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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-4687020574910031574</id><published>2009-06-17T07:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T07:59:21.365-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Paper Tiger?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/31378220#31378220" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-4687020574910031574?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/4687020574910031574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama wins business support for health care reform &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/10/news/economy/obama_healthcare_reform/index.htm"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-1369394570613914114?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/1369394570613914114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=1369394570613914114' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/1369394570613914114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/1369394570613914114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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This contradicted PFC England's statements of May 2, 2005, when she entered her guilty plea. On September 26, 2005, England was convicted of one count of conspiracy, four counts of maltreating detainees and one count of committing an indecent act. She was acquitted on a second conspiracy count.[citation needed] She was sentenced to three years in a military prison for her crimes. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynndie_England"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5412078939420145224?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5412078939420145224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5412078939420145224' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5412078939420145224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5412078939420145224'/><link rel='alternate' 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-3388799857117679563</id><published>2008-12-31T07:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T07:23:02.938-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Your Bailout Money at Work&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M9OGK0Y1Wug&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M9OGK0Y1Wug&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-3574639324568323477</id><published>2008-12-21T16:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-21T16:03:52.624-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bailout this:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wall Street still flying corporate jets&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081221/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_corporate_jets"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-3574639324568323477?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/3574639324568323477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Better to receive than give?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Goldman Sachs cuts taxes to one percent by moving profits offshore&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Goldman_Sachs_tax_rate_drops_to_1218.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5567501309642100080?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5567501309642100080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5567501309642100080' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5567501309642100080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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their new stadium will still be called Citi Field. According to news reports, Citigroup will pay the Mets a trifling $400 million over 20 years for the naming rights to the new ballpark. Small change. The Mets added that the government bailout of Citigroup will help the bank survive the "economic crisis."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081204_bailout_ballpark/"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-3622300171026656986?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/3622300171026656986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=3622300171026656986' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3622300171026656986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3622300171026656986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/12/oversight-no-hearings-no-plans-no.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6252792164557642471</id><published>2008-12-12T05:06:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T05:07:44.782-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Grinch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SUJh7EKVoAI/AAAAAAAAACI/fSS-YYLjBTA/s1600-h/shel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SUJh7EKVoAI/AAAAAAAAACI/fSS-YYLjBTA/s320/shel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278889380588920834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/12/11/Senate_Republicans_hold_against_auto_bill/UPI-59841228999431/"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6252792164557642471?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6252792164557642471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6252792164557642471' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6252792164557642471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6252792164557642471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/12/grinch.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SUJh7EKVoAI/AAAAAAAAACI/fSS-YYLjBTA/s72-c/shel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-3027060117141170573</id><published>2008-12-07T08:07:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-07T08:07:42.922-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Enabling Failure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;46 days left, Bush approval ratings climb &lt;a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/46_days_left_Bush_approval_ratings_1206.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-3027060117141170573?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/3027060117141170573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=3027060117141170573' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3027060117141170573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3027060117141170573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/12/enabling-failure-46-days-left-bush.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5241633347988136892</id><published>2008-12-07T07:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-07T07:02:07.160-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;More Bush Failure:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. Plans a Shift to Focus Troops on Kabul Region &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/world/asia/07troops.html?_r=2&amp;hp"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5241633347988136892?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-8602443269365093874</id><published>2008-12-01T09:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T09:05:30.883-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;s&gt;Bailout&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;150 MPG XH-150 Extreme Hybrid &lt;a href="http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/afs_trinity_150_mpg_suv_being_suppressed_auto_industry"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-8602443269365093874?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/8602443269365093874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=8602443269365093874' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8602443269365093874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8602443269365093874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/12/bailout-150-mpg-xh-150-extreme-hybrid.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6842251981784999360</id><published>2008-12-01T08:23:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T08:24:10.849-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Change &lt;small&gt;(back)&lt;/small&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clinton staffers make up nearly two- thirds of Obama transition team &lt;a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Clinton_staffers_make_up_twothirds_of_1201.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6842251981784999360?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6842251981784999360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6842251981784999360' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6842251981784999360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6842251981784999360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/12/change-back-clinton-staffers-make-up.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-270094833360654646</id><published>2008-11-26T04:50:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-26T04:50:55.672-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Hypocrisy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;You've already given hundreds of billions to banking and finance companies -- and hardly demanded anything. Yet you balk at the very idea of giving $25 billion to the Detroit Three. Heck, you shoveled that exact amount to Citigroup -- $25 billion -- just weeks ago, and that place is about to crumble anyhow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does the word "hypocrisy" ring a bell?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20081123/COL01/811230371"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-270094833360654646?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/270094833360654646/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=270094833360654646' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/270094833360654646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/270094833360654646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/hypocrisy-youve-already-given-hundreds.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-2437267079745045965</id><published>2008-11-25T19:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T19:59:31.840-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;First Bad Decision?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Officials: Obama to ask Gates to stay at Pentagon &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_gates"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-2437267079745045965?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/2437267079745045965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=2437267079745045965' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/2437267079745045965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/2437267079745045965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/first-bad-decision-officials-obama-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5781659392051849874</id><published>2008-11-25T19:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T19:40:44.611-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The $70 per hour myth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;As Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) pointed out during congressional hearings last week, "There is apparently a cultural condition that's more ready to accept aid to a white-collar industry than the blue-collar industry, and that has to be confronted." &lt;a href="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200811250012"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5781659392051849874?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5781659392051849874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5781659392051849874' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5781659392051849874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5781659392051849874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/70-per-hour-myth-as-rep.