http://n ews.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081222/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_secrets

Oh My God! We loan these bastards all those tax dollars and they are refusing to account for where the money is?  No F'ing way (excuse the english)!

What arrogant pricks these guys are:

"We're choosing not to disclose that," said Kevin Heine, spokesman for Bank of New York Mellon, which received about $3 billion.

"We've lent some of it. We've not lent some of it. We've not given any accounting of, 'Here's how we're doing it,'" said Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for JPMorgan Chase, which received $25 billion in emergency bailout money. "We have not disclosed that to the public. We're declining to."

These banks get billions of dollars of OUR tax money and they think they don't have to account for how its used? BULLCRAP!  Where is Congress, Bush, or even Obama on all this? The government needs to pull thier thumbs out thier butts and demand an accounting for this. Hell try telling JPMorgan Chase or Bank of New York that you've lost track of the money they've loaned you, they'd have you locked up or not even loan you the money in the first place.

I encourage everyone here to write, call, or email your congressmen to demand that action be taken without delay. I am beside myself, I just can't believe what I've read! Greed had gotten those companies into the trouble they got into, the bailout didn't change a thing. The corruption here is staggering, just staggering.

Poeple have left this site because of all the political CRAP! Someone said that after the election we would be bambarded with "I told you so's".

Well I was hoping they were wrong but I can see they have already started. I was VERY SHOCKED to see Dawn start them.

Maybe by February this sight will go back to normal.

Obama won…I knew it, I never said it out loud but I knew.

I was NEVER as vocal as Ed, but deep down I knew, I think we all knew.

Here are a couple of 'minor' things TGIX would rather NOBODY would talk about:

Campaign financing oddity #1: will we ever find out what really happened? 

Campaign financing oddity #2: No really, isn't this COMPLETELY illegal? 

Now to be fair, I ain't saying McCain would be any better, I just want to know why these stories have NOT been 'over covered' like the media appears to do with everything Republican? That's all.

NEW PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION 

This is probably the best e-mail I've seen in a long, long time. The following has been attributed to State Representative Mitchell Kaye from GA.  This guy should run for President one day…

'We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to

help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, and delusional.  We hold these

truths to be self evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill of NON-Rights.' 

ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or any other form of wealth.  More power to you if you can  legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.

ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended.  This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone –not just you!   You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.; but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be. 

ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm.  If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful; do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy. 

ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.  This one is my pet peeve…get an education and go to work…don't expect everyone else to take care of you! 

ARTICLE V: You do not have the right to free health care.  That would be nice, but if it would turn out the same way as current public housing, we're not interested in public health care. 

ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people.  If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you put away for the rest of your sorry life. 

ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure. 

 ARTICLE VIII: You do not have the right to a job.  All of us sure want you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful. (AMEN!)

ARTICLE IX: You do not have the right to happiness.  Being an America means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who  were confused by the Bill of Rights. 

ARTICLE X: This is an English speaking country.  We don't care where you are from, English is our language.  Learn it or go back to wherever you came from! 

(and last but not least….) 

ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country's history or heritage.  This country was founded on the belief in one God.  You are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all, with no fear of persecution.  The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history, and if you are uncomfortable with it, TOUGH!

If you agree, share this with a friend.

No, you don't have to, and nothing tragic will befall you if you don't.

I just think it's about time common sense is allowed to flourish.

Sensible people of the United States , speak out, because if you do not, who will?

but I just could NOT keep quiet since some people WANT to stay quiet!!!

http://www.kansascity.com /445/story/804503.html

How can her husband refuse a court order (subpoena)? Doesn't this undermine the very ideals that McCain and Palin are supposed to uphold, you know the rule of law and such?

If this man were Joe Ordinary he'd be in jail for refusing a court order. I'm tired of our elected officials and thier families being above the law. Be a mam Mr. Palin and do your civic duty or does your wife keep "them" in her purse? I'm pretty sure who's wearing the dress in that family.

