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by Free Market Duck

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07-09-2010
Energy - Part 2 of 3
The Asteroid Belt and How It Got there After the Planet Phaeton Blew up... Will History Repeat itself?…  More...

06-21-2010
Energy - Part 1 of 3
BP's Quest for Time
The Well from Hell... and What They're Not Saying…  More...

06-03-2010
Carbs against Cardio…  More...

05-11-2010
$145 Billion and Counting…  More...

03-25-2010
The One Thing…  More...

03-24-2010
The difference between sound money and our current pulp fiction Dollar, or...why Idaho Legislators should vote "yes" on House Bills 622 and 633…  More...

03-12-2010
California Grinds to a Halt as Public and Private Unions Strike Against the State's Plans to Cut Spending and Raise Taxes…  More...

03-07-2010
Our World Balances on a Sea of Debt…  More...

02-17-2010
Wall Street's Bailout Hustle…  More...

02-10-2010
European Central Bankers Poised to Take Over Europe…  More...

02-05-2010
Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows…  More...

12-21-2009
ObamaCare is not about health care; it’s about control and profits.  Oddly enough, it’s not the insurance companies; it’s the central bankers…  More...

12-07-2009
How Big is a Trillion Dollars?  More...

12-02-2009
Boise Trolley Folly DOES Justify Legislative Intervention  More...

11-06-2009
Federal Reserve to Switch to New "Scratch 'N Sniff" Currency  More...

10-27-2009
New Government Health Care Plan Struggling to Find "Single Payer" Name  More...

10-26-2009
Jesus appoints Obama as "Associate Christ"  More...

09-23-2009
Has Congress become an anachronism?  More...

09-18-2009
Leftist Boise Mayor Dave Bieter in secret meetings to blow $560 million of federal welfare dollars on downtown Boise streetcar named “Desire”… or is that a streetcar named “Huge Deficit?” More...

09-8-2009
Hey, kids, got game?  Got rap?  Wanna be a rich movie star?  “That isn’t hard work,” says Obama, “and chances are you ain’t gonna be any of those things.”  More...

09-8-2009
"Obama's speech to schools:  what civics lesson will parents teach their kids?”  More...

09-1-2009
Ted Kennedy: "Lion of the Senate" or Drunken Homicide at Chappaquiddick?  More...

08-14-2009
Two Governors Bankrupt Idaho's Highways, or Who let the GARVEE bonds out?  More...

08-07-2009
"National" health care?  Stop thinking in terms of "collectives," we are individuals  More...

08-05-2009
Fed Reserve, America's legal counterfeiting ring   More...

08-05-2009
Off Balance Sheet, Out of Mind  More...

07-23-2009
National Health Care is illogical  More...

07-09-2009
The Fed Must Be Stopped  More...

06-17-2009
Idaho Congressmen introduce Federal Streetcar Revitalization Act of 2009…ask for $300 Million to build streetcars across America…$65 Million for Boise  More...

06-12-2009
Idaho Statesman supports spending $65 million of federal stimulus booty for Boise Trolley Cars  More...

05-31-2009
Idaho Statesman thinks socialist economics can enrich economy and create Idaho jobs  More...

05-05-2009
The Idaho Transportation Solution  More...

04-23-2009
B of A CEO ordered by Fed Reserve and U.S. Treasury to shut up about Merrill Lynch's billion dollar losses   More...

04-23-2009
Boise's Watergate is alive and well as Idaho's SBOE allows U of Idaho to raid private U of Idaho Foundation for $111,000 to pay for new U of I Prez   More...

04-08-2009
Failed $250 Million University Place fiasco participant, Bob Hoover, named as president of the Idaho Community Foundation  More...

03-13-2009
More Voo-Doo Economics: "Good Bank, Bad Bank"  More...

02-17-2009
The Great "Stimulus" Hoax  More...

02-13-2009
Why President Obama’s Trillion Dollar “Stimulus” Package is Unconstitutional – Part 2  More...

02-12-2009
Why President Obama’s Trillion Dollar “Stimulus” Package is Unconstitutional – Part 1  More...

02-01-2009
Petition of the Electric Light Bulb Manufacturers  More...

01-20-2009
Obama parties down at most expensive Inauguration in history -- over $170 million -- as U.S. falls further into huge Recession  More...

12-25-2008
Is The Medicine Worse Than the Illness?  More...

12-17-2008
Idaho Statesman prints insightful Reader’s View by young economist, “Don’t fall for the Big 3’s doomsday predictions – they’re unlikely”  More...

12-14-2008
Did U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald jump the gun in premature arrest of Gov. Blagojevich?  More...

12-11-2008
Idaho Statesman editors publish whitewash of Weatherman bomber Bill Ayers to save Barack Obama…
then, up pops the FBI and Illinois Gov. Blagojevich…  More...

12-07-2008
Idaho Statesman parent McClatchy confuses socialism with free market  More...

11-29-2008
Boise’s Watergate morphs into Nampa's and Caldwell's Watergate to pay for Oregon community college in Idaho  More...

11-17-2008
Victoria's Secret Reorgs as Savings & Loan Bank, Qualifies for Treasury's $700 Billion Bailout Booty  More...

11-14-2008
Stable Money Is the Key to Recovery  More...

10-31-2008
Is America on the verge of electing a socialist Islamic terrorist supporter as U.S. President?  More...

10-25-2008
U.S. bankers whine for 30 seconds, kiss Godfather Paulson’s ass, then sign off on bank nationalization  More...

10-10-2008
‘Toys R Us’ offers to bail out U.S. economy with
injection of $700 Trillion in cash from Parker Bros. Monopoly Game…
Sweetens deal by throwing in Marvin Gardens  More...

10-06-2008
Recession 2008: The blind leading the blind  More...

09-26-2008
Congressman Ron Paul's answer to President Bush's $700 Billion bailout   More...

09-24-2008
Sec of Treasury Paulson suspends U.S. Constitution, anoints himself Wizard of Oz, demands $700 billion to unclog nation’s toilets…
Will Congress assume Dying Cockroach Position?   More...

09-15-2008
Money, money everywhere, nor any drop to drink...
U.S. Dollar is pulp fiction  More...

09-11-2008
Weekend at Fannie's  More...

09-08-2008
Idaho Statesman pushes Fascist Business Model as “Vision for the Valley”  More...

09-06-2008
Look out!
Pistol Packing Mama, Gov Sarah Palin, blasts her way into the Republican National Convention...
accepts VP slot with John McCain  More...

08-29-2008
McCain chooses Idahoan Sarah Palin, a moose-hunting, fisher-babe, free market Governor of Alaska, as Vice Prez running mate on GOP ticket  More...

08-23-2008
Idaho stockpiles $500 million to $1 billion tax surplus on top of last year's $224 million surplus?  More...

08-19-2008
Washington politicians lie about true size of budget deficit  More...

08-12-2008
Corporate Welfare Alive and Well in Idaho  More...

08-01-2008
"Covered Bonds" new mortgage gimmick by "Banksta Gangsta" Treasury Sec Hank Paulson  More...

07-17-2008
History of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reveal gross corruption, fundamental flaws  More...

07-03-2008
Zimbabwe inflation hits 1,000,000% per year…
Government central bank issues new $50 Billion denomination notes as paper currency becomes worthless  More...

06-23-2008
Idaho Supreme Court enforces socialist health care law…
Taxpayers must cough up $187,000 for illegal immigrant’s heart attack  More...

06-04-2008
Obama-Clinton “nightmare ticket” promises to drag U.S. down the road to serfdom via Marxist socialism  More...

05-30-2008
Idaho Pub Ed System Run by Village Idiots?...
State Board Asks Feds to Restart Failure Clock for “No Child Left Behind” Program  More...

05-23-2008
Global Monetary Recap - 1944 to 2008  More...

05-21-2008
Kempthorne Hugs Polar Bears, Bankrupts America  More...

05-16-2008
Yeah, Kempthorne, "Cough up" those gubernatorial records, will ya?  More...

05-11-2008
Idaho:  nuclear waste dump of America  More...

04-22-2008
2008 Legislative Report Card for Idaho: F-minus More...

04-01-2008
Fed scientists discover new element in Periodic Table of Elements:  Paper  More...

03-25-2008
Gov Butch Otter signs corporate welfare Bill for $2 billion Uranium-235 enrichment plant to set Idaho up for Perfect Nuclear Storm:  a radioactive, volcanic firestorm on top of Snake Plain Aquifer's Lake Erie  More...

03-17-2008
Who Killed the U.S. Dollar?  More...

03-08-2008
Prescription for Prosperity:  A Comprehensive Economic Revitalization Plan   More...

03-13-2008 Revised
Idaho Grocery Tax Rebate to equal 9/10 of 1% of your grocery bill?... Ooooh, Whoop-tee-doo, Governor  More...

03-03-2008
Idaho Grocery Tax Rebate to equal 3/10 of 1% of your grocery bill?... Ooooh, Whoop-tee-doo, Governor  More...

02-22-2008
Idaho Legies create Perfect Storm:  yellowcake plus Yellowstone plus Snake Plain Aquifer equals radioactive Super Volcanic blast  More...

02-14-2008
Parliament of Whores admonishes one of their own  More...

02-10-2008
Anybody Seen Our Gold?  More...

02-06-2008
(Updated 02-14-2008)
GOP and Liberal Disconnected Thought Globs (DTGs) dominate 2008 presidential debates  More...

01-31-2008
Earmarks for Idaho are good but earmarks for Alaska are bad, says Idaho Statesman  More...

01-29-2008
Osama to visit Boise on Saturday  More...

01-28-2008
Smoke 'n Mirrors Economic Stimulus Package:  $600 for you, $730,000 for Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac  More...

01-24-2008
The Paper Chase:  Dollar becomes pulp fiction as Fed injects trillions into the market... But Dollar is not real capital, thus cannot stimulate economy  More...

01-19-2008
Federal Reserve drives U.S. into Super Recession, then Depression, then Martial Law  More...

01-10-2008
New Thought Police Bill passes U.S. House 404-6, awaits Senate vote  More...

01-01-2008
U.S. Federal Reserve Note:  America's Pulp Fiction  More...

12-28-2007
Who shot Pakistani ex Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto?  More...

12-19-2007
Idaho Congress-crooks Sen. Larry "Wide Stance" Craig and Rep Mike Simpson rob all Americans for Idaho earmarks More...

12-18-2007
Goldman Sachs creates subprime slime with left hand, shorts subprime slime with right hand More...

12-17-2007
Ada County to operate Detox Center for drunks & dopers?  Cost to taxpayers: $1.8 million per year  More...

12-14-2007
Central Banks Conspire to Hyper-Inflate Global Economy  More...

12-11-2007
Boise's Watergate fiasco continues as Univ of Idaho plans to blow $300 million on new marketing campaign  More...

12-10-2007
Why should Boise's "Special Olympics" be funded by taxpayer earmarks and what is the true concept behind the "Special Olympics?"  More...

12-07-2007
President Bush, Sec of Treasury Paulson save America's subprime home borrowers...you bet... Just Call Hotline to Mortgage Heaven: 1-888-995-HOPE  More...

12-03-2007
U.S. Treasury to Bail Out Billionaire Bankers on Wall Street Under Guise of Saving Subprime Borrowers  More...

12-01-2007
Idaho Gov Butch Otter Holds Secret Meeting to Tax Inner Tubes on Boise River  More...

11-26-2007
Idaho's Property Tax Solution  More...

11-16-2007
The Fed's "Prime Interest Rate" Joke  More...

11-09-2007
Idaho Statesman's parent McClatchy posts $1.4 billion loss in 3rd Qtr  More...

10-29-2007
The AMT - Worst Piece of U.S. Tax Legislation  More...

10-29-2007
What is The Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit?  Hint: It's not a plastic flex straw to a bottle of Ripple wine  More...

10-17-2007
Can Idaho U.S. Senator Larry Craig be recalled?  More...

10-13-2007
How to Recall Idaho U.S. Senator Larry Craig  More...

10-10-2007
Will the real $50 please stand up?  More...

10-03-2007
President Bush and Federal Reserve bankers plan for nationwide bankruptcy with fake 3-week flu test  More...

10-01-2007
Idaho to implement ButchCare?  More...

09-25-2007
Wherein lies the value of today's paper money?... The solution:  abolish fractional reserve central banking, the Federal Reserve and govt monopoly of money; allow private minting and free choice of currencies - Part 5  More...

09-20-2007
Wherein lies the value of today's paper money?... The problem:  unconstitutional  Federal Reserve plays Quantitative Economics (as if econ is physics) rather than Qualitative Economics, which is based upon individual rights and freedom - Part 4  More...

09-17-2007
Wherein lies the value of today's paper money?... Derivative markets now exceed half a quadrillion dollars or $500,000,000,000,000 of non-collateralized paper - Part 3  More...

09-16-2007
Wherein lies the value of today's paper money?...or, the root cause of today's monetary crisis and impending recession - Part 2  More...

09-15-2007
Wherein lies the value of today's paper money?...or, the root cause of today's monetary crisis and impending recession - Part 1  More...

09-05-2007
Boise's Toiletgate morphs into Pinocchio-gate as Senator Craig's nose mysteriously grows another 2 feet overnight  More...

09-02-2007
Senator Larry Craig did not resign and hired two lawyers, 1 for the Ethics Committee and 1 for the Minneapolis men's room debacle   More...

08-31-2007
Senator Larry Craig's abuse of power & lame excuses are symptomatic of long list of GOP political abuses in Idaho - Part 1  More...

08-23-2007
J'accusse, Mr. Federal Reserve did it with the Candlestick, the Rope, the Revolver, the Knife, the Wrench, and the Lead Pipe in the House, the Senate, the University, and Wall Street  More...

08-13-2007
Ada County Commissioners condemn own property through eminent domain...
Pay Cryptic Partners $3.2 million in fake "takings" - Part 1  More...

08-11-2007
Central bankers redefine "hyper-inflation" as "liquidity"... Inject over $326,000,000,000 into global economy to stave off stock market crash & recession  More...

08-10-2007
NY Stock Market crashes 387 points as sub-prime fiasco hits Germany, France  More...

08-09-2007
WSJ, Fox News pretend Ron Paul votes for earmarks  More...

08-08-2007
"The Fix" is still in, new community college trustees interview only 1 person for Prez... and guess what?  He got the job!  More...

07-30-2007
Harry Potter dies on page 597... in Boise  More...

07-18-2007
"The fix was in... But that's OK; This case warranted an inside job." -- Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman  More...

07-17-2007
Is the War in Iraq a Mafia-style protection racket: U.S. military protects OPEC and OPEC promises to use only inflated petro-dollars?  More...

07-10-2007
Ex Ada County Commish Judy Peavey-Derr threatens libel lawsuit against Deep Throat II More...

07-05-2007
Idaho Senator Craig loses Illegal Immigration Amnesty bill...Does Craig support prison inmates picking Idaho crops? More...

07-03-2007
U.S. Constitution not signed by authors  More...

06-28-2007
"Bong Hits 4 Jesus"  More...

06-14-2007
Court transcripts reveal judge knows University Place fiasco was a financial scam and who the perps were More...

06-14-2007
Cheap Community College "need" is a hoax...BSU rated cheapest university in the nation by US News & World Report More...

06-13-2007
Ada County screws taxpayers, again...pays Cryptic Partners $1.4 million for $900,000 office space in Eminent Domain settlement  More...

06-08-2007
NO campaign thanks YES campaign for abuse of Absentee Ballots, encourages re-vote by mail  More...

06-07-2007
Scientists slap Bible Bangers' definition of "when does life begin" upside their diploid totipotent cells  More...

06-06-2007
What is America's greatest moral challenge?  More...

05-29-2007
Yo, Rudy, follow the money  More...

05-26-2007
What is paper money? More...

05-02-2007
Sec of Interior Kempthorne offers quid pro quo worth billions of dollars to Louisiana Sen Mary Landrieu  More...

04-19-2007
Supreme Court takes giant step backwards  More...

04-06-2007
House Speaker Pelosi violates U.S. Constitution and Logan Act, commits felony by impersonating Sec of State Condoleezza Rice on trip to Middle East  More...

03-28-2007
Education math scores drop across the state as Idaho teachers, administrators, and coaches vacation to Ireland and China on your tax dollars  More...

03-25-2007
Idaho GOP Legies add $400 million pork to Demo's Iraq War Bill  More...

03-23-2007
Idaho taxpayers subsidize new Micron plant in China  More...

03-19-2007
Ex Gov Kempthorne's original $3 billion Highway Plan exceeds $6 billion... Idaho Statesman says, "Pass the budget, no strings attached"  More...

03-14-2007
Low carb diet kicks government's low fat guidelines in its big fat butt  More...

03-09-2007
The paper chase... Interest rate arbitrage between the Yen and the Dollar  More...

03-08-2007
Bullet train from Boise to Meridian derailed as billion dollar local option sales tax bites the dust...poof  More...

03-01-2007
Stock market plunges 416 points in one day   More...

02-26-2007
"An Inconvenient Truth" morphs into "Convenient Lies" as Hollywood Oscars regurgitate 30-year old Doomsday baloney from the 1970s  More...

02-23-2007
Judge cries at Anna Nicole Smith hearing...wins Oscars for Best Actor, Worst Director  More...

02-22-2007
World Wide Monetary Inflation...the not-so-Good, the Bad, and the Ugly  More...

02-18-2007
Boise's Watergate morphs into Librarygate as Urban Renewal Agency picks Bodo developer for unconstitutionally-funded $130 million "Library Blocks" project  More...

02-16-2007
CAMBR fraud at U of  Idaho?  More...

02-11-2007
Who's Your Favorite Socialist Candidate for the 2008 Presidency?  More...

02-09-2007
Oink-Oink, Boise City Council Feeds at State & Federal Pig Troughs  More...

02-08-2007
Big Brother mandates vaccine for 11-year old girls  More...

01-31-2007
Ada County Commissioners condemn new Ada County Courthouse, then use Eminent Domain to confiscate their own property... huh?  More...

01-22-2007
Where in Hell did Our 3 Branches of Government Go?  More...

01-18-2007
The Real Purpose of the Federal Reserve  More...

01-17-2007
European Union Dumps German, Officially Adopts English as Universal Language  More...

01-15-2007
GOP "Intellectuals" Propose Socialist Job Corps Program to Rebuild Iraq  More...

01-08-2007
Kempthorne Plays "Polar Bear Politics"  More...

01-02-2007
Boise State outsmarts Oklahoma with Statue of Liberty fake pass, Wins Fiesta Bowl 43-42 in nail-biting overtime  More...

12-30-2006
Saddam Hussein
1937-2006  More...

12-29-2006
Shell Oil hires ex Sec of Interior Gale Norton...Conflict of interest?  More...

12-26-2006
"Black box" trading on the Big Board...is it legal... is it moral?
Part 2  More...

12-19-2006
"Black box" trading on the Big Board...is it legal... is it moral?
Part 1  More...

11-30-2006
U of I Wallace pleads guilty to state criminal charges in $136 million University Place fiasco...no fine and 3-year probation  More...

11-19-2006
If Idaho "needs" more nurses, let supply and demand in the free market automatically solve the "problem"  More...

11-17-2006
Boise "needs" a detox center like it "needs" another snort of crack  More...

11-17-2006
If Boise's "Library Blocks" project is unconstitutional, then why isn't the Courthouse project unconstitutional?  More...

11-10-2006
The Demos are coming, the Demos are coming, so now what?  More...

11-01-2006
Bag Boy Wallace Charged with Felony in U of Idaho Crime Spree...Major Perps Skate Free?  More...

10-27-2006
2006 Nobel Economist praises "Dynamic Capitalism" by assuming socialist principles  More...

10-20-2006
Voters, not the Idaho Transportation Board, must approve billion dollar highway expenditures for "Connecting Idaho"  More...

10-17-2006
Wall Street Journal physics readers argue Big Bang Theory  More...

10-06-2006
Prop 1: Idaho Teachers' union earmarks 1% of sales tax for itself  More...

09-27-2006
Anti-gay marriage amendment unconstitutional  More...

08-31-2006
Does University Place's secret civil settlement constitute "burying of public info?"  More...

08-30-2006
WSJ thinks function of Fed Reserve is "maintaining an overall stable price level"  More...

08-25-2006
Idaho leads world in "Fat Pill" production  More...

08-19-2006
Are Idaho's "Rainy Day Funds" unconstitutional?  More...

08-18-2006
Federalist Papers do not grant warrant-less searches or carte blanche wire tapping to President  More...

08-14-2006
Bodo developer proposes Boise's Watergate method to rip down, rebuild Boise main library  More...

08-07-2006
Idaho Baptists launch missiles against California Catholics?  More...

07-18-2006
Boise needs a Drug Czar like it needs a Snicker-doodle Czar  More...

07-17-2006
Billionaires Waren Buffet and Bill Gates fall ill to socialist philosophy  More...

05-31-2006
Grand Inquisitor visits Auschwitz  More...

05-22-2006
U.S. Treasury issues new Scratch N Sniff currency  More...

05-12-2006
10 Reasons why Idaho Governor Kempthorne should NOT be confirmed as Secretary of the Interior  More...

05-08-2006
Is it simply La Cage aux Folles at the Kempthorne Confirmation Hearing or will somebody ask a real question?  More...

04-24-2006
U.S. Constitution declared unconstitutional...
not signed by its authors, or anybody else  More...

04-17-2006
Idaho Teachers' union pushes Initiative for  Guaranteed Annual Income by earmarking 1% of sales tax for itself  More...

04-10-2006
University Place perps agree to not sue themselves...Pay each other $8.3 million...Cryptic Partners remains as possible 'fall guy' - Part II More...

04-03-2006
University Place perps agree to not sue themselves...Pay each other $8.3 million...Cryptic Partners remains as possible 'fall guy' - Part I More...

03-27-2006
JFAC gives blank check for Governor Kempthorne's Highway Robbery  More...

03-20-2006
Boise's Watergate goes to Washington... Governor Kempthorne nominated as Secretary of Interior  More...

03-06-2006
Is Idaho's $3 Billion GARVEE Highway Debt Unconstitutional?  More...

02-20-2006
Why Idaho's Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment is Pretended Law...Part II  More...

02-13-2006
Why Idaho's Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment is Pretended Law...Part I  More...

02-06-2006
Why we don't need property taxes...Part II  More...

01-30-2006
Why we don't need property taxes...Part I  More...

01-09-2006
Santa 'Clause' shows up to save Florida's Teachers' Union  More...

09-19-2005
Did Japanese mafia steer Hurricane Katrina down Bourbon Street for fun and profit...or revenge?  More...

09-12-2005
Why we don't need FEMA or Boise's "Blueprint for Good Growth"  More...

09-05-2005
Should Idaho abolish property taxes and implement a flat sales tax?  More...

08-22-2005
Gov Kempthorne is not our "CEO"  More...

07-11-2005
Ethnomathematics  More...

06-20-2005
Fat Idaho  More...

04-18-2005
The Fuzzy Math of U.S. Coinage  More...

04-11-2005
Birth:  Nature's Transfer of Private Property Rights  More...

03-14-2005
Whose Collective Rights?  More...

02-28-2005
Is Micron Whining for Corporate Welfare or Demanding Free Market Capitalism?  More...

02-21-2005
Catholicism in Latin America Morphs into Socialism  More...

01-31-2005
Oil Companies Turn Earth into Giant CO2 Soda Pop Bottles  More...

01-24-2005
Idaho Legislature Repeals Itself? ...
Anti-gay Marriage:  The State vs. The Individual  More...

01-17-2005
Idaho's Looming Fake Health Care "Crisis" More...

10-25-2004
America's Intellectual Hierarchy More...

09-27-2004
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
A panda walks into a café.  He orders a sandwich, eats it, then pulls out a gun and blasts two shots into the ceiling.   More...

10-11-2004
Anti-gay Marriage:  The State vs. The Individual  More...

10-04-2004
Evolution Of Math Instruction In California Public Schools  More...

Why Johnny Can't Read  More...

Does surgery for cancer cause more cancer?   More...

When Good Cells Go Bad (cancer:  who's right: viral theory or trophoblast theory?)  More...

Health Care Is Not A Right  More...

Must see movie out on DVD:

"V" for Vendetta...
"The people should not be afraid of their government; Governments should be afraid of their people."

   “Who are you?”

   “Who?  Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.”

   “Well, I can see that.”

   “Of course you can.  I’m not questioning your powers of observation.  I’m merely remarking on the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.”

   “Oh, right.”

   “But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the most commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this most dramatis personae:

   Voila!  In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate.

   This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished.  However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.

    The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.”

    Did You Know...?   

   The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.  The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.  Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.  A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

   Amendment X to the Constitution of the United States, together with Article I, Section 8, prohibits the U.S. Congress from involving itself in cabbage pricing, education, health care, personal safety, campaign financing, most criminal law, toilet capacity, the banning of amino acid supplements (such as tryptophan), vitamins (such as B-17) and thousands of other things it has gotten away with so far.

       Quickie News Briefs     

Friday July 30, 2010

--  Fri July 30 

Yes, girl friends, President Barack Obama gonna go listen to the brilliant bitches on "The View" -- like Whoppi Goldberg -- discuss the Qualitative Theory of Price Formation in an Evenly Rotating Economy in their daily philosophical circle jerk on national TV cause, you know, like, he got nothing else better to do, right?

--  Fri July 30  The US Constitution - Article 1 Section 10 -- No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.  Which of the above clauses of Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution have already been violated by either the Obama or past Administrations?  How about:  all of the above.

--  Fri July 30  While the Obama Administration and Federal Reserve have dragged the U.S. into a $14 trillion deficit, a $100 trillion unfunded future entitlement liability, the political elite and European Gangsta Banksta have dragged the nations of the European Union into a 30 trillion Euro debt that can never be repaid.  Same tricks, different names for the global central bankers' pulp fiction paper money, depending on which country you're in.  Americans might revolt but Europeans... well, the difference between Europeans and Americans is that the Yankees believe in inherent individual rights and liberties while Europeans believe they get their "rights" from that great fictitious entity called The State, which, therefore, translates into the non sequitur of "rights to receive" from everybody else, which, in turn, translates into a redistributive gimme gimme gimme culture of entitlements, which finally will end up as Virtual Entitlements from Nowhere as the world's wealth, capital, and -- in street talk -- "seed corn" evaporates into nothingness.  In response to the ideology of the Obama socialist Progressives' belief in wealth as a zero-sum game, just where, exactly, have the proletariat been hiding the electric light bulb, internal combustion engine, and computer chips over the last 8,000 years?

