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What they are saying is that anyone that says anything negative about Obama is lying. Didn't they have the truth police in the USSR? If this ass gets elected its the end of talk radio and many other free speech outlets. Not to mention the 2nd Amendment. And yes this is the first election Obama has had to run against someone that could beat him. In the IL Senate race he had his opposition removed by going through their petitions and having all the dead and illegal name removed. Remember this was Chicago. In the US Senate race the Republican withdrew because of his divorce records being released showing some bad sex habits.

Rangle is no fool. he keeps getting elected because he gives the people voting for him what they want, a check or some other government handout. He is a tax cheat and who knows what else. If you listen to him on the talk shows, all he can say is all our problems are because of the failed policies of Bush.

The UN should not be in this country. After all, all the problems in the world is because of the US. Move it to a nice neutral site like Atlantis. Don't forget the air tanks!

I will have nightmares after seeing Big Bertha.

My daughter bought a car there. Still driving it. Good experience.

Ahmadinejad should not have been allowed in the US. He was one of the students that took our Embassy hostage back when the great president carter was in office. He is a real and dangerous nut job. He will, without a doubt use nukes if he gets them

This is from an investment news letter I get. May shade some light as to when and why this got started. Bottom line, no administration changed the status quote. "Critics complain that the government shouldn’t be bailing out failing enterprises and they shouldn’t be removing risk from the private sector. In an ideal world, they are right. But in the real world government must take whatever steps necessary to preserve the financial system, which is the foundation for the entire economy. Remember, government played a significant role in creating the crisis. It all began with legislation during the Carter administration. The term "redlining" was used to accuse bankers of discriminating against minorities. As a result, banks that did not grant mortgages to low-income home buyers were fined and punished. The Clinton administration amplified the pressure on banks to make loans they otherwise would not consider".

Rangle is one of the most powerful members of Congress. Been there 30 years. Chairman of the Ways and Means committee. Do you need any more proof as to why our government is so screwed up!

They can do this because they have the power. Its like fizik said who's to challenge it? Our government is suppose to have checks and balances. One branch is suppose to be able to set the others straight. The problem I see is that all the three branches are influenced by the same people. They do not necessarily have the countries best interests at heart.

When you hear Pelosi defend Rangle and the list of Senators that got big donations from Fannie & Freddie, Dodd, Obama and Kerry top three, is there any hope? McCain sound good but will he be any different or be able to do anything?

I think they did the only thing they could. To let any more big banks and investment companies fail would be much worst. The lay offs would be bad enough but our credit around the world be shot to hell. Today they announced they are putting together something like they did during the S&L mess, to buy bad mortgage loans. My only fear is this is only a band aid. It may work for now, but as long as we have a system that allows Congress to be influence by special interest groups we will see these problems in another ten years or so. I also believe McCain is willing to change the system.

I found several Puma 92 in 357 on Guns America http://www.gunsamerica.com/Search.aspx?T=puma%20357 Anyone know anything about this model?

I won't be able to make this one. Going to Chattanooga to see a Civil War reenactment. Should be lots of shooting so I wont miss the gun fire. Hope you'll have a great time at Norris.

I heard that this was all done by the Haslams so they could raise some money to buy out Fulmer's contract after Saturday.

I also have Foxfire bookmarks synchronized on three computers. Works fine.

They don't make-em like that anymore. Thanks for the memories.

The bottom line is politicians think we are stupid! At first Charlie said his wife did his return. Now he says its a language problem. And this is just the lastest member of the political class to try to BS us. All 535 need to go.

Ingles is out of gas, where I usually buy my gas. Oh well guess I will get a 12 pack and just stay home. They have beer.