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-8402317449235439441</id><published>2008-11-23T20:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T20:46:36.789-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Questioning the Bailouts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. Plan to Aid Citigroup Said to Be Near Approval &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/business/24citibank.html?_r=1&amp;hp"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But no bailout for the Auto Industry??????????????????&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-8402317449235439441?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/8402317449235439441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=8402317449235439441' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8402317449235439441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8402317449235439441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/questioning-bailouts-u.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-9069151375435951093</id><published>2008-11-23T06:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T06:08:05.175-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Lesson to be Learned?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/2.0/video/evp/module.js?loc=dom&amp;vid=/video/business/2008/11/02/lah.japan.ceo.pay.cut.cnn" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;Embedded video from &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/video"&gt;CNN Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/noscript&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-9069151375435951093?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/9069151375435951093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=9069151375435951093' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/9069151375435951093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/9069151375435951093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/lesson-to-be-learned-embedded-video.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-4738830906590143053</id><published>2008-11-23T05:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T06:01:37.395-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;One Trillion Dollar Deficit for 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"A trillion-dollar deficit is not only something you wouldn't have seen in an economic textbook, it is something that even a science fiction writer would not dare mention," said Stan Collender, one of the nation's most re spected budget analysts, who was a budget staffer for both the House and Senate and now works for a Washington corporate communications company.  &lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/11/23/federal_deficit_could_top_1_trillion/"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's over $3,000 for every American!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-4738830906590143053?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/4738830906590143053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=4738830906590143053' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/4738830906590143053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/4738830906590143053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/one-trillion-dollar-deficit-for-2008.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6148123303647534871</id><published>2008-11-21T12:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-21T12:15:17.299-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;No Hurry?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;President Bush has been noticeably absent&lt;/span&gt; from the machinations aimed at righting the nation's financial course. Analysts and key players differ over whether &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;President-elect Barack Obama should get his economic team in place&lt;/span&gt; and take charge, or sit back and await his turn at the helm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Somebody has to speak up soon," said CNN senior political analyst David Gergen, explaining that he understands why Americans are growing anxious and yearning for direction and leadership. &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/21/obama.bush.economy/index.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6148123303647534871?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6148123303647534871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6148123303647534871' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6148123303647534871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6148123303647534871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/no-hurry-president-bush-has-been.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-4658894887118736867</id><published>2008-11-21T05:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-21T05:17:41.275-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Reality&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collapse of GM would cost the government as much as &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;$200 billion&lt;/span&gt; should the biggest U.S. automaker be forced to liquidate, Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight Inc. in Lexington, Massachusetts, estimates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A GM failure would mean “more aid to specific states like &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana&lt;/span&gt;, and more money into unemployment and extended benefits,” Behravesh said Nov. 15. &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aRfqFMhlj5lk&amp;refer=worldwide"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana&lt;/span&gt; delivered for Obama.  Will he reciprocate?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-4658894887118736867?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/4658894887118736867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=4658894887118736867' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/4658894887118736867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/4658894887118736867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/reality-collapse-of-gm-would-cost.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-1842651927963069771</id><published>2008-11-20T07:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-20T07:10:41.341-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Beggar Nation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;US seeks 300 billion dollars from Gulf states: &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081120/bs_afp/financeeconomyusgulf_081120072928;_ylt=As8HYF6PR0TsbvJOoU6Ff0es0NUE"&gt;report ...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-1842651927963069771?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/1842651927963069771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=1842651927963069771' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/1842651927963069771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/1842651927963069771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/beggar-nation-us-seeks-300-billion.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-2719185753488016621</id><published>2008-11-19T19:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-20T07:08:18.356-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;2.5 Million Worthless Jobs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;U.S. auto companies employ nearly a quarter-million workers, and more than 730,000 other people have jobs producing the materials and parts that go into cars. About 1 million on top of that work in dealerships nationwide. If just one of the auto giants were to go belly up, some estimates put U.S. job losses next year as high as 2.5 million.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_go_co/auto_bailout_what_s_next"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 million jobs lost at $1,000 is $1 billion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Isn't $25,000 per job a sound investment?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;If 2.5 million jobs are lost, it is $10,000 per job!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suggestion:  Let Wall Street Stock Brokers, Fund Managers, Traders, ...  work the production lines at the GM, Ford &amp; Chrysler.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-2719185753488016621?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/2719185753488016621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=2719185753488016621' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/2719185753488016621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/2719185753488016621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/2.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5547935254457423148</id><published>2008-11-17T10:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T10:46:43.481-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Nothing for 3 million jobs?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$700 Billion Bailout for Wall Street but GOP proposes &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/17/big.three.auto.bailout/index.html"&gt;NOTHING&lt;/a&gt; for GM where:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;three million people would lose their jobs &lt;a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a4893b49-36df-4784-9859-2dfa3a3211bf"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5547935254457423148?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5547935254457423148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5547935254457423148' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5547935254457423148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5547935254457423148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/nothing-for-3-million-jobs-700-billion.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-1549211903687799953</id><published>2008-11-13T19:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-13T19:02:43.614-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Huh??????&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;For all his defense of markets, Bush this year extended the reach of government by backing bailouts of American International Group Inc., Bear Stearns Cos., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. His administration is also implementing a $700 billion financial rescue program which U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson yesterday shifted toward relieving pressure on consumer credit, scrapping an effort to buy devalued mortgage assets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, Bush argued today that government intervention isn't a ``cure-all'' and that the crisis was caused by failures among investors, regulators and governments rather than the free-market model. He said steps taken so far by governments and central banks were thawing credit markets and stabilizing financial conditions, although he acknowledged ``more difficult days ahead.''&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Officials overseas have heaped blame on the U.S. and the notion of unfettered markets promoted by Bush for sparking the turbulence. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aMXzD7tQQGdY&amp;refer=worldwide"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-1549211903687799953?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/1549211903687799953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=1549211903687799953' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/1549211903687799953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/1549211903687799953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/huh-for-all-his-defense-of-markets-bush.