Don't worry Obie will fix it....

As soon as the Lord gets elected happy times will be back, yea right.

California Cities Cut Police Budgets - WSJ.com

VALLEJO, Calif. -- When the economic crisis deepened this fall, this city already was losing scores of police and firefighters because it could no longer afford the rich salaries and benefits it offered after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Now, with crime on the rise and tax revenue sinking, this San Francisco Bay area city faces more cuts in police and fire department budgets.

crisis

Why are we not surprised?....

Don McNay: Credit Cards In The World of Taxpayer-Owned Banks

The American people ponied up $700 billion to supposedly bail out some big banks on Wall Street. So far, we have not seen the banks what banks are supposed to do, lend people money. Instead they are doing the thing that Wall Street raiders do, take over other companies. PNC and Fifth Third were the first banks to make deals, backed by taxpayer dollars.

Bush and Paulsen encouraged bad behavior in their bailout bill. They gave big banks money and tax incentives to gobble up small banks. They made sure that their buddies on Wall Street were taken care of.

Most big banks didn't need bad behavior encouragement. They've been able to do harmful things long before the government started subsiding them.

Read it and weep........

Bear Warning

Warning to Outdoorsmen

Only the Empire works for all......

Planned Chaos: Introduction (Part 1 of 11) by Ludwig Von Mises -- Capitalism Magazine

Planned Chaos: Introduction (Part 1 of 11)
by Ludwig Von Mises (November 1, 2008)

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties are eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise. It is an almost unchallenged dogma that capitalism is done for and that the coming of all-round regimentation of economic activities is both inescapable and highly desirable.

Nonetheless capitalism is still very vigorous in the Western Hemisphere . Capitalist production has made very remarkable progress even in these last years. Methods of production were greatly improved. Consumers have been supplied with better and cheaper goods and with many new articles unheard of a short time ago. Many countries have expanded the size and improved the quality of their manufacturing. In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Ludwig von mizes, capitalism

No we will call this a Depression....

Short lived until the boomers retire over the next 10 years and cash out their stocks. Currently it's the law. By the age of 70 401 k's have to be liquidated. Doesn't matter if they change the law, we are broke and don't have enough new taxpayers. So, we need to import Mexicans to pay for our Social Security. Better bone up on your Spanish, amigo.

Up here in Idaho we have guns to eat with. What have you got. Obanomics?

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. consumer spending tumbled in September and a purchasing managers' survey showed the biggest deterioration since 1968, foreshadowing a deepening economic slump.

``Consumers have thrown in the towel,'' said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts, who correctly forecast the drop in purchases. ``They have no choice but to cut back on spending in a very big way. This is going to be a fairly deep, long recession.''

The 0.3 percent drop in purchases matched the biggest slide in four years and followed no change in August and July, the Commerce Department said today in Washington. The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago said its business index fell to 37.8 this month, below all 58 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey.

Job losses, increases in food and fuel costs and falling property values brought an end to the longest expansion in spending on record and made the economy the most important issue in next week's presidential election. The collapse in lending and sentiment this month indicate Americans will keep retrenching.

Today's Commerce Department report also showed that the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation cooled last month. Receding price pressures mean the Fed has ``more room to maneuver'' with interest rates, Behravesh said. San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen said yesterday policy makers may cut the key rate close to zero percent should the economy remain weak.

Employment Costs

Labor Department figures showed separately that employment costs rose 0.7 percent in July to September, the same pace as the previous two quarters. That's a sign that rising unemployment is stifling gains in wages and benefits.

bloomberg, guns, broke

I want one......

Click on it for the picture.

Alaskan Clydesdale

Alaskan Clydesdale

Only in Alaska ....... This guy raised an abandoned moose calf with his horses, and believe it or not, he has trained it for lumber removal and other hauling tasks. Given the 2,000 pounds of robust muscle, and the splayed, grippy hooves, he claims it is the best work animal he has. He says the secret to keeping the moose around is a sweet salt lick,although during the rut he disappears for a couple of weeks, but always comes home.... impressive!

Where is Obie going to get the money for for his daydreams.......

We are broke. Can't get moola from broke people. Our savings have disappeared in a spasm of greed and fear on the great gambling hall called the stock market. All we will be able to do is sell off what's left to the highest bidder. Obie has to win to save the clowns that got us in to this mess. He'll have to dismantle our military. No where else is any money left. Everything else is untouchable i.e. Social Security, Medicaid, Welfare for his voters, pork for dem's in Congress, etc.

Mac faces the same problems except his constituents are the military. Congress will belong to the socialists so he get's nothing done except inflate the currency as a compromise or watch millions lose everything they have in the coming Depression and face a third party revolution.

Expect war in the streets as Obie's supporters smell the election was stolen from their Lord. I 'll stay up here in Walmart Heaven idaho.

Speaking of Pat Buchanon yesterday....

::: Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website

PJB: Comrade Obama?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

If Barack Obama is not a socialist, he does the best imitation of one I’ve ever seen.

Under his tax plan, the top 5 percent of wage-earners have their income tax rates raised from 35 percent to 40 percent, while the bottom 40 percent of all wage-earners, who pay no income tax, are sent federal checks.

If this is not the socialist redistribution of wealth, what is it?

A steeply graduated income tax has always been the preferred weapon of the left for bringing about socialist equality. Indeed, in the “Communist Manifesto” of 1848, Karl Marx was himself among the first to call for “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax.”

pat buchanan, walmart, socialist

The Empire is not American.....

The Empire is capitalism. Enforced by the American military and financed originally by the American, and now the world's, consumer. The ruling elites who control the political process could care less their or your nationality. As long as world trade is unimpeded you and I can do pretty much believe what we want. But just try to vote for a Ross Perot or Pat Buchanan and see how far you get standing in their way.

Personally, I believe someone has to control it. Imagine a world with out peaceful trade and you get the 1930's all over again. Conflicts between trading parties have to be settled at the upper levels because we all have nukes. Unfortunately, xenophobia keeps rearing it's head and threatening the status quot.

Archdruidreport

1. The End of American Empire

Right now America is as addicted to empire as any inner-city crackhead to cocaine. We support the world’s most bloated military, with troops and bases in more than a hundred countries, in order to enforce a global economic order that allows the 5% of the world’s people who live in the United States to use roughly a third of the world’s resources. At the same time, empires are costly pets, and ours – like every other empire in history – is becoming an economic burden our nation can no longer support; at the same time, the drastic decrease in US living standards that would follow the end of American empire is a political time bomb nobody wants to touch. Caught in that dilemma, the United States seems determined to follow the usual course of past empires, allowing its imperial commitments to drag it down.

A depression, however, would force the issue. In the midst of economic collapse, the United States would be no more able to maintain a global military presence than Russia was after its own collapse. The troops would have to come home – not just from Iraq and Afghanistan, but from the whole far-flung web of US military bases – and resources now being drained by the incubus of empire would be available for more constructive tasks, such as preparing for the onset of peak oil.

American Empire, Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan

Next comes a debt moratorium.....

You ain't seen nothin yet. My generation will start taking money out of the stock market over the next few years to pay their over priced houses and other bills. The boomers are collectively broke. We have to look at a few facts to get some answers.

First of all it's the affordability index that matters. When I sold and bought real estate in the late 80's-, most people could afford a house around 80000 (payments of 450) on the median income of 24000. When this crisis began to develope in 2005-2006 the avg median household was closer to 44000. (Now you it's gone up to around 52000 .) Who amoung us making this much money  can afford 2100 per mo. for a avg. house in California, Florida, or Arizona? let alone come up with 60000 for a down payment. Now throw in 500 for or more for cars, 250 for credit cards and add nutso gas prices? No one in their right mind would give these people more credit now that their piggy bank of a house they bought is upside down in value!

