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05-23-2013 New Benghazi Whistleblowers:
Stevens Was Involved in Buyback of Stinger Missiles from Al Qadeda More...
05-09-2013 Only Obama Could Have Ordered
'Stand Down Call' On Benghazi More...
03-25-2013 Picture of 'Martial Law'
Alarms Forensic Profiler More...
03-11-2013 Obama, Congress Must Reach
Deal On Budget By March 1, And Then April 1, And Then April 20, And Then
April 28, And Then May 1 More...
03-06-2013 The Sequestier 'Crisis" and
What Should Be Done More...
02-05-2010 Our World Balances on a Sea
of Debt… More...
01-21-2013 2nd Inaugural Address; Obama
Declares War on Liberty as We Know It More...
01-13-2013 "Zero Dark Thirty," Real or
Fake Extraction of Osama bin Laden? More...
01-02-2013 Obama/Congress Implement
Marriage Tax Penalties in "Fiscal Cliff" Taxes More...
12-28-2012 Darth Vader Arrested for
Bringing "Fiscal Cliff" to Earth More...
12-16-2012 Just Say "NO!" to Idaho's
State Health Care Exchange More...
04-19-2011 Budget cuts are meaningless
without Federal Reserve transparency More...
Old Nuclear
News Revisited in the next 2 articles written three years ago at FM Duck and
even more applicable today since Japan's recent nuclear catastrophe:
02-22-2008 Idaho Legies create
Perfect Storm: yellowcake plus Yellowstone plus Snake Plain Aquifer equals
radioactive Super Volcanic blast 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...
03-01-2011 A Union Education...or
What Wisconsin reveals about public workers and political power More...
02-14-2011 Idaho Statesman claims
"nullification" of Obamacare is "immoral" More...
02-03-2011 What is the Basic Issue in
the World Today? -- Part 3 of 3 More...
02-02-2011 What is the Basic Issue in
the World Today? -- Part 2 of 3 More...
01-29-2011 What is the Basic Issue in
the World Today? -- Part 1 of 3 More...
12-17-2010 What's wrong with our current
Education System? A Libertarian Discussion that asks, "What
is Education?" ... and better yet,
what should Education Be? More...
11-21-2010 Idaho on the Verge of
Bankruptcy in 2012 More...
10-30-2010 New silver class action
invokes RICO against JP Morgan, HSBC More...
10-30-2010 Idaho Voters, Who Should You
Vote For... and Which Amendments? More...
10-27-2010 Federal Reserve Commits
Treason as it Asks 18 Major Banks How Much Money They Want the Fed to Give
Them to “Stimulate” the Economy: $250 Billion, $500 Billion, $1 Trillion,
$2 Trillion or More… More...
03-24-2010 The difference between sound
money and our current pulp fiction Dollar, or...why Idaho Legislators should
vote "yes" on House Bills 622 and 633… More...
03-12-2010 California Grinds to a Halt
as Public and Private Unions Strike Against the State's Plans to Cut
Spending and Raise Taxes… More...
03-07-2010 Our World Balances on a Sea
of Debt… More...
02-10-2010 European Central Bankers
Poised to Take Over Europe… More...
02-05-2010 Secret Banking Cabal Emerges
From AIG Shadows… More...
12-21-2009 ObamaCare is not about health
care; it’s about control and profits. Oddly enough, it’s not the insurance
companies; it’s the central bankers… More...
12-02-2009 Boise Trolley Folly DOES
Justify Legislative Intervention More...
11-06-2009 Federal Reserve to Switch to New
"Scratch 'N Sniff" Currency More...
10-27-2009 New Government Health Care
Plan Struggling to Find "Single Payer" Name More...
10-26-2009 Jesus appoints Obama as
"Associate Christ" More...
09-23-2009 Has Congress become an
anachronism? More...
09-18-2009 Leftist Boise Mayor Dave
Bieter in secret meetings to blow $560 million of federal welfare dollars on
downtown Boise streetcar named “Desire”… or is that a streetcar named “Huge
Deficit?” More...
09-8-2009 Hey, kids, got game? Got
rap? Wanna be a rich movie star? “That isn’t hard work,” says Obama, “and
chances are you ain’t gonna be any of those things.” More...
09-8-2009 "Obama's speech to schools:
what civics lesson will parents teach their kids?” More...
09-1-2009 Ted Kennedy: "Lion of the
Senate" or Drunken Homicide at Chappaquiddick? More...
08-14-2009 Two Governors Bankrupt
Idaho's Highways, or Who let the GARVEE bonds out? More...
08-07-2009 "National" health care?
Stop thinking in terms of "collectives," we are individuals More...
08-05-2009 Fed Reserve, America's legal
counterfeiting ring More...
06-17-2009 Idaho Congressmen introduce
Federal Streetcar Revitalization Act of 2009…ask
for $300 Million to build streetcars across America…$65 Million for BoiseMore...
06-12-2009 Idaho
Statesman supports spending $65 million of federal stimulus booty for Boise
Trolley CarsMore...
05-31-2009 Idaho Statesman thinks
socialist economics can enrich economy and create Idaho jobsMore...
05-05-2009 The Idaho Transportation
SolutionMore...
04-23-2009 B of A CEO ordered by Fed
Reserve and U.S. Treasury to shut up about Merrill Lynch's billion dollar
lossesMore...
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 PrezMore...
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...
02-13-2009 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 marketMore...
11-29-2008 Boise’s
Watergate morphs into Nampa's and Caldwell's Watergate to pay for Oregon
community college in IdahoMore...
11-17-2008 Victoria's Secret Reorgs as
Savings & Loan Bank, Qualifies for Treasury's $700 Billion Bailout BootyMore...
11-14-2008 Stable Money Is the Key to
RecoveryMore...
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 nationalizationMore...
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 GardensMore...
10-06-2008 Recession 2008: The blind
leading the blindMore...
09-26-2008 Congressman Ron Paul's answer
to President Bush's $700 Billion bailoutMore...
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 fictionMore...
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...
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 SaturdayMore...
01-28-2008
Smoke 'n Mirrors Economic Stimulus Package: $600 for you, $730,000 for
Fannie Mae & Freddie MacMore...
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 economyMore...
01-19-2008
Federal Reserve drives U.S. into Super Recession, then Depression, then
Martial LawMore...
01-10-2008 New
Thought Police Bill passes U.S. House 404-6, awaits Senate voteMore...
01-01-2008
U.S. Federal Reserve Note: America's Pulp FictionMore...
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 earmarksMore...
12-18-2007
Goldman Sachs creates subprime slime with left hand, shorts subprime slime
with right handMore...
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-HOPEMore...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This
amazing cartoon was in the Chicago Tribune in
1934. Look carefully at the plan of
action. Note who's driving the out-of-control wagon: university
professors. Note Stalin and Karl Marx babbling the same type of Obama
fascist Progressive plan to "fundamentally transform" America. Remember the adage,
"Those who do not remember the past aredoomed to repeat it."
Sound money is a basic human right, derived from private
property rights. Alasdair Macloed says it best:
"Firstly, it is a basic human right to choose to save
without our savings being debased by the tax of monetary inflation. Those
who are worst affected by this inflation tax are not the rich -- they
benefit -- but the poor and the barely well-off, which is why monetary
inflation undermines society and why the right to sound money should be
respected. If government gives itself a monopoly over money, it has a duty
to protect the property rights vested in it.
"Secondly, it is a basic right for us to own our own money rather than have
it owned by the banks. For them to take our money and expand credit on the
back of it debases it. It is an abuse of an individual's property rights and
a banking licence is a government licence to do so. If anyone else was to do
this, they would be guilty of fraud. Banks should be custodians of our
money, and it should not appear in their balance sheets as their property."
"How
ironic and sad, then, that advocates of recognizing gold and silver as
money, as was done in not-so-olden times, should be characterized as
conservatives, reactionaries, and worse when they are actually liberators
and when advocates of infinitely 'elastic' currency are actually the great
enablers of totalitarianism throughout the world.
"Sound
money guarantees a stable yet progressive economy where people are truly
equal. It allows people to save properly for their retirement so that they
will not become a burden on the state. It leads to democracy voting for
small governments. It encourages peaceful trade and discourages war. It is
the only path, after this mess, that leads us to long-lasting and peaceful
prosperity. We really need everyone to understand this for the sake of our
future."
When plunder becomes a way of life for a
group of men... they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal
system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it.– Frederic Bastiat,
The Law [1850]
Sound familiar in 2012? Look around.
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
Thursday May 23, 2013
-- Thur
May 23 IRS Exempt Status Director, Lois Lerner, planned to take the
Fifth Amendment when called to testify before the US Congress yesterday.
So she took the stand and immediately issued a statement saying she was a
good little girl, never took the candy from the cookie jar, didn't break any
laws, goes to church every Sunday, never swears, eats her asparagus before
getting her ice cream, and closes with, "and I am not answering any
questions today and am invoking my 5th Amendment privileges, so there, nya
nya nya nya nay." Whoa, hey wait a minute, girl friend. First,
can one invoke the 5th Amendment Privilege while testifying before the US
Congress? After all, it ain't a court room. If the answer is
'NO,' then Ms. Lerner could go to jail for contempt. Number two, if
the answer to (1) is yes, just like in a court room, one cannot waltz,
jitterbug, or foxtrot into court, make statements of denial, "Like, yo, I
did not rob that bank," and then proceed to take the 5th Amendment.
Once you open your big fat mouth and start talking, you have waived your 5th
Amendment rights to further questioning and answering or else what is the
purpose of the 5th Amendment in the Bill of Rights? If you say you are
standing on the 5th Amendment for ALL of the upcoming questions, then invoke
it and shut up. But don't show up to court or Congress and start
issuing all sorts of statements and denials and then claim you're not going
to answer any future questions because you're standing on the Fifth.
Either stand on the 5th or don't. And while it is OK to take the 5th
on your choice of questions, then do so but don't sit there and say you are
taking the 5th on all further questions that haven't been asked yet and then
rant and rave about your innocence to no questions that haven't been asked.
Ms. Lerner's attorneys must be idiots. Remember, the reason one takes
the 5th Amendment is because one is claiming that an answer to a question
may tend to incriminate oneself and one cannot be compelled to testify
against oneself. So if you don't know the question yet, how can you
know that said future question may tend to incriminate you? More
arrogant actions by IRS employees lately who don't want to answer questions
by their boss: namely, Congress and the US citizens. Just why
were you running a program of tax exempt discrimination against
Conservatives, Tea Party, and other Patriot groups, Ms. IRS goon? Tell
us. and, more importantly, tell us WHO gave you that order to do so,
so that we can trace it all the way back to whichever room in the White
House it originated. Oops, did I give you a clue? I doubt if it
was in the kitchen or the laundry room.
-- Mon
May 13 Time for the US Congress to impeach Mr. Peachy Obama.
Why? For lying to the American public about why he told the US
military guarding the Benghazi Consulate to "stand down" and allow our
ambassador and three other Americans to be slaughtered on the premises.
And why would Mr. Impeachment-bait do that? Because it looks like he
was trying to cover up the running of guns to the Muslim Brotherhood in
Syria. Not that the Syrian government is any great saint.
Neither the Syrian government or the Muslim Brotherhood are fighting for
individual rights and freedoms. They're both just different shades of
altruistic state collectivism, or rather altruistic church collectivism,
same thing in the Middle East. But the problem with Obama playing this
dangerous game is that he apparently was willing to sacrifice American
officials and then try to cover it all up by hoaking up a phony anti-Muslim
video and blaming it on some poor nitwit producer in Hollywood. And
while Sec of State Hillary Clinton may not have given the "stand down"
orders -- mainly because the Joint chiefs of Staff do not report to the
Bitch of State who likes to lie to US Congressional investigators -- she
participated in the whole UN Ambassador Susan Rice fake video ruse.
And Clinton had the temerity to scream -- literally scream -- at the US
Congressional investigators, "At this point, who cares" about how the
terrorists overran the Benghazi Consulate and raped, tortured, and murdered
our Ambassador and three other Americans. "Maybe the terrorists were
just out for a stroll, or maybe who knows whaterver," she implied as she
then yelled, "At this point, who cares, the deed is done?" Well, Bitch
of State Clinton, guess what? The murdered victims' families care.
We care. We care because now we know what you think of us. Now
we know what Obama and YOU think of us American citizens and how you
wouldn't hesitate to throw us to the wolves if it advances your political
agenda both here and abroad. It's one thing to have done the murderous
deed, both at the Obama "stand down" level and the Clinton "I'll go along
with that" level; but it's quite another to blame some poor innocent slob
making a Grade F anti-Muslim movie, send our UN Ambassador Susan Rice around
to lie on all the major TV network talk shows, and try to cover it all up.
Nixon resigned over a 10-cent Watergate burglary that was nothing but a
pissy-assy bugging of the opposition party's politicians. They got him
for obstruction of justice and the cover up, not the bugging crime.
Obama and Thugs, however, set up a murder of four Americans to hide their
nefarious gun running to the Muslim Brotherhood rebels, and then tried to
cover it up. If this isn't an impeachable offense, then I don't know
what is. President Obama and former Sec of State Clinton deserve at
least to be booted out of politics: as in forever. And today
can't be too soon. Strike three, Bud, you're outta there!
-- Thur
May 09 In the Bizzarro news department, some loser bus driver couldn't
get a hot date for the past ten years in the Barrio in Cleveland and decided
the best way out of his love life deficit was to kidnap (not all at once)
three little kids, pre-teens, and chain them up to the bed post in his house
for sex, child birth -- one of the girls now has a six year old child
fathered by the loser or the loser's best friend (who knows) -- and other
fun and games. Three girls were sex prisoners for ten years.
Finally, one of the girls, now about 20 years old or so, screamed out the
front door, "Help, help," and a neighbor eating a Big Mac yelled back, "Say
what?" So the Big Mac chomping neighbor kicked down da door and saved
the kidnapped girl. Then the Big Mac neighbor and the escapee called
the Cleveland cops who showed up in 2 New York minutes flat and saved the
other two kidnapped girls. The 52-year old loser bus driver was
apprehended drinking beer with his two brothers at the local pub and hauled
off to the hoosgow. This morning, Ariel Castro -- who may soon change
his name to "Castrated" after a couple of weeks in prison -- pleaded, "Huh?"
The judge gave "Castrated" bail set at a few million dollars since he
doesn't appear to be a flight risk, having never left the hood for a
vacation to Paris or Rio within the last ten years. Meanwhile, many
questions remain such as, how the hell does an entire neighborhood not know
for ten years that 3 of its kids were kidnapped and held hostage in a house
in their own hood? Like, some of the neighbors had barbecues and hoe
downs or whatever at the loser bus driver's back yard and nobody heard any
screams during child birth or wondered why some single dude was buying lots
of tampax every month and bras and panties and girls clothing and, by the
way, who gave the girls hair cuts, trimmed their nails, and the questions
just go on and on... Bizzarro. Then again, from the news
broadcasts interviewing many neighbors in the hood, most of them -- who all
resoundingly claimed, "Yeah, man, we never gave up hope for them thar girls
what was snatched off the streets right under our noses ten years ago," --
appeared to be rowing their boats with no oars. How would you like to
live in a hood where everybody knows you but nobody is suspicious enough to
ask how come you didn't come home for dinner... like for ten consecutive
years? What a neighborhood. But they all never gave up -- hiccup
burp where's my bottle of wine -- like, hope, man... Uh-huh...
Really observant neighbors... Bizzarro.
-- Thur
May 09 Whoa, cow girls, pull up the barn floor, shut up, and pour
yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java. Let's look at the financing
for Public Education in the Nampa, Idaho, school district, shall we?
Last year, the dummies in the accounting dept of the Nampa School District
discovered they were double-counting revenue, under-budgeting expenses, and
cough-cough miscalculated the number of students on which the district's
state funding is based. Imagine that. They probably attended
Nampa's public schools for their sooper-dooper high level math education,
right? Last year, the accountants thought they were a couple of
million dollars out of whack, which means a deficit. Then, they
discovered oh-oh they were actually 5 million dollars in the red.
Shortly thereafter they discovered they were really 8 million dollars in
debt since they wouldn't be able to obtain another 3 million dollars for
next year's budget. Wait, it gets better. Yesterday, they
found out they were short another 1.2 million dollars which the school
district spent on operations instead of using it to pay down a $130 million
taxpayer bailout bond debt. Now the dumb-dumb school board voted last
Tuesday to use part of a $6.3 million short-term loan -- which was already
earmarked for other expenses -- to repay the bond fund. Yes, it's
getting more and more confusing. The stupid voters in the district
voted last March to give the dumb-dumb accountants a one year levy of $4.3
million to help pay some of the ridiculous debt. So let's get this
straight, girl friends: the Nampa School District taxes the crap out
of voters to pay for public education, mis-spends the coins, the voters give
the school district more money to pay for the debt racked up by the mis-use
of previous bond money, and then the Nampa School Board takes out a
short-term loan to pay down the debts from the previous school board loans
(which is what a school bond is in the first place since somebody must pay
back the bond holders at interest). Yeah, public education funding
really works well and free market education would never have worked, nuh-uh,
no way, you betchum Lone Ranger, cough-cough. Tune in next week to
find out whether the Nampa School Board will place it's entire school bond
money and short term loans on number 13 on the roulette wheel at Circus
Circus Casino in Las Vegas.
-- Tue
May 07 Interesting article by Dan Popkey in the Idaho Statesman
yesterday
about one of our Idaho US Senators: Jim Risch. Just by analyzing
quotes from Sen. Risch about how he feels about living and working in
the political atmosphere of The District (Wash DC), one can glean a lot
about why America has such a huge social-political-financial problem. Namely, Sen. Risch says, "You know, I
really enjoy this job. I really like this job." Think
about that statement for a moment. Any normal, free market, limited
government statesman -- but not a RINO politician or left Liberal state
collectivist bent on expanding more and more governmental intervention into your life
-- would never say how much he "really enjoys,
really likes" his political job in Washington DC. He should
have said the job was disgusting at every level -- intellectually, socially,
politically, and morally -- and that he was there to UNDO the tons and tons
of bureaucratic crap that has been dumped upon American citizens for the
last 100 years. Instead, Sen. Risch loves to dabble in international
affairs, taking lots of vacations -- oops, I mean fact-finding trips --
overseas, and compares his lavish and rather open-ended job in the US Senate to his
short stint as Idaho Lt. Gov and an even shorter stint as Gov. saying,
"Governor will wear you down. You can't do that
job permanently. This (as a US Senator) you can do ad infinitum."
Really? "Ad infinitum?" What message is Sen. Risch sending the public
-- especially his voting constituents in Idaho? Remember
Sen. Risch is a millionaire and can afford a condo on Pennsylvania Ave.
And he and his wife Vicki apparently like to party down. Like, a lot.
"Relatively frequently," quote unquote.
Risch and wifester Vicki love their membership on the board of Ford's
Theatre. Last year, says reporter Popkey, Mrs. Risch chaired a
luncheon for First Lady Michelle Obama, organized by Senate spouses.
Ooooh, what fun! President Obama and First Lady Michelle are busy
trying to bankrupt the US with their national socialist ideology straight
from Karl Marx's playbook, and RINO Sen. Jim Risch and his wifester are busy
throwing parties for them. Even reporter Dan Popkey, left Liberal as
they come, is beginning to see the writing on the wall. What writing?
The writing in which Sen. Risch says that everybody in The District gets along just
swell, despite the failure of the Senate to agree on matters VITAL to the
nation's future. Says Risch, "You hear about
this toxic atmosphere," but when the Parliament of Whores get
together to party down, Risch says to Popkey, "we talk about our kids, we
talk about sports. ... Socially, the people are incredibly, incredibly civil
to each other." But here's the coup de grace from
Sen. Risch, answering Popkey about the huge amount of time that US
Congressmen take off from work in Washington,
"There's nothing happening when we're back there (The District) and there's
nothing happening when we're not
back there. What's the difference?"
And that is the problem: with 435 Representatives and 100 Senators in
Congress who hold this same view, it's no wonder that NOTHING -- and
I mean NOTHING -- will ever get done RE cutting back our behemoth government
bureaucracy, hundred trillion dollar unfunded deficits, $17 trillion annual
budget deficit, and continual social and military intervention into the
lives of the individual here and abroad. Bedrock concepts such as
individual and private property rights have now been
over-ridden by the ideology of politicians such as Idaho's US Senator Jim Risch who
"really, really likes" his big time PARTY DOWN job in The
District. As RINO Risch closed off his interview with left Liberal
reporter Dan Popkey, "You can do a lot more
of what you want to do (compared to state level politics). There's 100
senators, 435 congressmen; we all have our own ideas, our own passions in
life. We all have our own interests and you can pursue them."
Well, no $hit, Little Beaver. And that's exactly what's wrong with
Washington DC. 535 politicians and The President all dashing off in
different directions pursuing their own personal interests instead of
pursuing freedom for the individual. What happened to the concept that our congressmen are
supposed to be supporting our US Constitution and Bill of Rights with limited government?
Private property rights? Individual rights and responsibilities?
President Obama and RINO Senators like Jim Risch of Idaho -- yes, Idaho of
all places, supposedly the
most Conservative state in the nation, what a joke -- are too busy throwing
"incredibly civil" parties while
implementing their altruistic state collectivist
"ideas" and
"interests." With an emphasis on
"interests." Good report, Popkey, socialist that
you are; you hit the nail on the head for once.
-- Tue
Apr 23 Have you been a bad little boy or girl? Obama thinks so.
That's why he's punishing you at the airport. Your Congressman was too
lazy to implement a budget for the last four years and so the Feds had to
implement Obama's idea of Sequestration. Yes, that's right, Obama came
up with the idea of Sequestration which automatically forced Congress to
chop the federal budget by $85 billion. Nobody said they had to cut
the budget across the board and they could have done it more intelligently.
Like chopping the Military's F-35 program that costs over a trillion dollars
but the Congressmen and women in those districts that receive money for this
failed defense project that NOBODY in the military wants refuse to cut the
program. So Obama is pretending that Congress made him do it:
i.e. implement His idea of Sequestration. And he wants to punish the
American people so they will blame their Congressman and vote against them
at the next elections in 2014. Therefore, Obama pulled the number of
airport controllers working at all the major airports so you will have to
stand in lonnnng lines and get ticked off. And the airport is not the
only area where Obama and his Goons are working hard to make it difficult
for you so they can blame it on Congress. They chopped money for cops
and all sorts of areas that will slow things down and lay people off various
jobs. Oh happy day. Obama will show you. He has power.
And he knows how to wield it just like all petty little socialist dictators
who get miffed when something doesn't strike their fancy. Like the
refusal of Conservatives and Libertarians in Congress to
implement Obama's state collectivist budget that even the Democrats failed to
implement when they were in charge. In the 1930s when
artist-turned-dictator Adolph Hitler's "Solution" for various sectors of his
Nazi economy weren't implemented fast enough, he showed the German people.
He herded those who he set up as scapegoats into concentration camps and turned on the gas. What
will Obama do if Obamacare is not implemented in 2014 and he has two years
left as President of the US? Your guess is as good as mine but if the
forced cutting of $85 billion (Sequestration) in a $17 trillion deficit
budget induced him to make you stand in long lines at the airport, what
lengths do you think he would go to if the implementation of his beloved
Obamacare got tangled on the ropes in 2014? Re-education camps in
Arizona or Nevada? Implementation of martial law because an ant walked
across the road? Whatever. He doesn't need an excuse. He
will make one up. Like Hollywood's movie: Wag the Dog.
-- Sun
Apr 21 After JP Morgan and Goldman Sacks dragged gold futures down to the
$1,300s per oz. last week so they could clean out their shorts, the Far East, JP
Morgan,
and Goldman Sachs pulled the price back up by going Bull Market all of a sudden.
Buying at the bottom.
There were no other important price changes in the market last week.
Especially when you consider that the entire stock market is rigged by the
President's Economic Advisory Council with reps sitting in offshore accounts
buying different basketfuls of stocks every other week to game the system and
make it look like the US really has a viable stock market. The really
funny part is Cable One's TV stock market channel where they actually sit
around discussing the whys and how comes of why various stocks moved up or
down that week. It's as if these Bozos working on the floor of the
stock market are the only ones on the planet who still
think we have a real stock market going on. What a hoot! The
same Bozos probably think the Federal Reserve Note is real money, too.
And that the Tooth Fairy will deliver a dime or dollar or plastic VISA card
under their pillow if they stick a tooth under it. I'm sure they also
believe in the Easter Bunny and Obamacare, too. What a crazy upside
down world we live in today.
-- Tue
Apr 16 So much for the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
doing its pretended job of regulating the
Federal Reserve's central banking members' collusion in choreographing the
naked shorts price decline of all precious metals last Friday and Monday.
This is a
classic example of how Liberals' drag us into government regulations and
bureaucracies that turn out to be The Fox watching The Hen House.
First they claim the free market must be
regulated by the government. And then they pave the way for the crooks
to become the regulators. They never ask: who is going to watch the Watchers? Who
watches the central bankers? Nobody. It is the
central bankers (directly or through their little puppets) who BECOME the government regulators,
the CFTC. There
IS NOBODY watching anybody. In fact, it is far worse. The crooks
have now become the watchers and are in a great position to do
whatever they want to do "legally." Something they could
never have done in a true free market whose governmental function is to
prohibit that which the government bureaucracy can now do with impunity. Same for the EPA. Same for
the FDA. Same for all the supposed government Watch Dogs whose stupid
Liberal-created function was to "protect" us all from the very
problems for
which they were ostensibly created. And THAT is what is wrong with the
stupid Liberal ideology of altruistic state collectivism and their little fairytale view of how the real world works.
At least in a true free market, the crooks can be caught and sent to jail;
the crooks do not run the legal system; and the crooks would have a very
difficult time -- if not impossible -- of creating a "banking" monopoly, a
"Military Industrial Complex" monopoly, a "Food and Drug Administration"
monopoly, and on and on through the entire labyrinth of government regulation
and bureaucracy. And both major US political parties are guilty for
destroying the free market in banking, our inflated money, food
and health, energy, communications, the mail, the railroads, and very
importantly: education. The bureaucrats and our socialist President Barack Obama continue forcing the central government down our throats with
more and more onerous legislation and Executive Orders. Meanwhile
Congress and the US Supreme Court -- I give you Chief Justice John Roberts
who could have saved the US economy by voting YES to dump Obamacare -- sit
by idly and watch it all happen... watch the US economy go down the tubes.
All because our education system has stunted the brains of our younger
generation in
the realm of basic philosophy, basic economics, and basically HOW to reason,
HOW to use logic, HOW to think. There appears to be no slowing down of
almost EVERYBODY asking for more and more governmental intrusion into our
daily lives. The current generation seems to be more interested in
"security" -- faux security at that -- and eager to give up their freedoms
for said fake "security." Nothing is what it seems anymore. We are truly
living in an Orwellian world of '1984' while proclaiming, "Wow, not go down the path of '1984.'" No
worries on that note, folks. We're
already there. Your money ain't worth shit... as you are
now discovering at restaurants, grocery stores, and gas stations. But
JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs just made a killing in the 'managed' markets
last Friday and Monday, forcing an obscene "short sale" blowout and then buying up
tons of contracts after the prices bottomed. Not a free market.
Not even close. Thanks to the stupid Liberals and Conservatives who
created central banking and the CFTC's fake "watch dogs."
-- Wed
Apr 10 How is America different than the Titanic? A: The passengers on
the Titanic didn't vote to hit the iceberg! Welcome to Obamacare.
Speaking of phony balonies, Bill Maher pretends to be a Libertarian, then
bashes Libertarianism because it's not European socialist enough.
Liberals want to implement the "good" socialism, not the "bad" socialism.
Yeah, Liberals want to force you to drink the "good" arsenic, not the "bad"
arsenic because they have yet to learn that it is the arsenic that is the
problem. "Good" and "bad" are merely the chronological stages at which
you are in socialism: i.e. "good" is the fairytale
idea of socialism, "bad" is the actual
practice of socialism. That's why
Liberals think you can have a "mixed" economy, full of oxymorons and
outright contradictions such as (1) a government controlled free market,
public private property rights, freedom of gov't approved speech, freedom of
gov't approved religion, freedom of gov't approved association, freedom of
gov't approved travel, freedom of gov't approved health care, freedom of
gov't approved education, and the freedom to rip off your neighbors --
called taxation -- based upon your real or imagined "needs." And most
importantly, something that Liberals will never understand: what is
money? Since they don't know what "money" really is and why central
banks are the real problem, they will never be able to "solve" any of their
economic fairytale visions AND it is precisely why they hate -- and will
never understand -- Ayn Rand and her Objectivist philosophy. Show me a
Liberal who can tell you what real money is and I will show you a
Libertarian, which is why a Liberal is a Liberal in the first place:
because they are still at the kindergarten level of understanding praxeology
and the basic laws of economics. Next time you are at a dinner party
with a Liberal and they are blowing off about social-political-economics,
simply start discussing Austrian free market economics and how prices are
formed in a market and they will just sit there looking dumbfounded with
their thumbs stuck up their butts or they may try to crack a lame joke to
change the subject. It is not our socialist president Obama that is
the problem; it's all the little idiots who voted for Obama that are the
problem because they are representative of the level to which our
intellectual level has devolved.
-- Sun
Apr 07 Ah yes, Obamacare "Navigators."
Exactly what this nation now needs to push our economy right down the tubes
into total national socialism. What the hell is an Obamacare
Navigator? What kind of federal job
is that? A Navigator is a previous
Obama Acorn neighborhood "organizer" -- or pimp -- whose job it will be to
explain to the public, door to door, how to
navigate through the bureaucratic federal health care maze that
is being shoved down our throats because US Supreme Court Justice Roberts
did not have the balls to call a spade a spade: i.e. Obamacare should
have been dumped a long time ago because it is obviously unconstitutional.
A 12-year child could have figured that out. Obama's cleverly created
new militia of health care police, the Navigators,
are slated to be paid up to $48 per hour, which is about $100,000 per year
plus benefits. How many Navigators
does Obama think we might need in the US? Estimates for California are
21,000 Navigators. Crunching the
numbers, if CA has 38 million people and the US population is 315 million,
that means the US needs about 8.3 x 21,000
Navigators. That equals about 175,000
Navigators to tell Americans how to
navigate through our screwed up
nationalized health care system. What else will these Navigators do?
According to the White House, Navigators
should be the same ethnic percentage of those whose neighborhoods they will
be invading. That way, they will all be speaking the same 'George
Orwell 1984' New Speak, especially when the
Navigators get to the bottom of their forms and ask Joe Citizen
for his political affiliation information. No lie. They will be
asking for the home owner's/renter's political affiliation. And, oh
yeah, they will also be asking about each Joe Doe's personal medical
information so they can do their job of navigating
the poor slob through Obama's 2,700 pages of federal health care bullshit,
which even Congress and the President can't decipher. But the
Navigators can. Somehow.
