And you thought the left was peacefull!...

Oba mama is a war monger! LOL. Don't tell the nut jobs on the political left. They still think he's one of them!

Personally, I think we should have killed that bastard Qaddafi a long time ago instead of bribing him.  But what do I know. The empire has always been dicking around with their pet dictators and throwing them overboard when the going gets rough. Trust me, the gang in charge in Washington couldn't run a shit house let alone a war!

How many has Oba mama got going now?

What's interesting is listening to the politicians and suck holes in MEDIA blaming Bush for getting us into this mess.

No, really!


EDITORIAL: Obama's illegal war - Washington Times

“Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter.” Chapter VII of the charter, which enumerates U.N. intervention powers, applies only to international breaches of the peace. The December 1981 U.N. “Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention and Interference in the Internal Affairs of States” reaffirmed this principle with its solemn declaration that, “No State or group of States has the right to intervene or interfere in any form or for any reason whatsoever in the internal and external affairs of other States.”

Five Security Council member states sat out the vote, including permanent members Russia and China, in addition to Germany, India and Brazil. China in particular objected to any action that would compromise Libya’s sovereignty, but did not veto the resolution. This may have been a political move, since the abstaining countries are now in a position to raise principled objections to whatever happens once force is utilized. To claim the United States forged an international consensus seems premature when Resolution 1973 did not have the support of countries representing 42 percent of the world’s population.

True to its internationalist instincts, the Obama administration would never contemplate an action that lacked U.N. approval, yet United Nations permission alone is inadequate. Sen. Richard Lugar, Indiana Republican, believes that the Congress should debate a declaration of war over intervening in Libya. But the White House has not sought even the type of congressional authorization for the use of force that President George W. Bush did before the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. It would be ironic to say the least if Mr. Obama waged war with less legal backing than his predecessor.

Ya think?.....

Color me skeptical. You have to have credible opposition to for a sitting president to lose. And we haven't seen any yet. especially when it downs on the Republicans that budget cutting ain't happening and balancing the budget drops us into Depression as all those debts have to be paid back.

Including the new war in Libya. Let's not forget that spending money like drunken Democrats is easy in Washington as it gets them reelected. Cutting gets them called bad names.

Not to say that not drilling our vast oil reserves to protect snails and rats doesn't seem to be very bright but we're talking about religious fanatics who believe the Earth is sacred and you and I are scum for wanting to defile it.

No really!!! Just listen to them.


Pump prices may put Obama in peril - Washington Times

Consumers’ pain at the gas pump will likely be shared by President Obama at the polls in 2012 and could cost him a second term unless energy prices take a drastic turn for the better in the next 18 months.

“Energy prices should be the Achilles’ heel for Obama,” said Scott Wheeler, executive director of a conservative political action committee.

The average gasoline pump price across the country is $3.621 per gallon, the Energy Information Administration reported. Prices in some parts of the country are already topping $4 a gallon.

And the uncertain global situation isn’t helping.

“Unrest in the Middle East and Japan’s loss of nuclear-powered electricity add pressure to oil prices that were already growing along with the world economy,” Heritage Foundation energy economist David W. Kreutzer told The Washington Times. “While the U.S. only generates 1 percent of its electricity from oil, Japan uses 9 percent and will need more to fuel standby generators and to replace lost nuclear production.”

How's the economy doing?....

Store sales still off by 5%. But some local hiring is going on including here at Walmart. Patty and I go get back our 40 hrs for now.  I'm watching for the big boys in the corporate world  to start buying and merging with each other as a better indication of the coming inflationary boom.

Still, even companies like ATT buying T-Mobile  this week may not mean much as housing is falling further into the toilet. Oil going nuts is much more important. And don't forget we need to bomb another oil producing country.

Oh wait!

Seems like I predicted that a year or so ago. I know I did but I'm too lazy to go through my archives and post it. Anyway,  Patty and I bought a truck and 5th wheel for our retirement which is possible for us in two or three years. We plan on taking it to California to visit my daughter Mary and ma this summer. We'll see if we get there or not..

Got to plan or end up here in the FUCKING snow bank and too broke to go!!

But we still have my "I told you so" moment when I told everybody 20 or 30 years ago, that I want to retire and spend the winter in Florida or Arizona and the summer in Alaska. Idaho, or Montana.

Now all I have to do is live long enough to say I told you so!

New 5th wheel for retirement. keep you posted.

I got a great idea.....

Let's bomb Libya! Yea, why not?  They must have done something to deserve it?? I guess anything to get our attention away from all those campaign promises, right?

What's really interesting is that it will work again!

Another fake fiscal conservative.....

This whore master is pathetic. Not a snowballs chance he becomes President. He even makes Biden look good for Christ's sake. Needless to say Oba mama's  a shew in with these pathetic liars running for President.

Don't believe me? Check out the halfwit Donald Trump!!!


Gingrich Says He Doesn't Regret Supporting Medicare Drug Plan Which Is Now a $7.2 Trillion Unfunded Liability | CNSnews.com

Former House Speaker New Gingrich (R-Ga.), a likely 2012 presidential candidate, told CNSNews.com today that he does not regret supporting the enactment of the Medicare prescription drug plan which now presents the federal government with a $7.2 trillion unfunded liability.

An unfunded liability is a benefit the federal government has promised to pay that is not matched by tax revenue to fund it and thus represents an anticipated increase in the national debt.

Just another day in Paradise....

Yesterday 50 degrees, this morning snow. A trace though. Winter in the Rockies! Oh well. Think I'll go shopping and buy something big and expensive. Stay tuned as I plan my escape for my old age.

Get your food in....

Get your act together that's the bottom line.  I told you so a year or so ago.

Currently,I'm shopping for a rv to retire in. South for the winter sounds like a winning program to me. Keep you posted on that as I'm negotiating with a dealer right now. We only have 20 thousand to work with so I'm being tough on these guys. Lol .


Wholesale prices up 1.6 pct. on steep rise in food - Yahoo! Finance

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those volatile categories, inflation was tame.

The Labor Department said Wednesday that the Producer Price Index rose a seasonally adjusted 1.6 percent in February -- double the 0.8 percent rise in the previous month. Outside of food and energy costs, the core index ticked up 0.2 percent, less than January's 0.5 percent rise.

Food prices soared 3.9 percent last month, the biggest gain since November 1974. Most of that increase was due to a sharp rise in vegetable costs, which increased nearly 50 percent. That was the most in almost a year. Meat and dairy products also rose.

Energy prices rose 3.3 percent last month, led by a 3.7 percent increase in gasoline costs.

Separately, the Commerce Department said home construction plunged to a seasonally adjusted 479,000 homes last month, down 22.5 percent from the previous month. It was lowest level since April 2009, and the second-lowest on records dating back more than a half-century.

Do you blame the politicians?....

They need guns in California because a whole lot of whoop ass is coming. Nothing is working in California as far as I can see and as soon as the Republicans in Washington turn off the free money to the state the sooner these clowns have to pay their bills from all that nutty overspending.

But the Republicans are famous for lying about cuts so they can get more money to use propping up dictators in various countries who hate our guts and want us dead. But not to worry the Dems only need an excuse for their voters to join them!

How's those gas prices coming along in your neck of the woods?

Told you so!!!

Usually whining about the evil Republicans and there's nothing we can do about it works to keep them in office. let's not forget that most of them are simple little fascist and will say anything to get elected and stay elected.


EDITORIAL: Guns for us, not for you - Washington Times

Some of the most far-out anti-gun laws are found on the left coast, but that could change - for privileged politicians. A California state Senate committee will consider a bill next week that grants legislators permission to carry concealed firearms. The measure highlights the growing rift between the bureaucratic class and taxpayers who don’t have the luxury of exempting themselves from bad laws.

