Now, this is going a bit too far... I'm sure the majority of Americans didn't know this, but our tax dollars have been used to pay for these elaborate hideaway apartments, with many luxuries many people don't have in their own homes.... My question is, when is this ridiculous waste of our money going to stop? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_senate_hideaways

Okay, this is lengthy, but very informative. But it really could save someone's life!

As people who work in the real estate industry, I'm sure that more than 99% of us drive cars as a regular part of our businesses, so please take a few minutes to watch this, and pass it on.
 
Its about YOUR TIRES~~I NEVER KNEW THIS ABOUT TIRES BUT JUST THIS ONE Message E-MAILED to everyone you know COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE. PLEASE, PLEASE, RESEND THIS.   Click below:

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897&affil=wfaa

If that link doesn't work, try this one: http://j.mp/dangeroustires
 
 
 
 

How about this?   If the British Police will be making people DELETE harmless tourist photos from their cameras and harassing them for no good reason whatsoever, I think its about time that people start DELETING Great Britain from their travel plans !
 
Please Pass this on !   This is unbelievable, but true.....
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235241/The-picture-land-jail-How-police-Big-Brother-Britain-treat-like-terrorist-taking-holiday-snaps.html

WHERE  TO BUY AMERICAN GASOLINE. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW.  READ ON.
Gas rationing in the 70's worked even though we grumbled about it.  It might even have been good for us!

 Are  you aware that the Saudis are boycotting American products?   In addition, they are gouging us on oil prices.Shouldn't  we return the favor?  Can't we take control of our own destiny and let these giant oil importers know who  REALLY generates their profits, their livings?  How about leaving American Dollars in America and reduce the  import/export deficit?
An appealing remedy might be to boycott their GAS.  Every time you fill up your car you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of
 Saudi Arabia .   Just purchase gas from companies that don't
 import their oil from the Saudis. Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill up my tank, I'm sending my money to
 people who I get the impression want me, my family and my friends dead.

    The following gas companies import Middle Eastern  oil:
Shell...................................... 205,742,000  barrels
Chevron/Texaco...................... 144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil.......................... 130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway............ 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco..................................... 62,231,000 barrels
And CITGO oil is imported from Venezuela by Dictator Hugo Chavez who hates America and openly avows our  economic destruction!  (We pay  Chavez's regime nearly $10 Billion per year in oil
  revenues!)
The U.S. currently imports 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil per day from OPEC.  If you do the math at $100 per barrel, that's over $550 million PER DAY ($200 BILLION per year!) handed over to OPEC, many of whose members are our confirmed enemies!!!!! It won't
stop here - oil prices could go to $200 a barrel or higher if we keep buying their product.
Here are some large companies that  do not import  Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco........................... 0 barrels
Conoco.......................... 0 barrels
Sinclair.........................  0 barrels
BP / Phillips................  0 barrels
Hess. ............................. 0 barrels
ARC0.................................. 0 barrels
Maverick...........................  0 barrels
Flying J............................. 0 barrels
Valero..............................   0   barrels
Murphy Oil USA* .............  0   Sold at Wal-Mart  , gas is from South Arkansas and fully USA owned and produced.  *Not   only that but they give scholarships to all children in their town who finish
high school and are legal US citizens..
All of this information is available from the U.S.  Department of Energy and each company is required to state where they get  their oil and how much they are importing.

But to have a real impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers With the help of the internet, it's really simple to do.  Now,
don't wimp out at this point.....keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!
I'm sending this note to about thirty people.  If each of you send it to at only ten more (30 x 10 = 300)....and those 300 send it to at least ten more  (300 x 10 = 3,000)......and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION  consumers!!!!!!!
If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!  If it goes one level further,  you guessed it....THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE-the entire population of the United States of  America !!!!

Again,  all you have to do is forward this message to 10 people. How long would that really take you?  If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people,  within one day all 300 MILLION people could theoretically be contacted during the next eight days!

We are starting to continually hear about Gold prices rising and rising, and many people and advertisements are telling us to get in while the gettings good !    In my opinion, Gold is probably the next manipulated "Bubble" in the world financial markets....

Sure, it has risen to new record heights, and is seemingly climbing to no end....

