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		<title>The End in Sight for the USA?</title>
		<link>http://www.theshanksdimension.com/2010/07/the-end-in-sight-for-the-usa/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics for the past 20 years have paved the way for our society to be broken up into "clans" as Mr. Roberts writes about in this article of his.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/postman1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-720" title="postman" src="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/postman1-300x170.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="170" /></a>I&#8217;m not one to follow Infowars.com very often. But this article by Paul Craig Roberts is very telling.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">When certain movies first come out, if they have a patriotic bent to it, are usually panned by the Holloywood critics.  Example:  Red Dawn, The Postman, Mad Max movies, etc.  Got a theme going there now don&#8217;t we? I&#8217;m going to quote below the plot summary for the movie &#8220;The Postman.&#8221;  And for those who need reminding, the lead actor was Kevin Costner. Will Patton played the role of General Bethlehem.  Eric Roth did the screenplay and David Brin the novel.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste"><span style="color: #ff9900;">In the year 2013 civilization has all but destroyed itself. After a war that decimated the government and most of the population of the United States (possibly the world) people struggle to survive against starvation and rogue groups of armed men. One such group is called the Holnists. This group is bigger than any other and their leader, General Bethlehem, has delusions of ruling the country. A drifter is captured by the group and forced to join. He escapes at the first chance and happens on a mail jeep with a skeleton in it. The skeleton is wearing a postal uniform and the drifter takes it to keep him warm. He also finds a mailbag and starts conning people with old letters. The hope he sees in the people he delivers to changes his plans and he decides that he must help bring the Holnists down. </span></div>
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<div id="_mcePaste"><span style="color: #ff9900;">Set in 2013, after the war has destroyed most of USA, including the government. A solitary traveler is captured by a fascist military group called the Holnists led by Hitler-like General Bethlehem. When he escapes from the Holnists he finds an abandoned mail Jeep and uniform, and starts to travel through small cities, telling them he is a postman, a representative of the restored United States. No one believes him at first, but soon he has followers, and they start to prepare a revolt against Holnists.</span> end quote.</div>
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<div>Personally, I liked &#8220;The Postman&#8221; when it came out along with &#8220;Red Dawn&#8221; when it too first came out.  But such movies were dismissed when they first came out.  But hey, they are making a remake of &#8220;Red Dawn&#8221; right now!  This time, the USA is taken over by the Chinese instead of the Soviets.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">The article by Paul Craig Roberts made me think back to that movie as well as the other similar movies.  Back in 2009, there was the movie &#8216;The Road&#8221; as the most recent example that I can think of. And then, I remembered back in late 2008, the Russian Political Scientist, Igor Panarin; that predicted the end of the USA (in its current form) taking place in 2010. My link to that article is in the ref section below as well.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Politics for the past 20 years have paved the way for our society to be broken up into &#8220;clans&#8221; as Mr. Roberts writes about in this article of his.  The current administration thinks printing more and more money will somehow &#8220;pull&#8221; this nation out of this depression (still being called a recession to dull the minds of the masses).  The democrats have engaged in class warfare for decades.  Control of the Department of Education-instead of improving our student&#8217;s scholarly endeavours on the national level, has in fact dumbed them down even more.  This in turn, limits entry into the middle class and having productive lives with a better income level.  A young man today will more likely go straight into the workforce and start earning a income while similar aged women will go ahead and go onto college.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Please read this article on Infowars.com and begin thinking for yourself how are you going to survive if the mid-term elections in 2010 go for the democratic (socialist) party instead of the efforts of the Tea Party (dragging along a &#8216;reluctant to make waves&#8217; Republican Party).  Will Russian professor Igor Panarin predicts come true or not this year?</div>
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<div>Be sure to vote in 2010!  America&#8217;s future as a country is at stake!</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">___</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Ref. Infowars.com. &#8220;The Year America Dissolved&#8221; by Paul Craig Roberts.  July 28, 2010.  (http://www.infowars.com/the-year-america-dissolved/).</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Image:  Movie &#8220;The Postman&#8221; (1997)</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Flash255Bunker.com blog article &#8220;Breakup of the United States in 2010?&#8221; (http://flash255bunker.blogspot.com/2008/12/breakup-of-united-states-in-2010.html).</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">IMDb, &#8220;The Postman&#8221; (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119925/).</div>
