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• Macarone- Blue Dawg Democrat F Macarone- Blue Dawg Democrat Freestyle

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    Macarone gets on the Blue Dogs!  How in the world can you trust a Blue Dog?  Download this track and MORE at www.thedopincrecords.com

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• Estate Tax: What? Estate Tax: What?

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    What's all this malarkey about repealing federal estate tax?

    One need only retrace the history of federal banking in the United States, as was done for the Kryder Estate, to realize that "estate tax" as we know it in America has no impact on a conservatively planned large estate. In fact, conservative planning is the means by which large estates remain established for hundreds of years. So.

    The relentless drive to extinguish federal estate tax is more about creating the means to wipe out permanent records, especially those which yet exist from World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, and so forth when large amounts of federal securities with special taxation incentives were sold.

    In these eras legal documentation of original owners of all manner of securities and real estate, which has been buried by design, could utterly destroy the Harriman STD Oil Neo-Krupp Coven whose evil plan has practically reached culmination.

    Without launching a four hundred page exposition regarding, it is sufficient to say that the Coven avidly seeks to have the estate tax abolished by 2011. It is the end-year of a scheme set into motion in 1912:

    • 2011- (Florida East Coast Railway) FEC Ry Co 2nd mortgage due of 1960;
    • 2011- end of first Omaha 99 yr. lease devise (1912)

    The maturities coincide in 2011 due to the same rubble of PYRAMIDED railroad securities which have been blockading our financial system since the Union Pacific Railroad/ Credit Mobilier / FEC RY/ and Pennsylvania RR bankruptcies. The roots are traced through securities of the Kryder Estate as recorded in Allen County, Indiana Deed Records.

    8/12/1912 B6B-P80 PLAT 08-12-1912 07:01 PONTIAC PLACE TO Legals SEC: 18 TWP: 30 RNG: 13 (33 54 75 96)

    Of Deed Record, Clarence Frank Kryder and Minnie V. Kryder own an undivided half interest in Pontiac Place Addition (to this day "unaccounted for" in their estates) which should have succeeded to Katherine Kryder, but is now in the hands of the Lincoln Faction. Clarence Frank Kryder and George E. Sebring, developer of Sebring, Florida, as contemporaries both built their subdivisions according to the Pullman Plan. The assets of both men have been "off the books" since 1927 (Estate of Sebring), and both developer's assets were controlled at one time or another, or by one means or another, by the Shoaff Hall Barnett Bankers, aka Florida Coven- Atlantic Coastline RR, FEC RY, STD OIL, BOA , Disney, Pepsi, which is intermarried and inbred with the Indiana Coven featuring our North American Cousin, Lincoln, International Harvester, Raytheon, Magnavox, James Bond and America's Best Lawyer.

     Permanent records as exist in IRS vaults which can identify LEGAL OWNERS of property, have the potential to connect bogus entities of the present to a well developed underground of securities fencing with roots in the Florida Land Boom, Crash, and Great Depression.

    Present significant holders of war era securities or those which have been converted into another federal security which originated in the Roosevelt era, do not want to be exposed. It could be brought out that organized estate attorneys have long been engaged in funneling the military industrial complex to certain trust companies, into what many could consider a not only elite, but possibly hostile portfolio which has been assembled in the dark and in opposition to our laws and principles.

    There is also the thus far overlooked matter of The Last Executive Order of President John F. Kennedy:

    On November 9, 1963 This EO was signed: Executive Order 11127
    Creating an emergency board to investigate a dispute between the Florida East Coast Railway Company and certain of its employees

    Signed: November 9, 1963

    Federal Register page and date: 28 FR 12079; November 13, 1963

    Revoked by: EO 12553, February 25, 1986 by President Ronald Reagan

    As a note, "On November 9, 1963, East Germany issued the ... 10 pfennig stamp to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Crystal Night, that night of terror when Nazis roamed the cities of Germany and Austria killing Jews and burning synagogues. The stamp depicts a burning synagogue and, in the foreground, the yellow badge which all Jews were required to wear under Nazi rule."

    11/9/1963 "November 9 Explosion at Mikawa coal mine, Fukuoka, kills 458" Mitsui POW Mine at Omuta #17-F-- Now Carlyle Group "Omuta Rex" Shopping Center

    11/22/1963 President Kennedy Assassinated;

    on the same day National City Lines. Inc., a holding company, acquired 75% of the outstanding stock of Fort Wayne Leasing, Inc., for $200,000 at closing and an additional $150,000 to be paid over the next five years contingent on Fort Wayne's earnings.

    11/23/1963 "November 23 First Satellite news transmission begins between Japan and the US. The first transmission was news of Kennedy’s assassination " 

    A steady campaign, for which there was much energy following the World Wars, has deactivated protective legislation in banking and insurance and facilitated lax rules on records retention and accessibility, while eliminating the need for corporations and fictitious entities to file essential information formerly required by state Secretaries of State to be kept for permanent public record.

    The significance of historical estate tax records is that ownership of various tax-exempt securities is revealed only by "DEATH TAX" as that is the only moment when a retrievable permanent legal record is made of ownership of certain securities, as generated by the redemption of the security with the Treasury.

    The Treasury assumes when a bank or trust company redeems a registered security, it is being done on the behalf of the owner. That is assuming no one in the bank or trust company would ever try to make off with anything illegally.

    Redemption of a registered security generates a Treasury notification to IRS. However, IRS may be diverted if securities of an estate become devised to a charitable trust or foundation.

    Should, for instance, a serious investigation or public inquiry into U.S. banking problems lead to "Hughes Holdings" which became "Raytheon," an important defense contractor, important ROOT evidence from which to base any asset tracing could be the Federal Estate Tax Returns of Howard Hughes and say, Vera Krupp, who purchased a Hughes ranch for a time. Whereas IRS may not necessarily store all the years of a taxpayer's returns, a federal estate tax return is required by U.S. Code to be kept for about 75 years which outlasts the statutes on real estate clear titles. (Try and find an Abstract of Title these days).

    In short, dumping forensic accounting evidence is as dangerous as destroying any type of evidence; only offenders have the need to do so .

    Estates contemporary with the Hughes Estate, like Kryder, are still for purposes of prosecuting fraud protected by existing permanent records until 2035, or 75 years following the death of Minnie V. Kryder who owned registered federal securities with special tax exemptions. Minnie's Allen County, Indiana estate was opened in 1960, year of the second mortgage of the FEC Ry, due 2011. Whereas the U.S. Treasury has a record of certain of Minnie V. Kryder's federal securities being redeemed after her death in 1960, they were not reported in her estate by Thomas M. Moorhead, attorney for the estate and last vice-president of The Kryder Company, Inc., Frank H. Kryder, president.

    It is also noted that through the Allen County Lincoln Faction, G.H. Walker and Company redeemed Credit Suisse Pennsylvania RR stock, just prior to it becoming worthless.

    Yet the next step in "repealing" federal estate tax, something which has no effect upon the well-invested, is ordering destruction of records, which becomes at once the first and final step in converting history into "fictional history."

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• Supreme Court 5 Traitors Supreme Court 5 Traitors

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    Fascist Takeover of America!
    
    The demise of our Democracy will not be from foreign invasion but form within our own ranks.

    
    January 21, 2010 "A Day That Will Live in Infamy"!
    
    The Treasonous and unthinkable attack committed by,
    
    THE 5 RIGHT WING SUPREME COURT JUSTICES LEAD BY CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS HAVE
    COMMITTED THE UNTHINKABLE ACT OF TREASON AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. BY
    TREASONOUS JUDICIAL STATUTE, THUS UNLEASHING THE RAVENOUS JACKALS OF
    FASCIST CORPORATIONS TO RAVAGE AND OPPRESS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
    
    Benito Mussolini invented a new form of government where Corporations ran the
    government, he called this new from of government – FASCISM!

    
    Voting Rights is the Key thread the holds the fabric of our democracy together and if it is
    allowed to be cut by corporate interference we lose our democracy.

     

    This Tips the scales of our Democracy once exercised by the American peoples vote, to now that of a Fascist Corporate Control State heavyweight financial thumb.

     

    The American People are outraged by this unholy Treasonous alliance between Multinational Corporations, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Big Brother and now the Treasonous Supreme Court 5, that allows this Fascist state of Multinational Corporations to financially strip the controls of our democracy from the American People thus enslave us and our future.
    
    The Republicans are acting like, Laughing Hyena, laughing themselves Blue in the face at
    the sight of stupid confused weak Democrats running around like scared cats and zealously loving it! -
    Idiots all. They themselves are naive ignorant victims and will be like the endanger species
    of the Hyena will be ignorant to their own demise.

    Their own greed will lead them to the slaughterhouse. Not by the People, but by allowing themselves to be bribed and deceived by
    Jackals of Lobbyist and Fascist Corporate hand that feeds them financial campaign scraps
    like pampered lapdogs. Again Ignorant Idiots!

    
    All those in congress and government who collaborate and conspire to give aid, assistance, and comfort to the enemy combatants thus helping fascist corporations to further the demise and surrender control of our democracy. For sale and profit to the Fascist Jackals of Corporatist Industry are real Treasonous Bastards and should be impeached and dragged from office then shot as treasonous cowards then hung!, As Benito Mussolini was during World War II. Too extreme! you say, well maybe, but this was the only way to satisfy the Italian people anger having been oppressed under Mussolini's Fascist Corporate State seemed appropriate at the time as it is now appropriate to satisfy the American peoples anger. Who would you go after first? How about the big propaganda media heads like Rush, Bill Orally those who advocate deregulation of the banks, corporations, and wall street, Ben Bernanke who surrender our Democracy to the fascist free market forces and don't forget corporatist Supreme Court 5 Justices.

    
    The "Healthcare Deform Bill" is a perfect example of surrendering the Americans peoples wished to that of corporate fascism legislation written by lobbyist and paid proxy congress that is viewed by both stupid houses of congress, as the "Foot in the Door" to future reform, is NOT the Peoples Foot. idiots! -But- That Big Fat Jackboot of Fascist Corporate Insurance, Big Pharma, and Lobbyist. Smarten-up! (Take there Money if you must!)
    
    Kill this Fascist Ruling that sells Americans like Slaves to Fascist Corporations and the recent
    Supreme Court decision that Allows this to be legal. Impeach those justices responsible and resend this ruling, amend the Constitution with (Separation of Corporation and State) to stop Fascist corporate enslavement of all Americans. (Similar to Separation of Church and State)
    
    The Battle ground is staged against corporations during midterm and beyond. War is near and let it be
    so. If Congress and the President are too unwilling, or too inept, to stand-up for the
    American People against the mercenary lobbyist and corporate security forces who
    wield their financial wipes to enslave and corrupt our Democracy for their fascist control.
    If this is not evident, than I ask are we blind? or just ignorant? doesn't history show us this repeatedly?
    
    Remember, Corporations are not “human” People. As an artificial Legal Entity, their only goal is to Profit Parasitically from humans by all means possible.

    The Corporate “Legal Entity” has no Moral or Ethical concerns or restraints, only humans exhibit these social restraints to govern there society. Corporations use Sweatshops, use Slavery, use Contract Law, either foreign or domestic use unrestricted, unrestrained immoral or any unethical avenues to gain the goal of profit from human hosts.
    
    The attack aids from corporations will nullify the peoples vote and make us mute.

    Corporations will falsely assure us our votes will counts with corporate media propaganda, and the naive will believe it, but the truth will be Fascist Corporation will dictate legislation and pass laws to control and limit the peoples power. Like all Dictatorships and Dictators, of plutocracy corporate control is to remove any regulations limits on their own power to stifle and remove any power the people or government may have to limit the control of the corporate dictatorships power. Ultimately force us to be obedient slaves to the corporation. And if we resist? Their Corporate Gestapo Police, and Mercenary Contractors aka Security Forces (Blackwater) will assure our compliance by force. Or perhaps send us to their corporation ran concentration camps aka privately ran prisons. After bring charger by their corporate ran kangaroo courts staffed by corporate selected and corporate minded justices. Remember the Black shirts and Brown shirts of Fascist Spain and Italy, well we now have the Black Caps of Xe Corp.
    
    In 1937 FDR tried to warn us about the insidious nature of the Corporate Military Industrial Complex.
    and Royalist Wall Street Bankers their ability to infiltrate and control our halls of government.
    Pulling the stings of our government making our democracy a "Puppet Democracy" that
    forces us to become their slaves and oppress the people, for greedy benefit. FDR's
    warned us that we must route out and through off the yoke of corporate oppressors before we are made into gear-cogs in their fascist machine.
    
    This will Forcing us to Fight, to take back our Freedoms and our Government from
    Corporate Fascist Control, and fight the financial enslavement that Corporations are forcing
    upon us.
    Our elected officials having sold us into Slavery to the highest bidder for temporally profits
    from Corporate Lobbyist to fund there campaigns. they don't see the sin in selling
    Americans as Financial Slaves (customers) For Profit. to the Slave Trader of Wall Street, or that
    trafficking of Humans lives for Profit as a crime against humanity!. some suggest shooting
    Traitors and Enemy Combatants. I say take back our democracy with force if necessary.

    
    The Power Humans once had to steer our Democracy, I fear is gone and it maybe too late to
    change the new law. we need to use the powerful example and Modal already found in the Constitution
    and copy its effect of; "The Separation of Church and State". With its example we
    can Prohibits and Stops Corporations.

