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50 Most Powerful and Influential Men in Social Media

by Ron Hudson

Posted on | October 21, 2008 |

Last week, as you probably know, I published a list of the 50 Most Powerful & Influential Women in Social Media. It caused quite a stir on the internet. In fact, this blog was visited by over 2,000 unique visitors the day the list was published. I truly appreciate each of you who visited that day and the following days.

One of the amazing but unforeseen results was the nearly 200 or more visitors who left comments. Most of the comments were about one or more people that they felt should’ve been included on that list. That was fantastic.

However, all the comments were not approved for various reasons. e.g., not nice, not constructive or spam. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but please be polite, courteous, and professional to ensure that your comment will be approved. Thank you!

With that in mind, here’s the list of the 50 Most Powerful & Influential Men in Social Media:

1. Michael Arrington | www.techcrunch.com

Rank: 4076 | Linking in: 26,705

2. Pete Cashmore | www.mashable.com

Rank: 6,977 | Linking in: 15,105

3. Darren Rowse | www.problogger.net

Rank: 45,859 | Linking in: 8,734

4. John Dvorak | dvorak.org/blog

Rank: 46,169 | Linking in: 2,009

5. Frank Kern | www.masscontrolsite.com

Rank: 69,096 | Linking in: 180

6. Aaron Brazell | technosailor.com


Rank: 78,019 | Linking in: 1,123

7. Jason Calacanis | calacanis.com

Rank: 87,831 | Linking in: 2,813

8. Steve Rubel | www.micropersuasion.com

Rank: 87,428 | Linking in: 4,232

9. Willie Crawford | williecrawford.com/blog2/

Rank: 90,848 | Linking in: 387

10. Jeremy Schoemaker | www.shoemoney.com

Rank: 101,291 | Linking in: 3,153

11. Leo Laporte | leoville.com/

Rank: 103,445 | Linking in: 824

12. Brian Solis | www.briansolis.com

Rank: 103,873 | Linking in: 941

13. Dr. Mani | ezinemarketingcenter.com/


Rank: 111,254 | Linking in: 178

14. Joel Comm | joelcomm.com

Rank: 116,064 | Linking in: 455

15. Kevin Rose | kevinrose.com

Rank: 117,490 | Linking in: 372

16. Peter Shankman | www.shankman.com

Rank: 118,363 | Linking in: 147

17. Fred Wilson | avc.com

Rank: 119,697 | Linking in: 212

18. Alejandro Reyes | www.successfool.com

Rank: 123,815 | Linking in: 138

19. Gary Vaynerchuk | garyvaynerchuk.com

Rank: 126,983 | Linking in: 408

20. Loren Feldman | www.1938media.com


Rank: 130,510 | Linking in: 587

21. John-Paul Micek | tribalseduction.com/blog/

Rank: 131,223 | Linking in: 109

22. Bob Jenkins | askbobtheteacher.com/blog/

Rank: 133,414 | Linking in: 46

23. Charles Heflin | charlesheflin.com

Rank: 137,361 | Linking in: 51

24. Jeremiah Owyang | web-strategist.com/blog/

Rank: 140,943 | Linking in: 2,544

25. Guy Kawasaki | alltop.com

Rank: 141,299 | Linking in: 1,745

26. Brian Campbell | www.socialmediamarketingsystem.com

Rank: 145,783 | Linking in: 26

27. Brian Clark | www.copyblogger.com


Rank: 160,034 | Linking in: 5,541

28. Robert Scoble | scobleizer.com

Rank: 172,114 | Linking in: 6,446

29. David Bullock | www.davidbullock.com

Rank: 177,325 | Linking in: 98

30. Evan Williams | evhead.com

Rank: 179,093 | Linking in: 1,292

31. Alex Albrecht | www.totallyradshow.com

Rank: 207,687 | Linking in: 104

32. Doug Firebaugh | www.passionfire.com

Rank: 209,503 | Linking in: 299

33. John Reese | income.com

Rank: 223,014 | Linking in: 481

34. Ron Capps | www.nicheprof.com


Rank: 249,536 | Linking in: 53

35. Timothy Carter | theresidualincomelifestyle.com

Rank: 281,062 | Linking in: 42

36. Chris Brogan | www.chrisbrogan.com

Rank: 282,439 | Linking in: 1932

37. Jack Humphrey | www.jackhumphrey.com

Rank: 289,758 | Linking in: 668

38. Mark Davidson | twitterstars.com

Rank: 316,034 | Linking in: 8

39. Vincent Wright | mylinkingpowerforum.ning.com

Rank: 324,857 | Linking in: 38

40. Jim Turner | jimturnersmm.ning.com

Rank: 393,091 | Linking in: 0

41. Blair Warren | www.blairwarren.com


Rank: 384,204 | Linking in: 66

42. Mike O’Neil | www.integratedalliances.com

Rank: 465,698 | Linking in: 36

43. Wayne Sutton | wayne-sutton.com

Rank: 497,921 | Linking in: 131

44. Dave Lahkani | www.subliminalpersuasionbook.com/blog/

Rank: 581,749 | Linking in: 22

45. Ross Goldberg | www.mastersseminar.com

Rank: 642,790 | Linking in: 43

46. Alex Mandossian | www.alexmandossiantoday.com

Rank: 712,815 | Linking in: 25

47. Doug Haslam | doughaslam.com

Rank: 963,976 | Linking in: 198

48. Ben Mack | benmack.com


Rank: 1,271, 846 | Linking in: 7

49. Warren Whitlock | www.zerocostpromotions.com

Rank: 1,313,652 | Linking in: 27

50. G. Wayne Clayton | socialmarketingexpert.org/

Rank: 1,671,769 | Linking in: 2

Congratulations, gentleman! I’m grateful to have discovered you on twitter. I wish you greater success in both your personal and professional lives.

Warmly,


Ron

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The Bailout of The UAW by Steve McDonald

The UAW holds the key to the success of the U.S. auto
industry.



The recent Senate hearing with the CEOs of the big
three car manufacturers was better than most sitcoms.
The CEOs were unable to answer questions about how
they plan to pay back the loans, or just avoided the
question, or how long the loans would keep them afloat,
or how they would change their business models to avoid
asking the taxpayers to bail them out again. It went on
and on.



