumer loans because the term of the loan is longer. Well, America has a staggering amount of commercial loans that will begin coming due in the Spring. The problem is that the companies are not making much money in this recession… hotel chains, strip malls, ad agencies, office parks… their total assets aren’t able to cover the debt. Like the home mortgage that is “under water,” it’s wiser to tell the bank to take it. Walk away.<br /><br />Not good news for a struggling shop-owner if he’s told his mall is closing and he needs to move. Not good news for the merged engineering firms when the bank takes the company and tries to find a way to make up some of their loss. Knocking back the payroll is Job #1. The start-up solar panel firm outside of Phoenix? Falling gas prices hurt their business model, so today the production facility is an echoing home to a few research engineers. When the bankers come tomorrow, the owners hand them the keys and walk away in the Arizona sunlight.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">APRIL- </span><br />Adjustable mortgages (ARMs) force more bankruptcies.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />Family financial hells afire. MANY more foreclosures.<br /><br />This “second wave” is no surprise, not to bankers. The impact will be amplified as any kind of mild “recovery” of home prices hits the wall as asking prices are driven down by the glut of more homes at “must sell” prices.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">MAY- </span><br />Upswing in deadly “Small-American” localized shootings.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />Desperation and weapons mean that America bleeds.<br /><br />We’ve already seen this upward trend. The small-town shootings that seem senseless and tragic…and always great for “breaking news.” But we are a nation armed to the teeth- more guns out there than ever and ammo sales soaring with no end in sight. As millions of jobless men see the last of their unemployment checks, the job hunt becomes urgent. And then agonizing. And then utterly maddening. The gun is loaded and someone will pay—The ex-employer's office. The Unemployment Center. The bank that foreclosed on the house. The wife and children that <span style="font-style: italic;">“will be better off dead”</span> before he turns the gun on himself.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">MAY- </span><br />Elections in Afghanistan…<span style="font-style: italic;">hahahahahahahah</span>. No, really.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION-</span><br />The nation disintegrates, the Taliban sweep the villages.<br /><br />Our puppet Karzai has continued to appoint crooks and warlords. The election scam seals our “New Vietnam.” The recent insane insertion of 30,000 Americans was madness. In NO WAY is it like “The Iraqi Surge” because we are not bribing anyone to not kill our forces. Like Vietnam, we have troops that need an infrastructure to survive. So we will build and patrol roads. And we will create remote FOBs, Forward Operating Bases, for patrols to come and go. So, like Vietnam, we are forced to hold the “Nation” together, by force, in order to SUPPLY the troops we PUT there. But the nation is so corrupt that we will attempt to install newer and better puppets… <span style="font-style: italic;">exactly</span> like Vietnam. We stay in this Kill Zone until some politician gets the nerve to pull us out…no easy task when that politician will be forever labeled as <span style="font-style: italic;">“the one who gave Afghanistan to the Terrorists!!!”</span> But the truth is THE TERRORISTS ALREADY OWN AFGHANISTAN. Venture beyond the American-like “city” of Kabul and you'll see a nation of tiny remote Tribal villages in that final moment before you are kidnapped or killed.<br /><br />It is a bloody trap and a fool’s errand. We will leave when Americans can no longer stand the dead and the dismembered. And when we leave, Afghanistan returns to what it always was before the British were defeated in 1919- It is a land of many small independent groups…“tribes” isn’t the right word but it’ll have to do. Each tribe is represented by the Village Elders. To keep civil organization, there is the occasional call for a meeting of the independent Elders, called a “loya jirga.” They make agreements… like in the old days.<br /><br />Here’s where it gets really sticky, ethnically, historically and in 2010—<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Militarily</span>. There is a HUGE chunk of land that makes up the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is, in fact ONE people- The Pashtun.<br /><br />From here, I cut-and-paste from a military analysis—<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">“The Pakistani Taliban and the Afghan Taliban are separate, though linked, insurgent movements. The Afghan Taliban are focused on ridding Afghanistan of Western troops and toppling the U.S.-backed government in Kabul, while the Pakistani Taliban are primarily determined to overthrow the U.S.-allied government in Islamabad. Both militant movements are largely driven by Pashtuns, an ethnic group that straddles both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border and whose members easily slip back and forth between the countries.”</span><br /><br />So as our young patriots die in the corrupt non-democracy called “Afghanistan”… WHAT will be going on in the PAKISTAN of York’s 2010? This is pretty much guesswork of someone who has entirely too much free time.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">LATE SPRING- </span><br />Pakistan’s General Kayani stages a “gentle” coup.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />US military is restricted. The Taliban are safe.<br /><br />Kayani, a gentle affable guy, tosses out Zardari</span><span style="font-size:130%;">. Might even kill him. Hey, Zardari is terminally corrupt and has no real support in the public. The Military has always ruled this nuclear-armed country. And they live and die by ONE rule—<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Hate India and be ready for war with India.”</span><br />To make that war happen, it will start where it always starts, the shared disputed border in the Kashmir. Stay with me here. THIS area is Northeast Pakistan, the brutal mountainous region where the Pakistani people are Pashtun. It is the region where the Pakistan’s Taliban avoid American forces by crossing over into Pashtun villages in Afghanistan. So Pakistani Generals want these Pashtun folks to stay alive and stay friendly, always ready to fight India.<br /><br />The PROBLEM IN 2010 is that Pakistan’s Generals are getting REALLY pissed that America keeps launching drones to KILL the PAKISTANI PASHTUNS hiding out in AFGHANISTAN. And the Generals most assuredly do not want to sweep the Pakistani land clean of Pashtun Taliban. So our fighting Patriots are left to do the bleeding.<br /><br />PAKISTAN would rather NOT kill any Taliban fighter who the Generals will need to fight INDIA. And yet AMERICA wants to kill the Taliban anywhere and everywhere. That’s why Zardari keeps making “Formal Diplomatic Complaints” after every attack by an American drone. But we won’t stop. And that’s why General Kayani will take over. He will gain the loyalty of the all-important Pakistan Military by forcing America to stop the drone attacks. All of Zardari’s deals of the past will be declared NULL and VOID.<br /><br />Our drone attacks are creating enemies among the Pakistani civilians. Nothing good can come of our effort to have it both ways. So with IRAQ in a Civil War and with AFGHANISTAN collapsed and over-run by the Taliban and our drones angering Pakistani Generals and civilians…see July.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">JUNE- </span><br />NYS & NYC collapse financially, bankrupt beyond belief.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />I’ll probably be cleaning and policing my own streets.<br /><br />This time Wall Street falls and it can’t get up. The tumbling Dow has no hedge fund to soften the shattering impact. The financial implosion of commercial real estate brings new meaning to<span style="font-style: italic;"> “the canyons of Manhattan.” </span>But far worse is the loss of revenue as the Real Estate Empires based in the city go the way of Detroit. Life beyond the island of Manhattan is no better, here under the guidance of the single most dysfunctional corrupt incompetent debilitated and inept government of ANY state in this Great Union.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">JULY- </span><br />We exit Pakistan to keep a nuclear-armed friend.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />Pakistan makes peace with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.<br /><br />Pakistani leadership will not allow us to go after the Taliban in the aggressive deadly-serious manner we intend. If we continue with our aggressive attacks, we will alienate the public and the government. They’ve got nukes, we’ve been “friends,” and so rather than creating an enemy, we part as friends and we bring our troops home. Our veterans’ desert-fighting skills will be put to good use at home.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">JULY- </span><br />Mexico now a failed state as cartels kill elected leaders.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />American military enforces GENUINE border security.<br /><br />YES, I know such use of the military is forbidden by the Constitution. But Congress will do a LOT of legal work to put our troops to good use. Night vision from soldiers and drones seal off Mexico. Heck, Mexico is only years away from collapse as their Gulf Oil runs out and the end of PEMEX money means the end of Mexico. But as I was saying, US naval forces put an end to a century of drug-running in Florida. Thousands of trained military eyes bring their hi-tech gear to America’s ports.