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	<title>What Comes Next? &#187; Corruption</title>
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		<title>A Terrible Breach of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MacLeod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is truly horrifying. That the Attorney General of the United States of America, Eric Holder, could not only know about, but condone and support the export of guns to Mexico for the purpose of furthering the Administration&#8217;s goals of disarming the people of this nation is a betrayal that must not be ignored. Please [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is truly horrifying.</p>
<p>That the Attorney General of the United States of America, Eric Holder, could not only know about, but condone and support the export of guns to Mexico for the purpose of furthering the Administration&#8217;s goals of disarming the people of this nation is a betrayal that must not be ignored.<span id="more-496"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/oPsB9S">Please follow the &#8220;Fast and Furious&#8221; story</a>. It&#8217;s worthy of a Hollywood movie, except it&#8217;s true, and should result in the removal from office, if not the incarceration, of Eric Holder and anyone above him who knew or took part in this fiasco&#8217;s planning.</p>
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		<title>Outrage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MacLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your editor will, on occasion, sheepishly admit to being a fan of conspiracy sites. For the most part, they&#8217;re a form of entertainment that I find&#8230;well, entertaining. They can be dark and dank, but many of them are written by very smart people with startlingly fresh and creative perspectives. You probably know the kind of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your editor will, on occasion, sheepishly admit to being a fan of conspiracy sites. For the most part, they&#8217;re a form of entertainment that I find&#8230;well, entertaining. They can be dark and dank, but many of them are written by very smart people with startlingly fresh and creative perspectives. You probably know the kind of sites I&#8217;m talking about. Some of them are hugely successful.</p>
<p>In this deepening &#8220;Greater Depression,&#8221; many of these sites are starting to prove themselves to be more than just fantasy and fiction. The terrible things they&#8217;ve been predicted are, in more than a few cases, starting to appear to us in our day to day world, and that makes us take a harder look at the other predictions and issue they discuss, to see if those things are coming down the road toward us, still just over the horizon.</p>
<p>For that reason, I sometimes feel like I have to  avoid publishing what seems absolutely true to me. I no longer believe it&#8217;s impossible for American citizens to be rounded up in the middle of the night for opposing the power structure in this country. The unbelievable fiction I see playing out on the news channels these days suggest to me that the men and woman who have hijacked our Government are dropping all pretense about what they are doing. When I see Barney Frank berating the new ($1 per year) CEO of AIG for paying bonuses that the TARP allowed, and demanding the names of the people who did not return them, is it unreasonable to imagine doors kicked in at 2am?</p>
<p>Am I the only one who is disgusted by the holier than thou attitude of a man<em> who was a regulator of this industry</em> demanding justice for things that happened when he was watching? Am I the only one disgusted by this attitude from a man who had <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/who_is_barney_frank.html" target="_blank">a gay prostitution ring being run out of his house by his live-in lover</a> not that many years ago?</p>
<p>&#8220;We get the government we deserve,&#8221; the old saying goes. At what point will enough people who don&#8217;t live in states clueless enough to elect the likes of Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd say <em>no more?</em></p>
<p>Then, things will get really interesting.</p>
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		<title>Obama Problem #3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MacLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problem number 1 will be the economy. He will be in charge of the world&#8217;s only remaining Superpower in decline, and possible economic collapse. Problem number 2 is Iraq. He claims to know what to do, and it&#8217;s entirely possible he will get the chance to prove whether he does, or will just screw things [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:QmE503QA8Mv-eM:http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/11_obama_lg.jpg" class="right">Problem number 1 will be the economy. He will be in charge of the world&#8217;s only remaining Superpower in decline, and possible economic collapse.</p>
<p>Problem number 2 is Iraq. He claims to know what to do, and it&#8217;s entirely possible he will get the chance to prove whether he does, or will just screw things up worse.</p>
<p>Problem number 3 will be impeachment. There is no way a candidate for President of the United States can raise $150 million in a month without his organization making some big mistakes. I predict that in the coming months, should Obama be elected, we will hear about a massive donation from somewhere horrifying. I guarantee that Senator Obama&#8217;s opponents have already begun investigating where the almost <em>quarter of a billion dollars</em> in donations in August and September came from.</p>
<p>He shouldn&#8217;t have taken the money. First, in doing so he broke an agreement with Senator McCain to take public funds, which would limit his outside fundraising. Secondly, studies show once you get to a certain level of money, incremental dollars don&#8217;t help that much, if at all. <em>He didn&#8217;t need the money</em>.</p>
<p>The problems associated with massive fundraising in my opinion (which I should tell the reader ISN&#8217;T backed up by any first-hand experience with political fundraising &#8211; just common sense) just aren&#8217;t worth the benefit derived from them. The more money rushing in, the more likely it is that some of it will be difficult and/or embarrassing to explain. I think the possibility exists that a President Obama will spend a great deal of attention during his first term explaining not a spot on a dress, but a million dollar contribution by someone he shouldn&#8217;t have taken a dime from.</p>
<p>Again, I believe an Obama Presidency, should it occur, will be an ugly time. And that&#8217;s unfortunate, because I don&#8217;t fear Barack Obama as a person at all. I think, if he were at the head of a <em>complete</em> overhaul of our political landscape in Washington, DC, we could do far worse in a President. But, it&#8217;s <em>not</em> a complete overhaul, and a lot of the same players are in charge in Washington. I don&#8217;t fear the results of a President Barack Obama, but I am concerned about what can happen with Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and Harry Reid in charge with a rubber stamp-providing President in the White House. </p>
<p>They are incompetent and corrupt and will play Obama like a fiddle.</p>
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