RWC Unfiltered 8-21-11

• FED Set To Drive Up Electricity Costs
• Will Obama Surrender Pacific to China?
• Farrakhan Defends Ft Hood Killer and Extols Gadafi
• Afghan Savage Senselessness Crosses Religious and Ethnic Lines.
• U. S. Growth Forecast Into 2012 Lowered
• Waters Plays Race Card In Presidential Politics
• Russian and Iranian Propaganda Outlets Touting Ron Paul
• 10,000 Bank of America Layoffs Loom
• Desmond Tutu Attacks Isreal and Jews
• Modern Day NAZIs: GiftGas
• Obama’s Attack on Credit Reporting Agency - Standard and Poor
• Obama’s Amnesty In Deceptive, Easy Steps
• Perry Myths Debunked
• Oh, Mama!
• The last illiterate President

The WSJ says Obama’s rant that Congress could immediately pass three free trade agreements and create 20,000 jobs is simply not true. The agreements have been sitting idle on Obama’s desk since he took office, so Congress can’t pass them.  The White House confirms Obama fouled up.

 Over the next 18 months, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finalize a flurry of new rules to curb pollution from coal-fired power plants. Mercury, smog, ozone, greenhouse gases, water intake, coal ash-it’s all getting regulated. And, not surprisingly, some lawmakers are grumbling.

 Industry groups such the Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned utilities, and the American Legislative Exchange Council have dubbed the coming rules “EPA’s Regulatory Train Wreck.” The regulations, they say, will cost utilities up to $129 billion and force them to retire one-fifth of coal capacity. Given that coal provides 45 percent of the country’s power, that means higher electric bills, more blackouts and fewer jobs. The doomsday scenario has alarmed Republicans in the House, who have been scrambling to block the measures. Environmental groups retort that the rules will bring sizeable public health benefits, and that industry groups have been exaggerating the costs of environmental regulations since they were first created.

This will unnecessarily raise electricity bills nationwide, and force more of U. S. coal to be shipped to China.

 The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower adjacent to the Hollywood freeway leading into downtown LA spells out H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D   in Morse code.

The Pentagon needs to develop and field a new intermediate-range naval missile to counter a projected Chinese aircraft carrier force of five strike groups.

“It is long overdue for the United States to build a new multirole intermediate-range naval missile that can defeat space, air, ground and naval targets,” said a China military analyst with the International Assessment and Strategy Center.

“Such a missile needs to be deployed on U.S. Navy ships and submarines and on the ships of U.S. allies,” he said.

“Such a system will go far to ‘contain’ China’s future carrier force in the same manner that China’s [anti-ship ballistic missiles] are forcing U.S. carriers to operate further out into the Pacific” and forced the U. S. to pullback to mid-Pacific on Guam.

The appeal followed reports from the Pentagon that China is building at least two domestically produced aircraft carriers at a shipyard in Shanghai. China began sea trials of a refurbished Russian Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier this month..

Fisher said reports from Asia indicate that the Pentagon’s estimate of two carriers is very conservative and may reflect a consensus view within the intelligence community that is being forced into a politically correct posture downplaying Chinese military developments.

“The estimate is insufficient, considering that intelligence agencies new to war policymakers of future potential challenges.”

“We know that the IC usually contains a range of estimates on most major questions on China’s military potential, but having let a blatant mistake be printed in the 2002 DoD China Military Power Report that ‘China appears to have set aside indefinitely plans to acquire an aircraft carrier,’ one might expect more clarity on carriers.”.

According to intelligence sources, China plans to build two non-nuclear powered aircraft carriers by around 2015 and then around 2020 or later start work on two nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

The carrier buildup comes as the U.S. Navy is struggling to meet its requirements for warships amid pressure to cut back on the number of carriers.

“The prospect of a five carrier PLA Navy force means that not only is there now a premium on sustaining the U.S. carrier force, but there is also a real requirement to upgrade U.S. carrier air wing with platforms that will defeat expected China’s fourth-plus and fifth generation carrier combat aircraft,” analyst say

At the same time Obama has killed its own fifth generation F-22 Stealth Fighter while pursuing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with Marine and Navy variations. A recent report says no F-22 or F-35 are operational; due to an array of design and technical problems.

