Patch_W_Adams's St Louis Blog

We have come to another Crossroads in Our Country.   What Path we choose will effect not only yourself, but future generations, even the world.

The current events of the Bailout Bill should prove to every Person, not in a Coma, that the Politiicans Do Not Listen to the People they are supposed to represent.  The fact that Both Presidental Canidates voted for this Bill speaks Volumes.    None of them understood it, they just wanted to do something...for the sake of doing someting.....Our Freedom and Liberty are now at stake to a Degree that Few realize. 

The system is Broken, since those sworn to uphold and defend, have ignored and destroyed the Constitution.   They have failed to do their Duties in Representing the People in their Districts and have used the Idea's of Freedom and Liberty for a Doormat.  They have committed a Sin in the Eyes of the Constitution, Legislation..without Representation!   It is bad enough that the people in Washington spend OUR money like it was a Game of monoploy...but to Ignore the Cries and Shouts of the Same People whom They are suppsoeed to Represent...IS UNFORGIVABLE!    THEY HAVE DOOMED US TO FAILURE.   They have Destroyed the Foundation of THIS GREAT COUNTRY!  It is not just One Party...But Both that carry the Blame, Both that have Destroyed OUR Constitution and  the Ideals of Freedom and Liberty!  Both that have told the American People....That WASHINGTON KNOWS BETTER!   They have Spit in the Eye of All of those that have Fought for Freedom and Liberty . They have thumbed their Collective Noses at the Founding Fathers!   THERE IS NO CHANGE RUNNING FOR PRESIDEN!!!!!   Just POLITICIANS!   

Those that Love this Country and the Ideals that it was Founded Upon have a Hard Decision to Make.   Those of Us that Can Not Stand By and watch as Our Country is Destroyed by Those supposed to protect it!

One Road, leads to the Destuction of the Constitution  as to be replaced by Socialism if not Communism.  The other Path, Freedom and Liberty for all....not just the Politicians.....

But the Path to Freedom and Liberty is the Harder of the two, it requires Sacrafice and Hardship, while the other just requires us to fall into a lulled sense of Hoplessness.

Who will Fight?  Who Will say ENOUGH?!?   Who will stand to be the Guardian of the Light of Liberty????

I know not what path Others May Choose......

As For Me.........

GIVE ME LIBERTY ..............OR GIVE ME DEATH!

 

 

Yesterday I had an interesting phone call, no it was not the one at 3 a.m.    It was from a Friend of mine and the First thing out of his mouth was,

"This is how it Dies...."  

 I was a little taken aback and blurted out...,"Who Died?"  

"Not Who, What......This is how Freedom dies and Socialism happens."

Now my Friend grew up in Communist Yugoslavia and he and I have had many debates on Socialism, Communism and Freedom.   He has told me his story many times how Tito's Communist Government after WWII came and took his Grandfather's Farm and divided it up.  They were left with one room in their house while other families lived in the others.   He is the one that told me Communism is a Pipe Dream and Socialism is really Communsim in Practice.   

He went on to say," Change comes packaged as something needed, something we can't do without.   And it comes fast so people don't have time to think.   Almost Overnight......When you go to sleep, you have a "free" Market and when you awake it's run by the Government."

My Response to Him was, " Now you know how the Colonists Felt 5 years before the Revolution. The Crown and Parlament stopped listening to the Colonists and Dictated Policy while stripping their Freedoms.  Taxation without representation"

He Replied, " There won't be a Revolution...."

 

"Funny,"   I chuckled,"  The King of England thought the same...thing.."

Senate Passes 'Sweetened' Economic Bailout Bill in Hopes of House Support

Obama, McCain Depart Presidential Campaign Trail for Economic Crisis

By JAKE TAPPER

Oct. 2, 2008

  

Now that the Senate has overwhelmingly approved the $700 billion Wall Street bailout -- fattened with "sweeteners " into an $800 billion bailout -- Congressional leaders are "cautiously optimistic" that the House won't reject it for a second time this week.

The economic rescue plan breezed through the Senate Wednesday night on a 75-24 vote, a move that was intended to put pressure on the House to also approve the measure. House rejection of an earlier version triggered a told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that they are "cautiously optimistic" that the bill will pass. The White House said that Bush has made two dozen phone calls to House members who had initially voted no and pursuaded several of them to switch their votes to yes, Stephanopoulos said.

 A second rejection of the bill was "unthinkable," according to congressional leaders.

The House will be voting on a bill packed with $100 billion worth of extra incentives than Monday's proposal had.

Some of those additions have been assailed by spending watchdogs as "pork," like the $6 million for the makers of kids' wooden arrows, according to a summary of the bill released by the Senate Finance Committee.

Other goodies intended to attract the votes of individual members of Congress include $192 million for the rum producers of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, $128 million for car racing tracks, $33 million for corporations operating in American Samoa, and $10 million for small film and television productions.