Because as soon as you attach the words 'federal government' to anything, it
becomes clear as a bell. Ding dong. How do you feel about
telling some pimp-looking Bozo knocking on your door all about Aunt Tillie's
back ache, sister Suzie's pregnancy, and Mom's cancer treatment, plus give
out the social security numbers for everybody in the family so the
Navigator can do his/her job? Swoosh,
there goes doctor-patient confidentiality out the door. Bingo, there
goes your SS number into the files of all the computer hackers in the world
as the Navigators figure out they can
make a lot more money selling your personal info to hackers and advertisers
with mailing lists. The sheer invasion of privacy alone should make
Americans and state politicians shudder with fear. Unfortunately, it
didn't make Idaho legislators shudder with anything since the idiots were
the first GOP state to pass a state health care exchange in the nation and
have now been informed -- the dolts -- that the state, not the federal
government -- gets to pick up the costs for their state
Navigators. Yeah, really brilliant,
Gov Butch Otter. Really brilliant. Didn't see that one coming
did you? And there will be lots more bureaucracy coming Idaho's way,
too. We tried to tell you not to deal with the devil but you wouldn't
listen. Maybe you'll catch on later, who knows?
-- Sun
Mar 31 Happy Easter Rabbit Day! Today is the day in Christianity
when a giant rabbit sneaks around and hides colorfully-painted chicken eggs
under bushes, behind trees, and out in plain sight on soccer fields (for
those who are blind or only three years old). In some locales, plastic
Easter Rabbit eggs are substituted for chicken eggs and meaningless little
prizes are hidden within the plastic eggs. The Jewish religion does
not celebrate the notion of a giant Easter Rabbit hiding chicken eggs all
over the backyard lawns across America. Why? Because they know
there is no giant Easter Rabbit and it's actually the kids' parents and
uncles who are busy hiding Easter eggs while the kids are still asleep.
That's tricky. Muslim adherents also do not believe in the giant
Easter Rabbit because there are no Wal-Marts in Baghdad selling Easter egg
coloring kits, much less plastic Easter eggs. You cannot fool the
Turbans about a giant Easter Bunny prancing around the neighborhood hiding
chicken eggs. Camel dung, yes, chicken eggs, no. You can fool
the Turbans into believing that they will go to Heaven and party down with
72 virgins if they knock off a Christian who does believe in the giant
Easter Rabbit, but you cannot fool the Turbans into believing in the giant
Easter Rabbit. There are not that many chickens in Iraq, Syria,
Jordan, Afghanistan, Iran, or the Khyber Pass. Just goes to show that
all major Earth religions each have their own fairytales, right? And
none of them believe each other's religious fairytales. This could be
the basis for World War III. And various governments might lean toward
emphasizing the differences in order to rally their people to support those
in power. Like big time taxes for a huge Military Industrial Complex
and Foreign Aid packages to convince others to not hide Easter eggs or
believe in the 72 virgins fairytale. And then there's Goldie Locks and
the Three Bears...
-- Mon
Mar 25
Picture of 'Martial Law'
Alarms Forensic Profiler More...
-- Mon
Mar 18 Whoa, girl friends! How would you like to wake up
tomorrow morning and discover that the government -- in cahoots with the
central banks -- just levied a 6.75% tax on your savings and deposits up to
$100,000. On savings and deposits over $100,000, the tax is, let's
say, 9.9%. No way, you say? This just happened to the citizens
of Cyprus (as in Greece) today. Surprise! The Cypry-idiotic
government's excuse? To bail out the European central bank that just
gave the government of Cyprus another $13 billion in loans.
Non-backed, printed up, phony baloney "stimulus" money. Cyprus
citizens are not allowed to withdraw the "taxed" portion of their savings
and cannot transfer any of their funds until Tuesday. Of course, that
would never happen here in the United States, would it? I mean,
President Obama-rama-dama-ding-dong would never in a million years even
consider taxing your savings and deposits, would he. Uh-huh...
-- Mon
Mar 11 The stock market surged to its highest level ever,
14,300-whatever points on the Dow this week. The Federal Reserve is
pumping $85 billion per month in new counterfeit money into the economy.
Another housing bubble is starting up, just like in the late 1990s and early
2000s. The annual US budget INCREASE -- not the budget, the INCREASE
in budget -- dropped by $85 billion in a mandated sequestration, which means
the US budget in 2013 will be $2.5 trillion instead of $2.6 trillion.
Wow, big difference, we are still running off the financial rails and the
2013 budget DEFICIT will zoom past $18 trillion soon. Unfunded Social
Security and Medicaid deficits total over $200 trillion from now until 2025,
more or less, whenever until doomsday. 20 million people are currently
unemployed. The real unemployment rate -- not the government's fake
redefined phony baloney doctored up unemployment rate -- is between 15% to
20%. Most of Europe's unemployment rate is in the low to mid 20%, with
their youth unemployment rate dangling somewhere around 50% or more.
Same for the Middle East. Half the people there don't work, they just
throw bombs at the US military installations and consulates. The US
President's Economic Advisory Council -- originally created by former Fed
Reserve Chief Alan Greenspan to game the stock market and prevent Americans
from freaking out if the market dropped more than a thousand points a day --
is busy buying a different basket of stocks each day through an offshore
anonymous "investor" with Fed Reserve money to manipulate the market and
trick those who still don't know. Obama's Econ Advisory Council
continues this trend so everything looks A-OK and the stock market channel
on TV continues babbling about which stocks are good to buy or sell as if
it's all legit. What a joke. The major Fed Reserve banks,
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and others continue to laugh at the Chicago
commodities regulators as the banks game the precious metals equities
markets to hold down the real market value of gold and silver while the
central banks of all nations are buying up as much gold as they can get
their little fingers on. There are no longer any real markets or real
money, only manipulated markets and fiat currency. Meanwhile, as our
lead article from The Onion says, Obama, Congress Must Reach Deal On Budget By March 1, And Then April 1,
And Then April 20, And Then April 28, And Then May 1... and then twice a
week for next four years... and then on May 30, June 4, June 5, July 8,
2014, and Mar 12, 2042 into one seven-day-long meeting. That's
how ridiculous the US economy and politics has gotten.
-- Wed
Mar 06 Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez knocked off from
cancer yesterday and everybody except actor Sean Penn in Hollywood is cheering.
After being elected to President of socialist Venezuela umpteen years ago,
re-writing the Venezuelan constitution to read like his very own dictatorial
playbook, totally wrecking the economy by instituting the same national
socialist economics that US President Barack Obama is hell bent on
establishing in America, and polluting his political rivals' immediate
vicinity with lead from AK-47s, Hugo baby
ate the wrong diet that didn't ward off his genetic distribution of trophoblast cells at birth and thus kicked the bucket at age 58.
Chavez was
treated for cancer with two aspirins in communist Cuba -- how appropo -- and
then told to go to bed
by doctors with a Fifth Grade education in socialist medicine. That
figures.
Replacing dead president Hugo Chavez will be either Sean Penn who currently
resides in Hollywood, CA, and whose last movie rating appears deader 'n a doornail,
or Chavez's close friend in Venezuela, a local bus driver who knows how to
shout opponents down with an electric bull horn in the key of G-flat.
Nobody is mourning Chavez at the international level.
The Chinese government is more than slightly worried about what will happen
to their $50 billion investment in Venezuelan oil if the bus driver takes
over. US President Obama says he stands ready to send rice, beans,
tacos, and F-16 fighter planes
to the poor starving population of Venezuela if they promise to lower the
price of sweet crude so He (Obama) can justify not approving the US oil
pipeline to Canada. Sean Penn applauded. Dennis Rodman -- ex NBA
basketball player -- would applaud too, but he is currently on vacation in
North Korea watching a basketball game with dictator Premier Kim Jong Il the
III in between Jong's launching of missiles into the Pacific Ocean, trying
to hit Washington, DC, with a payload of one firecracker and two cherry
bombs. We are really really afraid of Kim Jong Il the III and his paper
tiger missiles. Meow.
-- Mon
Mar 04 The Federal Reserve is claiming that it is
"buying" $45 billion
in Treasury bonds and $40 billion in mortgage bonds per month. Lying
sacks of crap. The Fed isn't "buying" anything. They are simply
printing or digitizing more paper debt. A bond is a debt. It is
a deficit. "Buying" implies the purchase of something. With
what, exactly, is the Fed "buying" more debt?
Nothing. They have no collateral, no money that they didn't already
print or digitize on a computer from thin air. This is just
make-believe money. And at YOUR expense because you, dear taxpayer, will be paying
the national debt that this make-believe money is charged to. Once again, the Fed is pretending that they are
printing wealth -- $85 billion per month -- and that they are thereby
enriching all Americans in this silly game. If the Fed was really
"buying" bonds, they would have said how much gold or silver or some other
commodity they were exchanging for the bonds. Instead, they are just making
up new money from thin air and claiming they are
"buying" bonds with something, who knows what. Schuck and jive, schuck and jive. In the old days we
called it by its rightful name: counterfeiting. Only
now, it's "legal" counterfeiting and Economic Village Idiots at
universities receive Nobel Prizes for babbling about the virtues of counterfeiting
in today's modern economy. The Feds call it Quantitative Easing.
How quaint. Idiot presidents -- such as Barack Obama and our current congressmen
-- call it
stimulating the economy. I prefer to call a spade a spade.
Counterfeiting. Or, Quantitative
Easing III -- because this is the third time around for this recent ridiculous
Keynesian counterfeiting. It's just a piece of unadulterated crap and, if not
stopped, will be the death of the United States' financial system. All done, to be sure,
with "good intentions" by our "best president ever: Barack Obama."
The central bank counterfeiting $85 billion per month, a trillion dollars
per year, called Quantitative Easing. Unbelievable.
-- Mon
Mar 04 "Baby love, oh baby love..." crooned The Soopreemes on Motown
Records. Well, not last week. Motown -- short for Motor Town,
Detroit Michigan, where they used to make cars -- is more like singing da
downtown blues, "Oh where has my pension fund evaporated to, baby?"
Motown is now $14 billion in debt, mostly for city civil service pensions
that will probably never be paid out. Tough luck city employees.
Back during its heyday in the 1960s and 70s while artists at Motown were
singing in groups that wore purple suits and yellow ties, lead singers
singing soprano and their obligatory chorus of 3-5 backups snapping their
fingers while slogging the front to back two-step, Detroit had a population
of 1.8 million. Today the population is down to 713,000 over-taxed
poor people singing the We Done Be Over-Taxed to Death Blues -- And We
Got Nothing to Show For It, Doo Wop, Doo Wah. Motown doesn't build
cars any longer. Toyota and other countries make all the cars. The Auto Workers
Union is deader n' a moon hubcap on a 1959 Edsel. And about as far
away as the Moon. South Korea, China, Mexico, Lower Slobovia, wherever
it's cheaper to make the parts than in what used to be the over-priced union
in Motown. Color them gone. Downtown Detroit looks like
Hiroshima after the H-bomb. While the Soopreemes, the Shirelles, and
the Jackson Five used to belt out, "Baby, baby, baby, baby love, you done
broke my heart," Detroiters have now re-tuned their beat-up two string
guitars to F-sharp and complain of late buses, high crime and darkened
streetlights. And the state of Michigan is sending in the Financial
Clean Up Crew to wipe Motown's big bankrupt butts. Good luck.
You could swipe every Motown citizen's entire paycheck and never be able to
make the debt payments. Why are we slamming Motown? Because Motown is
a perfect example, a microcosm, of what America as a whole is beginning to
look like. If the US doesn't go back to free market economics soon,
every major city in America is going to crash and burn just like bankrupt Motown and for
the very same reasons: deficit welfare budgets out of control.
Motown is the poster child for the philosophy of altruistic state
collectivism. Yes, every future bankrupt city in America will have its
own particular excuse, its own peculiar specifics, but the underlying cause
for all the "good intentions" of state collectivism being pushed
by President Obama and Congress will be the same:
ignoring the Law of Identity and the Law of Cause and Effect, destroying the
concept of individual rights and property, and implementing some variation
on the theme of collectivist, redistributionist welfarism. Obama's
doing it at the national level; the Motown city council's doing it at the
local level. Same program; same results. Wop, wop, doo-wah...
Everybody will soon be singing da blues...
-- Mon
Mar 04 Did we all learn a new word this week to extend our vocabulary?
Sequestration: the act of sequestering, or as defined by Da Gubbment,
how to lie with statistics. You tell me the financial outcome you want
to lie about, and I will tell you which statistics to use. Uh huh.
A year or so ago, President Barack Obama-rama-lama-ding-dong introduced a
new concept called: sequestration in which if the Congress did not
establish a budget -- why should they, the Democratic led Congress, and then
the Republicans, have not introduced a budget in over four years -- then Obama's
sequestration would automatically kick in and strip the US budget by
some fixed percent straight across the board. But not by more than it
is rising each year because we are talking not about the true budget but
rather the ANNUAL INCREASE in the budget. Two different numbers.
So, guess what hoppened, Hop-a-long Cassidy? The US Congress still has
not come up with a budget in 2013, even though the US Constitution says,
"and the US Congress shall establish a goddamn budget every year... or it's
your ass..." But when Obama presented his
sequestration of the US
budget to Senate Head Honcho Harry Reid, he never thought the US Congress
would not enact a budget. Obama never thought his
sequestration would
be enacted. So now Obama is pretending he didn't initially present
this concept to Congress. It was somebody from Mars. Right. Now that Congress has defaulted on establishing a budget, Obama mumbled and grumbled last week as he signed off on
his own
sequestration bill -- you know, the one he made up last year or so but is
pretending the Republicans made it up instead -- saying how stupid and
unfair sequestration is. Really? Now that's what I call a true
politician: somebody who can propose purple shoestrings for dolphins in the
Pacific Ocean and then blame the other political party as he signs off on
such a stupid ass piece of legislation. And while he's signing off on
his very own sequestration, he's busy dashing all across the nation saying
that all the school children will lose their education, crippled people will
lose their wheel chairs, the military will collapse due to lack of funds,
airplanes will crash because air traffic controllers will be reduced,
America will fall into the Atlantic Ocean because the US will chop $85
billion (2%) out of its hyper-inflated no-collateral no gold standard piece
of crap paper money financially bankrupt $17 trillion dollar deficit.
Yeah. Uh huh.
Meanwhile, Michelle Obama, our First Lady, is planning another trip to
Hawaii with an entourage of secret service Bozos and boot-licking news media
fake journalists plus her two kids and their Smart Phones which will
probably set the US budget back by about, oh, how about a couple hundred
million give or take some dog food for their little doggie Bowser. Not
to worry. Bowser gets two percent whacked off his dog food budget,
too. Sequestration: S-E-Q-U, oh never mind.
-- Mon
Mar 04 You're going to love this one, folks. The Obama
administration has dreamed up a new way to funnel more free money to the Fed
Reserve member banks disguised as a mortgage bailout for those of you whose
homes are under water -- financially speaking, of course. Let's say
the value of your home is $300,000 and you owe $400,000 to your bank.
Obama-rama has passed new legislation -- like he's now the US Congress --
under which your bank can forgive you (lower your principal) a whopping
$15,000 on your $400,000 money pit of a house and Da Gubbment will credit,
give, fork over $100,000 to your bank. Wow, ain't that a sweet deal!
You get out of $15K and the bank receives $100,000 from the Feds.
Let's ratchet this racket up to you being $500,000 under water. You
get out of $15,000 in this deal and the bank receives a $500,000 credit from
Uncle Sam. Yippee, the banks make out like bandits under this new law
to help -- ha ha help -- the poor mortgage owner out of a fraction of his
principal while the banks rake it in. And round and round and round it
goes, where this monetary insanity stops nobody knows.
-- Mon
Feb 25 Ah yes, the Hollywood Oscars! Everything was going just
great last night at the Hollywood Oscars -- except for Ms. Catnip (meow)
from the Hunger Games when she tripped over her very long dress while
climbing the stairs to receive her Oscar for some movie I've never seen --
and then, erh-erh, and then, screech, halt, along came dum-da-dum First Lady
Michelle Obama televised from the White House to hand out the Oscar for Best
Movie: Argo! Well, not really fork over the golden idol but read
off who the winner was. Standing behind Michelle not my belle Obama
was a bunch of Marines, Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Smokey the
Bear in their Dress Blues looking like they were forced to show up as a
Hollywood backdrop for Michelle not our belle as she BS'ed her way through
some Hollywood script in presenting an obviously pre-planned speech from the
Oval Office. Where are we: China, where the military are forced
to march in parades for their Chairman? And stand behind him as he
shows off 1968 ballistic missiles? Why this show of military force
standing behind Michelle not our belle while she reads off the Oscar winner
for Best Movie? In short, I ask you, what the hell is the Executive
Branch of our government doing, participating in the Hollywood Oscars with a
military backdrop behind Michelle not our belle? Aren't the Hollywood
actors and actresses the "rich" people that President Obama keeps babbling
about to pay their "fair share" of the finite amount of wealth they stole
from all of us proletariat? What's the connection? Surprise!
Hollywood movie makers are receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in
state and federal tax breaks from Da Gubbment. President Obama and his
belle Michelle are in bed with half of Hollywood which is dominated by left
Liberal progressives donating all kinds of coins to keep Obama in power.
That's why Michelle's backdrop was military -- a psychological show of power
-- and not Dorothy or the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz. Maybe next
year the Obamas will have a civilian brown shirt militia wearing swastikas
and carrying nightsticks as their backdrop as the Hollywood Oscars move to
Washington DC to become part of Amerika's Executive Branch. That will
make it easier for Barackie to control all the political propaganda he wants
to ram down our throats before he dumps the 22 Amendment with an Executive
Order so he can run for a third term. I don't know about you but I
just don't believe in coincidences coming out of this administration
currently occupying the White House. As an aside, how would you like
to be in the Actor's Guild and watch the politicians in Washington upstage
your big annual show?
-- Tue
Feb 19 The trouble with Idaho Gov Butch Otter and the state
legislators who are caving in to the federal government to create a state
run health insurance agency because they are afraid that President Obama and
his Obamacare goons would otherwise force us into a federal program, let me
remind them what Winston Churchill once said, "An appeaser is one who feeds
a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
-- Sun
Feb 17 Whoa, girl friends, pull up the barn floor and pour yourselves
another hot cup of Rocket Java. Look how the federal government is
spending your tax money to brainwash government employees. Obama's US
Dept of Agriculture has hired a consulting firm to brainwash the USDA's
employees into reverse racism and revisionist history. Never mind the
$200,000 blown on this insidiously obvious form of "politically correct"
class warfare whose attendance for USDA employees is mandatory. Listen
to some of the rhetoric that racist speaker Mr. Samuel Betance forces the
audience to repeat after him during his southern black church call-return
chants, mostly self-mocking his stereotypical version of Caucasian American
males:
"Thank you,
black folks,"
"The
pilgrims were illegal aliens" and
"The
pilgrims never gave their passport to the Indians."
After each chant, the
audience is encouraged by Mr. Betance, as if he was preaching to a typical
down south revival meeting, "Give me a BAM."
Whatever that means. So the audience -- half
of them obviously embarrassed, respond with a weak-ass,
"BAM." What
does all this mean? It means that President Obama is now carrying his
class warfare to "fundamentally transform America" to all the federal
employees in the US bureaucracy. If you work for the feds, watch out.
You may soon be forced to attend some wild-ass revival meeting at the USDA,
EPA, or Dept of Transportation so you can also reply in unison like
sarcastic little robots to, "Thank you, white man,"
as Mr. Betance entices his audience with what he calls, "gratitude" before
blasting white males with all of Mr. Betance's real or imagined or
historical "grievances." If you think this type of
ethnic and revisionist brainwashing in the work place is bad, you are
witnessing just a fraction of the state collectivist brainwashing that
America's children are now receiving in their US Government Public Education
System. Is it any wonder that our children are growing up like good
little Nazis and Socialists who are primed to vote for political candidates
like Barack Obama? Stop by your local state babysitting bureaucracy --
your local public education system -- and check out what they are really
teaching your kids. America's college intellectuals are bankrupt --
just like the economy they are leading us into. And like the $200,000
the American taxpayers are forking over to Mr. Betance to undermine our
American culture, you are being over-taxed and hyper-inflated to death to
finance your own destruction, the destruction of the concepts of liberty and
free market capitalism.
-- Sat
Feb 16 Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and the state legislature appear to be
on the verge of accepting the premise that the federal government can force
individuals to purchase commodities and services whether they want to or
not. Namely, accepting the premise that the state of Idaho must
establish a national socialist health care program called Obamacare.
What is driving Gov. Otter and the majority state legies is: fear.
Fear that if they don't establish a state exchange, then the federal
government will do it for them. But it's a false dichotomy. Even
if Idaho establishes its own state health care exchange, it will remain a
partner in this enterprise with the feds. And we all know that if the
feds are one of your partners, they rule. It wont' be long after Idaho
establishes what it thinks is its own state health care exchange that the
federal government will override Idaho's provisions and drag us deeper and
deeper into the national socialist health care objectives of the Progressive
Liberals in Washington DC. And that's when all the real fun begins and
all the whining by Gov. Otter and the dumbbell legislators that "we had no
idea that the federal government would take over Idaho's state health care
program and force us to do A, B, C,...thru X, Y, and Z." Whine, whine,
whine. Like Gov. Otter and the Idaho legies have never read any
history about how the fascists and NAZIs in Europe slowly coerced its
citizens into accepting national health care, government education, and the
complete nationalization of every commodity and service in their nations
prior to WW II. Including the Jews who VOLUNTARILY submitted to
signing government books stating their religion, then acquiescing to being
tattooed with numbers on their forearms by the government, allowing the
government to paint the Star of David on their shops and stores, voluntarily
moving into Jewish ghettos, and then finally, meekly marching into the work
camps, gas chambers, and participating as final victims in The Holocaust.
That's how it happens. That's the sequence of events in
socio-political-economics when one accepts the premises of state
collectivism and acquiesces to Dictators such as America's President Obama
and his state collectivist goon squads who are busy shredding the US
Constitution in EVERY area of our economy. That is why it is vitally
important to understand the philosophy underlying free market limited
governments vs. altruistic state/church collectivism. Because when you
don't understand what and how the government is playing you, tricking you
into accepting their basic statist premises, and obtaining your sanction of
their actions by putting up false dichotomies such as: if you don't do
Bad Action ABC then we, the government, will force you into Bad Action XYZ,
then you will become a future victim of their Holocaust. And it looks
like Idaho is on the path to our own future downfall, simply because Gov.
Otter and the majority of the state legies are letting fear guide their
actions instead of free market limited government philosophy. You
snooze in philosophy, you lose in the end.
-- Mon
Feb 11 The most important thing that Dr. Benjamin S. Carson pointed
out in his National Prayer Breakfast Speech is that the lawyer-dominated
political bodies running our nation -- the Presidency, the US Congress, the
US Supreme Court, and all the lobbyists in Washington DC -- are wrecking
America in every area of the economy. Our money, our banking system,
our health care system, our Amtrak train system, our US Post Office, our
taxation, our public education system, everything the government tries to
manage in the free market, has been utterly reduced to ashes, rubble, and
total bureaucratic bankruptcy. Whose fault is it? The so-called
Rule Keepers. Throughout history the Rule Keepers were the tribal
witch doctors who advised Atilla The Hun dog-eat-dog Dictators. Today
The Rule Keepers are the nation's lawyers. And if we look closely, our
Rule Keeping lawyers are busy advising Atilla The Hun who, today, are either
also Rule Keeper lawyers or just plain old Dictators. Look at the US
Congress. Over half of our Congressmen and women are lawyers, Rule
Keepers. Look at our President: Barack Obama and his wife are
Harvard law school graduates. Look at the Supreme Court; they are all
lawyers EVEN THOUGH there is no provision in the US Constitution that states
that Supreme Court Justices must be lawyers or former judges.
Historically, we have had US Supreme Court Justices who were NOT lawyers.
Look at all the lobbyists in Washington DC. They are lawyer, lawyer,
lawyers. And what is it that lawyers are trained to do? As Dr.
Benjamin Carson said, "They are trained to win, by hook or by crook."
They are not trained in medicine, or science, or computers, or education, or
much of anything else except how to lie, cheat, and WIN in the halls of
Congress and the Executive Branch. They know the Laws. You
don't. They make the laws. You don't. They are the Rule
Keepers and they know how to stomp your ass into the ground in every court
of Law, all the way to the US Supreme Court. This one class of
ill-educated non-businessmen, non-scientists, non-intellectuals have been
running and ruining America for the last 50 years and today we are suffering
from it. The point is, lawyers today, the Rule Keepers, have lost
sight of what their real function in a limited government, free market
economy should be: to protect individual rights, not to stomp on them.
President Obama -- another ill-trained lawyer -- should not be trying to
implement Marxist socialism in the United States, stripping individuals of
their inherent rights and liberties. The real issue, the real reason
why so many individuals agree with the points that Dr. Carson espoused in
his National Prayer Breakfast Speech is because his ideas are
morally correct. Morally correct
in that they are based upon the concepts of inherent individual rights and
liberties, rights to voluntarily produce and exchange ideas and commodities
in a free market economy. Ayn Rand would be proud of Dr. Benjamin
Carson. President Barack Obama, a Dictatorial Rule Keeper, an
ill-trained lawyer who knows zip, zero, nothing about the moral philosophy
of individual rights, will attempt to justify his national socialist,
welfare state ideology in his State of the Union speech tomorrow evening.
But he will fail. Miserably. Because you can't fool Mother
Nature. And you can't trick Father Economics. Dr. Carson should
run for the Presidency of the United States in a new party called The Logic
Party. And then we need to dump the lawyers in Washington DC.
Not to mention the dummy lawyers running and ruining my current Home Owners
Association.
-- Sat
Feb 09 One of the more unique speeches delivered at yesterday
morning's National Prayer Breakfast came from Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, a
world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Taking the stage before President Barack Obama's faith-filled address,
Carson spoke for more than 25 minutes, tackling issues ranging from
education to personal responsibility. Dr. Carson blew apart Obamacare
in less than 43 seconds... in
front of President Obama. Highlights included:
>> Dr. Benjamin Carson delivered
a noteworthy National Prayer Breakfast keynote speech in President Barack
Obama's presence.
>> Carson attacked political
correctness as a "dangerous" threat to free speech and encouraged Americans
to boldly share their views.
>> The pediatric neurosurgeon
also provided his theories about the national debt, deficits, taxation and
health care, taking stances that were in opposition to the President's.
>> Obama watched intently as
Carson spoke for more than 25 minutes.
-- Tue
Feb 05
Our World Balances on a Sea
of Debt… More...
-- Fri
Feb 01 How is it that the US already had 5 or 6 extra F-16 fighter
jets and 200 M1 tanks just hanging around for us to give to Egypt this week?
I mean, it takes years to build these war machines, and presumably a lot of
planning, and how did we know that we were going to "donate" these extra
planes and tanks -- "donate" as in freebies -- to today's Egyptian
government, which is now in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood? You
know, the Egyptian government that hates our guts and is busy burning our
flag in street riots every other Tuesday. Did the American taxpayer know that the US
Military Industrial Complex was building extra "war stuff" to give away or
sell to other nations? I don't think so. The Big Question is:
why are Americans funding both sides of the so-called War on Terrorism in
the Middle East? We are taxed to death to pay for hundreds of
thousands of
brave military men and women to ship off to the Middle East to fight the "TERRORISTS" while simultaneously taxed to pay for the shipment of billions
of dollars worth of armaments and "foreign aid" to our enemies.
It doesn't make sense, does it? Or does it? First, Conservatives
vote for this double funding of both sides of the "manufactured" war in the
Middle East because they want to get re-elected by the voters who work in
the Military Industrial Complex companies in their states. Second, the
Democrats vote for this double funding of both sides of the Middle East war
for the same reason AND because they are being led by our Muslim-leaning
national socialist President Barack Obama whose heritage from parents to
grandparents to aunts and uncles are avowed Muslim fanatics who hate(d)
America. Conservatives AND Democrats, they're starting to look all the
same now as they both resemble a Uni-Party system in the United States,
financing both sides of all the technically "undeclared" wars between the US
and multiple countries throughout the world. It's not an accident that
America just happened to have five or six F-16 fighter jets and a couple
hundred M1 Abram Tanks just lolly-gagging around the back 40 acres of the US
Military Industrial Complex. Who's making all this war materiel and
why do the American taxpayers get stuck with financing it? I don't know who's
more stupid: the US taxpayer, the US Congress, President Obama, or the
Muslim terrorists who've got nothing better to do than to run around in the
streets throwing rocks and bottles and driving M1 tanks into our US
embassies. I vote for the US taxpayer as the guiltiest because let's
face it, if the taxpayers refused to go along with our outrageous taxation and
"foreign aid" and the Federal Reserve's hyper-inflation of our money supply,
none of the above wars could happen. None of it. Wake up
people. You're being played, big time.
-- Wed
Jan 30 We have reached the point of totally economic illiteracy.
Lawmakers in Congress are now calling for scrapping the US debt limit.
Eighty-four percent of 38 economists at the University of Chicago stated
that "a debt ceiling that has to be raised
periodically creates unneeded uncertainty and leads to worse fiscal
outcomes." Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) says,
"It's ridiculous, screwy, and just plain nuts."
Prof. Richard Thaler at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business
says, "The debt ceiling is a dumb idea with no
benefits and potentially catastrophic costs if ever used."
President Barack Obama wants Congress to dump the debt ceiling and simply
grant him the authority to spend as much money as he and his little
socialist cronies feel like spending on any given day of the week. So
here is the Big Question: do any of these economic village idiots
understand what constitutes "money?" What is the ECONOMIC difference
between me printing up a million one-hundred dollar bills and dumping them
into the economy and the Federal Reserve printing up a million hundred
dollar bills and dumping them into the economy? I do not have any
commodity, such as gold or silver, to back up my million $100 bills, AND
neither does the Federal Reserve. From where would my million $100
bills obtain value? And, likewise, from where does the Federal
Reserve's million $100 bills obtain value? These are ECONOMIC
questions, not questions of Congressional authority. The obvious
answer is that this new money, whether I print it up or the Federal Reserve
prints it up, does not obtain value from anywhere. In both cases, it
is inflated, counterfeit money with ZERO backing. The reason the US
has a debt ceiling is because Congress and the Federal Reserve are only
supposed to be issuing PAPER and DIGITIZED NOTEs for which the people can
redeem their paper money for something of tangible value, such as gold or
silver. Your paper money is supposed to be a
RECEIPT for gold or silver stored at Ft. Knox or at any US
Treasury or the Fed Reserve vaults across the nation. But now the
definition of money has changed. Paper money is now just a printed up
piece of non-backed paper with no redeemability. It is not even a
fractional reserve currency, i.e. issuing 90 gold dollar receipts for one
gold dollar coin in the Treasury. Fractional reserve currency was bad
enough but now we don't even have that. As soon as the people figure
it out, we will have a monetary riot. They just haven't figured it out
yet. The debt limit was put into place to prevent Congress from
spending us into poverty. Now that all the university economics
departments all over the world teach that paper money has value -- from
where, they never say -- Congress and our socialist President Barack Obama
are tinkering with the idea of NO DEBT LIMIT, pretending that value is
obtained by the mere fact that paper money rolls off the Bureau of Printing
and Engraving monetary presses. This is a case of (1) denial and (2)
stupidity. Once again, it all gets back to philosophy. Congress
and the President are violating the Law of Identity, pretending that A can
equal anything they want it to equal. Because their premise is false,
they now try to violate the Law of Cause and Effect, pretending that they
can issue an unlimited amount of paper money with zero dangerous
consequences. First you have to deny existence, then you can deny all
consequences. And that's precisely why Congress and the President are
gung ho to drag the United States through a scrapping of our debt limit:
first because they deny it is a debt, and second because they cannot foresee
the consequences. Unfortunately, they will be dragging all of us
little lemmings with their stupid selves: right over the cliff and
into the raging financial ocean. If this idea really passes Congress,
and if authority over spending is granted to His Highness, the Pied Piper of
America, Barack Obama, then you can kiss America good-bye. The Third
World, they're already gone, thanks to the same moral philosophical
bankruptcy that has already taken over Europe.
