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catherine saying yes, the macon dream is attainable., if republicans and trump win just kiss it goodbye. see what trump says about obamacare. name one policy republicans have passed that helps the middle class and the poor. elvis says the macon dream is over and the masses are waking up to the lies of capitalism. this is kathy in new york, republican. is the american dream still attainable? caller: of course it is. i think we are going in the rock -- wrong direction. when i was young i was cynical because a group in the 1960's and the 1970's in college. we had lots of crime in new york city. injustice. all the things that are going on now. we have the war in vietnam, lots of the people, lots of protests. you can go back as far as you want. when i was cynical my best friend was born in egypt. he got kicked out because he was there at the wrong time when the suez canal war was going on. he was just a two-year-old kid. they had to go to france. it took him until he was 12 years old to get here. he used to say it's a great country, america.

he has property in, macon city. and he he doesn't want that any longer. if he has to fight against his country, he wishes to remain in connecticut where his mother and other relatives are living. so this guy takes, the oath of allegiance to the united states in an 64, he is back living in connecticut and he doesn't die until 1910. and tracking him down. what would just a fascinating story. he says he wants to go back and join his mother right now. you think you self how old could mother be you know in that age will tell you true story his mother died in 1899 at over 100 years old and this is her is her obituary right here. and if you look down at the bottom, the showed a bridgeport, connecticut. you can seehis is definitely her son. his father died in 1862. so his father like a year after he was here in the battle of gettysburg. but this describes her. she it says she was 100 years, two months. and what's it say, 19 days. so he goes up and he spends the rest of his in connecticut and. he is a carpenter stair builder. his father was a cooper barrels before

mitch macon, the senator had an interview where he was shocked that his party , which controls the houseof representatives, and now stands against ronald reagan and does not want to support as soon as possible to help ukraine, but there are both republicans and democrats in the senate is ready to support ukraine, as well as in the house of representatives, we know that the majority of the votes, the majority of the members of the house of representatives are ready to vote for these at this time, this is speaker johnson, and as it turns out , he has the same problem that speaker mccarthy had , and speaker mccarthy also supported ukraine, had the opportunity to visit ukraine, understood that it was necessary to help ukraine, and yet he agreed on a simple budget without reduction, and now now, this is a quarrel in the house of representatives without various reductions in other republican parties i ready to reject the newly elected speaker. andrii, in your opinion, what are the fundamental reasons behind the fact that we are now seeing a fairly complicated process of allocating aid to ukrai

that there were no relations as such between the respectively elected speaker and , accordingly, the maconel, taking into account the fact that identification will to intensify, it will be necessary, accordingly, 150 m, everything connected with this, additional funding will be needed, already a significant portion... which the usa accordingly spread out scattered across the middle east with from the very beginning he said, they will not fly to israel , accordingly, their special forces have now flown to israel, they will naturally fly to the base to strengthen the air defense, they were allocated funds to build accordingly to preserve themselves, they will fly, and not israel, yes, because the air defense is accordingly overloaded, can you imagine how many missiles the proxies have, that is , in reality you will simply overload them, no one can even imagine what you need and no one knows how many missiles they have, well, let’s count, accordingly, we have, as it were, examples of iran, plus or minus, for example , they are in iraq and how they are quickly delivered there, respectively, du

but not all of them are party members of macon.h the house of representatives and the senate agree with him, some of them outspoken isolationists who oppose even indirect involvement in any conflicts abroad and consider the actions of the biden administration a waste, says the white house allocates funds to ukraine without any strategic goal. this week, eight republicans in the house of representatives sent a letter to president biden with the conditions for further assistance. a simple strategy. you and i will not win yet, or we must win. not a winning strategy. how ukraine will win and how much it will take. time, let these estimates do not have to be exact, but we must understand the ultimate goal. is there such a strategy in the white house, this week defense secretary lloyd austin and secretary of state anthony blinken, during a hearing in the senate budget committee, persuaded senators to support a joint aid package. they did not mention the victory of ukraine, instead they talked about the need not to give victory to putin.

