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Well...the idoits went and did it....
It has been said that we get the government we deserve...
We are screwed...and After  Fox's showing this last month..
I AM DONE, GONE, SIGNED OFF AND OUTTA HERE.
GOODBYE,Everyone.
If you want me, try my e-mail

THE BAILOUT PLAN

Listen to the Democrats talk about the economy. Let's take Rahm Emanuel yesterday afternoon for instance. I listened to him rattle on for about 10 minutes talking about how the free market failed and it is time for more government. Admittedly, if I had an anti-capitalist Marxist leading my party's ticket in the election I'd be ranting against the free market also.

Now some of you are going to take what I say here and mutter "yeah, yeah, yeah" under your breath. You're just absolutely sure I'm dead wrong. But perhaps you might just give it a little study on your own. Maybe I can just cause some of you who are buying the Democrat party line with a newspaper article. This is from The New York Times dated September 30, 1999. The headline is "Fannie Mae Eases Credit to Aid Mortgage Lending." If you're just to stubborn to click on the link and read the story ... let me just share the first two paragraphs with you:

"In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.

The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring."

And WHO screened these people that got those worthless loans? ACORN, for one...Community Organizers...

Memory check...What was Obama's job before politics bit him in the butt?

COMMUNITY ORGANIZER!!! And you want the people what caused all this mess to FIX it?

If ya do...you just might get what you deserve.

FOXNews.com
Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind

Tuesday , September 23, 2008
By Allison Barrie

Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind.

Most preventive screening looks for explosives or metals that pose a threat. But a new system called MALINTENT turns the old school approach on its head. This Orwellian-sounding machine detects the person — not the device — set to wreak havoc and terror.

MALINTENT, the brainchild of the cutting-edge Human Factors division in Homeland Security's directorate for Science and Technology, searches your body for non-verbal cues that predict whether you mean harm to your fellow passengers.

It has a series of sensors and imagers that read your body temperature, heart rate and respiration for unconscious tells invisible to the naked eye — signals terrorists and criminals may display in advance of an attack.

But this is no polygraph test. Subjects do not get hooked up or strapped down for a careful reading; those sensors do all the work without any actual physical contact. It's like an X-ray for bad intentions.

Currently, all the sensors and equipment are packaged inside a mobile screening laboratory about the size of a trailer or large truck bed, and just last week, Homeland Security put it to a field test in Maryland, scanning 144 mostly unwitting human subjects.

While I'd love to give you the full scoop on the unusual experiment, testing is ongoing and full disclosure would compromise future tests..

But what I can tell you is that the test subjects were average Joes living in the D.C. area who thought they were attending something like a technology expo; in order for the experiment to work effectively and to get the testing subjects to buy in, the cover story had to be convincing.

While the 144 test subjects thought they were merely passing through an entrance way, they actually passed through a series of sensors that screened them for bad intentions.

Homeland Security also selected a group of 23 attendees to be civilian "accomplices" in their test. They were each given a "disruptive device" to carry through the portal — and, unlike the other attendees, were conscious that they were on a mission.

In order to conduct these tests on human subjects, DHS had to meet rigorous safety standards to ensure the screening would not cause any physical or emotional harm.

So here's how it works. When the sensors identify that something is off, they transmit warning data to analysts, who decide whether to flag passengers for further questioning. The next step involves micro-facial scanning, which involves measuring minute muscle movements in the face for clues to mood and intention.

Homeland Security has developed a system to recognize, define and measure seven primary emotions and emotional cues that are reflected in contractions of facial muscles. MALINTENT identifies these emotions and relays the information back to a security screener almost in real-time.

This whole security array — the scanners and screeners who make up the mobile lab — is called "Future Attribute Screening Technology" — or FAST — because it is designed to get passengers through security in two to four minutes, and often faster.

If you're rushed or stressed, you may send out signals of anxiety, but FAST isn't fooled. It's already good enough to tell the difference between a harried traveler and a terrorist. Even if you sweat heavily by nature, FAST won't mistake you for a baddie.

"If you focus on looking at the person, you don't have to worry about detecting the device itself," said Bob Burns, MALINTENT's project leader. And while there are devices out there that look at individual cues, a comprehensive screening device like this has never before been put together.

While FAST's batting average is classified, Undersecretary for Science and Technology Adm. Jay Cohen declared the experiment a "home run."

As cold and inhuman as the electric eye may be, DHS says scanners are unbiased and nonjudgmental. "It does not predict who you are and make a judgment, it only provides an assessment in situations," said Burns. "It analyzes you against baseline stats when you walk in the door, it measures reactions and variations when you approach and go through the portal."

But the testing — and the device itself — are not without their problems. This invasive scanner, which catalogues your vital signs for non-medical reasons, seems like an uninvited doctor's exam and raises many privacy issues.

But DHS says this is not Big Brother. Once you are through the FAST portal, your scrutiny is over and records aren't kept. "Your data is dumped," said Burns. "The information is not maintained — it doesn't track who you are."

DHS is now planning an even wider array of screening technology, including an eye scanner next year and pheromone-reading technology by 2010.

The team will also be adding equipment that reads body movements, called "illustrative and emblem cues." According to Burns, this is achievable because people "move in reaction to what they are thinking, more or less based on the context of the situation."

FAST may also incorporate biological, radiological and explosive detection, but for now the primary focus is on identifying and isolating potential human threats.

And because FAST is a mobile screening laboratory, it could be set up at entrances to stadiums, malls and in airports, making it ever more difficult for terrorists to live and work among us.

Burns noted his team's goal is to "restore a sense of freedom." Once MALINTENT is rolled out in airports, it could give us a future where we can once again wander onto planes with super-sized cosmetics and all the bottles of water we can carry — and most importantly without that sense of foreboding that has haunted Americans since Sept. 11.

Allison Barrie, a security and terrorism consultant with the Commission for National Security in the 21st Century, is FOX News' security columnist.

Say, Senator Obama...
  Just how much money DID you get thru your friends at Freddie and Fannie?
We know you benefited from these people...We wanna know, HOW MUCH?
(And would you be willing to give it back?)

Where is the footage of the whole 9/11 attack on the towers? Where is the footage of the awful deaths the those people suffered, both in the fire, in the fall of the towers, or those that chose to jump rather than burn? Oh...that's right..can't show it..it "might inflame anger and hate"...
   DAMN IT!.. IT SHOULD!
   And it should be shown over and over so people never forget.
Make people angry?  I should hope so.If you don't get mad then you are brain dead.
    "We are engaged in a war of a type that has never been seen before...".That's what Gen.Cornwallis said in 1776..(He didn't like that we did not line up and march in rows,That we shot at the British from behind rocks and trees..).and it is true today. WAKE UP PEOPLE! Just because you don't like George Walker Bush is no reason to roll over for these evil forces that seek to destroy us today.
  They would LOVE to see that Marxist, Obama in office!
  I have watched the DemocRat party go from the party of JFK,who fought for this country,both as a Sailor in the Navy..but in office as well. He risked the hell of Nuclear war ..and fought it to a standstill (It took Reagan to kill it) ...to a party of Communists and Socialists that would destroy this nation. They have emboldened out new enemies, and even our old ones.
   It's time to stand up and fight, if not for the good ol' US of  A, then for the way of life that has given you everything you have.
    Make us angry! Keep us that way! Or we are doomed to become a footnote in history.