-- Sun
Jan 27 Lest you think
America could never reach the hyper-inflation absurdities of Germany's
Weimar Republic, you are witnessing this process right now as it unfolds in
Washington, DC.
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 2013, 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.
-- Sat
Jan 26 That huge sucking sound you hear in your neighborhood is the
fruits of your labor being siphoned from your job, your home, your savings
account, your income and -- most importantly -- the VALUE of your dollar on
a ghost train to DC. Why is it a ghost train? Because nobody can
see it. It is invisible. But you can hear it; you can feel it.
Your biggest tax is not income taxes or social security. Your biggest
tax -- never seen but always experienced -- is the continual inflation of
your money supply by the government, namely the Federal Reserve who is busy
managing the government, no matter what Obama thinks. How does one
revolt against a stacked deck, against a central government that is busy
robbing the crap out of its people with an invisible weapon -- the devaluing
dollar -- over which you have zero control? Or will the Keynesian
Economic system of "value robbery" -- inflating your currency -- implode in
on itself? How? Food costs. Yes, girl friends, food costs.
Have you noticed the price of potatoes recently? And chicken, beef,
fish, wheat, milk -- oops subsidized -- fruit, rice, cookies, ice cream,
etc.? Yes, you will be paying even more next year for your basic
staples: peanut butter sandwiches, hamburgers and French Fries, and
pizza. Americans will survive and pay the higher costs and bitch about
it, temporarily. But what about in Greece, Italy, Algeria, China,
Russia, Japan, Egypt, Libya, and the entire continent of Africa? These
guys are already starving and food prices in those countries are
skyrocketing. That puts a huge demand on importing food from America.
Which, in turn, will put a huge demand on the price of potatoes in Idaho.
Which means the price of those hamburgers and French Fries will go through
the roof. And now the fate of those billions of individuals in Third
World countries will be affecting the price of food at YOUR grocery store.
Your grocery bill. Food on your table. Forget that vacation.
Forget that 2nd car. Forget college. Forget a lot of things.
Food will always come first. In fact, food riots due to skyrocketing
food prices were the major cause of national revolutions throughout all of
history: the French Revolutions in the 1700s and 1800s, the Russian
Revolution of 1917, and on and on. So, as it turns out, you, the
average American, don't have to do anything to stop the Federal Reserve from
hyper-inflating your currency since they are already doing it to themselves
by bringing about a food riot in America after sparking food riots in the
Third World nations. Hopefully, Iran doesn't try to swipe your French
Fries by launching suitcase nukes or worse. Or would they? Thank
you, central bankers of the world for all the future food riots that will
soon engulf our globe. Then again, that's one sure way to implement a
system of population control: hyper-inflate the currency until the
serfs knock each other off, grabbing for the rationed French Fries, wheat,
bread, meat, and finally eating dirt cookies as they already do in Haiti.
Eating dirt cookies. You think it can't happen here? Watch what
is soon going to happen next year in Egypt, Greece, Italy, England, Russia,
China, and Lower Slobovia as bread lines turn into bread riots.
-- Fri
Jan 25 More on Sec of State Hillary Clinton and the so-called
Congressional Inquiry into what happened regarding the Benghazi Murders at
our US Embassy in Libya. First, it was not an inquiry. All
Democratic Senators on the committee simply smooched Hillary Clinton's butt
and gave a speech. Second, only three Republicans asked Hillary any
pertinent questions. Third, Hillary did not answer any questions --
pertinent or not -- but
rather went off on tirades that had nothing to do with a real inquiry.
But the really horrible thing that happened was that the whole
"investigative" circus reveals how absurd Congress has become, what low
level bureaucrats the US now has installed in important positions of power
-- such as Sec of State -- and how bad off the US will be perceived in the
near future. Ms. Clinton stated that the State Dept has 70,000
employees. 70,000 employees! If we have 70 embassies in 70 major
countries, that's 1,000 State Dept employees at each embassy. What
overkill! What could all these clowns be doing? Certainly not
their jobs or else we wouldn't be talking about the Benghazi Murders at an
investigative hearing in Congress. Hillary states that she was not
aware of much of anything. She had no budget money, she claims, but
Sen. Rand Paul pointed out all the millions of dollars the State Dept has
spent on parties and other crap. Hillary, in response to Sen.
Johnson's question about the sequence of events that brought about the
Benghazi Murders and storming and burning of our embassy, literally jumped
out of her chair and screamed, "Who cares? We have four dead people.
What difference does it make whether it was a terrorist act or some guy
decided it would be fun to knock off Americans at our Libyan Embassy?"
But wait a minute, Ms. Sec of State. It DOES make a difference and
that is precisely WHY we are conducting this hearing. As Sen. Rand
Paul stated, "I would have relieved you of your post, Ms. Secretary."
Sen. Paul asked whether Hillary was aware of what was going on in a huge
warehouse building next to the Benghazi Embassy since it was widely rumored that
guns and other weapons may have been stored and distributed from said
building as there has been a lot of recent shipping activity nearby.
Hillary said she did not know anything about the goings on at a building
next door. I have an important
question for Hillary: if you are building an embassy, doesn't it
behoove you to know what is going on around your embassy? Same with
the supposed Obama bin Laden compound in Pakistan right next door to
Pakistan's "West Point." Doesn't it behoove the Pakistani govt AND the
US to know
what the hell is going on in what looks like Ft. Knox down the road apiece?
Duh. Bottom line: Obama has no foreign policy; Sec of State
Hillary Clinton was just a low level mindless bureaucrat going through the
motions, and Congress is showing itself to be totally irrelevant. Along with the Judicial
Dept and all of Washington DC. You are now witnessing the rapid
decline of the American Republic. If anybody who worked for me replied
as Hillary has over the last two days, I would have immediately fired their
little asses. Which is exactly what should have happened to Ms.
Clinton four months ago. And our US President is not even a legitimate citizen,
much less a president of anything. At most, he's a puppet of the
Federal Reserve. Plus, the GOP has totally imploded
into it's own altruistic state collectivism, no different than the economic
fascists who call themselves "progressives."
-- Wed
Jan 23 Sec of State Hillary Clinton has now recovered sufficiently
from her fake "bonk on the head" to show up to a Congressional Inquiry about
the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the Benghazi Embassy murders in
Libya last year that took four American lives. Prez Obama and
Ambassador Rice concocted a ridiculous story that some bozo in Hollywood
created a YouTube video that made fun of Muslims and Allah, and that that
sparked a riot against the US compound in Libya. Rice ran around
babbling this YouTube video excuse on all the major TV talk shows, President
Obama babbled this same excuse in the Rose Garden with Hillary standing by
clinching her teeth and not looking like she agreed with him, and the FBI
even arrested and detained some guy in Hollywood who supposedly produced or
financed or shot the alleged video. We now know that the YouTube video
excuse was total bull dukie. The big question is: why did Obama
and the administration try to pull the wool over America's eyes? What
was really going on? Did the Obama administration try to do a "fast
and furious" guns deal out of Libya with other nations such as Turkey, like
the failed "fast and furious" guns deal with Mexico? Or is Obama and
his administration really just a bunch of bunglers in foreign affairs?
Now, Sec of State Hillary Clinton is testifying before Congress that (1) she
needs more money, (2) it's her responsibility but wasn't her fault (really?
how does that work?), (3) American embassies are being attacked all over the
world (I wonder why), (4) she has implemented a new better plan so it will
never happen again, (5) Obama did the right thing, (6) Ambassador Rice did
the right thing, and (7) blah blah blah bureaucratic double-talk about
everything except the who, what, when, where, why and how behind the
Benghazi incident. Nobody asked Sec of State Clinton any REAL
questions -- except Senators John McCain and Rand Paul who completely
disagreed with her answers, refuted all of them, and ripped her a new one.
In short, the upshot of the congressional hearing today was nothing except
the Liberals kissing Hillary's butt, only one or two GOP senators standing
up to slap her stupid answers silly, and all that was accomplished is that
Hillary was a good little girl who pretended to exonerate the Obama
administration -- and cover her own ass -- so she can run for the Oval
Office in 2016. Nobody, and I mean nobody, except possibly Sen. Rand
Paul at other times outside today's Benghazi Hearings, have asked the
fundamental question: what the hell is the US doing sticking its nose
in the business of all the nations in the Middle East in the first place?
We are there because the central bankers and OPEC oil ministers are hell
bent on fixing the monopoly price of oil, forcing all participants to use
only Federal Reserve Notes for all oil transactions as agreed upon at the
last Bretton Woods meeting some time ago. And these banking/oil
parties have convinced both GOP and Liberal Congressmen to use the US
Military to protect those fundamental interests. So now all we hear
about is a continual tit-for-tat response to whichever side's latest
bombing, or who shot at who last week, or who blew up which embassy or trade
center last. It's no different than two tribes in the jungle
committing atrocities against each other for whatever the other tribe did
last week. America has been reduced to a feud between the Hatfields
and the McCoys. Nobody wants to ask the fundamental question.
And the people who keep the wars going, the bankers, the oil companies, the
arms manufacturers, the vendors supplying the military, and the bureaucrats
who wring their hands at committee hearings such as the Benghazi Murders and
bloviate a bunch of bullshit are busy running the Big Show. With you,
the taxpayer, financing all of it -- in more ways than you will ever know.
Hyper-inflation of non-backed money has serious consequences, both
nationally and internationally. If you do not understand how the
central bankers are the fundamental root problem, they you do not understand
what money really is.
-- Tue Jan 22
Understanding the US economy in two easy steps:
US Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000
New debt: $1,650,000,000,000
National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
Recent budget cuts: $38,500,000,000
Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household
budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts so far: $385
Got it ?
-- Mon
Jan 21 Today is a double header: Martin Luther King Day and
Presidential Inauguration Day. The ideological dichotomy between the
two could not be further apart. Martin Luther King was a rabble
rousing freedom fighter for all individuals, regardless of ethnicity,
gender, or individual wealth. President-to-be-inaugurated Barack Obama
is a central planning government socialist whose goal is to strip the
individual of all of their rights to their own minds, bodies, and
legitimately acquired fruits of their labor. Forced purchase of
nationalized health insurance mandated by the government. Forced
redistribution of the individual's wealth and capital. Increased
taxation on individuals and corporations. Higher monetary inflation.
Huge trillion dollar deficits. And on and on toward a totalitarian
regime -- all in the name of "good intentions." That's what all
dictators claim: "good intentions." So, while our billion dollar
indebted government post offices are closed for today's holiday, while our
trillion dollar public education system is in shambles, while our nation is
in a huge recession with high unemployment, what should we celebrate?
Martin Luther King or President Obama? We will hear tons of lies by
our Commander-in-Chief at his inauguration today as he swears on the Bible
or the Koran to uphold the US Constitution, the same Constitution that he is
daily destroying with all of his Executive Orders that strip us of our
individual rights. Obama's "good intentions" -- like Hitler's and
Mussolini's and Mao-Tse-Tung's and Stalin's and Lenin's and all the other
petty little dictators throughout history -- must necessarily lead our
nation into the depths of poverty and despair because that's the only
possible result of his bankrupt socialist premises. It's called Cause
and Effect. Four more years of Barack Obama -- and to top it off, it
has already been proven on the Web by at least one teenager conversant in
Photo Shop software that Obama's birth certificate is fake and thus he is
not our legitimate President. What a bunch of suckers Americans are.
Let the Hunger Games begin!
-- Sun
Jan 20 Pay attention, girl friends. Germany's central bank, the
Bundesbank, doesn't trust the US Federal Reserve. Imagine that!
The Krauts are demanding the repatriation -- over a 7 year period -- of
their physical gold from the basement of the NY Fed Reserve to Deutschland.
Ja wohl, meine kleines Liebchens. The American left Liberal news media
is scratching their collectivist heads wondering, "How come da Krauts don't
trust us?" Duh. You dummies. Look at a chart of the US
GDP. It is a single line at the bottom of the graph. The US
central bank indebtedness is a bar two miles high on the same chart.
And that debt is not gold. It is paper. Tons and tons and tons
of paper printed up with NO GOLD BACKING. In fact, there is NOTHING
backing up our Fed Reserve debt. Not your future production; you're on
food stamps. And not the overpriced mortgages on your underwater
homes. All of which is just, you guessed it: more paper.
So the German government has wised up and is slowly requesting -- they don't
want a run on the banks, do they? -- that their gold stored overseas in the
US and Paris be shipped to Germany because, well, you know, Germany knows
how to store physical gold bullion in its bank vaults, too. Uh huh.
They do. And the Queen of England recently went on a tour of "Hey,
where's the gold?" in Great Britain's central vaults, too. Why?
Maybe she wanted to see if the gold is really there. Speaking of...
The real question that all countries whose physical gold is being stored in
the Fed's Manhattan basement is: Hey, is the gold bullion really
there? Good question. Because he who is holding the physical
gold is holding the real goods and he who is holding paper promissory notes
-- and the Federal Reserve Note is not even a "promissory note" any longer
-- is holding nothing but paper. When push comes to shove at the
international monetary level, the US may well tell other countries to go
take a long walk on a short pier. France found this out with Prez
Nixon in 1971 when Richard the Watergate-hearted said, "No." And sent
the French ship home without its gold. "Tough shit," said the
Secretary of the US Treasury, "it may not be our gold but it's their
problem." The US is a trade deficit nation but it's China that's in
trouble. We're holding Chinese-made US overseas company goods and the
Chinese government is holding nothing but paper, paper Federal Reserve
Notes. Not edible. Not real capital. No real value.
But when the Chinese and other nations finally figure out that they have
been conned by the American central bankers, they will dump the US dollar
faster than a freshly fornicated fox in a forest fire. And then watch
the value of the dollar, the Fed Reserve Note, collapse to the bottom of the
Pacific Ocean lower than whale shit. Which means your unit dollar just
inflated to the Moon, which means that $3 gas will be $20 and a loaf of
bread will be $10. That's when you might start thinking about
investing in gold and silver. Oops! Too late! Sorry,
Charlie. The barn door will have already been closed. Just to
show how dumb the left Liberals are about finances and money, one idiot at
CNBC stupidly asked whether this move by the Germans is just a conspiracy
theory concocted by the Republicans and -- now get this, it's unbelievable
-- is there is any paper backing the US gold? Is he kidding?
Paper backing gold? Like bassackwards, you CNBC news media dolt.
Left Liberals and many GOP are so stupid they really don't understand what
real money is. This is the part where the astute Reader of Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged says, "Oh now I get it;
what Ayn Rand was talking about when she discussed Aristotle's Law of
Identity, i.e. that A=A, and A does not equal B." Those of you who
think that gold can equal paper, good luck. You may soon be in for a
rude awakening by the time President Obama, the US Congress and the Federal
Reserve central bankers get through with you and what's left of your money.
Then you get to face a second law: Cause and Effect. Pass the
sauerkraut and weenies, please... the Germans ain't no dummies.
-- Sat
Jan 19 The Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF) -- those wittle wascally
wascals for fweedom -- are busy publishing on the Web all the floor
proceedings of the Idaho State legislature. Senators who fall asleep,
Reps who burp, state legies who crack jokes, Bozos who put forth more tax
legislation, and whatnot. Which is fine and dandy for all us serfs out
here in ho-dunk land who can't always make it down the road apiece to the
galleries in the Capitol building to watch our state legies carve up the
fruits of our labors in their altruistic state collectivist zeal to run our
lives. But the publishing of their activities on the floors of
Congress doesn't sit well with those in the Idaho State Legislature who like
to meet in virtual private while -- if pressed -- will claim that anybody
who wants can come on down to the Capitol and spend all day watching our
Parliament of Whores dole out cookies and favors to their friends and
relatives. And guess what? The left Liberal socialists down at
the Idaho Stateman newspaper such as reporter Dan Popoff are busy siding
with the Idaho State Legislators, whining that previous legislation was
passed that stated individuals and freedom fighting groups like Wayne
Hoffman's IFF cannot legally publish on the Web any of the legislature's
floor proceedings. Well, wooly bully, Popoff, and the horse you rode
in on. What's really bothering the Statesrag is that they want to be
the only official news twisters of the day -- and we who have lived here for
any length of time, like about five minutes -- all know how far they like to
TWIST their interpretation of the news: local, state, national, and
international. My grandmother only subscribes to the Idaho Statesleft
for the fishing reports -- and I don't even trust that. So Popoff &
Co. and the Idaho legislators down at Boise's Best Little Whorehouse in
Idaho are determined to chop Wayne Hoffman -- that wittle wascal -- and his
Idaho Freedom Foundation off at the knees to keep them from publishing on
the Web the daily floor activities of the Idaho Legislature. Why?
The legies claim they cough-cough just can't "be themselves" and speak
freely while the cameras are rolling. Really? Then clean up your
act, you Bozos. Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Stop trying
to tax us to death in private. Stand up for what you believe in and
smile, you're on candid camera.
-- Tue
Jan 15 Anybody noticing a logarithmic trend in Obama's recent
shout-outs to the nation? Yes, and that trend is pointing upward, as
in an increasing number of dictums that he promises to force into law as
Executive Orders. Hmmm, Executive Orders. Sounds rather ominous.
That's because it is. Executive as in Executive Branch. Orders
as in not going to ask you or Congress or the Judicial Branch if it's OK.
He's just going to do it. And then see if anybody complains. You
know, like how he took over the nation's largest private corporation, GM,
took their money from the initial stake holders and redistributed it to the
labor unions. And nobody said, "Boo." Nobody did squat. He
just did it -- to see if it could be done. And guess what? It
worked. It worked so well that Obama has decided to go whole hog wild
and try the same tactic in every area of the economy, from health care to
gun control to granting himself the unlimited power to raise the debt
ceiling to printing up as much inflated currency as he deems necessary to
raising fuel taxes by changing it to distance taxes for electric cars to
granting the EPA the right to invoke whatever ridiculous rules they want to
you-name-it. All done with good intentions, of course.
Everything Obama does is for good intentions and to prove it all he has to
do is to point out how bad all the previous GOP and Democratic presidents
have been. Yes they have. And two wrongs make a right? The
key point here is: By what right does the president of the United
States take it upon himself to announce that he is now Dictator of America?
From where does he obtain this authority? The simple answer is:
by default. By default of Congress and the Judicial Branch of
government. By default of the people of the US. We now see what
Alexis de Toqueville meant when he spoke of "the tyranny of the majority,"
which is why our forefathers warned us that America was being established as
a "limited republic" instead of a "democracy." A democracy is truly a
path to dictatorship. And that is exactly where President Obama is
cleverly, and more rapidly each week, taking this nation. The GOP has
bought into the state collectivism of the left Liberals for so long they
have no logical response left to fight the very trend they helped create
with all their compromises. Since both major parties have adopted the
moral philosophical premise of altruistic state collectivism, both parties
are simply standing by with their thumbs up their butts while Dictator Obama
treads across America implementing every national socialist dictum he
desires through Executive Orders. Which, by the way, is simply an
instant replay of Karl Marx's outworn fairytale: Das Kapital
and it's sequel, The Communist Manifesto. All done with good
intentions, to be sure. This is 2013 and the concept of "individual"
does not exist. Which means that "you" don't exist. Only "they"
exist. And the "they" -- ironically -- turns out to be "him."
That is, Dictator Obama, and his "individual" friends. See how
socialism works? Simple. What's true for "them" is not true for
"you." And conversely, what's true for "you" is not true for "them."
Slavery is freedom, war is peace, and paper is gold. Welcome to the
Borg.
-- Mon
Jan 14 News Flash! Idaho US Rep
Mike Simpson (GOP) rips Idaho US Rep Raul Labrador (GOP) for not voting for the "Fiscal Cliff"
cave-in to Obama and 100 pages of billions of dollars of earmarks.
2nd News Flash! FM Duck rips US Rep Mike Simpson
for umpteen years of earmarks, business as usual, and continually going along
with the MAJOR CAUSE of the US's trillion dollar deficit, recession and
unemployment: hyper-inflation of our money supply. And Rep
Simpson is not the Lone Ranger Congressman from Idaho that is responsible
for our trillion dollar deficit. Both GOP US Senators -- Jim Risch and
Mike Crapo -- voted for Obama's "Fiscal Cliff" program to NOT CUT ANY
spending and continue down the same bankrupt path that we have been going
for the last fifty years. Idaho and the US needs more Congressmen like
Simpson, Risch, and Crapo like we need another hole in the head. What
happened to the Idaho GOP's principles of individual rights, sound money, and less government?
Only
Congressman Labrador has stood up for these principles. Simpson, Risch,
and Crapo's main concerns are (1) getting along with the Washington crowd, (2) hiding in the
corridors, committees and rules of Congress, and (3) not listening to what
the people of Idaho and this nation are telling them to do about the current
national socialist administration of Barack Obama. Time for these
three amigos to retire. How dare they jump up and down on Idaho's only
Congressman, Raul Labrador, who is standing up for the principles embedded
in our US Constitution and Bill of Rights!
-- Sun
Jan 06 Soooo, 24-year veteran Idaho US Senator Mike Crapo hung a Ubee
at 1 AM in Washington DC, ran a red light at the corner of Walk and Don't
Walk, and got pulled over by a DC cop. His blood alcohol content was
0.too-high. I was not drinking straight vodka, said Crapo.
I was mixing it with tonic water. Good to know, Senator.
Hope it was diet tonic water. But our concern is not that Senator Mike
was a Mormon who started imbibing booze and thus temporarily lost his way
among the Lord's sheep and goats and flock, whatever. Our concern is
all the stress that US Congressmen and women are subjected to in a highly
political environment in which the citizens of this nation are being
socially, politically, and economically bludgeoned to death by politicians.
Taxed to death. Pushed over a "Fiscal Cliff." Forced to buy
national socialist health insurance. Losing their 2nd Amendment, 4th
Amendment, 10th Amendment... hell, let's face it, their entire Bill of
Rights and whatever's left of our US Constitution. Any why? A
lot of it has to do with TERM LIMITS. Washington bureaucrats have made
long careers out of remaining in power in Washington DC and that necessarily
entails making deals. Deals, deals, and more deals. Compromises.
You vote for my billion dollar earmarks and I will vote for your billion
dollar earmarks, and so it goes. Year after year after year.
After a while, all the hypocrisy and moral philosophical conflict wears you
down -- unless you are well-grounded and principled in
socio-political-economics. That leaves out most Congressmen, including
Senator Crapo. Only a few Congressmen, such as Rep Ron Paul, Senator
Rand Paul, and Rep Michelle Bachmann hold free market Libertarian principles
that allow them to stay the course in the midst of the loonie toons and
state collectivist administration running our nation for the last 50 years.
Obama is just the culmination of this Washington corruptness, the
anti-individualism, and anti-free market moral philosophy in Washington DC.
That is why TERM LIMITS is so important. The average Joe Doe
congressman doesn't even know what real money is, and thus doesn't
understand why Congress should have ENDed The FED a long time ago to stop
the fiscal insanity that has gripped our nation. The Keynesian
economics. The deficit spending. The trillions upon trillions of
hyper-inflated paper and digitized currency now flooding our markets.
The financial ball game is over. Nobody wants to admit it.
Nobody wants to discuss the real causes, only how to rearrange all the
bankrupt financial effects, pretending to solve Washington's self-created
deficit deck chairs on the Titanic. And TERM LIMITS keeps this circus
continuing. Even in the latest Fiscal Cliff crisis, in which Obama and
Congress pretended to be working late to "solve" our nation's financial
problems, Senator Crapo and 88 of his 100 cohorts voted "Hell, YES, let's
increase taxes on the bastards," while simultaneously shoving billions upon
billions of dollars of earmarks into the very type of legislation that has
brought about our "Fiscal Crisis" in the first place. At least if we
had TERM LIMITS, Congress would not have an incentive to stay in office
forever and build up their empires. Notice that Senator Crap has just
stated that he intends to run again for office in 2016. Why? So
he can continue doing what he and most all the other 534 US Congressmen and
women have been doing for the last 24 years: making deals and
compromising the principles of our US Constitution. Drunk driving is
not the cause, Senator. Drunk driving is the result, the effect, of
compromising your socio-political-economic principles among a den of
thieves.
-- Fri
Jan 04 Idaho Gov Butch Otter thinks he has tricked the federal
government. Yeah, he'll show Obama. And ObamaCare. Otter
has OK'd the setting up of a national socialist health care system in the
state of Idaho -- to go along with the federal government's ObamaCare
program -- on the premise that if you voluntarily participate as the victim
in a bank robbery, you can better control what happens when the bad guys
dash in and say, "OK, stick 'em up!" Yeah, right. The bank
robbers -- the ObamaCare feds -- get to hold the guns, pull the triggers,
and steal your money while you get to stand there with your pants down and
your hands up in the air. Gov Otter thinks that because the feds let
him build the bank, paint the walls, hang up Obama's picture, and pave the
parking lot, that he -- Otter -- is somehow in control of all the contrived
bank robberies that the federal government will be conducting in his -- or
rather the fed's -- bank. This is exactly what happened to the Jews in
Germany in the 1930s. Just let the Third Reich tattoo a number on your
forearm. We don't want to control your life. No. Uh-uh.
Just let the Third Reich place a little Star of David on your store.
We don't want to run your business. No, of course we don't. Oh,
yeah, and now how about all of you with the last name of
Schwartzenfinkenheimerberg and brown eyes move into these special "ghettoes"
the Third Reich has conveniently set up for you. We don't want to
control your movement, your freedom, or your rights. No. Just
because we tattooed your body, took over your business, and gave everybody
free education, free medical, free lunches and free yo-yos, doesn't mean
your forced movement to a "ghetto" is an incarceration. Just volunteer
to march into our "camps" and everything will be OK. Yeah, you bet.
So, Gov Otter, when do you finally stand up with a pair of cajones like the
Libertarian or even GOP individual you claim to be and say, "Hell no!" to
the federal government? "No!" to ObamaCare? "No," to the basic
injustice that Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court is trying to
foist down our throats? Stop whining about how you have no choice.
Our forefathers had a choice to go along with the British or say, "No!"
The difference is: Franklin, Jefferson, and Washington had a pair of
balls. You're leading Idaho to the ultimate "ghetto" by voluntarily
participating in a federal robbery of our rights. In the beginning,
you said, "No" to ObamaCare and now you are caving in to the federal
government. That's how it always happens, all throughout history.
The bad guys obtain the sanction of their victims just before they force
them into something and then slaughter them. Thanks loads, Governor.
Pin a left Liberal sticker on your back because that's exactly where you're
taking the state of Idaho. State collectivism. And you think you
are outwitting Obama and his national socialist cronies? Volunteering
to be the victims in ObamaCare is more stupid than volunteering to be the
victims in your own bank robbery. Wake up, Governor. It's the
1930s all over again. Don't make the same mistake.
-- Thur
Jan 03 Whoa, pull up the barn floor, shut up, and pour yourselves
another hot cup of Rocket Java, girl friends. Obama and the US
Congress just snookered the crap our of everybody with all their phony
baloney talk about saving us from going over the "Fiscal Cliff."
Fiscal Cliff my ass! The sums-a-beaches not only didn't address any
spending issues whatsoever, but according to the Wall Street Journal, they
added billions and billions of dollars worth of special interest EARMARKS
into their freaking Fiscal Cliff tax legislation while pretending to save us
all from economic Armageddon. Obama and House Squeaker Boehner just
received the Federal Reserve's Medal of Hyper-inflation Honor. GE,
Star Kist Tuna, Hollywood movie producers and a thousand other corporate
welfare entities received billions of dollars in free cookies and
entitlements in Obama's, Reid's and Boehner's trillion dollar piece of $hit
Fiscal Cliff tax legislation. Movie producers receive a $15 million
tax exemption on their expenses for making a movie in the US; $20 million in
major depressed areas of the nation -- you know, those blighted areas
created by all the previous welfare expenditures by our federal government
over the last fifty years. While the left Liberal news media has been
babbling for weeks and wringing their little hands, worried about the
economy going over the Fiscal Cliff and how Obama's overriding goal was to
tax the rich and save the middle class from being "held hostage" by the
Republican party, all the good ol' boyz in both parties in da Washington DC
hood, including President Obama, were busy behind closed doors smoking
cigars, drinking Scotch and carving up your tax money and future production
for themselves and their friends. Crony socialism. Crony
fascism. Crony state collectivism. Essentially, President Obama,
Senate Majority Idiot Harry Reid, and House Wussie John Boehner have only
been arguing about how best to carve up America for their damned selves.
You better hope that House Squeaker Boehner is soon replaced by a real
freedom fighter in the US House, that Senate Jerk Bait Harry Reid loses the
Senate in the Election of 2014, and our economic fascist Dictator of a
President -- Barack Obama -- is replaced by a Tea Party President in 2016.
May the Universal Consciousness pervading our DERN universe -- for those of
you into Billy Meier and the Plejaren ETs -- help us if brain dead Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton runs on the Democratic ticket in 2016. At the
current rate of moral philosophical decay of our American culture, Hillary
stands a good chance of becoming another Barack Obama -- only this time
wearing a blonde-ass wig.
-- Wed
Jan 02 HAPPY
NEW
YEAR?
Well, that was short-lived. In one day the US House of
Representatives voted "Yes!" and passed the US Senate's Fiscal Cliff bill in
which YOUR taxes will be going up, up, up in 2013. Led by 1/3 of the
GOP members in the House, Democrats overwhelmingly rammed a ridiculous tax
and spend bill down the throats of all Americans. For every $1 in tax
cuts, the deficit was increased by $41. This is a tax increase, pure
and simple. Note, however, that 2/3 of the GOP in the House voted
"No!" That may not bode too well for House Speaker John Boehner as the
Republicans vote whether to retain him as their future House Speaker.
Net result of last night's US House vote: the GOP obtained
absolutely nothing in the talks with our
economic fascist President Barack Obama and the left Liberal Economic
Village Idiots in both Houses of Congress. Obama won a temporary
war, but will lose the economic
battle in the long run as he continues to
implement fiscal Armageddon to drive the US over the fiscal cliff.
Unless, of course, it is Obama's goal to totally dump the United States into
financial ruin and war. If that's the case, then he will succeed
because he has the moral sanction of both major political parties.
Perhaps Obama is looking forward to declaring martial law in the United
States and taking over for a third term? Who knows? At least the
Democrats come right out and say they are socialist idiots and are proud of
it; the Republicans claim they are free market and believe in individual
rights and then -- AND THEN -- they vote against
individual rights and for socialism.
Who's worse, the idiot Democrats who don't understand anything about basic
economics or the lying Republicans who are closet state collectivists?
You decide.
-- Tue
Jan 01 HAPPY
NEW
YEAR,
the US Senate last night voted to raise your taxes!
