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The Journal of Banking
"The History of A Little Frenchman and his Bank Notes," has been extracted by us from a pamphlet published in this city [Philadelphia] in the year 1815. At that time, as now, the banks were in a state of suspension, but then every body that chose made money out of paper, and notes for the fractional parts of a dollar took the place of silver change. Without a knowledge of this fact, some passages in "The History of A Little Frenchman" will not be understood by readers in this vicinity.
The History of a Little French Man and his Bank Notes.
Travelling lately in a stage from the South, I fell in company with a little Frenchman of rather singular appearance and dress, who, contrary to the characteristics of his good humored nation, seemed animated by an inveterate propensity to grumble at every thing. He never paid or received money without a vast deal of shrugging of his shoulders and other tokens of dissatisfaction, and whenever he handled a bank note, eyed it with a look of most sovereign contempt. He talked English tolerably well, except when he was in a passion, when he sputtered French most vehemently. His complexion and dress denoted him to be of the West Indies –the first being a sort of mahogany color, and the latter as follows, as nearly as I can recollect. His hat was exceedingly high-crowned, and his little pigtail queue dangled from under it, like a rat's tail. He had rings in his ears –a coat with long skirts– cut nearly to a point, and reaching to his ancles –a white dimity waistcoat, and breeches, with gold buttons; and he wore a watch with a chain and trinkets that reached half way down to his knee. His appearance, dress, and, above all, his ill humor, excited my curiosity and induced me to inquire into his history. The second day, having got a little acquainted, he let me into the secret of his dissatisfaction.
It seems the little man had arrived from Cuba, with about eight thousand dollars in gold, which by way of security he lodged in one of the banks at Savannah. When he came to demand his money, he was told they did not pay specie, and he must therefore take bank notes or nothing. Being an entire stranger, and ignorant of the depreciation of paper money, arising from the refusal to pay specie, and from the erection of such an infinite number of petty banks in every obscure village without capital or character, he took the worthless rags and began his journey northward. Every step he proceeded his money grew worse and worse, and he was now travelling on to Boston with the full conviction that by the time he arrived there he should be a beggar. It was in Philadelphia that he told me this story. "Diable" exclaimed he as he concluded — "your banks ought to be called bankrupts– not one of them can pay their debts –or will pay them, which is the same thing– yet they pretend to make a distinction between the notes of one bankrupt and the notes of another." "Voila" said he, holding up a parcel of ragged dirty bills, pregnant with filth and disease –"Voila– it is like making a difference between the rags of one beggar and the rags of another."
There was so much truth in all this that I did not care to deny his position.
Proceeding on our journey we stopped at Bristol, about 20 miles from Philadelphia. The little Frenchman took something to drink at the tavern, and offered a bill issued by the landlord of the hotel where we had staid in the latter city, who, it seems, in order to be in the fashion, had also commenced Banker among the rest. This note his brother landlord at Bristol refused to receive in payment. The little Frenchman, not understanding the distinction made by a discerning public, between the rags of one bankrupt, and those of another, now gave himself up for a ruined man, supposing that he had at last got to the extreme verge of the circulation of his bank notes. He seemed to behold the spectre [of] poverty full before him, and to contemplate his gold buttons, that I dare say had descended down to him through several generations, as a last resource against starvation. He looked at me for consolation, with such a disconsolate shrug, such a glance of absolute despair, as would have touched the heart of even a bank director.
As well as I could, I explained to him the difference between a tavern-keeper's note, and a bank note, and comforted him with the assurance that by the time he arrived in Boston, provided he met with tolerably honest brokers, his stock of notes would not be diminished more than fifty per cent. The little man drew from his waistcoat pocket a great gold snuff box, opened it with extreme deliberation, took a long despairing pinch of snuff, and heaved the heaviest sigh I ever heard from one of his countrymen.
"Monsieur," said he "does the legislature of your country permit this system of swindling, this inhospitable custom, which falls so heavily on the traveller and stranger, to pass without censure or punishment ? Is the privilege of coining money, one of the highest attributes of sovereignty, permitted thus to be exercised by bankrupts, and tavern-keepers, whose notes will either not pass at all, or pass under a depreciation, which increases in the ratio with the distance you are from the place of emission ? In all civilized countries the counterfeiting of a circulating medium is severely punished. And where is the difference, whether a man imposes upon me a fictitious note, or a note that he knows will not command the value expressed on the face of it ? The one indeed is forgery, the other rank imposition, but the offence to the individual, and the injury to society, is of the same nature."
"But," said I, "it is supposed that every body knows the value of every species of bank paper as well as the credit of every individual who issues notes, and to be ignorant of such things, is only to suffer those consequences which naturally spring from ignorance in every circumstance and situation of life."
"With merchants," he replied, "whose business it is to make themselves acquainted with the course of exchange, the value of money, and the credit of individuals, ignorance of these things may indeed be blameable. I however am no merchant, but a stranger, visiting your country, with objects having no connection with trade, and my first experience is that of imposition, practised by public institutions as well as private individuals, upon strangers, and apparently sanctioned by the government. I have been taught, sir, that the first duty of a government is protection to its citizens; the second, and one not less solemn, to guard the rights, the feelings, and property of the stranger."
"And yet, sir," answered I, "it would seem to be an unwarrantable interference with the rights of the citizen, or an association of citizens, to restrict them from making that use of the credit they have in society which seems to be warranted by usages that are analogous. All persons are allowed to issue notes of hand in the common course of business, which pass according to the degree of credit enjoyed by the maker, and where is the difference between issuing a piece of paper, payable at some distant period, and one payable at sight ? Government cannot interfere with the credit of the citizen, nor prescribe limits to public confidence in any circulating medium."
"Your argument is somewhat specious," rejoined the little Frenchman, "but though the analogy is pretty strong between the case of the note of hand, and the bank note, there is a difference, marked and definite, which destroys the application of your argument to the latter. Men are, from their habits of business, accustomed, before they take a note of hand, to enquire carefully as to the credit of the person who is responsible for the payment, and before they receive it, must be satisfied as to that particular. But it is different with regard to any circulating medium. That passes from hand to hand without question or jealousy, and the inquiry is, not whether the makers are solvent, but simply if the note is genuine. To strangers particularly your argument will not apply, for they are accustomed to do as they see others do around them, and for a stranger to refuse taking money which he saw every body around him receiving, would indicate either an uncommon degree of caution arising from ignorance, or an extraordinary deficiency of that liberal confidence, which is the usual accompaniment of an enlightened understanding. It is competent," continued he, "to all legislative bodies to curtail the issue of so great a quantity of paper as will depreciate its value, because they are the rightful guardians of the public credit, which always suffers in consequence. Whenever this happens, the specie of a country ceases to circulate, and is hoarded up by the prudent and the suspicious. The result is, that paper becomes the only circulating medium, and if it continues to be taken after its makers have stopped payment, it is taken at a depreciation, which will increase in proportion as public confidence is weakened, by the removal of the only check on the issue of paper; that is, the responsibility to redeem it with specie. I, sir, do not mean to throw out any insinuation against the character of any banking institution, but this I will say, that men never ought to be permitted to act without responsibility, where the temptation is so great to act without honesty. And this applies with additional force to incorporated bodies. Single men have an individual character to forfeit, but bodies of men have little check of this kind, there are so many to share the disgrace, that it falls but lightly, and one keeps the other in countenance. Directors of banks are but men, and men, under present circumstances, exposed to great temptations. It would be useful then to watch them, not so much because they are worse than others, but because they are more exposed to those temptations that so often prostrate the best minds, and overcome the strongest principles."
