I was throwing out an old magazine today, and it had some interesting ‘fun facts’ about St. Louis. (I live in a northern suburb.)
The book was published in 1998. Here’s a copy of a list of employment facts for 1998:
St. Louis Largest Single Employers Ranked by Number of Employees:
More than 10,000:
1. Boeing co. /2. BJC Health system/ 3. Unity Health System /4. Schnucks Markets Inc./ 5. U.S. Air Force
This year, 2013, Boeing has lost half it’s employees, and the U.S. Air Force is GONE: Schnucks market just suffered a vicious cyber attack. It’s family owned. The hospitals are still standing.
5,000-9,999 Employees
1. Washington University /2. SSM Healthcare System /3. Southwestern Bell Telephone /4. Trans World Airlines/ 5. Chrysler Corp. Assembly /6. St. Louis University/ 7. May Department Store Co./ 8. St. Louis Public Schools/ 9. NationsBank/ 10. U. S. Postal Service
Washington University used to be the leader in Medical research and science. Now, most of the courses are in Social Science. The cost is $40.000 a semester. Trans World Airlines: GONE. Southwestern Bell…not exactly Apple. Chrysler is GONE. May Department Store went bankrupt, GONE. The U.S. Postal Service is on its way out. But the school system has grown by leaps and bounds.
2,000-4,999 Employees
1 General Motors Corp. Assembly /2. Anheuser Busch Companies Inc./ 3. Deaconess Incarnate World Health Systems./ 4. Olin Corp /5. At & T
General Motors Corp: GONE. Anheuser Bush was sold to an international buyer. Southwestern Bell…not exactly Apple.
The Olin corporation which makes ammunition is moving it’s operation to Mississippi where there is union-free work.
So after the devastation, what is left? I have watched my city die. And I’m NOTsupposed to be depressed? If you are thinking of moving to St. Louis or Detroit:…don’t bother.
So, despite what Obama is telling you, the job market is gasping due to politicians. You’re life choice is slim unless you go into education or Health care or fast food.
Where do you think al the new illegal’s are going to get jobs?
According to the House Committee on the Judiciary — Rep.Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Tex., “traveled around the world on an official trip in February that cost American taxpayers $23,646. led by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., — traveled first to Seoul and Hanoi in South Korea and then to Cambodia—But as Cooper noted Monday, Lee didn’t travel with CODEL. While other members of the delegation traveled together for the Feb. 16-22 trip, Lee took separate commercial flights to the region, and then left early on another commercial fight through Frankfurt Germany to explore ways they could “assist the region on child welfare reform and international adoptions.” Lee routinely upgrades her airline seats to first class.
Sheila evidently is a queen of righteous discontent if she isn’t treated like royalty, or Obama’s ugly step-sister. Not only does she insists she is chauffeured exactly ONE block from work to her apartment, (200 paces) she’s been known to throw hussy fits on planes if they don’t have the food she wants. There was a report that one time she got really angry when she found the menu didn’t include a seafood special she wanted.
“Don’t you know who I am? I’m Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Where is my seafood meal? I know it was ordered!”
Nobody Knows how many couples in Texas want to adopt babies from Vietnam, but you would think that it would be low on the totem pole of Texas concerns.
Yes, We have wasted a lot of money on Sheila, who flies first class everywhere. But let’s just say, for her last trip, it costs the taxpayers a rounded, $50,000 (Come on…You know they jiggle the figures)
And then there’s Massachusetts. To let everyone know they are decent and loving people, evidently Massachusetts likes to make terrorists so comfortable the killers of the Boston Marathon lead a very cushy life at our expense.
The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012, the Herald has learned. This has since expanded its probe to include a full history of the benefits received by the entire Tsarnaev family.
So, who wins the Nobody’s Perfectaward this week?
You know, I have to say…Massachusetts. Liberalism is a disease, and people are dead and lives changed forever because of their stupidity.
What do you expect from a state who hatched Ted Kennedy?
