President Obama has asked people to be more upbeat in talking about the economy; he says the USA economic ship has been righted, and it's time for government to step back and let industries do their thing.

Some actually think it's difficult for the Treasury to have done much, what with Geithner not having yet nominated one of seventeen Deputy Secretary jobs and all those diverse economists complaining, but let me try to put an upbeat face on Illinois economics in the Obaman spirit.

You might have heard Cook County IL (95% of which is Chicago) Circuit Clerk Dorothy Brown say that this week foreclosures are back with a vengeance ( http://198.173.15.31/newsite//GI_NEWS//newscontent/Press_Release/2009/Clerk_Brown_Reports_Mortgage_Foreclosures.pdf ); surely, these are typical of the schemers Obama mentioned, folks who conned banks by taking impossible loans offered BY banks, all cards on table, but that was due to employees engaged in industrial misconduct.

Even at a time many may be evicted, IL Gov. Quinn has re-opened prisons (e.g., http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2009/03/gov-quinn-says-pontiac-prison-will-stay-open.html ) Blagojevich closed, so fret not that schemers will beset you. Also, Gov. Quinn has re-opened State parks ( http://www.shelbyvilledailyunion.com/local/local_story_058174350.html )Blagojevich closed, surely though not as collection areas for evictees and such, but for tons of cash-heavy campers sure to start sightseeing in droves this Spring and Summer, on Obaman prosperity.

Since Obama righted the ship, Illinoisans have all (except schemers) now got so much cash in their hands, Gov. Quinn has called for a 50% increase to the State income tax, and hikes on assorted licenses and fees, while eliminating State workers sure to swiftly find new jobs ( http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-quinn-tax-hike-13mar13,0,7352846.story )...Illinoisans welcome this, and in fact feel guilty they won't be paying even more than this very fair share. There are so many jobs held in Illinois right now, few if any qualified locals seem to be applying at numerous job fairs...and those who do apply mostly won't take education and skill training people across the oceans would happily avail of. It's the schemers who just won't work or be told what to do or relocate (even though wealthy and could afford easily to do so), including women and people of color too lazy to avail of intents to re-make the white- and male-dominated ultra-mega-strong world of jobs...you abroad wouldn't let men or racists keep you from easy money, would you?

Lastly, Illinoisans have such plenty, Mayor Daley appears to suggest they'd even pay all Olympic costs, tourist hotel stays, and more, just for the bragging rights of being an Olympic city; he's asked the State for more Olympics bid money, and some Legislators say "yes", but only if they can get a law passed allowing people to get concealed weapons permits ( http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-2016-concealedwea,0,5987959.story ) . This is needed to defend America, certainly not to be taken as fear of some massed humanity say having been evicted, jobless, or able to afford too much.

Thank you for this opportunity to remain upbeat amid reports of foreclosures resuming, joblessness, inability of USA employers and State to find non-schemers, rising taxes and costs, and calls for civilian firepower in lieu of police. Obama's right...how could anyone even insinuate much of news is stagecraft to reassure people abroad all's fine here; or question why the Senate voted down the Fairness Doctrine but passed the Durbin amendment allowing outright censorship by government ( http://www.mrcaction.org/517/petition.asp?PID=18840310 )?

This is in continuing commentary on the USA Presidential Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, together with thereto relevant Executive Orders of now two Presidents allowing certain religious organizations to distribute publicly-funded services or monies on peculiar discriminations, to the exclusion of any other peaceable organizations regardless of faith, and to exclusion of agnostics, Gnostics, and atheists.

