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05-11-2008
Idaho: nuclear
waste dump of America
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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
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03-13-2008
Revised
Idaho Grocery Tax Rebate to
equal 9/10 of 1% of your grocery bill?... Ooooh, Whoop-tee-doo, Governor
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03-03-2008
Idaho Grocery Tax Rebate to
equal 3/10 of 1% of your grocery bill?... Ooooh, Whoop-tee-doo, Governor
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02-22-2008
Idaho Legies create
Perfect Storm: yellowcake plus Yellowstone plus Snake Plain Aquifer equals
radioactive Super Volcanic blast
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02-14-2008
Parliament of Whores
admonishes one of their own
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02-10-2008
Anybody Seen Our Gold?
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02-06-2008
(Updated 02-14-2008)
GOP and
Liberal Disconnected Thought Globs (DTGs)
dominate 2008 presidential debates
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02-02-2008
Obama/Clinton
Kissy-Kissy in pre-scripted Hollywood Debate
Love Fest
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01-31-2008
Earmarks for Idaho are
good but earmarks for Alaska are bad, says Idaho Statesman
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01-29-2008
Osama to
visit Boise on Saturday
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01-28-2008
Smoke 'n Mirrors Economic Stimulus Package: $600 for you, $730,000 for
Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
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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
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01-19-2008
Federal Reserve drives U.S. into Super Recession, then Depression, then
Martial Law
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01-10-2008
New
Thought Police Bill passes U.S. House 404-6, awaits Senate vote
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01-09-2008
New Hampshire
Primary: Karl Marx wins again, stomps on U.S. Constitution
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01-04-2008
Iowa Primary: Karl Marx Whips Jesus Christ
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01-01-2008
U.S. Federal Reserve Note: America's Pulp Fiction
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12-28-2007
Who shot Pakistani ex Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto?
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12-19-2007
Idaho Congress-crooks Sen. Larry "Wide Stance" Craig and Rep Mike Simpson
rob all Americans for Idaho earmarks
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12-18-2007
Goldman Sachs creates subprime slime with left hand, shorts subprime slime
with right hand
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12-17-2007
Ada County to operate Detox
Center for drunks & dopers? Cost to taxpayers: $1.8 million per year
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12-14-2007
Central Banks Conspire to
Hyper-Inflate Global Economy
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12-11-2007
Boise's
Watergate fiasco continues as Univ of Idaho plans to blow $300 million on
new marketing campaign
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12-10-2007
Why should
Boise's "Special Olympics" be funded by taxpayer earmarks and what is the
true
concept behind the "Special Olympics?"
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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
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12-03-2007
U.S. Treasury to Bail Out
Billionaire Bankers on Wall Street Under Guise of Saving Subprime Borrowers
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12-01-2007
Idaho Gov Butch Otter Holds
Secret Meeting to Tax Inner Tubes on Boise River
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11-26-2007
Idaho's Property Tax Solution
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11-16-2007
The Fed's "Prime Interest Rate"
Joke
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11-09-2007
Idaho Statesman's parent
McClatchy posts $1.4 billion loss in 3rd Qtr
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10-29-2007
The AMT - Worst Piece of U.S. Tax
Legislation
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10-29-2007
What is The Master Liquidity
Enhancement Conduit? Hint: It's not a plastic flex straw to a bottle
of Ripple wine
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10-17-2007
Can Idaho U.S. Senator
Larry Craig be recalled?
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10-13-2007
How to Recall Idaho U.S. Senator
Larry Craig
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10-10-2007
Will the real $50 please stand
up?
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10-03-2007
President Bush and Federal
Reserve bankers plan for nationwide bankruptcy with fake 3-week flu test
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10-01-2007
Idaho to implement ButchCare?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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08-10-2007
NY Stock Market crashes 387
points as sub-prime fiasco hits Germany, France
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08-09-2007
WSJ, Fox News pretend Ron Paul
votes for earmarks
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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!
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07-30-2007
Harry Potter dies on page 597...
in Boise
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07-18-2007
"The fix was in... But that's OK;
This case warranted an inside job." -- Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman
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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?