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		<title>Sarah Palin &#8211; 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She connects with the Tea party movement.  And BOTH political parties are affraid of this movement.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/palin2-by-Don-Surber.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-716" title="palin2-by Don Surber" src="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/palin2-by-Don-Surber-300x248.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="248" /></a>Article by Roger Simon of Politico is a must read.  Link is below in the usual spot.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Some things that he wrote about in this article remind me of what the Democratic Party did under George W. Bush.  Namely, underestimate the fellow with insults that in the end backfire on you.  Hence, all the negative things that they(i.e the Democratic hacks) have said about Sarah Palin is going to backfire on them.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">George was a drunk. Not a great college student-how can he be a good president?  He froze when America was attacked.  I will point out to the reader that he was in front of a classroom of schoolkids and news cameras.  The political hacks would seem to indicate that President Bush should be jumping up and down in a panic shouting orders and running back and forth across the front of the school room.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Hence, the disapproving looks down Democratic noses towards the gun-toting, pitbull in lipstick, white trash MILF from the icelands of Alaska.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">But take a look at recent polls.  46% to 46% tie with President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election.  Personally, I think Sarah Palin would be better off to wait until 2016 and beyond.  But that might not happen.  This is something we just have to see play out before us.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">She connects with the Tea party movement.</div>
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<div>And BOTH political parties are afraid of this movement.  Republicans are trying to direct this wave of voters into their corner&#8230;  However, I need to remind people that the mascot of the movment might as well be the rattlesnake!  See all those &#8220;Don&#8217;t Tread on Me&#8221; flags.  You want a rattlesnake to box you into a corner do you?</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Barracuda and rattlesnakes&#8230; Obama &#8211; look at what you have created!</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">___</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">REf. Politico.com. Roger Simon (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40072.html).</div>
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		<title>BP Says it Stopped the Oil Finally</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">After 85 days and 180+ million gallons of crude oil and methane released into the Gulf of Mexico, BP released the news that they had finally stopped the flow of oil!  They said that at 3:25 pm EST, the last of three values were closed on the 75-ton call.  Now they are into a 48-hour wait and see period to see if the cap will hold or not.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">But it is just a temporary fix.  BP still is depending on the relief well that is closing in of the original pipe.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">For more details, please use the link below to read the original article.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">___</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Ref.  Yahoo.news. July 15, 2010.  By Colleen Long &amp; Harry R. Weber, AP writers.  (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=AihedCr1bCoiZviZRpUAx8Cs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNoY3JtbTFxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzE1L3VzX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDNwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDYnBub29pbGxlYWtp).</div>
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		<title>Good-Bye Specter. Good Riddance!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 02:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good-Bye Specter. Good Riddance!  Oh, that is So sweet to say.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">Good-Bye Specter. Good Riddance!  Oh, that is So sweet to say.</div>
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<div>May 18, 2010.  Remember this day come this November.</div>
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<div>Turncoat GOP/RHINO/So-called Democrat Senator, one Arlen Specter was kicked out of his Senate office position by Joe Sestak.  On the (Real) Republican side of the primary, Pat Toomey won the GOP nomination.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">In Kentucky, Rand Paul, the son of Representative Ron Paul of Texas won his Senate primary.  Still waiting on word as to who won the Arkansas primary race.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">___</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Ref. Michelle Malkin (http://michellemalkin.com/2010/05/18/primary-night-open-thread/).</div>
