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by Free Market Duck

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

02-02-2008
Obama/Clinton Kissy-Kissy in pre-scripted Hollywood Debate Love Fest  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

01-09-2008
New Hampshire Primary:  Karl Marx wins again, stomps on U.S. Constitution  More...

01-04-2008
Iowa Primary:  Karl Marx Whips Jesus Christ  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

05-17-2007
The Ron Paul Phenomenon More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01-12-2007
Dear Boise Pub More...

01-10-2007
Boise State Broncos # 1 in Nation...
 Boring BCS Title Game Outsells Lunesta Sleep Aid Pills 10:1...Snore z-z-z-z  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

12-22-2006
China to dump a trillion U.S. dollars?  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10-03-2006
Prop 2 is a Full Employment Act for Idaho lawyers  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

08-11-2006
Thanks to Brits for busting potential bombers  More...

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

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

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

06-05-2006
New Idaho Governor: Public Servant or Master?  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01-23-2006
Roll over Boston, tell James Madison the news...time for a Boise Tea Party
...Part II  More...

01-16-2006
Roll over Boston, tell James Madison the news...time for a Boise Tea Party
...Part I  More...

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

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

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

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

08-29-2005
Iraq's "New" Old Articles of Confederation  More...

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

07-11-2005
Ethnomathematics  More...

06-20-2005
Fat Idaho  More...

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

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

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

03-07-2005
Selective Ethics in Boise?  More...

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

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

02-07-2005
Will Carly Bankrupt HP?
  (Note:  Well, not now.  Carly fired Feb 9...)  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why Johnny Can't Read  More...

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

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

The Guaranteed Annual Watermelon  More...

$9 Trillion in debt and rising?  See 250 year chart...

Health Care Is Not A Right  More...

       International News      

Zimbabwe Price Inflation Rate Hits 1,594%
(Feb 14, 2007)

Johannesburg, South Africa – Whoa, shut up, gather 'round, listen up, girl friends.  First, Happy Valentine's Day, baby.  Second, Zimbabwe's annual price inflation rate just skyrocketed to 1,594%.  Third, the only way this could happen -- The How I Done It -- is if Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe printed up (i.e., hyper-inflated) tons and tons of his nation's paper money -- or shot 9/10th of Zimbabwe's population.

   The January 2007 rate jumped 312.5% over Dec 2006.  Expect HOURLY price increases for bread, electricity, and meat by May or June.

   Prez Bobby Mugabe (rhymes with hobby) and his central bankers have instigated runaway inflation for the last 5 years in order to --The Why I Done It -- "redistribute" thousands of farms and businesses owned by those with not much skin melanin to those with more skin melanin, commonly known as a racial redistribution of the looted socialist cookies.

   Don't expect a box of Granny See's candies for Valentine's Day this year in Zimbabwe, dear.  A US$10 half-pound box of milk chocolates will set you back $2,520 in Zimbabwe dollars.  And that same box of candies would only cost 40-cents in real gold and silver-backed U.S. currency before the private Federal Reserve bankers took over our highly-inflated U.S. money. -- FM Duck

New movie out on DVD:

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

   “Who are you?”

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

   “Well, I can see that.”

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

   “Oh, right.”

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

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

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

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

Pope Benedict, previous Grand Inquisitor of Catholic Church, says Muhammad was "evil and inhuman"
(Sep 18, 2006)

Advice from Confucius, "Yo, Pope, warm brain before opening mouth."

Rome, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI visited the Auschwitz concentration camp last May and asked, “Why, Lord, did you remain silent?  How could you tolerate all this?” 

   Probably for the same reason that God remained silent during the Inquisition of the Catholic Church which lasted for several hundred years and during which hundreds of thousands of women throughout Europe were officially classified as “witches” and burned at the stake.

   While the major news media played it up RE the irony of today’s German-born Pope (real name Joseph Ratzinger) visiting the infamous Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, no one mentioned that Ratzinger, until elected Pope in April 2005, was the previous Grand Inquisitor of the Catholic Church’s own historical concentration camps called The Inquisition.

   So now, last week, Pope Joe "The Grand Inquisitor" pops up in a speech and quotes a conversation on the "truths" (ha-ha) of Christianity and Islam that took place between a 14th-century Byzantine Christian emperor, Manuel II Paleologus, and a Persian scholar, "The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war.  Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached," said Pope Benedict, previous Grand Inquisitor of the Catholic Church.