The big question is: will the US House of Reps also vote to
raise your taxes? After the Senate vote, President Obama sauntered out
on stage with a group of "useful idiots" supposedly representing the average
American and congratulated himself for tricking the dummies in the US Senate
-- INCLUDING REPUBLICANS, I repeat, INCLUDING REPUBLICANS -- to cave
in and vote for more taxes, more deficits, and more spending. In
essence, Senate Wussie Leader Mitch McConnell, said, "We must all pull
together. We must all compromise. We must all run over the cliff
holding each other's dicks in our hands." "Yeah," added the de facto
economic fascists in the Senate as they all tapped dance in place, going
nowhere fast, and doing nothing constructive whatsoever. Amazingly, NO
SPENDING CUTS were proposed or voted upon. That's right, girl friends,
the major, overwhelming, financial problems facing this country -- deficit
spending and hyper-inflation of our fiat money supply -- were
not even addressed.
Bottom
line by the US Goof Ball Senate:
(a)
income taxes increased from 35% to 39.6% for individuals earning over $400K,
$450K for a couple (women are apparently worth only $50K),
(b) personal income tax exemptions phased out over $250K, $300K for
couples (again, women are apparently worth only $50K),
(c) death taxes went up from 35% to 40% and back to pre-Clinton 55%
depending on category and exemptions,
(d) capital gains taxes increased from 15% to 20% for earners over $400K,
$450K for couples (again, women are only worth $50K in this tax category,
too),
(e) unemployment benefits -- a result of all the above taxation and
hyper-inflation of our money supply -- was extended for another year,
(f) social security payroll tax back up by 2% to its previous 6.2%, no
discussion about long term solution for the $100 trillion unfunded
liability,
(g) the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) was not abolished but rather
indexed to inflation.
So, stop
and think about this for a minute. The simple objective of the US
Senate was to:
(a) stop
the deficit spending,
(b) simplify taxation,
(c) remove governmental intervention into the free market, and
(d) implement a balanced budget.
Instead,
the US Senate went into session last night and:
(a)
increased the deficit spending,
(b) complicated our absurd 75,000-page
tax law,
(c) increased governmental
intervention into the free market, and
(d) still did not implement a balanced budget
-- or ANY budget for the last four years.
How can
the US Senate come up with exactly the opposite of what our Constitution
mandates in all areas of individual rights and freedoms? This
ridiculous action by both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate when
facing the "Fiscal Cliff" (which they created in the first place) can best
be described in one word: FAILURE. In any other business, in any
other endeavor in any other environment, the entire US Senate would be FIRED
for total incompetence. And if these same Senators were faced with
life and death in a wilderness survival situation, on Earth or on another
planet, they would all perish as they completely evade using their brains
and conceptual reasoning regarding the Law of Identity and the Law of Cause
and Effect. There is no evasion, denial, or compromise with issues of
life and death, and America is now on a socio-political-economic suicide
mission, led by our bankrupt intellectuals at the universities and wimpy
politicians in Congress. The presidency was lost a long time ago
and the judicial branch is busy twisting their little black robes into knots
whilst sipping tea in between their Marxist philosophical circle jerks.
Let's see if the US House is just as incompetent as the Senate. But
don't hold your breath.
-- Mon
Dec 31 Here is a New Year's resolution that you may want to think
about for 2013. You should think about going on strike and taking back
YOUR country, YOUR freedoms, YOUR inherent rights under the Constitution of
the United States. The President of the United States is not our CEO.
He is not our Economic Dictator. That's because the United States is
not a corporate entity. The United States is a nation and the function
of the Executive Branch of government is to exercise its limited functions
to protect the inherent rights and freedoms of US citizens, especially the
smallest group possible: the individual. The Legislative Branch
of government also has a very limited function: to pass laws that
reflect the inherent rights and freedoms of US citizens, especially the
individual. And the Judicial Branch of government has as its only
function: to adjudicate injustices against the inherent rights and
freedoms of US citizens, especially the individual. All three branches
of government are supposed to act as checks and balances to prevent abuses
of infringements in all three major areas of government.
Unfortunately, all three branches of government have now evolved to the
point that they only exist to protect their own lofty political positions in
Washington DC while daily conspiring to run roughshod over all the rights
and freedoms of our citizens, often in the name of "protecting" our
citizens. The United States' three branches of government have now
become exactly what they were intended to prevent: the initiators of
force and fraud against everybody in the nation. We have abandoned
real money and now, in 2013, we are bankrupt and going over the fiscal
cliff. What is the source of all the fake money we now use?
Which branch of government authorized a central bank to go off the gold
standard so the three branches of government could rob its citizens by
inflation and run a $17 trillion deficit? And incur $100 trillion in
unfunded Social Security and Medicare liabilities? And allowed a
mortgage derivatives market flooded with over $650 trillion in worthless
paper money derivatives? The President of the United States has now
assumed the role of Economic Dictator, with the full sanction of the US
Congress and no legal prohibition by the US Supreme Court. The
President of the United States now, on a daily basis, issues hundreds of new
laws called Executive Orders that allow America's massive bureaucracies to
stomp on the rights and freedoms of all of our good citizens, all on the
premise to save us all from ourselves. Congress has failed to enact a
budget -- as required by the US Constitution -- for the last four years.
The US Supreme Court has ruled that The President can force all individuals
to purchase whatever commodities or services the President decides they
need. The President is busy trying to "redistribute" everybody's
private property. The US Congress has stripped all individuals of all
freedoms to voluntarily exchange in an open and free market. All
economic exchanges are forms of communication. By banning and
over-regulating all exchanges in the market, the US Congress, the US
President, and the US Supreme Court have all infringed upon and are
prohibiting the exercise of our First Amendment Rights: Freedom of
Economic Speech. All economic exchanges are, in reality, an exercise
of freedom of speech. By banning the free use of our choice of an
economic exchange such as gold or silver, it would be no less a prohibition
against freedom of speech to ban or control all forms of communications from
phones, to newspapers, to magazines, to TV, to the Internet -- all of which
are now controlled by all three branches of government under
beautifully-sounding euphemisms such as The Patriot Act, and on and on.
What is your New Year's resolution for 2013? The economy will be going
over the Fiscal Cliff starting tomorrow, with increased taxation, increased
hyper-inflation of our fake money supply and thus increased prices, forced
purchases of commodities and services by the government, locking you up in
jail with no right of counsel or protection of personal and private effects,
and a continual ongoing war in the Middle East to protect the central
bankers' Petro Dollar Deal with Saudi Arabia's OPEC ministers. Is this
the freedom you asked for? Is this the freedom you want? Are you
so insecure that you want an Economic Dictator as President of the United
States? To tell you when to poop, shut up, and eat your oatmeal?
President Obama is not the CEO of America. He does not have the right
to tell you that you must pay taxes because you legally earned a million
dollars or even $250,000 last year. He does not have the right to tell
you that you must purchase Bubble Gum, Life Insurance, Medical Insurance, or
Roller Skates. Neither does Congress and neither does the US Supreme
Court. Shouldn't one of your New Year's resolutions be to take back
your own country from the fascist Economic Dictators in Washington DC?
Isn't it time for you to go on strike against Congress, to go on strike
against our fake President who falsified his credentials to become President
of the US, and against a Supreme Court that first had to introduce the term
"taxation" into ObamaCare legislation so they could rule in favor of it?
Refuse to sanction the insanity going on in the White House and Congress.
Time to go on strike against the current President of the US who is holding
you hostage to his national socialist ideology. Just say, "No!"
Without your sanction -- the sanction of the victims -- the President loses
and so does Congress. Stop the President and Congress from dividing
our citizens into pretended warring economic entities of "rich" and "poor,"
"left" and "right," "up" and "down." These are fake categories for
politicians to conjure up a phony class warfare. The people are not
fighting against each other; we are struggling against our own over-blown
government, our own politicians and bureaucracies, not each other.
Time to take your country back. Time to take your freedoms back.
That should be your overriding New Year's resolution for 2013.
-- Fri
Dec 28 Is it just me, or are the rules in American football beginning
to drive you crazy? In every game -- whether college or professional
-- the seven referees are not able to quickly make a simple decision about
the results of any play. Have the rules become so overly-complicated
that the entire game has turned into one big qualitative guess? Not
only can't the officials decide the rules, they need instant replay to make
half of their decisions. The hallmark of a good game is the simplicity
of the rules. Take chess. The rules are few. The
possibilities are huge. Take soccer. The rules are few.
Like 20 something rules. The possibilities for play are huge.
And if a soccer player head butts another player, it's bye-bye with a red
card from the ref. In American football, head butts using the helmet
as a weapon are part of the game. Half the time, head butt offenses
are not called. Or if they are, the head butter is simply slapped on
the wrist with a 10-15 yard penalty while the victim suffers a concussion
for the rest of the game, or the entire season. It seems that the
purpose of American football, the objective, has switched from athleticism
to violence for the sake of violence. Football has turned into a
gladiator sport, like boxing and wrestling have merged into UF games,
Ultimate Fighting where essentially no rules apply. Why should we be
surprised when American youth are growing up playing violent video games all
day whose purpose is to kill, blow up, hurt, maim, and destroy? And
note that this cultural attitude now permeates our political scene, too.
The IRS code is 75,000 pages of ridiculous taxation, which if you don't pay,
you lose everything and can go to jail. Citizens are beaten down with
overly-complicated tax and anti-business laws. Obama's health care law
is 2,700 pages of pure gibberish. And if you don't comply, you are
fined. Will there be "death panels" for our seniors? What
is our nation's foreign policy? We send US troops to fight in the
Middle East, not because we were first attacked, but because the Federal
Reserve and OPEC monopolists are using the US military to promulgate their
Petro Dollar Deal with Saudi Arabia. There is no real reason for us to
be in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, or Egypt or any of the other Middle East
nations except for peaceful trading. If some nation is developing a
nuclear bomb, take out that facility and then go home. Don't send
hundreds of thousands of troops to the Middle East and call it "defense."
Even the ref in the NFL knows the difference between offense and defense.
One can see how, when one's nation descends to a culture of gladiator
video games, gladiator NFL and college football games, foreign military
games violating others' rights, and national legislative games violating all
our good citizens' rights to freely exchange in a free market, you know that
we have arrived at the level of Rome when they lost it all and then
collapsed. The degenerate moral philosophy of anti-individualism and
the inculcation of violent state collectivism using Sparta as a cultural
model is beginning to split America into two distinct camps: inherent
peaceful individual rights and responsibilities vs. violent state
collectivism. Never mind Ayn Rand's "altruism" as part of the state
collectivism she discussed. That "altruism" has now been replaced with
the term "violence." It's now violent state collectivism that we will
soon be up against, not altruistic state collectivism. And the
violence will be against the best within and among us because fake altruism
must always evolve into violence in order to enforce the fake altruism.
Hence the "nicey-nicey" of National Socialism always evolves into a "not-so-nicey-nicey,
horrendous" Holocaust. Remember this while watching your favorite
football Bowl Game this season. At the rate that the rules of our
Super Bowl is devolving, which is reflective of our socio-political-economic
culture, we may soon end up in The Hunger Games.
-- Wed
Dec 26 Swaps in the derivatives market total over $639 trillion
dollars. What the heckaroonie is a "swap?" a "swap" is a "derivative"
which is a non-commodity backed chunk of paper debt. It is simply a
promissory note -- debt -- that is backed by other promissory notes -- more
debt -- that is often backed by even more promissory notes -- even more
debt. Some derivatives are fractions of hundreds of different mortgage
loans that were backed by homes whose values have collapsed so that there is
nothing of real value backing those mortgage loans, which in turn are
supposedly backing some fancy-named derivatives that were investment
vehicles sold to suckers in the stock market. A
lot of people are standing around holding nothing but air in their hands.
The new Dodd Frankenstein Bill is supposed to require derivatives dealers to
maintain "collateral" for 79% of the derivatives being traded after March
2013. Problem is, "collateral" is defined as simply: more paper
debt and not a hard commodity such as gold, silver, real estate with current
market value, or even a truck load of Bubble Gum. The important
take-home of this information is not that Da Gubbament is requiring 79%
collateral by trash paper but rather HOW MUCH trash paper there is out there:
$639 trillion, which is over a half a quadrillion in inflated dollars.
And since the reader has already read the sidebar articles on this Web Site
to see how big $1 trillion dollars is, go back and re-look at those $100
bills stacked on double-size pallets
again and then multiply them by 639. $639 trillion of derivative debt! You can only come to one
conclusion: We broke, baby. We already ARE the hyper-inflated
Weimar Republic of 1930s Germany and our economy is totally bankrupt. In fact, if all
the banks in America had to pull all their sub-corporation mortgage loans
onto their parent banks' ledgers, every major bank in America would have to
declare bankruptcy. That's why banks don't pull their
sub-corporations' assets and liabilities onto their holding companies'
accounting books. And that's how Food Stamps are covering up the Real
Soup Lines in America. People are standing in line for food, they're
just doing it via plastic DEBT CARDs mailed to their homes so they can run
down to the grocery stores and get in line with everybody else, you know, so
it looks like everything is OK when it isn't. Derivatives, swaps, food
stamps, they're all the same: an attempt to convince oneself that
paper is gold, a frail attempt to evade the Law of Identity and the Law of
Cause and Effect. It's not nice to try and fool Mother Nature.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is busy trying to wipe its fingerprints off
the trillions and trillions of hyper-inflated currency flooding our markets.
-- Mon
Dec 24
Whoa, cow
girls. Maybe the problem with loonies pulling off mass shootings at
our schools is not the possession of guns but rather our society's setting
the kids up like fish in a barrel at some brick and mortar public education
building. This is the year 2012. Almost 2013. We have an
Internet, accessible by iPods, iPhones, and laptop computers. Every
kid in America can whip out his/her cell phone and find out any piece of
information they need or want in about 5 seconds flat, yet we continue to
pretend that the best method by which to educate our children is to cram
them onto a big yellow bus each morning and transport several hundred of
them -- sometimes a thousand or two -- to a concrete building so the
teachers can take roll, try to teach, plan for their bankrupt union
retirement benefits, and receive federal subsidies. And we call this
"education?" Not only is this extremely expensive, it's a stupid way
to educate our children in light of the technology we have in today's
advanced communication. For those of you in the left Liberal camp who
blather the old bromide of -- whine, whine -- "But the kids need to show up
to a brick and mortar in order to learn 'social skills,'" how's that working
out for you in Connecticut? How's that working out for you in the
drug-infested inner city ghettoes of America? Kids can and should
learn their social skills, first, from Mom and Dad, and second, from their
family's choice of whom to associate
with in the many areas of society they choose to participate in.
Soccer clubs, football leagues, baseball leagues, music groups, dance
groups, church groups and all sorts of social groups are freely available to
children in every community. Kids do not need to be forced to attend a
government fish barrel to learn "social skills" -- especially from the local
loonie toons, druggies, and bullies who happen to be assigned to that public
education building. Leave No Child Behind
and Race to the Top are stupid war cries
of the federal politicians whose only goal is to garner votes so they can
retain their privileged positions in Washington DC. It's called
bribing the parents with an outdated moral philosophy of altruistic state
collectivism and taxpayer money. Our children's lives are put at stake
every day because Americans can't see past the national socialist ideology
that has taken over our school system -- and soon to take over our health
care system. As we said before, never mind the government's setting
our kids up to be shot like fish in a barrel by busing them to a central
Free Fire Zone, how about the crippling of our children's developing minds
by the inculcation of altruistic state collectivism being shoved down their
throats in every class every day from math to science to social studies?
The real mass shooting turns out to be the education system itself, not
guns, which goes on 8 hours a day five days a week, not the once in a blue
moon loonie toon who happens to jump through a school window and opens fire
on everybody. It's not the concept of using guns for self-defense that
needs dismantling; it's the public education system. Time for freedom
of choice in educating our children.
-- Sat
Dec 22 House Leader John Boehner yanked his Fiscal Cliff Plan from the
House floor after Tea Party Conservatives said, "NO" to his caved-in
compromise to President Obama that it was OK to tax anybody earning income
over $1 million and to spend another $1.2 trillion in deficit financing.
In other words, the GOP members in the House finally took a moral
philosophical stand and said "NO" to President Obama's socialism. It's
about time somebody stood up for freedom and free market capitalism.
The Fiscal Cliff dispute is not about money or taxes and never has been.
It is a war of ideas: state collectivism vs. individual rights.
If the GOP gives up -- as Boehner has done -- and accepts Obama's false
economic premises in a compromise of ideas, then he who compromises will
lose. In the long run, both Boehner and Obama -- and America -- would
have
lost. National socialism is an ideology of anti-individualism, suicide, war, and death.
Individual rights and free market capitalism is an ideology of voluntary
freedom of exchange, individual rights and responsibilities, and life.
The latter is the only method by which man can survive in the universe
because it is based upon the Law of Identity and the Laws of Cause and
Effect. The former, altruistic state collectivism, is the result of
not understanding the Law of Identity or the Laws of Cause and Effect and it
is a recipe for death. All attempts at implementing a successful
society based upon contradictions of the basic laws governing our universe
always has, and always will, result in catastrophic results for that society.
Since economics, which is defined as human action, i.e. humans prioritizing
their exchange of values (commodities and services) with purposeful action
in a free and open market,
is based upon the Law of Identity and the Laws of Cause and Effect. Any
attempt to ignore those same laws will also result in catastrophe.
Wise up, Obama. Wise up, Congress. You had better re-check your
basic premises. Compromise between Bad and Worse is not the answer. Objective truth
and logic are the answers. Individual rights and freedoms to exchange
are the answers -- not demands to receive based upon real or imagined
"needs." Time to get back to the basics. Time
to get back to reality. Mainly, paper is not gold. Debt is not
capital or wealth. Up is not down. A is not non-A.
-- Fri
Dec 21 In 1969, Congress went bezonkers and decided to play Karl Marx.
Based on the false economic premise that "the rich" steal their money from
a fixed amount of economic pie in the US -- not differentiating between
those "rich" who legitimately earned their money in a free market and
those "rich" who used the government to obtain their wealth -- Congress
decided to tax the crap out of about 10-15 of the wealthiest people in the
nation. So they changed the tax code to ensure that these few
individuals paid more in taxes. They called it the Alternative Minimum
Tax (AMT). 43 years later, due to inflation by the Federal Reserve,
100 million Americans now fall under the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Think about that for a second. A ridiculous socialist idea implemented by the US Congress in 1969
-- intended
to screw over 10 "rich" people out of pure spite and envy -- now applies to 100
million Americans. If this doesn't tell you where the
intellectuals of this nation have led our culture
-- i.e. enacting an ideology of spite and envy against the principles upon
which this nation was founded -- individual and private property rights -- then nothing will.
Nor is wealth a zero sum game. Wealth is infinite. The poor are
not poor because the "rich" stole it from them. Sorry, Obama, re-check
your basic economic premises. It's not enough to just change the AMT
tax regulations every year as Congress has been
doing over the last four decades so that the middle class does not fall
under this Marxist philosophy of "tax the rich." What needs to happen
is Congress and the President of the United States should abolish the AMT
altogether because it is wrong for both philosophical and economic reasons.
Unfortunately, the Marxist philosophy behind the AMT has gone on for so long now
that "tax the rich" has become the war cry of our national socialist
President Barack Obama and he is threatening to not change it for 2013.
If this happens, 100 million middle class Americans will be taxed as if they
are "the rich."
In other words, the
AMT and the fallacious ideology behind it is not even valid within the
ridiculous philosophy of Marxist socialism because 100 million middle class
Americans cannot simultaneously be "the rich." But when has logic ever
stopped national socialists? Brainwashed by Marxist socialism taught in our
public education systems, young Americans now think that they are entitled to receive the fruits of other people's labors based upon
their real or imagined "need." This is the philosophy that President Barack
Obama is intent on implementing in the US as his "fundamental change" for
America. Where did Obama learn this? From his card carrying
Communist Grandparents, socialist Mother and two state collectivist fathers. Make no mistake
about it: Obama's goal is financial suicide -- whether he knows it or
not -- and he wants to drag you
down with him because he thinks he knows the really real truth and has yet to understand the ultimate end game of
his
contradictory ideology.
Many will claim that Obama has "good intentions." Must I remind
everybody that the road to hell is paved with "good intentions." Must we all go through hell for President Obama and his left Liberal loonie
toons to discover that they can never reach their Sugar Plum Heaven by
implementing Marx's dictum, "from each according to their ability, to each
according to their need?" Hopefully Americans and the US Congress are
smarter than that. We shall see. The AMT should be abolished
immediately. The free market "rich" should not be taxed and neither
should 100 million middle class Americans
who will soon see their taxes go up by an average of $3,700 next year.
The AMT must be abolished because (1) it is philosophically illogical and
immoral, and (2) it is based upon the fallacious economic notions that
wealth is finite and that in a free market the rich rob the poor.
Sorry Obama, not true; check your premises before you try to dump your
crappy ideas on America.
-- Fri
Dec 21 House Republicans held firm on "No Tax
Hikes!" and "Cut the Spending!"
last night in Congress. OK, President Obama: Checkmate.
Well, almost. Now it's the Senate's turn to come up with their Grand
Looting Program. Does Obama and his Washington looters want to take
credit for driving the American economy over the cliff? Maybe yes,
maybe no. Who knows? But what we all DO know is that it's:
Adventure time! Tune in next week to see if Oil Can Harry ties the
damsel in distress to the trestles of the Pig Iron Freight Train Special
which, if not stopped by the Lone Ranger, will surely squish poor Penelope
Pit Stop all over the tracks. Oh no, does that mean she will lose her
job? No union benefits? No unemployment? No more sex in
the Oval Office? Under the desk? The rigged stock market drops,
as planned? Let's all wring our little hannies altogether now and sing
along with Congress and President Yomama-bama, "Yo-ho,
yo-ho, a pirate's life for me... tax their feet, tax their heat, print more
up and tax their butts... that doesn't rhyme but then nothing else in
Washington does either... Yo-ho, yo-ho, the Federal Reserve's your
friend..." cha-cha-cha.
-- Thur
Dec 20 Whoa, pull up the barn floor, pour yourselves another hot cup
of Rocket Java and listen up, girl friends. President Obama ordered
the Cabinet to cut $100,000,000 ($100 million) from the $3,500,000,000,000
($3.5 trillion) federal budget. I'm so impressed by this sacrifice
that I have decided to do the same thing with my personal budget. I spend
about $2,000 a month on groceries, household expenses, medicine, utilities,
etc., but it's time to get out the budget cutting axe, go through my
expenses, and cut back. I'm going to cut my spending at exactly the
same ratio (1/35,000) of my total budget. After doing the math, it looks
like instead of spending $2,000 a month, I'm going to have to cut that
number by six cents. Yes, I'm going to have to get by with $1,999.94,
but that's what sacrifice is all about. I'll just have to do without
some things, that are, quite frankly, luxuries - six cents worth.
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation...
One is by sword...The other is by debt." -- John Adams
-- Wed
Dec 19 What a co-inky-dink: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
just before she was supposed to be deposed before Congress on the Benghazi
murders in Libya, claims she fell down and bonked her head on the floor.
Hmm, sounds like a country western song, "Ah done
fell down and bonked mah hade on da flo." Now she has a
terrible headache -- ooh ooh, where's my Excedrin -- and cannot show up to
spill the beans about why President Obama and his loonie goonies lied during
and after the murders of our Libyan Ambassador and three associates.
Plus -- now get this, girl friends -- Hillary says her headache is so bad,
waaaaay bad, that she will step down from her position as Obama's Secretary
of State early next year. Uh huh. A bad headache, huh?
Methinks she doth too much tap danceth around the issue. It appears
that Hillary knows a lot more than she wants to reveal during her tenure as
Sec of State and clever legal advice has been given to her to "develop a
convenient concussion" two seconds before having to show up to Congress and
two months before she can politely quit her post. So, the Big Question
is: will Hillary spill the beans about Obama and his foreign
policy after she retires next January? Will Hillary make up a good
story that absolves her of all responsibility so she can run for the
Presidency in 2016? Or did she really, "done
fell down and bonked her hade on da flo?"
-- Tue
Dec 18 House Leader Boehner and the GOP and President Obama in their
talks to solve America going over the "Fiscal Cliff" are arguing fruitlessly
about ridiculous points: taxing everybody who earns over $1 million
vs. taxing everybody who earns over $400,000, spending $1 trillion more and
pretending to chop $1 trillion in taxes
while raising taxes, etc. It's
really very stupid. As soon as one adopts the fairytale concept that
money is paper or digitized integers in a computer, and that our
currency doesn't have to represent a receipt or invoice for said commodity,
then one has abandoned one's mental faculties of logic and reason and thus
nothing further needs to be discussed. If you pretend that there is no
objective reality, that the locomotive rushing down the tracks you are
standing on will not run you down and kill you, then it doesn't really
matter what else you talk about about since we already know by your basic
premises you are not dealing with reality. And that's exactly what is
going on in the US Congress and the Oval Office discussion about our "Fiscal
Cliff." The real discussion is about moral philosophy, logic, reason
and reality, and the individual vs. the collective state. Neither party is
dealing with reality and thus no real solutions can be obtained.
Abandon the only means by which human beings can solve their problems of
survival in the universe -- your brain using objective logic and reason -- and you will not survive as human beings anywhere.
Period. Case closed.
-- Tue
Dec 18 I know, why doesn't the federal government round up all the
little school children in the nation and bus them into brick and mortar
confined locations all across statey America so loonie toons can easily mow
them down with guns, knives, gas, pipe bombs or whatever their choice of
weapons might be. Let's call it Obama's Race
to the Top since George Bush's Leave No
Child Behind clearly didn't work. I mean, why should the
government and the Teacher's Unions allow free market education in which
most children would be learning from home via the Internet or small private
schools instead of being set up for a mass execution at a central brick and
mortar public school house built on a 1950's public education model where
hundreds of kids are shoved into a brick and mortar prison?
President Obama already destroyed Washington DC's successful education
voucher system to satisfy his Teachers Union Goons and now he is pledging to
use the full power of his office -- the true mark of a Dictator's
utterances, the "power of his office" --
to make sure the tragedy at Newton, Connecticut -- the slaughtering of 27
children and educators -- never happens again. Really? How?
Order the US Army to surround every public school in the nation?
Fortify the public education brick and mortars into Fort Knox? Duh.
Free market education choices are beginning to look better and better with
every mass murder episode in our public education system. Never mind
the fact that the pub ed system does worse than teaching the kids nothing;
the pub ed system teaches them how NOT to think, which is worse than not
teaching them HOW to think at all because the poor little children come away
from school thinking they are geniuses or totally confused. You may as
well tie ball and chains to the legs of athletes or dancers and then tell
them to go out and run fast and dance. That's exactly what's happening
to the minds of our public education students: don't use logic,
don't use reason, everything is touchy-feely, every issue and problem is to
be solved by the collective not the individual, and we must all strive for
self-sacrifice of the individual to the collective based solely upon the
real and imagined needs of the recipient, which turns out to be whoever has
the biggest gun in Washington. Yes, our current bankrupt intellectuals
running our public education system have set our children up for the slaughter that happened in Newton,
Connecticut this week -- both physically and what would have been mentally
had they survived the shootings. And the President's and Pub Ed officials' proposed solutions are:
more of the same. So it's a toss up whether we should feel more pity
for the children that survived physically because now they get to continue
trying to survive mentally using the handicap of their further public
education brainwashing, in addition to the mental shock of what just
happened to their friends for what the pundits are categorizing as
"unknowable and unpreventable evil." Really?
"Unknowable and unpreventable evil?" Check
your premises, folks. The pundits still have yet to figure out the
real evil in our public education -- read state collectivist government
education -- system. That's the real tragedy facing America's youth:
altruistic state collectivism, not loonies shooting guns. A deranged
person killing 27 children with a gun is one thing; a government with an
educational policy of convincing 150 million children to kill themselves by
inculcating national socialism into their brains, twisting their logic and
reasoning needed for survival in the world into social-political-economic
suicide, is quite another.
-- Mon
Dec 17 Wow, President Obama, what a Hollywood actor! As soon as
some loonie broke into a public elementary school in Connecticut and shot
and killed 27 little kids, teachers, and the Principal, President Obama
immediately jumped into his Superman Suit, leaped onto Air Force One, and
dashed off to Connecticut to... to... to do what? Let's see now, is
President Obama a doctor? No. Is he a funeral director?
No. Is he a minister? No, none of the above. So what can
he do by flying to Connecticut? Oh, I know. He can step out in
front of the funeral procession, shed a tear on national TV, promise to ban
guns all across America, and dump the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution.
Yes, girl friends, President Obama never lets a photo op at a local crisis
go by without trying to capitalize on it. If Obama wants to cry for
the children in Connecticut and all across America, let him cry for the
federal government's continual intervention into our children's education,
an intervention
that rams the ideology of altruistic state collectivism down their throats,
destroying their little brains before they even have a chance to learn how
to think at a conceptual level. Obama himself, is still stuck back at
the perceptual level of an 8 year child, which you can clearly see as he
pretends to understand basic economics while espousing 17th Century economic
sophisms and continually misinterprets the fundamental principles underlying
our US Constitution. How fitting for Dictator Obama to show up to
create
a photo op for himself out of the tragedy in Connecticut. As if he doesn't have a
ton of other really important "fiscal cliff" issues and international crises
to keep him busy? Wasn't it just peachy keeno of him to take the time
out of his busy day to upstage the funeral proceedings of these unfortunate
children and their families in Connecticut? What a swell guy. Maybe Obama is crying
because deep down inside he is sad to not be able to send these 20-something
elementary children out into the world after brainwashing them with his
Marxist socialist ideals in our public education system. No, I doubt
it. Obama feels no guilt for the latter, but he sure can put on a
Hollywood act for the former. Perhaps Obama will star in a Hollywood
movie after he retires from his national socialist dictatorship in four
years, an autobiographical movie entitled, "How I Fooled Them All, From My
Fake Birth Certificate To Our Fiscal Collapse." And then his sequel,
"It Wasn't My Fault, It Was George's Fault."
-- Sun
Dec 16 Oh dang, just as labor union activists in New York City have
demanded a minimum wage of $15 per hour and staged walk outs at fast food
restaurants, Momentum Machines in San Francisco has invented a robotic
burger maker that can flip 360 burgers per hour. This is the
equivalent of 3 full-time fast-food kitchen employees with -- wait for it,
wait for it -- no bitching and moaning "about wages and walkouts," says
Michael Saltsman, a research fellow at the Employment Policies Institute
writing in an article for the New York Post. Momentum Machines claims
that a typical fast-food business spends $135,000 a year on labor.
“That’s plainly a low-end estimate, but even at that rate, Momentum’s
burger-flipper pays for itself within the first year,” Saltsman notes. “With
a $15-an-hour fast-food wage, it could pay for itself in a matter of
months.” Whoa, hot damn, dudes, when can we expect a Chocolate Milk
Shake Robot? And don't forget those French Fries. In a further
effort at automation, Saltsman adds, McDonald’s announced last year that it
was installing touch-screen terminals at 7,000 European locations, “making
the cashier position effectively obsolete.” Whoa, so much for the
labor unions stupidly encouraging The Robots to take over their jobs.
Then again, half the time I can't figure out if the labor union workers
aren't already robots. "Hey Mom, I just got a new job." "Really,
what is it?" "I dress up like a robot and work for free at
MacDonald's, you know, like for zero dollars per hour. Ain't I smart?"
-- Wed
Dec 11 Michigan today passed a Right To Work law that allows
individuals to voluntarily bargain with corporations for a job without
having to join a union. This brings the total number of Right To Work
states to 24, including Idaho. Obama, of course, dashed off to
Michigan to lobby for his union goons, but, alas, the Pied Piper President
failed on this one. What's really at stake is the concept of
individual rights vs. the coercive collective.