Ordinary Californians who want a concealed carry permit need to apply to the local sheriff. In practice - outside of conservative, rural counties - only celebrities and the well-connected end up obtaining the coveted document. In a state of nearly 37 million, about 40,000 permits were issued in 2007. The proposal being offered by a pair of pro-gun state Senate Democrats would automatically define as eligible for a permit “any applicant who is a member of Congress, a statewide elected official or a Member of the Legislature.” These could carry a gun “for purposes of protection or self-defense.” Coddled lawmakers living in gated communities may think they face heightened risk, but it’s unlikely poor residents in sketchy urban neighborhoods have any less of a need.

O.k... Another rotten politician?.....

Oh no. Can't be. Everybody knows that it's not possible!

Every idiotic voter that is!


Stumbles by Gray disillusion many in D.C. - Washington Times

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray has been in office just 2½ months, but his administration already is reeling under allegations that cash payoffs were made during his campaign and that he doled out high-paying city jobs to political friends who were either underqualified or had undisclosed criminal pasts.

U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. made a rare disclosure last week that his office is working with the FBI to evaluate the allegations.

The concerns of federal investigators and a top-ranking Republican House leader has, in part, resulted in Mr. Gray, a Democrat, retaining the services of Washington superlawyer Robert S. Bennett, who represented President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, New York Times reporter Judith Miller in the Valerie Plame CIA leak grand jury investigation and former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in the Iran-Contra scandal.

How my doing?....

Back in October I hit this oil price bullshit right on the head or was it a year or so earlier. Oh yea, Buy food!

 Remember trucks? They have to roll and it cost more everyday. Somebody has to pay. Check out this old post. Or this post from almost exactly a year ago. I've got more but I'm tired of repeating myself.

Told you so!

Now maybe we have a reason to worry......

The world more and more is practicing monoculture and anything can cause higher food costs.

Or no food at all!


Decline of honey bees now a global phenomenon, says United Nations - Nature, Environment - The Independent

The mysterious collapse of honey-bee colonies is becoming a global phenomenon, scientists working for the United Nations have revealed.

Declines in managed bee colonies, seen increasingly in Europe and the US in the past decade, are also now being observed in China and Japan and there are the first signs of African collapses from Egypt, according to the report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

The authors, who include some of the world's leading honey-bee experts, issue a stark warning about the disappearance of bees, which are increasingly important as crop pollinators around the globe. Without profound changes to the way human beings manage the planet, they say, declines in pollinators needed to feed a growing global population are likely to continue. The scientists warn that a number of factors may now be coming together to hit bee colonies around the world, ranging from declines in flowering plants and the use of damaging insecticides, to the worldwide spread of pests and air pollution. They call for farmers and landowners to be offered incentives to restore pollinator-friendly habitats, including key flowering plants near crop-producing fields and stress that more care needs to be taken in the choice, timing and application of insecticides and other chemicals. While managed hives can be moved out of harm's way, "wild populations (of pollinators) are completely vulnerable", says the report.

Think we ought to borrow some money from Japan...

And send it to them? Makes as much sense as letting government employees bribe their bosses and then "negotiating" their pay and benefits. Wait til gas hits 5$ a gallon and watch the heads roll in Washington.

But not to worry, there's plenty more idiots that will run for office!

NPR......

Of course, we wouldn't miss it since no one listen to them. However, my prediction is it public tv and radio will get plenty of handouts as soon as the top people who criticized the fascist on the right (ignoring or supporting the fascist on the left) are fired.

Then everybody kisses and makes nice and "public media" will live on until all of our money is split between them. That's Washington for you!


Pajamas Media » NPRgate and the King Hearings

Yesterday’s videotaped revelations by the intrepid James O’Keefe provides welcome grist for many mills. Most obviously, it offers irrefutable evidence that National Public Radio employs elitists who are hostile to Republicans, Tea Party activists, and others derided as gun-toting, white “racists.”

The principal focus of the expose filmed last month, Ron Schiller, the network’s now-departed vice president of development and president of the NPR Foundation, declared that his organization would be “better off in the long-run” without government underwriting.

Presumably, such sentiments will make it impossible for members of Congress to justify continued public funding of the organization when the Senate considers the decision taken by the House of Representatives to zero out NPR in the latest stopgap funding measure.

Tell me again why unions own the government?...

How can you negotiate with your employer if you give him money and votes to get and keep his job! One down 49 more to go.


Wisconsin Senate passes union limits despite Democratic walkout - CNN.com

Madison, Wisconsin (CNN) -- Wisconsin's Republican-led state Senate passed Gov. Scott Walker's proposed restrictions on collective bargaining for public employees Wednesday, getting around a Democratic walkout by stripping financial provisions from the bill.

"Tonight, the Senate will be passing the items in the Budget Repair Bill that we can with the 19 members who actually do show up and do their jobs," Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, the chamber's Republican majority leader, said in a statement announcing the move.

The Senate's 14 Democrats had fled to Illinois to prevent the chamber from attaining a quorum and passing the collective bargaining measures, which they have called an unnecessary attack on the rights of public employees. Republicans were able to move ahead by voting only on the nonfinancial aspects of Walker's proposed bill, which requires fewer members for a quorum.

"The Senate Democrats have had three weeks to debate this bill and were offered repeated opportunities to come home, which they refused," Walker said in a statement on the vote. "In order to move the state forward, I applaud the Legislature's action today to stand up to the status quo and take a step in the right direction to balance the budget and reform government."

Why I'm not a Republican......

I'm a political atheist. This article reminds me that there's not a nickels worth of difference, other than rhetoric, between these criminal gangs. When our paychecks are up for grabs it's every scum bag for himself!


oftwominds: The Paradoxes at the Heart of the "Conservative" Project

The agenda of the so-called "Conservative" ideology is based on hypocritical paradoxes that its proponents conveniently ignore. The key paradoxes can be summarized thusly:


So-called "Conservatives" claim to want small government, but they can't resist fattening themselves at the trough of the Central State/Savior State. Reaching for the very pinnacle of hypocrisy, not only do so-called "Conservatives" greedily lap up all the State largesse enjoyed by proponents of the Savior State--the overflowing troughs of Medicare, for example--but they do other welfare recipients one better by gorging on tax breaks, oil leases on government land and offshore tax-avoidance scams that others at the Central State trough can only dream of.


The number of "small government Conservatives" who renounce their Savior State largesse-- Social Security and Medicare--is essentially zero.


And no, you did not "pay your fair share." The vast majority of these State benefits are welfare, paid by other taxpayers. But so-called "Conservatives" aren't interested in looking at spreadsheets detailing how their lifetime contributions, including interest, have been paid out in the first few years of these Savior State benefits, and from then on they're just another form of welfare.

So-called "Conservatives" are against Central State ownership, except when the State gives the immensely profitable mineral rights to their cronies for private exploitation. In other words, as long as public lands can be exploited for private gain, then public ownership of land is OK. But if the lands are reserved for the public, then "Conservative" righteous indignation explodes like a volcano.


So-called "Conservatives" love to pronounce their support of "national defense," but this is just another form of self-serving complicity--i.e. living large by leeching off the Central State. A staggeringly rich slice of spending on "national defense" and "national security" is just swag distributed to "conservative" cronies.


The Undersecretary for Warming Coffee in the E-Ring, for example, retires one day with a fat government pension and shows up at the Pentagon the next day as a well-paid defense-industry lobbyist.


Just how "small government" is that? Yet so-called "Conservatives" are silent when it comes to reining in Central State spending and power, because they're too busy exploiting the coercive powers of the Central State for their own personal gain.

Another dead horse.....

Billions gallons of oil are currently, as of now, untouchable.

Politics! And the gangsters who work in our government don't giv.e a shit.

P.S Oba mama will reestablish military tribunals. Shows you how gullible the average voter is. Promise them anything and they'll vote for "hope and change." LOL


Another Recession Keyed By High Oil Prices? | The Silent Majority

Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. To our knowledge — none has been extracted. With this mother load of oil why are we still fighting over offshore drilling?

