ol remus and the woodpile report

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Unknowns

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Summer Afternoon On A Lake, Jean-Leon Gerome, oil on canvas, 1895

Jean-Leon Gerome (French, 1824-1904) was better known for his Arabian scenics and historical vistas than for approachable works like this one. His paintings are popular with practicing painters and art devotees but Gerome has slipped into obscurity with the public, even in Europe.

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The real government

There are only three federal crimes in the Constitution: treason (Article III section 3), piracy, and counterfeiting (Article I, section 8). Yet Congress has passed laws making over 4,000 activities a federal crime now, and federal regulatory agencies have issued tens of thousands of rules and regulations the violation of which constitutes a jailable offense.
Jack Wheeler, To The Point News

Last week ol' Remus told you about unelected agencies, bureaus, offices, administrations, boards &c., how they're the real government, the Government if you will. Rule-by-regulation he said.

Down below Cousin Zeke's Stories from outten the hills you'll find The Government, our unelected rulers. Scary stuff when you see it all in one place. And that's not all of it, there are advisors and consultants, and their ever-popular mandates tacked onto existing legislation.

Liberals expand the real government, conservatives only expand some of the government—for now. Different drivers, same destination. Not that it matters, regimes come and go. Representatives and Senators and Presidents don't understand or control the Government, nor could they. The real Government is impenetrable, overlapping and capricious. Each component regards all the other components as competitors, but only for authority and resources, all regard the free citizenry as a dangerous and hostile competitor, something to monitor and manage if they can, something to harass and persecute if they can't. The real government is loyal to itself and itself only. Every four years they change the picture on the wall.

If rule by regulation worked the case against it would be weaker. But it doesn't work. No amount of regulation, even if enforced with draconian penalties, would seriously deflect determined miscreants because, in the end, regulation merely confers advantage. Much regulation of business is designed by big business to hobble small business, to ensure they remain small or go away. Much regulation is intended to, and does, protect the regulators. Their relentless encroachment on rights and liberties, freedom of association above all else, is moat-building, pure and simple.

The term regulate as used in the Constitution was understood to mean "make regular", that is, the central government was to remove impedements and barriers, to protect liberty and commerce from meddling and unwarranted advantage. That the word regulate has come to mean restrict reveals that regulation isn't intended to benefit the citizen, not even theoretically, it's a form of command and control fitting for tribes or mystic orders, not for a civilization, some regulations are not even compatible with life itself, rule by regulation is tyranny. Further, were regulation to be understood in its original sense of removing unwarranted obstacles to liberty and commerce, rule by regulation is an oxymoron.

So the question remains, do you believe voting is anything other than legitimizing the Government? Do you wish to live under the ever-tightening rule of regulation forever? Who is entitled to your earnings, you or them? Is your vote anything other than consent for more of the same? Thought not. No patriot, no person of conscience should vote in the national elections. It's not as our vote changes the outcome, judging by the trajectory of past and present administrations. The only way left to peacefully meet our civic responsibility is to vote no by not voting at all.

"The power elite of any society survives by clever manipulation of the law, it seems to us. So long as society at large believes in these laws, the power elite is safe to rule, and even to use force. But if people don't believe their underlying mythos anymore, if they don't believe what they are being told and what their educational and religious establishments are telling them, then the ruling class that has created and promoted these themes is in trouble."
The Daily Bell

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Scoops

Woodpile Report has combed the national and foreign press for years, and outlets like cryptome and edgar, and far-left and tinfoil hat sites, to get out the real story. The effort has yielded ever-diminishing returns, especially in the last year or so. It seems no matter how arcane or hermetic the source, two days later it's on fifteen different website, for instance, the story on Georgia recognizing the melt value of silver coins rather than their face value. Woodpile Report is self-penalized for being on a weekly schedule. There is an upside, the real story is getting out faster and more widely than ever, which is the intent after all, but ol' Remus is thinking of cutting 'way back on the current newsy stuff. It's looking like me-too instead of the intense crumb-trail search it really is.

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this just in

The UN lost some supporters at the Copenhagen climate change meeting. More.

Senator Lincoln cited the Consitution to justify mandatory health insurance, but she didn't say which constitution. Nobody else can seem to find her citation.

Beatles 3000, the weakness of the Historical Method, with a hilarious video. More.

The worst run big city in the U.S. (except the late city of Detroit, we assume)

Which employers are laying off, which are bankrupt or closing—watch this site.

A simulation of the entire known universe, video. Fascinating.

The International Monetary Fund is warning of violent civil unrest, world wide, if the elite continue to loot taxpayers.

In case you had any doubts about where the military stands on the 2nd Amendement.
(Hat tip: survivalblog)

Congress is considering martial law. So should you. Defense Dept. pdf here.

Wow! The Russians are saying the CRU climate change data was crooked. Telegraph UK and Mail Online UK. For commentary on this, see Climate Skeptic.

How business schools helped take down American industry.

Finally. Evidence that low-mass planets are common around nearby stars.

His doctor was dealing, he looks like a user ... no, can't be, that's ridiculous.

69% of cocaine is laced with another drug that's used to deworm animals, which seriously weakens of the immune system in humans. Nobody knows why.

Militants in Iraq have been intercepting live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Look for an iPhone app soon, here's how easy it is to do.

A different kind of cap and trade.
(Not suitable for PCs at work).

What happens if our just-in-time delivery system fails.
(Hat tip: The Coming Economic Depression)

Make of this what you will, Georgia has legislation specifying lawful money as defined by the US Consitution, meaning silver or gold. If not a hoax, this is big.