    
    A final Clear definitive Line as overt and obvious as possible that states, "Corporation are not
    People" " nor can they be made Citizens"  "nor exercise the rights of Citizens to Vote" under the
    Constitution of the United States of America. (Corporations are not noted or mentioned as
    having any status or rights in the Constitutional) nor should any wording be added to the
    Constitution to suggest such a rights.
    
    Amendment if added, should make clear:

    
    The separation of corporation and state. (similar to Separation of Church and State.)
    Unable to be recognized as Natural Human or Citizen.
    No rights to vote or petition the government or interferer influence voters.
    Classified similar to that of churches and religion.
    Cannot interfere with the peoples governance or government.
    Limited rights like "The separation of church and state"
    
    A good example modal and starting framework is; "The Separation of Church and State" in the Constitution.
    Base any new amendment to the Constitution with the church and state as a modal and construction framework.
    would set proper limits and boundaries and install statements that prohibit recognizing rights same as human rights as a starting point.
    Congress should use this "Church and State" as a framework.
    
    If congress determines that a resistive attitude is being expressed from corporate entities, than they must stop by exclusion and baring from congress all corporate influence or contact from the amendment process. they must be barred, to limit and prohibit corporate interference in our Democracy.
    
    Prohibit Corporations from any further attempts to amend their status under the
    Constitution for any reason. The Constitution is for the Citizens of the United State. And is
    not for any foreign or domestic corporations. NO equal rights as humans.

     

    After 288 previous attempts by corporations to do just that it is clear they will not stop so we must outlaw their continued attempts.
    
    Corporations current victory by aid of the Supreme Court suggesting "PersonHood" will not stand!.

    According to the new Law corporations can influence voters and buy unrestrained, propaganda to confuse the voters or buy candidates and their vote corrupt our democracy. This interference is allowed by law!.
    

     

     

    Just imagine corporation buying individual citizens vote district
    by district simply paying a fee either not to vote or to vote the corporate way. Its truly
    wrong what can happen if corporations are allowed to continue corrupting our democratic system.
    

    The Corporate victory after 288 previous attempts to get "Corporate Personhood" defined in stable statute albeit vaguely, has nonetheless embolden them to finely make an all out push to gain passage of more fascist corporation powers
    while the agreeable Roberts Right wing Supreme Court is still in session. On still more corporate rights. They already can force us to pay them for insurance by Law, and Drug test us and force us to stop smoking or be fired etc. next force us to get DNA test, to data base us our medical privacy rights and records will be used to financial attack and tag humans, like serial numbers tattooed on the Jews in concentration camps in Nazi Germany, let your imagination guide you, is this what we want?
    
    This is Fascism in American.
    
    Corporations have always had powers and rights to buy propaganda and thus effect votes to control election outcomes.

    Individual Citizen obvious are unable to compete with “To Big To Fail Corporations”. Average working citizens do not have the same amount of money to fight corporations.

     

    This is the Fascist Corporatist agenda as we speak, to allow the
    Roberts right wing Supreme Court to take the control from the people before the midterm
    election if possible. We will witness the horrific fascist outcome of this ruling soon after if not before the election in the propaganda funded media hitting the airwaves.
    
    Removing the Peoples control of our government by vote and giving it to the Fascist
    Corporation we'll see the Fascist Takeover of our government we are witnessing it Now!. According to the Supreme Court it's Legal, (And-Legally-so!) This is not right.

    
    The Chief Justice Roberts Corporatist Supreme Court has treasonable surrender our governments ability to govern and the peoples power to vote and nullified it. Thus surrendering our
    democracy to Power of Fascist Corporate Control.
    
    This is real Treason by any standard.

    
    America and its Citizens are effectively now Slaves, "Of Corporations", "For The
    Corporations", "By The Corporations" giving them the power. However I do not think
    our new Corporate Salve Owners will treat us Slave very Well as some may hope.

    
    Thinking that our Government is in control is naive, we can now only wish for a strong
    response from government, even President Obama has been rendered inept, infiltrated and
    subdued by fascist corporate forces of Wall Street, Drug Companies, and the conglomerate
    Monopolies of the Insurance Industry, he isn't to blame because the office he hold has no
    power or real influence, the Lobbyist hold that office and congress hostage making all
    the real decisions even to the point of writing legislation for the congress to sign.
    
    
    
    
    
    But these attacks have been coming for
    some time just remember Bush's administration succeeded, without our consent, overnight
    to forced Chief Justest Roberts onto the Supreme Court thus sealing our current fate.
    Bush as we already know, benefited form having "sleeper cells" on on the Bench and his
    brother in Florida during his illegal "stop the Vote Count" after the 2004 Presidential
    reelection we should have been guarding the court door then.
    
    The Parasitic Corporate Entity that corrupts inept congressmen by Lobby proxy PAC Funds
    will now increase and continue fueling "Healthcare Deform" now being exposed and already
    stinks! but now its legal and the flood gates are truly open to buy our government away
    from the people.
    
    Corporations have enjoyed for far too long the direct abusive corruption and manipulation of the peoples vote.
    Under the 13- 14th Amendment meant only for humans, not corporation. that says; all HUMANS are equal, under the law. Not Corporations!

    
    Human Citizens are tired of fascist corporate control and abuse.
    
    We must clarify the history of our Constitutions that was corrupted and by the Supreme Courts
    Reporter: J.C. Bancroft Davis after the Civil War in May 1886 who by the use of a Header
    statement over stepped his authority and deceptively if not by intent managed to corrupted
    Chief Justice Waite's statements, about person hood and corporations status under the
    constitution which there is NONE nor has there Ever been!. Having been misconstrued and
    recorded deceptively. Corporations view this “loophole” to ceased upon this misconstrued record ever since manipulating the law the people and our government ever since. all with the intent to harm corrupt and gain control to secure their advantage.
    Usurping our Freedoms of the people for themselves, denigrating "Humans Rights", "Citizens" and "States Powers"
    
    This has allowed Corporations to circumvent and bypass via loophole tactics, the then new Abolished Slavery Law based on the new 14th Amendment. Slave Corporations developed a new form of “under ground” Slavery with the invent of “Corporate Contract Law” now used to control People/ Slaves if not direct control ownership of slaves earned financial income indirectly. flows back to the New Slave Contracts Corporate Share Holders. The new euphemistic Term "Customer" substituted Slave for the then accurate but politically incorrect term “Slave” for the new Code Word “Customer”.
    This code word is used today and known as (Legal Customer) aka (Contract SLAVERY!) Wake-up!...Stupid! We need a slave revolt!.
    
    Corporations which currently can have Mercenary Armies going by the euphemism;
    "Security Force" aka "contractors" with man-power in the hundreds of thousands
    (Backwater) larger than most State National Guard Units and better equipped than some
    Governments Army can field. Who at one time The FBI used to investigate organization like
    this, But now, its as if we are saying "if you can't beat them Join them" with Contractors
    running wild all over the world and "Contractor Gone Wild" now on video? totally
    Unacceptable.
    Get-It?
    It is my hope, That New Foot in the door going forward will be the Foot of the American
    People!. NOT! the Fascist Jackboot of Corporations. We should not let Gestapo Fascist
    Corporations and Predatory for-Profit Insurance industry takeover our government and
    make SLAVES of the American People.
    
    Can we not see our pending oppressive future? If not, I will not blame those countries who
    look upon us and say; "They were Stupid Blind Inept Idiots, doomed by ignorance of history
    unable to grasps their own pitiful demise". Beyond pitiful! God Help Us All! - Save us from
    these Greedy Jackals of Corporations and the insidious yet overt Fascist takeover and
    control of America!
    
    I call upon all American Citizens to fight all the foreign and domestic Oppressors currently
    upon us Now!

    
    Rudicus
    

     

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• NYC - big brother move NYC - big brother move

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    I found this story pretty creepy and the potential for abuse incredible.  I think local government taking it upon itself to data mine electronic medical records and spinning it as "preventive" should be a flag to anyone.

    "City's new 'Panel Management Program' will alert New Yorkers when they're due for health services"
    
    Read more:http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/02/01/2010-02-01_city_to_nudge_us_for_health_check.html#ixzz0eJGsHev3

     

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• Self-Esteem Versus Accomplishm Self-Esteem Versus Accomplishment

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    January 27

    Education is Progressive Part 9: Self-Esteem Versus Accomplishment

    One of the most interesting developments in recent years in Personality and Social Psychology is that self-esteem has turned out not to be what it was supposed to be. Jail inmates often have higher levels of self-esteem than accomplished people such as doctors or lawyers, at least as measured by self-esteem questionnaires. This is obviously absurd. As envisioned by Abraham Maslow, self-esteem comes from appreciating one's own accomplishments. However, what passes for self-esteem, as measured by our common self-esteem measures, is more a function of several other factors such as physical appearance, praise from others, and most tellingly, having relatively low standards in order to achieve satisfaction. People who have high standards tend to be perfectionistic, and thus, have relatively low self-esteem, regardless of their accomplishments. In contrast, it has been suggested by some Psychologists that having unrealisitcally high levels of self-esteem leads to narcisism and perhaps Narcisistic Personality Disorder, a dangerous thing.

    One of the most startling cross-cultural studies I heard of regarding education, compared the achievement levels of grade school students in different nations with their self-ratings of competence. Among various industrialized nations, the highest math achievement among grade school students was in Korea. The United States, I believe, had the lowest test scores. However, students' self-ratings were exactly the opposite. The students in South Korea felt the worst about their math skills, while those in the U.S. felt the best! Clearly, far more is expected of students in Korea, and far less in the United States, resulting in a false self-derogation by the South Koreans, and a false sense of esteem in the Americans. I saw my own step-daughter's scholastic records from Taiwan after she moved here at the age of 16. One of the comments was that Isabella was "not very good at math." Obviously, that was relatively speaking, as she did very well in math courses here in the U.S., and now is an accountant. (She was just hired last week to be an accountant once again after being unemployed for 16 months, during which time she managed to complete her MBA degree.) Also, Isabella and her mother told me that in Taiwan, any score over 80 is considered an "A" -- a fact which I could see from her report cards. In the United States, that is considered to be a distressingly low "standard" for an "A." I know, because I used to give my students difficult tests but reward any student getting a score over 80 an "A," Taiwan style, but was reprimanded for this practice, and forced to increase the percentages required for all grades. The fact is that, exams are more difficult in Asian nations such as Taiwan, than here in the U.S., resulting in greater achievement, even though the average scores are lower.

    Since I am not allowed to do the same here, for the sake of the appearance of having reasonable "standards," I have tried to make my exams somewhat easier. I choose somewhat easier questions from the test banks than I used to, and write or rewrite others to test basic concepts I have covered in class. These efforts only go so far in maintaining a decent grade distribution. I have always given lots of low grades, "D"s and "F"s, and not very many high grades, but since increasing the percentages required for a particular grade, I have assigned even fewer "A"s and "B"s, and more "D"s. (The cutoff for an "F" has not changed.) For example, during a recent semester, I wound up giving only 7 "A"s out of about 130 students in 3 classes. I remember this because I told this to my eldest brother Craig, who teaches at U.C. Davis, and he was astounded at how low the grades I assign are. Of course, I would like my grades to be much higher, but I feel my hands are pretty much tied in this regard.

    Meanwhile, the community college where I teach has a student population which is not nearly as good on the whole as at a university, and many of the students find it difficult to handle my university-type exams. When one teaches at a community college, it doesn't take long to realize that it isn't exactly Harvard, if you know what I mean. One of my good friends, Steve, who also teaches at a community college, told me that he has downgraded his course content and/or exams 5 times in order for his students to have decent grades. Thus, the prevailing mindset at our community colleges, and probably much of the rest of our educational system, is to "dumb down" courses, and "idiot proof" exams, while keeping percentage criteria for grades high. This way, the appearance of having high standards is maintained, as long as potential critics do not look to closely at the actual course content and exams, and reasonably good grades are attained by the students. At the same time, we continue for the most part to salve the egos of students and allow them to maintain relatively high levels of academic esteem, even if they do not deserve it. It all works out from a face-saving point of view, except that students face relatively little challenge in school, mostly know only the basics, and have lousy critical thinking skills. No wonder we end up with a nation of mostly low-information (but high self-esteem) voters who are easily swayed by sound-bite messages.

    I would suggest that we adopt a system more like Asia's, with challenging material, difficult exams, but somewhat relaxed percentage criteria for the better grades. Additionally, we should teach more critical thinking and logic, and give more educational opportunities for creative thought. Furthermore, we should encourage students' interests to give them the greatest possible opportunity to develop intrinsic motivation. And most importantly, we should hold the educational process itself in high esteem, as it is in much of Asia. We should reward students for good performance, and have far more opportunities to recognize their accomplishments, including awards and public recognition -- something which is common in Chinese communities. This will give students the best opportunity to develop their intellectual potentials, and to develop true self-esteem -- self-esteem based upon true accomplishment rather than well-intentioned but overly accomodating praise for no particular achievement. Finally, we should be sure to recognize progress -- the progress of the individual, in this case -- rather than focusing solely upon competition and social comparison. I try to do this as a teacher. The accomplishment is when a student masters new skills and knowledge, not so much when he or she beats classmates on an exam. This way, every student can develop a sense of accomplishment and self-esteem, not only the best ones, and the cooperative aspects of education will be validated. After all, education in the end is a social, cooperative process.

