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To: RetiredNow who wrote (261842)	7/18/2010 11:24:10 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"Shit. Bleeding hearts. Why do they never bleed for Americans? Everyone has their hand out and everyone wants the US to nation build all the shittiest places on earth. Why don't we spend the next 10 years nation building right here at home?"

To: RetiredNow who wrote (261842)	7/18/2010 11:54:12 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"I'm doing better for myself than our leaders are doing for our nation." So am I. So is Obama. It doesn't lead me to the delusion that I would be a better president than the one we have now. To me, that seems pretty narcissistic. narcissism101.com

To: RetiredNow who wrote (261842)	7/18/2010 12:32:52 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Airbus’s Leahy Says 2010 Jet Orders to Double at Show July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Airbus SAS, the world’s largest aircraft maker, can double its 131 first-half orders during this week’s Farnborough Air Show as global travel rebounds, Chief Operating Officer John Leahy said. “You’ll be surprised by some of the announcements we’ll make,” Leahy said at a press conference in London yesterday. “The world economy is turning around. We’re tracking this every month. Traffic is back both in the front of the aircraft and in the back.” Leahy predicted more orders for the A380 this year, after Emirates Airline agreed to buy 32 more last month to bring its backlog to 90. The world’s biggest passenger jet is attractive to Emirates because the carrier can connect 95 percent of the global population through its Dubai hub, Leahy said. Airbus and Boeing Co. are both signaling optimism about a revival in orders after airlines and leasing companies grounded older planes and deferred purchases during the recession. The biannual Farnborough event near London is the industry’s biggest showcase, with exhibitors from 38 countries signed up to attend. Market Rebound “The market’s coming back,” said Louis Gallois, chief executive officer of European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co., the parent of Toulouse, France-based Airbus. “We have a backlog that looks good, we have lots of visibility and sense more and more that companies are interested.” The A380, which typically seats more than 500 passengers, is flown by four other carriers besides Emirates, according to Airbus’s website. They are Singapore Airlines Ltd., Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Qantas Airways Ltd. and Air France KLM Group. Airbus delivered its 10th A380 for the year last week, and plans to hand over more than 20 in 2010. Leahy said the jet is sold out until 2015, and that the program will likely break even a year before then. Boeing, which was overtaken by Airbus as the leader in commercial sales in 2003, said it increased its internal order forecast and expects to sign accords with some new clients at Farnborough. “It’s significantly more than we forecast at the beginning of the year,” Jim Albaugh, the head of Boeing’s commercial unit, said in London today. The company has raised its internal order forecast twice this year. Boeing Order Boeing is set to win an order from Emirates, according to two people familiar with the agreement. The carrier and the planemaker will announce an order for about 20 widebody 777s tomorrow, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the deal hasn’t been announced. The jets would be valued at almost $5 billion at list prices. “I would have told you maybe four, five months ago that maybe we wouldn’t have announced many orders, if any, at the air show,” Albaugh said earlier today at Farnborough. “Now we’re going to announce quite a number.” He wouldn’t give details beyond saying that Boeing and Airbus would have “more orders announced than anyone would have expected.” Leasing companies that held off on orders during the recession are likely to be buyers. Steven Udvar-Hazy, who left International Lease Finance Corp. this year to form Air Lease Corp., has said he has $3.3 billion in financing and has begun acquiring aircraft. businessweek.com

To: RetiredNow who wrote (261842)	7/18/2010 12:33:49 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 306849

I'm not asking you to believe anything. All I know is that my own budget is balance. My house is paid off. My retirement is secure. As it should be.......that's the luxury a national gov't can afford, not an individual.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (261842)	7/18/2010 2:22:21 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

