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"THE MOB OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE OF MUSIC AT THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION" 9/6/1901

The exposition is most remembered because U.S. President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, at the Temple of Music on September 6, 1901. McKinley had given an address at the exposition the previous day; his speech included the following words:

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. They record the world's advancements. They stimulate the energy, enterprise, and intellect of the people, and quicken human genius. They go into the home. They broaden and brighten the daily life of the people. They open mighty storehouses of information to the student....

The newly-developed X-ray machine was displayed at the fair, but doctors were reluctant to use it on McKinley to search for the bullet because they did not know what side effects it may have had on him. Also, ironically, the operating room at the exposition's emergency hospital did not have any electric lighting, even though the exteriors of many of the buildings were covered with thousands of light bulbs. Doctors used a pan to reflect sunlight onto the operating table as they treated McKinley's wounds.

For the last couple years, I, as founder of the Jmaximus Institute of Freedom, have been trying to promote the idea that there is a great untapped potential in using the Great Lakes for Wind [Power] Farms. When I contatced the state and federal authorities, none of them would provide any help and in fact told me "my idea was not realistic". Now it appears that others have either read some of my articles or came to similar conclusions long after I did, because now according to MSN:

Government and industry officials are set to meet in Madison and Toledo, Ohio, this month to talk about the prospects for installing giant electricity-generating windmills out in the Great Lakes.

Read more about it here. You see one of my old posts on this subject here. Am I bitter? No, I just wish I would have not listened to the naysayers and followed up on this...

New Energy Break through! Experiments Examine Hydrogen-Production Benefits Of Clean Coal Imagine the economic impact on our economy if all of the sudden we could get all or part of our energy needs from right here in the United States. [The US imports 10,088,000 barrels/day of crude oil.] There is massive untapped coal deposits in the Appalachian Mountains and out west, just waiting to be used. Clean, non-polluting Platinum Fuel Cells use hydrogen [H] for fuel. The cheapest source of hydrogen is: COAL.

President Bush is pushing a "Medical Savings Account" as a subsitute for regular health insurance, but according to a report on 60 Minutes "Hospitals: Is the Price Right? - CBS News", hospitals charge you up to 10 times as much if don't have insurance. Several weeks ago, I mentioned this fact in a previous post. In it I discuss how Bush's plan is bad. Medical Savings Accounts are rip-off's to begin with. The cheapest one I found has a deductable of $10,000 dollars, and then covers next to nothing, and still costs $200/month. Then you have the fact that people don't have the knowledge that the insurance companies do on the real fair market value of medical services.

Doctors simply won't give you this information ahead of time.

Can you image if you went to Walmart and they charged you $50/pound for Catfish if you paid cash or $5/pound if you paid with a credit card? This kind of price gouging should be banned, and health care providers should have to publish prices that apply to everyone equally.

For years now, real wages for America's middle class have been declining, yet somehow America's excutives pay has skyrocketed, according a CBS report "Exec's Big $lice Of American Pie - CBS News" based on a study done by Harvard Law School grad. It says that the Top 5 excutives at a company are paid nearly 10% of that companies gross earnings. When you subtract expenses, in some cases, a single exec might be paid half of the companies profit. These are same people who then turn around and claim $15/hr is out of line for a factory worker. What's really sad is these guys are usually only there for a few years, and even the ones who destroy companies still get paid as if they single handedly invented the wheel. Kmart is a perfect example of this.