How long the little man would have gone on I know not, but by this time we were at Trenton, where, some how or other, he got a note of twenty-five cents, drawn by the captain of the Steamboat, and another of the same amount drawn by some post-master in the neighborhood, notwithstanding, since the catastrophe of the tavernkeeper's note, he had become extremely suspicious in receiving rags, as he called them. He examined them with a look of profound sagacity, but being rather near sighted, and reading English with some difficulty, his care was generally thrown away, as happened to be the case in this instance.
Having hired a carriage to take ourselves and baggage to Brunswick, it happened that my companion was called upon to pay the toll at the turnpike gate. For this purpose he took out the Steam-boat, and Post-master's notes; but alas! he had got just beyond the sphere of their circulation. The driver of our carriage pointed his whip to a little brook about three hundred yards behind, and mentioned they did not pass beyond that, northward. I have seen many men in a passion in my time, but none that came up to the little Frenchman, who, in addition to the loss of his money, suffered the pangs of mortified self love, connected with the idea of having been a dupe. He began to sputter in a jargon of unintelligible French phrases, so closely treading on the heels of each other, and so jumbled together without any sort of connexion, that one would have thought a dozen Frenchmen were talking all at once, and each on a different subject, as I have sometimes heard them do, at a French café in New York. After a while he seemed to recollect himself, shrugged his shoulders, sat down, took a pinch of snuff, and exclaimed– "La patience est amare, mais son fruit est doux" [patience is bitter, but its friut is sweet]. "Boutez en avant" [push ahead] said he to the driver, who understood no more French than one of his horses.
After a silence which lasted some miles he suddenly moved himself with the exclamation of Il vaut mieux tacher d'oublier ses malheurs que d'en parler." [better to forget misfortunes than to speak of them]. But,monsieur, please to inform me what advantege can result to the community at large by the emission of this infinite variety of rags ? On the contrary is it not in the highest degree pernicious to the interest of every class of people except bank directors and stockholders, who, by shaving the rest, manage to divide nine or ten per cent. per annum as I understand ? Suppose for instance a men has an income stationary and independent of the usual contingencies of trade and accident. Instead of receiving it in silver or gold, or paper equivalent in value, he now receives it in rags, and is obliged to give twenty per cent. more for every article he consumes. And what advantage is there to counter balance this.
"A vast many, monsieur," replied I. "In the first place money becomes so plenty that it is hardly worth having, which is an excellent thing. In the second place, people that had not a sixpence before, can become immensely rich by setting up a bank, and issuing paper money to any amount, which they may do without any danger, as nobody pays cash for their bank notes now-a-days. "Eh bien ?" [How ?] said the Frenchman, with a look of curiosity.
"I will tell you, monsieur. A number of persons in some little village of forty or fifty, or perhaps a hundred houses, get together, choose a president and directors, adopt some high sounding name, get a handsome copper plate, and strike off bills to the amount of half a million, establish a good understanding with some bank in the large cities to circulate their notes, and away they go with each as much money as he can stow in his saddle bags, to circulate it as fast as possible all over the country. Nay, so very liberal are these gentlemen, that they will be infinitely obliged to any man who will borrow a few thousands from them. In this way they drive their rags into circulation, the people get accustomed to see them, and the directors all at once become rich men."
"Comment," [Well] said the little Frenchman. "I see how it is with monsieur the bank director and the stockholder. Il en fait ses choux gras,[he makes his cabbage large– gets much by the process] but what becomes of the farmer, the mechanic, and the men who receive salaries from government and who is to pay the notes thus issued ? I do not find that one dollar in ten of paper money is represented by specie."
"True," replied I, "one half of these petty institutions have no more specie in their vaults than I have in my pocket. Many of the directors are men of nominal, perhaps real estate, but then you are to understand, that they expressly stipulate that nothing but the funds of the bank shall be liable for the debts of the institution, and that all their private property is excepted."
"The funds of the bank — le diable est aux vaches ! [The devils is among the cows — every thing is in confusion]. What ! have you not told me they have no funds but paper rags, and consequently cannot pay any thing else. In what then do their funds consist ?
"They consist," said I, "in notes of hand of individuals, which they give the bank in exchange for its notes. These are the only real capital of the bank, and are generally renewed at sixty days, for the accommodation of the bank and its debtor mutually. For if the bank were suddenly to call for payment, about three-fourths of the debtors perhaps could not pay; they would break, as it is called, and the bank would thus lose the only capital it can boast. So you see, monsieur, the basis of all this enormous issue of paper bank notes, is only paper notes of hand. This mutual caution between the bank and its debtors is exceedingly convenient and advantageous. The debtors who amount to a very large portion of the merchants, circulate their bills for them, and give them all the currency in their power, for you will perceive, that if the banks were obliged to pay cash for their notes, they could not discount three times the amount of their capital, the people having discounts would of course be obliged to pay their notes, and the holders of bank stock be under the dreadful necessity of contenting themselves with legal interest for their money."
"Ah hah !" said my companion, "I see it plainly enough. But then monsieur will allow me to suggest, that this must at length come, "a l'extinction de la chandelle." [extinguish the candle] There will be an end to this at last; and then who will be the loser, when you get to "cul de sac ?"
"Why, sir, the man that happens to be in possession of the rags, as you are pleased to call them. He will go to the bank and demand payment: they will give him the choice of rags belonging to other banks, but no money. That they must keep in their vaults, for fear it should go out of the country, as if it might not as well do this, as be buried where I believe it would puzzle the directors themselves to find it. Well, he takes his rags, and goes to another bank, where he can get other rags, but no money. They never covenanted, not they, to pay money for their notes, and when they promised to redeem a rag, with five, ten, or twenty dollars, they meant only that amount of other rags. Nay some of them will point at the tenor of the promise in the note, which perhaps runs thus, as I have seen in some cases, "The President, Directors, and Company of ____ Bank, promise to pay to Peter Gudgeon, or bearer, Ten Dollars according to the articles of this association, and not otherwise." Now the articles of association thus referred, may, for ought I know, stipulate that he shall be paid in ten dollars worth of moonshine, or old rags, or in old Continental Dollars, or in bank notes, which, if things go on as they have done, much longer, will be of about equal value."
The poor little Frenchman fell into a short reverie, and I dare say, thought of his pretty, bright, chinking, half-joes and doublons in the Savannah Bank.
"He will at last," I replied, "come around and round to the old starting place, after being sent from one to another, and bandied about, like the pig in the story. They will all be ruined together, and go one after the other. The butcher will beg in to kill the ox –the ox will begin to drink the water –the water to quench the fire –the fire to burn the stick –the stick to lick the pig –but the pig wont go to school, until it is too late to profit by the lesson."
