Such a sorry bunch......

Republicans that is. The Dems are bad enough but they don't promise not to steal your money then steal your money. Nothing more pathetic than these clowns running around threatening everyone who votes with cutting their checks.

Once you get a government check theirs no way you will vote for some asshole to cut it let alone kill it completely. That's what budget cuts are all about. Stealing someone's handout. Not going to happen! Be prepared for more giveaways and "tax gimmicks" to keep these criminals in power.

Are we fucked or what?

Need to get in line and get yours. One thing about the Dems they only steal in public. The Repubs simply lie about it as they go along. After all no one ever lost an election by promising less to their voters.

As far as it goes, what difference does it make who's in office?


Pajamas Media » It’s Never Too Early for a 2012 GOP Primary Preview

can’t take it anymore! I have to comment on the 2012 race. I love analyzing presidential elections like a normal guy loves critiquing football coaches. I spend an inordinate amount of time looking at polls and studying the moves of every potential candidate. Already, two years before the primary elections and roughly a year before candidates start officially declaring their entry into the battle for the Republican presidential nomination, the advantages and dilemmas facing each aspirant are beginning to be seen.

The first batch of candidates we can look at are the candidates who need to come in the top three in Iowa to remain viable. The result of this first contest will decide which one or two social conservative darlings will continue as the race dwindles to two or three major contenders. Former Governor Mike Huckabee is having a great time as a TV host and says it is more likely than not that he will decline to run; Sarah Palin’s probable entry must influence that statement, although he could use his support of the FairTax to define his candidacy. Coming out of Iowa, only one of the two will survive if both run. Mitt Romney will also make a stand here, but the stakes are less high for him.

Gee.... They keep finding more....

Hmmm.... Another oil producing country to take over. Chavez already has a monetary collapse on his hands. Guess the old devil will have to go, heh heh.


Junin 6 oilfield to become a Russian–Venezuelan joint venture - RT

On Monday, Russia and Venezuela signed a multimillion deal to develop the huge Junin 6 oil field in the South American nation's Orinoco River region – a territory twice as rich as other reserves, such as Saudi Arabia’s.
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The agreement was signed by Pedro Leon, director at Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela SA), and Valery Rusakov, director at Russia's National Oil Consortium – comprised of Rosneft, energy monopoly Gazprom, Lukoil, TNK-BP and Surgutneftegaz – at a meeting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Venezuela's Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez in Moscow.

The two countries agreed to establish a joint venture to develop the oilfield, with Venezuela taking a 60% stake in the deal and Russia the remaining 40%.

Sometimes you hate being right........

This bust is not the big one. We will be lucky to see the economy at half the steam it had a couple of years ago. Then  70 million of us broke dicks retire.

It's starting now.

The only question will be how the gang in Washington pays for it. Who gets robbed or bombed? And don't forget the state pension problems. Pissed off bureaucrats can get ugly. How about veterans? Going to take their checks? Ask for givebacks? Cuts?

Nah. Will have to unleash our printing presses.

And all those oil producing countries shouldn't stop worrying. They know what  the Iran "sanctions" are all about? The Mullahs declared war on America in '79 and  threaten the only source of real wealth on the planet. It will always boil down to protecting our major source of oil until it's all under our control and by using our dollar we make sure it stays that way.

The big question is whether China and Russia join in or interfere.

Being an empire has it's problems. Historically the elites end up squabbling over the national treasury and desert any responsibility for the inevitable collapse. Every man for himself has proven a loser so every gang for himself is being tried. Dems and Repubs argue how much inflation is needed  to support all their handouts to keep in power.

We geezers are the big kahuna. Think votes. Or guns.

Rash of retirements pushes Social Security to brink - USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON — Social Security's annual surplus nearly evaporated in 2009 for the first time in 25 years as the recession led hundreds of thousands of workers to retire or claim disability.

The impact of the recession is likely to hit the giant retirement system even harder this year and next. The Congressional Budget Office had projected it would operate in the red in 2010 and 2011, but a deeper economic slump could make those losses larger than anticipated.

"Things are a little bit worse than had been expected," says Stephen Goss, chief actuary for the Social Security Administration. "Clearly, we're going to be negative for a year or two."

Since 1984, Social Security has raked in more in payroll taxes than it has paid in benefits, accumulating a $2.5 trillion trust fund. But because the government uses the trust fund to pay for other programs, tax increases, spending cuts or new borrowing will be required to make up the difference between taxes collected and benefits owed.

Experts say the trend points to a more basic problem for Social Security: looming retirements by Baby Boomers will create annual losses beginning in 2016 or 2017.

Change begins by looking into the mirror.......

You can't impose change peacefully. Never has happened never will. You simply have to start at home. Then you local community, county, state etc.

But , in the meantime, you die of old age.

Glenn Beck, States’ Rights, and the Myth of the Libertarian Dictator | Tenth Amendment Center

It is precisely because ignorant or malicious voters so often support government-sponsored looting of their neighbors that decentralized power is critical. Human beings are flawed, and even with the best of intentions may engage in behavior that is irrational or dishonest. However, the smaller the geographic or economic area that can be affected by a single misguided administration or policy, the more likely it is that enough citizens can be educated and motivated to fix the problem.

Or that they can physically relocate their tax dollars to a more suitable environment.

The entire point of freedom is to protect the right of someone else to do something you think is stupid, or even wrong. Otherwise, when the winds of popular opinion shift, who will protect your right to do the same?

Think someone should tell her?.......

Both political parties have been bought! Unfortunately, this means voters are given two basic packages to consider that are virtually identical. Republican or Democrat.That's pretty much what we have but don't want. Why would any one vote for these guys? Only people who are bought! We might as well get ours, I guess. Right now I don't see any change coming. Other than new politicians. like Palin, getting rich and "important", expect no substantive change.

This tea party thing is nothing new. We use to call it "Reagan".Then the Republicans became "Reaganesque" , in other words, they said anything popular on the right  to get and stay elected. So, we can figure the tea party thing will end up the same way. Samo samo. Happens to every empire.

You can't change the course of the Titanic.


Sarah Palin on Fox News Sunday -- Politics Daily

PALIN: Because both major parties, the D's and the R's, have both kind of lost their way in some respects. The GOP has some very strong planks in the platform that build a platform that I believe is best to build a strong, safe, prosperous nation.

When the GOP strays from the planks in the platform, a people's movement like the Tea Party movement is invited in to kind of hold these politicians accountable again and remind them of their constitutional limits there on the federal level.

And it's a beautiful movement. I'm proud to get to be a part of it in terms of at least hearing from those in the Tea Party movement and sharing with them what I believe are some commonsense solutions to the challenges facing us.

WALLACE: you say you are happy to be or proud to be a part of it. Some people think you want to be the leader of the Tea Party movement.

PALIN: No. I would hope that the Tea Party -- the Tea Partiers don't believe that they need some kind of well-oiled machine, some kind of replicate of the GOP or the Democrat Party, and instead, they remain a movement of the people, uprising and saying, "Listen to us. We have some commonsense solutions that we want our politicians to consider and to implement."

Beyond corruption...

Now that the Supreme Court has given the green light to corporations to openly offer the politicians (no more sneaking around) huge sums of media advertising to advocate their positions simply means the money boys can openly buy and sell votes. Expect haggling in public soon. (Maybe on Ebay.)

Some people are surprised that the government has thousands of people "working" in private business while on the public payroll. Even though cops do it all the time. Maybe the thought that the government can control these corporation is what we find troubling. Just because the government "owns" some of the largest companies can't ever be a worry, can it?

Makes you wonder how much influence the corporations really have. But how about the unions and private advocacy groups ? How many CIA are working there, Hmm? Ever wonder why Global Warming became so important in Washington?

Follow the money folow the politicians. After all they own us. But.... who owns them?


Uh-Oh. ‘Moonlighting’—but Without Bruce Willis or Cybil Shepard « LewRockwell.com Blog

It seems that the guys and gals who work for the ‘Company‘ actually have permission to work for real companies in their off hours. The CIA (aka the ‘Company’) have a little known policy of allowing their agents to moonlight for private firms. My mind boggles just thinking of all the shenanigans that must be going on either between the agents and the private firms or, worse—by the agents to the private firms.

