You can't get blood out of a turnip. That is a scientific fact. You can't make money with 'tapped out' investors, either.

Hence, how does a government 'console' a fiscal sector that primarily 'blew it.' The difficult side to all this is that I passed by a Citibank office today with a 'Help Wanted' sign on the front lawn. I don't know if that was for PR or an actual invitation to the unemployed.



The long and short of it is this. The Wall Street crowd lost their shirts. They not only lost their shirts, but, they drained every coffer there was while Paulson was watching his 14,000 DOW disappear. They drained coffers in every available country and every available company there was with inventive fees and all kinds of 'hubris laden' promises.

After all, every ? investment ? made in America is signed with gold ink, just look at the NEW MONEY Bush minted in his treasury with gold leaf no less. And pretty colors, too. Reminting those 'actual' dollars cost plenty, but, who cared after all the Bush Administration wanted to make a good impression when the first $87 billion to Iraq was flown on a cargo plane.

There is a lot "W"rong with the circumstances President Obama now faces and I defy anyone to oppose him in his focus to resolving the issues of the day, however, when it comes to 'bailing' out the banks there was one thing. Only one thing. That one thing Bush and Paulson 'forgot' to ask when they DEMANDED a $700 Billion Bailout was 'where is the bottom to the losses that has been sustained.' How convenient a question is that too forget? Huh?

I always stated and I will continue to state that Secretary Geithner and I will part company on this issue of 'bailouts' and today is no different.

I understand how Secretary Geithner sees the 'troubled' banks as vital to the global economy. I completely understand that, but, the USA is 'tapped' out, Bud. No different than the other countries in the EU and Asia and SA and otherwise. The 'BANKERS' broke the bank and they also broke the back of the treasuries of every other country on the Globe, including my favorite, The South African Rand.

Today, Secretary Geithner's President signed a revolutionary Presidential Order releasing constraints on Stem Cell Research. It should have been met with OR BETTER YET preceded by vastly new investment in the 'science of stem cell research' now that the USA was backing its promise to find cures for diseases.

In the past administration nearly every bill that was passed was met with accolades from Wall Street as they knew every bill was a spending bill, but, yet today. Flat line.

Why, flat line? Simple. The DOW is dead. There is no more money floating around the planet and the deeper the USA goes into debt the worse it gets.

I don't doubt Bankers are clammering for every available dollar to pay their debts to Europe and Asia and South America; but; what everyone completely ignores, including Secretary Geithner, is the fact that there is no bottom to this 'hell hole' created by the past thirty years of Republican Rule. There is no bottom because the debt the banks are and have accumulated grows bigger and faster everyday. INTEREST. The bottomless pit of INTEREST is killing them, NOT the generous spirit of the American people that would sign any bill if the world would simply stop suffering. It won't and I am closing the door on 'The Pity Party.'

Bankruptcy law is there for a reason and I strongly suggest every company that is facing it file ASAP. No more bailouts. No more pity. We want 'closure' to this hideous 'idea' of 'recapturing' an economy that is still on life support. It is time the 'damage' is defined and clear and concise actions can be taken. I don't believe in Bailouts. I have never believed in Bailouts. I conceded for a moment or two that it might be necessary, but, this? Continued empathy for the already dead? No more.

The banks, the car companies and any other entity has to CLEARLY define their LIABILITIES so we know where 'the realistic' goal is to stop this economy from continuing deterioration.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

No reason for a 'Sunset Period' on the NEW Assault Weapon's Ban

The USA has an obligation to stop the weapon migration to Mexico that are killing cops. What was going on with the Republican Administration that allowed the Assault Weapon Ban to expire?

Sorry, the NRA doesn't run this country or any other country anymore. The NRA has a very unique way to 'instilling' anarchy that propagates weapon purchases and demands for lawful possession of side arms everywhere in society.

The NRA will use any high profile shooting to instill fear so the only answer is for everyone to carry a sidearm. As that fear takes hold and people lawfully purchase weapons, the 'content' of weapon possession in the country grows and the greater the risk that the guns will fall into the wrong hands and they do. I cannot believe the police officers in Mexico are staring down the gun barrels of weapons sold in the USA. Why has this NOT been an issue before now?

Wait. Let me guess.

The Bush/Cheney White House believed in an economy at any cost even the cost of lives in the USA and other countries. Amazing.


Many Mexican drug cartels are utilizing the loose gun laws in many south eastern states to purchase assault weapons that are used in the Mexican drug war. Assault weapons are illegal to the general public in Mexico, so many Mexican drug moguls are smuggling weapons from the United States across the border into Mexico. Many of the Mexican authorities are ill-equipped to defend themselves against the powerful assault weapons and have consequently lost over 2000 police officers. Watch the video to get the full report.

Evidently, drugs are 'big business' in the USA.

Ruben Navarrette Jr.: Stop the flow of guns south of the border (click here)
By Ruben Navarrette Jr.
Posted: 03/08/2009 12:00:00 AM PST

It's time for the American people to stop living in a state of denial and get serious about stopping gun shipments into Mexico.

