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34 Years

08-Apr-09

Dear God,

As I celebrate 34 years of life on this earth, I want to take a moment to humbly Thank You for carrying me through these years in Your grace and blessings.  You have kept me in times of stress, being poor, loneliness, sorrow, heartache, confusion, and grief. But yet I still stand today in good health, mind and spirit to bear witness of Your amazing blessings.  Your light guided me through the darkness; kept me focused so I would not fall over the edge.

I have many friends who have passed on and not made it thus far, but I do know that they are with You …watching over me…keeping me safe and well.  I miss them dearly.  But I know that one day I will see them all again.

As I move forward into the future of this life, I know that You continue to keep me and bless me everyday as You have done in the past.  I will continue to acknowledge my days as a witness to Your blessings.

Thank for my family, my friends, my wonderful career, a home, a great education…and most of all thank You for loving me unconditionally when the rest of the world cares nothing about me.

I say this prayer not to boast or brag but to share with others how wonderful life is with You in it.

On this day, I ask for your continual blessings over my life and the lives of my loved ones near and far.  In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

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Shelton Jackson (Feb 4, 1978 – March 2, 2009)

07-Mar-09

l_913ae578e292ea25a1493e06860bafa5This morning at 10AM, in Newark, NJ, family and friends will gather to celebrate the life of Shelton S. Jackson.  Shelton passed from time to eternity at 6:00AM on Monday, March 2, 2009.

I’ve never known Shelton personally, although our paths crossed in 2004 at the DC Black Pride after I saw him walking around the convention center passing out fliers promoting his first book, The Second Chapter: Acceptance.  I knew there was something special about this young man.  I bought his bought and eventually his second, The Dawn of a New Day.  I followed his life on line by reading his blog and following the things he did in this world to tell everyone about AIDS and HIV by sharing his own personal life story.  Shelton lived his life unashamed and openly. A free spirit that this world could not hold down.

In the past few months he blogged about health issues and having to go into the hospital for surgery.  I was hoping that he was going to pull through everything.  But to my shock, on Monday morning of March 2nd, his friend Nina posted on his MySpace page that he passed away.

Although I didn’t know Shelton personally, he touched the lives of many…gay, straight, black, white, latino.  He shared his love with everyone he met.  On this day of memoriam  as the physical form known as Shelton is laid to rest, I pray that his soul has the peace that passeth understanding.  He’s done many things in his short life that many can’t accomplish that live full lives.  I’m sad that this storng young man’s life was cut short.  But, I’m happy to know he’s no longer in pain and I’m happy that he is in the presence of God.  I’m sure that Conan and his dad meet him up there to guide him through his transition.

God bless you, Shelton. Thanks you for the work you did unconditionally while you were here.  Your legacy will live on through others and the love you left on this earth.

Other bloggers that are remembering Shelton:

Shelton at his best:

http://kbtheicon.net/video/shelton_video.flv

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Happy Independence Day!

27-Feb-09

Today, the Dominican Republic celebrates its 165th birthday.  On February 27, 1844, the Trinitarios, declared the independence from Haiti after a sucessful.  The Trinitarios, also called the Founding Fathers of the Dominican Republic, were Juan Pablo Duarte, Ramón Matías Mella and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez (the latter of partly African ancestry).

Just like the U.S. celebrates the fourth of July, the Dominican Republic is full of celebration across the country on today.  Unfortunately, I am not able to be there as in previous years.  But my heart is with my friends and family on a proud special occasion.

Viva la República Dominicana!

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Windows 7 Beta

13-Jan-09

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2008

31-Dec-08

As I get older it seems that the years fly by. It’s hard to believe that we are almost a decade into this new millennium. It sees like yesterday everybody was running around scared of the Y2K armageddon.

As I age with each year, I look back and thank God for allowing me to pass through another year full of blessings and good health. 2008 was a year of highs and lows for me. It was everything but boring.

First and foremost, I lost a very good friend in June after he lost his battle with cancer. A few days after his 33rd birthday. I knew he was sick and but he had so much optimism in that he was going to get better. I was there for him during his battle and all he would talk about were the things he was planning to do after his chemo was over. I was there with him on those nights when he was so sick he was hovering over the toilet seat throwing up from the chemo. But he remained ever so optimistic about it all that i began to get excited and couldn’t wait until the chemo was over and then everything would get better. His death was really a shock to me. Weeks after his passing I was completely speechless, in a zone of nothing. It was even more devastating being that his passing was just a few months after the passing of another close friend of mine. Losing two of my closest friends (and I don’t have many) really dampened my spirit for much of 2008.