The CEO of GM was asked how long GM had to pay the
employees of a plant that had been closed. His answer,
“I don’t know.” How long do you think you would be
working for him with answers like that? The senator
who asked the question shook his head in disbelief
and muttered, “Unbelievable!”



The whole time the panel questioned the CEOs about how
they were cutting costs, how they plan to make their
operations profitable and how they were reducing their
pension liabilities, the answer was sitting at the end
of the table; the President of the UAW.



Autoworkers of the big three are paid significantly
more money and benefits than employees of Honda and
Toyota in plants in this country. Not in Asia, but
here. Honda and Toyota are profitable, the big three
are back for more free money from you and me.



It is so simple. GM, Ford and Chrysler cannot be
profitable with the labor agreements they have in
place. It is impossible. No one bothered to ask
the UAW president about this. He and his members
are the answer.



The real issue isn’t will we bail them out, of
course we will. A Democratic congress and a Democrat
in the White House will not jeopardize a half a
million blue-collar jobs, not if everyone knows
they are doing it. If they could sneak it through,
maybe, but not if everyone is watching.



The real question is how will congress explain to
the unions, who were a big part of Obama winning
the elections in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania,
that they have to take pay cuts for there to be
any chance their companies and jobs will survive,
even with the bailout.



What we have is a bottomless money pit or guaranteed
failure for GM and Chrysler. Ford still has a chance.



Congress and the President-elect have a huge problem.
Go the bail out route and have to do it again in eight
months if the credit markets don’t loosen up. Or, don’t
bail them out and have a bankruptcy that will shake this
country at its very roots. Or, face the music and force
the UAW to make the needed changes.



The political ramifications are so huge for any of the
options, the most likely scenario is they will blame
Bush and come up with some half-baked solution that
just pushes the problem down the road for someone
else to deal with.



Some would argue that the big three have been
making cars no one wants, and that’s why they’re
in this mess. Partially true, but no matter what
cars they make and sell, they can’t be competitive
if they don’t see some change in their labor and
pension costs.



Even if the big three have an epiphany about the
type of vehicles people want, and are willing to
buy, if they magically shift gears and come out as
the world leader in new alternative technology cars,
put the huge technological advantage this country
enjoys to work to make significant improvements to
cars and then sell it to the rest of the world,
they still won’t be competitive.



What this bailout amounts to is subsidizing the
difference between the cost of the union contracts
the big three have compared to the union contracts
Honda and Toyota have.



The big three and the UAW signed these agreements
in very different times than what we have now.
Globalization, Japanese auto makers in Ohio and
Indiana, a worldwide labor market that is putting
pressure on wages everywhere and products being
manufactured in other parts of the world at a
fraction of our costs.



The issue is quite simple. Adapt or die. We cannot
afford to continue to subsidize 1950s style
management and union thinking. This is a fight
we need to win and it will require sacrifice
from more than just the taxpayers.



Steve



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Market Watch

After the Bailout, The Detroit 3 Still
Have Work To Do

By Christian Hill



Perhaps I am being too optimistic, but I think
the government bailout of the Detroit 3 is a
foregone conclusion. In the interest of the
entire country and the national economy, the
government simply can’t let the automakers fail.
There is no denying the business model is broken,
but hopefully steps will be taken to change that.



So what does the future of the American automobile
industry look like? Will all three survive, or will
GM absorb Chrysler? No one knows for sure. But one
thing is evident: drastic changes must be made.
Continuing as is, and keeping the status quo,
will surely result in each of the automakers
being on the brink again in a few years. And if that
occurs, there is no way the government can save them
again. Chrysler lining up for a handout twice in 30
years is bad, but GM and Ford holding out their hands
twice in a few years is unacceptable (at their current
monthly burn rate, even the bailout money won’t last long).



So what changes can be made, and made quickly to save
the companies? Here are a few that would make
significant impacts.



1. Trim the fat. There is no need for GM to
have eight divisions and 76 different models.
By comparison, Toyota has three divisions and
32 different models.



2. Close plants and eliminate jobs through
consolidation. This would take serious concessions
from the UAW since it violates agreements, but
paying the costs to get it done now will save
the rest of the jobs. After all, if GM goes out
of business, all plants would close and all those
jobs would be gone.



3. Eliminate the job bank. Talks are underway
to get rid of this dinosaur. It basically guarantees
laid off workers full compensation and benefits for
not working.



4. Eliminate dealerships. Again, there are costs
involved with this, but it is necessary. There are
over 15,000 domestic car dealers, outnumbering import
dealers 3 to 1. Some of this may be handled through
attrition this year, but buyouts are needed.



Will this cure what ails the Detroit 3? Not entirely.
There are many other battles to be fought, such as
with the UAW. But to continue to operate as they
are now only guarantees failure again.



There’s no reason that the companies can’t rebound
after the bailout and become leaders once again.
When Chrysler was bailed out by the government in
1979, they made great initial strides. The K car
saved the company, and they also created the
minivan segment.



Innovation brought Chrysler back from the brink, and
the Detroit 3 need to innovate to survive this.
Electric cars or alternative fuel vehicles could lead
them into the future, and establish them as real
players again. GM has their “Flex Fuel” vehicles which
can run on E85 (still a debatable solution), the Volt
is an electric hybrid, and Dodge (Chrysler) has shown
electric vehicle concepts (Dodge EV). More innovation
is needed, but at least they are moving in that
direction. I would hope that with their backs against
the wall, they break archaic processes and really
stretch their creative minds. Bland econo-boxes
just aren’t going to bring buyers back.



I also find it interesting that Chrysler created the
minivan, which saved the company after the bailout.
The minivan morphed into the SUV, which the Detroit
3 relied on so heavily for profits, and has proven
to be what may kill them. So what once saved them
has almost become what kills them.

Ready Yourself for a GM Bankruptcy

by Charles Delvalle



It was pretty amazing.



Last Saturday I wrote about GM. Not only did I write about GM, but I also talked about how I felt they should get government assistance.



I only received one bit of reader feedback – someone debating as to exactly how many jobs would be lost if GM went bankrupt. The reader sent a screenshot of Yahoo finance where it said how many employees GM has. Then he wondered how that number could possibly turn into 2.5 million.



The answer is simple.



That employee count in Yahoo doesn’t include those employed by dealerships, suppliers, ad agencies, and mechanic shops that all rely on GM to a heavy degree. If GM goes broke, the flow of money to these companies stops. And then they layoff their workers. After about a year, we’d lose about 2.5 million workers thanks to a GM bankruptcy.



