My garden in the Idaho Paradise is officially started...

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The Circus' continue....

Oba mama is in campaign mode. Thank God he can kick off his re-election bid with Ben Ladin's assassination. We needed this sissy to kill something besides helpless brown women and children in foreign countries the average public school educated citizen in this country couldn't find on a map.

Yes, it's time to re-anoint His Highness because he changed everything the evil Bush did! er..OOPS.

Well he said he would and that's all that counts and after all he murdered Osama, didn't he? After all we all seen the body to prove it, didn't we? ah...OOPS.

Well the economy is going great guns under his watch and food and gas is cheaper with him in there, right? OOPS.

Well didn't we pull out of all those nasty countries whose citizens want us dead for invading their hovels and butt fucking their camels? Yea, OOPS.

Well didn't  he save Social Security and Veteran Benefits so the poor bastards without a nickel to their names can stay off the streets. More OOPS.

Well he did cure homelessness, blindness, hunger, global warming, bad Mexican food, saved the Titanic, stopped the grey alien invasion, told the Pope to mind his own business,  and even got Donald Trump to get a buzz cut to save us from staring at his comb back. OOPS.

Wait until you see His Highness in his next term!

Democrats and Republicans: They Just Take Turns Ripping Us Off | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog

In my worst nightmares, when the lights are swallowed by the smog of some nefarious gloom and the air itself becomes a stale sarcophagus into which I am entombed, and the grim hands of putrefied fate sink their wretched grip into the thick of my neck and all seems irrevocably lost, I merely recall that soon I will awaken to the horror of a terminal America infested by career criminals and certifiable morons, and suddenly, my off color dreams don’t seem so bad. Ultimately, there is nothing worse to me than a public majority that takes everything they hear from the mouths of political warlocks at face value. Even the fear of death is truly a pittance compared to the threat of being enveloped by a stampeding herd of frightened, stupid, human cattle.

Is this melodramatic? Not at all. When a man is aware, and by aware I mean honest with himself, he inevitably suffers the pain of being certain while the rest of the world enjoys the bliss of false assumptions. We live in a culture that inflicts great punishment on those who know, and lavishes enticing but short lived rewards on those who ignore. In such a place as this, meaning disappears, and countries die.

Better 60 than dead!.......

Speaks for itself, doesn't it?....

America: The Age of Stupid

Well I'm convinced....

If our dear leader said it happened this way (or maybe this way over here, no wait this is how it happened... No it really happened this way.. no wait!...) by God then it must be true because everybody knows our presidents never lie to us! That goat fucker is dead and that's all there is to it.

Of course, we've been told that every year or so for the last7 or 8 years but you know how Bush was always lying, right, and Democrat presidents never lie (except to get elected and stay in office!)

Then again, Oba mama's left wing nuts are calling him a liar, but who's going to listen to them. They voted for him and will do so again because nobody in the right mind would vote for a lying Republican president who would keep us in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gitmo, Libya, military tribunals, triple the budget deficit, controlling the borders with Mexico and give the gangsters druggies guns, not punish banksters, take over GM, universal health care for all, supposedly lying about killing Osama but refusing to release pictures and conveniently throwing him into the ocean.... need more?

P.s no one ever said these voters  aren't brain dead, did they?

If I agree to raise taxes on the rich...

What's in it for me? The left has to convince everybody that they will be able to pay us off to cut military spending and rob the rich. Hey what's interesting is that most rich people are Democrat voters and only agree on raising taxes because they know that they wont pay for them.

You will!

Rich people who who have "taxable income" collect these taxes from their employees and customers and send them to the government. Only individuals like you and I pay taxes from wages.

Poor people only pay taxes from their purchases of goods and services and get money from the government in so called earned income tax credits and various welfare handouts so they don't murder the rich. (By the way, the rich own the government! You think they give campaign contributions out of patriotism? )

All so called income taxes come from the sale of goods and services.

In effect these so called income taxes are sales taxes. 

Though politically impossible because it would destroy the a large part of the middle class consisting of government workers who push paper around and invent fuck head rules that accomplish nothing worthwhile, instituting a "National Sales Tax" would insure a huge wave of cash into the National Treasury.

You would still have income taxes because we can't have those greedy rich fuckers keeping all that money they made in legal and necessary fair transactions and not fork it over to politicians to save them from us.

The net effect is  of course, we could finish conquering the world and put "American Idol" on every ones lips through out the world. We could also give everyone on the planet U.S citizenship.

Even President Obama!!!

In the meantime, it's politics as usual as the left keeps propping up the old "let's soak the rich so we can give everybody Heaven on Earth if only you would vote our way!" and the right defending the rich because it's their money and we need to keep scaring the fuck out of them to keep this great gig of politics as usual going!

Oh yea, didn't  I tell you voting is a waste of time!!!

Guernica / Robert Reich: Beware the “Middle Ground” of the Great Budget Debate

If the super rich paid taxes at the same rates they did three decades ago, they’d contribute $350 billion more per year than they are now—amounting to trillions more over the next decade. That’s enough to ensure every young American is healthy and well-educated and that the nation’s infrastructure is up to world-class standards.

Nor does the President’s proposal go nearly far enough in cutting military spending, which is not only out of control but completely unrelated to our nation’s defense needs—fancy weapons systems designed for an age of conventional warfare; hundreds of billions of dollars for the Navy and Air Force, when most of the action is with the Army, Marines, and Special Forces; and billions more for programs no one can justify and few can understand.

If Americans understood how much they’re paying for defense and how little they’re getting, they’d demand a defense budget at least 25 percent smaller than it is today.

Finally, the President’s proposed budget doesn’t deal with the scandal of the nation’s schools in poor and middle-class communities—schools whose teachers are paid under $50,000 a year, whose classrooms are crammed, that can’t afford textbooks or science labs, that have abandoned after-school programs and courses like history and art. Most school budgets depend mainly on local property taxes that continue to drop in lower-income communities. The federal government should come to their rescue.

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Another payday for the gang in Washington...

Kind of neat how this works, aint it?

Pakistan's Lobbyists, Dennis Kucinich's Small-Donor Money Machine and More in Capital Eye Opener: May 4 - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets

LOBBYISTS FOR PAKISTAN: What do you do when you're a foreign government facing heat from U.S. lawmakers about whether you were officially hiding, aiding or abetting Osama bin Laden? Turn to federal lobbyists for assistance, of course. "Pakistan will likely call upon Washington lobbyists to help repair its fraught U.S. relations after Osama bin Laden was found and killed in the country Sunday," The Hill reported Tuesday. The newspaper goes on to note that "Locke Lord Strategies has been lobbying for the Pakistani embassy since May 2008, earning more than $1.9 million in fees, according to Justice Department records."

Locke Lord Strategies' lobbying team is headed by Mark Siegel, a long-time Democratic operative who previously worked in the White House during Democrat Jimmy Carter's presidency. According to research by the Center for Responsive Politics, Siegel donated $1,000 to both Hillary Clinton, now the U.S. Secretary of State, during her failed 2008 presidential bid. During the 2008 election cycle, his wife, Judith Siegel, who is a consultant to the State Department and an adjunct faculty member at New York University, meanwhile, donated $3,550 to Barack Obama.

Seig Heil, baby....

This is the bullshit that crashed our banks. Extortion is a crime if you do it but the Fed's are immune. It's not profitable to make these ghetto residents loans. Nobody gives a shit if they're black, white or pink! Now the banks will have to make loans to these Oba mama supporters no matter what!

P.s you will pay for these worthless loans!
 
