<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>JOHNMATYI.COM</title><updated>2012-05-26T10:02:15Z</updated><id>http://johnmatyi.com/atom.aspx</id><link href="http://johnmatyi.com/atom.aspx" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link href="http://johnmatyi.com" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" /><generator uri="http://app.onlinequickblog.com/" version="2.6.8">Quick Blogcast</generator><rights>Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</rights><entry><title>OSAMA BIN LADEN Pornography stash found by Navy Seals</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://johnmatyi.com/2011/05/18/osama-bin-laden-pornography.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:johnmatyi.com,2011-05-18:cdf6fe49-64f2-4ccc-83a3-883a85f8f246</id><author><name>John K. Matyi</name><email>editor@johnmatyi.com</email></author><updated>2011-05-18T17:33:00Z</updated><published>2011-05-18T17:33:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class=Apple-style-span color=#000000 size=4 face="'Times New Roman'"&gt;&lt;FONT style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px" class=Apple-style-span size=2 face="arial, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;(Breaking News!)&lt;/STRONG&gt; Osama bin Laden apparently had no problem keeping himself busy in his compound in Pakistan. Sure - he was preoccupied with making a comeback - planting bombs - plotting follow up attacks - the usual - but ABC News says - pfft - that's old news.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"'A U.S. official tells &lt;A href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/porn-found-osama-bin-laden-evidence-trove/story?id=13599025" target=""&gt;ABC news &lt;/A&gt;that a huge stash of pornography was recovered.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class=Apple-style-span color=#000000 face="'Times New Roman'"&gt;&lt;FONT style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 16px" class=Apple-style-span size=2 face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif"&gt;
&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"&gt;&lt;A href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110514/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden_pornography" target=""&gt;The SEALs fatally shot bin Laden &lt;/A&gt;in a post-midnight raid May 2 at his hidden compound in the Pakistani army town of Abbottabad, shooting him in the head and chest when he ducked away from the raiders into his bedroom — they thought, reaching for a weapon.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"&gt;After they killed him, they confiscated what U.S. officials call a "treasure trove" of information from bin Laden's second-floor office. The items included a handwritten journal, five computers, 10 hard drives and 110 thumb drives seized at the site.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"&gt;All the media taken from the site is now being analyzed by a CIA-led team.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;
&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;
&lt;P style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;IFRAME height=349 src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zZHtS-mOhtw" frameBorder=0 width=560&gt;&lt;/IFRAME&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class=Apple-style-span color=#000000 size=4 face="'Times New Roman'"&gt;&lt;FONT style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px" class=Apple-style-span size=2 face="arial, sans-serif"&gt;The porn was described as "modern and extensive." But The New York Post points out - we can't be certain if bin Laden was a porn junky...&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"...the images might not be bin Laden's. It could belong to one of his cohorts, his two sons living with him, or any of the his hangers-on who visited the compound and ran errands for him."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;A Fox News National Correspondent says she's not fazed by the news.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;See the entire video and text below here: &lt;A href="http://youtu.be/zZHtS-mOhtw"&gt;http://youtu.be/zZHtS-mOhtw&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</content><summary>      &lt;span style=
      "WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 18px 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
      class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Osama bin Laden apparently had no problem keeping himself busy in his compound in Pakistan. Sure - he was preoccupied with making a comeback - planting bombs - plotting follow up attacks - the usual
- but ABC News says - pfft - that's old news.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
 "'A U.S. official tells &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/porn-found-osama-bin-laden-evidence-trove/story?id=13599025" target=""&gt;ABC news&lt;/a&gt; that a huge stash of pornography was recovered.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"&gt;&lt;span style=
"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
      class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110514/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden_pornography" target=""&gt;The SEALs fatally shot bin Laden&lt;/a&gt; in a post-midnight raid May 2 at his
      hidden compound in the Pakistani army town of Abbottabad, shooting him in the head and chest when he ducked away from the raiders into his bedroom — they thought, reaching for a
      weapon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"&gt;After they killed him, they confiscated what U.S. officials call a "treasure
trove" of information from bin Laden's second-floor office. The items included a handwritten journal, five computers, 10 hard drives and 110 thumb drives seized at the site.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1em; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"&gt;All the media taken from the site is now being analyzed by a CIA-led team.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;iframe height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zZHtS-mOhtw" frameborder="0" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=
"WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 18px 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
      class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;The porn was described as "modern and
      extensive." But The New York Post points out - we can't be certain if bin Laden was a porn junky...&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
 "...the images might not be bin Laden's. It could belong to one of his cohorts, his two sons living with him, or any of the his hangers-on who visited the compound and ran errands for him."&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
 A Fox News National Correspondent says she's not fazed by the news.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
 See the entire video and text below here: &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/zZHtS-mOhtw"&gt;http://youtu.be/zZHtS-mOhtw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</summary><rights>Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</rights></entry><entry><title>Obama 119yrs old The social security number fraud?</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://johnmatyi.com/2011/03/29/obama-119yrs-old-the-social-security-number-fraud.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:johnmatyi.com,2011-03-29:4cc1ff5b-f7c3-4b68-82fa-feab0f852e11</id><author><name>John K. Matyi</name><email>editor@johnmatyi.com</email></author><category term="Barack Obama" /><category term="Illegal Imigration" /><category term="Birth Certificate Lawsuit" /><category term="Obama's Birth Certificate" /><category term="Barack Hussein Obama" /><category term="Constitution of the USA" /><updated>2011-03-29T13:20:00Z</updated><published>2011-03-29T13:20:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;BR&gt;Well, I guess this finally makes me a certified Birther. When will the truth finally come out. I really don't care which way it goes; he has a certified birth certificate, or he doesn't. I think this is a case of 'America Wants To Know.'