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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
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06-12-2009
Idaho
Statesman supports spending $65 million of federal stimulus booty for Boise
Trolley Cars
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05-31-2009
Idaho Statesman thinks
socialist economics can enrich economy and create Idaho jobs
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05-05-2009
The Idaho Transportation
Solution
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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
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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
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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”
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12-14-2008
Did U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald
jump the gun in premature arrest of Gov. Blagojevich?
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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
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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?
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09-15-2008
Money,
money everywhere, nor any drop to drink...
U.S. Dollar is pulp fiction
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09-11-2008
Weekend at
Fannie's
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09-08-2008
Idaho
Statesman pushes Fascist Business Model as “Vision for the Valley”
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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
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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
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08-23-2008
Idaho stockpiles $500
million to $1 billion tax surplus on top of last year's $224 million
surplus?
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08-19-2008
Washington politicians
lie about true size of budget deficit
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08-12-2008
Corporate Welfare
Alive and Well in Idaho
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08-01-2008
"Covered Bonds" new
mortgage gimmick by "Banksta Gangsta" Treasury Sec Hank Paulson
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07-17-2008
History of Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac reveal gross corruption, fundamental flaws
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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
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06-23-2008
Idaho Supreme Court
enforces socialist health care law…
Taxpayers must cough up $187,000 for illegal immigrant’s heart attack
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06-04-2008
Obama-Clinton
“nightmare ticket” promises to drag U.S. down the road to serfdom via
Marxist socialism
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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
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05-23-2008
Global Monetary Recap
- 1944 to 2008
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05-21-2008
Kempthorne Hugs Polar
Bears,
Bankrupts America
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05-16-2008
Yeah, Kempthorne,
"Cough up" those gubernatorial records, will ya?
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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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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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01-01-2008
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
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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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05-02-2007
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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01-08-2007
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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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...
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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08-07-2006
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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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?
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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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01-09-2006
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?
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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?
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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
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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?)
More...
Health
Care Is Not A Right
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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.
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Quickie News Briefs
Friday July 03, 2009
-- Fri Jul 3 How is it
that we, as freedom-loving Americans, have arrived at the absurd economic
point that we assume it is the responsibility of the government to "create"
jobs? In a free market, why would it be the task of the President of
the United States to "create" jobs? Ditto for the U.S. Congress?
The reason is because Americans have come to accept the false premise that
there exists a parameter in today's ridiculous economics equation called X,
and that government economists are capable of manipulating lots of other
parameters to increase or decrease X, the magic Job Coefficient. But
what if today's Econometricians are wrong? What if there is no such
mathematical equation with the parameter called X = jobs that can be
manipulated like some algebraic formula? As a matter of fact, there
really is no such animal as a Quantitative Equation in Economics in which
Jobs = X is a valid parameter that, for example, Obama's government economic
advisors can tweak to create jobs. Why? Because the basis for
free market capitalism rests upon subjective evaluations, not objective
quantifications. Take, for example, price formations. Price
formations depend upon subjective prioritizations of individuals exchanging
in a free market. Destroy this subjective mechanism -- such as by
inserting government czars over various sectors of the economy -- and the
phenomenon of true prices reflecting prioritizations, supply and demand, and
movement of real capital (not the government's fake pulp fiction dollars)
will disappear. Therefore, since this parameter, the creation of
prices by subjective prioritizations, disappears, all Quantitative economic
equations with Jobs = X will also never happen. Therefore, Obamanomics
is a dead man walking and can never work.
-- Thur Jul 2 The U.S.
Treasury is choosing nine monetary management firms -- a polite term for "Bad
Bank" Firms, you know, the ol Good Bank-Bad Bank absurdity -- to suck up the
toxic derivatives of the major Wall Street investment banks and sell this
crap to unsuspecting idiots. Currently, toxic derivatives are not
counted on the major banks' accounting books so as to make the banks appear
profitable. The Treasury knows they can't sell the toxic trash through
their Good Bank-Bad Bank scenario but they don't care because they're just
going to print up lots more Pulp Fiction Dollars and either buy the crap
themselves or make it look legal by loaning inflated bucks to others who
will play "brokers" and buy them for the Fed -- for a nominal fee, of
course. Wow, what a racket, if you can get in on this banking gig.
None of this, of course, could ever happen on a true gold standard.
That is, of course, why the Federal Reserve central bankers and their buddies
do not want a gold standard. It would crimp their style.
-- Thur Jul 2 The
three Big American Car Companies are claiming economic victory today.
Yahoo, girl friends. How did the Car Clowns come to this celebratory
conclusion? Easy. They have fewer negative car sales this month
than they did last month. Wow. Let's analyze this brilliant
reasoning, shall we? Let's say I got shot up full of 20 bullet holes
in Afghanistan last month. Ouch. Now let's say I got shot up
with only 10 bullets holes this month. Whoop-tee-doo, I can now claim
that I am healthier this month than last month, right? Yeah, you bet.
The economy -- and my health -- must be improving.
-- Thur Jul 2 Looks
like Gov Schwarzenliberal failed. California is bankrupt again.
They ran out of money. Why? Because the U.S. went off the gold
standard. Huh, what's the relationship? Here's how it breaks
down, girl friends: (1) dump gold standard, (2) print non-backed paper
money like water, (3) spend Funny Money like there's no tomorrow, (4) when
you run out of Funny Money A, just print up a greener shade of green Funny
Money B and call it an IOU. Wait a minute. Wasn't the first
Funny Money, Funny Money A, an IOU for gold until we dumped the gold
standard? So Funny Money A is not an IOU or a receipt for anything.
And the new California IOUs, Funny Money B, are not receipts or IOUs for
anything either since if Funny Money B is an IOU for Funny Money A, and
Funny Money A is not an IOU or receipt for anything -- since we ain't on the
gold standard -- then Funny Money B cannot logically be an IOU. Hot
damn, girl friends, looks like Da Gumment is just running us around in
circles with different shades of Funny Money not backed up by anything
except hot air. I think somebody is playing Musical Chairs with
America's medium of economic exchange. Are you going to be caught
without a chair when the music stops? Good luck.
-- Thur Jul 2
"I believe
that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing
armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue
of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of
all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their
fathers conquered."
-- Thomas
Jefferson 1802
-- Thur Jul 2
President Barack Obama, Con Artist of the Year, will be driving the U.S.
economy into a massive bankruptcy if his latest two Budget Busters are
enacted: (1) the "Cap & Tax" Fake Global Warming Bill just passed by
the U.S. House and waiting for the Bozos in the U.S. Senate, and (2) His
Majesty's National Health Care Travesty aka, "Oh,
it's just a little public health option by Da Gumment to compete against
what's left of the pig pirate capitalist private health care market that we
want to totally kill off since former Prez Bush and Medicare and Medicaid
haven't knocked it off yet." The cost? Oh, not to
worry, it's like, free. Just like it was in Germany's Weimar Republic
in the 1920s:
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 2009, 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.
-- Tue Jun 30 71-year
old Ponzi Schemer Bernie Madoff got 150 years in the slammer yesterday for
screwing investors out of $50 Billion. Turns out he didn't even bother
to invest his clients' coins in the market. Instead, he just pretended
to invest, paid off the first group with incoming investments from the
second group, and ad infinitum until he got caught, or rather until he
confessed. So far, investigators have traced $1 Billion of some $13
Billion believed to still exist somehwere. Big Question for Bernie:
So, yo dude, where is the rest of the loot? If I was the judge, I
would have said, "OK, Bernie, you get 1 year probation to stay out of prison
for every $1 Billion you cough up." That's 12 years Bernie could
obtain a Get Out of Jail Free Card. Then, it's back to prison.
Hey, better than nothing. The WSJ listed other White Collar crooks who
pulled similar stunts such as Tom Petters, alleged to have bilked investors
out of $3.5 Billion in loans backed by nonexistent collateral. Hmm,
girl friends, no collateral, eh? That reminds me of another Big Ponzi
Scammer who has bilked every citizen in the U.S. out of Trillions and
Trillions of Pulp Fiction Dollars backed by nonexistent collateral:
The Federal Reserve. So how come they don't get 150 years in the
slammer? Instead, they get to continue counterfeiting more and more
quadrillions of fake dollars to foist down the throats of Americans in
the Biggest Ponzi Scheme ever invented. No collateral, no redeemability,
and complete protection from the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch.
Based upon what excuse? To save us all from a "systemic risk."
Right. Systemic risk, my ass. Wow, the Federal Reserve.
Now there's a Ponzi Scheme that makes Madoff's $50 Billion Scam look like
child's play.
-- Tue Jun 30 What are
the chances that, if Rep Ron Paul's Bill 1207 to audit the Federal Reserve
is passed, we can stop the central bankers from obtaining more and more
power and continue to wreck our economy with their pseudo-economics?
I predict that any type of audit will be a farcical joke and the Obama Government will simply invoke either "national security" or
"systemic risk" phony baloney defenses to stop any type of real audit.
Then, after the fake audit, everybody will simply shout, "Hey, we audited
the Fed and they look real good and everything is hunky dory, and the grass
is green, the sky is blue, and whoop-tee-doo." And that will be the end of it.
Those who think the Fed and Congress and Obama are going to allow a real
audit, put a stop to fractional reserve banking, which is nothing short of
counterfeiting our non-backed paper dollar, and return to a sound monetary system,
are just kidding themselves. The central bankers are not going down
without the biggest fight that Americans have seen since WW II. To do
so would be an admission of such guilt and economic skullduggery the likes
of which has never happened before in the history of the world. If you
thought Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme was bad, you ain't seen
nothing until you discover the Greatest Economic Scam ever perpetrated upon
mankind by the central bankers of the private Federal Reserve. Ditto
for the central bankers of the entire world, including the European Union's
ECB, Japan, England, Canada, Australia, China, Russia, and you name it.