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		<title>Natural Gas Leaking Instead of Oil &#8211; Possible Game Changer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 02:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">Well, we might have some good news for a change based upon a ABC news report (May 11, 2010), by Jeffrey Kofman entitled &#8220;Natural Gas Slows Oil Leak in Gulf of Mexico.&#8221;</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">The nature of the oil has changed from that broken well head on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.  More Natural Gas is now mixed in with the oil which is actually reducing the amount of oil leaking out into the ocean now.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Satellite images from May 1st and today shows the oil slick smaller in size.  Now, if this is truely the case, then the plan to fire rubber tires and gold balls into teh pipe to clog it up may have a decent chance of working now.  The other option is drilling the relief well to reduce the pressure will still take months to complete.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Anyway, for more details, please visit the link below.</div>
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<div><strong>UPDATE 1</strong> (June 17, 2010): Bit of news about trying to clean up the damn mess.  Good reason to repeal the Jones Act I think.(<a href="http://www.informationdissemination.net/2010/06/deepwater-horizon-dutch-point-of-view.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+InformationDissemination+(Information+Dissemination)">http://www.informationdissemination.net/2010/06/deepwater-horizon-dutch-point-of-view.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+InformationDissemination+(Information+Dissemination)</a>).</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">REf. ABC News, May 11, 2010. (http://abcnews.go.com/WN/natural-gas-leaking-gulf-mexico-lowering-volume-escaping/story?id=10619403).</div>
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		<title>You Tell Him Neil! Atta boy!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the USA is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. America must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space. If it does, we should institute a program which will give us the very best chance of achieving that goal.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">Drudge had this linked to an article on The Politico.com.  It appears that the first man on the moon is a bit ticked off with the current POTUS (President of the United States)-one Barrack  H. Obama.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">The article by Patrick Gavin states that NBC were able to get a copy of the letter written by Neil Armstron and it was signed by James Lovel (Apollo 13 commander) and Eugene Cernan (Apollo 17 commander).  Former astronaut Neil Armstrong has issued a strongly worded rebuke of President Barack Obama, criticizing the president for proposed revisions to the U.S.&#8217; space program.  Below is the text of the letter and article by Patrick Gavin.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Begin Quote:  Armstrong, along with astronauts James Lovell and Eugene Cernan, called the proposal “devastating” in a letter obtained by NBC News. Read below for the full text:</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">&#8220;The United States entered into the challenge of space exploration under President Eisenhower’s first term, however, it was the Soviet Union who excelled in those early years,&#8221; the letter begins. &#8220;Under the bold vision of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, and with the overwhelming approval of the American people, we rapidly closed the gap in the final third of the 20th century, and became the world leader in space exploration. &#8230;</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">&#8220;When President Obama recently released his budget for NASA, he proposed a slight increase in total funding, substantial research and technology development, an extension of the International Space Station operation until 2020, long range planning for a new but undefined heavy lift rocket and significant funding for the development of commercial access to low earth orbit.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">&#8220;Although some of these proposals have merit, the accompanying decision to cancel the Constellation program, its Ares 1 and Ares V rockets, and the Orion spacecraft, is devastating.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">&#8220;America’s only path to low Earth orbit and the International Space Station will now be subject to an agreement with Russia to purchase space on their Soyuz (at a price of over 50 million dollars per seat with significant increases expected in the near future) until we have the capacity to provide transportation for ourselves. The availability of a commercial transport to orbit as envisioned in the President’s proposal cannot be predicted with any certainty, but is likely to take substantially longer and be more expensive than we would hope.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">&#8220;It appears that we will have wasted our current ten plus billion dollar investment in Constellation and, equally importantly, we will have lost the many years required to recreate the equivalent of what we will have discarded.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">For The United States, the leading space faring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second or even third rate stature. While the President&#8217;s plan envisages humans traveling away from Earth and perhaps toward Mars at some time in the future, the lack of developed rockets and spacecraft will assure that ability will not be available for many years.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the USA is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. America must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space. If it does, we should institute a program which will give us the very best chance of achieving that goal.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Neil Armstrong, Commander, Apollo 11</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">James Lovell, Commander, Apollo 13</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Eugene Cernan, Commander, Apollo 17.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">end quote.</div>