Now. Consider this:

The U. S. Geological Service issued a revised report in April of 2008 (It hadn’t been updated since 1995) on how much oil was in the area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota, western South Dakota, and extreme eastern Montana. Take a look for yourself.

http://bakkenshale.net/bakkenshalemap.html

“The Bakken,” as it is referred to, is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska ‘s Prudhoe Bay, and it has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates the Bakken deposit at 503 billion barrels. This is light, sweet, oil that would be far, far, less costly to Americans than the oil we are importing today.

We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. We are talking more than 2 TRILLION barrels of untapped oil. Here are the official estimates:

- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia

- 18-times as much oil as Iraq

- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait

- 22-times as much oil as Iran

- 500-times as much oil as Yemen

- And it’s all right here in America — in the Western United States.

Estimates tell us that that oil could satisfy America’s need for fuel for up to for 2,041 years!

You can read about this, yourself, at the US Geological Survey website HERE.

Wake me up when the party's over.......

Why do so many people believe this guy is some born again fiscal conservative? 

He's part of the gang that got us where we are! As I've been telling anyone who'll listen, there's not a nickels worth of difference when it comes to spending your money in government. These people do what they're told or they lose their jobs just like you or I would.

Get used to it and prepare for the next bust. This new "recovery" wont last long and remember I told you so!

Buy food!!!! You can't lose by having a couple of months supply stashed away. Better than 401k money financing oil producing countries murdering their citizens, don't you think?


Boehner feeling heat from tea party - Washington Times

Speaker John A. Boehner and the GOP’s uneasy partnership with the tea party seems to be fraying at the edges.

Three days after the founder of one of the largest tea party groups called the Ohio Republican a “fool,” the head of the congressional Tea Party Caucus declined to defend her House colleague.

Michele Bachmann, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said the “tea party coalition is hanging together more strongly than ever,” but she ducked questions about Mr. Boehner’s problems with the tea party.

The Minnesota Republican didn’t even use the speaker’s name, sticking instead to her talking points about $105 billion that she contends was misappropriated by Democrats in the Obama health care law.

Boeing paid the right guys off.....

We'll see some trickle down in my neck of the woods as my daughter in law works for a subcontractor for airplane parts.

I need to find out who in the Oba mama's admin is on their payroll!


Pentagon delays F-35, buys more Boeing fighters | Reuters

WASHINGTON | Thu Jan 6, 2011 7:14pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon overhauled the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter program for the second time in a year and said it would buy 41 Boeing Co F/A-18 warplanes over the next three years to offset slower production of the Lockheed plane.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced on Thursday a further restructuring of the radar-evading F-35 as part of a broad cost-reduction plan, saving it would result in net savings of about $4 billion over the next five years.

The Pentagon's biggest arms program, the new fighter is being developed with eight international partner countries at total cost of $382 billion, but the program has run into schedule delays and massive cost overruns in recent years.

Gates said work on the Air Force and Navy versions of the plane was moving along satisfactorily.

Drill baby drill.......

Want the country to survive the Depression? Quit giving our money away to people who want us dead.

Yeah, I know, rocket science!

Why are oil prices going up? Simple. Oba mama is borrowing 1500 billion dollars every year. That money will come mostly from  oil producers. The oil producers lost their ass a couple of years ago when the world economy collapsed and oil prices crashed and now their citizens are revolting because of the depression setting in. There is not enough money coming in to pay off the natives and buy our bonds.

So, they raise the price of oil just like they did in the 70's to buy weapons so they could invade Israel in '72.  Now these gangsters are on the run and need to buy an awful lot of protection from their armies and from our military.


RAHN: Deliberately making Americans poorer - Washington Times

The Obama administration’s policies are causing Americans to pay far more for gasoline and other fuels than necessary. America is awash in fossil-fuel energy sources with almost 30 percent of the world’s coal and 80 percent of the world’s oil shale - which contains an estimated three times the recoverable oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. Canada, with its oil sands, has the world’s third-highest oil reserves, after the United States and Saudi Arabia. New technologies that enable low-cost natural gas production from shale mean that many countries, including the United States, will have gas for centuries at current production rates.

Fossil fuels at some prices are interchangeable. Coal, gas and oil can all fuel electric power plants. Liquid motor fuels can be made easily from natural gas, and, in fact, many auto, truck and bus fleets already use natural gas. For more than 70 years, the technology has been available to turn coal into liquid motor fuel.

I don't believe in coincidences.....

When it comes to making money anything is possible. For instance, who finances Al Quida and where do they get the money.

They used to get it from the U.S taxpayers. Now, maybe they still do!


10 Events Surrounding September 11

The majority of the suspicious trading was linked to Deutsche Bank Alex Brown. On September 12, 2001, the head of the bank, Mayo A. Shattuck III, resigned from office. The previous director of the bank was A. B. Krongard, who is the former head of the CIA. Citigroup Inc and Morgan Stanley also received an abnormal number of put options, and both companies held offices in the World Trade Centers, and saw a decrease in stock price after the attacks. On September 10, 2001, Raytheon, a defense contractor, had an anomalously high number of call options traded. The Securities and Exchange Commission launched an insider trading investigation, in which Osama Bin Laden was a suspect, but no action was taken. The trading was traced to areas all over the world, with most activity occurring in the UK, Italy, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, France and the US.

In the days prior to 9/11, the Chicago Exchange saw the highest number of United and American Airlines options traded in history. The names of the investors remain a mystery, because they never claimed their money. After it was discovered that a single U.S.-based institutional investor, with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda, purchased a large amount of these options, the 9/11 Commission dismissed the importance of the events. Unfortunately, the abnormal trading did not tip off law enforcement, as intelligence agencies constantly monitor the stock exchange and the sudden rise in activity could have allowed analysts to “connect the dots” and see that a major event was about to take place involving American Airlines, United Airlines and The World Trade Centers. However, nobody could have imagined the scale of the tragedy.

Well, vets what do you think.....

I think beating the fuck out of these "Christians" ought to be an act of  self-defense.


Supreme Court upholds protests at military funerals as free speech - Washington Times

The Supreme Court ruled decisively Wednesday that a fringe anti-gay group has a constitutionally protected right to stage hateful protests at the funerals of dead servicemen, saying “such speech cannot be restricted simply because it is upsetting or arouses contempt.”

In one of the year’s most closely watched cases, the Supreme Court in an 8-1 decision upheld a lower-court ruling to throw out a multimillion-dollar judgment that the father of a dead U.S. Marine from Maryland had won against the Westboro Baptist Church.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., in writing the majority opinion, noted that “speech is powerful” and can “inflict great pain.”

“On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker,” the chief justice wrote. “As a nation, we have chosen a different course — to protect even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate.”

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. rebuked the majority and wrote in a blistering dissent that “our profound national commitment to free and open debate is not a license for the vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case.”

Christians, Supreme Court

Big difference between public and private unions...

You don't vote for or bribe a private employer like you can a government politician. He has to obey or go find a new cushy piece of welfare. A private employer has to fear a loss of money and stock value. Big shots in business get most of their income from stock options and really pay attention to strike threats.

Few, if any small businesses will tolerate a union because their profit margin is too small to take a strike and everybody who works for a living thinks they're worth a small fortune just to show up for a job anyways.

Which simply means do you think government employees are immune?


O’Reilly Tonight: Unions « John Stossel

Tonight Bill O’Reilly wants me to talk about today's NY Times front page story claiming "Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Sector Unions."

Most people back the unions? I'm not surprised Americans support collective bargaining “rights.” Unless you have really been paying attention, you don't understand what works in the private sector doesn't work in government, where unions bargain with politicians whom they helped elect. People don't know that federal workers can't bargain collectively, that President Carter outlawed that, and that even FDR said: “Collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.”