“This also means that the U.S. submarine force will need to grow in number and capability. But the tragedy of Washington in the Summer of 2011 is that the center of gravity in this debate is ‘what can we cut and how fast.’ ”

The new intermediate range missile would provide U.S. allies with a non-nuclear method of checking China’s strategic naval power and would help to sustain the credibility of U.S. strategic leaderships among Asia’s democracies.

“Such a missile would violate the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with the former Soviet Union, but of course, this treaty does not stop China from building current and future medium and intermediate range missiles to include ASBMs,” he said.

“But these are the decisions we pay our elected leaders to consider and make. Here we have a choice between a new missile that could help sustain our Asian alliance structure or an INF Treaty that today only serves China’s goals of destroying the U.S. led Asian alliance system.”  China is increasingly confident that it can bully with little more than a scowl.

Gallup puts Obama’s approval rating at a miserable 26% on his mishandling of the economy. The polling company finds his approval rating is only above 50% in only one category — “tourism”.

Calling American troops rapists and murderers Nation of Islam leader, the vile and odious Louis Farrakhan, told an audience on August 13 about American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan saying the Ft Hood shooter Major Hasan, a Muslim, killed his fellow soldiers.

On March 31 speaking from the pulpit of Chicago’s Mosque Maryam, the Nation of Islam’s international headquarters, purchased 40 years ago with a $3 million from Lybian madman Gadhafi, Farrakhan blamed demons for altering President Obama’s moral conscience and driving the assault on Gadhafi, who he calls a brother.

“It is a terrible thing for me to hear my brother called all these ugly and filthy names when I can’t recognize him as that,” Farrakhan said to the crowd assembled at the mosque on Chicago’s South Side. “Even though the current tide is moving against him … how can I refuse to raise my voice in his defense? Why would I back down from those who have given so much?” Farrakhan said.

Obama has held 127 fund raisers since taking office 60% to 100% more than his predecesssors.

Eight uniformed Afghan soliders have been killed for each Americsn or western allied soldier. Because almost all of the afghans were Muslin it raises the ominous question of just how fanatically suicidally savage are our opponents there, and whether violence is the purpose and it does not matte against who or where.

Outstanding student loan debt will top $1 trillion very soon. This raises the old budgaboo - does attending college pay? And the amart aleck retort - it does if you’re a good broken field runner. College costs have increased 20 times faster than other prices.

Friday Citigroup Inc. and J. P. Morgan cut their U.S. growth forecasts as the global economy slows and officials struggle to stem Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis.

Gross domestic product will grow at just 1 percent in the fourth quarter rather than the 2.5 percent previously forecast and at only 0.5 percent in the first quarter of 2012 instead of 1.5 percent, JPMorgan said in a note e-mailed to clients Friday. Citigroup cut its 2011 growth forecast to 1.6 percent from 1.7 percent and lowered its projection for next year to 2.1 percent from 2.7 percent, according to a note to clients dated Thursday.

Friday S & P downgraded the City of LA from AAA to AA. LA immediately cancelled its $16,000 a year contract with Standard and Poors. LA owes $7 billion on an array of bonds and debt and the downgrade will raise its costs of borrowing. Immediately after the national downgrade LA’s City administrator pooh-poohed the idea of an LA downgrade. He was dead wrong.

Black California Democrat congresswoman Maxine Waters renewed her assault on Obama on Thursday, a day after admitting that black Democrats in Congress don’t criticize him because they fear a backlash from black constituents.

In a swipe at Obama’s bus tour through small-town Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois, she said, “He went to rural communities and he went with a plan…to invest money in those rural communities in order to develop jobs.

“We want the rural poor to be attended to,” Waters said in an interview on CNN. “But we also want the urban poor to be attended to.”

Commenting on Waters’ racists illogic Rush Limbaugh seized the moment to point out that Obama need not buy the cox when he gets the milk for free,

Waters referred to blacks going after Obama saying “If we go after the president, you’re going after us” apparently speaking of black politicians or maybe blacks generally.

Such overt Racism has upset some forward thinking blacks but too few.

President George Washington’s salary was over $1 million a year in 2011 dollars. (Now the President’s annual salary is $400,000 plus $50,000 in expenses.) It was negotiated after Washington asked to serve for expenses only as he had as Army General but that was turned down.  Because  Washington had submitted expenses representing the biggest bill ever received by the then new country. A book describes in detail those expenses that included extravagant cost for wife Martha including a custom Rolls Royce of carriages and a swimming pool of fine wines and brandies.