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07-10-2007
Ex Ada County Commish Judy
Peavey-Derr threatens libel lawsuit against Deep Throat II
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07-05-2007
Idaho Senator Craig loses Illegal
Immigration Amnesty bill...Does Craig support prison inmates picking Idaho
crops?
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07-03-2007
U.S. Constitution not signed by
authors
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06-28-2007
"Bong Hits 4 Jesus"
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06-14-2007
Court transcripts reveal judge
knows University Place fiasco was a financial scam and who the perps were
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06-14-2007
Cheap Community College
"need" is a hoax...BSU rated cheapest university in the nation by US News &
World Report
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06-13-2007
Ada County screws taxpayers,
again...pays Cryptic Partners $1.4 million for $900,000 office space in
Eminent Domain settlement
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06-08-2007
NO campaign thanks YES campaign
for abuse of Absentee Ballots, encourages re-vote by mail
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06-07-2007
Scientists slap Bible Bangers'
definition of "when does life begin" upside their diploid totipotent cells
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06-06-2007
What is America's greatest moral
challenge?
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05-29-2007
Yo, Rudy, follow the money
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05-26-2007
What is paper money?
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05-17-2007
The Ron Paul Phenomenon
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05-02-2007
Sec of Interior Kempthorne offers
quid pro quo worth billions of dollars
to Louisiana Sen Mary Landrieu
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04-19-2007
Supreme Court takes giant step
backwards
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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
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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
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03-25-2007
Idaho GOP Legies add $400 million
pork to Demo's Iraq War Bill
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03-23-2007
Idaho taxpayers subsidize new
Micron plant in China
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03-19-2007
Ex Gov Kempthorne's original $3
billion Highway Plan exceeds $6 billion... Idaho Statesman says, "Pass the
budget, no strings attached"
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03-14-2007
Low carb diet kicks government's
low fat guidelines in its big fat butt
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03-09-2007
The paper chase... Interest rate
arbitrage between the Yen and the Dollar
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03-08-2007
Bullet train from Boise to
Meridian derailed as billion dollar local option sales tax bites the
dust...poof
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03-01-2007
Stock market plunges 416 points
in one day
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02-26-2007
"An Inconvenient Truth" morphs
into "Convenient Lies" as Hollywood Oscars regurgitate 30-year old Doomsday
baloney from the 1970s
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02-23-2007
Judge cries at Anna Nicole Smith hearing...wins Oscars for Best Actor, Worst
Director
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02-22-2007
World Wide Monetary Inflation...the not-so-Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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02-18-2007
Boise's Watergate morphs into Librarygate as Urban Renewal Agency picks Bodo
developer for unconstitutionally-funded $130 million "Library Blocks"
project
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02-16-2007
CAMBR fraud at U of Idaho?
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02-11-2007
Who's Your Favorite Socialist Candidate for the 2008 Presidency?
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02-09-2007
Oink-Oink, Boise City Council Feeds at State & Federal Pig Troughs
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02-08-2007
Big Brother mandates vaccine for 11-year old girls
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01-31-2007
Ada County Commissioners condemn new Ada County Courthouse, then use Eminent
Domain to confiscate their own property... huh?
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01-22-2007
Where in Hell did Our 3 Branches of Government Go?
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01-18-2007
The Real Purpose of the Federal Reserve
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01-17-2007
European Union Dumps German, Officially Adopts English as Universal Language
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01-15-2007
GOP "Intellectuals" Propose Socialist Job Corps Program to Rebuild Iraq
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01-12-2007
Dear Boise Pub
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01-10-2007
Boise State Broncos # 1 in
Nation...
Boring BCS Title Game Outsells Lunesta Sleep Aid Pills 10:1...Snore
z-z-z-z
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01-08-2007
Kempthorne Plays "Polar Bear Politics"
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01-02-2007
Boise State outsmarts Oklahoma with Statue of Liberty fake pass, Wins Fiesta
Bowl 43-42 in nail-biting overtime
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12-30-2006
Saddam Hussein
1937-2006
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12-29-2006
Shell Oil hires ex Sec of Interior Gale Norton...Conflict of interest?