(I remember reading years ago how every major spy agency in the world—in particular the CIA, M5, and the Mossad—have what are called “assets” in every major corporation in the world. These are actual employees of the corporation who supply information to the spy agency on an “as needed” basis. But I digress.)

Here is an interesting little paragraph from the article:

A government official familiar with the policy insists it doesn’t impede the CIA’s work on critical national security investigations. This official said CIA officers who want to participate in it must first submit a detailed explanation of the type of work involved and get permission from higher-ups within the agency. “If any officer requests permission for outside employment, those requests are reviewed not just for legality, but for propriety,” [emphasis mine] CIA spokesman George Little told POLITICO.

“…those requests are reviewed not just for legality, but for propriety…” We can all rest assured that one of the dirtiest organizations in the world probably has a “Chinese wall“-type of structure between the moonlighting CIA agents and the private companies they work for. And I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

[Thanks to Chris Ciancio]

Sign me up!.......

What's not to like?


“How Would You Fix the Economy?” at The Catherine Austin Fitts Blog

Dear Mr. President,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America ’s Economy. Instead of giving Billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the “Patriotic Retirement Plan”:

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered - Auto
Industry fixed.

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing
Crisis fixed.

It can’t get any easier than that!!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes…

Mr. President, while you’re at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I’ll bet both programs would be fixed pronto. If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.

If not, please disregard.

More proof we are awash in energy resources.....

I"m betting that when we need a gallon of gas or a cubic foot or two to cook our food it'll be "discovered". At a price of course. This system is so rotten that it is now simply amusing that the guys in charge have to duck and weave their way. it remains to be seen if China continues to put up with it. So far they are still playing the game but one wonders when they're going to pull the plug and buy the oil companies.

And fire the President, heh heh.

Investing in Natural Gas: The Most Important Source in the World

02/01/10 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Until just three years ago, the Marcellus was an obscure name for an obscure rock formation in the backwaters of geological research. Not anymore…

The tipping point came when Penn State professor Terry Engelder demonstrated that the Marcellus holds as much as 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas – the equivalent of total US gas consumption for 25 years. There’s over a trillion dollars’ worth of gas down there – probably much more. Even if the estimate is off by 50% or so (and that 500 trillion cubic foot number might be on the LOW side), Marcellus is a very big resource.

Here’s a map showing all of the major shale gas-bearing basins in the US and Canada. The Marcellus is labeled No. 27 – and I don’t mean in terms of size. As you can see, the Marcellus dwarfs all the others.

I-pad made in China?.......

Duh!

Hottest products we buy are stripping us of real wealth. We don't make much any more. we just sell ourselves down the river. Anyone remember Walmart advertising "made in America?" How about Nike's footwear? Maybe all those "American assembled" cars?

Need an explanation for our collapse just look there. P.S the world is awash in in oil and natural gas. Especially the good old U.S.A.

Why are we destroying oil producing countries? Follow the money. Your Congress man does.


Paulson's Return, Another Deficit Record, Marcellus Shale, Ron Paul and More! | 5 Min. Forecast

“I am an Apple fan,” a reader writes, “but I did turn over my MacBook Pro after reading Friday's column: designed in California, assembled in China.”

The 5: Remember the “We think, they sweat” crowd? They’ve believed Apple to be the epitome of a 21st-century “platform company” -- a global player with the cash, clout and clarity to play all the markets -- intellectual, manufacturing, consumer -- it needs to to achieve the lowest cost for production of goods and the highest margin from the end-user. At the time Apple made a $65 profit on every iPhone made. The Taiwanese producer made $4 per iPhone produced.

Even if the iPad becomes “the biggest product in history,” as Cramer suggested on The Chris Matthews Show yesterday, Apple is a good investment (potentially… we wouldn’t buy it). But is it really a representative sample of economic recovery in the U.S., as the reader on Friday suggested?

Of course it is. The Chinese will never actually figure out how to make their own gadgets… they’ll just keep pounding out those iPods for pennies on the dollar while Apple execs buy vacation homes.

Jail 'em or hang 'em.........

Michele Malkin - Tim Geithner AIG,C-Span Blockade,Chris Dodd Toe Fungus

Gotcha!.......

Marcy Kaptur chews out Tim Geithner over AIG

What to expect from Oba mama's speech....

It's not my fault, Bush did it.

We have saved the world.

We need to be patient for this to show.

Did I tell you it's not my fault?

Oil must be destroyed....

Has nothing to do with "oil independence." This is a holy war to save the Earth from greedy capitalist. Or something.

RedState

If we explored more in the U.S., we could move the oil in pipelines, which is much a safer method of transportation. With a pipeline, you have a fixed facility at either end; if something happens to the pipeline, you can tell right away. Any spill is limited to the volume of the line.

Even spills from offshore oil platforms are usually small in volume and relatively inconsequential to the environment because they happen far from shore. A tiny fraction of the oil in the marine environment is from oil producing operations; most of it comes from natural seeps.

One of the more interesting theories of creation....

Who knows maybe they'll be back and give us a second chance. Heh heh.

Sumeria, Babylonia, Sumeria

The story continues with the female gender Anunaki, Ninhursag, creating an altered hybrid by using material from one of the Anunaki and of an earth "beast," primitive man. The Anunaki now had an intelligent worker to do their mining. Soon, these prototype humans ("A-dam" means something like "duplicated" plus "human") were being specifically designed for certain tasks, including a version with small, delicate features that was used as a house servant by the Anunaki.

The Atra Hasis continues to explain that it was this "delicate type," with features more resembling the Anunaki themselves, that attracted the Anunaki to mate with them. And it was these "giants on earth" that were remembered in the book of Genesis.

The book of Genesis has more hints to this earlier epic. Ninhursag, who created the first "smarter humans" was celebrated by the Anunaki and she was given the title of "Nin-ti," or "Lady of life." Since early Hebrew has multiple meanings for the phrase "ti," meaning both "rib" and "life," the creation of Eve by Nin-ti yielded to the errant story of the first woman being created by Adam's rib (hence "the lady of the rib").

So where is the devil while all of this is going on?

I just answerede my question about Haiti..

Smart Economy: Haiti rich in unexplored hydrocarbons (with potential oil reserves larger than those of Venezuela) , gold, copper, uranium 238 and 235 and strategic metals (iridium)

Haiti rich in unexplored hydrocarbons (with potential oil reserves larger than those of Venezuela) , gold, copper, uranium 238 and 235 and strategic metals (iridium)

Russia calls it the near abroad. Its sphere of influence.

One of the countries in its near abroad is Afghanistan, which also just happens to be a undeveloped country rich in unexplored strategic metals, according to the British Geologic Survey.

Why do they hate us?......

Probably because we want them to. Why else would we be chasing them into every nook and cranny on the planet. As long as they leave the oil alone, that is. Then we get serious.

Notice that the oil wells are still pumping should tell us something. If they got serious the wells disappear.

Answering Helen Thomas on Why They Want to Harm Us « Patrick J. Buchanan

“It is clear that al Qaeda increasingly seeks to recruit individuals without known terrorist affiliations … to do their bidding. … And that’s why we must communicate clearly to Muslims around the world that al Qaeda offers nothing except a bankrupt vision of misery and death … while the United States stands with those who seek justice and progress. … That’s the vision that is far more powerful than the hatred of these violent extremists.”

But why it is so hard for Muslims to “get” that message? Why can’t they end their preoccupation with dodging U.S. missiles in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Gaza long enough to reflect on how we are only trying to save them from terrorists while simultaneously demonstrating our commitment to “justice and progress”?

Does a smart fellow like Obama expect us to believe that all we need to do is “communicate clearly to Muslims” that it is al Qaeda, not the U.S. and its allies, that brings “misery and death”? Does any informed person not know that the unprovoked U.S.-led invasion of Iraq killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and displaced 4.5 million from their homes? How is that for “misery and death”?

Not often I agree with Oba mama.....

The Supreme Court simply gave more power to the rich. They put together a "political action group " and spend until they get their way. Like competing Lords they bombard us with their message until the voters choose between one bought and paid for politician or the other.