<br /><br />Because yes, the terrorists are coming.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">JULY- </span><br />Khalid Mohammed trial in NYC…who knows when.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />Al Queda operations kill us here at home.<br /><br />The odds-on betting favorite is a small nuclear weapon or a “dirty nuke”… certainly not impossible. The problem is the massive megatonnage of Soviet-era nuclear weapons that were in the surrounding states outside of Russia, all now independent nations. A lot of explosive “stuff” is unaccounted for. And there ARE arms merchants out there who’d be only-too-happy to accept Bin Laden’s money or Afghan Al Queda money from the opium crop.<br /><br />But my bet is the nuke nightmare will fizzle. First off, our detection ability is much MUCH better than the public knows. Myriad portable detection devices are all over this country…and nuclear material does a nice job of broadcasting its whereabouts. Like a car alarm on the stage of Carnegie Hall. And Homeland Security has many ears.<br /><br />Much more important is the good news that nuclear devices do not age well. When Atomic Alzheimer’s sets in, you get a dud. A detonation requires immensely sophisticated electronic triggers. IFFF they work, their job is to detonate a conventional explosive, stuff like TNT on steroids… stuff that doesn’t age well. Every OUNCE must go BOOM…ALL of it…and it has to all happen with split-nanosecond precision.<br /><br />My prediction is that WHENEVER the trial is…and JULY is a total guess, we will enter the Danger Zone. The timing of the attack will be dictated by some specific and significant phase of the legal process…an EARLY phase.<br /><br />The attackers will avoid the problems dating back to 9/11. When the four planes took off with all-too-typical delays, it exposed the weakness of timing, a weakness which allowed the alerted passengers of Flight 93 to minimize the death toll. The recent problems of exploding shoes and shampoos and underwear… airport security is a problem. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Inside </span>the airport.<br /><br />So the attack will come from <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">outside </span>the airport. Inexpensive, easy, very well-timed, and very deadly. Maybe twenty terrorists near ten major airports. Not anywhere near a perimeter fence, but in a park or a boat or a rooftop or a shopping mall parking lot… a location directly under the flight path of jets taking off. The area is well-studied so that every runway is covered for the prevailing winds of the day. At a pre-determined split-second time, each terrorist team of two will set up— The “Shooter” will have a modern shoulder-launched anti-aircraft heat-seeking missile, purchased for about $50,000. The “Enforcer” will have a light automatic weapon to defend the Shooter. When “the time” comes, the Shooter launches at the next commercial aircraft departing over the community. The massive heat of a turbojet engine at full take-off power makes an easy target at any altitude below 10,000 feet. The shattered aircraft and the downpour of flaming jet fuel… in ten different major American communities… it’s the kind of highly-visual and very public horror that is the trademark of Al Queda. If you want to fly safe, Israel’s El Al is the only airline that has made the huge investment to equip all of their jets with missile-defeating technology.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">AUGUST- </span><br />The Summer of our Discontent. America on the ropes.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION-</span><br />A deep malaise of worry, dread, and fear border on panic.<br /><br />The rose-colored glasses come off as a nation begins to see things clearly in the rearview mirror— <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Wall Street </span>collapsed, taking the last of our precious savings, because it is a house of cards built by cheerleading analysts and Lobbyists who literally bought their invincibility from politicians of both parties. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Crime</span> </span>hits home because a new breed of criminal sees your wallet/purse as a bank on two feet…so more Americans wisely arm themselves with personal Tasers in states where ownership is legal (really, already in designer colors). <span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Unemployment</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"> </span>proves far worse than the statistics ever suggested, when the officials said “Ten” the truth was “Seventeen.” Worst of all is how we allowed the Feds to bribe us into complacency… in this case the bribes were the endless extension of unemployment benefits that ran out before any miraculous “recovery” could appear. </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Operation Iraqi Freedom</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> was an unforgivable lie from the first moment of shock and awe, a bipartisan con job where “The Surge” was proven to be nothing more than a bribe paid in cash to the Sunni minority. The troops returning home in August are survivors of our own “Dunkirk,” exhausted refugees of a Civil War that was kept bottled up by the sheer brutality of the regime we bombed, hunted, and hung… leaving a vacuum that sucks only human life, blood, and hope. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Operation Enduring Freedom</span> in Afghanistan is a failed and aborted mission…if we’re lucky. If we are not lucky, the American forces are chewed up in our hi-tech Vietnam nightmare.<span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Expensive Oil</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"> </span>has us on our knees in summer, all because it all got too hot along the Straits of Hormuz. It might be a <span style="font-style: italic;">Somali Pirate</span> or it might be a <span style="font-style: italic;">Yemeni Rebel</span>…but <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">someone </span>sends an Oil Tanker to the bottom of the Red Sea. The result is skyrocketing insurance rates and Captains Cautious. We as a nation look back at the gas embargo of 1973, and the bi-partisan response as Congress passed the forward-looking <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) of 1975</span>… a REAL LAW that ordered auto manufacturers to achieve a fleet average of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">27.5 mpg by 1985</span>. In stunned disbelief, we look back at the 2009 folly of<span style="font-style: italic;"> “Cash for Clunkers”</span>… yet another Federal scheme to bribe Americans to buy foreign cars… where the results showed it cost the US treasury $24,000 to subsidize each purchase of a car achieving <span style="font-weight: bold;">22 mpg</span>. Taxpayers spent 3 billion dollars on that bribe. So whatever happened to EPCA and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">27.5 mpg</span> mandated for 1985? Answers anybody?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">SEPTEMBER- </span><br />Probably sooner. Arrival of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“The Great Right Hope.”</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />Desperate America flocks to a charismatic leader…<br />but this time it’s a Conservative.<br /><br />This is no time to look ahead to the November elections. A nation in shock and on the verge of panic needs an icon for 2012. And as the great American pendulum repeats its arc, the rightist philosophy seizes the day. It’s a time when we will need to be told how proud we are, how rich our heritage is, how we can restore our national destiny of global leadership, respect and honor. We can and will be a nation where the trains will run on time.<br /><br />My friends—<br />That scares the hell out of me.<br />That’s all.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">NOVEMBER- </span><br />Conservative Republicans sweep the elections.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“The Great Right Hope”</span> gets a lot of photo ops.<br /><br />REPUBLICANS CHEER as Evil Pelosi hands over all the POWER!!! And THEN…absolutely…<span style="font-weight: bold;">nothing</span>…changes. <span style="font-style: italic;">WHATEVER </span>you believe the United States can be, this nation will never be what it was. We are long overdue for a day of reckoning, a recognition of reality. You will not be driving your hydrogen-powered car. You will not be trading up to ever-bigger ever-flatter TV screens. You will not solve the energy crisis refitting your home with compact fluorescent lighting. Within five years, commercial air travel will be a golden memory, your local airport will be a quiet museum until scrap aluminum and insulated wire becomes more precious than platinum. In the most shocking transformation, this nation won’t have the slightest interest in the progress of Tiger’s treatment for his sex addiction.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">NOVEMBER- </span><br />An Israeli strike force of 50 aircraft attack Natanz in Iran.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">ACTION- </span><br />The UN denounces Israel and imposes severe sanctions.<br /><br />And Tel Aviv is literally awash in all the bottles of champagne sent from anonymous nations, along with <span style="font-style: italic;"> “Thank You”</span> cards postmarked from every capital city on this volatile wobbling globe.<br /><br />HOW this wild vision of an eccentric chrome-bald mind will end is all up to you. We can learn to live with less, make the effort to strengthen our communities, and put our hands to honest and productive work.<br /><br />Plant a Victory garden and tend it well.