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Devil in the Details–

To be read with a critical eye– Summation: If you disagree with the War in Iraq, or what your Government is doing regarding Iraq– Everything you own, including your freedom can be taken away. The devil is in the detail!

Message to the Congress of the United States Regarding International Emergency Economic Powers Act 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United States to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004. I hereby order:

Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203(b)(1), (3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1), (3), and (4)), or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order, all property and interests in property of the following persons, that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons, are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense,

(i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:

(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or

(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;

(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section include, but are not limited to, (i) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.

Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within the United States that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

Sec. 3. For purposes of this order:

(a) the term “person” means an individual or entity;

(b) the term “entity” means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and

(c) the term “United States person” means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.

Sec. 4. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of this order.

Sec. 5. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1(a) of this order.

Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government, consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the United States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order and, where appropriate, to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in a timely manner of the measures taken.

Sec. 7. Nothing in this order is intended to affect the continued effectiveness of any rules, regulations, orders, licenses, or other forms of administrative action issued, taken, or continued in effect heretofore or hereafter under 31 C.F.R. chapter V, except as expressly terminated, modified, or suspended by or pursuant to this order.

Sec. 8. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right, benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 17, 2007.

We have LOST numerous rights in the past 7 years!

George Bush’s March Down Insanity

Gotta travel today so posting from me will be limited. But I thought I would at least share this video of Scott from BrassCheckTV (they done gone and sent me another good one). He explains that a war with Iran will be far different than a war with Iraq. He lays it out quite simply, if we bomb Iran, we WILL use nukes and it will fail. And IF we bomb Iran, we need to choose which city we want gone, for they will not stop until NY, Seattle, Chicago, whatever is bombed and gone.

What An Attack On Iran Will Look Like

Consequences

Bush continues to push for an attack on Iran.

He is goaded by the Israeli War Lobby, the “religious” right, and other assorted domestic fascists and lunatics.

Iran is not Iraq.

Iran is a bigger country, a better armed country and a much more socially cohesive country than Iraq ever was - or could be.

Iran is PERSIA, a society with thousands of years behind it. Iraq was a glued together set of random kingdoms.

Iran is a country that has the ability to fight back and fight back massively.

As in Iraq, the weapons of mass destruction claim is a total fraud - and yet to war we go.

McCain is all for it. He can’t wait. Obama is being artfully vague about his intentions.

And then there’s Bush and Cheney. They still have nearly six months left to put the final bullet in the back of America’s head before they go.

Eight years ago, who could have ever imagined this insanity?

Good morning! MondayJuly 14th 2008

Good morning! Welcome to Monday July14th, 2008 - day 196. Have a great week out there and be safe in whatever you do.

History on this day July 14

1789: Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife Marie Antoinette, were executed.

1798: One of the most egregious breaches of the U.S. Constitution in history becomes federal law when Congress passes the Sedition Act, endangering liberty in the fragile new nation. While the United States engaged in naval hostilities with Revolutionary France, known as the Quasi-War, Alexander Hamilton and congressional Federalists took advantage of the publics wartime fears and drafted and passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, without first consulting President John Adams. The act made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.

1850: 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration

1868: Alvin J. Fellows patented the tape measure.

1881: Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico.

1911: Harry N. Atwood landed an airplane on the lawn of the White House to accept an award from U.S. President William Taft. (Can you imagine that today - a plane landing on the WH lawn?)

1914: Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket-fuel.

1927: 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii

1945: American battleships and cruisers bombarded the Japanese home islands for the first time.

July 14, 1966
A mass murderer leaves eight women dead

On the night of July 14, 1966, eight student nurses are brutally murdered by Richard Speck at their group residence in Chicago, Illinois. Speck threatened the women with both a gun and a knife, tying each of them up while robbing their townhouse. Over the next several hours, Speck stabbed and strangled each of the young women throughout various rooms of the place. One young woman, Corazon Amurao, managed to escape with her life by hiding under a bed; Speck had lost count of his victims.

Birthdays:

1862: Florence Bascom - geologist: first woman geologist appointed to the U.S. Geological Survey and first to be elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America

1903: Irving Stone (Tennenbaum) - novelist: The Agony and the Ecstasy

1910: William Hanna - cartoonist: half of Hanna-Barbera team

1912: Woody (Woodrow Wilson) Guthrie - ‘father of modern American folk music’: singer, songwriter: This Land is Your Land - more than 1,000 original songs; father of folk singer Arlo Guthrie

1913:Gerald R. Ford (Leslie King, Jr.: changed name to Gerald Ford after his adoptive father) - 38th U.S. President

1918: Ingmar Bergman - Academy Award-winning director

1923: Dale Robertson - actor: The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, Melvin Purvis: G-Man

1927:John (William) Chancellor - radio/TV newscaster: NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor

1932: Roosevelt ‘Rosey’ Grier - football: one of the LA Rams ‘Fearsome Foursome’

Chart Toppers:

1971: It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
Indian Reservation - Paul Revere & the Raiders
You’ve Got a Friend - James Taylor
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot - Jerry Reed

1979: Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
Chuck E.’s in Love - Rickie Lee Jones
Amanda - Waylon Jennings

Ponderable of the day: Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

Word of the day: Emolument \ih-MOL-yuh-muhnt\, noun: - The wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation. ( may yours increase!]

Quote of the day: “Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.”

-Author unknown

Stuff……….you should know.

Interesting word/phrase origins

- In George Washington’s days, there were no cameras. One’s image was either sculpted or painted. Some paintings of George Washington showed him standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back while others showed both legs and both arms.
Prices charged by painters were not based on how many people were to be painted, but by how many limbs were to be painted. Arms and legs are “limbs” therefore painting them would cost the buyer more. Hence the expression “Okay, but it’ll cost you an arm and a leg”.

- In the late 1700s, many houses consisted of a large room with only one chair.
Commonly, a long wide board was folded down from the wall and used for dining. The “head of the household” always sat in the chair while everyone else ate sitting on the floor.
Once in a while, a guest (who was almost always a man) would be invited to sit in this chair during a meal. To sit in the chair meant you were important and in charge. Sitting in the chair, one was called the “chair man”. Today in business we use the expression or title “Chairman or Chairman of the Board”.

- In the 1700s personal hygiene left much room for improvement. As a result, many women and men had developed acne scars by adulthood. The women would spread beeswax over their facial skin to smooth out their complexions. When they were speaking to each other, if a woman began to stare at another woman’s face she was told “mind your own bee’s wax.”
Should the woman smile, the wax would crack, hence the term “crack a smile”.
Also, when they sat too close to the fire, the wax would melt and therefore the expression “losing face”.

- Common entertainment included playing cards. However, there was a tax levied when purchasing playing cards but only applicable to the “ace of Spades”. To avoid paying the tax, people would purchase 51 cards instead.
Yet, since most games require 52 cards, these people were thought to be stupid or dumb because they weren’t “playing with a full deck.”

- Ladies wore corsets which would lace up in the front. A tightly tied lace was worn by a proper and dignified lady, as in “straight-laced”.

- Early politicians required feedback from the public to determine what was considered important to the people.
Since there were no telephones, TV’s or radios, the politicians sent their assistants to local taverns, pubs, and bars who were told to “go sip some ale” and listen to people’s conversations and political concerns.
Many assistants were dispatched at different times. “You go sip here” and “You go sip there”. The two words “go sip” were eventually combined when referring to the local opinion, and thus we have the term “gossip”.stevie-ray-vaughn-house-is-rockin