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Beginning October 2008 through October 2009, the U.S. Treasury Department has been bailing out U.S. banks. In efforts to undergird the economy, and stabilize the struggling institutions, over $200 billion has been paid out to over 600 mortgage lenders through the Treasury’s Capital Purchase Program.

Surprisingly, almost $71 billion has been paid back to the U.S. Treasury so far. That’s almost 36 percent of $200 billion being paid back by 41 different banks. Interestingly to note, almost 7 percent of the banks who borrowed federal money owed 36 percent of the government’s capital purchase.

Looking at the extensive list of all lenders included can make your head spin. Names like 1st Enterprise Bank, 1st FS Corp. and 1st Source Corporation start off the registry that progresses to a multitude of variations of Bancorp names, ending on Yadkin Valley Financial Corporation, York Traditions Bank and Zion Bancorporation.

The Freeport State Bank of Harper, Kansas received the lowest bailout in the amount of $301,000. It looks like CitiGroup Inc. and JP Morgan Chase & Co. of New York, along with Wells Fargo & Co. based in California, received the largest bailouts in the amount of $25 billion each. Out of the three lenders receiving the biggest bailouts, only JP Morgan Chase & Co. is noted as having paid anything back to the government. To the credit of JP Morgan Chase & Co., the group has repaid the entirety of the $25 billion borrowed.

Not surprisingly, lenders in New York State lead U.S. territory and states in the Union with $79.5 billion in bailout bucks. The ten states that top the list are:

1. New York State – $79.5 billion
2. North Carolina – $28.6
3. California – $27.6 billion
4. Pennsylvania – $9.4 billion
5. Ohio – $7.65 billion
6. Minnesota – $7 billion
7. Georgia – $6.2 billion
8. Illinois – $4.5 billion
9. Virginia – $4.2 billion
10. Connecticut – $3.8 billion

States in which lenders borrowed the least include the following bottom ten:

1. Washington, D.C. – $6 million
2. Wyoming (all in Buffalo) – $8.1 million
3. Rhode Island – $31 million
4. New Hampshire – $40.8 million
5. New Mexico – $45.5 million
6. Nebraska – $51.6 million
7. Maine – $58.4 million
8. Idaho – $81.7 million
9. Arizona – $83 million
10. North Dakota – $85.8 million

The following states and companies are in the top ten to have paid back bailout money in the amounts indicated:
1. New York State — $51.7 billion
– JP Morgan Chase & Co. – $25 billion
– Goldman Sachs Group Inc. – $10 billion
– Morgan Stanley – $10 billion
– American Express Company – $3.4 billion
– First Niagara Financial Group – $184 million
– Signature Bank – $120 million
– Alliance Financial Corporation – $27 million
– Bank of New York Melon Corp. – $3 billion
2. Minnesota – $7 billion
– U.S. Bancorp – $6.6 billion
– TCF Financial Corp. – $361 million
3. Virginia – $3.7 billion
– Capital One Financial Corp. – $3.55 billion
– First Community Bank Shares – $41.5 million
4. North Carolina – $3.15 billion
– BB&T Corp. – $3.13 billion
– Crescent Financial Corporation – $24.9 million
5. Massachusetts – $2.1 billion
– State Street Corp. – $2 billion
– Independent Bank Corp. – $78 million
– Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc. – $40 million
6. Illinois – $1.6 billion
– Northern Trust Corp. – $1.6 billion
7. New Jersey – $397 million
– Valley National Bancorp – $300 million
– Sun Bancorp, Inc. – $89.3 million
– Somerset Hills Bancorp – $7.4 million
8. California – $248 million
v CVB Financial Corp. – $130 million
– Westamerica Bancorporation – $83.7 million
– Bank of Marin Bancorp – $28 million
– First ULB Corp. – $4.9 million
– Manhattan Bancorp – $1.7 million
9. Washington – $200 million
– Washington Federal Inc. – $200 million
10. Texas – $200 million
– Sterling Bancshares, Inc. – $125 million
– Texas Capital Banchshares, Inc. – $75 million

Don’t let the numbers fool you. Just because a bank borrowed little doesn’t necessarily mean that it is a strong institution. On the contrary, it could be a smaller bank with shallower pockets. That should be even more cause for concern if the bank has not yet repaid borrowed bailout money to the government.

On the other hand, it should be encouraging if your bank is one of the lenders who landed in the top ten list of those who repaid their debt to the government. Also encouraging is that the $150 billion government bailout of the 1980s for the savings and loan debacle served the U.S. economy well. If history repeats itself, this will set the banks on track to overcome the current U.S. economic challenges.

