Amy, I did not mean to offend you. I understand that theirs was a stitched-together affair of Nordic deities and Indic/Aryan beliefs. Please suffice it to say that the Nazis were not Christian in any real sense (and no offense meant.) :)

Thank you, Kevin! I' m going to go ahead and look into your recommendation. I've heard that Coolidge was a much better President than we've been led to believe (wonder why), and my Dad told me a billion years ago that Hitler/Mussolini/Tojo solved the Depression issue - not FDR. Cheers!

Person posting here as "William Kristol", are you a socialist of any kind? Yes, I know that there is no such thing as "socialism" and/or "it has never been done right". Correct? And that's why you get to say that you would never, never, not under any circumstances, do what socialists have done over and over again. You would never ever ever aid and abet the eventual murder of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions of human beings who simply could not understand Social Justice" and "Goodness for All"- correct? Comrade?

Wow. So way off topic. And here I thought I was bad! Okay, let's talk about Hitler and the Nazis (National Socialist Workers Party) and the homosexual, anti-Christian genesis of the Shoah (the Holocaust). The pagan Nazis wanted to get back to the good old days of sodomy and pederasty which they so much enjoyed (see the Pink Swastika, Abrams, Lively) and idolized from the ancient world, and the God of Abraham didn't approve. Solution (final)? Kill the Jews. Strange thinking, but...I don't claim to speak for that ...type.

I've heard her name, going to pick it up! Thanks!

The socialists are using the same old tools to take power as they always have: One of the consequences of the Financial Crisis was Dodd-Frank which has essentially put the Community Banks out of business - because of the Dodd-Frank capital requirements. This has enabled the "Too Big To Fail Banking" system which has helped to put Americans trillions of dollars deeper into the hole, the hole from which O & Co have no intention whatsoever of removing either us, or our children. Ever. Welcome, slave.

Socialists delight in lying about what caused the disaster. They ignore the role Congress had in giving Wall Street the green light to do it. Look to James Lockhart's testimony before Congress warning about the risks Fannie/Freddy posed to the market. From May 2006, Lockhart - first as director of OFHEO (Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight) and later as CEO of the Federal Housing Finance Agency under Bush - repeatedly warned of the systemic risks that Fannie and Freddie posed to the market. He testified before Congress in favor of stronger legislation and regulatory power a number of times but was ignored until too late, thanks to Chris Dodd in the Senate (and Bawnie in the House). Wall Street wasn't able to do this alone.

While the moratorium has been rescinded, the pace of oil drilling permits approved by the Department of Interior has been extremely slow and the new offshore areas that were to be opened based on Congressional action in 2008 have essentially been put on hold. Similarly, an estimated 10.4 billion barrels of oil in a small portion of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been placed off limits to energy production until US government policy allows it. It is beyond comprehension that the administration would encourage trade for Brazilian oil while obstructing U.S. oil and natural gas development, eliminating related jobs here at home, and decreasing oil and gas revenues to the U.S. Treasury when the nation is trillions in debt.

BLM offices in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming issued 834 leases in FY 2010, a 67% drop from the 2,499 leases issued in FY2005 ... BLM issued 76% fewer acres in FY2010 than it did in FY2005 ... In the first two years of the Obama administration, DOI issued 72% fewer acres than the first two years of the Clinton administration, and 67% fewer acres than the first two years of the Bush administration ...

Analysis by Louisiana State University professor Joseph Mason projects national job losses at 19,000 from the drilling moratorium, with wage losses at $1.1 billion. About one-third of those jobs are located outside the Gulf region. ... The Obama Administration's deliberate delay in issuing permits for both deepwater and shallow-water drilling has led to a sharp decline in oil production for the Gulf of Mexico this year. The U.S. Energy Information Administration puts the figure at 240,000 fewer barrels every day. ...