There are over $640 Trillion in toxic derivatives floating around in the
market. Unfunded future entitlements are up to $99 Trillion today. There is not one nation in the world that is on a gold standard or not
practicing the art of fractional reserve robbery. Not one. And
yet, dumping the Federal Reserve and going back to gold is
The Key -- I repeat,
The Key -- to getting rid of all of the
other National Socialist Programs being proposed by President Barack Obama.
You do not have to fight National Health Care, or Car Czars, or any of the
other piecemeal legislation that either exists or is currently being proposed.
All Americans have to do is abolish the Federal Reserve, go back to a 100%
gold standard, stop fractional reserve banking, and those actions alone will
mitigate all the other pieces of current and future socialist legislation
and deficit financing because one
cannot inflate gold. And gold money automatically takes care of all of
the processes in free market capitalism. There is no such thing as
"systemic risk" under a gold standard. If only Americans knew this
simple universal law, they could act correctly and solve the current
financial meltdown but, unfortunately, they do not. Therefore, unless
everybody becomes educated about basic free market capitalism and sound
money real fast, it ain't going to happen, folks.
-- Tue Jun 30 Somebody
in the EPA leaked a report or an email stating that the average global
temperature will be going down over the next 20 years, not up. That
kinda blows the current thesis regarding the term "global warming." No
problem. Just claim the guy(s) at the EPA who leaked the info (1) is
not a scientist, (2) is a crackpot breathing too much CO2, and (3) change
this inconvenient truth from "global warming" to a non-confrontational term
such as, hmmm, let's see, how about "climate change?" By the way, some
700 scientists have stated that the jury is still out on whether humans are
the cause of "global warming," oops, I mean, "climate change." Even if
humans are the cause of "climate change," either way, hotter or colder, the
solution is not more government but
rather more free market. We need more thinkers, small businesses, and
the freedom to exchange in free market capitalism to solve all of our
problems of pollution, cheaper non-fossil fuel energy, and over-population
(the main culprit causing 90% of all the rest), not more Obama-rama
bureaucrats issuing special legislative favors to their buddies in Big
Business. The latest Cap & Tax Bill, if it passes in the U.S. Senate,
will probably be the taxing straw that breaks America's back.
-- Tue Jun 30 Obama's
whoop-tee-doo choice for Supreme Court Justice to replace retiring Justice
Souter was slapped upside her appellate head today. Sonia Sotomayor,
the appellate court judge who ruled against white firemen who passed their
test for promotion because their skin color was a whiter shade of black,
brown, red, or yellow, was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court today
precisely for the racism embedded in her Appellate Court ruling. Like
the rest of the power play crap that President Barack Obama is trying to
force down our throats however, this will not change Messiah Obama's choice
of Ms. Sotomayonnaise to replace Justice Souter. That would be too
rational. And rational is exactly what Jesus Christ Super Star Obama is not.
-- Sat Jun 27 The U.S.
House passed Obama's "Cap & Tax" Carbon Bill yesterday by a vote of 219 to
212. Now this pernicious piece of illegal bull-dukie moves to the U.S.
Senate for their stamp of approval -- or thumbs down. It is becoming
very very clear that, with the lack of common sense expressed by a majority
of the current crop of U.S. Congressmen, none of whom read the 1,200 pages
of the Cap & Tax Bill introduced at 3:09 am the night before being voted
upon, plus all the other inflationary pieces of legislation being shoved
through Congress lately, America is slowly being set up for a future civil
war between those who believe in a limited Constitutional government and
Obama's national socialists. Soon, you should look for the U.S. to
start dividing itself up into about 4-5 Regional Authorities with the
largest gangs running each Region's Big Show. Welcome to Little Europe
and the philosophy of the Dark Ages. The Age of Enlightenment has now
gone the way of the dinosaurs.
-- Fri Jun 26 UC
Berkeley's Robert Reich, professor of Public Policy,
which means Why America Needs Lots More National
Socialism, published an Op Ed Opinion piece in the WSJ last
Wednesday that was so ridiculously convoluted in its illogic that one
wonders why the WSJ publishers even bothered to print it. The article,
entitled, "Why We Need a Public Health-Care Plan,"
can be summed up in Reich's own oxymoronic bullshit as,
"Without government as competition, the private sector
has little incentive to improve." What? There
are so many implied fallacies in the basic premises of Reich's argument that
one hardly knows where to begin to dismantle it. Reich erroneously
starts with the unspoken and presumed premise that the function of
government is to participate in the free market, rather than limit itself to
the role of an objective referee whose sole function is to protect
individual rights and freedoms to exchange. Reich thinks it's OK, and
indeed believes it is the function of the referees (the government), to play quarterback
during the 3rd and 4th quarters of the Super Bowl. Leapfrogging over
all the obvious conflicts of interest embedded in the government's
dual participation in the free market as tight end and Head Ref, and completely glossing over the fact that
the mere act of government intervention into the market
destroys all market
prices, thus making all business decisions regarding calculations and
forecasts based upon supply and demand meaningless, Reich pretends
capitalism can function under national socialism. He then proceeds
upon these false premises to offer up all sorts of non sequiturs based upon
Keynesian econometric sophisms to try and prove his erroneous ideas founded
upon quicksand. Reich stupidly disregards the obvious, i.e., none of
his market proclamations can ever happen under governmental intervention
precisely because the concepts of prices (mainly, how they evolve), profits, losses, true competition
and a host of other necessary free market functions rest upon subjective
individual rights phenomena that his erroneous assumptions would have
already destroyed. These subjective prioritization phenomena of human
action -- necessary praxeological conditions required for the true functioning of a
free market -- lose all meaning under government intervention because
government
intrusion, by definition, destroys the very phenomena, the free
market infra-structure, required by Reich's Sugar Plum Visions of National
Socialism that he would need to be successful. But that's why
socialism must always fail: it is a logical contradiction-in-terms.
A "Mixed Economy" of socialism and capitalism is a dead man walking at its very premises. In
short, Reich's major intellectual mistake at UC Berkeley and as one of
President Obama's chief economic advisors is that he assumes (wrongly) that one can simply
drop capitalism into the middle of national socialism and somehow invoke all
the principles of free market capitalism. Then he absurdly
extrapolates that the very phenomena that the
socialist portion of his "mixed economy" destroyed -- free market capitalism
-- will somehow come alive to make socialism work. I got a
better idea: let's drop a free market refrigerator into socialist Hell
and claim we can cool it down without changing the goals, objectives, and
definition of Hell as a very hot place. You can't have it both ways. Either you want socialism or
capitalism; you want Hell or Ice Cubes; but you can't have a cool Hell or
free market socialism. One cannot create a "mixed economy." By
definition. Prof Reich, go directly to jail, Do Not Pass Go, and do
not collect $200 Trillion Dollars, you silly little weenie brain.
-- Fri Jun 26 The
House Committee on Oversight and Govt Reform kicked Fed Reserve Chief Ben
Bernanke's butt at a Congressional Hearing yesterday. The Hearing was
a grilling of Helicopter Benny's role as Fed Reserve Mafia in forcing Bank
of America's CEO Ken Lewis to either accept the purchase of bankrupt Merrill
Lynch or lose his (Ken's) and the entire B of A's Board Management jobs.
Lawmakers are finally waking up to the fact that the private Federal Reserve
is not only illegally manipulating the U.S. economy's money supply and
grabbing off lots more political power than has been authorized, the Fed has
been discovered to (1) be a major culprit in the current Recession as it
fueled the current hyper-inflation, and (2) not being able to solve the Big
Mess it created with their ridiculous monetary policies. Even left
Liberal Demos are waking up to Obama's hyper-inflation debacle.
Several interesting email quotes emerged from yesterday's Hearings:
(1) "Just had a long talk with Ben ... (He) intends
to make it even more clear that if they (B of A) play that card (don't buy
Merrill) and they need assistance (future bail out booty), management is
gone." -- Jeff Lacker, Fed Reserve, after discussion with
Helicopter Ben, (2) "B of A is the turd in the
punchbowl." -- former U.S. Treasury Sec under George Bush, Hank
Paulson, and (3) "And there you have it.
Nationalization here we come." -- Patricia Mosser, Fed Reserve.
I urge you to pay close attention to the last quote by the Fed's Patricia
Mosser, "Nationalization here we come."
Welcome to Obama's national socialization of America.
-- Thur Jun 25
President Barack Obama shamefully used the Oval Office in the White House as
a Hollywood backdrop for his Socialist Healthcare Infomercial the other
night. Allowing only one news medium, fair and balanced ha-ha ABC
News, to ask pre-rehearsed questions to previously-scripted answers about
Obama's National Health Care proposal, the President grinned from ear to ear
and lied through his teeth about the number of people who "need" or "want"
or "deserve" -- or whatever altruistic needs-based excuse he's using today
-- His Public Health Care Program. The Prez's touted number of sickies
who need his National Health Care range from 45 - 50 million sickies.