&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EMBED height=390 type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=480 src=http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/A9MLPbinBiI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 16px 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class=Apple-style-span&gt;&lt;SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px" class=Apple-style-span&gt;Obama 119yrs old The social security number fraud&lt;BR&gt;Youtube/disclosetv&lt;BR&gt;DiscloseTV — July 30, 2009 —&lt;SPAN class=Apple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; COLOR: rgb(66,114,219); FONT-SIZE: 13px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; TEXT-DECORATION: none; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial" dir=ltr class=yt-uix-redirect-link title=http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/27501/ href="http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/27501/" rel=nofollow target=_blank&gt;http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/27501/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN class=Apple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;Is Obama guilty of felony identity theft? The information for this video was taken from the lawsuit filed with the federal district court of Columbus GA in the matter of the Army major seeking proof of Obama's eligibility to serve as president. The private investigator hired by the attorney in the case discovered that Obama may have used up to 149 different addresses and 39 different social security numbers prior to becoming president. This video has nothing to do with whether Mr Obama is black, white, pink, yellow, purple or green. It has to do with his total refusal to provide not only satisfactory proof of fulfilling the Constitutional requirements of citizenship, but also not providing any college or university records, passports, Illinois legislative records, U.S.senate records, medical records...etc..etc.. We essentially know nothing about this man other than he is a andquot;community organizerandquot; and has been involved in Chicago politics and has associated with a laundry list of less than... +++ Description copied from&lt;A style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; COLOR: rgb(66,114,219); FONT-SIZE: 13px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; TEXT-DECORATION: none; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial" dir=ltr class=yt-uix-redirect-link title=http://www.disclose.tv href="http://www.disclose.tv/" rel=nofollow target=_blank&gt;http://www.disclose.tv&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN class=Apple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;+++&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</content><summary>&lt;br&gt;
Well, I guess this finally makes me a certified Birther. When will the truth finally come out. I really don't care which way it goes; he has a certified birth certificate, or he doesn't. I think this
is a case of 'America Wants To Know.' &lt;br&gt;
 &lt;br&gt;
&lt;embed height="390" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/A9MLPbinBiI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt; &lt;br&gt;
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      class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 13px" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Obama 119yrs old The social security number
      fraud&lt;br&gt;
 Youtube/disclosetv&lt;br&gt;
 DiscloseTV — July 30, 2009 —&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=
"PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; COLOR: rgb(66,114,219); FONT-SIZE: 13px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; TEXT-DECORATION: none; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"
   dir="ltr" class="yt-uix-redirect-link" title="http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/27501/" href="http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/27501/" rel="nofollow" target=
   "_blank"&gt;http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/27501/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Is Obama guilty of felony identity theft? The information for this video was taken from the
   lawsuit filed with the federal district court of Columbus GA in the matter of the Army major seeking proof of Obama's eligibility to serve as president. The private investigator hired by the
   attorney in the case discovered that Obama may have used up to 149 different addresses and 39 different social security numbers prior to becoming president. This video has nothing to do with
   whether Mr Obama is black, white, pink, yellow, purple or green. It has to do with his total refusal to provide not only satisfactory proof of fulfilling the Constitutional requirements of
   citizenship, but also not providing any college or university records, passports, Illinois legislative records, U.S.senate records, medical records...etc..etc.. We essentially know nothing about
   this man other than he is a andquot;community organizerandquot; and has been involved in Chicago politics and has associated with a laundry list of less than... +++ Description copied
   from&lt;a style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; COLOR: rgb(66,114,219); FONT-SIZE: 13px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; TEXT-DECORATION: none; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"
   dir="ltr" class="yt-uix-redirect-link" title="http://www.disclose.tv" href="http://www.disclose.tv/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.disclose.tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=
   "Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;+++&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;
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</summary><rights>Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</rights></entry><entry><title>NPR Muslim Brotherhood Investigation Part I</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://johnmatyi.com/2011/03/10/npr-muslim-brotherhood-investigation-part-i.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:johnmatyi.com,2011-03-10:eaff5be5-8cd5-4c14-a29c-b4b607896110</id><author><name>John K. Matyi</name><email>editor@johnmatyi.com</email></author><category term="Tea Party Movement" /><category term="Media Scandle" /><category term="Muslim Brotherhood" /><updated>2011-03-10T20:30:00Z</updated><published>2011-03-10T20:30:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;STRONG&gt;[John K Matyi]&lt;/STRONG&gt; Now I understand why the progressive Liberal Democrats are fighting to keep public TV funded. Where else can you make $5 Million dollars just having lunch. It just amazes me how often these people get caught telling the world how they really feel about Americans. Certainly not the sharpest knives in the drawer.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EMBED height=390 type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=480 src=http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/xd9OYJMX9t4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0 allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: 16px 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class=Apple-style-span&gt;&lt;SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px" class=Apple-style-span&gt;Senior Executives at NPR meet with Muslim Brotherhood Front Group to solicit $5mm and discuss their federal funding, Fanatical Christians, Zionists in the media, Tea Partiers, Republicans, Uneducated Americans and Juan Williams.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Featuring:&lt;BR&gt;Ron Schiller, President NPR Foundation.&lt;BR&gt;Betsy Liley, Senior Director, NPR Institutional Giving.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Reporters:&lt;BR&gt;Shaughn Adeleye as Amir Malik&lt;BR&gt;Simon Templar as Ibrahmim Kasaam.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Produced by James O'Keefe&lt;BR&gt;TheProjectVeritas.com&lt;BR&gt;Promoting Modern-Day Muckrakers.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Song Licensed by FriendlyMusic.com&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</content><summary>&lt;strong&gt;[John K Matyi]&lt;/strong&gt; Now I understand why the progressive Liberal Democrats are fighting to keep public TV funded. Where else can you make $5 Million dollars just having lunch. It just
amazes me how often these people get caught telling the world how they really feel about Americans. Certainly not the sharpest knives in the drawer. &lt;br&gt;
 &lt;br&gt;
&lt;embed height="390" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/xd9OYJMX9t4?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;span style=
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      class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Senior Executives at NPR meet with Muslim Brotherhood Front
      Group to solicit $5mm and discuss their federal funding, Fanatical Christians, Zionists in the media, Tea Partiers, Republicans, Uneducated Americans and Juan Williams.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
 Featuring:&lt;br&gt;
 Ron Schiller, President NPR Foundation.&lt;br&gt;