The USA reportedly a vast majority of Christians, if mostly "unchurched", here there seems a rise in credit and finance to congregations not necessarily having the greatest members, but a proclivity to "tweaking" the Bible in ways uncommon for at least 1, 995 years...actually, it's Biblical contexts which appear to be morphing to claim everything from 911 to Katrina to you losing your home or job to immigration and beyond is not a power-grab or drift of government and business, nor even of the devil; instead, they say God is "disciplining" or "chastising" you...if you're even a member of their Churches, which win money from government and find easy credit, and you come on hard times, well, obviously you've been a Pharisee in Church and no matter what you SAY you believe about God reading your heart, your congregation or faith must not help you against any poverty or whatever God is willing against you. Yea, for the REAL members, God and Jesus are armor and clubs willing to go knock down anybody and anything as if named Bruno and Tony...say "Praise Jesus!" a lot, quote mostly Old Testament, wear a collar, urge folks to stop pestering pols, look how "God" provides for you.

It's been uncommon over millennia for Christians to describe their Divinity as a "bread God", satisfying your every earthly whim, and taking from "losers" Providentially stricken into all global poverty due to a fit of pique, but there you go. While not Scriptural, it would be one thing if such clergy were trying to insinuate God doesn't want the financially stressed abroad to burden the USA or other nations by emigrating without money, but au contrere. Just by looking at Senator Inhofe's "good news" to Africa that the USA can both leave Muslim extremist Bashir alone and get homes and stuff for Africans, it looks like "Rapturing bread God Jesus" may be leading new Christians to an exodus into a new land with houses they did not build...ala so many Latinos and others, may USA clergy can help sift wheat from chaff with newcomers.

Thus, one presumes the number one job of a USA President being to protect the USA, and all things 911 onward described as Divine retributions, the raison d'etre of the Faith office is to promote the viewpoint of ministers to the "tough cheese!' exclusion of so many, on false premise Islamic terrorists are all poor so keep away from "money arming potential Islamic recruits". Likewise, the Faith office has to like the stress its mostly Christian beneficiaries afford politicians re need for economic improvements.

The within foregoing is my ground for respectfully challenging the legality of the Faith office; through limiting ANY peaceful religious expression to one especially uncommon context, it seems said office operates contrary to US S.Ct. (1943), West Virginia State Board of Education V. Barnette, 319 US 624, inter alia, in that said office prescribes what should be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or admixture thereof...confession of faith therein being a moot issue in re "the outcast".

For those exhorting the Faith office is but an arm of PSYOPS economic warfare defense, as Europe or Muslims influenced Scripture interpretations so long ago, and now Europe and other nations attack us using false "compassionate" Scriptures just to see big business and government spend more than they feel like:

1. Since the Faith office was created, from Asia to Africa, Buddhism to Eritrean Orthodoxy, Islam to Hinduism, more and more governments keep taking over their religions, and adopt the same contexts therein as found here...and they do this in reaction to us, not vice-versa. Treating people abroad with the same "tough love of God" sure reduces chances for our foreign consumer bases.

2. It's not an "attack" to say that much of the Old  Testament...to Christians...is the "old Covenant", Jesus being the new Covenant making the New Testament the first and last guide and filter of even the OT.  Jesus Himself said that in His fulfilling prophecies of Mosaic law, and giving new ways to serve God, there would be much of the old law which would pass away. For example, He says that henceforth do what you want, you won't be destroyed but will receive earthly treasure as your reward if you follow greed to Gehenna...unless you turn from egotism, follow the Ten Commandments, and follow His beatitudes and two greatest commandments to love (Mark 10:17-31). Whereas in the OT (Job 1, 10; Psalm 128; Isaiah 3,10) wealth and material goods (even in re the poor) were thought signs of God's favor, Jesus sees them as false security and says all must abandon such attitude if they truly want favor; at Mark 10:27. Jesus says it's beyond human power to craft their own salvations, but that God may gift it if one truly tried to live by Christ's teachings. Re New Covenant, see Hebrews 7, Luke 17:20-21.

