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Hey Cisole - would you like to have the numbers that have already been selected in numerical format? If so, feel free to use the attached file - I will update it for you when new numbers have been selected if it will help.

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1st Convenience in Walmart locally just ordered dong for my daughter at $58.85 per mil. That is just a little over $10 difference with the xe.com rate. She opened an account with them ($5) and so was not charged a fee (would have been $10 with no account). But since we may want to buy more, we decided it was cheaper to just open an account. They do still sell the dinar.

I want one too - you're never too old for a piggy tee.

BREAKING NEWS from the TexasGranny Training Center: The Pity Train has just derailed at the intersection of Suck-It-Up & Move-On, and crashed into We-All-Have-Problems, before coming to a complete stop at Get-Over-It. Any complaints about how we operate can be forwarded to 1-800-waa-waaa. This is Dr. Jack Wagon in Mamby Pamby Land reporting LIVE from Quitchur Bellyachin'. If you like this, you can use it. If you don't...suck it up cupcake! Life doesn't revolve around you! The above pretty much reflects the attitude of most of my family and friends who come from the generation of "If something needs to be taken care of, put your big girl/boy pants on and git'r done." Life happens and the only way to deal with it is to bend your knee, ask the Lord for guidance and move on to the next crisis because there for sure will be one. No point in bemoaning your fate in life - if you look around, you'll find someone much worse off than you. Just my its worked for my last 70 years so I expect it will get me through the next 70 too.

Nelg please read the article again. "Bill's stepfather, Dr. Michael Parry, said he knew Westboro Baptist was thinking about sending protesters to the funeral. But as far as Westboro's message was concerned, he said, "We believe in Brian, and we believe in what he believed in. We support our troops on the mission to which they have been assigned." The "Brian" referred to is the U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Brian Bill that was killed. The quote is from his stepfather not from Westboro. Just wanted to be sure your comments were directed to the correct person and felt sure you did not mean to make a negative comment about our Navy Seal.

Stepping on toes not a problem - you have a 1st amendment right to your opinion. My problem with selecting someone for President with no political experience is they have a very large learning curve in finding out how our systems and government works. I prefer our President be someone that has worked his way up the ladder, so to speak, and knows how to get things done. Our problem with Obama is that everyone jumped on the wagon for hope and change and nobody asked what kind of change he was talking about. The fact that he had no business experience or executive experience (Mayor, Governor, etc.) should have been a huge red flag but the media poo-pooed that and only applied that criticism to Sarah Palin - not Obama. I do agree with you about being fed up with most of our politicians but I am also a realist and know that a novice has less chance of getting the job done. Lets get our fresh new blood and faces in at the street level first and then if they prove themselves we can vote them a promotion.

