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To: ManyMoose who wrote (403488)	1/11/2011 5:19:20 PM
From: DMaA	3 Recommendations Respond to of 794042

Huffpo pulls an incendiary editorial: HuffPo Pulls Editorial Blaming Conservatives for Giffords By John Romano (YBH) – Without explanation, the Huffington Post has pulled this morning’s editorial by Cenk Uygur entitled “Cenk Uygur: Was Jared Loughner’s Act Political?”. The piece squarely put the blame for Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting on the shoulders of conservatives. The piece was published this morning and then pulled within hours. Loughner was a registered Independent who didn't vote in 2010. Whoops! The Huffington Post gave no reason why the piece was pulled; it simply vanished (we have emails out to the Huffington Post now seeking clarification), but we surmise that passages like these, found in a diligent google search, had something to do with it: The conservative hate-mongers don’t create psychos. We get that there will always be disturbed individuals out there. But the right-wing directs these lunatics to a source. They channel their fear, anger and paranoia — and they point them toward the Democrats. They use them as hate seeking missiles. And: What the hell did the Democrats or liberals do here? Nothing, except get shot. How can the media possibly attach false equivalency to this? Are the Democrats equally culpable for getting shot as the conservatives are for shooting them? . . . In the case of pulling Mr. Uygur’s piece, it is more than likely it was pulled because Huff Po’s new senior editor Howard Fineman, a smart and politically savvy journo, got the “memo” from the DNC or an operative in the White House saying, “Stop blaming conservatives while Obama is en route to Arizona. The Big-O has a chance to score points here, cool it.” The President, smartly in my opinion, is heading to Arizona for a memorial service for the victims of Saturday’s attack. For the record, I don’t believe that a memo actually circulates, it doesn’t have to. Folks on both sides of the ideo-spectrum typically know what the party honchos are thinking. More: yesbuthowever.com Uh a Republican judge got shot too. And killed.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (403488)	1/11/2011 9:09:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794042

Its not so much that the trust funds where raided as much as there never was a trust fund in the first place, while politicians kept saying there was. The money came in to the government, then it went out, there was never any real store of value. Some try to argue that it was stored in government bonds, but in addition to these bonds being non-marketable, they also represent a government loan to itself, not a real asset. I can hold government bonds and if the government reliably pays interest and principal, then they are an asset to me, but if I write myself "Tim Fowler bonds" I don't really hold any asset.