--  Fri July 30  Obama lies... again!  President Obama just signed into law the worst piece of legislation ever to come down the Pike.  In his latest kick in every American's butt, Obama's Financial Reform Act -- more appropriately entitled the Federal Reserve Full Empowerment & Enslavement Act -- the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims it does not have to provide ANY information whatsoever to the public, not even information filed in by a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request.  The supposed function of the SEC is to control, regulate, and make sure that the stock markets operate on the up and up but as every dolt with a Third Grade education can see, all stock markets are simply interventions by the central bank, the Federal Reserve, and President Obama's Plunge Protection Team (Economic Advisors) to buy and sell on the DOW, NASDAQ, the S & P, and Commodity Futures in order to keep the numbers in whatever range the government wants so it can issue propaganda news releases to influence the public.  For example, four major bullion banks control about 85% of the precious metals markets, which is an obvious monopoly that violates all CFTC rules but CFTC Commissioner Gary Gensler -- even though British whistle blowers have proven the monopoly in a recent CFTC investigation -- does zip, zero, nada, nothing to correct it.  The Obama Administration typically keeps the Dow Jones Industrial Average at 10,500 or so to convince the public the financial markets are doing A-OK, moving the DJIA up just before announcing another half a million lost jobs in the economy to lessen the news blowback and other interventions to keep us all fat, dumb, and happy.  The Big Question is:  what else is lingering within the 2,300 pages of Obama's Federal Reserve Full Empowerment Act?  Besides the fact that our central bank cleverly inserted a section in THEIR handcrafted Bill that removes all future full audits by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).  Isn't that great?  A private banking corporation takes us off the gold standard, issues hyper-inflated non-backed dollars, fuels the current Recession, creates subprime derivatives on Wall Street for Housing Mortgages and other non-collateralized commercial paper, then bets against their own derivatives with Credit Default Swaps (another clever name), and now writes its own Law to gain total and complete power over every business and individual in what's left of the free market, while exempting itself from all accountability and audits.  Ya-yessss, girl friends, I'd say President Obama and his socialist Gangsta Bankstas have completely taken over the U.S. economy and will now drive it to wherever they think they want.  Unfortunately, in the long run, Mother Nature will take over with Father Logic & Reason and the global markets will all end up bankrupt with commodities and services almost completely coming to a standstill because nobody can get away with violating the Laws of Identity (A=A, A cannot equal non-A) and the Law of Cause and Effect, which is exactly what state collectivism really is.  The non-transparency of the SEC will soon become the least of our economic worries as Obama's national socialistic blitzkrieg of idiotic financial tinkerings in the market continue unabated, the worst of which is the destruction of the free market pricing mechanism and which is why business has come to a standstill RE startups, expansions, and hiring individuals for jobs.  The very interventions into the market that socialists think they should do to jump start it are the very actions that destroy the market.  That's because the stupid socialists still believe in Marx's long ago disproven Labor Theory of Value (value resides in labor per se), Zero-sum amount of wealth (that wealth is a finite entity), and counterfeit paper can act as a medium of economic exchange, like gold.  Once again, nobody can violate the Law of Identity or the Law of Cause and Effect.  Persist at your own peril and, unfortunately, everybody else's, too.

--  Thur July 29  Whoa, girl friends.  Here's a News Flash-a-roonie to make you wonder if the U.S. still has a Constitution.  U.S. federal judge Susan Bolton, yesterday, caved in to Obama's U.S. injunction against Arizona's new immigration law.  At least four major sections of Arizona's immigration law were temporarily put on hold until the case of United States v. Arizona can be heard in court to determine its constitutionality.  Reading through about 40 pages of legal beagle gobble-dee-gook -- which is exactly what it is when you boil it down to street talk and logic -- Judge Bolton finally gets to the real reason she ruled for Obama and His Future Democratic Mexican Voters:  namely,

 "The Court also finds that the United States is likely to suffer irreparable harm if the Court does not preliminarily enjoin [temporarily stop] enforcement of these sections of S.B. 1070 [Arizona's Immigration Law] and that [here it comes, girl friends, wait for it, wait for it] the balance of equities tips in the United States' favor considering the public interest."

Say what?  The "public interest?"  Why did the Arizona state legies and Governor Jan Brewer sign off on the Protection Against Illegal Mexicans & Others Raping and Bankrupting Arizona if not for Arizona's "public interest" in the first place, you dolt of an idiotic Judge Judy with a big fat booty?

Judge Bolton continues, "The Court therefore issues a preliminary injunction enjoining [stopping] the enforcement of Section 2, Section 3, Section 5 and Section 6."

So what is it that Judge Susie Numbskull doesn't like about the Arizona Save Our Asses From the Tacos and Terrorists Masquerading as Enchiladas Pouring Across the Border Law?

Section 2 says, Requiring an officer to make a reasonable attempt at determination if somebody is in the country legally. 

Section 3 says, Creating a crime for the failure to apply for or carry alien registration papers.

Section 5 says, Creating a crime for an unauthorized alien to solicit, apply for, or perform work.

Section 6 says, Authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person where there is probable cause to believe the person has committed a public offense that makes the person removable from the United States.

Hey, these Sections of the Arizona Please Save Our Butts Law make sense to me.  How about you?  But good sense and logic are not what this is all about.  It's all about President Obama and the Progressive left Liberals trying to gain more political power by granting amnesty to 10-20 million illegal Taco Benders who the socialist Obama gangstas hope will vote for them in the next election.  The real tragedy is that all the border states are going bankrupt as the Illegals gobble up real Americans' tax money for various social services such as public education and hospitals.  Then again, if the U.S. wasn't so socialistic in the first place, i.e., taxing everybody for a giant social welfare state, the Enchiladas and Taliban wouldn't be pouring over the border in the first place.  Mexico just happens to be more socialistic than the U.S. is... currently... and that's why all The Tacos have been running across the border for America's free chocolate chip cookies.

So now what?  Arizona can appeal Judge Susie Judy Booty's obvious re-writing of the Constitution from the bench.  If that doesn't work they continue to court to fight it out.  Either Arizona wins in the court battle to secure its citizens' inherent individual rights -- the rights of which are a priori to the federal statutes regarding immigration -- or else I predict there will be a civil war across the United States over this cough-cough minor disagreement about private property rights and individual freedom.  And the freedom we're talking about is the freedom for the Yankees, not the Taco Benders running across the border to give birth to an "anchor baby" or dashing into our county hospitals for "free" medical care or gobbling up Social Security funds into which the Beaners never paid a dime.  Yeah, Judge Susie, "the balance of equities tips in the United States' favor considering 'the public interest?'"  There is no such animal as "the public interest."  There are only individual rights.  And those rights belong to the individuals of Arizona, not the Illegals sneaking across the border, and not Barack Obama and his future anticipated socialist voting block from Mexico.  Mexicans have already destroyed Mexico.  We don't need to let it happen here, too.  I say the jury is still out on this one.

--  Mon July 26  Shhh.  Be quiet.  The U.S. is so Top Secret heavy that everybody is busy watching everybody else and nobody really knows what anybody is doing.  According to a two year study by the Washington Post:

• Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
   

• An estimated 854,000 people hold top-secret security clearances.
   

• Just in Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they equal almost three Pentagons, about 17 million square feet of space.
   

• Analysts who try to make sense of documents and conversations obtained by foreign and domestic spying share their judgments by publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year – a volume so large that many are routinely ignored.

If you think all of this must create a lot of redundancy and useless effort, you’re right. But it also leads to an enormous data stream that can barely be processed. Much less acted upon intelligently. Thus, for example, the underwear bomber, who should have been nabbed before he got on the plane, had to be taken down by an alert private citizen instead.

The current state of affairs is summed up by retired Army Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who was asked last year to review how the Defense Department keeps track of its most sensitive programs.

Gen. Vines was shocked to find that there is no “agency with the authority, responsibility or a process in place to coordinate all these interagency and commercial activities. The complexity of this system defies description.” And he concluded that, “Because [the system] lacks a synchronizing process, it inevitably results in message dissonance, reduced effectiveness and waste. We consequently can't effectively assess whether it is making us more safe.”

The best part of all the Top Secrecy Baloney in America is:  President Obama, if he was a regular citizen applying for a security clearance in any government agency, would never qualify for even the lowest security clearance level of Confidential, much less Secret, Top Secret, Top Secret Crypto, Top Secret Crypto Eyes Only, or Top Secret XXXX Codeword, where Codeword is itself classified as Top Secret.  Why would Obama fail all security clearances?  Because of all of his past and present Communist and Terrorist affiliates and friends such as Van Jones, Weathermen Underground founder Bill Ayers and a host of other nefarious characters.  And yet, because Obama was elected President of the U.S., he is given Top Secret Crypto Eyes Only XXXX Codeword briefings on a daily basis by an amalgam of U.S. intelligence agencies.  Or is he really?  My guess is that many foreign nations refuse to share their intelligence information with the U.S. because they do not trust Obama -- and rightly so.  And I would also guess that there exist many U.S. intelligence agency groups who also find ways to not share important intel with Obama for the same reason:  he cannot be trusted to act in the best interests of America.  What an insane irony.

--  Sat July 24  Here's a novel idea for the left Liberal Progressives.  Let's say you believe in collectivist health care.  You want a whole bunch of people to join together, pay X amount of dollars, and have a jolly good time with your universal health care system.  I say OK.  All you gotta do to achieve this is to gather all the left Liberals together and create the Ajax Universal Health Care System.  Leave out all the Republicans and Libertarians and anybody who doesn't want to join.  51% of the voters voted for Barack Obama, so all these idiots can join the Ajax Universal Health Care System, and leave everybody else alone.  51% of the American voters equals about what, 50 million people or so?  Hey, that's about as big as England and they have National Health.  So, OK President Barack Obama there's your 50 million people for your altruistic state collectivist experiment for a U.S. National Health Care System called Ajax Health.  All volunteers, all Democrats, all socialists, all communists, all fascists, all Progressives, and all Liberals who voted for you can join your Ajax Universal Health Care System and I say, go for it, baby.  Yippee!  What's that you say?  You don't like my suggestion?  You don't like it unless all the Republicans and Libertarians and EVERYBODY are forced to join your Ajax Universal Health Care System?  Wait a New York minute here.  If your system won't work with 50 million people, why would it work with 100 million people?  So, we see that the real issue is one of totalitarian control of EVERYBODY, not just having enough people in a group to make universal health care work.  The question never was about health or creating a large enough group to ensure that health care costs could be covered by a large group, was it?  I mean, 50 million Democrats joined together in a universal health care system should do the trick, right?  No, it won't because the real issue all along was not about size; it's about power.  Otherwise, Obama could have formed an Ajax Universal Health Care System and covered 50 million Progressive idiots a long time ago while leaving the rest of us alone.  But true health care is not his objective or else he could have done it with 50 million volunteers.  No, girl friends, Obama's true objective is not universal health care; it's universal power over you.

--  Fri July 23  On Jan 1, 2012, every economic transaction for $600 or more will require the submittal of a Form 1099 to the IRS by the seller of the product.  This little known piece of merde was buried in the Obamacare crap passed this year and the reason is:  power.  The government says it wants to collect more taxes but the real reason is so that they can track you and everything you do, every transaction you make, every product you buy, such as, for instance, gold and silver coins from either the U.S. Mint or your local coin shop.  Hmm, why track who has gold coins?  Because, like FDR in 1933 who called in all gold coins and made it a criminal offense not to fork them over to the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve does not want you to be able to protect yourself from their control.  Remember, gold and silver money represent freedom.  Paper money and plastic credit cards represent government power over you.  Gold and silver represent private property rights.  Paper money and plastic credit cards represent unlimited power by central banks to create as much counterfeit pulp fiction dollars as they want in order to control markets and enrich themselves beyond belief.  Time for some bright young Congressman or woman -- after winning in the elections of 2010 -- to initiate a repeal of Obamacare, not just for the $600 Form 1099 provision but also because Obamacare is a piece of bullshit anyway.  Nobody knows what's in the Obamacare Law.  Nobody.

--  Fri July 23  The U.S. housing economy is now dead.  Notice in your neighborhood that nobody's house is selling.  The government's "loan modification program" -- that's where Obama and Fannie and Freddie and the FHA have forced banks to lower mortgage payments, lower total principal owed, and changed other parameters for deadbeats who couldn't afford their house in the first place -- is failing miserably, as predicted.  Those who defaulted the first time around are now defaulting the second or third time around.  In other words, the poor homeless people who the federal government was hell bent on making sure they got a home in order to equalize the distribution of wealth from 2000 through 2006, don't really want the responsibility of owning a home.  Even if the government made the payments or gave these poor suckers a home outright for free, it seems that they will do everything possible to screw it up.  Why make mortgage payments when you can run down to Joe's Liquors and buy screw top wine and let the federal government make your home payments?  Why mow your lawn?  Why make repairs?  Why get a job?  Hey, live like a pig and let Uncle Sam take care of everything.  The Obama Administration has already proven that they will print up as much money as they think necessary to shove homes down the throats of the poor slob subprimes who don't want a home in the first place.  Why?  Because President Obama and Senator Chris Dodd and Rep Barney Frank are positive that socialism will work.  And if the Goddamn homeless bastards refuse to buy a cheap ass home in order to prop up the government's and Federal Reserve's hyper-inflated home prices, then by God the government will force the suckers to buy and default and re-buy and re-default their over-priced homes because they can't let housing prices deflate or it will crash the housing bubble, which might then crash the entire economy.  In fact, that is exactly what is happening in slow motion right now but nobody wants to admit it.  The U.S. residential and commercial mortgage markets have now crashed and burned, caused by going off the gold standard and adopting the pulp fiction dollars of the Federal Reserve and our totally corrupt U.S. Congress.  So Obama and Da Boyz are trying desperately to keep the housing market from swirling down the toilet but it is way too late.  The ball game is over, the fat lady has sung, and the only thing left is for everybody to admit is that the Federal Reserve provided the fake paper dollars to the Progressive socialists in the U.S. Congress who threw trillions of dollars at corrupt Fannie and Freddie, and we now live in socialist America where the entire free market is collapsing around our ears.  The root cause?  There exist virtually no intellectuals left who can point out what's wrong with the idiotic philosophy of Karl Marx's Bourgeoisie vs. the Proletariat.  Since all reason and logic is out, the only thing left is civil war, a national strike of Americans against their socialist President who is determined to "fundamentally transform America."  The U.S. will be transformed alright, but not in the way Obama thinks.  Once again, at the current rate of Obama's War Against Americans, we predict the country will break up into about five Regions of Authority, all fighting the federal government and establishing autonomous governments of their own.  Attempts by the federal government to suspend elections or shove martial law down everybody's throats will fail as National Guardsmen from each state will refuse to shoot their own brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers.  It is a sad state of affairs when the stupidest among us -- the Bozos in the Obama Administration -- reach the level of the Presidency and then proceed to rip down our nation by replacing individual rights with altruistic state collectivism.  The only thing standing between what looks like an upcoming second civil war and a more sane government is the 2010 elections.  If the current crooks in Congress are not thrown out, it's all over, baby blue, it's all over.

--  Thur July 22  President Barack Obama threw USDA Ag Department manager Shirley Sherrod under His political bus a coupla days ago.  He fired her butt for alleged racial statements made at an NAACP meeting last March.  But it wasn't the firing per se, at first, that was the big whoop-tee-doo.  It was how he fired her that has caused all the stink.  It seems that because somebody showed portions of her alleged racial speech on the Internet and he was afraid that it would end up on The Glenn Beck Show that night, he directed his henchmen to phone her up and fire her before the Glenn Back Show aired at 5 pm EST.  Ding-a-ling-ling, hello Ms. Sherrod?  Yes, it's me, driving down the freeway.  OK, Ms. Sherrod, pull over off the freeway so we can talk.  OK, I'm off the freeway.  OK, Ms. Sherrod, you're freaking fired.  Drive safely now.  Then, when Glenn Beck heard the news and said he didn't know anything about her alleged racist statements and could care less, at first, and then said she shouldn't have been fired by cell phone after being told to pull over off the freeway, everybody from Prez Obama to the Drive By News Media hippity-hopped all over the place trying to cover their little butts about The Firing of Ms. Sherrod.  Especially since after listening to the entire tape of Ms. Sherrod's alleged racist NAACP speech, it turned out that she maybe made some racist statements, or maybe she didn't, but at least we can infer from her statements that she leans slightly -- or maybe a whole lot, the jury's still out -- to the left of Karl Marx and today's current Have and Have Not Progressives who are busy trying to redistribute everybody's corn and potatoes.  The really funny part of President Barack Obama's Shoot First, Then Lie, was listening to Official Spokes Idiot Robert Gibbs tap dancing his way out of Obama's stupidity.  First, Robert said it was a huge communications problem on the part of everybody involved including the pygmies of Lower Boreno.  Then, he said, hey let's all chug a beer and turn this into a "teachable moment."  Really?  Another "teachable moment?"  Ya-yess, girl friends, all we can say is:  President Barack Obama must be so scared shitless by Glenn Beck on FOX News that he, once again, pulled a .45 out of his holster and shot his own ass in the foot.  So, as of today, Obama called Ms. Sherrod on the phone and hired her alleged racist butt back into the Ag Bureaucracy -- I don't know if he forced her to pull over off Highway 66 to do it -- and then went rambling on about how the Banking Reform Bill that he just signed yesterday would save us from all future Recessions, Depressions, Inflations, Deflations, Unemployment, Sex and Single Girls in New York City, and Mickey Mouse.

--  Wed July 21  Quote from someone in the Czech Republic:  "The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.  It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.  The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America.  Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.  The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool.  It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."  We shall see in the 2010 elections, won't we?

--  Mon July 19  Glenn Beck has finally figured out that President Obama and his Black Liberation Theology is nothing but a variation on the theme of altruistic state collectivism.  If one had to categorize Obama's specific state collectivist ideology, it would be national socialism with the state taking over all the major sectors of the economy and appointing bureaucrats to run each sector and then each company itself.  In this manner, Obama reasons -- erroneously, of course -- that one can create total government controls over corporations and then all ya gotta do is drop companies into the socialism and let them play capitalism.  Duh, this is so ridiculously oxymoronic that one wonders how he and the majority of PhD economists today think that the market can consist of a "mixed economy" of socialism and capitalism.  But that's what's happening today in the U.S. economy, philosophically fueled by Economic Village Idiots from Harvard et al.  Many of Obama's Cabinet members, Czars, and supporters, however, are Communists, such as Van Jones, who believes in the Marxist Fairytale that capitalism naturally morphs into socialism and that socialism naturally morphs into communism.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Socialism and communism are the same type of ruthless state collectivism and they both morph directly into state dictatorships to enforce everybody into equal poverty, everybody except the dictator and his or her buddies.  And this is exactly what President Obama is setting up in Washington DC today:  a state dictatorship with himself as Big Brother doling out cookies to his minions.  Almost but not quite everybody.  Nobody dishes out anything to the central bankers running the Federal Reserve.  They pull Obama's puppet strings or his administration crashes and burns and the central bankers simply prop up another Bozo, whether GOP or Democrat it doesn't matter since neither party knows the difference between paper and gold.  As George Bush said as he peed his pants after his Sec of the Treasury, Hank Paulson, forced Bush to sign off on a Goldman Sachs and central banking bailout of $800 billion, "Yeah, duh, It's like I had to kill the free market in order to save the free market, hyuck..."  Then ex President Bush turned ten shades of red and walked off to his big retirement in the sky, still trying to figure out what the bankers had taught him to say.  What a dolt.  Then, along came a spider:  Barack Obama.  And they made him do the same thing, called the ARRA.  What's that?  A $787 billion creation of cash by the Fed Reserve, for the Fed Reserve, and directly to the Fed Reserve and their buddies on Wall Street.  See how it works?  When will Glenn Beck finally figure out that it's not just about "salvation" and "praying for God" and joining hands with the New Black Panther Party to pretend that Martin Luther King was Jesus Politically Reincarnated.  And it's not just about President Barack Obama and his twisted logic of Black Liberation Theology.  Follow the money, fools.  Follow the money.  Is Obama using the central bankers or are the central bankers using Obama?  Look what the Fed Reserve just passed through Congress and Obama signed off on.  Presidents change but the central bank goes on and on and on.  What a sweet deal for the bankers, through thick and thin, through socialism, through communism, through dictatorships, through wars financing both sides, and you name it except for one thing:  central bankers do not thrive in a true free market with a 100% gold standard.  Because then people could vote NO with their pocketbook and rebel.  We couldn't have that sort of activity going on, could we?  Nooooo, ...

--  Sun July 18  Whoa, girl friends, is Barack Obama really John Galt in disguise?  You remember who John Galt was:  the hero in Ayn Rand's philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged.  Briefly, John Galt convinced all the producers of the world to go on strike and stop producing.  He convinced the producers that it was their ideas and their work as producers that made the world go around, creating wealth for the masses, not for altruistic reasons but for the sake of their self esteem and happiness.  It is not government officials, not the union laborers, not Congress, and not all the sniveling little special interest groups who make the world wealthier and better off, reasoned Galt.  In fact, it's these very nincompoops, the so-called workers of the world, who do everything possible to stomp upon the men and women of ability, the thinkers, the risk takers and try to hold them back.  It is not the laborers who are the source of wealth; it's the producers, those who transform ideas into time and labor saving devices -- not for the sake of others but for themselves -- that produce the wealth of the world.  They, the producers, are the Atlases of the world.  So how can Barack Obama be confused with John Galt?  Well, simple really.  There is more than one way to convince the producers in America and the world to stop producing:  (1) the John Galt method, and (2) the Barack Obama method.  John Galt got the producers to walk off the job, just like labor unions always do when they want more cookies, just to show who the true producers of wealth really are.  Barack Obama, on the other hand, has accomplished the same thing:  all the men and women of ideas have now gone on strike, only this is for real, it is not fiction.  Presiden Obama has introduced so much government intervention and socialism into our market economy that no producers are able to produce anything, even if they wanted to.  Obama's central bankers at the Federal Reserve and Economic Advisors in his Cabinet have inflated, then deflated, then inflated the U.S. Dollar so much -- we're talking trillions and trillions of non-backed debt -- that no businessman or woman in their right mind knows which way to go or what to do in the market.  There are no true price formations reflecting supply and demand.  There is no real stock market.  There are only government interventions; everything else is simply smoke and mirrors.  Bureaucrats totally control and regulate everything in the market to such an extent that all producers may as well be on strike because there is nothing they can do to calculate costs, make forecasts, or know anything about the market.  Thus nobody is willing to incorporate, start a business, hire anybody for work, or do anything in what's left of the market because Obama and His Economic Goons have essentially shut down the U.S. free market system just as if Ayn Rand's main character John Galt had convinced all the Atlases, all the producers, the thinkers, the risk takers, the men and women of ideas to go on strike.  Obama has unwittingly pulled off a "John Galt," only with no Galt's Gulch -- no free trade zone -- somewhere else for the producers to escape and produce anything.  Obama is the exact anti-thesis of Ayn Rand's hero, John Galt, and yet Obama has accomplished the very same result:  the shutting down of our market economy, shutting down all jobs, shutting down all the reasons for anybody to try and start up a business.  President Obama has accelerated John Galt's strike and is, therefore, dragging everybody into Obama's economic suicide.  What we are now witnessing in the U.S. and global economies is, well, let's face it, girl friends:  Atlas really is Shrugging -- not because of John Galt calling for a strike but rather because Barack Obama beat him to the punch and, in fact, has institutionalized it.

--  Sat July 17  The worst piece of legislation to become law within decades just passed both houses of Congress:  to wit, the Federal Reserve Empowerment Act.  This Act empowers a private group of central bankers the right to continue issuing pulp fiction dollars at hyper-inflationary rates, set interest rates at whatever they want, and regulate ALL businesses -- not just banks -- which, in their opinion threatens to "disrupt" whatever they define as "disrupt" the market economy.  Think about that for a minute.  A group of bankers totally controlling every aspect of your life.  They can shut down your business, not approve your start up for a business, run you through bureaucratic mazes, and completely wreck, ruin, or provide special interest money for your business.  This new Act, touted by the Obama Administration as a new Consumer Protection Agency to protect us from what caused our current Recession, is just another central banking power grab for those international bankers who are using President Obama while he is using them.  The bankers want monetary and business control: Obama wants socialist redistributionist control.  The new Banking Reform Act gives both of them what they want.  The only problem is:  it will destroy the free market and thus destroy both Obama and the bankers in the long run.  While they are too stupid to understand their suicide mission, we are not and that is why we must dump both groups.  How?  First, we must dump the current crooks in the U.S. Congress in the 2010 elections and elect fiscal Conservatives and Libertarians.  Second, the new U.S. Congress must then repeal all the crap laws passed by Obama and his Progressive Communists.  Third, we must dump President Obama in the 2012 elections.  Fourth, we must then abolish both the Federal Reserve and then the IRS and get back to sound money, gold and silver money.  We can then allow private banks to issue gold and silver backed paper and credit and thus allow the free market to take off again.  Finally, we must never allow central bankers and socialists or any type of state collectivists to take over our Legislative or Executive branches of government again.  Never again.  What a complete waste of time and money -- and loss of lives in worthless overseas military adventures -- we have expended over the last 100 years, most of it choreographed, including WW II by FDR, by a bunch of stupid Progressives who understand zilch about the axiomatic primaries of inherent individual rights, private property rights, basic economics, and how one must allow the free market to work in order for prices to manifest themselves in the market or else all market action, calculation, and forecasts will fail.  It is not about good or bad intentions; it is all about the qualitative theory of price formation and how if you destroy that mechanism, you will have destroyed the very market mechanism that even socialists need in order to be successful.  Therefore, socialism and also central banking monetary manipulations, are at face value contradictory concepts.  They are oxymorons... and so are Obama and the central bankers leading everybody on their financial suicide mission.

--  Thur July 15  Gather round, pull up the floor, shut up, and pour yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java, girl friends.  Death by a thousand rules.  That's America's current path.  Never mind President Obama and his Economic Village Idiots regulating your life away with a thousand new economic rules and regulations coupled with a $14 trillion deficit.  Let's talk about politically correct new rules.  Universities across our landscape have now established "free speech zones."  What the hell is a "free speech zone" and how does it conflict with The First Amendment's freedom of speech clause?  A "free speech zone" is a patch of concrete or lawn on a university campus where you can obtain a permit to stand up and speak your mind... uh that's between 9 am and noon, and 1 pm and 5 pm Mon-Fri.  Hmm, let me think about that for a New York nanosecond ding-dong yes, indeed, it is patently unconstitutional for any university or anybody else to place geographical limits on your freedom of speech.  Oh shut up about the standard faux free speech supposed rebuttal of, "Well, gee, gosh willikers, what if somebody stood up in a crowded theatre and yelled 'fire?'"  Like that's your rebuttal to support the Progressive universities' prohibition on freedom of peaceful organization and freedom of speech except at a designated plot of politically correct concrete?  That is not what our Founding Fathers had in mind when they listed freedom of speech as an inherent individual right in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  What is the excuse given by the major universities for creating "free speech zones?"  You might hurt somebody's feelings if you say something politically incorrect, they claim.  And God knows, we wouldn't want anybody's touchy-feeling little feelings to get hurt when somebody on campus finally has the guts enough to point out that, for example, President Obama and his Progressive Economic Village Idiots in the Executive Branch are busy transforming the American economy into a National Socialist concentration camp.  The real reason the universities are creating "free speech zones" is that it is simply another method by which the dominant Progressives running our universities want to control the teaching of their revisionist history and current events that they are spoon feeding down the throats of all their little students.  Look at how many of the students either don't care, don't see what's wrong with "free speech zones" and have bought off on the Progressive universities baloney about protecting them against "hate speech."  Hey, when did universities turn into child protectionist kindergartens?  Age 17 through post doc 30 year olds are exactly the ages at which young people should be questioning social-political and economic philosophies and current events -- especially at all colleges and universities.  That is why it's called "academia."  Peaceful freedom of speech is part of what is supposed to happen during one's university life, unless, of course, you are there just to receive what is now expected:  a state work permit, a diploma that says you know something and therefore can work as a whatever for whomever.  So what's really going on is:  (1) as part of their ongoing Progressive education policy of altruistic state collectivism, (2) the left Liberals who dominate our major universities have added to their revisionist curriculum, (3) the attempt to prohibit freedom of speech by relegating the campus location for such speech to a very limited control zone.  All in the name of protecting poor little Susie from speech that might inflame her nostrils and other senses if she heard the word, "socialism" or "free market" or "gold money" or "Ayn Rand" or "Glenn Beck" or "Karl Marx" or "I hate people with long noses who drive volkswagens on weekends."  You know what?  Screaming 'fire" on a crowded university campus might be exactly what is needed today to wake up a few thousand students to the fact that they are being led down the path to economic serfdom by President Obama's administration of Marxian socialists qua Black Liberation Theologists, the irony of which includes the destruction of individual rights by the creation of "free speech zones" on university campuses.  Then again, President Obama is not concerned with individual rights since he is off and running in the philosophy of ALTRUISTIC COLLECTIVISM, i.e. your highest moral ideal, claims Obama, is the self sacrifice of the individual to the collective for some imagined good of the collective.  Obama and the Progressives do not believe in the philosophy of inherent individual rights; they believe in The Borg, the oxymoronic contradiction of "collective rights."  In reality, this is no such concept at "collective rights."  Only individuals can have rights.  Collectives are non-entities to which "rights" cannot be ascribed qua "collectives" per se.  The word "collective" as pertains to social-political-economic ideas is only useful as a language construct to describe the concept of a plural number of people, not the action of their "rights."  Thus, there is no such animal as collective rights, there is no such thing as zero-sum finite wealth in economics, and there is no such thing as value residing in labor or commodities per se, and, therefore, there is no such thing as Karl Marx's antagonism between the Bourgeoise vs. the Proletariat or the Haves vs. the Have-Nots in his socialist Sugar Plum Fairytales.  There is no such thing as the Workers vs. the Managers or Capitalism vs. the Workers or any of the standard, outmoded economic philosophy put forth by state protectionists who were, at that time, on the cutting edge of learning economics in the 17th through 19th Centuries -- from the Guild Socialists to the French Parliament protectionists to the Kings and Queens of Europe with their excuse of the Divine Right of Kings.  If this sounds like a repeat or three-peat or a thousand-peat of history by our current Obama Administration, relax because it is.  And that's why somebody at some university should be standing up in non "free speech zones" on campus -- like on the steps of the Student Union -- and refuting the entire concept of "free speech zones."  Where are the students of today with the cajones to stand up anywhere on campus for the U.S. Constitution and freedom of peaceful association and freedom of speech?  The U.S. economy is swirling down the toilet of Progressive regulation and controls while the future generation of young adults, supposedly intellectuals at supposed academia, are more worried about the cost of their Federal Reserve student loans and getting their state work permits than refuting the very concepts by their instructors that have brought about these conditions, the very concepts that will ensure they do not get a job, or if they do, will cost them their entire future life savings forever.  That is, if the Powers that Be in the government and central banks don't blow up the Earth before that.  Wake up, students!  You're being conned if you believe in "free speech zones."  Because what's next is "free speech Internet Zones" right before "No Free Speech Period."  Can you wrap your head around that concept?  I hope so.  Because if Obama gets his way, it's just around the corner from "free speech zones."