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make a little that uh, to engage in something like 250000 people was right out through the macon gail battalion and other ukrainian, the nationalist sessions, police force, and things like this that will be engaged in controlling ukraine once the invasion of the soviet union has the got declassified documents on the salvation is carried out by the ukrainian and sewage and tommy, you'll be sure to contain the evidence of savage atrocities committed by bundio as follows. the 1st focus was on the use of my little little, i'm sorry, with industry i'm will is used to before the answering machine is williams, is one is for sure you was as the legends like the old buddies, embodying some go, it will go when the savvy domini, liberated ukraine, the nationalist went underground and continued to try and find his, the former state security officer yogi sonic of some of the secret base is where you see a fight as will train. he was among those who helped eliminate the nationalist underground in west and ukraine when he saw the name of a new change. which will be able to mention this because polic

make a little that uh, to engage in something like 250000 people was right out through the macon gail battalion and other ukranian, the nationalist sessions, police force and things like this that will be engaged in controlling ukraine once the invasion of the soviet union has the got declassified documents on the cell. variation is carried out by the ukrainian in sewage and tommy, you be sure to contain the evidence of savage atrocities committed by thunder. respond to us. the 1st of august was one of these little little, i'm sorry, with industry. and i will use the before the on service shoes for the which one is for sure. you present the legends like we will do is more intensive go. it will go the, when the savvy, the army, liberated ukraine, the nationalist went underground and continued to try and find to is the former state security officer gilby sunny cough. so the secret base is where you'll find is would train. he was among those who helped eliminate the nationalists underground in west and ukraine when he saw the new way, a new change which will be open in the nation. distan

the impact of today's headlines, explorer and abundance of weld clause programming international for macon and wells class. janet spring programs to inform and inspire on challenges there as the war on guns that escalates out to 0 is correspondence request last night with a noise from the house complete blackouts. that's all situations are very, very wave here. you do have the air strikes in the area as well. troops now are trying to push forward deeper into the gauze. tread 11 soldiers have been confirmed as killed during that time devalue are considered to be one of the most densely populated refugee camps. and the goal is to step this neighborhood has been completely destroyed. stay with us for the latest developments on i'll just era investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe. on alex's here on counting the costs, the un warren's, the one does the set back development and palestinian territories by more than a decade, while israel's central bank says the conflict with a major shock to its economy. plus how the war is decent. lebanon's economic prices counting the costs o

the impact of today's headlines explorer and abundance of world class programming international from macon and world class john and bring programs to inform and inspire on challenges there. with the d, i'm gone so raging and drawing all the attention. the full civil displacement to palestinians in the occupied westbank escalates. settlers retain late, burned down all of drives or attack. tell us the names in the west bank song. dissolve the 10 to blind. i will. they help out using intimidation and bonham's. we are rectitude, population protected by no one. do you want to point westbank? the other from the palestinian experience the the welcome back. you're watching out just directly to remind them about top stories here. this i was just really strikes up to dozens of palestinians across the gaza strip on monday, including children. there was other shelling and rough. uh, i'm calling eunice in the south as well as the giovanni a, a new set up, or if he comes in, no, i'm central gulf amount has been in the health industry says there are no longer any health services in northern gaza. it's re

well, i don't think this is directed in macon, but of course, i mean disturbance in the, in uh, in the woods. uh, i need the service in the lease would uh, always have some kind of a fix on the price is economy to press for any parts of so was need visa and secure. and when this is printed, then uh, economy suffers. uh so, and this from this point, yes, uh, what's going on and guys, uh, again, default a for the estimates. everybody's particularly low skill needs will not be allowed to be involved with the conflict and go beyond what is and right now and other countries out of those layers might be for uh the i'll be at 80 and golf mice is the fact of switching. so all these things be care peebles to produce, and investors think twice before they increase their investment or production. in other words, especially china, india, and browse the and all of this. and they get a reduces. so in directly, yes, it does. take it as the price is applied to the oh, do you think we could expect a similar options from opec plus like this in the future? the pick. so yes, as long as the this product, t

impact of today's headlines, explorer, and abundance of world class programming international from macon and world class john and bring programs to inform and inspire on challenges. here the, the, the seas find deals delayed. israel says the release of captives from guns at once again until at least friday proposal. so i suggest that would be no holds in financing between as well. and how may i ask before then the .