Topic: no typing, official chat in progress Official link: http://iqd.me/l/ol 7:03 PM [Adam Montana] I think that's clear! 7:03 PM [Adam Montana] ok official chat going right now - I know we only do this once a week 7:03 PM [Adam Montana] and many of you are new 7:03 PM [Adam Montana] but many of you aren't 7:03 PM [Adam Montana] so I hope you clued in the n00bs before chat started! 7:03 PM [Adam Montana] the "official chat" goes for a few minutes 7:03 PM [Adam Montana] I'll say what I have to say 7:04 PM [Adam Montana] and then I will open the floor 7:04 PM [Adam Montana] anyone typing before the floor is open gets booted 7:04 PM [Adam Montana] nothing personal 7:04 PM [Adam Montana] just a swift boot in the rear 7:04 PM [Adam Montana] so here is what we have 7:04 PM [Adam Montana] despite a few rumors - HCL is not completed 7:04 PM [Adam Montana] the groundwork is laid 7:05 PM [Adam Montana] and the GOOD rumors I am hearing is that they are using Ramadan as a nice little buffer zone 7:05 PM [Adam Montana] to get everything in order to ACTUALLY PASS things 7:05 PM [Adam Montana] I'm a little worried that I'm not hearing much about Chapter 7 7:05 PM [Adam Montana] that's not a horrible thing 7:05 PM [Adam Montana] just the only thing I am hearing is HCL 7:06 PM [Adam Montana] and I would really like to be hearing about HCL AND CH7 7:06 PM [Adam Montana] it' 7:06 PM [Adam Montana] s ok though 7:06 PM [Adam Montana] because sometimes "no news is good news" 7:06 PM [Adam Montana] I told everyone for months that if it didn't POP before this month.... 7:06 PM [Adam Montana] don't hold your breath during Ramadan! 7:06 PM [Adam Montana] because it aint going to happen during the Holy month 7:07 PM [Adam Montana] however... that's almost over 7:07 PM [Adam Montana] there is serious talk that HCL could be finalized 7:07 PM [Adam Montana] and the GOI is STILL 99% seated. There is major news coming out right now that it will be 100% seated, effective, and financial combat ready by the 15th of September 7:08 PM [Adam Montana] combine that with the steady progress we are seeing on HCL 7:08 PM [Adam Montana] and heck, I hate to give a date... 7:08 PM [Adam Montana] but September sure does look like doors are opening! 7:08 PM [Adam Montana] my opinion remains the same on Ramadan though 7:08 PM [Adam Montana] if you're thinking about joining VIP 7:08 PM [Adam Montana] please wait a week 7:09 PM [Adam Montana] more VIPs means more work for me, and although I am 100% ready for the RV to happen at any time 7:09 PM [Adam Montana] my plans are 100% in place 7:09 PM [Adam Montana] everything I have lined up is ready to go at the click of a phone 7:09 PM [Adam Montana] we don't need more VIP members 7:09 PM [Adam Montana] and I need a break lol!!! 7:09 PM [Adam Montana] so don't join VIP for a week 7:09 PM [Adam Montana] thanks 7:10 PM [Adam Montana] closer to end of Ramadan, I would strongly encourage you to research it and understand why you want to be VIP when it RVs 7:10 PM [Adam Montana] just not this week 7:10 PM [Adam Montana] 7:10 PM [Adam Montana] the other questions in the weeklyl question thread had to do with a few old topics 7:11 PM [Adam Montana] l0p is one of them - my friends, it could happen. I don't know why they would do it, when they can make some money by implementing an RV 7:11 PM [Adam Montana] so in my opinion - they will not do it 7:11 PM [Adam Montana] the other related question was to redenominating 7:11 PM [Adam Montana] and my answer is the same there 7:11 PM [Adam Montana] of COURSE they need more denominations if the value goes up 7:12 PM [Adam Montana] they can't use 25,000 dinar notes forever if they want to raise the value 7:12 PM [Adam Montana] so YES you can expect to hear news about new denominations 7:12 PM [Adam Montana] and NO they will not advertise the fact that they want to make money on a Redenomination !!!! 7:12 PM [Adam Montana] then too many investors would pile on and drive DOWN the value 7:12 PM [Adam Montana] my advice to you is DO NOT tell people about this investment! 7:13 PM [Adam Montana] the more people that know, the worse the value will get 7:13 PM [Adam Montana] several hundred thousand people own dinar right now 7:13 PM [Adam Montana] this is fine 7:13 PM [Adam Montana] when it hits several hundred million, our odds get lower 7:13 PM [Adam Montana] you might know 5 or 6 dinar investors 7:13 PM [Adam Montana] and it might seem like there is a lot out there 7:14 PM [Adam Montana] but when you do the math and put it in perspective - it's not that many people 7:14 PM [Adam Montana] ok friends that's my update on HCL, the RV, and CH7. Also GOI and a potential l0p. I'll open the floor and take a few questions. THANK YOU for keeping it respectful! Topic: open floor 7:15 PM [Miss Peg] thank you everyone 7:15 PM [rico] Are you 99 or ever 100% sure of an RV ... eventually?? 7:15 PM [inItSince05] 2012 go rv!! 7:15 PM [Adam Montana] rico define RV 7:15 PM [That Bingo] does anyone have te beggining of that chat? i came late 7:15 PM [Ridewithme38] What do you think about delta's rumor about the RD being approved 7:15 PM [shunshine] What is 10p 7:15 PM [whitelions] thank you for your opion 7:15 PM [Adam Montana] revaluate the dinar? YES. 7:15 PM [Adam Montana] 100% 7:15 PM [Adam Montana] I have no idea what the rate is 7:15 PM [straightshot] what about a potential demonetization (l o p ) .. what about it ... ? 