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">***UPDATE 1, JAN. 25***</span></span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">ALL content here was begun on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jan. 16</span> and finished election night <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jan. 19</span>. In the SIX DAYS it took me to de-bug this monster post, very REAL events have leapt from my musings onto RealWorld Headlines. I am not gloating or bragging, merely suggesting that I read <span style="font-weight: bold;">HISTORY</span>... not <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Tea Leaves</span> or <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Tarot Cards.</span> Google these news items--</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pakistan </span>announced no more attacks </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">on the Taliban in 2010.</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">Afghanistan </span>wants Taliban talks, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">offers $100 incentive per insurgent.</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">NYC Mayor Bloomber</span>g warns of </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">immense budget shortfalls.</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama promised</span> "New Tough Regulations" </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">on the Banking industry.</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Stock market </span>entered a continuous, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">worrisome unforseen slide. Not <span style="font-weight: bold;">THE </span>slide.</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">NYC residents</span> have demanded new location </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">for the Terrorist Trial.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">UK is on Terror Alert</span> BECAUSE OF </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">specific DATE for global meeting.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">Headline Item: Brad & Angela</span> may split... </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Just a mention: 3 Americans die in Afghanistan.</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">January US </span>Afghan deaths reach 25, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">exceeding January 2009 total of 19.<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ninth US bank</span> is closed in 2010, </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">adding to the 140 closed in 2009.</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama's Address</span> to Nation </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">will focus on creating <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">JOBS</span>.</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">2010 Part E-<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The Stories missed, the Three who Rule:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Nobody wants any of this to be correct. Then again, I bet nobody out there can tell me the #1 rule about politics and leadership, a gem attributed to Chicago’s legendary Mayor Daley—<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Don’t tell nobody nuthin’ they don’t want to hear.”</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Take this past week. TV news, FOX to MSNBC has been Haiti 24/7… broken only by the STUNNING political landscape-changing election of a Republican senator in Massachusetts.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">But did you hear</span> about the stunning analysis of the millions of dollars wasted in Afghanistan, the bribes demanded by the US-backed government? Then did you hear the outraged response from US-backed president Karzai? It is All LIES. Karzai says so.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Or did you hear</span> about the US drone attacks in US-backed Pakistan? Then did you hear the anti-US anger from the innocent villagers? Or how about the angry anti-US statements from the US-backed government saying they did not give permission for the killings?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Or did you hear</span> the Congressional testimony of the Big Bankers as they made lame “apologies” for the financial crisis? The Committee promises to have their “final report on the financial failures” finished… in <span style="font-weight: bold;">December</span>. Men who should be facing criminal trials speak like little kids caught with their hands in the cookie jar.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Or did you hear</span> the analysts surprise at the unexpectedly low sales figures from December? Oh, when the equally “surprising” low numbers come for January sales, the analysts will blame the “unusually bad weather that gripped the country.”<br /><br />But you CERTAINLY have heard that the Massachusetts election means the resurgence of the Republican party and the End of Obama… and most assuredly, it is the END of Healthcare Reform. The Bay State election is the beginning of a MASSIVE change for America.<br /><br />But in fact, <span style="font-weight: bold;">NOTHING </span>is going to change. Yes, Republican candidates are going to enjoy sweeping victories in November. And the future of the Great Healthcare Battle on Capitol Hill? It is utterly irrelevant and meaningless.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The BAILOUT</span> given to Wall Street would have been enough to provide Healthcare for every American. <span style="font-weight: bold;">ONE MONTH of Iraq war</span> funding would get Katrina-ravaged New Orleans back to 100% pre-hurricane condition. <span style="font-weight: bold;">ONE MONTH of Afghan war</span> funding would ensure GENUINE anti-terrorist security at all of our major seaports. Airports too.<br /><br />But the Republican resurgence will change nothing. Because this nation is now and has always been controlled by three “parties.” While the nation reeled in 2009, the three parties enjoyed nothing but record-setting success. You can’t lose in the company of the companies of the Big Three. In alphabetical order—<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The Banking lobbyists</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The Military/Industrial lobbyists</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The Wall Street Investment Firm lobbyists</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />They will never fail because lawmakers never refuse their cash donations. Do the math. We have not seen bankers testifying under oath, nor will we see bank reform legislation. We have not seen anyone except Madoff trade Wall Street for a cellblock, nor will we see vigorous oversight of tighter restrictions on investment firms. We have not seen one General speak to the cultural obstacles in the Mideast, nor will we demand more local support in blood from the governments we subsidize. Every time the Genie of reality appears in the swirling sands… SURPRISE! The election must be postponed until a future date!<br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">***UPDATE 1, JAN. 25***<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I am simply horrified to be proven so right so soon.<br />Do you detect subtle sarcasm in my last white sentences?<span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">Afghanistan</span> has postponed the May election. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">President Karzai has been so <span style="font-style: italic;">brazen </span>in his corruption<br />that he angered his own <span style="font-weight: bold;">Parliament </span>AND the <span style="font-weight: bold;">US </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">UK</span>...<br />ALL parties agreed to postpone the May 22 election<br />until <span style="font-weight: bold;">September 18, 2010</span>. </span></span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Watch the planned elections for IRAQ (March) and AFGHANISTAN (May). If Iraq votes, we won’t be looking at pictures of smiling faces showing thumbs of purple. Even in a democracy-loving Muslim, blood is red.<br /><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">2010 Part F-<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >How to restore Democracy:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Here in America, We The People could re-take control.<br />We could…but we won’t. My bleak forecast and discouraging foreboding would mean nothing if I did not at least offer something better. So here it is--</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span> </span></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Yorstrodamus Doctrine</span></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Capitalism at Work</span>- No firm is too big to fail. Period. No bail-outs.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Term Limits</span>- Elected officials limited to two terms. Career politicians were not part of the vision of the Founding Fathers. It’s also well-proven that an incumbent has a fund-raising advantage over a challenger, an advantage that only grows the longer an official has been in office. The cost to mount a challenge grows exponentially with every passing year. And finally, there is little incentive for a lobbyist to “invest” in someone when “loyalty” is limited to two terms.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Finance Reform</span>- Total individual limit = <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">(HH x V) % C</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">HH</span> is the average Household income for the district, state, or nation.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">V</span> is the number of registered voters in the district, state, or nation,<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">C</span> is a pre-determined constant, my unworthy gut feel is 100.