Let's just say that we ran out of suckers. Proof is in the stock market crash-down 40 % over a years time. The market ran out of buyers when speculation developed in oil futures and currency trading. Where else could all those trillions go when the debt parade hit a ditch. Fortunately we have a chance of benefiting from it. During depressions people who saved and increased their credit limits bought everything for pennies on the dollar. But wait. We are early in the cycle. Read my first paragraph. Until we collectively change our spend and borrowing ways, well......

What happens when interest rates hit zero or negative 1? Every thing booms again. Are you ready? All those trillions of printing press money has to go some where. Last time 2003-2004 it went into real estate and stocks. In Sept. 2001 that down dropped to approximately 8500. It just , after 7 years , hit that mark again this week. Are you getting the idea.

Hey, it's not over until it's over.

Wait until we discuss credit cards. Weee!!!!

Plans swirl about how to save trouble global economy - Oct. 24, 2008

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Governments and central banks of the world's leading nations have taken unprecedented coordinated actions in the past month to help out battered financial markets and economies around the globe.

Yet, the global meltdown in stocks continued Friday. And this lack of confidence and sense of panic has left experts wondering what can be done next to assure investors and get banks to operate normally once again.

Obie never met a gun he didn't want to ban......

Don't say you weren't warned.

Gun BaN Obama

Obama Campaign Threatens Legal Action Over NRA Ads
MORE NEWS
9/25/2008 -

Fairfax, VA-Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has sent threatening letters to news agencies in Pennsylvania and Ohio to stop airing ads exposing his anti-gun record sponsored by the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF).

The kicker? NRA-PVF's Ohio’s ads have not yet begun running.

“Barack Obama and his campaign are terrified of the truth,” declared Chris W. Cox, Chairman of NRA-PVF. “Sen. Obama's statements and support for restricting access to firearms, raising taxes on guns and ammunition and voting against the use of firearms for self-defense in the home are a matter of public record. NRA-PVF will make sure that everyone knows of Obama's abysmal record on guns and hunting.”

The Obama campaign sent cease and desist letters to news outlets in Pennsylvania and Ohio, denouncing the ads and demanding their removal from the airwaves. All stations where NRA-PVF has purchased or plans to purchase ads have been provided with documented evidence of Sen. Obama's anti-gun record.

Eco-freaks are us.......

A new religion has arrived in the last couple of decades. Starting with Rachel Carson's" "Silent Spring" It's taken on a huge movement even in Psychiatry. But the big news is that it is "Big Business". Nothing like that old religion putting money in your pocket.

www.peakoilblues.com blog

Easiest Way to Green: Buying to Save the Planet
Porter Novelli, then, helps international corporations figure out how to turn consumers’ climate fears into increased corporate profitability through “green” purchases. They do this by defining what is “green,” and how “green” someone is:

To determine this, they asked people whether they thought any of these actions were important to protect the environment and whether participants actually acted on any of these actions: (1) buying energy-efficient appliances, (2) buying environmentally-friendly products, (3) buying products made from recycled paper or plastics, (4) using cloth bags to put what you buy into, or (5) buying products that use less packaging. One choice involves “not buying” as a way of punishing companies with bad environmental records, while another option was “recycling–” what’s already been “bought.” Two other choices include “not buying stuff, or at least buying a lot less” and using “less energy at home.”

big buachel Carsonsiness, green, silent spring, R

dallas and Tampa Bay Suck....

Who's the weakest looking of the two? Damn if I know.

He this guy question the Messiah, Obama.....ow dar

The media vs. Joe the Plumber - Los Angeles Times


Jonah Goldberg
October 21, 2008


At a John McCain rally in Virginia on Saturday, Tito Munoz had come to face the enemy: the news media, which had declared war on Joe Wurzelbacher.

"Why the hell are you going after Joe the Plumber?" he yelled at a group of reporters, including my National Review colleague, Byron York. "Joe the Plumber has an idea. He has a future. He wants to be something else. Why is that wrong? Everything is possible in America. I made it. Joe the Plumber could make it even better than me. ... I was born in Colombia, but I was made in the U.S.A."

Who knows what it will do for McCain in the end, but the Joe the Plumber phenomenon is real. At the rally, supporters carried handmade signs reading "Phil the Brick Layer" and banners proclaiming "Rose the Teacher." Wurzelbacher symbolizes an optimistic, individualistic vision of America sorely lacking -- until recently -- in McCain's rhetoric.

joe the plumber, john mccain

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.......

All right bring it back.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Jamaica puzzled by theft of beach

Jamaica puzzled by theft of beach
By Nick Davis
BBC News, Ocho Rios, Jamaica

People on a beach in Jamaica (file)
A good beach is seen as a valuable asset to hotels in Jamaica

Police in Jamaica are investigating the suspected theft of hundreds of tons of sand from a beach on the island's north coast.

It was discovered in July that 500 truck-loads had been removed outside a planned resort at Coral Spring beach.

Detectives say people in the tourism sector could be suspects, because a good beach is seen as a valuable asset to hotels on the Caribbean island.

But a lack of arrests made since July have led to criticism of the police.

MMMM.....lunch time....

PETV

Don't eat anything without a face...

If god didn't want people to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
Oxnard,CA-July 07,2004-Research scientists at Oxnard UNC Medical Center have proven that plants, including vegetables, feel pain when subjected to trauma such as being yanked out of the ground, peeled, cooked, and eaten. "Veggies and plants initiate a massive hormone and chemical barrage internally when they suffer any kind of injury," says professor Harry Simeon. "This response is akin to the nerve response and endorphin release when an animal is injured. We cannot ignore the similarities." When Baker asked professor Simeon and his research team what they thought this finding might mean, they responded unanimously, "Nobel prize, baby!"

Other agencies and the sum total of the world's hard-core vegetarians (known as vegans) registered formal complaints against the research. Their team of lawyers has already submitted a motion to have the results of the research destroyed or sealed. Others fear the damage has already been done. A spokesman said, "This is bad for us. Most of our members haven't eaten anything since hearing about the results. Our lawyers are looking into suing Mother Earth for false advertising, but concede that the suit will probably be inconclusive. In the meantime we'll be surviving on vitamin supplements and water."

In an ironic related story, a dozen protesters picketing the Hungry Carnivore Steak House in Dallas were allegedly assaulted by three patrons of the restaurant. Eyewitnesses say that the picketers were making their typical nuisance display of scorn and righteous indignation over the willful consumption of "the flesh of murdered animals" outside the Hungry Carnivore when two unidentified men and a woman stepped out of the establishment and sprayed the picketers with several gallons of what appeared to be blood. Victims and bystanders alike were surprised to discover that the liquid was actually V-8 juice. The truly shocking result of the alleged attack was the reaction of the picketers. All of the protesters were wracked with convulsions and suffered hours of dry heaves while many of the bystanders merely laughed. This reaction within vegetarianism's great bastion of faith has many true believers reconsidering their dietary requirements. Others are quietly making funeral arrangements and the Environmental Protection Agency is considering declaring vegans an endangered species.

mobile homes, houses, credit, Florida,

Light at the end of tunnel??......