But…oh you KNOW I reallywanted Sheila to win and my only consolation is:
With Sheila Jackson you know, there will be a next time.
Nobody wants to know: Where were the tears from Obama, when he described how cold and heartless it was to place a bomb right at the feet of an innocent 8-year-old boy in Boston? After Sandy Hook, Obama was tearing up so much, people were handing his teleprompter Kleenex’s’. But this attack, left only a pretend to wipe of the corner of the eye.
Nobody Knowsif it’s because only three people were killed, or because they did NOT use guns. And the guns they did have were illegal. Or more likely, they weren’t wearing NRA tee-shirts.
The democrats are having a very hard time trying to reconcile the fact that once again we were attacked by Muslim terrorists. The spin control experts went into full “let’s water that down” mode, and called it a ‘religious’ problem. You know…just like the Christians? No difference here.
For the last few days, the poor liberals are having the most frustrating time trying to find out what in the world caused these two normal Porsche driving, dope smoking, regular college boys to want to commit a horrible crime?
And one found the answer: It was Boxing. (via The Right Scoop)
Could the amateur boxing career of TamerlanTsarnaev,the deceased suspect in last week’s Boston Marathon bombings, have had a role in the massacre? That’s a question leading brain researchers at Boston University’s School of Medicine hope medical examiners look into when they perform an autopsy of the 26-year-old who was killed during a firefight with law enforcement officials early Friday morning.
Nobody Knows if boxing can be blamed for the two brothers shooting a cop in the head so they could get his gun, only to find out, they couldn’t get it out of his holster. But I think we can safely say that there might have been some logical damage in the brain department there.
And speaking of brain damage:
Brain damage or liberal?
Chris Matthews is upset too. He just can’t figure out, and cannot comprehend, how two young American boys, who were going to college in Boston, driving around in Mercedes, could possibly do such a thing:
CLINT VAN ZANDT, FBI PROFILER: No, it’s really coming together. I mean, there’s — as terrible as this case is and was, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of heavy lifting. We’ve got the two primary individuals. It’s obvious that they had hands on the devices. The pieces we don’t have, Chris, are where was their inspiration? Where did they get the guidance? Who taught them how to build the bombs? Where did they build them? These are a lot of questions.
MATTHEWS: Why is that important? Why is that important to — is that important to prosecuting? I mean, what difference does it make why they did it if they did it?I’m being tough here. But I don’t know whether, when you look at all this evidence –
What difference does it make how anyone gets killed said Hillary Clinton. Didn’t Hillary say the exact same thing about the poor dead guys in Benghazi? It makes no difference how anybody dies. They’re just dead. Don’t judge. It’s all the same.
Can we assume both Hillary and Matthews have been boxing?
Boxing at the Justice Department:
On the other hand, Nobody Knowshow the Justice Department made the big mistake, of arresting the wrong guy in last week’s Ricin scare:
During a court hearing yesterday, lawyers for Curtis contended that he had been framed and pointed investigators toward James Everett Dutschke, a 41-year-old Tupelo man with whom Curtis has feuded. Like Curtis, Dutschke is a martial arts expert, a musician, and a Mensa member.
So…we are to believe that a person with a high IQ sent the letters to the President actually thinking that logically, in this day and age, Obama would personally open it, and thereby die?
SURE we are! He’s a Republican. They had the wrong guy, obviously.
(Nobody Knows how much boxing is going on at the workout gyms of the Justice Department, but Nobody suspects a LOT. )
And speaking of the wrong guy.
Boxing at the movies:
Ben Affleck is helping out the new globalization redistribution project:
Oscar winner Ben Affleck is joining in the effort to promote the Live Below the Line poverty-awareness and fundraising campaign, according to published reports.
The anti-poverty campaign challenges those who sign up to live on $1.50 a day for food and drink for five days.
The figure is derived from the World Bank’s definition of extreme poverty. About 1.4 billion of the world’s 7 billion people live on less than $1.50 a day, according to the charity’s
So Ben is going to live on $1.50 a day…how? Will he park his limo in McDonald’s?