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The majority of school shootings have taken place during Bill Clinton and George W. Bush’s reign. Precisely forty out of forty two shootings. Since its inception, America has always had guns and schools coexisting at about the same time. Yet amazingly forty shootings have taken place during their presidency! Consider also that these forty shootings took place during a period when the number of gun laws and restrictions was growing! At least during the Clinton regime.

Note that I am only including intentional shootings, not accidental gun discharges. Nor am I counting the incidents of carnage involving the use of a car (as in California in 1999) or any other type of instrument. The list of school shootings during the reign of Clinton is as follows: February 9, 1992. Stockton, California, high school, 2 dead. May 1, 1992. Brooklyn, New York, high school, 4 dead, 9 wounded. January 12, 1993. Miami, Florida, high school, 1 dead. January 18, 1993. Grayson, Kentucky, high school, 2 dead. March 25, 1993. St. Louis, Missouri, high school, 1 wounded. May 24, 1993. Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, high school, 1 dead. April 8, 1994. Maryland high school, 1 wounded. February 2, 1996. Moses Lake, Washington, junior high school, 3 dead, 1 wounded. April 15,1996. Washington, District of Columbia, high school, 1 wounded. February 19, 1997. Bethel, Alaska, high school, 2 dead, 2 wounded. May 1, 1997. New York City, New York, high school, 1 wounded. October 1, 1997. Pearl, Mississippi, high school, 2 dead, 7 wounded. December 1, 1997. West Peducah, Kentucky, high school, 3 dead, 5 wounded. December 15, 1997. Stamps, Arkansas, 2 wounded. March 24, 1998. Jonesboro, Arkansas, middle school, 5 dead, 10 wounded. April 24, 1998. Edinboro, Pennsylvania, middle school, 1 dead. April 28, 1998. Pomona, California, elementary school, 2 dead, 1 wounded. May 19, 1998. Fayetteville, Tennessee, high school, 1 dead. May 21, 1998. Springfield, Oregon, high school, 2 dead. June 15, 1998. Richmond, Virginia, high school, 2 wounded. April 20, 1999. Littleton, Colorado, high school, 15 dead, 28 wounded. May 20, 1999. Conyers, Georgia, high school, 6 wounded. November 19, 1999. Deming, New Mexico, middle school, 1 dead. December 6, 1999. Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, middle school, 4 wounded. February 29, 2000. Mount Morris Township, Michigan, elementary school, 1 dead. May 26, 2000. Lake Worth, Florida, middle school, 1 dead. September 26, 2000. New Orleans, Carter G. Woodson Middle School, 2 wounded. August 28, 2000. Fayetteville, Arkansas, University of Arkansas, 2 dead.

So the body count during Clinton’s war on America is fifty one dead and eighty three wounded. The list of school shootings prior to and after Clinton are as follows: August 1, 1966. Austin, Texas, college, 14 dead. July 12, 1976. Fullerton, California, college, 7 dead, 2 wounded. March 5, 2001. Santee, California, high school, 2 dead 13 wounded. March 7, 2001. Williamsport, Pennsylvania, high school, 1 wounded. March 22, 2001. El Cajon, California, high school, 5 wounded. March 30, 2001. Gary, Indiana, high school, 1 dead. January 15, 2002. New York, New York, 2 wounded. January 16, 2002. Grungy, Virginia, law school, 3 dead, 3 wounded. 2003, Case Western Reserve University Law School, 1 dead, 2 wounded. Jan 10, 2003, Orlando, Florida, middle school, 1 dead. September 2003, Cold Spring, MN, high School, 2 dead. March 21, 2005, Bemidji, MN, high school, 10 dead, 15 wounded. October 20, 2005, Saginaw, MI, high school, 1 wounded. November 8, 2005, Jacksboro, TN, high school, 1 dead, 2 wounded.

The body count for all non Clinton school shootings is forty two dead and thirty six wounded. What is the explanation for the fact that 96 percent of the school shootings have taken place during Clinton (aka Bubba) and George W. Bush’s (aka Dubya) presidency? Let us now consider some possible explanations. During the pre Clinton era, there weren’t enough gun laws. Yet, in that same Wild West pre Clinton era, there were only two school shootings! That is to say, during the 215 years (1776 to 1991) of American history, guns were more readily available to our children. Obviously the explanation for the increase in shootings during his reign is not the lack of gun laws.

Is the explanation to be found in the prevalence of drugs? Drugs, whether they are legal or illegal, have been used in America for a long time. Plus, if you count alcohol as a drug, then surely in America’s past when its availability was not as highly regulated and the social morality of its use ebbed and flowed, there would have been a good number of school shootings. However, there wasn’t. The only pre Clinton school shootings took place in August 1966 in Austin, Texas, and in July 1976 in Fullerton, California.