Citizens Republic Settles Detroit-Bias Claims - WSJ.com

DETROIT—Federal law-enforcement officials reached a $3.6 million settlement with Citizens Republic Bancorp over allegations that branches of its banks discriminated against Detroit's black residents by improperly favoring white residents in southeastern Michigan.

The Justice Department alleged in court papers that branches of Republic Bank and Citizens Bank, which are now owned by Citizens Republic Bancorp, "essentially provided its services in a horseshoe" around Detroit, engaging in redlining "intended to deny and discourage, or have the effect of denying or discouraging, an equal opportunity to the residents of the majority-black neighborhoods" in Detroit.

In 2007, Citizens Banking Corp. acquired Republic Bank and became Citizens Republic Bancorp. A bank company spokesman didn't immediately return a call for comment.

Citizens Republic Bancorp had total assets of $10.6 billion, with $8.1 billion in deposits, as of October of last year, according to court papers. Its largest operation is in Michigan through its Citizens Bank subsidiary, which has more than 150 branches.

Citizens Republic Bancorp currently operates nine branches within twenty miles of Detroit, but all of branches save one are located in majority-white census tracts. None are in the city limits of Detroit.

As part of a proposed settlement that still needs court approval, Citizens will invest $1.625 million in a partnership with the city of Detroit by providing existing homeowners with matching grants of up to $5,000 to fund exterior improvements. The bank also pledged to spend $1.5 million in a financing program to increase credit to majority African-American areas in Wayne County which surrounds Detroit, and to spend $500,000 for outreach to alert potential customers.

Citizens Bank will also open a loan office in a majority African-American area in Detroit and conduct fair-lending training for its employees, according to federal officials.

All Bush's fault.....

LOL.

 Except every Bush policy is being perpetuated by this so called lefty

Obama: bin Laden raid evidence Afghan strategy is working - Washington Times

President Obama capped off a week that began with him announcing the death of Osama bin Laden with a trip Friday to Fort Campbell in Kentucky to thank the Navy SEALs whose daring nighttime raid on a compound in Pakistan Sunday ended the decade-long hunt for the world’s top terrorist.

After meeting privately with the special forces’ raiding party, Mr. Obama told a broader groups of troops at the fort that the operation will go down as “one of the greatest” in American history.

“This has been a historic week in the life of our nation,” Mr. Obama said. “Thanks to the incredible skill and courage of countless individuals — intelligence, military — over many years, the terrorist leader who struck out nation on 9/11 will never threaten America again.”

Fort Campbell is home to the 101st Airborne Division, and many of its troops have recently returned from Afghanistan — a conflict Mr. Obama has invested heavily in by adding tens of thousands of troops.

Just another look at the racket....

Prices don't rise by magic or because a handful of goat herders have taken over the oil fields or when rice jockeys buy up everything with all that American money. But it does take a lot of money to influence it and when you have a global market as we do nowyou have to have the money to move materials in it. This market can and is manipulated by the big buck guys and there's nothing much governments can do about it. Hence, buying and selling causing these guys chasing a profit and bidding against each other and to Hell with you and your puny pay check or voting the bastards out!

Of course, you can always, as all politicians do, call them names as Oba mama has amply demonstrated when he railed against the oil speculators. Hey, it's good for laughs and look how well it worked out for president Nixon! 

Did Goldman Sachs Help to Create the Current Food Crisis? | Oil Price.com

In a shocking report by Frederick Kaufman that has been featured on the Foreign Policy website, the role of Goldman Sachs and its Wall Street cohort in creating the food crisis has been revealed.

Frederick uncovers the 1991 scheme where Goldman bankers lead by Gary Cohn created a derivative that tracked 24 raw minerals; including coffee, cocoa, cattle, corn, hogs, soy and wheat and how that scheme was then manipulated to raise food commodity prices.

Each element was given a calculated investment value and is now known as the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI). The GSCI has been a static commodity vehicle for the past decade while bankers focused their attention on collateralized debt (hello economic crisis) until 1999 when futures markets were deregulated. That’s when bankers started taking large positions in grains.

Following the money trail Frederick reports:

Food inflation has remained steady since July 2008 when there was $318 billion in the commodity markets - up from the $55 billion speculators dumped in the first 55 days of 2008. In 2003 commodities futures markets were only worth $13 billion. "You had people who had no clue what commodities were all about suddenly buying commodities," an analyst from the United States Department of Agriculture stated.

Between 2005 to 2008 worldwide prices of food rose 80 percent, and they’ve kept on rising. Olivier De Schutter, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, concluded that in 2008 "a significant portion of the price spike was due to the emergence of a speculative bubble."

The government owns you!......

And big corporations own the politicians who run it. Harry Reid and many others took big bribes from the Casino industry in order to make  their competition illegal!

Why else would anybody give these scum bags "campaign contributions."

Leave the Gamblers Alone! - Stossel's Take Blog - FOXBusiness.com

Yesterday ESPN announced they will remove all poker-related programming and advertising (except for this year’s World Series of Poker).

Wimps. And the gambling industry is no better. Industry lobbyist, former senator Al D’Amato, claims “[poker] is a game of skill” and therefore should not be subjected to federal anti-gambling laws. “Regulate it, but don’t ban it,” he says.

Give me a break. The cowardice of business in standing up for free markets never ceases to amaze me.

What wimps! Why don’t they have the courage to say the government has NO business intervening in an activity between consenting adults? I’d hope the poker lobby and the leading sports network would defend the game and its players. Instead they push legal tricks or distance themselves from poker.

The feds accuse the companies of bank fraud and money laundering. The LA Times reports:

In 2006 Congress passed a law curtailing online gambling. Most of the leading sites found ways to work around the law…

Well, duh. That’s what happens when prohibitionist politicians create black markets. Alcohol prohibition created organized crime.

Why does the government ban online poker in the first place? Because busybodies like Senator John Kyl call it “the crack cocaine of gambling.” They point to a study that claims there are millions of American gambling addicts.

The study exaggerates the problem, but I acknowledge that some people can’t handle gambling. But those people get into trouble anyway – legal or illegal. Online poker players are consenting adults wagering their own money, causing little harm to anyone else. If we want to ban things because they might be addictive, then why not ban alcohol? Smoking? Sex? The stock market?

Government outlaws online gambling, yet it runs its own gambling operation: the state lotteries. And what a scam they are! States offer terrible odds. The indicted poker sites

Glad somebody's happy....

Ever notice that the left gets really blood thirsty? If Bush had done it we would be having impeachment hearings!

Instead, everyone's yelling "next!"

I warned everybody who would listen that our government is desperate to get the public's mind off of the depression and on to something they can control and executing mass murderers has a nice ring to it!

Now wait for the lies about cutting  the budget starting in 2016 or so after the current crop of toadies are working as lobbyist and a new Congress gets on the gravy train.

Oh, did i tell you your going to pay for it!

Former Israeli Defense Minister Lauds U.S. Assassination Policy « LewRockwell.com Blog

Obama’s assassination of bin Laden sets a law-breaking precedent. Calls to assassinate Gaddafi quickly emerged after bin Laden’s killing was made known. Now Shaul Mofaz, a former Israeli Defense Minister and current head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, says that the U.S. has adopted Israel’s already existing assassination policy.

Worse yet, he argues that Obama’s action justifies Israel’s assassinations: “Mofaz said in an interview with Israeli radio on Tuesday that Washington’s decision to kill bin Laden rather than try him in a court of law justified the former policy that Tel Aviv implemented against Palestinians that included killing Hamas and other senior Palestinian officials.” Hence, lawlessness begets specious justifications for more lawlessness. If officials of the Israeli and the U.S. governments can assassinate people, and if this is perceived or advertised as justifiable, then the officials of any nation can also instigate murders, justify them with these false rationales, and get away with murder.