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• Mardi Gras 2010 for Haiti! Mardi Gras 2010 for Haiti!

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    COMING FRIDAY FEBRUARY 12TH 2010 another DOP Inc Records Event!

    DOP INC PRESENTS:

    MARDI GRAS 2010

    DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO DO IT NEW ORLEANS STYLE WHILE GIVING BACK!

    Come have fun and support Hurricane Katrina and other Disaster Victims like the victims of the Haiti Quake!

    donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund by clicking here. 

    DJ Spinning Hip-Hop, R&B, Soul, Old School Classics, Dancehall & Reggaeton

    MACARONE & THE DOP INC

    performing hits like What U Got, I'm Alright, I Drive A Bucket & My Gurlfrind Iz A Thug & More

    WATCH OUT FOR THE GOP

    performing hits like Evening News (FOX News Diss), Blue Dawg (Blue Dog Democrat Rap), Democracy Hypocrisy, PSA (Watch Out for the GOP), Life's Sentence & More

    also performing:

    LOON-E & C9H

    CARA

    HITMAN

    BRANDO DA SHADOW THIEF

    LADY ACE

    CALI NATE, BK & MORE

    plus Beads, Booze & Bumps

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• Democracy Hypocrisy Democracy Hypocrisy

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    DOP Inc Records makes music for everyone but especially for Liberals/Progressives.  You probably thought rappers have nothing to say but you were wrong.  Come to our website and get this song and more like Blue Dawg (Blue Dog Democrat), PSA (Watch Out for the GOP), Evening News (FOX News Diss), Life's Sentence and much.  It's Hip-Hop inspired by the left.  We listen to Thom everyday and learn alot!  Hopefully we make you guys proud.  Also join our movement it's called Watch Out for the GOP Movement. Learn more at www.thedopincrecords.com or www.myspace.com/watchoutforthegop Thanks Thom!!! Tag, I'm It!

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• PSA-(Watch Out for the GOP) PSA-(Watch Out for the GOP)

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    DOP Inc Records makes music for everyone but especially for Liberals/Progressives.  You probably thought rappers have nothing to say but you were wrong.  Come to our website and get this song and more like Blue Dawg (Blue Dog Democrat), Evening News (FOX News Diss), Democracy Hypocrisy, Life's Sentence and much.  It's Hip-Hop inspired by the left.  We listen to Thom everyday and learn alot!  Hopefully we make you guys proud.  Also join our movement it's called Watch Out for the GOP Movement. Learn more at www.thedopincrecords.com or www.myspace.com/watchoutforthegop Thanks Thom!!! Tag, I'm It!

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• Blue Dawg (Blue Dog Democrat) Blue Dawg (Blue Dog Democrat)

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    Special Dedication to the Blue Dog Democrats for claiming to be Democrats and on our side while they do what they can to stop Halth Care Reform and other issues. DOP Inc Records makes music for everyone but especially for Liberals/Progressives.  You probably thought rappers have nothing to say but you were wrong.  Come to our website and get this song and more like Evening News (FOX News Diss), PSA (Watch Out for the GOP), Democracy Hypocrisy, Life's Sentence and much.  It's Hip-Hop inspired by the left.  We listen to Thom everyday and learn alot!  Hopefully we make you guys proud.  Also join our movement it's called Watch Out for the GOP Movement. Learn more at www.thedopincrecords.com or www.myspace.com/watchoutforthegop Thanks Thom!!! Tag, I'm It!

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• Evening News (FOX News Diss) Evening News (FOX News Diss)

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    Special Dedication to FOX News! The Corporations, Insurance Companies, Banks and other unsavory crooks' partners in crime.  DOP Inc Records makes music for everyone but especially for Liberals/Progressives.  You probably thought rappers have nothing to say but you were wrong.  Come to our website and get this song and more like Blue Dawg (Blue Dog Democrat), PSA (Watch Out for the GOP), Democracy Hypocrisy, Life's Sentence and much.  It's Hip-Hop inspired by the left.  We listen to Thom everyday and learn alot!  Hopefully we make you guys proud.  Also join our movement it's called Watch Out for the GOP Movement. Learn more at www.thedopincrecords.com or www.myspace.com/watchoutforthegop Thanks Thom!!! Tag, I'm It!

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• Indiana Fraud News Indiana Fraud News

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    Indiana investigators repeatedly fail to link serial mass fraud to the correct organization. The frauds appear to be too sophisticated for the agencies charged with stamping them out.  Only the pawns are ever identified.

    It even seems as if authorities are hiding the full truth surrounding  the Alanar and the Schrenker frauds which are both on the present docket. Certain facts are found which have not been revealed and reported, much less included in the investigative process.

    Witness a perfect example of the "covering-up" which has been going on in Indiana for quite some time.

    To wit:

    There has been extensive press coverage of the Alanar church bonds fraud and the Marcus Schrenker plane-abandoning Heritage Wealth/Delta Pilot Pension sensation. The latter has been featured in a television episode in which the Indiana Secretary of State appears somewhat dumbfounded by the " ill-gotten gain" of the present marauders.

    Nowhere has mention been made of the link between Alanar and Marcus Schrenker. But it has been written, "former Indiana securities commissioner Mark E. Maddox... filed a complaint (concerning Marcus Schrenker) with state regulators in 2002 "..."but we just couldn't get anybody to do anything about it."

    So if not, why not? Because since that time many more people have been plundered.

    In 1956 an insurance company was founded at 32 Court Street, Sullivan, Indiana (official corporate address of Alanar), by the later 1977 president of the extraordinary 1969 "Allen County National Bank" aka "The Lincoln"  aka Wells Fargo #3511. At the same time, an uncle (or grand uncle) of Marcus Schrenker, Judge Henry P. Schrenker, as Probate Commissioner aggressively attempted to overpower the appointed trustee of the Will of Maggie McLaughlin in order to spend it with his choice of beneficiaries. The case went to Indiana Supreme Court in 1964.

    Some may have guessed by now that both Alanar and Marcus Schrenker are woven into the Kryder Estates of 1950, 1960, 1966. The reason this phenomenon occurs over and again is on account of the mingling of estate assets by lawyers who funnel to trust companies, because they have been at it for so long, and because of the age of the Kryder securities. Kryder functions something like a "bio-marker" which can be followed debacle to debacle. For on the concealed pool much has been pyramided, particularly in the area of railroad and equipment leases. It is the true "bottom" of  "the unsound financial community" because as a concealed group of funds, it  can be pulled out from the base of any pyramid unnoticed.

    One may choose to think of the pool also as an "Invisible Empire."

    Should the facts and the truth reach the public, it would expose an Indiana establishment of judges, politicians, public offiicials, lawyers and law firms who have for generations been continuously occupied with mucking up the Wills and Trusts of the elderly and infirm, or the property of incompetents and innocents, for their own benefit and glorification. It would be seen they have participated in what appears to be some type of national deal in which estate lawyers abuse their exemption from registering as securities dealers and form under the table securities trading cartels in alliances as bank holding company or bank and trust directors.

    Fraud upon the dead is only one side of the coin, if not the creepiest side. A defined structure of morticians, funeral homes, nursing homes, and hospital workers knows who is dying and who their kin may be if any. Cemetery affiliates put remains in unmarked graves. Guardianships are left unclosed. Death benefits are kited between banks, funeral homes, and lawyers. Legal papers and required forms are not filed.

    If that doesn't reek, how about names of developments like "Devil's Hollow" and Halloween Banks and Halloween incorporations such as " IN CORRUPTION WE TRUST, INC.: InCorp Services, Inc. 613 SW 112th Street Oklahoma City, OK 73170 Effective Date: 10/31/2008 ."

    In the land of the living, religious organizations, unions, brotherhoods, benevolent associations and farmers cooperatives are marked and targeted for parasitism of their non-profit status and less regulated asset holding and transfer capabilities. As the organization seeks and funnels securities into its obscured-ownership asset pool, it can then manipulate commerce, affecting agricultural production, food, fuel, defense and transportation monopolies.

    In the short list working from present to past, some frauds and violent crimes which are demonstrated by collection of multi-source true data to be layers of the same eternal operation are:

    the Alanar Fraud, Marcus Schrenker Heritage Wealth, Marcus Schrenker Delta Pilot's Pension crash, the Olin B. and Desta Schwab Foundation, the Estate of Paul R. Smith in Treasure Island, Florida, North American Group/Transtar drug running resulting in DEA suspension of transport license, the Redstone Castle and Norm Schmidt frauds, the foreclosure of Lincoln Tower, Fort Wayne, the David H. Swanson/Countrymark Farmer's cooperative fraud, the murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan by a North American Van Lines driver, failure of Allen County Bank and Trust of Leo, Indiana, the Charitable Trust of James I. Evans, the Estate of Nancy Ethel Kryder, the Ruth Lilly Foundation, the Pennsylvania Railroad bankruptcy, the Florida East Coast Railroad bankruptcy, the crash of Reliance Life Insurance of Pittsburgh, the Guardianship and Estate of Edith Michels, incompetent, the Charitable Trust of Frank M. Freimann, Magnavox President, the Estate of Frank H. Kryder, Minnie V. Kryder and Clarence Frank Kryder, the murder of Henry C. Heinz, Vice-president of Citizens and Southern Bank, Georgia, the bankrupted Knights of Pythias insurance fund (United Mutual Life), the Van-Swearingen securities in the Ball Foundation, the Estate of Geo. Sebring, in Sebring, Florida, the bankrupted Venice, Florida Plat of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and the Will of Henry Morrison Flagler.

    Two Indiana Secretaries of State rise to the surface at critical points in the time line:

    William N. Salin (R), now founder and owner of Indiana's largest private bank, in 1969-1970 lost sufficient Indiana corporation records during his appointment which ensured inpenetrable gaps, barriers and blindspots for any investigations which might connect old military-industrial assets and financial institutions or associations to their present incarnation.

    And Evan Bayh (D) as Secretary of the State of Indiana, certified in 1987 that "Far West Mortgage Company of Colorado" was incorporated in Colorado, when the Colorado Secretary appears to not have this on record, though the California Secretary issued the same certification. The meaning of a mortgage company which is three places at once but nowhere at all will become clear.

    The above specific cases will be detailed one example at a time.

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• M. Moore's Lastest Film: The M. Moore's Lastest Film: The Root of All Evil

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    I think Michel Moore should make a new film, “The Root of All Evil”.  Since everyone here seems to understand that money is the root of all evil in Washington (and around the world), I'm sure Michael Moore understands it, too.  I hope Michael's next film will focus on "the root of all evil" (Nice title?) as part of a larger movement to force the Congress to reform elections, campaign finance, and lobbying.  Now that seems to me to cut to the chase.  I would love to see Michael get together with, say, Bernie, and Dennis, to make a film about a bill they co-author, aimed at money and politics and the destruction of the entire world, which is really what we're talking about--right?  Can you see Michael following a senator and congressman around, meeting with the progressive coalitions in both houses, chasing down the “no comment” guys, framing the issues in a way that makes it clear that one is either an honest American or a crooked politician—either for or against the American people; for or against “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” t; for or against the Constitution and the rule of law.  Perhaps those who have consistently demonstrated their loyalty to corporations through their voting records and campaign war chests might experience an epiphany similar to the one Paul had on the road to Damascus.  If Democrats and maybe even Republicans at the local party level actually promised to withdraw their support from the crooks in Congress, and if they had the money to back and support uncorrupted candidates, then real change would likely follow.

    I can see Michael and his cast conspiring to force the issue, to call out members who oppose such legislation, to actually make visible and public what has been secret and private.  I’m willing to bet, if democrats raised the necessary money to make such a film, Michael Moore would do it for little or nothing.  Maybe someone in progressive talk radio could approach Michael and get him on the air to talk about making such a film.  Someone like Thom Hartmann could take the lead, and pull in every progressive radio show in the country.  Donations to a fund for making Michael Moore’s new movie: “The Root of All Evil.”  Such a project would get a lot of play:  The Colbert Report and the Daily show for sure, Amy Goodman would give it all the exposure possible, Rachael Maddow, of course, Keith Obermann  for sure, even someone on Fox might take it up; even derision would be exposure.  MoveOn.Org might have a role…. I don’t think raising the money would be an issue.  Would you give $10?  

    Maybe Michael Moore should also get together with Ralph Nader  and the members of the disaffected group of millionaires and billionaires of a progressive mind he has drafted to play parts in his new "practical utopian" work of fiction , "Capitalism: A Love Story".  It might just be that members of this group would be willing to be part of the film, perhaps in a roundtable setting talking about issues and solutions.  They might be prepared to back progressive candidates to run against crooked incumbents.  Who knows?

    I mean it's really no longer a question of "what".  It's all about "how". The present efforts to reform health care have revealed just how bad things really are to anyone but a fool.  Wouldn't it be nice to think that this was the first part of an Obama's strategy to live up to his promises of change? Brilliant but doubtful, but in any event the cruel revelations emerging from the life and death issue of health care have made it abundantly clear:  there is a log jam blocking all reform.  If President Obama doesn’t take on political corruption, which is responsible for mass murder at home and abroad, illegal wars, the maintenance of a mercenary army largely made up of brainwashed kids who couldn’t and can’t find a better job, just like the insurgents they face abroad, fraud, bribery, hunger, the destruction of the middle class and the planet’s life support systems, and so on, then another way must be found, sooner than later; in fact, it’s later already.