<p>The &#8216;Special&#8217; briefing the mighty &#8216;Obama&#8217; is planning to give at the Kennedy Space Center in a few days will be a finely crafted, and beautifully delivered by the Teleprompter-in-Chief &#8211; meaningless statement to send the American Space Program to the grave.  That would be my WORST fear to come out of this special meeting.  But like everyone else who believes in having a strong space program &#8211; we won&#8217;t get one in the end.</p>
<p>UPDATE:  The National Space Society Blog has posted some of the things that President Obama will present to the nation&#8217;s space industry.  Including a &#8220;scale down&#8221; Constellation vehicle.  Use the link below to check out the entire article.</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>Ref.  National Space Society Blog. April 13, 2010. &#8220;Fact Sheet on the President&#8217;s April 15th Address in Florida&#8221; (<a href="http://blog.nss.org/?p=1774">http://blog.nss.org/?p=1774</a>).</p>
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		<title>Hawaiian or Kenyan-born Mr. President? Time Travel to Prevent This Mess?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we could just 'Go Back' in time and prevent Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider from opening those custody files - Jack Ryan would have stayed in the race for the U.S. Senate.  Now whether or not he would actually have won that seat is anybody's guess.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/standardb.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-529" title="standardb" src="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/standardb-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /> </a><a href="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/OBAMA-ALOOF.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-530" title="OBAMA ALOOF" src="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/OBAMA-ALOOF-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>I try to stay away from reports that deal with the whole &#8220;birther&#8221; issue for the simple fact that with the folks to work Main Stream Media &#8211; no real facts will ever get out to the American people.  OR maybe ONLY after BHO has served two full terms as president with some piece of &#8216;evidence&#8217; will magically appear that showed we had a usurper in the White House.  The American people are turning away from the MSM for the simple fact they are not seen as reporters of events, but supporters of the current political party that is in control of the White House and both houses of Congress.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">The &#8217;so-called&#8217; real birth certificate is locked away in some Hawaiian office somewhere-waiting until such time that President Obama leaves office before it &#8217;might&#8217; appear.  I&#8217;m not going to hold my breath for that event.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Bob Unruh on WND posted on APril 8, 2010 a interesting article about what was said about then-Senator Barrack H. Obama.  Phrases such as &#8216;Son of Africa&#8217; or &#8216;Kenyan-born&#8221; come from NPR&#8217;s own archives.  For more details, please read that article yourself.  They have some screen captures that show such phrases.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">I grabbed one of the screen shots to go with my posting here.  It is of The Standard online edition for June 27, 2004.  The very FIRST sentence of that article says:  Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">For those of you who do not remember, Jack Ryan was married to the woman who played the oh so sexy Borg on Star Trek Voyager &#8211; 7 of 9, Jeri Ryan; beginning in 1995.  The Ryan had a son &#8211; Alex, in 1994. The two are now divorced and she has remarried a French chef by the name of Christopher Eme in 2007.  They now have a baby girl by the name of Gisele Eme.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Quoting from Wikipedia.org:  When Jack Ryan&#8217;s campaign for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois began in 2003, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have his records released. Both Jeri and Jack agreed to make their divorce records public, but not the custody records, claiming that their release could be harmful to their son.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">On June 22, 2004, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider agreed to release the custody files.  The decision generated much controversy because it went against both parents&#8217; direct request and because it generally reversed the early decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child. It was revealed that six years previously, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public, and in sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as &#8220;a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling.&#8221; Jack Ryan denied these allegations. Although Jeri Ryan refused to comment on the matter during the campaign, the document disclosure led Jack Ryan to withdraw his candidacy, clearing the way for Barack Obama to win the seat.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">End Quote.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Now, being such a big Star Trek fan, one knows about those tales of time travel and how NOT to mess with the time line for it might mess up your own current &#8217;present&#8217; when you finally return to your present.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">If we could just &#8216;Go Back&#8217; in time and prevent Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider from opening those custody files &#8211; Jack Ryan would have stayed in the race for the U.S. Senate.  