But 12 million are undocumented illegal immigrants. Another 50% are
young working adults earning $50,000 - $70,000 or more per year and have
voluntarily opted out of their employer's or other private health care
system because, they claim, they feel healthy as a horse and would rather
spend their hard-earned coins on new cars, hot dates, or both on a Friday
night romp at the local meat market. When asked by reporters (previous
to his Big Show) about the fact that a Government Health Program would cost
more than private health care and that Government Health Care would also
drive private health care out of business, Obama remarked, "Hey, that's a
contradiction, dude. If private health care costs less than Government
Health Care, how can Government Health Care run the private companies out of
business?" Duh, because, Mr. President, Government Health Care is
SUBSIDIZED by taxpayers, appearing to
offer low prices while the real tax costs skyrocket to the Moon,
that's why. You silly dolt. It's a lot like our so-called "free"
public education system. Public Education is not "free." It is
very very expensive, subsidized by taxpayers, and Pub Ed drives many cheaper
private schools out of business due to the Government forcing parents to pay
twice -- once for Pub Ed taxes and again for private schools (for those
parents who want to send their kids to private schools). If Obama's
Government Health is offered, private companies will opt out of private
health care plans for their employees, cutting expenses, and drive EVERYBODY
to the subsidized Government Health Care Plan. But then, Obama and His
Village of Economic Idiots already knew this and it's just part and parcel
of His Big Plan to shove national socialism down the throats of all
Americans. Ooh, ain't He so clever, always trying to get Americans to
watch His Right Hand while he tricks us with his Left Hand?
-- Thur Jun 25 Half
the people in Iran have been rioting in the streets of their major cities
for over a week. The crooked stuffing of the ballot boxes in favor of Ahmadinejad for Prez was the straw that broke the camel's back.
However, young Iranians have just been waiting for an excuse to dump their
current theocratic dictators and the last crooked elections simply provided
the impetus for them to dash out into the streets and demand an end to their
brutal regime. Of more significance is President Obama's reluctance --
until pushed by the Independents, GOP, and Democrats in America, hey that's
just about everybody, right -- to speak up and support the Iranians in their
fight for freedom against the Mullahs. Narcissist Obama was holding
out because HE wanted to be The One, The Messiah, The Jesus Christ, The
Muhammad, The Buddha who would get the credit -- it's all about power -- for
talking the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad into giving up their nukes and ending
their theocratic dictatorship. But the Iranian students and housewives
beat him to the punch. Dang! So now, Obama jumps on national TV
and pretends, "Oh yeah, I've supported the Iranian protesters all along,
from the very start, uh-huh, you bet, where's my teleprompter?"
-- Sat Jun 20 Our U.S.
Congress crooks snuck two nasty earmarks as attachments into yesterday's
$106 Billion War funding Bill for Afghanistan and Iraq: (1) a $4
Billion federal "Cash for Clunkers" program for citizens to turn in their
"old" cars and receive a federal voucher for up to $4,500 towards a newer,
environmentally "greener" automobile that gets 5 miles per gallon more than
the used car that one just turned in -- which means, the feds could be
financing a new Hummer for you because it could, under certain
circumstances, qualify, lucky you, soccer mom, and (2) a $5 Billion new line
of credit for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Oh-oh, too bad
for you, soccer mom. The new Bill will also allow the IMF to sell $13
Billion in gold for the main purpose of establishing a permanent endowment
for itself, according to economist Judy Shelton in the WSJ. Big
Question: from where did the IMF obtain their gold hoard -- from
American citizens under FDR? -- and why are American citizens being taxed to
fund an international bank that loans money to Third World countries who
hate our guts, or for any other reason for that matter? Like, since
when is it your job, as a soccer mom, to finance Muhammed Boom-Boom or Long
Dong Bong or Fidel Jesus Castro with sandals, rice, and nukes to blow you
off the face of the Earth? With yesterday's new Bill, and Obama's
current Bill before Congress to grant overwhelming new powers to the central
bankers of the private Federal Reserve, such as the power to intervene into
ALL facets of ALL companies in the U.S. on the premise that they must
prevent any future "systemic risks" to our national economy, is there any
doubt left in anybody's mind about the true purpose of both President Barack
Obama's social programs and the Federal Reserve? The only question
about this philosophical circle jerk between Obama's Executive Branch and
the international central bankers is: who's yanking whose crank?
Is Obama simply playing the role of a "useful idiot" for the central bankers
-- as Stalin said of FDR -- or vice versa? Or is it a mutual
power-grab circle jerk? Either way, the American citizen is getting
royally screwed.
-- Sat Jun 20 Yo,
current and former military families, listen up, troops. If you're
banking with USAA, the United States Automobile Association, that caters to
all current and ex military personnel and extended family, President Barack
Obama and U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner want to squash all banking
activities and products offered by USAA and, thus, drag your financial ass
to one of Obama's and Geithner's favorite big banks such as Goldman Sachs,
Bank of America, JP Morgan, CitiBank, and whomever they want to use to
control the nation's money supply. USAA is a $6 Billion, 5-Star-rated,
super primo banking, insurance, and one-stop banking institution formed
under statutes called "Industrial Loan Companies." Same for BMW,
Target, Inc, Harley-Davidson, UnitedHealth and other private companies who
offer financial services to their customers. The FDIC already denied
WalMart an ILC application by implementing a ha-ha "moratorium" on new
licenses, and consequently WalMart gave up and withdrew its application.
Federal Reserve officials, including ex Chairman Alan Greenspan, current Fed
Chief Ben Bernanke and the Big Members of the Federal Reserve are attempting
to use "useful idiot" Barack Obama to get rid of their banking competition
since the Fed can best control, manipulate, and hyper-inflate their U.S.
Pulp Fiction Dollars by gaining a total monopoly of America's financial
system. In this clever manner, the central bankers of the Federal
Reserve, with their new controls over ALL member banks and ALL U.S.
corporations, can totally manipulate all facets of the U.S. economy and turn
it into their sugar plum fairy vision of a Marxist European Fascist Business
Model. Problem is, USAA and none of the other ILCs are responsible for
the current global financial meltdown. The Fed and its Big Gangsta
Banks are. The current Depression is directly due to the previous --
and current -- actions of the Federal Reserve central bankers who have
continually fueled such federal agencies as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
which, in turn, have been authorized by both GOP and Democratic Congresses
to inflate our rapidly devaluing U.S. paper Dollar to provide everybody and
their dogs and pigs and cats with an essentially "free" home. All this
"free" money from Congress, pumped into the economy by the U.S. Treasury and
Fed Reserve as subprime mortgages and $640 trillion in toxic derivatives,
was created by the same Big Banks that the Fed, Treasury, and Obama want to
establish as banking monopolies. The current Depression is not the
result of financial banking products or actions by the ILCs such as Target,
BMW, Hogly-Dogly Motorcylces, and USAA. This move, if enacted, will
totally destroy many American citizens' financial investments and force them
to move whatever assets they have left to one of Obama's chosen Fed Reserve
Gangsta Banks, which is exactly why -- hidden on one single
page deep inside Obama's 88 pages of Federal Reserve power grab -- this
legislation is being foisted down the throats of U.S. military families and
other American citizens in one of the biggest power grabs of the century.
"Systemic risk" my ass. President Obama and his Fed Reserve central
banking sycophants are simply out for more power. Time for military
families to stand up for USAA, Target, and Harley Davidson Motorcyles and
shout, "Hell no, we won't go." Americans, please remember who did this
to you when you go to the polls in 2010 and 2012. You must vote OUT
the current crop of irresponsible bastards in our U.S. Congress and,
especially, you must vote OUT America's worst excuse for a sorry-ass
president: National Socialist Barack Obama. First, however, you
must push your U.S. Congressmen and women to support Rep. Ron Paul's (R-TX)
House Bill 1207 to Audit the Federal Reserve, and then call for the
abolishment of this pernicious central bank and for a return to a 100% sound
monetary system, which means gold and silver coins, and 100% redeemable
paper Dollars, in gold or silver. Do it now, or you will soon discover
it is too late -- especially for your children and grandchildren.
-- Sat Jun 20 Hey, do
President Obama got game? You bet he do. But we're not talking
hoops, dudes. We're talking Obama and the political game he's playing
with Inspector General Gerald Walpin who he fired the other day after Walpin
discovered Obama's corrupt political teammate -- previous hoop star Kevin
Johnson, who is now mayor of Sacramento, CA -- pilfered about $850,000 from
an AmeriCorps grant and spent it for personal aggrandizement such as getting
his car washed, among other such waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money.
Kevin Johnson is a "bro," AmeriCorps is an offshoot of criminally-indicted
ACORN (up on charges in 14 states) and President Obama -- lawyer for ACORN
in Chicago in the good old days, oops, like last year or so -- wants to make
sure no Inspector General upsets the Obama socialist apple cart on its way
toward a Socialist Dictatorship for America. So, Prez BO calls up IG
Walpin on his cell phone in New York and, without giving Walpin the
statutory 30-day notice or providing Congress with reasons why, Obama pulls
a Donald Trump and says, "Dude, you're fired." To which Gerald Walpin
-- who is a lawyer and knows the law -- retorts, "Over my dead body, Mr.
President." The upshot of all this is: Wake up people.
Obama is now taking the velvet glove off his iron socialist fist. If
you haven't figured out by now that Obama and His Storm Troopers are not out
to save America but rather to enslave it, you are either blind as a bat or
living in some cave in Lower Slobovia. President Obama's agenda is all
about POWER, POWER, and more POWER. It's all about creating a federal
socialist dictatorship based upon the moral philosophy of altruistic
collectivism. This is an intellectual war: Obama's state
collectivism vs. individual rights and free market capitalism. You
have a republic, but only if you can keep it. So far, you're losing
the battle, girl friends. So whatcha gonna do when it's your turn?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Are you going to stand up for
your rights like IG Gerald Walpin and do the right thing, or fold like a wet
napkin in the Louisiana swamp? You got a free republic, if you can
keep it.