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, who has appeared on Al-Jazeera, has picked up the support of another foreign propaganda channel. In addition to getting major sympathetic coverage from Russia Today, which is funded by Moscow, the Texas congressman is getting rave reviews from Press TV, the channel funded by the Iranian regime.

Most think these “endorsements” are a curse issued to reelect a weak Obama rather than encourage the election of the erratic Paul. {aul has been complaining about media inattention of him and in fact and independent audit ranks coverage of the Texan tenth behind Obama and every others Republican candidate.

Whether being a favorite of Russian and Iranian media will help or hurt the ascerbic Congressman’s campaign remains an open question. 4^th place finishers former Sen Rick Santorum has become the invisible man. His issue is money or specifically can he raise enough.

The Oxford English language dictionary is listing 400 new words. Including Decruitment a euphenmism for laying off staff  or downsizing a company.

Bank of America will eliminate 3,500 jobs in the months leading up to Christmas as the company is looking to cut costs and restructure, The Wall Street Journal reports. Some employees have already been notified, but the bulk of the layoffs are pending. The layoffs are spread across different departments, “including investment banking and trading, and the cuts are expected to be completed by the end of September.” Chief executive Brian T. Moynihan said he wants to cut quarterly costs by $1.5 billion. The New York Times obtained a memo from Moynihan to the company’s senior leadership sent out Thursday afternoon that outlined his plans for the cuts: “I know it is tough to have to manage through reductions. But we owe it to our customers and our shareholders to remain competitive, efficient and manage our expenses carefully.”

Observers are watching Wells Fargo Bank for similar belt-tightening.

The total number of B of A job cuts could top 10,000

Placerville Mayor David J. Machado has been arrested on allegations of perjury and conspiracy in connection with his interest in property within the Placerville Redevelopment Zone. For decades organized crime has played the Redevelopment  scam to a fair-the-well making billions.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whose role in the fight against South African apartheid in the 1980s gained him the Nobel Peace Prize and global fame, is among the world’s most respected figures.

 Obama awarded him the US highest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Tutu has been called “an inspiration” and was compared to Albert Schweitzer and Gandhi. The Wall Street Journal labeled him “the best known priest in the world.” Tutu was even asked to donate his genome to scientists to discover the African roots of mankind.

 With Nelson Mandela in jail, it fell to Tutu to steer the struggle against institutionalized racial oppression in a nonviolent direction. From his church in segregated Soweto, Tutu urged the imposition of economic sanctions against the white government. Since then, Tutu’s face has become the symbol of tolerance and goodness.

 However, the Archbishop’s iconic voice has also found another cause no less popular: The global campaign against Israel and the Jewish people. Tutu just promoted an appeal to the US pension fund of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association for cutting the partnership with Israeli companies. He also helped the Australian Marrickville Council approve a boycott of Israel’s goods.

Recently, Tutu convinced the University of Johannesburg to end its relationship with Ben-Gurion University as part of a boycott against Israeli academic institutions, resembling the dark time when German universities banned famous Jewish intellectuals such as T.W. Adorno and Albert Einstein. Archbishop Tutu also promoted the boycott of all Israeli goods by the US Food Co-Coop and he became the poster leader of the Western NGOs promoting campaigns for divestment and sanctions against the Jewish State. Last week, the Archbishop sponsored a call for an arms embargo against Israel. Next November, Tutu will open in Cape Town the third session of the anti-Israeli Russell Tribunal, a standing organization that held two tribunals against Israel last year in Barcelona and London. During this event, Tutu will seek to determine whether Israel’s policies fit the international legal definition of the crime of “apartheid.”

 Tutu has ideologically built this conceptual mousetrap of “Zionist apartheid,” where the Jewish question is the cheese and the victim. The Archbishop perfectly knows that charging Israel with apartheid is simply a blood libel, as Arabs and Jews live and work together in Israel, while sharing all public facilities (hospitals, schools, malls, buses, cinemas, parks.)