--  Tue July 13  Food for thought.  Money is a medium of economic exchange.  It is a form of economic communication.  Communication is a form of speech.  Freedom of speech is an inherent right of all human beings and is protected in the First Amendment in our Bill of Rights.  To restrict an individual's freedom of speech, which includes economic communication, which, in turn, includes an individual's choice of a medium of economic exchange such as gold or silver money, is a violation of one's Constitutional rights as protected in the First Amendment of our Bill of Rights.  Therefore, the establishment of a central bank such as the Federal Reserve, that prohibits the use of gold or silver as a form of economic communication, a medium of economic exchange, i.e. MONEY, is a violation of our First Amendment rights.  Pure and simple.  Congress' or the Executive Branch's granting of monopolistic monetary rights to a private central banking corporation is a violation of our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech.  The Federal Reserve is illegal under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  Congress' or the Executive Branch's granting of exclusive monetary and interest manipulation is, for the same reason, a violation of everybody's First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution.  And it's all been done under the false economic philosophy of "saving everybody" from themselves and promoting the market economy.  Imagine if the same infringement had happened to freedom of religion.  Let's say the U.S. Congress created or delegated monopolistic religious authority to a central religious corporation called the Federal Religion Board.  And the Federal Religion Board was allowed to control and regulate everybody's private prayers and place of worship in order to save us all from the KKK or the Muslims or the Aryan Brotherhood or the Jews or the Catholics.  In this analogy, the Federal Religion Board would be allowed to manipulate the percentage of religious speech today relative to tomorrow (interest rates) that we could exchange on a daily basis.  And the Federal Religion Board could regulate our prayer format.  Singing is out.  No clapping hands.  Only paper prayers read between two people is allowed.  Religious communication would be tightly controlled except the Federal Religion Board members of the major churches could grant all kinds of worshipping, beer, wine, food, special discounted prayers in any format they like, to all their members.  And just to make sure no church goes morally bankrupt, the Federal Religion Board creates a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC, for all the member churches who, of course, pay a small fee to join.  Yes, if we need a Federal Reserve Board to protect us all from our free choice of economic communication, gold and silver, then we need a Federal Religion Board to protect us all from our free choice of religion.  What's next?  A Federal Association Board to protect us from choosing bad friends?

--  Mon July 12  President Barack Obama is becoming more and more delusional with power these days, thinking he can get away with virtually anything.  Take this last week, for instance.  Obama up and appointed some socialist Economic Idiot as Czar for Obamacare without the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate.  Not only has this infuriated the Repubs; the Demos are ticked off, too.  Looks like Obama will definitely be a one term president, unless he creates a war and suspends the U.S. Constitution.  Fat chance.  After the Little Emperor loses the Oval Office and a new batch of politicians gain control over both houses of Congress, they will be busy full time repealing all the trash laws that the Obama Administration will have put into place over the last several years.  And we say, don't stop there, gang.  Let's repeal a lot more of the ridiculous pieces of legislation that are simply crippling the markets of America.  And while we're at it in 2012, if not before, we need to get back to Auditing and then Abolishing the Federal Reserve.  And the IRS.  We must get back to a sound money system or it's curtains for everybody on a global scale.  I hate to slap you upside your head with metaphysics and philosophy but sound money is the concretization of private property rights, which, in turn, is the basis of a free market society.  Controlling the choice of your own medium of economic exchange, gold money, is denial of your freedom of economic speech.  In effect, the Federal Reserve central bank is in business to deny to you your inherent right to freedom of speech.  The creation of the Federal Reserve is a violation of your First Amendment rights, plain and simple.  On that basis alone, the central bankers should be arrested, tried in court, and sent up the river for a 100 years.  Former Fed Chief  Alan Greenspan and Current Fed Chief Ben Bernancke should be at the head of the list of defendants.  And that's the name of that tune, girl friends.

--  Mon July 12  In the Oh-Did-You-Just-Now-Figure-It-Out Department, The Wall Street Journal this weekend is concerned about how the majority of different stocks in different market sectors are closely tracking each other during trading.  Not since the crash-a-roonie of 1987 have the S & P and DOW stocks moved in such lock step with each other.  We're talking an 81% correlation of lock stepping.  If one stock goes down, they all go down; if one goes up, they all go up.  In unison.  As in together like Siamese twins.  Hmm, I wonder what this phenomenon is indicative of?  The stock market moving up and down like clockwork, in unison...  Let's see now, this reminds me of precious metals futures, gold and silver, and the 4 major bullion banks connected to the Federal Reserve who buy and sell some 80 plus percent of the precious metals market -- all in violation of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rules against gaming the market with a monopoly.  Wow, it just now hit me like a ton of bricks, girl friends.  Do you suppose Da Gangsta Bankstas at the Fed and Obama's Plunge Protection Team of Econ Advisors are issuing themselves tons and tons of pulp fiction dollars and dialing in from the Cayman Islands as The Mystery Buyers & Sellers in the S & P and DJIA markets to intervene and control the stock market according to whatever flavor of news they're concocting for the day?  Nawww, the government wouldn't do that, would they?

--  Sun July 11  And this is why Idaho's Gov Butch Otter is a pretend Libertarian:  Gov Otter, his wifester, and an entourage of 25 people from businessmen to reporters, dashed over to Shanghai, China, for their annual "Great Five Year Leap Pretend Trade Meetings."  Embracing the state collectivist idea that state-to-state government officials dragging drooling special interest businessmen across the globe is the best way for the market economy to do business, Gov Otter spent a week with Chinese Communist Commerce officials on a whirl wind tour of dairies and other state controlled market sectors, wining and dining at lavish receptions, while garnering 5 whole jobs for Idahonians in the Big Time Hay business, and trying to secure 6 jobs in total for Idaho.  "If we obtain double or triple that figure, we will have hit a home run," said one of the dummies in Otter's parade.  Yeah, 12 or 18 jobs.  Wow.  There are tens of thousands of unemployed Idahoans, 7 to 10 million or more unemployed Americans, due precisely to all the previous governmental interventions in the U.S. market, and Gov Otter of Idaho is running around China trying to secure 6-18 jobs by playing face to face collectivism with the People's Communist Republic of China.  And Rocky "the racoon" Barker from the left Liberal Idaho Statesman news rag dutifully reports back to the Progressives in Boise about how the "trade mission" is going, including the wonderful historical relationships Idaho and America have enjoyed with what's left of Chairman Mao's butchering of over 50 million Chinese inhabitants, as if nothing wrong has happened in beautiful China over the past 100 years or so.  Uh-huh and la-dee-dah.  In fact, everything is so hunky dory and on the up and up that the Idaho delegation is looking for Chinese "investors" to pay umpteen million dollars for a Green Card and immigration papers to come live in the U.S. -- if they promise to try and create a job or two in Idaho.  Yes, girl friends.  Back in the old days, we used to call this:  bribery or extortion.  And the Chinese look at it as:  an escape from a Communist nation in which they have no rights whatsoever.  So, what we really got here folks, is a group of ignorant Idahoans pretending to set up future business deals with people willing to pay big bucks to escape from their Chinese dictators, with everybody pretending they are creating that great new parameter of Keynesian Economic Baloney:  jobs.  You fools.  Jobs are simply the result of two or more people freely exchanging in a free market, not an algebraic parameter to fill out in Lord John Maynard Keynes' Quantitative Economic theory.  How insulting for Gov Otter to pretend he's a Libertarian or even a fiscal Conservative and then run around with a special interest trade mission to play state collectivist pretend economics.  The entire group should be ashamed of themselves for spending taxpayer money on a trip to Mao-Ville and pretending they represent the average Idahoan.  They do not.  Try reading Adam Smith or F.A. Hayek or other free market authors and get a life, a real business life, you trade mission dopes.  Sometimes one wonders which political cow's ass calf-roping Otter has his head stuck up into.  Don't end a sentence with a preposition?  OK, ...which political cow's ass calf-roping Otter has his head stuck up into, bitch.  

--  Sun July 11  Whoa, listen up, sports fans, and all the girl friends of sports fans, unless you're already a female sports fan in which case you qualify twice or...  Never mind.  In between trying to figure out whether it's true that The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter was really created by ET humans who stupidly blew up their own planet, Malona, some 75,000 years ago by directing vast amounts of sea water into a volcano, you may want to tune in to today's 2010 World Cup of Soccer.  It's the Finals and we got the Dutch Boys pulling out all the stops -- and their fingers from the dykes -- to try and dribble past the Taco Benders of Espania.  Make that the Paella Slurpers of Espania; tacos are for the Mexicans who got blown away before the Quarter Finals.  The Hamburger Americans also lost their French Fries before the Quarter Finals, but not to the French.  The Frogs lost their cookies to the Mexican Tacos and Uruguayan Bananas in the first rounds of Group A.  Amazingly, Brazil also -- for the first time in their entire "Beautiful Game" life -- were dropped kicked right outta the stadium in their Quarter Finals to the Dutch Dyke Fingers.  Well, maybe not so amazing.  While acquiescing to a woman friend of mine that she was correct in our heated argument -- I mean rational discussion -- that short to medium-sized guys usually make better ball handlers and therefore better soccer players (my position) than Big & Tall guys with high centers of gravity and who are usually slow, clumsy clodhoppers (her position, my description) and that as an example I used Brazil (who has won five World Cup Finals), she cleverly logged onto the World Cup team rosters and showed that over 50% of the Brazilian team (and other highly-rated teams) had players who were over 6-feet tall and weighed over 175 pounds.  Oh-oh, I was about to lose the bet but... lo and behold, Big & Tall Brazil (hey, Kaka is 6 feet tall) lost their Quarter Final to the Big & Tall Dutch Boys, 2-1.  Everybody asked why?  Or how come?  Or, they scratched their heads and said, "Today's Brazil doesn't look like yesterday's Brazil, what gives?" ... at any rate, I said, "Easy peezy, lemon squeazy."  My theory was shown to be true:  namely, as Brazil switched to playing Big & Tall, clumsy ball handlers -- unlike all their previous short to medium dancers with the ball -- they played typical British 50-50 kickball, in which it's "Hey, mates, let's just blindly kick the ball downfield and see who comes up with it," and, hesto presto, you play Big & Tall, you lose Big & Tall.  Bye-bye, Brazil.  My friend who corrected my assumption that Brazil was still a team of short guy, samba-dancing great ball handlers, just proved what I was saying:  soccer is a fast change-of-pace game in which short to medium-sized players have an advantage in ball handling precisely due to their smaller size and weight over the Big & Tall American-like football players, and thus the shorties -- ceritus paribus (all other things being equal) -- will usually win the match.  50-50 kickball and headers are grossly overrated, and thus Big & Tall is not an advantage.  That being said, there are exceptions.  Today may be an exception if the Dutch Boys can quickly learn the tango, samba, and out break-dance the smaller Espanias who, rumor has it, can dribble through the New York subway at rush hour without losing their balls, pun intended.  My bet is on the Paella Chompers of Spain, how about you?  Kick off time is 12:30 noon MST.  Or is 12:30 the singing of the Star Spangled Tacos and Dyke Band-Aid songs and Kick Off is at 1 pm MST, I forget?  Set your DVRs in case there's a riot on the pitch after the ref misses an important call and the fans string him up on the goal posts.  Hey, if he's over 8-feet tall, he can survive by standing on his little tippy toes until the stadium cops arrive and cut him down.  That's when FIFA will finally implement the technology for instant reviews of goal shots.

--  Fri July 9  Is anybody being fooled by the government's continual intervention in the stock market and precious metals markets?  Not anybody reading this Web site, that's for sure.  The 4 major bullion banks, JP Morgan et al, are continuing to short gold and silver futures that they don't own like it was going out of style.  Gold is now bouncing up and down doing the dead cat bounce between $1200 and $1260 every other whipstitch trading day.  Same for silver at around $17 to $19 per troy ounce.  Gold stock prices are bouncing up and down in synch with whatever the bullion banks do to gold and silver on a daily basis, much like a dancer following her partner in the Tango.  Purchasers of U.S. gold Eagles and Buffalos and silver Eagles are dancing to a different tune:  rock 'n roll Flamenco-Metal or something, with your Wah-Wah and amplifier gain controls set on Double Dirty.  In non-musician talk, that means all kinds of people are buying U.S. gold and silver coins faster than a freshly fornicated fox in a forest fire and they are not paying attention to the interventionist lies of the stock market.  Why?  Besides bullion futures and gold stock that will eventually skyrocket when the pulp fiction dollar finally crashes and burns -- and it will -- there is nothing else to invest in that is not highly manipulated by Da Boyz at the central banks.  You can set your watch by the daily interventionist timing in the gold and silver futures markets.  And you can set your grandfather clocks by the interventionist timing by the Fed in the Dow Jones market:  when the Dow falls from ten-thousand-and-whoopteedoo, Da Bankstas buy a general slush of the Dow and jack it back up into at least the 10,000 range.  Up and down, up and down, this is not a free market, folks.  There is no real volume and it's all highly manipulated and choreographed with whatever President Barack Obama and his cronies are doing that day.  Unemployment figures come out and the results are bad... the Dow falls and then the Fed drags it back up.  Obama announces more free cookies from the government, the Dow temporarily jumps during his announcement on all the major news media.  It's a three quarter time waltz:  Obama dancing with the major ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, CSNBC, and New York Times Progressive bootlickers.  Slurp, slurp.  Don't worry.  In the end, if the socialist Bozos don't destroy us all first, they will eventually destroy themselves since they can't fool Mother Nature.  Paper is not gold.  And slavery to the federal government is not freedom.  If you hadn't attended Harvard, you would have already known that, right, girl friends?  So much for today's "higher" education.

--  Thur  July 8  Another Obama-manufactured crisis is looming on the horizon.  Does this guy never stop lying and trying to cheat the system?  The problem:  two Black Panther members sporting the latest in fashion military duds and carrying police batons illegally stationed themselves outside a local voting place in 2008, threatening voters as they went in and came out of the voting booths.  A citizen filed a lawsuit in the federal district against the two Black Panther members and the case was adjudicated in favor of the citizen.  Then, all of a sudden, Obama's U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, with nothing better to do, dismissed the entire case against the Panthers.  Hesto presto, like it never existed.  Then, somebody researched the two Black Panthers and discovered at least one of them, caught on video tape, was ranting and raving at some downtown flea market or gathering of some sort, enticing the mostly black crowd to kill white people and their babies, "crackers" as he called them.  Mr. Black Panther clear stated how much he "hated all white crackers" and questioned mixed race couples in the crowd why they were together.  The bigger question is:  why did U.S. AG Eric Holder and President Barack Obama dismiss the Dept of Justice case against this individual who pulled the same verbal stunt -- and worse since he was carrying a weapon in front of the voting booths?  Everybody in the news media has glommed onto this story now and even the left Liberal Progressives are beginning to see the light.  Glenn Beck traced the Black Panther movement and President Obama's connection to it back to the 1970's and showed how a Progressive Harvard Professor Oglebee or Ogleboggle or Whomever was connected to the NAACP, the Black Panthers, and Barack and Michelle Obama at Harvard.  TV commentator O'Reilly opines that something smells fishy and that Obama and AG Holder have grossly overstepped their bounds.  Others in the media are scratching their heads and wondering where Lady Justice flew the coop in not only this Presidentially-dismissed case but in other dismissed cases in which SEIU union goons beat the crap out of a black man who was peacefully protesting in public last year.  It's actually quite simple, really.  President Obama and his White House goons think that they have obtained so much power that they can do virtually anything they want, with complete impunity.  And so far they have.  Obama is power happy.  And he wants his socialist agenda implemented at all costs.  Even if it means blatantly ignoring the law and dismissing or implementing his own law, depending on what The Little Emperor wants.  In Arizona, he wants to dump states rights in order to maintain no border controls so he can gain some 10 to 20 million new Mexican voters by eventually granting the illegals amnesty.  At the regular voting booth, His Majesty wants to intimidate voters by allowing his Black Panther buddies to stand out in front of the voting booths and scream "crackers" or "cookies" or whatever flavor of carbohydrate polysaccharides the Black Panthers are calling whites these days.  The upshot is:  President Barack Obama, as we've stated before, has a chip on his shoulder against white people, and while it has become quite obvious that he wants to incite crisis after crisis after crisis to make a "fundamental change" to America, it is also becoming quite obvious that his method may well include not just a civil war but a racial civil war.  The Messiah has some severe psychological problems and if you didn't see them when he ran for President, who he hung out with, like racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Communist van Jones, and all the others on his current staff of state collectivist Czars, you can see it clearly now in these latest racist incidents -- or you aren't trying very hard to keep your eyes open.  We have a bigger problem in the Executive Dept than just someone trying to implement socialism.  We apparently have a narcissistic sociopath in the Oval Office running off on His own power happy program of racism.  It just keeps popping up over and over, doesn't it?  And yet the major news media keeps trying to cover it up by pretending that because he's the first black President, Obama is the one who will bring everybody together all over the world.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  This country is on the verge of a civil war against the federal government, a racial civil war, instigated by Barack Obama and his Brown Shirts, or rather Black Panthers.  Moving right along, Obama is now using NASA scientists to pass out free cookies to the Muslim world, claiming how much they, as Muslims, have contributed to scientific discoveries.  Why is the President differentiating somebody's scientific accomplishments by either their religious beliefs or their race?  Shouldn't we be going in the opposite direction?  An individual's accomplishments in whatever field of endeavor should not have anything whatsoever to do with the color of their skin or personal religious beliefs.

--  Wed  July 7  Obama promised that no American citizen's taxes would go up by even a "dime" after he took office.  Anybody receiving a Social Security notice in the mail this month because they will be 65 next month and thus forced into the Medicare system will notice that the cost for Medicare due to Obama's new nationalized health care law just went up from $96 per month to $110 per month.  That's a $14 per month, or $168 per year, per person health care tax increase for Obamacare.  And, there is no Social Security benefits increase for years 2010 and 2011.  Obama lied, once again, and please note that this is a 2nd tax on the same "income" for which you were already taxed the first time around when you earned it while working for the last 40 years.  Not only that, but your new Social Security notice will tell you an important new change:  those individuals earning $85,000 or more, or couples earning $170,000 or more in INCOME -- which will now count "unearned" retirement income from stocks, bonds, and other sources previously not counted as income -- will be shoved into a higher tax category regarding Medicare deductions from their Social Security.  Surprise!  Obama lied again.  It would have been better if the U.S. had never implemented Social Security and Medicare in the first place but since they forced us all onto this ridiculous bankrupt system and forced us to pay for it by extracting the money at our wage source, it is not welfare and must be paid to those who were forced to contribute.  The best that could be done to get out of this unfunded entitlement mess is to pay everybody back what the government stole via SS taxes, at compounded interest of say 3-5% per annum, and then stop the entire system and allow everybody to save for their own retirement without any government intervention.  Will the feds stop Social Security?  Yes.  When Hell freezes over... or when the U.S. simply runs out of pulp fiction dollars... or when the dollar crashes and burns... coming to a town near you sooner than you may think... unless we vote the current Bozos out of Congress, cut the spending like you can't believe, and then return to a sound monetary system, and THEN pay off and dump our outrageous SS system.  Don't forget to vote next November, will you?

--  Tue  July 6  Listen up, girl friends.  Obama and his Housing Mortgage Bozos are at it again:

A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client.  He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral.  The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down.  After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply.

"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title.  While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803.  Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."

Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:

"Your letter regarding title in Case No.189156 has been received.  I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 206 years covered by the present application.

I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased by the United States from France, in 1803 the year of origin identified in our application.

For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France, which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain.  The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Queen Isabella.

The good Queen Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus's expedition.  Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world.  Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana.  God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it, and the FHA. I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory.  Now, may we have our loan?"

And you want these Obama bureaucrats to manage a universal health care system, our children's education, our post office, a national train system, our banks and money, the production of our cars, insurance companies, our national borders, freedom of speech on the Internet, and the selling of "air pollution" derivatives on a Chicago Carbon Credit Exchange?  God help us all.

--  Sun July 4  HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA!!

--  Sun July 4  The U.S. Constitution.  They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq.  Why don't we just give them ours?  It was written by a lot of smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it any more.

--  Sat July 3  World Cup News Flash!  Argentina's Defense 4, Argentina's Offense 0.  And that's exactly how Germany whipped Argentina today in the World Cup in South Africa.  Actually, Germany did not even show up.  Only Argentina was on the field and their Defense kicked their Offense's little buttinskys at both ends of the pitch as the Offense could not finish the ball and the Defense never looked at who was coming in through the back door.  Surprise, it was a Panzer Division from Berlin.
 
  Bye-bye Argentina.  Hello Deutschland.
 
  Looks like the Krauts will get to play Espania after Espania -- rather, IF Espania, at the current rate of World Cup surprises -- rips the guacamole off the tacos of Paraguay this afternoon.  Now that Argentina has gone to the Land of the Giant Enchilada in the Sky (with Brazil, one-two-three trip, one-two-three stumble), I predict the Neds will knock off the cheating Uru's -- Suarez's Hand of God deprived Ghana of a sure goal and win yesterday -- and we will see Espania stomping the burritos out of the Dutch-a-roonies from Holland, aka the Netherlands.  Or... maybe Paraguay will be playing Uruguay in The Finals and we will have a South American civil war with losers Brazil and Argentina running guns and ammo up the jungle trails bordering both countries since the latter two nations surround both of the Taco-guay twins: Para and Uru.  Boom-boom, I predict a shoot out in this scenario.
 
  Brazil?  What Brazil?  They didn't show up either.  Go home, Girl Scouts.
 
  Somebody get me a coupla Dos Equis Cervezas, will ya, the suspense is killing me...

--  Sat July 3  Whoa, pull up the barn floor and pour yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java, girl friends.  "Corruption Suspected in Airlift of Billions in Cash from Kabul, Afghanistan," screams the headlines from the Wall Street Journal.  Really?  Corruption in a war zone?  Unheard of. 

"More than $3 billion in cash has been openly flown out of Kabul International Airport in the past three years, a sum so large that U.S. investigators believe top Afghan officials and their associates are sending billions of diverted U.S. aid and logistics dollars and drug money to financial safe havens abroad."  Why, I never...  I thought taxpayer money was dropped from U.S. helicopters to save us from, you know, The Terrorists...

"The cash—packed into suitcases, piled onto pallets and loaded into airplanes—is declared and legal to move. But U.S. and Afghan officials say they are targeting the flows in major anti-corruption and drug trafficking investigations because of their size relative to Afghanistan's small economy and the murkiness of their origins."  Wow, suitcases and pallets full of Franklins... drug trafficking... bigger than Afghan's entire GDP... Ooooh, whodda seen that coming, right?

"Officials believe some of the cash, if not most, is siphoned from Western aid projects and U.S., European and NATO contracts to provide security, supplies and reconstruction work for coalition forces in Afghanistan. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization spent about $14 billion here last year alone. Profits reaped from the opium trade are also a part of the money flow, as is cash earned by the Taliban from drugs and extortion, officials say."  Holy moley, cash stolen from U.S. taxpayers sent as foreign aid and ripped off by Afghan officials... no one coulda guessed that would happen...

"The amount declared as it leaves the airport is vast in a nation where the gross domestic product last year totaled $13.5 billion. More declared cash flies out of Kabul each year than the Afghan government collects in tax and customs revenue nationwide. 'It's not like they grow money on trees here,' said a U.S. official investigating corruption and Taliban financing. 'A lot of this looks like our tax dollars being stolen. And opium, of course.'"  Uh-oh, stolen tax dollars?  Nooooo, really?

"Where they allegedly get the money is one of the questions under investigation.

Vice President Fahim, responded through his brother, A.H. Fahim, a businessman, who denied the allegations. 'My brother? He doesn't know anything about money,' Mr. Fahim said."  Of course not.  And President Karzai don't know nothing, dudes...

"In a Jan. 22 financial disclosure form that he gave the Wall Street Journal to review, Mr. Karzai declared his net worth was $12,157,491 with assets of $21,163,347 and liabilities of $9,006,106. He reported an annual income of just over $400,000 but didn't provide dates."  Hey, cow girls, do the math.  This guy either really knows how to invest his paycheck in the crashing stock market, or else, you know, like...

"'Making money is fine and taking money out of the country is fine,' Karzai said. 'The relatives of government officials can do this, starting with my brothers. But there's a possibility of corruption,' he said without being specific."  No $hit, little Beaver, and we can guess who it is..

"'We do not even know about it. We don't know whose it is, why it is leaving, or where it is going,' Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal said at a December conference about the money leaving the airport."  Uh-huh, right...denial, denial, denial...

"Over the past year, U.S. and other Western officials have grown alarmed by the ways in which corruption was fueling support for the Taliban and indications that the massive infusions of poorly monitored Western dollars were helping foster a culture of graft."  Oh, ya think?  I wonder where all the dollars are coming from, I mean, who's printing them all up and for what reason?  I wonder if there's a central bank involved in this corruption...wait for it, wait for it, here it comes, girl friends...

"American officials have been working with Afghanistan's central bank to impose Western-style regulation on hawalas (money changers/transfers).

Under Afghan regulations enacted in the last few years, hawalas must report to the central bank every transaction they made monthly.

When they suspect illicit activity, they are required to file suspicious activity reports, as banks do in the U.S.

Compliance has been spotty, say central bank officials. Most still keep track of their transactions in handwritten ledger books, sometimes transcribed in code.