Lot of houses on the market are being bought back by banks. Big time losses for now. Guy with good credit could get a house for next to nothing next year if or when credit loosens up. However, I'm convinced thousands of people will only be able to afford a used mobile home in the near term. Maybe time to get rich. Borrow from an owner on terms like I did here in Idaho (5000 down-500/mo for 3 years) . It will be years before banks lend on any mobile homes let alone used. Probably able to buy for very little and sell on terms for a nice profit.
     I like this better than selling houses for payments that few will be able to afford. After all everyone has to live somewhere. If banks evicts all these borrowers upside down on their loans, and they will, these people have to have a place to live. Do you see an opportunity in your town?

Tampa’s existing home sales on the rise - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

More homes were sold in the Tampa Bay area in September than the previous September, but median home values continue to fall.

Existing home sales for Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater climbed to 2,174 last month, up 29 percent from September 2008 while Lakeland was up 27 percent to 284 homes sold in September.

Sarasota didn’t have the same success, but its 7 percent drop to 550 units was the most contained drop of any market in the state.

In fact, only five of the 20 markets tracked by the Florida Association of Realtors showed declines with the statewide average up 24 percent over the previous year.

Values haven’t followed, however. The median home price in Tampa dropped 20 percent from $200,700 last year to $160,500 last month. In Lakeland and Winter Haven, the median home price fell 16 percent to $139,500, while in Sarasota-Bradenton, the median price was down 29 percent but remained just above the $200,000 mark.

Statewide, the median price dropped 22 percent year over year from $224,700 to $175,100.

mobile homes, houses, credit, Florida,

China farts........

The economy is gloomy? Wait until it hits 5% or less. Heh heh

China: Where 9% GDP growth is recession - Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money

China: Where 9% GDP growth is recession
Posted Oct 20 2008, 06:46 AM by Douglas McIntyre

China's big stock index, the Shanghai Composite, has fallen from a 52-week high of over 6,000 to 1,974. Idiot math would say that is equivalent to the DJIA trading at 4,600. That may be a simpleton's view of the world, but the perspectives of the foolish as not always wrong.

China announced that its GDP grew only 9% in the third quarter. That number was supposed to be closer to 10%.

According to Reuters, "A gloomy outlook lies ahead after the third quarter, and concerns about the slowdown now outweigh concerns about inflation," said Chen Jinren, an analyst at Huatai Securities.

In the U.S. and Europe, a recession is still probably defined at two consecutive quarters of GDP shrinkage. In a world where 4% growth is burning up the track China's increase of 9% seems unattainable. But, in an economy which relies on rapid growth to build a middle class and huge industrial base, even a modest drop in a torrid quarterly improvement pattern probably spells significant problems.

china, gnp.recession

his chick will make a great sec. of Interior for Obie.....

Switzerland Places Ban on the Humiliation of Plants : Planetsave

Switzerland Places Ban on the Humiliation of Plants
Written by Meg Hamill
Published on October 18th, 2008
49 Comments
Posted in International, Legislation
A new amended law in Switzerland protects the dignity of vegetation.

A law protecting the dignity of plants? Laugh if you will. I’m down on my knees in respect and awe. At last the Western World is realizing the dire importance of taking other species into account.

Recently, the Swiss Parliament asked a panel of philosophers, lawyers, geneticists and theologians to determine the meaning of dignity when it pertains to plants.

Lo and Behold, the team published a treatise on “the moral consideration of plants for their own sake.” The treatise established that vegetation has innate value and that it is morally wrong to partake in activities such as the “decapitation of wildflowers at the roadside without rational reason.”

planetsave, "plant dignity"

N.Y. Times to the rescue......

The government got us into this mess by allowing every broke dick in the country to have a house. It's the affordability index, stupid. In Idaho a house sells let's say for 185000. I can afford 135000 on my income. No buy this year. Or next. Until I and millions of average income people can afford it, the economy stays in the tubes.
   In the past few years  I could have bought a home and by now been paying 50% of my income to keep it. Might as well rent a house. Or as I'm doing, buy a mobile home and have it paid for in a couple of years. That's the plan. Why spend my old age slaving for these crooks in the finance industry, hmmm?
    What's your plan to get through the depression? By the way all this printed money, 2 trillion and counting will cause the boom to reignite. The next bust will even be worse. Keep your eye on China. There economy has dropped to 9 % growth. Break even so far. Disaster if it falls below 5%.

May you live in interesting times. Pay off your bills. Keep your lines of credit open and save cash. Then if you want to buy something you'll have your choice. I'm thinking buying older mobile homes in retirement parks, remodeling and flipping them. Being able to finance them is the key. No one will lend money on them and everyone has to have a place to live.

Economic Scene - With Rescue Money Available, Who Wouldn’t Line Up? - NYTimes.com

The idea of helping Main Street has an undeniable appeal. Housing is at the root of the financial crisis, and preventing foreclosures could bring a double-barreled benefit. It would allow families to remain in their homes and could also help keep the housing market from spiraling out of control. The more foreclosed homes that are dumped on the market, the more home prices will fall.

But before any of the various rescue plans reaches the point of inevitability — and these days, ideas can go from unlikely to inevitable in about 48 hours — I think it’s important to stop for a moment and consider how complicated any such plan would be. Every one of them, in fact, faces an inherent conflict: coming up with a large-scale homeowner bailout without also helping millions of people who don’t need help is almost impossible.

China, credit.casheconomic, "mobile homes"

Jesus... all this and no toilet paper

This is so rich. Imagine these sissies in charge. Why do we take these seriously.

Musings on Money, Personal Finance, Frugality, Debt, and Other Matters — Money, Matter, and More Musings

Ike Is Closing In And TV Reporters Are Going Crazy

by golbguru on September 12, 2008

It’s probably just a few more hours before we lose electric power, and have trees flying around. I don’t know long it will be before we have electricity back up, so I just thought of dropping a line here.

If you don’t have anything better to do, follow the eye of the storm closely and you would be able to zero in on my current geographical location.

Anyways, about TV reporters - man, those guys get so animated (even when other people in background are going about peacefully doing whatever they are doing). Interestingly, this afternoon, one of them even suggested this as a part of “survival tips for hurricane”:

People who use electric toothbrush should buy manual ones, and people who use electric shaving machines should get manual ones …

It's all in your head.....

Seems that psychology is more important than reality. Just look at all the "I can't get it up" pills on the market. Must be a billion guys running around unable to get a hard on. No wonder the divorce rate is so bad. Na, people are just stupid.

14 Wild Ideas

In the 1970s, the RAND Health Insurance Experiment randomly assigned 5000 adults to free or full-price health care over 3-5 years. Free care folks got more eyeglasses and teeth filled, and spent ~30% more, but were otherwise no healthier. This result is consistent with typical time-series and cross-sectional analyses. I'm willing to extrapolate from this 30% change to a 50% cut. More here.)

"health care"

I know how to be frugal....

Patti says I'm tight. Matter of fact I give scrooge a run for his money. After all a year ago we were technically homeless. Got my own place again and will be payment free in a year or so. Beats camping out in my son's backyard. Here's a site where the yuppies can can commiserate because the cost of bri and croisants have gone up.

iwillteachyoutoberich

Americans don’t know how to be frugal — yet
Things will get more expensive. Taxes will eventually go up. They have to. Costs of ordinary goods will go up. They always do. If you’re expecting it to get easier, you’re wrong. The key is to make more money and cut your costs. Sadly, Americans are poorly versed in being frugal. You think it makes sense to buy a new car every few years? You think it’s normal to eat out 5 times per week (lunch and dinner)? You feel good about yourself for ordering water when you go to a restaurant, but you blew $50,000 because you didn’t take the time to understand your mortgage? You’re not frugal. But a few more years of an economy like this and things just might change.

frugal, rich

Best way to save for the common man....