international for macon and wells class john and bring programs to inform and inspire on challenges there. the the, the without just ever a mind of the headlines, not israel says the release of caps is from guns that weren't beginning before friday. after striking a ceasefire. i'm not gonna sit benjamin netanyahu said the agreement was difficult . the right decision, auntie insisted will continue off to the $650.00 is really captive held in dallas are expected to be leased. this will happen over the course of the for the 65150 kind of thing in women and children. and it's very changed on the head of the agreement to as well go into the wave of air strikes in garza health ministry says at least 200 palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours. 52 people for the 2 families have been killed. trip on an estimated $7250.00 for palestinian prisoners. a health in is ready jails. the prisoner exchange deal is giving some from his hope. the loved ones will get home seen. many a wondering at what cost? same was robbie has more from not as an occupied westbank, a blot the refugee camp in novel

macon is also insistent on a three day or longer ceasefire to make the transfer.ile there are political problems with qatar having relations both with israel and hamas, this is a time where diplomacy may be able to have one of the first d escalating steps in this more than a month long war. former ambassador, thank you for joining us from washington. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. when the call comes in on the radio, pcso brooks has to be quick. she is chasing after hundreds of pounds worth of designer handbags. boats worth of designer handbags. boots were recovered _ worth of designer handbags. boots were recovered to _ worth of designer handbags. boots were recovered to the _ worth of designer handbags. boots were recovered to the value - worth of designer handbags. boots were recovered to the value of - worth of designer handbags. boots were recovered to the value ofjust over 500 — were recovered to the value ofjust over £300. in were recovered to the value of 'ust mo.— over £300. in house of fraser it is a problem — over £300. in house o

forward in time about 36 hours and the band of rainfall really only makes it as far north as let's say maconorgia, birmingham. i'd be surprised if you see any rain out of this system. the bulk of the precipitation going to fall tomorrow and thursday for miami d-dade count region. there could be localized flooding across southeastern sections of florida. so just looking at the deficit of rainfall we have going on for the season, that is since september 1, you can see how far below average we are atlanta, jackson, chattanooga, charlotte. new orleans 4.5 inches. lake charles about 5 to 7 inches below average for the season. there is the rainfall across the southeast. beautiful day across the east coast. mild through the central interior. and we've been watching this storm system off the west coast, we were hopeful for rainfall but really only light showers from san francisco southward into los angeles. here a broad look at your temperatures. for you, you will reach 58 today. so you can call it a nice autumn day. >> yeah, and nice leaves still on the trees here. weatherman derek van dam, thank y

nation is quoted occupying a power that does not have the right to self-defense a russian ambassador at maconhe controversy over marks at the un general assembly session on this conflict and russia by the way has not condemned the barbaric on october 7. ana welcomed hamas leaders to moscow. and so live in london with more on this. >> arthel, for the moment has been on the support that hamas is getting from ironic other neighboring countries. but the net is being cast further people are starting to look closer at the relationship with russia which turns out to be quite beneficial for both. in fact in the last few days and cold rush of their closest friend very much is a relationship that works in two ways that we sought escalate recently when moscow extended an invitation to hamas and had its leaders come visit in moscow which infuriated israel. while the same time we are hearing russia has been helping hamas to avoid sanctions by funneling millions of dollars of hamas money through the russian crypto currency exchanges. we also know russia weapons were used by hamas and the terror attacks on

in murray or gordon county, totally renovating a building and look at what they have done in the maconl. law enforcement one section, beautiful layout with the election office. that is county commissioner saying, we understand how important elections are and we'll invest in election infrastructure and election workers are saying, they understand how important elections are and it is a positive thing. >> harris: this is extremely important what he's talking about. he keeps mentioning the word important. think of the fear and concern now among some of the officials at elections offices that anything could happen like this to them. five letters laced with fentanyl sent. one addressed to fulton county georgia election official. i want to stress this point. you may see some reporting on social media this was happening to other states. he did not confirm that. we didn't confirm that. recently, something similar happened with officials in washington state. this is not a one-off, not the first time with this. this is extremely critical timing of all this. you don't have narcan everywhere in ou