Then, in September I started having painful toothaches. At that time I hadn’t seen a dentist since I was 10 years old (yet the dentist said I had good teeth), I had to scramble to find a dentist quick fast and in a hurry because I was popping pain pills to alleviate the toothache. Long story short, I needed a root canal because a wisdom tooth was growing in sideways and pushing into the tooth next to it causing an infection. Yikes! And I had no dental insurance! How much was that going to cost me…$1,500 out of my pocket. And at that time I had just finishing paying off the IRS a couple thousand!!! But I needed the root canal ASAP because a brother was in pain. Long story, short…I got the root canal and everything is OK. But a brother was broke afterwards. Needless to say, I am definitely fully covered with dental insurance for 2009. And I’m going to get all my wisdom teeth pulled because the root canal experience was not fun. Let’s just say the dentist was drilling on a live nerve in my tooth…WITHOUT ANESTHESIA!! I’ll refer to him as Dr. Frankenstein from now on because he apologized for “torturing” me. He said he didn’t want to drug because he needed to find out exactly where my nerve was. Apparently, the nerve in the molar was in an odd place inside the tooth.

Then, there is the recession which really reared its head in the spring time, that the government tried to ignore until it couldn’t because it became too large to cover up. Large banks and corporations started to fail or go under completely. I remember getting gas and paying about $70 to fill my tank up. $4.80/gallon. WOW! Or, going to the grocery store and walking out after paying $125 dollars for a basket that was about half full. A gallon of milk was $5. UNBELIEVABLE! In may, I started catching the bus in addition to taking the subway to work. Although gas has dropped to an amazing low now, I continue to catch the bus because it’s very convenient and sometimes fun to ride. Plus I’m saving wear and tear on my car as well as keeping money in my pocket on gas (my job pays my commuter fees).

Although there were some rough times in the year, there were some highlights. I started off dating. Actually dated 2 people at the beginning of the year [not at the same time..I'm not a ho ;-) ] It was fun, but I quickly put an end to the second one and the first one (which was a carry over from 2007 ended because he wanted it to after some unfortunate circumstance…but whatever). Those two situations in themselves would be an entire blog entry.

A good friend of mine moved in with me for 3 months. That was fun having someone around in the house to talk to or go out for drinks.

And, there was the time in July I stood in line for 3 hours to get the new iPhone 3G, which they sold out of in about 1 hour. I had to place an order for the phone which arrived seven days later. The experience itself was kinda fun, talking to the other people in line and just BS-ing the time away. But will I ever do something like that again? HELL NO! ;-) But I do love my iPhone 3G.

Oh, and I lost 22 pounds in 7 months by using Alli. No joke!!! And I didn’t even work out at the gym regularly like I was supposed to. Maybe I should be in one of their commercials ;-) .  Be careful though.  Like any drug, Alli has some interesting side effects if you do not follow a strict low fat diet.

I’m looking forward to 2009 and ready to face whatever God brings into my life’s path. I started the fostering parenting process this past October. Then on January 7th of 2009, it kicks into high gear. My training classes begin and my assessments with social services start . As I blogged about before, this was something I have been wanting to do for years, but felt now was the right time to do it. The closer I get to January, the more I’m started to rethink it. But I am in constant prayer about this decision and will go as far as I feel comfortable. Who knows, I may go through the entire process up until the point I am ready to be placed with a child and then change my mind and not do it. But we shall see and I will keep you posted on my progress in future blog entries.

Good bye to 2008 and hello to 2009. I wish everyone who reads this a blessed a prosperous new year. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing for new year’s ever. Hopefully it will be something fun.

¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

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Eartha Kitt

25-Dec-08

Eartha Kitt Autograph

Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008)

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OK. I have an addiction.

08-Dec-08

;-) It’s not what you think. But lately I can’t seem to get enough of them. Brightkite and Facebook.