Food. Big expense. Big pain in the ass. Best tip that I can give is to create a menu for every meal. List and then buy only items on that list. Stay out of restaurants. Shop around with ads in hand. Remember Walmart rocks (the Empire made me put that in).

8 Ways to Cut Your Grocery Bill at SmartMoney.com

The resulting higher costs are swiftly passed down the production food chain to grocery store shelves. "It's like when the price of oil goes up, and you see a difference at the pump in the next day or two," says Al Ferrara, national director for consulting firm BDO Seidman's retail and consumer product division. Constantly produced fresh items like milk (up 10% compared with 2007, according to the USDA), eggs (up 7%) and bread (up 16%) are more apt to reflect changes on a nearly daily basis.

With a little legwork, savvy shoppers can keep their grocery bills at pre-2008 levels — if not lower. Here's how:
Stockpile

Most items are discounted just once during a 10-to-12-week sales cycle, says Teri Gault, founder of shopping site The Grocery Game. Seasonal items (think barbecue sauce in summer, soup in winter) show up every one to two weeks, while highly-competitive categories (cereal, soft drinks) cycle in every three to four. While it's not necessary to buy, say, eight jars of peanut butter, it's better to buy one jar while your favorite brand is on sale now than one at full price after you run out in two weeks.
Explore the store

Saving at the supermarket requires more effort than a quick dash and grab. Some of the best deals aren't obvious unless you take the time to price compare, says Phil Lempert, founder of Supermarket Guru. Cheese, for example, can be purchased from the cheese counter, the deli and the dairy case. "New York cheddar is New York cheddar no matter where you buy it," says Lempert. "But the price may be cheaper in one section than in another."

Keep an eye out, too, for sales. There are twice as many unadvertised sale items in the store as there are in the weekly circular. But be cautious. The longer you spend in stores, the more susceptible you are to sneaky supermarket tricks that entice you to spend more. Make a list, and stick to it.
Try store brands

walmart, money, food, groceries

No conspiracy here.........

Oct 17, 2008 Wall Street Monsters & Meat (You) Jim Willie CB 321gold ...inc ...s

TOP DOWN SOLUTION FAVORS THE ELITE

The top-down approach used to date aids the wealthy bankers, while the homeowners are denied aid. That aid is promised but rarely arrives. The fundamental problem here is that billion$ are devoted to shore up insolvent banks, to redeem their worthless (or nearly worthless) bonds, and to give a giant pass to the executives. Trust has eroded throughout the system. Banks distrust each other's collateral. The result is that eventually the USEconomy will enter not a recession, not a depression, but a DISINTEGRATION PHASE.

"wall street", depression, gold

I wonder why?.........

Let's see.

Why are they even going to bother. I don't think they will be allowed get too involved with what happened because too many Washington big shots are in up to their ass cheeks These guys gave Dod and frank way to much "help". 

I guess it's nice someone is trying. But I don't have much faith in justice being served.

Lehman Execs Subpoenaed in Criminal Probe at SmartMoney.com

NEW YORK (Dow Jones) -- Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed 12 current and former executives of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ), including CEO Richard Fuld, in connection with three grand jury investigations into the famed brokerage's recent bankruptcy, according to news reports Friday.

Also among those receiving subpoenas are former Lehman chief financial officer Erin Callan, former chief operating officer Joe Gregory and chief financial officer Ian Lowitt, CNBC's Charles Gasparino reported.

At a hearing Thursday in Manhattan, according to the New York Post, bankruptcy lawyer Harvey Miller, representing Lehman, confirmed that the U.S. attorney's offices in the Eastern and Southern districts of New York and in the District of New Jersey are leading those probes.

Miller didn't identify the nature of the investigations, but sources say the focus is whether executives made false comments about the health of Lehman before it collapsed. The 158-year-old Wall Street firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 15. read more at SmartMoney.com

Rednecks rule.......

Could have been my sister. Na she can't afford dressin up.

Rate My redneck

Redneck Woman Submitted By: phip42 on 12/11/2006 Debra Jackson said she likes shopping at the Dollar Palace because it is convenient and casual. "I don't have to get all dressed up like I'm going to Wal-Mart or something," she said... more Tags: redneck walmart woman

A Basic Primer to Reading Hands in Hold 'em

A Basic Primer to Reading Hands in Hold 'em: "Read No.1

Several players take the flop. You are in late position and the action gets checked to you. You bet and several players call before the good player to your right checkraises. He likely does not yet have a hand but is drawing to a flush or open-ended straight.

Analysis

If the preflop betting was such that the good player had no reason to believe that a player to his left would bet the flop, you can likely rule out a big hand because he surely would have bet (from his late position) instead of looking for a checkraise. After all, he could not know with any degree of certainty that you MORE

Damned if I know.......

The Improbability of God

Much of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Arabs blow themselves up in his name. Imams and ayatollahs oppress women in his name. Celibate popes and priests mess up people's sex lives in his name. Jewish shohets cut live animals' throats in his name. The achievements of religion in past history -- bloody crusades, torturing inquisitions, mass-murdering conquistadors, culture-destroying missionaries, legally enforced resistance to each new piece of scientific truth until the last possible moment -- are even more impressive. And what has it all been in aid of? I believe it is becoming increasingly clear that the answer is absolutely nothing at all. There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist and quite good reason for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

Why do people believe in God?

The Union Lable,,,,,

The gangs never stop trying to muscle in on the Empire. We rule a large part of the world. Deal with it. Resistance is futile......


Bloomberg.com: Canada

WalMart Closes Quebec Tire Center After Labor Accord (Update1)

By Frederic Tomesco and Kevin Bell

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, said it closed a unionized Quebec tire and lubrication shop because of costs tied to the first labor agreement imposed at any of its North American locations.

The closing is effective immediately because it would have raised operating costs by at least 30 percent and triggered ``dramatic'' price increases on products, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer said today in a statement. The Quebec Labour Relations Board imposed the three-year labor contract in August after the union and company failed to reach an agreement.

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It's a depression if I lose my job.......

Been working the Walmart Empire now for over a year. They just threw our whole crew from 11am-8pm to 4-1am. Of course customer service will suffer but Wally World doesn't have to worry about that . Our sales are still up. Who needs service when we have cut rate pricing. I guess. anyways, changes are a coming. The Bentonville boys are trying to get ahead of the curve. Collapsing economies are right up our ally. Walmart has the muscle to gain market share while competitors go broke scrambling for financing their future inventory. We'll just squeeze suppliers and employees. More for less is the new mantra for everyone. If my job, inventory control, goes away, you will have nothing to buy because it won't be in the stores. You have to keep track of the goods to have them to sell. Of course, if sales fall off a cliff here in Redneck Heaven, we still have our guns until Obie gets elected.

By the way, where do you live?


smart money

NEW YORK (Dow Jones) -- Foreshadowing what may be a grim holiday selling period, initial results from U.S. retailers showed disappointing September sales, as a global financial crisis made shoppers even more reluctant to spend.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) said Wednesday that its sales excluding fuel in the five weeks ended Oct. 3 rose 2.4%. On that basis, the company missed the 2.5% average estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.

Wal-Mart said total sales were hurt by 0.4 percentage point from the impact of Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike, which resulted in 341 store closings. However, Sam's Club sales rose 4.6%, exceeding estimates of a 2.8% increase.

Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST) sales rose a less-than-expected 7%. Sales at rival BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. (BJ) also missed estimates. Target Corp.'s (TGT) sales dropped a worse-than-expected 3%, and the company said it may miss analysts' third-quarter profit estimate.

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Socialism R Us.......