The court overturned their own precedent to make sure. That should tell us something. The elites win. The key is to kick back and watch these gangsters cut each other's throat.

High court unleashes political ad spending - Washington Times

"With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special-interest money in our politics," the president said in a statement. "It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans."

Richard Briffault, a law professor at Columbia Law School, said it will be difficult for Congress to craft legislation to limit business spending, since most corporate law is written at the state level.

He also said it's not immediately clear how much will change in campaign finance, but expressed doubt about the dire predictions. He noted that about half of states had banned corporations from making independent political expenditures and half had allowed it.

"I don't think you could see one was demonstrably more politically free," he said.

Thursday's ruling does strike down state laws that banned independent corporate political spending.

Did big media tell you this...

Of course not.

Replacing one Lord in Washington with another is more important. But remember no trucks, no food, no shit.

The Coming Economic Depression: 2009 The Biggest Collapse of Trucking Ever. To get Worse?

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
2009 The Biggest Collapse of Trucking Ever. To get Worse?
The American Trucking Associations' notes that in 2009 “the motor carrier industry has potentially endured the most severe drop in volumes ever.”

Lane Kidd, director of the Arkansas Trucking Association, agrees. He said most Arkansas-based trucking companies still operating were “significantly” damaged in 2009. He said they employ fewer people, have lower balance sheets and have incurred a lot of debt.

“There are a few exceptions, like (Fort Smith-based) Arkansas Best, which still has money in the bank.” Kidd said during a Tuesday (Jan. 18) interview.

Kidd has watched the trucking sector for 18 years, and 2009 was “easily” the worst in that time, with carriers suffering through a “slow, grinding squeeze on cash flow.”

The Arkansas association recently began calling about 250 small trucking operations in the state — typically firms with fewer than five trucks — as part of a membership drive. Of the about 170 calls made so far, 41% were no longer in business.

Something bizaar about Russians lecturing America...

They got rid of most of their gangsters who labeled themselves as the soviet government. All we do is replace one set (Dems) with another (Republicans.) You think we should tell anyone the difference between the politics Brown and Kennedy? Let me think.

Well one is dead. One was a drunk. One killed a woman and got away with it. One posed as the sexiest man in America and had his daughter appear on American Idol.

That's about all that matters in politics now days. Oh yes, they're both bought.


Mat Rodina

There is, yet again, something very Romanesque about the state of the Americans, their empire and their collapse. As the US continues to sink in its co-UK created economic armageddon, the ruling regime enjoys the fruits of its labour of looting and swindling. This is the great "Democracy" they sell us, overseas.

As the year ended, America suffered one of its worst months for employment. Sure, reading the official Ministry of Propaganda (so called free press) reports showed only a mere another 85,000 Americans as loosing jobs, or rather the work force shrinking by that amount, so it takes the UK Telegraph (America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels ) to report the real situation, that 650,000 unemployed were moved into a category named "No Longer Searching For Jobs". This is how the American regimes "honestly" tell the population that the unemployment rate is not going up and the lie they tell the rest of us, fortunate not to live under this deceit. This is the category that DC uses to dump the unwanted, unneeded and unemployable waste, its workers who no longer get government unemployment help and can go starve for all the elites care. After all, judging by the head lines out of DC, for the Haitians there is money, for their own unemployed, shelters and bread lines. This category has been growing by nearly half a million every month for the last year.

The hits kept on coming, too, for the former partiers of the American economic "miracle" of debt. Like a crippled Hercules, trying to lift a mountain of debt, or rather trying to keep it above their heads and from crushing them, the American populace continues to strain and tire and suffer, even as they deny reality while their legs sink deeper under their burden.

News came that inflation was really low in 2009, under 2%. Of course, the fact that salaries sank was not counted into that "fixed" model of inflation, otherwise the picture would not be so pretty. Outsourcing of jobs also accelerated, with predictions that up to 20% of the remaining jobs would still be outsourced, within the next few years. All hail the Marxist Free Trade. At the same time, news arrived that 1.4 million Americans went into bankruptcy last year, over a 30% jump from 2008. Food Stamps use, a form of government subsidy for food, was being given to over 10% of the population, with one third of the country's children living in the abject poverty it takes to qualify for the handout.

At the same time, a massive new wave of mortgage defaults in the resettling of exotic mortgages, continued loss of jobs and thus regular mortgages and a collapsing business/commercial real-estate market is just starting to break over the Americans and promises to be worse than the first wave.

To all this, the American military has increased its budget by some $100 BILLION from 2009's already mammoth $600 BILLION budget, more than every nation combined. And the people are continued to be led down the trail of slavery by their noses, in fear of being "invaded" or "attacked" while their sons sit in some 100 nations around the world, enforcing the Empire. Yet despite this giant spend on the military, families of US soldiers continue to have to buy body armour and other equipments and send them to their sons, since there are no funds for that armour and equipments, not after the elites and their companies get done pilfering the giant sum. Remember too, this does not include another $40 or so BILLION for the wars!

Equally, the evils of Wall Street, the pack of hyenas, the cabal of witches who brought us the lovely Soviet Revolution, the Great Depression, the Nazi take over, the rape of post Soviet Russia, the Asian Flu, (The Six Evils of Wall Street and the Suffering of Humanity) are now paying themselves $146 BILLION in bonuses, 8% more than the 2007 record, after stealing $700 BILLION from the American tax serfs, through bought and paid for farce of their so called "Democracy". That is some 20,000 people will be splitting $146 BILLION, or an average of $7.3 million each, for the people who are still laughing at all the Luciferien death and misery they caused by starting the lovely Great Depression II.

But best of all, it has now been brought out that the Obama Regime, much like Nero or Caligula, has been partying hard, with over 170 parties, receptions and big dinners, entertaining over 50,000 guests, flying in specialty chefs from around the world, all in this one year of power. That is, one party every two days. And the American serfs? They just bare it, grumble and pay their taxes, it si what they have been trained for. Oh sure, a bunch will get together here and there and wave signs and scream slogans for a few hours and then go home, feeling good that they did "something" and pat themselves on the backs for their "accomplishments" while promising to vote out the present elites and replace them with an exact same set from a different branch of the One Party Two Branch system. Someone famously called this: rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. And their so called conservative leaders on TV will tell them what great deeds they have done and how great they are, even as nothing changes and these so called leaders hustle books and t-shirts and caps to the impoverished but good feeling tax serfs. In other words, the bleeding continues.

So Yanks, you can take your so called Democracy, nothing more than pilfering of the people, and your Free Trade Marxism and go pound your heads into the wall. We do not want it, we do not need it and we will not have it. We will take our so called "pseudo" authoritarianism, mercantilism, and government that actually cares about us and we will grow, ignoring your "advice", kicking out your so called NGOs who promote nothing but this "Democracy" and vassalage to your empire and destruction of our Christian Orthodox faith and we will be on our separate way. Now if we could only get our Monarchy back too.
Posted by Stanislav at 12:53 PM

Dem's getting their asses kicked....

Who cares?  Because they are a little worse than Republicans? What a bunch of horseshit! People are just pissed at our bought and paid for Washington insiders. (Oba mama ran as a Washington outsider and that's why he won). So they run around and vote for anybody that isn't "one of them".

But you can't run and win in this country unless you are "one of them". You can't get the publicity. You can't get the money. And you can't get anyone to knock on doors.

You have to be bought!

Duh........

What do polls have to do with it. Government doesn't work. Watch what happens, for instance, when we give Haiti a few more billion.

Nothing.

That country won't work any better than anything else these guys do. Pouring money into feel good projects is like "allowances " for spoiled teenagers. It makes you feel better that your being fair and responsible. The kid's still an idiot. Same with welfare. Handouts don't work. Government programs to cure social ills are doomed to fail.

But don't take my word for it just look at our cities. Or all of our largest states for that matter. will it ever change? Of course not.Therefor we can simply  expect more of the same.

All we have to do is figure a way to get in on the take while it last because bitching about it ain't working.

Poll shows growing disappointment, polarization over Obama's performance - washingtonpost.com

Nearly half of all Americans say Obama is not delivering on his major campaign promises, and a narrow majority have just some or no confidence that he will make the right decisions for the country's future.