"Oui" –ejaculated the little Frenchman, who, like Sancho, seemed to have a bundle of proverbs in his belly– "Oui– Pas à pas, on va bien loin — a barbe de fol on apprend à raire [step by step we can go a long ways]– a man who swallows rags at this rate must be un sot à triple etage[a triple blockhead] —a bon chat, a bon rat— a parcel of rogues playing on the credulity of a parcel of fools –n'emporte." [No matter]
We now arrived at Brunswick, where we slept, taking the steam-boat the next morning for New York. In paying my bill, I received from the master of the house, some notes which, when I offered them in the steam-boat, I found had depreciated three or four per cent. within a distance of one mile. At this rate, thought I, before I get to New York they will be worth nothing. So I called for plenty of wine at dinner, in order that my money might not be lost. There was a genteel looking man who sat at table with us, and was very civil. But as soon as my companion discovered he was a Bank Director, I thought he would have eaten him up. He eyed him with infinite contempt –turned up his nose with a most petulant curl– took snuff at him with a look of most tremendous hostility — and repeated to himself– "Quel foutre !" [What a scoundrel!]
At New York the little Frenchman got specie, and bills of exchange on Boston for his bank notes, at a discount, I think, of twenty-two per cent., for nothing could induce him to touch any more of the "dirty rags," which was the only name he condescended to call them by. "Ah, Monsieur," said he, "I don't know what I have done to be thus murdered by cent per cent. — but a bon chien il ne vient jamais un bon os. [a good bone never comes to a good dog]" I now see "le dessous des cartes, [now I see how the game is played]" and shall take care how I am caught again."
I comforted him by showing how he could retrieve all his losses, by turning about when he had finished his business at Boston, and shaving his way back to Savannah, by which means he would turn the tables upon them all. He was delighted with this idea, shook hands with me in high glee, and I never saw him more.


text: If God is a Cubs fan, as some people say, He has a really sick sense of humor. So many reasons to be optimistic this season; only to fail once again. Mere words cannot describe the 100 years of frustration suffered by the North Siders, although some of the following blog entries come close. Come witness the unfathomable tears of sadness below. Or, simply, sit in stunned silence, like the man above. Poor dumb sap. If he's still there by Halloween, could someone cover him with a Hefty bag? • Elegy To The 2008 Cubs. Will I quit? Hell no; I'm a Cubs fan. That's how I grew up; if you're my age or older you have many of these shared disasters, now all of us have 2008. When last night's game ended I took off my division champions T-shirt, that I had been wearing for whatever luck or mojo it could contribute (sure, I know it can't really affect players 2000 miles away), but why not? — and tossed it in the trash. [Bleed Cubbie Blue]• I'm Done. I'm done with you Cubs convention!!!!!!! I've already cancelled my room. I'm done with it!!!!!! I'm done with the regular season!!!!!! Other them checking the scores, I'm done watching these pieces of shit in April-Sept. I'm done with going to to Wrigley in the regular season!!!!! I'm done with my W flag and Go Cubs Go!!!!!!!! I'm done until they win a playoff series!!!!! Next year was this year and this very talented team pissed it away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm done with MLBTRADERUMORS.COM. I'm done with it!!!!!! I could care less what they do in the off season. I'm done with Hot stove baseball talk!!!!! I'm done. The only thing that matter is October. I'm done!!!!! [Ghostofpaulnoce] • So Long. The Chicago Sun-Times's website says this in today's front page. If so, I think it was SUPER CLASSY of them to run an ad for the local cable service letting Cubs fans know they can "Watch the home teams on Comcast Digital Cable with HD." Yes, it's always fun watching my home team getting swept out of the playoffs in HD. [Blogging Via Typewriter] • F$%& The Cubs, F$#* The Culture Of Losing, F#*$ Manny Ramirez, F#*% Aramis Ramirez, And F@#& You. I can't process this or talk about it right now. I'm angry. Only in sports could a tradition of losing be a successful business model. And it's because retards like me keep coming back for more. [Not Qualified To Comment] • The Disappointing Cubs: How 2008 Ranks. Well, that sucked. Here's how the disappointing suckiness compares with previous disappointing suckinesses: [Wrigleyville23] • Nine Reasons To Believe The Cubs Will Be Fine In '09. Maybe life is not fair, maybe the world is cruel and stinging, maybe our hearts were made to be broken. But between all the heartbreak and sadness are moments, infantisimal in length yet seemingly infinite. It is these moments that define our lives — your first kiss, the first night spent with the love of your life (and the last), long departures and short reunions. Our love of sports in general and Cubs baseball in particular can certainly be described as cruel. We live with heartbreak, this weekend is only the most recent example. But our moment is coming, even if some of us will never live to see it. And that moment, when the Cubs win, it will be glorious. Believe me, it's coming. And if you don't believe ... well, what the hell are you doing here to begin with, then? [Goat Riders Of The Apocalypse].

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Harmonising biosafety regulations within Africa
Africa needs harmonised biosafety policies that respect sovereignty and pool resources, says David Wafula.
Africa needs to harmonise its biosafety policies in order to preserve free trade within the continent. A number of initiatives have already been launched, for example the African Union is developing an African Strategy on Biosafety.
Similarly, agricultural ministers within the continent's largest trading bloc, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), have endorsed a Regional Approach to Biotechnology and Biosafety Policy in Eastern and Southern Africa (RABESA).
To develop harmonised policies, RABESA will need to be a broad-based platform where policymakers, scientists, the private sector and society can interact and consult each other. RABESA will tackle the issues that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) raise for trade and access to emergency food aid.
Regional rules, national sovereignty
Regional rules, national sovereignty
Economic communities in Africa, such as COMESA, the East African Community and the Southern Africa Development Community, want to integrate regional trade and create free trade areas.
Differences in national biosafety policies can hamper the cross-border movement of essential commodities. Already, a technological divide is emerging between countries like Egypt and Kenya, which are drawing closer to commercialising GMOs, and the majority of other African nations, including Ethiopia and Zambia, which are taking a preventive or precautionary stance.
The problem is especially important for maize and cotton within the COMESA region, where trade in these commodities is particularly high. Kenya is already developing GM varieties of both commodities.
Commercial releases of either could easily spread much further than intended in the region. For example, formal or informal trade, seed exchanges or unintentional movements could easily transport GMOs planted in Kenya into neighbouring countries that have not approved their use, such as Tanzania or Uganda.
Trade within the COMESA region has risen by over 300 per cent in the past six years (from US$2 billion in 2000 to US$6 billion in 2006). Piecemeal approval for commercial GM crops in COMESA is likely to reduce the value and volume of this trade, unless all countries in the bloc agree to a set of clear biosafety measures that can be implemented across the region.
Reaching such an agreement requires consultation, negotiation and consensus-building across all member states. National sovereignty must be acknowledged, and individual countries' priorities met.