The Empire has imploded upon itself perhaps destroying what gave the world a vast magical wealth machine pretty much guaranteeing that if everyone works everyone eats. We have been on the cusp of giving literally everyone on the planet a real chance at 3 meals a day, roof over their heads and shoes on their feet.

This machine was called Capitalism.

Now history takes a step backwards and we all work directly for the government. Beg the government for loans. Retire if the gov. deems it appropriate. And shit when, where or if the government decides (literally anywhere on the planet).

This machine is called Socialism.

In the last couple of days governments have gotten together and grabbed all the money by nationalizing the global banking industry . This is means the ones controlling the governments will completely control the money.

And who ever controls the money controls all of us.

I'm thinking it might be a good time to become Democrats and hold our hand out for crumbs at the new table. Here's the proof:


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President George W. Bush 10-14-08

U.S. officials announced Tuesday morning a broad range of measures designed to shore up the struggling financial system, including the purchase of stakes in some of the country’s largest banks and guarantees for most new debt issued by insured banks.

President George W. Bush made a general announcement just after 8 a.m. Eastern time about the developments, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair held a joint news conference later that hour to elaborate on the planned steps.

"Clearly the time had come for a more comprehensive and broad-based solution," Bernanke said at the news conference. "Waiting too long to act has usually led to much greater direct costs of the intervention itself and, more importantly, magnified the painful effects of financial turmoil on households and businesses."

What did he say?.......

I read this 4 or 5 times and I still don't get it. Where did all the stock market money go? Some one's got all these trillions. Patti and I bought bonds for our retirement account and we didn't get it. How about you? Stick 4 or 5 million in you back pocket?

Answer Desk: Where did the money go? - Answer desk- msnbc.com

John W. Schoen
Senior producer

The financial market collapse of the past few weeks has destroyed trillions of dollars in wealth. So where, exactly, did all that money go?

Tell me again which one is the Republican?....

McCain is not being beaten. He just can't run against people he pretty much agrees with. Money talks in politics. In politics everyone believes in the system. The system generate the power, prestige and psychological gratification. No one can successfully argue that the system is not working and remain inside it. Even Reagan's deciples couldn't crack the power structure and make our system work for the common people paying for it. Corruption is endemic in any Empire by it's very nature. Ours is no different. Remember, our "system" chooses winners and losers. The system has decided........

Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy

5 reasons why John McCain is in big trouble — and none of them have to do with Barack Obama.

A few weeks ago I wrote an article listing ten reasons “Why Obama Lost the 2008 Election”, ranging from the hidden racism of rank and file Democrat voters, to Bill and Hillary’s not-so-hidden desires to see Obama lose in 2008 so Hillary could run again for president in 2012.

In an almost textbook example of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, John McCain has managed to transform the political landscape in less than five weeks into one that no longer favors his candidacy, but may actually be preparing the way for an Obama presidency.

Like my previous analysis,

Now if the Bible could only outlaw human nature......

This speaks for itself.....

Why Can't I Own a Canadian?

Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22 and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following is an open letter to Dr. Laura penned by a east coast resident, which was posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative:

Dear Dr. Laura:

Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the other specific laws and how to follow them:

When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

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All roads lead to oil.....

Oil is thicker than water. Oil booms economy crashes. Oil crash economy booms. Duh!!!

The Oil Drum | Discussions about Energy and Our Future

The Official Demise of the Oil Bubble

On Sept. 11, 2007, the price of crude oil closed at $78.23 a barrel — the last time oil closed below $79 a barrel, until Friday. What seemed like a bewildering ascent in the price of crude at the time is now a relief to traders, who watched oil fall $8.98 a barrel to close at $77.61 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the lowest closing price in more than a year.

Like a number of other commodities, oil’s move went from a steady ascent to a vertical bounce in the spring of 2008, topping out near $150 a barrel before speculative excess started to drain from the market. And those who believed that the oil price was justified by fundamentals — being, as it is, an actual product, rather than an Internet company’s vague promise of revenue — are smarting.

“This is a market that is basically returning to the price level of a year ago which it arguably should never have left,” says Tim Evans, energy analyst at Citigroup. “We pumped up a big bubble, expanded it to an impressive dimension, and now it is popped and we have bubble gum in our hair.”

Now look.... I only work there......

I tried to tell them but they wouldn't listen.

 Hordes of Horny Geezers Storm Wal-Mart’s Dating Night < Satirium

Hordes of Horny Geezers Storm Wal-Mart’s Dating Night

Frightened Female Shoppers Hide in Bathrooms, Dressing Rooms
Wal-Mart hurriedly canceled the national rollout of its “Love in the Aisles” program after hordes of horny geezers filled more than 200 stores Friday hoping to find dates. Startled female shoppers of all ages fled to bathrooms, dressing rooms, and garden centers for refuge.

“We regret any inconvenience to our customers and offer our sincere apologies to anyone who had an unpleasant shopping experience,” the nation’s largest retailer said in a terse statement.

The program made its debut Friday night at 200 stores nationwide and was seen by retailing experts as a clever marketing ploy. Shoppers of both sexes who wanted to participate registered as they entered the store and were given a red heart to attach to their shopping cart.

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Let's see..... anyone in either presidential campaign innocent?.......

How come no fire in the belly about the banking crash in last night's debate? hmm....Good ol boys sticking together perhaps?. Just because both candidate's staff and advisers were in it up to their eyeballs. Get ready for the next bust. This is just a beginning. History shows that debasing the currency destroys every culture that does it.

Thank God for foreigners.....

OK what would we do without the Commies? We sold our manufacturing base back in the 80's impoverishing our blue collar middle class. Now it comes home to roost. Print money is all we have left. Don't worry, this is not the big bust. That comes when China's economy collapses....
24/7 Wall St.: Will China Save The US Financial System

Will China Save The US Financial System

China

When it comes to the potential failure of the US economy and banking system, China has an especially large dog in the fight. The central government and a number of large banks own hundreds of billions of dollars in US Treasury notes and paper from companies including Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE). An American disaster could turn into one for China as well.

According to Reuters, "speculation is swirling that Beijing could also chip in with a vote of confidence by pledging to hold onto its vast dollar assets and even buy more to help fund the massive bailout of the U.S. financial system now under way."

Fanny and Freddy Mac....Your government at work......

Old warren Buffet hits the nail on the head. He didn't get rich for nothingMr. BUFFETT: And they sat there, made reports to the Congress, you can get
them on the Internet, every year. And, in fact, they reported to Sarbanes and
Oxley every year. And they went--wrote 100 page reports, and they said,
`We've looked at these people and their standards are fine and their directors
are fine and everything was fine.' And then all of a sudden you had two of the
greatest accounting misstatements in history. You had all kinds of management
malfeasance, and it all came out. And, of course, the classic thing was that
after it all came out, OFHEO wrote a 350--340 page report examining what went
wrong, and they blamed the management, they blamed the directors, they blamed
the audit committee. They didn't have a word in there about themselves, and
they're the ones that 200 people were going to work every day with just two
companies to think about. It just shows the problems of regulation.

Print money like it's cost free and history bites you in the ass...

Check out one of the new rich and what they have to say.(You'd think this is all new)        

I Will Teach You To Be Rich

If you think history doesn’t repeat itself, you’re nuts. In fact, 10 years ago this month, Long Term Capital Management, a huge hedge fund, nearly caused a global financial collapse. Yet here we are — with the same words being thrown around. Does anyone really think investment bankers won’t make their same salaries at some point in the future? Or that we won’t gradually move back to huge executive compensation? Still, as I pointed out last week, none of that really matters to the individual investor. What matters is picking the right strategy and sticking to it.