-- Sun
Dec 09 The following chart shows how President Obama and Congress do
not understand not only the severity of
the financial problem facing our country, but more importantly
how we got here: i.e. the continual looting
of your property and your rights by the government using the central bank's
monetary inflation to pay for a giant welfare state.
It is an
ideological battle of the state vs. the individual. If the US was on a
gold monetary standard and had no Federal Reserve central bank to
hyper-inflate our paper and digitized money, we would not be in our current
recession with high unemployment. The root cause of the fiscal cliff
that We The People are running toward -- like lemmings running over a cliff
to their certain death -- is the current cultural belief in Keynesian
socialist economics, which is based upon the bankrupt philosophical concept
of altruistic state collectivism. Unless and until we go back to an
understanding of what constitutes value, what true commodity money is, how
the exchange process in a true free market really works, why we must have an
economic foundation that rests upon the concepts of liberty and private
property rights (called free market capitalism), and how free market
capitalism can only come about from a culture's intellectual foundation of
inherent individual rights and not from a foundation of altruistic state
collectivism, until that happens the Law of Cause and Effect must inexorably
lead our huge welfare state spending over the fiscal AND moral cliffs that
we are now facing. After a hundred years of the Federal Reserve
inflating our money supply for Congress and Presidents to create a humongous
welfare state, our financial chickens have now come home to roost. Obama's Marxist war cries of increasing taxes on the free
market "rich," -- the true producers of wealth in this country -- is not the answer because the free
market "rich" are not the problem. The free market "rich" are the
solution. Not just for material goods but also for a better quality of
life. The only "rich" who are the problem are those socialist
"rich" who are benefiting from governmental intervention such as the central
bankers and their socialist cronies on Wall Street. The Fed Reserve
and Wall Street Gangsta Bankstas are not crony capitalists; they are crony
socialists who do not even come close to being capitalists.
Capitalists use a gold standard; socialists use fake paper money. Look
at the chart above. The chart is not talking about gold. The
chart is talking
about paper debt, Funny Money, digitized nothingness created out of nowhere,
illusions of wealth, smoke and mirrors created by the Fed Reserve and the
government. President Obama and Congress
are busy arguing about how many teaspoons of water they should pull out of
the Pacific Ocean to lower the water level. It is a waste of time and
doesn't even address the root problem of the Federal Reserve's continual
hyper-inflation of our money supply to fund the government's humongous
welfare state. Since it is clear that Obama's taxing the "rich" is
phony baloney, the question is: what is President Obama's real agenda
in calling for "taxing the rich?" His agenda is to
preach and implement his version of Marxist socialism
to destroy our nation's fundamental philosophy of inherent individual rights
and free market capitalism. That's his goal of "fundamental change." And the really sick part of
Obama's philosophy is that the Republican Party fundamentally agrees with it. The
GOP and Obama only disagree on how much,
how much governmental intervention into
the market, how much inflation by the
Federal Reserve, how much governmental
looting and redistribution of the people's private property,
how many inherent rights are to be
sacrificed for "security," for "national defense," for "the public good."
That's what Congress and Obama are arguing about:
how much looting of
We The People they can
get away with and still keep their privileged positions living the Life of
Riley in Washington, DC. Stare at the chart above and ask yourself
how did we ever arrive at this point? Who is making it possible for
President Obama to utter such nonsense as "tax the rich" and "redistribute"
your wealth? The basic premise of Obama's concepts is pure evil and
can be stated as: the Divine Right of Dictators to strip you of your
liberty and life. If you haven't grasped the full, true nature of the
concepts that Obama is trying to shove down your throat, the above chart
should convince you that it is not just your money and property that He
wants to control. He wants your life, your mind, your body, and your
soul, everything that identifies you as an
individual. You are now just a government number; you are a
cog in The ObamaCare Borg, the Brave New Obama World, Obama's '1984.'
Wake up We The People. You are about to crash over more than just a
fiscal cliff. Your life, literally, is at stake. That's how it
happened in Germany in the 1930s and that's how it's going to happen here in
the United States unless We The People wake up soon.
-- Wed
Dec 04 The US is about to go over the Fiscal Cliff by Jan 2013 but the
Big Question is: what is the so-called Fiscal Cliff? First, what
is the US budget? In reality the US annual budget is a fictional
baseline budget that automatically increases each year. In other
words, if this year's budget was $15 trillion, next year's budget
automatically starts at $17 trillion. So, if President Obama and
Congress claim they will cut the budget by $1 trillion, the budget had
already increased by $2 trillion and therefore they are not really cutting
anything but actually are raising the budget by $1 trillion. However,
on national TV and all news media outlets, Obama and Congress slap each other
on their collective -- make that collectivist -- back as they tell the
gullible public that they have arrived at a spending cut of $1 trillion for
the US budget in 2013. Wowie-zowie! Socialist President Obama
gets to blow another $1 trillion in National Socialist interventions into
what's left of the free market and all the GOP and left Liberal US Congress
dopes get re-elected. Yahoo. This is called the Fictional
Baseline Budget Scam and our elected officials pull this stunt off every
year. That's how our national debt continues to increase, year after
year after year. Meanwhile, President Obama continues harping his
mantra of "tax the rich" while simultaneously pushing Keynesian economics
that says all ya gotta do is print up the money to stimulate the economy.
So which is it, Obama: if you can just print up the paper money, why
bother taxing the "rich" or anybody else for that matter? Just print
up the damn money. In fact, why not just give everybody in the nation
a Jr. Federal Reserve Printing Press and let everybody print up however much
money they think they need? Taxes are obsolete under Keynesian
Economics. It's not taxation that Obama wants for the rich. He
is out to destroy the concept of individual and private property rights,
which means the entire US Constitution. I say, let him do it.
Let the entire system collapse because that's apparently the only way to
stop this fiscal insanity. Who is John Galt?
-- Sat
Dec 01 Whoa, listen up, girl friends. Shut up, sit down and pour
yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java. Big Question: Is
President Obama stacking the State Department with Muslim Brotherhood
jihadists? Sec of State Hillary Clinton's top aide in the State
Department is a woman named Huma Abedin. What is her background?
You know, like should she be able to pass a simple low level security
clearance -- CONFIDENTIAL or I PWOMISE NOT TO TELL, HONEST -- to work at the State
Department? With her past associations, I'm surprised she is allowed
to walk in the front door of almost any government building in Washington,
DC.
According to reports at
Conservative Bytes, Abedin worked for an organization founded by her family
that is effectively at the forefront of a grand Saudi plan to mobilize U.S.
Muslim minorities to transform America into a strict Wahhabi-style Islamic
state. Also, according to an Arabic-language manifesto issued by the
Saudi monarchy, Abedin was a member of the executive board of the Muslim
Student Association, which was identified as a Muslim Brotherhood front
group in a 1991 document introduced into evidence during the
terror-financing trial of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation trial.
The internal memo said
Muslim Brotherhood members “must understand that
their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying
the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by
their hands and by the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and
Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
The Muslim Brotherhood is
the parent of most of the top Sunni terrorist organizations in the world,
including al-Qaida and Hamas.
Five Republican Congressmen
and women have filed for an investigation into whether Obama's policies both
nationally and globally are essentially being run by radical Muslim
Brotherhood jihadists working in the State Department. Let's see now.
First we have a President whose birth certificate was an obvious fake, as
proven by a teenager who is very conversant with the software used to
accomplish this fraud and showed it to everybody on the Internet.
Second, we have a President who grew up in Africa and Indonesia and whose
parents and grandparents were gung-ho anti-American statists who
embraced Marxist socialism and communism. Third, we have a President
whose background includes Weather Underground murderers and bomb throwers
Bill Ayers and his wifester B. Dohrn. Fourth, we have a President who
if he tried to get a job as just a day laborer at a security defense manufacturing plant
couldn't even obtain a minimum "confidential" security clearance -- much
less what he has now, which is Top Secret Crypto Eyes Only (plus additional
passwords which are also top secret clearances themselves) -- because
of his past associations. And fifth, we have a President who is busy
implementing national socialism in America while simultaneously taking
advice from cleverly placed radical jihadist Muslim Brotherhood members in
the State Department. Meanwhile, Republican Senator John McCain dashes
to Ms. Abedin's defense claiming that she is a fine and honorable woman.
McCain needs to replace his seeing-eye dog. My guess -- but I could be
wrong -- is that Sec of State Hillary Clinton did not choose Huma Abedin for
her top aide; Obama did, and now we know why. Look at the crisis in
Egypt, where Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood and their puppet Dictator
Moron Morsi who is now advocating martial law and suspension of everybody's rights.
You remember Egypt: the country that is now bankrupt, rioting in
the streets, with a 60% youth unemployment rate and to whom the US sends
over a billion dollars a year in foreign aid.
-- Fri
Nov 30 There is a huge contradiction in President Obama's left Liberal
cry to "tax the rich." First, the President and his left Liberal
socialists believe in Keynesian economics, which states that all the nation
has to do to stimulate the economy is to print up or digitize more
non-backed dollars and throw this Funny Money into the market. If
that's true, think about it: why would the government need to tax the
people for money when it can just print up whatever it needs? If
current economic theory is that you can actually print up trillions and
trillions of dollars to enrich or "stimulate" the economy, then why do we
need taxation? Clearly the left Liberal call for "taxing the rich" is
not about obtaining more tax money. It is about punishing those who
legitimately earned a living in a voluntary free market exchange. It
is all about envy. It is all about crony socialists in the Obama
Administration using the collective coercive power of force to (1) destroy
the concept of inherent individual rights, (2) confiscate private property,
and (3) intervene into what should be a voluntary exchange process in a free
and open market. At their basic philosophical premises, those who are
calling for "tax the rich" while simultaneously supporting Keynesian
economic monetary policy (printing more money) are revealing the real
contradiction of their Big Lie: i.e., if Keynesian economics really
did work, if one really could enrich or "stimulate" the economy by
hyper-inflating the money supply, one would not need to tax anybody, much
less the "rich." Yo, Obama, get off your high horse about "taxing the
rich." Just print up a quadrillion dollars or a quintillion dollars
and drop all taxes on everybody. And while you're at it, dump the IRS,
too. If you don't need to collect taxes because you're printing up the
money, you don't need the Internal Revenue Service either. Sorry, Turbo Tax... you outta luck, Bud.
-- Fri
Nov 30 If anybody still has any doubts about President Obama's
predilection towards establishing a US dictatorship for himself, witness his
latest attempt to take over the US Congress' House of Representatives main
function: fiscal responsibility for America's finances. Obama
has now proposed that he should be given -- by issuing Executive Orders from
time to time -- the power to raise the nation's debt limit. Right,
girl friends, issuing EO debt limits from time to time. Like, whenever
Obama and his crony socialists feel like it. How about issuing a debt
limit EO within the next two weeks, just before our national debt hits its
legal debt limit in December 2012: $16.394 trillion non-backed
dollars? Better yet, why not just let President Obama move all the
Federal Reserve and US Treasury printing presses into the basement of the
White House where Obama's labor union leaders and Muslim Brotherhood buddies
can print up how ever much money they desire?
-- Fri
Nov 30 Whoa, girl friends, check out the following chart posted at
ZeroHedge.com from the Pennsylvania Public Welfare Dept. It shows
America's economic death spiral in easy to understand graphic detail.
The read line shows the 10 year increase in food stamp enrollment (i.e., the
equivalent of 1930's Depression era soup lines) and note the rate of
increase starting in President Obama's first term in 2008 to the present:
a 158% increase. The yellow line, Medicaid enrollment, jumped 52% over
the last ten years; the green line, government employment, increased 6%
during these same years; and private employment -- the free market --
decreased 2% over the last 10 years.
-- Wed
Nov 28 Pull up the barn floor, shut up, and pour yourselves another
hot cup of Rocket Java, girl friends. The US -- just like last year --
will hit its legal debt limit in December 2012: $16.394 trillion
non-backed dollars. Never mind the Fiscal Cliff, higher taxes, and a
huge unfunded Medicare and Medicaid debt reaching into the hundreds of
trillions of dollars that we cannot pay in the near future. Congress
refuses to balance the budget, again, for the 4th year in a row. The
US Constitution mandates that Congress establish an annual budget.
Both Republicans and Democrats pretend that they don't know what to do to
stop the spending. The truth is that they do not want to stop the
spending. They are more interested in maintaining their privileged
life of Riley positions in Washington DC, eating high on the hog, drinking
booze every night, attending big dinners, playing golf, and taking taxpayer
expensed trips all over the world. Any idiot could cut the US budget
if they wanted to. But every Congress dope has a sacred cow, welfare
to their constituents, that they exchange votes for with other Congress
dopes to stay in office by delivering free cookies to their voters, and
therefore it is simply math to figure out that nobody in Congress will ever
gore another Congressman's ox for fear that their own ox will be gored and
they will not get voted back in to their privileged life of Riley. How
does one stop this vicious cycle? Well, that's the real question,
isn't it? You tell me.
-- Wed
Nov 28 What a big surprise, girl friends! The new Egyptian Goon
who President Obama just signed a treaty with wants to take over Egypt as
Pharaoh -- translation: as Military Dictator -- and "temporarily" dump
all laws, all freedoms, all court systems, all legislative bodies and become
Da Head Gangsta of Egypt. Like we never saw this one coming, right?
And guess who supports this new Dictator of Egypt? That's correct-o-roonie:
the Muslim Brotherhood. And who has been visiting President Obama at
the White House recently to discuss the Middle East? That's correct-o-roonie:
the Muslim Brotherhood. Hey, Les Cages aux Folles, "Birds of a feather
flock together." So guess what Barack Obama has in store for you
during his next 4 years as a Lame Duck President, dear Americans?
That's correct-o-roonie: a dictatorship. Suspending the US
Constitution, Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and
instituting a "temporary" -- yeah, ha ha, temporary -- military dictatorship
to quell all the food and energy riots
until our continuing Recession/Depression/High Unemployment is over.
Which will be never. Why? Because that is not in Obama's Game Plan. Obama's
Game Plan is to totally change the structure of our limited republic and
move it further in the direction that both Liberals and Conservatives have
been pushing it for the last 100 years: a total Welfare State, much
like Europe, in which your rights are no longer inherent but rather are
obtained as special "grants" from the central government. And look where
Europe is today. In the financial toilet
completely run by the European Union Central Bankers who are probably
laughing their butts off about how stupid the Europeans are for believing all
the absurdities about Keynesian economics. But it's actually worse
than that, folks. Barack Obama was brought up believing that America is responsible for all
the "Colonialism" that the British Empire foisted all over the world during
England's last reign of power and he is hell bent on making sure
Americans pay for that. Not only is Obama a national socialist who is
extremely envious of individualism and only plays lip service to the
philosophy of free market capitalism, he is also on a gung-ho religious
crusade to pave the way for his Muslim Brotherhood friends to take over Israel and
control the
entire Middle East. What Obama doesn't realize -- and won't until it's
too late -- is that he will be one of the first to go if and when the
Mullahs he empowers really do take over Europe and/or the US. Can it
happen? Yes. With current technology including nuclear and other
dirty weapons. Did the Mongols knock off the Romans? Did the
American Colonists knock off the British army? All you need is a
"useful idiot" in the Oval Office and Marxist Muslim Radicals can indeed
wreak tons of havoc throughout the world. As Rep Ron Paul has pointed
out over and over: the US is only in the Middle East for the Fed
Reserve central bankers to continue their Petro Dollar OPEC monopoly, using
the US military as cannon fodder to protect them and their monetary profits. Now we are getting
blow back from the people of the Middle East who hate us for installing
numerous dictators in their countries and that is why we can't ever "win" in
the Middle East. Nor is there any reason for Americans to try.
The people of America never invented the Petro Dollar OPEC Deal. The
bankers did. We, the people, should have
never gone there in the first place. We should be pulling out of the
Middle East and rely on freedom, individual rights, and free market
capitalism in our relationship with all peoples all over the world.
Not military might which was manufactured by the bankers and the Saudis. And we don't need another American-created dictator in Egypt who we can
bribe for several hundred billion dollars a year with US taxpayer money.
Obama's plan with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere in the
Middle East will eventually backfire, but not before Americans have to pay
the price for it. And then there's Obamacare...
-- Sun
Nov 25 Here's a novel question: by what right does President
Obama and/or Congress tax the rich? Which rich are they talking about?
It matters. If the rich they are talking about are those who have
stolen money or defrauded the taxpayers, such as the Federal Reserve central
bankers or Congressmen or other government agencies, then yes tax the rich.
In fact, don't tax them. Lock them up as the common criminals that
they are and throw away the key. If, however, "tax the rich" means tax
individuals who have legitimately exchanged goods and services in a
voluntary free market, then President Obama and Congress have no right to
confiscate the property of the rich. So, it matters which rich one is
talking about. Unfortunately, President Obama and Congress are not
differentiating which rich they are talking about. It's actually worse
because we all know that the rich they want to tax are not the government
crooks, e.g. the Fed Reserve and corporate welfarists, but rather those who
practice legitimate free market capitalism. What Obama is preaching is
redistribution of the wealth of the true producers of America, the
inventors, the discoverers, the thinkers, the businessmen and women taking
market risks and providing services that consumers have voluntarily chosen.
Obama is preaching Marxist socialism no different from all the slimy little
dictators of Europe in WW II while allowing the real crooks, his socialist
cronies -- they are not "crony capitalists," they are "crony socialists" by
definition -- to reap the ill-gotten money from the government. And if
Obama gets his way, the American economy will collapse for the same reason
that ALL collectivist states eventually crash and burn. Note that
former President George Bush and GOP Congressmen have done the same as Obama,
not as blatantly open, but still the same. Pay attention to what
President Obama and Congress come up with vis a vis "tax the rich" by the
end of this year. They will not differentiate between legitimate rich
and illegitimate rich. That's because our current culture endorses
altruistic state collectivism in which the slobs, the non-producers, the
bums, the non-thinkers envy those who do produce, those who are successful
in the free market. This is the Age of Envy. This is the Age of
the Tribal Witch Doctor in which the crony socialists in charge of the
government are hell bent on forcing everybody into their Tribe, their Gang,
their Collective. No individualists allowed. And that is the
real meaning of Obama's "tax the rich." Envy of the good producers not
because they are bad but rather precisely because they ARE GOOD. Obama
has never worked a real day in his life at a real job, including the
Presidency at which he is just play acting in between implementing Marxist
socialism on a global level. But the worst part is that our public
education system has handed over the distorted minds of our youth on a
silver platter to President Obama. President Obama is the Pied Piper
of our youth -- most of whom have been educated way past their intelligence
in socio-political-economics -- and he is leading the naive little dummies
down the road to serfdom, Obama's serfdom, playing on his national socialist
flute while the children are stupidly singing, "Oh boy, aren't we going to
be secure and safe... let's tax our filthy rich parents to death..."
Uh-huh, right. Nothing like shooting yourself in your own foot on the
pretense of saving your life.
-- Thurs
Nov 22 Whoa, girl friends, pull up the barn floor, shut up, and pour
yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java. Listen up:
Thanksgiving Lesson # 101A. Happy Turkey Day, the day the Pilgrims
figured out that their "communal" farming system wasn't working out so hot
-- they were starving and it wasn't because it snowed -- and so they divided
up their communal property into individual family private property, farmed
it, traded the crops at an open market and, hallelujah, survived. Holy
Mackerel, the Pilgrims re-invented free market capitalism and dumped
Plymouth Rock socialism. So here we are today, 300 years later with
President Barack Obama proclaiming he has seen the light: Uh huh, oh
yeah, let's trek on back down to national socialism, tax the rich, and
redistribute everybody's private property to everybody else on an altruistic
"needs-based" agenda. Like Obama has the right to tell consumers they
can't voluntarily buy or sell goods in the market unless they ask him first.
Uh huh, Karl Marx 101A, workers of the world, unite with Barry Hussein Obama...
as looters for the moochers who rob the real producers. Obama should
fall down on his knees this Thanksgiving Day and kiss the feet of the real
producers of the world, the businessmen and women of the world, the thinkers
and risk-takers who have transformed their ideas and discoveries into time
and labor-saving devices to make a better quality of life for the masses on
earth. If the labor union workers of the world are responsible for the wealth on
earth today, then where have the proletariat been hiding the electric light
bulb, steam engine, and computers for the last 10,000 years? Not down
at the union hall, that's for damn sure... and not out on the picket line
where they've been striking against the real producers of wealth for the
last umpteen thousand years, either. Maybe it's time for the real
producers of wealth to go on strike because if they don't do it voluntarily,
Uncle Sam is busy making sure they will do it involuntarily. OK,
Indiana Jones, let's ride this runaway economic train right over the Fiscal
Cliff, whaddaya say?
-- Wed
Nov 21 The White House announced the federal government will spend $6
billion over four years for a “sustainable energy future” plan with Asian
countries that involves loaning tax
dollars to other countries to increase their
purchasing power for U.S. technology, services and equipment.
OK, let's re-state that in plain English:
President Obama is taxing our asses to the tune of $6 billion and giving it
to Indonesia so they can turn around and use the money to buy goods and
services from we who were taxed.
“Recognizing that energy and the environment are among the most pressing
issues confronting our region, President Obama, in partnership with Sultan
Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei and President of the Republic of Indonesia
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, today proposed the U.S.-Asia Pacific Comprehensive
Partnership for a Sustainable Energy Future,” the White House
announced Tuesday as Obama visits Asian Pacific countries.
The initiative comes after
the Obama administration has been criticized for spending billions to
subsidize U.S.-based green energy companies that went on to declare
bankruptcy, including Solyndra, Ener1, A123, Beacon Power and other failed
renewable energy ventures. Let's all sing together with President
Obama, shall we, "Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me..."
-- Wed
Nov 21 After 11 hours of talks, euro area finance ministers ended
their meeting with no debt-reduction package for Greece, reports
Bloomberg. However, they
"made progress in identifying a consistent package
of credible initiatives aimed at making a further substantial contribution
to the sustainability of Greek government debt," said Jean-Claude
Juncker in a statement. In plain English, that's, "we didn't do
nothing no how to cut the debt and don't plan to either. In fact,
we're going to inflate our debt some more... lots more."
They'll
meet again on November 26, at which Sherry and Brie will be served with
caviar. Entries will include Boeuf Bourguignon slathered with creme de
la more bull shit from the finance looters.
Meanwhile, the global debt to GDP ratio hovers around 350%. In street
talk, that means the victims, that would be YOU, owe 3 1/2 times as much to
the central banks as you earn in a year. The never-answered question
is, "Who printed up all that hyper-inflated toilet paper money, anyway?" A better question is, "Who is
John Galt?"
-- Wed
Nov 21 Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke warned Congress that they
must do something to prevent the US economy from crashing over the "Fiscal
Cliff" before January. Oh boy, one whole month. He also urged
Congress to raise our counterfeit money's debt limit so the US will not
default on its Treasury Bills. Really? That's like Jack the
Ripper issuing a warning in London to look out for serial killers stalking
young ladies in Whitehall. And warning Londoners to be sure to carry a
big knife in case they run into any unsavory murderers on the streets.
Like, where the F does Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke think the current
recession is coming from if not from the central bankers' incessant
inflation of our fake money supply? And who does he think he's kidding
by issuing an official warning to all the victims?
-- Wed
Nov 14 It is rather hilarious -- and unfortunate, but highly
predictable -- how all the news media pundits from Peggy Noonan at the Wall
Street Journal to Karl Rove, to Dick Morris, to FOX news commentators to
MSNBC and CNN left Liberal reporters, have absolutely no clue whatsoever why
Mitt Romney lost the 2012 Presidential election to socialist President Barack Obama. The answer is staring all of them right in the face but
they refuse to acknowledge the obvious truth: our American culture has
now been transformed over the past 50-100 years from a philosophy of
individualism to a philosophy of state collectivism. Individualism
rests upon the premise of inherent individual rights and freedoms.
Obama's socialism rests upon the premise of
altruism, or more specifically, the idea that it is the duty and highest
moral obligation of every individual to sacrifice himself to the
collective "good," the collective "tribe," the collective "whatever" group
you can think of based upon the real or imagined "needs" of the recipient. This philosophy has been adopted by both the GOP and
Democratic parties. There is no disagreement on the philosophy, only
the price of the redistribution. The GOP,
including Mitt Romney who implemented Obamacare in Massachusetts, and former
President George Bush who sold America out to the central bankers on Wall
Street as he let the door slam his butt on the way out, as well as socialist
President Barack Obama who has done far worse by replicating and expanding
on the GOP's actions, have been legislating altruistic state collectivist
programs for the last 50 years. US Senators and Representatives in
Idaho made a big show and statement in the Idaho Statesman newspaper some years ago
about how it was their duty in Congress to vote for and bring home as much
pork as they could. So why are Republicans now surprised that the
moral philosophy of altruistic state collectivism has come back, or rather
evolved, to bite them in the butt in the 2012 elections? The truth is: they are not
surprised. They are only surprised that their form of altruistic state
collectivism was defeated by the left Liberals' message of altruistic state
collectivism. It's as if both parties are simply hell bent on
implementing their particular brand of welfare redistribution. Who
are all the victims and simultaneously the in America who have brought this
redistributionist philosophy upon themselves? You are. At least the
majority of you are. You are the ones who have slowly sold your
individual rights, your souls, your property, your minds and bodies to the
politicians that you elected to "serve" -- I'm really beginning to hate that
word "serve" for what it really means -- which, translated from philosophy
to action, means that you have given your sanction as victims to your opponents in the
biggest debate you never realized you were participating in: the
individual vs. the state. You
gave up your medium of economic exchange, gold and silver, to the central
bankers because you didn't take the time to find out what money, savings and
capital really mean. You gave up your freedoms for all the fake
"security" of food stamps, low mortgage rates and loans, federal intrusion
into education and every single commodity and service in the market.
You allowed your children to be educated by the "government" on the basis of
fake altruism, to supposedly help them while in reality you were throwing
them into the bureaucratic mental meat grinder of the state where their
little minds have been brainwashed against YOU and against all of our
foundational documents and ideas of rights and liberty. So it is not
surprising that all your children have now come back to vote for the moral
philosophy that you forced them to study in our federally-subsidized public
education system. And thus, Barack Obama and his socialist goons
received your children's votes for four more years of national socialist
attrocities.
America -- like all state collectives throughout history -- is now set on a
course of financial and social suicide VOLUNTARILY CHOSEN by the predominant
moral philosophy of our day: the entitlement mentality of "rights to
receive" from those who produce, from the men and women who are still
individualists that transfer ideas into time and labor-saving products that
enrich the quality of everybody's life. The irony in this big attack
against the "rich" and "paying their fair share" is that it is not
the rich who receive the lion's share of an enriched quality of life in free
market capitalism. It is the masses of poor people whose lives are
enriched by true free market capitalism. The rich do not gain much by
becoming richer; but the poor gain a hell of a lot more relative to their
previous position. And if you think that it is labor and the unions
and the politicians who are responsible for any increases in wealth in an
economy, you are sorely mistaken. Value and wealth does not reside in
labor per se; value and wealth reside in the anticipated service expected to
be rendered as determined by the consumer, not the government. By what
right does the President of the United States step into voluntary exchanges
in the free market and take away 50% of what the consumers voluntarily voted
with their wallets to give to, say, the Rolling Stones rock group for their
music? If the consumers pay $100 million to the Rolling Stones for
their music, who is Barack Obama to say the Stones are too "rich" and
therefore must redistribute half of what was given to them freely in the
market? There is no right or wrong in a true
free market. Exchanges are qualitative priorities of each trader.
The market is neutral. And that is why both the GOP and the Democrats
and the central bankers have no business whatsoever intervening into the
free market to redistribute everybody's wealth, or legislate markets, or try to
pick winners and losers in what should be a true free market process.
This process rests upon the philosophy of inherent individual property
rights. Intervention by the government is a violation of the
consumers' rights to freely exchange. President Obama's intervention
into health care or any other freely exchanged commodity or service is a
violation of our inherent rights and freedoms. Obamacare should have
been struck down by our US Supreme Court but for the lone deciding vote of
Chief Justice John Roberts who did not do his duty and totally screwed over
the people of America. So the GOP and all their pundits and
politicians are now scrambling after losing the 2012 elections to figure out how they can be more like the
left Liberal socialists who are running our nation so the GOP can win future
elections, too. My answer to the GOP is: holy crap, why
bother? You're already there, you dummies. You just don't know it yet.
-- Sun
Nov 11 So now we hear on the drive-by media that Obama received up to
158% of the votes in places such as Ohio and Florida. Uh-oh, voter
fraud? Here in Amerika? More people voted than were registered.
What a surprise... Not. Meanwhile, the head of the CIA, General
Petraeus, is resigning because he had conjugal endearment with the lady
writing his biography. Perhaps his resignation will be the final
chapter and he won't have to testify before Congress about why there were no
troops to defend the Ambassador and three assistants at our Libyan
Consulate? They are now dead. And Prez BHO and Sec of State
Hilarious Clinton claim it was just a little uprising caused by some You
Tube video making fun of Al-Qaeda's Prophet? Meanwhile re-elected
Dictator Barack Obama is busy writing Executive Orders and other illegal
documents to bypass the US Congress like nobody's business, faster than a
fornicated fox in a forest fire. The White House is issuing 70 chunks
of legislation per day? Wow. I bet he has a bunch of little
Acorn scribes wearing monk robes sitting in a room in the basement of the
White House just cranking out transcriptions of all the free Santa Claus
goodies Obama now plans to redistribute to the proletariat from all the
dirty rotten rich bourgeoisie. Yes, Marxist class warfare is what
we'll see over the next 4 years. Count on it. Hide your assets.
Hide your money. Hide your yo-yos and bubble gum.
-- Thur
Nov 08 The reason today's economic Depression doesn't look like the
Depression of the 1930's is because it's electronic. Soup lines have
now been replaced with Food Stamps. Instead of standing in long lines
waiting for a bowl of soup dished out in a metal canteen bowl, 46 million
Americans receive plastic charge cards from the Government already loaded up
with the Federal Reserve's inflated digital currency embedded in it so they
can run to the local grocery store and spend it like the Funny Money that it
really is. It looks better that way. No soup lines on Broadway
Ave. And, the government can claim, "Hey, everybody, the economy is
turning around now and we will all be filthy rich by next Friday... yahoo!
Kiss Obama's butt"... and so forth. The same people receive a total
chunk of welfare cash in the range of about $60,000 a year in "free" cookies
while the average household income in America is about $23,000. And
the welfare class screams they are "entitled" to more "free" cookies.
Nobody answers the question: So what if the producers in America
decide to go on strike next week? From where will the "Entitlement
Class" then receive their "free" cookies? No, there is no Depression
in America. It's all electronic and invisible. Smoke and
mirrors, smoke and mirrors.
-- Sun
Oct 21 Obama's good intentions are deadly. Let me tell you a
little story about good intentions. Once upon a time there was a
German zoologist who cared deeply about the seals at the zoo where she
worked. She cleaned and de-boned their fish, kept their water clean,
and fawned over her "babies" as if they were her own children. Then, a
problem occurred. The seals developed lesions and started dying off
like flies. The zoologist beefed up her routine and did everything she
knew to try to heal her dying seals. But to no avail. Finally,
an American biologist showed up, asked the German zoologist to run through
her daily routine with the seals and then said, "Stop cleaning and de-boning
your seals' fish. They are dying from a calcium deficiency by not
eating fish bones as they would in the wild." The zoologist stopped
de-boning her seals' fish, and Holy Mackerel, the remaining seals recovered.