Sheldon Richman of the Freeman suggests I say this to Bill: "In the government sphere 'negotiations' are a conspiracy against the taxpayers. Union dues and union political contributions are laundered taxpayer money. And state workers do not pay taxes. They are tax-eaters not tax producers."

“Tax eaters.” I like that.

And of course, the Times distorts the issue. Even the wording --"Employees in the Public Sector"-- is biased. Why not ask about "government" workers?

And the Times poll asks about “taking away collective bargaining rights.” Rights? Why do they call it a right? I’d call it collective-bargaining “power” or “privilege.” It's not a right. But if you call it that, and then use charged words like “taking away,” people vote for the “right.”

What if they'd asked: "Should government workers be forced to join a union and pay dues to that union as a condition of working for the government?" I bet Americans would oppose that.

Something else that's suspicious: 20% of the poll’s respondents claim to come from union households. But only 11.9% of American workers belong to a union. What’s up with that?

Poor rich bastards.....

Don't have to pay taxes especially since they gave out those multimillion bonuses' I guess they didn't get enough of my paycheck or yours to pay their fair share.

Not!

They own us and our government, the best your money could buy, lock, stock, and barrel. And don't you forget it!


ThinkProgress » REPORT: You Have More Money In Your Wallet Than Bank Of America Pays In Federal Taxes

ThinkProgress has assembled a short but far from comprehensive list of these tax dodgers — corporations which have rigged the tax system to their advantage so they can reap huge profits and avoid paying taxes:

- BANK OF AMERICA: In 2009, Bank of America didn’t pay a single penny in federal income taxes, exploiting the tax code so as to avoid paying its fair share. “Oh, yeah, this happens all the time,” said Robert Willens, a tax accounting expert interviewed by McClatchy. “If you go out and try to make money and you don’t do it, why should the government pay you for your losses?” asked Bob McIntyre of Citizens for Tax Justice. The same year, the mega-bank’s top executives received pay “ranging from $6 million to nearly $30 million.”

- BOEING: Despite receiving billions of dollars from the federal government every single year in taxpayer subsidies from the U.S. government, Boeing didn’t “pay a dime of U.S. federal corporate income taxes” between 2008 and 2010.

- CITIGROUP: Citigroup’s deferred income taxes for the third quarter of 2010 amounted to a grand total of $0.00. At the same time, Citigroup has continued to pay its staff lavishly. “John Havens, the head of Citigroup’s investment bank, is expected to be the bank’s highest paid executive for the second year in a row, with a compensation package worth $9.5 million.”

- EXXON-MOBIL: The oil giant uses offshore subsidiaries in the Caribbean to avoid paying taxes in the United States. Although Exxon-Mobil paid $15 billion in taxes in 2009, not a penny of those taxes went to the American Treasury. This was the same year that the company overtook Wal-Mart in the Fortune 500. Meanwhile the total compensation of Exxon-Mobil’s CEO the same year was over $29,000,000.

- GENERAL ELECTRIC: In 2009, General Electric — the world’s largest corporation — filed more than 7,000 tax returns and still paid nothing to U.S. government. They managed to do this by a tax code that essentially subsidizes companies for losing profits and allows them to set up tax havens overseas. That same year GE CEO Jeffery Immelt — who recently scored a spot on a White House economic advisory board — “earned total compensation of $9.89 million.” In 2002, Immelt displayed his lack of economic patriotism, saying, “When I am talking to GE managers, I talk China, China, China, China, China….I am a nut on China. Outsourcing from China is going to grow to 5 billion.”

- WELLS FARGO: Despite being the fourth largest bank in the country, Wells Fargo was able to escape paying federal taxes by writing all of its losses off after its acquisition of Wachovia. Yet in 2009 the chief executive of Wells Fargo also saw his compensation “more than double” as he earned “a salary of $5.6 million paid in cash and stock and stock awards of more than $13 million.”

In the coming months, politicians across the country are going to tell Americans that the only way to stave off huge deficit and balance the budgets is by gutting programs for the poor, eviscerating support for the middle class, eliminating labor rights, and decimating the government’s ability to serve the public interest. This is a lie. The United States is the richest country in the history of the world, and income inequality is higher now than it has been at any time since the 1920′s, with the top “top 1 percentile of households [taking] home 23.5 percent of income in 2007.”

It is simply unfair for Main Street Americans who’ve already been battered by one of the worst economic crises in our history to have to continue to sacrifice while the rich and well-connected continue to rip off taxpayers and avoid paying their fair share. That’s why a Main Street Movement consisting of Americans who are fed up with the status quo is rocking the nation, and one of its first targets should be tax dodgers like Bank of America and Boeing.
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Now all we need is a country to use them against....

I'm sure something will show up. We need jobs in this country to keep people from pulling an Egypt and murdering the gang in power. Not that I don't think that idea doesn't have merit just that I want to stay out of jail and stay online.

Threaten these guys is not a healthy thing!


Pentagon contract for tanker tops $30 billion - Washington Times

The deal, the Air Force‘s third effort to award the contract, caps nine years of wrangling over a replacement for the service’s aging fleet of KC-135 tankers. The Eisenhower-era flying gas stations have served as the backbone of the U.S. capability for “force projection” — the ability to strike anywhere in the world.

Government auditors overturned a February 2008 award to the rival bidder — the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. (EADS), the parent company of Airbus — after ruling that Boeing had been treated unfairly in the selection process.

Representatives of EADS “told me they were going to protest if they lost, but we’ll have to wait and see what happens,” said Barry Watts, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, a nonpartisan defense think tank in Washington, D.C.......

Surprise!!!!.....

Who said having the Chicago gang on  your side doesn't pay off especially when the big leaders, Oba mama and Daley are in charge in Washington?


Emanuel wins six-way race for Chicago mayor - Washington Times

CHICAGO | Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was elected mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, easily overwhelming five rivals to take the helm of the nation’s third-largest city as it prepares to chart a new course without the retiring Richard M. Daley.

With 89 percent of the precincts reporting, Mr. Emanuel was trouncing five opponents with 55 percent of the vote — a margin comfortably above the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid an April runoff.

It was the city’s first mayoral race in more than 60 years without an incumbent on the ballot and the first in more than two decades without Mr. Daley among the candidates.

Mr. Daley and his father have led Chicago for more than 43 of the last 56 years.

Reginald Bachus, the 51-year-old pastor of a West Side church, said this was “a very critical time for Chicago.”

“We really need a mayor who has vision. It’s my personal opinion everyone else would have been a manager, and I think Rahm has vision,” Mr. Bachus said.

The other major candidates — former Chicago schools president Gery Chico, former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and City Clerk Miguel del Valle — had hoped to force a runoff, but were no match for Mr. Emanuel‘s momentum and money.....

Nothing like a little touchy-feely in the foxhole.....

How "sensitive" do you have to be. Hope they pass out condoms don't you?.


Combat troops to get gay sensitivity training - Washington Times

American combat troops will get sensitivity training directly on the battlefield about the military’s new policy on gays instead of waiting until they return to home base in the United States, the senior enlisted man in Afghanistan said Thursday.

The Pentagon is launching an extensive force-wide program to ease the process of integrating open homosexuals into the ranks, including into close-knit fighting units.

Army Command Sgt. Maj. Marvin Hill, the top enlisted man in Afghanistan where 100,000 U.S. troops are deployed, said that the sessions on respecting gays’ rights will go right down to the forward operating bases, where troops fight Taliban militants.

What ever you do Walmart....

Don't sell guns to the inner city blacks!

Wouldn't want them to get any ideas that close to the Capitol buildings, heh heh.


Wal-Mart critics plot to stop 4-store 'invasion' in D.C. - Washington Times

The local news website DCist.com also reported this week that Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest gun retailer, has promised not to sell guns and firearms at its D.C. sites.