The Empire is real.......

stop the Congress

The Secret History of the American Empire

Here's my answer to the melt down...

stop the Congress

This is the sure fire way to fix the mortgage mess......

Dave Ramsey

Years of bad decisions and stupid mistakes have created an economic nightmare in this country, but $700 billion in new debt is not the answer. As a tax-paying American citizen, I will not support any congressperson who votes to implement such a policy. Instead, I submit the following three steps:

Common Sense Plan. I. INSURANCE A. Insure the subprime bonds/mortgages with an underlying FHA-type insurance. Government-insured and backed loans would have an instant market all over the world, creating immediate and needed liquidity.

B. In order for a company to accept the government-backed insurance, they must do two things: 1. Rewrite any mortgage that is more than three months delinquent to a 6% fixed-rate mortgage. a. Roll all back payments with no late fees or legal costs into the balance. This brings homeowners current and allows them a chance to keep their homes. b. Cancel all prepayment penalties to encourage refinancing or the sale of the property to pay off the bad loan. In the event of foreclosure or short sale, the borrower will not be held liable for any deficit balance. FHA does this now, and that encourages mortgage companies to go the extra mile while working with the borrower—again limiting foreclosures and ruined lives.

2. Cancel ALL golden parachutes of EXISTING and FUTURE CEOs and executive team members as long as the company holds these government-insured bonds/mortgages. This keeps underperforming executives from being paid when they don’t do their jobs. C. This backstop will cost less than $50 billion—a small fraction of the current proposal.

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Try this bailout

Found this solution on theSF Chronicleof all places....

     if the government buys the mortgage-backed securities, that does nothing - absolutely nothing - to make the underlying mortgages more valuable or more likely to be paid, stabilize home prices or help homeowners in distress. It does nothing - absolutely nothing - to directly benefit the real economy.

But another proposal does. Use the $700 billion on the table and stabilize housing. Make that money (actually only a fraction would be needed) available to homeowners who live in their homes (not speculators). Here's how: Offer any financial institution (or require it, although no financial institution in its right mind would refuse the offer anyway), that owns a mortgage of an owner-occupied home in distress, to provide that homeowner, in lieu of any penalties or foreclosure, a government guarantee of the current or missed payments under the mortgage. If the homeowner agrees to have the government take over the payments, the financial institution would inform the government, the government would make the payments, and the homeowner in exchange would sign a note agreeing to repay the government some years in the future (say, 10), with interest at the same rate currently required under the homeowner's mortgage.

Meanwhile in t5he hairy great white north......

Bigfoot Sasquatch Ontario Sightings

Pelosi mean to me....

Pelosi sets up the Republicans.  Tells her vulnerable seats to vote no because Repubs are going to the slaughterhouse. No repub in his right mind would vote to give the Demo's fat cats a blank check to get away with making loans to bums, homeless, stupid or dead people. Follow the money and see how much Dod, Franks and the rest got. Repubs in on it headed for the tall grass a long time ago. Remember Barney Franks own Banking committee, bought and paid for, didn't vote for the fat cat rescue pkg.

bail outs are us.....

 got an idea. Let's let the con artist in Congress get us out of this, yeah that will work.

Pelosi put her foot in mouth

The Dem's deserve this dumb bitch.

YIPPEE

94 democrats vote against bailing out the crooks in the banking industry.Who would of thunk it!!!!

Suckers are us.....

re we buying a $700 billion 'maybe'? - MSN Money

Everybody getting in on the ripoff except for the taxpayer. All these bastards in Wall Street are making money off this deal because the crooks have bribed our beloved leaders who will retire very well thank you.

BFRO Report 11070: Fisherman sees bipedal, human-looking animal in river

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Government needs to grow.....

I think the government will eventually implode because everyone will be working for them or in jail and be unable to support all these programs. Especially the growth industry called crime. More and more tv shows are showing prison real life drama and makes you wonder where it will end. See what the libertarians have to say:

In a cruel twist of fate, by the 1960s the antidrug campaign had become a huge industry. There were people who benefitted from it despite the fact that it is illegal and was ruining millions of lives.” “Who benefits from it?” Dave asked. “The livelihoods of police, bureaucrats, judges, lawyers, and many others depend on drugs being illegal and remaining illegal. And, like many other industries, the drug prohibition industry is a growth industry; it grows by making more and more laws which are increasingly pervasive and harsher and have less constitutional basis.”

The coming American dictatorship by John Silveira Issue #66

The only Russian I ever agreed with.....

If this was an American he would lose his gravy train job.

Abdusamatov claimed that the upper layers of the world's oceans are - much to climatologists' surprise - becoming cooler, which is a clear indication that the Earth has hit its temperature ceiling already, and that solar radiation levels are falling and will eventually lead to a worldwide cold spell."Instead of professed global warming, the Earth will be facing a slow decrease in temperatures in 2012-2015. The gradually falling amounts of solar energy, expected to reach their bottom level by 2040, will inevitably lead to a deep freeze around 2055-2060," he said, adding that this period of global freeze will last some 50 years, after which the temperatures will go up ag

RIA Novosti - Russia - Russian academic says CO2 not to blame for global warming

Global warmed over Bullshit.....

Right now I figure global warming is simply a political agenda to harness capitalism. I'm not too crazy over the control the military-industrial complex has over the governments of the world, but threatening this control as the left is trying to do will only strenghthen their power. Soon all the corporations will be on the band wagon and figure a way to turn it to their advantage. Such as selling polution credits to one another. Governments will decide how much polution is acceptable(who decides that for them, do you think) and they pass the buck to tax payers through tax breaks. Left wing nuts will be happy, beuracrats, and corporate leaders make out like bandits. Oh yeah, you pay (lol). Here's a Phd climatologist, one with balls, who tells it like it is. Click on the link for the whole article.

Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was one of the first Canadian Ph.Ds. in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition. Few listen, even though I have a Ph.D, (Doctor of Science) from the University of London, England and was a climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. For some reason (actually for many), the World is not listening. Here is why.

Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?

Couldn't say it better my self.....

It’s insane how we Americans are bent on regulating each others’ behavior. Witness seat belt laws (yes, you should drive with your seat belt on, but having cops pulling you over to enforce it?), drug laws, licensing laws, zoning laws, eminent domain abuses, blue laws, “free speech zones;” the list goes on ad nauseum. We think of ourselves as free, but we are simply the most regulated society in history. And we have more new rules, laws, and regulations pouring out of our legislatures and bureaucracies every year than any other country ever. We just can’t get over this uniquely American obsession of outlawing each other’s behavior—and fining or jailing those who don’t comply or conform.

The land of the unfree by John Silveira Issue #101

2 million mark on Pokerstars...

Took 3 months but I did it. I got bad beat stories to last at least til 3 million lol.

Patty's going to Tracy's house Monday so I'll probably be a bit lonely. Need to get up to Jeremy's place in Idaho to pick up my new utility trailer and get to work this summer.

Later

   

Couldn't say it better myself.......

Today’s climate scientists, like the scientists of old, are basing their alarmist conclusions and predictions on observation and a relatively poor knowledge of the factors that affect the Earth's climate. Temperatures are increasing, human industrialization and population are increasing; therefore human activity is causing temperatures to increase. Where are the experiments to test this hypothesis? We are assured that all of the papers on global warming are “peer reviewed,” and so their conclusions are valid. But were not heliocentrism, Phlogiston theory, and spontaneous generation, all subjected to their equivalent form of peer review? Worse, today’s climate scientists cite the very existence of consensus among them as proof of the validity of their ideas. That is not science, it is indoctrination. Science is skepticism. Those brave enough to buck the modern orthodoxy and test hypotheses contrary to the accepted view are doing the only true science in this field.