The decade of the 1980s, according to the liberal media, was the decade of greed. A decade when the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. The decade of Reagan and trickle down economics. So then why wasn’t there any school shootings then?

So then let us posit a possible explanation, for discussion, that the cause of the school shootings in the Clinton era (which takes up most of the 1990s) was due to greed. If this explanation were true, then we have to ask what quantum of greed was necessary to cause two school shootings prior to his presidency? Next, how much more greed was present in America during Clinton’s presidency in order to cause twenty eight school shootings? Why was there such a tremendous increase in greed during Clinton’s presidency over all other president’s combined? Plus, why did the greed factor go down in 1995? That was the only year of his presidency in which there were no school shootings.

Additionally, how could greed possibly be the explanation since the 1990s are not a decade of greed? What do we mean by stating that greed might be the explanation for the school shootings? Do we mean to say that the shooters were greedy? Or that the victims were greedy? Who was greedy? Was it the then current president? Who was it? Surely that is important to know. Plus, how much greed was necessary to initiate the school shootings?

Are we to believe that if a certain person or persons have a certain amount of greed, then that will cause school children to grab guns and start shooting people at school? Greed is not therefore the cause of the school shootings. Greed alone can’t explain why 96 percent of the school shootings happened during Bubba and Dubya’s presidency versus being statistically spread out during the majority of the other president’s terms.

Could we offer in explanation that our schools during Bubba and Dubya’s terms have been unsafe or are more unsafe? If that were true then we would have to state that in the pre Clinton years, when schools were safe or safer, that there were only two shootings. So how were schools different back then? Simple–back then schools didn’t have metal detectors, mandatory uniforms, zero tolerance policies, class sizes were larger, there were not as many gun laws as now, and there was greater access to guns. Additionally, about thirty years ago, prayers were routinely said in class, as was the pledge of allegiance, and classes were always taught in English.

I would offer that the only primary explanation is that Satan is causing these tragic events. This is the opportune time for him to act. In light of the numerous examples of Clinton’s acts of the sinful nature, it is apparent that he belongs to the Devil. “He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning….This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God” (1 John 3:8, 10). Christ said of the devil, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy” (John 10:10).All people are born in sin and are members of Satan’s tribe, so to speak.

So where does Dubya fit in? Easy. The bible says; “But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.” 1 Cor. 5:11. Dubya has from day one worked to protect and honor the spirit of the anti Christ in Bubba. Remember that on the day of Dubya’s first inauguration, when there was a boat load of evidence that the Clintons and their ilk defaced, destroyed, and stole property from the White House, Dubya firmly put his foot down to make sure there was only an appearance of an investigation into those acts.

Continuing on during Dubya’s presidency, we find that he and his father have grown closer and closer to Bubba and his wife. Numerous articles have been written about this budding romance. See for example the following articles; (1) Conservatives Irked Over BushClinton Loveless, June 15, 2004 Newsman article; (2) Presidents: Bubba and Dubya-Warming Up, January 8, 2005, MSNBC article; (3) Clinton, Bush in Super Bowl Tsunami Pitch, January 27, 2005, Newsman article; (4) Bush Picks Brains of Clinton, Father, April 9, 2005, Washington times article; (5) President Asks Bush and Clinton to Assist In Hurricane Relief Effort, September 1, 2005, The White House press release.

Clearly God said to have nothing to do with such a brother as quoted above. Bubba certainly fills that description. Even more certain is both Bush’s flagrantly violating God’s Word. Dubya has even said in effect that only Bubba could understand his life since they are both presidents. What that really is saying is that because both of us are sinners, and we share the same job description (or life experience, or had the same women, or robbed the same people, et cetera), it is only natural and beneficial that we have dinner together. That we have fellowship together. Yet God said to have nothing to do with that sinner. Not even have dinner with him or her.

It thus seems to me that we must conclude that God is wrong. That 2nd Corinthians was but inspired vacuous verbal vomit (IV3 or cubed). That Mark is all fouled up. However, the reality is that by living the lives they have, these two men alone have provided an opportunity for 96% of all school shootings to take place in America. Some say even though Satan came but to steal, kill, and destroy, this aberrant statistic is meaningless. All those who were killed, wounded, and their ravaged families are just supposed to be “comforted” and deal with their loss while we are told to trust these two men? How about agreeing with God’s Word? Especially after seeing the devastation the disobedience of Bubba and Dubya have caused on America.