Rangel Cites Language Barrier on Unpaid TaxesNew York Times via NewsEdge : Representative Charles B. Rangel said on Wednesday that ''cultural and language barriers'' had hindered him from understanding the finances of his Dominican Republic beach house, and vowed to repay several thousand dollars in federal taxes he owes after failing to report $75,000 in rental income from the villa. At a Capitol Hill news conference, during which he was by turns remorseful and combative, the congressman said that he had not been aware of the income and unpaid taxes in part because he had trouble getting detailed financial statements from the resort's managers in the Dominican Republic. ''Every time I thought I was getting somewhere, they'd start speaking Spanish,'' Mr. Rangel said. The explanation was greeted with skepticism and surprise by some people in his district, where Spanish is the primary language in nearly half the households and even Mr. Rangel's own Congressional Web site can be instantly translated to Spanish with just two clicks of a computer mouse. The congressman brushed aside calls that he step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, and accused Republicans who have demanded that he do so of trying to exploit his financial missteps. ''I really don't believe making mistakes means you have to give up your career,'' said Mr. Rangel, a Democrat from Harlem. Mr. Rangel, a lawyer who has been a member of the tax-writing committee for three decades, has found himself on the defensive in recent months because of disclosures about the villa, his use of Congressional stationery to solicit financial support for a City University center that will bear his name and his rent-stabilized apartments in Upper Manhattan. At the news conference, Mr. Rangel said that he had asked the House ethics committee to investigate the issues surrounding the villa, which include his failure to pay taxes on the rental income and the resort developer's decision to waive the interest on a mortgage extended to him to buy the home. He had previously requested that the committee examine his rent-stabilized apartments and his fund-raising for the City University center. The congressman also released copies of documents he has submitted to the committee and pledged to apologize to the public and fellow members of Congress if he was found to have violated House rules. ''I personally feel I have done nothing morally wrong,'' he said. Pressed by reporters about how, given his position and background, he could be ignorant of the tax rules, he answered: ''I never had any idea that I got any income.'' Mr. Rangel bought the beachfront house at the Punta Cana resort and club in 1988. The resort, with tennis courts, a 1,500-acre nature preserve, golf and a marina, has emerged as one of the most desirable in the Caribbean, attracting celebrity investors like Oscar de la Renta and Julio Iglesias and high-profile guests like former President Bill Clinton. Mr. Rangel said on Wednesday that he had never used the home more than four days in any calendar year. He said he had occasionally let other members of Congress stay at his villa for honeymoons or holidays, but declined to name them. The news conference, which drew about 50 reporters, lasted for more than an hour, and while Mr. Rangel was contrite in accepting responsibility for his errors, he also displayed some of the cantankerousness that has marked his four decades in office, When a reporter asked whether his errors had undermined his credibility to the point that he should step down as leader of the committee, he responded by asking the reporter how long he had been in journalism. ''I wouldn't judge whether it's time for you to leave,'' the congressman said. According to the letter Mr. Rangel had previously sent to the ethics committee and that he released on Wednesday, he bought the villa for $88,900, putting $28,900 down and taking out a mortgage for the balance from the resort owner. While the resort made payments to Mr. Rangel every six months for his share of the rental income, and stopped charging interest on his mortgage after two years, the congressman said he paid little attention to the transactions -- and was unaware that the interest had been waived -- because the money was never sent directly to him or his wife but was instead used to pay down his mortgage and cover other fees he owed the development. Elaborating on his difficulty with the language barrier, Mr. Rangel said that at various times over the past two decades, he tried to get the resort to send financial statements more regularly, and asked for help from Theodore Kheel, the prominent New York labor lawyer, who was a principal investor in the project. But Mr. Rangel said he was stymied by the company's impenetrable bureaucracy and his inability to speak Spanish. He said it took a bilingual team assembled by his lawyer, Lanny Davis, to sort the villa's finances out in recent days. Mr. Rangel conceded on Wednesday that he had been ''irresponsible'' in failing to gather the information needed to report the income on his taxes or financial disclosure forms, and acknowledged that as a member of Congress and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee he should be held to a higher standard of conduct. Asked to release his tax returns, however, he declined, saying that might infringe on the privacy of others. Mr. Davis, his lawyer, has said that Mr. Rangel's wife, Alma, handled the family's finances. Mr. Rangel said that his accountants were still calculating the total he owed in unpaid taxes over the past five years, but that it was unlikely to exceed $5,000 to the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Davis said that Mr. Rangel would probably owe another $5,000 to New York State and New York City combined. Republican leaders in Congress, who demanded on Tuesday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi strip Mr. Rangel of his chairmanship, were unmoved by his explanation on Wednesday. Ken Spain, a spokesman for the National Republican Campaign Committee, said Mr. Rangel should ''go on a permanent vacation and trade his powerful committee chair in for his favorite lounge chair on the beach.'' Mr. Rangel also defended his advocacy on behalf of CUNY, which is trying to raise millions of dollars to open the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service to train students for careers in government. Mr. Rangel acknowledged using his Congressional letterhead to ask leaders of charitable foundations and businesses to support the project, but said he had asked only that they meet with CUNY officials to discuss the project. ''I never asked for one nickel,'' he said. ''I asked for a meeting.'' Mr. Rangel did concede, however, that the ethics committee might find that he had improperly used his Congressional stationery, and he said he would abide by the committee's rulings. The congressman nonetheless said it was unfair to judge his long career in public service based on the ethics complaints. Hours before the news conference, he was included on a list of the 20 most corrupt members of Congress released by the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, an action he called ''sad and unfair.'' Mr. Rangel also dismissed the notion that he could be viewed as receiving an improper gift from his New York City landlord, the Olnick Organization, because the company allowed him to lease four rent-stabilized apartments, one of which he used as a campaign office. Mr. Rangel has since agreed to relinquish the campaign office, but says there is nothing improper about keeping the others.