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-8990093716669739875</id><published>2008-11-12T09:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T09:25:44.601-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Well Said&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;``It was interesting to watch him go upstairs,'' Bush said of Obama's visit. ``He wanted to see where his little girls were going to sleep. Clearly, this guy is going to bring a sense of family to the White House, and I hope Laura and I did the same thing. But I believe he will, and I know his girls are on his mind and he wants to make sure that first and foremost, he is a good dad.''&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20081112/pl_bloomberg/ahlrnlvfhsmc"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-8990093716669739875?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/8990093716669739875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=8990093716669739875' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8990093716669739875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8990093716669739875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/well-said-it-was-interesting-to-watch.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6989178812058291100</id><published>2008-11-12T07:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T07:14:28.371-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The $54 Trillion Gorilla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;As bad as it is, the situation could get far worse. At the House hearing, Rep. Jim Cooper, a more conservative Democrat from Tennessee, brandished a copy of the official Financial Report of the United States Government, which outlines the &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;$54 trillion fiscal gap&lt;/span&gt;, primarily unfunded liabilities,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6213"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;a cost of $175,000 per person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6989178812058291100?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6989178812058291100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6989178812058291100' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6989178812058291100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6989178812058291100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/54-trillion-gorilla-as-bad-as-it-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5719925054190517314</id><published>2008-11-12T05:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T05:53:15.942-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Ironic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449334,00.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Fox Network has no qualms about the NFL 'challenge' system&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5719925054190517314?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5719925054190517314/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5719925054190517314' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5719925054190517314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5719925054190517314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/ironic-minnesota-ripe-for-election.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-7001435047133725457</id><published>2008-11-10T19:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T19:52:29.305-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Prop 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cVUecPhQPqY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cVUecPhQPqY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;MSNBC Votes For Four More Years Of Keith Olbermann&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/msnbc-votes-four-more-years-keith-olb"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-7001435047133725457?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/7001435047133725457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=7001435047133725457' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/7001435047133725457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/7001435047133725457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/prop-8.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-8714980786834569604</id><published>2008-11-10T19:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T19:24:03.912-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Dictatorship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Republican Congressman Warns of Obama Dictatorship &lt;a href="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/10/republican-congressman-warns-obama-dictatorship/"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, they fully supported the &lt;a href="http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/2002/10/29_Dictator.html"&gt;Bush Dictatorship&lt;/a&gt; ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-8714980786834569604?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/8714980786834569604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=8714980786834569604' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8714980786834569604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8714980786834569604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/dictatorship-republican-congressman.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5695025235675366673</id><published>2008-11-10T19:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T19:05:08.980-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;AIG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$150 billion more for AIG: US gov't. &lt;a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/150_billion_more_for_AIG_US_1110.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The AIG bailout is &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;$500&lt;/span&gt; for every US citizen!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5695025235675366673?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5695025235675366673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5695025235675366673' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5695025235675366673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5695025235675366673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/aig-150-billion-more-for-aig-us-govt.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5867821982961844697</id><published>2008-11-10T06:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T06:58:45.908-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;More Waste of Our Money&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Government provides new aid to AIG&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081110/ap_on_bi_ge/aig_bailout"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5867821982961844697?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5867821982961844697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5867821982961844697' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5867821982961844697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5867821982961844697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-waste-of-our-money-government.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-976678876012875713</id><published>2008-11-10T06:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T18:57:16.569-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Our Money?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aatlky_cH.tY&amp;refer=worldwide"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;That's $6,667.00 of your tax money!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-976678876012875713?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aatlky_cH.tY&amp;refer=worldwide' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/976678876012875713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=976678876012875713' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/976678876012875713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/976678876012875713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/11/our-money-federal-reserve-is-refusing.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6799894679851346874</id><published>2008-11-09T11:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T11:05:56.707-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Cuckoo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"The Obama recession is in full swing, ladies and gentlemen," Limbaugh told his radio audience of 15 million to 20 million on Thursday. "Stocks are dying, which is a precursor of things to come. This is an Obama recession. Might turn into a depression."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-onthemedia9-2008nov09,0,800478.story"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Hey Rush, Obama won't be president until January 20, 2009!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6799894679851346874?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6799894679851346874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6799894679851346874' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6799894679851346874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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liberal.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/11/08/the-barack-obama-honeymoon-is-over-according-to-kyl/"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Wasn't this the same party who wanted to go &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option"&gt;nuclear&lt;/a&gt; on filibusters in 2005?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-1182085879852667956?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/1182085879852667956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=1182085879852667956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/1182085879852667956'/><link rel='self' 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width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5349949695681913494</id><published>2008-11-07T05:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-07T07:36:43.304-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;October Job Report&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government reports more grim news about the economy: 240,000 jobs lost in October; unemployment rate spikes to 6.5 percent. &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/07/news/economy/jobs_october/index.htm?postversion=2008110708"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember those who said the 'economy is fundamentally strong':&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/15/does-john-mccain-still-think-the-economy-is-fundamentally-strong/"&gt;McCain&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.america.gov/st/econ-english/2008/January/20080118125026dmslahrellek0.1241724.html"&gt;Bush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now watch as their party tries to blame this on Obama ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Too bad we'll have to wait for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inauguration_Day"&gt;January 20, 2009&lt;/a&gt; for better employment numbers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5349949695681913494?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5349949695681913494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5349949695681913494' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6022145&amp;page=1"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Math:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 X 10^12 (ie. 3 trillion $) divided by 300 X 10^6 (ie. 300 million US citizens) is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$10,000 for each and every US citizen!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-2721219053209396557?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/2721219053209396557/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=2721219053209396557' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/2721219053209396557'/><link rel='self' 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-8952690319626081204</id><published>2008-11-04T07:21:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T07:21:59.172-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Die is Cast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-8865991480576321601&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-8952690319626081204?