More than a third see the president as falling short of their expectations, about double the proportion saying so at the 100-day mark of Obama's presidency in April. At the time, 63 percent said the president had accomplished a "great deal" or a "good amount." Now, the portion saying so has dropped to 47 percent.

Republicans are particularly critical of Obama's efforts in general and on big domestic and foreign issues. Just 20 percent of Republicans approve of his overall job performance, compared with 87 percent of Democrats. That partisan gap is bigger than any that Presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush or Ronald Reagan ever faced among the general public. It's about on par with divergent ratings of George W. Bush across his second term.

What's in Haiti worth 100 million.....

The gang can't wait to throw more money down the rat hole in the Caribbean. Cheaper just to evacuate the dump and bulldoze it into the ocean. We could always sell condo space to the nitwits in Hollywood. Of course we then would have to guarantee the loans and make sure nobody made a profit. Except the Clintons, Gores, and various other criminals.

And let's not forget to include more tax gimmicks to "pay " for it.

NO comment......

These fuckers are nuts!


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Posted by David Kramer on January 13, 2010 03:45 PM

Punchline: Fly at night.

In what looks like Part Deux of ‘Life Imitates Humor,’ it seems our man-made global warming scaremongers are actually starting to believe their own nonsense:

SOLAR SHIELD ON AGENDA AT CLIMATE SUMMIT
Emergency measures to slow global warming, such as a ‘solar shield’ to block the sun or artificial trees to soak up CO2, will be discussed at a ‘geo-engineering’ conference. [italics mine]

The summit of climate scientists, to be held in California in March, will examine drastic techniques for slowing climate change that are controversial and have been described as “geo-piracy”.

Among the possible measures to be discussed will be ocean fertilisation, which would see iron dumped into the sea to boost plankton growth, and artificial trees that use a chemical process to soak up CO2. Most techniques focus on ways of reducing the sun’s rays by blocking them using mirrors orbiting in space or by spraying sulphur compounds into the high atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from earth. One proposal is for a fleet of ships that would spray seawater into the sky that would leave behind salt crystals to brighten clouds, reflecting more sunlight back into space.

The conference, reported in The Guardian, comes amid concern that such techniques may be the only way to prevent average temperatures rising.

I have a much simpler way of preventing average temperatures from rising: understanding that the whole man-made global warming “theory” is just a lot of hot air.

Something wrong with sun.....

I simply dismissed "global warming" as a form of religious fervor a long time ago. I'm still reminded of the daily solar constant belief when I was in junior high which postulates that on any square meter of the Earth's atmosphere, the amount of sunlight doesn't vary from year to year. Therefor, if sunlight remains "constant" then ice ages or global warmings would seem to be a complete impossibility. Unless another ingredient is involved.

This brings us to co2 gas . Only co2 is in sufficient amount to affect the whole planet by acting as a blanket trapping heat or allowing heat to escape. This would imply that global warming or cooling  can only be caused by co2 levels fluctuating  in the atmosphere. Hence global warming theory answers a lot of questions about our planets history. Up until a few years ago, volcanoes being the main culprit. Now it's my Suzuki's fault. Why? Because too many of the "greatest minds in the country" hate "big oil". So any excuse to punish the bastards becomes more or less a crusade.

Sounds like good ol' religion to me.

 Of course, one must take into account that at one time the "greatest minds in the country" spent many a day debating how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. (Infinite. Or as many as you can find. Heh heh) That sounds suspiciously religious too, don't you think?

Anyways,  the sun doesn't appear to be co-operating and the "greatest minds in the country" are getting pissy:

Antarctica Water

Solar geomagnetic index reaches unprecedented low – only “zero” could be lower – in a month when sunspots became more active « Watts Up With That?

We then had a string of sunspots in December that marked what many saw as a rejuvenation of solar cycle 24 after a long period of inactivity. See December sunspots on the rise

It even prompted people like Joe Romm to claim:

The hottest decade ends and since there’s no Maunder mininum — sorry deniers! — the hottest decade begins

But what Joe doesn’t understand is that sunspots are just one proxy, the simplest and most easily observed, for magnetic activity of the sun. It is the magnetic activity of the sun which is central to Svensmark’s theory of galactic cosmic ray modulation, which may affect cloud cover formation on earth, thus affecting global temperatures. As the theory goes, lower magnetic activity of the sun lets more GCR’s into our solar system, which produce microscopic cloud seed trails (like in a Wilson cloud chamber) in our atmosphere, resulting in more cloud cover, resulting in a cooler planet. Ric Werme has a nice pictorial here.

When I saw the SWPC Ap geomagnetic index for Dec 2009 posted yesterday, my heart sank. With the sunspot activity in December, I thought surely the Ap index would go up. Instead, it crashed.

Gas prices up 20 cents......

Overnight.

Sometimes it really sucks being right. This county's unemployment rate hit 16.2% last month. Not exactly "green shoots." Patty and I right now are considered quite well off here. Strange, I don't feel well off. Who in this world would consider Walmart associates, "well off."

Of course, Oba mama and the gang are making plans to get the rest of our paychecks. I guess we don't really need the money since we don't vote for these assholes. When they get done we'll have to work another job just to pay all the new taxes they plan to pay for all the broke dick's insurance. (What other job?)

Oh I forgot, in Washington tax money comes from Heaven not from working stiffs. Since none of them ever had real jobs this is easy for them. Just screw rich people. Who quit hiring. Then these people without jobs quit buying at Walmart. Then I sit at home and quit paying taxes. Then......

Just wait until we start collecting.......

I want every dime of my SS check. Every dime of Patti's. We geezers vote. We have guns. God knows how many wars we've been in. Our children and grand children own the military and they ain't too impressed with the bum fucks in government.

As I've been posting for awhile, the real crisis hits in 5 or 10 more years when we retire and demand ours. We ain't going to be happy.

Or nice.

Daily Digest - Daily Digest - January 6 - Jan. 6, 2010 | Blogs at Chris Martenson - Daily Digest, Economy, Energy

"The Social Security Trust Fund issued their November and December reports today. They also provided the payment data for January 2010. I think there is some significant information."

"There was a $100 billion surplus for the year. But compare that to the $190 Billion surplus in 2007. We have lost $90 Billion in just two years. But this number should be much higher than the 07 surplus. It was assumed that the Fund would have larger and larger surpluses for years to come. The 2008 Trustee Report (signed by then Chairman Hank Paulson) provided a set of Intermediate Assumptions for the Fund's surpluses looking forward. As you can see we missed the 2009 target of a $220b surplus by a cool $120 billion. As of 12/31/09 the funds assets are behind that 08 schedule by $155 billion."

May you live in interesting times.....

Think the geezers will converge on Washington and kick their asses? Only be a 100 million or so living off of Social Security. Forget medicare. It'll be toast.

 Of course we'll all have those little electric scooters to run down Pelosi. God I'd pay money to see that!

The Coming Economic Depression: Retirement Crash For Years to Come

Retirement Crash For Years to Come
The Baby Boom officially begins crashing this year. Some Baby Boomers began retiring early, but the big retirement Crash begins now and will go on for many years.

This is a crashing demographic wave that is also a massive financial and economic crash. The peak income years of this large wave of Americans now suddenly and steadily drops for many years to come as more and more of them retire. Their disposable income and actual consumer spending will likely be far less than was expected a few years ago because of the massive drops in retirement savings and the soaring costs of health care which will demand far more frugal living than was true of their predecessor waves of retirees. This will be even greater as they suddenly realize that the Obama Central Plan for Medicare Cost Cuts will force them to pay far more of their own medical costs.

At the same time, this growing tsunami-crash of retirements will produce a soaring tsunami of government expenditures for Medicare/Medicaid, in spite of the cuts now in the works which are not remotely enough to cut the soaring overall costs of these vast programs.

And the growing wave of Baby Boom retirees will also produce soaring government expenditures for the vast Social Security payments, because the government has spent their "contributions" to the system and given the SS "Trust" non-negotiable bonds – IOU's that now come due to pay the soaring costs for these retirees. The government will be forced to borrow trillions more to pay for these costs at the same time its revenues are sinking and it is borrowing trillions to pay for other costs from the Great Financial Crisis.