Making apartheid accusations against a state that undertook major operations to save black Jews in Africa is ludicrous. But the Christian Archbishop is not interested in preaching the truth, but rather, in promoting the liquidation of Israel, creating a new, horrible Jewish Diaspora. On university campuses worldwide, in the mainstream media and in large parts of Western public opinion, Tutu’s analogy is a very popular cause and “Zionist apartheid” is already the new codeword for racist evil.

 Thanks to Tutu, the World Conference against Racism, held by the United Nations in Durban in 2001, was transformed into a racist conference against Israel. In the same city where President Mbeki held his festival of victory against apartheid, another death sentence for the Jews was being pronounced under Tutu’s umbrella and that of the United Nations.

 Tutu has demonized the “Jewish lobby” as too “powerful” and “scary,” resorting to a vile myth rooted in anti-Jewish stereotype, whereby the Jews control Washington. According to Tutu’s horrific and false accusation against the Jewish people, Israel is a sadistically colonialist entity, a blind persecutor of children, and a mad builder of apartheid walls.

Tutu proclaimed, many years before Iran’s Ahmadinejad, that the West had muted criticism of Israel because of guilt over the Holocaust. He has accused Israel of acting in an “un-Christian” way. He has complained of “the Jewish monopoly of the Holocaust” and has demanded that its victims must “forgive the Nazis for the Holocaust,” while refusing to forgive the “Jewish people” for “persecuting others.”

 Tutu has asserted that Zionism has “very many parallels with racism.” He has compared Israel to Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union, saying that they too were once “very powerful” but they “bit the dust,” as will “unjust” Israel. Tutu has claimed that the Christian God sides with the Palestinians, whom he compares to the Israelites under slavery in Egypt. Tutu is also responsible for the “apartheid wall” mythology that has been one of the most repugnant propagandistic manipulations that Israel has ever suffered, because it is based on ignoring of the cause-effect nexus. All decent people know that Israel is not Soweto. But Tutu resembles those Christian bishops who fomented the Final Solution by the idea that the wandering Jew is the symbol of God’s rejection of the Jewish people.

 Tutu’s cassock masks a long, hateful history of ugly intolerance toward the Jewish people and Israel. Under a new guise, the Nazi appeal “Kauft nicht bei Juden…” (Don’t buy from Jews) is back.

A Rasmussen poll finds just 19% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove,

Just a month before the Berlin state elections, the German capital has been flooded with posters issued by the far-Right National Democratic Party (NPD) with the shocking slogan: “Step on gas.”  The election ad shows party leader Udo Voigt sitting on a motorcycle, wearing a black leather jacket (a popular piece of clothing among Neo-Nazis due to its resemblance of SS uniform), with the words “Gas geben!” - literally translated as “give gas” spelled GiftGas. It was the pesticide used in Hitler’s gas chambers to kill jews in a agonizing, prolonged way.

Voigt hopes to be elected to the Berlin council for the first time. His party representatives are already members of local councils in neighborhoods across the German capital.

Naturally, the allegedly innocent slogan contains a horrifying association with the gas chambers in which the Nazis killed millions of people, most of them Jews, during World War II.

The ad has sparked angry reactions all across the German political spectrum, and some officials said they were looking into the possibility of launching criminal proceedings against the neo-Nazi party.  

Meanwhile, Berlin’s public radio announced it would not broadcast any NPD ads.  

Volter Ratzmann, the Greens’ parliamentary leader in Berlin, told Der Spiegel magazine that the ads were a “deliberate provocation”. He added that the public of voters in Berlin must clarify in the upcoming elections that the Neo-Nazis are “rat traps”.

The representative of the Social-Democrats, which control the Berlin municipality, stated that the ads created “negative publicity for Berlin and Germany” and wondered, “What should tourists, for example from Israel, think about this?”

 A spokesman for the conservative party, the Christian Democratic Union, spoke of “cynicism humiliating human dignity”.

Berlin’s Jewish community has declined comment so far.

Midweek, last week Hamas gunmen crossed the Israeli-Egyptian border unimpeded by Egypt’s military and attacked an unarmed civilian passenger bus in the Sinai murdering 8. Ball bearing filled rockets fired from Gaza struck near Beersheba. Israeli jets struck back against a Hamas site killing one armed leader and injuring others. PLA warned Israel not to “overreact” to the murders. Close to 30 rockets were fired into Israel since the beginning of July. IDF moved an Iron Dome antimissile battery south toward the launch site. Israeli promised those responsible for the terror attacks will pay, Iran and its Hizbullah henchmen are behind the barrage. Israel has vowed to continue air and other attacks until the missile barrages stop.