I'll head TGIX off at the pass and say that it happens on both sides of the political fence so don't turn this into a Red vs Blue debate.

I am so confused about who I am going to vote for in the 2008 election.

I WAS going to vote for McCain but now that he's nominated that twit from Alaska (no offense to my Alaskan friends) I'm not so sure that I want to vote for him now. This lady is waaaaaaayyyyy to right wing for me.

I am talking about why there are different rules governing how a candidate is picked between the two parties? For instance, a  Democrat candidate for presidency can have less of the popular votes to get on the ticket, but could get on IF there are enough 'Super Delegates'! Why is that? I mean, doesn't that kinda take away the whole, 'Your vote counts'? Maybe they were targeting the Delegates with that ad?

Alright, I heard this once before, but can someone explain EXACTLY why there is a need for the Electoral college? Aren't they kinda NOT needed (like the UN) any longer?

it has already been decided who will win!!!

1  There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.    

2.  All ballots will be in this nation's language.    

3.. All government business will be conducted in our  language.    

4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.    

5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office.     

6  Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers.   No welfare, no food  stamps, no health care,  or other government assistance programs.  Any burden will be deported.

7.  Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at least equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.

8. If foreigners come here and buy land… options will be restricted. Certain parcels including  waterfront property are reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.

9.. Foreigners may have no protests; no demonstrations, no waving of a foreign flag, no political organizing, no  bad-mouthing our president or his policies.   These will lead to deportation. 

10.  If you do come to this country illegally,  you will be actively hunted & when caught,  sent to jail until your deportation can be arranged.  All assets will be taken from you..  

Harsh, you say?…….

The above laws are current immigration laws of   MEXICO …

Now this is just Minnesota funny.

The Presidential election was too close to call. Neither the Republican candidate nor the Democratic candidate had enough votes to win.. There was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc., but a week-long ice fishing competition seemed the sportsmanlike way to settle things. The candidate that caught the most fish at the end of the week would win the election.

Therefore, it was decided that there should be an ice fishing contest between the two candidates to determine the winner.

After much of back and forth discussion, it was decided that the contest take place on a remote frozen lake in northern Minnesota.

There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out separately on this isolated lake and return at 5 P.M. with their catch for counting and verification by a team of neutral parties. At the end of the first day, John Mc. returned to the starting line and he had ten fish.

Soon, Obama returned and had no fish. Well, everyone assumed he was just having another 'bad hair' day or something and hopefully, he would catch up the next day.

At the end of the 2nd day John Mc. came in with 20 fish and Obama came in again with none.

That evening, Harry Reid got together secretly with Obama and said, 'Obama, I think John Mc. is a low-life, cheatin' son-of-a-gun. I want you to go out tomorrow and don't even bother with fishing. Just spy on him and see just how he is cheating.'

The next night (after John Mc. returns with 50 fish),Harry said to Obama, 'Well, tell me, how is John Mc. cheating?'

Obama replied, 'Harry, you're not going to believe this, but he's cutting holes in the ice.

I don't even know how to title this picture!

Two weeks ago I heard on the news about a very strange story involving the former Senator and ex-Presidential candidate John Edwards.

Some of the mainstream press covered The National Inquirer’s story about Edwards getting caught at the Beverly Hilton hotel while visiting his one-time mistress and their love child at 2:00AM in the morning (while his cancer-ridden wife sits at home, etc).

It sounded strange, but plausible.  The odd thing is that in the last ten days, I haven’t seen or heard one further word about the alleged incident.  I actually thought I might have dreamt it.  Then finally The Charlotte Observer, Edwards’ home town newspaper, ran a story last week titled “Birth certificate doesn't clarify paternity. No father is listed for child of woman who Enquirer claims was John Edwards' lover.”

But that’s it.  Otherwise, there's been silence on this subject.

I don’t mean to be a conspiracy theorist, but it appears to me that someone did a damn good job killing this story.  I know it can be done; I just don’t know how to do it.