So far, not one suspicious activity report has been filed, said a central bank official who deals with enforcement matters."  Not one, zip, zero, nada, nobody, nothing...

"Gen. Asif said that last year, his men found a 'pile of millions of dollars,' all undeclared, and tried to stop it from being put on a flight to Dubai.

But 'there was lots of pressure from my higher ups,' Gen. Asif said. He refused to name the officials who were pressuring him, but said: 'It came from very, very senior people. They told me there was an arrangement with the CENTRAL BANK and told me to let it go.'"

What a shock-a-roonie.  The Aghan cenrtal bank is involved with monetary corruption for special interest groups in Kabul, just like in the U.S. of A.  Here's the long and short of it, girl friends.  The U.S. Federal Reserve, a private central bank, takes us off the gold standard, prints up tons of pulp fiction dollars for a fake war in the Middle East, funnels all kinds of "foreign aid" to various governments, the foreign governments -- directly or through their  related central banks -- launder the cash meant for the "war effort" and foreign aid to their government official buddies who pretend to be requesting help from the U.S. to fight some nebulous Terrorist group, while the real reason the U.S. is in the Middle East is that Big Oil is using the U.S. government to secure its oil business, including the Petro Dollar.  Our guys and gals in uniform are fighting and dying for a corrupt group of central bankers in the U.S. and Afghanistan who have used the Overton Window PR management of news and communications to trick the suckers in the U.S. to support the so-called War in the Middle East.  Our military is being misused and abused by the Obama and the previous Bush Administrations, all for the aggrandizement of the central bankers and their buddies printing up non-backed pulp fiction dollars.  But note that the first thing the central bankers had to do was to grab control of the money supply.  Now they can do anything they want.  A true gold standard and a free market without a central banking cartel would never have allowed anything of this magnitude to occur but most Americans, sadly, know next to nothing about money and credit, and thus it's like shooting fish in a barrel for the central bankers.  The international central bankers have financed both sides of all wars in the last hundred years and they will keep on keeping on until we wake up and dump the bastards.  Are you awake yet?

--  Sat July 3  Bad news.  Socialist President Barack Obama's judicial nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, will probably be OK'ed by the U.S. Senate since that body of idiots knows zip about the U.S. Constitution and its underlying philosophical principles of inherent individual rights.  Other bad news.  Ron Paul's Audit the Fed Bill, attached to the Dodd-Franks Fed Reserve Empowerment Bill, was defeated on the way back to committee.  Many of those who co-sponsored Paul's original Bill to reign in the Fed reneged and voted against Paul's addendum.  Auditing and Ending the Federal Reserve central banking counterfeiters is probably the single most important action that our U.S. Congress could do to bring us back to sound currency and end our current Recession.  Now that probably won't happen.  Too bad.  Most individuals are incapable of tracing our current global meltdown to the lack of a 100%, non fractional reserve gold standard.  That's why the Recession will continue until it crashes and burns and many people will be unemployed and starving in a world wide Depression that will probably end up as WW III.  The current Recession is not a big mystery.  It is the logical result of going off a sound monetary system.  Period.  Until we get back onto a sound monetary system, it will get worse.

--  Fri July 2  The Dutch beat Brazil in the World Cup Quarter Finals today, sending them home early.  Brazil has never lost this early before.  Uruguay cheated Ghana out of a victory today as Suarez struck the ball down in front of the net illegally using his hands, garnering a red card and a penalty shot for Ghana who promptly booted the ball 20 feet over the net, oops he missed, to force it into overtime.  Nobody won in overtime, so they went into penalty kicks.  Uruguay won on penalty kicks and Ghana went home crying.  Using your hands in the penalty box was sort of cheating but Ghana got the chance at a simple penalty kick.  Too bad, they blew it.  Tomorrow Argentina will probably kick Germany's butt and Spain will no doubt wipe Paraguay.  I predict Argentina in the Finals and also as the World Cup winner.  We'll see.

--  Thur July 1  President Obama, showing his true moral philosophy of altruistic state collectivism, which underlies his socialist ideology, had the following to say about the government paying for the health care and combat casualties of our military men and women:  "Look, it's an all volunteer force," Obama complained. "Nobody made these guys go to war.  They had to have known and accepted the risks.  Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?  It doesn't compute.." "I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country," Obama continued, "I wasn't asking for blood, just money.  With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help reduce the nation's deficit.. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."  Obama's speech is the epitome of the moral philosophy of altruistic state collectivism, whether it's socialism, Communism, Fascism, or a simple minded State Dictatorship.  He does not differentiate between true selflessness, that of a parent sacrificing one's life to save the life of their child or the selfless sacrifice of a soldier fighting to save one's nation, vs. the altruistic excuse put forth by socialists for state welfare recipients who supposedly have an unearned "right" to the fruits of everybody else's labors such as "free health care" or "free public education" or "free redistributed commodities and services" under Communism or Socialism.  Military personnel are not welfare recipients.  Note that President Obama doesn't understand that the only function of the government in a limited republic is to protect the liberties and private property rights of Americans, which includes the establishment of an objective judicial system and a domestic police force and a military.  Military personnel receiving health care as part of their military pay is not the same as Joe Doe labor union workers claiming a right to universal free health care.  Amazingly, Obama doesn't understand that the only individuals who do have a right to receive government paid medical care ARE the military and veteran soldiers who have been injured while performing the only proper function of a limited free republic.  Medical care for our military personnel and veterans does not constitute socialist health care.  It is not the same as a mandated universal health care system for everybody in America but Obama doesn't not see the difference.  In fact, Obama argues his case bassackwards, to wit:  military personnel volunteered to sacrifice themselves for America and thus do not deserve to receive health care benefits while the general population didn't volunteer for anything and therefore they should be the recipients of a state collectivist health care system.  Huh?  Think about the underlying logic of Obama's statements.  He even has his altruism, his definition of what constitutes selfishness, all wrong for the state collectivism that he espouses.  What a dummy.  If you carry a weapon of war as a soldier, then you should have known that you could lose a leg, so tough shit, reasons Obama.  But if you sacrifice yourself to the state by working as a nationalized GM labor union person who gets hurt on the job or as a druggie who overdoses on coke or meth or heroin, then you have a right to free health care from the government, i.e. the taxpayers, argues Obama.  Really?  Why does someone who loses a leg working on Obama's Car Farm have a right to free health care but someone who loses a leg in the military does not?  Obama's socialism isn't even logical within its own context.  He disses one group of individuals, the military, while supporting other groups of individuals, regarding who should receive government health care based upon his mixed up definition of selfishness.  And he got it backwards!  And He's the Commander-in-Chief of our military?  What a joke.  Once again, Ayn Rand was correct and President Barack Obama has just exposed his ridiculous immoral philosophy of altruistic state collectivism -- and he couldn't even get his logic straight on that.  Maybe because he's really just a simple-minded, two bit crook who happened to trick enough people into electing him to the White House?  We can fix that with the elections in Nov 2012, right?  One last thing:  Obama really doesn't understand the difference between Ayn Rand's definition of the Virtue of Selfishness between, say, a mother and her child or a soldier and his nation, vs. Obama's socialist version that the highest ideal of all individuals is to mindlessly sacrifice oneself to the collective state, not for defense or for love of one's child, but so the State Dictator -- which turns out to be Obama and his buddies -- can play economic redistributionist with the fruits of the sacrificed individual's production.  So, Prez Obama, stop dissing the military for doing what they were hired to do and get them out of the Middle East where they are being tragically misused under the guise of protecting our nation.  They are only being misused for the central bankers and to protect the Petro Dollar, which is now deader than a doornail.  Bring 'em home to protect our borders.  That's their job and pay them for their health care and casualty loses.

--  Thur July 1  Something smells fishy about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  And we're not talking about the shrimp that are dying and washing up on the beach from the oil spill.  Everything, and I mean virtually every action taken or rather not taken by the Obama Socialists points to a set up.  That's right, from the very beginning, BP appears to have been in cahoots with the Obama Administration to "create" this crisis on purpose.  Trouble is, it looks like the crisis has gotten out of control.  BP had over 700 citations and more than 15 deaths drilling in the Gulf.  Why would the Interior Dept -- Hello Idaho's former Gov Dirk Kempthorne who participated in the failed $136 million Boise Watergate fiasco and was then promoted to Sec of the Interior by former Prez George Bush, after which Prez Obama replaced Kempthrone with Mr. Salazar -- and the EPA allow a company with such a bad record to drill at 37,000 feet in the Gulf of Mexico, an unprecedented feat?  The Obama regulators, the EPA and Interior, instigated this crisis either on purpose or they should have known.  The next worst oil company records of citations:  eight.  Eight compared to BP's 700 plus.  Something smells fishy here.  And now, after 71 days of no results to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf while Obama plays 6 rounds of golf and sings Michelle My Belle with Sir Paul the Beatle McCartney at the White House Library, Obama still refuses to allow foreign technology to help us.  Worse yet, we have an oil sucker upper ship parked in dock right here in the United States in Virginia that is capable of slurping up 500,000 barrels of spilled oil a day from the ocean and the EPA and Obama Administration refuse to allow it to leave port.  Something smells fishy in the BP oil spill manufactured crisis.  How manufactured is it?  Obama issued an Executive Order moratorium to stop ALL oil drilling in the Gulf, thousands of wells with no problems, thus causing massive unemployment in the Louisiana area and driving future oil prices "necessarily sky high" as he said in his own words during his presidential campaign in 2008.  Even after a fed judge dismissed the moratorium, Obama has gone around it by simply having the Dept of the Interior and EPA refuse to issue any more drilling permits.  Something really smells fishy about the BP oil spill.  Meanwhile, Obama is giving $2 billion to Brazil's state oil company, Petrobras, to drill for oil off the coast of Brazil.  By the way, Venezuela's socialist dictator and admirer of President Obama's brand of socialism has just nationalized 7 more American oil companies because, well, he's flat broke and Venezuela now imports oil from other nations.  What a hoot!  Why give $2 billion to Petrobras to screw over the environment while using the moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico to pretend to save the environment?  Because Progressive Economic Idiot Geroge Soros and other friends of the President have invested billions in Petrobras and they know a sure fire inside deal when they create one.  And these are all the usual suspects, including Messiah Obama, who have created the Chicago Carbon Credit Exchange worth $10 trillion per year in selling "air."  That's right, selling "CO2 Dirty Air Rights" as Carbon Credit commercial paper that most nations could care less about anyway, such as China, who could give a rat's ass about cutting back on their pollution.  Worse yet, it is an economic fallacy -- or a Ponzi Scheme -- to create paper derivatives of pollution ideas, which is what Carbon Credits really are, and try to claim these units of paper have true monetary value or even exist as money itself that can be traded or act as a medium of economic exchange.  They are simply pieces of paper printed from nowhere with no backing, much like our current counterfeited dollars with no collateralized backing whatsoever.  The concept of Carbon Credits is fallacious and is just a con game for which the inventors and perps should be hustled off to jail in a New York minute.  Yes, indeed.  If you thought President Barack Obama was just a simple minded socialist Progressive with an ideological agenda, think again.  This dude is into Mobster extortion methods and manufactured crises to accomplish his goals like no other U.S. President we have ever had.  He is walking a very fine line between being an aggressive President overstepping the bounds of his authority and a common criminal.  And something really really smells fishy in the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

--  Wed June 30  OK, girl friends, what's Obama's official Crisis for Today?  Let's see now, how about the 10 or so Russian spies the U.S. Dept of Tinker Toys says they have captured in the United States this week?  That should keep our minds off the BP oil spill for a couple of days, right?  The G-20 Monetary Mobsters meeting in Canada while the bused-in anarchists throw rocks and bottles at the cops should take our minds off Obama's failing Immigration Reform Bill, make that the Amnesty Bill, that no Congressman or woman up for re-election wants to pass before the 2010 elections in November.  Oh, here's another crisis:  W. Virginia's Senator Robert "The KKK Grand Wizard" Byrd kicked the bucket the other day and now his buddy-in-crime Senator Feingold or Feinstein or Feinhopper whatever claims he won't bring Obama's Federal Reserve Full Empowerment Bill out of committee and onto the Senate floor for a vote without Senator Byrd holding his little hannie. Too bad but we'll see about that.  Maybe the Obama goon squad will squeeze Senator Feinkelberry's nuts in a vice until he squeals, "OK, OK, I'll do it, I'll do it," after which numb nuts will then lose his Senate seat but get a job at $5 million a year with the Fed Reserve in South Beach, Florida counting peanuts and drinking margaritas all day.  I'm sure Obama and Da Boyz are busy dreaming up more nonstop crises for the American citizens while He continues to play Smoke and Mirrors to get all his socialist programs passed when nobody's looking.  Trouble is, we're all getting wise to Messiah Obama's cutesy-cutesy little manufactured crises tricks and how he uses the major news media to make us look at his right hand while his left hand is busy picking our pockets, stealing our individual and private property rights as well as our dollars.  Nice try, dinkleberry, but soon the U.S. Congress will be comprised of a majority of Independents and Libertarians and fiscal Conservatives to repeal the Obama Trash and then we can dump Obama Himself in Nov 2012, unless He gets impeached before that.

--  Tue June 29  Barack Obama's grandma Sarah claims grandpa Obama's nuts were squeezed in a vice by the nasty British during Kenya's or some other African nation's revolution for freedom from England some time ago, says Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck TV show today.  And that supposedly explains why one of President Barack Obama's first deeds upon becoming Prez of the U.S. was to send back Britain's gift of a bust of Winston Churchill.  Glenn said he would have probably done the same thing if Canada had squeezed his grandpa's cajones in a vice and sent him a bust of the Canadian Prime Minister.  But wait a minute here.  Isn't this attitude the same as the old "the sins of the father are the sins of the sons" routine in which Europeans were imprisoned in debtor's prisons for the debts of their fathers?  Isn't this the same thing as racism, like if a black man rapes a white girl, then the KKK gets to indict and execute all black men or the black rapist's children or their dog?  Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that it's true that the Limies squeezed grandpa Obama's nuts to make him give up the names of the freedom fighters.  That doesn't give President Obama the right to take action today against those Brits who had nothing to do with the dirty deed just because they happen to be born in the same country, England in this case.  Individuals are responsible for their own actions, not the actions of their fathers, relatives, tribes, ethnic groups, genders, or people with the same color eyeballs or speech impediments.  So if Glenn Beck's revelation is true about grandpa Obama getting his nuts squeezed in a vice by some bad Limies a long time ago, and if it is true that Prez B.O. harbors hatred for the country of England for that reason, it's time for Obama to get over it and get a life.  He's supposedly a Harvard Law School graduate.  He should know that American jurisprudence does not contain the concept of "the sins of the father become the sins of the sons," or in street talk, all Chinese ain't guilty if Bong Wong shoots a honky in Harlem on a hot Saturday night, or the KKK can't hang all blacks because one of the brothers stole grandma whitey's '57 Chevy with twice pipes down at Wal-Mart last Tuesday.  I mean, like, c'mon, girl friends, the Brits squeezed the dude's grandpa's nuts in a vice 100 years ago... ?  Don't we got more important things to worry about these days...like Obama's $14 trillion budget deficit and $105 trillion in unfunded future Social Security and Medicare bennies that ain't gonna be there when the smoke clears?

--  Mon  June 28  Ah yes, the Overton Window.  What is the Overton Window?  It's the name of Glenn Beck's latest book, a fiction thriller.  Which isn't actually fiction since it's exactly -- change a few details here and there but it's damn close to exactly -- what President Barack Obama and his socialist dildo brains are trying to do to everybody in America.  In short, the Overton Window, named after its inventor, is a PR methodology by which those who want to control others manipulate communication in a society to push their victims toward one end of a spectrum that the perps want to shove everybody, usually for socio-political-economic reasons.  Basically, for power.  For example, if the two extremes of politics are anarchy at one end (no government) and totalitarian dictatorship at the other end (total government), those who manipulate "reality" for the people -- TV, news, legislation, the money supply, books, movies, public education, etc. -- can push the Overton Window of what's acceptable as reality in either direction through Public Relations management.  And revisionist history.  In this clever way, the PR power elite in charge can shape everybody's brains like molding clay pots.  What is the best methodology?  A good crisis.  Or how about several good crises simultaneously in every sector of the economy?  Sound familiar?  Well, it should because that's exactly what President Obama and his socialist Commies or Progressives or whatever state collectivist title you want to call them are busy doing.  And during all these simultaneous crises being created and manufactured by the Obama administration and his buddies, what is the one main coup d'etat that they require in order to just take over the entire nation?  A war.  That's right.  How about a nice juicy civil war or international war -- or expand the current wars in the Middle East -- in order to suspend everybody's rights, suspend the U.S. Constitution, suspend the elections for 2010 and or 2012, call out the militia and set up a 6 pm curfew for everybody to stay in their homes until sunrise?  Has anybody noticed that Obama and his administration are dashing through virtually every sector of the economy at blitzkrieg speed, creating a crisis where none really should exist?  Trillions of dollars for bank bailouts which never happen; banks are not spending any money.  Billions of dollars to "stimulate" the housing market?  Billions to nationalize car companies and their union pensions?  Billions for AIG insurance to send overseas?  Ramming mandated socialist health care down everybody's throats for trillions of dollars?  Granting the Federal Reserve the right to manipulate every aspect of every business and private individual in America; no central bank audits, ever?  Creating a Chicago Carbon Credit Exchange to sell non-collateralize air as derivatives, commercial paper like subprime mortgages?  Granting amnesty to 20 million illegal Mexican immigrants storming across the border; suing Arizona for passing immigration laws that the feds refuse to enforce?  It just goes on and on and on with no end of crises in sight.  As soon as one crisis hits or is manufactured, the Obama cronies create another crisis somewhere else.  The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in which the Obama Administration via the Dept of the Interior and EPA set BP up as the Bad Guy so Obama could shut down all drilling in the Gulf while simultaneously granting two billion dollars of American tax payer money to the state nationalized oil company of Brazil, Petrobras, so they can drill in the waters off Brazil.  What?  Obama's not trying to save the environment; he's simply redirecting tax money to projects for his buddies like Al Gore, George Soros, and Goldman Sachs.  And the crises continue faster and faster using the Overton Window PR methodology to so overwhelm Americans that pretty soon nobody knows what crisis to solve first, who should solve it, what's going on, and what the hell the truth really is anymore.  One thing we do know, and Glenn Beck's new book shows how it's happening:  at Obama's and his Administration's current rate of moving the Overton PR Window toward the extreme end of altruistic state collectivism, i.e. total government control and regulation, all we need now is s whoop-tee-doo civil war in America or another war somewhere else for Dictator Obama and his Goons to totally take over the United States of America -- and just watch how fast many wimpy Americans will sell their rights down the river for a presumed security.  The Overton PR Progressive Window, coming to a town near you soon, a la the philosophy of altruistic state collectivism, just as Ayn Rand predicted, just as Barack Obama is planning along with his puppet masters, the central bankers of the world who finance it.  Think I'm kidding?  Look around.  How many current crises can you count on the fingers and toes of both hands and feet?  Oops, ran out of fingers?  Need a calculator?  All the crises happening in America today are not accidents; they're not coincidental.  They are part of the Overton PR Progressive Window Plan.  How can you stop it?  A good start is to start paying attention to what's really happening and vote out all the current politicians.  We need to dump the entire concept of central bankers, the Federal Reserve, get back to a 100% gold standard and repeal all the pernicious legislation -- both financial and otherwise -- that the state collectivists in both major political parties have crammed down our throats.  Time to shut down Obama's Progressive Overton Window and restore the basics of the U.S. Constitution, individual freedom, and private property rights.  Oh yeah, Glenn Beck's book of the same name, The Overton Window?  An easier read than Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, same ideas, and not bad for a first try at thriller fiction... or rather, thriller facts...

--  Sat June 26  The G-20 Economic Village Idiots from 20 nations are meeting in Canada this week to determine how best to strip you of your economic freedoms and private property rights.  Germany wants to cut hyper-inflation of their money and spending, while retaining socialism.. somehow.  They should know; can you spell "hyper-inflation that reached into the quintillion level of Deutschmarks issued during the Weimar Republic?"  The European Union disagrees and wants to print up trillions of more paper Euros to flood the economies of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Spain, France, and Lower Slobovia on the pretense that more Funny Money will make everybody rich.  Russia likes gold.  So does Dubai and China but was China even invited to the G-20?  After all, China holds a trillion dollars of our pulp fiction paper and could end up with nothing but green paper in their little hannies when the U.S. Dollar finally crashes and burns.  Bernie Madoff, who recently gypped hundreds of people out of millions of dollars in a Wall Street investment Ponzi Scheme was not invited.  He's still in prison.  President Barack Obama will be at the G-20 representing nobody in the United States except himself and his Gangsta Bankstas little Timmy Geithner, Sec of our Empty Treasury, and "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke, Fed Reserve Chief who proclaimed he would drop hundred dollars bills out of helicopters to inflate the economy if he had to.  While Obama has no clue whatsoever what is happening in the world vis a vis money, banking, and economics, he's there to babble incoherently about how we need more world socialism and go along with whatever little Timmy and "Helicopter" Ben pull out of their Keynesian socialist hats.  The G-20 Meeting of the Monetary Crooks in Canada could best be described as The Global Economics Counterfeiting Club, which is exactly what every major nation is now doing via hyper-inflation of their fractional reserve currencies -- minus any gold or silver or any backing whatsoever for their fake "fractional reserve" paper money.  Hang onto your wallets, folks; they're busy carving up all the continents on planet Earth and the only thing they really need is:  the sanction of their victims, YOU.  Don't fall for it.  Read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and please re-discover why paper money is not the same as the collateral for paper money:  i.e. gold or silver.

--  Fri June 25  Wanna get rid of the drug cartels in Mexico?  Easy peezy, lemon squeazy.  Just get rid of prohibition.  For the same economic reasons that prohibition of alcohol in the 1900s brought about Al Capone and the mobsters in New York, Chicago, and everywhere else, the prohibition of marijuana, coke, horse, meth, and whatever else your kid snorts in public school has brought about the black market -- i.e., the drug cartels -- because the economic prices of said drugs are driven sky high through the act of making it illegal.  Whiskey is bad for you, too.  So is vodka.  Basic economics:  make whiskey and vodka illegal and you will create a mobster market for it.  Samo-samo for any commodity or service.  Free markets drive prices down.  Educate your children to not take drugs, legalize and control drugs like alcohol, and you will see the drug cartels throughout the world mysteriously disappear overnight.  The Drug Enforcement Administration has inadvertently created our drug problem, not solved it.  Wise up people.  Prohibition is the problem, not the solution.  It's basic economics.

--  Fri June 25  The Dodd Financial Reform Bill, recently passed by both houses of Congress and soon to be signed by President Obama, is probably the worst Bill that has been passed since the original Federal Reserve Acts.  This new law, grants our central bank -- a private corporation of bankers -- the unconstitutional authority to control EVERY single business in America, which, in their opinion, needs to be "controlled" for the betterment of our economy.  In addition, the Federal Reserve obtains the autonomy to NEVER have to undergo a full audit, all of which is in direct violation of Article 1, Sections 8, 9, and 10 of the U.S. Constitution.  All this and tons more market interventionism was passed in the Dodd Bill by a majority of U.S. Congressmen and women who apparently have absolutely no clue whatsoever what real money is, what collateral means, why we need a 100%, non-fractional reserve gold standard, or anything else about the nature of money and banking.  Under the guise of correcting the cause of our current Recession -- which virtually nobody admits was actually CAUSED by the existence of the Federal Reserve and its illegally obtained monetary manipulation powers -- the Federal Reserve has now been granted complete control over every aspect of every citizen's life.  He who controls the money supply controls the nation and the Dodd Financial Reform Bill is the final nail that has just been driven into the coffin of free market capitalism.  The only hope left is if we can replace the current economic idiots in Congress in the upcoming 2010 elections with free market oriented Congressmen and women and repeal the Dodd Financial Reform Bill in its entirety.  And then we need to replace it with Rep Ron Paul's Audit the Fed, and then End the Fed Bills.  The solution to our national and global market problems is to get rid of all the interventionist central banking institutions throughout the world, not grant them more power to screw us over with their Ponzi Scheme monetary policies.  The score to date in the Obama Administration's quest to control all aspects of your money:  state collectivism 1, free market 0.  Wake up Americans.  This is not the change you voted for... or is it?

--  Thur June 24  The Federal Reserve has not been publicly audited a single time since its incorporation in 1913.  Now, after years of discussion, a watered-down proposal seems to be close to signing, although it will still have to pass the Senate.  The Fed has so far shown dismay at the idea, and only Jeffrey Lacker, President of the Federal Reserve in Richmond, has had open ears for the proposal. The claim that the stability of the value of money was the highest priority for the Fed Reserve seems like a case of cheap talk.  Since the incorporation of the Fed in 1913, the dollar has lost 95%, and 82% since the end of Bretton Woods in 1971.  On top of that, government debt has increased by a factor of 44.  The closure of the “golden window” on 15 August 1971 by President Nixon was tantamount to the USA declaring bankruptcy, and the US dollar lost almost 40% relative to the German mark within 20 months. The depreciation against gold was even more dramatic: in 1971 USD 1,000 would have still bought you 25 ounces of gold, ten years later the same amount only bought you 2 ounces.

--  Thur June 24  New housing starts in the U.S. collapsed 33% from April 2010 to May 2010.  What a shocker.  Who'da thunk?  A bigger non-shocker is that Douglas Duncan, vice president and chief economist for Fannie Mae, raised a provocative idea at a recent meeting of real estate journalists in Austin: Some of the misconceived housing developments built during the boom years might have to be torn down because they don't make financial sense.  Huh?  So how come Fannie and Freddie have grabbed off 99% of the home mortgage market and are still issuing sub-prime home loans to people who can never pay them back.  Many of the new loans are re-loans, you know, to Bozos who defaulted the last time around and are already defaulting on the 2nd and 3rd times around.  That's because today's Economic Village Idiots define wealth, growth, and stimulus as continual counterfeiting (hyper-inflation) of our U.S. Dollar by the central bank, the Federal Reserve, and pumping said trash money into the economy.  This is what happens when the intellectuals at university pretend that philosophy doesn't matter, that 2 plus 2 can equal whatever you want it to be, that one can deny the Law of Identity and the Law of Cause and Effect.  "Gosh gee whizzers officer, I pretended that choo-choo train coming down the track was actually a glass of wine, so I tried to drink it, and wham, what a hangover..."  Right, girl friends, and that's exactly why the current and past administrations keep pumping out pulp fiction dollars and acting surprised when the economy doesn't recover.

--  Wed June 23  Holy macaroni...!  The U.S. scores a winning goal in the 91st minute, a 4 minute stoppage time, to win not only the game against Algeria but also to win their entire Group C with the most points to advance to the 2nd Group of 16 at the World Cup of Soccer.  After being cheated by the ref of an early 1st half goal by Dempsey (offsides NOT, as shown by an instant replay) and after obvious in-the-box fouls against Dempsey and other U.S. players that should have garnered a penalty kick for the U.S., Landon Donovan took off at mid-field in a mad dash to the Algerian goal, passed it off to Josi Altidore, who crossed it into the box back to Dempsey who sort of shot it, saved by a bounce off the Algerian goalie, but Donovan followed up the bounce off the goalie and slammed the ricocheted ball... boom... right into the back of the net.  Hesto presto, the U.S. wins and even snatched away England's fish and chips right out of their mouths by taking the lead and winning Group C.  Tune in later as the U.S. now enters into the You-Lose-One-Game-Bye-Bye-You-Go-Home Level of World Cup play.