Now whether or not he would actually have won that seat is anybodies guess.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">But I view that as the crisis starting point for our country.  That was how Barrack H. Obama got his national &#8217;stage.&#8217;  Chicago (Dirty handed) politics looking for any dirt to knock out the opposition by any means necessary.  How tragic that this nation&#8217;s destiny has been sidetracked or crippled because of one small custody file some MSMs went after for &#8220;Great Copy!&#8221;</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">This was how a &#8216;foreign-born&#8217; man that somebody spotted in Chicago as having the &#8216;right stuff&#8217; to totally destroy America from within the government itself, got into American politics.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Anyway, please read Bob Unruh&#8217;s article.</div>
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<div>UPDATE:  Added an additional article from WND to the ref section below.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Ref. WND. April 8, 2010. &#8220;NPR archive describes Obama as &#8216;Kenyan-born&#8217;&#8221; by Bob Unruh.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">(http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=138293).</div>
<div>WND April 11, 2010.  &#8221;Kenyan official:  Obama born here.&#8221;  by Drew Zahn</div>
<div>(<a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=139481">http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=139481</a>).</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Celebritywonder.com-Jeri Ryan</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">(http://www.celebritywonder.com/html/jeriryan.html).</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Wikipedia.org on Jeri Ryan</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ryan).</div>
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		<title>Hugo Chavez-Nukes &amp; Rockets on his Christmas Wish List</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez hopes Russian cooperation will reach as far as the space industry. "We could even install a satellite launcher."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/russiasignsd.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-526" title="APTOPIX Russia Kazakhstan Space" src="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/russiasignsd-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>That fatso president of Caracas, Venezuela; talking with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today wants Venezuela to have both nuclear energy <strong><em>AND Space Technology!</em></strong></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Hugo Chavez is already on a buying binge from Russia getting additional tanks and aircraft.  Plus they are making arrangments for the Russian oil firms to explore and pump out 450,000 barrels of oil a day from the Orinoco oil belt.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Quoting the article: Chavez said Moscow and Caracas would strengthen security ties to &#8220;continue increasing Venezuela&#8217;s defense capability&#8221; and move ahead with cooperation on nuclear energy. &#8220;We are not going to build the atomic bomb but we will develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. We have to prepare for the post-petroleum era,&#8221; Chavez said on Thursday.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Another interesting bit of news from the Reuters article:  Since 2005, Venezuela has bought $4 billion worth of Sukhoi jet fighters, Mi-17 helicopters and Kalashnikov assault rifles. Chavez received more than $2 billion in loans for more Russian arms during his eighth visit to Moscow in September, including T-72 tanks and the S-300 advanced anti-aircraft missile system.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Well ain&#8217;t this nice of the Russians&#8230; they sent a Beriev amphibious jet plane to fight some forest fires in the scorched Avila mountains that overlook Caracas (now a new workers paradise with elctric blackouts happening more and more).  Well, truth of the matter; I personally would like to see the US purchase some of these Russian amphib fire bombers.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">But the final quote from the Reuters article: Chavez hopes Russian cooperation will reach as far as the space industry. &#8220;We could even install a satellite launcher,&#8221; he said on Thursday.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Not only NO, but I will add, HELL NO!  Fatso Chavez with the means to generate nuclear energy (and find a way to build a few bombs at the same time) plus the means to launch same bombs.  But I am affraid that this will come to pass with the current Obama/zombies party in charge of the White House and Congress.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Ref.  April 2, 2010.  Reuters/India. &#8220;UPDATE 3-Putin bolsters oil, defense ties with Venezuela&#8221; by Darya Korsunskaya and Anthony Boadle.  (http://in.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idINN0216453520100402?pageNumber=4&amp;virtualBrandChannel=0&amp;sp=true).</div>