Mexico's ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan, has noted that as many as 2,000 weapons enter Mexico from the United States every day — most of them through Texas and Arizona, and many of them are purchased legally at gun shows and gun stores. Many of the transactions come in "straw purchases," where drug traffickers use Americans — including friends and relatives — to buy guns.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives estimates that 90 percent of the firearms confiscated in drug crimes in Mexico come from the United States, and some of the shipments can be enormous.

Both Americans and Mexicans tend to think of the border as the end of the Earth. It isn't. It's a turnstile. When someone goes north looking for work, Mexicans naively assume they have seen the last of him. And when guns go south looking for trouble, Americans assume the same about the havoc they create. Wrong on both counts. Immigrants are going back to Mexico because of a bad U.S. economy. Meanwhile, the gun violence that Americans subsidize south of the border is boiling over onto U.S. soil.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano didn't get the memo. She recently told a Senate committee that Mexico's drug violence had not spread to the United States. But only a few days earlier Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw told the Texas Legislature that violence from the drug cartels had — "no question about it" — spilled into Texas. Then there is Napolitano's own state of Arizona, where its largest city — Phoenix — is now considered the nation's kidnap capital because of spillover violence from Mexico.

Well, Janet, did you or didn't you get the memo; after all it could not be a surprise considering Arizona is intimately involved in 'the drug economy' in the USA. I realize it seems unbelievable that all this didn't surface while Bush was ignoring the Assault Weapon's Ban, but, it didn't. One is left to ask and INVESTIGATE why assault weapons were ALLOWED to flow over the Mexican/USA border with impunity? This isn't an 'over night' issue. Durg Cartels are a huge problem and bring their own problems to our cities in the way of illegal immigration that results in 'ethnic gangs.' So, when is the INVESTIGATION going to begin as to how this was all allowed by the previous administration, how did the facts evade the USA Homeland Security until now and why hasn't the Assault Weapon's Ban been passed?

According to the Justice Department, Mexican drug traffickers have a presence in at least 230 U.S. cities....

Get the feeling Bush/Cheney didn't care about the sovereignty of any country, but, only its wealth and assets?

Ariz.: Gun dealer sold to Mexico gangs (click here)

PHOENIX, March 9 (UPI) -- An Arizona man accused of supplying assault rifles to Mexican drug cartels faced trial Monday on forgery, fraud and money laundering charges, prosecutors said.
The trial of Phoenix gun store owner George Iknadosian, 47, was set to begin Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court, where state officials have accused him of selling more than 700 weapons to "straw" buyers he allegedly knew to be fronts for Mexican drug cartels, The Arizona Republic reported.
The weapons allegedly sold at Iknadosian's X-Caliber store included high-powered guns of the kind frequently used by drug gangs to overpower Mexican federal police, the report said. Authorities told the newspaper they hope to crack down on the flow of weapons to Mexican cartels by targeting illegal sales at U.S. gun stores and gun shows.
Observers said the case is unusual because it involves cooperation between Mexican and U.S. authorities, with Mexican prosecutors sitting in on suspect interviews and providing materials for the case, the Republic reported.
Iknadosian has pleaded not guilty to the charges, the newspaper said.

Mexican cartels plague Atlanta (click here)
Updated 8h 39m ago

By Larry Copeland and Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY
ATLANTA — In a city where Coca-Cola, United Parcel Service and Home Depot are the titans of industry, there are new powerful forces on the block: Mexican drug cartels.

Their presence and ruthless tactics are largely unknown to most here. Yet, of the 195 U.S. cities where Mexican drug-trafficking organizations are operating, federal law enforcement officials say Atlanta has emerged as the new gateway to the troubled Southwest border.

Atlanta? Atlanta? Hm? Perhaps the temptation of entering through Florida is more than just 'boat people.'

Rival drug cartels, the same violent groups warring in Mexico for control of routes to lucrative U.S. markets, have established Atlanta as the principal distribution center for the entire eastern U.S., according to the Justice Department's National Drug Intelligence Center....

It is so good to know that 'teenagers' can find gainful employment these days, huh? I always thought the first job any USA youngster should 'try out' would be gang related violence. I mean, didn't you? Such high aspirations for our children I've never witnessed from the previous administration. Seriously, NEVER witnessed any high aspirations.

3 Woodstock High School Students Arrested, Assault Rifles Recovered (click here)
Atlanta, GA 3/05/2009 05:35 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)

Three Woodstock High School students were arrested Thursday morning after Holly Springs police got a reports that they were on their way to the Georgia school with assault rifles and handguns.
Forrest Busby, 17, was arrested at the high school. He was charged with possession of a weapon on school grounds, possession of a revolver by a person under 18, carrying a concealed weapon, theft by receiving stolen property, interference with child custody, manufacturing and distributing controlled suspect and disruption of a public school.
An AR-15, Mini-14 and 200 rounds of ammunition were found in Busby’s house. He is being held without bond.
A 15-year-old student, whose name has not been released, was also arrested. He is charged with party to the crime of possession of a weapon on school grounds, party of the crime of possession of a revolver under the age of 18, theft be taking firearm, runaway and disruption of a public school.
A third student was arrested but has not been charged. Authorities say it is unclear what the students planned to do. MAYBE the teens were getting a mixed message about weapons and the value of life? Ya think? Several guns were also found in the school.
Woodstock High School, Woodstock Middle School and Etowah High School were all placed on lockdown.