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12-26-2006
"Black box" trading on the Big Board...is it legal...
is it moral?
Part 2
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12-19-2006
"Black box" trading on the Big Board...is it legal...
is it moral?
Part 1
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12-22-2006
China to dump a trillion U.S. dollars?
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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
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11-19-2006
If Idaho "needs" more nurses, let supply and demand in the free market
automatically solve the "problem"
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11-17-2006
Boise "needs" a detox center like it "needs" another snort of crack
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11-17-2006
If Boise's "Library Blocks" project is unconstitutional, then why isn't the
Courthouse project unconstitutional?
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11-10-2006
The Demos are coming, the Demos
are coming, so now what?
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11-01-2006
Bag Boy Wallace Charged
with Felony in U of Idaho Crime Spree...Major Perps Skate Free?
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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...
10-03-2006
Prop 2 is a Full Employment Act
for Idaho lawyers 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?"
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08-30-2006
WSJ thinks function of Fed
Reserve is "maintaining an overall stable price level"
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08-25-2006
Idaho leads world in "Fat
Pill"
production
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08-19-2006
Are Idaho's "Rainy Day Funds"
unconstitutional?
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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
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08-11-2006
Thanks to Brits for busting
potential bombers
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08-07-2006
Idaho Baptists launch missiles
against California Catholics?
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07-18-2006
Boise needs a Drug Czar like it
needs a Snicker-doodle Czar
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07-17-2006
Billionaires Waren Buffet and
Bill Gates fall ill to socialist philosophy
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06-05-2006
New Idaho Governor: Public
Servant or Master?
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05-31-2006
Grand Inquisitor visits Auschwitz
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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
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04-17-2006
Idaho Teachers' union pushes
Initiative for Guaranteed Annual Income by earmarking 1% of sales tax
for itself
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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
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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
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03-27-2006
JFAC gives blank check for
Governor Kempthorne's Highway Robbery
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03-20-2006
Boise's Watergate goes to
Washington... Governor Kempthorne nominated as Secretary of Interior
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03-06-2006
Is Idaho's $3 Billion GARVEE
Highway Debt Unconstitutional?
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02-20-2006
Why Idaho's Anti-Gay Marriage
Amendment is Pretended Law...Part
II
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02-13-2006
Why Idaho's Anti-Gay Marriage
Amendment is Pretended Law...Part
I
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02-06-2006
Why we don't need property taxes...Part
II
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01-30-2006
Why we don't need property taxes...Part I
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01-23-2006
Roll over Boston, tell James
Madison the news...time for a Boise Tea Party
...Part II
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01-16-2006
Roll over Boston, tell James
Madison the news...time for a Boise Tea Party
...Part I
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01-09-2006
Santa 'Clause' shows up to save
Florida's Teachers' Union
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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...
08-29-2005
Iraq's "New" Old Articles of
Confederation 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?
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03-07-2005
Selective Ethics in Boise?
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02-28-2005
Is Micron
Whining for Corporate Welfare or Demanding Free Market Capitalism?
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02-21-2005
Catholicism in Latin America
Morphs into Socialism
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02-07-2005
Will Carly
Bankrupt HP?
(Note: Well, not now. Carly fired Feb 9...)
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01-31-2005
Oil Companies
Turn Earth into Giant CO2 Soda Pop Bottles
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01-24-2005
Idaho
Legislature Repeals Itself? ...
Anti-gay Marriage: The State vs. The Individual
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01-17-2005
Idaho's
Looming Fake Health Care "Crisis"
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10-25-2004
America's Intellectual Hierarchy
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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.
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10-11-2004
Anti-gay Marriage: The State vs. The Individual
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10-04-2004
Evolution Of Math Instruction In California Public Schools
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Why Johnny Can't Read
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Does surgery for cancer cause more
cancer?
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When Good Cells Go Bad (cancer:
who's right: viral theory or trophoblast theory?)
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The Guaranteed Annual
Watermelon
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$9 Trillion
in debt and rising?
See 250 year
chart...