There must be clear distinctions between regulations that can be enforced at a regional level and decisions that need to be taken by national governments. For example, there should be regional guidelines for transporting and handling GM products, but the decision on whether to import GM products — or accept emergency food aid containing GMOs — remains with each government.
RABESA — a participatory approach
RABESA — a participatory approach
COMESA's regional initiative, RABESA, is a participatory approach to harmonising biosafety regulations. A panel of experts from across the region will draft regional guidelines on introducing, trading and handling GM crops and emergency food aid containing GMOs. This should encourage a sense of ownership and acceptance of such regulations within the region.
To ensure inclusiveness, the COMESA secretariat will convene regional and national consensus-building meetings. At these, policymakers, technical experts and other stakeholders from COMESA member states will discuss the policies and regulations proposed by the panel.
Some of COMESA's member states also belong to other African trading blocs. So RABESA must ensure its policies and procedures converge with those of such other organisations, minimising potential conflict.
It is also crucial to keep each country's minister for agriculture well informed, enhancing their understanding of biosafety issues. This is essential for mobilising the political support needed to get guidelines endorsed at the regional level.
Clubbing together
Clubbing together
Even if regional guidelines are agreed, the cost of regulating and testing biotechnology products is relatively high, and many African countries lack the infrastructure, resources or capacity to implement them.
The International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council estimates that the cost of sampling and testing cargo for GMOs would be US$1 million. If exporters are required to quantify individual varieties, the labelling and testing costs for maize alone would be four times more.
So projects aiming to harmonise biosafety regulations should consider using centralised resources. These would need financial support. For COMESA, that could be a regional biosafety fund that each member state contributes to, with complementary support from institutions such as the African Union and donor agencies.
RABESA proposes using regional centres of excellence and a central biosafety clearing house. These would allow countries with weak or underdeveloped capacity access to cutting-edge research and development facilities, boosting the exchange of scientific and technical information on GMOs.
David Wafula is a research fellow at the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi, Kenya and regional coordinator of the RABESA project.
David Wafula is a research fellow at the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi, Kenya and regional coordinator of the RABESA project.


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The Legacy of Osama Bin Laden
The arrival of the decennial observation of the attacks of September 11, 2001 -- at least in the northeastern portion of the country -- is marked by at least as much of a literal cloud hanging over us as a figurative one. I am certain that my musings on where we stand as a nation are, in part, clouded by recent natural disasters and the reminder that fate, in the hands of Mother Nature, can leave us feeling lost, damp, and alone in much the same way that mad bombers and plane crashers can.
Still, it's tempting to polish the apple and chalk one up in the victory column. Tens years after the towers came down, Osama bin Laden, along with many of his top cohorts, is dead. The Taliban, who sought to shield him, is ousted from power and most of their strongholds lie in ruins. The total number of al-Qaeda remaining in Afghanistan is frequently quoted as being down to double digits. Is this not victory?
There's a reason that it might not feel this way for some of us. The damage didn't all take place on that one September day -- it rolled on for years, draining us of stamina while a new generation came of age knowing nothing but a post-9/11 world.
When England's King Henry VIII was a young man, he suffered a wound to his leg which was later re-opened and aggravated in a jousting accident in his forties. While he lived an additional eleven years and eventually prevailed over his enemies, owing to the lack of any modern medical knowledge, the injury plagued him to the end of his days. It not only led to other maladies which likely contributed to his early demise, but weakened him in the eyes of his domestic rivals.
I bring up Henry only because his jousting opponent, in some ways, reminds me of bin Laden. He didn't defeat the United States in any way, shape, or form. But he most assuredly wounded us.
Perhaps things might have played out much differently had we somehow struck back with a decisive knock-out blow. We started out with more than enough exuberance, ready to take on the villains and band together as a nation. Everyone was flying Old Glory and spoiling for a fight. While discussing this subject recently, my wife reminded me of a shopping trip she took a few days after the attacks. She found herself at a stop light in a line of roughly a half dozen cars. Hers was the only one without an American flag on it and she recalls feeling somewhat out of place.
It's not that we were part of some anti-flag contingent. We had ours flying at home along with the rest of the block. We'd simply not thought to pick up one suitable for display on an automobile antenna. But the point was that everyone was primed for battle and, more importantly, expecting a victory. But that victory failed to materialize.
I can't help but wonder what the world would look like today if we had killed -- or even better, captured -- bin Laden at Tora Bora in December of 2001. What if we had wrung out of him the names and locations of all his top associates and staged them at Gitmo for daily frog walks before the cameras in orange jump suits and leg irons? It would have sent a powerful message to the rest of the world and, more importantly, to ourselves that America was not to be messed with. That our power was beyond question and any attempt to knock us down would be met with swift and harsh retribution.
But that never happened. Even with their erstwhile "headquarters" in Afghanistan lying in tatters, al-Qaeda metastasized into global pockets of angry antagonists who had been shown how they might score a victory. The most hunted criminal on the planet spent more than nine years flitting through the shadows like a ghost in the collective consciousness of the world. He had demonstrated that the giant was actually flesh and blood, not an invincible machine. If you cut us, we would indeed bleed.
So the wound remained. And it festered.


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The Sign Ordinance creates the legal framework for comprehensive and balanced sign guidelines for the city. City Council adopted the current ordinance, Sign Ordinance No. 704-J, on March 5, 2019.
Once registered, sign contractors will be able to log into the city's online permitting and inspections webpage, titled EnerGov Customer Self Service to review and track sign permits. Click on the link to access EnerGov Customer Self Service.Please be aware that many commercial developments in the city are subject to special sign regulations, called Conditional Sign Permits or Master Sign Plans. A partial listing of these developments include Southlake Town Square, Shops of Southlake, Gateway/Wyndham Plaza, Jellico Square, Southlake Corners, Bicentennial Retail Plaza, and Watermere. Please contact Planning & Development Services staff to determine if special sign regulations apply to your location.
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Linen-y Lone Star
16 comments:
- Rachel said...
Oh Krista! This is so beautiful. What a lucky, lucky girl you are. I just love the juxtaposition of the soft voile against the linen. Gorgeous!
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- Michele Pacey said...
A very pretty lone star!
A charitable Etsy shop you say? What a truly inspiring idea... Hmmm... I'll have to think about that one...
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- Mary Ann said...
Oh my goodness...so beautiful.
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- Canadian Kristin said...
Oh wow! Krista, that is amazing. I am in awe of the colour choices and agree with you that the sophisticated star is set off perfectly by the rustic, rough linen background. Stunning!
Hmmm... Etsy... quilts...charity... going now!
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- Amy said...
It's very beautiful. What a nice swap you two had!
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- Heather said...
this is FABulous!!!!!
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- Live a Colorful Life said...
Really beautiful! The contrast makes it really special.
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- Lynne (Lily's Quilts) said...
I've decided not to swap with you any more. I can't compete with this!
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- Dianne said...
Stunning! Aren't you the luckiest sewist ever, you have such talented friends! The colours are so yummy and just like you she does excellent work.
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- Vivian said...