<br />As you can quickly see, the result is <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">X dollars per registered voter</span>. So a congressional candidate in rural Georgia spends/raises less than a congressional candidate for the affluent districts of Manhattan.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Political Action Committees</span>- I confess- I’m stuck. Free speech should not be limited, my vocal support of a candidate is my right. But you can easily see how PAC money can “get around” the limit on how much a candidate can spend, especially on TV advertising.<br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">***UPDATE 1, JAN. 25***</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ></span><style></style><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >As you've just seen above, I am troubled by PAC "committee" money. But it NEVER even entered my <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">MIND </span>that Companies would get a blank check. Since 1907, Congress has <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">banned </span>companies from contributing to federal political campaigns —<br />a ban the Supreme Court has <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">repeatedly upheld</span>...<br />Until the absolutely earth-shattering news on January 21st--</span></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">* <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ruling kills Democracy</span>. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Corporate lobbyists own DC, now they own </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">the AdWorld to shape Public Opinion.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:130%;">After slogging through the messy quagmire of campaign ca$h, you’re $ure to enjoy my last suggestion for America, the absolute BESTEST! And therefore…it ain’t never gonna’ happen.</span></div></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mandatory Voting</span>- Australia has it and it works. When you meet the basic voting criteria, you get registered and you have to show up on election day.<br />If you DON’T show up, you get a letter requesting your explanation. People do get sick, they do get stuck out of town, they do gather for family funerals and delivery-room celebrations. And in fact, most no-shows have legitimate reasons, all easily documented. BUT…when you fail to serve your country, you face a fine of $55 in the most expensive Aussie state. Here in the US, every state would establish the fine with a national minimum of…oh, $100.<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">2010 Part G-<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >York's a Genius.<br />York's an Idiot.<br />York's an All-American:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Of course, my suggestions go nowhere.<br />Like Term Limits. Half of you agree. Half of you disagree.<br />I’m as American as apple pie.<br />So we all starve.<br /><br />There’s a term used in sailing, to be “In Irons.”<br />A sailing vessel is in a bad place when it is “In Irons.”<br />A ship under sail, large or small, can make ZERO progress when pointed directly into the wind. So you zig-zag to move “upwind,” maybe zigging 20 degrees to the left of the wind and then zagging 20 degrees to the right. But in the middle of that maneuver you are pointed directly into the wind, a moment when the sail would simply flutter like a flag. It’s the momentum of the boat that usually keeps you turning until the “zag” kicks in and the sail fills.<br /><br />IFFFF you somehow stop the boat at the middle point, heading directly into the wind, the sail flapping and snapping like a flag… you are in trouble. You will be blown backwards. You try a lot of tricks to get to that 20 degree angle where the sail would stop snapping and you’d get moving again. But if you are stuck with the wind in your face, your boat moving backward… you are “In Irons.”<br /><br />You are like a prisoner with the old-fashioned handcuffs…called “Irons.” So, much like the poor crook in jail and in handcuffs, sailors will not experience anything good when they are “In Irons.”<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">America today is a Nation In Irons.</span><br /><br />If you’re reading this,<br />you have <span style="font-style: italic;">entirely </span>too much free time.<br />Everybody ELSE quit HOURS ago.<br /><br />But IFFFF you’re reading, you voted for McCain… along with 50% of the rare and few friends I’ve been lucky to keep over the years. And the other 50% of you, every bit as intelligent, you voted for Obama. But our nation’s crisis goes far deeper than a 50/50 election. The truth is, there are myriad issues we take extremely seriously, even to the point of rage and anger. And we, as a nation, are split 50/50 on far FAR too many issues.<br /><br />Take this little test. Circle one…or leave blank (in your imagination, idiot)-<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Democrat -or- Republican<br />Gun Control -or- Right to Arms<br />Life Sentences -or- Death Penalty<br />Palin a Joke -or- Palin a Star<br />Pelosi a Star -or- Pelosi a Joke<br />Healthcare’s broke -or- Healthcare’s fine<br />Flee Iraq -or- Free Iraq <br />Stewart/Colbert -or- O’Reilly/Hannity<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Engage Cubans -or- Embargo Cuba </span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Public Assistance -or- Trickle-Down<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Pro-Choice -or- Pro-Life</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Obama a Visionary -or- Obama the Socialist<br />Affirmative Action -or- Only Merit Matters<br />Miranda rights matter -or- Too soft on criminals<br />Pro Gay Marriage -or- No Gay Marriage<br />Privacy over Nat’l Security -or- Nat’l Security over Privacy<br />Man is warming globe -or- Climate a cycle swing<br />Environment #1 -or- Use all US fuels<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Enough of this nonsense.</span><br />My bet is that very few of you left any pairing blank.<br />My bet is that as a group, you split 26-26 on each pairing.<br />My bet is that of all 52, only a few share perfect matches<br />My bet is that there will be two general groups of 26 each...<br />fairly consistent in picking the left <span style="font-weight: bold;">or </span>the right column.<br />My bet is that nobody thought any differently in 2003.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My POINT is that we are <span style="font-style: italic;">perfectly </span>divided.</span><br />Our feelings are deeply-held, reinforced by daily emails--<br />"FORWARD THIS because we MUST spread the TRUTH…<br />Before it is TOO LATE!"<br /><br />I find only two similar precedents in American History-<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1765</span>- Join the Revolution <span style="font-style: italic;">versus </span>God Save the Queen…<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1860</span>- States’ Right to Secede <span style="font-style: italic;">versus </span>Union Forever.<br /><br />If 2010 unfolds as I envision,<br />perhaps we might find more common ground.<br /><br />God forbid,<br />“perhaps.”<br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">2010 Part H-<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Epilogue:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;" >“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”</span><br /><br /><br /></div></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" > </span>Kyle Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227858368649647978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1877750114176856985.post-52342755794975882332008-03-23T16:52:00.000-07:002008-03-23T17:25:56.871-07:00The Flood in Our Future<span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">All the Midwest is awash and the damage is unbearably familiar. If you haven’t seen the footage on the news, stay in Saratoga County long enough and you’ll be able to film it for yourself. Because back in the quiet backrooms of the Hudson River Regulating District (HRRD), they’ve drawn up a perfect plan for the Perfect Flood.<br /><br />Before the Great Sacandaga Lake was filled in 1930, the NY legislature created the HRRD and gave them a mission in 1922—<br /><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"> “The Regulating District’s operations at the Conklingville Dam alternately block or release waters in the Hudson River to help prevent flooding during periods of high water flow and augment river flows during periods of drought.”<br /></span></em></strong><br />And so it did its single job, FLOOD CONTROL...for sixty years. In the 90's a new breed of owners came to the remote shores. These people didn't like the ways of us old-timers, owners who've grown used to moving docks as the lake level was drawn down. Planners dreaming of Restaurants and Marinas did not like the prospects of receding waterfront views. Sacandaga River Rafting, a growth industry in an area that needs every job it can get...the river runners lobbied the HRRD to store tons of water for regular & reliable brief releases. So the rafters launch at a predictable hour and they actually ride a "bubble" or released rushing water.<br /><br />That was all a lot for HRRD to ponder. So in 2000, the HRRD re-wrote their legal "purpose." New missions were quietly added to the 1922 "FLOOD" statute--<br /><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">In addition, the District will target Great Sacandaga Lake elevations that are higher than historic levels for enhancement of fall lake recreation, release water from reservoir storage to enhance hydroelectric generation, and will provide for Sacandaga River whitewater recreation and other objectives.