Parents of Adolf Hitler lose custody battle

This action by New Jersey authorities proves there are reasons for government intervention. From the Toronto Star (Canada)

The parents of little Adolf Hitler and Aryan Nation have lost their attempt to regain custody of a newborn boy.

Heath and Deborah Campbell went to court Monday in Flemington, N.J., after authorities seized the newborn at the hospital when he was born five days earlier.

The couple’s three older children, all with Nazi-inspired names, are in foster care.

“They kidnapped our kid,” Heath Campbell, with a large swastika on his neck and a Hitler-style moustache, said outside the courtroom. “They look at you because of what you wear. I’m German, so what?”

Deborah Campbell said nothing, but left the courthouse in tears.

She had earlier told the Lehigh Valley Express-Times the doctor who delivered Hons Campbell on Thursday called the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services. The infant remains at Hunterdon Medical Centre.

The Campbells lost custody of Adolf Hitler Campbell, now 5, and his little sisters JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, now 4, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell (said to be a feminine version of Nazi police commander Heinrich Himmler), now 3, in 2009.

Heath and Deborah had famously been refused a birthday cake for little Adolf Hitler in 2008 by a supermarket that refused to inscribe the boy’s name on it. They refused Shop-Rite’s offer of a generic birthday cake.

Evidence of abuse and threatening behaviour caused an appeals division of the New Jersey Superior Court in 2010 to uphold the custody removal order.

Heath Campbell, the court said, was “unemployed throughout his adult life because of medical and psychological disabilities” and cannot read. Deborah Campbell, a Grade 10 dropout, was also out of work “because of physical and psychological conditions.”

Heath Campbell had been married twice before and a restraining order exists to prevent him from contacting one ex-wife and their children because of violent behaviour.

Five-year-old Adolf Hitler called women “bitch,” and threatened to kill his sister with a vacuum cleaner, all behaviour he learned from his father, the court said.

Deborah Campbell was also described in court documents as a “seriously disturbed woman, who demonstrated hysteria, paranoia, and disordered thinking.”

She had given a neighbour a note about her fears her husband would kill her.

Supercommittee Failure is no Surprise

U. S. government deficit reduction has a failed history.

In 1985, the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (GRH) began the process by establishing deficit targets and a sequestration process requiring cuts if the limits were exceeded. As the Senate Budget Committee’s history of the budget process recounts, GRH is widely viewed as unsuccessful because it failed to reduce the deficit. While the law was intended to balance the budget by FY 1991, during FY 1986-1990 the actual deficit exceeded the target in every year. The sequestration process was also criticized after Congress proceeded to add a long list of exemptions and other gimmicks.

In November 2010 The White House’s fiscal commission’s co-chairs, Erskine Bowles and former-Senator Alan Simpson drafted their recommendations for deficit reduction. No action taken based upon their recommendations.

More recently President Obama pinned his hopes on avoiding an unprecedented government default on a new bipartisan compromise that would raise the debt limit as part of a $3.7trillion package of spending cuts and tax changes. The compromise resulted in no spending cuts.

This latest committee was staffed with some of the most strident member of Congress. Senator John Kyle (R) ofArizona and Senator John Kerry (D) ofMassachusetts are two of the best examples of “my way or the highway” attitude. We all know their positions. This new committee was doomed from day 1.

It is sad to say they cannot look across the Atlantic to see what their no compromise philosophy will bring. Today’s stock market collapse ought to send a message but it won’t be heard.

Las Médulas, SPAIN

From Our Place World Heritage

Site of the Day: Las Médulas Our Place World Heritage Photographer: Geoff Mason (New Zealand)

In the 1st century A.D. the Roman Imperial authorities began to exploit the gold deposits of this region in north-west Spain, using a technique based on hydraulic power. After two centuries of working the deposits, the Romans withdrew, leaving a devastated landscape. Since there was no subsequent industrial activity, the dramatic traces of this remarkable ancient technology are visible everywhere as sheer faces in the mountainsides and the vast areas of tailings, now used for agriculture.