Oh Krista, what a wonderful gift! I love love love it. It has such a fun feel. Want to hear something funny, maybe a little bit serendipitous? Next friday I am taking a lone star quilt class...wanna go?
BTW, once a Yukoner always a Yukoner right? Hockey Day in Canada! Wahoo...see you should have been here this week, hockey, lone star class, +2C...what more could you ask for. Take care, have a great weekend.
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- badlandsquilts said...
Just gorgeous! I've been contemplating one too...looking at the Quiltsmart interfacing version. Love the background too!
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- dutch sisters said...
Oohh, what a stunning quilt! You are so lucky!
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- Coisas da Laura said...
Wow ! What a gorgeous quilt you got! Lucky girl!
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- traceyjay said...
shoot... isn't this just such a great post. :)
Thanks for the love... and I'm so glad you like it!
(I liked the coarse linen next to the voile too).
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- bearpaw said...
That is absolutely stunning! I just love the fabrics she has chosen I could stare at it forever!
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- Helen said...
Wow Krista!!! Its beautiful! Great swap. You must be getting a collection by now! A blog post about where they all are in your house?
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THE EARTHLY INHERITANCE SERIES of BIBLE SUBJECTS
Various Bible study guides in subjects pertaining to
New Earth prophecy, as taught by Paul Phelps
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD,
they shall inherit the earth. Psalm 37:9
The SIZE of NEW JERUSALEM
John's Rev. 21:16 vision of New Jerusalem should be seen in comparison with
other Bible descriptions. Ezekiel 48:15-19 says the size of the future city is 4500
cubits on each side. There is an extra 250 cubit width land area around the city,
making the overall land portion 5000 cubits on each side.
All Bible translations based on the Greek text say there are twelve thousand
stadia on each side of New Jerusalem, but the original Peshitta Aramaic text has
"about twelve stadia, twelve thousand…" Lamsa translates this verse as saying
"about twelve stadia, twelve thousand paces."
A Greek Stadia is 185 metres; but when Roman writers talk about stadia, they
usually mean an artabic stadia. Sea distances were calculated in artabic stadia.
Roman artabic stadias average 187.5 metres. This serves our calculations well.
The twelve stadia dimension of each side is 2250 metres—so the parameter is
9000 metres. There is also reference to twelve thousand paces, which is correct
for the 9000 metre parameter of all four sides; (one pace is 75 cm). The 9000
metre parameter of the city-wall's four sides is easily paced in twelve thousand
of these paces, the normal pace of a man walking.
Ezekiel was a priest in the First Temple. Solomon built the Temple using the
first cubit of 2 Chron. 3:3, Israel's original cubit before the Babylonian captivity;
(see the essay entitled "Discovering Israel's Cubits"). Measures taken of sockets
at the Temple Mount prove this cubit was 42.857142 cm, (1/7th of three metres).
The angel of Ezekiel's vision used a longer cubit, "a cubit and an handbreadth;"
(Ezek. 40:5). Human cubits have six handbreadths but angel cubits have seven.
Thus the angels use a seven-handbreadth cubit measure, 50 cm, (an half metre).
The measuring rod of the angel was six of the longer cubits—a three-metre rod.
In Ezekiel's vision the city has a surrounding parkland that extends 250 cubits
(125 metres)—making the parkland measure on each side of the city 5000 cubits
(2500 metres). So the outer parkland parameter around the city is 20 000 cubits
(10 kilometres). A walk through the parkland around the city is a six mile walk.
The wall enclosing the city is 144 cubits tall (72 metres). The towering wall is
magnificent because of the jade-green colour and because the twelve gates are
stunning. We know this city is built in space because it is coming from heaven.
It is for earth though and will be the centre of God's kingdom on earth. This city
is very high tech but is nonetheless material and physical. It will be home to the
glorified saints coming or going in their earthly activities. The righteous people
of Earth will be permitted to enter the city and have access to the Tree of Life;
(Rev. 21:24-27; 22:2,14).
We are sure that John's and Ezekiel's visions of New Jerusalem are the same.
They are not different cities, and John's vision does not replace Ezekiel's vision;
both visions add together. This future city although large, is still small enough to
sit on earth without causing an earthquake. The height is more than a mile—but
the mass will not exceed the mass of mountains that now exist all over the world.
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How Does Appendicitis Differ In Children & Adults?
According to the National Institute of Health, appendicitis is most common between the age groups of 10 to 30, and is more prevalent in men. In adults you will find that the pain starts all of a sudden and continues over a period of time. There is no cure for appendicitis; once it is inflamed it needs to be removed as soon as possible through surgery. The appendix needs to be divided from its connection to the colon, and its blood supply needs to be cut; after that, it is completely removed from the gut region. A Computed Tomography, or CT scan can help in early detection of appendicitis and is usually done only for adults. This is because it is much more accurate in adults; additionally, children and pregnant women should not be exposed to radiation. In adult patients, the risk of developing post-operative complications heightens with time; therefore, there should be no delay in surgery.
Is Appendicitis During Pregnancy Common?
Appendicitis may occur in anyone at any time without prior warning. The symptoms of appendicitis are very similar to pregnancy symptoms – nausea, stomach cramps and loss of appetite are often experienced. Many women also feel false labor pain when it comes to pregnancy; all these reasons make it difficult to diagnose appendicitis in pregnant women. Sometimes, such a condition may lead to complications, not only for the mother but also for the child, especially in early stages of pregnancy. Another clinical limitation for pregnancy is that radiological examinations are usually not done, as the effects of radiology are potentially dangerous to the fetus. Acute appendicitis in pregnant women, especially when perforation or peritonitis occurs. usually leads to premature labor and other complications. A detailed examination is usually advised in order to determine the exact nature of these symptoms. The patient needs to contact the gynecologist at the earliest signs, as there may be complications that will prove hazardous for both the mother and the baby. Surgical removal of the inflamed appendix without delay prevents any further complexities from arising and is most recommended by doctors.
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1) Candle scents this month: Del's Lemonade
2) What I read this month: Ten Books that Screwed Up the World (oh, brother).
3) Top three songs I was drawn to: I can't believe I'm admitting to this, but "Call Me Maybe."
4) Movies I saw: The Avengers; Mirror, Mirror;
5) Favorite tv moments of the month: I rediscovered "New Girl" this month.
6) Something yummy I made: Nothing special springs to mind.
7) Restaurants where I ate: Olga's Cup & Saucer (really not great),
8.) Five things I am loving this month: Apparently, monkeys and monsters, since I am going through a stage where my favorite expletives are "Oh, monkeys!" and "Oh, monsters!"
9) A goal I had for this month: To recover the dining room chairs (done!)
10) This month I looked forward to: seeing my parents and the Tall Ships.
11) Something I want to remember about this month: going to Newport, getting caught in a downpour and driving a couple of lost French tourists back to their hotel. Seeing the Tall Ships with my parents, C and Bear; going to the Rhode Island Balloon Festival and not seeing any balloons.
12) A photo I took this month:
Tall Ships Parade of Sail, Narragansett Bay, Newport.


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Yellow & Green casts off the shackles of expectation while simultaneously taking a measured step in the direction of accessibility.