One good thing about the Mofaz statement is that he sees clearly what Obama has done and says it like it is. He doesn’t sugarcoat it. It’s murder without rule of law and without trial, decided by government officials.

See what I mean....

Voting is useless!
Do I need to remind you that I don't believe a word they say? I figured they had Osama's body but they buried it at sea!

Huh!!!!

Big Companies, Special Interests Hire Private Congressional Delegations to Lobby Government - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets

When AT&T goes forth to lobby the U.S. Congress, the company brings its own congressional delegation -- six members in all.

These politicos are no longer elected officials, but close enough: Former Sens. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and John Breaux (D-La.) represent the telecom giant, as do ex-Reps. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.), Vic Fazio (D-Calif.), Jim Davis (D-Fla.) and Michael Forbes (R-N.Y.).

And AT&T is hardly alone in tasking congressional alumni to do its corporate bidding on Capitol Hill.

In all, 43 different companies, organizations and special interest groups last year employed at least three former congressmen as registered federal lobbyists, a Center for Responsive Politics analysis indicates.

Together, they spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year lobbying the federal government on a spectrum of issues, from the highest of profile -- health care reform, financial regulatory reform -- to the comparatively obscure -- technical taxation matters, lithium-ion battery cells, digital television converter boxes.

See what I mean....

Voting is useless!

Big Companies, Special Interests Hire Private Congressional Delegations to Lobby Government - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets

When AT&T goes forth to lobby the U.S. Congress, the company brings its own congressional delegation -- six members in all.

These politicos are no longer elected officials, but close enough: Former Sens. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and John Breaux (D-La.) represent the telecom giant, as do ex-Reps. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.), Vic Fazio (D-Calif.), Jim Davis (D-Fla.) and Michael Forbes (R-N.Y.).

And AT&T is hardly alone in tasking congressional alumni to do its corporate bidding on Capitol Hill.

In all, 43 different companies, organizations and special interest groups last year employed at least three former congressmen as registered federal lobbyists, a Center for Responsive Politics analysis indicates.

Together, they spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year lobbying the federal government on a spectrum of issues, from the highest of profile -- health care reform, financial regulatory reform -- to the comparatively obscure -- technical taxation matters, lithium-ion battery cells, digital television converter boxes.

Our Jayco 5th wheel

We killed the son of a bitch!.....

Now we have to pay. Believe me a lot of Americans will die for it. I didn't think Oba mama  would be able to do it.

Of course he's Jesus, right?

Anyways, bin Laden is gone. Do you think he was that important to Al-Qaida other than as a figure head? Or maybe as a money bag?

None the less, it's pretty important to get rid of the bastard just for spite! LOL.

Another guy agrees with me....

All those trillions overseas will only come home if big business gets a tax holiday and repatriates the money back.

One way or another, the money will come home!


Wonkbook: The Fed chooses a side - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post

Big business dreams of a year with no taxes, reports Dan Eggen: “As Washington politicians grapple with how to lower the federal deficit, a coalition of powerful corporations has a seemingly tantalizing offer: Give us a big tax break, and we’ll give you $50 billion or more in fresh revenue. More than two dozen major companies and business groups -- including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and technology giants Apple, Google and Microsoft -- have joined together under the banner of the ‘Win America Campaign’ to push for a one-time tax holiday on overseas profits...The idea is to encourage U.S.-based corporations to bring back, or ‘repatriate,’ up to $1 trillion now stashed in overseas tax havens by sharply reducing standard corporate income tax rates on that money from 35 percent to perhaps 5 percent.”

Good thing I stocked up....

I'm buying more though because Q 2 easing isn't over yet. As I have been predicting (not rocket science) your best investment besides paying off credit cards and switching to personal loans, is food. Especially any bought overseas.

Too bad I was right about gas and couldn't stock up.  Soon gas hits five bucks, remember that little post?, it will probably pay me to trade the Suzuki for a Toyota Prius or it's equivalent for gas mileage.

Not to say moving closer to work wouldn't  help but car shopping is more fun. But unlike most people around here I know I can afford it! LOL.

Coffee May Rise 40% on Frost After Kraft, Smucker Raised Prices - Businessweek

Brazil, the world's biggest coffee grower, is facing the risk of frost after hail this month, raising the prospect of a 40 percent jump in bean costs after Kraft Foods Inc. and J.M. Smucker Co. already increased prices.

The chance of frost in Brazil increased with the weakening of La Nina, a cooling of waters in the Pacific Ocean, Brazil’s Somar Meteorologia said this week. Frost in 1994 damaged 35 percent of the crop by 1997, sending prices up 39 percent that year, according to Somar. Should cold weather damage trees this year, coffee may rise to a record $4.20 a pound, the median in a Bloomberg survey of 11 analysts, traders and investors.

All kidding aside....

i like this. After all, if you can override any President, you can rule anyway you want. More like a Parlimentary system, I suppose, but can't be any worse the mess we have today!

Wandrin: Not News

Not News
Here are just a few news items that seem to have missed the headlines:

The National Republican party decided that they would not run a candidate or support primaries for the US Presidency. Costs too much. Better to spend their billions on elections to make Presidential veto proof legislative bodies.

Some Senate and Congressional members are proposing more income tax reductions. They point to the lower unemployment numbers confirming that lower taxes are working.

Compared to other potential Presidential candidates, to compete fairly, somewhat hair challenged Mike Huckabee plans to get hair supplementation.

Donald Trump was asked to provide proof that his hair is 100% organic.


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You would think that the powers that be are desperate....

You can't really beat union money in local politics so you go around the end and create special schools. Unfortunately, these schools will only take children who will do the work leaving the slugs in the public schools.

And those kids will be passed on to the army, criminal gangs and the welfare roles as they have a half dozen kids of their own.

We'll just have to blame it on the rich!

Good News For School Choice « John Stossel

Last week, the Indiana Senate passed the biggest school voucher program in the country. The voucher program would apply to families with incomes under a certain level (for a family of four, $61,000.)

Vouchers will also be capped at $4,500 per student, less than half of what Indiana public schools spend. But if Washington DC’s experimental voucher program is a guide, voucher schools will still get better results with half the money.

How can privately run schools be that much better? Economist Don Boudreaux drew an insightful analogy on his blog this week:

Suppose that we were supplied with groceries in same way that we are supplied with K-12 education.

Residents of each county would pay taxes on their properties. A huge chunk of these tax receipts would then be spent by government officials on building and operating supermarkets. County residents, depending upon their specific residential addresses, would be assigned to a particular supermarket. Each family could then get its weekly allotment of groceries for “free.” (Department of Supermarket officials would no doubt be charged with the responsibility for determining the amounts and kinds of groceries that families of different types and sizes are entitled to receive.)

…When the quality of supermarkets is recognized by nearly everyone to be dismal, the resulting calls for “supermarket choice” would be rejected by a coalition of greedy government-supermarket workers and ideologically benighted collectivists as attempts to cheat supermarket customers out of good supermarket service -- indeed, as attempts to deny ordinary families the food that they need for their very survival.

That’s where the government-run education system stands now. Good for Indiana for increasing school choice

This guy has been reading my mind.....

Now if he'll just send me that damn check!

Where Did All the Anti-War Protestors Go? « John Stossel

The anti-war movement was all over the news before President Obama was elected. But apparently they weren’t really anti-war ... they were just anti-President Bush. Two college professors just released a study of national protests between 2007 and 2009. What did they find?

… After January 2007, the attendance at antiwar rallies [measured in] roughly the tens of thousands, or thousands, through the end of 2008.