--  Wed June 23  Oh no, not another blind ref?  Dempsey puts it into the back of the net for the U.S. soccer team and the line ref calls him offside!  Instant replay video show that Dempsey, like Edu in the last U.S. game vs. Slovenia, was NOT offside.  It should be U.S. 1, Algeria 0 but at half time it's now U.S. 0 Algeria 0.  Concurrently, England is now 1 and Slovenia is 0.  The U.S. needs to stop choking in front of the net and just pass it into the goal.  That's why I always coached my traveling youth team to pass it in front of the goal without scoring, just pass it back and forth for the entire first half, then in the second half, and only after three touches, they could pass, not haul off and shoot, the ball to Harvey the White Rabbit standing in the back of the net.  Training under fire produces automated results -- instead of fear and choking -- under fire.  The U.S. coach would be wise to offer this counsel to his players:  slow it down and go for the ground finish just like Brazil would do.  Good luck in the 2nd half, dudes.

--  Wed June 23  After getting gypped out of a win in its last game at the World Cup by a blind or bribed ref, the U.S. must kick Algeria's butt today in order to guarantee a move up to the Round of 16.  The U.S. soccer team can still move up if England ties or loses to Slovenia, a match that will be played simultaneously with the U.S. - Algeria game.  Will the U.S. - Algeria game be a nail-biter, 0-0 until the last two minutes of added-on stoppage time, or will the U.S. kick it into overdrive and bulldoze over the hey-look-at-me-I-can-grow-a-full-beard-at-age-13 Algerians?

-- Wed June 23  Meanwhile, four-star General Stanley McChrystal gets to take a free trip to the White House and listen to his military subordinate, President Barack Obama, try to ream the General's buttinsky for making fun of the President's group of nine years olds who are pretending to manage the wars in the Middle East.  Perhaps Obama will learn something, but I wouldn't bet on it.

--  Mon June 21  "Back to the drawing board:  economists rethink [Mathematical] Economics in light of global crisis," says an article in the Wall Street Journal today.  Really?  Ya think?  A freaking 12-year old kid could have told us how stupid it was to believe that one could counterfeit a zillion dollars in paper money and create real wealth.  But this is exactly the axiomatic premise promulgated by Nobel Prize winning Economic Village Idiot Lord John Maynard Keynes, Father of modern Quantitative Economic Theory.  Today's economists, almost without exception, are Lord Keynes' little simple-minded grad students who dashed out into the world to regurgitate his ridiculous views on Economic Mathematical Modeling.  This absurdity was adopted with drooling tongues by all the major universities, governments, and central banks of the world for the last 75 years -- including previous U.S. central banking chief Alan Greenspan and current Chief Ben Bernanke.  (See Greenspan's latest book The Age of Turbulence on pages 35-36 for his idiotic confession about believing in the powers of Mathematical Modeling in Economics.  Ayn Rand must be rolling over in her capitalist grave right about now, having published Greenspan's previously correct free market views in her Objectivist Newsletter and then watching him degenerate into socialist economics, a true oxymoron.)  What a joke Keynesian Quantitative Economics has been!  Based upon the bankrupt idea that fractional reserve counterfeiting of paper IOUs have the same functional value as its previous hard commodity backing, gold and silver, and that qualitative decisions have no place in modern economics, the Keynesians took over all the PhD programs at university and drilled the equivalent of "economic physics" into modern economics in order to, they thought, legitimize economics as a true "hard science."  What the Keynesians don't understand is that Qualitative Economics with its emphasis on subjective price formation, is already a "hard science."  Subjective methodologies of reasoning and logic do not disqualify an academic subject from being a "hard science."  A misappropriation of logic -- whether qualitative or quantitative -- does disqualify an intellectual endeavor of being anything but hot air and bullshit, maybe both.  What the Keynesians actually accomplished, however, was to completely bankrupt the entire global economy as politicians and central bankers took the wrong-thinking Keynesians at their word and implemented idiotic national programs based upon the Keynesians' incorrect theories.  Today, we are paying the price for the intellectual absurdities of past non-thinkers, non-intellectuals in most all Econ Depts throughout the world of academia.  As it turns out, the Austrian School of Economic Thought, free market capitalism based upon prioritized qualitative decisions by free individuals in a free market, is the correct road in economic theory.  Just one concept alone by the Austrians, namely that prices reflecting true supply and demand can only be formed through subjective, anticipated values of two or more traders in the market -- not by government force or fiat -- should have been enough to convince any intellectual economist at any university that the Keynesian counterfeiters controlling and manipulating interest and market prices by government decree were way, way off their gourds.  The Mathematical Modelers had no excuse.  Austrian economist F.A. Hayek received a Nobel Prize for his "subjective theory of price formation" but was pooh-poohed by all the major Keynesians of the day.  He still is.  Why?  Because Keynesian counterfeiting of the money supply fits in with all the current robberies, aka hyper-inflation, by today's central bankers and politicians.  In fact, one could argue that Keynes' Quantitative Economic Theory was manufactured in academia on purpose by central bankers and politicians in order to legitimize the state collectivist policies of the very same group of central bankers and politicians running the nations of the world today.  In short, the Progressives, Socialists and Communists did not accidentally or coincidentally adopt Quantitative Economics into their state collectivist policies as much as they CREATED Quantitative Economics in order to justify the adoption of their dictatorial policies.  He who controls a nation's money supply controls the nation and that was, is, and always has been, the reason for the existence of Quantitative Economics.  Big question:  how easily will the Keynesians give up their chairs at all the major universities?  Or will the current global bankruptcies in every nation that are emerging as an obvious result of their stupid Mathematical Modeling policies force them out and bring about a renaissance of younger free market-oriented capitalist economists?  Time will tell and time is getting short for most of today's economies as they rapidly are circling the drainpipe of global Depression.

--  Sun June 20  Coming up soon:  Energy Part 1 of 3... BP's Quest for Time:  The Well From Hell... and What They're Not Telling Us... Energy Part 2 of 3... The Asteroid Belt and How It Got There After the Planet Phaeton Blew Up...Will History Repeat Itself?  Energy Part 3 of 3... Why Are We Still Drilling for Oil When We Have Tesla's Free Radiant Energy?

--  Fri June 18  Economic History Lesson 101A, Weimar Republic, Germany, 1920s  In 1914, Germany’s Fed Reserve, the Reichsbank, suspended conversion of its paper money into gold.  By November 1923, after continual “injections of liquidity,” Reich Marks in circulation soared past 92.8 quintillion Marks and skyrocketed past 496 quintillion Marks through July of 1924.  On Oct 25, 1923, the Reichsbank apologized that it had been able to only print 120 quadrillion Marks that day, but the demand was for one quintillion Marks.  Finally, after nobody would accept the Mark, the Reichsbank devalued to a new Rentenmark convertible at 1 trillion to one.  By Nov 1923, circulation had increased 245 billion times and prices 1,380 billion times.  Inflation finally stopped in one day when 4.2 Rentenmarks (4.2 trillion old Marks) exchanged for 1 Dollar, which was convertible into gold.  Germany, via the Dollar, finally went back to the gold standard, after destroying its entire economy in 9 years through hyperinflation of its non-backed paper money. – Dr. H. Hazlitt, Economist

Sound familiar?

Today, in 2010, after FDR dumped the gold standard in 1933 and Nixon cut all dollar ties to gold in 1971, our derivative markets currently exceed a half a quadrillion dollars or $680,000,000,000,000 – six hundred trillion dollars – of non-collateralized paper fueled by America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve.  And what is it that everybody is screaming for more of?  The injection of trillions and trillions of more non-collateralized paper money as “liquidity” to “spur” the “growth” of the economy.

-- Fri June 18  This amazing cartoon was in the Chicago Tribune in 1934. Look carefully at the plan of action.  Note who's driving the out-of-control wagon:  university professors.  Note Stalin and Karl Marx babbling the same type of Obama fascist Progressive plan to "fundamentally transform" America.  Remember the adage, "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it."

--  Fri June 18  President Lord Jesus Mohammad Obama and his closest socialist buddies who know next to nothing about drilling for oil a mile under the ocean met with the CEO and other executives of BP Oil and pretended they knew where the fuel injectors on a 2010 Mopar 6.2 Litre Hemi engine are located.  Valerie Jarrett, the President Lord Jesus Obama's super tight bud consigliore, talked about the fact that "OIL" spelled upside down is "710" on her oil cap and that's why she was confused about where to add a quart of oil to her Mercedes last week.  Obama's Energy Czar from UC Berzerkeley, Wong Bong or whoever, said he added twice pipes to his classic '57 Chevy last year, just before counterfeiting 2 million copies of the pink slip to said hot rod and selling them on the New York Stock Exchange as fractional reserve currency backed by one heavy Chevy, dudes.  BP's CEO Tom Hayward, or Hayseed, or Hey Man, confided that yes, indeed, they thought it was a good deal to drill 5,275 feet under the Gulf of Mexico if the EPA and the U.S. Government regulators would allow them to do so -- even though it has never been done before -- and would allow BP a special exemption from maintenance and disaster equipment and would only hold them accountable for up to $75 million in liability if something, like, let's say just for the sake of argument, their oil rig blew up, caught fire, killed 11 people, busted the oil pipe at the well head 5,275 feet under the clear blue azure crystal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, and 60,000 barrels of black crude per day or hour or minute poured out and coated the white sandy beaches of New Orleans and screwed up the life of two trillion shrimp and one million pelicans.  Uh huh.  So, the upshot of President Lord Jesus Obama's Big Meeting with BP Oil -- his biggest political contributor from the oil industry -- was to illegally jack them up (we do have laws in this country don't we?) jack them up as in Executive Branch extortion, for $20 billion to be put into an escrow fund for Obama and his Crackerjack Cleanup Discussion Committee to run their fingers through whenever they feel like it.  You know, a lot like they do in the Chicago Mob where Obama learned how to be a Neighborhood Organizer.  So, excuse me for axting the question, bro, but from where, exactly, in the U.S. Constitution, does President Lord Jesus Mohammad Obama obtain the authority to jack up a private corporation, foreign or domestic, for future "protection money?"  Is Al Capone back?  Does he live in the White House?  Is a frog's ass waterproof?

--  Wed June 16  God help us, cow girls.  President Barry Obama popped onto national TV yesterday evening, speaking behind a wooden desk in the Oval Office, to tell us another Fractured Government Fairytale.  This one was about Godzilla BP the Nasty Pig Pirate Oil Driller vs. Obama our Saviour from Government Heaven.  The story starts out, as usual, with Our Saviour folding both hands on top of his wooden desk and then it goes downhill from there.  "As you probably already know," said Our Saviour, "Louisiana is in a Big with a capital B world of hurt.  So is Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Florida, Idaho, I believe, and the other 57 states in our great free nation of America."  Cough, cough.  "What happened?  Somebody done spilled ten or eleven tons of gunky oil all over MY beaches.  Who done it?  Without mentioning any names, the culprit's initials are British Petroleum, or BP for short.  How did BP gunk up MY beaches?  Well, it's a long story and I have a teleprompter.  Buckle your seat belts.  Eight weeks ago, BP's oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew sky high.  We mourn for the 11 oil riggers who died in that accident and you can bet we won't let this crisis go to waste.  Each widow will receive $10 billion in freshly printed $100 dollar bills from our central bank, the Federal Reserve.  Can we get a shout out for Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke?  Fifteen nanoseconds before the first body that blew up hit the ocean and before one drop of dirty black crude oil rose up from the exploded oil pipe to the top of the water in the Gulf, I personally had already formed a committee of 30,000 intellectuals from UC Berkeley, all of whom have earned a Nobel Prize in Physics or Basketweaving, to check into this pig pirate capitalist free market explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, and then I attended a music concert at the dedication of my new Presidential Library where Sir Paul McCartney of the famous Beatles rock group sang a song to my wife.  Coincidentally, the name of that song was:  Michelle, Ma Belle.  We partied down all night and everybody applauded.  Then, the body of one of the BP oil riggers fell out of the sky, hit the once azure blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and a zillion barrels of crude oil gushed up from over a mile below the drilling rig, immediately polluting the fishing waters in MY Gulf of Mexico.  So what did I do?  I went to Vermont and ate a taco, then flew back immediately.  But you can be sure My Administration was on top of it all and next Sir Paul McCartney sang The Taxman, Hey Jude, Back in The USSR, I Am The Walrus, and We All Live in a Yellow Submarine.  Second, after waiting 8 weeks to see what color 50 quadrillion barrels of crude oil really looks like when mixed with briny salt water in the Gulf, I shorted shrimp futures and went long on cattle futures.  Then I choppered on down to Bourbon Street in Nawleans and shook hands with some unemployed fishermen.  I can promise you one thing:  beef, it's what's for dinner.  At least for the the next 18 months or 18 years or 18 trillion in pulp fiction dollars or however long it takes for My Crackerjack Cleanup Committee to get Bubba Gump's Shrimp Factory back on line.  Yahoo, ain't I smart?  Third, We're going to shoot BP and ourselves in the butt.  Then we're going to swipe the CEO's wallet, bank accounts, Credit Default Swaps, and his kid's piggy bank and pay off every American citizen who votes for me in the next presidential election.  Finally, and most importantly -- next to Sir Paul McCartney singing Michelle, Ma Belle, to my wifester -- I am going to either issue another illegal Executive Order to institutionalize my Cap 'N Tax Bill to bankrupt the country, or force the U.S. Congress to implement my Carbon Credit Exchange Act so Al Gore and Goldman Sachs can rake in over $10 trillion a year by selling 'air' to the stupid public.  Let's all pray to God for that black crude oil coated pelican in Louisiana and hope they can save him and 1400 crippled children in wheelchairs at the Minnesota St. Luke's Hospital Cancer Ward.  God bless you and God bless America.  Nightie-night and remember:  it was George Bush's fault, the EPA regulators were on the job, and special interest pay-offs to government officials had nothing to do with it."

--  Sat June 12  "Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over." -- Herbert Hoover, responding to a delegation requesting a public works program to help speed the recovery, June 1930

"...irregular and conflicting movements of business should soon give way to a sustained recovery..." -- Harvard Economic Society, June 28, 1930

"...the present depression has about spent its force..." -- HES, Aug 30,1930

"We are now near the end of the declining phase of the depression." -- HES Nov 15, 1930

"Stabilization at [present] levels is clearly possible." -- HES Oct 31, 1931

"All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed...and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the IRS." -- President F.D. Roosevelt, 1933

75 years later...as history repeats itself...

"The worst of the Recession is clearly behind us..."  President Barack Obama, 2010

"...so I know whose ass to kick..."  President Barack Obama, during the BP oil spill crisis, pretending to be King George while espousing his Divine Right of Kings Doctrine, June 2010

U of Idaho Wallace pleads GUILTY in $136 mil University Place fiasco...

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About the author...I was born at the Alamo.  Then we moved to Japan.  Then to California, where I learned the dirty bop.  Attended UC Berkeley.  Got drafted into the Army.  Worked for the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, in the Pentagon and Saigon, Vietnam...in a steel vault two feet thick with cipher locks.  Top Secret Crypto Eyes Only security clearance.  Cranked up four corporations.  Managed Pacific Northwest branch of  a NY Software Company.  Moved to Boise, Idaho.  I'm an investigative journalist writing under a fake name.  Nobody would name their kid "Deep."  And no, my last name is not "Throat."  I dig up dirty laundry.  Dirty political laundry.  On the QT.  Hush-hush.  It's a dirty job, long hours and the pay stinks.  But it's a living and there's lots of dirty political laundry in Idaho.  I lean over a lot of fences, drink a lot of Rocket Java, and listen through beer mugs pressed against bathroom walls.  Right now I'm on my way down to check out another dead body at the Idaho State Legislature.  I better be careful...or it might be my own. -- Deep Throat II   Contact author

What they're saying about Boise's Watergate:

"Of course it was a fix.  It's an incestuous mess." -- Senator Stan Hawkins (R-Ucon), 18-year veteran legislator who voted NO on the University Place fiasco

"You are on the right track.  But you need deeper background.  I have it.  I know where every skeleton is buried.  But I need deepest cover.  You cannot reveal anything about me, not even where or how or by what means you obtain info from me.  Zip, zilch, zero, nada.  You must protect this source even if a judge threatens to send you to jail for contempt." -- Deepest Throat, anonymous source

"Finally, someone with the brains and guts enough to connect the dots between the $100 million Ada County Court House scam and the $136 million University Place fiasco as one big crime spree against the taxpayers by the Boise lawyers, politicians, and Cryptic Partners.  A fast read, this book deserves to become a best seller." -- Sharon Ullman, Ada County Commissioner (2001-2003, 2009-2012)

     Table of Contents    

Chapter  1 - The Cookie Monsters
Chapter  2 - All The Governor's Men
Chapter  3 - Cryptic Partners
Chapter  4 - Shark Frenzy:  Give-Us-Your-Purses
Chapter  5 - Holy Eureka, It's "Hoover Time!"
Chapter  6 - UI and UIF Cookie Jars
Chapter  7 - Nolo Conflicto?
Chapter  8 - Governor's Legislative Dog & Pony Show
Chapter  9 - Boise's Watergate
Chapter 10 - ISBA Throws Monkey Wrench at UIF
Chapter 11 - UIF fires Cryptic Partners for $18 mil?  Excuuse Me?
Chapter 12 - Whistle Blower Winstead
Chapter 13 - Follow The Money
Chapter 14 - "Absolute Power Corrupts"

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Demopublican Monopoly
How to Unify the Political Right with a Third Party that Can Win

By Nelson Hultberg

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   We are taught in school that the strength of the American political system lies in the fact that we have a "two-party process." This is akin to teaching that babies come from storks. It is a fairy tale we spin out to avoid messy details of reality we prefer not to face.

   The reality is that America is now a one-party state. The Democratic and Republican parties have become nothing but two divisions of the same party -- the Central Leviathan Party. No matter who wins, we always get more spending, more taxes, more inflation, more bureaucracies, more wars, and LESS FREEDOM.

    Previous National News   

$145 Billion and Counting

By Wall Street Journal Op Ed
(May 11, 2010)

New York, NY -- Fannie Mae yesterday announced its 11th consecutive quarterly loss—$11.5 billion—and asked for another $8.4 billion in taxpayer assistance. When it comes to losing money, nobody does it better than this government-created mortgage investor.

  Fannie Mae is the Cal Ripken of bad real-estate deals, reliably pouring taxpayer money into the housing market. Granted, Fannie faces tough competition from its toxic twin, Freddie Mac, which last week announced its own request for another $10.6 billion from taxpayers.

  Once the checks from Treasury clear, Fan and Fred will have consumed a combined $145 billion in taxpayer cash, and the end is nowhere in sight. Both companies warned of further losses triggering more government assistance, which is now unlimited after a 2009 Treasury decision.

  The losses are unlimited because the companies are now run by the government not to make money, by deliberately subsidizing housing. In yesterday's press release, CEO Mike Williams didn't even pretend that he's running a profit-making business. "In the first quarter we continued to serve as a leading source of liquidity to the mortgage market, and we made solid progress in our ongoing efforts to keep people in their homes," he said. These efforts to support the Obama anti-foreclosure program resulted in...More...

California Grinds to a Halt as Public and Private Unions Strike Against the State’s Plans to Cut Spending and Raise Taxes
(Mar 12, 2010)

Gov Schwarzenliberal screamed at the state legislators last Wednesday, “Achtung, Du Dumbkoffs, ve got to shrink da huge deficit and get Caleeforneea’s non-existent economy back on, you know, da railroad tracks.”

Suckatomato, CA -- Flights are grounded, ships are docked, public transport is paralyzed and schools remain shut.  Normal life in California has ground to a halt as public and private sector workers go on their thirtieth state strike in two weeks.

   Hundreds of riot police were deployed across Los Angeles on Thursday as California’s two largest labor unions called on millions of workers to strike against unpopular and painful austerity measures proposed by the government to resolve the state’s acute debt crisis, now sitting at 50 billion big ones ($50 Billion).

   California’s private sector union SEIU and its public sector sister the AFL-CIO-UAW-CEA-Boy Scouts-and-Brownies-of-America -- which represent half of the state’s labor force, including the massive public teachers’ union (CEA) -- have rejected the state’s huge spending cuts and tax hikes announced last month by Terminator Movie Star, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenliberal, who once bumped into a bad girl with three boobs in a science fiction movie and had to shoot her in order to escape from the Red Planet.

   California State Treasurer, Blackbeard the Pirate, is struggling to come to grips with the state’s spiraling...  More...

Our World Balances On a Sea of Debt

Mar 06, 2010
by
Darius Guppy

“The banks that control the world’s supply of money are no better than counterfeiters – and their systems of juggling debt have left the global economy teetering on the brink of ruin.” -- Darius Guppy, convicted Dutch counterfeiter

The following article aptly describes how fractional reserve banking is simply another form of counterfeiting, pointing out the conceptual difference between (1) real money and (2) a paper receipt for real money.  Then as the counterfeiting by fractional reserve bankers grows exponentially, as it must, the central bankers – witness former Federal Reserve Chief Alan Greenspan as he embraces the erroneous concept that he can impute value to paper money per se -- start believing in their own monetary lies and create even more complicated counterfeit investment vehicles backed by nothing but hot air, such as fake mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations based upon non-collateralized future daydreams, and then gambling pieces of paper called Credit Default Swaps whose clever function consists of betting against the previously-created fractional reserve derivatives.  That’s like a counterfeiter soliciting bets that the cops will soon catch him at his counterfeiting activities, in order to mitigate his losses.  So, the investment bankers at Goldman Sachs who sit on the board of Governors of the Fed Reserve sell fractional reserve hedge fund derivatives to clients while down the hall they short their clients’ very same hedge funds with Credit Default Swaps, betting that their hedge funds will fail.  That’s worse than prostitutes who only make their money going in; the bankers make their money both going in and pulling it out, shorting their own hedge funds.  This continues until they can’t keep it up any longer and the market crashes and burns.  Not to worry.  It’s called a Recession, then a Depression as everybody points fingers at everybody else and the bankers blame it on a “systemic risk,” or the U.S. Congress who is also participating in this monetary gang bang, or the vagaries of a non-existent free market capitalism, or a mysterious virus from Mars. – FM Duck

“If I could counterfeit the Pink Slip to my ’57 Chevy and sell a million copies to the suckers in my neighborhood for $1,000 each, while replacing the words ’This is to Certify that There Exists One ’57 Chevy on Deposit at FM Duck’s Warehouse Payable to the Bearer of This Note on Demand’ to ’Virtual Non-Existent Car,’ I could make a fortune.  And that’s exactly what the Federal Reserve is doing with fractional reserve banking of the U.S. Dollar and going off the gold standard.” – FM Duck

Netherlands, Europe – In 1994, there resided in the cell next to mine a certain “Tommy”. He had been imprisoned for counterfeiting Dutch Guilders to such a high standard that he had fooled the banks themselves.

   As was customary among prisoners who became friends, Tommy allowed me to read his legal papers and I became fascinated by the judge’s sentencing speech, the gist of which was that his activities had been parasitical. By creating money out of thin air he had reduced the purchasing power of more deserving members of society. What would happen if everyone behaved like him?

   I thought of arguments used, in a different context, regarding inflation. Like counterfeiting, it dilutes the value of the community’s wealth and constitutes a social evil. Creating too much money – “real” or “fake” – can wreck an economy. Such was the Nazis’ reasoning when they planned to ruin Britain’s economy by flooding the country with near-perfect counterfeit bills.

   A lot of nonsense has been written about the world’s current economic woes – about how the crash is the fault solely of the banks and, by implication, governments are blameless; and how it could all have been avoided, and can be put right, by greater financial regulation.

   It is a classic example of what the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre terms “the fallacy of managerial expertise”: an attempt by “experts” to blind us with science to justify their overpaid existences and mask their confusion. After all, not one of them was able to predict the current debacle.

   These “experts” will tell you that the present difficulties are simply the result of abuses and excesses in a system that is basically sound. All that is required is for some faults to be corrected. Do not believe them. The reality is that the problem is systemic and a little tinkering here or there will achieve nothing in the long term.

   What is needed is a root-and-branch re‑evaluation of that most curious of cultural inventions, money: how it is created, how it circulates, and how it can best be used to serve the interests of the community.

   To begin, the experts must explain in the simplest terms how money actually works. Were one to ask the man on the street – or, indeed, most politicians and bankers – who creates the money that rules our lives they would reply “the State”. They would be wrong. It is true that governments create legal tender – the physical notes and coins that circulate in an economy – but that represents, at its highest, only 3 per cent of the total money in circulation in the global economy. It is the commercial banks, largely unaccountable and privately owned, that create the world’s money.

   Indeed, even if Tommy were responsible for printing every note in circulation throughout the world his power to dilute the rest of our wealth would amount to only a tiny fraction of that of the real manufacturers of money. His activities and the activities of the bankers are, in essence, identical: the creation of money out of nothing.

   Without knowing it, therefore, Tommy’s judge punished him for usurping not so much the role of the State as the role of the banks. The same mistake – the mis-identification of where money truly originates – has been made by virtually all of our politicians, economists and financial commentators.

   Consider the contradiction at the heart of neo-liberal, monetarist economics that has constituted the Western orthodoxy for the past few decades: to emphasize on the one hand that the money supply should be brought under control while simultaneously allowing banking – where the money is actually manufactured – to run riot.

   To grasp how the global fraud works we need to step back in time and imagine ourselves next to the original goldsmith-banker.

   In his vault, 10 of his customers each deposit a bar of gold...  More...

Wall Street's Bailout Hustle
by
Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone Magazine

(Feb 17, 2010)

 Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy - they're re-creating the conditions for another crash

New York, NY -- On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs. Fast becoming America's pre-eminent Marvel Comics supervillain, the CEO used the call to deploy his secret weapon: a pair of giant, nuclear-powered testicles. In his message, Blankfein addressed his plan to pay out gigantic year-end bonuses amid widespread controversy over Goldman's role in precipitating the global financial crisis.

   The bank had already set aside a tidy $16.2 billion for salaries and bonuses — meaning that Goldman employees were each set to take home an average of $498,246, a number roughly commensurate with what they received during the bubble years. Still, the troops were worried: There were rumors that Dr. Ballsachs, bowing to political pressure, might be forced to scale the number back. After all, the country was broke, 14.8 million Americans were stranded on the unemployment line, and Barack Obama and the Democrats were trying to recover the populist high ground after their bitch-whipping in Massachusetts by calling for a "bailout tax" on banks. Maybe this wasn't the right time for Goldman to be throwing its annual Roman bonus orgy.

   Not to worry, Blankfein reassured employees. "In a year that proved to have no shortage of story lines," he said, "I believe very strongly that performance is the ultimate narrative."

   Translation: We made a shitload of money last year because we're so amazing at our jobs, so fuck all those people who want us to reduce our bonuses.

   Goldman wasn't alone. The nation's six largest banks — all committed to this balls-out, I drink your milkshake! strategy of flagrantly gorging themselves as America goes hungry — set aside a whopping $140 billion for executive compensation last year, a sum only slightly less than the $164 billion they paid themselves in the pre-crash year of 2007. In a gesture of self-sacrifice, Blankfein himself took a humiliatingly low bonus of $9 million, less than the 2009 pay of elephantine New York Knicks washout Eddy Curry. But in reality, not much had changed. "What is the state of our moral being when Lloyd Blankfein taking a $9 million bonus is viewed as this great act of contrition, when every penny of it was a direct transfer from the taxpayer?" asks Eliot Spitzer, who tried to hold Wall Street accountable during his own ill-fated stint as governor of New York.

   Beyond a few such bleats of outrage, however, the huge payout was met, by and large, with a collective sigh of resignation. Because beneath America's populist veneer, on a more subtle strata of the national psyche, there remains a strong temptation to not really give a shit. The rich, after all, have always made way too much money; what's the difference if some fat cat in New York pockets $20 million instead of $10 million?