7:15 PM [rico] Adam...me cashing in = RV 7:15 PM [Adam Montana] I hope it's in the $3 range 7:15 PM [preston] When does ramadon end? Date? 7:15 PM [Adam Montana] but I think it will be lower 7:15 PM [average joe] thank you is the meeting in jackson hole that big of a dealthanks for all you do 7:15 PM [Adam Montana] that's my opinion 7:16 PM [howsoonissoon] Thank you Adam 7:16 PM [Money Pit] how is that even possible ? 7:16 PM [jon29] that yellow is too bright. 7:16 PM [That Bingo] hey adam have you herd the rumor of the iraq parlimant and shabbi making a deal today about lifting the zeros? 7:16 PM [Adam Montana] preston I can't read the yellow font sorry 7:16 PM [Ridewithme38] do you believe Delta is correct that the Re-denomination was passed today? 7:16 PM [Mommyof3boys] Do you feel September is when everything willl be complete? or do you think that it will RV in september as well? 7:16 PM [alan_coaks_3] the yellow is blinding 7:16 PM [Adam Montana] That Bingo yes, almost every week 7:16 PM [bigdogg] Adam if they do no work during their holy month, then how are they working on HCL? 7:16 PM [Adam Montana] Mommyof3boys I am hoping for the whole enchilada in September, but I've learned to be patient here 7:16 PM [That Bingo] yea i figured!:} 7:16 PM [wpsmit] hey adam thx and you can rekax in Belize 7:17 PM [Mommyof3boys] Gotcha thanks Adam 7:17 PM [wpsmit] relax 7:17 PM [Adam Montana] bigdogg they do work, they just don't launch any huge projects or implement any huge changes 7:17 PM [Money Pit] 24 Trillion Dinars, and if it hit to 1 Dollar, they would have to repay 24 Trillion US dollars ? 7:17 PM [joedee2004] adam ty and ill keep my fingures crossed for september..oh yeah i made chicken spagittie tonight maybe thats why all the good newss..just kidding..peace and love my friend and ty.. 7:17 PM [Adam Montana] wpsmit indeed!!!1 7:17 PM [That Bingo] well acording to okie hes expecting the rv tonight 7:17 PM [Hopeful_Investor] have you ever felt this confident before that the RV was this close? 7:17 PM [Adam Montana] joedee2004 Post your recipe! I want to try it 7:18 PM [Adam Montana] Hopeful_Investor I've been more and more confident since about February this year - we're inching closer and closer all the time! 7:18 PM [joedee2004] Adam Montana you got it honey... 7:18 PM [bigdogg] thanks Adam, that makes sense 7:18 PM [claytonb] do you have the official chat every week same day?? 7:18 PM [Ridewithme38] do you believe Delta is correct that the Re-denomination was passed today? 7:18 PM [preacherman] with all the intel from people that supposed to know, we do go on alot of chats and speculations. Thanks Adam for all your work in this. When is Ramadan over? 7:18 PM [Adam Montana] claytonb yes sir 7PM CDT 7:18 PM [Miss Peg] Adam Montana you really missed some good recipe discussions earlier 7:18 PM [Adam Montana] preacherman I think the 28th, but that's a wild guess 7:18 PM [Adam Montana] I know it's towards the end of the month 7:18 PM [gakman] claytonb Yes 7:18 PM [preacherman] roger that. 7:18 PM [Adam Montana] 2-somthingth 7:18 PM [jon29] neopolitan 3-tiered cheesecake with a different flavor on every level. 7:18 PM [Adam Montana] oh! 7:18 PM [Adam Montana] Listen up real quick 7:19 PM [Adam Montana] two items 7:19 PM [Adam Montana] 7:19 PM [straightshot] Ridewithme38 .. the sooner the better on that redenomination... get er done!! 7:19 PM [Adam Montana] there is some movement happening on the VND 7:19 PM [don1164] so were thinkin strongly in sept then 7:19 PM [edbeach] Adam Believe Forex & Yahoo is live now with IQD 7:19 PM [Adam Montana] we have a sister site, dongtalk.com 7:19 PM [Adam Montana] you can post and discuss the VND there 7:19 PM [bigdogg] what is the vnd doing? 7:19 PM [chess] will all of the instability (bombings!) effect our cause? 7:19 PM [Adam Montana] next 7:19 PM [Ridewithme38] redenomination is good straightshot? i thought it was the same as a l0p 7:19 PM [Adam Montana] we have a VERY cool contest coming up 7:19 PM [Weapon X] joedee2004 how do you see millionaire with bunny-ear+15 or 35% + state tax if appliable??? 7:19 PM [Miss Peg] shush 7:19 PM [cisole] QUIET 7:20 PM [Money Pit] VND ? are you kidding me 7:20 PM [Adam Montana] keep an eye out for the PINK PIGGY on the forum - 7:20 PM [straightshot] not at all... L O P different thing altogether 7:20 PM [Adam Montana] you know who I mean 7:20 PM [nannab] thank you Adam and Mods Good night all! 7:20 PM [jon29] pink piggy? ok. 7:20 PM [Weapon X] Straightshot your theory is crashing and burning 7:20 PM [Adam Montana] ok I'm going to go now so the mods can post this chat 7:20 PM [joedee2004] Weapon X im talking about pies not money honey... 7:20 PM [jon29] thanks Adam. 7:20 PM [Adam Montana] and I will go address every question posted in the thread 7:20 PM [djgabrielie] Thanks Adam 7:20 PM [straightshot] L O P would be = demonetization... not what they are saying 7:20 PM [bumper64] Adam Montana thanks you!! 7:20 PM [paydirt] Thanks 7:20 PM [edbeach] Thanks Adam 7:20 PM [Adam Montana] sorry if I missed your post here in the chat! 7:20 PM [Mommyof3boys] Thanks Adam! 7:20 PM [Mommyof3boys] Thanks Adam! 7:20 PM [Adam Montana] thank you all 7:20 PM [Adam Montana] go rv!!!1 7:20 PM [Priscilla] thanks Adam! 7:20 PM [Adam Montana] night Official link: http://iqd.me/l/ol