 Betsy Liley, Senior Director, NPR Institutional Giving.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
 Reporters:&lt;br&gt;
 Shaughn Adeleye as Amir Malik&lt;br&gt;
 Simon Templar as Ibrahmim Kasaam.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
 Produced by James O'Keefe&lt;br&gt;
 TheProjectVeritas.com&lt;br&gt;
 Promoting Modern-Day Muckrakers.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
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</summary><rights>Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</rights></entry><entry><title>Progressive Leftists Embrace Muslim Brotherhood Co-Conspirators at UCF - Free Speach Denied</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://johnmatyi.com/2011/03/04/progressive-leftists-embrace-muslim-bro.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:johnmatyi.com,2011-03-04:e716b39b-f390-408d-9983-25f07a62465f</id><author><name>John K. Matyi</name><email>editor@johnmatyi.com</email></author><category term="1st Amendment" /><category term="Muslim Brotherhood" /><updated>2011-03-04T13:08:00Z</updated><published>2011-03-04T13:08:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir=ltr&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"&gt;[John K Matyi]&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt; As pointed out in&lt;A href="http://bigpeace.com/jguandolo/2011/02/23/university-of-central-florida-stifles-discussion-of-terrorism-and-muslim-brotherhood/" target=_blank&gt;Andrew Breitbart's excellent article&lt;/A&gt; : &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class=Apple-style-span color=#000000 size=2 face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;A href="http://bigpeace.com/jguandolo/2011/02/23/university-of-central-florida-stifles-discussion-of-terrorism-and-muslim-brotherhood/" target=_blank&gt;University of Central Florida Stifles Discussion of Terrorism and Muslim Brotherhood&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;"If the President of the University of Central Florida (UCF), Dr. John Hitt, were arrested tomorrow for material support of terrorism, he might finally begin to understand the irresponsible and dangerous actions he continues to allow his university to take in giving terrorist supporters a platform."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;It should be obvious to most, including those who think giving radicals what they want, that if we contine to ignore and deny our own rights and liberties, we will soon lose them. The liberals at this university think they are using the Muslim Brotherhood to express their own beliefs, they do not understand that it is the university that is being used. If not for the 'New Media'&amp;nbsp; (&lt;A href="http://bigpeace.com/jguandolo/2011/02/23/university-of-central-florida-stifles-discussion-of-terrorism-and-muslim-brotherhood/" target=_blank&gt;Big Peace&lt;/A&gt; ), this kind of information would never see the light of day. Wake up Anerica, we will soon lose our country with hardly a shot fired.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;EMBED height=510 type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=853 src=http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/NqUhf7Q_0Sc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0 originalAttribute="src" originalPath="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/NqUhf7Q_0Sc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Please post this on your Facebook page.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</content><summary>   &lt;p style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"&gt;[John K Matyi]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; As pointed out in&lt;a href=
   "http://bigpeace.com/jguandolo/2011/02/23/university-of-central-florida-stifles-discussion-of-terrorism-and-muslim-brotherhood/" target="_blank"&gt;Andrew Breitbart's excellent article&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;font style=
"LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
      class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href=
      "http://bigpeace.com/jguandolo/2011/02/23/university-of-central-florida-stifles-discussion-of-terrorism-and-muslim-brotherhood/" target="_blank"&gt;University of Central Florida Stifles Discussion
      of Terrorism and Muslim Brotherhood&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;
 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"If the President of the University of Central Florida (UCF), Dr. John Hitt, were arrested tomorrow for material support of terrorism, he might finally begin to understand the
irresponsible and dangerous actions he continues to allow his university to take in giving terrorist supporters a platform."&lt;br&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;
It should be obvious to most, including those who think giving radicals what they want, that if we contine to ignore and deny our own rights and liberties, we will soon lose them. The liberals at
this university think they are using the Muslim Brotherhood to express their own beliefs, they do not understand that it is the university that is being used. If not for the 'New Media'&amp;nbsp;
(&lt;a href="http://bigpeace.com/jguandolo/2011/02/23/university-of-central-florida-stifles-discussion-of-terrorism-and-muslim-brotherhood/" target="_blank"&gt;Big Peace&lt;/a&gt; ), this kind of information
would never see the light of day. Wake up Anerica, we will soon lose our country with hardly a shot fired.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;embed height="510" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="853" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/NqUhf7Q_0Sc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"
originalpath="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/NqUhf7Q_0Sc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" originalattribute="src"&gt; &lt;br&gt;
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</summary><rights>Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</rights></entry><entry><title>GAO Details Billions in Federal Waste --- Report Obtained by Fox News</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://johnmatyi.com/2011/03/01/gao-details-billions-in-federal-waste-----report-obtained-by-fox-news.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:johnmatyi.com,2011-03-01:e5fb373e-0379-4bde-88b7-cec5db833130</id><author><name>John K. Matyi</name><email>editor@johnmatyi.com</email></author><category term="Biological Attack" /><category term="Congressional Budget Office" /><category term="Federal Spending" /><category term="Effectiveness Research" /><category term="federal deficit" /><category term="Deficit Spending" /><category term="Economics" /><category term="Defense Budget" /><category term="TAXES" /><category term="Consumer Advisory" /><category term="bipartisanship" /><category term="Economic Apocalypse" /><updated>2011-03-01T14:30:00Z</updated><published>2011-03-01T14:30:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;FONT style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class=Apple-style-span color=#000000 face="arial, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;[John K Matyi]&lt;/STRONG&gt; If we continue to ignore the waste and duplication in federal spending we have no one to blame but ourselves. I don't care what your political affilliation is, if you don't get extremely angry when you read this article there is no hope for our future as Americans. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"At a press conference in the U.S. Capitol, Senate Republicans call for an end to the Democrats' spending spree, which includes &lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;U&gt;billions of dollars in duplicate spending&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;, and invite congressional Democrats to join them in crafting legislation that emphasizes fiscal responsibility."&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;IFRAME title="YouTube video player" height=510 src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tEFooJatKsE?rel=0" frameBorder=0 width=640&gt;&lt;/IFRAME&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class=Apple-style-span color=#000000 face="arial, sans-serif"&gt;[Fox News] &lt;A href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/02/28/gao-details-billions-federal-waste-report-obtained-fox?cmpid=cmty_twitter_Gigya_GAO_Details_Billions_in_Federal_Waste_---_Report_Obtained_by_Fox" target=_blank&gt;As members of Congress fight over what to cut in the current federal budget &lt;/A&gt;to avert a government shutdown, lawmakers are about to receive a blockbuster report that could provide a roadmap to potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in waste. The nonpartisan&lt;FONT class=Apple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A style="OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px" class=r_lapi href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/government-accountability-office.htm#r_src=ramp"&gt;Government Accountability Office&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT class=Apple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;(GAO) is poised to release a report Tuesday that one senator said "will make us all look like jackasses."