To Wal-Mart critics, none of that matters. They use sharp words — “war,” “invasion” and “destruction of this city” — to describe the magnitude of the threat they say the company poses.

The critics are especially vocal in Ward 4, where Wal-Mart wants to replace a long-vacant car dealership site with a store at Georgia and Missouri avenues Northwest, a major crossroad surrounded by single-family homes and brimming with mom-and-pop retailers.

While some D.C. lawmakers who live in Ward 4 appear willing to work with Wal-Mart, some longtime residents and community organizers are dead-set against the retailer’s stores anywhere inside city limits. One effort is called “Wal-Mart Free DC”; another bills itself as “Ward Four Thrives.” Both groups count local businesses, residents and union members among their ranks.

Another day in Paradise.......

12" of snow. Next week it will be in the 40's and muddy. But 2 more years and I plan on retiring and head south. Arizona, California and Florida for winters.

Maybe even Alaska, though with my luck i would get stuck up there and have to listen to Patti bich about for the rest of my life. LOL

Didn't I tell you corporations own the government?....

The government can order vaccines for you or your children in school whether they work or not and the big pharma's are invulnerable to lawsuit. Even if they know they're going to do damage you can't get justice in the court rooms.

And kids have to have shots in order to get in government schools!

But what happens when we have to have shots to use public transportation because of terrorist threats or some other excuse?  Don't you think it's only a matter of time?

After all, if you spend millions to get someone elected then the least they can do is pay you back, right?


Supreme Court says vaccine makers shielded from suits - Washington Times

Vaccine manufacturers won a monumental victory Tuesday with the Supreme Court ruling that federal law shields them from lawsuits, an especially pertinent decision because of the thousands of claims, so far unproven scientifically, linking vaccines to autism.

In a 6-2 ruling, the high court said the manufacturers are protected by a 1986 federal law that says they can’t be sued “if the injury or death resulted from side effects that were unavoidable, even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was accompanied by proper directions and warnings.”

As was the case during oral arguments in October, much of the ruling hinged on the term “unavoidable” in the context of the law.

Should really get interesting now......

Oba mama's out of his league now. Don't be surprised if Israel is a mess again. I expect a few well placed assassinations in the area. And I expect the president to make a fool out of himself in the next few months bitching about Repubs trying to cut nickels and dimes from the budget and being mean to his unions.

However, let's not forget that war's good for the economy.  After all wait until we pay $10 for a bowl of cereal your going to need another job just to get the gas money to work. So there had better be some jobs out there.

Does anyone  really believe we can borrow 2 or 3 trillion dollars  and print even more for the international banks and not fuck up the economy?  

And as far as elections go Oba mama's going to need all the help he can get because it's really getting interesting now.

Good thing he'll be running against a Republican  or he wouldn't stand a chance.


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February 21, 2011
U.S. Intervention in Mideast?
Posted by Michael S. Rozeff on February 21, 2011 11:42 AM

Lew, yes, the U.S. will intervene, and it is likely that Great Britain, France, and, with lower likelihood, NATO will intervene. Their goal will be to install new governments that do not threaten their perceived interests, as they are attempting in Iraq and Afghanistan. From their perspective, this is mainly about control of oil and oil revenues and about preventing Iran from gaining regional hegemony and oil control. Somewhere along the way, I expect American naval and other forces to put in an appearance, and the story will be that they are there to ensure stability, protect interests, and ensure oil supplies.

The risk of war with Iran is rising, although presently not visible. Bahrain is shaping up something like Serbia before WWI. Iran has claimed Bahrain for a very long time. Most of its population is poorer and Shiite, and ruled by wealthier Sunnis. Iran’s sending of ships through Suez is a bid to get the new Egyptian regime, temporary or not, to make a concession to Iran. Britain’s Prime Minister Cameron already has visited Egypt, a form of intervention, and didn’t talk or acknowledge the Muslim Brotherhood. For now, the intervention will be carrots, aid, food aid, loans, and the leverage of recognition and support. It will be all about getting pro-western governments installed and getting business back to usual, with a couple of bones thrown to the protesting masses. Israel is a wild card and can upset the applecart unless handled very firmly. The uprisings are so pervasive and so spirited and so strong and have already succeeded so far that they can be expected to continue eliminating the old governments and opening up new political situations in many lands. This all becomes an enormously complicated challenge for Obama and the U.S. government to manage and handle, much like the Hungarian uprising was for the Soviets.

it was the "proud progressive" bullshit that got them into this mess.....

Vote! Of course, it's a waste of time. But you have to in order to keep up appearances. Wouldn't want the working stiffs to get any ideas.


Tea Party governor betrays Wisconsin values | Washington Times Communities

However, the governor said it was his way or the highway. In doing so, Governor Walker betrayed Wisconsin’s proud progressive values.

Soon the streets were filled with teachers, bus drivers, toll collectors, janitors, cafeteria workers, fire fighters and police, all public employees, marching in solidarity. They knew what kind of stinky cheese Governor Walker was peddling: union busting.

Claiming Wisconsin is in dire straits, the likes never seen before, Governor Chicken Little was manufacturing a crisis to end collective bargaining. Actually the sky was not falling.

This past January the State’s own non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimated that Wisconsin will end the 2009-2011 budget biennium with a budget surplus of $121.4 million.

There would have been more in the state coffers if earlier this year, the Governor and the Republican Legislature hadn’t seen fit to give tax breaks to businesses and the wealthy to the tune of $117.2 million.

Store still cutting hours....

No end in sight for now. Definitely needs some more stimulus money. Not that we'll get it until the Repubs get out of power again. But who knows. Once the shit hits the fan they'll probably be begging for spending to save their owners.

P.s. did you notice none of their constituencies are being cut.  Told you so. Not a nickels worth of difference between the parties. None!


The Archdruid Report: The Onset of Catabolic Collapse

This is all the more challenging because the foreshortening of history cuts both ways; it makes small but sudden events look more important than they are, and it also helps hide slow but massive shifts that will play a much greater role in shaping the future. Recent increases in the price of oil, for example, kicked off a flurry of predictions suggesting that hyperinflation and the sudden collapse of industrial society are right around the corner; identical predictions were made the last time oil prices spiked, the time before that, and the time before that, too, so the traditional grain of salt may be worth adding to them this time around. (We’ll most likely get hyperinflation in the US, granted, but my guess is that that will come further down the road.) Look at all these price spikes and notice that the peaks and troughs have both tended gradually upwards, on the other hand, and you may just catch sight of the signal hidden in all that noise – the fact that providing industrial civilization with its most important fuel is loading a greater burden on the world’s economies with every year that passes.

I was right, of course......

The Repubs plan on cutting the budget from 1600 billion to 1500 billion. No wait! I mean the budget DEFICIT from 1600 billion a year to 1500 billion a year.

Oba mama and his socialist sycophants are sure that the Repubs are mean. Expect nothing to change and you wont be disappointed.

Because when all is said and done, nothing will change!
 

EDITORIAL: Obama’s budget blarney - Washington Times

When the biggest spender in America’s history says it’s time for government to live within its means, it is reasonable to ask: Who does President Obama think he’s kidding? Mr. Obama‘s new budget is the latest installment in a series of proposals featuring flawed estimates based on unrealistic economic assumptions. It should be considered dead on arrival.

Mr. Obama’s latest public-relations ploy tries to portray him as some kind of deficit hawk. The reality is the savings of $1 trillion over 10 years he’s touting wouldn’t be necessary had he not treated the federal budget like a teenager who swiped his parents’ credit card. To put his alleged savings in perspective, $1 trillion is a little more saving over a decade than the government blew on a stimulus program that produced no measurable results. From another angle, with $100 billion of deficit reduction per year, Mr. Obama could pay down the current fiscal year’s deficit in 16-20 years, assuming he balanced all future budgets, starting with next year’s. Good luck.

Make you wonder......