Health
Care Is Not A Right
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International News
Zimbabwe Price Inflation
Rate Hits 1,594%
(Feb 14,
2007)
Johannesburg, South
Africa – Whoa, shut up, gather 'round, listen up, girl friends. First,
Happy Valentine's Day, baby. Second, Zimbabwe's annual price inflation
rate just skyrocketed to 1,594%. Third, the only way this could happen
-- The How I Done It -- is if Zimbabwe's
President Robert Mugabe printed up (i.e., hyper-inflated) tons and tons of his
nation's paper money -- or shot 9/10th of Zimbabwe's population.
The
January 2007 rate jumped 312.5% over Dec 2006. Expect HOURLY price
increases for bread, electricity, and meat by May or June.
Prez
Bobby Mugabe (rhymes with hobby) and his central bankers have instigated runaway inflation for
the last 5 years in order to --The Why I Done It
-- "redistribute" thousands of farms and businesses owned by those with not
much skin melanin to those with more skin melanin, commonly known as a
racial redistribution of the looted socialist cookies.
Don't
expect a box of Granny See's candies for Valentine's Day this year in
Zimbabwe, dear. A US$10 half-pound box of milk chocolates
will set you back $2,520 in Zimbabwe dollars. And that same box of
candies would only cost 40-cents in real gold and silver-backed U.S.
currency before the private Federal Reserve bankers took over our
highly-inflated U.S. money. -- FM Duck
New 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.”
Pope Benedict, previous
Grand Inquisitor of Catholic Church, says Muhammad was "evil and inhuman"
(Sep 18, 2006)
Advice from Confucius, "Yo,
Pope, warm brain before opening mouth."
Rome, Italy
– Pope Benedict XVI visited the
Auschwitz concentration camp last May and asked,
“Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?”
Probably
for the same reason that God remained silent during the Inquisition of the
Catholic Church which lasted for several hundred years and during which
hundreds of thousands of women throughout Europe were officially classified
as “witches” and burned at the stake.
While the major
news media played it up RE the irony of today’s German-born Pope (real name
Joseph Ratzinger) visiting the infamous Nazi concentration camp at
Auschwitz, no one mentioned that Ratzinger, until elected Pope in April
2005, was the previous Grand Inquisitor of the Catholic Church’s own
historical concentration camps called The Inquisition.
So now,
last week, Pope Joe "The Grand Inquisitor" pops up in a speech and quotes a
conversation on the "truths" (ha-ha) of Christianity and Islam that took
place between a 14th-century Byzantine Christian emperor, Manuel II
Paleologus, and a Persian scholar, "The emperor
comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war. Show me just what
Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and
inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached,"
said Pope Benedict, previous Grand Inquisitor of the Catholic Church.
Pope
Benedict forgot to discuss the Catholic Inquisition's official torture
manual, the Malleus Maleficarum
(The Hammer of the Witches), in which The Church characterized women
as the source of all evil and then went on to describe exactly,
step-by-step, how the heretic “witches” were to be tortured to extract
confessions and then burned at the stake.
Meanwhile, Muslims throughout the world proved both major religions, Islam
and Christianity, are poor excuses for moral philosophies by firebombing two
West Bank churches and killing a nun and her bodyguard in Somalia. -- FM
Duck
Cisco, Sun
Microsystems, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft help China censure Internet users
Free Speech in China?
What's that?
We only supply the
software, the operating systems, the hardware, and the censorship filters
for tens of billions of dollars for the six Internet hubs controlled by the
Communist dictators in China. We're not responsible for the Chinese
Internet Police who throw users into jail and beat them to death for typing
in such words as "liberty" and "freedom" which are currently classified as
"profanity" in China.
Beijing, China -- When do capitalists morph
into socialists? When high tech American capitalists join forces with
a brutal Communist Dictatorship to implement their high tech products to
control the population, that's when.
Is this short-sighted or what?
In the long run, these American companies are helping a dictatorship
increase their future goal of world domination, including future aggressive
action against the U.S. This is a lot like running out and offering
baloney sandwiches and potato chips to thugs who are throwing rocks and
breaking your living room window. You might as well supply them with
the rocks, too. Or nuclear weapons. And what's going to be the
high-techies' excuse when the rock throwers walk in and kick them out of
their million-dollar mansions? Duh, we didn't see the connection?