    How many times have you heard the most well-intended acknowledge in passing, as they were promoting a much needed reform, that the hold up to their particular efforts is dirty money, the "bribery" of our elected officials?  Anyone, after recent events, who talks about serious reform in any area, without identifying that we've got to clean up the system first, is just living in a fool's paradise: indulging in a kind of endless barren intercourse between the mind and itself. True?

    So isn't this all good: only the delusional can any longer talk about any other reform, it he’s serious about any reform at all.  So now that the "what" is crystal clear, and the "why", too, shouldn't there be a laser-like focus on "how" to get at the root of the problem?

    I like the idea of a Michael Moore making "The Root of All Evil" as part of an effort to force a change in the current system.  What else?  I don't know: perhaps some sort of class action suit against a corporation might work, though I'm doubtful and too ignorant to know. Or maybe a legislator or two could be brought up on bribery charges? Or how about treason or violating our constitutional rights?  Impeachment….

    I know there are a lot of very bright people visiting this site every day, is this the place to get our heads together?  Is there a better place?  Writing letters, making phone calls, and marching, for instance in SF to protest the invasion of Iraq hasn’t worked out.  Money, a coalition of determined groups and individuals, access to mass media, organization, planning strategies, focus are some of the elements of a progressive movement that might be cobbled together to attack this single issue.   I like a coalition of reform-minded people coming together to make a film as a way of growing a movement to clean up our political system.  What else?   

    bob

     

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• Nixon and The Lincoln 5. Nixon and The Lincoln 5.

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    In the long run, the State Street gang was too corrupt for Nixon is my conclusion. He was out of the way for the maturing of the last series of Home Owners Loan Corporation Bonds with option to convert to Treasury notes of 1976.

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    05/01/1974 Kryder RR Bonds Matured
     

    5/1/1974 N.Y., Chicago & St. Louis Railway (Nickel Plate Development Corp a subsidiary) open mortgage of April 1, 1924 due.

     

    5/1/1974 Certificate of Name Changed filed in Allen:  Lincoln Tower Corp changed name to Lincoln Financial Corp 

     

    FWNB REALTY INC : 2400 FT WAYNE BANK BLDG , FORT WAYNE, IN 46802 : 197405-005 Creation : 5/1/1974 : Inactive : 12/30/1987

     

    Kryder real estate securities controlled by Moorhead at Baker and Daniels, 2400 Ft Wayne Bank Bldg.;

    6/24/1974 Marathon (Zapata Oil) filed a cert. of inc. to do business in Allen County
     

    Allen, IN Land Records Search Document Detail 740014271 CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION 06-24-1974 MARATHON OIL CO TO OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FROM

     
    8/09/1974 Pres. Richard M. Nixon resigned.
     
    5/08/1998 Charles G. "Bebe" Rebozo, Cuban-American banker friend of Richard M. Nixon died of a brain aneurysm.
     

    Application for Certificate of Withdrawal 05/08/1998:  LINCOLN PROPERTY COMPANY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC.: P.O. Box 1920, 1505 Federal, DALLAS, TX 75201 : Control Number: 1991120980 Creation Date: 12/23/1991: Entity Inactive Date: 5/8/1998 Other Names  7/23/1992 LINCOLN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC

     
     
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• 17F 17F

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    We've heard of Ian Fleming, 17F and we've heard of Japanese Prisoner of War Camp Omuta 17F, now Carlyle Group Omuta Rex Mall.

    In this case. 17F (.3d723), the court reverses convictions for bank fraud on the grounds the first  tier of evidence, namely an FDIC Certificate was not produced by the prosecutors, and therefore NO JURISDICTION among other points was established.

    This is the back door provided by FDIC Legal Division for any sophisticated bank fraud scheme of The Organization which may get caught. It is simply a matter of requesting a jury trial, getting convicted, spending a little time mowing lawns in a federal camp, then appealing. After the fact, there are no FDIC certificates to provide so federal jurisdiction does not exist.

    17 F.3d 723

    UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
    v.
    Tom SCHULTZ and James Chaplin, Defendants-Appellants.

    No. 92-2828.

    United States Court of Appeals,
    Fifth Circuit.

    March 10, 1994.

    Thomas J. Bevans, Houston, TX (Court-appointed), for Schultz.

    Walter E. Herman, III, Humble, TX (Court-appointed), for Chaplin.

    Katherine L. Haden, Gaynell G. Jones, U.S. Atty., Paula C. Offenhauser, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for U.S.

    Appeals from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

    Before JOHNSON, GARWOOD, and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.

    JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

     

    1 Defendants James Chaplin and Tom Schultz were charged in a seventeen-count indictment with criminal acts surrounding a bank fraud scheme. Although a jury found each man guilty of the charged offenses, the Government failed to proffer sufficient evidence of federal jurisdiction. We therefore reverse.I. Facts and Procedural History

     

    2 Defendants Chaplin and Schultz were charged along with a third man, Kenneth E. "Jason" Lothamer, with executing a scheme to defraud and submit false statements to Texas Commerce Bank-Sugar Land ("TCB-Sugar Land" or "the bank") in violation of 18 U.S.C. Secs. 2, 371, 1014, 1344. Lothamer was the director, president, and sole shareholder of Construction International, Limited of Texas ("CIL"), a company which provided environmental products to chemical companies, railroad companies, and hospitals. On October 1, 1987, Defendant Chaplin joined CIL to manage the hospital hazardous waste division of the company and to become CIL's chief financial officer ("CFO"). As CFO, Chaplin assisted Lothamer in obtaining loans from TCB-Sugar Land. According to Chaplin, Lothamer would provide information to Chaplin, who compiled that information for presentation to the bank. Based upon that information, TCB-Sugar Land extended to CIL a line of credit which aggregated to approximately $5,000,000.00.

     

    3 Because the bank required collateral worth twice the amount of each loan, Lothamer would furnish the bank with invoices representing debts owed to CIL by various companies. Several of those invoices listed Dow Chemical Company and Rock Wool Insulation Company as owing CIL millions of dollars for thousands of feet of track pans.1 Those invoices were completely fabricated by Lothamer. On the Dow Chemical invoices, he represented that the contact person was Barbara Nelson and listed her Dow Chemical telephone number. In actuality, that telephone number was a CIL number, and Lothamer instructed his secretary, Susan Pickford, to answer that telephone line as Barbara Nelson and to verify the Dow Chemical invoices in question. The other CIL employees were instructed never to answer that particular line. Lothamer allegedly set up a similar system with Defendant Schultz. Schultz owned fifty percent of Rock Wool Insulation Company. That company, located in a Chicago, Illinois, suburb, installed fiberglass insulation. It did not purchase or install track pans. However, bank officials were able to verify the Rock Wool invoices for the purchase of track pans by calling Defendant Schultz on his "private line." That line was actually Schultz's home telephone number.

     

    4 This scheme unravelled in June of 1989, when the Sugar Land bank president could not reach Schultz to verify an invoice. The president, Lewis Garvin, therefore obtained Rock Wool's office number by calling information. Upon calling Rock Wool, Mr. Garvin learned for the first time that Rock Wool had not ever purchased track pans from CIL and, in fact, did not use track pans at all. After failing in its attempts to obtain valid invoices or the repayment for the latest loan--worth approximately $1,000,000.00--TCB-Sugar Land involved the FBI. On April 20, 1992, the Government filed a second superseding indictment against Lothamer, Schultz, and Chaplin, charging them with aiding and abetting,2 conspiracy,3 making false statements to an FDIC insured bank,4 and bank fraud against an FDIC insured bank.5

     

    5 Lothamer pled guilty just prior to his trial. Chaplin and Schultz received a joint jury trial. After the Government rested, Mr. Chaplin's counsel moved for acquittal, contending that the Government had not proved that TCB-Sugar Land was insured by the FDIC.6 The Government had produced an FDIC insurance certificate not for TCB-Sugar Land, but for TCB-National Association. Counsel for the Government argued that bank officials had testified that the Sugar Land bank fell under the charter of TCB-National Association. The district court, accepting the Assistant U.S. Attorney's representations, denied Chaplin's motion. The jury found Chaplin and Schultz guilty, as charged, and the district court sentenced Chaplin to thirty-seven months' imprisonment on counts one and two and a concurrent twenty-four month prison term on the remaining counts. The court sentenced Schultz to twenty-seven months' imprisonment on counts one and two and a concurrent twenty-four month prison term on his remaining counts. Both men were held jointly and severally liable for restitution to Texas Commerce Bank in the amount of $1,003,076.85. Raising several points of error, Defendants Chaplin and Schultz appeal.

     

    II. Discussion

    6 Each of the crimes for which the defendants have been convicted requires the Government to prove, inter alia, that TCB-Sugar Land was insured by the FDIC. As this Court has repeatedly and consistently stated, proof of FDIC insurance is not only an essential element of the bank fraud and false statement crimes, but it is also essential for the establishment of federal jurisdiction. United States v. Slovacek, 867 F.2d 842, 845 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1094, 109 S.Ct. 2441, 104 L.Ed.2d 997 (1989); United States v. Trice, 823 F.2d 80, 86 (5th Cir.1987). Criminal defendants may therefore claim that the Government insufficiently proved the jurisdictional element post-verdict. Trice, 823 F.2d at 87. That Defendant Schultz failed to move for acquittal due to the insufficiency of the evidence of the jurisdiction issue is therefore of no moment. He did not waive the alleged jurisdictional error, and the applicable standard of review as to Schultz does not escalate to plain error. The insufficiency of the evidence standard is applicable to both Schultz and Chaplin. That standard, though more lenient than the plain error standard, is still quite formidable. The Court must review all of the admissible evidence and the reasonable inferences which flow therefrom in a light most favorable to the verdict to determine whether a reasonable trier of fact could find that that evidence established guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Trice, 823 F.2d at 86; United States v. Maner, 611 F.2d 107, 108-09 (5th Cir.1980).

     

    7 Here, the Government claims that the FDIC certificate of insurance for TCB-National Association, along with the testimony of two TCB-Sugar Land bank presidents and a TCB-Houston loan management vice-president sufficiently established that TCB-Sugar Land was insured by the FDIC. A review of that evidence follows.

     

    8 Lanny Brenner, president and chief executive officer of TCB-Sugar Land from 1983 until February 1, 1988, testified that Texas Commerce Banks were grouped into six bank clusters. Although he did not list each of the banks which belonged to his cluster, Mr. Brenner testified that TCB-Stafford was the largest bank in the cluster and that he, along with the presidents of the other four smaller banks, answered to the president and CEO of TCB-Stafford. Mr. Brenner also stated that loans had to be approved by the Loan and Discount Committee, which was composed of the presidents of the six banks in his cluster.

     

    9 After Mr. Brenner left TCB-Sugar Land, Lewis Garvin became president of the bank. The Government introduced into evidence reports addressed to the Loan and Discount Committee in which Mr. Garvin requested approval of loans to CIL. Several of the reports also requested that "TCB-Houston, Stafford Branch" or "TCB-Houston" participate in portions of the loans. Additionally, Mr. Garvin testified that after he became concerned about the bank's loans to CIL, he contacted the "Loan Management Department at the bank." He specifically talked with Mark Harris, John Kaszynski, and Cheryl Pace. Mr. Garvin neither explained the structure of the Loan Management Department nor identified "the bank" in which the department was located. He intimated, however, that he was subordinate to that department.

     

    10 Cheryl Pace, vice-president of the Loan Management Department, testified that that department operated out of the downtown location of TCB-Houston. Ms. Pace testified that she began working for Texas Commerce Bank in 1980 and transferred to TCB-Houston in May 1987, "when branching became effective in Texas." Ms. Pace confirmed that the chairman of TCB-Sugar Land was subordinate to the chairman of TCB-Stafford, who, according to Ms. Pace, was in charge of five banks in the southwest area. Ms. Pace also mentioned the "branch manager" of TCB-Sugar Land and intimated that all TCB banks were part of the same organization.

     

    11 The Government argues that this evidence, coupled with TCB-National Association's FDIC insurance certificate, sufficiently established that TCB-Sugar Land was a branch of TCB-National Association and was covered by TCB-National Association's FDIC insurance policy.7 Although we agree that the Government proved that TCB-Sugar Land was, in some way, related to TCB-Stafford, TCB-Houston, and to a larger, but nebulous, Texas Commerce Bank organization,8 we find that the Government failed to prove that TCB-Sugar Land was insured by the FDIC--whether under TCB-National Association's policy or otherwise.

     

    12 The FDIC insurance certificate and accompanying documents introduced into evidence conclusively refute the Government's contention that TCB-Sugar Land was a branch insured by TCB-National Association's insurance policy. Those documents specifically set forth the history of TCB-National Association. The Assistant Executive Secretary of the FDIC certified in writing that TCB-National Association was initially designated "The National Bank of Commerce of Houston" and became a member of the FDIC on January 1, 1934. On January 17, 1964, The National Bank of Commerce of Houston consolidated with the Texas National Bank of Houston. The bank then became "Texas National Bank of Commerce of Houston." Finally, on January 20, 1970, the Texas National Bank of Commerce of Houston changed its corporate title to "Texas Commerce Bank National Association." FDIC documents support each of the Assistant Executive Secretary's statements.