The real cause of poverty: Hint: it’s not boxing.
Nobody Knowsit: but I suspect that after the internet taxes kick in, we will all have to learn how to live on $1.50.
Senate bill S.336, the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013, would address the longstanding issue of the online sales tax. The Washington Post has a good rundown that outlines in simple terms the issues pertaining to the bill:
To start, collecting taxes online in every state can be a technical nightmare for many smaller companies. The technical issues in mapping all the appropriate state and local taxes to their proper destinations can be complex and cumbersome for retailers that aren’t necessarily equipped with all the technical resources of larger companies. It would also require changes from many states and localities. Obama has indicated that he supports the bill, according to White House spokesman Jay Carney.
White House spokesman Jay Carney says the Senate bill would level the playing field for small businesses and brick-and-mortar retailers that are undercut by online companies.
Nobody Knows how “level” that playing field is now, but right now, it’s the big companies that always win. What this really means is that the divide between the rich and the poor is only going to get bigger.
Imagine my surprise when I saw this book at my local library…displayed for all to see:
Spreading the Wealth: HOW OBAMA IS ROBBING THE SUBURBS TO PAY FOR THE CITIES
It was published right before the 2012 election, and if I had read it back then, or ANY body had bothered to read it when it came out (like Mitt Romney) all they had to do was point out the many plans that Obama had going on in the background away from the American eyes, and he might have lost.
Which makes me wonder if the books were just NOW delivered to the libraries.
Stanley Kurtz, explained in this book, the Common Core educational system that Obama is now putting into place with the help of the Bill Gates Foundation. He tells you that Common Core basically federalizes all schools, taking local control out of every state and city, but did it in such a way as to bypass the Constitution.
He uses the “carrot” of stimulus money.
But that’s not the most alarming thing in the book. Here’s where the real transformation of America is going to come to fruition:
“The problem is that Obama’s actual interest in the suburbs lies in redistributing their tax money to the cities stripping suburban municipalities of their right to self rule, and forcing suburbanites to move back to town. Obama is aiming to fleece suburbanites of their hard earned income over to the cities.”
It’s called regionalism. And Obama has been in this business with his former cronies from Chicago (Alinsky) building up to this moment. He kept it stealth. But we are going to see it come about very soon.
“The regionalist program for gradually doing in the suburbs has three main components 1) Redistribute suburban money to the cities 2) Force middle class suburbanites back to the city. 3) Force the urban poor out into the suburbs.
The day after I starting reading this book, much to my surprise, the three (4-year) term white city Mayor of St. Louis, Francis Slay, had just gotten elected to a whopping 4 more years. And he won over two black men So why did a predominantly black district elect a white man again?
My Nobody Opinion:You don’t merge predominately white suburbs with a predominately black city unless you have a white man guiding the way.
Slay had the big democratic guns behind him: In addition to labor, Mayor Slays political support included the likes of Malik Ahmed, MO State Rep. Karla May, Jim Buford, Sable Jones, MO Governor Jay Nixon, Robbie Montgomery of Sweetie Pies, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, Earline Bell, businessman Tony Thompson, Rev. Earl Nance, Jr., MO State Senator Jamilah Nasheed, Angela Miles, Sal Martinez, Greg F.X. Daly, Lou Ford, Bob Kelley, Shameen, and Rodney Hubbard, Jr., MO State Rep. Penny Hubbard and Rodney Hubbard, Jr., Ted Williams, J. Kim Tucci, Alderwoman Tammika Hubbard, Secretary of State Jason Kander, Aldermen Shane Cohn, and Jennifer Florida; Joe Edwards, and Peter Sortino…(the list goes on)
In his acceptance speech…his big plans? Merge the country and the city by 2020. (I heard it on the news, but I can’t find it now on YouTube)
But he talks about it here, although he cleverly hides the fact that the people will not elect these representatives:
Not too long ago, in the St. Louis area, the county AND the city were asked to pay for a tax increase to ‘fix our parks.” They sold it on “We will fix up the Arch grounds.” I voted against it, there is nothing that the Arch needs, but it passed…of course. ALL tax hikes pass in St. Louis.