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-1955252501142781147</id><published>2008-11-02T18:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-02T18:35:51.565-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Invisible Man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Bush absent from campaign trail&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/02/bush.absent/index.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-1955252501142781147?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/1955252501142781147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Phillies!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/sports/20081029_Fightin_Phils_are_World_Series_champions.html"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://media.philly.com/images/102908_win1_600.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-4618273069380125420?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/4618273069380125420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=4618273069380125420' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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style="font-style:italic;"&gt;...one of the problems is that many public pension funds unwisely project that their investments will return 8 percent annually on average -- when in fact, returns could be far lower. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102701751.html?hpid=sec-business"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will public pension go the way of &lt;a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/unit-m13.shtml"&gt;airline pensions&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-1809255550886824101?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/1809255550886824101/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;One Party Rule&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;the Republicans did have one-party rule in 2000-2006 and really did have all three branches of government under their control. Can anyone think of &lt;a href="http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/27/gop-warns-of-one-party-power/"&gt;any major Republican leader&lt;/a&gt; in that period who argued that it was a bad thing and who urged voters to cast ballots for Democrats in order to restore some checks and balances?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.juancole.com/2008/10/hypocrisiy-of-one-party-rule-gambit.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6764521566432182271?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6764521566432182271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6764521566432182271' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=3946188407821281410' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3946188407821281410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3946188407821281410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/10/bushs-legacy.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-777679724271076277</id><published>2008-10-27T07:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-27T07:58:52.283-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Suppress the Vote!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Handel denied the efforts to verify the vote are suppression. &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/26/voter.suppression/index.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Is the &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl111"&gt;fix&lt;/a&gt; in?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-777679724271076277?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/777679724271076277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=777679724271076277' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/777679724271076277'/><link rel='self' 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Treasury official said Monday.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081027/ap_on_bi_ge/treasury_meltdown"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That breaks down to $400 for each and every US citizen!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-3489825891734548659?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/3489825891734548659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=3489825891734548659' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3489825891734548659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/10/mcdifferent.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-298361462648103121</id><published>2008-10-25T15:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T15:20:39.769-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Next Crisis: Pensions!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GM stops 401(k) payments &lt;a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2008/10/20/daily53.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-298361462648103121?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-8839436093631895458</id><published>2008-10-25T09:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T09:40:00.734-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Elitist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Frustrated because of the traffic, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Joe McCain called 911&lt;/span&gt; to find out what was going on. The operator asked him to "state your emergency." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081025/ap_on_el_pr/joe_mccain911;_ylt=AvZZmsJkSlkj.xO_47u1_CGs0NUE"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-8839436093631895458?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/8839436093631895458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=8839436093631895458' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8839436093631895458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8839436093631895458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/10/elitist-frustrated-because-of-traffic.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-1300079222689078428</id><published>2008-10-25T08:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T08:59:25.859-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Then &amp; Now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table width=430&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=215 align=center&gt;&lt;object width="212" height="172"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UDTZCgsZGeA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-8326429567375964540</id><published>2008-10-25T08:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T09:01:43.392-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Any Questions?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1185304443" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=1877515604&amp;playerId=1185304443&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="390" height="330" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swLiveConnect="true" 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Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-2940341185348694707</id><published>2008-10-25T07:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T07:06:14.256-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Differences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McCain says Democrats will "tax and spend" &lt;a href="http://rawstory.com/news/afp/McCain_says_Democrats_will_tax_and__10242008.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He promises to &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;"borrow and spend"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://zfacts.com/p/318.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-2940341185348694707?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/2940341185348694707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=2940341185348694707' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/2940341185348694707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/2940341185348694707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/10/differences-mccain-says-democrats-will.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-8042631371779800265</id><published>2008-10-25T06:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T08:42:42.081-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;($2,208.64)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush In:  &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=01%2F20%2F2001&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$10,587.59&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush Today: &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=10%2F24%2F2008&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$8,378.95&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;If you put $10,587.59 in a CD at 3% interest, it would be $2,461.61; making your DOW investement ($4,670.25) or a 44% loss!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-7370936525486286659</id><published>2008-10-24T20:15:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T20:15:47.246-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Race Bait&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kbH6208OBFE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kbH6208OBFE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-7370936525486286659?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/7370936525486286659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=7370936525486286659' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/7370936525486286659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/7370936525486286659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/10/race-bait.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6625258367068639923</id><published>2008-10-24T14:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T14:57:40.204-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;$150,000 Haircut&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NBcwTrck0z0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NBcwTrck0z0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-3886561804075195363</id><published>2008-10-22T15:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-22T15:55:13.523-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;($2,068.38)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush In:  &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=01%2F20%2F2001&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$10,587.59&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush Today: &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=10%2F22%2F2008&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$8,519.21&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Gives new meaning to a &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Capital Gains Tax Cut&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-3886561804075195363?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/3886561804075195363/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=3886561804075195363' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3886561804075195363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3886561804075195363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/10/2068.