     

    13 Important for our purposes, the final FDIC document, dated January 30, 1970, specifically states that Texas Commerce Bank National Association operates no branches. The FDIC insurance certificate is also dated January 30, 1970. The Government introduced no document which reflected that TCB-National Association had added branches subsequent to January 30, 1970, or updated its bank control status after that date. Absent such documentation, this Court will not assume that TCB-National Association operated any branches in contravention to its FDIC records.9

     

    14 Indeed, at the time that the 1970 FDIC certificate was issued--and none has apparently been issued since that time--branch banking was illegal in Texas. The Texas Constitution specifically provided that corporate bodies with banking and discounting privileges "shall not be authorized to engage in business at more than one place, which shall be designated in its charter." TEX. CONST. art. XVI, Sec. 16, amended Aug. 23, 1937, Nov. 4, 1980; Nov. 6, 1984; Nov. 4, 1986. Under the McFadden Act, national banks could operate branches only to the extent that state banks could operate. 12 U.S.C. Sec. 36(c). Because state banks were prohibited from engaging in branch banking, national banks were likewise prohibited.

     

    15 While Ms. Pace, one of the Government's witnesses, testified that branch banking became effective in Texas in May of 1987, she no doubt was referring to a constitutional amendment passed by Texas voters in November 1986, which allowed branch banking in the city or county of the bank's domicile.10 See TEX. CONST. art. XVI, Sec. 16(e). Because TCB-Sugar Land is located in Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, and TCB-National Association is located in Houston, Harris County, TCB-Sugar Land could not have operated as a branch of TCB-National Association in May of 1987.

     

    16 The Government points out that a federal district court ruled that national banks could begin branch banking in June of 1988. Texas v. Clarke, 690 F.Supp. 573 (W.D.Tex.1988). The Government is absolutely correct. However, it did not introduce one shred of evidence which showed that TCB-Sugar Land became a branch of TCB-National Association subsequent to that decision. In fact, no witness even mentioned the name "TCB-National Association," let alone connected TCB-Sugar Land with that organization. Further, even if the Government had proved that the Sugar Land bank was a branch of the National Association bank, such evidence would have been insufficient to prove that TCB-Sugar Land was insured under TCB-National Association's FDIC insurance policy. See 12 U.S.C. Sec. 1817(j) (requiring notification of changes in bank control and acceptance by the FDIC of such changes); 12 C.F.R. Sec. 303.4 (1993) (same).

     

    17 The Government introduced the testimony of two TCB-Sugar Land bank presidents. If those officials had possessed personal knowledge of the bank's insurance status, their testimony that TCB-Sugar Land was insured by the FDIC during the periods in question, if unchallenged, would have sufficiently proven the jurisdiction issue in the case sub judice. United States v. Slovacek, 867 F.2d 842 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1094, 109 S.Ct. 2441, 104 L.Ed.2d 997 (1989); United States v. Rangel, 728 F.2d 675 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 467 U.S. 1230, 104 S.Ct. 2689, 81 L.Ed.2d 883 (1984). For reasons unbeknownst to this Court, the Government chose not to elicit such testimony. The testimony and evidence the Government did proffer--that TCB-National Association was insured by the FDIC--are patently insufficient to prove that TCB-Sugar Land was so insured, even though the two banks may have been related. The Government therefore failed to establish federal jurisdiction and prove each prima facie element of the charges lodged against Defendants Chaplin and Schultz.

     

    18 This Court has continually cautioned the Government that its failure to adequately prove the jurisdiction element might one day require the reversal of bank fraud convictions.11 Maner, 611 F.2d at 112. That day came in United States v. Platenburg, 657 F.2d 797 (5th Cir.1981), in United States v. Trevino, 720 F.2d 395 (5th Cir.1983), and it has likewise come today.12

     

    III. Conclusion

    19 For the above stated reasons, this Court REVERSES and REMANDS with instructions that the district court dismiss the charges against both defendants. See Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 18, 98 S.Ct. 2141, 2150-51, 57 L.Ed.2d 1 (1978) (holding that indictments must be dismissed when the Government fails to prove its case during trial).

     

    1 Track pans are fiberglass containers which are placed on railroad tracks to catch chemical substances which are wasted during the loading and unloading of railroad cars

     

    2 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2

     

    3 18 U.S.C. Sec. 371

     

    4 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1014

     

    5 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1344. Congress amended this provision in the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 ("FIRREA"). FIRREA replaced the Sec. 1344 requirement that the fraud be committed against a "federally chartered or insured financial institution" with the requirement that the fraud be committed against a "financial institution." While upon first impression this change might be construed as deleting the requirement that the bank be insured by the FDIC, upon closer review, we are convinced that that requirement is still viable. Among other things, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 20 defines "financial institution" as "an insured depository institution" and refers readers to 12 U.S.C. Sec. 1813(c)(2). Section 1813(c)(2) defines "insured depository institution" as any bank or savings association whose deposits are insured by the FDIC

    The superseding indictment in this case alleged that TCB-Sugar Land's deposits were insured by the FDIC, so no other definition of financial institution is relevant here. Indeed, the Government failed to prove that any other definition was applicable in this case.

     

    6 Counsel for Mr. Schultz also moved for acquittal, but on other grounds

     

    7 The Government also contends that one TCB-Sugar Land check, which contained an FDIC symbol and stated that deposits up to $100,000 were insured, proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the bank was insured by the FDIC. We reject that contention. An FDIC logo on a check no more proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the bank in question has FDIC insurance than a National Basketball Association logo on a jacket proves that its wearer is a professional basketball player

    Even if this Court were inclined to hold that an FDIC logo on a check sufficiently proves that a bank has FDIC insurance--and it is not so inclined--that holding would not benefit the Government here. The Government introduced more than 1200 checks, numerous credit and deposit slips, and various other TCB-Sugar Land documents into evidence. Only one check, amidst this voluminous record, contained the FDIC symbol. Were we to adopt the Government's reasoning, we would be more inclined to rule that the absence of the FDIC symbol on the other multitudinous documents in this case raises the inference that TCB-Sugar Land was not insured, instead of ruling to the contrary.

     

    8 The Government did not elicit any testimony about TCB-National Association, let alone prove that TCB-National Association and TCB-Houston are one and the same

     

    9 Federal statute and regulations require banks to notify the FDIC of changes in their control. They further require the FDIC to approve any such changes. 12 U.S.C. Sec. 1817(j); 12 C.F.R. Sec. 303.4 (1993). The Change in Bank Control Act became effective in 1964--six years before TCB-National Association assumed that name and 14 years before branch banking was allowed in Texas. See 12 U.S.C. Sec. 1817 (Historical and Statutory Notes) (stating that subsection (j), the bank control notification section, was added in 1964). Additionally, FDIC records must affirmatively reflect bank control changes and the FDIC approval thereof. See 12 C.F.R. Sec. 309.4(d)(2)(i) (providing that after the FDIC accepts a notice of a bank's change in control, records of the acceptance of the change, as well as information about the change, become available for public inspection)

     

    10 Until 1988, national banks only operated branches city-wide or county-wide. Texas v. Clarke, 690 F.Supp. 573, 575 (W.D.Tex.1988)

     

    11 This Court has often warned that insufficient attention to the jurisdiction element might become the Government's nemesis. See, e.g., United States v. Harrill, 877 F.2d 341, 344 (5th Cir.1989) ("[W]e again caution the prosecution about the proof of the jurisdictional element required in these cases. There must be adequate proof that the accounts of the financial institution were insured at the time of the offense by the appropriate federal agency."); Slovacek, 867 F.2d at 846 ("There are numerous indications in our prior decisions that prosecutors appear to be indifferent to the fact that we have held that the jurisdictional requirement ... is an essential element of the offense. Indeed, in some of these cases one searches in vain for any careful and intelligent effort to prove this element. We are aware that the offices of United States Attorneys frequently have a high turnover in personnel and limited resources. Nevertheless, we do not believe that this problem cannot be solved, especially when lack of sufficient proof of this element now compels reversal and dismissal of the indictment, not just remand for a new trial with better evidence." (internal quotation marks deleted)); United States v. Platenburg, 657 F.2d 797, 799 (5th Cir.1981) ("Despite the fact that FDIC insured status is an express requirement of the applicable statutes, an essential part of a valid indictment, and an indispensible (sic) item of proof of an offense, prosecutors have been extremely lax in the treatment accorded this element.... [I]n Maner we moved from cautionary statements to a clarion call that the day would come when our reluctance to reverse on the issue of FDIC proof would be overcome.... The day has come; the line from sufficiency to insufficiency has been crossed." ); United States v. Brown, 616 F.2d 844, 849 (5th Cir.1980) ("We have difficulty comprehending why the Government repeatedly fails to prove this element more carefully since the Government's burden is so simple and straightforward." (quoting Maner, 611 F.2d at 112)); Maner, 611 F.2d at 112 ("[T]his [failure to carefully prove the jurisdiction element] is a nationwide plague infecting United States Attorneys throughout the land. Hopefully the Attorney General will sense and remedy this national deficiency by directions pointing out the simple ways to prove this simple but indispensable fact.")

     

    12 The Seventh and Ninth Circuits have likewise reversed convictions due to the Government's failure to prove that financial institutions were federally insured. United States v. James, 987 F.2d 648 (9th Cir.1993); United States v. Shively, 715 F.2d 260 (7th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1007, 104 S.Ct. 1001, 79 L.Ed.2d 233 (1984)

     

     

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• Sine Die and the Congress: Am Sine Die and the Congress: Am I Missing Something?

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         I have been trying my damndest to locate ANY kind of records, or minutes, from the 32nd-35th congress. They are simply not out there. I have tried Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, The Library of Congress, American heritage, and a multitude of political history sites, trying to find information about this almost decade long period of American legal and governmental history.  This has been to no avail. Why? I did find the establishment of Minnesota and Oregon as States happened during this period, and there was the Morrill Tariff Act; however, this is the period leading to the Civil War, and I find it doubtful that our government was as non-reactive or responsive to the mounting crisis. I also find it doubtful that nobody wrote anything down.

         I have been able to find some political commentary from the time; but, these do not reference any kind of actual political actions, other than the mounting fear of a stronger and more encompassing Federal branch.  I can find a multitude of information regarding the Executive branch, and the military. Why can I not find out what our Congress was thinking/debating during the period immediately before the Civil War? And then there was . . . Sine Die.

         From what I have been able to find out regarding Sine Die, it is now a common practice at the end of every Congressional session.  The term Sine Die means "end without delay" in Latin. This has never changed; however the connotative meaning has changed radically. This change appears to have taken final hold somewhere around the 1870s, and, has been used this way since.  Today we use Sine die to mean, "we will stop now, and deal with this later." Originally, it meant, "WE stop now." In the former context the meaning of Sine Die is referring to the legislative body stopping the business at hand; however, the latter meaning is that the Legislative body ceases to be.  The only system of government today that uses Sine Die, in it's original form, is the Judical System.  The first time the U.S. Congress adjourns Sine Die is the 34th Congress; 1855-1857. The next time congress adjourns Sine Die is the 40th Congress (1867-1869); and, they've been adjourning Sine Die ever since.

         I always get red-flags when meanings (either connotative or literal) of words change radically in a short period of time; and, this is about as drastic of a change as you can get. I have been told that the reason the Congress uses Sine Die at every adjournment now is because some of the Representatives may not be back at the next session (lose their seats), so technically the Congress, as it stood at adjournment, may not exist at reconvening (this due to the fact that we no longer have lame duck periods in Congress because of the long and short session compromise). I have been told this by a number of websites; but, this doesn't make sense either. The Congress has ALWAYS had the potential of seats changing between sessions. It's the way Congress was set-up from the very beginning; so, I am finding it hard to accept that reasoning. I have also found evidence that New york, and Massachusetts threatened a Sine Die adjournment in the 17th congress that caused an extension of the session.  Am I missing something? Has my brain popped that last cell and gone into revolt?

         Why did they change the meaning?  When the 34th Congress adjourned Sine Die was it because half the South had already walked out, thus eliminating the legislative body, and The United States?  Why did the French not accept the legitimacy of Lincoln's United States; yet, had no problem's in dealing with The United States before the 34th Congress?  When the Civil War was ended, did we get the same Congress back?

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• Bubbles & Palindromes Bubbles & Palindromes

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    For the question, "Is Re-Max Our Max?" there is a logical foundation. The quick to guffaw will just have to choke. Beneath the umbrella of the one world Harriman logo, a legion of shady individuals sneaks things in and out of terminal storage warehouses into moving vans. Traces of Scottish witchcraft, excess carbonation and hot air spirits waft around Frank H. Kryder and his conjuring North American Cousin Maxfield like a nightmare on 411 Elm Street.

    In 1984 under K.W. Maxfield president, North American Van Lines, and Pepsico, both franchise operations, became "divested of each other" the literature states. In 1984 Atlas Van Lines, a franchise operation, became the target of a hostile takeover.

    Pepsi was first franchised in 1905, coincident with the charter of the German American National/Lincoln National Bank in Fort Wayne. The inventor was soon wiped out by the established brewers and bottlers via Wall Street who as in the case of Coca Cola, took over Pepsi from the formula's inventor.

    Atlas Van Lines began coincident with the beginning of the CIA in 1947. A proposal was made to base Atlas in Chicago, to sell its Certificate to form International Van Lines. The owner of Atlas would become a stockholder in the new company.