We thought we could escape to North Korea or Iraq or maybe Sweden where we
can spend our billions of dollars on rationed items not available any more
because we helped destroy what's left of the free market? Oh yoo-hoo,
Bill Gates, can you spell collectivist S-U-I-C-I-D-E?
U.S. helps
Iraq pay $300 Million for 30-year old Soviet choppers and non-functional
machine guns?
Psst. Yo, dummy.
Do I got a deal for you. Only $100 million for 24 hunk of junk
helicopters, cash on the barrel head, pay in advance, sight unseen.
Garaged for 30 years in Poland. By the way, you need a box of rubber
bands to jump start these suckers. Only $100 million for the rubber
bands, plus I'll throw in two hand grenades and the Brooklyn Bridge -- at
rush hour -- for free.
Baghdad, Iraq -- Hoo boy, do I have some
hot rod helicopters for your Iraqi Defense Department, girl friends.
The Iraqi Defense Ministry, operating under American-appointed supervisors,
paid $300 million in advance for crappy war equipment, including
twenty-four, 30-year old Soviet helicopters rusting away in Poland.
After flying to Poland to
inspect their purchase, the Iraqi idiots pretended to be disgusted and
flew back home, sans either the helicopters OR the $100 million which they
paid up front for the broken-down eggbeaters. Oh gosh, gee willikers.
It looks like we were twicked, again, Bugs Bunny. We'll show them.
We'll just fly right back home to Baghdad, drink a cup of tea, and forget
about it. Well, maybe we'll hold a pretend court for the pretend
purchase and Americans can pay more of their pretend National Wallpaper (the
Federal Reserve Note) in taxes for what is rapidly evolving into a pretend
war in Iraq. Hey, since we're all pretending, I get to be Zorro and
you get to be Spider-Man. Go ahead, jump off that building, dummy.
EU
Constitution falling apart
Paris, France -- As Jeff Cimbalo and
David Frum state in the WSJ, the reason the European Union's Constitution is
falling apart is because while the US Constitution opens with, "We the
People of the United States...," the EU Constitution opens with, "His
Majesty the King of the Belgians..."
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.
Dollars & Sense
In 1951 the average house cost
$16,000, an ounce of gold was $35, a gallon of gasoline cost $.20, a loaf of
bread $.16, a candy bar or a bottle of soda pop $.05, and a first-class
postage stamp? 3 cents!
The base price of the '59 Chevy
El Camino was $2,500; The average price of a movie ticket in 1972 was $1.58.
The Declaration of Independence
has 1,337 words. The entire Holy Bible has about 773,000 words. So far, over
7 million words covering well over 66,000 pages of complex regulations make
up our income tax code. According to a study by the Joint Committee on
Taxation, tax compliance alone costs Americans $250 BILLION a year. Since
the "Tax Simplification Act" was passed in 1986, the tax code has been
changed over 6,000 times.
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Quickie News Briefs
Thursday May 8, 2008
--
Mexico to build a U.S. Consulate in Boise, Idaho? That's right,
amigos. For all 25 Mexicans who live in the Boise Treasure Valley,
population 450,000. Holy tacos. I mean, what would illegal
immigrant Jose Rodriguez do if he lost his stolen fake driver's license?
Get a new one at the Boise Mexican Consulate? Or if Maria Gonzalez, age 10, got pregnant by illegal immigrant Juan Taco,
age 37, in Eastern Idaho, and delivered a child by Caesarian at the County
Hospital and couldn't pay her bill? Oh my God, yes indeed, Boise,
Idaho needs a U.S.-Mexican Consulate like it needs another hole in the head.
--
Sec of the Interior, ex Gov Dirk Kempthorne, has refused to give up his
gubernatorial records to the Idaho State Historical Society as required by state law
2 years ago. I wonder why? It wouldn't be because ol' Dirky
Lurky has something to hide from his previous governorship, would it?
Like perhaps some of his shenanigans during his Boise's Watergate:
University Place & All The Governor's Men fiasco? Naw, not our
Secretary of the Interior, Tricky Dirky, working for even trickier Prez Bush.