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-1205155902190312075</id><published>2008-10-15T19:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-15T19:15:18.967-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Real Deficit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0NM5Q5VDpnA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0NM5Q5VDpnA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-4351472960510087525</id><published>2008-10-15T18:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-15T18:43:22.271-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Northwest New Hampshire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x1hN6DFQyDs&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x1hN6DFQyDs&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-765794802602189339</id><published>2008-10-12T07:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-12T07:22:30.865-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Decency &amp; Civility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0YIq5Q15L1o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0YIq5Q15L1o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5292749774497408451</id><published>2008-10-11T16:22:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-11T16:22:55.468-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Freedom?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christians flee Iraqi city after killings, threats, officials say &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.violence/index.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5292749774497408451?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5292749774497408451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bush Word Problem?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A president starts with an investment of &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=01%2F20%2F2001&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$10,587.59&lt;/a&gt; and after 7.75 years turns it into &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=10%2F10%2F2008&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$8,451.19&lt;/a&gt; AND the money loses 4% each year due to inflation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the net gain or loss of his investment?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Answer: &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;51.2% LOSS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inflation at 4% X 7.75 years is 31%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So 10,587.59 X 1.31 is $13,869.74 to keep value up with inflation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Subtract the current value of $8,451.19 for a loss of $5,451.19.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Divide the loss ($5,451.19) by the inital value ($10,587.59) and you get:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;51.2% LOSS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-1348970380197959942?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/1348970380197959942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=1348970380197959942' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/1348970380197959942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/1348970380197959942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/10/bush-word-problem-president-starts-with.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-3378379918073492426</id><published>2008-10-10T19:45:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T19:45:47.912-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bush League&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Palin abused power in firing, Alaska panel finds &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/10/palin.investigation/index.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-3378379918073492426?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-163431755777811624</id><published>2008-10-10T09:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T09:08:44.526-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;'We can solve this crisis'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/10/news/economy/bush_economy/index.htm?postversion=2008101010"&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best Solution is November 4, 2008!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-163431755777811624?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/163431755777811624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=163431755777811624' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/163431755777811624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/163431755777811624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/10/we-can-solve-this-crisis.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-904393728354854465</id><published>2008-10-04T06:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T06:31:34.130-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Beggars Bailout&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Time for truth: If Secretary Paulson sought venture capital financing in the private sector with his current proposal, the deciders would say: “Nice concept, come back with a business plan.” If he then fell to his knees and pleaded for money, saying he would go bankrupt within 72 hours, they would suggest counseling, not financing.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/100308a.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-904393728354854465?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/904393728354854465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=904393728354854465' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/904393728354854465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/904393728354854465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/10/beggars-bailout-time-for-truth-if.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-1359180540512192656</id><published>2008-10-01T17:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T17:14:56.202-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Seward's Folly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;In addition, each member of the Palin family received $1,654 in state oil royalties paid to all Alaskans.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_el_pr/palins_finances"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Why are we paying Palin's family $11,578 for a something WE paid in full for in 1867?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-1359180540512192656?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/1359180540512192656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=1359180540512192656' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/1359180540512192656'/><link 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for the &lt;a href="http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm"&gt;25-30%&lt;/a&gt; who still support it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe our CEO should resign?????&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-7116847913323216969?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/7116847913323216969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=7116847913323216969' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/7116847913323216969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/7116847913323216969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/enabling-failure-this-administration-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6463117523324775311</id><published>2008-09-25T04:22:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-25T04:22:49.178-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;More blowback&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"The United States will lose its superpower status in the world financial system. The world financial system will become more multi-polar."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/26881273"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6463117523324775311?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6463117523324775311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6463117523324775311' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6463117523324775311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6463117523324775311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-blowback-united-states-will-lose.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-4155750422100300749</id><published>2008-09-25T03:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-25T04:00:47.964-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sound Familiar?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush Lays Burden On Congress &lt;a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/105840/Bush-Lays-Burden-on-Congress"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember &lt;a href="http://media.www.siude.com/media/storage/paper1096/news/2007/03/08/City/Inspector.Iraq.War.Rushed-2765054.shtml"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-4155750422100300749?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/4155750422100300749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=4155750422100300749' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/4155750422100300749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/4155750422100300749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/sound-familiar-bush-lays-burden-on.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-2844945398885081949</id><published>2008-09-24T12:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-24T12:19:47.800-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Can you spare me a dime?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;$521,000&lt;/span&gt;: The average pay of Goldman Sachs employees ­ and that includes secretaries &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a 12 per cent increase on the &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;$466,000&lt;/span&gt; average disclosed for 2004. It is twice the level of average pay at rivals Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/521000-the-average-pay-of-goldman-sachs-employees-173-and-that-includes-secretaries-466273.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;And now they need your help!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-2844945398885081949?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/2844945398885081949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=2844945398885081949' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/2844945398885081949'/><link 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href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SNoiKYSwcHI/AAAAAAAAAB4/7GiqYyRYPaM/s1600-h/graph.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SNoiKYSwcHI/AAAAAAAAAB4/7GiqYyRYPaM/s320/graph.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249545877368893554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Note!&lt;/span&gt; - George W Bush does NOT include the Iraq War ($600 billion) or the Wall Street bailout ($1.8 trillion).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When that $2.4 Trillion is added, the charts looks like:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SNpB9sZON3I/AAAAAAAAACA/EBpKbsxmSOY/s1600-h/graph.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SNpB9sZON3I/AAAAAAAAACA/EBpKbsxmSOY/s320/graph.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249580843798509426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-104691039547926555?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/104691039547926555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=104691039547926555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/104691039547926555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/104691039547926555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/by-numbers-note-george-w-bush-does-not.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SNoiKYSwcHI/AAAAAAAAAB4/7GiqYyRYPaM/s72-c/graph.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5019173288271134894</id><published>2008-09-24T04:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-24T04:07:58.346-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bailout on Trial: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;What Does Taxpayer Get Other than a $700B Bill?