Can someone explain this to me?  Does anyone find this whole this a little odd?  Or is no one simply interested?

Peeve On!

The Peeve Meister

P.S.  Congrats to madmess, our Rant-of-the-Week winner from last week. And good luck to all you Super Peevers this week. We'll be awarding another set of prizes for the best comment to this week's "Rant of the Week.

Ok…..there are those who don't beleive we should drill off our coasts. There are other nations doing it off our coasts right now.  We would be safer than them. They don't care if they spill and screw up our coast.

But lets forget about that. Ok, lets say we forget about drilling and ONLY look for the "other". Ok, some egghead figures something out. Now ALL our vehicles (forget that tires are made of oil) are now obsolete. Now what? Only the rich will be able to get their new vehicles, what about the poor? Oh wait the Democrats can make ANOTHER welfare program to help them out. Furthering their afgenda of two classes of people (although they say they want one class). They have the leaders (them) and the poor/ the followers. We can gratefully take the handouts they think we deserve. Now what about all our oil dependant vehicles? What do we do with them??? Talk about an environmental hazzard. I can see the HUGE junk yards now. Plus without oil, they will need to find a new way to make tires.

Ya, the alternative fuel is the ONLY thing we should be researching!!!

but it seems to me this money, this MILLIONS could be used to study things RIGHT HERE!

Clinton could have done it, Bush part I could have done it, Reagan could have done it, but Bush II DID do it!!! And once again, members of our government on BOTH sides of the aisle took their sweet time about righting a wrong.  All ANY of the previous presidents would have had to do was EXECUTIVE ORDER this to happen or, at the very least, go public about WANTING this to happen and congress would have HAD to support this move, right? But it took all these years for it to happen. For shame.

http://new s.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080730/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_energy

What a load of B.S. when he is the one with all his greedy fingers in the pot!!!

Nope, won't even keep it going here!!!

No really, is this really happening? If so, why isn't CNN or MSNBC covering this story? ABC? NBC? CBS? Well, CBS is alright for sports coverage, let's leave it at that!!!

Isn't this what the FCC and the congressional members overseeing this stupid stuff SUPPOSED to stop this? NO QUESTIONS ASKED?!?!

WASHINGTON - President Bush and Iraq's prime minister have agreed to set a "general time horizon" for bringing more U.S. troops home from the war, a dramatic shift from the administration's once-ironclad unwillingness to talk about any kind of deadline or timetable.

Some say that we need to stop adding to the global warming by ceasing the use of gas powered engines and stop using coal for energy. I say ‘sure’ we should all do this, in fact, to start I say that first those that have said this should lead the way my turning their automobiles over to a junkyard or at least, the ENGINES that use that type of ‘bad’ power sources. You can’t say, ‘well, I only use MY car to drive a mile or so, I ride a bike otherwise. That is the same as telling a VEGAN that while you support not using animals for food, you do so by ‘only’ eating that burger once in awhile! IT IS THE SAME HYPOCRACY! Either you go all in or you stop complaining that people aren’t doing it! I told a person working at Whole Foods that I only eat meat sometimes; they told me I was STILL part of the problem until I quit eating meat COMPLETELY! I agree, until I stop eating meat, no matter how little it is, I am supporting the slaughter of ALL animals for food, as long as I drive a car, no matter how little I drive it, as long as it is using gasoline, I am part of the problem. Until I stop BEING part of the problem, I actually have no right to tell or expect others to ‘do as I SAY do and not as I DO!

Comments? I am mostly sure I am looking at ONE person in particular, but I bet he or she (not naming names here) will respond other than to say how our president is as bad as it gets, but not actually taking the blame for his (or hers, still not naming names) is really doing by driving that car around Baltimore (or wherever he or she lives and works).

That is ‘all’.

But, it IS a Medical Journal of Scientist but it does go against the 'grain' so to speak. . .

Worse than Appalachia Valley Congressional District ranks Last Nationwide on Study's Scorecard of Well-being.