Brightkite

Brightkite is a location based social network. If you like Twitter, then Brightkite is 1,000 times better. I tried Twitter, but couldn’t get a feel for the hype. I was scrolling through the App Store on my iPhone and saw an add for Brightkite. I’ve tried it out and have been using it constantly for over the past month. The thing about Brightkite that interests me is that I get to see my city from the view point of others in the area, city, metro, or region. It’s interesting to see what people post about my city and where they are at the moment. You can also post photos that are location based as well. I’ve even gotten some good ideas for new places to eat in the area.

Facebook

Aww yes, good old Facebook. Everyone knows what Facebook is about. I’ve had a Facebook account since 2004 when I was in grad school at American University. At that time it was a social networking website that was reserved only for students. You had to have a “.edu” e-mail address to set up an account. In some of my classes we had to use this site for group projects, etc. In the past few years, Facebook has made some big changes in it’s UI. I’m assuming that’s to compete with Myspace. You don’t even have to be a student anymore to create an account. I created a MySpace account about a year or so ago to join the hype. Now, I’ve all but abandoned MySpace because Facebook is soooooooo much better now. And the utilities available in it give you better options than MySpace does. It seems people on Facebook use it really for what it’s for….networking. Myspace is all about hook ups and advertising (IMHO). I’ve found some old high school classmates on Facebook. Scary thing about that is many of them didn’t age gracefully… LOL! But on the real, Facebook is really cool.

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How Low Can It Go?

10-Nov-08

I still can’t believe that I filled my car up for less than $35 dollars yesterday. Two months ago, I was paying close to $65 just to fill the tank up. Oh, by the way, I have to use Premium gas as I have a sports sedan that only uses 91 octane or higher. I REALLY felt sorry for people that I knew that drive SUVs and had to pay about $100 at each fill up.

This past summer’s high fuel prices caused me to change my driving habits. Before, I would drive my car to the metro station and catch the subway to work. Parking at the subway not only used up gas but I had to pay just about $5/day for parking fees in addition to the subway fares to and from the office. I stopped that in May. I now walk to the end of my block and catch the bus to the subway station. It adds about an extra 30 minutes to my commute, on a good day. But in the end it saves me money and that’s something we all need to do in the midst of this recession. A lot of folks in this area have done the same that I have. Metro has reported a surge in subway riders and I hear the school kids on the bus complain about all the new people that are now riding.

Gas prices have been falling for about a month now. But I am still riding the bus during the work week. Although I should be happy about gas prices falling, but I’m still crying about have to pay almost $5 for a gallon of milk.

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HRC Letter On Prop 8

08-Nov-08

You can’t take this away from me: Proposition 8 broke our hearts, but it did not end our fight.

Like many in our movement, I found myself in Southern California last weekend. There, I had the opportunity to speak with a man who said that Proposition 8 completely changed the way he saw his own neighborhood. Every “Yes on 8″ sign was a slap. For this man, for me, for the 18,000 couples who married in California, to LGBT people and the people who love us, its passage was worse than a slap in the face. It was nothing short of heartbreaking.

But it is not the end. Fifty-two percent of the voters of California voted to deny us our equality on Tuesday, but they did not vote our families or the power of our love out of existence; they did not vote us away.

As free and equal human beings, we were born with the right to equal families. The courts did not give us this right—they simply recognized it. And although California has ceased to grant us marriage licenses, our rights are not subject to anyone’s approval. We will keep fighting for them. They are as real and as enduring as the love that moves us to form families in the first place. There are many roads to marriage equality, and no single roadblock will prevent us from ultimately getting there.

And yet there is no denying, as we pick ourselves up after losing this most recent, hard-fought battle, that we’ve been injured, many of us by neighbors who claim to respect us.

By the same token, we know that we are moving in the right direction. In 2000, California voters passed Proposition 22 by a margin of 61.4% to 38.6%. On Tuesday, fully 48% of Californians rejected Proposition 8. It wasn’t enough, but it was a massive shift. Nationally, although two other anti-marriage ballot measures won, Connecticut defeated an effort to hold a constitutional convention ending marriage, New York’s state legislature gained the seats necessary to consider a marriage law, and FMA architect Marilyn Musgrave lost her seat in Congress. We also elected a president who supports protecting the entire community from discrimination and who opposes discriminatory amendments.