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike the $85 billion AIG bailout, which gave the government an 80% stake in the company and a 11%-plus interest rate on the loan, the taxpayer is getting no tangible return for a $700 billion "investment", as currently constructed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/68706/Bailout-on-Trial%3A-What-Does-Taxpayer-Get-Other-than-a-%24700B-Bill%3F"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5019173288271134894?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5019173288271134894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5019173288271134894' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5019173288271134894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5019173288271134894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/bailout-on-trial-what-does-taxpayer-get.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-4885566313050922456</id><published>2008-09-23T10:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-23T10:58:31.562-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;She's Ready?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McCain camp tries to to keep reporters out of Palin meetings &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-4885566313050922456?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/4885566313050922456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=4885566313050922456' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/4885566313050922456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/4885566313050922456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/shes-ready-mccain-camp-tries-to-to-keep.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-68587529978754820</id><published>2008-09-22T17:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T18:09:30.458-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bush's Legacy by the numbers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federal Deficit (&lt;a href="http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm"&gt;6.4 trillion up to 11.5 trillion&lt;/a&gt;) = &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;$5.1 trillion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iraq War (&lt;a href="http://zfacts.com/p/447.html"&gt;estimate&lt;/a&gt;) = $600 billion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Wall Street &lt;s&gt;Handout&lt;/s&gt; &lt;a href="http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2008/09/18-trillion-bailout.html"&gt;Bailout&lt;/a&gt; = $1.8 trillion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TOTAL is $7.5 trillion!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's approximately 300 million US citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush has borrowed (saddled) every US citizen with $25,000 of debt!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Family of 3 is $75,000!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Family of 4 is $100,000!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not bad for a '&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;tax cutter&lt;/span&gt;'!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-68587529978754820?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/68587529978754820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=68587529978754820' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/68587529978754820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/68587529978754820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/bushs-legacy-by-numbers-federal-deficit.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-9028043250398490675</id><published>2008-09-21T17:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T17:27:13.377-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bailout or Handout?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"Why not take the billions and ... make funds available to home owners stuck in the loans these idiots created, marketed and sold," asked Don from Coarsegold, Calif. "It will put the money where it should be with the little guy who made a mistake, instead of the big guy who created the problem."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/21/news/economy/readers_on_bailout/index.htm?cnn=yes"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-9028043250398490675?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/9028043250398490675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=9028043250398490675' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/9028043250398490675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/9028043250398490675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/bailout-or-handout-why-not-take.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-841356290230817736</id><published>2008-09-21T16:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T16:44:40.885-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;MVP!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;PHILADELPHIA -- When shortstop Jimmy Rollins was growing up, his father used to assign him a "Word of the Day" to learn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of each week, Rollins would have to pass a test to prove he had mastered each word's definition. The young Rollins couldn't possibly have known it at the time, but this would mark the beginning of a passion for literacy that would ultimately be used to benefit thousands of students in the Philadelphia area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rollins now works year-round toward improving reading skills among Philadelphia's youth. For this and many other endeavors, the shortstop is the worthy Phillies nominee for the 2008 Roberto Clemente Award, presented by Chevrolet.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080902&amp;content_id=3410048&amp;vkey=news_phi&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=phi"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-841356290230817736?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/841356290230817736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=841356290230817736' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/841356290230817736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/841356290230817736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/mvp-philadelphia-when-shortstop-jimmy.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5325074188743127966</id><published>2008-09-19T20:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-20T07:32:51.588-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;New Economic Stimulus &lt;s&gt;Checks&lt;/s&gt; Loans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The more alarmist economists are saying the cost of resolving the current crisis will exceed $1 trillion. To put that in context, total U.S. government spending in 2007 was $2.7 trillion.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1842706,00.html?xid=rss-topstories"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;$3,333.33&lt;/span&gt; of more borrowing for each and every US citizen!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Family of 3 is &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;$10,000&lt;/span&gt; !!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How does that compare to last year's stimulus check?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The standard stimulus rebate check for American families with a joint filing couple and a child is &lt;a href="http://www.calpirg.org/home/reports/report-archives/world-class-public-transit/world-class-public-transit/squandering-the-stimulus-average-american-households-spent-economic-stimulus-on-gas"&gt;$1,500&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Wall Street bailout is 7 TIMES greater than your economic stimulus check!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wall Street bonuses of &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/21/wall-street-bonuses-surge_n_77827.html"&gt;$30 billion&lt;/a&gt; COST the US taxpayers &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1842706,00.html?xid=rss-topstories"&gt;$1 Trillion&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even Dr. Evil would have a hard time deciphering these figures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jTmXHvGZiSY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jTmXHvGZiSY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5325074188743127966?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5325074188743127966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5325074188743127966' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5325074188743127966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5325074188743127966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-economic-stimulus-checks-more.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6023556028048006070</id><published>2008-09-19T20:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T21:06:26.540-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;What Matt Drudge forgot to tell you:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SNRp2hpRL1I/AAAAAAAAABs/GPglYJWLk-w/s1600-h/drudge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SNRp2hpRL1I/AAAAAAAAABs/GPglYJWLk-w/s320/drudge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247935851258785618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Note:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;DOW UP 40 POINTS IN PAST MONTH... UP 18% PAST 5 YEARS... UP 44% PAST 10 YEARS...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Up 44% the past 10 years!  How does that break down?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush's DOW started at &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=01%2F20%2F2001&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$10,587.59&lt;/a&gt; and is now at &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=09%2F19%2F2008&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$11,019.69&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush's DOW went up &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;4%&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;7.75&lt;/span&gt; years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who was president for the other &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;40%&lt;/span&gt; increase in &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;2.25&lt;/span&gt; years? &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bill Clinton!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now contrast that with Clinton's DOW, &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=01%2F20%2F1993&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$3,241.95&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=01%2F20%2F2001&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$10,587.59&lt;/a&gt; for a &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;326%&lt;/span&gt; increase!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6023556028048006070?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6023556028048006070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6023556028048006070' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6023556028048006070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6023556028048006070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-matt-drudge-forgot-to-tell-you.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SNRp2hpRL1I/AAAAAAAAABs/GPglYJWLk-w/s72-c/drudge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6141342490533411403</id><published>2008-09-17T21:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-17T21:27:21.494-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Excellent!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1185304443" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=1799203760&amp;playerId=1185304443&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6141342490533411403?