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by Free Market Duck

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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  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

07-11-2005
Ethnomathematics  More...

06-20-2005
Fat Idaho  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why Johnny Can't Read  More...

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

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

Health Care Is Not A Right  More...

Must see movie out on DVD:

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

   “Who are you?”

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

   “Well, I can see that.”

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

   “Oh, right.”

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

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

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

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

    Did You Know...?   

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

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

       Quickie News Briefs     

Friday July 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.

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

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

What they're saying about Boise's Watergate:

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

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

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

     Table of Contents    

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Really?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GM Bailout Plot Thickens
(Oct 30, 2008)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Last weekend, while working overtime in  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Washington, DC – Public Letter of Admonition:

Dear Senator Craig (R-Idaho):

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

Specifically:

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

Anybody Seen Our Gold?
(Feb 10, 2008)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Washington, DC – Has everybody gone insane?

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Really?  I’m shocked.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   But wait.  More...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   The answer:  nothing.

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

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.  More...

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

Conflict of interest?

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

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

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.  More...

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  More...

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:  More...

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.  More...

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  More...

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:

1. American Eagle $50 One-Ounce Gold, .916 fine.
2. American Eagle $25 Half-Ounce Gold, .916 fine.
3. American Eagle $10 Quarter-Ounce Gold, .916.
4. American Eagle $5 Tenth-Ounce Gold, .916 fine.
5. American Buffalo $50 One-Ounce Gold, .9999 fine.
6. 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.  More...

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 More... ) -- 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)

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 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...  More...

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, ...  More...

      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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 Investing in Gold?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apr 21, 2008: Hyperinflationary Depression - by Howard Ruff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 The Future of Gold as Money - by Nelson Hultberg

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

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

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

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Karl Marx Award
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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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