23 years ago - if you read the article you will see why! Intelligent people with the ability to learn and make independent decisions quite often change their opinion when faced with all the facts. That is what Perry did - BTW he was a conservative democrat - they moved left and he moved right.

This information is entirely too lengthy to post here and it contains numerous links to numerical data and reports so, if you want to know more about Rick Perry, please click on the link. Also, once you read the first page, click through to the second page too. Don't vote for any Presidential candidate until you have read all you can find about each one. The Pesky Truth

Didn't go to the link but have read about them in the news and as far as I am concerned they are criminals. If they broke into a building and stole company property or documents, they would be tried and found guilty of breaking and entering, robbery and numerous other criminal activities. Just because they committed the crime in cyberspace, it doesn't take away the criminality of the act. I believe this is the same as the Watergate scandal that brought down Nixon. For anyone to think these people are acting as patriots is beyond the pale. Someone needs to take action and the media needs to stop treating all of these hackers like they are doing something great. The end does not always justify the means.

While you are doing your research - you might also try reading information from the other point of view! My link The HPV files: In emails, Perry mostly absent...................................... In the meantime, Perry seems to have been vindicated on the question of whether he rushed into a policy other states would never embrace: The National Council of State Legislatures reports that 20 states now have some legislation regarding the vaccine.

The article below is from a blog PoliticalMathBlog Doesn't matter if you are pro-Perry or anti-Perry this is information you should know before discussing the "Job Numbers" for the state of Texas. I did not try to bring the chart images over so you will have to click on the link to see all the pretty charts. ******************************************** Full disclosure: I don't like Rick Perry for our next president. I have my reasons that aren't worth going into here. However, when I was watching the GOP debate and pro-Perry people started bringing up Rick Perry's job numbers as a cudgel against other candidates, I looked into the BLS data on Texas jobs. Having familiarized myself with the data, I started noticing claims on the Texas jobs data that started popping up that directly contradicted what I was seeing in the data. So I wanted to clear up a couple of these common misconceptions. Note: If you are going to comment and you want to introduce some new objection to the Texas job numbers, you MUST provide original data. I spent about 4 hours digging through raw data to write this post. I don't want you to point to some pundit or blog post and take it on their authority, because I've already researched several idiot pundits who are talking directly out of their asses when it comes to the data. I want you to point to the raw data that I can examine for myself. This means links. I refuse to waste any more of my time on speculative bullshit or "Well, I'll wager that the Texas jobs don't really count because..." If you're willing to wager, take that money and put it towards finding the actual data. In short, put up or shut up. I'm not cranky, I swear. Anyway, let's deal with the complaints in no particular order: "Texas has an unemployment rate of 8.2%. That's hardly exceptional."See... that's what I thought when I started looking at the data. I knew that Utah had a lower unemployment rate than Texas and I kept hearing that Texas was go great at jobs, blah, blah, blah, so I looked up the unemployment rate. Nothing special. So I was going to drive my point home that Texas was nothing special by looking at their raw employment numbers and reporting on those. That's when I saw this: This may not look like anything special, but I've been looking closely at employment data for a couple years now and I've become very accustomed to seeing data that looks like this. In a "normal" employment data set, we can easily look at it and say "Yep, that's where the recession happened. Sucks to be us." But not with Texas. With Texas, we say "Damn. Looks like they've recovered already." (To get to this data, go to this link http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/dsrv?la then select the state or states you want, the select "Statewide", then select the states again, then select the metrics you want to see.) But if Texas has so many jobs, why do they have such a high unemployment rate? Let's take a closer look at that data. As a percentage of the number of pre-recession jobs, here is a chart of the growth of a selection of states. (For clarity, in this chart I selected a number of the largest states and tried to focus on states that have relatively good economic reputations. I did not chart all 50 states b/c it would have taken me too long.) We can see that Texas has grown the fastest, having increased jobs by 2.2% since the recession started. I want to take a moment and point out that second place is held by North Dakota. I added North Dakota to my list of states to show something very important. North Dakota currently has the lowest unemployment rate of any state at 3.2%. And yet Texas is adding jobs at a faster rate than North Dakota. How can this be? The reason is that people are flocking to Texas in massive numbers. Starting at the beginning of the recession (December 2007), let's look at how this set of states have grown in their labor force. As you can see, Texas isn't just the fastest growing... it's growing over twice as fast as the second fastest state and three times as fast as the third. Given that Texas is (to borrow a technical term) f***ing huge, this growth is incredible. People are flocking to Texas in massive numbers. This is speculative, but it *seems* that people are moving to Texas looking for jobs rather than moving to Texas for a job they already have lined up. This would explain why Texas is adding jobs faster than any other state but still has a relatively high unemployment rate. "Sure, Texas has lots of jobs, but they're mostly low-paying/minimum wage jobs"Let's look at the data. Here's a link: Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates Texas median hourly wage is $15.14... almost exactly in the middle of the pack (28th out of 51 regions). Given that they've seen exceptional job growth (and these other states have not) this does not seem exceptionally low. But the implication here is that the new jobs in Texas, the jobs that Texas seems to stand alone in creating at such a remarkable pace, are low paying jobs and don't really count. If this were true, all these new low-paying jobs should be dragging down the wages data, right? But if we look at the wages data since the beginning of the recession (click to enlarge, states are listed alphabetically) And it turns out that the opposite is true. Since the recession started hourly wages in Texas have increased at a 6th fastest pace in the nation. As a side note, the only blue state that has faster growing wages is Hawaii. Just thought I'd get that jab in since so many people have been making snarky "Yeah, I could get a job in Texas is I wanted to flip burgers!" comments at me on Twitter. "Texas is oil country