Even after 10 years, no conclusions or arrests on the anthrax attack. Of course, it came from a government lab but under who's direction or orders? Was it a rogue element or was somebody under top level command?

And why?


Review panel faults FBI on anthrax probe - Washington Times

A National Research Council committee on Tuesday questioned the scientific approaches and conclusions in the FBI‘s investigation of the 2001 anthrax mailings, saying that while the bureau’s scientific data provided leads to the deadly chemical’s origin, it could not rule out other possible sources.

The committee‘s lengthy report said it was “not possible to reach a definitive conclusion about the origins of the anthrax in letters mailed to New York City and Washington, D.C.,” which the FBI said led directly to Bruce Ivins. The 52-year-old federal researcher committed suicide in 2008 when the bureau began to focus on him as the suspect in the attacks, which left five people dead.

The FBI had identified Ivins, a vaccine researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Frederick, Md., as the killer, based on a match investigators made of the spores in his lab to ones discovered in the envelopes.

anthrax

Another great thinker who understands the solution.....

Cut us a big check and we'll pay off our debts to the banks and then buy new shit. No really! This solves most of the immediate problem of broke dicks struggling to get back on their feet and spending the economy back to boom.

Every time you give banks around the world a bailout they pay it to their owners and the politicians to cover their losses and there is little to make new loans which prolongs the start of a new boom.

Remember, a fiat system goes from boom to bust and back again. You would have to go back to a gold standard to stop it. And as long as the elites are in charge that aint going to happen. And until they have this power taken away we ain't going to recover.

The next bust will be in your backyard and taking no prisoners when 100 million or so retirees in America start demanding their checks!

And we will get them!

The U.S.A can print all the money they need but it wont buy shit because of the ensuing inflation used to pay off 65 trillion or so in old debts. It remains to be seen if a new political paradigm will show up and make a difference in the way the Empire operates.

I'm betting it will come over the elites dead bodies. Don't scoff as we see most of the Empire is falling apart as an over  whelming debt load makes the system unsustainable.


oftwominds: You Want Inflation? Here's How To Get It

You want to create organic inflation, driven by consumers with plenty of cash chasing goods and services? Here's how:


1. Reinstate the policy of paying 5.25% on all savings, effectively transferring wealth back from banks to citizens. If the banks can't manage to do so and remain solvent, then close them down and liquidiate their assets and liabilities. Others will rise to take their places.


2. Print $5 trillion in cash, not credit, and liquidate all consumer debt and a couple trillion in mortgage debt for those who are not hopelessly underwater.


3. Aggressively cram down underwater mortgages onto the banks, forcing them to liquidate all their bad debt. Yes, this will reveal them as insolvent, but the goal here is not to save the financial Elites' impaired assets, it's to reset the housing market by clearing off all the impaired debt in the system.


By resetting the consumer balance sheet and paying interest, then you would be putting cash into households which could be spent in the real economy.


Is this a wise or prudent policy? I don't know. The goal here was not to assess that question, it was simply to follow up on the goal of creating inflation. If you want organic inflation, you have to divert the national income from the banks to the citizenry, and you have to reset the housing market.


The Fed's policies cannot create organic inflation, because all the Fed is doing is transferring wealth to the nation's Elites. Their spending on luxuries and fine dining are not broadbased enough to generate organic inflation in the entire economy.


Borrowing money does not drive organic inflation: higher incomes and free cash drive organic inflation. If you want inflation, then you have to increase the incomes and assets of 60% of the households, not just the top sliver who own most of the financial assets.

More on Maybury.....

We concur that the elites are "birds of feather" and pretty much are on the same wavelength. Normally, they disagree only on implementation of policy when it comes to ruling the world.

Unfortunately, the Empire's enemies will have to kill you and I to get to them and it's probably safe to say it's only a matter of time. 


Richard Maybury on the Collapse of the Anglo-American Empire and What It Means for You

Richard Maybury: Yes but I might not agree as strongly as others. The way I see it is birds of a feather flock together and rich people are always going to hang around with rich people and they are going to do deals with each other. They are going to try to manipulate events to their own advantage. As far as I know, it's always been so. To what extent are they successful at manipulating events to their advantage? I think in some cases very successful and other cases they fall flat on their faces. The way I see these groups operating is that there's not any central conspiracy, but there are task forces. Rich and powerful people will get together and form a task force to get something done. Maybe it will work and maybe it won't. After that enterprise is over with, it breaks up. Members go their separate ways and then down the road more of these people form another task force and they find some other scheme.

As long as we have large powerful governments this is a wonderful convenience for these people because all they have to do is get control of a large powerful government and they use this as a tool to get what they want. The solution to the whole thing is to eliminate as much political power as you can so they aren't presented with these tools to use on us. I do not regard the groups of the elite as the problem; I regard the political power as the problem. If you eliminate most of the power then you are de-fanging these groups and they are left to flounder and probably can't do anywhere near as much damage to us as they can with all this power available to them.

Daily Bell: We think the Internet has compromised this elite's secrecy. Agree?

Richard Maybury: Everybody's secrecy has been compromised by the Internet! (Laughing). The age of privacy is over with and that's privacy for the elites, government and everyone else. That's the significance of Wikilieaks. In fact, in my February issue of Early Warning Report there's an article about that. I think Wikileaks is the beginning of what will turn out to be the biggest political development in a thousand years. Or say for the next thousand years. Pretty soon it will be impossible for governments to operate in secrecy and once everybody knows what every government is doing it's going to be a different world.

Daily Bell: We think the Internet has turned into a real force for freedom and political fragmentation – which we consider good. Comments?

Richard Maybury: I absolutely agree. Anything that puts light on what the political elite is doing is a good thing. That's why the American founders were so much in favor of a free press and why America is famous for having the most free press in the whole world The founders understood that government can't really hurt us too badly if we know what they are doing. There is no tool more important to a power junkie than secrecy. So yes, absolutely, the Internet is one of the greatest things ever to come along for that reason.

This guy and I are pretty much on the same page.....

Changes are a coming. Remains to be seen if the world can continue on the track of the last 50 years. History shows us economic collapse of an  Empire brings great upheaval as the powers that be lose control. Just look at the mess the fall of the Soviet Empire left in central Asia and Eastern Europe. Eventually, people figure out how to survive and a new way of life emerges.

Expect a lot of dead bodies to pile up, though, before that happens!


Richard Maybury on the Collapse of the Anglo-American Empire and What It Means for You

Richard Maybury: I think the dollar, as we know it is dead or pretty close to it. Obviously it's not dead yet but it's another great big version of Tulipmania. This demand for not only the dollar but for all paper currency, fiat currency, it's just Tulipmania. It's been going on since 1971 when all currencies were converted to fiat currencies. So now we are seeing the process of the world bringing this calamity to an end. So the dollar and all other fiat currencies will no longer be fiat. They will be tied to something real, perhaps gold, perhaps a basket of commodities that includes gold, I don't know, but the whole world is clearly a lot more interested now in holding real assets than fiat currencies. I think we are in the beginning of a great revolution of currencies where we are going to go back to the type of money that can't be created without limits out of thin air.

Daily Bell: Will the EU be able to salvage the PIGS?

Richard Maybury: I would politely disagree with the phrasing of the question. It should be, Will Germany be able to salvage the PIGS? The answer is probably not in the long run because you can bleed the Germans for a while, but they will probably end up going broke if they try to keep bailing out the PIGS. And there are going to be more PIGS. There are many countries out there operating as welfare states and they are inherently unsound. So if the question were, will the German's bail them out, I would say for a while, but then the Germans will be dragged down too.

Daily Bell: Let's continue with some geopolitical questions. Is the euro going under?

Richard Maybury: Yes, I think the euro is going under but I don't know when. It's a fiat currency like the rest of them. It's going to be wiped out too, or replaced by some form currency that cannot be created in unlimited quantities.