--
Fed Reserve Chief Ben "Helicopter" Bernanke said, "Finding ways to avoid
preventable foreclosures is a legitimate and important concern of public
policy." Actually, Ben, no it isn't. The only constitutional
function of the U.S. Government is to prohibit infringements upon the rights
and freedoms of individuals, NOT (1) create an illegal central bank, (2) go
off the gold standard, (3) hyper-inflate the U.S. Dollar, (4) inject
trillions of inflated Dollars into the housing market via investment banks
on Wall Street, (5) promote a subprime slime mortgage market, and then when
the housing market tanks, (6) pump hundreds of billions of more inflated
Dollars into the market, and then when that just adds more monetary fuel to
the stagflation fire, (7) show up on national TV and babble about how it is
the function of the Federal Government to (8) bail out the bankers, (9) bail
out the subprime mortgages borrowers, and (10) pour even more hyper-inflated
paper money into the global economy, you dolt. The
PROBLEM IS the Fed and its non-collateralized
paper money printed up out of thin air.
Therefore, the SOLUTION IS to abolish the Fed and get back to sound money,
which means a precious metals monetary standard without fractional reserve
banking.
--
If all the major U.S. banks who, by the way, are members of the Federal
Reserve, think that gold is not worth anything as an international monetary
standard, then why are they all holding tens of millions of shares of the major and
mid-cap gold stocks such as Kinross, Newmont, Yamana, Freeport, Hecla, and
Gold Fields? Oh, I know. They speculate a huge
future demand for gold teeth by dentists. Yeah, that must be it. Dentists.
--
Starting this week and continuing throughout this summer, the U.S.
government has now begun sending out $600 to every adult and $300 to every
child in America on the premise that the Feds can "stimulate" the economy by
printing up money out of thin air -- $160 billion this time around -- and
passing it out for everybody to spend as fast as they can. This absurd
action by President Bush, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, and Federal
Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke is so ridiculous -- and such a lame attempt to
cover up themselves as the cause of the U.S.'s deficit mess in the first
place -- that one wonders how they can
all stand up on national TV and keep a straight face as they announce their
Economic Stupidity Package. What's worse is that almost nobody except
Free Market Duck is protesting this $160 billion pile of federal bull shit.
Who do they think they're kidding? Apparently most people since
virtually all of the Wall Street pundits on TV (except for Glenn Beck)
including Mad Jim Cramer, Kudlow & buddies, all the stock market hosts on TV channel
CNBC, FOX News hosts, most economic professors at all the major universities, editors at
the Wall Street Journal, and even CEOs at many large corporations actually
think that a government -- or ALL governments -- can just print up trillions of pieces of
non-collateralized paper out of thin air, distribute them throughout an
economy, and make that economy rich. And nobody on the political scene
except GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul understands the stupidity of the
Fed's $160 billion fake "stimulus" fiasco. Nobody seems to understand
that non-collateralized paper is not the same as capital or capital goods.
Not Hillary Clinton, not Barack Obama, not John McCain, not the U.S.
Congress, not President Bush, virtually nobody. So, America and the
entire global economy is now entering into a hyper-inflationary paper money
print-off contest and rapidly committing economic suicide, led by the Voodoo
Keynesian economists at the world's central banks. Want to know how
it's all going to end up? Pick up a copy of Ayn Rand's novel,
Atlas
Shrugged, and you will find out.
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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,
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$7 million lawsuit
Cryptic Partners v. UI Foundation ongoing in Boise since April 18, 2007...arguing
over the definition of the word "it"...
Boise lawyers Eiguren and Miller plead 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)
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"
National News
Update to
yesterday's NH Primary...Oops, we were wrong... New Hampshire prefers state
collectivism over individual freedom...
