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ECONOMY:

This graph about job growth over the last decade versus who controlled Congress is designed to fool Americans into thinking that Republicans are good for growth and Democrats are bad. This confuses correlation with causation. Both parties are bad for economic growth. The job growth early in the decade was fueled by inflationary monetary policy from the Fed. The lost jobs occurred when the bubble created by the Fed during the illusionary boom times burst.

CNBC publicizes Murphy's campaign to get Krugman to debate him.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

More devaluation of the dollar. More inflation.

"You know it’s coming, so get ready.  Today: Dollar down 0.5%, Corn up 1.9%, Wheat up 1.2%, Oats up 4.5%, Soy up 1.5%.  Bernanke has now been proved a liar in regard to his 2006 statements, and yet he continues to dissemble – while the banking system strips Americans to the bone.

Vote next week?  For whom?  Have you heard any candidate or politician promise to put a stop to this crap, or recover the money stolen from Americans by the banks?  Nope.  So gimme a stick – I don’t want to bite my tongue."

The two parties keep us distracted from theft by the Fed.

EDUCATION:

British government bans man from teaching for life because of incompetence. As funny as this is, it's nobody else's business if a person want to hire this man to teach.

HEALTH CARE:

New analysis reveals what we already knew: Obamacare will significantly add to the deficit. Claims to the contrary were frauds.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Researchers find oil, which oozes from the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico all the time, on the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico. That's like finding dirt on the ground. There probably is more than usual around Deepwater Horizon, but this is much ado about next to nothing.

POLICE STATE:

More people unwilling to fly because of TSA nude-scanners. Airlines are going to go out of business.

Look inside one of the nude-scanner vans roaming our streets, bathing people in dangerous radiation, and taking nude pictures of them. If this isn't an unreasonable search, I don't know what is. Do you think you have a right to privacy under your clothes? The feds don't.

"The Z Backscatter Van (ZBV), manufactured by American Science and Engineering (AS&E), can be used to detect contraband such as car bombs, drugs and people in hiding.

But the vans, which can also see through clothing and into some buildings, are raising privacy concerns as well as questions about health risks -- and what might happen if the technology gets into the wrong hands."

The wrong hands? It's already in the wrong hands.

"Constitution Attorney Noel Francisco says most, if not all, state privacy laws would prohibit individuals or private companies from abusing the vans, while the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement agencies from doing the same.

"If you take this thing and point it at somebody's house or point it at somebody's car, you're engaging in a search of that individual," Francisco said. "You can't do that without a warrant or probable cause.""

How hard is that to understand?

Article calls the FBI the bureau of Frame-ups, Bullying and Intimidation.

TSA tactics are similar to the tactics used by counter-terrorism agents on captured terrorists. After reading stories of people who have been stopped by border security, the same is true there. I believe this is by design to intimidate the people and empower the government.

POLITICS:

Congresswoman hopes to steal millions from taxpayers and earmark it to her daughter's client. They're all corrupt.

Republican hypocrites and their phone pledge to America:

"However, what the Republicans forget to mention is that it is Republicans who controlled the U.S. House of Representatives during the last six years of Clinton’s presidency and the first six years of Bush’s presidency. Republicans are the ones who have ignored the proper limits imposed by the Constitution on the federal government. Republicans are the ones who have drafted unclear and muddled laws. Republicans are the ones who have shown a lack of respect for clear Constitutional limits and authorities. Republicans are the ones who have allowed Congress to create ineffective and costly programs that add to the massive deficit year after year.

Here are the four pieces of legislation that an overwhelming majority of House Republicans voted to pass on the same day they published their Pledge:

• The Family Health Care Accessibility Act

• The Emergency Medic Transition Act

• The National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act

• The Training and Research for Autism Improvements Nationwide Act

I wonder what clauses would be included with these bills citing the specific constitutional authority upon which they are justified?"

Gridlock is a myth.

Report that the religious right is pushing libertarians out of the tea parties. Sounds about right to me. The last Dayton Tea Party was a borderline religious event.