Daily Bell: Ireland just started printing its own euro notes. Is this a significant crack in the dike?

Richard Maybury: Yes, sure. Any time you give any human being the privilege of counterfeiting money, he's probably going to do it, and do a lot. The Irish are just as human as the rest of us and they will succumb to the temptation to inflate the euro.

Daily Bell: Will the EU itself survive?

Richard Maybury: I hope not and I don't think so. If you look back, say, 45 years, when the various countries in Europe were much more independent and they had their own currencies tied to gold.....

And especially this part......

If the US navy stays in the Persian Gulf and continues to back the
regimes that control Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and other oil countries on
the west side of the gulf, then the price of oil can go rather high.
However, if there's a revolution and the navy leaves and these
governments are overthrown and new governments come in and just start
pumping all the oil they can, then the price falls dramatically. There
were some calculations done, that I wrote about maybe ten years ago,
that show the price of oil really ought to be somewhere around $5.00 per
barrel because there's so much of it in the Persian Gulf and that's the
only place it would be pumped from if politics didn't enter into the
situation. All these other places like the North Sea, Texas and
Indonesia have higher costs of production than the Persian Gulf does. So
if we could remove all the politics then all oil would be pumped from
the Persian Gulf at a cost of approximately $5.00 per barrel. In that
sense, if the US navy would leave the Persian Gulf, we might see $5.00 a
barrel.

Well, we can't have anyone working, can we?.......

You have to be here I guess, but they're getting nuttier and nuttier. Next thing you know they'll elect a black Muslim as president!

Oh wait. My bad!


Michelle Malkin » The Latest Excuse to Oppose Construction of a Wal-Mart

The Latest Excuse to Oppose Construction of a Wal-Mart
By Doug Powers • February 13, 2011 10:50 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

Four Wal-Mart stores are being planned in Washington, DC, and among the concerns will be the necessary store security. One Advisory Neighborhood Commission member is using that as a reason to oppose the construction of one of the stores, because… well, you’ll have to read it yourself:

Brenda Speaks, a Ward 4 ANC commissioner, actually urged blocking construction of the planned store in her ward at Georgia and Missouri avenues NW partly because of that risk. Addressing a small, anti-Wal-Mart rally at City Hall on Monday, Speaks said young people would get criminal records when they couldn’t resist the temptation to steal.

And I thought Sheila Jackson Lee had a low opinion of the people she represents.

What do we make of the turmoil in the Middle East?....

Too much t.v. and the internet. Hey this blog has readers from 9 different countries. You can't shut us up. But not to fear.....

They'll try.

Shalom. Peace, baby. Sayonara.

Now the Empire is tottering...

Oil producing nations exploding into chaos. The armies of these countries will eventually crack down, like in Egypt, and it will be awhile before the oil supply becomes stable. Nothing fucks up the status quo like economic busts and the ensuing scramble for  printing press money.

And as we've seen in the good old U.S.A it's tough on politician's careers.

So they  believe they better steal more of our hard earned money and fuck us out of some of our hand outs that way straightening out  their budgets. Not that they dare take the goodies away from their owners. This will probably, as happened to the clowns in 2010, mean they get massacred at the poles.

Ain't life a bitch?

Check in with Aljazeera as tell me what you think.

Aljazeera

No real change in Egypt expected......

According to Aljazeera  the military has taken over in Egypt. Since we support them with money and training no real change as far as that goes. Of course, no real danger to the Suez Canal is expected. Oil and gold prices should go down a bit until the oil producing country , maybe Saudi Arabia, erupts.

Other than that, prices for everything will go up as all that quantitative easing easy hits the world markets. Somebody has to pay off those derivatives floating out there destroying the world economies.

Look in the mirror  somebody, taxpayer and consumer your it.

Mubarak leaves.....so what?....

Oba mama doesn't seem to give a shit right? Probably because we own the Egyptian military. Without our money and training they fall apart. Ever wonder why Oba mama didn't do anything to help the Iranians in their protest? We don't control the Mullahs so why bother. The only difference is the oil must flow. The Suez canal was never in any danger but you can't trust the crazy fuckers in Iran to shut down the oil fields if we piss them off enough.

You want to see a complete collapse of society? Quit the delivery of oil for a couple of weeks. I still remember Carter whining in the White House about it in "79 just before he got his ass kicked by Ronnie Reagan who scared the shit out of the Iranian nut jobs in charge over there.

Think any of these guys are scared shitless of  Oba mama.

Mubarak, Carter, Reagan, Suez, Oba mama

We are awash in oil.....

Forget the propaganda and scaremongering. More and more is being discovered and will continue to be discovered as the price is right. And there is no sign that prices will go down much if any for the foreseeable future. The ChiComs will spend billions to explore their coasts just to get their own supply leading to more stocks. And if we hit 5 dollar a gallon or so the environmentalist blocking U.S exploration will be pushed aside slicker than Charlie Shumer  sliding in front of a camera.

Remember one thing. We've been "running out of oil" every since the 1800's. It's all politics and price manipulation. It would take a nuke or two in Saudia Arabia to make a difference.

Or in Washington D.C.


No More 40-Cent Gasoline | 5 Min. Forecast

An Iranian news agency also reports that the country has stopped importing gasoline from Venezuela, resolving a decades old conundrum of the oil-rich state.

If Iran has the second largest pool of known oil reserves in the world, why have they been importing 840,000 gallons of gasoline a day from Venezuela? The answer in part is sanctions. The other part: The refineries are a mess thanks to decades of subsidies.

Iranians who drive cars have been able to fill their tanks for less than 40 cents a gallon since the government tried to appease citizens during the Iran-Iraq War back in the 1980s.

By 2007, gas subsidies made up 38% of all government spending. And the refineries were in such bad shape the government started rationing. By September 2009, the Iranians began importing massive quantities of gas from their friends in South America.

In mid-December last year, the government apparently read the writing on the wall and began to phase the subsidies out. This morning, gas in Iran is $1.60 a gallon for the first 15 gallons every month. After that, your average mullah is paying $2.80 a gallon.

Oba mama's voters....

Click on the link and check the classy leftists. Now you know why no one admits being a Liberal anymore. However, they would be harmless if they didn't have money to give the nut job politicians in charge of the government.

But not to fear. The right has their fair share but no one takes them seriously!


Code Pink Dupes Saved from Cairo Chaos by Evil Oil Company

Two women who traveled from Portland, Oregon to Cairo last week to participate in Code Pink’s latest Hamas-aid trip to Gaza ended up getting rescued by a big oil company–the kind Code Pink usually protests as killing the planet, when the leftist group isn’t hobnobbing with terrorists and undermining U.S. allies like Egypt.

Unidentified woman protests BP.

The Oregonian reported Monday night about the travels of Donna Boyd, a 55 year-old nurse, and a female friend who arrived in Cairo on Friday for the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Day of Rage” protest against the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak.

Tighe Barry, left, and Medea Benjamin, right, protest Big Oil. The duo are in Egypt this week working to bring down the Mubarak government.

Boyd describes the chaos of trying and failing to get to her hotel at Tahrir Square, the center of the protests.

We collapse because it's our time....

Collectively we decide to rob our future and spend it now. Therefore our empire like all empires disappears.  This means we spend more time, energy, manpower etc. to maintain the status quo. Eventually, their isn't enough of these  to save us and we collapse inward until we reach stasis or equilibrium. Until a crisis further damages or threatens the elite and they pool more of the diminishing assets to protect themselves.

Leaving more and more destitute or independent members to start the next country as the elites are murdered and lose everything because fewer of us will defend them with our kids as their soldiers or policemen.

But what do we say about an empire that doesn't make anything but takes it. Trading paper for real goods and sending their best and bravest to kill others to protect and  enrich themselves?

Think they're going to be around for ever? Do we really want them to?