Amazing isn’t it?
This redistribution has been going on long before Obama. It’s what Fannie and Freddie housing collapse was about. So, we have to assume that George W. Bush was on board with this social engineering program, because he was out promoting it too.
I used to live in a predominately white neighborhood, and when Clinton got elected, the schools in the city started shutting down, and the black kids were all shipped out to the white suburbs. Our property taxes went sky high, and basically the democrats socially engineered a whole proportion of blacks out to the suburbs.
Down the street was a community mall with lots of local shops that made the whole neighborhood feel like middle class. Now, that mall is filled with government agencies and a community school where blacks all get free educations. The stores, (hundreds of them) are gone. Socialism is not a pretty sight.
The white in my neighborhood, the ones who could afford it, moved out to the closest City, St. Charles.
Mayor Slay would LOVE to get his hands on St. Charles taxes, but so far they have resisted. And what has happened to St. Louis, a democratic city? All our business have vanished. Like Detroit…they leave waste lands. So, tell me why they keep getting reelected? Is it any wonder that they want to raid the money of the people in the suburbs?
Nope.
The liberals have ruined our schools. In the next four years the rest of the plan, of complete redistricting money to the “poor’ will be complete.
Democrats will rule by a sort of soft communism…once this happens.
The book explains Obama’s visions, and the fact that this hasn’t gotten out until now, shows you that they already have this redistribution plan in full motion.
So, Nobody Thinks everyone should read this book. I don’t know where you live, but maybe if enough people are warned, it won’t happen to you.
—Why Obama has to have another White House Sequester Free Soul Party?
Obama is just four months into his term, and four vacations (if you count Obama sightseeing in the Middle East) and it’s time to par–tee!
As the White House has previously announced, Justin Timberlake (who will be making his White House debut), Al Green, Ben Harper, Queen Latifah, Cyndi Lauper, Joshua Ledet, Sam Moore, Charlie Musselwhite, Mavis Staples, and others will be performing at the exclusive event.
Nobody Knows if Obama is going to sing again, but since it’s going to be on PBS, you can bet your daddy’s 401K plan, (what’s left of it.) that it’s one of the reasons they put this together so quickly. Nothing boosted Obama’s popularity ratings as fast as when he started singing, “I’m so in love with you.” After that, nobody could get him to shut up.
Also expect him to be all over Michelle, to let the whole world know that: she really isn’t a single parent: did not file for divorce again (she once did): and he’s really not a male chauvinist pig for making that sexist comment about the attorney general. He really does love her.
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And if you can’t waste taxpayers money by throwing big lavish white house parties, there’s always the Commerce Department to help you out:
Congress’s top auditor said Tuesday that the Commerce Department has been charging other government agencies millions of dollars for reports that the other agencies could just as easily have gotten online, for free. The reports don’t amount to much — the agency reported revenues of $1.5 million in fiscal year 2011 — but overall, duplication and waste are likely costing the federal government billions of dollars a year, the auditors said. But the Government Accountability Office said it can’t even begin to measure how much overlap there is because the agencies don’t keep sufficient records to evaluate that.
GAO said the Defense Department has so many different branches that each pay separately for foreign language services, but if the department were to coordinate it could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Oh..that makes sense. When your department is caught wasting billions of taxpayer’s dollars, just report that everybody does it and that will get you off the hook every time.
Everybody knows that if we cut the waste and fraud out of all government departments we’d could probably pay off the debt in half the time, but Nobody Knowsthat nobody in Congress will ever prosecute anyone for stealing taxpayer money, because they would all have to go to jail…and there is no jail big enough to hold them all.