-- Tue Jun 16 The
problem with Obama's public health care proposal is not about how much U.S.
health care costs or who it covers. The real issue is about individual
rights vs. government power. The free market, if it was allowed to function,
could easily and efficiently lower America's health care costs. The
reason that health care costs are so high is not the result of the free
market but rather it is due to governmental intervention into the health care industry at
all levels. From state insurance restrictions to Medicare and Medicaid
costs to
FDA pharmaceutical development rules to ridiculous medical lawsuits, the government has screwed up the free market pricing
mechanism with tons of bureaucracy and driven costs sky high, all the while blaming it on free market
capitalism. Nothing could be further from the truth. High
medical costs today are not the result of a free market in health care; it
is the result of heavy governmental intervention. For the
same reason that government-owned Amtrak, the U.S. Post Office, and Fannie
Mae & Freddie Mac mortgage giants run perennial deficits and offer crappy
service, Obama's socialized health care will do the same. For Obama to
characterize his public health care plan as just another free market choice
is disingenuous at best and a Big Lie at worst. Prez Obama knows full
well that as soon as His socialized health care plan is enacted, all
businesses will opt out of their own private health care plans to save
corporate expenses and thus drive all employees to Obama's National Health
-- exactly as planned by the Obama Storm Troopers. This is
the slow, step by step method by which President Obama will take over the
entire medical field in America and continue to destroy what's left of the
free market in the same manner in which he has trampled down the same
socialist path
to destroy the banking industry, the insurance industry, the car
manufacturing industry, and every free market sector he and his Socialist
Storm Troopers can stick their little fingers into. Obama's Universal
Health Care Proposal is not about health care; it is all about power,
centralized government power in the hands of the Executive Branch of
government with a Health Czar reporting directly to Him. And the cost
will run into Trillions and Trillions of pulp fiction dollars. If Obama
doesn't turn into a Little Dictator himself, then he will have paved the way
for a future Dictator. I would, however, like to offer my resume for
Obama's future Bra & Panty Czar postion after he convinces Victoria's Secret that they are
just a bunch of pig pirate capitalists whose little secret shoppes must come
under His control. I have plenty of experience with all sizes and
shapes of knockers and also earned a PhD in Mammaryology, having written my dissertation
on the Structural Stress Points of a Strapless Evening Gown.
-- Tue Jun 16
President Obama spoke at yesterday's annual Medical Association Convention
and tried to convince the doctors that his socialized universal health care
plan -- oops, he's not really a socialist, is he -- would merely add another
competitive free market choice for people to choose their health care
coverage. Unfortunately, a health care option offered by the federal
government ain't exactly free market or competitive. This is like the
referees at Super Bowl XXXIV offering to play quarterback or tight end in
the 3rd quarter while they're still refereeing the game and claiming that
their participation will not adversely affect the game. The proper
function of government is to ensure everybody's freedoms, not participate
against the free market while simultaneously carrying out its role as the
enforcer of the collective coercive power of force. Have you noticed
Prez BO's basic MO (standard Mode of Operation)? Barack either calls
in the industry leaders of a specific sector of the economy, say cars or
insurance or bankers or doctors or Victoria's Secrets bra sellers, and jumps
up to the microphone to deliver one of his ho-hum standard socialist
sophism-laden speeches about how HE, qua the government, is going to save
said specific market sector from all the dirty rotten evils of free market
capitalism -- while pretending that he is gung ho PRO free market
capitalism. Obama's speeches can be described as some of the most
ridiculous, narcissistic, schizophrenic (or at least dichotomist) piles of
Doggie Doo-Doo to ever hit the Speech Circuit. Not only are Obama's
speeches so transparent in their outright contradictory content, only idiots
who have either been recently brainwashed at one of our modern
socialist-leaning universities or have been hiding out in a cave in Timbuktu
for the last five decades would fall for His oxymoronic gibberish.
Which brings us to today's current Captains of Capitalism. They simply
don't exist. Every other whipstitch minute, another wimpy CEO of a
major corporation collapses like a wet napkin when it comes time to defend
individual rights and free market capitalism. Why? The answer is
simple: as Ayn Rand pointed out a long time ago, American businessmen
and many scientists have failed to study philosophy, especially moral
philosophy, and thus cannot articulate rational objective reasons why their
companies should not be taken over by President Obama and His National
Socialist Storm Troopers. They, the business leaders and scientists of
America, don't even know that they do not have to show up to Congress and
plead for their existence. So, by default, by not understanding the
underlying premises for either the U.S. Constitution or why they have a
right to run their businesses or conduct scientific research free from
governmental intervention, the dildo brains simply sit there and acquiesce
to all the illegal questioning by the bureaucrats in Washington and the
Executive Branch and then, having granted the government their pretentious
right to stomp on individual freedom and free market capitalism, collapse
like a sack of wet noodles, cry like babies, and plead for forgiveness and
more government intervention. When are we going to start producing
CEOs with a big pair of cajones who can stand up to the bureaucrats and just
say, "No?" And I don't care whether the cajones metaphor belongs to a
man or a woman, just so they stand up for individual rights and free market
capitalism.
-- Thur Jun 11 Bank of
America's CEO Ken Lewis is being grilled by Congress today in their
investigation of whether the Federal Reserve and Treasury "pressured" Lewis
to accept the deal to buy Merrill Lynch last year even though Lewis said
Merrill's worsening debt convinced him not to proceed. After the first
20 minutes today of Lewis hemming and hawing around and, under questioning,
refusing to characterize Fed Chief Ben Bernanke or then U.S. Treasury Sec
Hank Paulson as bad guys "pressuring" him to sign off on the government deal
for B of A to "buy" Merrill or they would personally trash him, his entire
management team, and the entire B of A Board, Lewis folded like a wet napkin
in a Louisiana swamp. Too bad. Either Lewis is lying through his
teeth or he is scared shitless about future repercussions if he offends the
central banking powers that be. With no-cajones "capitalists" like Ken
Lewis, the fascist Keynesians on Capitol Hill and in the White House have it
made in the shade. The same could be said of Chrysler's former CEO,
Nadlier-whomever, and GM's Rick Wagoner, both of whom are representative of
the wimpy type of businessmen we have running companies in the U.S. today.
Rather, PRETENDING to run companies today.
-- Wed Jun 10 Welcome
to lawless America, girl friends. We are all fascists now. The
U.S. Supreme Court late yesterday refused to hear the Chrysler bond holders'
case, thus moving America closer and closer to a civil war as the Obama
Administration continues to run roughshod over individual rights and free
market capitalism by simply overriding the rule of law in the United States
with nobody doing anything to stop it. The rule of law -- the U.S.
Constitution and Bill of Rights as well as all bankruptcy and contract law
-- is rapidly being replaced by political favoritism and special interest
decisions emanating from Obama's Inner Sanctum of Car Czars, Pay Czars,
Health Czars, Insurance Czars, and a myriad of other Executive Office
dictators beholden to nobody except to the President of the United States, now ensconced as
Supreme Dictator of America -- thus avoiding all constitutional checks and
balances. The cowardice of the current Supreme
Court Justices to accept and hear this case and thus question the
constitutionality of Obama's recent trashing of the moral philosophy
underlying our U.S. Constitution -- inherent individual rights obtained from
Nature, not government -- is a clear indication that they, too, have placed
Keynesian and Marxist Fairytale Economics above individual rights and free
market capitalism. Make no mistake about it: this case was not
about car manufacturers or even bankruptcy rules, it was all about national
socialist power. We are in the middle of an intellectual war between
individual rights and Obama's federal socialism. Who will win in the
end? Will there be a civil war, since we now have no real court system
of appeal? Time will tell but it doesn't look good for America.
-- Sat Jun 6 How
ironic! Prez Barack Obama speaking in Germany with Chancellor Angela
Merkel in front of the WW II historical site, Buchenwald
concentration camp. The irony is twofold: (1) Buchenwald is the
end result of Adolph Hitler's economic program of National Socialism, the
very same economic programs (free public education, universal health care,
govt run car companies, etc.) that Barack Obama is trying to foist down the
throats of all Americans, and (2) an American black man whose ancestors
were part of the 18th century slave trade, Barack Obama is implementing
federal socialist programs that essentially enslave Americans to the federal
government, infringing upon every single
constitutional right that he has taken an oath to protect. So what we
got here, girl friends, is a boob-head U.S. President who has not learned
anything about U.S. or World History and is, in fact, dragging America down
the very same philosophical road followed by former governments who promoted
the slave trade and heads of states (Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in
Italy) who instituted fascist economic programs for their citizens.
Ironically, the end result is always a Buchenwald, or Auschwitz, or Gulag
concentration camp for the citizens after all the promised programs of free
housing, free public education, and free health care fail. Welcome to
Buchenwald, President Obama, and take a good look. It's the Final Result of National Socialism,
the very program that you are intent on implementing in the good Ol' U.S. of
A.
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About the author...I
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Got drafted into the Army. Worked for the Assistant Chief of Staff,
Intelligence, in the Pentagon and Saigon, Vietnam...in a steel vault two
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clearance. Cranked up four corporations. Managed Pacific
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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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Breaking the
Demopublican Monopoly
How to Unify the Political Right
with a Third Party that Can Win

By Nelson Hultberg

New
Revised Edition, 112 pgs., $11.95
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
A Brief
Comparison of Political Systems
Apr 12, 2009
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Chart
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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 21st 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.
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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
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Who shot Pakistani ex Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto?
(Dec 28,
2007)
The U.S.
has dumped over $10 billion in unaccountable funding to prop up Pakistan
Puppet President Musharraf who diverts U.S. money to build future weapons
against India while pretending to look for Osama bin Laden.
Islamabad,
Pakistan – OK, girl friends, where is your foreign aid tax money to Pakistan going?
$10 billion down the drain. Who the hell knows? The U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO)
doesn't know. The U.S. Military accounting office doesn't know. President Bush
and Pakistan's President Musharraf and his
bureaucratic cronies know.
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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?
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Central Banks Conspire to Hyper-inflate Global Economy
(Dec 14,
2007)
"The problem is we don't have enough paper to print more paper money for the
global economy because we ran out of trees. Perhaps if we use scientific
notation to indicate the 15 zeroes in our new U.S. Quadrillion Dollar Note
typically used to buy a loaf of bread, and thus reduce
$1,000,000,000,000,000
to $1
x 1015
, we can save on paper.”
