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.......