   Pope Benedict forgot to discuss the Catholic Inquisition's official torture manual, the Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of the Witches), in which The Church characterized women as the source of all evil and then went on to describe exactly, step-by-step, how the heretic “witches” were to be tortured to extract confessions and then burned at the stake.

   Meanwhile, Muslims throughout the world proved both major religions, Islam and Christianity, are poor excuses for moral philosophies by firebombing two West Bank churches and killing a nun and her bodyguard in Somalia. -- FM Duck

Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft help China censure Internet users

Free Speech in China?  What's that?

We only supply the software, the operating systems, the hardware, and the censorship filters for tens of billions of dollars for the six Internet hubs controlled by the Communist dictators in China.  We're not responsible for the Chinese Internet Police who throw users into jail and beat them to death for typing in such words as "liberty" and "freedom" which are currently classified as "profanity" in China.

Beijing, China -- When do capitalists morph into socialists?  When high tech American capitalists join forces with a brutal Communist Dictatorship to implement their high tech products to control the population, that's when.

   Is this short-sighted or what?  In the long run, these American companies are helping a dictatorship increase their future goal of world domination, including future aggressive action against the U.S.  This is a lot like running out and offering baloney sandwiches and potato chips to thugs who are throwing rocks and breaking your living room window.  You might as well supply them with the rocks, too.  Or nuclear weapons.  And what's going to be the high-techies' excuse when the rock throwers walk in and kick them out of their million-dollar mansions?  Duh, we didn't see the connection?  We thought we could escape to North Korea or Iraq or maybe Sweden where we can spend our billions of dollars on rationed items not available any more  because we helped destroy what's left of the free market?  Oh yoo-hoo, Bill Gates, can you spell collectivist S-U-I-C-I-D-E?

U.S. helps Iraq pay $300 Million for 30-year old Soviet choppers and non-functional machine guns?

Psst.  Yo, dummy.  Do I got a deal for you.  Only $100 million for 24 hunk of junk helicopters, cash on the barrel head, pay in advance, sight unseen.  Garaged for 30 years in Poland.  By the way, you need a box of rubber bands to jump start these suckers.  Only $100 million for the rubber bands, plus I'll throw in two hand grenades and the Brooklyn Bridge -- at rush hour -- for free.

Baghdad, Iraq -- Hoo boy, do I have some hot rod helicopters for your Iraqi Defense Department, girl friends.  The Iraqi Defense Ministry, operating under American-appointed supervisors, paid $300 million in advance for crappy war equipment, including twenty-four, 30-year old Soviet helicopters rusting away in Poland.

   After flying to Poland to inspect their  purchase, the Iraqi idiots pretended to be disgusted and flew back home, sans either the helicopters OR the $100 million which they paid up front for the broken-down eggbeaters.  Oh gosh, gee willikers.  It looks like we were twicked, again, Bugs Bunny.  We'll show them.  We'll just fly right back home to Baghdad, drink a cup of tea, and forget about it.  Well, maybe we'll hold a pretend court for the pretend purchase and Americans can pay more of their pretend National Wallpaper (the Federal Reserve Note) in taxes for what is rapidly evolving into a pretend war in Iraq.  Hey, since we're all pretending, I get to be Zorro and you get to be Spider-Man.  Go ahead, jump off that building, dummy.

EU Constitution falling apart

Paris, France  -- As Jeff Cimbalo and David Frum state in the WSJ, the reason the European Union's Constitution is falling apart is because while the US Constitution opens with, "We the People of the United States...," the EU Constitution opens with, "His Majesty the King of the Belgians..."

             Did You Know...?        

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

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

      Dollars & Sense  

   In 1951 the average house cost $16,000, an ounce of gold was $35, a gallon of gasoline cost $.20, a loaf of bread $.16, a candy bar or a bottle of soda pop $.05, and a first-class postage stamp? 3 cents!

   The base price of the '59 Chevy El Camino was $2,500; The average price of a movie ticket in 1972 was $1.58.

        The Declaration of Independence has 1,337 words. The entire Holy Bible has about 773,000 words. So far, over 7 million words covering well over 66,000 pages of complex regulations make up our income tax code.  According to a study by the Joint Committee on Taxation, tax compliance alone costs Americans $250 BILLION a year.  Since the "Tax Simplification Act" was passed in 1986, the tax code has been changed over 6,000 times.

Holy Dukes, How Fast are the Feds Spending your Money?  
You canyour goodbye... 
See U.S. National Debt Clock  Click here...