A Short History of Scientific Consensus | Redstate

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Sign me up...

We all know those Nigerian bank emails are scams. But I know the email I just got from a bank in Burkina Faso is going to make me rich. Here's how.

Digg - 7 Ways I can Tell this African Bank Email is for Real

Could you send him my email address? I want to get in the ground floor. I can spell Africa so I know I have a leg up on the rest of you suckers. Maybe I can buy a country or two and play army man. Wow I can't wait to here from these people. My address is HilaryClinton@hotmail.com. Please forward as soon as possible.Thank you

We are doomed.. Run for your lives. The climate is changing....

so what? Nothing will be done during our life times. The solution is shutting down China and India's economy and encouraging nuclear technology world wide. You can't feed 6 billion of us with windmills. You can't get to work on a horse any more, and few people will will drop dead to make you feel better about the climate changes "supposed" to be coming within the next century or so. The solutions are too politically and physically impracticable. (Such as windmills covering Massachusetts coast or giving third world despots reactors..) Who are these people kidding?

Well, well. Some “climate expert” on “The Weather Channel” wants to take away AMS certification from those of us who believe the recent “global warming” is a natural process. So much for “tolerance”, huh? I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can’t find them. Here are the basic facts you need to know: *Billions of dollars of grant money is flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story. Even the lady at “The Weather Channel” probably gets paid good money for a prime time show on climate change. No man-made global warming, no show, and no salary. Nothing wrong with making money at all, but when money becomes the motivation for a scientific conclusion, then we have a problem. For many, global warming is a big cash grab.

Mary's first snow in Southern Cal

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kids think it's wonderful. I'm staying in the house. No snow here though. Later

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Back on track at Pokerstars.....

Back to my winning ways. The droughts over. Back to 1 million, seven hundred thousand +. After several months of mediocre results, I'm back.

I just needed to get back to betting and raising correctly. Play premium cards and bet them to the hilt. Raise or fold.

Found this on digg / News . Reminds me of some of my dad's relatives for some reason:

Woman wants kids back after social worker marries ex A woman says she was persuaded to give up custody of her four children by a social worker who secretly dated and later married her ex-husband. More ...

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How government works.....It is what it is ......

I think our government works very well. It works for whom ever pays to control it. Only influence we have is our vote. Our vote is controlled by what we believe to be correct. What we believe to be correct is controlled by our media. The media is controlled by corporate interests. We vote because we are convinced by  corporate interests to do "what's right" or noble.  Who controls the "media"?

And as we’ve seen from our elected officials in Washington, they’re no different from most national politicians. They reward their friends (the people who help them get elected) and punish their enemies (the people who support their opposition in an election). It’s not personal, it’s just business. There’s a lot of money to be made controlling the levers of government, and thus it attracts the sort of people who are willing to use government to enrich themselves (or their friends). It’s only rarely that we have stories like that of William “Cold Cash” Jefferson, but none who watch government can realistically claim that slightly less egregious (and often completely legal) affairs don’t go on every day.

The Liberty Papers»Blog Archive » Who Makes Up “The Government”?

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My kind of story...

Been all over with poker the last few weeks. Needed a break. Too many bad beats. Still ahead, though. On the other hand, I love true stories that prove I ain't got it so bad.  You got to read this to believe it. Actually you would have to be there to believe it.  Found this on Digg News:

Twenty-three people were trapped in a cave for nearly twelve hours on New Year's Day, when a twenty-five-stone (a really big bitch) woman got stuck in a small cave known as the 'Tunnel of Love'. More…

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WE should live so long..

Happy New Year



Friday the 13th, 2029

On April 13, 2029, asteroid 2004 MN4 will fly past Earth only 18,600 miles (30,000 km) above the ground. For comparison, geosynchronous satellites orbit at 22,300 miles (36,000 km). "At closest approach, the asteroid will shine like a 3rd magnitude star, visible to the unaided eye from Africa, Europe and Asia--even through city lights," says Jon Giorgini of JPL. This is rare. "Close approaches by objects as large as 2004 MN4 are currently thought to occur at 1000-year intervals, on average." Read more here

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Aitheists can be Religious Fantics ....

I found this on digg You'll have to scroll down to read the comments to make sense of my post:



...It is as though [creationist scientist] looked at the measurement of the distance from N.Y to San Francisco claimed that the true distance from sea to sea was 460,000 times smaller, namely about ten yards. Maybe they are right all the rest of us wrong. All I have done here is calculate how spectacularly wrong we would be if they were right.

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Let's explore the following assumptions:

Religion has killed more people than (fill in the blank) Wow that's a stretch. How about the atheist regimes of Mao and Stalin? (This people used SCIENCE to murder millions)



Darwin says that over a long period of time (millions of years, billions) we changed from simpler creatures to more complicated. Has their been enough time between periodic "cleanings of the planet" found in the fossil record?



Is the argument with a professor of thermodynamics, Andrew Macintosh, calling him names going to bolster anyones case. Just prove him wrong scientifically. Might be able to fire him. Or do his reputation harm, if that's what you want.

/>P.S I'm not a Christian, but I wouldn't be ashamed of it if I was. Everyone entitled to their opinion; even the fanatics on this page.

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Government is just getting started.....

Why should anyone be surprised, let alone amazed, on how this stuff doesn't get reported. In the name of profit we are spied on constantly and no one seems to be aware of it. That's what is driving the new economy called, Tracking . From the time we get up until we go to bed. Nonstop nanny ism. But when the government gets involved it becomes a danger to society. Remember the government makes the rules. Po' folk don't. Soon a new National i.d. card comes out. Rumored to be "chipped" for ease of identifying "problems". Better not screw up. Even credit information is now used against people applying for housing, insurance, or jobs.

Hmm...will government employees be exempt ?

Found this posted on Slashdot today (not a typical paranoid rant) :

The sad state of affairs is that Big Brother probably became a quiet part of our lives a lot earlier. The big question now is: how much worse can it get?Am I just accustomed to old ways? Does the new generation, born with these restrictions, feel the weight of these bonds and recoil from my fears as paranoia? What can I, a person with no political interests--a person that would really rather think that the people in office are there because they're looking out for us, our rights, and our freedoms and not because their short-sightedness is creating a police state--do to stem the tide?"

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Christmas come and gone.....

36 Christmas's with Patti. My my where does the time fly. Here's a few pictures of yesterday: Click on them to see.

Christmas 2006

All I want for Xmas.....

Merry Christmas Eve!

Nothing says Christmas like a Yorkshire terrier in a top hat Eskimo-style snowman outfit.

Oh, and ONE SHOPPING DAY LEFT, PEOPLE!

Thanks, Sender-inner Lisa B., who found this guy on FunnyDog.net

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Merry Christmas Comment Graphics

Corporate Capitalism is a menace that must be controlled....

I'm a capitalist. Small "c" . I believe everyone on the planet should be. I don't think anyone should have to spend their lives "grubbing" for a living working for nothing but food and shelter. However, that being said, now days more and more of us are doing just that. Our very lives are dominated by multinational and national corporations that suck the life blood out of us and create a class of serfs. Well fed,fat,dumb and happy maybe,but slaves. This is Christmas week end. Been to mall lately? Let me make my point. For the corporations it's spend until you bust. You suck if you don't buy everyone you have ever known something for the holiday. Crass consumerism is what I'm talking about. If we don't consume, the media,(some of the largest corporations on the planet) climbs on our backs and declares us unAmerican or "Scrooges." It's all about greed and catering to it. And God help anyone who would have the temerity to disagree. (It's death to the infidel time then.)