and the recent energy boom is responsible for the incredible jobs increase."In identifying "energy jobs" I cast as wide a net as possible. If you want to replicate my findings, go to this link: http://www.bls.gov/sae/data.htm,'>http://www.bls.gov/sae/data.htm, click on "One-Screen Data Search", then select "Texas", then select "Statewide", then in Supersectors select "Mining and Logging", "Non-Durable Goods" and "Transportation and Utilities" and then in Industries select "Mining and Logging", "Natural Gas Distribution", "Electric Power Generation" and "Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing". Tedious, I know, but transparency is important and this is how you get the data. When we finally get the data, we discover that energy isn't really the biggest part of the Texas economy. Increases in jobs in the energy sector (or closely related to it) account for about 25% of the job increases in the last year. Since the energy sector only makes up 3% of all employment, there is some truth to this claim. However, take the energy sector completely out of the equation and Texas is still growing faster than any other state. This indicates to us that the energy sector is not a single sector saving Texas from the same economic fate as the rest of the states. It's not hurting, but Texas would still be growing like a weed without it. "Texas has 100,000 unsustainable public sector jobs that inflate the growth numbers."I'm not sure where this one comes from, but the numbers are these (and can be found by selecting government employment from the data wizard at this link http://www.bls.gov/sae/data.htm): Counting from the beginning of the recession (December 2007) the Texas public sector has grown 3.8%, or a little under 70,000 employees. This is faster than normal employment, but it's not off the charts. Given that the Texas economy has grown so much and private sector jobs have grown so much, that doesn't strike me as an unsustainable growth in the public sector. But, just in case you're really worried about it, you can lay your fears to rest because in the last year the Texas public sector has shrunk by 26,000 jobs. In the last 12 months, Texas lost 31,300 federal employees, trimmed 3,800 state jobs, and increased local government jobs by 8,400 jobs. (To be fair, this was partially driven by the role Texas employees played in the census, which inflated federal job numbers this time last year. Since the census numbers stabilized, federal employment has been at about break-even.) As you can see, we're nowhere near the "100,000 unsustainable jobs" number. My Personal Favorite ChartI'll leave you with my personal favorite chart. I mentioned at the beginning that Texas is seeing high unemployment in a large part because they're growing so damn fast. The problem with this from a charts and graphs perspective is that it leaves worse states off the hook, making them look better than they actually are. Looking at unemployment alone, we would conclude that Wisconsin has a better economy than Texas. But Wisconsin is still 120K short of it's pre-recession numbers. The only reason they look better than Texas is because 32,000 people fled the state. During that time, 739,000 people fled into Texas. Anyone who takes that data and pretends that this is somehow bad news for Texas is simply not being honest. At the worst, I'd call it a good problem to have. So, to give something of a better feeling for the economic situation across states, this chart takes the population of the states I selected above and judges the current job situation against the population as it stood at the beginning of the recession. Using that metric, Texas would have a very low unemployment rate of 2.3%. But the fact that unemployment in the United States is fluid means that the unemployed flock to a place where there are jobs, which inflates its unemployment rate (at least in the short term). It's not a bad thing for Texas... it just looks bad when dealing with the isolated "unemployment %" statistic. UPDATE: @francisgagnon on Twitter felt that this chart was dishonest because it charts Texas as having 2.3% unemployment and (in his words so I don't get him wrong): "It assumes immigrants create no jobs. But more people = more consumers = more jobs." He is absolutely right about this. I tried to be clear above that this chart doesn't account for the fluid nature of an economy with immigration and departures of hundreds of thousands of people, but I don't want to leave anyone with the wrong impression. So here it is: This chart doesn't account for the fluid nature of an economy with immigrations and departures of hundreds of thousands of people. The point of this chart is not to say "Texas should have 2.3% unemployment if only things were fair." Instead, it is an attempt to chart job growth in such a way that controls for people leaving one job market to enter another. To say "Wisconsin has a better job market than Texas because its unemployment rate is 0.6% lower" is a wholly untrue statement even though it cites accurate numbers. What this chart is meant to do is not posit a counter-factual, but to give a visual representation of the employment reality that is obscured by the way we calculate unemployment numbers. END UPDATE And... that's it. You may have noticed that I don't mention Rick Perry very much here. That is because Rick Perry is, in my opinion, ancillary to this entire discussion. He was governor while these these numbers happened, so good for him. Maybe that means these jobs they are his "fault". Maybe the job situation is the result of his policies. Or maybe Texas is simply the least bad option in a search for a favorable economic climate. That is not an argument I'm having at this exact moment. My point is to show that most of the "excuses" you will hear about Texas' job statistics are based in nothing more than a hope that Rick Perry had nothing to do with them and not on a sound understanding of the data. My advice to anti-Perry advocates is this: Give up talking about Texas jobs. Texas is an incredible outlier among the states when it comes to jobs. Not only are they creating them, they're creating ones with higher wages. One can argue that Perry had very little to do with the job situation in Texas, but such a person should be probably prepare themselves for the consequences of that line of reasoning. If Rick Perry had nothing to do with creating jobs in Texas, than why does Obama have something to do with creating jobs anywhere? And why would someone advocate any sort of "job creating" policies if policies don't seem to matter when it comes to the decade long governor of Texas? In short, it seems to me that this line of reasoning, in addition to sounding desperate and partisan, hogties its adherents into a position where they are simultaneously saying that government doesn't create jobs while arguing for a set of policies where government will create jobs. Or, to an uncharitable eye, it seem they are saying "Policies create jobs when they are policies I like. They don't create jobs when they are policies I dislike." People will continue to argue about the data. But hopefully this will be helpful in sorting out reality from wishful and desperate thinking. I mentioned on Twitter that the Texas jobs situation was nothing short of miraculous. This is why I said that and why I'm standing by that statement. ******************************************** My Daddy always told me "If it works don't mess with it!"