It is time for a THIRD PARTY

Wow. We are beginning to look like Greece! What the hell is going on with this country? It seems to me that both parties in Congress are willing to sell their children’s future. What a bunch of untrustworthy crooks in Congress. It is time for a THIRD PARTY & to kick out all the ones there now.

Almost every news outlet says the chance of a budget deal by November 23 is not likely to happen. Will this latest budget fiasco result in another down grade by S&P? There is a real possibility!

Herman Cain is correct is saying a real business man is needed to manage this nation. He is just not the right man.

I want to see New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, run for the presidency. He is both a successful businessman and a successful politician. I am not alone.

Ben McGrath, writing in The New Yorker, on November 15, says Bloomberg has entertained the idea repeatedly.

Michael! Now is the time!

Technology Is Destroying Jobs

Erick Schonfeld, writing for Circuitnet.com authored a piece where he wrote in part:

Many of us take for granted that technology is the brightest spot in the economy, where most of the innovation and job creation occurs. But if you look more broadly at the impact of technology across every industry, it doesn’t look so great. Technology makes businesses more efficient, often by eliminating the need for repetitive tasks and the workers who do them. We are not replacing those jobs with enough new, higher-skilled ones to make up for the loss.

So what we are seeing in the U.S.over the past decade is productivity growth without the job growth that usually comes with it. Traditionally, productivity growth and job growth went hand in hand, but that is no longer the case. Annual productivity growth in the U.S. between 2000 and 2009 was 2.5%, a faster rate than at any time since the 1960s. Yet the last decade saw the total number of jobs decline by 1.1 percent.

Mr. Schonfeld is merely confirming what most of us already knew. Automation replaces jobs with computer controlled devices. Computers make determinations on stock trades and control the robotic arms that perform welding functions in the manufacture of cars.

What our society has not done is face the reality of a world where it takes fewer people to fulfill our needs. How do we employ all of those displaced people? Should we require their employment at all? If not, how will those unemployed people occupy their time? Where is the money to pay their living expenses? Does this situation indicate that millions of people will never become part of the top 20% much less the 1%?

THE PRICE OF WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

Total U.S. military deaths in Operation Enduring Freedom as of Sept. 30:

1,777

Total Taliban deaths:

10,000 -20,000

Total Afghan National
Security Forces killed through July:

5,681

Total Afghan civilian deaths:

12,500 -14, 700

Total cost through 2012:

$557.1 billion

SOURCES FOR THIS DATA IS NEWSWEEK: THEY COLLECTED THE DATA FROM MULTIPLE RELIABLE SOURCES (October 11, 2011 edition)

Joe Paterno & Child Abuse in America

Joe Paterno’s motto “Success with honor” was just words without deeds. He is at fault for child abuse. It is an act that society cannot tolerate. From USA Today “In 46 seasons as coach, Paterno built a football powerhouse while touting academics, ethics. But a scandal ended his career prematurely.” Paterno probably won’t be prosecuted but he deserves to be ostracized from society. However, just in case he he is prosecuted he has hired an experienced attorney who regularly represents companies in civil and criminal investigations according to The Washington Post.

It’s something we rarely talk about but just Google “incest in America” and you will find an extraordinary amount of information and most likely mis-information. Many of our states do not allow abortions except in the case of incest or rape. Is that because it is so prevalent?

Child sexual abuse has been reported up to 80,000 times a year, but the number of unreported instances is far greater, because the children are afraid to tell anyone what has happened, and the legal procedure for validating an episode is difficult. The problem should be identified, the abuse stopped, and the child should receive professional help. The long-term emotional and psychological damage of sexual abuse can be devastating to the child. More on this subject here.

1. Wikipedia: Prevalence of incest between parents and their children is difficult to assess due to secrecy and privacy; some estimate that 20 million Americans were…

2. AMERICA’S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET: CHILD ABUSE AND INCEST …

http://thecapt.blog-city.com /americas_dirty_little_se… – 50k – similar pages

May
31, 2006 … Here in the U.S. we give a lot of lip service to looking out and caring for children but the reality is different. Actions speak louder than words.