   The only reason such apathy exists, however, is because there's still a widespread misunderstanding of how exactly Wall Street "earns" its money, with emphasis on the quotation marks around "earns." The question everyone should be asking, as one bailout recipient after another posts massive profits — Goldman reported $13.4 billion in profits last year, after paying out that $16.2 billion in bonuses and compensation — is this: In an economy as horrible as ours, with every factory town between New York and Los Angeles looking like those hollowed-out ghost ships we see on History Channel documentaries like Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes, where in the hell did Wall Street's eye-popping profits come from, exactly? Did Goldman go from bailout city to $13.4 billion in the black because, as Blankfein suggests, its "performance" was just that awesome? A year and a half after they were minutes away from bankruptcy, how are these assholes not only back on their feet again, but hauling in bonuses at the same rate they were during the bubble?

   The answer to that question is basically twofold: They raped the taxpayer, and they raped their clients.  More...

European Central Bankers Poised to Take Over Europe
Feb 10, 2010

Herman Van Rompuy, the EU's new president, has submitted a text calling for the creation of an "economic government" that shifts responsibility for economic planning from national authorities to the "EU level."

EU Commission chief Jose Barroso said, "Brussels has treaty powers allowing it to take the reins of economic management."

Brussels, Belgium -- Whoa, girl friends, pull up the floor and pour yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java.  You won't believe what the ruling elite of the European Union has in store for all of its member nations.  Would you believe:  a complete takeover of every European nation's sovereignty?  A total usurpation of the constitutions and national authority -- Parliaments and Congresses -- of member nations such as Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany and others?  All on the premise of "solving" the current economic crisis.

   Wait a New York minute here, folks.  Who was it that created the current economic crisis in the first place?  Why, it was the European central bankers, just like in America it was the Federal Reserve central bankers.  Who has inflated the crap out of the Euro?  Who has intervened into the European Union countries' economies with tons and tons of state collectivist rules, regulations, and special interest legislation, rendering the member nations as economic serfs to the interests of the EU banking cartel?  The European Central Bank, that's who.

   Yo, Americans, sound familiar?

   And now, just like in America as the Fed Reserve in cahoots with the state collectivists in Congress and both the Bush and Obama administrations, the European Union central bankers pretend the global Depression is some mysterious virus from Mars or somewhere that they, qua central banking elastic currency gurus, must solve by taking over every nation on the planet, starting with the EU nations.

   So, the EU central bankers are meeting in Brussels to "solve" their Big Fat Greek Economic problem.

   Talk about globe trotters, 24 central bankers last Friday...  More...

Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows
by
David Reilly
Feb 05, 2010

New York, NY Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc, you have to wonder if those folks are crazy after all.

   Wednesday’s hearing described a secretive group deploying billions of dollars to favored banks, operating with little oversight by the public or elected officials.

We’re talking about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose role as the most influential part of the federal-reserve system -- apart from the matter of AIG’s bailout -- deserves further congressional scrutiny.

   The New York Fed is in the hot seat for its decision in November 2008 to buy out, for about $30 billion, insurance contracts AIG sold on toxic debt securities to banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co., Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank AG, among others. That decision, critics say, amounted to a back-door bailout for the banks, which received...  More..

ObamaCare is not about health care; it’s about control and profits.  Oddly enough, it’s not the insurance companies; it’s the central bankers…
Dec 21, 2009

ObamaCare is not about health care.  It is all about control and power.  Not by the government, however, but by the central bankers.  The central bankers do not care about controlling the direction or outcome of the War on Health Care; they care about controlling the debt that will be incurred by nationalized health care.  That’s why every government action in a collectivist state must be couched as a War:  a War on Education, a War on Drugs, a War on Housing, a War on Cars, a War on Climate Change, and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Vietnam and Korea and WW I and WW II and all the other wars in every country in the world.  Somebody has to finance it.  And the central bankers of the world pushing inflationary policies of ‘elastic paper currencies’ are standing ready to loan governments – often both sides of a war -- all the cash they want to finance their giant collectivist Welfare States built upon paper promises.  Obama, of course, doesn’t understand this about the Federal Reserve.  He’s just running to stay in place, to stay in power, pushing his socialist agenda because he’s not very intelligent and he actually believes in socialism.  But the central bankers understand that ObamaCare is not about health care.  It is simply one more chunk of indebtedness that the Federal Reserve stands prepared to finance and control with pulp fiction dollars.  Printed out of thin air.  Not backed by gold or anything else except pulp fiction promises.  The Brits did it.  The European Union countries succumbed to it.  Cuba, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, and Latin American Banana Republics have all sunk into central banking indebtedness.  Now, as ObamaCare threatens to pass both Houses of the U.S. Congress, the people of America will soon become complete slaves to the private U.S. central banking cartel, the Federal Reserve, whose only goal is:  expanding and controlling the debt.  Follow the money.  ObamaCare is not about health care, it’s all about controlling a nation’s future indebtedness with elastic, non-backed, pulp fiction money.  That is the true purpose of a central bank, which makes the concept of “systemic risk” all the more funnier in an ironic sort of way since the system already failed as soon as it succumbed to the central bankers.

Washington, DC –  A small panel of selected Democrats voted on ObamaCare in the dead of night, early this morning at 1 a.m., to pass their nationalized health care plan that will drive America into a huge indebtedness.  Actually, they didn’t vote directly on the 2,100-page health care bill.  They voted on a 383-page “manager’s amendment” in a secret meeting with extreme left Liberals behind closed doors… with no debate.

   The 383-page “amendment” detailed plans by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to rip-off the other 49 states to “guarantee” the last Democratic vote hold-out, Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska), a 100% Medicaid payoff for Nelson’s state, in perpetuity, which means:  forever.  Plus, the Obama administration promised to withdraw its threat to close all the military bases in Nebraska if Senator Nelson promised to vote to support Socialist Obama’s nationalized health care program.  So, of course, crooked Senator Nelson, who apparently has been pretending to be a hold-out on ObamaCare unless the socialist health care plan sufficiently addressed his concerns about abortion rules, melted faster than a hot cube of butter in the Mojave Desert.

   Should we blame the last hold-out?  After all, the Obama Administration has made all kinds of deals with our Parliament of Whores to get his health bill passed.  Louisiana Senate Hooker Mary Landrieu sold her body, mind, and soul for $300 million and was proud to announce it on national TV last week.

   Senator Nelson is not the only guilty party.  He was simply the last to cave-in.  Senator Lieberman “Twinkle, twinkle, little bat, how I wonder where I’m at” was the second to the last to be bought off by America’s Head Pimp Obama.  All 60 Democratic senators are just as guilty as Nelson and Lieberman for selling out the American people – the majority of whom, 60% or higher, depending on which poll, oppose ObamaCare.

   As today’s Wall Street Journal details in a well-written, long Op Ed entitled, “Change Nobody Believes In,” ObamaCare is a morass of unintelligible gobbledegook of bureaucratic baloney that nobody understands, nobody will be able to implement, and the financial consequences of which threaten to bankrupt not only just the health care sector of America, but all related industries, too.  It will not just be 14% of the market economy that constitutes health care that gets financially whacked out of shape.  The entire economy will suffer as employers and individuals scramble through the unintended economic consequences brought about by this labyrinth of contradictory oxymoronic law and non sequiturs.  You must do A, but first you must do B, but if you do B you cannot have A… and so on.  It will take time for America to go bankrupt, but it will happen if ObamaCare passes and the GOP or Tea Party party does not win a majority in the 2010 elections.

   But even as good an Op Ed that the WSJ editorial wrote on this subject, they did miss the main point.  Which is:  Who Stands to Profit from this Bureaucratic Madness called ObamaCare?

   The best way to answer this question is...   More...

How Big is a Trillion Dollars?
Dec 07, 2009

Washington, DC  –  Whoa, girl friends, gather round, shut up, and pour yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java.  Have you ever seen a million dollars?  How about a billion dollars?  What does One Trillion dollars look like?

   All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"... A billion dollars here... a hundred billion dollars there... Eight hundred billion dollars for President Bush’s TARP bailout... Eight hundred billion dollars for President Obama’s ARRA “stimulus package”… One TRILLION dollars...

   What does that look like?

   Let’s start with a $100 dollar bill, currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation.

   A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000.  Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for a week or two of shamefully decadent fun.

   Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000).  You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.

   While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable.  It fits neatly on a standard pallet...

   And $1 BILLION dollars...

   Next let’s look at ONE TRILLION dollars...  More...

New Government Health Care Plan Struggling To Find “Single Payer” Name
Oct 27, 2009

Washington, DC – The recent passage of President Barack Obama’s $10 Trillion nationalized government health care plan was put on hold Friday evening as Congress struggled to find an available “Single Payer” terminology for its name.

   “Already rejected as previously trademarked or politically incorrect are ObamaCare, HillaryCare, RomneyCare, TennCare, WhoCares, I Certainly Don’t Care, NoCare, Who Gives a Rat's Ass, Single Payer, Double Payer, 300 Million Taxpayers, Govt Co-ops R Us, State’s Option, State’s Choice, UR Choice But Not Really, Federal Choice, No Choice, Federal Free Market Socialist No Cost Pinko Capitalist Commie Ration Plan, Death Panel Cardio, Death Panel Cancer, Death Panel Diabetes, Death Panel Tonsils, Death Panel Left Elbow, Dead Man Walking/But Not For Long, Medi-Gap, Medi-Gasp, Medi-Grasp, Medi-Crap, Medi-Crud, Medi-Dead, Pull Grandma’s Plug, Pull The Taxpayer’s Leg, Doc ‘N a Box, Stop ‘N Gasp, Stop ‘N Grasp, and Ding-Dong Time’s Up,” said U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who noted that she has even exhausted such British variants as ‘Take a Number, You Dolt’ and ‘Bloody Hell No, Not In Your Lifetime, Crumpet Buns.’

   “An Official Long Term Hospital Parking and Refueling Facilities name for all patients forced to take a number and wait two weeks or longer for ObamaCare -- or whatever name is eventually chosen to describe America’s new National Health Care Program -- is also up for grabs with the following suggestions by Congress...  More...

Jesus appoints Obama as “Associate Christ”
Oct 26, 2009

Swamped by millions of requests for guidance and wealth redistribution, Jesus Christ hires American President Barack Obama as the first-ever Assistant Savior.

Washington, DC – Overwhelmed by a constant deluge of prayers and appeals for salvation and wealth redistribution, Jesus Christ announced Friday the hiring of Chicago, IL, neighborhood organizer, U.S. President Barack Obama, as Associate Christ.

   “I’ve needed an Assistant Savior for a long time now, and I’m thrilled to finally get some help,” Christ told reporters at a White House press conference aired on the Holier Than Thou Broadcasting Network ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, CNN, PBS, NPR, the Oval Office and Al Jazeera.  “Barack is an experienced guy who, Lord only knows, can take the load off my shoulders when our neighborhood schools need a big Weather Underground cake sale or we need to replace the CEO of General Motors,” added Jesus.

   With the hiring, effective Halloween, 2009, Christians seeking spiritual aid or more money from their neighbors’ savings accounts will be able to pray to...  More...

Has Congress become an anachronism?
Sep 23, 2009

Did the Founding Fathers make a huge mistake in creating three branches of government instead of just two?  Think about it.  Since we already have the rules spelled out in the Constitution and Bill of Rights regarding our rights and freedoms, what’s really left for Congress to do except to create tons and tons of conflicting special interest legislation that infringes upon our freedoms?

Where did the Founding Fathers go wrong?  Or did they?

Washington, DC – Let’s discuss the basic structure of the government of the United States and – in light of our 2^nd Great Depression and increasing governmental intrusion into the life of the individual -- ask an important question:  namely, has the U.S. Congress morphed into an anachronism?  Has Congress outgrown its original purpose as one of the three “checks and balances” of government?  Specifically, has the U.S. Congress turned into exactly the type of authoritarian and corrupt entity against which we fought a Revolutionary War for Independence in the 1700s?

   Time for a brief History review.  Listen up, girl friends.

   233 years ago, the Founding Fathers of America broke away from a despotic form of government in Britain called a Monarchy and established their own form of government called a limited Republic.  Our Forefathers did not create a Democracy with 51% majority rule.  They created a limited Republic.  What’s the difference?  A Democracy with 51% Majority Rule is the exact antithesis of the concept of inherent individual rights and freedoms.  Inherent means we obtain our rights and freedoms from Nature, not from the government.  Limited means that our Republic is constrained, meaning, it:  (1) prohibits infringements upon individual rights, and (2) confers upon the U.S. Congress certain limited authority to pass legislation by democratic majority rule, as long as said legislation does not infringe upon (1) above.

   And that is the key:  as long as said legislation does not infringe upon our inherent precursor rights.

   These concepts (1) the source of our inherent rights, i.e. Nature not government, and (2) a limited Republic are important to understand:  Congress cannot infringe upon precursor rights of the people that brought about the creation and the very existence of Congress in the first place, and, in the second place, Congress cannot use the limited duties granted to it by the people to infringe upon the explicit or implied provisions of the U.S. Constitution.  In street talk, Congress can’t dump on those who brought it into existence – unless Congress has become Frankenstein but that’s another movie.

   In short, Congress was not created to be our master; Congress is supposed to be our servant, the protector of the rules, the laws, – not enforcer, that’s the job of the Executive and Judicial branches -- governing our inherent rights obtained at birth.  Today, however, Congress has morphed into what could minimally be described as an expensive snotty little brat throwing temper tantrums on the floor of Capitol Hill.  Somebody, I suggest WE the people, needs to collectively spank Congress’ collectivist little butts.

   I digress, but back to the scene of the crime.

   The explicit protections of individual rights are enumerated in, but not limited to, that portion of the U.S. Constitution we call the Bill of Rights.  Protected rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are not to be mistaken as the only rights of the individual.  All other rights not specified belong to the individual, not the government.  In fact, Madison and Jefferson were loathe to even create an explicit Bill of Rights since it was clear in their minds that all mutually non-infringing individual rights and freedoms are automatically obtained at birth and do not need to be specified over and over in a Constitution since all rights spring forth from the same philosophical source:  inherent individual freedom.  As Madison said, this would be redundant.  And he was right.  However, many of the states in the 13 colonies had their own Bill of Rights and forced the inclusion of an explicit bill of individual rights in the new U.S. Constitution – fearing a future federal government would stomp on our major freedoms if they were not explicitly stated.  And it appears they were right, too.  Thus, the 13 colonies wouldn’t ratify the new U.S. Constitution and dump the old Articles of Confederation unless it included an explicit Bill of Rights.  Hesto presto, we got a Bill of Rights.

   In addition to protection of individual, not the collective’s, rights, the U.S. Constitution conferred certain limited authorities and duties to the Congress in Article I.  So we have two important areas, based upon two important fundamental concepts, to think about: inherent rights of the individual and specific duties of Congress.

   Fast forward to today, year 2009.

   We now have a U.S. Congress that appears to be totally corrupt, with out-of-control spending, and illegally ceding power to the Executive Branch of government – thus, subverting intra-governmental “checks and balances,” and, even worse, ceding power to a private corporation that controls and manipulates our U.S. Dollar, a private corporation called the Federal Reserve central bank.  As you will see below, Congress has misinterpreted their Constitutional duty to “regulate the value of our COIN, which must be gold or silver, by law” – as the authority to dump their job onto a private central bank.   Unfortunately, this is the root cause of our current Depression and was also the root cause of our first Depression in the 1920’s and 1930’s.

   As a result,  More...

Obama slaps tariff on cheap foreign moonlight
Sep 15, 2009

Washington, DC -- President Barack Obama yesterday slapped a protectionist tariff against the importation of cheap foreign light from the Moon.

   "I will not stand by and allow the importation of cheap foreign moonlight to bankrupt our national electric light bulb industry," said President Obama, as he invoked Federal Tariff Clause 4321 to save Americans from the dumping of free foreign moonlight from the Moon.

   "In the same manner that French Representative of Parliament, Frederic Bastiat, in 1840, urged the Marie Antoinette government in France to ban the cheap importation of sunlight into France with a Petition of the Candle Makers to protect France from unfair competition by the Sun, I am taking the necessary steps to save American industry from unfair foreign traders, to protect American manufacturers of electric light bulbs, U.S. cigarette lighters, North American Halloween torches, Gringo flashlights, and Yankee Doodle safety matches.

   I mean, think about the unfair cost of imported moonlight:  how much more cheap can you get than zero, and how much more foreign can you get than the Moon?  I know, I know, there will be those pig pirate capitalists out there who will claim that a protectionist tariff against the dumping of free foreign moonlight into our economy will encourage a reciprocal trade war.  But, I ask you, what products will those foreigners up on the Moon ban from importation from the U.S.?  Rocket ships and plastic flags?  Not hardly.  Our last three space shuttles have only flown to the Space Station to fix the anti-gravity toilets and, besides, American flags are now made in China.

   Nor do I have to remind you that moonlight is actually sunlight, light that is bounced off the surface of the Moon and redirected on purpose to ruin the U.S. economy.  I suspect it is the Afghanistanis who are behind this sinister economic plot to wreck America's electric light bulb industry by wearing SPF-52 sun block and sunglasses and landing on the Sun not in the extreme heat of the day, but rather in the cool hours of the night, and thus redirecting free foreign sunlight off the Moon and right into our own backyards under the full cover of darkness at night.

   And so, my fellow Americans, I am also directing my new Tariff Erection Czar, Charlie Cialis, to erect faster than Viagra -- for at least four hours at a whack -- a system of mirrors to reflect this unfair importation of cheap foreign moonlight right back into the faces of those Foreign Light Terrorists whose goal is to totally destroy our socialist economy.

   I implore you, what more could you ask for than 24-hour protection against the importation of cheap foreign light, a tariff against sunlight during the day and moonlight during the night?"

   And, while we're at it, let's invoke a 35% tariff against Chinese tires so they can reciprocate with an import tariff on American chickens and auto parts.

Fed Reserve, America’s legal counterfeiting ring
Aug 5, 2009

 “Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.” – Alan Greenspan, published in Ayn Rand’s Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1967, and The Objectivist, July 1966

 Boise, ID – Whoa, girl friends, gather ‘round, shut up, pull up the floor and pour yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java.  Before former Federal Reserve Chief Alan Greenspan went over to the Dark Side of The Force, namely, Keynesian socialist economics, he was a free market economist who blasted the Welfare State, revealing that the true function of America’s Federal Reserve central bankers is to act as a “legalized” government counterfeiting ring whose “shabby little secret” is to rob the people with clever complicated mechanisms whose series of complex steps involve the member banks issuing and pretending that government bonds, not backed by anything, are treated as if they were an actual deposit of gold, which they are not.

   Read on and have your barf bucket handy.  You’ll need it as you discover that this is exactly what every administration since the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913 has been doing, with President Barack Obama’s current administration running its Welfare State on steroids.  Says Alan Greenspan in Ayn Rand’s above-mentioned publications:

   “… But the opposition to the gold standard in any form – from a growing number of welfare-state advocates – was prompted by a much subtler insight: the realization that the gold standard is incompatible with chronic deficit spending (the hallmark of the welfare state). Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money, by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale… Thus, government deficit spending under a gold standard is severely limited.

   The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. They have created paper reserves in the form of government bonds which – through a complex series of steps – the banks accept in place of tangible assets and treat as if they were an actual deposit, i.e., as the equivalent of what was formerly a deposit of gold…   More...

A Brief Comparison of Political Systems
Apr 12, 2009

Freedom Chart (click)
by
Rick Graber

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Did U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald jump the gun in premature arrest of Gov. Blagojevich?
(Dec 14, 2008)

If U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald had waited, we might have caught Gov. Blagojevich accepting $500K - $1M from "Candidate # 5" and Team Obama appointing Gov. Blagojevich as Ambassador to Lower Slobovia as a quid pro quo.  Now the question is:  did Fitzgerald blow the "criminal" case by acting too soon, lowering it to a simple "threat?"

Also, did Fitzgerald overstep his prosecutorial ethics and blow his criminal case by blabber-mouthing his personal opinions about Gov. Blagojevich on national TV?

The Bigger Question is:  did the Big Boys behind the scenes order Fitzgerald to jump the gun on purpose in order to cut all ties to -- and thus keep their new puppet, Barack Obama, in -- the Oval Office where they can easily manipulate him for all their future national and international monetary and power schemes?

Chicago, IL – Stick a clothes pin on your nose, girl friends.  Something fishy stinks in Denmark.  And also in Chicago.

   Did U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald blow the criminal case against Illlinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich by arresting him before he actually committed the crime of selling Obama's U.S. Senate seat and receiving a quid pro quo, such as appointment as U.S. Ambassador, from Team Obama?  Was Fitzgerald too eager, too stupid, or did someone higher up jerk his chain and order him into a premature ejaculation of the law?

   Think about it.  Why the big rush to arrest Gov. Blagojevich just before he was about to appoint -- to "sell" -- Obama's U.S. Senate seat?  More...

China inflates its Pulp Fiction by $586 Billion
(Nov 11, 2008)

Beijing, China – The Chinese Communists, pretending to be capitalists running a free market economy, have announced they will hyper-inflate their paper Yuan by $586 Billion (Dollars) this year in order to ha-ha, you idjits, "stimulate the Chinese economy."

   Really?

   First of all, communism does not use real money.  Communists use "forced" or "fiat" paper currency backed by AK-47s wielded by the Commie govt -- just like the U.S. govt, minus the AK-47s.  The U.S. Congress passes its "fiat" Funny Money by voice votes down at the Parliament of Whores.

   Second, whether you are a Commie Economy (China) or a Keynesian Economy (the U.S.), printing up tons of Pulp Fiction will not only NOT "stimulate the economy," it will actually drive up price inflation, create unemployment, then produce a freeze in lending and a freeze in the use of said Pulp Fiction as a medium of economic exchange because it has no value, then cause Food Riots, bring about Martial Law (this is where the Commies are way ahead of us since they already wield AK-47s), then the break down of law and order, then a citizen revolution if the govt refuses to go back to real money such as gold and silver, then a re-ordering of the American govt into 3-5 or more regional feudal type of govts after the cops split for parts unknown and roving gangs take over whatever regions they happen to live near and vote themselves in as The Local Shogun.

   The really funny part of this scenario is how all the left Liberal and Republican news media idiots on radio, TV, and hard copy newspapers, including the WSJ, PRETEND that China is some sort of amalgam of socialism and capitalism using real money, with a real stock market, and allowing freedom of trade with real laissez-faire businessmen running real capitalist businesses, just like, well, just like we used to do in good ol America.

   Next thing you know, the dummy news media are going to tell us how China has a Constitution and Bill of Rights based on the concept of the inalienable rights of individuals, obtained from Nature.  Right... Uh-huh, you bet.

American voters vote yes for more socialism
(Nov 5, 2008)

Washington, DC – Americans celebrated cutting off their economic noses to spite their socialist faces yesterday as they overwhelmingly elected Barack Obama, a socialist Islamic terrorist supporter, as the 44th U.S. President.

   How did this irrational phenomenon happen in America, former land of the free, home of the brave?  Easy.  It started with the default of the intellectuals at all the colleges and universities in America as the academicians brainwashed America's sons and daughters into little altruistic state collectivists.  Keynesian GOP and left liberal economists finished the job by turning America's medium of economic exchange from gold into hyper-inflated paper.  All that was left was for The Pied Piper of Hamlin, Barack Obama, to come dancing by, playing his Marxist flute and leading all the little university dummies -- educated way past their intelligence -- down the path to George Orwell's '1984' without their even knowing it.

   The result will soon be catastrophic, both at an economic level and an individual rights level.  In effect, we have just witnessed the end of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, replaced by Karl Marx's Das Kapital and Lord John Maynard Keynes' Fascist Business Model.  The GOP central bankers implemented robbery for Wall Street; the Democratic socialists will implement robbery for Main Street.  Both political party's highest moral value is:  self sacrifice of the individual to the collective church or state.  The individual is now dead.  R.I.P.  Long live The Collectivist Borg. --FM Duck

GM Bailout Plot Thickens
(Oct 30, 2008)

Washington, DC – Ah ha, the plot thickens in the ongoing saga of GM pretending to buy out Chrysler.

   The CEO of Cerberus LLC is John Snow, former Sec of the U.S. Treasury and alumni of Goldman Sachs investment bank, just like current Sec of the U.S. Treasury Hank Paulson.  So, John Snow is looking to get taxpayer bailout money for Cerberus's GMAC subprime mortgage slime from alumni buddy Hank Paulson's $700 Billion Bailout Fund or Congress' $25 Billion Electric Car Fund.  Wow, don't the Wall Street bankers know how to feather their own beds and the beds of their Wall Street buddies?

   Read the following news item:  Mon Oct 20  GM to buy Chrysler?  Hmm, let's take a closer looksee at this little boondoggle, shall we?  Here's what's really going on.

   Cerberus LLC owns 80% of Chrysler; Mercedes' Daimler owns the other 20%.  Chrysler has a stash of $11 billion in cash.  Cerberus LLC owns 51% or so of GM, including GM's humongo GMAC car financing and, get this, subprime mortgage debt.

   So, the genius corporate welfare statists at Cerberus LLC have figured out a way to dump GM's GMAC mortgage indebtedness on the American taxpayer:  Cerberus LLC is offering to give Chrysler to GM in exchange for GM giving its GMAC mortgage debt to Cerberus LLC.

   Why would Cerberus LLC exchange Chrysler for GMAC mortgage debt?  Because Cerberus LLC can then get free bailout money from Treasury Sec Hank Paulson's $700 Billion Bailout Booty when Cerberus LLC whines to the government to bail out its GMAC mortgage indebtedness.

   After the Feds bail out Cerberus LLC, then Cerberus will still own 51% or so of GM and -- depending on the deal -- 80% of GM's Chrysler Division AND will have dumped its GMAC toxic mortgages onto the U.S. taxpayers.  Oooh, tricky, tricky.  Cerberus LLC off-loads its toxic GM derivatives -- its GMAC subprime mortgage mess -- onto the American taxpayers while pretending to sell Chrysler to GM.  Wow, what a tricky way to use the government to bail out GM.

   This is not free market capitalism; this is Treasury Sec Paulson's Fascist Business Model at its state interventionist best.  The worst is yet to come.  Welcome to the Pulp Fiction of Keynesian socialist economics and guess what, girl friends, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Cause of financial meltdown is not free market capitalism
(Oct 24, 2008)

Washington, DC –  The current financial meltdown is not an act of, or result of, unregulated free market capitalism.  It is the result of highly regulated central banking -- i.e., going off the gold standard and "legally" monopolizing the issuance of America's medium of economic exchange -- by the government’s national bank, the Federal Reserve.  Same for every nation’s nationalized central bank.

   The Recession is not the result of freedom of choice by the people to establish gold or silver as their medium of economic exchange.  The Recession is the result of a Fascist Business Model of Keynesian socialist economics with non-backed, forced or “fiat” paper currency rammed down the throats of the people.

   Former Fed Reserve Chief Alan Greenspan’s whining before Congress yesterday that he found a “flaw” in free market capitalism that allowed bankers in the mortgage industry to run wild as the cause of the current Recession is just so much bullshit.  Mortgage foreclosures are not The Cause of our current market meltdown but rather just another symptom, an Effect, of The Cause.  The real Cause is hyper-inflation of a non-backed, non-defined, irredeemable U.S. Dollar.

   Greenspan, during his 40 years as Fed Reserve Chief, was never operating in a free market and his continual monetary manipulations, such as lowering interest rates to nearly zero for 3 years, constitute nothing but Keynesian socialist economics.  Greenspan became a Keynesian as soon as he put forth his PhD dissertation on econometrics and thought that he could “manage” the market by the use of differential calculus and historical statistics of past market prices, which is incredibly naive.