May re-enter MBS market?.....

Millions of broke dicks are not...can not,  pay their mortgages. I wonder how these guys figure we can ignore trillions in foreclosures. Someone has to buy up these new bad loans that are backed by some banker's crooked imagination. I hope they can get away with it but I'm a tad skeptical

CORRECTED - Fed may re-enter MBS market later in 2010 - Market News | Reuters

NEW YORK, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is discussing re-entering the mortgage-backed securities market later this year if its buying power is needed to hold down interest rates, Market News said on Tuesday in a story citing Fed officials.

The $5 trillion agency mortgage-backed securities market may weaken when last year's biggest buyer, the Federal Reserve, ends its $1.25 trillion agency MBS purchasing program at the end of the first quarter of 2010.

Fed officials, however, "are prepared to contemplate changes if need be, depending on conditions in the economy, housing finance and in financial markets more broadly," Market News said in a story written by Steven Beckner.

"Among the options that has been discussed, say people in a position to know, is doing additional MBS purchases."

Patti goes back to work tomorrow....

Still have 3 thousand in doctor bills to take car of then 3 thousand in taxes. Need to keep our nose to the grindstone in order to pay off the home. Have a $200 a month car payment I don't want to take into my retirement in a 3 or 4  of years. Need to get the grandson out of high school then either get an RV or mobile in Florida. There are, at this time, a lot of good buys down there even though the lot rents are way to high. Time will tell if I go this route.

One shouldn't put to much faith in the bullshit the media, all corporate whores, have to say about the "recovery". A lot of shit has to be paid off and borrowing brought under control. besides, it will be a while before these debts to be completely monetized and then fire up inflation. I think my 5-10 year prediction is still right on.

In the meantime, watch the price of oil. Up big time will cause the old economy to tank again. Exactly what happened several times in the past. '72, '76' '86' '92 and especially '07-'08. One of this rip offs will just cause nationalization of oil companies like Russia's, China's,. Saudi Arabia, etc. Eventually we'll  have to take over another oil producing country.

Until someone nukes D.C. and we start a new country. Right?

I got to start a church......

900,000 deficit for a fucking church. Sign me up! I feel a conversion coming on.

Pastor Rick Warren nets $2.4M after plea - Washington Times

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) -- Evangelical pastor Rick Warren says his call for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch has brought in $2.4 million.

Warren announced the sum to cheers at a Saturday service, and said the total includes only money brought in person to Saddleback Church by New Year's Eve.

Warren called the donations "amazing" and says the church will start the new decade with a surplus.

Warren made an appeal to members on the church's Web site Wednesday, asking for donations to overcome a collections shortage.

This is how the scam is working.......

Politically the Fed's have to take what' s considered "correct" actions or face electoral problems for the ruling elites lackeys. Running deficits scares the shit out of the average guy because doing so unchecked in his household leads to ruin. In government usage it simply transfers debt from one side of the accounting ledger to another.

For instance, my grandson, who lives with me, borrows money from me and buys a computer game  bringing  a little more wealth to my household. Even though it's a debt. When he pays it back no real change has occurred other than the increase in wealth. We now have a computer game. If he doesn't pay it back I have a deficit.

I still have the increase in wealth.

But if gives the game away in debt is where the problem lies as we've lost the asset and  and now show a trade deficit. If the party he gave or traded  it to doesn't reciprocate in kind we become poorer.

It's the same if the country runs trade deficits.

As far as we can tell right now the government has decided to buy or refinance every bad mortgage to re-inflate the economy but no real effort to improve our middle class which means manufacturing and selling to our creditors overseas. Until then, we're fucked!

As I've posted a time or two before:

The Automatic Earth: December 27 2009: Eyes wide open and pedal to the metal

But in case you were starting to think that we bring only sorrowful tidings, here's a ray of light for you. For Wall Street, things may not be all that bad. Not at all. The major US banks, as their European counterparts, have access to enormous amounts of funds (yours) at ultralow interest rates. All they need to do is borrow at one of the Fed windows, walk across the street (I know they don’t have to do that, but I'm going for the George Bailey era image here) and buy themselves some Treasuries.

In practical terms, say Bank (of) A borrows $1 billion at 0.25% from the Fed, and buys Treasuries that pay 5.25% (oh yes, we’ll get there, and beyond). All a banker needs to do is sit back, or play golf, and make 5%, or $50 million, on that $1 billion. Since it’s that easy, why not borrow, say, $200 billion, leverage that 10-fold, buy the $2 trillion in Treasuries, and make $100 billion just for sitting still?

See!.... what no more gun control gets...

Now the scum have to guess who's packing, heh heh.

By the way fuck new Years. Bring on new century again. This one kind of sucks.



D.C. homicides hit lowest level since '64 - Washington Times

The year is drawing to a close with homicides in the District at a 45-year low, reflecting a national trend that law enforcement officials are attributing to multipronged crime-prevention strategies that include advances in communication and coordination.

With just two days left in the year, according to preliminary numbers from the police department, the District has had 138 homicides compared with 184 at the same time last year, setting up the city to record the lowest number of homicides since 1964, when 132 were reported killed. Metropolitan Police Department officials attribute the decline to a "perfect storm" of crime-fighting strategies, including a new culture of communication within the police department.

Once you've seen a UFO........

Your no longer a believer, but a "knower."


Ronald Reagan’s UFO sightings and alien “Fantasy” speeches | Openminds.tv

I was one of the first to publish several articles about Reagan’s many references to what became a persistent theme in his speeches: that an alien threat would unite the nations of the world. I also interviewed Nancy Reagan’s astrologer, Joan Quigley, for the premier issue of the Spanish magazine Año Cero. In the early 90s I even hoped to meet the former president (through a close friend of the Reagan family who knew a good friend of mine in Hollywood circles), and ask him about his UFO experiences and the source of his alien speeches. That hope was quashed when news of his Alzheimer’s was released.

Of Reagan’s two known UFO sightings, one is fairly well documented and dramatic, the other just a second-hand sketch without date or exact location. It was disclosed in 1988 by comedian and radio host Steve Allen, who commented that a very well known personality in the entertainment industry had confided to him that many years ago, Ron and Nancy arrived half an hour late at a dinner party in Hollywood. The first thing they said is that they had just spotted a UFO coming down the coast.

The second incident is more dramatic and better documented. It occurred in the summer of 1974 when Reagan was governor of California and was flying on the governor’s Cessna Citation aircraft. We have the first-hand testimony of the pilot, Bill Paynter, who years later explained in a TV program they were at 35,000 feet in the vicinity of Modesto, when he was alerted by Reagan that a big light was following them. “The governor said, ‘well, let’s see if we can get a little closer to it,’ so we started moving towards it,” said Paynter. “It followed us just of—from the wing-tip probably a half a mile or a mile—and when we started turning towards it, it paralleled our flight, and…just took off.”

Ronald and Nancy Reagan in California in 1964

Ronald and Nancy Reagan in California in 1964

The following quote from Reagan about the incident comes from Norman C. Miller, who was then Washington Bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal and later became editor of the Los Angeles Times. “I was in a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this white light,” Reagan told Miller. “It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, ‘Have you seen anything like that before?’ He was shocked and said, ‘Nope.’ And I said to him: ‘Let’s follow it!’ We followed it for several minutes… to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens.”

At first this seems counter-intuitive.......

But we, the American consumer, have to go bust and start over in order to straighten out the national financial debacle that hasn't ended yet. After going through it I can only tell you that is the scariest thing for most people to even think about. That's why we vote for Big Government to put off the reckoning that will arrive.

Be ready for the boom. Clean up your credit. Save and pay off "junk" debts. In 5 to 10 years the next bust hits and everything becomes dirt cheap for people with cash and good credit. Happens after every deflationary bust.

In the forties if you had a couple of thousand you could have bought a mansion in the city, 5 0r 6 new cars, a lifetime supply of booze.... Whatever. This is history. 

I just bought $250 more in food. Wait til you see the prices this summer. Expect oil to rise because production has been cut and foreign countries are using American money to buy.

There is no reason for them to hold a dying empire's cash. Check this out......

The recession is over but the depression has just begun | The Big Picture

So, what does this mean for the American and global economy?