&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Read more:&lt;FONT class=Apple-converted-space&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A style="OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; COLOR: rgb(0,51,153)" href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/02/28/gao-details-billions-federal-waste-report-obtained-fox?cmpid=cmty_twitter_Gigya_GAO_Details_Billions_in_Federal_Waste_---_Report_Obtained_by_Fox#ixzz1FMJBIJws"&gt;http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/02/28/gao-details-billions-federal-waste-report-obtained-fox?cmpid=cmty_twitter_Gigya_GAO_Details_Billions_in_Federal_Waste_---_Report_Obtained_by_Fox#ixzz1FMJBIJws&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</content><summary>      &lt;span style=
      "text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: 12px arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0,0,0); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"
      class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[John K Matyi]&lt;/strong&gt; If we continue to ignore the waste and duplication in federal spending we have no one to blame but ourselves. I don't care what your
      political affilliation is, if you don't get extremely angry when you read this article there is no hope for our future as Americans.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
 "At a press conference in the U.S. Capitol, Senate Republicans call for an end to the Democrats' spending spree, which includes &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;billions of dollars
in duplicate spending&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and invite congressional Democrats to join them in crafting legislation that emphasizes fiscal responsibility."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;
 &lt;br&gt;
&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tEFooJatKsE?rel=0" frameborder="0" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;br&gt;
 &lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style=
"text-align: left; widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: medium arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0,0,0); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"
      class="Apple-style-span"&gt;[Fox News] &lt;a href=
      "http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/02/28/gao-details-billions-federal-waste-report-obtained-fox?cmpid=cmty_twitter_Gigya_GAO_Details_Billions_in_Federal_Waste_---_Report_Obtained_by_Fox"
      target="_blank"&gt;As members of Congress fight over what to cut in the current federal budget&lt;/a&gt; to avert a government shutdown, lawmakers are about to receive a blockbuster report that could
      provide a roadmap to potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in waste. The nonpartisan&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=
      "http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/government-accountability-office.htm#r_src=ramp" style="outline-width: 0px;" class="r_lapi"&gt;Government Accountability Office&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=
      "Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(GAO) is poised to release a report Tuesday that one senator said "will make us all look like jackasses."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
 Read more:&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=
"http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/02/28/gao-details-billions-federal-waste-report-obtained-fox?cmpid=cmty_twitter_Gigya_GAO_Details_Billions_in_Federal_Waste_---_Report_Obtained_by_Fox#ixzz1FMJBIJws"
   style=
   "outline-width: 0px; color: rgb(0,51,153);"&gt;http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/02/28/gao-details-billions-federal-waste-report-obtained-fox?cmpid=cmty_twitter_Gigya_GAO_Details_Billions_in_Federal_Waste_---_Report_Obtained_by_Fox#ixzz1FMJBIJws&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;

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</summary><rights>Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</rights></entry><entry><title>Alabama weapon laws (including a link to other states).</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://johnmatyi.com/2011/02/26/alabama-weapon-laws-including-a-link-to-other-states.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:johnmatyi.com,2011-02-26:d1742b79-3ccc-4885-8600-ba6e587cfd56</id><author><name>John K. Matyi</name><email>editor@johnmatyi.com</email></author><category term="1st Amendment" /><category term="Al Gore" /><updated>2011-02-26T16:50:00Z</updated><published>2011-02-26T16:50:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
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[&lt;b&gt;John K Matyi]&lt;/b&gt; As I often carry "Open Carry," especially in the warmer weather, here are some FAQ about carrying a weapon (both concealed and open carry) in the state of Alabama.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Do I need to inform Law Enforcement that I am carrying a concealed weapon?&lt;/b&gt; From what we have found in our research there is no duty to inform law enforcement when you are carrying a concealed weapon in the State of Alabama. One USA Carry members posts, “General legal advice in Alabama is that you should inform the officer only if the traffic stop or other engagement with an officer proceeds beyond something routine.”&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;What are the laws for carrying a firearm in an automobile in Alabama?&lt;/b&gt; It is illegal to carry a pistol in a vehicle in Alabama without a license except under the following conditions.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;1. A person permitted by law to possess a pistol may, without a license, carry a pistol which is not loaded and is in a secure wrapper in a vehicle from the place of purchase to his home or place of business.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;2. A person permitted by law to possess a pistol may, without a license, carry a pistol which is not loaded and is in a secure wrapper in a vehicle to and from his home or business to a place of repair.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;3. A person permitted by law to possess a pistol may, without a license, carry a pistol which is not loaded and is in a secure wrapper in a vehicle when moving from one place of abode or business to another.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;What places are off-limits when carrying a concealed weapon in
Alabama?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Public protest – Section 13A-11-59&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;What are the laws involving alcohol and carrying a concealed weapon
in Alabama?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have found no Alabama state law that prohibits carrying a concealed
weapons permit in a establishment that serves alcohol. There are some counties
that list this as prohibited on the concealed weapons permit itself. We
recommend going by what your local sheriff and/or permit says. &lt;a href="http://www.usacarry.com/forums/alabama-discussion-firearm-news/12995-cc-alcohol-alabama.html"&gt;Click
here&lt;/a&gt; to view a discussion about carrying a concealed weapon in
establishments that serve alcohol in our &lt;a href="http://www.usacarry.com/forums/alabama-discussion-firearm-news/"&gt;Alabama
Firearms Forums&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Does Alabama have a Stand Your Ground Law AKA Castle Doctrine
Law?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, Alabama is a Castle Doctrine state and has a stand-your-ground law. To
view the exact laws &lt;a href="http://www.usacarry.com/alabama_stand_your_ground_castle_doctrine.html"&gt;click
here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;What are the Alabama Open Carry laws?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Unrestricted under
state law; some local regulation possible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Other Alabama Firearm Resources:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.ago.alabama.gov/ag_items.cfm?Issue=64" target="_blank"&gt;Alabama