</span></em></strong><br /><br />Not big news. Not with the printer's ink. But strange things started happening. </span><span style="font-size:130%;">The changing story is told on the lake's daily website that records the water level and any strange behavior...like flood waters that race over the spillway... creating a magnificent little Niagara Falls. So what is the 78-year history of flooding--<br /><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">"Discharge over spillway, part or all of several days in 1983, 1990, 1993, 2000, 2003-2004 (only spillage since dam completion in 1930)."</span></em></strong><br /><br /> <a href="http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv?site_no=01323500">http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv?site_no=01323500</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The site makes no mention of 2006, the year when new daily high water records were established for 270 days. The year when the dam did the Niagara overflow performance on more than seven days. Even in the summer.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Up on the Sacandaga, a troublesome spring thaw flood is a sure thing. The risk will be small unless floating docks and boats and trees clog the VERY small opening under the little bridge at the dam. That narrow chute was a HUGE design flaw. If the ancient rusted security boom strung across the lake surface near the dam were to fail, you've got a lot of junk headed for a narrow opening.<br /><br />But the more likely CATASTROPHIC FLOOD will come due to one of our more recent climate change issues, the MASSIVE but localized summer storms of record-setting rainfalls. They've struck all over New England in the last ten years...but NOT the Sacandaga watershed. Not yet.<br /><br />While the surface of the lake itself is on <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>41.7</strong></span> square miles, the mountainous terrain that drains into the Great Sacandaga is a staggering <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">1,044</span></strong> square miles.<br /><br />When this region is hammered by the kind of rains that have hit <span style="color:#ff9900;"><em>Northern Lake George,</em></span> the <span style="color:#ff9900;"><em>Mohawk Valley</em></span>, <em><span style="color:#ff9900;">New Hampshire</span></em> and <em><span style="color:#ff9900;">Connecticut</span></em>...well, we've been lucky enough to dodge a bullet.<br /><br />The Sacandaga will flood and top the Conklingville dam and then the tiny Stewart's Bridge dam just downriver. Next, the torrent hammers the waterfront homes on the Hudson at Corinth... homes and lawns which add more solid wreckage to the raging waters. Next, the Hudson tops the old IP dam in Corinth...and then it comes to the ancient dam at Spier Falls.<br /><br />The first Spier dam collapsed back in the '20s. The dam that's there now was recently reinforced... you make due with what you've got. But the Federal Energy Regulating Commission (FERC) wasn't overly imporessed. In fact, FERC demanded that the planners for the County Water system change their original design so as to prepare for<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;"> "a catastrophic breach of the dam at Spier Falls."</span></em></strong> So the engineers of the County Water system moved the main pump house up to higher ground…<strong><em>above</em></strong> the projected high water mark in a post-Spier Hudson.<br /><br />The Spier damn spans the wide Hudson at a point of an extreme vertical drop. It's not inconceivable that the Sacandaga flood and the battering docks & boats & picnic tables & trees will cause it to fail. And THAT massive wall of water will wreak havoc on Glens Falls, Ft. Edwards, Halfmoon, Troy...even Albany. It'll be national news and a Federal disaster area.<br /><br />There Will Be Flood.<br />There will not be any Academy Awards.<br /></span>Kyle Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227858368649647978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1877750114176856985.post-72658239255963073682008-03-17T19:01:00.000-07:002008-03-17T20:28:24.714-07:00Predictions for 2007 - The Scorecard<span style="font-size:130%;">ABOUT 2007-</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Many folks say my "2008" predictions were after the fact. AFTER Gaza...AFTER Pakistan...AFTER Wall Street. Truth be told, I started writing the rant in early February. Take it or leave it...no issues here.</span><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">What MATTERS is what I PREDICTED for 2007. My preview of 2007 was sent in my pre-blog life back on May 7th 2007. It was an email sent far and wide. So it's worth revisiting here after almost a full year of reality.</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">LESSON ONE- <em>Not so fast, Yankee Boy!</em></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></p></span><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><p align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">AS A SELF-SERVING PREAMBLE, I will say my HUGE mistake last year was to view the world using AMERICAN time. We <strong><em>Just Do It</em></strong>. We Do It <strong><em>Now</em></strong>. Fast food. We are NOT a patient people. Which is why we don't "get" the MidEast. Americans have many virtues; patience is not one of them. We tend to think this year, next election cycle, and that's it. [Bin Laden deputy] Ayman al Zawahiri in his autobiography points out that it took two centuries to get the crusaders out of the Middle East. It took 120 years to get the French out of Algeria. It took 70 years to get the British out of Egypt. That's how these guys are thinking — they see it as a generational thing. See JohnHopkins Magazine, April 2006- </span><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0406web/osama.html"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ffcc33;">http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0406web/osama.html</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />That's why some of last year's losers have come <strong><em>baaaaaaaack</em></strong>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">2007 Scoreboard (A-F) </span></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">1.</span> Lebanon will explode again...Hezbollah gets support from Syria.<br /></strong><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">B</span> </strong>2007 turned out to be one of the safest years in Israel since before the second Palestinian uprising began more than seven years ago. But early 2008 is making me look better- Israel ready to invade, Syria ready to return in massive force... and three US Warships just sent to the coast two days ago. Call it "simmering."<br /></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">2</span>.</span> Israel will come out swinging. And THIS time, they won’t hesitate to hit Syria.</strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>B+</strong></span> On September 6, Israeli aircraft roared into Syrian airspace and then bombed a "mystery facility" suspected of being for the enrichment of uranium weapons. That gutsy move put the whole international world on edge...Syria blinked.<br /></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">3</span>. Syria takes the fight to Israel, sending weapons to the West Bank and Lebanon.<br /></strong><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">A-</span></strong> Israel charges that Syria-based Palestinian militants are directing violence against Israeli from the West Bank and Gaza. The rockets still fly, weak home-made Qassams, now we see deadly GLADs from Lebanon/Egypt/Syria not seen in Gaza until recently.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">4</span>. Afghanistan explodes in a nation-wide offensive in almost all 34 providences.</strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">D-</span></strong> My bad, too soon. The Taliban and Al Qaeda have used the last year to regroup out in the countryside. They've rebuilt the opium industry to re-arm and they are going to dramatically increase the attacks on the cities and Karzai...attacks that have been plentiful despite the lack of news coverage. But NO "explosion" in the last year.<br /></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">5</span>. (Afghanistan attacks) will be the Tet Offensive of the MidEast.<br /></strong><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">D</span></strong> My bad, too soon. Ironically, a well-regarded "Strategy Page" website had a lead story on December 25, 2007- "Sometime within the next six months or so, al Qaeda or Saddamist terrorists will attempt a Tet offensive. Al Qaeda and Saddamist plotters are betting a deadly spasm of bombs and subsequent media magnification will give us reason to rethink."</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">6</span>. Pakistan is the second Spring front for Al Qaeda. They murder President Musharraf.</strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">B+</span></strong> My bad, too soon. Pakistan's fundamentalist terrorists are in complete control of the mountainous NorthWest. But Bhutto was killed in place of Musharraf...thanks to Mr. Bush-- The White House needed a "successful <em>democracy</em>" to prove his vision for Iraq. Musharraf was no poster child so Bush pressed him hard-- To eliminate the <em>Military State of Emergency</em>... to remove his <em>General's uniform</em>...and to let Bhutto return for <em>elections</em>. The bad guys killed Bhutto knowing Musharraf would get blamed. Perv's "election" is the beginning of the end. His party lost BigTime to two parties eager to restore peace among historic tribes.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">7</span>. Iraq’s Green Zone completes Al Queda’s triple-threat. Bombers within the compound detonate themselves throughout this “safe” compound of AMERICA and ALLIES. Mortars and rockets rain down on all 4 square miles.