3. To Christians, it shouldn't be "blasphemy" to say more than one religious road can lead to Heaven; Jesus always resisted intents that He, instead of God, be worshipped in any way(s) at all (Matthew 9:17, Matthew 26:63-64), yet obviously used words and miracles simply to establish credibility for giving ALL humans notice of how to act in the then and now present Kingdom of God (Matthew 3:1-17, John 11:37-38). He sees His role not as God, but as an intercessor always with us (Matthew 28:19-20) who has Divine powers to let or not let anything happen...limited to acting as executor of God's will, God having given up that wrath-before-dying Old Covenant...God to Christians intervenes only spiritually.  

4. As to universalism of Christ, while it seems Trinitarian baptism is essential for power to cast out demons, you can find redemption and salvation just by believing in Jesus and doing as He said (Romans 10:9-13). Also, no particular religion at all is envisioned nor any talisman or sacrament needed other than belief and action in step with Jesus (Mark 10:27, Colossians 2:20-23). Throw in Jesus saying all who keep his New Covenant are his brothers and sisters (Matthew 13:50) plus His intent the Covenant apply globally (Matthew 28:19), and it's pretty clear you can be anyone doing anything anywhere, as long as you don't think power emanates from an Ankh/Crucifix/Buddha/what have you symbol, do Christ's bidding, and be as Christian as Tony Perkins, Pat Robertson, John Hagee, or the Pope...no Christian being more or less important than another (1 Peter 5:37, Luke 9:49-50).

5. Despite Islamic terrorists being a small fraction of all Muslims, USA government separately gives aid to foreign theocracies connected to such terrorists, and of which the USA concurrently complains of violating even Muslim human rights, with not even the Faith office doing much to give religious voice or involvement to peaceful Muslim congregations.

It would seem that no foreign interest(s) is or are trying to hurt the USA economy simply by "conning" folks here to believe in a much less harshly Christianity...especially since my Bible cites came from the same unchallenged Bibles the "right" congregations use, and often they use themselves tracts in their own support which were once thought "text corrupted".

As a concluding scenario, some, notably "United Church of God, an International Association", might be growing a new angle on the "unchurched as unbalanced" scheme re the Faith office being of DHS "value". Reviewing at length much of their printed ephemera, they having international offices and apparently limitless funds for printing and mailing all ephemera free of charge to the world, the highlights of their credo differences seem to be that Christ does not want the Gospel spread everywhere, plus no matter what we all get a second chance to so much as be baptized, let alone choose Christ, at the Parousia...they say no Kingdom of God now present was ever indicated by Jesus; they feel they'll get into Heaven for sure if they urge souls now to "practice" or at least "teach" them, no matter their sins this life, what Christ will offer in a "second chance drawing".

The reason for such "second chance" is that God knows not one of us who had been, is, or will be living is capable of following Christ's teachings in His absence (despite saying, after Resurrection per Scripture, "I am always with you"); UCG metaphysics purports that the essential nature of man is bad, most recently in its "Good News" magazine, March-April 2009 issue, article "Goodness: God's Character and Man's Potential". At minimum, such view rejects Scriptural teaching that every last thing God creates starts off good (Genesis 1:27-31, 1 Timothy 4:4) and ignores secular research. For example, in England, the "Daily Telegraph" of 11/25/08 had the story " Children Are Born Believers in God, Academic Claims"; per story, Dr. Justin Barrett, a researcher at Oxford's Center for Anthropology and Mind, said children naturally sense a God, that evolution is hard for the human mind to grasp, and that in cultures where no expression of God exists kids still believe...THAT'S innate badness? Oh, and said "Good News" issue alerts in big spread that Islamic terror will soon engage most Muslims in a war with the West.

UCG alleges offices serving Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe; only one each in the USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia; two in Asia; three in or near Australia. Wouldn't it be something if anyone were implying to "real Scriptural Jesus" Africans of assorted races that racists and Muslims were trying to somehow keep them from houses they didn't build, even if houses weren't in Africa? After all, UCG isn't very ecumenical, in its said "Good News" issue, p. 23, saying: "Today many who claim to believe in Jesus also follow the commandments of man...they worship on Sunday and holidays that originated in pagan religious worship, including Christmas and Easter".