Reciprocity Gun Law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.ago.alabama.gov/issue/Alabama_Weapon_Law.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Alabama Weapon Law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.nraila.org/statelawpdfs/ALSL.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;NRA-ILA:
Alabama Gun Laws&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Honors AL Permit:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;AL Permit Not Honored:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, District of Columbia, undefined&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;AL Res Permits Only:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Colorado, Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Right Denied:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Illinois, Wisconsin, American Samoa, N. Mariana Islands&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you want to keep up to date with the 2nd Amendment issues and news in this country, &lt;a href="http://www.usacarry.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; here is an invaluable site: &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.usacarry.com/"&gt;http://www.usacarry.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</content><summary>&lt;br&gt;
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[&lt;b&gt;John K Matyi]&lt;/b&gt; As I often carry "Open Carry," especially in the warmer weather, here are some FAQ about carrying a weapon (both concealed and open carry) in the state of Alabama. &lt;br&gt;
 &lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Do I need to inform Law Enforcement that I am carrying a concealed weapon?&lt;/b&gt; From what we have found in our research there is no duty to inform law enforcement when you are carrying a concealed
weapon in the State of Alabama. One USA Carry members posts, “General legal advice in Alabama is that you should inform the officer only if the traffic stop or other engagement with an officer
proceeds beyond something routine.” &lt;br&gt;
 &lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;What are the laws for carrying a firearm in an automobile in Alabama?&lt;/b&gt; It is illegal to carry a pistol in a vehicle in Alabama without a license except under the following conditions. 
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;1. A person permitted by law to possess a pistol may, without a license, carry a pistol which is not loaded and is in a secure wrapper in a vehicle from the place of purchase to his home or
place of business.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;2. A person permitted by law to possess a pistol may, without a license, carry a pistol which is not loaded and is in a secure wrapper in a vehicle to and from his home or business to a place of
repair.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;3. A person permitted by law to possess a pistol may, without a license, carry a pistol which is not loaded and is in a secure wrapper in a vehicle when moving from one place of abode or
business to another.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;What places are off-limits when carrying a concealed weapon in Alabama?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Public protest – Section 13A-11-59&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;What are the laws involving alcohol and carrying a concealed weapon in Alabama?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have found no Alabama state law that prohibits carrying a concealed weapons permit in a establishment that serves alcohol. There are some counties that list this as prohibited on the concealed
weapons permit itself. We recommend going by what your local sheriff and/or permit says. &lt;a href="http://www.usacarry.com/forums/alabama-discussion-firearm-news/12995-cc-alcohol-alabama.html"&gt;Click
here&lt;/a&gt; to view a discussion about carrying a concealed weapon in establishments that serve alcohol in our &lt;a href="http://www.usacarry.com/forums/alabama-discussion-firearm-news/"&gt;Alabama Firearms
Forums&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Does Alabama have a Stand Your Ground Law AKA Castle Doctrine Law?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, Alabama is a Castle Doctrine state and has a stand-your-ground law. To view the exact laws &lt;a href="http://www.usacarry.com/alabama_stand_your_ground_castle_doctrine.html"&gt;click here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;What are the Alabama Open Carry laws?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Unrestricted under state law; some local regulation possible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Other Alabama Firearm Resources:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.ago.alabama.gov/ag_items.cfm?Issue=64" target="_blank"&gt;Alabama Reciprocity Gun Law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.ago.alabama.gov/issue/Alabama_Weapon_Law.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Alabama Weapon Law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.nraila.org/statelawpdfs/ALSL.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;NRA-ILA: Alabama Gun Laws&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Honors AL Permit:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah,
Vermont, Wyoming&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;AL Permit Not Honored:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, District of Columbia, undefined&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;AL Res Permits Only:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Colorado, Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Right Denied:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Illinois, Wisconsin, American Samoa, N. Mariana Islands&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you want to keep up to date with the 2nd Amendment issues and news in this country, &lt;a href="http://www.usacarry.com/" target="" class=""&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; here is an invaluable site: &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=
"http://www.usacarry.com/" target="" class=""&gt;http://www.usacarry.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</summary><rights>Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</rights></entry><entry><title>Federal Reserve Cannot (or will not)Account for $9 Trillion!</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://johnmatyi.com/2011/02/13/federal-reserve-cannot-or-will-notaccount-for-9-trillion.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:johnmatyi.com,2011-02-13:9118e899-3570-4b35-af07-681bd14a5a8d</id><author><name>John K. Matyi</name><email>editor@johnmatyi.com</email></author><category term="Federal Spending" /><updated>2011-02-13T14:00:00Z</updated><published>2011-02-13T14:00:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;STRONG&gt;[John K. Matyi]&lt;/STRONG&gt; This was sent to me by a close friend and I am still shocked that this is available&amp;nbsp;to the public. So here is the QUESTION: &lt;STRONG&gt;We all know we are broke, but does anyone know where the money has gone? &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;IFRAME title="YouTube video player" height=510 src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqM2tFOxLQ?rel=0" frameBorder=0 width=640&gt;&lt;/IFRAME&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;You can go &lt;A href="http://dailybail.com/home/there-are-no-words-to-describe-the-following-part-ii.html" target=_blank&gt;HERE to see The Daily Bail &lt;/A&gt;which is where I found this video. It now appears that not only are we broke (to the extent of $30K per person in the US), but no one has been guarding the chicken coop. Please let your friends know about this video. Thank you.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;You can do your own research &lt;A href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=WHO+IS+KEEPING+TRACK+OF+THE+TRILLIONS%3F%0A%0AThe+Federal+Reserve+Awareness+Project&amp;amp;form=APPCS1" target=_blank&gt;on this topic HERE&lt;/A&gt; . There are over 1 million results (you don't have to read them all) on my Bing search on the Federal Researve.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</content><summary>&lt;strong&gt;[John K. Matyi]&lt;/strong&gt; This was sent to me by a close friend and I am still shocked that this is available&amp;nbsp;to the public. So here is the QUESTION: &lt;strong&gt;We all know we are broke, but
does anyone know where the money has gone?&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cJqM2tFOxLQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;br&gt;
 &lt;br&gt;