1. The private sector (particularly households) is overly indebted. The level of debt households now carry cannot be supported by income at the present levels of consumption. The natural tendency, therefore, is toward more saving and less spending in the private sector (although asset price appreciation can attenuate this through the Wealth Effect). That necessarily means the public sector must run a deficit or the import-export sector must run a surplus.
2. Most countries are in a state of economic weakness. That means consumption demand is constrained globally. There is no chance that the U.S. can export its way out of recession without a collapse in the value of the U.S. dollar. That leaves the government as the sole way to pick up the slack.
3. Since state and local governments are constrained by falling tax revenue (see WSJ article) and the inability to print money, only the Federal Government can run large deficits.
4. Deficit spending on this scale is politically unacceptable and will come to an end as soon as the economy shows any signs of life (say 2 to 3% growth for one year). Therefore, at the first sign of economic strength, the Federal Government will raise taxes and/or cut spending. The result will be a deep recession with higher unemployment and lower stock prices.
5. Meanwhile, all countries which issue the vast majority of debt in their own currency (U.S, Eurozone, U.K., Switzerland, Japan) will inflate. They will print as much money as they can reasonably get away with. While the economy is in an upswing, this will create a false boom, predicated on asset price increases. This will be a huge bonus for hard assets like gold, platinum or silver. However, when the prop of government spending is taken away, the global economy will relapse into recession.
6. I believe this dynamic will induce a Scylla and Charybdis of inflationary and deflationary forces, forcing central bankers to add and withdraw liquidity in a manic way. The likely volatility in government spending and taxation gives you the makings of a depression shaped like a series of W’s consisting of short and uneven business cycles. The secular force is the D-process and the deleveraging, so I expect deflation to be the resulting secular trend more than inflation.
7. Needless to say, this kind of volatility will induce a wave of populist sentiment, leading to an unpredictable and violent geopolitical climate and the likelihood of more muscular forms of government.
8. From an investing standpoint, consider this a secular bear market for stocks then. Play the rallies, but be cognizant that the secular trend for the time being is down. The Japanese example which we are now tracking is a best case scenario.

That’s my thesis. What’s your view?
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What does it tell us when states go bust.....

Huh..... Maybe they should cut back and live within their means. I mean, why do state governments have to spend billions when the feds are paying for the same things. Wait til interest rates go up big time and we can't buy all that junk,  let alone big ticket items that generate sales and property taxes.

Somebody has to pay for all this debt. I think we know who. This leads to a lower standard of living. Expect interest rates to go up in 2010 and scare the fuck out of the big shot gangsters who's stooges in office will be thrown out big time. China, India, and Russia are now is buying gold and will stop buying our debt. As I've warned befor, that's when the shit hits the fan. Then....

Surprise! Need to raise interest rates to pay for trillion dollar deficits. You get it in the ass. Not exactly rocket science.

On the home front, insurance company is paying off my totaled Suzuki and I just bought a 2004 Suzuki to replace it. Looks new and I paid $10000 out the door. I went to the credit union and picked up a check for $9350 and put $650 on my credit card. i got 4.5 % on the loan and $200 a month for 5 years. I'll pay it off in two  or three and borrow more even though interest rate will probably be too high, for my retirement RV.

By the way, no money down is back. The secret is having your financing in hand before you shop. Pay off your loans and borrow a little more. Pay them off then borrow more, doing it over and over. And stay away from running credit card balances as that lowers your score. Just bank your paychecks and use your credit card for immediate expenses then pay your card off in full that improves your credit.

 Patti and I have 12 more payments on the mobile home and then we only pay $190 a month plus electric. I think we'll do fine even with the extra couple of thousand in doctor bills from her operation. At least she goes back to work next week and I can make plans to start another business and generate some tax losses.

Being in business is the only way we can practice tax avoidance since real estate is such a long term mess. A married couple generating $50,000 a year pay through the nose to the gangsters in Washington.

More on this later.

I still would like to get to Florida and start my mobile home investing program for my retirement. I've already found a few bargains on the internet. Which only covers a fraction of the opportunities. People have to live somewhere, even broke dicks. heh heh.


States Scramble to Close New Budget Gaps - WSJ.com

The patches used by states on their ailing budgets just months ago are now failing.

Ohio lawmakers were expected late Thursday to vote on a compromise reached with Gov. Ted Strickland to avoid cutting education budgets an average of 10% on Jan. 1. In Arizona, lawmakers met in a special session Thursday -- their fourth on the budget this year -- to grapple with a new deficit. And in New York, Democratic Gov. David Paterson said Sunday he would postpone paying $750 million of state bills to avert a cash crunch.
[cutting deeper]

Many states eliminated expected deficits earlier this year with budget cuts, tax increases, short-term borrowing, accounting moves and planned gambling expansions.

But despite a slight improvement in the U.S. economy, states are now finding those measures didn't go far enough. Tax collections continue to trail projections in some states, and court rulings and political battles have blocked some gap-filling moves.

Plus, some legislatures didn't fully deal with the deficits, leaving the toughest decisions to governors. All states, except Vermont, have at least a limited requirement of a balanced budget.

Only a few states now have cash-flow problems. But if revenues continue to fall below expectations, the list could grow, said Scott Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers.

Ready to start a new country yet?'''''

Give it time. 7 million more mortgages go up this coming 18 months. We need the Fed to really pour on the printing presses just to break even. 25 million jobs have to be created to get back to even. Auto and house prices have stabilized for now but not for long. How much more welfare can we give these guys?

Time will tell. Without stimulus these prices  slide back. With it inflation looms directly ahead. 

The Jobless Recovery, So Called

The biggest problem I see is not fiat money (which is collapsing from its own lack of substance), or the purported “global” economy, which is composed of numerous countries none of whom are doing well. (Prosperity in China? Oh, my, tell me another one.) The big problem, which is being exacerbated, is that something like 40% of all “jobs” are in government. Yup. Four out of every ten “workers” are paid lavishly (in general, twice what counterparts in business make for similar tasks) are engaged primarily in the business of making our lives more difficult, our businesses less profitable, and our ability to plan for the future almost impossible. This country has grown bureaucracy and chased manufacturing jobs off shore. It has increased regulation and deleterious “services” at the expense of freedom and capital to create real business which include real jobs and genuine products which can be sold instead of buying shoddy merchandise from China. We’ve seen the cycle…from Taiwan to Japan to Sri Lanka, and now to China. We have sent our money overseas for many decades rather than fight to reduce regulation, reduce taxes, and reduce costs. A fork lift operator simply isn’t worth $86,000 a year, even if he works for the ci devant “Big Three.” Not many of them do any more, and it serves them right. Greed at all levels of the unions made American products too expensive to buy. Manufacturers–whom, I will remind you again, are not in business to employ “workers,” but to make profits–picked up their blueprints and went elsewhere. We cannot blame them. We would do the same if we were able.

No, friends, there will be no “jobless” recovery. There will be no recovery at all until we are so much farther down that October of 2009 looks like “the good old days.” The “green shoots” are the slime growing up the North wall of government, the bacteria of corruption, and of parasites such as governmental Spanish Moss and Pharma and Agribiz mistletoe.

What is to be done? You’ve got your choice. Destroy Carthage, or opt out. Pull back into your own perimeter. Produce nothing that can be taxed or regulated.

The Feds control our very lives now.......

The feds control our money, our houses,children,transportation,health care, you name it. But when they control carbon, they control all. This is from people who would screw up a wet dream.

I think they get theirs  by guys with towels on their heads. The big question is which side do we take?

Pajamas Media » The Socialist Revolution Has Come to America

1. The government moved to take greater control of medical care and thus one-sixth of our entire economy. The excuse? Some people don’t have insurance, don’t you know? What are the details? Good question: specifics hatched in back rooms behind closed doors, utterly incomprehensible bills that may as well be carved in hieroglyphics. What will it mean for you? Why, whatever they want it to mean, of course.

2. Efforts to criminalize a particular naturally occurring compound, CO2, picked up pace. Why have they so singled out this substance? Because it is a byproduct of work and, indeed, life itself — every time you turn on your heater, every time you drive to work, every time you sit down to eat: don’t you know these sinful behaviors must be curbed, because you are “poisoning the planet” with your every move?