Oddly, we don't see this commercial much anymore.

Photos of Stalingrad in 1947 taken by Life Magazine.

Here's a train ride you don't want to take.

Doug Cass's predictions for 2010 at Zero Hedge, and his predictions for 2009. Oops.

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breaking eyewitness opinion

Wikipedia as co-conspirator

"He rewrote Wikipedia's articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions." Read how Wikipedia was hijacked by the global warming fanatics, in Lawrence Solomon's article, Wikipedia's Climate Doctor, at Financial Post Comment, here.

Food crisis 2010

"If you read any economic, financial, or political analysis for 2010 that doesn't mention the food shortage looming next year, throw it in the trash, as it is worthless. There is overwhelming, undeniable evidence that the world will run out of food next year. When this happens, the resulting triple digit food inflation will lead panicking central banks around the world to dump their foreign reserves to appreciate their currencies and lower the cost of food imports, causing the collapse of the dollar, the treasury market, derivative markets, and the global financial system," says Eric deCarbonnel in his article, 2010 Food Crisis Means Financial Armageddon, at Market Skeptics, here.

Note - A Woodpile Report eLister with professional commodities expertise has analyzed this article and, although personally convinced of the necessity for individuals to embrace the concept of food security, feels the article significantly flawed and misleading. Woodpile Report presents this article as is but does not endorse the contents, as always, readers should consult an investment professional before committing funds to any venture.

2010

Forget 2012, things won't hold together that long. Not nearly. John Williams of the well respected Shadow Stats, a group of ex-government statisticians and analysts, sees an unwinding of the economy faster and more ferocious than most expect. And soon. Mr. Williams is as close to "mainstream respectable" as is allowed without the misinformation and happy faces. "It could not get any more serious than this," says Mac Slavo in his article, Hyperinflationary Depression - No Way of Avoiding Financial Armaggeddon, at SHTFPlan, here.

Rule of law

"The heart of "the rule of law" is the jurisdiction of the law: that is, whether it applies to all persons without regard to their identities, possessions, and stations in life, or whether it discriminates among persons according to those characteristics. Law of the former sort genuinely rules. Its jurisdiction includes all persons, without regard for their lineage, their associations, their pet causes, or their pet activities. It stands above kings and noble classes. Law of the latter sort is class privilege," says The Curmudgeon Emeritus in his article, Givings and Takings Part 2: The Heart Of The Matter, at Eternity Road, here.

Payback

"Having not only endorsed the concept of anthropogenic global warming, but attacked skeptics as subhuman, it is impossible for many to admit they were wrong. Science and technology, though, have already provided alternate avenues of information dissemination. The unwillingness of the old media to report one of the most important stories of this young century is evidence they deserve to fail," says Patrick Cox in his article, Science Hasn't Failed About Climate, Government Has, at Whiskey and Gunpowder, here.

Strategies

"In our opinion it must always be borne in mind that the power elite plans generationally. The objectives are grand, the strategies global and the prize apparently is global dominance. In fact, when one examines the dominant social themes in play currently, one is struck by how they attack the major elements of life. Water, food and other basic building blocks are seemingly the resources that dominant social themes target. The scarcity meme is seemingly applied, these days, to everything one needs to live. The solution to these difficulties will lay, inevitability, in the authoritarian mechanisms that the power elite itself has erected," says an editorial, Copenhagen Had Three Levels of Control, in the Daily Bell, here.

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1940 advertisement
air travel in the 'thirties and 'forties

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The New York to Harrisburg fare of $11 in 1940 dollars would be $170 today. Los Angeles at $149.95 would be $2,317 today. The eastbound trip from Los Angeles took about 15 hours, 2 and three-quarters hours less than westbound due to favorable winds.

Circa 1940 DC3 interior. 2+2 was the more usual seating arrangement.

Pictured in the TWA ad at top is the DC3, typically configured for 28 passengers, although this varied widely. Cruising speed was around 200 mph, at 7,500 feet or below, the DC3 was unpressurized. Range was about 2,000 miles. NY to LA would likely have rated the four-engine DC6, the stated travel time doesn't appear to allow for two refueling stops. First flown in December 1935, 10,650 DC3s were produced by Douglas Aircraft. 74 years after its introduction, a few hundred are still in use as cargo planes. The sixth DC3 off the assembly line, in 1936, is still registered.

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stuff you may want to think about

The Supreme Court, in a one-line ruling, let stand a lower court decision that declared torture an ordinary, expected consequence of military detention, while introducing a shocking new precedent for all future courts to follow: anyone who is arbitrarily declared a “suspected enemy combatant” by the president or his designated minions is no longer a “person.” Read Yves Smith's article, Supreme Court Guts Due Process Protection, at Naked Capitalism, here. Commentary worth reading, here.

More on the alliance of left and right - First, lefty blogger Jane Hamsher says, "both the 'lazy progressive bloggers' and the tea party activists are saying almost the exact same thing about the Senate bill," and, "the painfully obvious left/right transpartisan consensus that is coalescing against DC insiders of both parties appears to be taking everyone by surprise." Worth reading in its entirety. Then lefty Eli, at the same site, says, "we may have actually reached a point where have more in common with the teabaggers than we do with our own party. Populists and activists at both ends of the spectrum are now finding common ground in the fight against corporatism," and down in the comments section he adds, "I'm wondering whether there's an unwritten DC rule that whichever party is in charge is responsible for servicing the corporations' interests, while the other party gets to pretend to oppose them. That seems to be the best explanation for what we've been seeing over the past 16, if not 30 years." Wow! This may be merely a momentary congruence. Or it may be something else.