Other Senate modifications with much broader appeal include a provision that gives the Treasury Department the authority to buy troubled mortgage securities.

The bill also now includes an extension of numerous tax breaks for research and development and renewable energy companies, as well as personal tax breaks for college tuition and disaster victims.

It proposes adjusting the Alternative Minimum Tax, so it doesn't hit more than 20 million middle class Americans in 2009.

Another key modification is a one-year increase in the limits of personal bank savings the government insures up to $250,000.

With the additions, the bill could achieve its goal of appealing to the 133 disapproving House Republicans. Rep. John Shaddeg, R-Ariz., who voted against the bill Monday, has changed his mind.

"At this point, I am assuming they don't change it, strongly leaning towards voting for it," Shaddeg said.

Nevertheless, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, told "Good Morning America" that she will still vote "no," calling it "the wrong medicine."

"I think that the worst part is, this is adding over $1 trillion to our deficit," Kaptur said. She believes the crisis can be handled without saddling the voters with Wall Street's debts.

To Read the Whole Article Go T o:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Business/story?id=59
31648&page=1

Americans Ignorant of Plans to Create Artificial Life

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

By Robert Roy Britt

If you've never heard of the exciting field of synthetic biology, you're not alone, but you might want to get wise to the field's controversial promise to create life from scratch.

About two-thirds of U.S. residents are clueless as well, having never heard of synthetic biology.

Only 2 percent in a new telephone survey of 1,003 adults said they have heard a lot about the work, which crosses biology with technology and promises to create forms of life that Nature never thought of.

Synthetic biologists engineer and build or redesign living organisms, such as bacteria, to carry out specific functions.

The field is a scientific playground for the genetic code, where previously nonexistent DNA is formulated in test tubes.

By taking genetic engineering to the extreme, synthetic biologists aim to make life in the lab.

The promise is that the novel organisms will fight disease, create alternative fuels or build living computers.

Already, researchers have transplanted genetic material from one microbe species into the cellular body of another, described last year as the living "equivalent to converting a Macintosh computer to a PC by inserting a new piece of software."

"We face daunting problems of climate change, energy, health, and water resources," a group of 17 leading scientists in the field stated last year. "Synthetic biology offers solutions to these issues: microorganisms that convert plant matter to fuels or that synthesize new drugs or target and destroy rogue cells in the body."

Now you know.

But why should you care?

For one, the field "is potentially controversial because it raises issues of ownership, misuse, unintended consequences and accidental release," according to a report earlier this year commissioned by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in England.

In a nutshell, some fear microscopic lab freaks might escape and wreak havoc.

 

To Read the Whole Article Go To:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,431401,00.html

Foreign economists urge 'global plan'

Nicholas Kralev
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Leaders and economists from Western Europe to East Asia Tuesday urged the United States to go beyond reviving a failed domestic bailout and start working on a new global financial system.

Associated Press Traders at MICEX, the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, watch and wait during a tense session in Moscow on Tuesday when stock indexes sank despite a two-hour trading halt.

"The Americans don't have a choice — they must absolutely have a global plan," Christian Noyer, head of the French central bank, said in Paris.

David Smick, a global strategist and author of "The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers of the Global Economy," said the next U.S. president should immediately call for a second "Bretton Woods" conference to devise a new doctrine of international finance.

The tiny New Hampshire town hosted a conference shortly after World War II that established rules for economic interchange among the world's industrial powers and created the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

"I am convinced that the sickness runs deep and that we need to rethink the entire financial and monetary system, as we did in Bretton Woods ... to create the tools for worldwide regulation made necessary by the globalization of trade," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in the French city of Toulon on Monday.

He said that officials from France, Britain, Germany and Italy will meet next week in Paris with the Continent's top financial officials to prepare for a proposed global summit on the economic crisis. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet will participate.

The 27-nation European Union said Tuesday that the crisis "has become a global problem" and Washington has a "special responsibility" to resolve it.

 

To Read the Whole Article Got To:

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/01/foreign-e
conomists-prod-us-on-global-plan/

Failed firms gave big to both parties

Both McCain and Obama, industry critics, got donations

Jim McElhatton and Jennifer Haberkorn
Friday, September 19, 2008

Before the government committed billions of taxpayer dollars to rescue troubled corporate giants, executives at those firms were directing millions of dollars in lobbying efforts and campaign donations to the very politicians who now blame Wall Street's excesses and greed for America's financial crisis.

The corporate largesse flowed to members of Congress, the political parties, the nominating conventions and the two presidential candidates through the summer, even as many of the companies and their executives were teetering toward collapse.

An analysis by The Washington Times found that both parties cashed in heartily, with Democrats slightly more likely to benefit.