The moral of the story: Obama's redistributionist economic programs,
with "good intentions," will cause economic lesions and eventual death to
our economy. Why? Because governmental intervention into the
natural formation of prices according to real supply and demand in the free
market will be destroyed, and thus, with no "calcium"-- i.e.,
market prices -- all us "seals" will
soon starve and then drop dead. Like the German zoologist, President Obama needs to stop implementing his "good intentions." He's killing
us. And he's killing America.
-- Sat
Jun 30 Individual rights -- supposedly the hallmark of the US political system
-- has now reached a
new low in America with the Supreme Court having ruled 5-4 this week in favor of
President Obama's mandatory national socialist health care system.
Welcome to 1930s Germany's Third Reich. And you ask, "How did the
Nazis ever take over Deutschland?" Easy. The people handed their
rights over to their government, under the illusion of "security." The
US Executive Branch, Congress, and now the US Supreme Court -- the three branches
of government set up in the Constitution to protect individual rights with
checks and balances to control any excesses of each branch -- have all degenerated down to the level of
the pre-colonialist dictatorship of Britain's King George in the 1770's. The
Executive branch now rules everybody with extensive Executive Orders written
by our dictatorial President that bypass all
checks and balances by Congress. Congress now allows a national banking system to
totally destroy our monetary system by printing up trillions of dollars of non-backed
paper and national debt. And now the US Supreme court ruled last week that every
commodity and service implemented by the Government is taxable and, as such,
you are "legally" compelled to purchase government-mandated goods and
services whether you want to or not. The only thing the US Government
has not done to date is quarter soldiers in our homes. Wait till next
week. The only thing left for Americans to regain their freedoms back
is the 2012 November elections. The GOP must win both houses of
Congress and elect a new President. Otherwise, it's checkmate and
the game is over. Unless the people -- which it is their right to do
under the US Constitution -- take it to the streets. As usual, the
bureaucrats are completely out of control and you will have to fight to get
your freedoms back.
-- Thur
Apr 26 If you are worried about the continually increasing price of a
gallon of gas, ponder the following and ask yourself why we are still
burning fossil fuel for energy when it is cheaper to pull free energy from
the space/time continuum called "the vacuum."
Quoting the eminent scientist Stephen Hawking:
“There are something
like ten million million
millionmillion
millionmillion
millionmillion
millionmillion
millionmillion
millionmillion (1 with eighty zeroes
after it) particles in the region of the universe that
we can observe. Where did they all come from? The answer is that,
in quantum theory, particles can be created
out of energy in the form of particle/antiparticle parts. But that
just raises the question of where the energy came from. The answer is that
the total energy of the universe is exactly zero. The matter
in the universe is made out of positive energy. However, the matter
is all
attracting itself by gravity.
Two pieces of matter that
are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long
way apart, because you have to expend energy to separate
them against the gravitational
force that is pulling them
together. Thus in a sense, the gravitational
field has negative energy. In
the case of a universe that is
approximately uniform in space,
one can show that this negative
gravitational energy exactly
cancels the positive energy represented by the matter.
So the total energy of the universe is zero. …now twice zero is also zero.
Thus the universe can double the amount of positive matter
energy and also double the negative
gravitational energy without
violation of the conservation
of energy. …"It is said that
there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate
free lunch." [Stephen D. Hawking, A
Brief History of Time.].
Added physicist and defense department
consultant Lt. Col. Tom Bearden,"We don’t have
a world energy crisis per se, because the seething vacuum
energy is easily available, inexhaustible, and ubiquitous – and clean!.
Instead, we have an energy
from fuel crisis, because we have a world fuel crisis
and we insist on only going after energy from fuel. Obviously the answer is
to get off the 'energy from fuel' kick, and go for 'fuel-free' energy from
the vacuum!" Bearden should know. He and John Bedini
at Energenx Corporation hold
multiple patents on extracting free energy from the "vacuum" and have even
produced a solid state "machine." So why isn't the whole world and
Obama dashing over to implement this inexpensive new "Mouse Trap?"
Simple. The current fossil fuel energy cartel is a trillion dollar a
year business. And so is the Federal Reserve that finances the same
crooks. Ever hear of the Brettonwoods Agreement with OPEC and The
Petro Dollar Deal? No? Tisk, tisk. Too bad. Build
you own personal free energy machine to run your home, keep your big mouth
shut, and maybe the cartel won't bother you. Maybe.
-- Mon
Mar 12 You know your society is doomed:
When you
see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion.
When you see that in order to produce, you
need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing.
When you see that money is flowing to those
who deal, not in goods, but in favors.
When you see that men get richer by graft and
by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but
protect them against you.
When you see corruption being rewarded and
honesty becoming a self-sacrifice. -- Ayn
Rand, 1958
U of Idaho
Wallace pleads GUILTY in $136 mil University Place fiasco...
Deep Throat,
Deep Throat II, Deepest Throat...how
many damn Deep Throats are there in Idaho anyway?
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)
Drive the
ultimate in Green cars.
Drive the all-electric Tesla sports car. Zero emissions, zero fossil fuels, and zero carbon footprint. Well, as close to zero as
you can get. 0 to 60 in 4 sec flat. Beats the crap out of
Corvette, Ferrari, Porsche, Testaroonie-whatevers and the space
shuttle. Go Green. Vrooooommmm... off in a cloud of, well,
electrons...
Previous National News
Budget
cuts are meaningless without Federal Reserve transparency
by Rep Ron Paul
Annotated by FM Duck
Apr
19, 2011
"...two very
well-connected Wall Street wives got together and formed a real estate
investment company that garnered $220 million in so-called "loans" (free
money) from the Fed [during the 2008
financial crisis stimulus money bailout].
Compare this number to the $352 million in spending cuts the CBO says are in
the current budget [the real amount,
not the fake $38 billion in cuts that both political parties and President
Obama argued about]!
A few months later, one of the wives bought a $13.5 million personal
residence with her husband, the CEO of Morgan Stanley."
"The unelected,
unaccountable Fed hands out as much or more money this way as our federal
government spends, and yet receives hardly any attention. This is why I
believe transparency of the Fed is a critical step to regaining control of
our financial situation in this country. We can never get meaningful
reforms if all eyes are on the $352 million so-called cuts, and transactions
like the $220 million given to Wall Street cronies are done in the shadows."
Washington, DC – Congress focused on issues
surrounding government spending this week as talk of deficits, the national
debt, and the debt limit saturated the airwaves. This is a positive
development. In years past, there was very little concern over how much was
spent here in Washington, how it was spent, or how much of our gross
domestic product was being consumed by government. That blissful ignorance
naturally resulted in decades of government spending with impunity, bringing
us to where we are today: trillions in debt with astronomical entitlement
obligations that will be impossible to fulfill in the not too distant
future. So it is a good thing that there is so much political pressure now
on our leaders to actually put the brakes on runaway spending.
However, even the most
generous estimate of the spending cut passed this week – $38.5 billion – is
a paltry 3.5% of the $1.05 trillion in spending through the next 5 months.
This hardly makes a dent in our government's mountain of debt. Even worse
than that, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) stripped away
the accounting sleights of hand and scored it as only $352 million in cuts,
which works out to less than half of one percent of spending. More...
What is the
Basic Issue in the World Today? -- Part 3 of 3
by Ayn Rand
annotated by FM Duck
Feb 03, 2011
"11. Is "The
Greatest Good for the Greatest Number" a moral principle?"
"12. Does
the motive change the nature of a dictatorship?"
11. Is "The Greatest Good For The Greatest Number" A Moral Principle?
“The greatest good for the greatest number" is one of the most vicious
slogans ever foisted on humanity.
This slogan has no concrete, specific meaning. There is no way to interpret
it benevolently, but a great many ways in which it can be used to justify
the most vicious actions.
What is the definition of "the good" in this slogan? None, except: whatever
is good for the greatest number. Who, in any particular issue, decides what
is good for the greatest number? Why, the greatest number.
If you consider this moral, you would have to approve of the following
examples, which are exact applications of this slogan in practice: fifty-one
percent of humanity enslaving the other forty-nine; nine hungry cannibals
eating the tenth one; a lynching mob murdering a man whom they consider
dangerous to the community.
There were seventy million Germans in Germany and six hundred thousand Jews.
The greatest number (the Germans) supported the Nazi government which told
them that their greatest good would be served by exterminating the smaller
number (the Jews) and grabbing their property. This was the horror achieved
in practice by a vicious slogan accepted in theory. But, you might say, the
majority in all these examples did not achieve any real good
for
itself either? No. It didn't, because "the good" is not determined by
counting numbers and is not achieved by the sacrifice of anyone to anyone.
The unthinking assumes that every man who mouths this slogan places himself
unselfishly with the smaller number to be sacrificed to the greatest number
of others. Why should he? There is nothing in the slogan to make him do
this. He is much more likely to try to get in with the greatest number, and
start sacrificing others. What the slogan actually tells him is that he has
no choice, except to rob or be robbed, to crush or get crushed.
The depravity of this slogan lies in the implication that "the good" of a
majority must be achieved through the suffering of a minority; that the
benefit of one man depends upon the sacrifice of another.
If we accept the Collectivist doctrine that man exists only for the sake of
others, then it is true that every pleasure he enjoys (or every bite of
food) is evil and immoral if two other men want it. But on this basis men
cannot eat, breathe or love (all of that is selfish, and what if two other
men want your wife?), men cannot live together at all, and can do nothing
except end up by exterminating one another.
Only on the basis of individual rights can any good -- private or public --
be defined and achieved. Only when each man is free to exist for his own
sake -- neither sacrificing others to himself nor being sacrificed to others
-- only then is every man free to work for the greatest good he can achieve
for himself by his own choice and by his own effort.
And the sum total of such individual efforts is the only kind of general,
social good possible.
Do not think that the opposite of "the greatest good for the greatest
number" is "the greatest good for the smallest number." The real opposite
is: the greatest good one can achieve by one’s own free effort, to everyoneliving.
If you are an Individualist and wish to preserve the American way of life,
... More...
What is the
Basic Issue in the World Today? -- Part 2 of 3
by Ayn Rand
annotated by FM Duck
Feb 02, 2011
"7. How do
we determine that a right has been violated?"
"8. What is
the proper function of government?"
"9. Can
there be a "mixed" social system?"
"10. Can a
society exist without a moral principle?"
7. How Do We Determine That a Right Has Been Violated?
A right cannot be violated except by physical force. One man cannot deprive
another of his life nor enslave him, nor forbid him to pursue happiness,
except by using force against him. Whenever a man is made to act without his
own free, personal, individual,
voluntary consent,
his right has been violated.
Therefore, we can draw a clear-cut division between the rights of one man
and those of another. It is an
objective
division, not subject to differences of opinion, nor to majority decision,
nor to the arbitrary decree of society.
NO MAN HAS THE RIGHT TO INITIATE THE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE AGAINST ANOTHER
MAN.
The practical rule of conduct in a free society, a society of Individualism,
is simple and clear-cut: you cannot expect or demand any action from another
man, except through his free, voluntary consent.
Do not be misled on this point by an old collectivist trick which goes like
this: (1) There is no absolute freedom anyway, since you are not free to
murder, (2) society limits your freedom when it does not permit you to kill,
(3) therefore, society holds the right to limit your freedom in any manner
it sees fit, (4) therefore, drop the delusion of freedom, and (5) freedom is
whatever society decides it is.
It is
not
society, nor any social right, that forbids you to kill, but the inalienable
individual
right of another man to live. This is not a "compromise" between two rights,
but a line of division that preserves both rights untouched. The division is
not derived from an edict of society, but from your own inalienable
individual right. The definition of this limit is not set arbitrarily by
society, but is implicit in the definition of your own right.
Within the sphere of your own rights, your freedom
is
absolute.
8. What Is the Proper Function of Government?
The proper function of government is to protect the individual rights of
man; this means to protect man against brute force.
In a proper social system, men do not use force against one another. Force
may be used only in
self-defense,
that is, in defense of a right violated by force. Men
delegate to the government
the power to use force in retaliation, and
only
in retaliation.
The proper kind of government
does not
initiate the use of force. It uses... More...
What is the
Basic Issue in the World Today? -- Part 1 of 3
by Ayn Rand
annotated by FM Duck
Jan 29, 2011
"1. What is the basic
issue in the world today?"
"2. What is a social
system?"
"3. What is the basic
principle of America?"
"4. What is a right?"
"5. What are the
inalienable rights of man?"
"6. How do we
recognize one another's rights?"
1. What Is the Basic Issue in the World Today?
The basic issue in the world today is between two principles: Individualism
and Collectivism.
Individualism
holds that man has inalienable rights which cannot be taken away from him by
any other man, nor by any number, group or collective of other men.
Therefore, each man exists by his own right and for his own sake, not for
the sake of the group.
Collectivism
holds that man has no rights; that his work, his body and his personality
belong to the group; that the group can do with him as it pleases, in any
manner it pleases, for the sake of whatever it decides to be its own
welfare.
Therefore, each man exists only by the permission of the group and for the
sake of the group.
These two principles are the roots of two opposite social systems. The basic
issue of the world today is between these two systems.
2. What Is a Social System?
A social system is a code of laws which men observe in order to live
together.
Such a code must have a basic principle, a starting point, or it cannot be
devised. The starting point is the question: Is the power of society
limited or unlimited?
Individualism
answers: The power of society is limited by the inalienable, individual
rights of man. Society may make only such laws as do not violate these
rights.
Collectivism
answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it
wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.
Example: Under a system of
Individualism,
a million men cannot pass a law to kill one man for their own benefit. If
they go ahead and kill him, they are breaking the law--which protects his
right to life-and they are punished.
Under a system of
Collectivism,
a million men (or anyone claiming to represent them) can pass a law to kill
one man (or any minority), whenever they think they would benefit by his
death. His right to live is not recognized.
Under Individualism, it is illegal to kill the man and it is legal for
him to protect himself. The law is on the side of a right. Under
Collectivism, it is legal for the majority to kill a man and it is illegal
for him to defend himself. The law is on the side of a number.
In the first case, the law represents a moral principle.
In the second case, the law represents the idea that there are no
moral principles, and men can do anything they please, provided there are
enough of them.
Under a system of Individualism, men are equal before the law at all
times. Each has the same rights, whether he is alone or has a million others
with him.
Under a system of Collectivism, men have to gang up on one another and
whoever has the biggest gang at the moment, holds all rights, while
the loser (the individual or the minority) has none. Any man can be
an absolute master or a helpless slave, according to the size of his gang.
An example of the first system:
The United States of America.
(See: The Declaration of Independence.)
An example of the second system:
Soviet Russia
and
Nazi Germany
[and President Obama’s America today in 2011].
Under the Soviet system, millions of peasants or "kulaks" were
exterminated... More...
Meet The 35 Foreign Banks That Got Bailed Out
By The Fed
Dec
04, 2010
New York, NY -- One may be forgiven to believe that via its FX liquidity
swap lines the Fed only bailed out foreign Central Banks, which in turn took
the money and funded their own banks. It turns out that is only half the
story: we now know the Fed also acted in a secondary bail out capacity,
providing over $350 billion in short term funding exclusively to 35 foreign
banks, of which the biggest beneficiaries were UBS, Dexia and BNP. Since the
funding provided was in the form of ultra-short maturity commercial paper it
was essentially equivalent to cash funding. In other words, between October
27, 2008 and August 6, 2009, the Fed spent $350 billion in taxpayer funds to
save 35 foreign banks. And here people are wondering if the Fed will ever
allow stocks to drop: it is now more than obvious that with all banks
leveraging the equity exposure to the point where a market decline would
likely start a Lehman-type domino, there is no way that the Brian Sack-led
team of traders will allow stocks to drop ever... Until such time nature
reasserts itself, the market collapses without GETCO or the PPT being able
to catch it, and the Fed is finally wiped out in one way or another.
The 35 companies in
question:
UBS
Dexia SA
BNP Paribas
Barclays PLC
Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Commerzbank AG
Danske Bank A/S
ING Groep NV
WestLB
Handelsbanken
Deutsche Post AG
Erste Group Bank AG
NordLB
Free State of Bavaria
KBC
HSH Nordbank AG
Unicredit
HSBC Holdings PLC
DZ Bank AG
Republic of Korea
Rabobank
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Banco Espirito Santo SA
Bank of Nova Scotia
Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
Syngenta AG
Mitsui & Co Ltd
Bank of Montreal
Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd
Mitsubishi Corp
Aegon NV
Royal Bank of Canada
Sumitomo Corp by Tyler Durden at
Zero Hedge dot.com
And this is why the Fed
Reserve doesn't want to be audited by Congress. Because it would
reveal that the Fed has not only been illegally bailing out foreign banks,
they have also been illegally leasing America's gold to foreign nations to
earn profits for themselves. That's why this year's Banking Reform
Bill signed off by President Obama purposefully omitted Rep. Ron Paul's
initial Audit The Fed requirements that would have forced the Fed would
undergo a full audit every year.
Congress and the Federal Reserve are robbing the American citizens blind by
going off the gold standard, counterfeiting, our pulp fiction dollars, and
bailing out their banking buddies throughout the entire world. Who
says crime doesn't pay? Time to abolish the Fed.
545 People
by
Charlie Reese
Oct
19, 2010
Washington, DC – Politicians
are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign
against them.
Have you ever
wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits,
WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever
wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY
do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I
don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I
don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The
House of Representatives does.
You and I
don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I
don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I
don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred
senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices
equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally,
morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague
this country.
I excluded
the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by
the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to
provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central
bank.
I excluded
all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no
legal authority.
They have no
ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one
cotton-picking thing.
I don't care
if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has
the power to accept... More...
Obama's Three Economic Fallacies...or,
Why He Doesn't Get It
Oct
1, 2010
Washington, DC –
Has anybody else noticed a consistent theme running through President Obama's ideology of state collectivism through which he is
attempting to "fundamentally transform America?" There are three basic
economic fallacies uponst which rest Obama's ridiculous programs:
Economic Fallacy # 1: Wealth is finite,
Economic Fallacy # 2: Value resides in labor per se, and
Economic Fallacy # 3: Money is non-collateralized paper or credit.
Let's blow apart these three fallacies.
(1) Wealth is not finite. Wealth is infinite and is the result of... More...
Energy - Part
3 of 3
Why Are We
Still Drilling for Oil When We Have Tesla’s Free Radiant Energy?
(Sep 18, 2010)
In 1943, JP Morgan Jr. et al. murdered Nikola Tesla. The
feds tried to cover it up as “natural causes” but the New York coroner’s
report lists Tesla’s cause of death as “poison.”
In the 1890’s, JP Morgan Sr. et al. murdered Maxwell’s
Equations and Electrical Engineering, killing off Tesla’s discoveries of
free wireless energy from “the vacuum of space-time.” The result is that
today, and for the last 100 years, the world has been using dirty fossil
fuel or dirty nuclear fission instead of a clean, renewable, almost infinite
source of free energy from the “vacuum.”
In 1913, JP Morgan Sr. was one of the central bankers who
pushed the U.S. Congress into creating the Federal Reserve so they, the
bankers, could control the U.S. money supply and thus all market sectors,
especially energy.
Today, in 2010, JP Morgan Co. is one of the four major
bullion banks that the President’s Economic Advisors -- aka The Plunge
Protection Team -- conspire with to manipulate the buying and selling of
precious metals, gold and silver futures in the commodities market, trying
to prop up the hyper-inflated Federal Reserve Note.
So, if we connect the dots between all of these manipulations
in the energy and monetary sectors by JP Morgan Co. and other special
interest groups in Washington DC, we discover that most everything we
learned about money, financing, and energy is a series of big fat lies. And
those lies continue to this day in 2010.
“There is enough EFTV energy in one thimbleful of the space
time continuum to power every electrical device currently in existence on
planet Earth.”--
Tom Bearden.
One of the
men who brought you pulp fiction dollars via a central banking cartel called
the Federal Reserve is the same man who bankrupted Nikola Tesla. The
banker’s son then allegedly had Tesla murdered (poisoned) in order to
prevent Tesla from (1) disseminating information about his free radiant
energy machines, and (2) going to Washington to show President FDR how he
could construct a series of energy shields to protect the U.S. from foreign
attacks. That man and his son were JP Morgan Sr. and JP Morgan Jr.,
respectively, the same Morgans who co-founded General Electric Co. with
Thomas Edison. Their purpose? To prevent Tesla from competing against
Morgan’s new oil business.
JP Morgan
elicited the services of physicist H.A. Lorentz to re-gauge (alter)
Maxwell’s Equations at the turn of the 20th century regarding the source of
Electro Magnetic energy available in electrical circuits. This was done in
order to hide the fact that Maxwell showed how one could pull a trillion
times more energy from the active space-time medium (the vacuum) in a
standard electrical circuit than the puny amount of electron energy we
currently use today.
Lorentz's
“symmetricized” Maxwell’s Equations were changed to convince the 30 or so
electro-dynamicists (electrical engineers) of the day that no excess energy
was being pulled from the seething EM “vacuum.” This charade was continued
by shoving the changed equations into university text books after the early
1900s, which is where they sit today, rotting the brains of current EE
students who, of course, just memorize crap for their tests and ask no
further questions. Nothing has changed over the last 100 years and what
today’s Electrical Engineers (EE’s) learn at all major universities are the
erroneously “symmetrical” Maxwell Equations created (re-gauged) precisely to
hide the huge amount of free energy available from space because JP Morgan’s
Big Oil cartel would have been bankrupted by this information about free
energy from the vacuum.
The upshot
is that anybody who goes back and questions the original equations – not
likely, and not many -- and discovers the discrepancies is either ridiculed
or run out of EE grad school. Meanwhile, down the hall in the Physics Dept,
physicists are busy winning Nobel Prizes for showing the “extra” Maxwell
Equation Poynting and Heaviside radiant energy streaming into standard EE
circuits that EE majors are taught to purposely ignore... More...
Energy - Part
2 of 3
The Asteroid
Belt and How It Got There after the Planet Phaeton Blew Up...Will History
Repeat Itself?
(July 9th,
2010)
The Asteroid Belt is what remained of planet Phaeton (aka
Malona or Malon) after it exploded during a great civil war in which the
Malonans induced tremendous quantities of seawater into the crater of a
volcano which triggered the cosmic catastrophe, approximately 75,000 years
ago.
–
as explained by ET human Semjase in Guido Moosbrugger’s book
And Still They Fly
Washington, DC – What does the current BP oil spill have in common with
today’s Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter? Read on.
75,000 years ago, the planets of our solar system were arranged in the
following order outward from the Sun: Mercury, Earth with its Moon, Phaeton
(Malona), Mars, no Asteroid Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus with its moons
(one of which, 10,000 years ago, was ripped out of orbit by the gravity of a
passing Destroyer Comet and then moved into orbit around the Sun as Venus),
Neptune, Pluto, Transpluto, and Uni. Transpluto has already been discovered
by Earth scientists, Uni has not but it will be.
Take the following as a given, I will quote sources later: we are not alone in our universe and there
exist many universes in many dimensions at various levels of evolution. “Not alone” means the existence of both
ET humans and ET non-humans, all at various stages of evolution. Relevant
to our discussion about energy, suffice it to say that the planet Phaeton
(or Malona) and Mars were both populated by ET humans many thousands of
years ago, the inhabitants of which had immigrated from other galaxies and
solar systems to our solar system for various reasons, some of which were
political. This is not science fiction; this is for real. The inhabitants
of Malona were not without their own internal social and political
intrigues, just like humans on planet Earth today.
Sources claim the Malonans duked it out over who knows what trivial piece
of political crap – just like Earth humans today -- but the major point for
our energy discussion is how they blew
themselves up.
It seems like the dummies on Malona got carried away in their civil war
and directed huge quantities of seawater into the crater of a volcano,
causing a super volcanic explosion that
eventually blew their planet into many chunks that now populate our solar
system as what we call The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Only a
few individuals escaped from Malona. They made their way to Earth, mingling
with the indigenous humans. That was 75,000 years ago.
When Melona blew the first chunk of its planet into space, the larger
portion of the planet moved into Mars’ orbit where, in subsequent
explosions, Malona finally blew itself to nothing except solar rubble
orbiting the Sun, the majority of which is now known on Earth as The
Asteroid Belt, orbiting around our Sun between Mars and Jupiter. After the
last explosions, Mars moved into Malona’s previous orbit leaving an orbital
gap between Mercury and Earth, perhaps due to the gravitational force of
Mars and The Asteroid Belt pulling toward Jupiter and opening that slot. In
fact, 65,000 years later (10,000 years ago), Venus (originally a moon of Uranus) moved into
this gap, its present orbit, as the 2nd rock from the Sun. Interestingly,
the Earth exhibited such a strong gravitational force on Uranus’ displaced
moon, soon-to-be Venus, as it moved from Uranus past Earth and eventually
captured between Mercury and Earth, that it slowed Venus’ rotation and orbit
around the Sun into retrograde – which means opposite the rotation and orbit
of all the other planets in our solar system.
In short, The
Asteroid Belt is what remained of planet Phaeton (aka Malona or Malon) after
it exploded during their great civil war, in which the Malonans
[stupidly] induced tremendous quantities of
seawater into the crater of a volcano which triggered the cosmic
catastrophe, approximately 75,000 years ago. (Source: ET
human Semjase in Guido Moosbrugger’s book And Still They Fly www.figu.org)
And what is the significance of the inhabitants of Phaeton blowing
themselves to oblivion and our Earth’s current BP oil spill in the Gulf of
Mexico? More...
Energy - Part 1
of 3
BP’s Quest for
Time
The Well from
Hell... And What They're Not Saying
by
Christian A.
DeHaemer, Editor Energy & Capital
(Friday, June 18th, 2010)
The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what, they awoke in the
darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.
--
Saruman, The Lord of the Rings
Washington, DC -- There
is something primordial about BP's quest for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. It's
an Icarus-like story of super-ambition; of reaching too far, delving too
deep.
I don't
know if you've stopped to contemplate what BP was trying to do...
The well
itself started 5,000 feet below the surface. That's the depth of the Grand
Canyon from the rim. And then the company attempted to drill more than
30,000 feet below that -- Mt. Everest would give 972 feet to spare.
Furthermore, the company sought oil in a dangerous area of the seabed.
It was
unstable and many think BP sought it out because seismic data showed huge
pools of methane gas -- the very gas that blew the top off Deepwater Horizon
and killed 11 people.
More than a
year ago, geologists criticized Transocean for putting their exploratory rig
directly over a massive underground reservoir of methane. According to the
New York Times, BP's internal "documents show that in March, after
several weeks of problems on the rig, BP was struggling with a loss of 'well
control.' And as far back as 11 months ago, it was concerned about the well
casing and the blowout preventer.”
The problem
is that this methane, located deep in the bowels of the earth, is under
tremendous pressure. Some speculate as much as 100,000 psi -- far too much
for current technology to contain. The shutoff valves and safety measures
were built for only 1,000 psi. It was an accident waiting to happen. And
there are many that say it could get worse -- much worse.
Geologists
are pointing to other fissures and cracks that are appearing on the ocean
floor around the damaged wellhead.
The University of South Florida recently discovered a
second oil plume in the northeastern Gulf. The first plume was found by
Mississippi universities in early May. And there have been
other plumes discovered by submersibles. Some geologists say that BP's
arrogance has set off a series of events that may be irreversible. There are
some that think that BP has drilled into a deep-core oil volcano that cannot
be stopped, regardless of the horizontal drills the company claims will stop
the oil plume in August.
Need the Mudlogs
Geologist
Chris Landau, for instance, has called for a showing of the mudlogs. A
mudlog is a schematic cross sectional drawing of the lithology (rock type)
of the well that has been bored. So far, no one has seen them. BP keeps
them hidden.
Mr. Landau
claims:
It is a dangerous game drilling into high pressure oil
and gas zones because you risk having a blowout if your mud weight is not
heavy enough. If you weight up your mud with barium sulfate to a very high
level, you risk BLOWING OUT THE FORMATION.
What does that mean? It means you crack the rock deep
underground; as the mud weight is now denser than the rock, it escapes into
the rock in the pore spaces and the fractures. The well empties of mud. If
you have not hit high pressure oil or gas at this stage, you are lucky.
But if you
have, the oil and gas come flying up the well and you have a blowout,
because you have no mud in the well to suppress the oil and gas. You shut
down the well with the blowout preventer. If you do not have a blowout
preventer, you are in trouble as we have all seen and you can only hope that
the oil and gas pressure will naturally fall off with time, otherwise you
have to try and put a new blowout preventer in place with oil and gas coming
out as you work.
Obviously, the oil and
gas pressure hasn't fallen off
In fact...
it's increased.
The problem
is that BP may not only have hit the mother of high-pressure wells, but
there is also a vast amount of methane down there that could come exploding
out like an underwater volcano.
I recently
heard a recording of Richard Hoagland who was interviewed on Coast to Coast
AM.
Mr.
Hoagland has suggested that there are cracks in the ocean floor, and that
pressure at the base of the wellhead is approximately 100,000 psi.
Furthermore, geologists believe there are another 4-5 cracks or fissions in
the well. Upon using a GPS and Depth finder system, experts have discovered
a large gas bubble, 15-20 miles across and tens of feet high, under the
ocean floor. These bubbles are common. Many believe they have caused the
sinking of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle. That said, a bubble
this large -- if able to escape from under the ocean floor through a crack
-- would cause a gas explosion that Mr. Hoagland likens to Mt. St. Helens...
only under water. More...
Carbs
against Cardio by
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Scientific American – Medicine & Health – May 2010 Issue
(June 03, 2010)
More data that refined carbohydrates, not fats, threaten the heart.
– Melinda
Moyer
And this is precisely why the free market should rule in health care (and in
all other commodities and services), not the government, because if the
government is wrong we have no freedom of recourse to correct our errors,
only an immovable bureaucracy cast in stone.
– FM Duck
New York, NY
– Eat less saturated fat: that has been the take-home message from the U.S.
government for the past 30 years. But while Americans have dutifully
reduced the percentage of daily calories from saturated fat since 1970, the
obesity rate during that time has more than doubled, diabetes has tripled,
and heart disease is still the country’s biggest killer. Now a spate of new
research, including a meta-analysis of nearly two dozen studies, suggests a
reason why: investigators may have picked the wrong culprit. Processed
carbohydrates, which many Americans eat today in place of fat, may increase
the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease more than fat does – a
finding that has serious implications for new dietary guidelines expected
this year.
In March
the American Journal of clinical Nutrition
published a meta-analysis – which combines data from several studies – that
compared the reported daily food intake of nearly 350,000 people against
their risk of developing cardiovascular disease over a period of five to 23
years. The analysis, overseen by Ronald M. Krauss, director of
atherosclerosis research at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research
Institute, found no association between the
amount of saturated fat consumed and the risk of heart disease.
The
finding joins other conclusions of the past few years that run counter...
More...