… After the election of Barack Obama as president, the order of magnitude of antiwar protests dropped [...] Organizers were hard pressed to stage a rally with participation in the thousands, or even in the hundreds. For example, we counted exactly 107 participants at a Chicago rally on October 7, 2009.

Amazing. Especially because the war in Afghanistan ramped up after Obama was elected. American fatalities shot up in 2009 and 2010.

The protesters have remained silent over Libya.

And I’m struck by the hypocrisy of the supposedly “anti-war” politicians who voted against Iraq, like Nancy Pelosi. Since Obama was elected, she has voted to continue the war in Afghanistan … and supported the attack on Libya.

Only a handful of Congressmen have remained principled on foreign intervention. One of them is Ron Paul. On my FBN show this week, I’ll talk with him about why he opposes our “aggressive foreign policy.” Thursday at 10pm EST.

I didn't think camping was so much work......

Spent a couple of days in the 5th wheel on her maiden voyage. The main discovery is we had to get a better mattress because who ever designs RV's never camps in them! Anyways, we're setting it up as a separate house as it will be when we retire and hit the road in a few years.

Right now however, I think we'll trade up to a newer and bigger unit when that day comes. Maybe I'll get a truck camper instead for fishing and gold panning around Idaho and make other arrangements for our retirement. But that's what experimenting means this far out from Social Security time.

In the meantime, I see I missed Glen Beck being fired from Fox's line up. Teach him to bad mouth the rulers !!

 let alone expose the rot that the Empire is experiencing.

Also, what the hell does the Easter Seal group doing lobbying the Government?

Lobbying Spending Database-Easter Seals Society, 2010 | OpenSecrets

Easter Seals Society

A special interest's lobbying activity may go up or down over time, depending on how much attention the federal government is giving their issues. Particularly active clients often retain multiple lobbying firms, each with a team of lobbyists, to press their case for them.......

George how I miss you on "Earth Day"....

George Carlin - Saving the Planet

Going camping...

No Internet so see you later.

Only one solution for business to solve this problem...

Move offshore!

That is if you can't buy enough politicians. I always remind people of Microsoft's crimes under the Clinton gang's persecution. Unfortunately for Bill Gates, a liberal Dem, he was accused of monopoly and price fixing etc.(  he gave money to the Repubs.)

Anyways the case was in court for years until, SURPRISE, Bush won and dropped the case!

(Did I tell you he gave money to the Repubs!) LOL.

All Pricing Is Criminal « LewRockwell.com Blog

In his book, The Language of Dissent, former Federal Trade Commissioner, Lowell Mason, went to great lengths to point out how, under the various antitrust laws, if a firm charges a higher price than its competitors it is a “monopoly per se” (i.e., in a competitive market, one could not get away with this practice); if a firm charges a lower price than its competitors, it is engaged in “predatory pricing” (i.e., the only reason for pricing beneath the level of your competition was to drive them out of business); and if a firm charges the same price as its competitors, it is engaged in “price-fixing.” Mason gave a talk to a business group at which he brought this out. A member of his audience commented that the government had charged his firm with all three violations!

Even the big guys screw up.....

We still are coming up short on sales every month. The main office remodelled a lot of stores and removed everything people wanted to buy! They tried to go upscale with Hanna Montana, Martha Stewart, Justin Bieber, TV chef Paula Dean and God knows what else to bring the Yuppies in.

No dice!

But the biggest mistake was removing the features in the center aisles that induced "impulse buying." I remember filling a candy box with a hundred or so $1 boxes every day. But it "cluttered"the floor

And that's just one example that was taken away.

Another mistake is putting all new hires on part time. This makes scheduling during busy times better and saves a few bucks on insurance but increases turn over and disloyalty amongst the associates. Which means that if you want a job you better have two of them to eat. This leads to the only career options now are in management which means a lifetime of servitude to the corporate culture and constant stress.

Fortunately, to prevent law suits out the ass  and a mass exodus of those of us full timers we were  "grandfathered"  in.

And the following article is correct, most of the people responsible for this fiasco were canned. By the way, this comes from hiring straight out of college or from a non retail background and operating with your head stuck up your ass because your trained with the concept that the big shots know better than the people on the floor.

Many years ago, Sam Walton warned the top management  to listen to your associates as they know the customer and how to serve them but they forgot how the company got too be the biggest retail corporation, (until these guys took over) in history!

After all most, I don't think our customer  even know who Martha Stewart is . LOL

Walmart's $1.85 billon dollar mistake - Daily Artifacts

- $1.85 billon dollar customer experience mistake made by Walmart (a conservative estimate of lost revenue that does not include the hundreds of millions spent on remodeling stores)
- What happened? Walmart rolled out "Project Impact" - a major change in strategy and store customer experience - starting in 2008
- Why? Customers answered a Walmart survey and told Walmart that they would prefer less clutter in the stores
- Walmart revised their decades-old strategy of low price and wide selection
- 15% of the inventory removed from the stores
- 30% - some suppliers reported losing 30% of their stock in Walmart stores due to the revamp
- Removed pallets of items like juice boxes or sweatshirts stacked in the centers of aisles.
- Slimmed down merchandise on “end caps,” displays at the ends of aisles
- Shortened shelves
- Revamp not only removed items but cost "millions of dollars" per store in refurbishment costs
- Saw an immediate loss in sales and decline in same-store sales data (

We are the Empire...

What part of Empire don't you like. How about wasting money and lives of our troops on NATO projects. Or other UN ventures. How about driving our jobs overseas with goofy environmental regulations, tax regulations that make no sense, persecutions and prosecutions of people because of partisan politics, or making every thing you do illegal unless you can win in court and bankrupt yourself.

The most troubling is the buying of votes and the whores in Washington living like kings as you and I pay for it. (Did you look over that tax return and check how much these ass holes stole!)

But in a few years we'll get a new gang in there and we'll get "change".

NOT!!!

Emperor Obama by Sheldon Richman

 There in a nutshell is the imperial premise: Our future depends on the condition of the rest of mankind. Therefore, the president may bomb or invade anywhere he likes as long as he believes intervention is feasible. And as long as he can get the U.S.-dominated NATO and UN Security Council on board. (NATO, incidentally, was never established for such a purpose.) Obama’s touted “coalition” is cold comfort to those who realize that freedom and fiscal moderation at home are jeopardized by a government run amok in the world.

Once upon a time, people actually believed that a president could not constitutionally commit troops abroad without a declaration of war by Congress. With some exceptions, that belief held presidents in check for a while. But it passed away sometime after 1942, and since then presidents have gone to war — big-time and small — whenever they damn well pleased. Congress has simply been too timid to assert itself against imperial presidents. After the undeclared Vietnam war disaster, a War Powers Resolution was passed in an attempt to limit future presidents, but it was a pale substitute for the war-declaration requirement — and besides, cowardly Congresses have never pushed to enforce the resolution.

The Anti-Federalists saw it coming. We can’t say we weren’t warned.

The new truck and 5th wheel.....

If you don't plan for your retirement you don't get one! This wheeler is free and clear and as soon as I get Patti's car paid off I'm trading it for a larger, newer model with a washer-dryer combo and new generator. In the meantime we have a great camper for weekends and vacations around here.

More pictures as we clean her up.

The truck is a 2003 Ford F350 4x4 dually with the Lariat interior and all power options. I mean heated seats, mirrors, windows, locks 6 channel CD player, adjustable foot pedals, banks exhaust and 6 litre diesel engine. Of course 12.5 loaded and  16 miles to the gallon empty means we aint commuting with it but it will pull anything I can afford.