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6141342490533411403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6141342490533411403' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6141342490533411403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6141342490533411403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/well-said.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5286008548062213514</id><published>2008-09-17T04:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-17T04:29:02.277-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bush Economy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Pelosi (D-Calif.) ripped President Bush’s “mismanagement” of the economy and a lack of regulation that led to the current situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I think the American people have had it with this situation where the middle-income people in our country are not protected from the ramifications of the risk-taking and the greed of these financial institutions,” Pelosi told MSNBC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When asked whether the Democrats “deserve some responsibility” regarding the economic crisis, Pelosi responded: “No.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/pelosi-dems-bear-no-responsibility-for-economic-crisis-2008-09-16.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5286008548062213514?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5286008548062213514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5286008548062213514' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5286008548062213514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5286008548062213514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/bush-economy-pelosi-d-calif.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-9134008812434013892</id><published>2008-09-16T21:24:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T21:24:30.476-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Confused?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oWMVW_82dQ8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oWMVW_82dQ8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-9134008812434013892?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/9134008812434013892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=9134008812434013892' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/9134008812434013892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/9134008812434013892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/confused.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-5199623432658619595</id><published>2008-09-16T05:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T06:05:43.146-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;329.92 Magic Number&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Closing price on January 19th 2001: &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=01%2F20%2F2001&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$10,587.59&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Closing price yesterday (September 15, 2008): &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=09%2F15%2F2008&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$10,917.51&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have Bush's economic policies and tax cuts been good for the economy?  Consider everything: &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5EDJI"&gt;the stock market&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;the real estate market&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;the banking market&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/03/real-retail-sales.html"&gt;retail sales&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;the federal deficit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;household income&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;employment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;bankruptcies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;household savings and debt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;the value of the dollar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;inflation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Would you/everyone give back their 'tax cuts' for an improvement in any of the above?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-5199623432658619595?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/5199623432658619595/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=5199623432658619595' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5199623432658619595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/5199623432658619595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/329.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-3853868576106647324</id><published>2008-09-15T16:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T16:50:49.667-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Economy John!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SM70wJZxZtI/AAAAAAAAABk/L2Km7MaUMVk/s1600-h/economyjohn.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SM70wJZxZtI/AAAAAAAAABk/L2Km7MaUMVk/s320/economyjohn.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246399723928118994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-3853868576106647324?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/3853868576106647324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=3853868576106647324' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3853868576106647324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3853868576106647324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/economy-john.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SM70wJZxZtI/AAAAAAAAABk/L2Km7MaUMVk/s72-c/economyjohn.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-7016917517763774559</id><published>2008-09-15T16:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T16:40:02.088-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Had Enough?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SM7yCE2rD9I/AAAAAAAAABc/OkD6Q-qks10/s1600-h/Screenshot-5.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SM7yCE2rD9I/AAAAAAAAABc/OkD6Q-qks10/s320/Screenshot-5.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246396733409923026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-7016917517763774559?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/7016917517763774559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=7016917517763774559' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/7016917517763774559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/7016917517763774559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/had-enough.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gW0k7tES6uE/SM7yCE2rD9I/AAAAAAAAABc/OkD6Q-qks10/s72-c/Screenshot-5.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-20323341432624790</id><published>2008-09-15T15:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T15:43:35.884-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;McCain+Economy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=McCain%2Beconomy&amp;search_type=&amp;aq=f"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=McCain%2Beconomy&amp;search_type=&amp;aq=f&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-20323341432624790?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/20323341432624790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=20323341432624790' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/20323341432624790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/20323341432624790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccaineconomy-httpwww.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-487642193049592222</id><published>2008-09-10T10:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-10T10:46:25.371-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Blowing the Lead&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Republican Rep. Candice S. Miller says Barack Obama had only one shot at Palin-proofing the Democratic ticket — and he missed it when he passed over Hillary Rodham Clinton as his running mate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Every woman in America knows what Barack Obama did to Hillary Clinton: He looked at her and thought, ‘There’s no way I’m doing that,’” said Miller. “If Hillary was on the ticket, he’d be in a much better position to win women voters.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarah Palin’s presence — coupled with Clinton’s absence — may be altering one of the great verities of American politics: that women voters overwhelmingly favor Democrats. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But another former Clinton adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the “Obama people have got to be kicking themselves” for not putting choosing Clinton as his No. 2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Julia Piscitelli of the American University’s Women and Politics Institute agreed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I don’t think Palin would be seeing these kind of gains if Hillary was on the ticket,” she said. “When Obama picked Biden, it gave Republicans an opening, and they are taking full advantage of it. ... The question is: How long will it last?” &lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080910/pl_politico/13317"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-487642193049592222?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/487642193049592222/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=487642193049592222' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/487642193049592222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/487642193049592222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/blowing-lead-republican-rep.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6415116569983179911</id><published>2008-09-09T06:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T06:40:53.092-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;More debt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From &lt;a href="http://bonddad.blogspot.com/"&gt;the bonddad blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The meaning and ramifications of this collapse cannot be unravelled in a single post--or a hundred posts. Mismanagement, corporate greed and excess need examining.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once again, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;the U.S. taxpayer will be asked to shoulder another mountain of debt&lt;/span&gt;. Once again, the taxpayer has become the prop of last resort as poorly managed entities become too big to fail. How long this can continue is the question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything seems broken. No one seems to be safely in charge. Instead, I imagine public officials--Bernanke and Paulson-- racing frantically from meeting to meeting, making assurances, looking for the next band-aid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Foreign central banks have been propping up the U.S. economy:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foreign central banks have financed the United States to keep their export sectors -- heavily dependent on U.S. consumer spending -- humming. But they now must weigh the benefits of providing the United States with such "vendor financing" against the rising costs of keeping the current system going.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yu Yongding is not making a threat; he is stating a fact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If foreign central banks stop financing U.S. debt (there are no free rides), then the U.S. is in a world of hurt. As Brad Setser notes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...in fact, the economic and financial risks that arise from the U.S. current account deficit (and the resulting dependence on foreign financing) have not been exaggerated. If anything, they have received too little attention -- and are set to grow in the coming years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, "the coming years" may be sooner, not later. For the U.S., the consequences may be immediate inflation as Treasury attempts to makes its offerings more palatable. The dollar will plunge. And these are just for starters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The party is over. Sorry that most of you working stiffs missed it. Oh, by the way, here's the bill.