Our World
Balances On a Sea of Debt
Mar 06, 2010
by
Darius Guppy
“The banks that control the world’s supply of money are no better than
counterfeiters – and their systems of juggling debt have left the global
economy teetering on the brink of ruin.”--
Darius Guppy, convicted Dutch counterfeiter
The following article aptly describes how fractional reserve banking is
simply another form of counterfeiting, pointing out the conceptual
difference between (1) real money and (2) a paper receipt for real money.
Then as the counterfeiting by fractional reserve bankers grows
exponentially, as it must, the central bankers – witness former Federal
Reserve Chief Alan Greenspan as he embraces the erroneous concept that he
can impute value to paper money per se -- start believing in their own
monetary lies and create even more complicated counterfeit investment
vehicles backed by nothing but hot air, such as fake mortgage-backed
securities, collateralized debt obligations based upon non-collateralized
future daydreams, and then gambling pieces of paper called Credit Default
Swaps whose clever function consists of betting against the
previously-created fractional reserve derivatives. That’s like a
counterfeiter soliciting bets that the cops will soon catch him at his
counterfeiting activities, in order to mitigate his losses. So, the
investment bankers at Goldman Sachs who sit on the board of Governors of the
Fed Reserve sell fractional reserve hedge fund derivatives to clients while
down the hall they short their clients’ very same hedge funds with Credit
Default Swaps, betting that their hedge funds will fail. That’s worse than
prostitutes who only make their money going in; the bankers make their money
both going in and pulling it out, shorting their own hedge funds. This
continues until they can’t keep it up any longer and the market crashes and
burns. Not to worry. It’s called a Recession, then a Depression
as everybody points fingers at everybody else and the bankers blame it on a
“systemic risk,” or the U.S. Congress who is also participating in this
monetary gang bang, or the vagaries of a non-existent free market capitalism,
or a mysterious virus from Mars.
– FM Duck
“If I could counterfeit the Pink Slip to my ’57 Chevy and sell a million
copies to the suckers in my neighborhood for $1,000 each, while replacing
the words
’This is to Certify that There Exists One ’57 Chevy on Deposit at FM Duck’s
Warehouse Payable to the Bearer of This Note on Demand’
to
’Virtual Non-Existent Car,’I could make a fortune. And that’s exactly what the Federal Reserve is
doing with fractional reserve banking of the U.S. Dollar and going off the
gold standard.” – FM Duck
Netherlands,
Europe – In 1994, there resided in the cell next to mine a certain “Tommy”.
He had been imprisoned for counterfeiting Dutch Guilders to such a high
standard that he had fooled the banks themselves.
As was
customary among prisoners who became friends, Tommy allowed me to read his
legal papers and I became fascinated by the judge’s sentencing speech, the
gist of which was that his activities had been parasitical. By creating
money out of thin air he had reduced the purchasing power of more deserving
members of society. What would happen if everyone behaved like him?
I thought
of arguments used, in a different context, regarding inflation. Like
counterfeiting, it dilutes the value of the community’s wealth and
constitutes a social evil. Creating too much money – “real” or “fake” – can
wreck an economy. Such was the Nazis’ reasoning when they planned to ruin
Britain’s economy by flooding the country with near-perfect counterfeit
bills.
A lot of
nonsense has been written about the world’s current economic woes – about
how the crash is the fault solely of the banks and, by implication,
governments are blameless; and how it could all have been avoided, and can
be put right, by greater financial regulation.
It is a
classic example of what the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre terms “the
fallacy of managerial expertise”: an attempt by “experts” to blind us with
science to justify their overpaid existences and mask their confusion. After
all, not one of them was able to predict the current debacle.
These
“experts” will tell you that the present difficulties are simply the result
of abuses and excesses in a system that is basically sound. All that is
required is for some faults to be corrected. Do not believe them. The
reality is that the problem is systemic and a little tinkering here or there
will achieve nothing in the long term.
What is
needed is a root-and-branch re‑evaluation of that most curious of cultural
inventions, money: how it is created, how it circulates, and how it can best
be used to serve the interests of the community.
To begin,
the experts must explain in the simplest terms how money actually works.
Were one to ask the man on the street – or, indeed, most politicians and
bankers – who creates the money that rules our lives they would reply “the
State”. They would be wrong. It is true that governments create legal tender
– the physical notes and coins that circulate in an economy – but that
represents, at its highest, only 3 per cent of the total money in
circulation in the global economy. It is the commercial banks, largely
unaccountable and privately owned, that create the world’s money.
Indeed,
even if Tommy were responsible for printing every note in circulation
throughout the world his power to dilute the rest of our wealth would amount
to only a tiny fraction of that of the real manufacturers of money. His
activities and the activities of the bankers are, in essence, identical: the
creation of money out of nothing.
Without
knowing it, therefore, Tommy’s judge punished him for usurping not so much
the role of the State as the role of the banks. The same mistake – the mis-identification
of where money truly originates – has been made by virtually all of our
politicians, economists and financial commentators.
Consider
the contradiction at the heart of neo-liberal, monetarist economics that has
constituted the Western orthodoxy for the past few decades: to emphasize on
the one hand that the money supply should be brought under control while
simultaneously allowing banking – where the money is actually manufactured –
to run riot.
To grasp
how the global fraud works we need to step back in time and imagine
ourselves next to the original goldsmith-banker.
In his
vault, 10 of his customers each deposit a bar of gold... More...
New Benghazi
Whistleblowers: Stevens Was Involved in Buyback of Stinger Missiles from Al
Qaeda
by Tim Brown at Freedom
Outpost (Summary annotation by FM Duck)
(May 23, 2013)
Summary Rehash:
President Obama and Sec
of State Hillary Clinton were, according to new whistleblower sources,
running an international 'Fast and Furious' gun trade with (unwittingly,
e.g. just like what happened with the drug lords in Mexico) Al Qaeda
terrorists.
Ambassador Stevens
promised Sec of State Hillary Clinton that he would help her buy back
Stinger Missiles from insurgents after Hillary and Obama discovered the
insurgents to whom they sold the missiles were not freedom fighters but
rather Al Qaeda jihadists. Stevens promised to make the Benghazi
outpost "permanent" vs. "temporary" but was knocked off by the same Al Qaeda
terrorists from whom he, Obama, and Hillary were attempting to recoup the
missiles.
While this mess was a
State Dept mess, President Obama was the only one who could tell the
military to "stand down" and not send troops to Benghazi to save Ambassador
Stevens. Hillary played along with this game.
General Carter Ham, in
command of US Africa Command (AFRICOM) was ordered not to act to save
Ambassador Stevens. That order, according to CIA Director General
David Patraeus, must come from President Barack Obama, as Commander in
Chief. Patraeus knew the Benghazi raid was done by terrorists and said
so, but to shut him up the Obama Administration spilled the beans about
Patraeus' adulterous relationship with his biographer Paula Broadwell.
In order to cover all
this crap up, President Obama and Sec of State Hillary Clinton concocted the
Terrorist Fake Movie Fairytale and sent storyteller UN Ambassador Susan Rice
to all the Sunday morning TV talk shows to spread this lie, which has since
been uncovered and revealed on all national news media outlets.
Meanwhile, some poor
Hollywood schmuck "movie producer" sits rotting in jail after being arrested
by the Obama Administration on bogus charges of initiating the Benghazi raid
on our consulate with a YouTube video bashing Allah. And poor little
Hillary hugged the wives of the dead consulate workers while blaming it all
on the "movie." Plus, poor bedraggled Hillary screamed to the
Congressional Investigative Panel words to the effect, "Who gives a crap
what really happened at this point, since they're all dead!"
Guess what, Hilly?
We do. And you just lied to Congress, bitch.
Washington, DC
--
More Benghazi whistleblowers are coming forward according to two former U.S.
diplomats. According to the former diplomats, these whistleblowers are
obtaining legal counsel because they are not protected by whistleblower laws
in the areas that they work in.
PJMedia is
reporting of an interview with these diplomats:
The former
diplomats inform PJM the new revelations concentrate in two areas — what
Ambassador Chris Stevens was actually doing in Benghazi and the pressure put
on General Carter Ham, then in command of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and
therefore responsible for Libya, not to act to protect jeopardized U.S.
personnel.
Stevens’
mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from
al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such
a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had
opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents”
with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.
Hillary
Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats
said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”
This left
Stevens in the position of having to clean up the scandalous enterprise when
it became clear that the “insurgents” actually were al-Qaeda – indeed, in
the view of one of the diplomats, the same group that attacked the
consulate... More...
Only Obama
Could Have Ordered 'Stand Down Call' On Benghazi
by AWR Hawkins at
Breitbart News
(May 09, 2013)
Washington, DC
-- A source with intimate information
about the events that happened on the ground in Benghazi the night the U.S.
Consulate and the CIA annex was attacked by terrorists told Breitbart News
that, ultimately, only the President of the United States, or someone acting
on his authority, could have prevented Special Forces either on the ground
or nearby from helping those Americans who were under deadly assault.
According to the source,
when the attack on the Consulate occurred, a specific chain of command to
gain verbal permission to move special-forces in must have occurred.
SOCAFRICA commander Lieutenant Col. Gibson would have contacted...
More...
Picture of
'Martial Law' Alarms Forensic Profiler
by Bob Unruh
(Mar 25, 2013)
Washington, DC
-- A forensic profiler who worked on the
disappearance of Natalie Holloway and the double-murder case against O.J.
Simpson says he is becoming alarmed by some of the references President
Obama is using.
Andrew G. Hodges, M.D., who
wrote "The Obama Confession: Secret Fear, Secret
fury," previously said Obama's statement "I am not a dictator"
actualy meant, "I am the dictator president."
Hodges also concluded Obama
unconsciously confessed to stealing the 2012 election.
On Hodges's website, Steven
A. Egger, associate professor of criminology at the University of Houston,
Clear Lake, has written that Hodges’ technique is “becoming the cutting edge
of forensic science.”
“Dr. Hodges’ investigation
of forensic documents in the Natalee Holloway case indicates that his
‘thoughtprint decoding method’ and ‘reading between the lines’ is, in fact,
becoming a major contribution to law enforcement tools used by criminal
investigators,” wrote Egger.
Hodges is not new to the
field, already having identified killers by studying ransom notes, emails,
letters and police interviews to spot secret confessions. He decoded
Simpson’s “suicide note” to confirm Simpson had committed a double murder.
He deciphered the JonBenet Ramsey ransom note in Boulder, Colo., to identify
the child’s killer. He decrypted letters from BTK to predict that he was
about to kill again – the only profiler to do so. He studied statements by
Joran van der Sloot and Deepak Kalpoe to tie them to the slaying of
Holloway. He showed how Casey Anthony secretly confessed to killing her
daughter in 200 letters written to a jail mate. He even decoded Bill
Clinton’s comments about Monica Lewinsky.
In his newest analysis, he
looks further into Obama’s statements in his press conference about the
sequester issue in which he berated Republicans for not doing what he wants.
Hodges said “another
spontaneous image” appeared from Obama’s “super intelligence.”
“Asked whether he couldn’t
have pushed negotiations until a deal was reached, Obama replied, ‘I can’t
have Secret Service block the doorway,’” Hodges explained
“He suggests the secret wish
to block the Republicans from the door to the government. Failing to
negotiate, he has made every effort to demonize/crush Republicans to gain
total control of the government after the 2014 election. His ‘have Secret
Service’ image further suggests a desire to totally control major government
law enforcement agencies– to block any opposition,” Hodges said.
“The frightening image ‘of
blocking the doorway’ to those who oppose him suggests progressively ideas
of imprisonment/forced containment, and a picture of martial law. Extreme?
Likely so for now but equally a potential major warning of his true intent –
if everything fell into place,” he said.
But Hodges noted objective
actions that fit the pattern, such as the government’s purchase of 1.6
billion rounds of ammunition, the estimated 145,000 federal agents with
firearm- carry authority and the 65,000 agents for the Department of
Homeland Security alone.
Then, he said, there’s the
report that a Minnesota company was selling to the federal government cutout
targets “designed to ‘desensitize police’ to ‘nontraditional threat
targets.”
The targets included
pregnant women, children, older people and other civilians in neighborhood
settings – all holding guns. The company reported law enforcement designed
and ordered the targets.
“In your wildest
imagination, who in law enforcement needs desensitization to such targets?
Hodges noted that even
activists on the left have expressed concern. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of
the left-wing Code Pink, in a recent WABC radio interview with host Aaron
Klein, called the potential abuse by the Obama administration’s huge
domestic police power “extremely troubling.”
“Recall Obama’s earlier
words which, importantly, he made spontaneously, strongly pointing toward an
unconscious confession. ‘We’ve got to have a civilian national security
force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded [as the
military].’
Obama,
Congress Must Reach Deal On budget By March 1, And Then April 1, And Then
April 20, And Then April 28, And then May 1
And Then Twice A Week For
Next Four Years
by The Onion
(Mar 11, 2013)
Washington, DC
-- With the dramatic, across-the-board
sequestration scheduled to occur this week, the nation’s leading economists
have warned that President Obama and Congress must come to a compromise on
the budget by Mar. 1, and then again by Apr. 1, and then Apr. 20, Apr. 28,
and—after Congress is once again unable to come to a comprehensive agreement
to fully stabilize the economy—May 1, along with agreements twice a week,
every week, for the next four years.
Experts say that without
reaching a deal this Friday, the automatic $85 billion reduction in
government spending will immediately slow the U.S. economy and impact
thousands of middle-class citizens. Officials said the same exact thing will
happen next month, the month after that, and the month after that if Obama
and Congress fail to meet deadlines created by the preceding, incomplete
deals.
“If the president and
Congress are unable to reach a grand bargain by Mar. 1, what they will
likely do is reach a set of 100 or so smaller bargains, all with their own
deadlines, and all of which could potentially plunge the U.S. economy into a
recession,” said Princeton economics professor Marshall Kahn. “So, the Mar.
1 deadline is absolutely crucial. Just like the one next month will be. And
the 12 deadlines in May. And the bi-daily deadlines that will kick in during
the summer.”
“Based on the way the
president and Congress deal with one another,” Kahn added, “in 2014, there
will need to be 4,562 budget deals.”
According to leading
economists, should negotiations between Obama and lawmakers stall this week,
Congress could vote on a resolution to extend the current deadline to May 1,
which would likely cause vital cuts to public programs, and also combine the
projected negotiations scheduled for May 30, June 4, June 5, July 8, 2014,
and Mar. 12, 2042 into one seven-day-long meeting.
Other experts noted that
even in the event of a deal, a clause in the Budget Control Act would
inevitably lead to a total of 64 additional meetings between June and July,
as well as a potential deadline creation deadline that would automatically
kick in on Oct. 4 and would create 20 more deadlines that... More...
The Sequester 'Crisis' and What
Should Be Done
by former US Rep Ron
Paul
(Mar 06, 2013)
Washington, DC
-- Despite what the media and politicians would
have us believe, the United States did not collapse last Friday when the
package of spending reductions known as “sequestration” went into effect.
The financial markets hardly blinked, as they have come to be more skeptical
about these periodic government-hyped “crises.”
What had been portrayed as a
drastic reduction in government spending was merely a decrease in the
projected rate of increase in government spending over the next decade.
Under sequestration, government spending increases by $2.4 trillion over the
next 10 years rather than $2.5 trillion without it.
So we are speeding toward
collapse at only 100 miles per hour instead of 110 miles per hour.
Some in Congress are using
the panic over sequestration to justify another surrender of legislative
authority to the executive branch. These members want to “pass the buck” on
prioritizing federal programs by giving the president, cabinet officials,
and high-level bureaucrats authority to set spending priorities. However, it
is Congress’s job to set priorities in federal spending.
The drafters of the
Constitution give the legislature the authority over spending because they
recognized it was a threat to liberty to allow this power to be concentrated
in the executive branch. Congress’s willingness to cede more authority to
the executive should be opposed by everyone who values liberty and limited
government.
Some of the loudest
objections to sequestration have come from the champions of the
military-industrial complex. Yet under sequestration defense spending will
still increase by 18 percent over 10 years as opposed to 20 percent without
sequestration.
There are claims that the
military will face a... More...
International News
Our World
Balances On a Sea of Debt
Mar 06, 2010
Re-issued Feb
05, 2013
by
Darius Guppy
“The banks that control the world’s supply of money are no better than
counterfeiters – and their systems of juggling debt have left the global
economy teetering on the brink of ruin.”--
Darius Guppy, convicted Dutch counterfeiter
The following article aptly describes how fractional reserve banking is
simply another form of counterfeiting, pointing out the conceptual
difference between (1) real money and (2) a paper receipt for real money.
Then as the counterfeiting by fractional reserve bankers grows
exponentially, as it must, the central bankers – witness former Federal
Reserve Chief Alan Greenspan as he embraces the erroneous concept that he
can impute value to paper money per se -- start believing in their own
monetary lies and create even more complicated counterfeit investment
vehicles backed by nothing but hot air, such as fake mortgage-backed
securities, collateralized debt obligations based upon non-collateralized
future daydreams, and then gambling pieces of paper called Credit Default
Swaps whose clever function consists of betting against the
previously-created fractional reserve derivatives. That’s like a
counterfeiter soliciting bets that the cops will soon catch him at his
counterfeiting activities, in order to mitigate his losses. So, the
investment bankers at Goldman Sachs who sit on the board of Governors of the
Fed Reserve sell fractional reserve hedge fund derivatives to clients while
down the hall they short their clients’ very same hedge funds with Credit
Default Swaps, betting that their hedge funds will fail. That’s worse than
prostitutes who only make their money going in; the bankers make their money
both going in and pulling it , continues until they can’t keep it up any longer and the market crashes and
burns. Not to worry. It’s called a Recession, then a Depression
as everybody points fingers at everybody else and the bankers blame it on a
“systemic risk,” or the U.S. Congress who is also participating in this
monetary gang bang, or the vagaries of a non-existent free market capitalism,
or a mysterious virus from Mars.
– FM Duck
“If I could counterfeit the Pink Slip to my ’57 Chevy and sell a million
copies to the suckers in my neighborhood for $1,000 each, while replacing
the words
’This is to Certify that There Exists One ’57 Chevy on Deposit at FM Duck’s
Warehouse Payable to the Bearer of This Note on Demand’
to
’Virtual Non-Existent Car,’I could make a fortune. And that’s exactly what the Federal Reserve is
doing with fractional reserve banking of the U.S. Dollar and going off the
gold standard.” – FM Duck
Netherlands,
Europe – In 1994, there resided in the cell next to mine a certain “Tommy”.
He had been imprisoned for counterfeiting Dutch Guilders to such a high
standard that he had fooled the banks themselves.
As was
customary among prisoners who became friends, Tommy allowed me to read his
legal papers and I became fascinated by the judge’s sentencing speech, the
gist of which was that his activities had been parasitical. By creating
money out of thin air he had reduced the purchasing power of more deserving
members of society. What would happen if everyone behaved like him?
I thought
of arguments used, in a different context, regarding inflation. Like
counterfeiting, it dilutes the value of the community’s wealth and
constitutes a social evil. Creating too much money – “real” or “fake” – can
wreck an economy. Such was the Nazis’ reasoning when they planned to ruin
Britain’s economy by flooding the country with near-perfect counterfeit
bills.
A lot of
nonsense has been written about the world’s current economic woes – about
how the crash is the fault solely of the banks and, by implication,
governments are blameless; and how it could all have been avoided, and can
be put right, by greater financial regulation.
It is a
classic example of what the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre terms “the
fallacy of managerial expertise”: an attempt by “experts” to blind us with
science to justify their overpaid existences and mask their confusion. After
all, not one of them was able to predict the current debacle.
These
“experts” will tell you that the present difficulties are simply the result
of abuses and excesses in a system that is basically sound. All that is
required is for some faults to be corrected. Do not believe them. The
reality is that the problem is systemic and a little tinkering here or there
will achieve nothing in the long term.
What is
needed is a root-and-branch re‑evaluation of that most curious of cultural
inventions, money: how it is created, how it circulates, and how it can best
be used to serve the interests of the community.
To begin,
the experts must explain in the simplest terms how money actually works.
Were one to ask the man on the street – or, indeed, most politicians and
bankers – who creates the money that rules our lives they would reply “the
State”. They would be wrong. It is true that governments create legal tender
– the physical notes and coins that circulate in an economy – but that
represents, at its highest, only 3 per cent of the total money in
circulation in the global economy. It is the commercial banks, largely
unaccountable and privately owned, that create the world’s money.
Indeed,
even if Tommy were responsible for printing every note in circulation
throughout the world his power to dilute the rest of our wealth would amount
to only a tiny fraction of that of the real manufacturers of money. His
activities and the activities of the bankers are, in essence, identical: the
creation of money out of nothing.
Without
knowing it, therefore, Tommy’s judge punished him for usurping not so much
the role of the State as the role of the banks. The same mistake – the mis-identification
of where money truly originates – has been made by virtually all of our
politicians, economists and financial commentators.
Consider
the contradiction at the heart of neo-liberal, monetarist economics that has
constituted the Western orthodoxy for the past few decades: to emphasize on
the one hand that the money supply should be brought under control while
simultaneously allowing banking – where the money is actually manufactured –
to run riot.
To grasp
how the global fraud works we need to step back in time and imagine
ourselves next to the original goldsmith-banker.
In his
vault, 10 of his customers each deposit a bar of gold... More...
2nd Inaugural Address; Obama
Declares War on Liberty as We Know It
by Joel B. Pollak,
Breitbart News
(Jan 21, 2013)
"But we have
always understood that when times change, so must we; that
fidelity to our founding principles requires new
responses to new challenges; that
preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action."
-- President Barack Obama
Notice that Barack Obama doesn't
understand -- or doesn't want YOU to understand -- that PRINCIPLES, by
definition, do not change over time. That's why they're called
principles, like the Law of Identity, the Law of Cause and Effect, Do Unto
Others, the 10 Commandments, the laws of physics, etc. And namely, the
US Constitution and Bill of Rights. Therefore, preserving our
individual freedoms DOES NOT REQUIRE a change to "collective action" --
which is Obama's Marxist code word for state collectivism, better known as
national socialism.
Washington, DC
--
Sounding the same themes of class warfare that propelled his re-election
campaign, President Barack Obama devoted his second inaugural address to
laying out his second term agenda: a struggle to undo the seeming injustices
of America's past, and to overcome the army of
straw men (Obama's and Karl Marx's continual fiction) that stand
in opposition to progress.
In the process, President
Obama attempted nothing less than an assault on the
timeless notion of liberty itself:
"Through it all, we
have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we
succumbed to the fiction that all society's ills can be cured through
government alone.
But we have always
understood that when times change, so must we; that
fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new
challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms
ultimately requires collective action."
After praising the
"collective" and mocking the notion that America is a "nation of takers,"
President Obama targeted the political opposition. He targeted those who
"deny" climate change, attacked those who allegedly refused to reward the
elderly for their contributions, and defied critics whom he said wanted
"perpetual war." He attacked the rich--as he has done so often over the past
four years--and painted a caricature of an unjust nation: "...our country
cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely
make it....We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for
the lucky, or happiness for the few."
President Obama's address
failed to deliver on promises earlier in the day by senior political adviser
David Axelrod that the speech would sound themes of national unity on a day
of national "consecration." Instead, the president sounded combative themes
familiar from his divisive first term, albeit wrapped occasionally in the
lofty rhetoric of "hope" and "tolerance," and punctuated by the repeated
refrain: "We, the People."
He acknowledged Americans
have diverse concepts of liberty, but insisted that these could all fit
together under the collective mission of the government to achieve its
redistributive aims. Days after describing Republicans as... More...
"Zero Dark Thirty," Real or Fake
Extraction of Osama bin Laden?
(Jan 13, 2013)
This
is where the movie, the book, and what we were told happened appears to start departing from
reality. By "reality" I mean, what should have happened if the US
really was going to capture UBL from his compound in Pakistan?
Think
about it. The US pays Pakistan several hundred billion dollars as an "ally,"
-- ho, ho, an "ally" -- and yet we somehow don't even have the juice or cajones to tell the Pakistani government that we would like to search a
suspected compound where the mastermind of 9/11 might be holed up.
What? Pakistan is going to say, "No?"
Washington, DC / Hollywood, CA
-- The movie, Zero Dark Thirty, debuted yesterday and I dashed
down to the Regal Cinema 22 to see it. Did not read the book, which is
out in hard back under a different title than Zero Dark Thirty. Forgot
the book title but you can't miss it at the book store or at Amazon on line.
The book was written by one of the Navy SEALs who participated in the
extraction -- more like the straightforward shooting, the execution -- of
Osama bin Laden at his hideout in Pakistan in some city called gobbledegook-bad.
All cities in Pakistan end in three letters: "bad."
There was
something very unnerving about this whole episode of knocking off UBL -- Usama bin
Laden -- that occurred in 2011. It just doesn't pass the
smell test. Let's look at the basic facts.
The US government
claims they didn't know where UBL was hiding out for 10 years. Was it
in a cave in Afghanistan? A hut in whoopteedoobad? The Marriott
at Disneyland? Then, some CIA babe deduces -- after a lot of
water-boarding and other big time American torture -- that UBL was living in
a compound less than a mile from Pakistan's equivalent -- ha ha, equivalent
-- of America's West Point Military Academy in gobbledegook-bad.
This
is where the movie, the book, and what we were told happened appears to start departing from
reality. By "reality" I mean, what should have happened if the US
really was going to capture UBL from his compound in Pakistan?
Think
about it. The US pays Pakistan several hundred billion dollars as an "ally,"
-- ho, ho, an "ally" -- and yet we somehow don't even have the juice or cajones to tell the Pakistani government that we would like to search a
suspected compound where the mastermind of 9/11 might be holed up.
What? Pakistan is going to say, "No?"
All the Pakistanis have to
do in broad daylight is to invite the occupants of the suspicious compound
outside for a cup of tea while both Pakistan -- our "ally,"
ho ho -- and the
US military quickly search the suspected UBL compound to determine whether
bin Laden lives there or not. It's really simple. And, hesto presto, if UBL is found hiding in
the laundry basket or microwave oven, or under the lawn mower in the compound, then the US military and Pakistan
arrests the dude and that's that. If not, offer apologies to the head
of household, dole out another billion dollars to Pakistan, and offer a free
round of Bud Lites, courtesy of Barack Obama.
Is that what happened? Nooooo. Instead, the US CIA and Barack Obama... More...
Obama/Congress Implement
Marriage Tax Penalties in "Fiscal Cliff" Taxes
(Jan 02, 2013)
President Obama promised
to sign legislation to allow gay marriage; then he signed a new tax law that
penalizes married couples.
Washington, DC
-- The US Congress just passed a new law that
increases the taxes of all Americans in many areas of the tax code. The new bill does
nothing to cut spending. And the new bill does not address our
out-of-control deficit, now at $17 trillion. Nor does it address our
looming debt ceiling.
But let's take a gander at a couple of the unintended tax
consequences that Congress and President Obama just foisted upon all married
couples. That consequence is what's known as "The Marriage Penalty
Tax."
Remember in the old days when inflation was only trotting
along instead of galloping like it is today, and your IRS 1040 Tax Return
listed exemptions or deductions for single and married couples? The
deduction for a married couple was not double the deduction for a single
person. In other words, it was more advantageous, tax-wise, for
married couples to get a divorce and just live together as man and wife in
order to double their tax deductions and exemptions.
This same anomaly -- called a Marriage Penalty Tax -- was
stupidly passed in at least three sections of yesterday's House and
Senate-approved "Fiscal Cliff" tax bill and President Obama will now sign
off on this encouragement-to-get-a-divorce tax.
What are the new tax snafus that will penalize married
couples?
Snafu # 1: Income tax rates have now been increased
from 35% to 39.6% for individuals earning over $400K, $450K for a married
couple. That means your spouse is only worth $50K for tax sheltering
purposes. Hey, get a divorce, live together and your total tax
deduction will be $800K. Ironically, Congress' new "Fiscal Cliff" tax
law encourages divorce. If you are a small business filing as a sole
proprietor, it may be very important to you to shelter $800,000...
More...
Darth Vader Arrested for
Bringing "Fiscal Cliff" to Earth
(Dec 28, 2012)
"Jeezo peezo, we had no
idea this was going on right under our asses under the basement," said Fed
Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke, "nor where all the hyper-inflated money was
coming from to destroy our economy."
New York, NY
-- Arrested last night for bringing the mysterious
"Fiscal Cliff" to planet Earth from Mars, a Mr. Darth Vader and his 200
storm troopers clad in white plastic suits were caught in the act of
printing up trillions of US dollars underneath the basement of the New York
Federal Reserve in Manhattan.
"Whew!" exclaimed President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
"We knew that it wasn't our fault that the Fiscal Cliff was driving our
economy over the cliff. It had to be somebody else and now we know It
was those invaders from Mars, Darth Vader, and his cohorts."
Speaking under terms of anonymity, recently-fired source
Suzy Dinkleberry who previously worked in the US Treasury Department
confided, "We still are not sure whether the culprits who brought the Fiscal
Cliff to our planet were Mr. Darth Vader and his storm troopers. A key
question," Ms. Dinkleberry added, "is how in hell were they able to dig
underneath the basement of the Federal Reserve in the middle of New York
City to accomplish this nefarious act of counterfeiting?"
"We told you over and over that it was not former
President George Bush's fault," replied GOP House Speaker John Boehner, "but
noooo, the Obama Administration wouldn't believe us."
Invoking the Fifth Amendment so as not to provide
evidence against himself, Mr. Darth Vader kept his mouth shut and
quickly waved his hand, thus invoking what he called "The Force" to
evaporate all the printing presses, plates, ink, tables, chairs and $50
trillion in non-sequential bills as Treasury agents dashed... More...
Just Say "NO!" to Idaho's State
Health Care Exchange
(Dec 16, 2012)
The main problem with setting up
a state health care exchange is that if you accept your opponent's basic premise -- i.e.
that the government has the right to
strip you of your freedoms and force you to buy any commodity or service --
you automatically lose the debate and then all your opponent has to do -- since
you accepted his premise -- is just finish you off with all kinds of new
laws, false rhetoric, economic sophisms, more bureaucracy and more government intervention
into whatever premise you just gave up.
We should have said "No"
to the federal government on all their interventionism a long time ago.
Now we're not only in bed with them, we're practically pregnant.
Boise, ID
-- Whoa, girl friends, pull up the barn floor and
pour yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java. Idaho Governor Butch
Otter is, once again, selling out his Libertarian principles to the federal
government.
This time it's for Obamacare, nicknamed The Affordable Save-The-Poor
Tax-The-Rich Free-Cookies-For-My-Friends Care Act.
Gov Otter has concluded that Idaho has only two choices: (1)
set up a state health care exchange, or (2) the federal
government will do it for us. Nothing could be further from the truth.
In fact, it's exactly the opposite, plus we do have a third choice:
just say "NO."
Regarding the first choice, as Wayne Hoffman from the Idaho
Freedom Foundation and the Libertarian Cato Institute have concluded, if
Idaho caves in and establishes a state health care exchange, we lose the
legal right to fight against Obamacare in the future. And, with either
choice (1) or (2), Idaho's state health care exchange will still be run by
the bureaucrats in Washington.
Gov Otter's big fear is that if he doesn't cave in and create a state
socialist health care system, the feds will jump in and do it for us.
Buzz, wrong! The feds are bluffing. They don't have the money,
time, or resources to build federally subsidized state health care exchanges
in each of the 50 states, or even in the 20 states which have, thus far,
said, "Hell No!" Gov Otter's fear is... More...