    During the 1960 Estate of Minnie V. Kryder who died 2/2/ or 2/12/1960, Atlas decided to move its headquarters from Chicago to Evansville. On 3/30/1960, in Evansville, Indiana, Salta Insurance Agency became Atlas Van Lines, Inc., or "008."

    Indiana State Records Citation:

    ATLAS VAN-LINES INC : 1212 ST GEORGE ROAD , EVANSVILLE, IN 47736: 194306-008 Creation : 03/30/1960 Inactive : 02/11/2002 : Original Creation State: DE Other Names 03/30/1960 SALTA INSURANCE AGENCY

    

    

     

    We see also in Florida State Records that in 1984, Xamer, Inc. changed its name Re/Max, though it has since changed back.

    XAMER FLORIDA, INC. Document Number H14901 Date Filed 08/02/1984 Status Active NAME CHANGE 09/14/2007 OLD NAME WAS : RE/MAX OF FLORIDA, INC. NAME CHANGE 11/17/1995 OLD NAME WAS : RE/MAX OF FLORIDA, INCORPORATED NAME CHANGE 11/27/1984 OLD NAME WAS : XAMER, INC

    11/27/1984 Gunderson LLC, Portland, OR

     

    It should be noted that Xamer also bears Meredith Willlson's signature 15 in the document accession number "H 1+4+9+1."

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• Flatus, Batus, & Status Flatus, Batus, & Status

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    BATUS(1984) and BATCO(1928)  are undoubtedly the same coven of Cigarette and Opium Fiends who have always come out of the shadows to lend us our own assets and sell us our necessities in exchange for our labor and most of our goods once we are dead. They might call themselves Spedco, Leasco, Pepsico, Dereco, Camco, Amoco, Batco or Catco. Or, Amex, CSX, USX, EXXON, Pinex, Publix, Trix or Kleenex. Pinesol, Veedol, Haldol or Nujol, all are tricks, mirrors, secrets, palindromes, and misspellings employed in the business and records of the United States to serve the One purpose.

    This purpose is so very embedded from the beginning of federal banking that once we find a few Polarises, we can calculate the present and future not with calculus or even a calculator, but with the original simple arithmetic of the olden days.

    Most importantly is to grasp that although numbers become attached to entities as well as years, FDIC Certificates and playing cards, they are after all, purely numbers. On the Books of Lord Touche (BLT), Andersen, devious Masons and Klansmen, all whom are fascinated by squares, crosses, disquises and secret numbers, these are kept track of in secret criss-cross combinations.

    So if we want to know just what it was that was done, we must see the world through their eyes and according to their system of pledges and securities which can be shown to run contrariwise to the status quo.

     

    I. Basic Concepts

    
    1. Land is the only asset which cannot disappear."Real Estate"

    2. A Century is composed of 100 years of bond issues, though each year is the beginning of a new Bond Century. "Surety"

    3. One year leads to another. Securities of one year can be added to or subtracted from securities of another year. "Adjusting"

    4. Few people live the length of a 100-year gold bond. "Mort-gage"

    5. No one except vampires and "Entity Others" lives 999 years, the length of the New York Central RR Master Lease. "Royalty"

    
    II. Backbone History

    This brief string of numbers and associated entities should be committed to memory or copied onto cards kept close at hand or in place of credit cards in your wallet. I try keep it simple, though there is no way around 1899 to which are attached several important events.

    
    1870 Wells Fargo #3511; Barnett bankers came to Florida

    1888 Jax/St. Augustine Shortline (Barnett Bank Florida + Bank of America + STD Oil)

    1889 Standard Oil; new 99 lease becomes 1988 Pennzoil (Zapata + Marathon)

    1890 Lincoln National Bank, Washington, DC est

    1898 Warren Bechtel started a railroad construction company; Union Pacific (Omaha) formed in Kansas

    1899 George A. Touche founded firm in London; 5/3/1899 (Krupp Steel) Republic Steel Corporation ; Metropolitan Trust Co Ltd, London, Robert Fleming; South Penn Oil Company was organized as a
    unit of Standard Oil; beginning of the National Life Association; Birmingham Southern Railroad Co.: 02/171899 Merged.: 12/28/1988

    1900 Denver & Rio Grande Western Ry Co bonds matured (Fleming, DRGWRy); Knights of Pythias (KP) "United Mutual Life" (UML)

    1901 Norfolk & Western Ry new (NWRy )

    1902 International Harvester IH

    1903 RR Mortgage Bonds allowed as bank deposits; Florida East Coast Ry (FECRy) 30 yr. gold bonds issued

    1904 Bank of America #3510 est. BA

    1905 German American National Bank, Fort Wayne GANB

    1906 Nitrate Securities Trust

    1907 Harriman Plan: Southern Industrial Land Guaranteed to Norfolk Southern

    1908 Realty Trust of Atlanta (Coca-cola); Fort Wayne Board of Realtors

    1909 Mutual of Omaha (MOO, formerly Mutual Benefit Life); Touche founded in U.S.

    1910 The Lincoln Trust Company formed; Krupp & German Minister of Ag staked out Gary and Birmingham

    1911 Standard Oil dissolved (STD)

    1912 First 99 year leases first used in Omaha; Harriman Securities , Sant Louis; Atlantic Coastline RR mtg. (ACLRR)

    1913 Federal Reserve; Florida East Coast Ry securities

    1914 Creepy Straus Bros.; UBS 

    1915 Morris Plan Banks

    1975 The Lincoln Trust ended (LT)

    
    III. Constants

    (11) Federal Home Loan Banks FHLB

    (12 ) Federal Reserve Banks FR

    (12) Federal Land Banks FLB

    (88) Orginally chartered Joint Stock Land Banks JSLB

    
    IV. Other Units

    
    5, 7, 10 = yrs. in short term debentures and bonds

    11 = yrs. between plats made on rr securities

    20 = yrs. between bank charters

    30 = yrs.between insurance company charters

    21 = yrs. in a railroad industrial or commercial lands lease

    50 = yrs. in a corporation; yrs. to clear title; yrs. in a railroad mortgage

    99 = yrs. in an under lease

    100 = yrs .to mature gold bond; years in a railroad mortgage or metro mortgage

    
    Now for some first simple example sums, to see how it's done.

     

    1910 LT + 88 JSLBanks = 1998 (First National/ Fort Wayne National) National City Bank

    11 FHLBanks + 1987 Carlyle Group = 1998 National City Bank

    or

    1911 STD diss + 1987 Carlyle Group = 1998 National City Bank

    
    12 FLBanks+ 1986 BANC ONE SECURITIES CORPORATION : 1111 POLARIS PARKWAY STE 2J, COLUMBUS, OH 43240 Status: Active Creation : 6/16/1986 = 1998 National City Bank

    1913 FR est + 88 JSLB = 2003 The Bank of Venice 240 Nokomis Avenue South Venice,FL 34285 : 1/13/2003 ; and FLAGLER LLC PO BOX 33421 ROYAL PALM BEACH FL 33421

    1913 FR est + 85 Shamrock, Soy, Dinsey merger; NAVL sold to Norfolk Southern = 1998 National City Bank

    1905 GANB + 88 JSLBanks = 1993 CSX REAL PROPERTY, INC. 301 WEST BAY STREET JACKSONVILLE FL 32202 Filed 11/10/1993 State VA Status ACTIVE

    1909 Mutual of Omaha MOO + 89 NAVL sold to CDR = 1998 National City Bank

    
    Other ways to do sums.

    How about

    1909 MOO + 1 bank Charter= 1929

    1929 + 1969 Allen County National Black Hole Fake Bank = 1998 National City Bank

    or

    1909 MOO + 3 bank Charters= 1969

    1909 MOO + 2 insurance Charters= 1969

    + 29 = 1998 National City Bank

    or

    1870 Wells Fargo #3511; Barnett bankers came to Florida + 99 lease = 1969 Allen County National Black Hole Fake Bank

    1975 End LT + 09 MOO = 1984 BATUS

    1984(BATUS) + 14 (Creepy Straus= LT + 1928 BATCO) = 1998 National City Bank

    More sums to follow...but try some of your own.

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• California's Budget Crunch Cru California's Budget Crunch Crunches My Family

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    September 1 Update

    Fall semester classes have begun, and they are a madhouse. Due to the reduced number of classes, all of the classes are extremely full, and many students desperate for classes are attempting to add whatever classes they can. My class yesterday ran out of seats and thus had several students sitting on the floor. I also had to make 20 extra copies of the syllabus. On the positive side, the students seemed somewhat more disciplined and serious than I am accustomed to, particularly during the fall semester.

    August 8 Update

    On Thursday, I decided to check my schedule for the Fall Session online, to make sure what the secretary said was correct. To my pleasant surprise, I had two classes, not one, both with many students signing up. I then called the secretary to check her records, and she informed me that she had made a mistake when she told me I only had one class left. I do indeed have two classes to teach this Fall Session. Perhaps she also was wrong about the number of classes cancelled, but both part-time and full-time faculty are having classes cancelled. I  know a person who is a full-time History professor at Cal State San Bernardino, who informed me that two of her classes had been cancelled, which was about what other full-time faculty were experiencing. I presume that their pay will decrease along with the reduction in number of classes. She also told me that there, no new students were being admitted, so that class sizes are actually decreasing. In contrast, community college class sizes are increasing.

    July 30

    I have many more topics to discuss in my Love is Progressive series, but the reality of what is happening in my homestate, California, and how it affects me, compels me to write this post.

    California's Budget Crunch Crunches My Family

    It is often said that as California goes, so goes the nation, or even the world. Well, if that is true, we are going to hell in a handbasket.

    I teach Psychology at a community college, Riverside Community College, Moreno Valley Campus. Last Thursday was my wife's birthday. It wasn't much of a celebration, anyway. Eunice was at her daughter's house, which is about a 45 minute drive from here, supervising home renovations on this old house, which were pretty much breaking us financially, anyway. When we got home that evening, there was a message on our answering machine from the secretary at school that there were some changes in my schedule. She was not specific, so I went to the school's website, and checked my schedule. It showed that one of my three classes for fall semester had been eliminated. On Monday, I called the secretary to tell her that I had figured out the schedule change. She replied that my assessment was somewhat accurate, except that I now only had 1 class instead of 3, due to the budget cuts. She went on to tell me that most of the fall semester classes had been eliminated, including 12 of the 21 scheduled Psychology classes, leaving only 9 Psychology classes remaining. What a nice birthday present for my wife! The reason for the timing of the class cuts was because the California State Budget, what little there is of it, had just been passed.

    I thought, and still have hopes of, some of the classes being reinstated. However, I discussed some of these issues at the beginning of my class last night. One of my students mentioned that 600 teachers had been let go at one community college -- that is teachers, not students. Most likely, they are part-time instructors, but these are people with masters degrees and Ph. Ds such as myself, among our smartest and most learned citizens. When the class finished, she mentioned that she and her friend were driving around 45 minutes from another city to take my class, because they could not get into a class at their local community college. The reason was that about half of the summer session classes there had been cancelled. I guess this was the same school that had eliminated 600 instructors. They were ahead of the curve on this. Now, it is everybody else's turn.

    I have two older brothers, Craig and Bruce, who also are paid in some way by the State of California. Craig is a geneticist who does research and teaches at U.C. Davis. Bruce is an environmental scientist who works for the California State Water Quality Control Board's office at South Lake Tahoe. Both of them, at the very least, have told me that they are being given a few days of unpaid leave per month. Both of these developments were before the latest budget was passed, so they may suffer further cutbacks in their work. Of course, the budget cuts affect all manner of employees who depend on funding from the State of California -- police, firepersons, health care providers, grade school teachers, and so forth, in addition to people who work for government agencies, and college and university employees. What we are seeing here is basically a domino effect. People will not be getting needed services, health care, or education, etc, in California, which will adversely affect everyone's quality of life, and lead to further unemployment and economic troubles. Interestingly, my father, an M.D. who retired from a job as a Medi-Cal Consultant about 3 years ago or so, continues to get his pension, which I believe is unaffected. Apparently, in the world of politics, pensions are sacred, but jobs are expendable. What is wrong with that picture is that in a situation such as this, money continues to be spent, but work goes undone.

    And it all started with Ronald Reagan, damn him! Well, I don't believe in hell per se, but I suspect that special remedial treatment in the afterlife is reserved for people such as Ronald Reagan. No wonder his son Ron Reagan (whom I actually like) does not believe in hell; otherwise, Ron would have to believe that is where his father's soul is. Anyway, I hope Ronald Reagan is rolling in his stinking grave. And shame on the stupid voters who made him our Governor, then President. And shame on all the egotistical corporate conservatives who believe our nation, and our world, belongs to them, and the conservative thinkers at all the conservative think tanks and so forth, who provide the rationale to justify conservative ideology. What we are seeing now is the ultimate result of their each person for himself/herself, anti-government, pro-corporate ideology.

    How will this crisis end? It is my hope, and expectation, that more progressive policies will eventually prevail -- exactly when, it is difficult to say. I think new technology, particularly green technology and the resulting greener economy, as well as high-tech industries, aided by government policies, will help pull California out of their current Republican Depression. The same may be said of the United States as a whole, and to some extent, the rest of the world. We also desperately need to raise taxes, which politicians have been conditioned to treat as a cancer. Furthermore, we need greater protections for basic public needs such as education and health care, and for the jobs of those who provide these needs. Basically, what we need is to go in the direction of Socialist Democracy. And here is a "wanted ad" for you: Wanted, Politicians with an actual backbone, ones who are actual public servants, not corporate servants.