Okay, I have found a solution and can now copy/paste in chat and copy the chat to notepad. However, this is not for the faint of heart when it comes to computers so my warning is: attempt only if you feel confident about making the changes. What actually happened is that they removed copy and paste as a security feature, but you can turn that feature back on. There is a program in Java called policytool that sets permissions for applets. In Linux you can type 'policytool' in the terminal. Then follow the instructions ** below. See instructions below for Windows Systems. I run windows so these are the instructions for making the change in Windows Vista - If you are using Windows7, XP, or any of the other Windows OS - this should be similar. Click on the Windows globe (start) - go to "computer", open OS (C:), double click on Program Files, double click on Java, double click on folder "jre6" double click on folder "bin" scroll down to file "policytool" double click on "policytool" another window will open (black - command prompt screen) immediately another window will open on top Now you can follow the remaining instructions) **When the program is open click on add policy, then click add permission. And for Permission choose AWTPermission from the list, and then Target Name should be accessClipboard. Then click OK, then Done. After you click done there will be a window left open, click on the far left top "File" and it will say "save" or "save as" click on save and type in the instructions ,when you get to your name make sure it's the name you put in your computer when you first fired it up and filled in your information. The file should be named .java.policy (beginning with a dot) but should be saved in a different place depending on what system you have. Windows 7 and Vista: C:\Users\(your name)\.java.policy Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\(your name)\.java.policy Linux: /home/(your name)/.java.policy Once that's done you need to restart your browser, and you should be able to copy and paste from the chat to other programs and back. If when you restart your browser the chat no longer works and you get an error, try restarting your computer. If it still won't run, delete that file you just created and restart, and it should be back to normal. This worked for me with the latest version of Java so there is no longer a reason to use the older version. Also, as long as this policytool file is located in your "user" folder (not in the Java Program folder) you should not have to re-do this the next time you upgrade to the latest/greatest Java version. If you have problems or do not understand instructions, please post a question below and I will try to help. Good luck - Texas Granny

3 more points down and it will set a new 52 week low. It has been down all day too which is quite a bit different from its normal fluctuations.

