Somebody forwarded this email to me… this is very scary.  We are all going to be so screwed if Obama becomes president.  As much as you may not like McCane, you better vote for him or we’re all dead meat.

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About a year ago, I would have voted for Obama.  I have changed my mind three times since then.  I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy.  But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and FOX News, you might get some middle ground to work with.

About six months ago, I started thinking, ‘Where did the money come from for Obama?’  I have four daughters who went to college, and we were middle class, and money was tight.  We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.  I started looking into Obama’s life.  Around 1979, Obama started college at Occidental in California .  He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies.  ‘Barry’ (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan

During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ’round the world’ trip.  Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia , next Hyderabad in India , three weeks in Karachi , Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family.  My question - Where did he get the money for this trip?  Neither I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they were in college.  When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York .  It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barak - not Barry.  Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia ?  It’s not cheap to say the least.  Where did he get money for tuition?  Student Loans maybe ?

After Columbia , he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000  Year.  Why Chicago ?  Why not New York ?  He was already living in New York . By ‘chance’ he met Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria , and a real estate developer in Chicago .  Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Decade’ by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association.  About two hears later, Obama entered Harvard Law School .  Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School ?  Where did he get the money for Law School ?  More student loans?

After law school, he went back to Chicago   Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down.  But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland.  Guess what?  They represented ‘Rezar’ which was Rezko’s firm.  Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago .  In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ’seed money’ for his U.S. Senate race.  In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than the asking price.  With ALL those Student Loans? Where did he get the money for the property?  On the same day, Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price.

The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased.  Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.  Now that we have Obama running for President.  Valerie Jarrett was Michele Obama’s boss.  She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first.  Where was Jarrett born?  Ready for this?  Shiraz , Iran !  Do we see a pattern here?  Or am I going crazy?

On May 10, 2008, the Times reported, Robert Malley, advisor to Obama was ’sacked after the press found out he was having regular contacts with ‘Hamas,’ which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran .

This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq , he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will ‘take care of things.’

Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that were born in Pakistan ?  They are in charge of all these ’small’ Internet campaign contributions for Obama.  Where is that money coming from?  The poor and middle class in this country?  Or could it be from the Middle East ?  And the final bit of news.  On September 7, 2008, the Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on ‘This Week’ with George Stephanapoulos.  Obama on talking about his religion said, ‘My Muslim faith…’  When questioned, ‘he made a mistake.’  Some mistake!

All of the above information I got on line.  If you would like to check it - Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barak Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett; Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times - September 7, 2008; The Times, May 10, 2008.

Now the BIG question - If I found out all this information on my own, why haven’t all of our ‘intelligent’ members of the press been reporting this?  A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear - ‘Beware of the enemy from within’!’

Hello everyone,

As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit to ‘The War Zone’. I wanted to share with you what happened. He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram. As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he blew them off and didn’t say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service. So really he was just here to make a showing for the American’s back home that he is their candidate for President. I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are providing for you. I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States . I just don’t understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those that provide the freedom for him and our great country.
If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is all fake.

In service,
CPT Jeffrey S. Porter
Battle Captain
TF Wasatch
American Soldier
(married and father of 6 children)

Please I hope they go out of business and hard!! They are criminals. Embezzlement and Racketeering are daily practices at this bank (and many others) I overdrew my account with a single purchase overdrawing the account by $12.50 They charged a $35 overdraft fee (criminal on its own but survivable) a few days later “fees” started to rack up.

Over the next few days they proceeded to DELETE roughly 10 days worth of transactions and then proceeded to REWRITE history in a new more convenient order. One that turns a $35 fee for a $12.50 overdraft into almost $400 in overdraft fees.

I tried to “reason” with them but they were unwilling to see reason I spent several weeks trying to compromise. They refused. I deposited my $12.50 and told them to F off.

Apparently Embezzlement is LEGAL for banks. (this new comment box SUCKS it keeps BOUNCING its shape and makes it very hard to type.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=embez …

They are taking my money by “altering” the records of the transactions they STEAL my money. Its the definition of embezzlement.

This all started with CHECKS. Checks have NUMBERS. this created a problem what happens if check 101 comes in BEFORE check 100 comes in what happens if check 100 never comes in.

So a law was passed permitting them to pay out the checks OUT of order. The intent was to allow them to deposit check 101 before getting check 100 it was worded a little broad and banks abused this.

Originally SOME good intentions may have resulted from this. If they took in your $1200 mortgage payment before a few small checks they could avoid bouncing your very important mortgage payment.