WASHINGTON — Poverty, poor health and low graduation rates have put the San Joaquin Valley's 20th Congressional District dead last in a new national scorecard that ranks the well-being of residents.

Even notoriously grim Appalachia fares better than the congressional district that sweeps in Fresno, Kings and Kern counties, the study made public Wednesday shows. The assessment of health, education and income ranks the district 436th out of 436 districts nationwide.

"We have significant issues in the Valley that reflect rural inequality," said Adela de la Torre, a University of California at Davis professor and adviser for the study. "The Valley has always been an area that's underserved."
The study, "The Measure of America," applies to the United States — for the first time — a so-called "human development" standard previously used to evaluate developing countries from Afghanistan to Zambia. The domestic results are sobering.

For instance, only 6.5% of the 20th Congressional District's adults have graduated from college. In the top-ranked New York City district, 62.6% of adult residents claim a college degree.

Only half of the Valley district's households have annual incomes above $16,767. In the New York City district, half claim incomes above $51,139. Most poignantly, the residents of Manhattan's Upper East Side live, on average, 41/2 years longer than residents of the Valley district.

"These two districts are very, very far apart in human development," study co-author Kristen Lewis noted.

The San Joaquin Valley's manifold woes have been previously identified in studies by everyone from Modesto's Great Valley Center to the Congressional Research Service. This latest 246-page study provides a somewhat different lens.

The study was funded by Oxfam America, the Rockefeller Foundation and other nonprofit groups. The authors, affiliated with the nonpartisan Social Science Research Council and Columbia University Press, tallied health, education and income statistics. They called their "human development index" a measure of "three basic building blocks" of a good life.

"We have difficult challenges, there is no doubt," acknowledged Rep. Jim Costa, the Fresno Democrat who has represented the 20th Congressional District since 2005.

Costa, echoing de la Torre, stressed that "we lag in terms of dollars spent in the Valley, compared to other parts of the United States."

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service likewise noted in a December 2005 report requested by Costa and other Valley lawmakers that the region "received fewer federal funds" than other parts of California or the United States overall.

At the same time, Costa stressed that "we've seen improvements" in areas like unemployment, and he predicted further improvements could result after developments like the opening of a proposed new University of California medical school in Merced

"Manhattan's Upper East Side is obviously going to have higher income and more people with advanced degrees," Costa added. "But this does not mean that a farmer who did not go to college is worse off than anyone else."

By explicitly ranking all 435 congressional districts, in addition to the District of Columbia, the authors put individual lawmakers on the spot.

This has tactical implications, as the new report includes an "eight-point human development agenda" whose tenets range from boosting incomes and increasing paid maternal leave to making health care affordable for all Americans.

"It could not come at a better time," said Raymond Offenheiser, president of Oxfam International. "We are in the midst of an electrifying election when voters are hungry for change."

Four congressional districts share portions of Fresno County, and other San Joaquin Valley counties likewise struggle with persistently low incomes and high dropout rates.

The 21st Congressional District represented by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, ranked 378th, the 19th Congressional District represented by Rep. George Radanovich, R-Mariposa, ranked 235th, and the 18th Congressional District represented by Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, ranked 403rd on the new score card.

Higher income and better school performance go hand in hand. But researchers noted that the wealthy and well-schooled do not necessarily live significantly longer.

California, overall, ranks 11th on the scorecard, which puts wealthy Connecticut in the top spot. Residents of last-place Mississippi can expect to live six years less than the average resident of either California or Connecticut, the study shows.

The reporter can be reached at mdoyle@mcclatchydc.com or (202) 383-0006.

It's TIME for some campaigning!!!

And nowhere did I read a thing about what will happen to THESE poor children, children that are probably so screwed up now that they won't be adoptable AT ALL!!!

When Bill Cosby said this, he was ridiculed and called names like, 'Sell out' and I even heard, 'Uncle Tom'. So, why haven't we heard this when Obama said THE SAME THINGS???