It is the citizens of the kingdom of darkness that are expected to continuously exhibit the fruits of the sinful nature as mentioned in Galatians 5 above. This was mentioned by the apostle John in 1 John 3:9. He wrote, “No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.” Clearly, by examining the actions of Clinton as provided in my book, the only conclusion to be reached is that he belongs to Satan. Clinton enjoys incredible favor with the Devil. It can be said that as far as the United States is concerned, he is the Devil’s number one.

Why was this the opportune time for the Devil to cause 67 percent of the school shootings in America? And 96% of them during Bubba and Dubya’s presidency. That is the question, my friend. That is the question that must be answered so that appropriate action can be taken. Let us examine another element of the ballyhooed Clinton legacy. That is the extraordinary increase in “hate” web sites as tracked by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. According to them, the number of hate web sites prior to the Oklahoma City bombing was only four. Afterwards, it grew to over 2,500! Naturally we have to ask why the sudden increase after that act of domestic terrorism.

You will recall that the Oklahoma City bombing happened on April 15, 1995. That year was the only year in which no school shootings took place during his reign. The Oklahoma bombing killed 168 Americans. We know that according to Jesus (as recorded in the book of John, chapters 8:44 and 10:10), Satan “…was a murder from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him,” and “The thief comes only to steal kill and destroy.”

Could the twenty eight school shootings have taken place during Clinton’s time as president out of mere coincidence? Or was it rather that during his reign, the time was right for Satan to come in and kill 219 people and wound about 100 others though these two means alone? What are the possible reasons to explain the explosive growth in hate sites on the Internet? Is it Gore’s fault since he claims to have invented the Internet? Why should the incredible ease to post opinions and stories on the Internet give rise to such a tremendous number of hate sites since 1995?

Could it be that all the people haters suddenly went online in 1995? That’s not a likely explanation, so what other reason could there be? Were all the people haters suddenly paid to spread their message on the Internet? Was all this hate mongering a part of a vast left wing conspiracy? If so, where is the evidence to support such an explanation? Moreover, why did the sites pop up after the Oklahoma bombing? Was this all part of a well orchestrated ploy by Attorney General Janet Reno to discredit the Internet and demonstrate a reason for its being regulated, licensed, and taxed by the federal government?

One thing is for sure–it is easy to demonstrate that the continuous actions and words of Clinton and his administration testify that they are citizens of Satan’s kingdom. Therefore, it should not be surprising that Satan used this man’s time in office, and Dubya’s embrace of him, to spread death and destruction all across America. This result should be as much expected by Americans as the daily rising of the sun in the east.

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, ® Copyright © 1973, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.

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Mark B. Replogle is a California attorney at law. His practice is dedicated to bankruptcy law. He is the author of two books; Saviour Clinton: An Evil American King, and How To Hear and Discern The Voice of God. From 2003 to 2005 he served with the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Marine Forces Pacific. During that period he was fortunate enough to serve in Bahrain in 2003, in South Korea for two exercises, and in Oahu, Hawaii.
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Plant Flower Bulbs For Beautiful Container Gardening   by Mary Hanna

As a group,flower bulbs are outstanding plants–colorful, showy, and generally easy to grow for container gardening. Many have evergreen foliage; with others, the leaves ripen after flowering and the bulbs are stored and started again, year after year. Some flower bulbs are hardy, others, tender, though what is, and is not hardy, in a particular area is a matter of winter temperature averages. In cold regions, tender types–tuberous begonias, gloxinias, and calla lilies–can be treated like summer in container gardens. This gives the gardener a wide variety to grow from earliest spring to late fall.

Dutch flower bulbs include crocus, snowdrops, eranthis or winter aconites, chionodoxas, scillas, grape hyacinths, leucojums or snowflakes, Dutch hyacinths, daffodils, and tulips, the pride of northern spring gardens. Though hardy, they are not adapted to garden containers outdoors where temperatures drop much below freezing. They require the protection of a shed, unheated cellar or cold frame. Gardening Pots can also be dug into a trench in the ground for the winter and covered with a thick blanket of marsh hay or straw. Where temperatures do not go below freezing, Dutch flower bulbs can be left outdoors in gardening pots over the winter.

For best results in a container garden, start with fresh, firm, large-sized flower bulbs each fall. Insure good drainage in the bottom of each garden pot and use a light soil with bone meal added. If in clay pots, plunge during the rooting period in damp peat moss to prevent rapid drying out. If this occurs too often, roots will be injured and flowers will be poor. When weather permits, after the danger of freezing passes, put your container garden outside where they are to flower or in a nursery row until they reach the bud stage. After blooming, move your container garden where foliage can ripen unseen.