<br /></strong><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">F</span></strong> My bad, too soon. But...from the same "Strategy Page" Tet prediction- <em>"Striking the Green Zone would be the media coup de grace, intentionally echoing North Vietnam's assault on the U.S. embassy in Saigon."</em> This is the 40-year anniversary... NAHHH, forget it.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">8</span>. England’s Prince Harry will be targeted and killed.</strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">A+</span></strong> Somebody in London must have read my 2007 prediction. After the public announcement that Prince Harry would be deployed to Iraq, the plan changed and he was ordered to stay home because his regiment would be targeted. THEN, he was SENT in secrecy...and as soon as it became public, he was sent home. For safety. ASAP.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">9</span>. The POLITICAL repercussions of Al Qaeda’s operations will be enormous. America's policy of denial allows Al Qaeda to grow into something unimaginable.</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="color:#33cc00;">A</span></strong>/<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">D</span></strong></span> <span style="color:#33cc00;">The <em>first</em> sentence about a massive 3-county Fanatical Insurgent Uprising was wrong.</span> <span style="color:#ff0000;">The <em>second</em> sentence is 100% correct as Afghanistan and Pakistan are armed to the teeth.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">10</span>. Iraq instantly erupts into all-out Civil War.</strong><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">F</span></strong> My bad, too soon. Plenty of tension. As for "The Surge"...see my look at 2008.</span><br /><br /><strong>11. Turkey's Islamists gain political power. The dreamstate of Attaturk is no match for this incredibly violent year and the advance of Islam Extremists. A Muslim-based Turkey sweeps into the southern mountains to drive all the Kurds out of Turkey and into the Kurdish lands of Iraq.</strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">A </span></strong>I was correct <strong>militarily</strong>, missed on <strong><span style="color:#33cc00;">politics</span></strong>. But 100,000 Turkish troops are massed on the Kurdish border and 10,000 launched an 8-day invasion. It was stopped under enormous international pressure. Recently the Turks launched another airstrike into Kurdish land. Stay tuned.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">12</span>. Islamic Revolution in Saudi Arabia/Jordan/Egypt, Iran and Egypt nuked by Israel, Oil at $5 a gallon, Stock DOW at 4,000, our nation in textbook DEPRESSION.</strong> </span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#33cc00;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">F-</span></strong> The twisted ramblings of a paranoid mind. HOW does he get ANYTHING right?</span><br /><br /><strong>13. Israel is surrounded. Suicide bombers move in from Jordan, Syria and Egypt. This is no Seven-Day war. It is an attack of human waves and hatred.<br /></strong><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">D-</span></strong> More ramblings of a paranoid mind. But...in these final days, Israel DID invade Gaza and it's going to be a very different scenario in 2008.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">14</span>. As Iraq unravels and Afghanistan explodes, our National Confidence plummets. The intelligence failure follows on the lies of WMD…the lies of Pat Tillman… the lies of Jessica Lynch…the lies of “killed Al Queda leaders”… the nation sits dazed in a fog not unlike the post 9/11 weeks. Then things get bad.<br /></strong><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">B-</span></strong> More...hey, wait a minute.</span> <span style="color:#ff0000;">Iraq's mess is only on temporary hold by "The Surge." And the Afghanistan explosion is ticking as Condi BEGS NATO to come help us. And speaking of "lies"- "President Bush and his top aides publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by </span></span><a class="a_keyword_link" href="http://www.iraqdaily.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Iraq</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"> in the two years following 9/11, according to a new study." And in case you missed it, the Pentagon determined Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire at close range. And they knew it before the ceremonial funeral. Didn't even tell Mom & Dad. Something has America in a dour "fog."<br /></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">15</span>. The sub-prime loans have started to go bad. You know that from the news. But what is bad will get worse. The loans that created the housing boom are now ready to backfire on homeowners as their monthly mortgages increase. Eventually payments can’t be made. Homes in foreclosure. Americans go bankrupt trying to “hang in there.” A loan is worthless if it isn’t being paid off. And of course, there remains the ticking time bomb of all the speculative real estate purchases made at the height of the housing boom. Families invested money in houses/condos in the expectation of “flipping” them for a quick profit. That’s the story in today’s (3/2007) New York Times. But it’s not news. Loans foreclosed, spending down, jobs lost, new condos simply abandoned… and all Hell breaking lose in the MidEast.</strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">A++</span></strong> Unfortunately, I was positively brilliant on this one. I'll take the Nobel Prize.<br /></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;">16</span>. 5/12/2007 LATE WEATHER ADDITION-</strong><br /><br /><strong>Florida will have a nasty hurricane season, I couldn't care less how many get names. SIX will hit US turf and THREE will be major. They'll come in from Africa, as usual...but they'll track mostly southern between the Everglades and Cuba. The danger zone will be from Tampa, through the panhandle, through New Orleans, to Galveston.<br /></strong><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>A+</strong></span> SIX named storms hit the gulf. They came in south of Cuba. The landfall points in America were Tampa, Mobile, Houston, San Antonio. Exceptionally high pressure systems over Texas forced the two deadliest storms to track due west into Mexico.</span></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://flhurricane.com/googlemap.php?2007s1-2007s2-2007s3-2007s4-2007s5-2007s6-2007s7-2007s8-2007s9-2007s10-2007s11-2007s12-2007s13-2007s14-2007s15-2007s16-2007s17"><span style="color:#ffcc00;">http://flhurricane.com/googlemap.php?2007s1-2007s2-2007s3-2007s4-2007s5-2007s6-2007s7-2007s8-2007s9-2007s10-2007s11-2007s12-2007s13-2007s14-2007s15-2007s16-2007s17</span></a><span style="color:#ffcc00;">#</span> </span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">SIX storm named clockwise, starting at 6:00- Yellow=FELIX, Burgundy=DEAN, Turquoise=ERIN, Orange=HUMBERTO, Dark Grey=TEN, Green=BARRY</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;">* * * * * *</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;">And THE SURGE is working.<br /><br />Oh yeah-<br />It might...just might...be a Recession.<br /><br />-Kyle</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></p></span><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><p align="left"><br /></span></p>Kyle Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227858368649647978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1877750114176856985.post-32793942785855642212008-03-07T13:58:00.000-08:002011-08-24T15:34:59.793-07:00Predictions for 2008
<br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">2008 Predictions</span> </div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:130%;">MIDEAST 1: Israel at War</span></em></div><div align="left">
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>1- The Gaza Strip is the flashpoint.</strong> </span></div><span style="font-size:130%;">Israel has already launched the first of many invasions into Gaza. After destroying the border wall, rockets have rained on Israel's south. The small inaccurate Qassams are terror enough, but the toll from sophisticated GRADs smuggled in from Syria and the Egyptian tunnels under the Egypt/Gaza border demand a savage response. Israel will strike again and strike deeper. Egypt's strong Fundamentalism movement, "The Brotherhood," will move across the Sinai to join the battles in Gaza. Sensitive to the rising Fundamentalism in Egypt, President Mubarrak fails to stop The Brotherhood. Israel uses satellite and night vision to enter Egyptian airspace to catch The Brotherhood out in the relative open, before they can get to Gaza. Mubarrak is pressured to respond. He might send troops and encourage the fundamentalists. He might do nothing and risk being overthrown or killed.
<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">***But GAZA is a LONG SLOG, it has ALREADY STARTED, it will ESCALATE and MAY lead to war with EGYPT.</span>
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<br /><strong>2- Lebanon is within weeks of erupting as flashpoint #2.</strong>
<br />The Lebanese are FURIOUS at the USA for posting three warships off the coast. The USA is there to deter Syria from marching back into Lebanon. Syria is aching to jump back into the Lebanese lands they've already armed to the teeth. Israel is watching ALL of it and they will NOT make the mistake of the 2006 war, the long war that infuriated Israelis who now demand security. The tension has been growing since Israel killed major Lebanese terrorist Imad Mughniyeh. Hezbollah threatened massive retaliation and has the missiles to do it. Iran's Al-Qaeda forces have promised to join the fight. Iran's President Ahmadinejad has committed Iranian support.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">***The ROCKETS will fly to test USA and Israeli resolve, ISRAEL invades IN FORCE, and it is a HUGE EXTENDED BATTLE.