as i mentioned in my opening were also joined by macon's executive director of the national alliancemental illness for the state. doctor you may begin. you have fivein minutes please note your entire written testimony will remain a part of the record. >> thank you so much good afternoon chairman chester. on behalf of my colleagues doctor hastings might want to express our gratitude for the opportunity to discuss how the va research program express my gratitude for the wind you put in our sales to the hannan act and to the strong act and the pact act. which i am so privileged to lead has a primary responsibility for managing the department researcm appropriation sets a policy for department research activity. for nearly a century, va has had a research program dedicated to enhancing the well-being of veterans through scientific discovery. we are embedded within the va healthcare system both operationallyot as well as culturally. as an intramural program that exclusively funds eligible va employees qualified to do research the science we support is firmly grounded and the in te experie

victories against the long list of the union army is a bubbly best and brightest officers, george macon john pope. before going toe to toe with william rosecrans on the tennessee/georgia border. bragg was a full general in the confederate army. he had the ear and the loyalty of jefferson davis. we will come to that in due course and commanded the second most confederate army for longer than any other officer. overseeing a theater, much larger in size than a robert e.. lee's army . i would not not say more political. none of us, i think it is fair to say what he wanted racks and bragg's job. i certainly would not. i stole my students this all the time. i think if i was in the army the second day that my feet were wet, i we need to go home. i could not have dealt with it. i think i have to take a pause in say, these people were up against remarkable odds in terrible conditions. they do not have allergy medication. we might all get them a break from time to time. i will pause here to say, i'm not here to compare braxton bragg and robert e. lee . that is not fair to do. i'm not going to tom

has more than 30 seconds i can with the potential to be a great place for the alliance, central fort macon also be polarizing. >> you get and out of jail card because you and a bastard. foreign minister, last word to you. 30 seconds please. >> just one hour ago, secretary blinken, i told him that, actually u.s. and south korea are now present at the creation of a new order, regional and global. so we say every time we go together, not just on the military front only, to know economic security or technology related war are many areas for the next 70 years, even though it may be a long and bumpy road all right. that note, thanks to our panelists. thank you, foreign minister yun, ambassador stephens, general brooks, president hahn. thank you korea foundation, cs

with diplomatic talks unfolding in the middle east for days -- secretary of state anthony blinken macon to unannounced visits today and the israeli occupied west bank and in iraq. in a meeting with -- secretary blinken reaffirmed americas commitment to address the humanitarian crisis unfolding in gaza. the state department says blinken also discussed efforts to restore stability to the west bank. over the past few weeks, tensions have spilled over there as israeli -- and a surprise visit to back that, secretary blinken met with iraq's prime minister to talk about the importance of preventing the war from spreading into a wider regional conflict. lincoln over under is -- humanitarian pause in fighting -- aid for civilians into the gaza strip. >> this is a process. israel's race -- raised important questions about how humanitarian policies would work. we have to answer those questions. second, it is important that the pause advance a number of things, one of them as hostages. we are intensely focused. the united states, israel, every country that has one of their citizens being held hosta

jim, there's a chance that some households themselves macon nate tighter inflation and have frustration and you're not sure what they're dependent on. >> that's correct. and that's why the fed pace close attention to these inflation expectation numbers. they like to use the fraise inflation remains well anchored and 12-year high in the out look for inflation is on the 5-10 year outlook, sounds like it's on a green and that that should be more of a concern, but the fed seems to be consist with this idea that they're done for now and they're happy if the market does the work for them, but if you look at what the stock market highways done in the last two weeks, it's not doing anything that would slow the economy and hold inflation down. so this keeps up, we might be back to talking about more rate hikes in 2024. charles: let me pick up on that because hi a conversation with a couple of folks yesterday including danielle de-martino booth. how much nuance and nitpicking do we need the fed to do? nudging the behavior every time a data point goes up or stock market moves huhner >> no, we don'

just had early on, we want it based on the true story of an enslaved couple that escaped 1848 from macon, georgia, to get to philadelphia and in the criss cross that criss cross and they hidden in plain sight, they hid in plain sight how they did it. it's so exciting. so wonderful. and it did cause me to go down some rabbit holes to read other things. so i'm still reading torie clarke chatter on books is the name of the podcast. the address is chatter on books dot com. thanks for being with us on sta. so thank you again and. welcome. today, i'm going to introduce to amazing is the understatement of the century women. serafina el-badry nance and lauren grush. their the six and star struck are must reads for anyone interested in space. women science and the future of our universe and i would like to just have them open up a little bit by talking about their books and how they came to writing this. because serafina is your book is a memoir. a memoir not only of your time working as an astrophysicist, but of coming up right here in austin, texas. and it is a little bit of a love letter to au