It's tense, it's beautiful, it's bleak, it takes the listener from point A to point B while leaving it up to us what the point of the ride is to begin with.
Just like releases that precede it, The North offers yet another glimpse into the minds of a band that challenges the barriers of genre and songwriting.
Even with a few skipable tracks, though, Of Monsters and Men bring an Icelandic exoticism and captivating energy to U.S. audiences on My Head is an Animal.
Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables may just be a serious contender for the album with the worst attitude of 2012.
Old Ideas builds on the promise of his recent world tours and return to the limelight with his strongest, most unified album in decades.
Teaming with The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who brought atmospherics, buzzy guitars and quicksand grooves that pull you in, this is 21st century mojo essentialized.
There's something about the flaws on this thing—the way Marshall lets it all hang loose, the way she continually tries to express a sentiment she can't quite put into words—that's absolutely fascinating in its humanity and compassion.
The Carpenter provides a return to rudimentary Avett songwriting, in that the most striking moments on the record are born from playful banjo-guitar banter and confessions revealed in 4/4 time.
It is, in other words, a deeply weird and deeply lovely record, albeit one that listeners should do their best to listen to with as few preconceptions as possible.
R.A.P. Music is a synthesis of the confusion and rancid despair pervading every vacated storefront and foreclosed home in every corner of today's economically bleeding America.
Though at time reaching heavenly heights, Shields is, as the name suggests, a heavy, protected album, stuffy with an ennui particular to the young and gifted.
Nothing's Gonna Change… is ultimately the kind of album you can curl up into, let the warm tones surround you and rest easy
I Know What Love Isn't, therefore, sounds like the culmination of his career, a record marking his arrival at a sound we knew he would get to eventually.
The album doesn't match the group's best output, but it's a strong and occasionally stunning entry.
Above all, Andrew Bird is a highly skilled musician capable of crafting an album full of delightful little moments that make the album worth a fair listen, and more.
While Lonerism does feel a bit more expansive, utilizing even more of mixer Dave Fridmann's fancy effects pedals and studio wizardry, it uses those tools to delve even further inward.
At the end of the day, White's still an enigma, and so is Blunderbuss, its mysteries unfolding in odd ways when you least expect it.
Its significance stems from the band's growth and evolution, primarily reflected in the lyrics.
Cancer For Cure is a shirked, claustrophobic, paranoid clutter of rhyming conspiracy theories.
It's an album that's sure to satisfy long-time fans while undoubtedly garnering the band even more media buzz.
Listening to Swing Lo Magellan feels more like sneaking up on the band in the midst of an intense rehearsal, rather than the group coming forward and saying, "Look what we've made."
Fortunately for the Shakes ... their first true album Boys & Girls only justifies the fervor surrounding them.
Few vocalists can erase the distance between performer and listener as shrewdly as Apple can, and that toggle gives The Idler Wheel its strange power.
This collection is the band's tightest and most cohesive, and they do so without losing any of the grit.
Restraint is key to the execution of Channel Orange, a neo-R&B album that, for all its layered beauty, never overwhelms.


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Ivoryton Playhouse takes on "Little Shop of Horrors"
'Little Shop of Horrors' blooms in Ivoryton
By BONNIE GOLDBERG
With a watering can, a green thumb and a box of Band-aids, anything can happen in the world of strange growing plants.
Just ask Seymour Krelborn, a potential botanist in the making, who purchased an unusual potted plant from a Chinese man when the world is undergoing some different astrological and weather related events.
Whatever the cause, Seymour soon finds himself the caretaker of a plant he names Audrey II, in honor of his co-worker who has stolen his heart. Audrey II has some strange cravings, ones that don't include water, sunshine, fertilizer or plant food.
To discover what Audrey II desires, just head over to the Ivoryton Playhouse by Sunday, Oct. 11 and meet Seymour (Nicholas Park) and the gang at Mushnik's Skid Row Flower Shop, like Mushnik (David Conaway) and Audrey (Laura Woyasz) and their funky Greek chorus of delicious flower children (Azarria White, La'Nette Wallace and Danielle Marie Gray). Come enter the exotically entertaining world of "Little Shop of Horrors" cleverly created by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken where Mr. Mushnik is about to close up shop, permanently. The arrival of Audrey II changes everything.
Love will motivate even the most meek of men to move mountains and molehills for their sweethearts, even if it means making a pact with a fiendish plant. In order for Seymour to woo and win Audrey, the girl of his dreams, he must supply "the plant" with its favorite growth elixir: human blood.
As "the plant," flourishes and flowers, Seymour realizes what a money-making monsterpiece he has created and the potential fame it can bring to Mushnik's modest Skid Row florist shop. He also realizes that as the carnivore grows, so does its thirsty need for the red stuff — and its cries of "feed me" grow louder and louder.
Songs like "Somewhere That's Green," "Dentist," and "Suddenly Seymour" set the tantalizing tone.
Martin P. Robinson take credit for this Jack-in-the-Beanstalk and Venus Fly Trap combination conundrum, with voice provided by Steve Sabol and puppeteering by Austin Costello. Also starring in the show are Carson Higgins as the mad dentist, a sadistic man who punishes his girlfriend Audrey in increasingly painful ways.
Lawrence Thelan directs and Apollo Smile choreographs this new production, which opened on Broadway in 2003.
You don't need a green thumb to enjoy "Little Shop of Horrors" — but if Seymour offers you a Band-Aid, put on your gloves and run for the nearest exit.
For tickets ($42, seniors $37, students $20, children $15), call Ivoryton Playhouse, 103 Main Street, Ivoryton at 860-767-7318 or online at www.ivorytonplayhouse.org. Performances are Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with matinees at 2 p.m. Wednesday and Sunday.


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www.patriotactionnetwork.com/groups/obam-administration-watchmen/forum/topic/good-news-obama-could-bring-down-entire-dem-ticket/ (We can only hope! BB)
The U.S. Stands With Israel over Palestinian Statehood.
http://israel.patriotactionnetwork.com/2011/11/03/u-s-withholds-funds-for-unesco/ ("The U.S. pays $80 million a year to UNESCO, or 22 percent of the organization's overall budget, and the move will scuttle an upcoming $60 million payment.
The U.S. was one of 14 countries to vote against the UNESCO measure to recognize Palestine. 107 member countries voted in favor and 52 abstained." Now I wonder how this somehow slipped by the Communist and America haters in the White House? I would not be surprised if somehow they manage to get the money released to UNESCO anyhow no matter what laws are broken. BB)
Ohio Ballot Innitiatives 2 and 3:
White House to be subpoenaed for Solyndra Records
http://www.patriotactionnetwork.com/groups/congress-house-watchmen/forum/topic/white-house-to-be-subpoenaed-for-solyndra-records/ (This is grounds for impeachment but don't hold your breath because no one and nothing can drop or even stop the first Black President of the United States from serving out at least one term. And of course he will also serve out a second term legally because voter fraud is already in place and working towards an Obama win in 2012. And then Obama will serve as dictator as long as the powers behind him find him useful to their cause of world domination. BB)
Senate GOP blocks $60 billion Obama-backed infrastructure bill
http://www.patriotactionnetwork.com/groups/congress-senate-watchmen/forum/topic/senate-gop-blocks-60-billion-obama-backed-infrastructure-bill/ (Democrats voted with the Republicans to stop this second give away to Obama supporters and friends. BB)
'Day of Reckoning': Chris Christie Tackles Massive State Debt on '60 Minutes' | The Blaze
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'Day of Reckoning': Chris Christie Tackles Massive State Debt on '60 Minutes' | The Blaze.