To recap, I respectfully submit the USA Office of Faith-Based Initiatives un-Constitutionally discriminates in use of public funds; so sets standards of orthodoxy in religion, nationalism, and politics; works contrary to USA economic and national security; and further defers to such favored religious view(s) against all citizen inquiries, complaints, and expectations in order to vitiate the public at-large.

Only time will tell if the Faith office next will turn aside "OT Jesus" for yet another kind not derived of ancient Scripture, what kind of Jesus Senator Inhofe et al seek to assist in Africa, and whether same in any way advise the USA is kept from progress not only due to atheists and the unchurched, but due to "pagan" Christians no one from outside should talk to...UCG, e.g., otherwise sells an OT "Bread King Jesus", but is it taught that's where African and USA Christianity part ways?

The other day, in an envelope representing through its terms to be from OASD-Public Affairs, Directorate for Public Communication, 1400 Defense Pentagon, Washington DC 20301-1400, originally and only addressed to me at my within below given address, I received a letter appearing to be signed in original (not facsimile or stamp nature)in name David R. McWilliams, descriptio personnae thereof Director, Office of Public Communication.

It was in reference to an alleged letter to Robert Gates questioning conditions of release set for Mohammed Mohammed Hassan Odaini, with indication that the Director of Public Communication had been asked to reply to me thereon.

I know I've participated in some ACLU and Amnesty International efforts re GITMO, so I'm notifying both groups of the complete DOD reply after said opening references of sender, said body of reply verbatim and completely being, to-wit:

"The U.S. Government seeks humane treatment and security assurances from recipient governments before approving the transfer of release of a detainee as appropriate. Many of the detainees, who have been approved for transfer from Guantanamo, have objected to their transfer to certain countries. The negotiations to transfer a detainee can, and have, taken years to complete in some instances, but are a necessary step to ensure released detainees are not mistreated and/or do not re-engage in hostilities upon release. In cases where there are no litigation obstacles preventing transfer or where these obstacles have been resolved, the U.S. Government makes every effort to ensure a timely return or release. Despite these challenges, the Department has transferred over 500 detainees from Guantanamo to date.

For more information regarding detainee operations, please visit the Detainee Affairs website at http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/Detainee_Affairs.

We hope that this information provides more clarity on our detainee policies. We understand your concerns and we thank you for taking the time to share them with us." [End Of Cited DOD Reply]

For the record, despite all pollyanna and military splendor of waging war on terror, I remain of an opinion bona fide terrorists are essentially self-motivated anarchists who use anything from bent coat hangers to guns to whatever deadly devices they can finger, all in grand-sounding but rather limited-capability strikes; I further find it obnoxious that some nations like Pakistan let terror groups base within their borders, but in absence of AUMF or war declaration against any such nation(s)...and Iraq doesn't count as only AUMF is to rid of Saddam Hussein not manifestly due to 911...the AUMF against Qaeda seems to not allow grafting on of anybody any nation wants to call terrorists without trial of evidence, and whether or not al-Qaeda involved; I am baffled as to why Qaeda then sits as if allowing Pakistan to be a cause célèbre (bête-noir?) enabling anyone on earth to be suspected of "joining anarchy in sympathy to Qaeda"; I would be satisfied if a Harry Callahan-like group went around asking terrorists and in fact ANY thugs if they felt lucky, taking into swift trial of ANY nature those who surrender, otherwise using force as required for those feeling lucky until subdued; lastly, I firmly believe that in re Islam or any faith on earth, when one acts for one's own egregious concern, especially when killing, at such point such people in fact cease being able to be called members of ANY faith...and indeed, most of the earth is NOT a vast cesspool of killer folks, or we wouldn't have such small numbers of bona fide terror group members...unless, of course, any government(s) were to transmogrify or expand terms of terrorism to include anything from questioning why an official thinks a policy is or isn't working, up to and through say Iceland riots, that last one being its own kind of felony in any event but not requiring tether to Qaeda-type demands for destruction of a nation's economy or trade.