"The key to success of any mass movement is the opponent's loss of moral legitimacy. The goal, then, of The Revolution of Disobedience is to deligitimize the moral obligation to obey fascist laws. There is no such obligation - any more than there is a moral obligation not to lie to a mugger holding you up at gunpoint about money hidden on you and not in your wallet. You may have a practical obligation to obey what he says, but no moral duty," says Jack Wheeler in his article The Double-D Strategy for Rescuing America, at To The Point News, here.

Gangs - "They have no compunction towards committing violent acts upon their fellow citizens, as they fear no repercussions. Their greatest criminal focuses are on human and drug trafficking, and contract killing combined with unspeakable violence. A crime will never be committed by one of these members without it being accompanied by a beating, a rape, murder, dismemberment, or all of the above," says Kellene Bishop in her article, Are You Prepared Against Organized Evil?, at Preparedness Pro, here.

The previous climate change - NOAA's Climate Analysis Center opened with prompting from a letter written in 1974 to President Nixon by scientists Kukla and Mathews warning of a major shift in climate in about a century, "a global deterioration of climate, by order of magnitude larger than any hitherto experience by civilized mankind." A subcommittee on Climate Change was initiated upon the President's request and the rest is history. Hidden history. The scientists warned of a new ice age. Read Fabius Maximus's article at Roubini Global Economics, here.

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overheard

Ol' Remus overhears too much so he passes it on to you compressed for length or clarity as it pleases him. He does this routinely, without remorse or apology, and expects the same courtesy from others. Author attributions are included when the writer has hidden his identity fewer than two sips of coffee deep.

"Some say that a year ago we faced economic disaster on a massive scale. In one year, governments around the world have printed money, and done little else, except to provide daily lip service and commentary. The contagion has been lying dormant and will become an epidemic. No bailout will stop it."
Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan

December 1930 - "Most Exchange brokers now advise waiting to buy until the current declining movement ends, believe it's likely to “run into a climax” in the next few days. A few bolder commentators said the time has come to begin buying for the long term; with stocks, bonds, and commodities breaking simultaneously, “it was asserted that the bear market bore every indication of being in its final stages.” [A classic analysis, but the market stair-stepped down from 163.34 on the Dow, when this article appeared on December 15, until June 1932 when it bottomed at 41.22 - Remus]
Wall Street Journal, Dec 15, 1930, via News from 1930

Kyoto Agreement - "The EU has pursued this scheme by purchasing “offsets” from countries such as China paying them billions of dollars to destroy atmospheric pollutants, such as CFC-23, which were manufactured purely in order to be destroyed."
Daily Express UK

"In exchange for consumer goods and private freedoms ... the rich and the middle class have agreed to abdicate politics. The government keeps opposition parties, the mass media, and academic or journalistic muckrakers on a very short leash. Surveillance waxes; civil liberties wane. Transparency, accountability, and citizen initiative are sacrificed to order, security and prosperity."
George Scialabba, review of Freedom For Sale by John Kampfner, at The National

"The definition of “fascism” has some academic variance, but is essentially collusion among corporatocracy, authoritarian government, and controlled media and education. This “leadership” is only possible with a nationalistic public accepting policies of war, empire, and limited civil and political rights."
Carl Herman, The Examiner

"After the Muslim Nidal Hasan killed many of his fellow soldiers, the US military intensified its efforts to recruit more Muslims to the military. Recruiting people from hostile cultures to protect your country is the behavior of nations that want to die, and apparently, that is what the West now wants to do."
Fjordman, Atlas Shrugs

"Government officials use force and the threat thereof to impact our lives, not always (or even most of the time) for the better, so it behooves all citizens to get over their schoolyard crushes and figure out just what their objects of political desire plan to do with all that power."
Matt Welch, New York Post

"The Debt Limit has been raised about a hundred times since 1940, when it was $49 billion - about five days worth of federal spending now."
Mark Knoller, CBS News

Obama at Copenhagen - "He reiterated America's commitment to a 10 billion US dollar-a-year "fast start" package and long-term funding to the tune of 100 billion US dollars a year by 2020."
Chris Green, The Independent UK

"For months now, the media has been reporting two distinctly, contradicting realities. One of these realities is filled with record crops and plentiful supply, and the other is filled with agricultural devastation and ruin. It has been a mad, frustrating experience to read about agricultural disasters and horrendous crop losses in virtually every state combined with predictions of a US record harvest, sometimes in the same article."
Eric deCarbonnel, Market Skeptics

ObamaCare - "People who failed to obtain insurance for even one month would face monthly penalties that by 2016 could add up to as much as $750 a year or 2 percent of a person's income, whichever is greater."
Murray-Montgomery, Washington Post

"The US dollar has failed. We need to delink."
Nahed Taher, Gulf One Investment Bank, Bahrain

"Washington has displayed no concern for the immense popular disapproval of the course it has chosen. It ignores all facts and arguments that contradict its justifications for its takings. Its masters are so insensitive to the public clamor that they dismiss even the prospect of being electorally removed from office ... which suggests to your Curmudgeon that there's more up their sleeves for 2010 and 2012 than a few new campaign slogans."
The Curmudgeon Emeritus, Eternity Road