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       Quickie News Briefs     

Thursday May 8, 2008

--  Mexico to build a U.S. Consulate in Boise, Idaho?  That's right, amigos.  For all 25 Mexicans who live in the Boise Treasure Valley, population 450,000.  Holy tacos.  I mean, what would illegal immigrant Jose Rodriguez do if he lost his stolen fake driver's license?  Get a new one at the Boise Mexican Consulate?  Or if Maria Gonzalez, age 10, got pregnant by illegal immigrant Juan Taco, age 37, in Eastern Idaho, and delivered a child by Caesarian at the County Hospital and couldn't pay her bill?  Oh my God, yes indeed, Boise, Idaho needs a U.S.-Mexican Consulate like it needs another hole in the head.

--  Sec of the Interior, ex Gov Dirk Kempthorne, has refused to give up his gubernatorial records to the Idaho State Historical Society as required by state law 2 years ago.  I wonder why?  It wouldn't be because ol' Dirky Lurky has something to hide from his previous governorship, would it?  Like perhaps some of his shenanigans during his Boise's Watergate:  University Place & All The Governor's Men fiasco?  Naw, not our Secretary of the Interior, Tricky Dirky, working for even trickier Prez Bush.  

--  Fed Reserve Chief Ben "Helicopter" Bernanke said, "Finding ways to avoid preventable foreclosures is a legitimate and important concern of public policy."  Actually, Ben, no it isn't.  The only constitutional function of the U.S. Government is to prohibit infringements upon the rights and freedoms of individuals, NOT (1) create an illegal central bank, (2) go off the gold standard, (3) hyper-inflate the U.S. Dollar, (4) inject trillions of inflated Dollars into the housing market via investment banks on Wall Street, (5) promote a subprime slime mortgage market, and then when the housing market tanks, (6) pump hundreds of billions of more inflated Dollars into the market, and then when that just adds more monetary fuel to the stagflation fire, (7) show up on national TV and babble about how it is the function of the Federal Government to (8) bail out the bankers, (9) bail out the subprime mortgages borrowers, and (10) pour even more hyper-inflated paper money into the global economy, you dolt.  The PROBLEM IS the Fed and its non-collateralized paper money printed up out of thin air.  Therefore, the SOLUTION IS to abolish the Fed and get back to sound money, which means a precious metals monetary standard without fractional reserve banking.

--  If all the major U.S. banks who, by the way, are members of the Federal Reserve, think that gold is not worth anything as an international monetary standard, then why are they all holding tens of millions of shares of the major and mid-cap gold stocks such as Kinross, Newmont, Yamana, Freeport, Hecla, and Gold Fields?  Oh, I know.  They speculate a huge future demand for gold teeth by dentists.  Yeah, that must be it.  Dentists.

--  Starting this week and continuing throughout this summer, the U.S. government has now begun sending out $600 to every adult and $300 to every child in America on the premise that the Feds can "stimulate" the economy by printing up money out of thin air -- $160 billion this time around -- and passing it out for everybody to spend as fast as they can.  This absurd action by President Bush, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, and Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke is so ridiculous -- and such a lame attempt to cover up themselves as the cause of the U.S.'s deficit mess in the first place -- that one wonders how they can all stand up on national TV and keep a straight face as they announce their Economic Stupidity Package.  What's worse is that almost nobody except Free Market Duck is protesting this $160 billion pile of federal bull shit.  Who do they think they're kidding?  Apparently most people since virtually all of the Wall Street pundits on TV (except for Glenn Beck) including Mad Jim Cramer, Kudlow & buddies, all the stock market hosts on TV channel CNBC, FOX News hosts, most economic professors at all the major universities, editors at the Wall Street Journal, and even CEOs at many large corporations actually think that a government -- or ALL governments -- can just print up trillions of pieces of non-collateralized paper out of thin air, distribute them throughout an economy, and make that economy rich.  And nobody on the political scene except GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul understands the stupidity of the Fed's $160 billion fake "stimulus" fiasco.  Nobody seems to understand that non-collateralized paper is not the same as capital or capital goods.  Not Hillary Clinton, not Barack Obama, not John McCain, not the U.S. Congress, not President Bush, virtually nobody.  So, America and the entire global economy is now entering into a hyper-inflationary paper money print-off contest and rapidly committing economic suicide, led by the Voodoo Keynesian economists at the world's central banks.  Want to know how it's all going to end up?  Pick up a copy of Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged, and you will find out.