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<br /><strong>3- The Third front for Israel- The West Bank.</strong>
<br />The West Bank is the ideal launching point for Syria-based Palestinian militants, an inconvenient third front. As the more militant Hezbollah forces join with Iranian al-Qaida, Kassams and GRADs fly. ISRAEL counters with intense attacks into the West Bank.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">***The WEST BANK fight will ultimately bring an eyeball-to-eyeball face-off between SYRIA and ISRAEL.
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<br /><strong>4- Israel is now fully-mobilized and they hunker down.</strong>
<br />Gaza/Egypt in the South, Syrian-backed invader on the West Bank, and a mixed bag of militants driving in from the North. Israelis are routinely retreating to basement safety bunkers. The mighty Israeli military command AND political leadership is utterly frustrated by suicide bombers throughout the country. There are too many anti-Israel factions to even think of peace negotiations.
<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">***Israel hunkers down in bomb shelters...as they prepare to strike.</span>
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<br /><strong>5- The Nuclear Genie is soon out of the bottle.</strong>
<br /></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">Israel makes the threat of retaliation to the nations who support the fighters in the streets- Egypt, Syria, Iran, Lawless Lebanon...they are all warned in public and private statements. The target selected will depend on which nation provides the biggest cache of weapons. With good target selection, political wisdom, and just plain luck...the one Israel attack will force an intimidated peace. At a cost. Maybe Egypt's Answan Dam. Maybe Iran's nuclear facility at Natanz. Concentrated Lebanese fighters might be hit in the Bekka Valley. Syria's underground missile facility at Aleppo would be a possible target. I guess Israeli will attack Itan's underground nuclear facilities at NATANZ as a strategic warning with a special attempt to avoid large civilian loss. BUT...if the warning fails, Damascus could be wiped off the map.</span></div><div align="center">
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">MIDEAST 2: Pakistan in Turmoil </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>6- The Election so intensely advocated by Bush is the beginning of a long civil war. </strong>With our puppet Perv the Big Loser, Hell breaks lose. All I can do is steal from a NYTimes op-editorial-</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="left"><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff9900;"></span></em></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="color:#ff9900;">"NYT 2.1 OpEd- As matters stand, the Punjabi-dominated regime of Pervez Musharraf is headed for a bloody confrontation with the country’s Pashtun, Baluch and Sindhi minorities that could well lead to the breakup of Pakistan into three sovereign entities. In that event, the Pashtuns, concentrated in the northwestern tribal areas, would join with their ethnic brethren across the Afghan border (some 40 million of them combined) to form an independent “Pashtunistan.” The Sindhis in the southeast, numbering 23 million, would unite with the six million Baluch tribesmen in the southwest to establish a federation along the Arabian Sea from India to Iran. “Pakistan” would then be a nuclear-armed Punjabi rump state. The nuclear safeguards depend on the Pakistani Army as an institution, not on the president. They would not be affected by a break-up, since the nuclear weapons would remain under the control of the Punjabi rump state and its army. The Punjabi-Pashtun animosity helps explain why the United States is failing to get effective Pakistani cooperation in fighting terrorists. The Pashtuns living along the Afghan border are happy to give sanctuary from Punjabi forces to the Taliban, which is composed primarily of fellow Pashtuns, and to its Qaeda friends."</span></em> <span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">***NOT good for our forces In-Country.</span>
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<br /><strong>7- The Pakistani Nukes are going to be kept safely under control.</strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">The US will supply covert assistance to only one faction of the confusing battleground described in #6...most of which is over my head. What is NOT over my head is the fact that the Pakistani Army is a "faction" all it's own, with or without Musharraf. In fact, the man we will deal with is the man who has been our friend for while, Army General Kayani. General Kayani makes a deal with the two ruling parties-- The insurgents stop attacking the Pakistani military, and the military will sit quietly while the Pashtun majority work out a peaceful plan of...well, PACIFISM. Musharraf is out, live-and-let-live is in. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">***NOT good for our forces In-Country.</span> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">MIDEAST 3: The Taliban retakes Afghanistan
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<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">8- Afghanistan in the post 9-11 era long ago...the last smart move by the US.</span></strong></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">We pounded the Taliban within an inch of their lives. Taliban fighters were unprepared for our enormous power, especially from the air. MORE IMPORTANT, our attack was made with the support of the world. But Bush turned to Iraq, opinion turned against us, and the Taliban was saved. Without our troops, Taliban groups have proliferated and re-armed. Record-setting opium crops have financed their rearming, and country towns and villages quickly surrendered to Taliban rule because the Afghan Army can only control the city and protect President Karzai. When the snow is all melted, the Taliban forces will sweep across the country in a lightning assault. We know it's coming but Condi could not get NATO aboard because NATO knows it's a fight that can't be won. The Taliban takes Kabul, Karzai never leaves the city alive. I've got 4 references below... taken from MANY pages. These four pieces should be read by every American...and we'll then be as wise as NATO. There will be no "second front" in the mountains because Pakistani fighters have actually joined their old tribes. The snow melts, Taliban forces will sweep across the country in a lightning assault and Karzai flees or dies.
<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">***NOT good for our forces In-Country.</span> </span></div><div align="center">
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">MIDEAST 4: Iraq unravels, the Myth of The Surge </span></div><div align="left">
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>9- Iraq explodes and this time I mean it.</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">And you can and should see it coming a mile away...IF you know the Surge. The Surge was a DEAL we made with the minority SUNNI fighters. We asked the Sunnis to stop attacking our troops, and asked them to JOIN us in a broad battle against our COMMON foes- Al Qaeda and the Taliban. We promised to bring in more soldiers, we promised the Sunnis $300 a day per fighter, and we promised them the umbrella of our tactical air support and immense artillery power. But the FIREPOWER was only HALF of the bargain. What is less-well known is that we promised the SUNNIs would then CONTROL the pacified territory, that they would GOVERN themselves, and they would PROTECT themselves with SUNNI defense forces of the Great Nation of Greater Iran. That was KEY because not one SUNNI wants to trust his life to a SHIITE cop. BUT...we can not and will not be able to "seal the deal." Without self-rule, the Sunni forces will feel betrayed, rightfully so, and the Sunnis will be our enemy again. And on that day, we've got ourselves stuck in the middle of a civil war between the SHI'A and the SUNNIs.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">***The Surge is exposed as the myth that it is.
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<br /><strong>10- Iraq explodes and this time I mean it.</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">The Shiite armies have agreed to a truce...which by ALL accounts have cut violence by about 60%. SIXTY FRIKKIN' PER CENT. Recently the top Shiite Militia guy al-Sadr decided to "extend" the peace until August of this year. Well...AIN'T GONNA' HAPPEN. The Shiites are trying to consolidate political power...but they are too trigger-happy for turf. The SHIITE peace will end...but I know NOT where. Maybe Basra in the South. Maybe on the outskirts of Baghdad. Maybe the "last-stand" at Mosul. Who knows. But Shiite-on-Shiite violence erupts and bodies fill the daily news. Americans are fair targets. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">***The Surge is exposed as the myth that it is.
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<br /><strong>11- Iraq explodes and this time I mean it.</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">The Shiite armies hate ONE THING more than each other-- The Sunnis. And as USA forces hand over "pacified" areas to the Sunnis, the Sunnis will set up political and military institutions.