For instance, executives of four companies bailed out by the government — American International Group, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Bear Stearns — donated nearly $2 million to politicians, political action committees and political parties since last year, including nearly $369,000 to the major presidential candidates, according to Federal Election Commission data analyzed by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics (CPR).

They also spent more than $7 million on lobbyists, Senate records show.

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama received $226,611 from employees of the failed companies, compared with $142,575 to Republican Sen. John McCain, the campaign reports showed.

To Read the Whole Article Go To:

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/sep/19/failed-fi
rms-directed-millions-to-politicians/

EXCLUSIVE: Pelosi paid husband with PAC funds $99,000 for rent, utilities, accounting fees

Jennifer Haberkorn (Contact)
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

 EXCLUSIVE:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband's real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with political donations that she supported banning last year.

Financial Leasing Services Inc. (FLS), owned by Paul F. Pelosi, has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history.

To Read the Whole Article Go To :

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/01/pelosis-p
ac-pays-bills-for-spouses-firm/

So No Bailout in the House....The People have Spoken....But of Course, Congress thinks it knows better.   So Now the Senate is having a Crack at it.   I have read the 110 Page House Bailout Bill, it sucks....It Creates a Whole New Department inside another Department of the Governemnt...along with a whole bunch of New Powers and with some "oversite"  from Congress...But who gives Oversite to Congress???   Us, Their Bosses....the one's they don't appear to be listening to...So how is that Oversite if there is No Oversite of the Overseers??

So far there has been a Huge amount of Money that has gone to International Banks and Institutions from Our Tax Money, without ANY Vote...where is the Oversite there?? 

They Want us to Print More Money so the Market can Keep doing what Got us in this mess to begin With....Are They Kidding???  At this rate of Printing Money, we will take No Time in Catching up to Zimbabwe and their Horrible Inflation Rate.....

We Don't Bail out Wall Street and things fail the Economy slows, but the Dollar isn't completly Worthless.  So rebuilding isn't impossible.  But the Thought of a Global Economy is Out the Window.   We will have to Rebuild OUR economy, but at least the Dollar will be there to do it....

We Bail Out Wall Street and the Global Banking System, it just compounds the Problems that Got us here and we cause Crazy Inflation as the Dollar becomes no Better than Toilet Paper...and the economy stalls and the Federal Government, that is already Broke....Fails.  The World decides it needs to base things on the Euro or some other New "World" Currency instead of the Dollar....and we are one step closer to One World Government.

During the Depression we were not in Debt, the Dollar was not tanking..it was a whole different scenario.   That is why this Depression era Bailout will not work now, like it might have back then.

Funny thing,  Last Time the Democrats agreed with Bush, we ended up in a War.....

 

What will we end up with....Now?

So the Bailout..Bombed..because common sense Citizens Flooded the Phones, e-mail and mailboxes of Congress.

So what I want to know is........if every Member of the House had their office flooded with calls screaming for NO BAILOUT...then who did 200 or so Reps vote for???

This has been seen time and again, Politicians deciding they know better, without telling us why they think they know better.    We elected these "People" to represent the point of View of the Citizens in their District.  But when the Citizens speak, all to often only a Few Listen...then even if they Listen, they don't follow through.......or like some are saying now...a Deal WILL go through...that means even though WE the Citizens DO NOT WANT ONE.   

 

So WHO is the BOSS of WHO???????

 

 

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Today is the Birthday of Sam Adams, Great American Patriot and A Member of the Sons of Liberty. He Helped to Organize the Boston Tea Party and was an Important figure in the American Revolution.

If Sam Adams were alive today, would he be organizing a New Protest? A New Revolution? I Do Not Know, I believe that the Patriots of his Generation would have acted long before now.

We can speculate what Sam would say, but there is one Founding Father that has spoken well on the happenings that are taking place, his name is Thomas Jefferson.

Below are quotes from Mr. Jefferson and his Beliefs in the Problems of Today. His words are Full of not only Wisdom but it is as if he could tell the Future. If there was an I Told you so coming from anyone, it would be Him.

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for[ another]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."

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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."

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"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."

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"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement."

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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

These Words should be Read and taken to Heart, they should be taught in every school, and preached in every Home. No Generation of Americans should be allowed to forget such Wise Council from a Man who helped to form this Great Country. If this Sage Advice had been Followed we would have avoided the Current Crisis and the Destruction of Liberty that we have experienced over the many years. But let us end this Blog with More Wisdom from Thomas Jefferson, let it be Remembered and Taken to Heart by those that Love this Country and Wish to see it Prosper:

"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction."

Fed puts extra $30bn into markets

The US Federal Reserve is making $30bn (£16.1bn) available to central banks in Australia, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, to ease money markets.

 

 The availability of credit has shrunk

The Fed said the aim was to "improve liquidity" globally, at a time when the availability of credit is limited.