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President Obama gathered up a bunch of grieving parents from Sandy Hook, and took them all on a ride on Air Force One, to a gun rally to support gun control, and said this:
“Some folks in Washington are already floating the idea that they may use political stunts to prevent votes on any of these reforms,”
Nobody Knows why Obama and his many minions do NOT see that dragging these poor people all over the country is a political stunt..but they have mastered the, “These are not the droids you seek” Ob-bi-wan mind control. Republicans…have not. It’s that simple.
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And then there’s a problem with the new technology: Texting. I don’t do it. I think the human voice is much faster. But then, that’s me. You can’t drink and drive, but nobody seems to have a problem with taking your eyes off the road and punching tiny little buttons. But this guy…went further:
Texting by a pilot before and during a 2011 medical-helicopter flight in Missouri contributed to its crash. The NTSB documented at least 240 texts sent and received by the pilot during his shift the day of the accident, according to records. There were 20 such texts with a coworker before and during the accident.
Because this guy couldn’t stop fighting with his girlfriend (come on, you KNOW he was talking to a woman) he killed the patient, the other pilot, a flight nurse, and a paramedic. His excuse for not refueling the plane was that he hadn’t slept well the night before.
Nobody Knowshow somebody could be smart enough to get a pilot’s license, but do such a dumb thing as not filling up the plane with gas because he was too busy texting.
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Tomorrow Kim Jung Unwill launch a missile and Nobody Knowswhere it’s going to land. But just in case Obama’s on the golf course, I hope we all have clean underwear on.
Want to hear some fun news? Lady Gaga it seems, is either too worn out from dancing around every day, or she doesn’t want to trip once again in her 8-inch high heels. She is being carted around in a wheelchair…and not just any wheelchair.
The celebrated pop-star was spotted at Chicago on her 27th birthday – 28th March, and the night after, both times in her Louis Vuitton wheelchair! Seemingly, the LV wheelchair is not the only luxury wheelchair Gaga owns. She also has another in 24-karat created by Mordekai designer Ken Borochov. The Louis Vuitton wheelchair is a posh piece with chocolate-colored seating along with the monogrammed LV initials, a wooden hand rest and black body.
But that’s not where the good news ends. Gaga had a very rich gay guy drawing Gaga her very own birthday card:
Karl Lagerfeld has put his pen to paper, not to sketch an outfit for Lady Gaga, but to wish her ‘Happy Birthday’! The head of the fashion house Chanel poured his wishes on a piece of paper by sketching a portrait of Gaga wearing sunglasses and her golden locks falling over her shoulders.
And so…she instantly tweeted a picture to the world…Lucky Us! What…is she too vain to tell us she has a bad back?
Who else would tell you such important things?
Actually, I was looking for an excuse NOT to go vote against another tax raises for our broke city, because NOBODY ever votes these things down but me.
By now, everyone has heard about the unprecedented move the Bankers have taken in the EU: they are going into the bank accounts of ordinary people and grabbing money. This actually has been going on over here but under a different name: it was first done by George W. Bush, because what else is a bailout? It’s stealing money from the taxpayers and giving money to the bankers and the rich who are “too big to fail.”
The very fact that the Bankers and the EU do not consider it “stealing” from private property, but just “taxing’ —goes beyond belief. It’s sets a precedent for future leaders all over the world to go into everyone’s bank accounts and take whatever they like.
Nobody Thinks, that a “cashless’ economy…..(debit cards, online banking) ..while seemingly a step forward in not having to lug around dollar bills…is quite a double edge sword. When banks hand over money that is not theirs to give, in order to keep themselves and the rich propped up…then the convenience of having a bank account, goes out the door.
I tell young kids that I talk to, that paying all their bills online to me is very scary. They look at me like I’m nuts. Who doesn’t get those bank statements trying to urge everyone to put EVERYTHING on their credit cards?—Groceries, gas, all your daily needs. They WANT a cashless society.