My link World Bombs Tear Through 17 Iraqi Cities, More Than 60 Dead Posted on August 15, 2011 at 5:34pm by Tiffany Gabbay Print » Email » BAGHDAD (The Blaze/AP) — A relentless barrage of bombings killed 63 people Monday in the most sweeping and coordinated attack Iraq has seen in over a year, striking 17 cities from northern Sunni areas to the southern Shiite heartland. The surprising scope and sophistication of the bloodbath suggested that al-Qaida remains resilient despite recent signs of weakness. Such attacks, infrequent as they are deadly, will likely continue long after American forces withdraw from the country. “This is our destiny,” said Eidan Mahdi, one of more than 250 Iraqis wounded Monday. Mahdi was lying in a hospital bed in the southern city of Kut. One of his eyes was closed shut with dried blood, and burns covered his hands and head. While some Iraqis expressed resignation, others voiced fury at security officials and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. “Where is the government with all these explosions across the country? Where is al-Maliki? Why doesn’t he come to see?” said Ali Jumaa Ziad, a Kut shop owner. Ziad was brushing pieces of human flesh from the floor and off equipment in his shop. The bombs went off on a hot and sunny morning as people were headed to work. Explosive devices were planted in the vests of suicide attackers, in parked cars, along the sides of roads and even on light poles. No group immediately claimed responsibility, but the simultaneous attacks, the targeting of Shiite civilians and Iraqi security forces and the use of suicide bombers indicated that al-Qaida in Iraq was responsible. That the terror group was able to pull off such an attack, spanning half of Iraq’s 18 provinces, came as somewhat of a surprise. A little over a year ago, U.S. and Iraqi officials said the deaths of al-Qaida in Iraq’s two top leaders in a raid had dealt a severe blow to the organization. The group has suffered from a drop in funding and just last week was calling on former members to come back to the fold, a sign of the group’s diminished status. But time and again, al-Qaida in Iraq has shown an ability to resurrect itself. “Al-Qaida in Iraq has been resting and waiting and is now making itself heard to both disrupt the internal Iraqi political process and send a message to the Americans, which have called al-Qaida in Iraq dead and buried,” said Theodore Karasik, a Middle East security expert at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis. Monday’s violence came less than two weeks after Iraqi officials said they would discuss with the U.S. whether to have some American forces stay in the country past their Dec. 31 withdrawal deadline. U.S. officials have offered to keep about 10,000 of the 46,000 American soldiers currently here into next year if Iraq agrees. Karasik said the timing may be no coincidence, and that al-Qaida may be using reverse psychology. Greater violence could lead to calls for the U.S. to extend its military presence, but the terror group knows that the U.S. is very unlikely to resume a full-scale combat mission and that the troop numbers would be too small to make much of a difference. “If the U.S. extends its military presence, al-Qaida in Iraq can use it as a tool by saying, `Look, the Americans have reversed their decision to leave and are staying on as occupiers.’ They could use this as a justification for more attacks,” Karasik said. Joost Hiltermann from the International Crisis Group said such attacks are likely to continue regardless of whether the American forces withdraw because the Sunni population from which al-Qaida in Iraq gets its support still feels threatened by the Shiite-led Iraqi government. “The point is how strong and cohesive the government, the ruling coalition and the security forces are. That is going to determine whether these guys (al-Qaida) have an opportunity or not. You need to dry up their opportunities,” Hiltermann said. “The Sunnis are still very unhappy with the Maliki government and the role that they play in it,” he added. President Barack Obama’s spokesman, Jay Carney, said the White House strongly condemned the bombings, but emphasized that overall violence was down. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters in Washington that the U.S. remains concerned about terrorist attacks. “In net terms, though, overall, the violence in Iraq is significantly down this year over previous years,” she said. “We consider these to be desperate acts by desperate people. We believe that the Iraqi security forces are getting stronger by the day. And our goal is to continue to strengthen them. And we remain on track to withdraw all our forces at the end of the year.” A U.S. military spokeswoman, Maj. Angela L. Funaro, said Iraq had asked U.S. forces in Tikrit for assistance but that was the only request they received. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani called the attackers cowards but acknowledged in a statement that faults in the security apparatus were to blame for the violence. Al-Maliki vowed in a statement to hunt down those responsible but provided no explanation for how the violence occurred. The most lethal explosions took place at an outdoor market in Kut, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad. The first bomb went off in a freezer used to keep drinks cold. As rescuers and onlookers gathered, a parked car bomb exploded, officials said. Thirty-five people died and 64 were wounded. Police sealed off the area where human flesh was scattered on the ground and bloodstained walls were punctured by shrapnel. “I was heading to a shop when a car bomb went off just less than 70 meters (yards) away from me, a big fire erupted and I fell on the ground,” said 18-year-old Karar Ali, speaking from his hospital bed. “There were a lot of dead bodies on the ground.” Elsewhere in southern Iraq, a suicide bomber crashed his vehicle into a checkpoint outside a police building just outside the holy city of Najaf, killing six people and wounding 32, said Luay al-Yassiri, head of the Najaf province security committee. Three policemen were killed when a parked car bomb blew up on the outskirts of the nearby city of Karbala, according to two police officers. Northeast of Baghdad, seven bombs went off in the Diyala provincial capital of Baqouba and in nearby towns, killing 11 people including five soldiers said Faris al-Azawi, the province’s health spokesman. In the northern city of Tikrit, two men wearing explosives belts were able to carry out a deadly and embarrassing security breach. A provincial spokesman, Mohammed al-Asi, said men disguised in military uniforms drove into a government compound, parked their car and attacked a building. Three people were killed. Earlier this year, insurgents penetrated the exact same compound and attacked a mosque. According to police and hospital officials around the country, other attacks included: - A parked car bomb targeting a police patrol in Iskandiriyah, south of Baghdad, killed two people. - Bombs strapped to light poles in the northern city of Mosul exploded, killing one person. - A parked car bomb exploded near an Iraqi military patrol in Taji north of Baghdad, killing one person. - A roadside bombing near a fuel truck in Balad, north of Baghdad, wounded 16. - A motorcycle bomb exploded in the northern city of Kirkuk, one of three violent attacks in the city over a 24-hour period including a late-night series of blasts at a church. One person was killed. - A parked car bomb exploded in Baghdad near a convoy carrying officials from the Ministry of Higher Education, wounding eight. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Other reports claim as many as 86 are dead.