Last June the credit rating company, Egan and Jones downgraded the U. S. credit rating attracting virtually no attention. Then it said it cut the United States’ top credit ranking, citing concerns over the country’s high debt load and the difficulty the government faces in significantly reducing spending.

E & J is paid by its stock holders to watch and rate credit. The so-called Big 3 including Standard and Poors and Moody’s are funded by those they rate and other subscribers.

E & J said the action, which cut U.S. sovereign debt to the second-highest rating, was not based on fears over the country not raising its debt ceiling.

Instead, the cut is due the U.S. debt load standing at more than 100 percent of its gross domestic product. This compares with Canada, for example, which has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 35 percent, Egan-Jones said in a report sent on Saturday.

It is a suspicious coincidence that the Security and Exchange Commission, Congress and the Department of Justice are all “investigating” Standard and Poors simultaneously.

President George Washington did not have wooden teeth. He did wear a set of teeth made from Rhinoceros bone that is very porous. They were soon stained black by his favorite libation port wine a reason he was seldom seen smiling.

The Obama administration decided it will, on a case-by-case basis, allow many illegal immigrants who face deportation to remain in the U.S., a move aimed at focusing enforcement efforts.

Federal authorities will review individually the cases of some 300,000 illegal immigrants now in deportation proceedings, a senior administration official said Thursday. Those who haven’t committed crimes and aren’t deemed a threat to public safety will have a chance at citizenship.

If this sounds like an end run around Congress and amnesty- well, it is. It is also political inasmuch as he has lost 35% of his hitherto Hispanic support. Hispanic unemployment is 11.7% while Black unemployment is15.6%. contrasted with an over all unemployment rate of 9.1%.  Earth travels around the Sun at 66,700 miles per hour. Well sorta. You must also consider that our solar system whips around our own Milky Way galaxy as it whizzes toward  our neighboring Andromeda galaxy some 2.5 million light years away. In sum Earth travels 31.21 Million miles every day, and has never retraced even one inch in billions of years.

Texas Governor Rick Perry is more hard-knuckled in his dealings not only with Democrats (now a minority in the Texas House and the Senate) but with insufficiently conservative Republicans - what Texans pejoratively call “moderates.” Bush preached compassionate conservatism. Perry’s brand of conservatism is austere bordering on severe, and he has publicly criticized Bush as no fiscal conservative. Bush had a warm relationship with the media. Perry doesn’t court reporters or, especially, newspaper editorial boards; in fact, he refused to meet with any editorial boards during the 2010 governor’s race. Bush debated all of his general-election opponents. In 2010, Perry refused to debate Democratic nominee Bill White - the first time in 20 years that the major-party gubernatorial candidates did not square off during the campaign.

Beyond that, Bushworld is no fan of Perry. Speculation as to why ranges from professional rivalry to personal dislike, but regardless, during the 2010 GOP primary for governor, the top-tier Bushies - including Karl Rove, Karen Hughes and Jim Baker - all backed Perry’s opponent, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, and they’ve shown no enthusiasm for Perry’s presidential bid. In fact, the loudest critics of the governor’s controversial remark about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke were from Bush administration officials.

That’s bias against Texas, pure and simple. Just because he wears cowboy boots and drops his G’s doesn’t mean he’s a dummy. Perry may be a small-town boy who went to an ag school (Texas A&M University), but he’s an extremely cagey and strategic politician who has been among the state’s most successful governors at getting what he wants. (Put another way: Even if he’s not book smart by University of Chicago standards, he’s plenty street smart - and street smart is still smart.) The better lens through which to regard Perry is inside vs. outside, establishment vs. anti-establishment, elitist vs. jus’ folks. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that jus’ folks is jus’ dumb.

It’s true that Perry was 10th Amendment before 10th Amendment was cool, a believer in the notion that states are the laboratories of democracy - and that nothing good comes top-down from government. He even wrote a book about it. But at least three times in his career, Perry has thrown over those core principles. In 2007, he pushed for the mandatory inoculation of young girls with the human papillomavirus vaccine as a way to prevent cervical cancer. Conservatives went crazy. Only in the first hours of his presidential campaign did he walk back from that decision. In the run-up to the campaign, Perry called for constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage and abortion, in direct opposition to his long-held insistence that the feds should stay out of states’ business.