After a three day negotiations with a local dealer I got the truck for NADA book price, out the door, including tax and paperwork bullshit for 21350 at 72 mos. at 3.99% and $335 a month from my credit union . This price also includes gap insurance in case I total the truck and the insurance company doesn't pay it off.

 P.S I have $1000 deductible adding $255 a year for full coverage on both units so I'm good for the whole pay off!

Oh yea, we got the 5th wheel thrown in free and clear as diesel model is a pain in the ass to sell right now! But instead of selling you trade up and let somebody else worry about it.

Not that Patti would give me the title to do that, LOL!

Somebody call Reid's office.....

How else would this idiot get elected. That and Casino money. Hey, it worked for the gang in Nevada in getting online poker outlawed.

 Next thing they'll outlaw is breathing then they can really make a killing!

VADUM: Obama's favorite gangsters convicted again - Washington Times

ACORN pleaded guilty to unlawful “compensation” for registration of voters, a felony under Nevada law. The plea came after senior ACORN executives Amy Adele Busefink and Christopher Howell Edwards were convicted of providing cash bonuses to voter-registration canvassers for exceeding daily registration quotas. Campaign workers received cash if they registered 21 voters or more. Fittingly, the Las Vegas-based program was called Blackjack.

Mr. Mouse, Ms. Poppins and various celebrities living and dead have been registered to vote over and over again precisely because ACORN has been allowed to get away with polluting the nation’s voter rolls for so long.

Significantly, this is the first time ACORN itself, as opposed to its individual employees, has been convicted of a crime. The fact that the nonprofit entity was found guilty strongly suggests that ACORN’s

hey, these babies are mean!...

Cop Sprays Baby Squirrel....

What is Oba mama's plan?......

Talk about the deficit and talk and talk until after he's out of office. Then the next President will talk and talk and talk. Oh yea, a few dollars will be cut. Don't bet on anything big. Too many people on the take in Washington to make any real change.

Of course, some new tax increases on me and you to pay for all the wars, fraud, waste, corruption, President and wives vacations, etc. etc.

As for taxing the rich. Several things come to mind. If the government gave you 10 million or so then took back (raise your taxes) what kind nitwit would you be not bitch and then go "ok, I guess it would be good for the country now give a bigger check."

Besides as I've pointed out in the past on this blog, rich people don't pay taxes on the whole, but collect them for the government from their customers and employees. Raise their taxes and they raise their prices or fire the help. Walmart would just cut my hours again because the rich didn't get rich by giving money away!!!

Another thing, most governments would only give them more money under the table to keep the politicians in office because that's how the system works.

Want real reform? National sales tax! Everybody, even the welfare recipients, pay their fair share. Just buy something and pay your taxes.

 Buy a yacht and get soaked.  What's not to like?

LOL. Not going to happen as I've pointed out many times in the past. The system is hopelessly corrupt!!! Every budget cut comes out of somebody's pocket who is bribing the politicians and it aint going to happen!

Houston... We are the problem....

Can't get enough of the good life. Yea, what we need is more of this shit.....NOT!!!

65 Ways That Everything That You Think That You Own Is Being Systematically Taken Away From You

#1 Do you think that you own your house? You might want to think again. Most Americans that "own a home" are paying a mortgage. If you stop paying that mortgage you will lose that home. Over a million American families were kicked out of their homes last year. This year a million more American families will get the boot.

But when those families get booted out onto the street they don't get their down payments back. They don't get all the mortgage payments that they have made back. The banks get to keep all of the money and all of the houses.

Perhaps you don't have a mortgage. Does that mean that you "own your home"?

No, not really. Just refuse to pay your property taxes and watch what happens. At best you can say that you have the right to rent your home from the government.

And check out this partial list of taxes:

#12 Accounts Receivable Taxes

#13 Building Permit Taxes

#14 Capital Gains Taxes

#15 CDL License Taxes

#16 Cigarette Taxes

#17 Corporate Income Taxes

#18 Court Fines (indirect taxes)

#19 Dog License Taxes

#20 Federal Unemployment Taxes (FUTA)

#21 Fishing License Taxes

#22 Food License Taxes

#23 Gasoline Taxes

#24 Gift Taxes

#25 Hunting License Taxes

#26 Inheritance Taxes

#27 Inventory Taxes

#28 IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)

#29 IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)

#30 Liquor Taxes

#31 Local Income Taxes

#32 Luxury Taxes

#33 Marriage License Taxes

#34 Medicare Taxes

#35 Payroll Taxes

#36 Property Taxes

#37 Real Estate Taxes

#38 Recreational Vehicle Taxes

#39 Road Toll Booth Taxes

#40 Road Usage Taxes (Truckers)

#41 Sales Taxes

#42 Self-Employment Taxes

#43 School Taxes

#44 Septic Permit Taxes

#45 Service Charge Taxes

#46 Social Security Taxes

#47 State Income Taxes

#48 State Unemployment Taxes (SUTA)

#49 Telephone federal excise taxes

#50 Telephone federal universal service fee taxes

#51 Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes

#52 Telephone minimum usage surcharge taxes

#53 Telephone recurring and non-recurring taxes

#54 Telephone state and local taxes

#55 Telephone usage charge taxes

#56 Toll Bridge Taxes

#57 Toll Tunnel Taxes

#58 Traffic Fines (indirect taxation)

#59 Trailer Registration Taxes

#60 Utility Taxes

#61 Vehicle License Registration Taxes

#62 Vehicle Sales Taxes

#63 Watercraft Registration Taxes

#64 Well Permit Taxes

#65 Workers Compensation Taxes

Nothing ever changes in Washington.....

The guys there wont allow it. I have no belief in Illuminati or Bilderbergers etc. but the guy is prety spot on on how our Empire is governed. Make sure you read the part about Brzezinski's son working  with McCain's campaign while his daddy is an Oba mama handler.

Pretty convenient. Like Matalin and her weirdo husband, Jimmy bob Carville supposedly working opposite campaigns while in bed together.

And this is interesting:

"The sources of Obama funding read like a Wall Street
Who's Who - Goldman Sachs, UBS, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank,
J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and so on. No wonder he went back on
his pledge to accept the limitations of public funding for his campaign
and instead took the no-limit option of 'private' funding.

And those people are going to support a candidate who does not represent their best interests?? Oh please."

Barack Obama: The Naked Emperor - David Icke Website

The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.'

He also said in the same book nearly 40 years ago:

'Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ... It is likely that before long the social elites of most of the more advanced countries will be highly internationalist or globalist in spirit and outlook ... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty ... Further progress will require greater American sacrifices. More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken, with some consequent risk to the present relatively favorable American position.'

And what does his puppet, Obama, now say that Americans have to do to bring about 'change'? 'Make sacrifices'. As Mrs. Demagogue, Michelle, said:

Can you spell double dip?......

Last time the economy tanked oil prices hit $140, maybe de javue maybe not but all bets are off if we don't put a stop to bombing oil producing countries and start drilling our own.

 

Good thing the Dem's are in charge, right? After all, they kept telling us how bad it was to make war over there and all. Now it's the Republicans turn to bitch. Not that they're serious. Just look at the budget cuts in the deficit. At this rate, nobody will bother voting except all the moochers on the take from government handouts.

And I'm not forgetting public employees either. Pretty soon they'll be the only ones with jobs!!!

Same ol' Same ol' in Washington...

Another fiscal year and another pack of lies. Ho hum. Budget deals that mean nothing but lie to the public are nothing new. Again, makes my point about these silly people called voters and voting for "change."

 

Well spring has sprung in the Rockies and we're going fishing andgold panning next week end if the weather clears. Maybe hit a bonanza and can then bribe some politicians in order to keep it, LOL.