The people in Cyprus, the ones who can’t even get at their money, are right now in disbelieve: They are wishing they had that hard cash in their own hands, and not in the bank. It’s cold hard theft what the bankers are doing, and even though they admit it, no man or woman in any bank or government will go to jail for it.
And that’s how powerful the wealthy one percent have become. That’s why Joe Biden can run up half a million dollar hotel bill, and nothing is done to him for theft. Because that’s what it is: he is stealing our money.
Sooner or later the people will rebel. And that’s why…they want our guns…because they will be coming after more of our cash, you can bet your grandmother’s shiny penny on it.
I love it when the “nobodies” of the world tell our ‘elected’ officials what they really think, and I love it when somebody actually gets it on the web.
(Thanks to Tom Beebe)
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Dear Ms. Pelosi:
I write to you out of utter disdain! You are as despicable and un-American as the traitor Jane Fonda.
I am a soon to be 65 year-old who has voted in every state and local election since 1966. I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats alike. I have worked on campaigns for both Republicans and Democrats, white and black. I served the country that I love in Vietnam , as my son did in the Middle East . I was awarded two bronze stars. I have been involved in politics since age 6 when my father was campaign manager for a truly great American Congressman, Charles Raper Jonas, who worked for his constituents and his country, and was to be admired, unlike you.
You obviously haven’t read the Constitution recently, if ever, the Federalist Papers, or even David McCulloughs book on John Adams. You ought to take the time while riding around in your government provided luxury executive jet to do just that. You represent Socialistic and even Marxist principals that our founding fathers tried to avoid when setting out the capitalistic republican form of government represented by our Constitution.
I find it interesting that you and your husband are multi-millionaires with much of your fortune being made as a result of your public service. You have controlled legislation that has enhanced your husbands investments both on and off shore. At the same time you redistributed the wealth of others. Our system of a free market economy is being destroyed by the likes of you, Harry Reid, and now our President. You ride around in a Gulfstream airplane at the tax payers expense while criticizing the presidents of companies who produced something for the economy. You add nothing to the economy of the United States ; you only subtract therefrom.
I would like to suggest that you return to the city of fruitcakes and nuts and eat your husbands’ canned tuna and pineapple produced by illegal immigrants and by workers who have been excluded from the protection that 90% of the legal workers in the United States have.
I await your defeat in the next election with glee…
Don’t ever use the term un-American again for protesters who love this country and are exercising their rights upon which this country was founded. By the way, while I served in the Army, I was spit on by the same type of lunatics who support you and who you probably supported in the 60s and 70s. You are an embarrassment to all of us who served so that you would have the protected right of free speech to call us un-American. But at the same time, I have the right to write you to notify you that I consider you to be un-American, as do the majority of the people of this formerly great country. You are a true
disgrace to most of the people who served this country by offering themselves for public service in the United States Congress.
I feel certain your aides will not share this letter with you, but I intend to share it with many..
Sincerely, Dennis L. Guthrie.
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(Nobody Notes: Picture of Obama and Nancy was my idea, but something tells me Mr. Guthrie would not hold it against me.)
When the big camera’s went up all over our highways here in Missouri, they went up overnight. Nobody on the local news even mentioned them.
Every city is having budget problems, but there seems to be plenty of money to put up camera’s at every stop light. Surely all this technology had to cost a pretty penny…so just where was this money coming from? No one on the local news ever talked about the expense.
I don’t know about you, but while people complained, what was told to the public was that traffic camera’s were being put up for our ‘safety,’ and still, not much was said about the cost.
Like everyone else, I just excepted it…until one day I was sitting at a stoplight, and I was the first car to make a left turn, and I was just waiting for the light… and FLASH!…right in my face.
Someone had just decided to take my picture. For no reason at all.
This has happened too many times, and I started noticing how often the camera’s were going off, when other cars were stopped. So, sometimes I drive with the sun flap down just to hide half my face. Having my picture taken like I was some sort of criminal really gets me…I would say angry, but pissed off is a better way of putting it.