The Fed made a similar move with central banks in the UK, Canada, Japan and the European Central Bank last week, making $180bn available.

The Federal Reserve said it would take "further steps" if necessary.

 

 

To Read The Whole Article Go To :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7632939.stm

Tensions rise over Russian navy fleet

Ukrainian politicians worry that Russia may stir sentiments in a bid to annex the Crimean region.

BY TOM LASSETER

McClatchy News Service

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine -- As the Kremlin seeks to reassert its sphere of influence around its borders and beyond, this home port for Russia's Black Sea fleet -- marooned in the south of Ukraine after the breakup of the Soviet Union -- has moved to the center of tensions between Russia and U.S. allies in the region.

Some Ukrainian politicians worry that Russia will stoke anti-Western sentiments in Sevastopol and cities around it on the Crimean peninsula to create an opportunity to annex the area, the same way Moscow did with two breakaway provinces in Georgia last month, or at least use its influence here to push the central government in Kiev to drop plans to join the European Union and NATO.

Either move would heighten the rising tensions between Russia and the United States, which have returned to Cold War levels over the past year.

Georgia and Ukraine, with American backing, angered the Russian leadership with their NATO aspirations. If they were to join, Russia's Black Sea coastline would be surrounded by members of the military organization.

Sergei Zayats, the administrator of Sevastopol's largest district, said he thought the Russians would be willing to resort to force to keep their ships docked in Crimea, where their fleet has operated since the 1780s. ''The events in Georgia show that this may happen at any time,'' said Zayats, who was appointed by Kiev.

Russia has said it has no plans along those lines.

 

To Read the Whole Article Go To:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/695103.
html

Russia to modernize Nicaraguan military's arsenal

 By FILADELFO ALEMAN

 Associated Press Writer

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Russia's ambassador to Managua said Wednesday that his country will replace the Nicaraguan army's aging weaponry.

Ambassador Igor S. Kondrashev said there are no plans, however, to expand the Central American country's military arsenal.

Nicaragua acquired most of its arms and military equipment from the former Soviet Union in the 1980s, when the leftist Sandinista government was fighting U.S.-backed rebels. The army has insisted it needs new helicopters and Navy ships to patrol Caribbean waters, where there is a boundary dispute with Colombia.

Kondrashev made the comments in an interview with Canal 8 TV station, but he did not say if Russia would ask for financial compensation or would simply replace the equipment as a gift to Nicaragua - which was one of the first nations to support Russia in its war against Georgia.

To Read the Whole Articel Go To:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/7
00004.html

The Liberty Tree was a very tall Elm Tree that sat in front of a Store in the Center of a Southern Boston Square. This Tree was used by the Sons of Liberty to hang in effigy the people who supported the Stamp Act. Shortly after a small plaque titled "The Tree of Liberty" appeared on it's trunk. After that, the Sons of Liberty met in that Boston Square for gatherings. It was also said that the Sons of Liberty hung lanterns in it's branches to show unity for their Cause.

On the last day of the Siege of Boston, some Loyalists defiantly cut down the Liberty Tree. It had stood for 129 years. After that the Stump was used as a reference point for the locals and it was referred to as the Liberty Stump.

Today, If you go to the Corner of Washington and Essex Streets in Boston you will see embedded in a Building a plaque marking the Spot where the Liberty Tree once stood.

I plan on planting my own"Liberty Tree" and passing on a New Tradition to my family of placing Lanterns in it's Branches.

To signify that Liberty is the One true Guiding light to this Great Country. Unfortunately in these Modern Times we Need all the Reminders we can get, of what this Country was Founded on.......

Freedom and Liberty..For All

Ok, No One has Convinced me we need this Bail Out..or the Other ones either.  Right now we are going through an Economic Correction.   Good, Bad...to Prop up failing institutions flys in the Face of a Free Market.  Those Businesses that have been doing the right thing by ensuring their success are going to be Punished , with the rest of us, for the Poor Choices of a Few.  

Bail Out or Not we are heading for some rough times.  Until the market Bottoms and it corrects itself.   But it can't correct itself if the Government  keeps proping up failures.   Plus as the Debt Grows, the Dollar Falls in Value.  Eventually when the Market does fall we may not come out of it if the Dollar is Worthless due to all of the added Debt from bailing out Washingtons Problems.

I contacted my Reps in the House and Senate and told them HEll NO!  Lets get this started so we can be done .......it's coming lets make sure the Dollar is worth something so we can dig ourselves out again...

Here is the Link to Contact your Representative:

https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

Here is the Link to Contact your Senator

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/s
enators_cfm.cfm

 

Send these Jack Legs a Message....No More Nationalization of the Private Sector!   No More Bailouts!     Or we bring out the PitchForks and Torches.....and do it the Old fashioned way.......