–
Fed Reserve Chief, Helicopter Ben
“Since paper money obtains its value by the sheer fact that it’s created out
of thin air and printed by the government’s central bank, we can easily
switch to printing money on rectangular Cow Crap. Later, we can expand the
printing of our U.S. money on Buffalo Chips and then on Horse Shit.”
– Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, explaining basic Keynesian
Econometrics to U.S. Congressional Banking Committee
Washington,
DC – So, the real cause of today’s global recession is: we ran out of
trees?
Let’s see
now. Keynesian Econometrics Axiom # 1: Leading
the economy with a perpetual increase in non-collateralized Funny Money will
boost the wealth of a nation.
Right.
Got it.
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President
Bush, Sec of Treasury Paulson save America's subprime home borrowers...you
bet...
Just Call Hotline to Mortgage Heaven: 1-888-995-HOPE
(Dec 07, 2007)
Oh-oh. A recent rise in Auto-Loan Delinquencies
spurs President Bush and Treasury Sec Paulson to plan for new government
bail-out of subprime car buyers. Just call Hotline to Classic Car
Heaven: 1-888-995-VROOM-VROOM to keep your re-possessed Porsche, Corvette,
or Volkswagen.
Students, bankrupt? For a
govt bail-out, please call Hotline to College Loan Heaven:
1-888-995-THANKS-4-FINANCING-MY-COSTLY-STATE-WORK-PERMIT-DUDES.
Don't want to pay any of your
contractual debts or bets? For a free govt bail-out, just call Hotline
to Screw Everybody Heaven: 1-888-995-IOU-NOTHING-SO-JUST-BITE-IT.
Washington, DC – Whoa, fo-fo-two choo-choo, humble servants of America.
Frick and Frack -- Prez Bush and his faithful side-kick Secretary Tonto
Paulson at the U.S. Empty Treasury, showed up on national TV yesterday and gave
all Americans the secret phone number to Bush's Hotline to Mortgage Heaven: Ya-yesss, girl friends, it's 1-888-995-HOPE.
Or is that 1-888-995-DOPE? For some of you who waited too long, it's
1-888-995-NOPE.
In one fell swoop,
Prez Bush and Treasury Secretary Paulson are trying to wipe out:
1. The entire philosophical
basis for free market economics, and
2. The basis for objective
contract law in America.
For those of you
who still think we are living in a free market,
More...
U.S. Treasury
to Bail Out Billionaire Bankers on Wall Street Under Guise of Saving
Subprime Borrowers
(Dec 03, 2007)
Welcome to the recession?
Washington, DC
– Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Henry Paulson just popped onto national TV
and proposed a government bail out of subprime mortgage borrowers to save
our healthy, non-recessionary, looking-good, it's OK economy.
Right.
OK, let's see if I got this straight, girl friends.
First the Federal
Reserve central bank prints up trillions and trillions of non-backed paper
money (not backed by gold), injects it into the U.S. economy through a
well-oiled subprime mortgage scheme orchestrated by Wall Street central bank
members and
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The Fed’s
“Prime Interest Rate” Joke
(Nov 16, 2007)
The concept of “interest rates” in economics is defined as a higher value of
present goods relative to future goods, or a higher valuation of current
money as against future money. Since today’s money is not a hard commodity
(i.e. not gold) and today’s paper money is not redeemable in, or backed 100%
by, gold or any other commodity, AND the Federal Reserve central bankers
can, and do, pump trillions and trillions of non-backed paper money and
credit into the economy any time they want, the concept of the “Prime
Interest Rate” has been completely destroyed and is no longer meaningful in
the U.S. economy.
Boise, ID – Listen up, girl
friends. Here’s something I know you asked yourself in the shower this
morning, “Hey, what’s the real definition of the ‘Prime Interest Rate’ and
why is everybody bouncing around from left foot to right foot waiting for
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to announce on national TV whether he
is going to lower the ‘Prime Interest Rate’ by 0.5% today?”
Good question, Margie.
The answer is:
The
concept of “interest rates” in economics is defined as a higher value of
present goods relative to future goods, or a higher valuation of current
money as against future money.
– Econ Prof Ludwig von
Mises
In street talk,
5% interest is defined as:
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The AMT - Worst Piece of
U.S. Tax Legislation
(Oct 29,
2007)
Washington, DC -- The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) is
one of the worst taxes ever foisted upon Americans -- both at the economic
and moral levels.
Enacted by Liberals in 1969 to flog
about 10 "super wealthy" individuals who were paying zero income taxes, the
AMT -- through the Fed's continual hyper-inflation of our National Wallpaper
-- has now ensnared some 24 million middle class U.S. citizens who will be
required to pay much higher income taxes in 2008 if the AMT is not amended
or repealed.
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What is The Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit? Hint:
It’s not a plastic flex straw to a bottle of Ripple wine
(Oct
29, 2007)
Washington, DC – Shut up, gather round, and
listen up, girl friends. It’s Master
Liquidity Enhancement Conduit time. Yippee!
So… what is the
Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit,
or MLEC for short? Sounds like a plastic flex straw to a bottle of Ripple
wine. But it’s not.
The
Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit is a Super SIV Fund created
by the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the major banks such as Citibank
that are losing billions and billions of dollars in the current subprime
mortgage fiasco. SIV stands for: Structured
Investment Vehicle.
So… what exactly is a
Structured Investment Vehicle? Hint:
it’s not a Hummer for soccer moms.
A Structured
Investment Vehicle is a
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Will
the real $50 please stand up?
(Oct
10, 2007)
How can the United States, the most financially, technologically, and
militarily advanced nation on the planet have two -- or three or four --
contradictory definitions for its U.S. dollar?
Boise, ID – In 1985,
the U.S. Congress authorized the U.S. Mint to stamp gold and silver coins
and sell them to the public. Two basic types of coins are minted: (1)
proof set coins for coin collectors and (2) bullion coins for anybody for
whatever reason. These coins are struck in the following denominations and
metal content:
- American Eagle $50
One-Ounce Gold, .916 fine.
- American Eagle $25
Half-Ounce Gold, .916 fine.
- American Eagle $10
Quarter-Ounce Gold, .916.
- American Eagle $5
Tenth-Ounce Gold, .916 fine.
- American Buffalo
$50 One-Ounce Gold, .9999 fine.
- Walking Liberty, $1
silver Eagle, 1 troy oz, .9993 fine.
As of October 2007,
the mint proof coins sell for hundreds – or thousands – of Federal Reserve
Notes (FRNs or “dollars”), depending on the mint year and mint location.
The bullion gold coins sell for whatever the current price for 1 troy oz
spot gold happens to be that day, plus a slight markup of, say 5-10%.
So, herein lies the
conundrum.
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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
Feds spend $1 billion
urging kids to eat wrong
(July
9,
2007)
The Feds continually push
high-carb, low fat diets instead of low-carb, high protein diets and then
wonder why more and more American youth are obese and developing Type 2
diabetes and heart disease.
The real problem is:
how do you stop the Nanny Welfare State when it takes over the free market,
goes running off in the wrong direction, and mandates erroneous actions?
Los Angeles, CA – Obesity, Type 2 diabetes
(brought on by diet, not Type 1 genetics), and heart disease among American
youth are reaching epidemic proportions and yet the federal government is
spending over $1 billion urging public school kids to eat exactly the
opposite what many Drs. and researchers have discovered is the proper human
diet.
As Drs. Michael and Mary Eades
have shown in their million copy best selling book,
Protein Power, humans evolved over millions of years on a high
protein, low-carb diet, not the U.S. Health Dept's high-carb, low fat, low
protein diet. Forensic pathology tests on thousands of high-carb, low
protein eating Egyptian mummies show they were obese, diabetic, had bad
teeth and bones, and hardening of the arteries just like the typical U.S.
diet produces in Americans today. The Egyptians' principal diet was
grain from their agricultural breadbasket of the world, the Nile Delta, and
very little meat.
In contrast, those cultures
such as the Eskimos and others whose diet is high in animal protein and fat,
and low in carbohydrates, have no Type 2 diabetes, virtually no heart
disease, no obesity, and have strong teeth and bones.
The real skinny on fat is that
animal fat does not metabolize into body fat. Carbohydrates (potatoes,
carrots, corn, wheat, bread, etc., not berries and leafy green veggies) turn
into body fat by stimulating insulin. And that's the real dietary
problem in America today: hyperinsulenima, which is over-stimulation of
insulin by today's erroneous high-carb, low protein medical advice by the
U.S. Government health officials.
But the major problem is:
when the government thinks it knows what's correct and runs off spending
billions of dollars mandating that we go in the wrong direction, how do we
stop the bureaucrats once it's legislated into law? (for more info,
see Low carb diet kicks government's
low fat guidelines in its big fat butt 03-14-2007
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) -- FM Duck
The true function of
America's Income Tax: transfer wealth from the people to the central bankers
(Apr 17, 2007)
Step 1:
replace gold with paper,
Step 2:
create paper money out of thin air, call it a "national debt,"
Step 3:
force the people to pay the "national debt" plus interest by imposing an
Income Tax and creating the IRS,
Step 4:
central bankers "retire" the fake principal created out of thin air and transfer interest profits into hard commodities
for themselves.
Washington, DC – Whoa,
Margie, feast your eyeballs on the following Income Tax statistics in a WSJ
article by Stephen Moore:
Current
tax code: 66,000 incomprehensible pages and 526 different tax forms.
Urp.
60% of
U.S. taxpayers require professional help from 1.2 million tax prep workers.