I myself see the relevant DOD response as an insinuation the ACLU is anti-American for questioning the Terror Watch List, what with that implied "bigger than WWII field of battle these well-martialled mercenaries return to, causing more battle casualties as decaying economies help identify they are winning and only the guilty seek arraignments or trials".

As a William F. Buckley, Jr. Conservative, certainly not his wealth but philosophy, I understand the need for wealthy private people, in the context that they are a symbol that those under them are reaping benefits of investments into global economies.

Well, with a DOW recently under 7,000, how much domestic or foreign investment is going into USA, State, and local T-bonds, munis, jobs, education, and so forth, further how much is due to lack of private funds; likewise, with all the tax cuts constantly going on plus apparent coming dis-incentive for corporations and wealthy persons to make charitable contributions, how much money CAN be raised from this for anything; lastly, there is that eternally pernicious tight and never-growing money supply of bills in circulation, at a time credit cannot be had by those without any or sufficient income, those who do qualify face higher interest, costs keep rising, and so forth here, also...makes everyone describing or criticizing from Bush Term I through Obama I seem silly for even postulating budgets "splash red, we must undo this Liberal Commie Socialist Big Government nightmare!"...no matter how military bases and Federal funds to anything (besides banks and real estate and sovereign sub-Federal paychecks) become as scarce as hens' teeth.

Earlier on, pre-2006, Congress itself ordered banks to make mortgages available to those (e.g., new immigrants) who could not otherwise qualify...these would be the ones Obama refers to when he says "chiselers who knew what they were doing and get NO help"; yes, how abusive to avail of what the USA government insists upon, national or not. Then, last September, and no matter how often its terms will be revised, Congress and Bush/Obama/McCain embraced an outright arrest of all USA dollars in circulation, with protocol that they shall go only to banks and real estate and those which insure same...a few sops to propagandawood, er, Hollywood, and the auto industry with smaller nationalization and Federal control via mini-bailouts.

Now in this New Order, which literally every other government on earth either disdains, encouraged, or both, if you couldn't get a home or other loan before, obviously you won't now or in future; this applies to payroll loans and SBA types, as well, and likely will include students, based on the usual raising of how much you make despite costs so you "have too much income". Remember, don't worry...media's been nationalized, certainly if they'll report Utopian success under Obama (or fill-in-the-blank) it's credible without examination, and only some criminal/terrorist/human filth/chiseler would try to figure angles, as real Americans and real wannabe immigrants are satisfied with a housing market that never loses value....ever.

Think about that...one way or the other for years and still, banks and real estate nationalized, tons of bad loans covered as if they never happened, foreclosures go on, and values never drop...and banks can still take back property. In the alternative, those who can't get credit on their homes in the first place often can look ahead to seizure for local property tax non-payment and such...and where it happens, again, the local markets stay high.

Who needs to worry about income or trade as long as their house won't lose its value? Thus, on to the things REAL people WORTHY of God, voting, and newspolling care about: who's the next American Idol, who's Dr. Phil going to excoriate for even doing what government said, are Hannity et al right that by playing Social Conservative against Social Liberal economic problems will finally just evaporate on their own, will my team endorse my NASCAR driver and my beer and win the divisionals this year, is Blagojevich worth that six figure book deal, ooooh that Roland Burris, blah blah blah blah. Hey, we've had a nationalized economy now spreading into yet another Presidency, we've all chittered away on this and that alongside it, and come to believe that Iran and Hamas are an uber-power not even the combined allied forces of WWII could do more against than bend knees to in supplicated surrender...yea, and at the same time, we're in some Christian Right pseudo-Rapture wherein the sheep get mortgages/credit/social aid and the goats get the boot, and we please MyMood Alibabajihad and crowd because the Looorrrrr-ddddddaaahhhhh will bless everyone who keeps Israel from being hurt, especially by the new Red Menace known as Islamic terrorists (no matter how much that's like saying we must cower before a street gang as a nation, hemisphere, or globe, and no matter how much the world and its everyday peoples strive to point out how those who wantonly or egregiously kill aren't even adherents of their faiths...including of Islam...but appease the puffing extremist anyway while invitiating the whole).