Here’s what gets me furious about all of this, though. If the government was just going to let GM go bankrupt, why did they save the financials? Wasn’t it to prevent a depression? But if GM goes bankrupt, that’s most likely what we’ll encounter – a depression.



Because if GM goes bankrupt, Chrysler will follow suit and Ford will have a hard time building cars when the entire automotive distribution network in the US nearly bankrupts completely.



Together, the big three are responsible for one out of every 10 jobs. So, if they go bankrupt, we’ll have unemployment of 16 – 17 percent within two years. That’s depression territory.



So I don’t understand why the government wouldn’t act on this immediately.



In Congress, the Republicans are holding up the bill. I knew that would happen, after all most Republicans believe in “free markets”. They feel that GM put themselves in this situation, so they deserve to go down. But didn’t the banks do the same damn thing? In fact, I’d venture to say that what the banks did was even worse. They knowingly sold crap to the American public.



The Democrats, on the other hand, want to pass a bailout bill without putting any significant restrictions on it. This I don’t agree with. If GM is going to get bailout money, they need a new plan moving forward to become and stay profitable.



Most importantly, a GM bankruptcy might be ok if the economy weren’t already circling the toilet. My fear is that if GM goes bankrupt, we’ll have another credit squeeze similar to what happened when Lehman went under. But this time, the Fed doesn’t have much ammunition left to try and make things “less bad”.



If GM goes under, banks may wonder who’s holding automotive assets and refuse to lend to each other in the suspicion that someone’s balance sheet is much smaller than it used to be. This would cause the LIBOR rate to spike higher. I also fear that more money will move into treasuries and out of every other asset. The DOW could hit 6,500 in a GM bankruptcy. And if Ford followed suit, a huge part of American manufacturing would go down the drain.



I say this to warn you that a GM bankruptcy is huge. Job losses would go through the roof and more retailers would go broke. Hell, the state of Michigan may enter default, which would be a huge mess. After all, it’s not like they could merge with the state of Illinois to reduce overhead, like banks are doing.



The times ahead are getting darker and even scarier then we could have imagined.



When will it all end? Nobody knows. But we must stay prepared and try to take advantage of any big opportunities we see.
Charles



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Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.

In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters' 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.

Alaska law does not specifically address expenses for a governor's children. The law allows for payment of expenses for anyone conducting official state business.

As governor, Palin justified having the state pay for the travel of her daughters — Bristol, 17; Willow, 14; and Piper, 7 — by noting on travel forms that the girls had been invited to attend or participate in events on the governor's schedule.

But some organizers of these events said they were surprised when the Palin children showed up uninvited, or said they agreed to a request by the governor to allow the children to attend.

Several other organizers said the children merely accompanied their mother and did not participate. The trips enabled Palin, whose main state office is in the capital of Juneau, to spend more time with her children.

"She said any event she can take her kids to is an event she tries to attend," said Jennifer McCarthy, who helped organize the June 2007 Family Day Celebration picnic in Ketchikan that Piper attended with her parents.

State Finance Director Kim Garnero told The Associated Press she has not reviewed the Palins' travel expense forms, so she could not say whether the daughters' travel with their mother would meet the definition of official business.

On Aug. 6, three weeks before Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain chose Palin his running mate, and after Alaska reporters asked for the records, Palin ordered changes to previously filed expense reports for her daughters' travel.

In the amended reports, Palin added phrases such as "First Family attending" and "First Family invited" to explain the girls' attendance.

"The governor said, 'I want the purpose and the reason for this travel to be clear,'" said Linda Perez, state director of administrative services.

When Palin released her family's tax records as part of her vice presidential campaign, some tax experts questioned why she did not report the children's state travel reimbursements as income.

The Palins released a review by a Washington attorney who said state law allows the children's travel expenses to be reimbursed and not taxed when they conduct official state business.

Taylor Griffin, a McCain-Palin campaign spokesman, said Palin followed state policy allowing governors to charge for their children's travel. He said the governor's office has invitations requesting the family to attend some events, but he said he did not have them to provide.

In October 2007, Palin brought daughter Bristol along on a trip to New York for a women's leadership conference. Plane tickets from Anchorage to La Guardia Airport for $1,385.11 were billed to the state, records show, and mother and daughter shared a room for four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House hotel, which overlooks Central Park.

The event's organizers said Palin asked if she could bring her daughter.

Alexis Gelber, who organized Newsweek's Third Annual Women & Leadership Conference, said she does not know how Bristol ended up attending. Gelber said invitees usually attend alone, but some ask if they can bring a relative or friend.

Griffin, the campaign spokesman, said he believes someone with the event personally sent an e-mail to Bristol inviting her, but he did not have it to provide. Records show Palin also met with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs representatives and visited the New York Stock Exchange.

In January, the governor, Willow and Piper showed up at the Alaska Symphony of Seafood Buffet, an Anchorage gala to announce winners of an earlier seafood competition.

"She was just there," said James Browning, executive director of Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation, which runs the event. Griffin said the governor's office received an invitation that was not specifically addressed to anyone.

When Palin amended her children's expense reports, she listed a role for the two girls at the function — "to draw two separate raffle tickets."

In the original travel form, Palin listed a number of events that her children attended and said they were there "in official capacity helping." She did not identify any specific roles for the girls.

In July, the governor charged the state $2,741.26 to take Bristol and Piper to Philadelphia for a meeting of the National Governors Association. The girls had their own room for five nights at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel for $215.46 a night, expense records show.

Expense forms describe the girls' official purpose as "NGA Governor's Youth Programs and family activities." But those programs were activities designed to keep children busy, a service provided by the NGA to accommodate governors and their families, NGA spokeswoman Jodi Omear said.

In addition to the commercial flights, the children have traveled dozens of times with Palin on a state plane. For these flights, the total cost of operating the plane, at $971 an hour, was about $55,000, according to state flight logs. The cost of operating the state plane does not increase when the children join their mother.

The organizer of an American Heart Association luncheon on Feb. 15 in Fairbanks said Palin asked to bring daughter Piper to the event, and the organizer said she was surprised when Palin showed up with daughters Willow and Bristol as well.