6.4 billion hours per year on tax returns. At the average tax prep
rate of $25 per hour, that's $160 billion spent per year to collect $1
trillion in taxes. Add in the salaries and benefits of the 100,000 IRS
employees (who, by the way, are collecting taxes to pay their own salaries), plus wages
and production lost by taxpayers gathering tax info for the tax preparers,
and we have to ask ourselves, hey, aren't we waaay past the point of
diminishing returns (pun intended) in this stupid April Game?
Obviously, Americans haven't figured it out, yet. 67% of Americans
can't even figure out taxes on the sale of a home. Congress passed 22
laws to "simplify" the tax code over 40 years and made it worse.
The
Income Tax was questionably legislated -- did all the states legally ratify
it? -- as the 16th Amendment in 1913 for
only the top 0.5% of rich Americans: 360,000 people. Today, it hits 135
million citizens, every worker in America. At first, the tax rate ranged from 1% to 7%.
During WW I, the rate jumped to 70%. In 1969 the AMT (Alternative
Minimum Tax), was implemented for 20 wealthy Americans who were paying no
taxes; this year 6 million citizens pay the higher AMT; next year it will be 26
million.
In 1914,
the IRS collected $10 billion (in today's inflated dollars); today it's $1 trillion.
Original IRS employees numbered 4,000; today it's 100,000, more than
the EPA + OSHA + Health Admin + the FDA combined.
The
complexity of the tax code, the cost of complying, and the bureaucrats
needed to enforce it are growing like a cancer on the American economy.
While former Soviet Bloc nations are implementing flat taxes of 5%-20%, the
U.S. Congress twiddles its thumbs and adds over 15,000 pork barrel earmarks
in 2006 to spend even more taxes.
Why?
Because
there exists a symbiotic monetary relationship between the U.S. Congress and
the private central bankers of the Federal Reserve. Namely, Congress
illegally gives up its constitutional authority to "make only gold and
silver coin" -- not paper -- as the only legal money allowed by the U.S.
Treasury, and the central bankers promise to print up as much paper money as
Congress wants to deficit finance all the pork barrel projects the
politicians can dream up to keep themselves in power. The Santa Claus
Syndrome.
Congress
has violated the monetary articles of our Constitution, the Executive Branch
violates the same with secret CIA and other budgets, and the U.S. Supreme
Court fails to protect the American taxpayers from this obscene robbery by a
cartel of private international central bankers.
Who are
these private central bankers? A
non-government corporation called the Federal Reserve.
And what
is the true function of the U.S. Income Tax? To transfer wealth
from the American people to the central bankers in four simple steps:
Step 1:
replace gold with paper,
Step 2:
create paper money out of thin air, call it a "national debt,"
Step 3:
force the people to pay the "national debt" plus interest by imposing an
Income Tax and creating the IRS,
Step 4:
central bankers "retire" the fake principal created out of thin air and transfer interest profits into hard commodities
for themselves.
What a
brilliant scheme. And not one person in a million understands the
true nature of money and credit. -- FM Duck
The govt-managed
100-meter dash
Washington, DC – The free market can be
likened to sprinters in the 100-meter dash at the Olympics.
In a true free market, the
sprinters line up at their starting blocks, "on your mark," squat down,
place their knuckles behind the starting line, and raise their butts, "get
ready," and boom, the official pulls the trigger. Within 9.2-9.4
seconds, all 8 sprinters cross the finish line. Gold, silver, and
bronze.
In a government-managed race,
the sprinters -- even before they qualify -- must fill out 87 government
forms in triplicate, jump onto public transportation for a free ride down to
the stadium, stand in line to get a pass, have their eyes examined, and then
ask permission 18 times at 72 different committees, commissions, boards,
bureaus, and agencies if they can now line up at their starting blocks.
After finally settling into
their starting blocks, "on your mark," 15 officials run over and attach 5-lb
weights to the left wrists of each sprinter in lanes 1, 3, 5, and 7 because
it's Monday and odd numbered lanes must wear 5-lb wrist tariffs on Monday.
The sprinters squat down and
23 new officials run over and strap 7-lb income tax weights on the runners
in lanes 2, 4, 6, and 8. Runners in lanes 1, 3, 5, and 7 are exempt
unless they itemize the length of their left elbows on IRS Form 7788A before Feb
29th.
The sprinters then place their
knuckles behind the starting line. Suddenly, Alice in Wonderland
appears from nowhere and re-draws staggered starting lines for lanes 3, 6,
and 7, granting those runners a 5-meter head start for saving energy in
their sleep last night.
The sprinters now raise their
butts up in the air, "get ready," and 92 officials dash over and tie plastic
bags over the heads of each runner -- social security and national health
requirements.
Then, boom, the official pulls
the trigger and all 8 runners jump, fall, and stumble out of their starting
blocks.
Within 4 seconds, the Federal
Reserve clones 1600 copies of each of the 8 runners and inserts the 12,800
sprinting counterfeits into the race, entering from both side lines at the
half-way mark, 50-meters.
Two hours later, when 4% of
the sprinters cross the finish line of the 100-meter government-managed
dash, anti-trust officials throw hand grenades into lanes 1, 2, and 5 and
set Bouncing Betty mine traps in lanes 4 and 7.
Six days later, 13% of the
12,808 sprinters (including Federal Reserve clones) cross the finish line.
Everybody who's still alive receives special shiny medals: cupro-nickel,
plastic, and hot air.
Then, some PhD in Economics
from Harvard pops up in the stands and says, "Isn't it wonderful how the
government manages the vicious free market? Where would we be without
them?" -- FM Duck
|

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)

Local News
Idaho
Congressmen introduce Federal Streetcar
Revitalization Act of 2009…ask for $300 Million to build
streetcars across America…$65 Million for Boise
Jun 17, 2009
Boise, ID –
Whoa, girl friends, pull up a barrel of rum, pour yourself another hot cup
of Rocket Java, and listen to what your pirate legislators are up to.
Idaho’s
entire delegation of U.S. Congress-economic-village-idiots signed up as
Pirates of the Caribbean last week, co-authoring the
Federal Streetcar Revitalization Act of 2009.
All four Congress-swash-bucklers asked Dept of Transportation Secretary, Ray
LaHood, for $300 Million and five kegs of rum to build streetcars all across
jolly old America. Well, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, mateys. Reps Walt
Minnick (D) and Mike Simpson (R), and Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch
(both R) all claimed they are simply pursuing a course of fiscal
responsibility by pulling out their trusty swords and sticking it to
American citizens for $1.6 Billion -- Idaho’s presumed share of President
Obama’s Trillion Dollar Stimulus Booty.
“Avast,
you landlubbers,” cried all four of Idaho’s Congress-pirates, “if we don’t
take this booty, California’s Head Pirate, Arnold Schwarzenbeard, will take
it.”
But,
listen up, saucy wenches. Idaho’s swashbuckling Congressional pirates of
The Good Ship Lollipop berthed at the Potomac Harbor in Washington, DC, are
not just out to grab what they consider is Idaho’s fair share of Head Pirate
Obama’s $787 Billion Bailout Booty. They are taking Obama’s Great Inflation
Robbery one step further by initiating more pirate legislation to pilfer
even more tax money from America’s citizens all across the country. The
four Ida-Pirates have co-authored a $300 Million
Federal Streetcar Revitalization Act of 2009
in order to rip off $65 Million to implement a Socialist Sugar Plum
Fairytale, a 2.6 mile downtown streetcar system for Boise, which was dreamed
up by Junior Idaho Pirate, Boise Mayor Dave “The Swashbuckler” Bieter
(D-Boise).
“Yo ho
ho,” chuckled Boise Mayor Dave. “It’s been my dream since I was a young...
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Idaho
Statesman supports spending $65 million of federal stimulus booty for Boise
Trolley Cars
Jun 12, 2009
$26 million per mile for 2.6 miles of downtown Boise streetcars? In the
middle of the greatest Depression since the 1930s, with Boise’s unemployment
rate soaring past 10% and climbing? Are you kidding? Mayor Bieter should
be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a wooden rail.
“That is the kind of thing the stimulus package was intended to be used
for.”
–
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, grabbing for all the federal “stimulus” money he can
get his hands on after voting NO on Obama’s $787 Billion stimulus package
Boise, ID –
Pull up the floor and pour yourself another hot cup of Rocket Java, girl
friends. This one will blow your capitalist socks off.
Idaho's
leading socialist rag, the Idaho Statesman, thinks it's just wonderful that
Left Liberal Boise Mayor Dave Bieter wants to blow $65 million on a 2.6 mile
Streetcar system for downtown Boise. $65 million? That's a whopping $26
million per mile!
Joining in
the Keynesian fascist economic chorus to spend Obama's $787 Billion of pulp
fiction dollars is supposed GOP -- now he is, now he isn't, whoops what are
we today, GOP, Democrat, socialist, fascist, Mickey Mouse -- Senator Mike
"The Chameleon" Crapo. “Ya-yesss, girl friends,” said Senator Crapo,
grabbing for as much of the federal government's Bail Out Booty as he can
get his hands on, "That is the kind of thing the stimulus package was
intended to be used for."
Uh huh,
the rest of the nation is just dying to pay taxes for Boise, Idaho to blow
$65 million on a downtown Streetcar system. And Boiseans are just dying to
pay hundreds of millions of their portion of the new National Debt --
created out of thin air -- for California to study the hind ends of sea
otters swimming around in Monterey Bay.
Last Feb,
Crapo voted NO on Obama's $787 Billion Stimulus Scam, the ARRA (America’s
Redistribution & Rat’s Ass scam). Today, Crapo is scampering around like
Porky Pig at the Fed Reserve trough for "shovel ready" make-work projects on
which to blow Idaho's $1 Billion to $2 Billion share of Obama's Pirate
Money. The socialist Statesman says, "Working
for streetcar dollars does not make Crapo a hypocrite. It makes him a
pragmatist." No it doesn’t. It makes him a Keynesian Economic
Village Idiot who has no clue that the government cannot just print up paper
money out of thin air to enrich a nation.