   So much for “Maestro” Greenspan’s alleged discovery of a “flaw” in America's non-existent free market capitalism and “confessing” before Henry Waxman’s Congressional Committee of socialist idiots.

   Unfortunately, Greenspan’s pretended allegiance to the free market and “confession” of what he thinks is wrong with free market capitalism will simply serve as more grist for the Keynesian socialists to implement more and more of the same stupid government interventions – mostly more inflation of the money supply – that have brought about our current financial meltdown.

McCain chooses Idahoan Sarah Palin, a moose-hunting, fisher-babe, free market Governor of Alaska, as Vice Prez running mate on GOP ticket
(Aug 29, 2008)

Response by Barack Obama to McCain's choice of a woman for vice president, "Damn!"

Dayton, OH – GOP presidential candidate John McCain has pulled off the political marketing move of the century by choosing a free market, moose hunting, salmon fishing, fiscal Conservative woman, the current Governor of Alaska, as his VP running mate for the 2008 presidential elections.

   Note that John McCain -- unlike boo-boo brain Barack Obama -- did not fail to implement Cardinal Rule # 1 in Basic Marketing 101A:  "Sell the sizzle, not the steak."  Make no mistake about it, Sarah Palin, as the first GOP woman who may become the Vice President of the United States, is the sizzle.  More...

Global Monetary Recap - 1944 to 2008
(May 23, 2008)
by
Douglas E. Johnston, Jr.

Washington, DC – With the Federal Reserve’s wide-ranging efforts to address the ongoing Credit Crisis through unprecedented money-creation activities, we are now likely witnessing the final phases of the U.S. Dollar’s 64-year reign as the primary global reserve currency. Few Americans understand the implications of this dramatically unfolding global sea-change.  More...

Kempthorne Hugs Polar Bears, Bankrupts America
(May 21, 2008)

Washington, DC – In his typical Alice in Wonderland political style of claiming a Tea Pot is a Choo-Choo Train while simultaneously claiming it is not, Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne dragged 25,000 polar bears onto the Endangered Species List last week while proclaiming they are neither endangered nor disappearing.  More...

Fed scientists discover new element in Periodic Table of Elements:  Paper
(April 1, 2008)

New York, NY – Whoa, girl friends, pour yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java.

   Scientists at Treasury University and Federal Reserve College have just discovered that the entire Periodic Table of Elements has been wrong – or, at least, missing an important element -- for the last 100 years.  In an astonishing new discovery that continues to shock the world of Chemistry and Physics – as well as Economics – Senior Scientist at U.S. Treasury University, Hank Paulson, and his scientific sidekick Ben Bernanke of Federal Reserve College, miraculously stumbled upon one of the most mind-boggling discoveries of the 21^st century:  a missing element in the Periodic Table of Chemical and Physical Elements, which they dub:  Paper.

   Last weekend, while working overtime in  More...

Who Killed the U.S. Dollar?
(Mar 17, 2008)

Washington, DC – Whoa, listen up, girl friends.  It was a dark and stormy night… and, oh-oh, we got a monetary conundrum.

   Federal Reserve Chief “Helicopter” Ben Bernanke and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson have recently pumped hundreds of billions of Dollars into the U.S. economy to “stimulate” – make that “bail out” -- the banking industry.  President Bush wants to pass out $160 billion -- $600 to every man, woman, and child in the U.S. -- to spend real fast and thus “stimulate” the economy.  The faster, the better, they claim.  More...

Prescription for Prosperity:  A Comprehensive Economic Revitalization Plan
(Mar 8, 2008)

Washington, DC – Listen up girl friends.  If you thought Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel 1984 or The Omnipotent State in Aldus Huxley’s Brave New World or Our Dear Leader in ‘V’ for Vendetta just popped up one day out of nowhere and stripped the people of all their rights and freedoms, you’re sadly mistaken.  These dictatorial welfare states took years of political corruption and brainwashing of the people to implement.

   But they all had one thing in common:  they were all founded upon the despotic philosophy of altruistic state collectivism.  More...

Parliament of Whores admonishes one of their own
(Feb 14, 2008)

U.S. Senate slaps sausage sucking Senator upside his supercilious cerebellum

Washington, DC – Public Letter of Admonition:

Dear Senator Craig (R-Idaho):

Your actions in the men's room at the Minneapolis Airport were waaay bad, sir.  In fact, it was beyond belief.  The Select Committee on Ethics of the U.S. Parliament of Whores hereby bitch-slaps your ass pursuant to Section 2(d)(3) of Resolution 338, 88th Parliament of Whores, 2nd Session (1964), as amended by Whorehouse Resolution 222, 106th Parliament of Whores, 1st Session (1999) and its Supplementary Sausage Sucking Rules, Rule 3(g)(2).

Specifically:

1. You confessed to the crime, dummy.  More...

Anybody Seen Our Gold?

(Feb 10, 2008)

From GATA's ad in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Jan 31, 2008

Washington, DC – The gold reserves of the United States have not been fully and independently  audited for half a century.  Now there is proof that those gold reserves and those of other Western nations are being used for the surreptitious manipulation of the international currency, commodity, equity, and bond markets.  More...

Smoke ‘n Mirrors Economic “Stimulus” Package:
$600 for you, $730,000 for Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
(Jan 28, 2008)

Lookie, lookie, in my left hand:  $600, free cookies for everybody.  Yippee for you!

In my right hand:  don’t look, don’t look, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bankruptcies bailed out by raising govt-backed home loan limits from $417,000 to $730,000.  Yippee for the bankers!

It is absolutely insane – and insulting to the American public – for President Bush, the leaders of Congress, Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Henry Paulson, and Fed Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke, to proclaim that they have magical powers to change Paper into Gold and that by injecting their Fake Gold into the economy, and convincing consumers to exchange this Paper between each other at the speed of light, they can enrich the economy.

Washington, DC – Has everybody gone insane?

   How can grown men and women – President Bush, Treasury Sec Henry Paulson, Fed Chief Ben Bernanke, and Congress -- stand up before the American people on national TV and proclaim that the issuance of 150 billion pieces of green Govt Paper – not backed by anything, not a promissory note, not collateralized by anything but thin air – can somehow magically obtain value by the mere act of printing and distributing it?  More...

The Paper Chase:
Dollar becomes pulp fiction as Fed injects trillions into the market…
But Dollar is not real capital, thus cannot stimulate the economy
(Jan 24, 2008)

The fallacy of the Federal Reserve pretending to “stimulate” the economy by injecting billions of non-backed Dollars into the market is:  Dollars are not “real capital” or “capital goods.”  The truth is that the Fed is merely injecting billions of pieces of little green paper printed up out of thin air.  The only result will be more inflation and unemployment.

What the economy needs is an injection of real capital, not fake money.  But only true entrepreneurs through a free market economy can bring capital to the market.  Central bankers do not possess capital.  They only possess non-backed paper.

What is truly needed is laissez-faire free market capitalism with real entrepreneurs injecting real capital, not a government-sanctioned group of private central bankers (the Federal Reserve) and their special interest groups hyper-inflating the U.S. economy with tons of pulp fiction.

Washington, DC – Listen up girl friends.  Pour yourself another hot cup of Rocket Java, pull up the floor, and have a seat.  Have you ever pondered the following important economic question, let’s say, during foreplay on a hot Friday night with Mr. Right, or whilst leisurely munching on a chocolate truffle in your big bubble bath overflowing with suds from The Body Shoppe?

   Really?  I’m shocked.

   OK, here’s the question:  When the Federal Reserve injects billions of dollars into the economy, what is it injecting:  only “paper” or “real capital?”  More...

Federal Reserve drives U.S. into Super Recession, then Depression, then Martial Law
(Jan 19, 2008)

Not one member of the Federal Reserve -- or 99% of today’s PhD economists or stock market pundits -- can correctly answer the following basic questions in economics:

(1) What is the difference between money and a paper receipt for money?

(2) From where, exactly, does the non-backed U.S. Dollar obtain its value?

 (3) What is the difference between today’s U.S. Dollar and “real capital?”

Therefore, not knowing the answers to these three basic questions, the Federal Reserve erroneously continues to inject trillions of worthless, non-backed Monopoly Money into the banking system, under the false assumptions that (1) green paper printed on a U.S. Treasury printing press magically obtains “value,” (2) the non-backed U.S. dollar is the same as “real capital” and, (3) consumers rapidly spending trillions and trillions of newly injected National Wallpaper can somehow “stimulate” the enrichment of our economy.

The real purpose of a federal “monetary stimulus” package is for the Federal Reserve to bail out their billionaire buddies in banking and pass the monetary inflation on to the taxpayers in the form of higher prices for all commodities and services.

Washington, DC – Turn on the TV, girl friends, and all you hear these days are arguments about how much money the Federal Reserve central bankers should inject into the U.S. economy.  Nobody bothers to ask whether a central bank should inject trillions of dollars into the economy, or whether a central bank should even exist.  Everybody simply assumes that the Federal Reserve should exist, and should pump money into the market; their only questions are:  how much, and by what method?

   But wait.  More...

New Thought Police Bill passes U.S. House 404-6, awaits Senate vote
(Jan 10, 2008)

Introduced by California Democrat Rep. Jane Harman, the First Amendment was trashed last Oct 27, 2007 as the U.S. House passed the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007,” by an overwhelming margin of 404-6.  The Senate’s version of this Bill, S. 1959, sponsored by Maine Republican Susan Collins, has little opposition and awaits passage.

Washington, DC – Listen up girl friends.  I know while you were busy shampooing your hair in the shower this morning and then applied Aussie hair conditioner after you washed your face with glycerin soap purchased from The Body Shoppe, you asked yourself an important question:  “Self, what the hell is ‘violent radicalization’ and ‘homegrown terrorism?’”  To which you answered, “My current Web Site criticizing the government for hyper-inflating the U.S. economy with non-collateralized Federal Reserve Notes?”

   Ya-yesss, girl friends.  Freakin A.  More...

U.S. Federal Reserve Note:  America’s Pulp Fiction
(Jan 01, 2008)

Once you change the contractual concept of paper money from a redeemable, exchangeable promissory note to an irredeemable exchange-only note, you will have established a precedent for the destruction of all future economic contracts.

America’s “bundled” subprime mortgage slime and every nation’s Sovereign Wealth Funds are direct results of America’s new Pulp Fiction: the Federal Reserve Note.

Washington, DC – What’s the difference between today’s Federal Reserve Note (our U.S. Dollar), “bundled” subprime SIVs (Structured Investment Vehicles), and Sovereign Wealth Funds?

   The answer:  nothing.

   All three rest upon the ridiculous concept that pieces of paper, in and of themselves, obtain value by virtue of the fact that they’re  More...

Goldman Sachs creates subprime slime with left hand, shorts subprime slime with right hand
(Dec 18, 2007)

Conflict of interest?

New York, NY – According to the WSJ, Goldman Sachs mortgage department was a major underwriter of complex bundled securities of subprime mortgages.  When those securities plunged in value this year, Goldman's customers suffered major losses, as did units within Goldman's banking and investment group.

   However, simultaneously down the hall, Goldman was busy "shorting" billions of dollars of these same subprime slime securities, betting that their value would fall.  The big question is:  how could Goldman legally peddle subprime slime to their customers while their own traders were busy betting that bundled subprimes would collapse?  If this isn't a conflict of interest, then what is?  More...

Let's Get Back to the U.S. Constitution
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Holy moley, look how fast America is going bankrupt: (click on the puddy tat)

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Energy - Part 2 of 3

The Asteroid Belt and How It Got There after the Planet Phaeton Blew Up...Will History Repeat Itself?

(July 9th, 2010)

The Asteroid Belt is what remained of planet Phaeton (aka Malona or Malon) after it exploded during a great civil war in which the Malonans induced tremendous quantities of seawater into the crater of a volcano which triggered the cosmic catastrophe, approximately 75,000 years ago. – as explained by ET human Semjase in Guido Moosbrugger’s book And Still They Fly

Washington, DC – What does the current BP oil spill have in common with today’s Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter?  Read on.

   75,000 years ago, the planets of our solar system were arranged in the following order outward from the Sun:  Mercury, Earth with its Moon, Phaeton (Malona), Mars, no Asteroid Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus with its moons (one of which, 10,000 years ago, was ripped out of orbit by the gravity of a passing Destroyer Comet and then moved into orbit around the Sun as Venus), Neptune, Pluto, Transpluto, and Uni.  Transpluto has already been discovered by Earth scientists, Uni has not but it will be.

   Take the following as a given, I will quote sources later:  we are not alone in our universe and there exist many universes in many dimensions at various levels of evolution.  “Not alone” means the existence of both ET humans and ET non-humans, all at various stages of evolution.  Relevant to our discussion about energy, suffice it to say that the planet Phaeton (or Malona) and Mars were both populated by ET humans many thousands of years ago, the inhabitants of which had immigrated from other galaxies and solar systems to our solar system for various reasons, some of which were political.  This is not science fiction; this is for real.  The inhabitants of Malona were not without their own internal social and political intrigues, just like humans on planet Earth today.

  Sources claim the Malonans duked it out over who knows what trivial piece of political crap – just like Earth humans today -- but the major point for our energy discussion is how they blew themselves up.

   It seems like the dummies on Malona got carried away in their civil war and directed huge quantities of seawater into the crater of a volcano, causing a super volcanic explosion that eventually blew their planet into many chunks that now populate our solar system as what we call The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.  Only a few individuals escaped from Malona.  They made their way to Earth, mingling with the indigenous humans.  That was 75,000 years ago.

   When Melona blew the first chunk of its planet into space, the larger portion of the planet moved into Mars’ orbit where, in subsequent explosions, Malona finally blew itself to nothing except solar rubble orbiting the Sun, the majority of which is now known on Earth as The Asteroid Belt, orbiting around our Sun between Mars and Jupiter.  After the last explosions, Mars moved into Malona’s previous orbit leaving an orbital gap between Mercury and Earth, perhaps due to the gravitational force of Mars and The Asteroid Belt pulling toward Jupiter and opening that slot.  In fact, 65,000 years later (10,000 years ago), Venus (originally a moon of Uranus) moved into this gap, its present orbit, as the 2nd rock from the Sun.  Interestingly, the Earth exhibited such a strong gravitational force on Uranus’ displaced moon, soon-to-be Venus, as it moved from Uranus past Earth and eventually captured between Mercury and Earth, that it slowed Venus’ rotation and orbit around the Sun into retrograde – which means opposite the rotation and orbit of all the other planets in our solar system.

   In short, The Asteroid Belt is what remained of planet Phaeton (aka Malona or Malon) after it exploded during their great civil war, in which the Malonans [stupidly] induced tremendous quantities of seawater into the crater of a volcano which triggered the cosmic catastrophe, approximately 75,000 years ago.  (Source:  ET human Semjase in Guido Moosbrugger’s book And Still They Fly www.figu.org)

   And what is the significance of the inhabitants of Phaeton blowing themselves to oblivion and our Earth’s current BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?  More...

Energy - Part 1 of 3

BP’s Quest for Time

The Well from Hell... And What They're Not Saying

by

Christian A. DeHaemer, Editor Energy & Capital

(Friday, June 18th, 2010)

The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what, they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame. -- Saruman, The Lord of the Rings

Washington, DC -- There is something primordial about BP's quest for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. It's an Icarus-like story of super-ambition; of reaching too far, delving too deep.

   I don't know if you've stopped to contemplate what BP was trying to do...

   The well itself started 5,000 feet below the surface. That's the depth of the Grand Canyon from the rim.  And then the company attempted to drill more than 30,000 feet below that -- Mt. Everest would give 972 feet to spare.

   Furthermore, the company sought oil in a dangerous area of the seabed.

   It was unstable and many think BP sought it out because seismic data showed huge pools of methane gas -- the very gas that blew the top off Deepwater Horizon and killed 11 people.

   More than a year ago, geologists criticized Transocean for putting their exploratory rig directly over a massive underground reservoir of methane.  According to the New York Times, BP's internal "documents show that in March, after several weeks of problems on the rig, BP was struggling with a loss of 'well control.'  And as far back as 11 months ago, it was concerned about the well casing and the blowout preventer.”

   The problem is that this methane, located deep in the bowels of the earth, is under tremendous pressure.  Some speculate as much as 100,000 psi -- far too much for current technology to contain. The shutoff valves and safety measures were built for only 1,000 psi.  It was an accident waiting to happen.  And there are many that say it could get worse -- much worse.

   Geologists are pointing to other fissures and cracks that are appearing on the ocean floor around the damaged wellhead.

   According to CNN:

   The University of South Florida recently discovered a second oil plume in the northeastern Gulf. The first plume was found by Mississippi universities in early May.  And there have been other plumes discovered by submersibles.  Some geologists say that BP's arrogance has set off a series of events that may be irreversible. There are some that think that BP has drilled into a deep-core oil volcano that cannot be stopped, regardless of the horizontal drills the company claims will stop the oil plume in August.

Need the Mudlogs

   Geologist Chris Landau, for instance, has called for a showing of the mudlogs. A mudlog is a schematic cross sectional drawing of the lithology (rock type) of the well that has been bored.  So far, no one has seen them.  BP keeps them hidden.

   Mr. Landau claims:

   It is a dangerous game drilling into high pressure oil and gas zones because you risk having a blowout if your mud weight is not heavy enough. If you weight up your mud with barium sulfate to a very high level, you risk BLOWING OUT THE FORMATION.

   What does that mean? It means you crack the rock deep underground; as the mud weight is now denser than the rock, it escapes into the rock in the pore spaces and the fractures. The well empties of mud. If you have not hit high pressure oil or gas at this stage, you are lucky.

   But if you have, the oil and gas come flying up the well and you have a blowout, because you have no mud in the well to suppress the oil and gas. You shut down the well with the blowout preventer. If you do not have a blowout preventer, you are in trouble as we have all seen and you can only hope that the oil and gas pressure will naturally fall off with time, otherwise you have to try and put a new blowout preventer in place with oil and gas coming out as you work.

Obviously, the oil and gas pressure hasn't fallen off

   In fact... it's increased.

   The problem is that BP may not only have hit the mother of high-pressure wells, but there is also a vast amount of methane down there that could come exploding out like an underwater volcano.

   I recently heard a recording of Richard Hoagland who was interviewed on Coast to Coast AM.

   Mr. Hoagland has suggested that there are cracks in the ocean floor, and that pressure at the base of the wellhead is approximately 100,000 psi.  Furthermore, geologists believe there are another 4-5 cracks or fissions in the well. Upon using a GPS and Depth finder system, experts have discovered a large gas bubble, 15-20 miles across and tens of feet high, under the ocean floor.  These bubbles are common. Many believe they have caused the sinking of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle.  That said, a bubble this large -- if able to escape from under the ocean floor through a crack -- would cause a gas explosion that Mr. Hoagland likens to Mt. St. Helens... only under water.  More...

Carbs against Cardio
  by
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Scientific American – Medicine & Health – May 2010 Issue
(June 03, 2010)

More data that refined carbohydrates, not fats, threaten the heart. – Melinda Moyer

And this is precisely why the free market should rule in health care (and in all other commodities and services), not the government, because if the government is wrong we have no freedom of recourse to correct our errors, only an immovable bureaucracy cast in stone. – FM Duck

New York, NY – Eat less saturated fat:  that has been the take-home message from the U.S. government for the past 30 years.  But while Americans have dutifully reduced the percentage of daily calories from saturated fat since 1970, the obesity rate during that time has more than doubled, diabetes has tripled, and heart disease is still the country’s biggest killer.  Now a spate of new research, including a meta-analysis of nearly two dozen studies, suggests a reason why:  investigators may have picked the wrong culprit.  Processed carbohydrates, which many Americans eat today in place of fat, may increase the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease more than fat does – a finding that has serious implications for new dietary guidelines expected this year.

   In March the American Journal of clinical Nutrition published a meta-analysis – which combines data from several studies – that compared the reported daily food intake of nearly 350,000 people against their risk of developing cardiovascular disease over a period of five to 23 years.  The analysis, overseen by Ronald M. Krauss, director of atherosclerosis research at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, found no association between the amount of saturated fat consumed and the risk of heart disease.

   The finding joins other conclusions of the past few years that run counter...  More...

      Local News      

The One Thing

By Ralph Perez
(March 25, 2010)

Boise, ID -- Old Curly from the movie City Slickers liked to talk about “the one thing”. In trying to figure out why our country is so far off the right track, I tried to identify “the one thing”. Could there really be one thing?

   Believe it or not there is.

   You hear people all the time saying Washington is broken. Well yes it is and we are the ones who broke it. By 1913, in the midst of the Progressive movement, we were convinced that the founding fathers didn’t have it quite right. That because of corruption at the state level, we needed to tinker with the fundamental structure and balance of powers laid out in our Constitution. Boy did we have it wrong. Our country had a cold, we prescribed the medicine, and now it has pneumonia and is in critical condition.

   So, what is the one thing?

   The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution!

   This has been the biggest mistake our country ever made in terms of...  More...

The difference between sound money and our current pulp fiction Dollar, or…why Idaho Legislators should vote “yes” on House Bills 622 and 633
(Mar 24, 2010)

Boise, ID – The U.S. Dollar is like the pink slip to your ’57 Chevy.  If you print up one million copies of the pink slip to your ’57 Chevy and sell each copy for a thousand dollars, you will have issued one billion dollars in ownership title to your single ’57 Chevy.  You will have cheated 999,999 people who are now holding fake pink slips to one ’57 Chevy.  This is called fractional reserve banking.  Some call it counterfeiting or robbery.

   In the case of the Federal Reserve doing the same thing with the U.S. Dollar, i.e., issuing the dollar as a presumed promissory note for gold or silver, the central bankers are betting that everybody will not simultaneously run down to the bank and demand gold or silver coins for the U.S. Dollar.  (That was before Aug 1971, before former President Nixon completely closed the international gold settlements window.  Now the dollar is not backed by anything.)

   In the case of one million counterfeited pink slips for one ’57 Chevy, you would be counting on everybody not rushing over to your garage to present their pink slip for the single ’57 Chevy.  Each copy of the new “counterfeited” pink slips will temporarily circulate in the market and act as a promissory note as long as more than two people don’t demand redemption of their Note, their new pink slip, for the car.

   But what happens when you take fractional reserve banking one step further and change the wording on all the one million pink slips from, “Ownership Title to one ’57 Chevy VIN # 123456789,” to simply, “The Car?”  As if the pink slip is now the car itself?

   This is an important concept because that’s exactly what the Federal Reserve did in the case of the U.S. Dollar.  They changed the wording on the paper Dollar from, “This is to certify that there is on deposit, one silver dollar [the coin, defined as 418 grains of silver at .999 fine], payable to the bearer on demand,” to simply, “One Federal Reserve Note.”  As if the Federal Reserve Note is now the silver coin itself.  More...

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Boise Trolley Folly DOES Justify Legislative Intervention
Dec 02, 2009

“If Reps Moyle and Labrador get their way, cities would need property owners’ approval before imposing an LID [Local Improvement District] to cover $1 million or more in bonds.” – Idaho Statesman

“Well…duh…yeah.  And what is so wrong about citizens having the right to vote for or against approving a million dollar tax upon themselves?  And in the case of Boise Mayor Bieter’s Trolley Folly tax, we’re talking $10 million to $15 million in additional downtown taxes on small business owners.  – FM Duck

Boise, ID  –  Whoa, girl friends, pull up the floor and pour yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java.  You’re not going to believe the bassackwards argument the Idaho Statesman editors put forth in last Tuesday’s “Our View” opinion column entitled, “Streetcar flap doesn’t justify ‘fix.’”

   If you want to gain an insight into how left Liberals think -- or rather how they typically go through the motions of trying to link up their disconnected thought globs to non sequitur conclusions -- listen to the backwards logic of the I.S. editors as they, first, presume that government entities (Idaho cities in this case) have inherent “rights” to implement taxation upon their citizens, rather than citizens having the right to control their governments, and then arrive at the conclusion that the state legislature doesn’t have the right to protect citizens from an overly abusive Boise City Council that wants to expand the definition of a Local Improvement District (LID) tax, to impose a huge new tax to the tune of $10 million to $15 million upon Boise’s downtown small business owners in order to jump start Boise Mayor Bieter’s federal money grab of $65 million for his new Trolley Folly.

   So what’s the big “flap?”

   Under current law, Idaho cities can tax a portion of their citizens by...  More...

Fed Reserve Theme song: "Money for nothin, and your checks for free"

(click title to play, minimize media player to see lyrics below)

(FM Duck plays hot riffs in "Money for Nothing")

Sung to Dire Strait’s “Money for Nothing”

I… want… my… ATM…

Now look at them bankers,
That’s the way you do it,
You print the money from the Fed Reserve.

That aint workin,
That’s the way you do it,
Money for nothin and your checks for free.

Now that aint workin,
That’s the way you do it,
Lemme tell ya, them guys ain’t dumb,
Maybe get a billion from a subprime mortgage,
Maybe get a billion from an SIV.

We gotta inject a trillion free Dollars,
Custom credit derivatives,
We gotta move these refinanced bailouts,
We gotta move these toxic CDs.

See the little banker with the earring and the makeup,
Yeah buddy, that’s your 700 Billion,
That little chrome-dome, got his own jet airplane,
That little chrome-dome, he’s a billionaire.

We gotta inject a trillion free Dollars,
Custom credit derivatives,
We gotta move these refinanced bailouts,
We gotta move these toxic CDs.

I shoulda learned to be a big banker,
I shoulda learned to loan that cash,
Look at that banker, he got it stickin out his pockets,
Man, we could rule the world.

And Paulson’s up there, what’s that?  Another Bailout?
Banging on the Congress like a chim-pan-zee,
No, that ain’t workin,
That’s the way you do it,
Get your money for nothing, get your checks for free.

We gotta inject a trillion free Dollars,
Custom credit derivatives,
We gotta move these refinanced bailouts,
We gotta move these toxic CDs.

Now that aint workin
that’s the way you do it,
You print the money from the Fed Reserve.

That aint workin,
That’s the way you do it,
Money for nothin and your checks for free,
Money for nothing… and…

And your checks for free.

Get your money for nothing…
And checks for free,
Look at that, look at that…
Money for nothing…
And your checks for free,
Ahh, money for nothing…
And your checks for free.

new lyrics ©2008-2010 FM Duck

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 Investing in Gold?

New!!  Feb 12, 2010: Ponzi Scheme - by Puru Saxena

Feb 26, 2009: Timmy, Larry and Benny are Lost in the Fiscal Wilderness - by Roger Wiegand

Dec 5, 2008: Red Alert: Gold Backwardation!!! - by Antal Fekete

Sep 24, 2008: The gold standard strikes back - by Antal Fekete

Sep 24, 2008: The killers are with the patient - by Darryl R. Schoon

Sep 09, 2008: Thinking like "Fat Tony" - by James Turk

May 16, 2008: Global Monetary Recap - 1944 to 2008 - by Douglas E. Johnston, Jr.