The three Palin daughters shared a room separate from their mother at the Princess Lodge in Fairbanks for two nights, at a cost to the state of $129 per night.

The luncheon took place before Palin's husband, Todd, finished fourth in the 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race, also in Fairbanks. The family greeted him at the finish line.

When Palin showed up at the luncheon with not just Piper but also Willow and Bristol, organizers had to scramble to make room at the main table, said Janet Bartels, who set up the event.

"When it's the governor, you just make it happen," she said.

The state is already reviewing nearly $17,000 in per diem payments to Palin for more than 300 nights she slept at her own home, 40 miles from her satellite office in Anchorage.

Tony Knowles, a Democratic former governor of Alaska who lost to Palin in a 2006 bid to reclaim the job, said he never charged the state for his three children's commercial flights or claimed their travel as official state business.

Knowles, who was governor from 1994 to 2002, is the only other recent Alaska governor who had school-age children while in office.

"There was no valid reason for the children to be along on state business," said Knowles, a supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. "I cannot recall any instance during my eight years as governor where it would have been appropriate to claim they performed state business."

Knowles said he brought his children to one NGA event while in office but didn't charge the state for their trip.

In February 2007, the three girls flew from Juneau to Anchorage on Alaska Airlines. Palin charged the state for the $519.30 round-trip ticket for each girl, and noted on the expense form that the daughters accompanied her to "open the start of the Iron Dog race."

The children and their mother then watched as Todd Palin and other racers started the competition, which Todd won that year. Palin later had the relevant expense forms changed to describe the girls' business as "First Family official starter for the start of the Iron Dog race."

The Palins began charging the state for commercial flights after the governor kept a 2006 campaign promise to sell a jet bought by her predecessor.

Palin put the jet up for sale on eBay, a move she later trumpeted in her star-making speech at the Republican National Convention, and it was ultimately sold by the state at a loss.

That left only one high-performance aircraft deemed safe enough for her to use — a 1980 twin-engine King Air assigned to the public safety agency but, according to flight logs, out of service for maintenance and repairs about a third of the time Palin has been governor.

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Wall Street Is Licking Its Chops at the Bush Team's Multi-Hundred Billion Dollar Giveaway Plan

Before I lay bare McCain,as in the emperor with no
clothes,having the Bush Administration trot out
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (former CEO of Goldman
Sachs who is a primary owner of the Federal Reserve
System as is JPMorganChase)and tell everyone that
unless we give the unscrupulous bankers $700,the
U.S.economy is going to collapse is strangely
similar to what that other Bush flunky did when
he sat at the United Nations and told the world
that unless the U.S. attacked Iraq immediately,
we would all be blown into the Stone Age because
they had weapons of mass destruction.That other
Bush flunky,unless you forget,was no other than
the former trusted General Colin Powell.Now it
seems Henry Paulson has soiled himself in public.

Let William Greider tell the story as only he can:
Wall Street Is Licking Its Chops at the Bush Team's Multi-Hundred Billion Dollar Giveaway Plan


Financial-market wise guys, who had been seized with fear, are suddenly drunk with hope. They are rallying explosively because they think they have successfully stampeded Washington into accepting the Wall Street Journal solution to the crisis: Dump it all on the taxpayers. That is the meaning of the massive bailout Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has shopped around Congress. It would relieve the major banks and investment firms of their mountainous rotten assets and make the public swallow their losses -- many hundreds of billions, maybe much more. What's not to like if you are a financial titan threatened with extinction?

If Wall Street gets away with this, it will represent an historic swindle of the American public -- all sugar for the villains, lasting pain and damage for the victims. My advice to Washington politicians: Stop, take a deep breath and examine what you are being told to do by so-called "responsible opinion." If this deal succeeds, I predict it will become a transforming event in American politics -- exposing the deep deformities in our democracy and launching a tidal wave of righteous anger and popular rebellion. As I have been saying for several months, this crisis has the potential to bring down one or both political parties, take your choice.

Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics, a brave conservative critic, put it plainly: "The joyous reception from Congressional Democrats to Paulson's latest massive bailout proposal smells an awful lot like yet another corporatist lovefest between Washington's one-party government and the Sell Side investment banks."

A kindred critic, Josh Rosner of Graham Fisher in New York, defined the sponsors of this stampede to action: "Let us be clear, it is not citizen groups, private investors, equity investors or institutional investors broadly who are calling for this government purchase fund. It is almost exclusively being lobbied for by precisely those institutions that believed they were 'smarter than the rest of us,' institutions who need to get those assets off their balance sheet at an inflated value lest they be at risk of large losses or worse."

Let me be clear. The scandal is not that government is acting. The scandal is that government is not acting forcefully enough -- using its ultimate emergency powers to take full control of the financial system and impose order on banks, firms and markets. Stop the music, so to speak, instead of allowing individual financiers and traders to take opportunistic moves to save themselves at the expense of the system. The step-by-step rescues that the Federal Reserve and Treasury have executed to date have failed utterly to reverse the flight of investors and banks worldwide from lending or buying in doubtful times. There is no obvious reason to assume this bailout proposal will change their minds, though it will certainly feel good to the financial houses that get to dump their bad paper on the government.

A serious intervention in which Washington takes charge would, first, require a new central authority to supervise the financial institutions and compel them to support the government's actions to stabilize the system. Government can apply killer leverage to the financial players: Accept our objectives and follow our instructions or you are left on your own -- cut off from government lending spigots and ineligible for any direct assistance. If they decline to cooperate, the money guys are stuck with their own mess. If they resist the government's orders to keep lending to the real economy of producers and consumers, banks and brokers will be effectively isolated, therefore doomed.

Only with these conditions, and some others, should the federal government be willing to take ownership -- temporarily -- of the rotten financial assets that are dragging down funds, banks and brokerages. Paulson and the Federal Reserve are trying to replay the bailout approach used in the 1980s for the savings and loan crisis, but this situation is utterly different. The failed S&Ls held real assets -- property, houses, shopping centers -- that could be readily resold by the Resolution Trust Corporation at bargain prices. This crisis involves ethereal financial instruments of unknowable value -- not just the notorious mortgage securities but various derivative contracts and other esoteric deals that may be virtually worthless.