Oh, and notice we've gone from 911 to Iraq to today and will march into tomorrow, yet without ANY IOTA of the rest of the globe's action or non-action deterring from tight money in circulation, nationalization of banks and real estate, and general non-inclusion of those who have sought incomes, the kind which pay for education, healthcare, and stuff of life themselves...like all generations before us. Nope, like all the Left, Right, and Center psychobabble of almost a decade, only the expansion of nationalized, jobless banks and real estate seems to endure, together as said with those public paychecks and regular increases thereto.

Most of the non-Islamic terrorism-reliant world seems currently displeased with a USA which neither offers its own people to become or remain consumers, nor accepts foreign investment; like us, that world also has existed despite its own problems and the occasional flusters from Alibabajihad inter alia. All I can respectfully suggest is that, absent different forthcoming Obama rules, banks and real estate are nationalized, whatever your current housing woes that's what they're to stay, neither terrorism/media hype nor lack of it impacts the scenario in the least, and if that were to be at the heart of IMF grief re the USA, then it becomes ponderous indeed what the vocational and income futures (including sitting back as some quasi-investor class, sans cash to invest here or abroad) are going to be in a nation which will not be isolated by the world, it will isolate itself...and find maybe Bush wasn't so wrong about the Constitution being just a piece of quaint paper, deficits being just numbers on paper.       

Voices, too many voices: "Schermerhorn concert hall will save us!" (Nashville TN); "Millennium Park will save us, and next Olympic re-building!" (Chicago IL); "Build homes into our hills non-stop to save us!" (Linn/Benton Counties OR); repeat with same re malls, theme parks, unused commercial constructions in every town.

Hey, look...I found that 1999 cartoon from the Chicago "Reader" titled "Do The Richie" (actually run in the July 30, 1999 issue as drawn by Citizens For A Cooler Chicago); you remember, back then Chicago had that public "Macarena"-type dance "Do The Millie" for Y2K? Anyway, the cartoon's got a silhouette of Daley, ala dancing school figures and dotted lines, in each frame; the first few frames exhort and show Daley demonstrating: "Plant, plant a pretty flower, toss a bum with all your power! Shrug to your left, shrug to your right, say eh, eh, who, me?".  Boy, Eddie Murphy's 'The PJs' sure hit right back then, as "those people" of various races were the only ones who had to go to gentrify everyone else into prosperity, and back then, they were all re-distributed...who else has since ever lost out, huh?

The cartoon, a few months now short of a decade old, was in "Reader" objections to Daley and Giuliani-type espousals that from billion-dollar public flowerboxes to almost complete razing of everything (with little or no restorations or restriction to "inner city" structures), followed by New Urban housing deals, conversions from commercial into loft spaces, and road projects, for this the housing market would always offer high and easy resale values; further, that  this would draw so much entrepreneurial and job opportunities, nationals and immigrants alike would dwell forever in capitalist Nirvana...anybody incidentally needing "management away" or "kept mobile" being a loser anyway, the kind DHS REALLY ought to be watching instead of Qaedans, Janjaweeds, blah blah blah, as losers were not inner city types but "slackers" unwilling to do what it took in "the new economy".

Dadgum is eternal re-re-repavings and constant housing starts haven't at least kept home prices high to date.