Success in this double strategy would amount to nothing less than a socialist revolution. A revolution of legislative opacity and bureaucratic fiat, to be sure, but a revolution just the same, for there is literally no part of your existence they couldn’t justify controlling under the cover of “health care” and “emissions” reform. Resistance would be met at first with peaceable punishments, fines and such. But the history of such revolutions shows that, sooner or later, they enforce their dictates with bars and boots.

Think it can’t happen here? History is littered with the wreckage of free states that gave way, sometimes with a scream, often with a whimper, to autocracy and absolutism. The city that gave birth to the world’s first and greatest republic was also home to Caesar and Mussolini.

America is not immune to these forces. The tides of history are inexorable and sooner or later pull every edifice into the sea.

Still sounds like a religeous arguement to me.....

We confuse, for various reasons, God is responsible for DNA and some kind of magic did it. Think about it. No rational explanation can explain how DNA came into existence without some kind of help. No wonder this pisses so many people off. Easier to make sneering pronunciation than admit "I haven't a clue."

Happy birthday, Patti.

Dissent on Darwinism by David Gordon

Although he does not accept Intelligent Design, Nagel refuses to dismiss the movement as merely religious. Critics claim that design cannot be a legitimate scientific hypothesis; but at the same time, they maintain that the theory can be shown to be false. Nagel pertinently asks, how can both of these assertions be true together? Further, Nagel sees no constitutional obstacle to teaching Intelligent Design.

Nagel's opinions on this issue have led to a remarkable episode. Brian Leiter runs a blog, Leiter Reports, which is read by philosophers, owing to detailed accounts of promotions, jobs, and other news about philosophy departments. Leiter's comparative rankings of philosophy departments also attract much attention. Leiter obtrudes his own political and social views on his audience; were he to present these in a separate venue, it is a safe bet that his audience would vastly diminish. Among Leiter's many aversions, the Intelligent Design movement ranks among the foremost: he often attacks what he calls the "Texas Taliban."

When Nagel's article on Intelligent Design appeared, Leiter could not contain his rage (see here and here). We were presented with the unedifying spectacle of Leiter's speaking in abusive and condescending terms about one of the foremost philosophers of the past half-century. Nagel's The Possibility of Altruism, The View From Nowhere, and the essays collected in Mortal Questions are classics of contemporary philosophy.

Dem's rule.....

Poor morons. Oba mama in Denmark trying to sell the country down the river. Congress fighting over how quickly they can bankrupt the citizens. Republicans hanging tough as Reid and gang won't include their participation. Dem's backbiting as their money men demand more goodies for their constituents but can't get 60 Dems to agree.

Sounds like good old gridlock to me.

Hopefully it will continue for the foreseeable future. Then we get rid of most of the criminals and find a new bunch. Heh heh

Totaled my car this morning....

Black ice got me. Time to go shopping as soon as the insurance pays off.

Shit happens!

Won't be long now....

Expect inflation statistics to scare the shit out of everyone.

Already for trillions of dollars are sloshing around the world's  economy. Printed up to save the gangsters asses. No likely to save them, I believe, but time will tell. This money first chases stocks, bonds, currencies and especially commodities. Gold, silver, oil and soon food. Then we get beat up with consumer price inflation as oil prices catch up to pay for all those Arab schemes rebuilding the middle East into Nirvana. This massive wall of debt will bite us in the ass.

Re-inflating the bubble though is not going to be easy as something like 7 million houses are on the cusp of foreclosure. Businesses hooked on cheap credit are coming up short.Now the gang in Washington is playing with medical cost which is always dangerous for politicians as they need to keep so many unhappy people together to save the system which is collapsing around their ears.

So far, we "consumers" are bust and can't save the system from itself. We need healthy incomes to keep the debts current let alone, pay it down. With most people on reduced hours, unemployment, disability, or not working to start with, doesn't leave much else the government can do to generate the taxes to pay for services. Only borrowing from our ideological enemies, the Chinese.

What happens if the Chinese go bust over the next couple years? We can't buy their trinkets. We actually need little from them. Oil? nope. Food? Nope. Toys? Really?

Only their money. Which we gave them in the first place.f You get the idea? They are tied to us until the end.

What ever that end is.

Think we ought to wake them up?....

The left swallowed the bullshit hook line and sinker. "Change we can believe in" simply means a rearranging the chairs on the Titanic . The system is too rigged to reform. It must crash completely. Until then, expect a new bubble to be created.

There is nothing else the gang in charge can do.

Politically there is no place to cut budget wise. No criminals (they are in charge) can be punished . Military spending must be maintained or the vets destroy the party in charge. Education is so corrupt that no cuts there or the unions stay home. The states , the Democrat bases on the whole,are  in disaster and need massive infusions of cash.

Can't tax us much more as we are broke. The whole fucking bunch of us are flat busted. We owe more than we are worth. Try and sell something at a profit. Your house? yea, right. Your used car? how about your 401k, must be a lot of profit there..... good luck.

Only thing left is blood.

But not is all lost. Get out of debt. (Pay bills in full every month over the next couple years.) Save as much possible so you can participate in the next inflationary boom.

Will the gang be able to do it again? Why not? Who's going to stop them? Banks borrow from the Fed for free. Lend it to speculators for commodity and Wall Street speculation. Profits trickle in to the business side. They hire and retool. Then borrowing of all kinds take off and prices explode.

Might as well prepare for it as it is inevitable with these guys in charge.But it's really a lot of fun to listen to the Left bitch about it, right?

Obama's Big Sellout : Rolling Stone

Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers "at the expense of hardworking Americans." Obama may not have run to the left of Samuel Gompers or Cesar Chavez, but it's not like you saw him on the campaign trail flanked by bankers from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. What inspired supporters who pushed him to his historic win was the sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, that walls were being torn down, that things were, for lack of a better or more specific term, changing.

Then he got elected.

What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history.

Watched an interview onTV today.......

Senator Conrade. Seems we can't cut spending... or raise taxes, during a recession. I guess we just bitch about it. These are the Dems who have complete control of the government. His solution: get the Republicans to make a 'bi-partisan' commission and make a solution that way. {More finger pointing}

These guys can't be real!

Let's dissolve Congress. Fire everybody in charge. Prosecute the bank big shots and all their Washington cronies. Outlaw lobbyist. Make elections open to all parties with free TV time. (we could advertise cigarettes and beer to pay for it)

Completely do away with income taxes using excise taxes to protect us from fraud, waste and abuse. Then  watch the economy take off.

There's a few more things to be done, but that's a start.

A guy can dream, can't he?

Here's a real solution: get a government job or disappear with a little business of your own.

Tell the fuckers nothing!

Only Repubs managed to beat the left at it's old game.....

Makes you wonder. Why do we even care? We definitely need a change but the criminals own both parties now. After NAFTA, there has been little the working stiff can do about improving his station other than supporting the status quo. Anyone who fucks with the powers that be has the I.R.S or Homeland Security come after them. 

Now they've engineered another boom to save their sorry asses and life goes on for them. Just look at the joke going on in Copenhagen. We can prove the globe is cooling but the fascist will make us pay anyway to reduce a harmless gas, CO2, from a infinitesimal amount in our atmosphere to practically zero.

Follow the money and we will find the same handful of gangsters in on it.

I expect more of the same in the future as more and more people jump on the band wagon. After all, most people figured their house was worth at least 3 times what they paid for it after a couple of years. Must be some free money here somewhere.

And Oba Mama  did promise fiscal responsibility to return to Washington and we would be out of Iraq and Afghanistan in his first year. Black people would have lots more money and whitey would get bitch-slapped into next week. All liberals would get special medals for honesty.....

And tooth fairies would be dancing in the streets as the government outlawed dentists. unicorns would be butt fucking pigs, rainbow stew would be assured to all God's children, Republicans would quit lying and do what they promised and....

How are all these wonders  working out for you?