(Jan 09,
2008)
Manchester,
NH – So, we guessed wrong about New Hampshironians and their philosophical
views RE individual rights and the U.S. Constitution. That means
America is much worse off than we thought. Too bad. Moving on to
Super Tuesday, Feb 5th... that will be the clincher. -- FM Duck
New Hampshire
GOP Primary Prediction: Ron Paul finishes in top 3
(Jan 08,
2008)
Look for the Ron Paul Phenomenon to steamroll over the GOP mainstream Republocrats as the people in the Granite State put their votes where their
money is: over $20 million in small donations to Ron Paul in the last
quarter of 2007.
Manchester,
NH – "Fair and balanced" ha-ha FOX NEWS refused to invite GOP presidential
candidate Rep. Ron Paul to its national TV debate last Sunday.
Good for Dr. Ron since the FOX debate turned out to be just another re-run
of mostly socialist questions by moderator Mike Wallace and socialist
answers by the mainstream GOP candidates. Supporting Ron Paul, the New
Hampshire Republican Party correctly pulled its sponsorship of the FOX
presidential debate when FOXy-Loxy refused to invite Dr. Paul.
The good news is
that Ron Paul spoke and answered questions in his own GOP Forum from
Manchester, New Hampshire just before the FOX TV debate.
In addition, Jay
Leno heard about the FOX snub and invited Dr. Ron Paul to his Late Night
Show last night, which Dr. Paul attended and presented his views to much
loud applause.
Americans want
change. Not just any change. They want someone who understands
why we need a sound monetary system, i.e. gold backed, a return to
limited government, lower taxes, and a strong national defense... a defense
located at our borders, not in Iraq, Afghanistan, or at over 700 military
bases across the world.
Look out.
We predict The Ron Paul Phenomenon will push Dr. No-No-No on Taxes into the
Top 3 in today's Granite State Rock Slide. -- FM Duck
Feds
Confiscate Idaho Private Mint's Gold, Silver, Platinum & Ron Paul "Liberty
Dollars" in Illegal Raid
(Nov 21, 2007)
Was attack on GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul's campaign medals
monetarily-motivated or politically-motivated? Or both?
If gold and silver coins have
no value or purpose in today's Keynesian Econometrics, then why does the
Federal Reserve fear private gold money? What if I stamp out 1 troy oz squares of
gold and write "Bite it" under a portrait of an aardvark and then trade it
for 800 Federal Reserve Notes or 400 hot dogs at Costco? Is that a
crime, too? If so, where does my freedom of speech and freedom of
trade end and who says a metallic aardvark is not just as much art as a
Picasso or Rembrandt?
Coeur d'Alene, ID – Wake up
Americans. Another big nail was driven into America's free market
coffin this week as FBI and Secret Service agents raided the Indiana
offices of NORFED -- the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal
Reserve Act & Internal Revenue Code -- and private Sunshine Minting Co. in northern Idaho.
The Feds
confiscated everything except the kitchen sink.
That's right,
girl friends. The Gestapo-like government thugs swooped down and swiped all of NORFED's
and Sunshine Minting Co.'s gold, silver, platinum, mint equipment, computers, manual
records AND two tons of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul Liberty Dollar
campaign medals. Hey, why not raid Ron Paul's campaign headquarters
and burn all his campaign literature, T-Shirts, baseball caps, and bumper
stickers while you're at it, too? Or would that be too obvious?
The big question
is: what crime did NORFED commit? What's wrong with private
mints issuing, and individuals using, gold and silver money?
NORFED did not
counterfeit U.S. coins nor U.S. Federal Reserve Notes. The Liberty
Dollar coins are 1 troy oz of pure gold or silver and do not state that they
are "U.S. coins" or "legal tender" in compliance with current U.S. Treasury
prohibitions. Liberty Dollar paper receipts, gold and silver
certificates, are 100% backed by gold or silver -- until the FBI and Secret
Service confiscated NORFED's gold and silver bullion -- and are (or were)
redeemable to the bearer on demand.
In contrast,
current U.S. coins are made out of debased copper-nickel and Federal Reserve
Notes are not backed by any commodity and thus not redeemable for anything
except more paper Federal Reserve Notes, which, by the way, are printed at
3-cents per bill for all denominations.