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This is an example of the difficulties in translating from Arabic to English. The following is the translation through Bing of the original post. 14/08/2011 With the continuing differences on Baghdad – follow-up to the morning Despite the importance of an oil and gas, Iraq still does not have a law regulating this vital sector. Led delay adoption of this law for four years, the House Energy Committee to submit a new draft law in the hope of contributing to raising the level of production of crude oil from Iraq, and solves many problems, most notably the disagreement between the Central Government and the Kurdistan region on oil investment in the region. The House of representatives decided during a meeting Thursday to postpone the first reading of the draft new Act, but the deputies predicted that discussed this week, deputies warned earlier this month that it will approve a new oil bill was delayed considerably hinder contacts remained the primary legislation that it deems an essential safeguard investors. Parliament speaker was quoted as saying: alngivi Osama Energy Commission representative suggested the new draft law, if continues to delay oil and gas, will go ahead with Parliament in the adoption of the draft new Act. He said the Iraqi list MP Mohammad Salman: "the Council decided during a meeting Thursday to postpone the first reading of the draft law in order to further discussions and exchange of views for approval," he said, adding that the law will pass a political consensus or without. the issue of oil contracts concluded by the Government of Kurdistan divergence between Baghdad and Erbil in past years, especially since the Iraqi Government refused to recognize these contracts which it described as illegal, and hoped that politicians and specialists that new Bill if adopted these differences. As a member of the Committee on oil and gas blocks Coalition Deputy from Kurdistan Bayezid Hassan in a move to free Iraq radio site that the new draft law will ensure joint management of oil between the Federal Government and the regions and governorates, pointing out that includes the formation of a Tripartite Commission comprising the Minister of oil, and the President of the Parliamentary Committee on oil and gas, and natural resources Minister in the Kurdistan region, to examine the contracts entered into by the Government of the territory. Bayezid Hassan also pointed out that Council members were to reduce the number of Federal oil and gas in the new draft law, and oilfields and discovered no longer belonging to the Iraqi national oil company as they were in the previous draft law. In turn, said Adnan al-Janabi, Chairman of the Committee on oil and energy in Parliament a press statement, the importance of the restructuring of the Iraqi national oil company and the need for a federal law for oil and gas. The Iraqi Government approved 2007 Bill new oil and gas, but encountered opposition in Parliament and returned again to the Government to introduce some amendments. He stressed Hussain if natural resources Ministry adviser in Kurdistan and the Chairman of the Committee on oil and gas in the first parliamentary session that there were reasons behind Parliament's objection to the oil and gas, which was established by the Government. According to MP nahida aldaini that 60 deputies from different political parties signed the draft new Act, and confirmed the support of mass and the Kurdistan Alliance bloc to pass, and is expected to discuss this week. However, a Deputy from the State of law Coalition, shalah said: "the law would pass if approved by the National Alliance", calling the non-oil and gas Act, subject to political controversy. Hussein predicted that if the Bill of the new oil and gas by the Central Government's objections, saying he enjoys the consent of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In the light of the remarks and the divergent positions of the representatives of the political blocs on the oil and gas excluded political analyst Professor of political science at Baghdad University law recognizes Fadhel Hamid oil and gas, despite its importance for the new economy, if the differences The line in bold is completely opposite of the translation in the original post. If we pick a different translator, we will probably get another version with differences.

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Hey it does sound good - but you know the problem with putting your faith in anything in this article, it is written by someone pumping the sale of dinars. First, this is simply an article written by someone for the express purpose of marketing. This person has no credentials as a journalist, reporter, financial expert or anything else. This is just one of 4 articles they submitted today. This particular one carries a link to a site selling dinar. The others ones tie to sites for privacy protection and promoting local locksmiths around the country. That is why the article is so jumbled up. It was a simple copy and paste from several other articles.