The Future of the Republicans by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Now, pointing this out is akin to mentioning the elephant in the living room, the one which some of the guests welcome and some have decided to ignore. For the latter group, here is a partial litany of what the Bush administration has done by way of using and expanding government power: the Patriot Act, the Patriot Act II (as part of Intelligence Reform), No Child Left Behind, Medicare drug benefits, the Transportation Safety Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security, not to mention two major wars that have cost hundreds of billions, and left only destruction and chaos in their wake. Government spending in Bush's first term soared more than 29%, twice Clinton's average.

The second term will bring more of the same, or worse. Bush is going to try to install the country’s first-ever peacetime program of forced savings. Though it is being sold as privatization, it is a huge step-up in statism, and also prepares the way for controls on consumption spending, as seen in World War I and II. There could be more wars in the Gulf region, with Syria, Iran, and others tossed on the chopping block. As regards the invasions of individual liberty, there are no limits. Already proposed is a national ID, fingerprints on passports, more intrusions into bank accounts, more travel restrictions, more surveillance, and even the draft and national service.

Hmmm...... I'm still skepitical....

Viruses adapt to their ever changing surrounding environment. O.k. But how does this show us evolution? They are still viruses.

These changes can be explained simply by pointing out that this adaptability is  "built in" to the DNA. Still no explanations are ever given for evolution as fact, just the assumption that it's obvious to the discerning observer.

Or do we mean believer?


Skeptic » Lectures » past-lectures''

H1N1 — The Evolution of a Deadly Virus
What Diseases Tell Us About Evolution

Carl Zimmer, an award-winning science writer for the New York Times, Discover magazine, Scientific American, and others takes readers on a frightening tour of the H1N1 flu virus, how it evolved, and what deadly diseases tell us about how evolution works. Reviewing the history of influenza going back over a century, including a complete analysis of the 1918 influenza outbreak that killed tens of millions of people around the world, Zimmer includes remarkable graphics demonstrating exactly what happens from the moment a virus enters a body to the death of its human host. Along the way Zimmer reveals how vital evolution is to all branches of modern biology — from the fight against deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria to the analysis of the human genome.

Only the government can punish the dead......

I love this. You work. You die. Uncle Sammy gets his cut over your dead body.

Tell me again why anyone votes for these fuckers.


Agora Financial's 5 Minute Forecast

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend the estate tax late last week -- indefinitely. In a time when everyone could use an extra dollar -- and, in fact, hundreds of billions of dollars are being handed out while trillions more are being printed -- the state opted to extend the “death tax,” which was set for a one-year repeal in 2010. Instead of a year of tax leniency, for every dollar beyond $3.5 million that you bestow upon your departure, the government will take 45 cents (should this bill become law).

Why start today’s forecast with this news? We couldn’t think of a more fitting sign of the times… punish those who found success (and already paid their taxes once) and reward the weak (in this case the U.S. government, arguably the greatest spendthrift in history).

Here’s the best part: They’ll spin it so it sounds like Uncle Sam is doing you a favor. “This bill gives our nation's wealthiest families the ability to know exactly what their obligation to the nation that fostered their wealth will be,” Rep. Jared Polis so eloquently noted. You see, you not only have some kind of “obligation” to give the state nearly half of your life’s work, but by keeping this tax continuous, Rep. Polis will offer that sleep-easy assurance that the estate tax will surely outlive you. What a relief.

Colder than a witch's tit......

Been in the teens here in Northern Idaho. Too bad global warming is a fraud. But we knew that years ago. Still the gangsters in Washington will run cap and trade down our throats. Need to keep the scam going or the politicians will be replaced.

I'm collecting Patti's share of the doctor bills after insurance pays their part and it aint pretty. Probably 3 or 4 grand. Hard to get ahead that way. But better than no insurance at all. They paid close to 30 grand.

Try and collect that much from me, hah hah.

12 more payments on the mobile and we only have to worry about 200 a month lot rent. I'll be looking for another then. Buy and sell for income comes next. Debt free is the key.

Time will tell how bad the next bust will be, but there will be another.

And maybe another. Until we get a new country any ways.

Hey, one can hope.

Unemployment down...

Good thing the government changed those bad numbers from October as Oba mama went to a "job summit" with rich fat cats who don't create any jobs, right?

Next thing you know a new boom, as I have telling everybody, will happen and we start over again with the country borrowing from foreigners and we will have to buy their junk. We've already lost our industries, next we lose our food production. Then we take over a small oil producing country. (Iran?) How else are we going to pay for all these fuck ups.

The Commies were right when they said we would sell them the rope used to hang us.

In the meantime,I'm trying to get ready for the next inflationary boom. I'm getting out of personal debt and have already built up a $5000 line of credit with my credit union. I hope to get it up to $20000 in a year or so then I'll be able  buy another mobile or two to resell. I expect to make 300 or 400 a month on each one

Might head for Florida and get one for a winter home. With a line of credit all you do is write a check and then move in or resell. Pretty easy to do as long as you buy cheap. Which means cash. Without any personal debts this becomes entirely feasible.

Also, I'm thinking of selling food at the fairs during the winter to get extra money coming in. Hard to believe  that Patti and I can draw Soc.Sec  (partial) in 3 years so we have to get busy.

Should be an interesting retirement.

First climategate, then.....

Need to work on that evolution theory. falling apart day by day. ofcourse until a new explanation comes along this is it.

Trying to explain how DNA evolved from nothing is a bitch.

I'm listening.


The Two-Minute Hate « LewRockwell.com Blog

The Darwinites are very angry at NYU philosopher Thomas Nagel’s book recommendation in the London Times:

Stephen C. Meyer’s Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperCollins) is a detailed account of the problem of how life came into existence from lifeless matter – something that had to happen before the process of biological evolution could begin. The controversy over Intelligent Design has so far focused mainly on whether the evolution of life since its beginnings can be explained entirely by natural selection and other non-purposive causes. Meyer takes up the prior question of how the immensely complex and exquisitely functional chemical structure of DNA, which cannot be explained by natural selection because it makes natural selection possible, could have originated without an intentional cause. He examines the history and present state of research on non-purposive chemical explanations of the origin of life, and argues that the available evidence offers no prospect of a credible naturalistic alternative to the hypothesis of an intentional cause. Meyer is a Christian, but atheists, and theists who believe God never intervenes in the natural world, will be instructed by his careful presentation of this fiendishly difficult problem.

Hat in hand....

Oba mama crawls to China, the new super power, and grovels. We can't survive financially without their buying our debt  and selling us everything we used to make. And we can't make  perpetual war against guys wearing towels on their heads without Chinese permission. Our treasury is buying stocks, houses, car companies, and God knows what's next.

I guess the people in charge will just have to reelect him as he is "change we can believe in". (Yes we are collectively stupid and but at least we  are politically correct).

Empires come, empires go, all fall down.


The Hidden Costs of Too Much Government Debt | Money and Markets: Free Investment Email Newsletter

But you know what Obama came home with? Not much of anything. A joint statement here. A stiff, “no questions asked” press conference there. Substantive progress was nowhere to be found.
Obama's trip to China was all smiles but no substance.
Obama’s trip to China was all smiles but no substance.

That’s disturbing — and it reflects a very uncomfortable fact: The balance of power between the U.S. and China has shifted largely in China’s favor because of our overreliance on China to fund our profligacy. In fact, I believe that this shift is one of the single biggest “hidden” costs of our massive government debt load.

Debt Costs Keep Rising,
With No End in Sight!

You don’t need me to tell you that our public debt is enormous. As of this week, it came to $12,031,299,186,290.07. That’s more than $12 TRILLION in case you have trouble grasping a number that big. In just the past decade, it’s up more than 111 percent.

Things are only going to get worse, too, because Washington has completely abandoned any semblance of fiscal discipline! We’re running ever-larger budget deficits, including $1.42 trillion in fiscal 2009 alone.

The interest cost alone on our debt last year was $202 billion. That’s enough to send every man, woman, and child in this country a $656 check. Keep in mind that those costs were artificially low because of the lowest short-term rates in history due to the Fed’s rate cuts. Moreover, the flight-to-quality rally in government bonds helped keep longer-term rates low.

As bond prices fall, rates rise, and absolute debt levels climb ever-higher. That number is going to spiral upward. In plain English, we’re going to be dedicating a larger and larger share of the U.S. budget just to pay interest on our debt. Forget about defense, health care, Social Security or anything else.