The
Statesman goes on to say, "The fight over the
stimulus proposal -- as fiscal policy and as a prescription for an ailing
economy -- ended when the bill was signed into law. The deal is done. This
overwhelming sum of money, to be paid by our children and grandchildren, has
been committed. The job now is to identify projects that create jobs and
maximize the long range return."
Errrrttt,
screech! Wait a minute. Hold the phone. The idiotic babblings uttered
above by the editors at the Idaho Statesman contained a mouthful -- a
mouthful of so many economic sophisms and just plain stupid, fallacious
statements that one wonders where to start to refute them all.
First, the
entire idea of an economic stimulus package rests upon false Keynesian
socialist notions and Marxist Fairytales. One cannot inflate the paper
currency of a nation, claiming that for every $1 the Fed injects into the
economy, it will produce $1.57 in new wealth -- the so-called 1.57
“Multiplier Effect” claimed by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner -- and that
from this supposed “stimulus” of new wealth, one can then create 4 million
new jobs (real jobs, productive jobs, not government bureaucracy jobs).
This is sheer lunacy. Obama’s Economic Advisory Team is ripe with UC
Berkeley fascist economists such as Christine Roma, her husband Mr. Roma,
Robert Reich, and Yale, Princeton, and Harvard “Historical Quantitative
Economists” Fed Chief Ben Bernanke, Treasury Sec Tim Geithner and others who
understand nothing about gold, a paper receipt for gold, or the
praxeological underpinnings of individual rights and free market capitalism.
So, right
off the bat, ...
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National News
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 ©2008-2009 FM Duck
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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 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.
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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
Boise's Urban
Renewal Agency rips off shoppers by raising downtown parking rates from $1.50 to
$2.50 per hour,...
Don't get mad, get even
(June 25, 2008)
First hour is still free. Hint, hint.
Boise, ID –
Since Boise's Urban Renewal Agency aka the CCDC (Capital City Development
Corporation) allegedly helped scam Ada County taxpayers in the Ada County
Courthouse scandal and the failed $136 million University Place fiasco (and
nobody at CCDC got their little hannies slapped for it), it is only fair
that taxpayers return the favor to the CCDC.
How?
Easy. The
CCDC just raised downtown parking rates from $1.50 per hour to $2.50 per
hour. The first hour is still free. So, the next time you shop
in downtown Boise, park for just under 1 hour, drive out, then drive back in
with a new ticket and park free for another hour. You can do this all
day long.
Is this fair?
Yes. It's called revenge. Don't get mad, get even.
Remember, the goal
is to boost revenue for Boise's downtown shops, not boost parking revenues
for the questionably corrupt CCDC sharks who continually figure out ways to
"legally" rip off your local tax dollars, oftentimes with the Ada County
Commissioners, local attorneys, Supreme Court Justices, U of Idaho
Administrators, and state legislators. You know, all the usual
suspects.
Let's do what the
CCDC has taught us to do. Let's become legal beagle sharks like all
the lawyers down at the CCDC who ran us around in litigious circles during
the Ada County Courthouse and the University Place scams which totaled about
a quarter of a billion dollars from 1998 to 2005, shall we? Ya-yess,
girl friends, let's do it.
Your honor -- who
we have not previously paid off -- the definition of the term
"one hour free parking" is defined as ahem
cough cough "the parking exit timestamp minus the
parking entry timestamp whose numerical value is equal to, or less than, 59
minutes and 59 seconds." And with modern computers, your
honor -- who we have not previously paid off -- we can carry the decimal out
to a nanosecond if we have to.
Therefore, your
honor -- with whom we routinely drink martinis at the Arid Club in Boise --
our shopping crazy client who drove in and out of the CCDC parking lot in
her 5.7 Litre HEMI Street Racing Technology Mopar 14 times and whose
multiple independent sessions of "one hour of free
parking" was less than 59 minutes and 59 seconds is not guilty of
gaming the Urban Renewal Agency's -- aka CCDC -- parking rate system.
So, quod erat
demonstrandum, ... your esteemed honorable judge of Boise-on-Bodo.
We ask for an
immediate acquittal of Ms. Hotrod and the return of her gunmetal blue 5.7
Litre 350 hp Mopar so that she may continue her daily legal
"free parking" and shopping spree to
patriotically spend her newly acquired $600 government rebate check and thus
"stimulate" Boise's downtown economy... your honor.
Thank you, your
honor, and good day. -- FM Duck, Your Humble Servant
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
Ada County Commishes and
CCDC (Urban Renewal Agency) screw taxpayers again in Courthouse parking
rip-off
(Nov 7, 2007)
Boise, ID -- "You're in luck," say the
economic geniuses down at the left Liberal Idaho Statesman newspaper.
"The first hour will be FREE starting Dec 1."
Ooh, free parking.
Really?
No. They tricked us. Again.
For only $214,000 per year
the taxpayers can park for "free" -- for the first 60 minutes, don't be late
-- at the Ada County Courthouse garage. Ada County -- hey that's you,
taxpayers -- will fork over $214,000 to Capital City Development Corporation
(CCDC) which does not own but operates the parking garage east of the
Courthouse. In reality, Ada County owns all of the Courthouse land,
building and parking lots, and through a 1999 Master Lease Agreement hired
the CCDC at no cost to play "broker" for the County, which in turn, leases
all the above back from the CCDC (which means the County leases it from
itself through tricky leagalese). All this legal beagle trickery is
done in order for Ada County to pull off an unconstitutional end run
around the 2/3 required majority of the voters to approve the County's going
into multi-year debt to buy and build all of the above land and Courthouse
and garages.
In fact, the Ada County
Commishes are busy taking back, through three fake Eminent Domain lawsuits,
portions of the Courthouse building and garages (which the County already
owns) by overpaying alleged
"rental valuations" of this property to one of their sub-leasees, Civic
Partners. (How does the County take back its own property through
Eminent Domain? Only in Idaho.) Civic Partners is still involved in a $7 million lawsuit
from the previous failed $136 million University Place fiasco which
started with the initial unconstitutional procurement, funding, and building
of both the Ada County Courthouse and Boise's University Place.
Amazingly, the CCDC already
offers 1-hour free parking in downtown Boise at five other garages but does
not receive reimbursements from merchants or the Downtown Boise Association.
The big question is:
are the Ada County Commishes really trying to save the Courthouse parkers a
whole one dollar and fifty cents -- whoop-tee-doo, girl friends -- or
do so few people park at the Courthouse that the County was losing money and
so they devised a clever marketing scheme to jerk it out of the taxpayers by
shouting, "Oh yoo-hoo, FREE parking, come and get it?"
Yeah, free. Only
$214,000. And the left Liberal Idaho Statesman falls for it.
Every time. Hyuck. -- 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
Idaho Senator Larry Craig
arrested for tap dancing with undercover vice cop in Minnesota Airport men's
room
(Aug 29, 2007)
Why has
the Idaho Statesman been investigating Senator Craig's alleged homosexuality
for 5 months prior to Craig's June 11th tap dancing in a Minnesota Airport
men's room?
Is the Idaho Statesman re-kindling its 1950s
"Boys of Boise"
gay bashing for political reasons?
Or is the
Idaho Statesman legitimately concerned with Senator Craig's hypocrisy of
participating in gay, or at least AC/DC, activities while pushing for
legislation against gay rights?
Boise, ID – Whoa, girl friends, pour
yourself another hot cup of Rocket Java and shut up. Imagine my
surprise after spending the last two weeks fishing, and drinking Cabo Wabos
in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and arriving back in Boise, Idaho yesterday
afternoon just in time to hear a confusing news release by Idaho Senator
Larry Craig in which he claimed he wasn't a fag. So who asked him?
At first, I thought I was in London and Craig was claiming he wasn't a
Marlboro cigarette. Or a Cuban cigar. Cigarettes are called
"fags" in Britain. But then Craig said he shouldn't have pled guilty
to tap dancing with an undercover vice cop in an adjacent toilet stall in a
men's room at the Minnesota Airport.
That's when I got really confused.
Time to pour myself another Cabo
Wabo.
Then I saw the Idaho Statesman
headlines on the first of 14 back issues
I just dragged into the house with my luggage,
"Men's room arrest reopens questions about Craig," by Dan Popkey.
"Oh boy," I said to myself.
"At last we're going to find out who 'The Queen' is in
The Boys of Boise." -- 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 super-majority of 66 2/3% of those who voted --
not of those who were eligible or registered to vote, there's a big difference -- to pass,
the Yeas got 68.4% and the NoWayJoses got 31.5%. The No Shows, those
who did not show up to vote, totaled approximately 354,000, or 88.5%.
This
means that only 11.5% of the adult population of Ada and Canyon Counties, a
tiny minority, got to raise everybody's property taxes in the Boise area.
In other words, a Democratic Minority Rule of about 10% gets to dictate what
could turn into a huge property tax increase for 90% of the Boise area
population.
Is this
what our Founding Fathers meant when they created a limited republic?
Is this what is meant by "No Taxation Without Representation?" This is
worse than Democratic Majority Rule which is truly a "tyranny of the
majority." Clearly, Idaho's political system is broken when even in a
super-majority election required to increase taxes, a minority of 10% can
force 90% into something they did not vote for.
Now, you
rebut, "So why didn't the 400,000 eligible voters in Ada and Canyon Counties
show up to vote NO? My answer is twofold: (1) because they shouldn't
have to show up to vote NO, and (2) the current special interest
groups in Idaho are cleverly "gaming" the system.