<br />The Shiites in Baghdad will not tolerate ANY HINT of Sunni self-rule. So the Shiite militia ATTACK Sunni territory as soon as American forces walk away. Without the US AIR SUPPORT, the Sunnis die. And they feel betrayed. and they get mad. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">***And the Surge is exposed as the myth that it is. </span></div><div align="center">
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">MIDEAST 5: How 'bout them Kurds?
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<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>12- The Kurds and the Turks are at war on the Northern border.</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">The Kurds are in a bind because they MUST move south to seize the oil fields of Kirkuk. EVERYBODY wants Kirkuk but the Kurds have the advantage of better military discipline. AND their enemies are fighting each other...those Shi'a and Sunnis. Even if the Kurds stop their terrorist attacks into Turkey, the Turks have an army of 100,000 on the border and they haven't come to play hopscotch. Kirkuk rages on. International pressure keeps the Turks from invading as the Kurds kick butt and seize the oil fields. And...gosh darn it...the Kurds are actually HAPPY to sell oil to us. LUCKY US!!!!</span></div><div align="center">
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">MIDEAST 6: American Iraq under attack </span></div><div align="left">
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>13- American forces haven't got a friend anywhere.</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">The Shi'a forces have been fairly quiet because we made deals with the key clergy and warlords. And they're just waiting...for the Sunnis to clear out the countryside, a countryside where the Shi'a will NOT allow ANY Sunni self-government. So the Shi'a militias come at us with all they've got. The Sunni troops are outraged that we could not guarantee the "self-rule" we promised as THE KEY to THE SURGE. So the Sunnis come at us with all they've got. The Kurds have always been our friends...but they are only up in the North, unable to help us hold Baghdad. The Shiite militias start fighting each other (see #10), then they start slamming the Sunnis (see #11), and it's time to drive America OUT. The Green Zone becomes a killing zone. Mortars and rockets and suicide bombers...we at home are as stunned as we were when TET erupted in Vietnam.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">MIDEAST 7: America sees reality
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<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>14- American forces are utterly outnumbered on too many fronts.</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">THIS is where the ELECTION...and the HISTORY of THE WORLD will be decided. I have been a supporter of John McCain since WAY before the 2000 election. He is a good, honorable, decent, and utterly MILITARY man. He is not afraid to 'fess up when he is wrong. And as Baghdad becomes a killing field, with more enemies in Afghanistan and no help from Pakistan or NATO...the McCain I respect will do the RIGHT THING for his fellow veterans in Harm's Way. He will speak. McCain will make a historic speech in which he points out the political changes that remain beyond our control. Turning to Iraq, he will say we have fought bravely and nobly...
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<br /></span><span style="color:#ff9900;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em>"BUT our Iraqi counterparts have FAILED to achieve their promised goals. They have not made political reconciliation. They have not come up with a plan to distribute oil revenues. They have failed to secure the Taliban sanctuary near Pakistan. THEREFORE, we Americans can do no more. We can no longer sacrifice our sons and daughters to a failed nation-state that has chosen war over peace. They have chosen ancient hatreds over a prosperous future. They have chosen not to establish a beacon of hope and light, but a return to the darker side of our nature.
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<br />"My friends, as of this day, I am consulting with our Commanders in the field to create the plans for an orderly and safe withdrawal of American forces from the Iraqi war zone. Our men and women will be coming home to their families and a grateful nation. And make no mistake- They will be coming home with pride and dignity.
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<br /></span></span><span style="color:#ff9900;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em>"As your Commander in Chief, I accept responsibility for this strategic decision. Every battlefield general will tell you that every battle is a fluid thing. The situation changes and the responsible commander must react accordingly. There is not now, nor has there ever been a battle plan that survived intact until the last shot was fired. The recent changes in Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan...they have not been of our making. But the threat to our sons and daughters now exceeds the abilities of our coalition forces.
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<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="color:#ff9900;">"Know and understand this, my friends, that these warriors are not coming home in defeat.
<br />They are coming home to a nation where the pursuit of peace beats in every heart. For all our differences and disagreements, the greatest of America's achievements has always been the greater good.
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<br />"God willing, families will be united again. American will continue to work with all nations in every corner of the world to see peace and prosperity thrive in what are now the deadly fields of fire. My friends, make no mistake- This is a proud nation, not a retreat for isolationists and defeatists. But instead we remain the shining beacon of hope for the people of this greatest of all God's creation, this beautiful earth, His home to us all. May God bless the United States."
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<br />IFFFF McCain makes that speech and brings our troops home, he will win the Election. The global danger will make America turn from semantics and sarcasm to honest-to-God leadership. Though it seems absolutely impossible, IF McCain brings us OUT, he will WIN in November.. If he "Stays the Course" he loses.
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<br /><strong>15- American people take a while to grasp the absolute FOLLY of "The Surge."</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">But they see the huge shift in power. And we are NOT winning. IFFF McCain stays with the Bush policy, the Democrats win the election by an ASTOUNDING margin. With so much at stake, the sexist soul of America rears its head and Hillary is defeated on the convention floor. Frankly, I believe she will be defeated by the Primary Process, however close. But IFFFF she is ahead, the nervous electorate will insist on a man. Obama. IFFFF McCain sticks with the Bush War Plan, Barak Obama is the next President of the United States.</span></div><div align="center">
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">AMERICA 8: The Homefront</span></div><div align="left">
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>16- The Economy will cling to shreds of hope until Spring thaw in Afghanistan.</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">And the simultaneous phenomenal spread of foreclosures and "recession." It is not a recession- When America stops buying, the WORLD is in trouble. As a few daring pundits dare speak the word "recession," America goes a wee bit bonkers. People see the home values around them falling...and so they turn to local government and demand "property re-assessments." In total ignorance, they say<em> "My neighborhood homes are not worth $250,000, today they sell for $90,000. So I DESERVE a fair market re-assessment."</em> So stupid. Fine...assume you "win." With all your local homes on the tax rolls for LESS, your City Council will simply increase the TAX RATE to create the same city budget. But the public goes a WEE BIT bonkers when their tax rate per/$1000 goes up by 200%. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">***America falls into a Depression with or without re-assessment. Not a good thing.</span>
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<br /><strong>17- The Terrorists know what we value most...and it ain't air travel.</strong> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">It's PLAY. It's PEACEFUL FUN. It's SPORTS. And that's where they hit us. A few incredible acts of terrorism terrify America into staying away from the most simple acts of fun...be it Sports, Theme Parks, or Spring Break in Cancun.
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<br />I take no joy in any of this. I pray to God I'm wrong.
<br />BUT...I have read the news without the AMERICAN spin.
<br />Without the WASHINGTON spin. It's out there in black and white.
<br />I'm sorry.
<br />I'm either right or I'm wrong.
<br />But if I had a wife and a family and a real job and no passion for history...
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<br />...I'd be watching the never-ending debate about what the future holds for
<br />Hillary or Obama in <strong>Pennsylvania</strong>. It's the lead story on every newscast.
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Africa?
<br />Central America?
<br /><em>Please</em>. There's no oil. They don't matter.
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<br />And <strong>THE SURGE</strong> is working.
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<br />Oh yeah-
<br />It might...<em>just might</em>...be a Recession.
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<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JKBhg5lIx1A/TlV8cqiISsI/AAAAAAAAAV8/JWlTEwf_MQg/s1600/Balt%2B911%2Bsteel.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JKBhg5lIx1A/TlV8cqiISsI/AAAAAAAAAV8/JWlTEwf_MQg/s320/Balt%2B911%2Bsteel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644554539874405058" border="0" /></a></div></div><div align="left"></div>Kyle Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227858368649647978noreply@blogger.com0