There’s also the fact that, once upon a time, Perry served in elective office as a Democrat, albeit a conservative one. He even was the Texas chairman of Al Gore’s 1988 Democratic presidential primary bid. And in the 2008 GOP primary, he endorsed Rudy Giuliani, a candidate whose positions on gun control, abortion and gay rights are, by the standards of today’s Republican party, downright liberal.

A semi-weekly feature, hosted by The Post’s Outlook section, aiming to dismantle myths, clarify common misconceptions and make you think again about what you thought you already knew.

Rick Perry is a serious contender for the Republican presidential nod, here are five things you need to know about him.

Perry made headlines during the 2009 legislative session when he turned down $555 million in federal stimulus funding to extend unemployment insurance , citing the strings attached, and he has made a talking point out of the “failed stimulus.” But Texas took more than $17 billion in stimulus money in 2009 to balance the budgets from that biennium and the previous one. Perry defends the decision by saying Texas is a donor state - and, true enough, it sends more money to Washington than it gets back in benefits and services - but the fact is, he kept the state solvent by taking what he now rails against.

When Perry says Texas has less than 10 percent of the nation’s population but has created more than 40 percent of its jobs in the past two years, or that more jobs have been created in Texas in the past decade - that is, on his watch - than in all 49 other states combined, he’s not exaggerating. In an election that’s likely to be about jobs and the economy first and foremost, he has quite a record to run on. But there’s more to the story than those top-line statistics.

The unemployment rate in Texas, for instance, is 8.2 percent - less than the federal unemployment rate but worse than that of 25 other states, and it could move up a tick or two after Sept. 1, when budget cuts passed during the most recent legislative session will reduce the public employee rolls. Texas has more minimum-wage jobs than every state other than Mississippi, a superlative you brag about if you don’t care about what kind of jobs you create and are only trying to run up the numbers. And growth in public sector (i.e., government) jobs in Texas has been 19 percent over the past 10 years, vs. just 9 percent growth in private-sector jobs.

That doesn’t diminish the feat that Perry can say he accomplished: The state he has led weathered the terrible recession better than just about any other. But, as in some of the better movies we’ve seen, the plot thickens.

Following murderous attacks by Egytian based terrorists earlier this week and  missile attacks from Gaza the Israeli Air Force struck 12 Hamas missile launching sites and other terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Thursday, Aug. 18 killing 18 terroists. A hail of Palestinian missiles Friday hit the towns of  Ashdod, Beersheba, Ashkelon and the smaller Sdot Negev, Shar Hanegev and Eshkol villages in a continuous blitz.

Friday the military wing of the terror group Hamas, announced that they were no longer committed to its de facto ceasefire with Israel. The agreement has been laughable anyway. Clearly Hamas has a new ally in Egypt’s post Mubarak military.Hamas has been pounded and said Saturday it want a Sunday midnight ceasefire.

The combination seems to be propelling the region into all out war. If, as believed, Iran will be nuclear armed in 2012 that could quickly spiral out of control even igniting a worldwide conflagration.

Russian Valentina Vassilyeva, set the record for most children birthed by a single woman. She gave birth to total of 69 children; however, few other details are known of her life, such as her date of birth or death. She reportedly gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 births. 67 of the 69 children born survived infancy. The modern world record for giving birth is held by Leontina Albina from San Antonio, Chile. Now in her mid-sixties, she claims to be the mother of 64 children. Of these, 55 are documented. The mother with the greatest number of kids that are not tiwns is Livia Ionce. This Romanian woman, 44, gave birth to her 18th child in Canada in 2008.

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!.

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) the 7^th President ikely suffering from severe mental disease. He was a vile, semi-literate volitile, vindictive, petty, nincompoop who reportedly fought 200 duels. One opponent put a buttlet into his chest before Jackson killed him, where it remained until his death. In another shootout he was shot in the arm and leg. Most of his supposed insults were trivial affronts as viewed by all but the most ignorant,

A slave holder he once offered a reward for a slave who’d fled and bonus if the slave were flogged.

His edifice still (dis)graces the $20 bill.