Let me
explain.
In (1)
above, we need to change the Constitution in Idaho to state that a majority
must be 51% of the ELIGIBLE or REGISTERED voters and a super majority must
be 66 2/3% of the same. It makes more sense to define "voter
representation" as the "registered" voters, not just those who show up to
vote. To pass a law -- especially a law to spend and tax with a blank
check -- Idaho should require a majority or super majority of the voting
population to approve it. If people don't want a new law, they should not have to
show up to vote no; staying at home should suffice. As with the Bill
of Rights, the onus is not on
the NO voters to always have to go to the polls to try to prevent an
infringement upon their rights or protecting their money from the tax
collector at every whipstitch minute but rather it is on the YES voters
trying to shove taxing and spending down everybody else's throats. And
the YES voters should represent a majority or super majority of the
registered voters, not just those who happen to know about the "special election"
and show up to vote.
Which
brings us to point # (2) above: the current
special interest groups in Idaho are cleverly "gaming" the system.
How?
Idaho's
special interest groups, in yesterday case it was the Public Education
lobbyists, are allowed by law to set up a "special election" not on one of
the regular 4 election days in Idaho. That way, no official notice is
required to be mailed out to the voters by the Sec of State. If you don't subscribe to the
socialist Idaho Statesman newspaper or watch local TV news -- many people
today obtain their news from the Internet instead -- then you may not know
about the "special election." That's step one.
Step two
by the clever lobbyists is to mis-use Idaho's Absentee Ballots.
Absentee Ballots mean exactly what they say: ballots for Idahoans who will
be "absent" from Idaho and can't make it to the polls to vote.
Business trips, vacations, on duty fighting a War in Iraq are examples.
Instead, the Secretary of State's wife who works directly as his nepotistic
Admin sent out private PAC brochures to first INFORM a select group of
thousands of voters that a "special election" will be occurring,
and second, a campaign brochure which not only urges the
recipient to vote YES, but also includes a convenient form to
obtain an Absentee Ballot to vote from home.
In short,
officials from the state and others acting in a private capacity, notified
only a select group of voters about a "special election" and then provided
them with the means to vote from home. This is truly a mis-use of the
Absentee Ballot by special interests to "game" their "special election."
Meanwhile, our 4th Estate, the socialist cheerleaders down at the Idaho
Statesman, cheers the culprits on and celebrates what amounts to election
fraud and a total misrepresentation of what our Founding Fathers meant when
they established a limited constitutional republic with a Bill of Rights to
protect infringements upon the rights of the smallest minority possible: the
individual.
Clearly
the political voting system in Idaho is broken and it needs to be fixed
pronto. -- FM Duck
Democratic Minority
Rules...Apathetic voters (98%) stay home and allow property tax increase of
$500 million to subsidize failing schools
(May 16, 2007)
Boise, ID – 19th Century historian Alexis
de Tocqueville, in criticizing the concept of Democratic Majority Rule,
defined it as, "a tyranny of the majority." So what do we call
yesterday's apathetic voter turnout in Boise's Treasure Valley school bond
elections in which 2,400 voters out of an electorate of about 150,000 --
1.8% -- increased Ada and Canyon County property taxes by over $500 million
(including interest): Tyranny of the Minority? Taxation without
voter representation? Democratic Minority Rip-Off?
Whatever you call it, clearly
the political system is broken when 2% of the population can vote to
increase everybody's property taxes by hundreds of million of dollars.
Just think, we kicked the crap out of the world's mightiest nation, Great
Britain, for a lot less taxation and no representation. So what gives?
Why have we become the very same system we fought against and dumped 250
years ago?
The only possible explanations
are: (1) the voters didn't know about the quasi-secret "special
elections," or (2) nobody gives a rat's ass.
In ref to explanation (1), it
is true that the Idaho Sec of State does not send out voter notification or
information packages for "special elections" as other states such as California
does.
(But the Sec of State's wife, Penny Ysursa, who works as Ben Ysursa's Admin
(nepotism, nepotism), sent me and my wife and thousands of other voters four
colorful and expensive brochures as a Private PAC to obtain Absentee Ballots
and urge us to "Vote Yes" on next week's mega million dollar Community
College Bond Election. How confusing when the Sec of State doesn't
send out official voter info but his wife sends out Vote Yes brochures
urging voters to obtain Absentee voter ballots. Go figure.)
Unless you read the Idaho
Statesman Classified Ad section for the official notification or tuned into
local TV news, you wouldn't know about the "special elections" pushed by the
Pub Ed special interest lobbyists. In this clever manner, Meridian Pub
Ed just got its cake and ate yours, too. The socialist educators
raised your property taxes by over $230 million yesterday WHILE still
receiving its $200 million M&O property taxes as ex Gov Jim Risch swapped
school M&O property taxes over to a 1% sales tax increase last year (from 5%
to 6%)..
In ref to explanation (2),
maybe the majority of voters -- after a daily barrage of Idaho GOP and
Democratic Culture of Financial Corruption fiascos -- have simply given up on
voting since it doesn't seem to matter anymore. As we saw in the
unconstitutional $100 million Ada County courthouse scam, the $136 million
University Place fiasco, and ex Gov Kempthorne's recent $3 billion (now
$5-$10 billion) GARVEE Highway Robbery, it doesn't really matter what the
voters say anymore. The politicians and The Boys of Boise, including
leading law firms, PPPs, lobbyists, and just plain out-and-out crooks in
every branch of government, Executive, Legislative and Judicial, simply
ignore the rules, game the system, and go do whatever they want to do
anyway.
Meanwhile the socialist
cheerleaders down at the left Liberal Idaho Statesman cleverly hide the true
costs with wordsmith tricks such as describing the dollar amount to be voted
upon for our poor little, starving, crippled, underprivileged children as
"$20 million a year for a decade," instead of simply saying, "Holy Santa
Maria Zorro, it's going to cost you dolts over $200 million plus interest in
increased freaking property taxes, doncha know?"
Next week, girl friends, we
get to vote thumbs up or thumbs down for an unlimited budget for an
unspecified location for an unnecessary Jr. College System in the Treasure
Valley. Tuesday May 22. Be there or don't bitch about it when
your property taxes fly through the roof and pass Mars on the way to Jupiter
and waaay past infinity. -- FM Duck
A Tale of
Two Highways
Australia's free market
Macquarie Investment Bank leases Chicago's Skyway for $1.8 billion for 99
years, chops govt taxes, automates toll collection, and saves city of
Chicago from bankruptcy with $500 million rainy-day fund.
Idaho Gov K's GARVEE-funded
"Connecting Idaho" Highway Plan starts off with a nepotism lawsuit and Fed
Highway Admin investigation.
Chicago,
IL and Boise, ID -- Let's look at a Highway Development Tale of Two Cities:
Chicago and Boise. Actually, since there are more people in Chicago
than in the entire state of Idaho, let's compare the development methodology
of Chicago's $1.8 billion Skyway project and Idaho's $1.2 billion GARVEE
federal Highway Program. Both projects were funded for approximately
the same amount of money.
First, Chicago's Skyway
project is a free market project. Idaho's Highway Plan is a govt
project. Chicago's Skyway project was a previously-failed govt project
which left the city of Chicago bankrupt. Idaho's Highway Plan is new
and was forced through the 2005 state legislature after Gov K threw a temper
tantrum on TV, vetoing every new Bill as "veto fodder" until the legislators
caved in and passed his new GARVEE Highway Plan to be paid for with future
federal gasoline taxes.
Chicago's Skyway
renovation started when Australian private road financiers/developers showed
up and offered $1.8 billion to revamp their Skyway through the free market,
automated road tolls, and innovation. Boise's "Connecting Idaho"
project got off to a nasty start with a nepotism lawsuit when NY engineering
bidders who were unanimously chosen, 9-0, by senior engineers in an
Evaluation Committee in Idaho's Dept of Transportation to manage the project
were overruled, 4-1, by gubernatorial appointees from Gov K's Idaho
Transportation Board. The Gov's political buddies WGI / CH2M Hill of
Idaho were chosen. The Board's excuse was explicitly stated as
nepotism, i.e., WGI and CH2M Hill were experienced with past Idaho projects.
The dummies on the Trans Board didn't even know how to lie (good for them)
or fudge their excuse since federal law states preferential treatment cannot
be given to locals or anybody who has donated political contributions.
Hence a lawsuit by the NY company and an investigation by the Fed Highway
Admin.
Chicago's privately revamped
Skyway project is a great success and saved the city of Chicago, adding a
windfall bonus of $500 million to their rainy day fund. Idaho's
Director of the Governor's handpicked Transportation Board, Chuck Winder, in
reference to whether the Idaho legislature would have enough time to pass
legislation to fund the first portion of "Connecting Idaho" (since
everything is currently tied up in a lawsuit) was paraphrased in today's
Idaho Statesman as saying, "These projects (Idaho's Highway projects),
funded largely with federal dollars, can proceed even without a program
manager." And the Statesman said, "Perhaps."
Really? That's like the
software project manager who says to his programmers, "OK, you guys start
writing the program code while I go get the specs." If either Winder
or the Statesman editors knew anything about project management or had
bothered to read the major reasons -- besides the criminal expropriation of
interim financing from the U of I -- why Boise's $136 million University
Project fiasco failed, they would have read KPMG's review that pointed out
(1) there was no business plan, (2) no real project manager, and (3) no
standard contracts or specified roles of responsibilities, including
financial tracking, schedules, change controls, or status reports that would
normally constitute a project of that size.
Winder's and the Statesman
editors' comments exemplify one of the major reasons why government projects
usually fail -- or cost 5-10 times the original estimate (which itself is a
failure) -- and free market projects succeed: lack of project
management knowledge. -- Deep Throat II
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