This is interesting. The Governor who is willing to tell the truth says the day of reckoning has arrived. California, Arizona, Illinois, New York both state and city, and of course New Jersey that Governor Christie is trying to get under control are so far in debt that it really is impossible to get to the bottom of it in most cases the debtors (states and cities) even know how much they do owe. The main problems seem to be the public employee unions, but other spending is really just as bad it is just that the unions are making the biggest fuss and are at this time unwilling to even discuss the problems with the governments.
When will the bubble finally bust? When will these states and cities finally hit bottom and go belly up? Some analyst say as soon as within the next 12 months. then it is predicted they will turn to the federal government for a bail out. Which means that the federal government will then have to borrow money toi bail out the states and cities. Considering the federal government is now borrowing $.40 of every dollar it spends it is difficult to believe they will do another round of bail outs. And beside that the facts are that when bailed out the states and cities just continue on the way they have been operating and this will just lead to another crisis down the line. What we need is fifty governors like Chris Christie and one President like Chris Christie. BB
13:51 Added to queue State Budgets: Day of Reckoningby CBSNewsOnline338 views
Day of Reckoning': Chris Christie Tackles Massive State Debt on '60 Minutes'
- Posted on December 20, 2010 at 9:08am by Jonathon M. Seidl
It could be the biggest crisis since the collapse of the housing market.
That's how experts are describing state budgets, which are becoming so spend-heavy that municipalities are now drowning in debt and unrealistic spending obligations.
Here's a taste: California now spends more on public employee pensions than it does on the state university system; Arizona has sold its state capital, supreme court chambers, and legislative building to private investors; and Illinois, which spends twice as much as it takes in in taxes, is months behind on Medicaid payments and some gas stations won't even take State Trooper credit cards.
Those examples were included in a "60 Minutes" special on Sunday, which detailed the growing problem of mounting state debt. It's a problem that includes blatant fiscal irresponsibility and borrowing money to delay what NJ Gov. Chris Christie calls in the piece the "day of reckoning." The segment also features Meredith Whitney, one of the most respected women on Wall Street who once predicted the dismal housing collapse. In her mind, the state budget crisis will be just as crippling.
Business Insider calls the piece, "what everyone will be talking about today":
Last week, the Manhattan Institute's Steve Malanga called the state budget problem a "fiscal train wreck," and compared benefits in the public sector to benefits in the private sector. In short, he confirms Christie's call for cuts:
One big area of concern is employee costs, including not only pay but benefits. According to the governor's association report, the average state worker now earns $39.83 an hour in compensation, including benefits, compared to an average of $27.49 in the private sector. The big differentials are in health benefits ($4.43 per hour in the public sector vs. $2.01 in the private sector), and in pension costs ($3.23 per hour in the public sector vs. 94 cents per hour in private industry). As the report noted, "To have any hope of achieving fiscal health in the future, states will need to redesign their benefit systems."
Obama didn't get it and he continued today in his little unrepentant mea culpa speech he continued to blame Bush, the Party of No Republicans and We the People. Heaven forbid he see the huge national finger pointing at him. Obama has made me ill for a long time now but today i really and truly gagged while listening to him.
The union members, CIO-AFL and SEIU Service Employees International Unions which covers most government employees, were scared or threatened by their leaders into electing the Democrats in New York, California and Nevada. They were afraid of the Republicans pulling a Christie on them and cutting their pensions, pay and health care benefits. The fact that these union perks for the government employees in New York and California are bankrupting the states.So these two states that are on the cliff and falling into bankruptcy will be coming to the rest of the country for their bail out. I can only hope the Republicans in the House stick to what We the people have told them and allows these two states to fall on their Democratic Asses. Then they will have to cut their spending regardless of how many union members have to give up the million dollar pension plans.
As far as Nevada and our dear old Senator Harry Reid, the union members in the casinos were bussed to the polling places to vote for Harry. He promised them the Card check which there is no way in Hell he will get thru this House. BB
>>Stimulus II: Congress ponders aid for cash-strapped states | McClatchy
Posted December 17, 2009on:
Stimulus II: Congress ponders aid for cash-strapped states | McClatchy
We all knew this was coming didn't we. the tax payers of all the states are now going to be bailing out the over paid, irresponsible, unionized state employees of New York, California and other states who spent their money irresponsibly. Well, why not some of you will say since we tax payers bailed out the banks and people who bought homes they couldn't afford. Never, I mean NEVER has one wrong piled on top of another wrong piled on top of another wrong added up to a right! Every Bail Out, every Stimulus and every cash for Clunkers or anything else has been WRONG.
California and New York simply have to start laying off state employees and cutting their programs. While they are at it they could cut the salaries of their elected representatives which are among the highest paid in any state.
I hope this disgusts you as much as it does me. And with any luck at all the bill will not get past the Senate. The House of Representatives are a bunch of fools who will do anything Pelosi wants.
Washington soon could come to the aid of California, New York and other cash-strapped states that face the need to raise taxes or cut spending again next year to balance their books.The House of Representatives took the first step late Wednesday, passing a $75 billion jobs bill that would help states pay for infrastructure projects and prevent more public employees from being laid off.
Some are calling it "stimulus II," and a sequel would be good news for the 35 states that face budget gaps totaling $31.5 billion by the middle of next year. California is projecting the largest shortfall, at $6.3 billion, followed by Illinois and New York, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research center in Washington.
I wouldn't mind the money being spent on infrastructure because the roads and especially bridges in the United States are in dire need of repair or replacement. However, the bill calls for only union workers to be allowed to work on these project. This will increase the costs of labor by a factor of 4. Yes every job that would cost $25 will cost $100 tax dollars if a person belonging to a union does it.
The unions which are ruled by organized crime will have to be another problem American Patriots will have to curb if we get thru the Obamanation we are now facing. The United Auto Workers brought down the American auto industry and now President Obama is promising them their lucrative pensions and their Cadillac health insurance at the expense of the tax payer.
In the case of the state employees it means bailing out members of the Service Employees International Union SEIU. Yes you have heard of these people. they are the ones who attacked a Black man for handing out "Don't tread on me " flags at a town hall. This is the union that signs up anyone legal or illegal aliens being their favorite target because they can intimidate these people and charge them outrageous union dues. At the same time these illegal alien are taking American jobs! BB
>>Report: 10 states that account for more than one-third of America's population and economic output face looming budget disasters – Yahoo! News
Posted November 11, 2009on:
Report: 10 states face looming budget disasters – Yahoo! News
Not much to say here as the writing is as they say "on the wall". The 10 states that together are our most populous and therefore have the most to lose in a down turn as far as jobs and productivity are concerned now find themselves on the ropes. These states account for more than 1/3 of the nations economic output and population. That much of their problems have to do with the same problems the federal government has, bloated government employee rolls and to many and too generous entitlement programs, is not surprising.