Despite what the pols in Washington think, the RTC bailout was also a Wall Street scandal. Many of the financial firms that had financed the S&L industry's reckless lending got to buy back the same properties for pennies from the RTC -- profiting on the upside, then again on the downside. Guess who picked up the tab? I suspect Wall Street is envisioning a similar bonanza -- the chance to harvest new profit from their own fraud and criminal irresponsibility.

If government acts responsibly, it will impose some other conditions on any broad rescue for the bankers. First, take due bills from any financial firms that get to hand off their spoiled assets, that is, a hard contract that repays government from any future profits once the crisis is over. Second, when the politicians get around to reforming financial regulations and dismantling the gimmicks and "too big to fail" institutions, Wall Street firms must be prohibited from exercising their usual manipulations of the political system. Call off their lobbyists, bar them from the bribery disguised as campaign contributions. Any contact or conversations between the assisted bankers and financial houses with government agencies or elected politicians must be promptly reported to the public, just as regulated industries are required to do when they call on government regulars.

More important, if the taxpayers are compelled to refinance the villains in this drama, then Americans at large are entitled to equivalent treatment in their crisis. That means the suspension of home foreclosures and personal bankruptcies for debt-soaked families during the duration of this crisis. The debtors will not escape injury and loss -- their situation is too dire -- but they deserve equal protection from government, the chance to work out things gradually over some years on reasonable terms.

The government, meanwhile, may have to create another emergency agency, something like the New Deal, that lends directly to the real economy -- businesses, solvent banks, buyers and sellers in consumer markets. We don't know how much damage has been done to economic growth or how long the cold spell will last, but I don't trust the bankers in the meantime to provide investment capital and credit. If necessary, Washington has to fill that role, too.

Finally, the crisis is global, obviously, and requires concerted global action. Robert A. Johnson, a veteran of global finance now working with the Campaign for America's Future, suggests that our global trading partners may recognize the need for self-interested cooperation and can negotiate temporary -- maybe permanent -- reforms to balance the trading system and keep it functioning, while leading nations work to put the global financial system back in business.

The agenda is staggering. The United States is ill equipped to deal with it smartly, not to mention wisely. We have a brain-dead lame duck in the White House. The two presidential candidates are trapped by events, trying to say something relevant without getting blamed for the disaster. The people should make themselves heard in Washington, even if only to share their outrage.

William Greider is the author of, most recently, "The Soul of Capitalism" (Simon & Schuster).

McCain's Lies & the Bailout Failure

McCain was on his campaign plane preparing to leave Ohio when the House vote became final. McCain's chief economic adviser, however, issued a statement that blamed Obama.


"This bill failed because Barack Obama and the Democrats put politics ahead of country," McCain senior policy adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin said.


When he reached Iowa, McCain told reporters: "Now is not the time to fix
the blame, it's time to fix the problem."

This is a Bush-Texas size whopper lie. Let
me explain.When Senator McCain flew to Washington,
D.C. last week when he said he was suspending his
campaign,he arrived at the hearings,said very
little and then sided with his very conservative
Republican colleagues and demanded LESS
REGULATION OF BUSINESS and TAX BREAKS-EXEMPTION
FOR THOSE COMPANIES WHO BOUGHT FAILED or FAILING
BANKS with SUB-PRIME LOANS. He did not object to
the REpublican style COMMUNIST take over of private
enterprise nor did he worry or care about
rewarding unscrupulous or stupid behavior by Wall
Street executives at CITIZEN'S EXPENSE.He sought
to RELIEVE BIG BUSINESS of IT'S FINANCIAL
OBLIGATIONS and REGULATIONS and NEVER ONCE
OBJECTED TO THIS BILL BECAUSE IT IN NO WAY PROTECTED
the INDIVIDUAL TAX-PAYING CITIZEN. This is NOT
PATRIOTISM -this BEING A LAP-DOG SOLDIER FOR RICH
BANKERS,JUST LIKE THE ONES HE ACCEPTED MONEY FROM
in the SAVINGS and LOAN SCANDAL;ie.Charles Keating.
McCain has MORE EXPERIENCE and HAS NOT LEARNED
from any of it. Dogs would remember better
than he because when they are punished they
remember not to make the same mistake. At least,
my dog did. Secondly,the Democrats were not the
ones to blame for this bill not passing;i.e. the
vote was 133 Republicans OPPOSED,65 in FAVOR and
140 Democrats in FAVOR,95 OPPOSED. So how
can McCain blame the Democrats? ONLY BY LYING.

But the Congressmen/women who opposed got it right.
Government should not rescue,coddle and reward BIG,
UNSCRUPULOUS BUSINESS while MAKING CITIZENS PAY for
IDIOCY. The Republicans should look to the Chinese
Communist government as an example: all those people
involved,who made decisions to put melamine in milk
in CHINA WILL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED,NOT RESCUED AND
EXCUSED like this Administration wants us to do.

I want to congratulate Congressmen Tierney,Lynch
and Delahunt in Massachusetts,Congressmen Courtney
in Conecticut,Congressmen Michaud in Maine,Congressmen
Shea-Porter and Hodes in New Hampshire and Congressmen
Welch in Vermont for opposing the bailout as of yesterday.
They had the same courage and foresight as did Senator
Barack Obama when he opposed the War in Iraq.This
administration has cried wolf every time it has either
gotten into trouble or decided it wants to lie to the
American people. When are our Representatives going to
learn this? All their experience,degrees and money
aren't any good if they DO NOT PROTECT and DEFEND the
CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and the
people who elected them.Obviously,the above named
Congressmen have UPHELD THEIR OATH.

Now let me make some constructive suggestions:

1. REINSTATE the GLASS-STEAGALL ACT in its entirety:
"The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the United States and included banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation.[citation needed] Some provisions such as Regulation Q, which allowed the Federal Reserve to regulate interest rates in savings accounts, were repealed by the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980. Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which passed in Congress with 55 Republicans voting for and 44 Democrats voting against the bill in the Senate and by a 343-86 vote in the House of Representatives, before being sent to conference committee; the final bipartisan bill (Senate: 90-8-1, House: 362-57-15) was signed by President Bill Clinton."

2. CREATE a RESOLUTION CREDIT CORP. that is FUNDED
and OWNED by AT LEAST 50% FINANCIAL COMPANIES and 50% U.S.
Government with hundreds of SEC Auditors auditing
continuously with no possibility of leaving government
and working for financial companies until 4 years has
elapsed.