You can go &lt;a href="http://dailybail.com/home/there-are-no-words-to-describe-the-following-part-ii.html" target="_blank"&gt;HERE to see The Daily Bail&lt;/a&gt; which is where I found this video. It now
appears that not only are we broke (to the extent of $30K per person in the US), but no one has been guarding the chicken coop. Please let your friends know about this video. Thank you. &lt;br&gt;
 &lt;br&gt;
You can do your own research &lt;a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=WHO+IS+KEEPING+TRACK+OF+THE+TRILLIONS%3F%0A%0AThe+Federal+Reserve+Awareness+Project&amp;amp;form=APPCS1" target="_blank"&gt;on this topic
HERE&lt;/a&gt; . There are over 1 million results (you don't have to read them all) on my Bing search on the Federal Researve. &lt;br&gt;
 &lt;br&gt;
</summary><rights>Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</rights></entry><entry><title>Dream Act is a Nightmare! Numbers USA agrees, noting that Congress was flooded last week with phone calls opposing passage of the DREAM Act.</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://johnmatyi.com/2010/12/14/numbers-usa-agrees-noting-that-congress-was-flooded-last-week-with-phone-calls-opposing-passage-of-the-dream-act.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:johnmatyi.com,2010-12-14:4ab94952-de33-4652-ba19-eb0af30683ab</id><author><name>John K. Matyi</name><email>editor@johnmatyi.com</email></author><updated>2010-12-14T16:01:00Z</updated><published>2010-12-14T16:01:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;We must act now to save our country. We don't need another bad bill to try and overturn in January. The Progressives never sleep!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/december-6-2010/senate-vote-dream-act-amnesty-likely-come-next-week.html" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(8, 95, 152); font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;Numbers USA agrees&lt;/a&gt;, noting that Congress was flooded last week with phone calls opposing passage of the DREAM Act.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "&gt;Numbers USA has targeted the following 10 senators as undecided votes on the DREAM Act:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;DC: (202) 224-6665 Local: (907) 271-3735&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;Mary Landrieu, D-Louis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;DC: (202) 224-5824 Local: (225) 389-0395&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;Susan Collins, R-Maine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;DC: (202) 224-2523 Local: (207) 622-8414&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;&lt;span id="IL_AD5" class="IL_AD" style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;Olympia&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Snowe, R-Maine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;DC: (202) 224-5344 Local: (207) 622-8292&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;DC: (202) 224-4822 Local: (313) 961-4330&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;DC: (202) 224-6154 Local: (314) 367-1364&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;Max Baucus, D-Mont.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;DC: (202) 224-2651 Local: (406) 657-6790&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;DC: (202) 224-2551 Local: (701) 250-4618&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;Kent Conrad, D-N.D.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;DC: (202) 224-2043 Local: (701) 258-4648&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "&gt;DC: (202) 224-3954 Local: (304) 264-4626&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=239397" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(8, 95, 152); font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=239397&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; position: static !important; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</content><summary>&lt;div&gt;We must act now to save our country. We don't need another bad bill to try and overturn in January. The Progressives never sleep!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;a href=
"http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/december-6-2010/senate-vote-dream-act-amnesty-likely-come-next-week.html" style=
"text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(8, 95, 152); font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;Numbers USA agrees&lt;/a&gt;, noting that Congress was flooded last week with phone calls opposing passage
of the DREAM Act.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Numbers USA has targeted the following 10 senators as
undecided votes on the DREAM Act:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;li style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Lisa Murkowski,
    R-Alaska&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;DC: (202) 224-6665 Local: (907)
271-3735&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Mary Landrieu, D-Louis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style=
"font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;DC: (202) 224-5824 Local: (225)
389-0395&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Susan Collins, R-Maine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style=
"font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;DC: (202) 224-2523 Local: (207)
622-8414&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;&lt;span id="IL_AD5" class="IL_AD" style=
"font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;Olympia&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Snowe, R-Maine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;DC: (202) 224-5344 Local: (207)
622-8292&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Debbie Stabenow,
    D-Mich.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;DC: (202) 224-4822 Local: (313)
961-4330&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Claire McCaskill,
    D-Missouri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;DC: (202) 224-6154 Local: (314)
367-1364&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Max Baucus, D-Mont.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style=
"font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;DC: (202) 224-2651 Local: (406)
657-6790&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style=
"font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;DC: (202) 224-2551 Local: (701)
250-4618&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: square; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Kent Conrad, D-N.D.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style=
"font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;DC: (202) 224-2043 Local: (701)
258-4648&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;br style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=
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&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style=
"font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;DC: (202) 224-3954 Local: (304)
264-4626&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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</summary><rights>Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</rights></entry><entry><title>Ruminations, November 28, 2010   The dollar slides some more and the Russians see red, and more!</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://johnmatyi.com/2010/11/30/ruminations-november-28-2010-men-as-victims-of-sexism-when-can-we-withdraw-from-afghanistan.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:johnmatyi.com,2010-11-30:8dc94c89-1e65-49f5-b43c-c828874294a3</id><author><name>John K. Matyi</name><email>editor@johnmatyi.com</email></author><category term="Robert J. Kulak" /><category term="Ruminations" /><updated>2010-11-30T13:26:00Z</updated><published>2010-11-30T13:26:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;
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&lt;h3 class="sf_blog_posttitle" style="font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold !important; color: #1d4e6c;"&gt;Ruminations, November 28, 2010,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; " face="'lucida grande'" color="#333333"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/8/2/8/6/3/146049-136828/robert_kulak.jpg" width="90" style="border-top-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); width: 90px; height: 75px; float: left; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; " border="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; " color="#333333"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 12px; "&gt;Robert Kulak received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and economics and his graduate degree in insurance. An Air force veteran,he has consulted nationally and internationally in information systems. He has written international publications on subjects as diverse as political commentary,humor and healthcare. His articles are also regularly published on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-15968-Hartford-Independent-Examiner" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #1d4e6c;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 12px; "&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 12px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;where he is the 'Hartford Independent Examiner&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; " class="MsoNormal" align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Ruminations,