This is what the conservative movement has birthed in this country. The same level of hate and anger and lies perpetuated to promote an agenda that benefits the elite in this country. This country is in serious, serious trouble.......and not because of its economy. All the crazies to whom the GOP/conservatives have given a safe haven are coming to the surface. And they are extremely dangerous to a democracy. Wake up, MM, before its too late. The tea party makes trouble with a capital T By Dana Milbank Sunday, July 18, 2010 The peaceful hamlet of Mason City, Iowa, hasn't been in the headlines much since it served as the model for River City in Meredith Willson's "The Music Man." But this week, Mason City raised a real Fuhrer. The geniuses of the North Iowa Tea Party erected a billboard in town depicting three leaders: Adolf Hitler (with swastika), Vladimir Lenin (with hammer and sickle) and Barack Obama (with 2008 campaign logo). Over Hitler were the words "National Socialism," over Lenin was "Marxist Socialism" and over Obama was "Democrat Socialism." "Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naïve," the billboard informed passing motorists. Folks, we've got trouble in River City. The Tea Partyers eventually took the billboard down -- to hush the national uproar they provoked, not because they thought they had done something wrong. "There's going to be a lot of billboards just like this across the United States," the group's leader told the Des Moines Register. He's probably right about that. The vile sign in Mason City was not a one-off by a fringe group. It was a logical expression of a message supported by conservative thought leaders and propagated by high-level Republican politicians. Late last month, Thomas Sowell of the conservative Hoover Institution penned an irresponsible column likening Obama's presidency (particularly his pushing BP to set aside funds for oil-spill victims) to the rise of Hitler in Germany and Lenin in the Soviet Union. After the column came out, Sarah Palin tweeted her followers with instructions to "Read Thomas Sowell's article." Sowell's theme -- that Obama, like Hitler and Lenin, exploits "useful idiots" who don't know much about politics -- was strikingly similar to what wound up on the Iowa billboard. Sowell to Palin to Mason City: They spread Nazi labels as smoothly as Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance turned double plays. And let's not deny an assist to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.), who went to the House floor to read aloud the Obama-Nazi comparison by the "brilliant" Sowell. Twenty years ago, the dawn of the Internet Age gave us Godwin's Law: If an online argument goes on long enough, somebody will eventually invoke Hitler. When that happens, it's basically the end of the conversation, because all rational discussion ceases when one side calls the other Nazis. These sentiments have long existed on the fringe and always will. The problem is that conservative leaders and Republican politicians, in their blind rage against Obama these last 18 months, invited the epithets of the fringe into the mainstream. Godwin's Law has spread from the chat rooms and now applies to cable news and even to the floor of the House of Representatives. Consider these tallies from Glenn Beck's show on Fox News since Obama's inauguration: 202 mentions of Nazis or Nazism, according to transcripts, 147 mentions of Hitler, 193 mentions of fascism or fascist, and another 24 bonus mentions of Joseph Goebbels. Most of these were directed in some form at Obama -- as were the majority of the 802 mentions of socialist or socialism on Beck's nightly "report." It's not strictly a phenomenon of the right. California's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Jerry Brown, likened his opponent's tactics to those of the Nazis, while Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) talks blithely of a health care "holocaust" and an aide to Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) dubs the opposition "Brownshirts." But at the moment, the anger pendulum has swung far in the conservative direction, and accusations that once were beyond the pale -- not just talk of Nazis and Marxists but intimations of tyranny, revolution and bloodshed -- are now routine. A few from recent weeks: Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) comes out in favor of lawsuits alleging that Obama was not an American citizen at birth. Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate challenging Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada, speaks about the possible need for violence to overcome the "tyrannical" government. Gohmert, the Sowell admirer, says the children of illegal immigrants are going to return and "blow us up." Isn't there a grown-up to rein in these backbenchers when they go over the top? Don't ask House Minority Leader John Boehner, the man who would replace Nancy Pelosi as speaker. He accuses the Democrats of "snuffing out the America that I grew up in" and predicts a rebellion unlike anything "since 1776." Boehner also said one Democratic lawmaker "may be a dead man" for his vote on health care and predicted that the bill would bring "Armageddon." Recall, Mr. Leader, the wisdom of the Mason City billboard: "Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naïve." washingtonpost.com