Peak Civilization | FINANCIAL SENSE

The industrial capital stock grows to a level that requires an enormous input of resources. In the very process of that growth it depletes a large fraction of the resources available. As resource prices rise and mines are depleted, more and more capital must be used for obtaining resources, leaving less to be invested for future growth. Finally investment cannot keep up with depreciation, and the industrial base collapses, taking with it the service and agricultural systems, which have become dependent on industrial inputs.

Considering just two elements, instead of five, is not in contradiction with the more complex model. It makes sense especially when you are not considering a whole empire but something more limited, for instance the oil industry. Here are the results of this approach, this time with the equations written in clear.

peak civilization

Just what the Repubs need....

A whore master like Clinton! Yes, people that would work.  Oba mama is a shoo in!


Pajamas Media » Obama vs. Gingrich — Winning the Future

As I look over the twelve-pack of undeclared presidential hopefuls, there is one candidate who may “win the future” by being the GOP’s best “hope” for “change” in 2012.

His name is Newt Gingrich, and here are five reasons why he could win the nomination.

Gingrich would be acceptable to both wings of the Republican Party.

In order to win the 2012 nomination, the victorious candidate must unite an increasingly divided party. Newt has the potential to emerge as this candidate. He then could help avert an intra-party “uncivil” war that could erupt if a candidate perceived as too “moderate” were to win the nomination. Knowing this, Newt may actively position himself as the uniter candidate.

Gingrich can raise the millions needed to win the nomination.

Newt’s think tank, American Solutions, raised $24 million for the midterm elections, “to mobilize supporters around issues such as repealing health care reform and job creation.”

It has been reported that Gingrich was able to raise $21.5 million for Republicans, with much of that going to candidates and organizations in New Hampshire and Iowa.

Newt’s successful 2010 fundraising is proof that he has an extensive national network of supporters from which to draw when he announces his presidential intentions this spring.

Gingrich is an inspiring leader who knows the issues and offers solutions.

Former speaker of the House, commanding general of the Reagan Revolution, and credited with ending 40 years of Democratic Party rule in the House, Newt Gingrich is a man who knows how to build consensus and lead.

When I asked James Farwell, a longtime Gingrich friend and advisor, to comment about Gingrich’s leadership, he said, “Newt has the rare ability to build coalitions. It’s a talent that has gone largely unsung, but it was on full display when he was speaker, and is vitally important for any president. If he runs, he would dominate the agenda of debate. That is a powerful advantage and provides him with a decisive edge. He has a kinetic quality to connect with crowds, rooted in his ability to present tightly reasoned arguments with good humor and huge intellect. That is a gift and Newt’s got it.”

As a Walmart associate I have only one thing to say....

Eat shit and die leftist scum!!!


It’s Wal-Mart’s ‘Fault’ « LewRockwell.com Blog

A new report from socialist City University of New York’s Hunter College Center for Community Planning states:

“Wal-Mart, the biggest U.S. private employer, kills jobs [1] rather than creates them, drives down wages [2] and is a tax burden because it does not give health and other benefits to many part-time employees [3], leaving a burden on Medicaid and other public program [4].”

1) Manufacturing equipment kills jobs. I guess we should all go back to manufacturing goods by hand, then we will always have 100% employment. (And just think how much “cheaper” all of those hand-made automobiles, dishwashers, computers, etc. will be when they are each individually made by hand instead of the job-killing/mass producing manufacturing equipment.) By the way, how does “the biggest U.S. private employer” kill jobs? Sounds to me like they must have created a lot of jobs since more people in the U.S. have found work at Wal-Mart than at any other company in the country.

2) How else could Wal-Mart offer lower prices than their competitors if they are paying their employees more than the revenue from their lower prices is bringing in? What does the Center think the hourly wage should be for a discount retailer employee? $20 an hour? $40 an hour? $100 an hour?

3) No company “gives” benefits to its employees. They are paid for out of company revenue. Unlike the Federal government, which can create more money out of thin air to lavish its employees with luxurious benefits, a company has to determine what it can afford to pay out of its limited operating expenses each different category of its employees in terms of wages and benefits.

4) What about the corporate taxes that Wal-Mart itself pays to the Federal government? Anyway, it’s not Wal-Mart’s fault that the sheeple have bought into the lie that government should provide health insurance, welfare programs, or—as far as a voluntaryist like myself is concerned—anything.

[Thanks to Teri Barbara]

I'd rather be fishing.....

6 or 7 more weeks. Jesus!

I guess this sissy is the best the Repubs can do......

Aren't you glad this is the best they got. 

Pathetic!


Campaign For Liberty — Is John Boehner a Role Model for Republicans?    by Laurence M. Vance

Although I have nothing but contempt for outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, I just can't seem to get excited about House Republican John Boehner being the next Speaker of the House.

Boehner has represented Ohio's eighth congressional district since 1991. After serving as House Republican Conference Chairman, House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman, and House Majority Leader, he was chosen to be House Minority Leader in 2007.

Although he claims he never took an earmark, Boehner is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the Republican Party. He talks a good talk when the Democrats are in control or it is time for an election.

Here are Boehner's words when he called into the Sean Hannity Radio Show during its third hour on October 27th: "And if in fact we're elected to the majority you're going to see us cut spending. You're going to see us revive the economy and reform the way Congress does it job."

On Hannity's October 4th television show, Boehner promised that if the Republicans took over the House in the midterm election they would "cut spending" and "repeal health care." He said that Republicans have learned their lesson and if put back in charge they are "going to fight for a smaller, less costly and more accountable government." Boehner further insisted that there would be no tax increases, no cap and trade, and no increases in spending. He also promised that the Republicans would do everything they could to "stop the health care bill."

In the weekly Republican address given by Boehner on October 30th, he reiterated: "Together, we can do these things. And in doing so, we can begin the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government that honors our Constitution and respects the will of the people."

It is indeed strange to hear this libertarian rhetoric come out of the mouth of Mr. Boehner.

Hope you bought food....

I've been posting about high food prices coming now for 2 years or so as I work in a Walmart super center and see the price increases first hand. Don't forget that many products are in smaller size containers and remain at or are a few cents lower than their price from a year ago. Just check your price per ounce and you'll see.

Diesel and gas will be up big time over the next few months and the Middle East continues to riot. Everything you eat is connected from a long thin line of trucks crisscrossing the country. I know because I drove vegetables from L.A. to Boston when I was a truck driver.  And since no one works for free higher fuel costs are passed on to you.

You've been warned!

Do you think prices are down for commodities since I started warning to buy food? The farther we get from our food the more vulnerable we become. Check your cupboards. Imagine if every one ran down to the store and bought everything on the shelves over the next couple of hours.

Could you eat for a week? Remember one thing. Your grocery shelves hold one day or so of consumables....bread, milk, meat, cheese, etc. under a  "normal" shopping day. Staples...canned vegetables, cereal, flour, sugar,etc. will last about 3 or 4 days.

Now, how's that cupboard look. Once price rocket up see any thing you might need? You and 20 thousand or so neighbors see?

Watch out for flying elbows. People have been stomped to death at Walmart during Black Friday stampedes, for Christ's sake, let alone when their bellies are empty. You think your little piece of big city heaven will be immune? Or Oba mama will send in the National Guard to save your Twinkies from the hordes of desperate food stamp recipients?

Can't happen here? Fuck but you are stupid!!!

If we look back at the fall of empires, usually a slow, slow process, they lose their means to feed themselves. leading to riot and insecurity. No one trust the government which becomes tools of the wealthy to protect the national wealth. Food supplies and money fall into the hands of a few corporate interest and they call the tune.

Never fails as history repeatedly point out.. But that doesn't mean the good old USA is going to leave the scene for many years as the world's most successful empire. It's just that we'll need permission to fart from the gangs in charge.

Think flying is a pain now? Wait until fuel rationing.

P. S buy oil stocks!