Business improving some....

More customers this month and the compny restored our hours for now. Time will tell if the recession is over andthe new boom ignites. Ofcourse, it better hurry to save Oba mama's ass. But I'm not seeing any real threat from the Republicans beacause they all sound like Oba mama and his "Bush" policies.

The right will still be pissing and moaning about "nothing changes in Washington no matter who you vote for" and the left will vote for the Dem's because they make war  and don't call anybody they kill dirty names.

Now if gas stays above $5 by next year their all unemployed. Expect a big push to fix the oil problem.

Get 'er done!!!....

Shut our glorious government  down and let's see if the sky is falling. Only for the politicians, of course!

Can't have that now can we? LOL.

 

Costs of federal shutdown would be felt far and wide - Washington Times

 

tax audits would be halted in their tracks, this weekend’s National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade in Washington canceled, and national parks and the Smithsonian shuttered if Congress can’t reach agreement on annual spending and the government shuts down at midnight Friday.

The military, federal law enforcement and other key officials would still be at work, earning pay - except their paychecks would be halted until the government funding stream is turned back on.

Negotiations on Capitol Hill continued Wednesday, and House Republicans readied a bill to extend the shutdown deadline by another week. Democrats, however, gave no signal they would accept the stopgap measure, arguing a final spending-cuts deal is there for the taking if the GOP would relent.

Late Wednesday night President Obama called House Speaker John A. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to the White House for more than an hour of talks, and afterwards said a deal should be in reach if both sides are willing.

“What they did was narrow the issues and clarify the issues that are still outstanding,” Mr. Obama told reporters afterward. “I remain confident that if we’re serious about getting something done, we should be able to complete a deal and get it passed and avert a shutdown.”

Mr. Boehner, speaking just after the president, said neither side wants a shutdown, but agreed there had been some slow movement.

“We do have some honest differences, but I do think we made some progress. But i want to reiterate, there’s no agreement on a number and there’s no agreement on policy riders,” he said.

 

More ignorance in how the world economy is run....

WE CAN NEVER GO BANKRUPT!

The world is awash in US dollars and can be seized or borrowed to pay our debts. No one can stop our government from doing it except the President. He has all the power in that regard. Congress surrendered their authority a long long time ago to the Fed and the Executive branch .

How else can the President spend 100 million or more a day bombing that dip shit Qaddafi or all those goat fuckers in Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, and any other place else he chooses without consulting or begging Congress for the money.

Read that again.

The President of the United States is a Roman Emperor in the modern world. He has 500 thousand combat troops scattered in120 countries, several thousand ships that control all  of the world's shipping lanes and a satellite system that can knock an asshole off a camel from 2500 miles away.

We own the world!

That's what it means be the "only world's super power" controlling the planet's only reserve currency. All the money belongs to us or no country and it's government is allowed to survive. 

Period!

Ask the Nazis, Japs, Soviets, Chicoms, camel jockeys Hussein, Mubarak, Shah of Iran, Ataturk, or Noriega, Marcos, Torrillos, Soviet Russia, several hundred  Indian tribes etc. etc.

Hell it looks like we are just getting started!

All this national debt bullshit  bankrupting us is politics in action. We've been handed that nonsense for the last hundred years. The sky is not falling because the U.S government borrows a couple of trillion of U.S dollars from the citizens of the world and spends it on the citizens of the world who lend it or spend back to us.

Think of it as taking money from one pocket and putting it into another. Or children borrowing from dad and still living under his roof. The money gets used to improve the family's standard of living.

What is dangerous is "printing press" money. Created out of thin air to run deficits and buy government debts because it fuels inflation. (Too many dollars chasing too few goods) This "quantitative easing" is rapidly diluting the value of the dollar and driving the price of commodities through the roof.

You aint going to like paying 10 or 12 dollars a gallon for gas on your unemployment checks a few years from now!

And it's wanton corruption in Washington from our rich elites that is putting the screws to us. Gangsters buying politicians is the problem that needs to be cured. And that aint going to happen!

So we have to maintain our Empire or else!

Because of politics we have printing press money pouring into the world's economy and causing all bad economic decisions to be cured and made to disappear. This is fueling our extreme boom and bust cycle that will get worse as trillions are created to save the world's banking system.

Does anyone really believe the Fed wanted to save Europe because they're such nice people? No! Someone has to save these sorry assholes from complete anarchy because too few of them are productive and self supporting without handouts which have crippled incentive and politically make repairing the system possible.

So Bernanke cranks up the printing presses because the world economy is everybody's economy and we can't stop the process. No matter how many Tea Party voters there are out there!

In short, enjoy the ride and plan your life. Improve your borrowing power and payoff old debts. That way bargains will fall in your lap and you'll be able maintain or improve your standard of living. Don't listen to "live debt free" advocates because you'll never be able to buy anything worthwhile as the prices will out pace your saving rate. Only pay off your debts to get more credit and die with the most toys. And don't feel guilty if you change your mind and die in debt up to your balls and the poor bankers get the shaft! LOL.

Stay tuned because it will be exciting as the voters figure out that the fix is in in Washington and their votes don't mount to shit!



With Debt Comes Interest

The latest informational video from Bankrupting America quantifies just how bad our debt situation is. As of 2011, our gross national debt is $14 trillion dollars, and by 2020, that number is set to balloon to $25 trillion. And, that’s not even counting all of the entitlement commitments over the next 25 or so years, which some have estimated to exceed $200 trillion.

From Bankrupting America:

It’s about to get much worse. With debt comes interest – an added fee for borrowing that money.

This year we’ll pay $200 billion in interest on the debt. In just three short years we’ll pay double ($400 billion a year by 2014). In nine, quadruple ($800 billion a year by 2020). And by the time singing sensation Justin Bieber is old enough to rent a car we’ll pay almost $1 trillion on interest payments a year.

One trillion is equal to spending a dollar every second for 32,000 years, except Washington is spending it all in one.

Currently, we take in around $2.5 trillion in tax revenue. By 2020, tax revenues are projected to be roughly $4.6 trillion. According to a recent overview from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), “CBO projects that the government’s annual spending on net interest will more than triple between 2010 and 2020 in nominal terms.”

debt free, Empire, Tea Party, bankruptin America

Are you starting to see a pattern here?........

We give these dictators money to buy weapons from us then we blow the fuck out of them so the next gang in charge will have to pay it back and then borrow more!

Is this a great system or what?

And listen to the Democrats slobbering all over Oba mama's ass to get it done. Even the same lying clowns who vilified  Bush for going to the U.N. for permission!

By the way, that's when Bush lost me. Protecting our oil resources because we can't drill here is politically necessary thanks to the religious fanatics on the left but nation building is nuts.

I'll repeat what I've posted before: beat the fuck out of the enemy, install a "friendly" government and leave!!!

Also, what in the Hell are we doing in Afghanistan killing goat fuckers? The Soviets were defeated a long time ago and protecting the oil fields from them is a little silly, don't you think?

Stay tuned!


Libya-Owned Bank Got 73 Loans From Fed Window After Lehman - Businessweek

April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Arab Banking Corp., the lender part- owned by the Central Bank of Libya, used a New York branch to get 73 loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve in the 18 months after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed.

The bank, then 29 percent-owned by the Libyan state, had aggregate borrowings in that period of $35 billion -- while the largest single loan amount outstanding was $1.2 billion in July 2009, according to Fed data released yesterday. In October 2008, when lending to financial institutions by the central bank’s so- called discount window peaked at $111 billion, Arab Banking took repeated loans totaling more than $2 billion.