Unknown to GOP
presidential candidate Ron Paul, NORFED exercised its First Amendment rights
of free speech and minted two tons of "Ron Paul" cupro-nickel Liberty
Dollars to disseminate their constitutional monetary message in a political
marketing campaign. Freedom of speech. All legal. All of
the Ron Paul Liberty Dollars were confiscated by the FBI in their recent
raid. Illegal.
Was the U.S. government's attack against NORFED and GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul's campaign medals
monetarily-motivated or politically-motivated? Or both?
Obviously it was both.
Americans should
be extremely concerned about the Fed's recent raid and confiscation of
private property at NORFED. This is an individual rights issue and at
its moral philosophical foundation, the U.S. government has violated
numerous constitutional rights of many individuals, the least of which is
not freedom of trade and freedom of speech. Not coincidental to the
Fed's raid, NORFED had already initiated a lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury
and Fed Reserve last March to clarify its position.
Meanwhile, the
Federal Reserve central bankers and their Wall Street monetary manipulators
are sinking deeper and deeper in a morass of subprime mortgage slime through
an international hyperinflation of our non-backed Federal Reserve Notes,
non-collateralized CDOs, ridiculous hedge funds and derivatives backed by
nothing, Structured Investment Vehicles backed by hot air, and an absurd
government bail-out Super SIV called the Master Liquidity Enhancement
Conduit.
Good luck
Americans. You better hope that NORFED wins its lawsuit against the
U.S. Monetary Gestapo or your National Wallpaper and the Bill of Rights will
soon be devalued down to a big fat zero. Welcome to George Orwell's
1984. -- FM Duck
The Social Security Merry-Go-Round
(Oct
22, 2007)
Washington, DC –
Oh boy, Margie, let’s look at the social
security tax.
First they force you to pay the tax, then
they force your employer to match the tax so if you’re self-employed you pay
twice, then they dump the tax into a Big General Fund Sugar Bowl instead of
a unique account for you, the tax earns no interest, and when you hit Age 62
they dole out X-dollars to you per month called Social Security plus 2% per
year for price inflation while the Federal Reserve hyper-inflates the U.S.
Dollar at 15% per year to make your fixed Social Security dollars worth less
and less and less.
Meanwhile, Congress
continually robs from the Social Security fund and never pays it back, then
moves merrily along to create the same financial mess in the fields of
health care, public education, and ad infinitum. Finally, as Social
Security dollars for seniors won’t even cover the property taxes for their
paid-off home, our senior citizens go to work at fast food eateries to earn
enough money to survive and, guess what? The government taxes our seniors’
paltry salaries from Jack In The Box to pay for… you guessed it: Social
Security taxes.
Whoever thought
up this stupid government scheme should be strung up by their balls and
shot, twice: once for the employee and once for the employer.
Just give me back
all the taxes I paid into Social Security, twice since I was self-employed,
compounded at 5% per year, and let me jump off this stupid Social Security
Merry-Go-Round, will ya? Please, please, dear State, stop trying to save me
from myself in education, health care, and old age. And, get out of the
money manufacturing business and back onto a 100% gold standard.
“Round and round
state protectionists go, promise state donuts then feed them state holes.” –
Bread and Circuses, FM Duck
Minnesota Judge rules Idaho Senator Larry
"Pinocchio" Craig
still guilty in homo toity sting...
Craig says he will not resign from U.S. Senate
(Oct 4, 2007)
Minneapolis, Minnesota – Comedians across
America overwhelmingly rejoiced upon hearing the news that Idaho Senator
Larry "Pinocchio" Craig's nose grew another two feet this afternoon after a
Minnesota judge refused to overturn Craig's guilty plea in last summer's
homo toity sting at the Minneapolis Airport.
Senator Craig's nose grew an
amazing 2 feet after Craig heard the bad news and then continued to proclaim
his innocence while voting on a $100 million earmark in Washington, DC, to
build a Rubber Ducky Theme Park for wayward penguins in downtown Boise next
year. Craig's nose grew an additional 3 feet after his further
announcement that he would not resign as promised but would instead continue
to serve out his term.
Several elevators in the
Capitol Building are now under project review for extensive re-widening in
order to accommodate Senator Craig's Size 42 and growing schnaz. -- 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.
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