When I told my husband that I thought they were taking pictures, he thought I was crazy.
BUT…..
Today, I heard a Missouri Senator on the DANA Show (See video) say that he had just found out, that they have been taking face recognition pictures and storing the pictures in a big data base, and by law, in Missouri, they cannot do that. It’s againstthe law. The Senators were lied to.
In fact, when you go to get your driver license, they are supposed to erase all information, but Sen. Schaefer had found out that they were storing all the data from the license bureaus and erasing none of it.
This republican Senator has introduced a bill to try to stop this face recognition technology, but our Governor…who IS a democrat, has to have known all along that all this information was being gathered and stored. Of course, like all the other liberals, he will say he didn’t know..and keep on doing it. The truth seems to be, that states have no rights in this matter. The FBI just got a billion dollars for the face recognition program.
State and local officials are increasingly granting the federal government access to their registry of motor vehicles databases and, thanks to a FBI program announced to the public in August 2012, deploying their own powerful face recognition tools. Zooming out to the bigger picture we find the mother of all biometrics programs, the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) – the biometrics databank to beat all biometrics databanks. It will contain fingerprints, iris scans, face recognition ready photographs, palm prints, DNA and innumerable other biometric data points on tens if not hundreds of millions of people, both US citizens and foreigners.
And that’s not all: Now, the President is giving the FBI full reign to look at everyone financial records.
(Reuters) – The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters.
Once again, we are told it to look for criminals.
We need more Senators to stand up to this.
The Senator suggested we contact our congressmen and complain. It seems to me, it’s up to our “representatives” to take care of this. Anyway what can we do? We didn’t break the law. But data is being gathered and for what reason, I can only guess at.
Nobody Winswhen we live in a “guilty until proven innocent” Orwellian society
Now…I don’t want to offend anybody’s Christian religion, but the sight of all these old guys walking around in lace and dresses today at the Vatican— walking around in the most lavish and expensive building in all the world… each one poker faced…going to silently pick the next Pope…was rather…silly to me. Their rings alone look like they could feed half of Kenya.
It’s not that the Catholic church hasn’t done a lot of good in the world, but their record of evil is long and historically, wide as a worm hole to purgatory.
I have never forgiven the hypocritical Catholic church, who “excommunicated” me when I divorced my first husband. I became a Catholic to marry him, and he never set a foot in that church again.
He was a true Catholic in every sin (sense) and so, like the many Priests who have sinned again choir boys, never to be sent to prison, my husband was kept in high standing and my son and I were excommunicated from the church….
No matter how I pleaded our innocence, it mattered not to the church.
He was BORN a Catholic, I was not. He could have been a serial killer…no matter to the Church. Nope.
And that right there shows you what really matters to them.
So you must forgive me if I find the Catholic church..while beautiful in its historical heredity, just another hierarchy institution which has too many times, only been interested in its own “rich” survival.
From the selling of “penances,” to the slaughter of millions of innocent “witches,” to the rapes of too many children, the institution should be overhauled.
The Catholic people deserve it.
Personally, I think all the pomp and circumstance is rather overbearing. Certainly not anything that Jesus taught in his life.
All you need to know about being Catholic, is written on Nancy Pelosi’s face. She has never been excommunicate, and she supports abortions. You have to wonder what the next Pope will be like: Will he be ‘progressive?’ Supporting abortions, gay marriage, and communism?
The last pope was on that road.
Like most other people I was glued to the entertainmnet of all those old guys walking and mumbling. Nobody puts on a show like the Catholics. The great theater goes on…to make us all feel that there is something very special about the man that is chosen to be pope.
In the meantime, every single one of those Cardinals looks VERY well fed. And in this Nobody’s Opinion, the sooner they let the priest’s marry, in fact encouraged marriage for them all, the better the church will be.
I wonder if we will get to watch 115 Cardinals KISS the ring of the new Pope.
Nobody Wonders if that’s where the Mafia Don’s got the idea?