Fed officials say all the discount window loans made during the worst financial crisis since the 1930s have been repaid with interest.

The U.S. government has frozen assets linked to the regime of Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi and engaged in air strikes against his military forces, which are battling a rebel uprising in the North African country. Arab Banking got an exemption that allows the firm to continue operating while barring it from engaging in any transactions with the Libyan government, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

Sanders Reacts

“It is incomprehensible to me that while creditworthy small businesses in Vermont and throughout the country could not receive affordable loans, the Federal Reserve was providing tens of billions of dollars in credit to a bank that is substantially owned by the Central Bank of Libya,” Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, wrote in a letter to Fed and U.S. officials.

My one year anniversary.....

A year ago today I died of a heart attack! Good thing I live across the street from a hospital. Strange thing dying, I can live without it!!!!

Buy food now....

Told you so!

This guy's serious. If we can't keep prices low, nobody without a magic wand can do it. Walmart destroys it's competitors with prices and it is struggling right now to keep them from going astro!


Wal-Mart CEO Bill Simon expects inflation - USATODAY.com

The world's largest retailer is working with suppliers to minimize the effect of cost increases and believes its low-cost business model will position it better than its competitors.

Still, inflation is "going to be serious," Wal-Mart U.S. CEO Bill Simon said during a meeting with USA TODAY's editorial board. "We're seeing cost increases starting to come through at a pretty rapid rate."

Tell me again there's a difference between Republicans and Dems.....

I really don't care if Oba mama takes out any of these assholes because we buy and sell these clowns everyday. I remember Marcos, the Shah, Noriega, Torrillos, Husein, and Mubarak just to name a few off the top of my head that we also took out. And we will probably have to take out their successors. What else is new or will change?

But where are all the antiwar-protests? LOL.

I see leftist defending Oba mama's decision to take Qaddafi out which means as I've benn telling people, $5 gas. Not exactly conducive to reelection campaigning next year, right?


Obama’s War « LewRockwell.com Blog

Obama is making the Libyan War his own, step by step. Beyond Operation Odyssey Dawn, there are reports of covert CIA agents in Libya. This was to be expected. See here, here, and here. Obama committed his prestige over four weeks ago when he demanded that Gaddafi resign. After that, he could not turn back without a loss of standing. Under cover of the fog of war and confusion, Obama has considerable latitude to expand the U.S. presence inside Libya.

The reasons for Obama’s War are evident. It was in late February that he demanded that Gaddafi go (about Feb. 27). This occurred because Gaddafi was winning, was near Benghazi, and was making threats (about Feb. 23) on the rebels, oil pipelines, outside interferers, and linking them to Al Qaeda. See here. The latter reports “He accused the Cyrenaicans to his east of conspiring to establish an Al Qaeda emirate that would bring the Americans over and create the same situation in Libya as in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Not a bad prediction, as some evidence of this has been reported. His threats against the rebels may have been designed to scare them off and induce them to abandon Benghazi, not necessarily as a threat to kill civilians for the sake of a massacre, as Obama suggested. Threats are part and parcel of making war as is killing. Obama as emperor-in chief could not sit idly by and countenance his power being threatened when a once-cooperative provincial chief like Gaddafi made highly vocal threats against the West, especially while Obama was trying to get on top of the North African and Middle Eastern rebellions.

The government owns you.....

Try going into business without permission.


Young Girls BANNED From Selling Girl Scout Cookies On Their Own Front Lawn

Once upon a time in America, if you were a couple of little girls and you wanted to sell lemonade or girl scout cookies at a little stand in front of your home nobody would give you any problems. In fact, most of the people passing by would have smiled and would have seen it as a sign of hope that the next generation was being so industrious. Well, that is not the way that it works anymore. Today, all across America nightmarish control freaks are seeking to micromanage every single aspect of our lives. That includes banning young girls from selling girl scout cookies on their own front lawns. Yes, you read that correctly. In Missouri of all places, two young girls named Abigail and Caitlin Mills were recently taught a lesson on how to be good citizens in the emerging totalitarian control grid going up all over the United States. After a complaint from a neighbor, the city of Hazelwood cracked down on the two girls and told them that they must shut down the girl scout cookie stand that they had been operating in their front yard.

So were the girls doing anything wrong? No. There are very few things that are more "American" than selling girl scout cookies. In fact, they had been operating the stand during this time of the year for the past 6 years. It had become a community tradition. But according to the city of Hazelwood, the girls were violating a city ordinance that bans "the sale of commodities" from a home.

You see, the truth is that there is a "rule" for almost everything today. In fact, we have so many "laws" and "rules" and "regulations" in the United States that it is literally impossible to be in compliance with all of them.

However, this incident with the girl scout cookies would probably never have exploded if a nearby neighbor had not snitched on the girls. Apparently the neighbor did not like the fact that the extra people coming around to buy girl scout cookies made her dogs bark.

This is what America is turning into. We are all being taught to be suspicious of each other and to "inform" on our neighbors. Instead of living in the land of the free and the home of the brave, we are suddenly living in a country that more closely resembles East Germany or Soviet Russia with each passing day.

Well, fortunately this story had somewhat of a happy ending. Philanthropist George "The Shoeman" Hutchins bought the remaining 36 boxes of girl scout cookies that the girls were trying to sell. He even had the girls deliver one of the boxes to the angry neighbor for free. But even that turned into a bit of an incident. A local news report about the story put it this way....

Amen!!!.....

Government is not the solution....government is the problem. Truer words have never been spoken, of course, that didn't mean shit in those days and it wont these days. Nothing will stop the Empire from imploding over the next decade or so.

Are you making any plans to save your ass?




Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Misguided Views of Libertarian Economics and the Alternative "Regulation" Model

One of the brightest regulars who comments on my blog has a totally distorted view of what Libertarian economics is all about. Unfortunately, I am quite confident that her view is mainstream.

Tin Hat writes ...

Here is the core premise behind libertarian economics:

The private business sector will put ethics, morality and public employee good above profits, shareholders, bonuses, golden parachutes and CEO compensation -- IF they were completely unfettered from any government imposed rules, laws, and regulations.

And IF the private sector entity failed in its fiduciary duty to the public, Main Street would rise up and kick them out.

That's Corporatism.

Regulation Model vs. the Libertarian Model

Sorry Tin Hat but that is not what Libertarian economics is all about or stands for at all.

First let's ponder the "Regulation" Model.

The "Regulation" model assumes Barney Frank (feel free to substitute your least favorite representative) will write responsible legislation and Congress will stop taking bribes for legislation they want.

Here are some examples of what the regulation models has wrought.

* The regulation model sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
* The regulation model gave huge tax breaks written by GE for GE
* The regulation model encourages flight of jobs overseas
* The regulation model supports corrupt public unions that have bankrupted cities and states
* The regulation model gave us the Fed and its bubble blowing policies
* The regulation model gave us thousands of affordable home programs all of which drove up the price of homes
* The regulation model provides hundreds of billions of dollars of student loans the effect of which is to make those graduating from school now, perpetual debt slaves.
* The regulation model gave us a healthcare bill we literally "had to pass to find out what was in it" according to Nancy Pelosi. Congress did not write that bill, it was entirely written by a consortium of special interest lobbyists.

I can provide thousands of more examples of what the "regulation" model has given us.

The very best financial regulation will ever do is prevent the last crisis.

Hard to agree with this guy....

It's not a corporation's place to social engineer. Or create jobs just for the sake of being a do gooder. Piling up profits is what they are supposed to do then pass the wealth to their stock holders.