Yet on Proposition 8 we lost at the ballot box, and I think that says something about this middle place where we find ourselves at this moment. In 2003, twelve states still had sodomy laws on the books, and only one state had civil unions. Four years ago, marriage was used to rile up a right-wing base, and we were branded as a bigger threat than terrorism. In 2008, most people know that we are not a threat. Proposition 8 did not result from a popular groundswell of opposition to our rights, but was the work of a small core of people who fought to get it on the ballot. The anti-LGBT message didn’t rally people to the polls, but unfortunately when people got to the polls, too many of them had no problem with hurting us. Faced with an economy in turmoil and two wars, most Californians didn’t choose the culture war. But faced with the question—brought to them by a small cadre of anti-LGBT hardliners – of whether our families should be treated differently from theirs, too many said yes.

But even before we do the hard work of deconstructing this campaign and readying for the future, it’s clear to me that our continuing mandate is to show our neighbors who we are.

Justice Lewis Powell was the swing vote in Bowers, the case that upheld Georgia’s sodomy law and that was reversed by Lawrence v. Texas five years ago. When Bowers was pending, Powell told one of his clerks “I don’t believe I’ve ever met a homosexual.” Ironically, that clerk was gay, and had never come out to the Justice. A decade later, Powell admitted his vote to uphold Georgia’s sodomy law was a mistake.

Everything we’ve learned points to one simple fact: people who know us are more likely to support our equality.

In recent years, I’ve been delivering this positive message: tell your story. Share who you are. And in fact, as our families become more familiar, support for us increases. But make no mistake: I do not think we have to audition for equality. Rather, I believe that each and every one of us who has been hurt by this hateful ballot measure, and each and every one of us who is still fighting to be equal, has to confront the neighbors who hurt us. We have to say to the man with the Yes on 8 sign—you disrespected my humanity, and I am not giving you a pass. I am not giving you a pass for explaining that you tolerate me, while at the same time denying that my family has a right to exist. I do not give you permission to say you have me as a “gay friend” when you cast a vote against my family, and my rights.

Wherever you are, tell a neighbor what the California Supreme Court so wisely affirmed: that you are equal, you are human, and that being denied equality harms you materially. Although I, like our whole community, am shaken by Prop 8’s passage, I am not yet ready to believe that anyone who knows us as human beings and understands what is at stake would consciously vote to harm us.

This is not over. In California, our legal rights have been lost, but our human rights endure, and we will continue to fight for them.

Warmly,

Joe Solmonese
President, Human Rights Campaign

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The U.S. Financial Crisis – Naming Names

02-Nov-08

This is going to be a rather lengthy post, but please take the time to read it and pay attention to the details. This is important stuff that we all need to know. At the end, you’ll get specific names of who’s responsible for our financial crisis and why.

This gives YOU the power to do something about this on Election Day.

Sunday night, 60 Minutes had a great segment explaining more about what happened to cause the current financial crisis. A few weeks ago, they explained about how Credit Default Swaps were the root cause of this mess. Credit Default Swaps are where large financial companies like Lehman Brothers and AIG were basically selling insurance without calling it insurance, and because they didn’t have regulations to make them have cash reserves for their losses, we now have this financial disaster.

This week, 60 Minutes went into more detail about how this was allowed to happen, even though this practice was outlawed almost a hundred years ago and was banned for most of the 20th century. Why was it previously banned in every state in the country? Because this type of gambling is exactly what caused the stock market crash of 1907. Would you believe that eight years ago, the Congress sneaked a law through at the last minute that specifically banned any and all regulations against this practice that had been illegal for almost a hundred years?

Since we’re all going to be paying for this for a very long time, we should at least know why it happened and who’s responsible. This is a must see video from 60 Minutes that will not only make you knowledgeable about the history of this problem, but mad as hell, too.


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So now that you understand the history of what caused this mess, you may be wondering about this interesting law passed eight years ago by the Republican Congress called the ‘Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000′. Since this was the specific law that deregulated Wall Street and allowed them to gamble away our futures while getting incredibly rich, I was definitely curious to know more about it. So I looked it up, and here’s the history of this law from Wikipedia:

The ‘Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000′ (H.R. 5660) was introduced in the House on Dec. 14, 2000 by Rep. Thomas W. Ewing (R-IL) and cosponsored by Rep. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (R-VA) Rep. Larry Combest (R-TX) Rep. John J. LaFalce (D-NY) Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) and never debated in the House. The companion bill (S.3283) was introduced in the Senate on Dec. 15th, 2000 (The last day before Christmas holiday) by Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) and cosponsored by Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX) Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) Sen. Thomas Harkin (D-IA) Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) and never debated in the Senate.