When I , a right-winger, talks like this you have figure there is a quiet revolution going on. Not just me and a few left-wing loons but millions of us peons. For instance, let's look at Microsoft's dominance on the desktops of our computers. Nothing could be more insidious. One company determining what you do, watch or play on the computers you own? How about music publishers suing people for buying music then giving it away? How about using our tax dollars to fatten their corporate coffers? Had any politicians bribed lately?

Millions of us are now just saying no way. Apple and open source alternatives exist. I can do anything I want using Linux and not pay a dime for software. No on can spy on me, either. The rest of the world? China, for instance, is going to it's own standards on music, movies and education. All on Linux and it's fellow open source software. And they are not alone. Here's what Jeremy Allison, (of Samba fame) had to say about this a year before he resigned from Novell sellout to Microsoft, therefore sticking to his convictions:

.......They will do anything to prevent it, pass any law, remove any civil right or fair use provision that gets in their way. I began to understood this when I had a discussion with a lawyer who was arguing that "we just need stiffer penalties, we need to make an example of people swapping files on the Internet". To which I responded, "why don't we just execute people who break the speed limit ?". Does anyone remember the slogan that used to be printed on vinyl records, "Home taping is illegal and is killing music" ? Read more.

They gave all that money to the UN?

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Are they nuts?

The U.N. is definitely the last people to give billions to. Ever hear of "Food for Oil"? Might better have just dumped the money on the residents after the tsunami than give these professional so called do gooders that much loot.

According to the BBC, which claims it got access to a UN database, nearly two years after donors pledged billions to help the victims only half the money has been spent. Of the half a million people left homeless by the disaster, only a third have been permanently rehoused. Where's the money? This article breaks it down and offers a few answers. More…

Fascism? Nah!!!!

I browse the both left wing nut sites and the right to see what they're up to. I'm more interested in the left because they've regained some power the last elections. We're in for more pc correctness of course, but nothing substantive because no one takes them that seriously. After all "saving the environment" is big business. And that is all it's about in America. Behind the scenes in politics powerful interests decide how our wealth is used. There is a constant drum beat all through our political scene to increase our money, labor rate and upgrading our standard of living. All business, tv, magazines, blogs or what ever need to grow their revenue or disappear from the scene. Any thing threatening the status quo is attacked . Whether it's hippies on the rampage. blacks rioting, or terrorists get anywhere near affecting corporate interests they are either stopped or bribed to join.



Though fascist elements exist in any society, finding them during an new war declared is not a serious concern. After all it's simply business as usual. Check out this guy RexRhino who makes my point, i.e.it's all about making money, creating and maintaining power, very elegantly.

Virtually all mainstream politics in America want the U.S. government to have a broad and vast increase of powers, they simply disagree on how the powers should be used. The right wants vast government powers to observe and search private property in order to fight terrorism… the left wants vast government powers to observe and search private property to fight environmental crimes. The right wants to ban pornography because it is sinful, the Left wants.... read more here.

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If evolution is Gospel.......

What are these guys so afraid of?

Why not prove evolution once in for all and get it over with. Oops, could this be another myth? Could the scientific proof of evolution be a little slender ? You mean like global warming?

Read this and wonder about primal fear involving religious fanaticism . I thought Christians and Muslims were stringent but what about "men of science ?" Replace evolution in the sentence, "undermine the teaching of evolution" with creationism or scientific design and see what I'm talking about:

Americans United for Separation of Church and State today lauded a Georgia public school board’s decision to drop its defense of anti-evolution disclaimers for science textbooks.

The Cobb County School Board has agreed to settle the long-running legal fracas over its 2002 decision to place anti-evolution stickers in high school biology textbooks.

In an agreement announced today, Cobb County school officials state that they will not order the placement of “any stickers, labels, stamps, inscriptions, or other warnings or disclaimers bearing language substantially similar to that used on the sticker that is the subject of this action.” School officials also agreed not to take other actions that would undermine the teaching of evolution in biology classes.
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Boy Arrested For Opening Xmas Gift Early

Sounds like a real tough old bitch to me! Heres our government at work.

... mother has kid, 12, nabbed after Nintendo Game Boy is unwrapped DECEMBER 5--A South Carolina boy, 12, was arrested Sunday morning after his mother called police to report that he had unwrapped a Christmas present without her permission. According to a Rock Hill Police Department report (a copy of which you'll find below), the child opened a Nintendo Game Boy, though he had been directed not to by family members. When the boy's mother learned that the $85 gift had been opened, she called cops, who charged the juvenile with petty larceny. More

global warming: Save Your Selves...

I love media driven fables. I don't know how many times this stuff gets sold but seems like a constant refrain. A lot of money to be made I guess. Oh, I'm not saying the climate doesn't fluctuate just that the same chicken littles swore up down we were headed for a new ice age only 20 years ago. Again, science gets perverted to make political and economic points. Check this out and see what you think:



Media Shows Irrational Hysteria on Global Warming

"I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." "The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of unusually warm weather that began around 1000 AD and persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th century. ... The existence of the MWP had been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. But now it was a major embarrassment to those maintaining that the 20th century warming was truly anomalous. It had to be "gotten rid of."

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Tax man cometh....

Ready for taxes? Did I rain on your Christmas? Who thinks of taxes this time of year. Businesses that's who.And you should too. Got to get those tax breaks lined up this time of year. From now until April, taxes take over our world. After all big government needs your blood to survive. Your the only slaves they have!

Here's the odd thing about it. People really think the Feds pay for government services with their tax dollars? Boy are they ignorant. In actuality, little Federal income taxes are used for anything but paying government expenses; i.e. salaries, internal expenses (rents, utilities, perks, handouts to corporations) and bribing important constituencies. The rest, the biggest government expense, is interest, borrowed from private banks, on the national debt.

Matter of fact, most of your tax dollars go to pay private banks and foreign government banks. Interest and bribes to keep the world safe for American corporations. With out these payments, the American empire would cease to exist. We wouldn't want that to happen, would we?

It's necessary to keep these governments (banks) tied to us for trade and keeping the oil supply flowing. After all we did conquer the world in 1945, why should we give it back? Friendly governments are essential to maintain our standard of living. Why shouldn't we support these governments (banks)?

Or are they?

Not according to Aaron Russo, entertainer manager and movie maker, who begs to differ, here's a piece of his bio.

(Aaron Russo) ....turned to producing feature films, his production of "The Rose", introduced Bette Midler to motion picture audiences. Midler received an Academy Award nomination as best actress. "The Rose" is considered by many to be the classic rock n' roll film. Russo also produced "Trading Places," starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, which has become a Christmas classic, and "Teachers," starring Nick Nolte, Morgan Freeman, and Ralph Macchio. Read more here

Skeptical? Watch these videos and listen to what the I.R.S agents, congressmen, and tax attorneys have to say :


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06:27:28 PM

/> Well got my ass kicked at the pool tournament today. Won two out of five. Should have took at least four. Our team got smacked . I'm the ace. Shows how badly we did.

I keep hovering at 1 million seven hundred at Pokerstars. Getting superstitious over bad beats. Pretty quiet here even though this is the busy time of year for the resort. they raised rents pretty high and a lot of people are staying a way. Patty and I are in our slow period so money's tight. getting a few phone orders though I have the main site down for redo.

Well I have new pool tournament tomorrow maybe things will improve. Our team felt like Custer at the Little Big Horn. And we remember what he said to Major Reno: "My God look at all the fucking Indians." lol



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