"I'm going to support President Obama when he runs for re-election. Not vigorously. I'm going to vote for him."
Howard Dean, fmr. DNC Chmn., via Joe Scarborough interview, Morning Joe

"This is in essence what Political Correctness is all about: Banning any discussion of reality so we can create a perfect world based on Thought Alone. The perfect world of Reason Alone is beautiful in all its symmetry and mathematical precision. There is only one problem with it: It is a lie."
Fjordman, The Brussels Journal

Early 2010 - "Scotland Yard has warned commercial organizations in London to brace for a Mumbai-style attack, according to British media reports. One London anti-terror squad detective warned of a shooting and hostage-taking raid “involving a small number of gunmen with handguns and improvised explosive devices.”
Sam Orez, The Cutting Edge

"If you really think that the police are going to be able to protect you during an upheaval, you are living in a dreamworld. In both the New Orleans and Los Angeles disasters, police protection was non-existent. Lawless gangs quickly took control of the streets, and people were left to either defend themselves or swiftly become the helpless prey of violent marauders. In fact, in New Orleans, some of the policemen actually abandoned their oaths to uphold the law and joined with the criminals, turning their weapons upon the public."
Chuck Baldwin, News With Views

Talk about light volume - "Citi accounts for 47% of all NYSE volume." [Thursday, December 17, 2009 - Remus]
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge

Debt - "It is my belief that our Congress and President will not deal with this reality, and therefore it is incumbent upon each and every American to be prepared - from this point forward - for the inevitable mathematical consequence of the willful refusal of our Congress and Executive to address the issue of excessive leverage in our business and consumer lending space."
Karl Denninger, Market Ticker

"GM announced Friday that it would not be selling Saab's remaining assets or continue the brand, but would instead "wind down" its operations. That means that while the Saab nameplate may die, its image will live on for some time in Chinese-branded clones. For some who miss Saab, that's a comforting thought, for others, a final affront in the ill-fated Saab story."
Jason Mick, Daily Tech

"System disruption is vastly superior, as a method of warfare, to a traditional insurgency that measures its success through attacks on government forces." [Mr. Robb regularly holds forth on the plug-an-artery theory at his site - Remus]
John Robb, Global Guerrillas

"When a Target store in Walnut Creek, California requested employees to present their legal documentation in order to keep their jobs, they were surprised to receive resignations instead of proper paperwork. The Northern California store lost approximately 40 employees overnight and in place of the employees Target was presented with a legal wrangle by La Raza Centro Legal guru, Rocio Avila who is now representing the illegal immigrants."
Kimberly Dvorak, San Diego County Political Buzz, Examiner

"The United States cannot force foreign governments to increase their holdings of Treasuries. Double the holdings? It is definitely impossible. The US current account deficit is falling as residents' savings increase, so its trade turnover is falling, which means the US is supplying fewer dollars to the rest of the world. The world does not have so much money to buy more US Treasuries."
Zhu Min, People's Bank of China, Xin-Subler, Shanghai Daily

"With the help of the MSM, Huckabee has conned millions of voters into thinking that he supports enforcing America's immigration laws, when in fact he is a confirmed supporter of abolishing America through open borders."
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored

"Colleges are often lumped in with other non-profit entities like charities and hospitals in the public mind. But they actually most resemble the institution from which many of the oldest and most renowned colleges sprang: organized religion. They see themselves as occupying an exalted place in human society, for which they are owed deference and gratitude."
Kevin Carey, Democracy Journal

Electric Power Consumption - "EP has dropped -5.04%. This is in contrast to the Commerce Department's GDP report of a 2.80% increase in US GDP."
Barron's Magazine, 7 Dec 2009

Ben Franklin - "The 18th-century American statesman is perhaps best-known in Asia for gracing the front of the $100 bill. Asians used to worry about counterfeit “Benjamins.” Now, they're frightened of the real thing."
William Pesek, Bloomberg

"Classified documents uncovered in 2000 revealed that the CIA had discovered that the Soviets had learned of the date of the invasion more than a week in advance, had informed Castro, but – and here is a startling fact that should make people's hair stand on end – never told the President. The CIA knew the invasion was doomed before the fact but went ahead with it anyway. Why? So they could and did afterwards blame JFK for the failure."
Edward Curtin, quoted by Elizabeth Wright, Issues & Views

"Question if you can still do it ten years from now, not if you can do it now."
Ol' Remus, Woodpile Report

"The National Education Association was by far the nation's biggest political contributor during the 2008 election cycle. The NEA dropped a cool $56.3 million on its list of favored liberal candidates at various levels of government, which was about $12 million more than the runner-up contributor spent."
Kyle Olson, Big Government

"Europe is no longer a free society. It is, in effect, a tyranny ruled by the unelected Kommissars of the European Union. That is perhaps one reason why police forces throughout Europe, including that in the UK, have become far more brutal than was once acceptable in their treatment of the citizens they are sworn to serve. It is exactly this species of tyranny that the UN would like to impose upon the entire planet."
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Delegate at Copenhagen, The SPPI Blog

"In the 1970s and early '80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greatest wealth transfer from rich to poor in history. Why not them? So in grand U.N. declarations and conferences, they began calling for a "New International Economic Order."
Charles Krauthammer, TownHall

Republican Party - "They are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist."
Rhode Island Senator Whitehouse, via Kerry Picket, Water Cooler