It did not take long before banks realized they could abuse this. By ordering the checks from “LARGEST” to “SMALLEST” they could maximize the number of overdraft fees they can charge you. THIS is why there is a “clearing” time for checks much “longer” than is really needed.

The longer they can keep the checks in “limbo” or “pending” status the more time that passes for the number of checks to accumulate and increase the potential profit by a reording or the checks.

Then something happened. CHECK CARDS. No more checks. Not only that but they worked JUST like a credit card. If you did not have enough money the charge was DECLINED! This was a problem they made a TON LOAD of money from these fees. Thats when they realized they could do the same thing by making CC charged PENDING and reorder them but they needed a way to permit you to overdraw the account to capitalize on this.

Thats where there “convenient” micro loans come into play. They will LET you overdraw the account for the low low price of $35 per transaction. Cute. So if you have $2 in the account that $2.50 slurpee will now cost you $37.50 How nice of them.

SO users (such as me) demanded they take this “loan” ability OFF. I did not want it. Back and force and eventually they made it COMPULSORY. you HAD to accept this loan. (is that not racketeering by definition?) A racket is typically a fraud scheme where they offer for a fee a solution but they themselves MANUFACTURED the problem for which they now want you to pay to solve.

SUCH as a brute walking into your deli and demanding money for PROTECTION services. FROM HIM ie he will beat you up unless you pay him to NOT beat you up. Thats a RACKET.

Then it gets worse they say why not get overdraft protection. FOR A FEE off course. A service you WOULD NOT NEED if they did not FORCE you to accept micro loans and would simply RETURN yout debit card to the way it works for nearly 10 years. DECLINE charges when there is not sufficient funds.

They have stretched and abused the rule that lets them take checks out of order and are using it to rape and rob the very people who can not afford it.

Let me give you an example.

Lets say you have $45 in your account. You go out tonight you get a slurpee for $3 and they a back of chips for $2 at a gas station right before you put $10 of gas into your car. You get to the movies and buy a ticket for $10 and buy $5 in candy. You realized its a long movie and your gonna be thirsty and go back for a $5 cola. On the way home you hit the drive thru at mc donalds for $8.

Do the math. you have spent $43 and have $2 left in your account.

You wake up in the morning to a negative balance. oops you forgot about your $40 credit card payment. Damn. Now you have a negative balance and a $35 fee for the CC payment but at least they paid it.

The next day you wake up and suddenly things are quite different. NOW you have a negative balance of -$283 !!! how did that happen??

Easy. They ERASED all those things you bought a few nights ago and put the CC charge “first” so it cleared NO fee. but now your down to $5 so they then apply one of your $10 charges. Now you overdrew the account by $5 (your first fee) they they apply the other charges progressively smaller so instead of one overdraft you now have 7 $35 fees.

Cute ehh? and although its completely illegal they get away with it because the only people that will ever encounter it are people who can never afford to do anything about it. it RUINS peoples lives. For some people creating debt larged than some peoples salary for weeks even a month.

One might say well manage your money better. Does that mean they should be allowed to break the rules and ABUSE the condition to there advantage. Being responsible for my money is absorbing one fee for the overdraft. THEY Created the conditions to allows the fees to multiply with malicious intent.

The only reason I give a bank my money is so THEY can manage some of these issues for me otherwise I have no need for a bank. When they came out with debit cards that WORKED PROPERLY it was BLISS.

IF I DID THIS AT MY JOB I would be lucky to just get fired and avoid PRISON TIME. They do it openly and with continous malevalent intent and they just say its our policy.

Since when are policies allowed to break the law. Can I create a policy that says you are to murder anyone I choose and its legaly because its a policy?

They are literally orginized criminal institutions.

A friend of mine forwarded this message.  Rather than delete it, I thought it may help somebody by posting it here.  If you find it useful, please give out this URL:
http://www.johnfoglesong.com/how-can-someone-who-lives-in-insane-luxury-be-a-star-in-todays-world/

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As I begin to write this, I “slug” it, as we writers say, which means I put a heading on top of the document to identify it. This heading is “eonlineFINAL,” and it gives me a shiver to write it. I have been doing this column for so long that I cannot even recall when I started. I loved writing this column so much for so long I came to believe it would never end.