    Meanwhile, we Californians are learning to get by on the few crumbs allowed us by corporate america.

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• 1978 Shamrock Slaves 1978 Shamrock Slaves

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placentia,_California

    Hearing California Rancher Mendoza on NPR saying he has to slaughter his milk herd, unable to compete since in 1978 he made more on milk production than now, I just can't take anymore. I'm pulling out the stops. I shall write this and go to bed till the world gets better.

    The U.S. food supply, for one, has been taken over by price fixing born of the 1978 Shamrock Pool.

    Concealments by the Barnett bankers during and following the Depression were round aboutly made into Walt Disney World. The California and Florida Citrus crops became united with the terminals and interests of Brewers and Distillers of both gas and spirits. Everything bottled answers to Shamrock and is controlled by Carliars.

    How do I know these things? I know because the Kryders as real estate developers owned federal mortgage securities which matured on the same schedule as Disney's. Raymond Disney and Frank Kryder were contemporaries in the moving and shaking world of real estate in 1921. In 1938, when Fannie Mae was created, the Kryder "Suburban Building Company of Fort Wayne Indiana" was created in this time line:

    THE SUBURBAN BUILDING COMPANY OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA INC Created 09/19/1938 C. Frank Kryder President; Frank H. Kryder Secretary-Treasurer; Room 225 Standard Building. Entire file record is lost but the Secretary of State has "a note" it was dissolved in 1950 and a Cause #666795 which can't be found in anyone's records.

    9/29/1938 The Munich Agreement

    California THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY Filed: 9/29/1938 500 S BUENA VISTA ST BURBANK, CA 91521 Agent DORIS A SMITH 500 S BUENA VISTA ST BURBANK, CA 91521

    In 1966, Frank H. Kryder died 13 days before Walt Disney.

    After many years of work, which have caused me now to look at all numbers as maturity years in a century on the books of Lord Touche, I finally realized that the curious synchronicity of Kryder incorporations or history with that of the Walt Disney Company was due to their federal investments, particularly HOLC Bonds and in Fannie Mae.

    The (Wells Fargo #3511) Lincoln National Bank and Trust which received the contents of the ruse Allen County National Bank in 1969 was formerly the 1905 German American National Bank of Berghoff, the Fort Wayne brewer, Berghof being the name of Hitler's retreat. It was also a bank of Bass the railroad manufacturer and nearly all railroad manufacturers used Krupp tires.

    This creation of a ruse bank merger devised to outwit IRS, the State of Indiana, FDIC examiners and the Comptroller was convenient for dumping in the Kryder securities and many assets concealed by the Barnett bankers during the crashes of the Depression. But, the big big booty was the 1968 contribution of Fried.Krupp at a time when Public Outrage would have crucified the perpetrators of this union and certainly have would have put a damper on the opening of Walt Disney's Small World, after all.

    So there we are.

    In 1978 the official founding of the Shamrock pool, the wages of tomato workers became fixed in Florida. Though due to our climate and soil Florida tomatoes are scarcely edible, they are used in bulk by fast food operations and probably fed to the public school children.

    Most of the bulk growing is done in the Immokalee region, in south western Florida's interior. Life in South Florida's marshy interior is drastically different than life on the Gold Coast. It is mostly enjoyed by hunters on swamp crawlers. My friends in ballet class did not know where Immokalee is when I mentioned it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immokalee,_Florida

    It was recently discovered that on top of the wages for tomato harvesting becoming fixed in 1978, beatings, chainings, confinements in U-Hauls and torture were being used by Immokalee agricultural crew foremen. Finally a coalition was formed to fight slavery in Florida's interior, and there have been indictments and convictions, though this is not well-known by coastal city dwellers.

    http://www.ciw-online.org/slavery.html

    In 1985, Thomas M. Shoaff, employer of Moorhead, officially recorded usurper of the Kryder Corporate Records, made Roy Disney a soy bean magnate right in the Fort Wayne Bank Building. At the time the building was being held by a board of directors in the Petroleum Building on Pepsico Place in Tulsa, by many of the same directors of Cities Service Co.

    In 1985 Our North American Cousin Kenneth W. Maxfield sold the pride of State Street, North American Van Lines to Norfolk Southern for $369 million;

    Norfolk Southern pushed to buy the government-owned Conrail;

    Farm Credit Act Amendments of 1985 were passed by Congress to pump money into the failing Farm Credit System banks.

    9/11/1985 Shamrock Acquisition, Inc. Merged into Central Soya Company, Inc.;

    A mtg granted by the later failed First Federal Savings Bank and Trust in Lakeland, location of Publix HQ is later assigned through RTC to Fairfield Affiliates.

    Fairfield. The name of my great-grandfather's development of 550 Lots put in Trust in 1943 in his very offices now inhabited by Barrett & McNagny.

    William F. McNagny was director of LNBT in 1969. From what I understand, he, an Allen County resident of 80 years or more, has never heard of Allen County National Bank either.

    My friend Indira Singh asked me, "Leigh, does anyone get it?"

    And, I want to know, are there any REAL G-MEN anymore?

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• This is another debate I had a This is another debate I had about high taxes on the wealthy and production.

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    This is a debate between me and my uncle. Quite lengthy, but I think I debated our causes and ideals well. It all began as a comment on my Facebook expressing anger about my mother calling me a socialist. My uncle chimed in. While some is straight from Mr. Hartmann himself, and may seem redundant, I shall post anyways! Also, I will make his e-mails bold for easier distinction.

    All Democrats are socialists. The redistribution of wealth. Tax the producers, social programs for the non-producers. But since half the people in this country are Democrats that's not necessarily an earth-shattering statement. All capitalistic societies have some degree of socialism weaved into their system. It's necessary. The important thing here is what degree of socialism you adhere to?

    I think the redistribution of wealth for the last 30 years overshadows a 3 percent raise in the marginal tax rates that are well below the averages we have seen since income taxes took over for tariffs that ended worker protectionism and spurred "free trade". Well, asides from the glorious times of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge that lead to the great depression, which lead to another supposed Socialist who saved capitalism from itself. How free trade was devised in spite of all of it's failings, asides from countries that offered strict protections like Old England, South Korea and China to name a few, shows a reversal of all working hard to line the pockets of a few. It all goes back to our founders and what they envisioned for this nation, asides from Adams and Hamilton in particular. We did not fight a revolution vs. a monarchy to develop plutocracy 200 years later. Income taxes were imagined and instilled not just to generate revenue for the state, and they were not implemented so Reagan could reduce them and place the burden upon the backs of the poor and middle classes in the name of campaign contributions and the conservative ideology of consolidating wealth and power. We've already seen those consequences. And yes, our way of life demands some socialism in it. We have socialist police, fire departments, letter carriers, roads, water, schools & etc. So to answer you question as to how much I adhere to, Id say about 30 years worth.

    David, I simply stated that the big question is how big a socialist you are.  As I stated, some socialism is necessary.  Some income taxes are necessary.
    The point is this:  How much wealth do you redistribute?  Most Republican I know are fine with giving up 30% of their income.  But if that percentage heads over 40% towards 50%, then problems occur.  Most Democrats I know are very kind people.  They want to help out the disadvantaged.  But the one point they never understand is that when the percentage of the producers income that's given up in taxes becomes too high, the producers stop producing.  It's just human nature.  It may not seem like the right thing to do but it's inevitable.  It won't change.  And if the producers stop producing, everybody suffers.  The goal of government is to take away that percentage of income that won't destroy the incentive of the high wage earners but will offer help to the disadvantaged. Too few taxes and there ends up being a small privileged class and a disgruntled underprivileged class.  Turmoil and upheaval occurs.  Too many taxes and the economy becomes stagnant because incentive has been destroyed and everybody suffers.  At some point, the underprivileged are actually better off with fewer taxes on the rich.  So how big a socialist are you?  
    
    
    
    It's ok. I enjoy and thirst for debate.
    
    Actually, the incentive will always be there. You can look at the 1970's vs. the 1980's where the latter only had 3 years of gas shortages opposed to most of the 70's, but we saw less gpd growth in the 1980's. And even more importantly, the producers will always produce. Simply put, there were no producers when the first settlers arrived to this continent. Production is a means of sustenance. Most importantly, there will always be young entrepreneurs waiting in the wings. There are many factors involved to a healthy economy asides from taxes, but the numbers do show that the higher the marginal tax rate, the more production we have seen. If anything, less money would demand more risk taking, smarter investment and an enhanced work ethic.
    
    And we can look at the recession of 1962. Kennedy believed lowering taxes will enhance demand, being turned down by a Republican house, yet instilled under the Johnson Administration when the recession was long over. That in itself shows taxes had nothing to do with it.
    
    Taxes have nothing to really do with demand. It's simple supply, demand and the creation of demand in the form of wages that the masses can spend. When you add typical inflation to the stagnant wages, while the rich keep more and more, it's no wonder we're having a credit crisis. It's hand in hand. You can put a larger tax burden on the people and less will buy your product, creating a weaker society; or you can put the tax burden on those who can afford it and have less of an economic impact. That in turn affords the the masses more purchasing power to buy more goods, services and power the economy. Money moving is much better than sitting around and obtaining interest.
    
    Asides from a long, drawn explanation of the social cycle and the ills formed when the affluent have a majority of wealth and power vs. the warrior class or intellectual class, I'll keep this second thumb brief as possible. Our founders were incredibly intelligent men that saw many things decades before it's passing. Maybe since they fought a country of inherited wealth and opportunity for the affluent minority, they understood much better than us. Unfortunately, their true intent has been obscured by bad schools and centuries passed.
    
    With that in mind, either self-justification or a poor knowledge of history leaves a complaint about 50% tax rate over 3 million dollars fairly ridiculous. 50% was a deal through most of our income tax history. While I scoff at such self-preservation, I still mildly understand.
    
    As our founders saw it, wealth and inherited wealth were the greatest danger to our democracy. That is why Washington gave federal assistance to the poor and Jefferson created a free college. You can look around you today and disagree with health care or the free choice act, but the 1.4 million a day spent to thwart health care and the paid off economists who speak of trickle down glowingly show something is wrong with the system. Even the energy bill is being decimated by money. The same happened to Carter. It's a no brainer... unless you're the guy making billions off of oil, getting 6 billion in tax breaks a year and also receiving 4 billion a year in government subsidies.
    
    The rich, being a minority, have a larger say than the majority - all due to their wealth. You may bow your head on true conservative ideology and believe that's what is best, but it is not. It's not why this country was founded, in fact, completely in spite of it. That is the exact opposite of a Republic.
    
    Imagine if during the Civil Rights Movement the fighters, as a minority, had more say than the majority. Imagine Women's Lib. Even though women are a majority, Conservatives stood in the way for a reason. Imagine homosexuals rights superceding the majority.
    
    While I am quite familiar with all 3 movements and have a great deal of remorse concerning our past in these aspects, it gave us backbone. It contributed to the richness of the American experience and even though these movements and their foundings were morally decrepit, great things came as a result.
    
    Democracy inevitably rang true.
    
    Unfortunately, democracy was paid and bought without one sit in, one march or one burnt bra.
    
    So to answer your question on how big of a socialist I am, I'll answer with a comparison of great familiarity:
    
    As long as there is equal effort, I will not rest until my children are given the same opportunities as your nephews Kevin & Colin. Afterwards, I will not rest until a dark skinned child on the south side is given the same opportunity as my children.
    
    I have abided by the social contract I signed upon my birth in this great nation. I have paid the taxes, paid the price of the laws I have broken, and I remain faithful, articulate, active and knowledgeable in my country as a whole. After 30 years of disregarding the majority,
    
    It is time for me to be given life, in the form of affordable health care.
    
    Liberty from tyranny, fascism and the oppression of the wealthy elite.
    
    And the pursuit of happiness - To dream as large and vivid as those who were born into better circumstances.
    
    And if that day shall ever occur,
    
    I will not sit upon my throne and complain of payroll taxes I'll never need returned: It is my duty as an American to pay for the generation that laid the path of my well being.
    
    I will not complain about the income taxes: They pay for the schools my workers became educated in, the roads they travel towards my place of business, the courts which enforce my contracts, the police and fire departments which protect me, and enable a stable currency so I may do business.
    
    Finally, I will not contribute to the campaign of those advocating the few over the many & I will not thwart legislation to put my interests over American interests.
    
    Some may misconstrue the truth in these words for socialism. I am not a socialist, I am an American - First and foremost.