"I knew the world was coming to an end when I read a Holiday copy of Sky Mall, that catalog they put in the seat pockets of airliners. In these magazines they don't sell watches. No. Watches are low-demographic, for people with protruding orbital ridges. In Sky Mall, the things are Time Pieces, a phrase redolent of toney elegance and upscale antiquity."
Fred Reed, Fred On Everything

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It's just the way it was

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Migrant farm workers, tire repair, near Austin Texas, 1936

1936, Texas

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1936, Brooklyn, New York tin vendor

1936, Brooklyn

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Iowa, family of ten, 1937

1937, Iowa

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South Second Street, Camden New Jersey, 1938

1938, New Jersey

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stories from outten the hills

Cousin Ezekiel

Jab - Chapter IX

Enos Wants to Quit

The five world travelers sit in Enos' office with little to say. They could not believe other worlds existed where they were not as happy as they thought they always were, or where each of them did not always have each other. What bothered Enos and Zoe was the sight of their father being unhappy. What bothered Ebill was that he died a horrible death at a young age. What bothered Jab was that he was never born and could not picture that, of course. Miss Alde did have an older brother and younger sister who she loved very much that Zeke in this world knew about, and she wondered if maybe they were never born or died very early in life in the world she just left.

Zeke comes into the room smiling and says, “Does ever'body want to stay for supper? Aby got a extra big pot roast an' is doin' a fine job cookin' it. She would love to have a lot of folks appreciate it.”

Everyone looked at Zeke with tears running down their cheeks. They all ran to hug him.

“I did'n even tell ya that Aby made a vanilla cake with white frosting and coconut shavin' on it. Is ever'body extra hungry or do I jest smell like pot roast?” asks Zeke chuckling.

“We all love you and missed you, Poppy” says Zoe.

“I was jest next door in my shop makin' money fer the fam'ly, Zoe. You can come in there for a hug any time.” Zeke puts his big arms around them all, “I always likes hugs from all my fam'ly”, and then says something which puts a shudder in them all: “Me an' Aby always wanted to make a lot more of you chillun.”

The next Saturday morning the five world travelers met at Enos' office at six thirty in the morning without a meeting being called. They just knew no one wanted to travel to another world, because they now knew it was just one of many that existed. They would not know if it was the best or the worst they would be seeing, but just knowing it was one of many made them less interested. Somehow they even knew no one wanted to talk about it either. Suddenly they hear, “You are wasting time.” Rod reappeared.

“Hold it mister”, hollered Miss Alde, “We got a lot of questions for you. Don' go flyin' outta here till you answer a few.”

“I was wondering when you would start thinking enough to develop some questions. What's on your mind, pretty lady?”

Miss Alde didn't like that he implied they weren't thinking, as she always taught her students to always be thinking, and she certainly didn't like being called “pretty lady” by an almost stranger, but she put her objections aside to ask, “Why did you give us this capability?”

“I didn't, ma'am. I gave it to Enos who shared it without my permission, which is his right, but he must take the responsibility for doing so. Knowledge is not always enjoyable, but one who truly pursues knowledge should know that. You only study the impersonal sciences which have no emotions tied to them. Is this the first time you experimented with the sciences that involve real people and their lives?” as Rod puts the thick glass lens over the frame to see what their adventure was. “Oh, I see. You visited a world where some weren't in. Well, Boo-hoo . I guess you never thought you could die or maybe be a miscarriage, or maybe even never had a chance to live altogether, like poor Jab there whose parents only got together to start him. Well, that's life … or not life. It doesn't change a thing in this world. You are all here, all healthy and smart, and all sad about a world that you may have been in had things turned out otherwise. For you in this world they didn't turn out otherwise; they turned out just as you know they did. What's your next question, missy?”

“Did you ever visit a world that made you sad?” asks Zoe.

“Many many. I don't have children in my world, but I visited one where I got married to a high school sweetheart and we had many beautiful children just like your family. I wanted to stay there forever, but had I seen my other self there I thought I would be tempted to push him through the portal and take his place. That would have been wrong. I left vowing never to return. I visit hundreds of worlds every day and see beautiful things and horrible things. I take them in stride, knowing they are just one way things could be.”

Enos signs, “Why did you share this with me?” When Zoe starts to interpret Enos' hand signs, Rod says, “I learned his sign language, Zoe. I wanted to communicate with my only student. I shared this with you, Enos, because I wanted a friend to visit these worlds with me and you know more science than I do. I am a mathematician mostly. I see wonderful inventions that I could make a lot of money here if I understood them and I brought them back. Plus I need someone to watch my back in some of these worlds, as I don't know what would happen if I were to be killed in a different world than my own with no one to pull me back. Plus I am often lonely.”

Enos signs, “I would not help you bring back new inventions or ideas. I think each world should develop on its own. If you change things it would be a false change.”

“It would only be a split in the worlds with one going on with my inventions and one going on without them. We would both have what we want. Your world is not as you think Enos. Many of your other parallel worlds are much more advanced than you think. Here's a simple example. Did you ever hear people say ‘Somewhere on Earth is your exact double'? That isn't true, of course. The saying started about three hundred years ago when world travelers just like me started to come here. People here saw them who already knew their other selves here. They thought they were exact doubles, when in fact they were the same person from the parallel world. Now I'll tell you the amazing part. I met my double, and he, or I should say I, told me how to travel this way. I didn't develop it myself. It was developed in another world and given to me. Sounds complicated, but the point is, nothing bad ever happened because of it as far as I know. My world just split to this one and the one where I just stayed a high school math teacher who never heard about traveling this way, and you, my friend, are in this world where I have this wonderful knowledge.”