It worked well for a long time, but gradually, my changing as a person and the world’s change have overtaken it. On a small scale, Morton’s, while better than ever, no longer attracts as many stars as it used to. It still brings in the rich people in droves and definitely some stars. I saw Samuel L. Jackson there a few days ago, and we had a nice visit, and right before that, I saw and had a splendid talk with Warren Beatty in an elevator, in which we agreed that Splendor in the Grass was a super movie. But Morton’s is not the star galaxy it once was, though it probably will be again.

Beyond that, a bigger change has happened. I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to.

How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today’s world, if by a “star” we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails.

They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer. A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq. He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world.

A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him.

A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad. The stars who deserve media attention are not the ones who have lavish weddings on TV but the ones who patrol the streets of Mosul even after two of their buddies were murdered and their bodies battered and stripped for the sin of trying to protect Iraqis from terrorists. We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely scrape by on military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on ships and in submarines and near the Arctic Circle are anonymous as they live and die.

I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by pretending that who is eating at Morton’s is a big subject. There are plenty of other stars in the American firmament…the policemen and women who go off on patrol in South Central and have no idea if they will return alive; the orderlies and paramedics who bring in people who have been in terrible accidents and prepare them for surgery; the teachers and nurses who throw their whole spirits into caring for autistic children; the kind men and women who work in hospices and in cancer wards. Think of each and every fireman who was running up the stairs at the World Trade Center as the towers began to collapse. Now you have my idea of a real hero.

We are not responsible for the operation of the universe, and what happens to us is not terribly important. God is real, not a fiction; and when we turn over our lives to Him, He takes far better care of us than we could ever do for ourselves. In a word, we make ourselves sane when we fire ourselves as the directors of the movie of our lives and turn the power over to Him.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters. This is my highest and best use as a human. I can put it another way. Years ago, I realized I could never be as great an actor as Olivier or as good a comic as Steve Martin…or Martin Mull or Fred Willard–or as good an economist as Samuelson or Friedman or as good a writer as Fitzgerald. Or even remotely close to any of them. But I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so much for me. This came to be my main task in life. I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister’s help). I cared for and paid attention to them in their declining years. I stayed with my father as he got sick, went into extremis and then into a coma and then entered immortality with my sister and me reading him the Psalms.

This was the only point at which my life touched the lives of the soldiers in Iraq or the firefighters in New York. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty, in return for the lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others He has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
By Ben Stein

Comments made in the year 1955!

That’s only 53 years ago!

“I’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it’s going to be impossible to buy a week’s groceries for $20.00.”

“Have you seen the new cars coming out next year?  It won’t be long before $2, 000.00 will only buy a used one.”

“If cigarettes keep going up in price, I’m going to quit.  A quarter a pack is ridiculous.”

“Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?”

“If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.”

“When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon.  Guess we’d be better off leaving the car in the garage.”

“Kids today are impossible.  Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed.  Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.”

“I’m afraid to send my kids to the movies any more.  Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL of DAMN in it.”

“I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century.  They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas .”

“Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball?  It wouldn’t surprise me if someday they’ll be making more than the President.”

“I never thought I’d see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric.  They are even making electric typewriters now.”

“It’s too bad things are so tough nowadays.  I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.”

“It won’t be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.”

“Marriage doesn’t mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.”

“I’m afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business..”

“Thank goodness I won’t live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes.  I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress.”

“The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.”

“There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.”

“No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it’s too rich for my blood.”

“If they think I’ll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.”

This was forwarded to me from my friend in Missouri.

Des Moines versus New Orleans….what’s the difference?     (and Cedar Falls?)

When New Orleans flooded, it was touted by the media as a racist plan to wipe out black people. Now that white people are getting flooded out, the media needs to investigate, right? But who?

I heard a dimwit talking head on CNN yesterday say that this reminded him of New Orleans.  How?

Outside of being flooded the similarity stops there. There is no looting, no people wandering the streets looking for meanness, no grocery carts being shoved through the water carrying stolen big screen TVs, no people sitting on the tops of their houses waiting on the government to come and get them, or police abandoning their posts.

There are no Iowans bitching how the government and George Bush is failing them. There is not one damn thing, other than water, that is similar to New Orleans.

The streets in Des Moines are empty. People left when they were told to evacuate. They didn’t whine, bitch or blame the government for the broken levees. They did what responsible people do in a crisis -  they acted responsibly.

The actions of the people of Des Moines only makes the actions of the people of New Orleans look like what it was…..people of several generations of dependency on government unable to depend upon themselves to save themselves. The upcoming elections will only serve to make that worse.