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How to Unify the Political Right
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By Nelson Hultberg

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

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

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$7 million lawsuit Cryptic Partners v. UI Foundation ongoing in Boise since April 18, 2007...arguing over the definition of the word "it"...

Boise lawyers Eiguren and Miller plead GUILTY in $136 mil University Place fiasco

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

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

What they're saying about Boise's Watergate:

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

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

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

     Table of Contents    

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

       National News      

Update to yesterday's NH Primary...Oops, we were wrong... New Hampshire prefers state collectivism over individual freedom...
(Jan 09, 2008)

Manchester, NH – So, we guessed wrong about New Hampshironians and their philosophical views RE individual rights and the U.S. Constitution.  That means America is much worse off than we thought.  Too bad.  Moving on to Super Tuesday, Feb 5th... that will be the clincher. -- FM Duck

New Hampshire GOP Primary Prediction: Ron Paul finishes in top 3
(Jan 08, 2008)

Look for the Ron Paul Phenomenon to steamroll over the GOP mainstream Republocrats as the people in the Granite State put their votes where their money is:  over $20 million in small donations to Ron Paul in the last quarter of 2007.

Manchester, NH – "Fair and balanced" ha-ha FOX NEWS refused to invite GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul to its national TV debate last Sunday.  Good for Dr. Ron since the FOX debate turned out to be just another re-run of mostly socialist questions by moderator Mike Wallace and socialist answers by the mainstream GOP candidates.  Supporting Ron Paul, the New Hampshire Republican Party correctly pulled its sponsorship of the FOX presidential debate when FOXy-Loxy refused to invite Dr. Paul.

   The good news is that Ron Paul spoke and answered questions in his own GOP Forum from Manchester, New Hampshire just before the FOX TV debate.

   In addition, Jay Leno heard about the FOX snub and invited Dr. Ron Paul to his Late Night Show last night, which Dr. Paul attended and presented his views to much loud applause.

   Americans want change.  Not just any change.  They want someone who understands why we need a sound monetary system, i.e. gold backed, a return to limited government, lower taxes, and a strong national defense... a defense located at our borders, not in Iraq, Afghanistan, or at over 700 military bases across the world.

   Look out.  We predict The Ron Paul Phenomenon will push Dr. No-No-No on Taxes into the Top 3 in today's Granite State Rock Slide. -- FM Duck

Feds Confiscate Idaho Private Mint's Gold, Silver, Platinum & Ron Paul "Liberty Dollars" in Illegal Raid
(Nov 21, 2007)

Was attack on GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul's campaign medals monetarily-motivated or politically-motivated?  Or both?

If gold and silver coins have no value or purpose in today's Keynesian Econometrics, then why does the Federal Reserve fear private gold money?  What if I stamp out 1 troy oz squares of gold and write "Bite it" under a portrait of an aardvark and then trade it for 800 Federal Reserve Notes or 400 hot dogs at Costco?  Is that a crime, too?  If so, where does my freedom of speech and freedom of trade end and who says a metallic aardvark is not just as much art as a Picasso or Rembrandt?

Coeur d'Alene, ID – Wake up Americans.  Another big nail was driven into America's free market coffin this week as FBI and Secret Service agents raided the Indiana offices of NORFED -- the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act & Internal Revenue Code -- and private Sunshine Minting Co. in northern Idaho.  The Feds confiscated everything except the kitchen sink.

   That's right, girl friends.  The Gestapo-like government thugs swooped down and swiped all of NORFED's and Sunshine Minting Co.'s gold, silver, platinum, mint equipment, computers, manual records AND two tons of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul Liberty Dollar campaign medals.  Hey, why not raid Ron Paul's campaign headquarters and burn all his campaign literature, T-Shirts, baseball caps, and bumper stickers while you're at it, too?  Or would that be too obvious?

   The big question is:  what crime did NORFED commit?  What's wrong with private mints issuing, and individuals using, gold and silver money?

   NORFED did not counterfeit U.S. coins nor U.S. Federal Reserve Notes.  The Liberty Dollar coins are 1 troy oz of pure gold or silver and do not state that they are "U.S. coins" or "legal tender" in compliance with current U.S. Treasury prohibitions.  Liberty Dollar paper receipts, gold and silver certificates, are 100% backed by gold or silver -- until the FBI and Secret Service confiscated NORFED's gold and silver bullion -- and are (or were) redeemable to the bearer on demand.