impact of today's headlines, explorer and abundance of wealth clause programming international for macon and wells class john and bring programs to inform and inspire on challenges here on charles dunn's. you want to raise behind sides dramatize to put cost from. i'll just here to invest facing re here from some of history's dogs notable women and unconventional and extraordinary office. i am 40 that kind of coming this revolution of every one in china, new my state. you've heard all of them power it's time you have from these and 6 of hindsight is out now subscribe wherever you listen to pop, cast the the, [000:00:00;00] the flow on the bulk of this is the new, the loss of the coming up in the next 60 minutes united nations security council pauses a resolution quoting for a temporary hopes of slicing in gaza to allow aid honestly, i think many have given up hope that we would ever speak on this conflict. but that's exactly what we just did.

you can find it in macon and augusta, georgia, galveston and houston texas, new orleans. it all across the south and in memphis and nashville, tennessee so it did exist before 1860s. it was not, as often has been told, a sport that came to the south as a product of the american civil war and appeared when southern soldiers saw the game played in their prison of war camps or elsewhere or maybe on the battlefield during a sort of a period in which there was no fighting, in which baseball was played. now, baseball was growth was not halted. the american civil war, it was only temporarily slowed. yes, fewer were played. and many baseball is the war fighting for both union and confederate forces. but these baseball is turned. soldiers continued to play the in their camps when weather, leisure and weather permitted which helped spread the game to those had never seen the game before. soldiers played here at fort pulaski, georgia these are union soldiers. this is usually regarded as the very photograph of baseball game. you can see the 48th new york volunteer infantry in the fro

so if they can't access it because oh well, when i was in macon i voted this way and i could vote after work up until 7:00. but apparently you can't do that in savannah. and so when we look at it's wonderful that it's decentral ized and states have the ability to do it, but it's also a curse because without that centralized nation, you don't have control. and in 40 countries that we work in, there's a central election commission. so, you know, when people are misbehaving, you know who to blame. and you know that election commission is going to hold them accountable. that's just not the way it works in the us and so good news is you can't hack every election across the united states at the same time because they're all so different. the bad news is, you some of them can get hacked and they could be the important ones and people can't vote as easily as they should be able to. and so those are things that we have to actually pull together and make sure people understand how you vote in your neighborhood, how that happens, how your voice can be heard. and that's a really interesting point.

just had early on, we want it based on the true story of an enslaved couple that escaped 1848 from macon, georgia, to get to philadelphia and in the criss cross that criss cross and they hidden in plain sight, they hid in plain sight how they did it. it's so exciting. so wonderful. and it did cause me to go down some rabbit holes to read other things. so i'm still reading torie clarke chatter on books is the name of the podcast. the address is chatter on books dot com. thanks for being with us on sta. so thank you again and. welcome. today, i'm going to introduce to amazing is the understatement of the century

capricorn records was headquartered in macon and musicians like the allman brothers band were headquartered there in georgia. and a lot of those musicians became supporters of carter and helped spread the word of his his campaign. so it was a broad interest in the arts. he listened to classical music, but he also had a they both also had an interest in more sort of vernacular southern music as well. the people who keep these kinds of statistics say that first lady carter had three dozens specific interviews with media organizations and had 22 press conferences during their term in office. we're going to see one of those instances when she talked to reporters after the president signed the executive order establishing the mental health commission. as you probably know, for the past year and a half, a little more. i have campaigned all over the country in my biographical sketch. i had a little paragraph that said that i was interested in mental health. and so everywhere i went, if people had a good program, they wanted me to see it. i had a chance to see happening all over this country that a

host: greg in pennsylvania, when it comes to speaker johnson and the efforts he is macon to pass theill, washington post highlights now that a plan is official and a shutdown looms, democrats are signaling openness by not broadly criticizing it. leadership is still discussing how to approach the measure. appreciate that there are no conservative poison pills attached to it. democrats also worried they could lose their leverage to pass emergency funding for ukraine and israel. the story also adding that before johnson made his decision on the proposal to avert a government shutdown, many republicans that he should ultimately be supporting passage of a clean extension to possibly tax on israel aid, because members of the freedom caucus would not move immediately if he did. several members said they would not make a motion to vacate johnson from speakership, several admitted a decision to pass a clean funding extension ostensibly with the help of democrats, which would start to test their patience. some of the political back-and-forth about the passing of legislation to keep the governm