But get with most USA officials and understand: it only LOOKS like an eternally fixed money supply, fluffed by occasional issuances of consumer credit (usually resulting in bankruptcy) is a bad thing; sure, it takes real money from the money supply to build empty warehouses, homes, roads, but see, only LOSERS who had pay cuts or lost jobs due to lack of cash in the consumer stream get hurt; come on, really, you folks today don't actually think that sprawling sea of all already out and ahead of you can actually involve YOU, do you? See, it's better to bail out Wall Street, realtors, and a handful of construction firms in each area to keep them comfy as THEY lend to obvious problem payers, or those with tight if high budgets dependent on not one hour cut back, and at least get you to agree no one in difficulty should be helped out so no griping or boo-boo lips when YOUR time comes. Besides, even if all of you in diversity went bust, plenty of ferreners still abroad who know when in some "proxy Rapture" and God must mean for them to step up to houses they didn't build...and be the next "you" in re your current temptations.

Even if all this over-building reduces farms and God's green spaces and green energy resources, to boot, and without regard to which nationals or immigrants "avail" of such schemes.

In sum, the Obama  plan offers some no deflation (just lower monthly payments, not sticker prices), while saying "no" to those with no income(s) so their neighbors lose value due to surrounding foreclosures; Obama critics offer permanent "Do The Richie", where homes stay high through re-re-rebuilding and over-building/infrastructure, yet nobody gets help when they can't access equity, with only Wall Street being kept in a manner to which it's accustomed since cash doesn't flow through public fingers...which is why often homes are eminent domained and just handed to developers to "improve local economic bases".  

Thus, Obama, being a proponent of infrastructure money as way to economic salvation, seems of one mind with his critics, except Obama is merely willing to let some pay less until their own income fails...and unlike $300-$1200 lump-sum literally everybody got last year as IRS stimulus, for those still having jobs, a new $15 per paycheck ($180 this year if 12 pays, $390 if 26 pays)...until lost...will leave nothing else to do in order for personal economies to work efficiently, grow jobs, and generally save the world...who but a miscreant or addict or VAWAbuser or such could fail? Boy, if only FDR had seen the simplicity in dealing with the Great Depression of HIS times!

As for me, I just point things out for discussion, shrug to my left, shrug to my right, and say "eh, eh...who, ME?". I only assume job losers, the eminent domained, the hurricane stricken, the can-no-longer-meet-ends, and those deemed "irresponsible" by officials (including those who took impossibly-termed loans due to no income and to avoid homelessness from lenders who offered them) will need some warehousing to keep them off streets, perhaps jails, or renditions to CCA or otherwise, as real-wage or other incomes and jobs don't yet blip on even mid-range "radar"...student, mortgagee, dislocated, national, or immigrant, it appears the "'nuff said" stimulus (like its GOP analog) has been pronounced infallible, and if you can't find work or whatever it must be somebody other than the system.   

I am commenting today in re recent opinion by Obama Solicitor General Elena Kagan that she approves and urges continuation of Bush torture and detention of anybody at all, evidence or not, trial or not, actual combatant or not, all things Bush against USA citizens on say-so, and indefinite detention if all a detainer says is "national security"...maybe she goes to one of those Rapturist Churches, and is just one of the amorphous global mass of pro-Rapturist/Jihadists toward fewer people in God's holy name.

I'm sure no Democrats or many sane people actually just wanted the little people (non-crowned heads or soldiers/office workers/police thereof) to feel good about things November 2008 to date, then slam everyone with the same "screw the lot of you!" they thought would change; surely, Obama is more than a glib pacifier pending reinforcement to the old way once enough suckers find out. 

Numerous interrogators, generals, and admirals have stated that abuses committed during interrogations are not only illegal, but also counter-productive and hurt our government's ability to collect accurate and timely intelligence.

Senate hearings have found that abuse at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib was not the work of a few rogue actors but the direct result of policies and practices sanctioned by the highest levels of the US government.