Judging from what I have read so far, it seems that you don’t take kindly to Palin, and all the fanfare she has been getting lately in the heartland, and one of the examples that you posted about: Alaska being #2 in hunger, in the US.

Surprisingly, I saw North Dakota at the bottom of the list at #51! (I thought there were only 50 states, but I guess you have to count DC as a separate state, for these purposes.)

Anyway, I shouldn’t be so surprised that North Dakota IS at the bottom of the list, as they appear to be one of four states, that are not running a budget deficit. I forget what the other four are.

The reason as to why, (reading from numerous sites pointing to this anomaly) is the way North Dakota handles the state’s BANKING and Financial matters (they have their own state bank, and handle matters in certain ways, counter to all the other states)

What does this have to do with hunger? Well, It could be because North Dakota’s bank is a Farmer’s bank. and the way that they handle
food-financials in that state, and the fact that the State government uses that bank as their bank for payroll, accounts, and what-ever-else.
(but I suppose you could come up with better reasons than I.)

Anyway…I’d like to take a moment and ask if you saw Defeat the Debt’s YT site, lately. Sure, those doing research about the organization will report that it’s Berman’s front for the Corporate Lobbying that he’s doing, for Corporations that want not to see the minimum wage raised. I’ve seen numeroous websites claiming that Berman is a snake, a shyster, whatever…but, perhaps, like you, my first exposure to Berman was through watching the “Pledge” video…seeing all those kids pledge allegiance to America’s National Debt, “and to the Chinese government that lends us money”

And amidst all the “China OWNS us” crap that keeps getting chanted like some drunken prayer, in the media. I decided to actually do something about it: submit to Berman a solution!

Here’s my whole idea: What if…we could pay off the national debt…with just ONE COIN? Sounds too impossible to even take a second to think about it?

Here…try this idea: What if…we took the whole tax burden that America now pays to, not only service the national debt, as well as the government services, that we “enjoy” (:-/), and,
take it OFF the shoulders of working americans, be they rich or poor, or whatever…increase it up 100-FOLD, and place it on the shoulders of the Federal Reserve Corporate Entity?

And through simple paperwork (Fed sending promissory note to Treasury, and Treasury sending the “COIN” or the “Tax Credit Certificate”), done in whatever government offices, This “Coin” that I speak about, will help to do EXACTLY what I said it would do! And Government no longer needs to float another BOND (savings or otherwise) to obtain funds to pay for anything, meaning that THE DEBT, STOPS GROWING!

In other words, we use our central bank to be the “beast of burden” that Congress, unwittingly, made it to be.

Doesn’t anyone here realize that when Congress made the FED, and the IRS in 1913 Congress made the very tools that it COULD HAVE USED to create money DEBT-FREE, AND without having to take from your pockets to do it!

Sure doesn’t seem like it, now, does it? Well, it’s probably because of hard-headed backward thinking, from all involved parites. The misplaced sense of justice, when we utter “Pay your FAIR SHARE”, because no one thinks anyone else is doing that, and everyone thinks they themselves are paying UNFAIR SHARES…

Here. Let me stop here, and let you go and look at my proposal. It’s in the channel comments over at http://www.youtube.com/defeatthedebt, right underneath the video, at the bottom of the channel page.

Again, my internet handle is Kapt. Blasto, and you can find my little? messages at various places across the web by googling my handle “kapt blasto” and reading whatever you want to read. Yes you’ll find my missives on a whole plethora of things, and even previous thoughts concerning the FED and the IRS, that has been transformed into what I’m proposing now.

My full name’s on my driver’s license, credit cards, and my Social Security card. They have me with a first name, a last name, and an initial for the middle.

But my real name, I was blessed to have my mother give me:

My name’s Augie. how the hell are you?

And not only do I approve this message. I wrote it, too! So THERE!

have a blessed turkey day, folks…and don’t eat too much!

As another fan in CA, I share your view of Cafe Press. If they had to do a poll to figure out that the Ps 109 stuff was objectionable, they are prima facie worthless.

No more business from me.

Quotes from ACLU and ADL reps are given in the article at the Christian Science Monitor. The ADL rep is particularly senseless, I think.
“If they’re just referring to him being out of office, that’s one thing. If they’re referring to him being dead, that’s so offensive. It’s protected speech, but it’s clearly offensive.”
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/11/16/biblical-anti-obama-slogan-use-of-psalm-1098-funny-or-sinister/

Remember to scroll down to the meaty bits:

http://www.billoreilly.com/show;jsessionid=97EF205920733D48A29D00E20B4AEA73?action=viewTVShow&showID=2476#1

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shaw/reading-the-pictures-iwhe_b_364903.html

I will no longer order ANYTHING from ANY vendor through CafePress. Because your site allows Obama Psalm 109:8 materials, I can no longer have ANY of my money going to you. I was an Obama supporter, as I voted for George W. Bush — i don’t care who the President is, this type of hate speech and wishing for the President’s death is inexcusable and I refuse to support any group or vendor (including you as the site host) who allows and implicitly supports this type of “call to action”.

Sorry to be sending you no more money and sorry that you did not exercise better judgment.