Doesn't that sound familiar though?   Just a few years ago we had a housing "Bubble" that seemed like it would go on forever, but it didn't.   The housing market collapsed, and those who had bought at the height of the market are now left "holding the bag" so to speak, and are stuck with a home that is worth a considerable amount less than they paid for it....   (I am one of them)

People argue that gold wasn't inflated with cheap adjustable rates that can somehow change, and they may be right there, but like all things, there are highs and lows, and what comes up, must come down.....

Gold has seen many rises and falls, and this will probably be no different...

While the value of money is falling, gold will certainly rise as a result, but several people I've talked to have said not to jump into gold right now, even if it looks attractive and even though it might climb higher....   Short term, you can still do well with gold, but you'd better not bet your rent money on it, because it could just as quickly drop back down to where it recently was.....

Thats my opinion, what's yours?

Here is a recent video about Gold that I found pretty entertaining....

Enjoy,

Bill

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Bill Johnson, Photographer

ThePhotoTour.com

High Quality Real Estate Photography Serving Western Washington

Should we buy them larger screen computers - or - a ticket home, permanently?
 

Nothing else need be said.  This is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for.  I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms.  No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc.

House Minority Leader  Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far  right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert,  D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a  new budget. (AP)

The guy sitting in the row in front of these two...  he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.

These are the folks that can't get the budget out by Oct. 1,  Seriously!!!
So, weve got a 30 day budget extension. Well, guess what, 30 days from now we will be in the same boat. I guess this makes it easy for the news reporters as all they have to do is recycle the same headlines from this week and from 2 years ago. And these yo-yos will still be playing SOLITAIRE!!!
I'm all for voting ALL out and start with a clean slate! Max terms and no life time benefits!!!
 
KEEP THIS GOING, DON'T LET IT STOP WITH YOU!!!

I received this in my email the other day, and thought I'd pass it on.  

This is for conservatives, liberals, and everybody in between. Even though we disagree on a number of issues, I count all of you as friends.  The proposal is to promote a "Congressional Reform Act of 2009." It would contain eight provisions, all of which would probably be strongly endorsed by those who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. 

I know many of you will say, "this is impossible."  Let me remind you, Congress has the lowest approval of any entity in Government, now is the time when Americans will join together to reform Congress - the entity that represents us. 

We need to get a Senator to introduce this bill in the US Senate and a Representative to introduce a similar bill in the US House.  These people will become American heroes..  Please add any ideas on how to get this done.

***********************************
Congressional Reform Act

of 2009

1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.

A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

        Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

2.  No Tenure / No Pension:

    A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. 

    Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

3.  Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:
    All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately.  All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.

    Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans..

    Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.  Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

    Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned  citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

    Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.

    Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/10. 

    The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

    Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
 

Pass this on to everyone you know, and have them contact their senators and congressional representatives, and let them know that this is what WE THE PEOPLE PLAN ON DOING.   IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT, TOUGH!
 

What would you have done if they had interviewed you?

Cleveland, OH (AP) - A seven-year old boy was at the center of a Cuyahoga County courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him..  The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulation requiring that family unity be maintained to the highest degree possible. 
 

 
The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her.  When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried and said that they also beat him.
 
After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him.
 
After two recesses to check legal references and confer with the child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the Cleveland Browns, whom the boy firmly believes are not capable of beating anyone.

It used to be that only BAD credit card customers got ripped off when it came to credit cards,  and now the credit card companies seem to want to RIP people off regardless of your credit.

I just saw this news article that says that some banks like Bank of America may soon be charging annual fees to its Credit Card holders who have good credit, and pay their bills on time...  It seems that they "aren't making enough money" off of those people who don't carry a balance, so they want to start charging you MORE money, even though the already charge the merchant around 2-3% for every transaction, and then turn around and charge you all sorts of transaction fees such as cash advance fees, and APRs starting at around 13%, and can go as high as 30% or more in some cases....

Just a heads up....  If your bank does this to you, I would suggest you cancel your card immediately, and find another credit card company that will be satisfied with making their money the old fashioned way, "By Earning It".....

http://wcbstv.com/consumer/credit.card.fees.2.1272124.html