November 28, 2010&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;The
dollar slides some more and the Russians see red.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Speaking
in &lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:state w:st="on"&gt;Berlin&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; last
week, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that the euro may replace the
dollar and become the new world reserve currency. This coming on the heels of
Chinese-Russian bilateral trade talks in which the participants agreed not to
use dollars as the measure of trade, but to work in local currencies. Neither of
these events should have been a surprise, because 17 months ago
&lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;Brazil&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;Russia&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;India&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;China&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; met in &lt;st1:city w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;Moscow&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; to discuss the possibility of a new
world reserve currency to replace the dollar.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;But
given the sovereign bailouts (e.g., &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;Greece&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;Ireland&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;) and potential bailouts
(&lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;Portugal&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and &lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;Spain&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;),
the likelihood that the euro may replace the dollar as the world reserve
currency is slim. Add to this the statement last week by &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble to the Bundestag, "We're not
swimming in money, we're drowning in debts." &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;In
fact at this point, there is concern that the euro may not survive. Two weeks
ago, EU President &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Herman
Van Rompuy said, "We all have to work together in order to survive with the euro
zone, because if we don't survive with the euro zone we will not survive with
the European Union."&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 9pt; " face="verdana" color="black"&gt;
&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 9pt; " face="verdana" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;If
that’s the case, then why did Putin make his statement? It may be
that:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in; list-style-type: disc;"&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial"&gt;He
    did it to show solidarity with the European Union, which derives much of its
    energy from &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;Russia&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. Further to that end, last
    week he proposed a free-trade zone between &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;Russia&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and the
    European Union.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial"&gt;He
    did it to throw a diplomatic wedge between the &lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;United
    States&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; and the EU.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial"&gt;He
    did it to cause concern in &lt;st1:state w:st="on"&gt;Washington&lt;/st1:state&gt; about the
    &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;U.S.&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; current policy to use
    inflation (i.e., Quantitative Easing) as a tool to move the &lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;United
    States&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; out of the
    recession.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;In
the past, Russia/Soviet Union made several attempts, usually militarily, to
cause a rift between Western Europe and the &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;United States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;.
Now it appears that &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;Russia&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;
may use the weapon that the &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;U.S.&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; used to contribute to the break-up of the
&lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;Soviet Union&lt;/st1:place&gt; – economics. This time, it might
work.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Who
runs the White House?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;During
the presidency of George W. Bush, it was an article of faith among extreme
leftists that Bush was not very bright, had a frat-boy mentality and did not
really run the American government; the government was run by, according to this
group, Vice President Dick Cheney. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;This
is nothing new. During Ronald Reagan’s Administration, there was also a group of
extreme leftists that thought Reagan to be an “amiable dunce” and that the
American government was run by an anonymous group of arch-conservatives.
&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Both
these assessments were patently wrong. But, that does bring a new question: Who
is running the White House now?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Obama
is running his own foreign policy, but is he running domestic policy? In 2010,
Scott Brown won the special senatorial election in &lt;st1:state w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt; and said
that he would be the 41&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; vote to stop the Obama Healthcare bill. In
a subsequent Democratic leadership meeting, it was reported that Obama was ready
to concede defeat on this issue but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) turned
the meeting around and said that there were tactics that could be used to force
the health care bill through Congress in spite of Brown, and she won the
day.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;After
the Republican victory this fall, White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod
suggested that Obama may be willing to compromise and support a limited
extension of the Bush-era tax cuts. Not so, said Pelosi: the tax cuts would
apply to those earning under $200,000 only. Now, constitutionally, spending
bills originate in the House and Pelosi does have the leadership authority on
what tax bills are written. But, normally the party of the President follows his
leadership; in this case, Pelosi may prevail again.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;We
can’t really say that Pelosi is “running the White House” on domestic issues but
she is influential; very influential. And, like her policies or not, she has
been successful. If she ever does put on a foreign policy hat, then may be we
will have to really wonder: Who’s running the White House?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;Healthcare missed $80 billion&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;In the 2,600 pages of the Healthcare act, there are numerous items with
financial implications and its proponents have touted the savings that the
Healthcare will bring to the nation. But they left $80 billion on the table.
&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;In a recent working paper produced by the Cato Institute (a conservative
think tank), Michael Cannon posits that of $113 billion annual medical
malpractice payments made each year, only $33 billion ends up with patients.