Apr 21, 2008: Hyperinflationary Depression - by Howard Ruff

Apr 01, 2008: Market Forecasting with Ongoing Mayhem - by Roger Wiegand

Mar 28, 2008: Forgotten Anniversary Haunts the Nation - by Antal Fekete

Mar 27, 2008: Gold is Going to the Moon - by Doug Casey

Mar 20, 2008: Cliff Notes on Financial Maelstrom - by Jim Willie

Jan 28, 2008: The Anti-Gold Gospel - by Antal Fekete

Nov 26, 2007: Our Diseased Monetary Bloodstream - by Antal Fekete

Nov 14, 2007: Subprime Mortgages lead to Subprime Currency - by John Lee

Oct 11, 2007: Hyperinflation Will Blow the Economic Doors Off - by Roger Wiegand

Aug 6, 2007: Inflation: Rotten to the Core - by Paul Mladjenovic

Feb 21, 2007: Congressman Ron Paul's Economic Report - by Alexander Korelin

Feb 6, 2007: Gold Price Manipulation - by Clive Maund

Jan 1, 2007: The Gold Standard Manifesto: Dismal Monetary Science - by Antal Fekete

The Future of Gold as Money - by Nelson Hultberg

Jul 26, 2006: Federal Reserve Follies: What Really Started the Great Depression - by Antal Fekete

Jun 1, 2006: Fiat and Credit - "The Coming Financial Holocaust"- by Nigel Maund

Dec 2005: New Fed Chairman "Crash & Bernanke" Confuses Depression Cure with Disease - by Peter Schiff

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 Spotlight On:

Karl Marx Award
for
Worst Piece of U.S. Legislation
Apr 8, 2009

   U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama signed into law a $1.2 Trillion Fake Money Stimulus Package:  the ARRA Bill, laden with thousands of earmarks that Obama promised during his 2008 campaign he would never sign off on.  So much for socialist Obama's campaign pledges.  Who can blame Obama for taking advantage of implementing his $1.2 Trillion ARRA Fake Money Stimulus Package when former Prez George Bush laid the groundwork with his and ex Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's and Congress' $800 Billion TARP Booty Bailout for the Bankers in 4th Quarter 2008?  So much for any difference between the Republican and Democratic parties.  The absurdity of Obama's follow-on piece of legislation is that it rests squarely on erroneous Keynesian fallacies, the most notable of which is that -- in the idiotic words of our new U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner -- "Every $1 doled out by the federal government will create $1.57 in economic growth."  Really?  "Yes," says Little Empty Treasury Secretary Timmy G. who is just dying to spend us into untold economic wealth and riches with non-backed paper money, "and it is from this Keynesian Economic Fairytale that Team Obama will be able to create over 4 million new jobs and thus pull our depressed asses out of this Huge Mysterious Depression which, somehow, must have blown in from Mars on a weekday while we weren't looking...goddamnit."  Right, Little Timmy, right.  Blown in from Mars...uh huh, you dolt.  But what's worse, Obama's $1.2 Trillion Fake Money Stimulus Baloney grants virtually unlimited powers to the White House, Treasury Department and Federal Reserve central bank to intervene into the U.S. economy in any manner they see fit, including the purchase (nationalization) of all public and private businesses and institutions.  On what premise?  Why to prevent a "systemic risk," of course, an update of former President Bush's excuse of "national security" and oooh, "the terrorists, the terrorists."  Obama's new ARRA law is patently unconstitutional and in one fell swoop is a Coup d'Etat that for all means and purposes changes America from a limited free market republic into a total Fascist Business Model of state collectivism.  Unless, of course, this piece of "pretended law" is questioned by anybody and brought before those old codgers hanging out at the U.S. Supreme Court.  Fat chance, girl friends.

       Local News      

3,000 Attend Boise's Anti-Tax Tea Party
Apr 16, 2009

Boise, ID – 2,500 - 3,000 Anti-Tax and Anti-Big Government Protesters marched down the main drag, Capitol Blvd, to the Idaho Statehouse in Boise, Idaho, yesterday at high noon.  FM Duck was there, too, singing the National Anthem off-key in A-Sharp Minor diminished 5th because that's what sounds best in the Pentatonic scale on an electric guitar.  I digress.

   Even the kids were protesting the U.S. Congress' failure to read, before they passed, former GOP President Bush's $1.2 Trillion Dollar TARP "Stimulus" Bailout Booty and current socialist President Barack Obama's $1.3 Trillion ARRA "Stimulus" Bill.

   Anti Big Govt and Pro-Freedom Americans from all political parties across the spectrum joined together, cranking up colorful signs to express their distaste for the current absurd inflationary direction that both the U.S. Congress and President Obama are dragging the economy.

   The above scenes were replicated in over a thousand cities across America yesterday as millions of average Americans took to the streets to tell politicians and the left Liberal news media what they thought about Obama and his little Keynesian economic boogers -- like U.S. Treasury Sec Tim Geithner and Fed Chief Ben Bernanke -- who are busy spending us into oblivion with trillions and trillions of Pulp Fiction Paper Dollars.  The major news media who, by the way, mostly skipped coverage of yesterday's demonstrations, continue to pretend that socialism and the quadrillion dollar federal bailouts are OK and even "necessary" to solve the current economic Depression, which they do not understand was caused by all the previous socialism, deficit financing, and quadrillion dollar government expenditures.  Most Americans, however, are not stupid and realize that trillion dollar federal bailouts printed up as Funny Money out of thin air and given to special interest businesses, as well as Obama's ongoing attempt to nationalize every industry in sight -- from banks, to cars, to insurance companies, to health care, to all Internet providers, to Victoria's Secrets Bra & Panty Shoppe, and the list goes on and on -- is insane.  In short, what Americans told the politicians yesterday was that they do not want to live under Obama's future economic fascism.  President Obama and Congress:  are you listening?

Boise’s Watergate morphs into Nampa's and Caldwell's Watergate to pay for Oregon community college in Idaho
(Nov 29, 2008)

 Former Idaho Supreme Court Justice Linda Copple Trout -- the same judge who suddenly switched lower court judges in the middle of the Boise Watergate scandal's Ada County Courthouse scam to allegedly "game" the outcome -- now rules via "judicial confirmation" that it's OK for the Nampa and Caldwell Urban Renewal Agencies to unconstitutionally go into multi-year debt without a 2/3 vote of the voters.

Dave Frazier, local citizen watch dog who won a recent Supreme Court battle vs. the same type of judicial shenanigans says it's not whether the project is "worthy" or "unworthy" in somebody's opinion, but rather how the project is funded.  Cities who use Urban Renewal Agencies to bypass the Idaho Constitution by pretending to be "private" institutions instead of "public" institutions (and thus exempt from spending law limits) are still in violation of the Idaho Constitution -- clever judges notwithstanding.

A second constitutional issue is:  why should Idahoans pay for an Oregon community college, TVCC -- especially since Ada and Canyon County taxpayers were recently tricked by a "gamed," targeted home mail-in ballot, off-date election, into paying for a new Idaho community college, College of Western Idaho, 9 miles away from Oregon's TVCC (Treasure Valley Community College) located within Idaho?

Boise, ID – Whoa, girl friends, pull up the floor and pour yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java.  The tricky bureaucrats are after your wallets again.

   As predicted by author Deep Throat II in his 2006 book, Boise's Watergate: University Place & All The Governor's Men, if the crooks in Boise's Watergate were not brought to justice -- and they weren't -- there will be more and more Boise Watergates occurring throughout Idaho in the future.  More...

Sharon Ullman reclaims Ada County Commissioner seat
(Nov 6, 2008)

Boise, ID – Whoa, gather around, listen up and pour yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java, girl friends.  Tax chopper Sharon Ullman (R-Ada County) kicked butt last Tuesday, booting out Democratic incumbent Paul "Lost-in-the-Forest" Woods who campaigned for more hiking trails and open space during the biggest Recession since the 1930s.

   "Hey, man," said Robert Finkenbinder of Boise, "I don't give no rodent's derriere about more hiking trails for everybody's dog to poop on during this giant Recession in which I just lost my job at Micron.  I just want my property taxes cut."

   "The real reason Paul Woods lost is because he worried too much about whether the deer and the antelope would roam all over our front lawns and he steadfastly refused to support saving the chocolate mousse," said Diana Chocoholic the III as she woofed down an Idaho Spud, a local chocolate treat sculpted in the shape of a potato to trick the tourists. -- FM Duck

What's Kempthorne hiding?
(Aug 06, 2008)

 The book Boise's Watergate: University Place & All The Governor's Men provides plenty of juicy information about the who, what, when, where, why, and how ex Gov Dirk Kempthorne participated in one of Idaho's most expensive financial fiascos in recent history, the failed $136 million University Place Scheme and its precursor Ada County Courthouse Scam.

Boise, ID – While the editors at the Idaho Statesman ponder the legality of the timeliness of ex Gov, now Sec of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne's disinclination to give up his gubernatorial records to Idaho's Historical Society as required by law, FM Duck ponders the more pressing question:  namely, what's Kempthorne hiding?

   Instead of forking the papers over to the Historical Society as required by law, why does Kempthorne want to donate his 7 years of records, 500 boxes worth, to the University of Idaho and keep them sealed for 25 years?

   Every previous Idaho governor donated their gubernatorial records to the Historical Society almost immediately upon leaving office.  But not Kempthorne whose legacy may well turn out to be his questionable actions in Boise's Watergate.  The book Boise's Watergate: University Place & All The Governor's Men provides plenty of juicy information about the who, what, when, where, why, and how ex Gov Dirk Kempthorne participated in one of Idaho's most expensive financial fiascos in recent history, the failed $136 million University Place Scheme and its precursor Ada County Courthouse Scam.

   The problem is not -- as the Statesman puts it -- that state law has not set a more timely deadline for turning over the papers.  Kempthorne -- as well as any other Idaho governor who might have something to hide -- could just as easily speed up the culling out and destruction of culpable papers under whatever time frame was established, so timeliness is not really the issue.

   The real issue remains:  What is kempthorne trying to hide by not releasing his past gubernatorial records?  Especially suspicious is his desire to keep them sealed for 25 years. -- FM Duck

Idaho Statesman's parent newspaper profits melting faster than subprime snowballs in hell
(July 27, 2008)

McClatchy's shares plunge from $51 per share in 2006 to $4.74 last Thursday on the NYSE. 

Managing Editor Kevin Richert sobs hysterically after losing special bathroom privileges and reserved parking spot under old oak tree in northwest corner of parking lot.

Columnist-Reporter Dan Popcorn forced to trade in 1943 manual Royal black typewriter for paper pad and pencil sans eraser.

Boise, ID – "I told McClatchy not to borrow $3 billion to buy out Knight-Ridder, Inc. in 2006," said Idaho Statesman frequent contributor FM Duck writing under the pseudonym of Mr. Quack Off, "but did they listen?  No.  Now look at where they are:  bankrupt with their stock falling faster than a quark on anabolic steroids driving a HEMI Mopar in Stanford's Linear Accelerator just off the 280 freeway on the San Francisco peninsula."

   McClatchy Co., publisher of 30 left liberal daily newspapers whose managers know zippo about the difference between gold and paper, how to spell F-e-d-e-r-a-l  R-e-s-e-r-v-e, or why the market is collapsing, reported its net income fell 44% to $19.7 million this year.  Idaho publisher Little Annie Fannie, publisher of McClatchy's southpaw newspaper The Idaho Statesman, fainted after ding-dong the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange left its parent newspaper's stock down by 24-cents, or 4.8%, at $4.74 per share.

   "Dang," said Idaho Statesman publisher Little Annie Fannie, "Mad Cramer on CNBC said it was OK to invest in financials, subprime mortgages, auction rate securities, default swaps, Bear Stearns, Tamarack Resort, and hard copy newspapers during The Current Recession.  I just don't know what's happening or where the U.S. economy is going," she added.  "Maybe the Federal Reserve should pump more non-collateralized Funny Money into the newspaper industry, just like the home mortgage industry.  We need to force Shakespeare and Barack Obama down everybody's collective throats," said Fannie, searching the rotating ceiling fan for a clue.

   "Yeah, and speaking of Fannie, what we need is a Funny Paper Mae and a Freddie Big Mac newspaper bailout to save the readers of America," said columnist-reporter Dan Popcorn, who just lost his manual typewriter in the latest McClatchy stock collapse debacle.

   "That's right, I mean left," said Managing Editor Kevin Richert, who reportedly cried hysterically when told he would no longer get to use the Idaho Statesman's private toity facilities or a reserved parking spot under the famous old oak tree in the Statesman parking lot.

   "McClatchy's revenue fell more than 19% in June, the company's worst monthly decline this year, so we're cutting back on toilet paper," said Idaho Statesman publisher Little Annie Fannie, "and we're thinking about chopping down Kevin's shady oak tree for firewood this winter -- unless, of course, Secretary of the Interior Dork Kempwood put oak trees on the Endangered Species List with the burgeoning 25,000 polar bear population, one of which was last seen tap dancing on top of BP-Alyeska's oil pipeline, licking his chops while scoping out the 10,000 caribou lunch possibilities lolli-gagging around Prudhoe Bay's oil fields."

   McClatchy said it will probably drop the company's non-existent stock dividends, which cost $59 million last year.

   "Oh great, does that mean I get to log on with my paper pad and pencil from home?" asked reporter Dan Popcorn. -- FM Duck 

Idaho Gov Butch Otter wants to jack up car registration fees by 600%
(Feb 27, 2008)

Boise, ID – Whoa, listen up, girl friends.  While Idaho housing foreclosures jumped 92% -- from 382 in Jan 2007 to 735 in Jan 2008 -- and the state is sitting on a $200 million surplus, Gov Butch Otter, the fake Libertarian, proposed a 400 - 600% increase in car registration fees for every good citizen in Idaho.  Yesterday, you paid $24 - $48 bucks a year.  If the state Legies pass Otter's proposal, everybody gets to pay one flat fee:  $150.  What for?  To maintain Idaho's roads.

   I don't know about you but I think it's time for a highway tax revolt.  We have already shown Gov Ottocrat how to solicit private companies -- such as Macquerie of Australia -- to pay Idaho to build privately-run toll roads.  We do not need to raise registration fees, or increase Idaho's gas tax, or stupidly go into more debt for former Gov Kempthorne's GARVEE federal highway loans to build or maintain our highways.  Private enterprise will pay us and they will make a profit AND the roads will be built on time and under budget.

   Our economy is in a recession.  We need to cut taxes and spending, not raise taxes.  Idaho should immediately refund the $200 million surplus to the taxpayers.  Idaho should immediately cut all taxes on food, medical, and levy no Internet taxes.  Idaho should immediately either chop the property tax or freeze it in a constitutional Prop 13 California style.  Idaho should immediately chop all corporate and individual income taxes and extend the sales tax to ALL services and commodities (except food, medical, and the Internet) at no higher than 3%.  Later, we can adjust the 3% up or down, but for now this would provide more than enough revenue to cover current legitimate state costs.

   Since Idaho's ridiculous public education expenditures gobble up 65% of Idaho's $3 billion budget, we should cut all new increases in Pub Ed expenses -- including Superintendent Tom Luna's $20 - $40 million proposal for a pretended free market Teacher's Bonus for teachers who teach to Idaho's bankrupt ISAT tests.  Further, we need to cut all the waste, fraud, and abuse in the current Pub Ed system.  For example, Idaho spends over $72 million for school buses that drive all over hell and back with only a 25% occupancy.  Most high school students drive themselves to school.  Elementary students are driven by Mom.  This is only one example.  There are tons of redundant Pub Ed programs gobbling up hundreds of millions of dollars.  Chop 'em.  Now.

   Wake up Idahoans.  We are in a recession.  You can either voluntarily cut the spending or the market will force you to cut the spending.  You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip... or a potato.

   Instead of jacking car registration fees by a whopping 600%, let's try private enterprise to build and maintain our roads.  Chicago did.  They bailed out of a huge debt and added $500 million in surplus from a private toll road company.  So can we.  Free minds, free markets. -- FM Duck

Idaho legislators Crapo, Craig & Simpson sing, "Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me" as they rob all Americans to pay for Idaho earmarks
(Sep 13, 2007)

Boise, ID – Our economics-challenged legislators either have no clue about where the true value of money comes from or they are pirates of the Caribbean robbing Peter in New York to pay Paul in Idaho.  Meanwhile, the politicians in New York are busy robbing Paul in Idaho to pay Peter in New York.

   How much booty are Craig, Crapo, and Simpson trying to loot for Idaho?  $12 million for 12 projects:

$200K - Boise detox center
$250K - BSU geothermal
$200K - Pocatello Rec Center
$250K - Twin Falls Boys Club
$500K - Hwy 30 improvements
$1.25M - Boise Airport
$1.5M - I-84 improvement
$5M - City of Rocks Byway
$4.52M - Mass transportation
$800K - ISU Student Safety
$450K - historical preserve
$400K - Lewiston School Dist

and $43 million for 18 more projects at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), BSU, U of Idaho, and various Idaho companies.

   Whether the billions of dollars in pork barrel earmarks stuffed into Congressional Appropriations and Defense Bills come from direct taxation or are printed up out of thin air by the private Federal Reserve, it affects all Americans in all fifty states in many different ways, from devaluation of the unit dollar to price inflation.

   Deficit financed earmarks are simply an extension of the concept of counterfeiting, or creating non-backed, non-collateralized, paper currency out of thin air.  This is called fiat currency, or "forced" currency, and is what governments typically do when they dump the gold standard to control the people in a nation.

   This is a clever way for the private central bankers and their politician friends to create paper money and its subsidiary Wall Street derivatives (such as sub prime mortgages and other non-backed commercial paper) without the nasty restriction of paper money being a receipt for gold or any other hard commodity.  Simply redefine money as paper.  That way, the central bankers and the politicians can manipulate votes (with Congressional earmarks as pork for their home states) and manipulate the economy to their advantage -- at least until the next recession caused by their fiat monetary policies, the result of which they will blame on the non-existent free market.

   It used to be considered rotten -- and illegal -- to trick the people with currency manipulation.  Now, however, politicians such as Idaho Senators Larry "I have a wide stance" Craig and Mike Crapo, and Rep. Mike Simpson, are proud to rob Americans in all the other 49 states for Idaho's Porky the Pig local projects.  Meanwhile, 500 politicians in each of the other 49 states are also busy robbing Americans in Idaho and all the other 49 states (including their own) for their own Porky the Pig local projects.

   Here's a suggestion:  instead of sneaking billions of dollars of earmarks into Appropriations and Defense Bills every year for home projects, it would be easier if our Pirates of the Caribbean Congressjerks simply awarded themselves Jr. Federal Printing Presses to print up whatever amount of non-backed paper money -- sorta like sub-prime pork -- they think they might need for their local flower gardens, Bridges to Nowhere, and subsidized Girl Scout Cookie sales. -- FM Duck

Ooh, another "National Emergency"... Idaho Senators Crapo & Craig rip off American taxpayers with $2 million federal grant for laid-off Micron workers in Boise
(Sep 12, 2007)

Boise, ID – Will the national robbery never end?  If it's not Congressional earmarks to build an Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere for $240 million, it's $2 million for Boise's Micron to pay for laid-off workers after the Idaho State legislators granted Micron an $800 thousand or million -- what's a coupla hundred million between friends? -- property tax exemption deal when Micron pretended it was going to build a billion dollar computer chip plant in Boise while knowingly (and simultaneously) building the real plant in China.

   And all this after Micron was indicted recently -- but not fined for hundreds of millions of dollars like their cohorts because they blew the whistle on their co-conspirators Hynix, Samsung, and others -- by the feds for simultaneously "dumping" and setting monopoly prices (if that's possible) for DRAMs.

   Administered separately by Idaho's Dept of Labor, an additional federal welfare grant has been requested by Micron from a Trade Adjustment Assistance program, also in the U.S. Dept of Labor.

   Hey, let's all pretend that money grows on cherry trees in Washington DC and that when all 50 states receive billions in welfare grants from the federal government, it isn't hyperinflation of our non-backed dollar and doesn't devalue the fake paper money in your grandma's savings account. -- FM Duck

New Community College to "game" the accreditation system to get federal funds
(Aug 7, 2007)

Boise, ID – Oink, oink.  Listen up, gather round, and shut up girl friends.  Pour yourself another hot cup of Rocket Java.  The tricky politicians are at it again.

   Remember when the YES Campaign for the Community College politicians (1) set up a "special election" before your property tax assessments came out, (2) gamed the election with Absentee Ballots to allow regular voters to vote from home, and (3) gamed the Community College Trustee selection process by the State Board of Education with what columnist Dan Popkey called "an inside job"  (see 07-18-2007  "The fix was in... But that's OK; This case warranted an inside job." -- Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman  More... )?  Well don't look now but the new Trustees -- 4 out of 5 who were Co-chair or members of the YES Campaign group -- are looking at gaming a fast track to accreditation by using BSU professors as temporary teachers to gain quick acceptance by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities AND, more importantly, access to federal funds.

   And that, mes amies, will soon become the major issue:  follow the money.  BSU previously applied to the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation for $71 million to establish a Community College but the Albertson Foundation has pledged only $10 million to the new Community College if, and only after, a reasonable plan has been drafted.  The YES Campaigners who promised taxpayers that it would only cost $12.00 per $100,000 in property tax assessments, are already a year late (missing the 2009 budget deadline) and $56 million short.  And now the Trustees are already talking about the maximum property tax of $125 per $100,000 assessment to reach their public education robbery, which is exactly what the NO Campaigners said might happen.

   As FM Duck has already stated, if the YES Campaigners gamed the system to allow less than 10% of the population to raise property taxes on the other 90%, why wouldn't we expect them to carry that same moral philosophy into their jobs as Trustees?  What's next: a primer on how to cheat on final exams? -- FM Duck

Move over Alaska, U.S. Rep Sali (R-Boise) earmarks $400,000 for 12-bed Boise Detox Center to Nowhere
(July 25, 2007)

Holy Mackerel, when did GOP Rep Bill Sali morph into a tax & spend Liberal?

Boise, ID – Whoa, wait a minute, Margie.  Pour yourself another cup of Rocket Java.  According to the Idaho Statesman, our newest GOP Rep to the U.S.  Congress, Bill Sali, thinks it's OK to tax all the citizens across America to pay for the construction of a 12-bed detox center in Boise, Idaho.

   Huh?

   Sali, supposed defender of private enterprise, the free market, and limited government has now met his left Liberal enemies in Washington DC and guess what?  Now he are one.  Huyuck.

   Last year, the dominant GOP Congress sneakily shoved over 15,000 earmarks into non-related legislation to bring the pork back to their home districts.  This year, the dominant Demo Congress has cranked up some 23,000 earmarks with no end in sight.  So if it walks like a statist, talks like a statist, acts like a statist, then guess what: it's probably a freaking statist.

   The U.S. has now reached a moral and financial dilemma as both GOP and left Liberal Congressman think the U.S. Dollar grows "for free" on cherry blossom trees in Washington DC.  And you thought GOP Sali was a fiscal Conservative?  Think again, Idahoans. There's not a dime's worth of difference between the basic moral philosophy of the Liberals and the Conservatives.

   But, if the above reporting from the Idaho Statesman is correct, Sali is now worse than the Liberals.  As a gung-ho Bible  Banger who pushed for anti Gay and anti Women's rights and is pro Faith-Based legislation to strip you of your social rights, he is now pushing to strip you of your economic rights, too.  Taxing one group of Americans in Hoboken, NJ, and Santa Monica, CA, to build a 12-bed detox center for another group of Americans in Boise, Idaho, is not free market.  At least the socialist Welfare State Liberals support individual social rights.

   As we've hinted at over and over in these pages, the moral and economic downfall of America will not come from the left Liberals but rather from the Bible Banging Right -- and all in the name of an anthropomorphized God. -- FM Duck

Bye-bye Micron, thanks for the memories... chips, that is
(Jun 30, 2007)

Boise, ID – Has anybody noticed a growing trend in Boise lately?  Big businesses are leaving in droves.

   First, CEO Bill and Mary Agee ran Morrison-Knudsen into the ground.  MK then morphed into WGI, which was recently bought by California giant RUS or SRU or Toys R Us.  Then, Boise Cascade bit the dust as CEO George Harad took his $20 million for merging BCC with Office Max and selling out to private firm Madison-Dearborn, which is busy dismantling what's left of BCC.

   Next to bite the Boise dust was Albertson's Grocery stores whose CEO took his $20 million or so and said they couldn't compete against Wal- Mart.  Albertson's sold out to Super Value.  SV moved Albertson's out of state and in one year has turned the stores around into profitability.

   This year Boise's Hewlett-Packard Printing Division has a problem: nobody is printing on paper.  Oh-oh, HP may have to re-invent or dump the printer or dum-da-dum-dum move out of Boise.

   And now, for desert, we have Idaho's largest private corporation announcing a denial of a denial that it will not be needing that special interest corporate welfare property tax exemption from ex Gov Kempthorne and the state legies.  Plus, Micron will not be needing all those future local Community College graduates for its Die-Chip-Frame assembly lines because it's moving its fabrication plants to China and Singapore and freezing all U.S. employee hires.  Plus, several thousand Boise Micron employees will be laid off soon.  Real soon.  Like now.

   Quite frankly, we don't really give a rat's derriere what Micron does because (1) we are free market capitalists at FM Duck, (2) we are not "It Takes A Village" socialist cheerleaders like the editors down at the Idaho Statesman, and (3) we understand that it is in the best interests of everybody in a global free market to produce and trade where one can make the best profit.

   But what we do object to is the constant special interest corporate welfare that the Idaho legislature and executive branch grants to big companies who know full well at the time they lobby for their corporate welfare that they will be moving out of the state to China and elsewhere, and thus increasing taxes -- to make up for the loss -- on residential homeowners.  It's the Big Lie that we object to, not the free market move. -- FM Duck

Boise Mayor Dave Bieter confuses self with Walt Disney, wants taxpayers to finance Whitewater Playground
(Jun 18, 2007)

Boise, ID – "Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me."  That's right taxpayers.  Left Liberal Boise Mayor Dave Bieter has morphed into Walt Disney, confused the proper roles of govt and private enterprise, and thinks the government should build a Whitewater Theme Park in Boise.

   Yahoo, Goofy!  What's next, Indiana Jones and The Boise Temple of Doom?

   The big question is, "Twinkle, twinkle, Mayor Dave, how I wonder how much we'll pay?"  Try $1.5 million in taxes, for starters. Total estimate for Mayor Goofy's Whitewater Theme Park is $8 million: $1.5 million from Boise taxpayers and $6.5 million from Peter Pan and Tinker Bell private donations, which may or may not materialize.  Which means The Pirates of the Boise Caribbean will tax the crap out of its citizens to make up the difference.

   "This is one of the happiest days for the city of Boise," announced Mayor Goofy.  Huyuck.

   Meanwhile. the socialist cheerleaders down at the Idaho Statesman are, of course, cheering Mayor Goofy on as they sing, "It's A Small Tax After All," and couch their announcement of Mayor Bieter's Splash Mountain as if it's (1) a legitimate project for the City of Boise to blow taxpayer money on, and (2) a long overdue necessity that has been lagging behind and must get going quickly or we may all die from lack of enough governmental spending.

   Statesman headlines cry, "Bieter Wants Money To Get Whitewater Park Moving... Proposed budget calls for $750,000 for long-stalled playground for kayakers on the Boise River."  I wonder what Boise's private water park in Meridian, Roaring Springs, thinks about having to help finance its new government competitor through taxation?

   Next on Mayor Goofy's Alice in Wonderland agenda: Mad Hatter Tea Party down at Boise City Hall with Tweedle Dum, Tweedle Dee, and the Cheshire Cat standing on his own head -- and your wallet. -- FM Duck

How to Game an Idaho Election
by Henny Penny at Animal Farm
(May 23, 2007)

Boise, ID – According to the Idaho Statesman's latest census sources, 1.4 million people live in Idaho, 615,500 people live in Ada and Canyon Counties in Boise's Treasure Valley, and  262,000 K-12 students live in Idaho.  Doing the math, we can extrapolate that 19% of Idahoans are younger than 18 years old and 81% are adults who can vote.  81% of the population in the Treasure Valley who can vote, therefore, equals roughly 498,555 or, say, 500,000.  But let's be generous and lower that to 400,000 adults who can vote in Ada and Canyon Counties.

   Now comes the interesting part, Margie.  In yesterday's vote to establish a blank spending check and no specific location for a new Community College system in the Treasure Valley, 31,500 voters said YES and 14,500 voters said NO.  Since the election needed a s