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Fact check her statements for yourself and pass it on (see links below for a start):

I have Give Me Liberty on hold at the library.

Representative Brad Sherman saying he a number of Representatives were told in private conversation that they didn’t’ vote for the bailout, “there would be Martial Law in America.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8

Oct. 1- Army can be deployed in US for Civil unrest and crowd control:
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
“They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control …. The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.”

Troops get ready:
http://www.army.mil/-news/2008/09/29/12779-exercise-readies-first-units-for-northcom-assignment/

http://restoretherepublic.net/MsLiberty/blog/946/
Posse Comitatus Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

(A little extreme, but some explanation on how this can lend to Martial Law:
http://www.rwor.org/a/083/martial-en.html)

Our G8 buddy, Italy, is putting Italian Troops on the streets. What does it look like? (BBC footage)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7540585.stm

Yes, it does.

At 3am this morning, my 3 year old woke up. He wouldn’t let me put him back in bed.

Acting as if we weren’t in the middle of a tantrum, I said in a conversational tone, “Hey – lets make pancakes for breakfast.”

He stopped crying. “Can you put strawberries in them?”

“I don’t think I have any. How about Granny Smith apples?” (The green fruit forbidden to children we had bought for daddy when he was home. No squishy 99-cents-a-pound McIntoshes for him!)

“Aw, yeah!” he said, all tough, somehow unaware that he had tears on his face or that he had nearly woke up half the neighborhood or how deathly afraid he had just been of the dark.

“You gotta remind me when I wake up, though. I forget promises I make when I’m sleepy – just ask your dad.”

A few short hours later, I woke up to the “make pancakes, mommy” mantra x 5 x 1000.

Here’s my impromptu, “It Still Feels Like Monday Pancakes” recipe – because it does still feel like Monday. You see, one needs adequate sleep in between the days, or they just become a like long, extended hallway from one day into the next that can’t be traveled through without a headache.

Basic Bisquick Pancake Recipe (4 c. mix, 4 eggs, 2 c. milk)
1 lg Granny Smith, belonging to daddy and coming out of your allowance if you eat one, apple – diced
4 TB vanilla extract
1 TB maple syrup for giggles
1 TB sugar from the sugar bowl – because it’s right there and you don’t feel like opening a new bag
2 TB cinnamon

Scrape up the hardened macaroni noodles off of your burner from some time last week – days are irrelevant because they all blend together anyway – and cook your Monday/Tuesday pancakes on a griddle over medium heat. You’ll know they’re ready to flip when they’re bubbly. (No amount of magic will make the first batch perfect. I’m just sayin’.) Serve with just enough syrup (Tom, it’s pronounced Sir-Rup) for flavor but not enough to get in everyone’s hair when they aim for their mouths and miss. Enjoy! :)

His reply:

Dear Mrs. Albrecht:

Thank you for contacting my office regarding the financial rescue legislation. I appreciate your views on this matter.

I reluctantly supported this package because the failure of Congress to act would run the risk of dire consequences, including an economic downturn which could cause more foreclosures, jeopardize retirement accounts, and further restrict credit which is necessary for small businesses to operate. I am philosophically opposed to bailouts. I think that when you have Wall Street entrepreneurs who take big risks to make big profits and they go sour, they ought to sustain the loss themselves and not look to the government for a bailout which ends up in the laps of the taxpayers. However, I supported the plan to avoid economic disaster that would extend well beyond Wall Street.
Continue reading “RE: Note to Senator Specter”

Senate roll vote on financial bailout package
By The Associated Press – 12 hours ago

The 74-25 roll call by which the Senate approved a $700 billion rescue package for Wall Street aimed at preventing a credit crisis.

On this vote, a “yes” vote was a vote to approve the package and a “no” vote was a vote against it.

Voting “yes” were 39 Democrats, 34 Republicans and 1 independent.

Voting “no” were 9 Democrats, 15 Republicans and 1 independent.

Alabama

Sessions (R) No; Shelby (R) No.
Continue reading ““Sweetened” Bailout: How Did Your Senator Vote?”

“Dear Senator Specter,

I’ve never written to a Senator before, but I did vote for you in the last election and I’m asking that you please vote “NO” tomorrow to the revised “bailout” plan.

While our nation is in a dire and sorry financial mess, I would rather that the market correct itself over time than to raise the National Debt for a short term fix.

Please do not give into lobbyists who being paid to flood the phone lines. Many Pennsylvania residents who elected you, like me, do not want this measure to pass. I’ll be watching to see how you vote to determine how I will be voting the next time you run for office.

Respectfully,
SJA

Summary
-Silence on the floor after the vote “shook up a lot of people” “a serious vote”
-Emails/contacting Representatives made the difference
-SEPTEMBER 29, FED PUMPED IN OVER $600 BILLION IN CREDIT, W/O CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL
-Ron Paul is WORKING ON AN “AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE” BILL
-We do not need to regulate the market
-Blame should not be on free market; this is cronyism, interventionism, corporatism