     

    David, you've obviously done a lot of reading.  But the higher the tax rate, the more incentive is destroyed.  It's inevitable.  It's impossible to avoid.  Some may stop producing at a 50% rate.  Some may stop at 70%.  Some may require the high tax rate to be on only a couple of years.  Others may require decades to stop producing.  But it'll happen.  If the government all of a sudden said that everybody making over $30,000 had to pay 90% of their income in taxes, I guarantee you production would drop off the charts.  Nobody would want to build a business or become a brain surgeon if most of what they'd work very hard for was taken away.  All I'm saying is that 'that point' definitely exists even though it varies from person to person.  Republicans want that point lower and Democrats want it higher.  Look at Cuba, North Korea and Russia.  It may take generations but economies will eventually end up in shambles.  Now I'm not a fan of unbridled capitalism either.  Republicans tend to be greedy and need some kind of restrictions.  But they make a lot money that can be taxed.  I think the biggest cause of the current downturn is that their weren't enough restrictions on capitalism.  A waitress being able to buy three homes because of shoddy mortgage policies is ridiculous.  Democrats tend to be generous people who want to help the disadvantaged but they have one main flaw. They don't understand human nature.  They don't understand how other people aren't as nice as they are.  They have to accept the fact that a lot of people think mainly of themselves and always will.  In other words, if you tax the producers too much, they eventually stop producing and everybody suffers.  I don't know if you've ever read a book named 'Atlas Shrugged.'  But if you haven't, you should.  It describes this thinking perfectly.  It was written by Ayn Rand.  She was born in Russia and escaped when it was still communistic.  She knows what she's talking about.  Great book.  My favorite book.  If you don't feel like reading it, at at least look it up on Wikipedia.  It'll at least give you a rough idea.  Bye. 

     

    I am glad you can at least fall back on the conservative founding and theology of Burke and Hobbes, few can. Unfortunately, I disagree. Most importantly, I have no clue how conservatism even came upon these shores considering what we wanted to build was the exact opposite. As Washington himself said in our country being an experiment in liberalism,
     
    ""Liberalism," you see, wasn't always a dirty word. In fact, most all of the political thinkers who laid the foundation for the American experiment were, in their day, proud liberals. The thinkers who influenced the founders -- Adam Smith, John Locke, John Stuart Mill -- and the founders themselves -- Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington -- all bore the liberal label with honor."
     
    Anyways, Democracy is branded into almost every species - sometimes including those with a reptilian brain - and certainly those further evolved. You can look towards even those species dominated by alpha males having little outright say asides from mating in their herds, flocks, etc. The idea of human nature and whether it is flawed by an inherit evil is basically where we stand between liberals and conservatives. I find 2 things to be the true measure of my argument's basis, democracy entwined into our genetic code and the example of such by other species is the first,
     
    The second requires interpretation.
     
    As earlier mentioned, the social cycle offers the perspective of inherit evil. While there are 4 sectors: laborers, warriors, intellectuals and acquisitors.
     
    Simply put, the laborers only have influence and never entirely rule. We can see such from the labor party and Tony Blair. The warriors begin the society with revolution. The intellectuals -  theologians, scholars and such - convince the warriors their power and soon lead. Finally, the acquisitors recruit the intellectuals who in turn have the warriors. With each ensuing social class and their newfound power, society gets progressively worse. We can see it today with the unwed families, single parents, drug addiction, pornography and prostitution. Homelessness, aids escalation... these are not coincidence.
     
    The inherit evil you see, in my opinion, is nothing more than the previous generation falling more and more victim of materialism, and the break down of an efficient household. You see this each and everyday with the arrogance of self proclaimed kings amongst our society. When warriors rule, the masses wish to be in the military, police or other showcases of physical superiority. This creates a balanced home, a national loyalty and an empathetic society. When intellectuals rule, it is a slower deterioration, but people wish to follow their leaders and become experts in thought. When the final rules, it's to covet the monetary rulers and in the name of self-preservation, all is sacrificed for the dollar.
     
    What you see as inherit evil is nothing more than an artificial evil created by the very people conservatives advocate most. When you look back to fonder times, imagine who was just in power. While our social structure is difficult to narrow down,
     
    George Washington, Warrior
    Adams, Acquisitor
    Jefferson, Intellectual
    Harding & Coolidge, Vs. FDR
    Teddy, Warrior
    Eisenhower, Warrior
    Kennedy, Intellectual & Warrior
    Carter, Intellectual
    Reagan & Bush vs. Obama
     
    It goes without saying that our worst times as a nation are not a coincidence either.
     
    And that is why pointing towards other governments, especially those 3, are pretty incompatible. None have our form of government and all three are ruled by their military, making them warrior lead societies. The best comparisons are maybe Britain and Israel. Amazing how Britain is the only developed nation with a crime rate comparable to ours. Israel is more intellectual lead, but they certainly have their problems, too.
     
    When you hear scientists say there is no global warming, or economists that agree with laissez-faire economic philosophy from Ivy-League colleges that receive large grants and funding from the rich and corporations, with this formula it is easy to see beyond. The rich have obtained the intellectuals, who in self-preservation, are smart enough to agree with those who pay the bills.
     
    Because the numbers do not lie. The Great Depression followed tax cuts for the rich. Black Monday happened as a result of tax cuts on the rich and the interest bound to accumulate on the deficit - scaring wall street into a tailspin. And what we see today thanks to GW2.
     
    It's not a coincidence we became the greatest economy ever seen up until Reagan by not doing what every other nation did prior, which was cater to the rich. It's not a coincidence that we had a fairly effective government for most of the last century by not allowing the minority rich to accumulate their wealth and interrupt the government with PAC's, lobbyists and other flaws seen in FECA. We have large taxes on the rich and estate taxes basically for that purpose, so majority would continue ruling.
     
    Taxes have nothing to do with productivity. We have 50 years of the greatest economy ever conceived as proof. Besides, for conservatives to think that people are predisposed to certain tendencies, like evil, wouldn't the thirst of success be just as addictive? Regardless of the cut our government takes, wouldn't people enveloped in themselves with supposed genetic superiority be subconsciously motivated to perform?
     
    One of the largest contradictions by a group in which there are many.
     
    It's unfortunate about the lady. All she did was lie about her income on a loan form. Then she was told an ARM was the best way to go when she qualified for a fixed rate - all so the paperwork shuffler could make a commission. Then that same bank bought some securities and gambled away trillions of dollars thanks to the recision of Glass-Steagle. Now they got that woman's money, buried their company, crippled the economy, took government bailouts, used the funds to defeat The Freedom of Choice Act, got a golden parachute and are now complaining about taxes. 
     
    But hey, all the more proof.
     
     

    I'll check the book out, but it will be a while. My summer reading is stocked up and I start school next month. 

    You state:  "Wouldn't the thirst for success be just as addictive (as the thirst for money)?
    
    That's what Karl Marx thought.  But his reasoning was flawed.  That's what Democrats think.  And they're reasoning is flawed.  This is it.  Everything you've said hinges on this one statement being correct.  It's not!  First and foremost, people work for money.  They don't work to put money into other people's pockets.  They don't work for self-esteem.  Failed socialist regime after failed socialist regime proves that Karl Marx, Democrats and you are wrong.  Dave, it's all in the history books.  It's written in black and white.  While the socialist theory sounds great from a theoretical standpoint, it doesn't work in practice.  Read Atlas Shrugged. 

    I apologize, but I find your reference to history books as a validation for conservative economic theorem to be rather counter-productive. If there was a book that showed conservatism did not lead to revolutions and poor economies all over Europe, I'm all ears. If there was a book illustrating our founding fathers admiration for conservatism, I'm all ears. If there was a book discussing the great economic strides left by Bush, Reagan, Harding & Coolidge, I wouldn't read it. Although, I would look deeper into the authors financial records and show you he received great contributions and grants from someone like Rupert Murdoch.

     

    If what you believed was true, our country would not have the greatest employments numbers in 1971, the year minimum wage was highest in comparison to inflation or deflation. Also, African American men had their highest employment numbers during the Clinton administration, while taxes were socialist. Also, we had the most educated populace thanks to the introduction of the G.I. Bill. Finally, our workers had the most purchasing power when unions represented 40 percent of the workforce, rather than 8 today.

     

    I'm not sure which of these social programs you would call socialism, but with the broad stroke socialism receives from conservatives, I assume most are.

     

    Comparing us to Karl Marx is as similar as comparing our final result to Morocco. If the disagreeing contention held any weight, Teddy Roosevelt would've turned New York to socialism as governor, Adams was right about Jefferson, We'd still be standing in bread lines after FDR and The Johnson administration would have pushed us over the edge with medicare and medicaid. Wasn't Eisenhower called a socialist for a short while for wanting to build a interstate highway? Also, those conservatives who were loyal to King Edward probably would have never dreamed to fight for their freedom if it was not for a liberal Thomas Paine who believed we were better than the circumstances of the time.

     

    Honestly, pointing towards socialism strictly in the face of heightened taxes when the tax rate was higher a generation earlier with vastly greater productivity, is CRAZY! It's no more a code word that Conservatives use to instill fear than "death" tax, cap and "tax" & pro-life, which was stolen from liberals in their fights against the death penalty. It's a brilliant tactic though. Say words that instill fear in our immediate reptilian brain way before it reaches our evolved reasoning.     

     

    All the while, the last 8 years of conservative ruling left our nation further into debt, a greater disparity in wealth than even Reagan, a made up war that leave us tactically vulnerable, and finally, nationalized banks due to the very principles in free markets and unchecked capitalism - one of the symptoms of socialism. I hate to beat a dead horse, but the further we go towards conservative ideology, the worse our nation becomes. These are not up for debate.

     

    In the grandest idea that time itself reduces production in the face of tax burdens, my grandparents would've left the workforce long before I was brought into the world. We can look at the demand of simply surviving or my grandmother telling me many times, "I'd go crazy couped up in the house". Either way, both exemplify what is right about human nature and the benefits in a motivational contribution to society.

     

    Besides, in a social capacity, when have conservatives ever been right? Women's Rights, Civil Rights, Labor Movement, landing on the moon, remaining loyal to Britain in spite of France's help during the revolution, The Revolution itself, Gay Rights, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security?

     

    I mean, for a group to say they have moral superiority and a better grasp on how to run social progression, they seem to be pretty anti-social, oppressive and downright cruel in their interactions. I find it more than coincidental that conservative founding calls men inherently evil, but most evils stem from their ideologies actually being utilized. A well thought out excuse to justify their means. It's easy to be evil and immoral. It's fairly contradicting that the party which expresses hard work, religious morals and self-reliance finds their justifications on such an impossible interaction of premise.

     

    Actually, I'm laying another trap for you like I did in my well thought out comparison of the contradiction in conservative thought: The age old idea that a predisposition to evil cannot be compared to survival of the fittest and accomplishment. If we can pre-ordain kings, accept dynasties as outright totality and vindicate future generations on the success of their parents, taxes would have no bearing. If aristocrats and their succeeding generations are bred for exemplary standards, success is an inevitability of the final result.

     

    That is one of the founding principles in conservative founding. Now it's a great excuse for self-preservation, but not reality. I'll give you and example:

     

    It's like using the children of the 1992 Olympic Gold Medal winners for the 2012 games. Furthermore, my great-great (I donno how many greats) grandfather was the last man to win the decathlon for Greece. Ya know, I'm a decent athlete. While I haven't met many men who could outrun me, I could never hit a fast ball and my jumper went to hell after I hurt my arm. Unfortunately, I'm no Olympic Champion. 

     

    But back to the new trap I was laying. Basically, what have conservatives contributed? I asked this of another conservative and he simply stated, "The Cold War". Obviously he was referring to Reagan and his supposed bringing down of The Berlin Wall and fall of Russia. After some time thinking, I couldn't leave this trap for you. I respect a well educated conservative much more than I do an incompetent liberal & it would've been demoralizing to have yet another conservative point to imaginary accomplishments. My father thought income taxes were instilled during FDR and my mother just repeats what she hears on Hannity. It's very frustrating trying to find a conservative seasoned in it's actual founding. Now that I have found one, I'm clinging on like grim death!

     

    Ha! Anyways, here's what I'm aiming at:

     

    How can conservatives call the stimulus a failure after 4 months when they credit Reagan for bringing down The Berlin Wall and Russia? It took 2 years for Russia to bring down that wall, rather than 4 months.

     

    When did Russia fall, 1992? But yeah, 5 years later? How is 2 years and 5 years of limbo considered a success, but 4 months of basic conservative implementation considered a failure?

     

    When half of the stimulus and a majority of the funds used thusfar are dedicated to tax cuts in hopes of appeasing conservatives have yet to revive the economy, why do tax cuts for a minority with plenty of money at their disposal offer a viable solution? Rich people received 1 trillion dollars stolen from social security during the Bush years. Why did job growth show the worst numbers since Harding and Coolidge?

     

    It leads to some numbers I stumbled upon, and I'm lost on specifics of cents, but it's close enough. Tax breaks leave an economic impact of $1.08 returned for every dollar used. It's surprising which leads to the greatest return.

     

    For every dollar of food stamps, there is a return of $1.86. Give or take a couple cents due to it being so long since I saw the numbers, but it's close enough to see an astounding variance in numbers.

     

    You're a good ole man and I enjoy the debate. While I think the numbers and history all lay in my favor, it is important to debate. I can't learn anything talking to like-minded people. Also, discussing our nations history and future are one of our biggest responsibilities as Americans. Although we vehemently disagree, we are contributing to what makes our nation the greatest on Earth.

    Dave, we're never going to agree on these things.  About the only thing we can agree on is this:  George Bush was the worst president in the history of the United States.  I despised him.  Bye and good-luck.   

    So that's about it. While I am glad that we weren't reduced to trivial name calling, I find even greater pride defending us to the end. I bet as he wrote the first email, the ole man thought he was going to walk all over the kid. Sorry!
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