 The danger only comes when they finance governments! It's the cozy relationships, such as Oba mama's to Jeff Imelt of G.E

Gotta Love That Worker Productivity! - Decline of the Empire

Today we have another story typical of our times, another episode of our favorite daytime soap opera The Rich Get Richer. Corporations are piling up huge profits and sitting on huge piles of cash even as they lobby for lower taxes and avoid hiring new workers. McClatchy gives us the story in Strong corporate profits amid a weak economy - what's up with that?

WASHINGTON — U.S. corporations continue to post strong profits quarter after quarter, even as the unemployment rate remains high and the U.S. economic recovery plods along in fits and starts. What gives?

Corporate profits grew 36.8 percent in 2010, the biggest gain since 1950, according to Friday's latest report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. No sign could be more clear that U.S. companies see the so-called Great Recession in the rearview mirror.

The strong profits, however, mask the continued difficult terrain for businesses. Yes, profits are high, but that doesn't mean business is strong.

[U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief economist Martin] Regalia and other analysts think several factors are behind the strong profits, which seem to contradict other indicators of an underperforming economy, especially the 8.9 percent unemployment rate. These factors include record low interest rates since late 2008, muted demand for borrowing by companies and a surge in productivity that has allowed companies to do more with the same number of workers or fewer.

Profits aren't rising solely because companies are making and selling more widgets to keep up with customer demand, which would be the case in a healthy, booming economy. Instead, they're more profitable because it now costs less to make the same widget, often because there are far fewer workers needed to make it...

According to the Gallup polling, unemployment is 10.2%, but more importantly, worker productivity is on the rise.

Here's a few ideas....

Quit wasting money killing people sitting on our oil! Hell, let's pump our own oil! How about no more corporate tax breaks to ship our jobs overseas? Or do away with the Federal Income tax that punishes me and you and gives the elites all the power! Maybe even quit all those welfare programs for the rich.

I've got an idea. Congress and Oba mama should just go on vacation and leave us alone!!!!


GOP Appears Poised to Take on Entitlements

n fact, many GOP freshmen seem bolder than ever. It's Democrats, especially in the Senate, who are trying to figure out how to handle the popular but costly retirement programs. Congress, meanwhile, is rapidly nearing critical decisions on the budget and the nation's debt ceiling.

In southeast Florida last week, first-term GOP Rep. Allen West, a tea party favorite, called for changes that some might consider radical: abolish the Internal Revenue Service and federal income tax; retain tax cuts for billionaires so they won't shut down their charities; stop extending unemployment benefits that "reward bad behavior" by discouraging people from seeking new jobs.

As for entitlements, West told a friendly town hall gathering in Coral Springs, if Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid "are left on autopilot, if we don't institute some type of reform, they'll subsume our entire GDP" by 2040 or 2050. GDP, or gross domestic product, measures the value of all goods and services produced in the United States.

Social Security, the largest federal program, mainly benefits retirees. Medicare provides health coverage for older people. Medicaid helps those with low incomes. Combined, the three consume about 40 percent of the budget. Their costs are growing rapidly. Social Security and Medicare benefits now exceed the payroll taxes that fund them.

This woman is beyond stupid!!......

How she ever became governor of Arizona is got to be a tale of corruption somewhere. I guess it just shows that anyone can get elected to public office and then end up with a fat cat job in Washington.

I guess the Dem's are desperate for leadership if they have to appoint these wackos for office. Oh wait, they did elect Oba mama didn't they? And yes, they are waiting for hope and change (no Republicans in office) aren't they?

Kind of shows us their caliber doesn't it? Let's see: get us out of Iraq, close Gitmo, No more wars for oil, no more military tribunals, no more tax breaks for billionaires, end corruption in Washington, arrest the scummy bankers and Wall Street gangsters, quit borrowing gobs of dollars to bribe foreign governments, stop shipping our jobs overseas, balance our Federal budget, etc. etc.

Makes you fell patriotic and hungry to vote, doesn't it?

Or riot!


Napolitano's comments on border 'wrong' - Washington Times

The U.S. Border Patrol union says Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comments reassuring Americans that the U.S. border with Mexico is safe and open for business are “wrong and give citizens a false sense of security.”

“It is time for the political games to stop for fear of insulting the government of Mexico,” the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) said in a statement. “U.S. citizens are being kidnapped and killed while our Border Patrol agents fight a war at home that no one will allow them to win.

“Not one more Border Patrol agent should fall or citizen be victimized because our government fails to act,” said the NBPC, which represents all 17,500 non-supervisory U.S. Border Patrol agents. “Mexico is hemorrhaging violence, and we are being hit with the splatter.”

Ms. Napolitano told border-area mayors and business leaders in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday that the U.S.-Mexico border is safer than ever, adding that perceptions that the border area is at its most dangerous right now are false.

She said that the Obama administration is dedicated to ensuring that the Southwest border remains open for business amid drug cartel violence in Mexico, and that increased security should not come at the price of trade, travel and tourism.

Hey, did you hear anything from Congress?.....

Of course not! Still hiding from the voters because they ain't going to do shit about spending, LOL.

Meanwhile mot much good news is there? Paid $3.59 for gas yesterday. Yea, we need to attack some more oil producing countries to get gas above $5. After all, that way we wont have to create any jobs here in the good old U.S.A.

Oh yea, we need to fire all the dip shits in Washington and start over but that's not going to happen. Too many bums getting those "free" government checks to rock the boat.

I can't wait to get mine because their wont be anybody hiring  geezers and I'm too old to take up robbing 7-11's. Stay tuned!!

Get rid of these business taxes!.....

Sounds strange but true. Taxing corporations means they have incentive to bribe the government big time. Eliminate them and the jobs come back and the corruption level drops. You give campaign contributions to get something from politicians. Like tax exemptions which fuck over your competition.

Most Marxist realize this but they're on the "punish the rich" kick. The average guy thinks they can get government to do something about the rot by voting for the right politicians.

That's why they're paying all the taxes that the corrupt gangsters pass on to them and the jobs are going to China!


♫ GE, We Bring Good Lobbying to Congress ♫ « LewRockwell.com Blog

The New World Order/One World Government’s premier corporation, General Electric, paid ZERO corporate income taxes for 2010. Obviously I’m thrilled when any individual or the company of individuals doesn’t pay taxes/robbery to Government Almighty. But it’s a bit rich (pun intended) when every working stiff in the United States has to cough up a nice chunk of change from his or her personal income to Government Almighty while one of the biggest corporations in the world somehow is able to finagle its way out of that displeasure completely. (By the way, the article mentions how “small” government, “lower” taxes Ronbo Reagan made sure to get rid of a tax loophole when he was Puppet-in-Chief so that GE had to pay more taxes/robbery to Government Almighty back then. I guess Ronbo didn’t get the memo.)

What????.....

Mandate from the U.N? The sooner this guy is gone the better. Too bad we'll just get another like him!


Obama is keeping his peace prize | POLITICO 44

Saying he is focused on ensuring that Libyans can “live out their own aspirations,” Obama defended America’s involvement in Libya, saying, “we’re not invading a country, we’re not acting alone – we’re acting under a mandate issued by the United Nations Security Council in an unprecedented fashion and with unprecedented speed.”

And he said again that the U.S. military has already saved lives there. “I think the American people don’t see any contradiction in somebody who cares about peace also wanting to make sure that people aren’t butchered because of a dictator who wants to cling to power,” he said.

Some foreign leaders have called on Obama to return the Nobel Peace Prize he accepted in 2009 since ordering the Libya attack.
Click below for highlights from Obama's Nobel acceptance speech.

Not my RV LOL.......

Patti would have killed me if I brought this home. Hell, I would have killed me if I brought it home!