Let's get this over with...the Neocons send human beings to war...the rest of us send stem cells to combat disease. End of discussion.

"Totipotent" cells are even more 'fluid' in definition. The Totipotent Stem Cell can produce spores.

That's right, spores.

The Totipotent Stem Cell is God's play toy and for living within his curiosity and graces God has now revealed its secrets. How about that? What God knows by blinking, the human being has had to dedicate entire institutions of investigation to and billions upon billions of dollars to correct the 'straying' of genetic material that causes disease.

GET OVER IT !!!!!!!



The word 'pluripotent' means "having more than one outcome." It is a scientific designation for stem cells that have NO 'predetermined' purpose except when exposed to human hormone influence divide into multiple kinds of tissue that then develope into organs and an organism. THE "Pluripotent Stem Cell" is NOT a human being. As a matter of fact, IF it had a mind it would tell you, "Gee, I don't know what I want to be when I grow up."

U.S. stem cell announcement only a first step (click here)
Sun Mar 8, 2009 4:28pm EDT

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers and advocates have been invited to a White house ceremony on Monday at which President Barack Obama is expected to lift eight years of restrictions on embryonic stem cell research -- but it will be months before the research field can take off, experts say.
The National Institutes of Health will have to write detailed guidelines on when and how federal dollars can be spent on research involving human embryos, and may be asked to provide a larger ethical framework on their use.
And laws are still on the books that limit the use of federal money to actually make the powerful stem cells, because they must be taken from human embryos. So federal research money can be used only to work with cells that were made using other sources of funds.
Nonetheless, researchers are delighted....

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

It seems to me when people 'won't' believe scientists because it interfers with 'money' or so called economics; there needs to be a comprehensive message to the more moronic of society. The 'idea' that 'old world' economics is more vital than new methologies of energy and transportation reveals an underlying 'truth.' It is a profound truth and one that cannot be ignored or dismissed, however, one that needs to be categorized as 'hysterical and indictable.'

To begin, a 'snap shot' of weather on any given day is NOT climate. Climate is a long term trend. So, given that FACT, there truly is no disputing Climate Change. There is no doubt, so naysayers need to beware, because, they are lying and should be held culpable for any statements they make that are out of the rhelm of reality.

When Dr. Chris Field (click title to entry - thank you) came forward to mark the urgency of reversing deadly trends in CO2 emissions he spoke to an 'end result' that in and of itself isn't as explicit as it needs to be. He assumed those receiving his message would automatically take a jump to hyperspace and realize the 'global (of, relating to, or applying to a whole)' concequences of his words.

When Dr. Field states climate change will result in the destruction, by fire, of forests including tropical rainforests, within those words is an understanding that Earth will lose valuabel carbon sinks. Carbon sinks, of course, are the regions of the planet whereby CO2 is absorbed and utilized to produce oxygen through plant respiration or photosynthesis.

Inherent to any democracy is the understanding that all views of a society holds some legitimacy when backed by recognizable authority. Unfortunately, in the case of Human Induced Global Warming, those authorities have been rewarded through corruption to validate either 'partial' findings or completely false analogies. The 'idea' that Earth's biotic content is 'an economic game' of chance is hideous and completely outside the rhelm of ethical.

If the United Nations and the IPCC are serious about saving Earth and its populous, which some naysayers view as two separate issues, there needs to be a very tough stand taken regarding 'ethical science' and its definition. Authority that 'lends itself' to allowing degradation of Earth's biotic content leading to increased danger for life, need to be held accountable and not simply disregarded.

There is 'one truth' regarding Human Induced Global Warming and those scientists and authorities that cannot find a way to accept that truth, need to be dealth with and not simply ridiculed or cast aside as corrupted by their own greed or need.

We have witnessed human death and endangerment as well as the degradation of quality of life under the warrants of CO2 emissions. For all those that simply looked the other way in disregard to enhance political or economic venues there needs to be consequences. Not minor consequenes either, but, those that match the very lives we have lost and may still lose due to negligent government policy and indulge of economics that 'caused' the issue in the first place. There cannot be 'tolerance' to those that naysay profoundly appropriate and necessary science.

If we allow others to dictate the adverse outcomes of an entire planet, then we are as guilty as they.

Therefore, we need to distinguish those that 'speak' the truth and hold in contempt in a clear manner those simply mired in 'fear of change.'

Local Time: 2:05 AM AKDT (GMT -08)

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Updated :: 1:56 AM AKDT on March 09, 2009

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