California's ongoing fiscal crisis has attracted national attention, but a study warns that nine other states are barreling toward similar economic disaster.A report released Wednesday by the Pew Center on the States says Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin also are at risk of fiscal calamity.
That could mean higher taxes, more layoffs of government employees, increasingly crowded classrooms and fewer services in states that account for more than one-third of America's population and economic output.
Another thing that will not be surprising will be the federal governments rush to bail these states out of their problems thus allowing them to go their merry ways without making the cuts in government employees and social services that have to be made. The Obama administration is desperate to stop the rise of unemployment so that they can continue to claim the Stimulus bill "saved" jobs so it will be paramount to the administration not to allow these states to cut back on the employee rolls.
Now there will of course be cut backs on education and cut backs on services offered, but they will keep the same number of government employees sitting around handling fewer cases and doing less work. And neither will the federal government nor the state governments insist the union members, Service Workers International Union (SEIU), give up any of their lucrative benefits in order to keep their jobs. If you will remember SEIU's Andy Sterns was once of the people President Obama proudly claimed he spoke with about health care legislation. SEIU also gave Obama's campaign hundreds of millions of dollars in workers union dues to buy this kind of largess with the rest of the tax payers money. I would also like to make clear that the tax payers whose money I am speaking of are too young to be paying taxes yet or have not even been born yet because the THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE ANY MONEY! We the people are paying our bills with money borrowed from people who save their earnings in China and India and Japan.
As my father would say, we are going to hell in a hand-basket! BB
Updated: Americans take heed: trend setting California on the brink of bankruptcy.
Posted May 21, 2009on:
Jack Kelly
"California is a trendsetter state," Christian Probasco wrote in a 2007 magazine article. "Every Californian fad eventually makes it way over the Sierras."
The fact that the California voters went to the polls today and defeated every ballot initiative and tax increase asked for by the Governor and the legislature almost certainly will guarantee California will be the first state to go bankrupt.
California isn't in financial trouble because the state hasn't had enough money to spend. According to Adam Summers of the Reason Foundation: "if California had simply held spending to the average population growth plus the average increase in the cost of living during the past three gubernatorial administrations…the state would have been sitting on a $15 billion surplus."
Though state spending has soared, the quality of the public services Californians care about most has deteriorated.
California's public schools were once among the nation's finest. But in a 2004 report, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation said: "huge numbers of schools fail to hire and keep qualified teachers, far too many students lack textbooks and other essential materials to use in school or at home, many classrooms are severely overcrowded, and large numbers of schools are infested with rats and cockroaches."
Infrastructure is crumbling. In 2006, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave California's roads a D+ grade.
But the salaries and pensions of state employees are among the highest in the nation. California's budget has exploded chiefly to feed the avaricious appetites of public employee unions.
"Since 1990, the number of state employees has increased by more than a third," noted columnist George Will. " In Schwarzenegger's less than six years as governor, per capita government spending, adjusted for inflation, has increased nearly 20 percent."
Since President Obama took office in January the federal government has employed 75,000 more people! While the unemployment rate is at now at 9% the federal government is hiring. Another interesting fact: federal employees average income in wages and benefits is $72,000 while the private sector average wage and benefits is $38,000.
One of the few genuine cuts the legislature made in February was to reduce the state's contribution to the pay of home health care workers. But President Obama, acting on behalf of the Service Employees International Union, has threatened to withhold $6.8 billion in stimulus funds unless the cuts are restored.
Remember: "California is a trendsetter state," Christian Probasco wrote in a 2007 magazine article. "Every Californian fad eventually makes it way over the Sierras." And maybe all the way to Washington! BB
Update: The progressive movement suffered a major defeat this Tuesday when California voters rejected all five tax raising measures on the ballot, four out of five of them by nearly 2-to-1 margins. The vote clearly shows that even in one of the most liberal states in the nation, there is an upper limit to how high Americans are willing to be taxed.
While it is true that Proposition 13 has limited property tax collections, Californians still paid a combined $1,030.60 in per capita state and local property taxes. According to the Tax Foundation, this places them 28th highest nationally. But property taxes are just one source of state revenue. In other taxing categories, California either leads the league or is in the top 10 nationally, including:
- Corporate Taxes – California has the highest corporate income taxes in the West. Even Apple, the star of California's technology economy set up a company in Nevada to avoid the state's high tax rates. Only seven states have higher corporate rates.
- Income Taxes – California has the most progressive tax scheme in the country including the second highest rate in the nation for those making more than $1 million.
- Sales Taxes – California enforces a number of sales taxes including a general sales tax, a gas tax, and a cigarette tax. Overall California has the 13th highest state and local sales tax burden in the nation.
- Total Tax Burden – According to the Tax Foundation, once all state and local taxes are taken into account, Californians face the nation's 6th highest tax burden.
So if low taxes are not to blame for California's huge deficits, what is? Spending. The Reason Foundation's Adam Summers details California's government spending explosion:
When Gov. Pete Wilson took office in 1991, the state budget was $51.4 billion. When he left eight years later, it was $75.3 billion. After five years of Gov. Davis's administration, the budget had jumped to $104.2, and after another five years under the stewardship of Gov. Schwarzenegger, it has continued to increase significantly to its present level of $144.5 billion. In just the last 10 years state spending has nearly doubled, increasing approximately 92 percent.
Already California's leaders are pressing the Obama administration for a federal bailout to cover their massive deficits. Don't expect spending cuts to be part of any Obama plan to fix the Golden State.
(as I said above: tax payers of America take heed because with this President and this Congress we are going to be bailing out states all over the country. And no one is going to allow us to vote on whether or not we want higher taxes just as we are not permitted to vote on our deficits. So remember during the next election to throw the bums out. But of course no matter what the rest of us do we will still be stuck with people like Rep. Barney Frank.
We Americans have been plagued with some really miserable members of the House of Representatives who are elected by a minute number of people and yet have so much control. It seems the only way we can get rid of a thieving Representative is to catch him on video taking money to sway a vote. Even then it doesn't always work. Look how long we have had to deal with the likes of John Murtha who just laughs at the public when it is found his nephew got millions of dollars in no bid federal contracts. And now Nancy Pelosi just two heart beats away from the presidency. Dear Lord save us. BB)
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MCC's president Anne M. Kress (l) chops fresh herbs for a chicken dish as MCC student Michaela Novak looks on*Quanisha Robinson, 18, earned the grand prize: a full scholarship to attend MCC. The $2,900 scholarship was made possible by donors to the MCC Annual Fund at the Monroe Community College Foundation. The event organizer was Latinas Unidas, an organization that fosters opportunities for Hispanic women and girls in the greater Rochester area, in collaboration with East High School. Proceeds benefit the high school's culinary arts program.
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