For fragrance, concentrate on Dutch hyacinths, excellent for bedding large planter boxes or raised beds. Daffodils look well grouped around trees or large shrubs, as birches and forsythias. Tulips, formal in character, combine delightfully with pansies, violas, wall flowers, forget-me-nots, marguerites, English daisies, and annual candytuft in container gardens.

As already indicated, in cold areas, Dutch flower bulbs cannot be potted or planted in small window boxes and left outdoors unprotected for the winter. They can, however, be set out in large planters and boxes, deep and wide enough to contain plenty of soil. The garden pots should be one and a half to two feet deep and about two feet wide. Set flower bulbs, with at least six inches of soil above them, planting them early enough in the fall so that they can make root growth before soil freezes hard. In penthouse gardens in New York City, Dutch bulbs have been grown successfully in this way, but it is always a risk. It makes no difference whether garden pots are made of wood, concrete, or other material; it is the amount of soil they hold that counts.

Actually, it is not the freezing of the soil that injures flower bulbs (this occurs in open ground), but it is the pressure and counter pressure exerted by frost on the sides of containers, which are firm and do not give. As a result, flower bulbs are bruised and thrust out of the soil, their roots torn. Where there is no hard freeze, but sufficient cold weather, hardy flower bulbs can be grown successfully in garden containers of small size.

Here is a partial list of flower bulbs that thrive in container gardens. They will help you with your container garden design

Achimenes are warmth-loving trailing plants with neat leaves and tubular flowers in blue, lavender, red and white. Related to gloxinias and African violets, they are nice in hanging baskets and window boxes or in garden pots on tables, shelves, or wall brackets. Start the small tubers indoors and give plants a sheltered spot with protection from strong sun and wind. Achimenes, an old standby in the South, is worthy of more frequent planting.

Agapanthus or Blue Lily of the Nile is a fleshy-rooted evergreen plant, with strap leaves, often grown in tubs and urns on terraces and steps during the summer, when the tall blue spikes unfold. Culture is easy, but plants require a well-lighted, frost proof room or greenhouse in winter. This is an old-time favorite, often seen in the gardens of Europe. It is a perfect flower bulb for container gardening.

The Calla Lily is Showy, and outdoors in warmer regions, but a tender pot plant in the North. Most familiar is the white one with large, shiny, heart-shaped leaves. Start bulbs indoors in February or March in rich soil and, when weather settles, transfer to large gardening pots and take outdoors. Calla lilies do well in full sun or part shade, are heavy feeders and need much water. There is also a dainty yellow one with white-spotted leaves. Rest your flower bulbs after foliage ripens and grow again.

Colorful and free-flowering Dahlias provide bounteous cut blooms. Tall, large-flowering kinds can be grown only in large planters and boxes, but the dwarfs, even freer flowering, are excellent in small garden containers. Attaining one to two feet tall, they grow easily from tubers in average soil in sun or part shade. They may also be raised from seed sown indoors in February. If tubers are stored in peat or sand in a cool, frost proof place, they can be grown for years. Check bulbs during winter, and if shriveling, sprinkle lightly.

Gladiolus, the summer-flowering plant has spear like leaves and many hued spikes. Corms can be planted in garden containers outdoors after danger of frost is passed. Set them six inches apart and four to six inches deep. The best way to use these in container gardening is to planting a few every two to three weeks, giving you a succession of bloom in your container garden. Stake stems before flowers open. After the leaves turn brown, or there is a frost, lift corms, cut off foliage and dust with DDT to control the tiny sucking thrips. After dusting, store corms in a dry place at 45 to 55 degrees F for future planting.

Gloxinias, another Summer-flowering plant and tender with large, tubular blooms of red, pink, lavender, purple, or white, and broad velvety rosettes of leaves. Start tubers indoors and don’t take outside until weather is warm. Since the leaves are easily broken or injured by wind or rain, put plants in a sheltered spot. The low broad eaves of contemporary houses, with restricted sun, offer an appropriate setting for rows of pots or window boxes filled with gay gloxinias.

Now you have some great ideas for your container garden design. It’s time now to start planting your flower bulbs.

Happy Container Gardening!

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About the Author

About the Author
Mary Hanna is an aspiring herbalist who lives in Central Florida. This allows her to grow gardens inside and outside year round. She has published other articles on Cruising, Gardening and Cooking. Visit her websites at http://www.CruiseTravelDirectory.com, http://www.ContainerGardeningSecrets.com, and http://www.GardeningHerb.com
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