That’s $80 billion that could have been saved, had Congress acted upon it. (For
the full report, see
&lt;a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/researchnotes/WorkingPaper-3.pdf.)&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"&gt;www.cato.org/pubs/researchnotes/WorkingPaper-3.pdf.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/researchnotes/WorkingPaper-3.pdf.)&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/researchnotes/WorkingPaper-3.pdf.)&amp;lt;o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/o:p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;Put it another way: given the number of people who were insured in the
year of the study, it cost each insured American $400 per year to cover medical
malpractice. And of that $400-per-person cost, $285 did not end up in the
pockets of the patients. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;Why didn’t Congress address this? It would be cynical to say because
trial lawyers are big contributors to the Democratic Party and that the authors
of the bill would rather collect $180 million in campaign donations than to cut
expense for taxpayers by $80 billion. But, let’s not get stuck on cynical: It’s
not that the Democrats were sacrificing the country for political payoffs; it
was that the trial lawyers were rewarding the politicians for agreeing with
them. The only way to ensure that medical practitioners are vigilant, the
lawyers believe, is to threaten them with malpractice financial
penalties.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;But
still, while health insurers returned an average of 3.3 percent profit in 2009,
according to Forbes, their profits were a target of the Obama health care
proponents. It would seem that that either that the bill’s authors had a poor
understanding of fiscal reality or that they were so intent on passing something
that they ignored some of the potential savings.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;If
you knew nothing else about the health care bill, wouldn’t you become a little
suspicious of the abilities and/or motivations of people who left $80 billion on
the table?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;A council of elders&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;When dealing with foreign powers, American Presidents call in their
foreign policy team consisting of cabinet members and experts in appropriate
fields. This is as it should be, but is it enough?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt; " lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;In a week, or so, Russian President &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Dmitry
Medvedev will pay a state visit to &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;Poland&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. In view of the long and
contentious relationship between the two states, this could be a critical
meeting for them. As with American Presidents, Polish President Bronislaw
Komorowski has consulted with his cabinet and experts. But he has gone one step
further: he has called in for council all living Polish Presidents and prime
ministers of the democratic era – and even included communist-era leader
Wojciech Jaruzelski.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Wouldn’t
it be equally wise if President Barack Obama sought foreign affairs counsel from
former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmie
Carter? They have all led the &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;United
States&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, dealt with similar situations and have had the
interests of the &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;United
States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; at heart. Of course there are political
differences, but if the President of Poland feels comfortable enough to bring in
former communist Jaruzelski, how much worse could an adverse American political
party be?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Maybe
American presidents could learn something from an ally. Just
saying.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;A
touch of class&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Connecticut
Republican candidate for the Senate Linda McMahon lost in November’s election.
Three weeks after the election, no one expected to see her on television again
but there she was in another ad: &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.5in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;“&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;I'm
Linda McMahon. I recently ran for the United States Senate in &lt;st1:state w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;Connecticut&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;. I&amp;nbsp;didn't win
the election, but to everyone whose hand I shook, who touched my heart and who
challenged my thinking throughout the campaign, I want to say: 'Thank You.' I am
proud of what we accomplished. I appreciate your support and I hope that you and
your family have a Happy Thanksgiving and a wonderful holiday
season.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Some
have speculated that she ran the ad because she was planning a new campaign.
Maybe so. But how many others of the thousands of candidates who lost elections
(not to mention those who won elections) took out ads to wish voters “Happy
Thanksgiving and a wonderful holiday season.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;It
showed a touch of class.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;Quote
without comment&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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J. Samuelson, writing in &lt;i&gt;The Washington
Post&lt;/i&gt;, December 7, 2009: “&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt; " face="arial" color="black"&gt;President
Obama's critics sometimes say that he is engineering a government takeover of
health care … What's happening is the reverse, which is more interesting and
alarming: Health care is taking over government.”&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Rob Kulak&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Copyright JohnMatyi.com 2010</content><summary>    &lt;h3 class="sf_blog_posttitle" style="font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold !important; color: #1d4e6c;"&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h3 class="sf_blog_posttitle" style="font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold !important; color: #1d4e6c;"&gt;Ruminations, November 28, 2010,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h3 class="sf_blog_posttitle" style="font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold !important; color: #1d4e6c;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;" face=
"arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;b style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;"&gt;&lt;font style=
"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;The dollar slides some more and the Russians see
red.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;font face="arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;b style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;"&gt;&lt;font style=
"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;Who runs the White House?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px;" face="'lucida grande'" color="#333333"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/8/2/8/6/3/146049-136828/robert_kulak.jpg"
     width="90" style=
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     border="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px;" color="#333333"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;Robert Kulak received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and
     economics and his graduate degree in insurance. An Air force veteran,he has consulted nationally and internationally in information systems. He has written international publications on subjects
     as diverse as political commentary,humor and healthcare. His articles are also regularly published on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-15968-Hartford-Independent-Examiner" target=
     "_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #1d4e6c;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;where he is the 'Hartford Independent
     Examiner&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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   class="MsoNormal" align="justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;Ruminations, November 28, 2010&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN" face="arial" color=
"black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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   class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;The dollar slides some more and the Russians see red.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=
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   class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;Speaking in Berlin last week, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that the euro may
   replace the dollar and become the new world reserve currency. This coming on the heels of Chinese-Russian bilateral trade talks in which the participants agreed not to use dollars as the measure
   of trade, but to work in local currencies. Neither of these events should have been a surprise, because 17 months ago Brazil, Russia, India and China met in Moscow to discuss the possibility of a
   new world reserve currency to replace the dollar.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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   class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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   class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;But given the sovereign bailouts (e.g., Greece and Ireland) and potential bailouts (Portugal and
   Spain), the likelihood that the euro may replace the dollar as the world reserve currency is slim. Add to this the statement last week by&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font style=
   "letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN" face="arial" color="black"&gt;German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble to the Bundestag, "We're not swimming in money, we're drowning in
   debts."&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;In fact at this point, there is concern that the euro may not survive. Two weeks ago, EU
   President&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;Herman Van Rompuy said, "We all have to work together in order to survive with the euro zone,
   because if we don't survive with the euro zone we will not survive with the European Union."&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=
"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;"
   class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 9pt;" face="verdana" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=
"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;"
   class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;If that’s the case, then why did Putin make his statement? It may be that:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=
"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white;"
   class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial"&gt;He did it to show solidarity with the European Union, which derives much of its energy from Russia. Further to
    that end, last week he proposed a free-trade zone between Russia and the European Union.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=
"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; color: black;"
    class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial"&gt;He did it to throw a diplomatic wedge between the United States and the EU.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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    class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial"&gt;He did it to cause concern in Washington about the U.S. current policy to use inflation (i.e., Quantitative
    Easing) as a tool to move the United States out of the recession.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style=
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   class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-size: 10pt;" face="arial" color="black"&gt;In the past, Russia/Soviet Union made several attempts, usually militarily, to cause a rift
   between Western Europe and the United States. Now it appears that Russia may use the weapon that the U.S.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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