Given the above-stated chronology, it would appear that the House and Senate versions of the bill were introduced just prior to the Christmas holiday in December of 2000, following George W. Bush’s first election in November of 2000, while then-President Clinton was serving out his final days as President. The bill was never debated by the House or Senate. The bill by-passed the substantive policy committees in both the House and the Senate so that there were neither hearings nor opportunities for recorded committee votes. In substance, it appears that the leadership of the Republican-controlled Senate and House incorporated the deregulation of credit default swaps into an omnibus budget bill without hearings at a time when the outgoing president was in no position to veto anything.

The omnibus budget bill was called the ‘Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001′. It’s described as ‘Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,  2001, and for other purposes’, but as you can see from the following link, it had everything but the kitchen sink thrown into it including this nasty bill that deregulated Wall Street.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h106-4577

So I bet by now you’d like to know who voted for this bill that the Republican Congress rammed through without any debate, a piece of legislation that later resulted in this huge financial mess we’re in.

In the Senate, 37 Republicans and 9 Democrats voted for the bill while 30 Democrats and 7 Republicans voted against it. Here’s a list of the specific roll call vote:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s2000-171

In the House, 214 Republicans and 2 Democrats voted for the bill while 203 Democrats and 9 Republicans voted against it. Here’s a list of the specific roll call vote:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2000-273

Since the Democrats didn’t have control of the Congress in 2000, there was little they could do about stopping the bill, especially  with such overwhelming Republican support for passage. Also, note that Senator John McCain voted for this bill that was co-sponsored by Senator Phil Gramm, one of McCain’s chief economic advisors for many years. This happened before Obama was in the Senate, however it’s a fair bet that he would have voted with the other Democrats against the bill.

Some might like to criticize President Clinton for not vetoing the bill, but since Bush was the President elect, and this was the very end of Clinton’s term in office, there wasn’t much point in a presidential veto since Bush would have simply signed it into law a short time later. In essence, this was the first result of Bush being elected since it’s obvious the Democrats didn’t want this bill passed. Had Gore won, it’s reasonable to speculate that this legislation wouldn’t have been passed by the Congress, and if it had been, that he would have vetoed it.

The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 has received criticism for the so-called ‘Enron loophole,’ 7 U.S.C. §2(h)(3) and (g), which exempts most over-the-counter energy trades and trading on electronic energy commodity markets. The ‘loophole’ was drafted by lobbyists for Enron working with Senator Phil Gramm seeking a deregulated atmosphere for their new experiment, ‘Enron On-line.’

Several Democratic legislators introduced legislation to close the loophole from 2000-2006 but were unsuccessful.

In September 2007, Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) introduced Senate Bill S.2058 specifically to close the ‘Enron Loophole’. This bill was later attached to H.R. 6124, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, aka ‘The 2008 Farm Bill’. President Bush vetoed the bill, but was overridden by both the Democratically controlled House and
> Senate, and on June 18th, 2008 the bill was enacted into law. One specific reason behind its introduction was to address the record high oil prices of the 2008 energy crisis. Since it was enacted, average gas prices of regular unleaded gasoline in the U.S. have
> dropped $1.333, from their record high of $4.114 on July 17, 2008 to an average of $2.781 as of October 24, 2008, though the drop in price can not be specifically linked to the legislation, mainly due to the volatility of crude oil prices.

The prohibition on single-stock futures and narrow-based indices that had been in effect until the passage of this act was known as the Shad-Johnson Accord because it was first announced in 1982, as part of a jurisdictional pact between John S.R. Shad, then chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Phil Johnson, then chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 specifically banned regulation of credit default swaps. These unregulated instruments, insurance policies against default on risky investments like Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), necessitated the government bailout of insurer  A.I.G. and has resulted in a huge cascade of financial collapses worldwide.

Are you mad yet? I sure hope so!