3. AUCTIONING OFF of BANKS with SUB-PRIME MORTGAGE
PROBLEMS to the PRIVATE SECTOR,such as Venture
Capitalist,Private Equity firms,foreign banks in NATO
countries.

4.CREATION of CORPORATE BAILOUT FUND by all
CORPORATIONS with SALES over $100 Million per year
through a 1% of GROSS PROFITS BAILOUT TAX that all
could utilize if a case was made for Uncontrollable
External factors.

5.IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION of NAFTA and WTO RULES
that OVERRIDE the U.S. CONSTITUTION.

6.CREATION of SENATE-CONGRESS OVERSIGHT
COMMITTEE of FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM publicly
recognizing it as a private corporation and
publicly disclosing ownership thereof as well
as Annual PUBLIC AUDITS.

In closing let me remind the reader of the Declaration of Independence
and I quote:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. — The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."

Senator Obama & Biden's Plan for the U.S. Economy

$1,000 Tax Cut for Middle Class American Families

Obama and Biden will cut income taxes by $1,000 for working families, because the economy needs to be revitalized from the bottom up, not top down. Read more »

Energy Rebates

Obama and Biden will enact a windfall profits tax on excessive oil company profits to give American families an immediate $1,000 emergency energy rebate to help families pay rising bills. Read more »

Create Jobs through Fair Trade

Obama and Biden believe that trade with foreign nations should create American jobs, not send them overseas. They will stand firm against agreements that undermine our economic security. Read more »

Create 5 Million Green Jobs

Obama and Biden believe that we should invest in innovation and manufacturing jobs in the growing clean energy market, freeing us from our dependence on foreign oil within a decade and creating 5 million green jobs. Read more »

New Jobs Through National Infrastructure Investment

Obama and Biden believe that rebuilding our highways, bridges, roads, ports, air, and train systems will create jobs, ensure safety, and bolster our bolster our long-term competitiveness. Read more »

Technology, Innovation and Creating Jobs

Obama and Biden will increase federal support for research, technology and innovation for companies and universities so that American workers can lead the world in cutting edge jobs and products. Read more »

Support Small Business

Obama and Biden will level the playing field for small business by eliminating all capital gains taxes on start-up and small businesses. Read more »

Labor

Obama and Biden will strengthen the ability of workers to organize for good wages, healthcare, and secure pensions. Obama and Biden will fight for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. Obama and Biden will ensure that labor appointees support workers' rights and will work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers. Obama and Biden will also increase the minimum wage and make sure it remains a real wage year over year. Read more »

Protect Homeownership and Crack Down on Mortgage Fraud

Obama and Biden will crack down on fraudulent brokers and lenders. They will make sure homebuyers have honest and complete information about their mortgage options, and they will give a tax credit to all middle-class homeowners. Read more »

Address Predatory Credit Card Practices

Obama and Biden will establish a five-star rating system so that every consumer knows the risk involved in credit card borrowing. They will establish a Credit Card Bill of Rights to stop credit card companies from exploiting consumers with unfair practices. Read more »

Reform Bankruptcy Laws

Obama and Biden will reform our bankruptcy laws to protect working people, to ban executive bonuses for bankrupt companies, and to require disclosure of all pension investments. Read more »

Work/Family Balance

Obama and Biden will help working families by doubling funding for after-school programs, expanding the Family Medical Leave Act. They will provide low-income families with a refundable tax credit to help with their child-care expenses, and encourage flexible work schedules. Read more »

CORPORATE COMMUNISM

"What is happening with Wall Street being bailed out by the BUSH REPUBLICAN Administration is "CORPORATE COMMUNISM". This is a term I made up to describe the DICTATORSHIP of BIG MONEY in the U.S.A. This is a REVERSION TO FEUDALISM.

These Wall Street executives need to be put in prison. They cannot be rewarded for behaving irresponsibly. They have done to us what Islamic terrorists could not do. The Republican Administration let them do this. If you have any question about this all you have to do is read "Worse Than Watergate" by none other than former Richard Nixon Counsel John Dean! They have done to us what Islamic terrorists could not do. The American people now have to PAY for THESE CORPORATE SCUMBAG-COMMUNISTS. This is PROOF that there is NO SUCH THING AS A FUNCTIONING FREE-MARKET ECONOMY.It is also PROOF that there is not too much government like republicans claim because if they were correct and followed their own advice they would not have NATIONALIZED AIG,Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Also had there been enough or sufficient regulation then this would not have been allowed to occur."

William H. Stewart,MBA,Finance- The George Washington University,Cum Laude 1979

Legislation Proposed to Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming ,the Boston City Council and the State of Massachusetts

Legislation Proposed to Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming ,the Boston City Council and the State of Massachusetts



HHO Technologies are an individuals and taxis solution to high gas prices
and large auto emissions.

I believe this technology is a very adequate and
inexpensive solution to the predicament that now confronts
your Hackney Carriage Unit and the taxi industry of Boston.
I have been working on this proposed legislation
since late July 2008. You can see how this technology
is implemented on my website:
Automotive

I spoke most recently with Alma on Thursday
August 14,2008 at the Select Committee on Energy Independence
and Global Warming of the U.S. Congress concerning the need
for legislation that would include Alternative Motor Vehicle
Credits for cars that have been outfitted with HHO technologies
that are already on the road as opposed to just for new cars
which only aid the large auto manufacturers.

I was hoping that after reading this synopsis
you might consider contacting Congressmen Edward Markey to
REQUEST TAX REBATE LEGISLATION that would include Alternative
Motor Vehicle Credits for cars that have been outfitted HHO
technologies that are already on the road as opposed to just
for new cars which only aid the large auto manufacturers.
Could you please consider writing similar
encouragement to Congressmen Edward Markey.

First, let me state I am a member of the Union of
Concerned Scientists and Alliance for Democracy and they have
received a copy of this email. Besides proposing the below
legislation, I am selling the HHO technology solution to
whomever is willing to listen and would like to form what
I call

The Coalition for HHO Technologies.

This technology can increase gas or diesel mileage from
50%-300% and lower carbon monoxide and exhaust emissions
and was outlawed by the federal government 50 years ago
because it was so effective from pressure from the oil
lobby.

Please read on.

Please email me back if you would like to be included in

The Coalition for HHO Technologies.