3. About Us | RAINN |Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network

http://www.rainn.org/about-rainn – 26k – similar pages

“One of America‘s 100 Best Charities — Worth Magazine”. The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization. …

4. Incest – National Center for Victims of Crime

http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx dbName=DocumentViewer&DocumentID=32360
– 81k – similar pages

One of the nation’s leading researchers on child sexual abuse, David Finkelhor, estimates that 1,000,000 Americans are victims of father-daughter incest, and …

Still Too Big To Fail!

Despite what was said at the last GOP debate, no one wants to see America’s biggest businesses fail. We will do what ever it takes to prevent that kind of event. Both political parties have decided that when the day is done this United States government cannot permit its largest business enterprises to collapse.
Ten Largest Banks in the U.S.

So which are the ten largest banks by deposits? This according to bargaineering.com.

Bank of America: $907.3b in deposits, TARP participant.
Wells Fargo: $759.7b in deposits, TARP participant.
JPMorgan Chase: $639.7b in deposits, TARP participant.
Citibank: $320.8b in deposits, TARP participant.
PNC Bank: $188.1b in deposits, TARP participant.
US Bancorp: $151.9b in deposits, TARP participant.
Sun Trust: $118.5b in deposits, TARP participant.
Capital One Financial: $114.3b in deposits, TARP
participant.
Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank: $104.8b in deposits, as a Canadian bank it was not eligible for TARP funds.
BB&T: $95.0b in deposits, 2.12% market share, TARP participant.

Infoplease.com provided a list of the banks by assets.

1. Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte,NC) $2,340,667,014

2. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (New York,NY) $2,135,796,000

3. Citigroup Inc.(New York,NY) $2,002,213,000

4. Wells Fargo & Company (San Francisco,CA) $1,223,630,000

5. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., The (New York,NY) $880,677,000

6. Morgan Stanley (New York,NY) $819,719,000

7. Metlife, Inc. (New York,NY) $565,566,452

8. Barclays Group US Inc. (Wilmington,DE) $427,837,000

9. Taunus Corporation (New York,NY) $364,079,000

10. HSBC North America Holdings Inc. (New York, NY) $345,382,871

Another GOP Debate, Another Waste of Time

No wonder so many Republicans are looking for another
candidate.

Mitt Romney came in as the presumed GOP leader before tonight’s debate and no one laid a glove on him. That makes him the winner of the event. For the most part the CNBC questioners stayed on topic. Questioning of Herman Cain’s character was not appropriate at this event and the questions were appropriately booed by the audience.

Rick Perry’s inability to remember his basic theme of three governmental agencies he would eliminate was such a bad stumble that he may no longer be a viable candidate.

Rick Santorum’s call for no income tax for manufacturing companies was not adequately discussed.

The willingness of all the candidates to allow the failing
of European nations and particularly Italy showed me a lack of understanding of the interconnectivity of the things that can
impact the United States.

The discussion surrounding China showed a lack of understanding of that nation. China, after all, is the world’s second largest economy. They are a major exporter to the United States and are a major holder of our federal debt.

The lack of a solution to help fund college education showed a complete disconnect with the American public.

Which one of these candidates will be able to stand up to Barack Obama in presidential debates? I have not heard one yet.

Extremism Rejected

Finally some evidence that Americans reject extremist views. Ohio voters reject Republican-backed union limits (about 61 percent voted to reject the law) and Mississippi defeats life-at-fertilization ballot prop (rejected by more than 55 percent of voters) reassured me that a majority of us rejects ideas that trample our rights to unionize and supports a woman’s right to obtain a needed abortion.

Just as most of us would reject extreme Republican views we would reject extreme Democratic views. Most Americans are unhappy with the Obama health plan because it interferes with individual right to decide the need for health care insurance.

According to the Public Policy Institute of California the share of independent voters continues to increase. The share of California voters who say they are independent or decline to state a party continues to rise and is now at 20.4% (3.5 million voters; it was 18.8% or 2.9 million in 2007.

Where will this independence lead? More people are refusing to vote party line on ballots. That could lead to a more representative government where public opinion really does count.