When you’re voting on November 4th, it would be good to remember which Senators and Congressmen are responsible for our country’s financial crisis:

Sponsors of the bill in the House:

> Thomas W. Ewing (R-IL)
> Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (R-VA)
> Larry Combest (R-TX)
> John J. LaFalce (D-NY)
> Jim Leach (R-IA)

Sponsors of the bill in the Senate:

> Richard Lugar (R-IN)
> Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL)
> Phil Gramm (R-TX)
> Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
> Thomas Harkin (D-IA)
> Tim Johnson (D-SD)

Senators who voted Yes to deregulating Wall Street and allowing Credit Default Swaps:

> MI Abraham, Spencer [?]
> MO Ashcroft, John [?]
> UT Bennett, Robert [R]
> MO Bond, Christopher [R]
> LA Breaux, John [D]
> MT Burns, Conrad [R]
> WV Byrd, Robert [D]
> CO Campbell, Ben [R]
> RI Chafee, Lincoln [R]
> GA Cleland, J. [D]
> MS Cochran, Thad [R]
> ME Collins, Susan [R]
> GA Coverdell, Paul [?]
> ID Craig, Larry [R]
> ID Crapo, Michael [R]
> OH DeWine, Michael [R]
> NM Domenici, Pete [R]
> WY Enzi, Michael [R]
> IL Fitzgerald, Peter [R]
> TN Frist, William [R]
> WA Gorton, T. [?]
> IA Grassley, Charles [R]
> NH Gregg, Judd [R]
> NE Hagel, Charles [R]
> IA Harkin, Thomas [D]
> SC Hollings, Ernest [D]
> AR Hutchinson, Tim [R]
> TX Hutchison, Kay [R]
> OK Inhofe, James [R]
> VT Jeffords, James [I]
> NE Kerrey, J. [?]
> WI Kohl, Herbert [D]
> AZ Kyl, Jon [R]
> AR Lincoln, Blanche [D]
> MS Lott, Trent [R]
> IN Lugar, Richard [R]
> FL Mack, Connie [?]
> AZ McCain, John [R]
> KY McConnell, Mitch [R]
> AK Murkowski, Frank [R]
> KS Roberts, Pat [R]
> DE Roth, William [?]
> PA Santorum, Richard [R]
> AL Shelby, Richard [R]
> OR Smith, Gordon [R]
> ME Snowe, Olympia [R]
> PA Specter, Arlen [R]
> AK Stevens, Ted [R]
> WY Thomas, Craig [R]
> TN Thompson, Fred [R]
> SC Thurmond, J. [R]
> VA Warner, John [R]

Congressmen and women who voted Yes to deregulating Wall Street and allowing Credit Default Swaps:

> AL-4 Aderholt, Robert [R]
> TX-7 Archer, Bill [R]
> TX-26 Armey, Richard [R]
> AL-6 Bachus, Spencer [R]
> LA-6 Baker, Richard [R]
> NC-10 Ballenger, Cass [R]
> NE-3 Barrett, Bill [R]
> MD-6 Bartlett, Roscoe [R]
> TX-6 Barton, Joe [R]
> NH-2 Bass, Charles [R]
> VA-1 Bateman, Herbert [R]
> NE-1 Bereuter, Douglas [R]
> IL-13 Biggert, Judy [R]
> CA-49 Bilbray, Brian [R]
> FL-9 Bilirakis, Michael [R]
> VA-7 Bliley, Tom [R]
> MO-7 Blunt, Roy [R]
> NY-23 Boehlert, Sherwood [R]
> OH-8 Boehner, John [R]
> TX-23 Bonilla, Henry [R]
> CA-44 Bono Mack, Mary [R]
> TX-8 Brady, Kevin [R]
> TN-7 Bryant, Ed [R]
> NC-5 Burr, Richard [R]
> IN-6 Burton, Dan [R]
> IN-5 Buyer, Stephen [R]
> AL-1 Callahan, H. [R]
> CA-43 Calvert, Ken [R]
> MI-4 Camp, David [R]
> CA-15 Campbell, Tom [R]
> FL-12 Canady, Charles [R]
> UT-3 Cannon, Christopher [R]
> DE-0 Castle, Michael [R]
> OH-1 Chabot, Steven [R]
> GA-8 Chambliss, C. [R]
> ID-1 Chenoweth-Hage, Helen [R]
> NC-6 Coble, Howard [R]
> OK-2 Coburn, Thomas [R]
> GA-3 Collins, Michael [R]
> TX-19 Combest, Larry [R]
> LA-5 Cooksey, John [R]
> CA-47 Cox, C. [R]
> IL-8 Crane, Philip [R]
> WY-0 Cubin, Barbara [R]
> CA-51 Cunningham, Randall [R]
> VA-11 Davis, Thomas [R]
> GA-9 Deal, Nathan [R]
> TX-22 DeLay, Thomas [R]
> SC-4 DeMint, Jim [R]
> FL-21 Diaz-Balart, Lincoln [R]
> AR-4 Dickey, Jay [R]
> CA-4 Doolittle, John [R]
> CA-28 Dreier, David [R]
> TN-2 Duncan, John [R]
> WA-8 Dunn, Jennifer [R]
> MI-3 Ehlers, Vernon [R]
> MD-2 Ehrlich, Robert [R]
> MO-8 Emerson, Jo Ann [R]
> PA-21 English, Philip [R]
> AL-2 Everett, Terry [R]
> IL-15 Ewing, Thomas [R]
> KY-6 Fletcher, Ernest [R]
> FL-16 Foley, Mark [R]
> NY-13 Fossella, Vito [R]
> FL-4 Fowler, Tillie [R]
> NJ-7 Franks, Bob [R]
> NJ-11 Frelinghuysen, Rodney [R]
> CA-23 Gallegly, Elton [R]
> IA-4 Ganske, Greg [R]
> PA-17 Gekas, George [R]
> NV-2 Gibbons, James [R]
> MD-1 Gilchrest, Wayne [R]
> OH-5 Gillmor, Paul [R]
> NY-20 Gilman, Benjamin [R]
> VA-5 Goode, Virgil [R]
> VA-6 Goodlatte, Robert [R]
> PA-19 Goodling, William [R]
> FL-14 Goss, Porter [R]
> SC-3 Graham, Lindsey [R]
> TX-12 Granger, Kay [R]
> WI-8 Green, Mark [R]
> PA-8 Greenwood, James [R]
> MN-1 Gutknecht, Gilbert [R]
> UT-1 Hansen, James [R]
> IL-14 Hastert, J. [R]
> WA-4 Hastings, Doc [R]
> NC-8 Hayes, Robin [R]
> AZ-6 Hayworth, John [R]
> CO-5 Hefley, Joel [R]
> CA-2 Herger, Walter [R]
> MT-0 Hill, Rick [R]
> TN-4 Hilleary, Van [R]
> OH-7 Hobson, David [R]
> MI-2 Hoekstra, Peter [R]
> CA-38 Horn, Stephen [R]
> NY-31 Houghton, Amory [R]
> MO-9 Hulshof, Kenny [R]
> CA-52 Hunter, Duncan [R]
> AR-3 Hutchinson, Asa [R]
> IL-6 Hyde, Henry [R]
> GA-6 Isakson, John [R]
> OK-5 Istook, Ernest [R]
> TN-1 Jenkins, William [R]
> CT-6 Johnson, Nancy [R]
> TX-3 Johnson, Samuel [R]
> NC-3 Jones, Walter [R]
> OH-12 Kasich, John [R]
> NY-19 Kelly, Sue [R]
> NY-3 King, Peter [R]
> GA-1 Kingston, Jack [R]
> MI-11 Knollenberg, Joseph [R]
> AZ-5 Kolbe, James [R]
> CA-36 Kuykendall, Steven [R]
> IL-18 LaHood, Ray [R]
> OK-1 Largent, Steve [R]
> IA-5 Latham, Thomas [R]
> OH-19 LaTourette, Steven [R]
> IA-1 Leach, James [R]
