Ron Paul Rejects Plea To Endorse McCain

Paul rejects plea to endorse McCain

Republican Rep. Ron Paul, the Libertarian-leaning lawmaker who attracted a devoted following in the GOP primaries, said Wednesday he rejected an appeal to endorse John McCain's presidential bid.

And Paul said the request came from Phil Gramm, the former McCain adviser whom the campaign jettisoned after he said the country was a "nation of whiners" about the economy.

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I love Ron Paul, he is who I originally wanted to vote for as President, I wish his bid for the office of President would have had more legs.

Ron Paul ignores party lines and speaks common sense, his plans show promise with a resolutions at their end.....all other candidates pale in comparison to Ron as far as I am concerned.

Rock on Ron Paul....Rock on.


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Beatty Lost All Leverage For Plea Deal

It appears that the case against Christine Beatty is heading for a trial where her already confessed co-defendant, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, could be presented as a witness against her.

As of late Tuesday afternoon, no plea agreement had been reached between Beatty's lawyers and the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office.

"We have nothing at this point," said her lawyer, Mayer Morganroth. "Looks like we'll be in court Thursday."

Beatty faces charges including perjury, obstruction of justice and official misconduct in office in connection with alleged lies she and Kilpatrick told under oath to hide their affair and their roles in firing a top police official.

And once Kilpatrick is sentenced on Oct. 28 for his part in the crimes, he could be forced to testify, said Larry Dubin, a professor at University of Detroit Mercy Law School. Refusal to testify could result in contempt of court that could lengthen Kilpatrick's sentence or increase other sanctions against him.

The charges carry penalties of up to 15 years in prison, but a sentence guideline report in the court's file recommends she serve one to two years behind bars if convicted.

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I almost feel sorry for Beatty....almost.

She must feel totally used by about now, Kilpatrick left quite a wake of destruction in his path and no doubt Beatty feels she has been in no small way effected as well as all of Detroit.

I say I would feel worse for her but I think she was on just as big of a power trip as Kilpatrick was during her tenure.

They felony charges though appeared to be a wake up call for Beatty as her resignation was quickly offered in light of the text messages becoming public knowledge.

I also think the text messages hold much more damning evidence than the public even realizes...we got to hear some of the "sexy" parts but I am putting my money on the odds that they contain everything from racial slurs to evidence of other crimes committed while in office for both her and Kilpatrick.

Beatty looks like a person beat down, and that makes me sympathetic as I said, but to a degree no more than I would for a war crimes officer stating he (she) was only acting as ordered.

Beatty no longer has anything to offer prosecution to shorten her punishment, I have a feeling Kwami was doing a high level of sweet talking to Christine to get her to not turn evidence against him.

In the end I am glad this chapter is closing....unless the text messages reveal even more.

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Is That A Particle Collider In Your Pants Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

GENEVA — The world’s largest particle collider passed its first major tests by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile underground ring today in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:26 a.m. indicating that the protons had traveled clockwise along the full length of the $3.8-billion Large Hadron Collider — described as the biggest physics experiment in history.

The organization, known by its French acronym CERN, began firing the protons — a type of subatomic particle — around the tunnel in stages less than an hour earlier, with the first beam injection at 9:35 a.m.

The CERN experiments could reveal more about “dark matter,” antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — which is sometimes called the “God particle” because it is believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.

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Who cares right?

Well I bring this story to your attention for a comparison of investments and priorities.

Our Government just decided to give Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac $100 billion dollars of tax payer money because they failed at their own basic mission statement.

i.e. "Make money by lending money to people buying a house."

Geneva builds the world's largest particle collider for the bargain basement price of $3.8 billion....we could have built 25 of these things for the 25 best Universities in the U.S and STILL had money left over.

Other countries are making "quantum" leaps ahead of the U.S. in all kinds of fields of scientific research because we blow our collective wads on the war effort (currently $576 billion) and bail outs for our top business economic majors who have grossly failed at what they went to school for in the first place.

The United States of America - I don't know of anywhere else in the world where failure is so readily accepted and worse yet, rewarded.

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Big Three Ask For Less In Hopes It Will Get Here Quicker

Big Three pare back fed loan request

"There's a lot of people saying, 'Here is Freddie and Fannie, and now we're bailing out the domestic auto industry, but it really isn't," Rep. Candice Miller, R-Harrison Township, said. "(The Big Three) are in dire need of some reasonably-priced credit to retool. It's absolutely critical."

The Big Three want the money, in part, because they have sub-investment grade credit ratings, which make it more expensive for them to borrow money conventionally. The low-cost federal loan program could reduce their borrowing costs by more than $100 million for each $1 billion borrowed. The government could also defer repayment for up to 5 years.

"It's not a bailout because this is part of the energy bill," Furman said. "It's not that the auto industry came to Washington. It's Washington came to the auto industry, and it said you have to help make American energy independent. As part of doing that, the auto industry needs some help. It really is the backbone -- the hub of a large fraction of the manufacturing and service sector."

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Ohhhh...$25 billion of my money is NOT a bailout...I am so silly.

Read it all again folks, another business fails bcause of inane, unethical mismangement by those at the top of the heap and they get rewarded for it.

So can I ask the bank defer my mortgage?...no

Can I ask my frineds and neighbors to pay for my mortgage because its a tough market?....no

How about if I wait for the other half of my mortgage payoff until next year, but you give me the other half now?

Doesn't the public realize that I have a lot of people counting on me owning this house? The garbage collectors, the grocery store, the mail delivery person, the power company and more.....if I leave this house their jobs will then be in jeopardy.

Doesn't make much of an argument does it?


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