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		<title>Stormtrooper Healthcare Enforcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This cartoon says it all.  Especially the little grill thing in front of where the stormtroopers lips would be &#8211; I see a one finger salute there myself&#8230;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Cartoon-812.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-512" title="Cartoon 812" src="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Cartoon-812-300x235.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="235" /></a> This cartoon says it all.  Especially the little grill thing in front of where the stormtroopers lips would be &#8211; I see a one finger salute there myself&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Kill the Bill Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) At it Again</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[She has presented H.R. 4309 which is a one-page bill to repeal the Democrats' health "reform" monster that was 'signed' into law this week. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste"><a href="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Cartoon-217.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-508" title="Cartoon 217" src="http://www.theshanksdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Cartoon-217-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>Kill the Bill Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn), is at it again.  She has presented H.R. 4309 which is a one-page bill to repeal the Democrats&#8217; health &#8220;reform&#8221; monster that was &#8217;signed&#8217; into law this week. Her Declaration of Health Care Independence is a commitment to protect the rights of the American people to make their own helath decisions, reduce bureaucratic red-tape, decrease the multigeneration debt.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Speaking to WND reporter Chelsea Schilling, Rep Bachmann said the following, &#8220;I want to let people know that we hear you. We want this bill repealed, too, and we&#8217;re not just going to roll over and accept Obamacare. We&#8217;re not going to roll over and let Nancy Pelosi have her way because it was just a handful of Democrats leadership that pushed this bill onto the backs of 300 million Americans. We don&#8217;t have to accept this.&#8221;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">On being asked if the health care bill can really be repealed, Rep Michele Bachmann stated, &#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult.  I won&#8217;t put rose-colored glasses on.  But 76% of the people in the United States have said that they don&#8217;t want this bill.&#8221;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Then she went on about this being the result of the Novemeber 2008 elections and the need for the Republican Party to put forward real conservative candidates, not &#8220;Conservative lites.&#8221;  And for the 2012 elections, the need to have a really strong presidential candidate.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">This is what WND saids her bill declaration contains:</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">We, therefore, the People and Representatives of the United States of America, do solemnly Publish and Declare that health care reform, as a matter of principle, must:</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">1.  Protect as inviolate the vital doctor-patient relationship;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">2.  Reject any addition to the crushing national debt heaped upon all Americans;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">3.  Improve, rather than diminish, the quality of care that Americans enjoy;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">4.  Be negotiated publicly, transparently, with genuine accountability and oversight;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">5.  Treat private citizens at least as well as political officials;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">6.  Protect taxpayers from funding of abortion and abortion coverage;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">7.  Reject all new mandates on patients, employers, individuals or states;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">8.  Prohibit expansion of taxpayer-funded health care to those unlawfully present in the United States;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">9.  Guarantee Equal Protection under the law and the Constitution;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">10.  Empower, rather than limit, an open and accessible marketplace of health care choice and opportunity.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">IN closing, this is what Rep Bachmann told WND:  &#8221;What is at stake is the survival of the finest health care the world has ever known,&#8221; Bachmann said. &#8220;We want to be able to continue that. We don&#8217;t want to allow ourselves to devolve into a social welfare state, but that&#8217;s clearly the president&#8217;s intention for us.&#8221;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">She added, &#8220;Now it&#8217;s up to us to fight for our country, just like those who have gone before us. We have to be up for the battle.&#8221;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">I have, since my discovery of Michele Bachmann, always been impressed with her passion for this country.  Any long-time reader of my blog knows that I think she has her &#8220;Klingon On.&#8221; for the upcoming battle.  For any new readers, when I mention someone has their &#8220;Klingon On,&#8221; its my attempt to impress upon the reader that the person in question has some steel in their backbone.  Or if its a man, is sporting some solid brass ones.  Or in her case, Re. Michele Bachmann has some brass ovaries of her own.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">I&#8217;m glad that my own representative Randy Neugebauer (R-Tex) has discovered some steel in his own backbone. See that article with this link(http://www.theshanksdimension.com/2010/03/representative-randy-neugebauer-r-got-his-klingon-on/).</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Ref.  WND. March 23, 2010. By Chelsea Schilling (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=131029).</div>
<div>Photo manilip of Kill Bill movie poster to show Michele Bachmann, credit unknown.  But cool looking anyway.</div>
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