An Executive Summary of Water4Gas,which is one of
three alternatives,appears as a P.S. after this letter.
Further information can be read on my
website at Automotive

This webpage has 3 links that contain over
90 videos detailing and documenting all the different varieties
and installation procedures involved in this technology.
The EBooks that explain exactly what to do cost from
$47-97 and the actually equipment per vehicle costs from
$60-70.

I originally spoke with Alma on Friday August
1,2008 at the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global
Warming of the U.S. Congress concerning the need for legislation
that would include Alternative Motor Vehicle Credits for cars
that have been outfitted with HHO technologies that are already
on the road as opposed to just for new cars which only aid
the large auto manufacturers.

PROBLEM:

At the present time Form 8910 as implemented through
the Highlights of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 for Individuals
FS-2006-14, Jan. 2006:Qualified Alternative Fuel Motor Vehicles
(QAFMV) are powered solely by alternative fuels, such as
compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas,liquefied petroleum
gas, hydrogen and any liquid at least 85 percent of the
volume of which consists of methanol. Vehicles powered by a
combination of an alternative fuel and a petroleum-based fuel
may qualify for a reduced credit.Purchases of new vehicles
with special equipment, as well as ones converted for
alternative power, may qualify.

¹ IRC §30B potentially allows a credit for four separate
categories of vehicles: 1) Fuel Cell vehicles, 2) Advanced
Lean Burn Technology vehicles, 3) Hybrid vehicles and
4) Alternative Fuel vehicles.

Form 8910, Alternative Motor Vehicle Credit, is used to
claim the qualified hybrid vehicle credit as well as for
vehicles qualifying for other provisions of the alternative
motor vehicle credit.
If the qualifying hybrid vehicle
is purchased for business use, the credit for the business
use of a qualifying hybrid vehicle is reported on Form 3800,
General Business Credit.

For qualifying hybrid vehicles acquired for personal use,
the credit is reported on the appropriate line of the taxpayer’s
Form 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return.

For additional information on the proper reporting of the
alternative motor vehicle credit, see the instructions to
Form 8910 on page two of the form.

SOLUTION:

Legislation that includes upgrades to current licensed and
registered vehicles that have HHO technology installed in
them as illustrated at Automotive

I. Better, Double Gas Mileage and Cleaner Emissions
through HHO Technologies

The technical solution is available,proven and reliable.
We need Congress,specifically Congressmen Markey to institute
legislation that gives tax credits for installing this
technology into present vehicles. The eBooks that offer the
procedures and expertise cost anywhere from $47-97 and the
material themselves cost from $50-70 per vehicle. If you would
like me to explain the basics of this technology, I can do
that in another email.

I am now running ads on the internet,the Boston Globe,
The Want Ad-Powered and am contacting every major taxicab
company in metropolitan Boston,every moving company in greater
Boston and every major car dealer in eastern Massachusetts
about this technology. The public needs Congressmen Markey's
assistance in producing legislation guaranteeing tax credits
for present registered vehicles with HHO installed
technologies.

WebSuccess4You.biz
is my website.
Thank you,



William H. Stewart

Belmont,Mass. 02478

P.S. Here is the Executive Summary for Water4Gas:

1.Water4Gas is a technology based on splitting water on board
a vehicle, and using the resulting gases not to drive the vehicle -
but only to boost the efficiency of its combustion.

2.It is a Do-It-Yourself technology, specifically designed
for beginners with no special tools and very limited budgets.
A working system can be built at home with basic hand tools for
$20-$100, installed in minutes and removed in seconds.

3.No modifications to the engine, computer or fuel injection
systems, so any backyard mechanic can install it easily.

The technology is age old, over 91 years. All we've done
is raise it from the dead and develop a simple structure based on
low cost hardware. Although there is a myriad of hydrogen
generating designs out there, ours is the simplest and also the
safest for the beginner. The electrolyzer, bubbler and water
reservoir have all been combined into one super-simple device.

Another advantage is the employment of coiled/spiraled
electrode WIRES - rather than flat plates or spiraled plates.
The magnetic vortex created by the coil assists water
splitting, so we don't need as much power from the car's
electrical system, thus simplifying the system even further
and lowering its cost.

Three major factors work together to cause water splitting:
direct current flowing through the electrode wires to the
water, the magnetic vortex created by the shape of the electrodes,
and the vacuum provided by the engine itself.

The effects of this technology is lowered emissions and
improved mileage, simply due to a MORE COMPLETE COMBUSTION.
Today's internal combustion engines suffer from poor efficiency
of 20%-25%, as any mechanic will tell you; 75%-80% of the
gasoline, instead of being converted to forward motion, is
instead converted to pollution and carbon deposits (unburned fuel),
as well as heat (global warming),vibration and noise
(knocking/pinging).

THE MAIN PROBLEM IS OVERSIZED FUEL DROPLETS IN THE MIXTURE.
The Hydrogen, being such a small particle, hits a droplet,
cuts it into smaller droplets and attaches itself to the
smaller droplets. Now the finer,hydrogen-enhanced mixture,
is capable of burning more thoroughly.

On top of improved performance, the engine steam-cleans
itself every day, and the resulting effect is smoother and
quieter operation. One of our staff was shocked when she
checked her engine oil and was sure that her oil ran totally
out. Actually what happened was that while she was expecting
dark brown, dirty oil, the oil was actually so transparent
that she could not see it on the dip stick. Her 20-year-old
car is as smooth now (with our device on) as it was when
she bought it 17 years ago.

Another lady "complained" that she could not hear the
engine running...but to her surprise the car was still
moving along.

Our technology is not capable of running a car on
water alone. Our aim is not to replace gasoline but
to enhance it - and open the door and the mind to the
possibilities of waterfuel technology. With correct
fine tuning we can double the mileage, rendering
a new energy balance: half gasoline, half water.
Very little water is used, in an economy car it's
around 2700 miles per gallon of distilled water,
together with 4-6 teaspoons of household baking
soda or as catalyst. We have demonstrated many
times that the fuel consumption of a 4-stroke
generator can also be cut in half with our technology.

Not all cars, loads and driving conditions will
gain the same, obviously. For ethical reasons we do
not build up expectations for more than 10%-50%
improvement in fuel economy, however we are getting
daily success stories from experimenters who are
seeing gains of 80%-100% in various vehicles. For
some,significant economy gains inflict a revelation
that something can be done about it, while for others
it's a life changing factor.