Headline in Knoxville paper this morning said Knoxville is out of gas. (Yes I still read the newspaper). Brings back the good old days. What next Carter (Obama) and a TP shortage.

I had a friend go to Canada back in the 1980s. He carried a handgun with him the entire trip, in his car or concealed. He just didn't say anything when he entered the country. When he returned for some reason he told the guard he had a handgun. The guard took it. End of story. He never got it back. Luck for him they didn't arrest him.

Fatimah Ali: We need Obama, not 4 more years of George Bush By Fatimah Ali Philadelphia Daily News AMERICA is on the brink of a long, harsh and bitterly cold winter, with a looming recession that the GOP won't even admit to.The policies of the current White House have brutalized our economy, yet the wealthiest think that everything is fine. Rich Republicans just don't understand that millions are suffering. But many of their working class do, and they're beginning to abandon their own party. When lifelong Republican Barney Smith told the Democratic convention that he'd vote for Barack Obama for president, he gave pause to even the most conservative members of his party. Smith, like many disgruntled working-class Republicans, is ready to turn his back on his party because he's having such a hard time providing for his family. Like others, Smith fell victim to the loss of 3.2 million American jobs as factories closed or their work was outsourced to cheap labor markets overseas. Poet Langston Hughes once wrote, "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow." Many wealthy folks live in a dream state and ignore people like Smith, whose tale of personal woe preceded Obama's acceptance speech. He opposes John McCain because, he says, America can't afford another four years of failed GOP policies that have extended $200 billion in tax cuts to big corporations but not to the nation's 100 million families. Our national debt has soared from $5.6 trillion to $9.6 trillion under Bush. The Republicans have overstayed their welcome and dragged us into a nightmare that must end soon, or this nation may be headed for chaos. Obama tugged on the nation's heartstrings when he challenged McCain's tough talk and told the truth about the current policies. Critics of the GOP believe that a four-year extension of the Bush administration will be disastrous. People are struggling, and the privileged are so out of touch they pretend it's OK that children go hungry. Over the last eight years, we've lost 3.2 million jobs, and started a war that's cost trillions. The lies and deceit that got us into Iraq in the first place are just the tip of the iceberg and have ruined America's reputation across the globe. Meanwhile, our economy continues to crumble, while crime, homelessness and poverty continue to soar. Despite the fact that thousands of immigrants risk their safety to come here because this country may offer them better opportunities, the truth is that poverty lives right here in our own backyard. Suffering is widespread as the gap between rich and poor widens. The Bush administration doesn't get it and neither does McCain. He is so out of touch that he hasn't a clue how many homes he owns, while the working class struggles to hold on to one. The Democrats desperately need many more voters like Smith to cross party lines in order to secure the White House. Obama says electing him to the nation's highest office will not only help restore America's moral standing globally, but will lift the nation's low morale and improve our declining economy. He promises to cut taxes for 95 percent of American workers and ease the burden for millions of families. And I believe him, although his critics say he's out of touch with the working class and blast him for not having a lineage that includes slavery. But just because his ancestors never wore shackles, and he has paid off the student loans from his elite education doesn't mean he doesn't have compassion. Or that he doesn't understand the pain of those who live in dire poverty, who've lost their homes, who want yet can't afford college, and who lack health insurance. His acceptance speech indicated that, unlike McCain, Obama gets it because hard times aren't so far behind him that his memory's been erased. If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness! Plenty of Americans would rather stay in their dream state than to recognize the poverty sweeping across the country, right here, right now. Obama understands that people are suffering. Every week, prices go up at the supermarket, and people are unable to feed their families. It already is dark and stormy for millions, who can't even afford pencils, book bags and lunch money for their children. But when Obama wins the White House, we may just see a revolution that can turn the tide and improve this nation for everyone, not just a select few. And I expect him to keep his word.* Fatimah Ali is a regular contributor. E-mail her at fameworksmedia@yahoo.com.

This is not an issue. The daughter is not the first and will not be the last 17 year old to get pregnant. The left is going nuts because she is keeping the baby. I hope the kid grows up to be president. Maybe both of them!

I also got 60%. Mrs. McCoy (8th grade history teacher) would not be happy.

Thanks for the info. If I am over that way I might stop by.