“It kind'a takes the bite off'n that bad trip, don'cha think, Enos?” asks Miss Alde.

“It's hard to believe all these worlds can exist together. It's sad to know bad things happened to our family in other worlds”, signs Enos.

“Really bad things happened in some worlds”, says Rod, “Just earlier this year I visited one of your worlds where Russia and your country both rushed to make atomic bombs, had a big war and everyone on earth died. The politicians staged the whole bomb build-up to make all the rest of the world afraid of the two big countries and do whatever they said. It worked for only two years until they really got to dislike each other. That world has a lifeless earth now. How's that for sad. Everybody's family had bad things happen to it all at once in that world.”

Does that make you feel sad?” asks Zoe.

“I have a saying I created just in case I was ever asked that question, Zoe: ‘ Of all the things that could ever be, remember: They are. ' It takes the cold-heartedness and the warmth out of the observations in our travels. With the nice things also come the bad things, but the nice things cannot be appreciated unless we know the bad things could have happened.”

Rod stands there for a moment and asks, “Any more questions, Miss Alde?”

“Prob'ly soon as yer gone. But we hope to see ya again when we got more.”

Rod smiles and says, “Maybe next week all of us could travel together. I have some places I could show you that you would really really like. I think you need to see nice places first, think about what is really out there, and then get ready to see it all. Till then … enjoy traveling”, and Rod walked through his portal.

A few minutes after Rod left with no one saying anything, Miss Alde breaks the silence. “He says, ‘many, many' an' ‘really, really'. Iff'n you got many, then how many more is many, many? An' iff'n you really like somethin', how much more would you like it iff'n you really, really liked it? Good thin' he was good in math, as he would'n make a good English teacher.” The others laughed.

“He didn't say what day or what time next week he wanted to travel with us”, says Ebill.

“Shoot! I knowed I would have a question soon's he left” says Miss Alde.

“I might not go”, signs Enos. “I have to think about it. I can't picture Momma not working hard for her family in any world. Something must have changed her in those other worlds.”

“We could ask Rod to take us to one of the worlds where she was different if you like”, says Miss Alde.

“Maybe. I'll have to think about it”, signs Enos. “I don't know if I want to see my parents any way other than I do now. If I saw them different in another world I would have a hard time not picturing those traits latent in them now, and I don't want to believe that. My mother, for example, never drank alcohol in this world. I would never want to see her drunk. I never want to hear my father again say he didn't want to be with her.”

“I would never want to see my mother take her life”, says Jab who had been sad since returning.

“Then let's just have Rod take us to places that are entertaining, maybe to see more people like the Wuns, and the Remplites, and the Puffer Bears you met. Rod may be right, Enos. We may have to first learn to enjoy the traveling, then understand what we are seeing, then we may be ready to see and understand everything”, says Zoe.

“That is our consensus, Enos. You are in control of these travels, but if we have a vote that is what we vote for”, says Miss Alde.

Just then Rod sticks his head through the wall and says, “Sorry, but I forgot to ask when you wanted to travel together. I know about the weekdays being bad for school kids. How about next Saturday at sun-up?”

“Would you like to join us for breakfast, Rod?” asks Zoe.

“If I'm hungry I'll pop in a half hour sooner. Hey Alde, don't you think I look better in person than this picture makes me look?”

“That picture doesn't do justice to your lack of good looks, but we don't see you as you really are, so maybe the picture is showin' us a even much better lookin' Rod than what there really is. ”

Rod looks at Enos, shrugs his shoulders, says, “Toodles”, and was gone.

“I don' know whether to hug that man or smack em”, says Miss Alde.

Enos chuckles and signs, “Which world do you want to be in?”

Miss Alde thought for a moment and laughed with Enos and Zoe. Ebill and Jab did not laugh. Ebill did not understand the joke and Jab was still sad that he never got to be born in that world they visited.

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In the next Woodpile Report:

Jab - Chapter X

Happy Worlds

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Note to bloggers: feel free to copy-paste the list and use it as you will, Remus got it from Wikipedia, redid the formatting stuff and trimmed the annoying side-notes.

The Government

Unelected agencies, bureaus, offices, administrations, boards &c., many of which originate regulations with the force of law.

Executive Office of the President of the United States
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

Council of Economic Advisers

Council on Environmental Quality

Domestic Policy Council

National Economic Council

National Security Council

Office of Administration Office of Management and Budget

Office of National AIDS Policy

Office of National Drug Control Policy

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Office of the United States Trade Representative

President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board

President's Intelligence Advisory Board

White House Military Office

White House Office

Office of Presidential Advance

Office of Appointments and Scheduling

Office of Cabinet Affairs

Office of the Chief of Staff

Office of Communications

Council on Women and Girls

Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy

Office of the Executive Clerk

Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Office of the First Lady

Office of Health Reform

Homeland Security Council

Office of Legislative Affairs

Office of Management and Administration

Oval Office Operations

Office of Presidential Personnel

Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs

Office of the Press Secretary

Office of Social Innovation

Office of the Staff Secretary

Office of Urban Affairs Policy

Office of the White House Counsel

White House Fellows

Department of Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack

Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)

Agricultural Research Service (ARS)

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP)

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CREES)

Economic Research Service (ERS)

Farm Service Agency (FSA)

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC)

Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)

Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)

Forest Service (FS)

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA)

National Agricultural Library (NAL)

National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

Risk Management Agency (RMA)

Rural Development (RD)

Department of Commerce
Secretary Gary Locke

Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)

Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA)

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

Bureau of the Census

Economic Development Administration (EDA)

International Trade Administration (ITA)

United States Commercial Service

Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

National Weather Service (NWS)

National Oceanic Service (NOS)

National Geodetic Survey (NGS)

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)

National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)

Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI)

Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)

Technology Administration (TA)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)

Office of Technology Policy (OTP)

Department of Defense
Secretary Robert Gates

Office of the Secretary of Defense

Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee

Office of Net Assessment

Office of Inspector General

Defense Criminal Investigative Service

Service departments

Department of the Army - United States Army

Department of the Navy - United States Navy and United States Marine Corps

Department of the Air Force - United States Air Force

Joint Chiefs of Staff

United States Naval Observatory

Unified Combatant Commands

Central Command (CENTCOM)

European Command (EUCOM)

United States African Command (AFRICOM)

Joint Forces Command (JFCOM)

Northern Command (NORTHCOM)

Pacific Command (PACOM)

Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)

Special Operations Command (SOCOM)

Strategic Command (STRATCOM)

Transportation Command (TRANSCOM)

Defense agencies

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Defense Commissary Agency (DECA)

Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCA)

Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)

Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)

Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Defense Legal Services Agency (DLSA)

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)

Defense Security Cooperation Agency (OSCA)

Defense Security Service (DSS)

Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)

Missile Defense Agency (DMA)

National Security Agency (NSA)

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA or NGIA (interchangably))

Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)

Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA)

United States Pentagon Police (USPPD)

Department of Defense Field Activities

American Forces Information Service (AFIS)

War records office

Counterintelligence Field Activity (CFMA)

Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office

Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA)

Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS)

Defense Human Resources Activity (DHRA)

Office of Economic Adjustment

Tricare Management Activity

Washington Headquarters Services

Department of Education
Secretary Arne Duncan

Office of the Secretary (OS)

Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO)

Office of the General Counsel (OGC)

Office of Inspector General

Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs (OLCA)

Office for Civil Rights (OCR)

Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)

Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII)

Office of the Chief Financial Officer

Office of Management

Office of the Chief Information Officer

Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development

Budget Service

Risk Management Service

Chief Operating Officer

Office of the Under Secretary (OUS)

Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)

Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE)

Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA)

President's Advisory Board on Tribal Colleges and Universities (WHITCU)

President's Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (WHIHBCU)

Office of the Deputy Secretary (ODS)

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)

Office of Migrant Education

President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans

Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA)

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)

National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)

Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)

Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)

Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools (OSDFS)

Office of Innovation and Improvement

Associated federal organizations

Advisory Councils and Committees

National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB)[1]

National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)[2]

Federal Interagency Committee on Education (FICE)

Federally aided organizations

American Printing House for the Blind

Gallaudet University

Howard University

National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Department of Energy
Secretary Steven Chu

Blue ribbon commission on nuclear waste

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

National Laboratories & Technology Centers:

Albany Research Center

Ames Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Center for Functional Nanomaterials

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

Center for Nanoscale Materials

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Molecular Foundry

National Energy Technology Laboratory

National Petroleum Technology Office

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

New Brunswick Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Radiological & Environmental Sciences Laboratory

Sandia National Laboratories

Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository

National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Power Marketing Administrations:

Bonneville Power Administration

Southeastern Power Administration

Southwestern Power Administration

Western Area Power Administration

Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

Administration on Aging (AoA)

Administration for Children and Families (ACF)

Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD)

Administration for Native Americans (ANA)

Child Care Bureau (CCB)

Children's Bureau (CB)

Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB)

Head Start Bureau (HSB)

Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI)

Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)

Office of Community Services Block Grant (OCS)

Office of Family Assistance (OFA) / Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) [3]

President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Indian Health Service (IHS)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Office for Civil Rights (OCR)

Office of Minority Health (OMH)

Program Support Center (PSC)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT)

Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano

United States Coast Guard (USGC)

National Cyber Security Division

Environmental Measurements Laboratory

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

United States Federal Protective Service (ICE-FPS)

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Office of Immigration Statistics

Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC)

United States Secret Service (USSS)

Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

National Communications System (NCS

Department of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary Shaun Donovan

Community Development Block Grants

Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA, Ginnie Mae)

Office of Policy Development and Research (Bridges to Work)

Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH)

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)

Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

Student Mortgage Loan Corporation (Sallie Mae)

Federal Housing finance board

Federal housing Finance Agency

Federal housing enterprise oversight agency

Housing enterprise oversight agency team

Department of the Interior
Secretary Ken Salazar

Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)

Office of Surface Mining (OSM)

National Mine Map Repository (NMMR)

Bureau of Reclamation (USBR)

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)

Minerals Management Service (MMS)

National Park Service (NPS)

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Office of Insular Affairs (OIA)

Department of Justice
Attorney General Eric Holder

Antitrust Division

Asset Forfeiture Program

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)

Civil Division

Civil Rights Division

Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

Community Relations Service

Criminal Division

Diversion Control Program

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

Environment and Natural Resources Division

Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)

Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA)

Executive Office for U.S. Trustees

International training center

Office of public safety

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Foreign Claims Settlement Commission

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (BCBP)

INTERPOL - U.S. National Central Bureau

Justice Management Division

United States Marshals Service

National Crime Information Center

National Drug Intelligence Center

National Institute of Corrections (FBOP)

Office of the Federal Detention Trustee

Office of the Inspector General

Office of Intelligence Policy and Review

Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison

Office of Justice Programs (OJP)