We sell books that teach EVERYTHING about the
technology and how to manufacture it, as well as sponsoring
a f'ree marketplace where sellers and buyers of actual
systems can find each other and trade without interference
and without any fees paid to us. Like in the Golden Age of
Greece - no police, very little government.

At the time of writing we have more than 3200 satisfied
customers, over 400 registered independent manufacturers/
installers, and an unknown number of affiliates promoting
us all over the world. 85%-90% of our sales occur via
affiliates, and more are joining due to the generous 50%
commission rate and the skyrocketing popularity of the
product and the technology.

All in all, Water4Gas has become a buzzword for
practicality and affordability. Our policy is to guide
the readers toward a mindset of an experimenter rather
than a driver that takes things for granted. We teach
them that something can be done about gas prices,
pollution and global warming, and they gladly take an
active role and help to spread the word.

At the time of writing the technology is only for
gasoline and diesel cars and trucks. However many
of our experimenters are working on adaptations to
propane/LPG/CNG propelled vehicles, as well as boats and
other applications such as stationary generators.

We're getting daily requests from business people
around the world, as well as inventors inspired by our
success, requesting that we work with them to advance
their goals and purposes. We help as much as we can,
including bridging the gap between investors and inventors,
as well as between inventors/developers seeking
to complement their technologies with supporting ones
(such as a bridge we've created between an English
fuel cell and an American pure-hydrogen generator).

Thus Water4Gas has emerged and evolved in one year
from a small home-based business to become a global
junction for waterfuel technologies, inspiration and
leadership.

Sen. Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech

On Thursday night, August 28th, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

More than 80,000 people joined him in Denver to be part of the moment, and tens of millions more shared the experience across the country.

Watch Barack's historic speech and share it with your friends and family today:

Senator Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States



Snator Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States

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Via Taegan Goddard:

From a purely political perspective, no presidential campaign has ever handled the announcement of a running mate so deftly. The Obama campaign set a new standard that will be studied for years.

Other reactions:

New York Times: "Mr. Obama's selection ended a two-month search that was conducted almost entirely in secret. It reflected a critical strategic choice by Mr. Obama: To go with a running mate who could reassure voters about gaps in his résumé, rather than to pick someone who could deliver a state or reinforce Mr. Obama's message of change."

Politico: "On foreign policy and national security, an area where John McCain regularly assails Obama's lack of experience, Democrats offer few more seasoned practitioners than Biden."

First Read: "On the Democratic side, it was a collective 'phew.' As the days got nearer for the pick, it was hard to find a Democrat -- even savvy Clintonites -- who weren't hoping it would be Biden. Only the most strident Hillary supporters appear to be upset this morning. On the GOP side, the sound you heard was disappointed silence. Of everyone on the short list, the candidate many Republicans least wanted to see Obama pick was Biden."

Mark Halperin: "Balanced against all of those unmatched qualifications is one quality that has afflicted Biden for as long as anyone can remember: a persistent tendency to say silly, offensive, and off-putting things. Over the next few days (and, likely, weeks) some of Biden's ungreatest hits of gab will be recycled by the media and Republicans aiming to take the luster off Obama's choice of running mate."

Craig Crawford: "Obama-Biden works on several fronts, A longtime sentimental favorite among the Democratic faithful, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden provides a comfort zone for labor leaders, Catholics (he is one) and national-security voters. Although Biden's poor fundraising skills doomed his presidential campaigns, he performs extremely well in debates and demonstrated considerable skill at shifting from the arcane language of the Senate chamber to the street language of the campaign trail."

David Brody: "Time will tell if Barack Obama made the right choice in picking Joe Biden but if you look at it on paper, it makes a whole lot of sense."

Marc Ambinder: "Obama-Biden will be a formidable ticket, and a risky ticket, and not a comfort zone choice for Obama."

Jonathan Cohn: "Conservatives will blast [Biden's] record, just as surely as liberals will (or should) celebrate it. But one of the virtues of having Biden as the vice presidential nominee is that he won't take those kinds of attacks lightly. He'll fight back. He'll remind people, rightly, that being a liberal Democrat means raising the minimum wage, making sure everybody has affordable health care, providing strong public schools, and protecting human rights. Then, he'll ask why conservative Republicans don't want the same things. That's exactly the kind of political debate this country needs. By picking Biden as a running mate, Obama has signaled that he welcomes this argument--and intends, finally, to win it."

All in all, this looks more and more promising.

Dick Cheney's Secret Journal

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check this blog out:


Dick Cheney's Secret Journal

McClellan Must Testify Under Oath Before House Judiciary Committee

Wexler: McClellan Must Testify Under Oath Before House Judiciary Committee



Vincent Bugliosi to Testify before the House Committee on the Judiciary's Hearing - "The Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush and Possible Legal Responses"

Bugliosi, who has developed a reputation as a meticulous researcher,
has compiled all of this evidence and much more into his
New York Times bestselling book, THE PROSECUTION OF
GEORGE W. BUSH FOR MURDER.

Bugliosi was invited by the House of
Representatives to testify on executive power and its
Constitutional limitations: http://judiciaryhouse.gov.
The July 25 hearing will be held at 10:00 a.m. in
Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

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2. Change air filter

3. Check tire pressure

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Italian Orgasm- the July 4th Boston Pops Concert & Fireworks

July 4th,2008 Boston Pops Concert & Fireworks
as seen facing
Cambridge,Mass. with firework platform and boat,canoe close-ups
while Italian tenor sings with Boston Pops-must be like an
Italian orgasm. I hope you will pardon my sense of humor here.

I took this video myself and I have many Italian friends and
I told them what I entitled this and they were extremely amused.
This is at the end of the fireworks - the climax,so to speak.








Craig Ferguson Interview as heard on
Storrow Drive,Cambridge,Mass. July 4th Concert.
I took this earlier in the
evening before I went ove to the Boston side. From
now on I will stay on the Cambridge side to see the
fireworks because there are far fewer trees,especially
the low hanging willows, to get in the way.

Sea Lions and Dolphins in Odessa & train ride in Ukraine

This is what I have been promising since I first started this blog: Videos from
the Ukraine on YouTube:


http://www.youtube.com/user/Willprospector



Train Ride to Kiev,Ukraine on First Class as part of Travel in Ukraine.



Protest About No Hot Water in Kiev

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