   In contrast, current U.S. coins are made out of debased copper-nickel and Federal Reserve Notes are not backed by any commodity and thus not redeemable for anything except more paper Federal Reserve Notes, which, by the way, are printed at 3-cents per bill for all denominations.

  Unknown to GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, NORFED exercised its First Amendment rights of free speech and minted two tons of "Ron Paul" cupro-nickel Liberty Dollars to disseminate their constitutional monetary message in a political marketing campaign.  Freedom of speech.  All legal.  All of the Ron Paul Liberty Dollars were confiscated by the FBI in their recent raid.  Illegal.

   Was the U.S. government's attack against NORFED and GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul's campaign medals monetarily-motivated or politically-motivated?  Or both?  Obviously it was both.

   Americans should be extremely concerned about the Fed's recent raid and confiscation of private property at NORFED.  This is an individual rights issue and at its moral philosophical foundation, the U.S. government has violated numerous constitutional rights of many individuals, the least of which is not freedom of trade and freedom of speech.  Not coincidental to the Fed's raid, NORFED had already initiated a lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury and Fed Reserve last March to clarify its position.

   Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve central bankers and their Wall Street monetary manipulators are sinking deeper and deeper in a morass of subprime mortgage slime through an international hyperinflation of our non-backed Federal Reserve Notes, non-collateralized CDOs, ridiculous hedge funds and derivatives backed by nothing, Structured Investment Vehicles backed by hot air, and an absurd government bail-out Super SIV called the Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit.

   Good luck Americans.  You better hope that NORFED wins its lawsuit against the U.S. Monetary Gestapo or your National Wallpaper and the Bill of Rights will soon be devalued down to a big fat zero.  Welcome to George Orwell's 1984. -- FM Duck

The Social Security Merry-Go-Round
(Oct 22, 2007)

Washington, DC – Oh boy, Margie, let’s look at the social security tax.

   First they force you to pay the tax, then they force your employer to match the tax so if you’re self-employed you pay twice, then they dump the tax into a Big General Fund Sugar Bowl instead of a unique account for you, the tax earns no interest, and when you hit Age 62 they dole out X-dollars to you per month called Social Security plus 2% per year for price inflation while the Federal Reserve hyper-inflates the U.S. Dollar at 15% per year to make your fixed Social Security dollars worth less and less and less.

   Meanwhile, Congress continually robs from the Social Security fund and never pays it back, then moves merrily along to create the same financial mess in the fields of health care, public education, and ad infinitum.  Finally, as Social Security dollars for seniors won’t even cover the property taxes for their paid-off home, our senior citizens go to work at fast food eateries to earn enough money to survive and, guess what?  The government taxes our seniors’ paltry salaries from Jack In The Box to pay for… you guessed it:  Social Security taxes.

   Whoever thought up this stupid government scheme should be strung up by their balls and shot, twice: once for the employee and once for the employer.

   Just give me back all the taxes I paid into Social Security, twice since I was self-employed, compounded at 5% per year, and let me jump off this stupid Social Security Merry-Go-Round, will ya?  Please, please, dear State, stop trying to save me from myself in education, health care, and old age.  And, get out of the money manufacturing business and back onto a 100% gold standard.

   “Round and round state protectionists go, promise state donuts then feed them state holes.” – Bread and Circuses, FM Duck

Minnesota Judge rules Idaho Senator Larry "Pinocchio" Craig still guilty in homo toity sting...
Craig says he will not resign from U.S. Senate 
(Oct 4, 2007)

Minneapolis, Minnesota – Comedians across America overwhelmingly rejoiced upon hearing the news that Idaho Senator Larry "Pinocchio" Craig's nose grew another two feet this afternoon after a Minnesota judge refused to overturn Craig's guilty plea in last summer's homo toity sting at the Minneapolis Airport.

   Senator Craig's nose grew an amazing 2 feet after Craig heard the bad news and then continued to proclaim his innocence while voting on a $100 million earmark in Washington, DC, to build a Rubber Ducky Theme Park for wayward penguins in downtown Boise next year.  Craig's nose grew an additional 3 feet after his further announcement that he would not resign as promised but would instead continue to serve out his term.

   Several elevators in the Capitol Building are now under project review for extensive re-widening in order to accommodate Senator Craig's Size 42 and growing schnaz. -- FM Duck

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

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

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

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

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

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