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bonddad.blogspot.com/"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6415116569983179911?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6415116569983179911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6415116569983179911' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6415116569983179911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6415116569983179911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-debt-from-bonddad-blog-meaning-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-982132824525765637</id><published>2008-09-09T06:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T06:29:59.854-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;What's the difference between Palin and Muslim fundamentalists? Lipstick!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;' The GOP vice-presidential pick holds that abortion should be illegal, even in cases of rape, incest or severe birth defects, making an exception only if the life of the mother is in danger. She calls abortion an "atrocity" and pledges to reshape the judiciary to fight it. Ironically, Palin's views on the matter are to the right of those in the Muslim country of Tunisia, which allows abortion in the first trimester for a wide range of reasons. Classical Muslim jurisprudents differed among one another on the issue of abortion, but many permitted it before the "quickening" of the fetus, i.e. until the end of the fourth month. Contemporary Muslim fundamentalists, however, generally oppose abortion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Palin's stance is even stricter than that of the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2005, the legislature in Tehran attempted to amend the country's antiabortion statute to permit an abortion up to four months in case of a birth defect. The conservative clerical Guardianship Council, which functions as a sort of theocratic senate, however, rejected the change. Iran's law on abortion is therefore virtually identical to the one that Palin would like to see imposed on American women, and the rationale in both cases is the same, a literalist religious impulse that resists any compromise with the realities of biology and of women's lives. Saudi Arabia's restrictive law on abortion likewise disallows it in the case or rape or incest, or of fetal impairment, which is also Gov. Palin's position. '&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/09/palin_fundamentalist/"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-982132824525765637?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/982132824525765637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=982132824525765637' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/982132824525765637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/982132824525765637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/whats-difference-between-palin-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-25903493872232935</id><published>2008-09-06T22:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-06T22:14:27.395-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;McCain = Bush&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed FlashVars="videoId=184111" src='http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#cccccc' width='332' height='316' name='comedy_central_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-25903493872232935?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/25903493872232935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=25903493872232935' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/25903493872232935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/25903493872232935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-bush.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-478753310506974623</id><published>2008-09-06T07:02:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-06T07:02:45.200-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Stark Differences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-steinem4-2008sep04,0,7915118.story"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-478753310506974623?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/478753310506974623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=478753310506974623' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/478753310506974623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/478753310506974623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/stark-differences-selecting-sarah-palin.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-8782923141555254162</id><published>2008-09-06T06:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-06T06:59:41.232-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;More Economic Stimulus Checks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. Near Deal on Fannie, Freddie &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122064650145404781.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-8782923141555254162?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/8782923141555254162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=8782923141555254162' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8782923141555254162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/8782923141555254162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-economic-stimulus-checks-u.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-2979625102475934933</id><published>2008-09-04T15:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-04T15:15:26.535-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;GOP Economy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then: &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/historical/historical.html?pg=hi&amp;close_date=01%2F20%2F2001&amp;mode=add&amp;symb=DJIA"&gt;$10,587.59&lt;/a&gt;  (January 19th 2001)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now : &lt;a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5EDJI"&gt;$11,188.23&lt;/a&gt; (today)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's a whopping 5.7% over 7.75 years (or .73% return per year)!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 'economy is great' president!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-2979625102475934933?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/2979625102475934933/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=2979625102475934933' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/2979625102475934933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/2979625102475934933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/economy-11188.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-3745353221703238760</id><published>2008-09-04T12:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-04T12:11:41.412-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Republicans!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed FlashVars="videoId=184086" src='http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#cccccc' width='332' height='316' name='comedy_central_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-3745353221703238760?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/3745353221703238760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=3745353221703238760' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3745353221703238760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/3745353221703238760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/09/republicans.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-7090066055644528217</id><published>2008-08-30T04:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-30T04:45:15.568-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Mistake?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="370"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.ireport.com/themes/custom/resources/swfplayer/mediaplayer.swf"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="menu" value="false"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" 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flashvars="height=370&amp;width=448&amp;autostart=false&amp;autoscroll=false&amp;showstop=false&amp;showicons=false&amp;showdigits=total&amp;controlbar=34&amp;backcolor=0xFFFFFF&amp;screencolor=0x000000&amp;frontcolor=0xDEDEDE&amp;lightcolor=0x00A2FF&amp;logo=http%3A//www.ireport.com/themes/custom/resources/swfplayer/data/images/ireport_wm.gif&amp;file=http%3A//ht.cdn.turner.com/ireport/big/prod/2008/08/29/WE00068320/183006/Anon1220028195-JohnMcCainsVPPickMightBeAGimmick921002.flv&amp;image=http%3A//i.cdn.turner.com/ireport/sm/prod/2008/08/29/WE00068320/183006/Anon1220028195-JohnMcCainsVPPickMightBeAGimmick921002_lg.jpg"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For months, the McCainiacs have said they will run on his judgment and experience. In his first presidential decision, John McCain has shown that he is willing to endanger his country, potentially leaving it in the hands of someone who simply has no business being a heartbeat away from the most powerful, complicated, difficult job in human history.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/begala.palin/index.html"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-7090066055644528217?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/7090066055644528217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=7090066055644528217' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/7090066055644528217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/7090066055644528217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/08/mistake-for-months-mccainiacs-have-said.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6255768990420727787</id><published>2008-08-23T19:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-23T19:52:34.070-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Could Obama lose?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He might &lt;a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6255768990420727787?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6255768990420727787/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6255768990420727787' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6255768990420727787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6255768990420727787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/08/could-obama-lose-he-might.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22897585.post-6941893541190453927</id><published>2008-08-23T10:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-23T10:16:22.607-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;An Idea for McCain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pick Hillary!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;That would make it interesting!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22897585-6941893541190453927?l=ivfk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/feeds/6941893541190453927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22897585&amp;postID=6941893541190453927' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6941893541190453927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22897585/posts/default/6941893541190453927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ivfk.blogspot.com/2008/08/idea-for-mccain-pick-hillary-that-would.html' title=''/><author><name>Jim Ginn</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://imac.ginn.com/~jimginn/disney122004/25/400/img_1696.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