> CA-40 Lewis, Jerry [R]
> KY-2 Lewis, Ron [R]
> GA-11 Linder, John [R]
> NJ-2 LoBiondo, Frank [R]
> OK-6 Lucas, Frank [R]
> IL-16 Manzullo, Donald [R]
> CA-31 Martinez, Matthew [D]
> FL-8 McCollum, Bill [R]
> LA-4 McCrery, James [R]
> NY-24 McHugh, John [R]
> CO-3 McInnis, Scott [R]
> IN-2 McIntosh, David [R]
> CA-25 McKeon, Howard [R]
> WA-2 Metcalf, Jack [R]
> FL-7 Mica, John [R]
> FL-13 Miller, Dan [R]
> CA-41 Miller, Gary [R]
> KS-1 Moran, Jerry [R]
> NC-9 Myrick, Sue [R]
> WA-5 Nethercutt, George [R]
> OH-18 Ney, Robert [R]
> KY-3 Northup, Anne [R]
> GA-10 Norwood, Charles [R]
> IA-2 Nussle, James [R]
> CA-3 Ose, Doug [R]
> OH-4 Oxley, Michael [R]
> CA-48 Packard, Ron [R]
> IN-7 Pease, Edward [R]
> PA-5 Peterson, John [R]
> WI-6 Petri, Thomas [R]
> MS-3 Pickering, Charles [R]
> VA-2 Pickett, Owen [D]
> PA-16 Pitts, Joseph [R]
> CA-11 Pombo, Richard [R]
> IL-10 Porter, John [R]
> OH-2 Portman, Robert [R]
> OH-15 Pryce, Deborah [R]
> NY-30 Quinn, Jack [R]
> CA-19 Radanovich, George [R]
> MN-3 Ramstad, James [R]
> OH-16 Regula, Ralph [R]
> NY-27 Reynolds, Thomas [R]
> AL-3 Riley, Bob [R]
> CA-27 Rogan, James [R]
> KY-5 Rogers, Harold [R]
> CA-45 Rohrabacher, Dana [R]
> FL-18 Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R]
> NJ-5 Roukema, Marge [R]
> CA-39 Royce, Edward [R]
> WI-1 Ryan, Paul [R]
> KS-2 Ryun, Jim [R]
> AZ-1 Salmon, Matt [R]
> NJ-3 Saxton, H. [R]
> FL-1 Scarborough, Joe [R]
> TX-5 Sessions, Peter [R]
> AZ-4 Shadegg, John [R]
> FL-22 Shaw, E. [R]
> CT-4 Shays, Christopher [R]
> PA-10 Sherwood, Donald [R]
> IL-20 Shimkus, John [R]
> PA-9 Shuster, Bill [R]
> ID-2 Simpson, Michael [R]
> NM-2 Skeen, Joseph [R]
> NJ-4 Smith, Christopher [R]
> TX-21 Smith, Lamar [R]
> MI-7 Smith, Nick [R]
> IN-4 Souder, Mark [R]
> SC-2 Spence, Floyd [R]
> FL-6 Stearns, Clifford [R]
> AZ-3 Stump, Robert [R]
> NH-1 Sununu, John [R]
> NY-22 Sweeney, John [R]
> MO-2 Talent, James [R]
> CO-6 Tancredo, Thomas [R]
> LA-3 Tauzin, William [R]
> NC-11 Taylor, Charles [R]
> NE-2 Terry, Lee [R]
> CA-21 Thomas, William [R]
> TX-13 Thornberry, William [R]
> SD-0 Thune, John [R]
> KS-4 Tiahrt, Todd [R]
> PA-15 Toomey, Patrick [R]
> OH-17 Traficant, James [D]
> MI-6 Upton, Frederick [R]
> LA-1 Vitter, David [R]
> OR-2 Walden, Greg [R]
> NY-25 Walsh, James [R]
> TN-3 Wamp, Zach [R]
> OK-3 Watkins, Wes [R]
> OK-4 Watts, J.C. [R]
> FL-15 Weldon, David [R]
> PA-7 Weldon, W. [R]
> IL-11 Weller, Gerald [R]
> KY-1 Whitfield, Edward [R]
> MS-1 Wicker, Roger [R]
> NM-1 Wilson, Heather [R]
> VA-10 Wolf, Frank [R]
> FL-10 Young, C. W. [R]
> AK-0 Young, Donald [R]

What’s really sad is that if they’d simply done their jobs, properly, it’s highly doubtful this legislation would have stood up under even historical scrutiny. This law went so far as to dismantle all the state laws in place to stop regulation. They knew full well what they were doing, and now we’re all paying the price. If any of these idiots are up for election in your state or community, now would be a good time to fire them for screwing up our lives.

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