macon robson knows all about this. commercial real estate, i'm gonna cut to the chase, it is grim.f the most rate sensitive parts of the market and defaults will rise there. looking at them across the board the areas where we see problems so far are in these rate sensitive areas, commercial real estate and floating-rate interest payments have seen defaults rise. on the consumer side with the fed data we got this week with revolving credit delinquencies creep a little higher. commercial real estate is a well flagged area for weakness. lisa: we have been talking about what kind of stability people need to see to gain confidence to come up with a business plan for corporate issuers to come back to the market? is this enough? are these rates fine if they stay here and there is a sense of stability for all of the issuers? meghan: we have seen a lot of issuance this week. for contacts, yields relative to the recent peak 45 basis points and 50 basis points lower for higher issuers. going forward, we expect muted new issuance. the incentives are in place for deleveraging and looking at thi

macon georgia fell below the freezing mark. eventually here we will warm it up.back to you, george. >> we'll go to washington where congressman george santos who faces criminal charges survived a vote last night to expel him from the house. senior congressional correspondent rachel scott reports from capitol hill. good morning, rachel. >> reporter: george, good morning. it was new york republicans that made the case that congressman george santos deserves to be kicked out of office. but with his trial still months away, some said it was premature. overnight congressman george santos surviving a rare vote to oust him from congress. >> the resolution is not adopted and a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. >> reporter: 24 republicans joining most democrats to expel santos, but the resolution falling far short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass. santos defiant. >> i feel like due process is still alive. i feel like there's enough colleagues on both sides of the aisle here who understand that. >> reporter: the push to expel santos was put forward by h

let's go to james in macon, georgia. >> good morning.ou know, i feel relieved right now for alabama. we just heard rita, a democrat that's doing a great job. you know you made my day. i don't know what else to say. i'm going to vote for biden because of the fact he has accomplished a lot of things to get us out of the rut we were in when trump walked out of office. and now he is trying to run again to keep them going from jail -- from going to jail. he's trying to be in office to keep from going to jail. it is shocking. you have a man who has helped this country grow with the fewer percent -- 4% increase. some of the things are highlighted -- higher, and the gas that went down. we have a 4% increase. trump said he would get a 3% increase. but he couldn't even get 2%. i'm just shocked at some of you folks that are looking like i'm just in a vote republican or democrat because of the fact. the fact is this, we need this country, we need democracy. we don't have democracy. we are going to have chaos in this country and it's going to be just

elvis says the macon dream is over and the masses are waking up to the lies of capitalism.his is kathy in new york, republican. is the american dream still attainable? caller: of course it is. i think we are going in the rock -- wrong direction. when i was young i was cynical because a group in the 1960's and the 1970's in college. we had lots of crime in new york city. injustice. all the things that are going on now. we have the war in vietnam, lots of the people, lots of protests. you can go back as far as you want. when i was cynical my best friend was born in egypt. he got kicked out because he was there at the wrong time when the suez canal war was going on. he was just a two-year-old kid. they had to go to france. it took him until he was 12 years old to get here. he used to say it's a great country, america. at 1.i said to him are you joking? he looked at me so sadly. he said you don't know what you don't know. you don't know what it's like around the world. everyone has the best chance here. my friend made a great in this country. the other friends made it successfu

her senior military leaders and those over and capitol hill to have an honest discussion with the maconell them what is the risk we are incurring by not giving us everything we may need to in fact defend our national security interests around the world. host: lots of calls coming in. jerry in midway, utah, a veteran. go ahead, jerry. we may have lost jerry. jerry, go ahead. nope. john and mechanicsburg, pennsylvania on the veteran line. make sure to turn down the volume on your tv. john? van in memphis, tennessee. caller: ok. i was a vietnam era veteran. i was in the last group that was drafted. i came back from the military and started a job. host: did you have a question for any of our guests? caller: yeah. i bought a v.a. home back in the 1990's. paid that loan off. went through some hard times. layoffs. now trying to buy a new home. my credit, they say it is not high enough. i want to know why they put a stipulation of the v.a. loan when it was so easy to get the first time. another issue i have is i was drafted -- i volunteered for the draft. when it came out of the military i had