Bureau of Justice Assistance

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Community Capacity Development Office

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

National Institute of Justice

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Office for Victims of Crime

Office of the Pardon Attorney

Parole Commission

Office of the Police Corps

Office of Tribal Justice

Office on Violence Against Women

Solicitor General

Tax Division

United States Attorneys

Department of Labor
Secretary Hilda Solis

Administrative Review Board (ARB)

Benefits Review Board (BRB)

Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI)

Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB)

Employment Standards Administration (ESA)

Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)

The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)

Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP)

Wage and Hour Division (WHD)

Employment and Training Administration (ETA)

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)

Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS)

Women's Bureau (WB)

Job Corps

Department of State
Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton

Bureau of Administration

Bureau of African Affairs

Bureau of Consular Affairs

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

Bureau of Diplomatic Security

Office of Foreign Missions

Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs

Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

Internet Access and Training Program

Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs

Bureau of Human Resources

Bureau of Information Resource Management

Bureau of Intelligence and Research

Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

Bureau of International Organization Affairs

Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation

Bureau of Legislative Affairs

Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs

Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs

Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations

Bureau of Political-Military Affairs

Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration

Bureau of Public Affairs

Bureau of Resource Management

Bureau of South Asian Affairs

Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation

Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs

Counterterrorism Office (which produces the Patterns of Global Terrorism report)

National Foreign Affairs Training Center (former Foreign Service Institute)

Office of International Information Programs

Office of the Legal Adviser

Office of Management Policy

Office of Protocol

Office of the Science and Technology Adviser

Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Person

Office of War Crimes Issues

Department of Transportation
Secretary Ray LaHood

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)

Federal Transit Administration (FTA)

Maritime Administration (MARAD)

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA)

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)

Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC)

Surface Transportation Board (STB)

Department of the Treasury
Secretary Timothy F. Geithner

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)

Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP)

Office of Financial Stability

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Car Allowance Rebate System

Cash for appliances program

Bureau of the Public Debt

Community Development Financial Institution Fund (CDFI)

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)

Financial Management Service (FMS)

Inspector General

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA)

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)

Office of the Secretary

Domestic Finance

Economic Policy

General Counsel

Information and Technology Management

International Affairs

Management

Public Affairs

Tax Policy

Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI)

Treasurer of the United States

United States Mint

Department of Veterans Affairs
Secretary Eric Shinseki

Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)

Veterans Health Administration (VHA)

National Cemetery Administration (NCA)

Office of Information and Technology (OI&T)

Independent agencies

African Development Foundation

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)

Agency for International Development (USAID)

American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)

AmeriCorps

Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)

U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC)

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)

Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)

Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA)

Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Export-Import Bank of the United States (ExIm)

Farm Credit Administration (FCA)

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Federal Election Commission (FEC)

Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission (FMSHRC)

Federal Reserve System (The Fed)

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States (FCSC)

General Services Administration (GSA)

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

Inter-American Foundation (IAF)

International Trade Commission (ITC)

Learn and Serve America (LSA)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA )

National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)

National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

National Ice Center (NIC)

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) (NRPC)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

National Transportation Research Center (NTRC)

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Office of Government Ethics (OGE)

Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Peace Corps

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)

United States Postal Service (USPS)

United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS)

Office of the Inspector General (USPS-OIG)

Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC)

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Selective Service System (SSS)

Senior Corps

Small Business Administration (SBA)

Social Security Administration (SSA)

Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC)

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

United States Trade and Development Agency (TDA)

Quasi-federal agencies

Legal Services Corporation (LSC)

Smithsonian Institution (SI)

United States Institute of Peace

Legislative branch

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Library of Congress (LOC)

United States Copyright Office

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Comptroller General of the United States

Government Printing Office (GPO)

Architect of the Capitol

United States Botanic Garden

Office of Compliance

Judicial branch

United States Supreme Court

United States court of appeals

Bankruptcy Appellate Panels

United States district courts

United States bankruptcy courts

United States Sentencing Commission

United States Probation and Pretrial Services

Administration

Administrative Office of the United States Courts

Federal Judicial Center

Judicial Conference of the United States

Boards and commissions

Financial crisis inquiry commission

Administrative Committee of the Federal Register

American Battle Monuments Commission

Appalachian Regional Commission

Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board)

Arctic Research Commission

Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation

Broadcasting Board of Governors

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Chief Acquisition Officers Council

Chief Financial Officers Council

Chief Human Capital Officers Council

Chief Information Officers Council

Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee

Commission of Fine Arts

Commission on International Religious Freedom

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( Helsinki Commission)

Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States

Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States

Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Delaware River Basin Commission

Denali Commission

Endangered Species Committee

Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board

Federal Advisory Committees

Federal Executive Boards

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

Federal Financing Bank

Federal Geographic Data Committee

Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds

Federal Interagency Committee on Education

Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy

Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer

Federal Library and Information Center Committee

Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation

Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission

Indian Arts and Crafts Board

Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group

Interagency Council on Homelessness

Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin

J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board

James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation

Japan-United States Friendship Commission

Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries

Joint Fire Science Program

Marine Mammal Commission

Migratory Bird Conservation Commission

Millennium Challenge Corporation

Mississippi River Commission

Morris K. Udall Foundation: Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy

National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare

National Indian Gaming Commission

National Park Foundation

Northwest Power Planning Council

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

Presidio Trust

Regulatory Information Service Center

Social Security Advisory Board

Susquehanna River Basin Commission

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Veterans Day National Committee

Vietnam Educational Foundation

White House Commission on Presidential Scholars

White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance

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