To All My Friends, this is long, but very important, please take the time to read it.

This election has me very worried.  So many things to consider.  About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since then.  I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another.  I must say this drives my husband crazy.  But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with.  About six months ago, I started thinking “where did the money come from for Obama.“  I have a son that’s graduated from college, a daughter in college and a son preparing for college; we’re middle class, and money is always tight.  We (including my children) worked hard and there are lots of student loans.

I started looking into Obama’s life.

Around 1979, Obama started college at Occidental in California .  He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. “Barry” (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan .  During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a “round the world” trip.  Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia , next Hyderabad in India , three weeks in Karachi , Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family.  My question - **Where did he get the money for this trip?** ! Neither I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they were in college.  When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York .  It is at this time he  wanted everyone to call him Barack - not Barry.  Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia ? It’s not cheap! to say the least.  **Where did he get money for tuition?**  Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia , he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year.  Why Chicago ?  Why not New York ? He was already living in New York .

By “chance”  he met Antoin “Tony” Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria , and a real estate developer in Chicago .  Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year.  Rezko, was named “Entrepreneur of the Decade” by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association.”  About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School .  Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School ?  **Where did he get the money for Law School ?** More student loans?  After Law School , he went back to Chicago . Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down.  But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what?  They represented “Rezar” which is Rezko’s firm.  Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago .  In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with “seed money”  for his U.S. Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price).  With ALL those Student Loans - **Where did he get the money for the property?**  On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased.  Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.

Now, we have Obama running for President.  Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss.  She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first.  Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz , Iran !  Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?

On May 10, 2008, The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was “sacked” after the press found out he was having regular contacts with “Hamas”, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran .  This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq , he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will “Take care of things.”

Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan ?  They are in charge of all those “small” Internet campaign contribution for Obama.  **Where is that money coming from?**  The poor and middle class in this country?  Or could it be from the Middle East ?

And the final bit of news.  On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on “This Week” with George Stephanapoulos.  Obama on talking about his religion said, “My Muslim faith.”  When questioned, “He made a mistake.” Some mistake!

All of the above information I got on line.  If you would like to check it - Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times - September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.

Now the **BIG** question - If I found out all this information on my own, **Why haven’t all of our “intelligent” members of the press been reporting this?**

**A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear - “Beware of the enemy from within”!!!**

PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait… wait… CY: wait… I: wait… L: wait… YCat: wait… I: wait… Top: wait… I: wait… L: wait… C: wait… SD: wait…

Again, I’m not a investor person, a money person or a business person…I’m just a person that uses the Internet - a lot. Personally, I prefer Yahoo! for my searches but use Google’s Adsense (coming to this site soon). All this being said, is Yahoo! being a true yahoo or are they making the deal of the century now that they passed on the Microsoft buy-out?

At first, I thought that Chief Exec, Jerry Yang, was about to have his head served for dinner but it appears he wants to pull off a major coo and go into partnership with Google on their searches and possible make a deal with Time Warner Inc’s AOL.

I can’t say that I’m for or against whatever Yahoo! does but the Yahoo! employees need to care because it appears that jobs will be cut whatever deal Yahoo! accepts. Why is it that when mergers happen that jobs are on the line? I can kind of understand some of the upper-crust losing out or moving to other areas because of too many chiefs or duplicate responsibilities. But, can’t Corporate America find a way to save jobs in spite of mergers, buy-outs or acquisitions? Shouldn’t that be paramount? It’s not like the US has a huge surplus of jobs out there to offer these people.

I don’t know, maybe I need to take some business classes (that’ll be the day…not) but it seems this and other mergers are for the shareholders with no thought of the employees that will lose their jobs. And, if this isn’t bad enough…these employees have been dealing with the stress of the Microsoft buy-out for a year now…and it appears it’s only going to get worse before it gets better. Talk about job stress.

Again, loyal American workers lose out to shareholders that will make a lot of money - leaving the loyal workers…out in the dust.

Just my thoughts…I’d love to hear your’s,

~Diana

Have you ever gone to a website you found interesting, bookmarked it and then…lost it? It doesn’t happen to me very often because I save sites by how I’ll remember them rather than their URL. Unfortunately, a couple weeks ago I saved a site Investorblogger dot com and either I totally blew it on my reference or it unmarked itself from my bookmarks. I have driven myself nuts the past two weeks looking for the site, again and again. Yes, I looked in my history but I had to erase my history twice over the past couple weeks because of a crazy software problem. Ugh!

Normally, I’d have forgotten about the site but I remembered it had so much useful information about investing and money that I couldn’t let it go. You know I’d love to write to you all about both investing and money but I know my strengths and neither of those are mine…not even a little. My son, yes, he’s a genius when it comes to money and investing. But, me? Not in my forte.

Anyway, today I went to one of my forums just to look around. What do you think I found…the word “blogbuzz”. That was it! That’s what I saw the first time I clicked the link to Investorblogger dot com. Immediately, I went to my long lost favorite site. I spent more than two hours reading, reviewing and commenting on the articles and posts. I have to tell you, now that I’ve found my favorite site again (well, favorite outside of my own ;-)…I won’t let it be lost again.

It’s a cool site with loads of info from student credit cards to online money-making tips. Check it out…and don’t make the same mistake I did. Mark it as a favorite right away.

Hugs, Diana