How Big is
a Trillion Dollars?
Nov 17, 2012
Washington,
DC – Whoa, girl friends, gather round, shut up, and pour yourselves
another hot cup of Rocket Java. Have you ever seen a million dollars? How
about a billion dollars?
What does One Trillion dollars look like?
All this talk
about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"... A billion dollars here...
a hundred billion dollars there... Eight hundred billion
dollars for President Bush’s TARP bailout... Eight hundred billion dollars
for President Obama’s ARRA “stimulus package”… One TRILLION
dollars...
What does that
look like?
Let’s start
with a $100 dollar bill, currently the largest U.S. denomination in general
circulation.
A packet of one
hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in
your pocket easily and is more than enough for a week or two of shamefully
decadent fun.
Believe it or
not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000).
You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.
While a measly
$1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more
respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...
There is no such animal as
"jobs." There are only individuals choosing how they want to work,
relate and exchange with others. What if all individuals became their
own "employer?" Would they have a "job?" How would you calculate
"unemployment" statistics?
The term "job" and
"unemployment" are simply fake economic constructs for today's Keynesian
economists who have adopted Marxist socialist economics and shoved
individuals into erroneous mathematical equations that bear no resemblance
to reality.
Washington, DC
-- What is a "job?"
All we hear today from politicians is that Americans need "jobs." If
you don't have a job, you are said to be "unemployed." We have
"unemployment" insurance. What is an "employer?" What is an
"employee?"
I submit that the study of economics has been so terribly distorted by the
old Marxist philosophy of "workers" vs. "managers" -- or the proletariat vs.
the bourgeoisie, or managers vs. the workers, or the company vs. the union
-- that we have lost total sight of what is really going on in the field of
study known as economics.
In reality, we have individuals living in a nation. Each individual
has the choice to either run his own business by himself or join with others
in a corporation or hire himself/herself out on an hourly/monthly/yearly
wage basis to perform work for somebody else or a corporation.
In today's political and economic terms, the concept of "employee" or "job"
is simply a somewhat erroneous construct for today's socialist (Keynesian)
economists to use in various mathematical equations. In the real
world, Americans do not have to have "jobs." They do not have to be
"employees." The fact that the majority do so -- i.e., work for
somebody else by exchanging labor as their product for a medium of exchange
(money) -- is more a reflection of people's choices than anything else.
It is not a mandatory universal law of science or anything.
Therefore, for politicians to claim that their political duty is to ensure
that everybody in America has a "job" is pure political nonsense.
People do not need the government to ensure that they have "jobs."
Americans need the government to get out of the "job" market and allow all
individuals to be free to voluntarily exchange goods and services in a free
market capitalist society.
The only true function of the government, and thus the politicians, is to
ensure that all individuals' inherent freedoms and rights to their own mind,
body, and property are not infringed upon. Unfortunately, it has now
been inculcated into our economic system that it is the function of the
federal, state, and local governments to do everything possible to "create
Jobs" for everybody in the nation. And that's when our problems begin.
Every politician has their own definition and moral philosophy of what
constitutes "ensuring that everybody gets a job," that everybody is
"employed," and if they are not "employed," then politicians have concocted
methods that they think will accomplish their "full employment" goal.
Thus we get politicians who conspire with central bankers to inflate the
crap out of our paper and digitized money in order to create "full
employment." We have government "unemployment insurance" with
essentially no time limits. We have food stamps for the "unemployed."
In fact "unemployment benefits" have now been stretched to include all types
of "welfare benefits." And so it goes on and on, the continual erosion
of individual rights and free market capitalism in order to implement the
old Marxist, state collectivist philosophy of the "proletariat" -- the
workers with a for-hire "job" -- vs. the bourgeoisie -- those who manage a
corporation and are not defined as having a "job" because they are managers.
It has gotten so bad, so ingrained in the minds of our culture, that
politicians now assume that it is an inherent "right" -- like freedom of
speech -- for everybody to "receive" a "job." Welcome to the Newspeak
of 2013 in which "rights to receive based upon relative needs" in economics
has replaced the concept of inherent individual rights to voluntarily
exchange in an open free market.
We have now established an economic caste system of relative neediness with
those who are determined (by whom?) to be the most neediest, forcing
(through government intervention) producers of goods and services to become
subservient to the "neediest non-workers" who don't have a "job." Nor
does it stop there. Those who have a "job," are automatically assumed
to be entitled to receive "benefits" from the presumed non-workers,
corporate management. Those "workers" who do not have a "job," are
assumed to be entitled to receive "benefits" such as "health care" from the
government.
But the government is us. So we now are presumed to have a "right"... More...
National Socialism Defeats
Individual Rights in 2012 Presidential Elections
(Nov 07, 2012)
Free gifts from Santa Claus
offered to the minds of little children will always trump having to clean up
their room.
Washington, DC
-- News Flash: National Socialism defeats Individual Rights
in 2012 Presidential Elections!
President Barack Obama did not defeat
GOP candidate Mitt Romney in the elections yesterday. What the 2012 elections really show is that 50% of
America has been completely sucked into the
philosophy of altruistic state collectivism, mainly through their
brain-washing in the left Liberal Public
Education system from K-12, and then 4 more years at university.
A majority
of Americans have
fallen for the basic tenet of Karl Marx: from
each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.
Also called: The Santa Claus Syndrome because the recipients think
they are getting something for free from some mythical benevolent Being, in
this case, the Government.
This is the philosophical foundation of socialism, fascism, communism and
all variations on the theme of state collectivism.
Marxism is diametrically
opposite to the philosophy of individual rights and free market capitalism.
And the youth of America -- like the youth in Germany in the 1920's and 1930's
who
bought off on Adolph Hitler's philosophy of National Socialism -- bought off
on President Barack Obama's same philosophy of national socialism in
America. The question is: will Obama's altruistic state collectivism
lead
to an American Holocaust after destroying the entire US economy?
Many years ago, an author wrote a book, the premise of which was:
What if Germany had won WW II? What would the world look like?
More specifically, what would America look like today? The book went on to describe the Nazis
continuing their atrocities in America --
loss of freedoms, a faltering economy, and finally an American Holocaust.
Well, guess what, Americans? As you wake up this morning on Nov 7,
2012, you will discover that Germany did not lose WW II. We're talking
philosophy here and its inevitable resulting
socio-political-economic results. You know, the inevitable End Game,
often called Cause and Effect. Namely,
with Barack Obama's presidential win last night for four more years of his
continuing federal nationalizations and governmental interventions into
every sphere of what's left of the free market, Obama
can now implement the same National Socialist programs that Nazi Germany would have implemented
in the U.S. had they
actually won WW II.
All this, without firing any physical bullets,
only philosophical bullets.
Where did these philosophical bullets come from? More...
Public School Employment Far
Outpacing K-12 Student Enrollment
by Susan Meyers, Friedman Foundation for
Educational Choice
(Oct 24, 2012)
$24 billion in potential
annual savings could help teachers, kids.
“It’s astounding that billions
of dollars are wasted on personnel in American public schools who do not
produce educational results,” said Robert Enlow, president and CEO of the
Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. “We need to rethink how we spend
our money including whether we would get better student outcomes if we
redirected these funds to parents so they could send their child to the
school of their choice.”
Indianapolis, IN
-- America’s public schools saw a 96 percent
increase in students but increased administrators and other non-teaching
staff a staggering 702 percent since 1950, according to a new study of
school personnel by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice.
The report, “The School
Staffing Surge: Decades of Employment Growth in America’s Public Schools,”
found the seven-fold increase in administrators and other non-teachers in
the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Teaching staff, in comparison,
increased 252 percent.
This trend has continued in
recent years as well.
According to the study,
virtually all 50 states saw “bloat” or an excessive increase in the size of
non-teaching personnel compared to student population. Among the states with
the most disproportionate increases were:
Hawaii. Student enrollment
increased 2.7 percent while administrators and other non-teaching staff
increased 68.9 percent from FY 1992 to FY 2009.
Ohio. Student enrollment
increased 1.9 percent compared to a 44.4 percent increase in
administrators and other non-teaching personnel during the same period.
Minnesota. Student
enrollment increased 8.1 percent compared to an increase in administrators
and non-teaching personnel of 68.2 percent.
New Hampshire. Student
enrollment increased 11.7 percent while administrators and non-teaching
personnel increased 80.2 percent.
Some states actually had
decreases in student enrollment from FY 1992 to FY 2009, but only Montana
reduced the number of non-teaching personnel. Some states had dramatic gains
in personnel outside the classroom despite a loss in student population. For
example:
Maine had a decrease of
10.8 percent in student population yet increased its non-teaching staff by
76.1 percent.
South Dakota lost 3.9
percent of its student population yet increased non-teaching staff by 55.4
percent.
The District of Columbia
lost 14.8 percent of its students yet increased non-teaching staff by 42
percent.
The report was compiled with
statistics from... More...
"2016: The Movie"
by Scot Paulsen, CBS
(Sep 10, 2012)
"Those who have already decided to vote for Obama will probably not even see
the movie. It’s sad but they probably don’t want to know the truth when it
is laid out so clearly for them in this documentary. The independents who
are still deciding who they are going to vote for ought to see this film.
I’m quite confident that any undecided voter who sees this film will know
who to vote for after viewing this documentary. If you know you’re not going
to support the “left” in this coming election, see the film out of interest
if you like. But, fair warning, it’s disturbing – and quite frightening – to
say the least."
New York, NY
--
This past week, “2016: The Movie” about President Barack Obama opened in the
Chicago area, and I chose to get more of an education about Obama by seeing
the movie. After the inundation of canned hype for the movie on conservative
talk shows across the Chicago radio dial that sounded more like commercials
than honest endorsements of the movie, I was skeptical of what I was going
to see.
While some talk show hosts sounded like they were genuinely impressed with
the documentary and honestly endorsing the film, there were those who were
obviously reading a commercial script which was not coming across as sincere
to the regular listener – at least not to this often-skeptical listener.
Perhaps, in future promotions of the film, it would be wise to have
pre-recorded commercials done by the professional commercial-makers rather
than having the likes of Mark Levin and Sean Hannity doing script after
script to promote the movie. After all, the listeners aren’t stupid and
resent any attempt at being conned. After many reads by the talk show hosts,
the readings of the commercial script were no more enthusiastic than another
Life-Lock commercial read – another commercial that ought to be
professionally done.
Yet, I’m glad I saw the hyped-film because it was more informative than I
had thought it would be and included less propaganda than I had predicted.
If anything, it was nearly too informative as there was an enormous amount
of information condensed into the nearly one-hour-and-a-half documentary.
Fact after fact is put forth which shows that President Obama definitely has
many skeletons in the closet that have not been released prior to the
nation’s trust in him with the Oval Office.
To watch this movie and realize – or simply be reminded of – all that is
unknown about President Obama is of concern. Much of the information has
been ignored by the American media totally. When appropriately reminded as
to what is still unknown about Obama to date, one has to ask: How can any
logical-thinking person give a damn about Romney’s taxes while not asking
any questions regarding our current President’s past?...More...
Robert Barro: Ryan and the
Fundamental Economic Debate
by Robert Barro, The Wall Street Journal
(Aug 15, 2012)
It's time to get back to
first principles. A general increase in socialistic policies tends to
lower economic growth.
New York, NY
-- The level of economic commentary during the
presidential campaign has not been high. Democrats have accused Mitt Romney
of the crime of shipping jobs abroad while at Bain Capital, and Mr. Romney
has responded by denying the charge. No one takes the economically
appropriate position for a job outsourcer: "Yes, I shipped some jobs abroad
to save money, and this choice was correct not only for my company but also
for the U.S. economy."
Outsourcing is essentially
the same as importing a good from a foreign country. In the former, a
company buys foreign labor services. In the latter, a company buys the good
that embodies foreign inputs, particularly labor services. So, it makes no
sense to be a free trader with respect to imports and exports of goods while
opposing outsourcing. Opposing either is protectionism.
The central issue is why
free trade is attractive. Suppose a Chinese company learns how to
manufacture a computer at a cost below that for U.S. companies. In that
case, the U.S. economy comes out ahead by importing the computer and
shifting its labor and other inputs to producing other things—some of which
will be sold to China. It's true that shifts in the composition of
international trade will make specific companies and workers worse off, but
free trade will benefit the overall economy.
An important part of the
argument is that the resources previously used to manufacture computers in
the U.S. will typically not remain idle after a shift to importing computers
from China. Instead, the profit-oriented market will find (via Adam Smith's
"invisible hand") productive alternative uses for these resources, thus
contributing to growth.
What about industrial
policies in the forms of subsidies or bailouts for chosen companies and
industries? In a case like Solyndra, the California-based solar technology
company that received $535 million in guaranteed federal loans before going
bankrupt, it's easy to see that the policy was a failure. Then there's the
Chevy Volt, which stays alive with government subsidies, but at a cost to
taxpayers far too large to make sense.
General Motors as a whole is
more interesting, because the post-intervention company is employing lots of
people, producing lots of cars, and even reporting positive profits. But
these results do not prove that intervention was desirable.
If GM had disappeared, its
former workers and other inputs would not have sat around doing nothing.
Another company—be it Toyota, Honda or Ford—would likely have taken over its
operations, expanding production in the U.S. As a matter of economic theory,
the overall economy—though perhaps not parts of Michigan and Ohio—would have
done better if the market had been allowed to reallocate GM's labor and
other inputs.
We must also factor in the
cost of the bailout to taxpayers, recently estimated by the U.S. Treasury at
more than $25 billion, and the long-term economic harm from government
partially repudiating the rights of GM's bondholders. More generally, the
theoretical arguments are supported empirically by the tendency for
countries to perform better economically when they rely more on free markets
and less on socialism.
From this standpoint, it was
scary to hear President Obama's recent assessment of the GM bailout,...
More...
Romney Care 2.0
Editorial, The Wall Street Journal
(Aug 06, 2012)
With costs rising fast,
Massachusetts moves to dictate medical care.
New York, NY
-- ObamaCare's illusions are starting to fall like
autumn leaves, even among some liberals, and what they're discovering are
things that have happened over and over again in Massachusetts. Beacon Hill
"reformed" health care four years before Capitol Hill, and ever since it has
reliably predicted the national trend—on surging costs, price controls,
physician shortages and so much else.
So Boston's latest adventure
deserves particular scrutiny, since odds are its methods are coming soon to
a hospital near you. After more than a year and a half of debate, last week
the legislature passed a far-reaching "cost containment" bill that
Democratic Governor Deval Patrick is about to sign. It is the inevitable
postscript to the model that Mitt Romney introduced in 2006.
The claim then, as with the
Affordable Care Act, was that health care would be less expensive if
everyone had insurance. Soon Massachusetts Democrats leaked that their
political strategy all along was to expand coverage only, because had
RomneyCare seriously squeezed providers it never would have overcome
industry opposition. "Bending the curve" on costs could be saved for another
day, once a vast new government liability was locked in.
Sure enough, 79% of the
newly insured are on public programs. Health costs—Medicaid, RomneyCare's
subsidies, public-employee compensation—will consume some 54% of the state
budget in 2012, up from about 24% in 2001. Over the same period state health
spending in real terms has jumped by 59%, while education has fallen 15%,
police and firemen by 11% and roads and bridges by 23%.
Meanwhile, Massachusetts
spends more per capita on health care than any other state and therefore
more than anywhere else in the industrialized world. Costs are 27% higher
than the U.S. average, 15% higher when adjusted for the state's higher wages
and its concentration of academic medical centers and specialists.
The health-care postman
always rings twice, and now medicine itself is the target, instead of
unsympathetic insurance companies. Under the plan, all Massachusetts
doctors, hospitals and other providers must register... More...
Why Capitalism Has An Image
Problem
by Charles Murray, The Wall Street Journal
Mr. Murray is the author of "Coming Apart: The State of White America,
1960-2010" and the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
(July 29, 2012)
Charles Murray examines
the cloud now hanging over American business -- and what today's capitalists
can do about it.
New York, NY
-- Mitt Romney's résumé at Bain should be a slam
dunk. He has been a successful capitalist, and capitalism is the best thing
that has ever happened to the material condition of the human race. From the
dawn of history until the 18th century, every society in the world was
impoverished, with only the thinnest film of wealth on top. Then came
capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. Everywhere that capitalism
subsequently took hold, national wealth began to increase and poverty began
to fall. Everywhere that capitalism didn't take hold, people remained
impoverished. Everywhere that capitalism has been rejected since then,
poverty has increased.
Capitalism has lifted the
world out of poverty because it gives people a chance to get rich by
creating value and reaping the rewards. Who better to be president of the
greatest of all capitalist nations than a man who got rich by being a
brilliant capitalist?
Yet it hasn't worked out
that way for Mr. Romney. "Capitalist" has become an accusation. The creative
destruction that is at the heart of a growing economy is now seen as evil.
Americans increasingly appear to accept the mind-set that kept the world in
poverty for millennia: If you've gotten rich, it is because you made someone
else poorer.
What happened to turn the
mood of the country so far from our historic celebration of economic
success?
Two important changes in
objective conditions have contributed to this change in mood. One is the
rise of... More...
The Incredible Bain Job
Machine
by Andy Kessler, The Wall Street Journal
(July 17, 2012)
In a competitive economy,
$5,000 computers become $500 tablets. Consumers get to spend the
difference elsewhere in the economy.
Washington, DC
-- Did Mitt Romney and Bain Capital help
office-supply retailer Staples create 88,000 jobs? 43,000? 252? Actually,
Staples probably destroyed 100,000 jobs while creating millions of new ones.
Since 1986, Staples has
opened 2,000 stores, eliminating the jobs of distributors and brokers who
charged nasty markups for paper and office supplies. But it enabled hundreds
of thousands of small (and not so small) businesses to stock themselves
cheaply and conveniently and expand their operations.
It's the same story
elsewhere. Apple employs just 47,000 people, and Google under 25,000. Like
Staples, they have destroyed many old jobs, like making paper maps and pink
"While You Were Out" notepads. But by lowering the cost of doing business
they've enabled innumerable entrepreneurs to start new businesses and employ
hundreds of thousands, even millions, of workers world-wide—all while
capital gets redeployed more effectively.
This process happens during
every business cycle and always, always creates jobs. Yet is ignored by
policy mavens. [Especially left Liberal
Presidential candidates such as Barack Obama who have no clue how a free
market works.]
It is now four years after
the wheels fell off our financial system. The government has tried every
gimmick to revive the economy: fiscal stimulus, monetary easing, loan
write-downs, foreclosure modifications—all duds. It seems like no one
remembers how an economy creates jobs anymore. The right answer, in fact the
only answer, for jobs and better living standards, is productivity.
[And a laissez-faire free market economy is a
precursor to the establishment of market prices and thus productivity.
No free market, no real market prices, no productivity; it's just that
simple.]
Economists define
productivity as output per worker hour. But ramping up the output of
trolleys or 8-track tapes won't increase living standards. It is not just
technical efficiency that matters, it is also effectiveness—that is,
producing what the economy really needs and consumers will pay for.
And so, in a broader sense,
productivity is really about doing the right things the right way. Using
modern construction equipment, we could build a pyramid on the National Mall
in Washington with amazing efficiency, but it would not be effective.
So how does productivity
result in more employment?
Three ways. First, some new
technology comes along that allows something never before possible. Cash
from an ATM, stock trading from an airplane's aisle seat, ads next to Google
search results.
The inventor or entrepreneur
who uses the invention benefits from sales and wealth and hires people to
produce the good or service. We don't hear about this. Instead we hear about
the layoffs of bank tellers, stockbrokers and media salesmen. So
productivity becomes the boogeyman for job losses. And many economic cranks
would prefer that we just hire back the tellers and toll collectors.
This is a big mistake
because new, cheaper technology becomes a platform for others to create or
expand businesses that never before made economic sense. Adobe software
killed typesetters, but allowed millions cheaply to get into the publishing
business. Millions of individuals and micro-size businesses now reach...
More...
Martial Law By Executive
Order
by Jim Garrison, The Huff Post
(Apr 30, 2012)
The most
important thing to glean from this article is not so much what it says but
that it was published in the left Liberal Huffington Post. You know
that when the left Liberals finally discover that President Obama is Big
Brother in George Orwell's 1984, and that Obama is serious about
dumping the US Constitution and making himself Dictator of America, then we
are in real trouble.
Martial Law By Executive Order is the final step of the philosophy of
altruistic state collectivism. First you convince everybody that they
have a "right" to receive the property of everybody else based upon real or
imagined "NEEDs." That's the altruism phase. Second, you obtain
the sanction of your victims. That's the feeling guilty phase if you
don't give it all up in all the various taxation and redistributionist
schemes concocted by the government. The third step is Martial Law By
Executive Order. That's when the government takes over, all in the
name of national security. And the final phase will be, of course, The
Holocaust for all those who have finally figured out that they've been lied
to and are suspected of trying to resist the government's martial law.
Why has
it taken so long for the Liberals at the Huffington Post to finally figure
out what's going on? Remember that the difference between left
Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians is: Libertarians think in
terms of logical, objective, philosophical principles and apply them to all
sectors of life, social and economic; Conservatives think in terms of some
principles and apply some of their principles to economics but rarely to
social issues; left Liberals think in terms of disconnected thought globs,
no principles, and have to re-think every single issue, social and economic,
as if there were no step by step logical connection between individual
social freedoms and individual economic freedoms. Liberals find out
about The Holocaust only after living it, and even then they can't figure
out how they got there; Libertarians already know that altruistic state
collectivism inexorably must lead to The Holocaust. Unless we stop
both major political parties who are busy implementing altruistic state
collectivism, we will all soon be living in The Hunger Games. I wonder
how many Liberals have figured that out, yet: The Hunger Games?
Washington, DC
-- President
Obama's National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order of March 16
does to the country as a whole what the 2012 National Defense Authorization
Act did to the Constitution in particular -- completely eviscerates any due
process or judicial oversight for any action by the Government deemed in the
interest of "national security." Like the NDAA, the new Executive Order puts
the government completely above the law, which, in a democracy, is never
supposed to happen. The United States is essentially now under martial law
without the exigencies of a national emergency.
Even as the 2012 NDAA
was rooted in the Patriot Act and the various executive orders and
Congressional bills that ensued to broaden executive power in the "war on
terror," so the new Executive Order is rooted in the Defense Production Act
of 1950 which gave the Government powers to mobilize national resources in
the event of national emergencies, except now virtually every aspect of
American life falls under ultimate unchallengeable government control, to be
exercised by the president and his secretaries at their discretion.
The 2012 NDAA deemed
the United States a "battlefield," as Senator Lindsey Graham put it, and
gave the president and his agents the right to seize and arrest any U.S.
citizen, detain them indefinitely without charge or trial, and do so only on
suspicion, without any judicial oversight or due process. The new Executive
Order states that the president and his secretaries have the authority to
commandeer all U.S. domestic resources, including food and water, as well as
seize all energy and transportation infrastructure inside the borders of the
United States. The Government can also forcibly draft U.S. citizens into the
military and force U.S. citizens to fulfill "labor requirements" for the
purposes of "national defense." There is not even any Congressional
oversight allowed, only briefings.
In the NDAA, only the
president had the authority to abrogate legitimate freedoms of U.S.
citizens. What is extraordinary in the new Executive Order is that this
supreme power is designated through the president to the secretaries that
run the Government itself:
• The Secretary of
Defense has power over all water resources;
• The Secretary of Commerce has power over all material services and
facilities, including construction materials;
• The Secretary of Transportation has power over all forms of civilian
transportation;
• The Secretary of Agriculture has power over food resources and facilities,
livestock plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm
equipment;
• The Secretary of Health and Human Services has power over all health
resources;
• The Secretary of Energy has power over all forms of energy.
The Executive Order
even stipulates that in the event of conflict between the secretaries in
using these powers, the president will determine the resolution through his
national security team.
The 2012 NDAA gave the
Government the right to abrogate any due process against a U.S. citizen. The
new Executive Order gives the government, through the Secretary of Labor,
the right to proactively... More...
President Obama, "Tax the
Rich!"
(Apr 18,
2012)
Washington, DC
-- Yahoo, girl friends, let's tax the rich!
That's what our socialist President Barack Obama is now shouting from the roof tops all
across America in his never-ending campaign speeches for the presidency for
2012.
Just what we need: a good social-political-economic
screwing over for another 4 years by somebody who defines himself and his
fascist cronies as the free market.
There are two major problems with
President Obama's Kantian and Marxist philosophies:
(1)
In spite of what Obama is preaching, It is not
wrong or immoral for individuals to accumulate riches, which in economic
terms is called savings, or excess capital saved from production. For
all you farmers out there, it's called seed corn, and
(2) Marxist socialism does not
work.
As to the first, it is a philosophical
(I do not mean theoretical, I mean real for survival) question: do
individuals have the moral right to accumulate capital (riches) in a free
market, yes or no? And if they do, why is it morally OK?
Further, if it is not wrong, by what authority does
the President of the United States claim to have a right to redistribute
anybody's accumulated wealth, or seed corn?
In a limited Republic based upon
inherent individual private property rights, it is not only moral to
accumulate savings, it is immoral and stupid to NOT accumulate
savings. In fact, in modern society, if we don't
accumulate true capital -- real commodities, not the fake paper of Federal Reserve Notes -- we
will die as soon as the food, water, and medicine run out. Humans have
an inherent right to save seed corn and other commodities for their future
survival.
Taxing the
rich is a very stupid idea since they are the golden geese who have
saved enough capital to produce more goods and services and hire individuals
to work. Corporate managers and their employees are both capitalists and
their relationship is not a dichotomy working against
each other as Karl Marx would have us believe. Capitalists, hourly-wage
employees, and consultants all work together voluntarily in a free market
for a common purpose: survival and expanded quality of life.
What Obama and his socialist cronies are trying to promulgate is nothing
short of the Kantian, Hegelian, and Marxist philosophy that there is no
objective reality, that man qua an individual cannot know anything about the
real world around him, that man the non-individual only obtains his "rights"
to survival from the biggest and baddest collective group (whoever happens
to be in
charge of the government at any given moment), and, therefore, there is no such thing as
individual rights, all individuals must live and respond to the
needs of a collective group, and the best
social-political-economic method to accomplish this contradictory philosophy
is Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto.
Buzz, wrong again, President Obama.
On all accounts. Kant and Hegel destroyed the concept of
individualism while Marx and Engels destroyed the only moral result of
individual rights: free market capitalism.
The adoption of our modern
day philosophers' claptrap who have been drooling all over the writings of
Emanuel Kant and Karl Marx is now coming full circle and... More...
Complexity
is Bad for your Health
Editorial WSJ
(Apr 09,
2012)
Washington, DC
-- The Supreme Court has long had the role of
declaring what the law is. That's becoming a harder and harder task thanks
to the White House and Congress concocting laws so complex that no one knows
their meaning before, during or after they're passed.
In an era when people expect
transparency and abhor complexity, three days of skeptical Supreme Court
hearings on the president's health law showcased a complex law collapsing
under its own weight. Information is supposed to flow freely, but consumers
of health care operate in the dark, including without any understanding of
how the law is supposed to work. And they are not alone.
Consider how Justices
Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer—one Reagan appointee and one Clinton
appointee—tag-teamed to declare the law unreadable. "What happened to the
Eighth Amendment?" Justice Scalia asked during the oral argument, referring
to prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. "You really want us to go
through these 2,700 pages? And do you really expect the court to do that? Or
do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks?"
Justice Breyer made a
similar point: "I haven't read every word of that, I promise. . . . There is
the mandate in the community, this is Titles I and II, the mandate, the
community, pre-existing condition, OK? . . . There is biosimilarity, there
is breast-feeding, there is promoting nurses and doctors to serve
underserved areas, there is the Class Act, etc. . . . So what do you propose
we do other than spend a year reading all this?"
The justices focused on the
complexity of the law to debate what happens if they find some parts
unconstitutional, such as the individual mandate that forces people to buy
insurance. Can the rest of it stay, or must it all fall, and the political
branches start on health-care reform from scratch? And how could the court
practically pick and choose, given the law's great length and complexity?
This shouldn't surprise even
supporters of the law. Before the bill was passed in 2010, then-House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find
out what's in it," and Rep. John Conyers complained, "What good is reading
the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two
lawyers to find out what it means?"
Having his legislation
treated as farce may help explain President Obama's attack on the courts at
a news conference last week. He claimed...
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Local News
Idaho’s
WinderCare Tramples Upon Women’s Private Property Rights
(Mar 26,
2012)
Boise, ID --
The Idaho Senate last week trampled upon all individuals’ rights when it
passed WinderCare, a mandate introduced into the legislature by Senator
Chuck Winder that would force women to undergo an ultra-sound test before
having an abortion.
The first
right stomped upon is the pregnant woman’s right to choose whether to have
an ultra-sound.
The second
right stomped upon is the woman’s doctor, forced by the state to order an
ultra-sound.
Like
ObamaCare, which mandates that all citizens must purchase a commodity as a
condition of existence, of being a US citizen, WinderCare would mandate a
woman and her doctor to perform an ultra-sound procedure as a condition for
a possible future – and legal -- medical procedure.
Referring to
the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from coercion in
person, papers, and effects, WinderCare – like ObamaCare -- is an obvious
violation of an individual’s rights on many levels.
First,
WinderCare violates a woman’s 4th Amendment right to habeus
corpus, a long-standing writ in British and American law to be free from
false imprisonment by either the government or others. Imprisonment does
not only mean to be physically locked up and thrown into jail. It also
refers to illegal detainment or the taking away an individual’s freedom to
act, travel, speak, or freedom of exchange in the market.
Under
WinderCare, a woman cannot choose to have an abortion unless she first
undergoes a government-mandated action of a vaginal or abdominal
ultra-sound, thus violating her right to a future voluntary legal procedure
with her doctor: an abortion. Abortions are legal in Idaho. WinderCare is
tantamount to forcing an individual to undergo one procedure in order to
perform a second, legal procedure.
What is
WinderCare really trying to do?
It is an
obvious punitive action by Senator Chuck Winder – via the State -- to try to
coerce a woman to do something – view an ultra-sound of her fetus – in order
to coerce her to not do something else – an abortion -- that is already
perfectly legal to do. Punitive action against abortions in Idaho already
takes the form of forcing pregnant women contemplating abortion to sign off
on a piece of paper that purports to show how an abortion can result in
cancer – thanks to a previous pernicious piece of paper introduced and
passed in the Idaho legislature by Rep Bill Sali some years ago.
If Senator
Winder wants to question the issue of abortion, let him introduce
legislation to try that on its own merits. But introducing legislation
mandating... More...
National News
Liberty and ObamaCare
by
WSJ editorial
(Mar 23,
2012)
The Affordable Care Act
claims federal power is unlimited. Now the High Court must decide.
Washington, DC -- Few legal cases in the modern era are
as consequential, or as defining, as the challenges to the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act that the Supreme Court hears beginning
Monday. The powers that the Obama Administration is claiming change the
structure of the American government as it has existed for 225 years. Thus
has the health-care law provoked an unprecedented and unnecessary
constitutional showdown that endangers individual liberty.
It is a remarkable moment.
The High Court has scheduled the longest oral arguments in nearly a
half-century: five and a half hours, spread over three days. Yet Democrats,
the liberal legal establishment and the press corps spent most of 2010 and
2011 deriding the government of limited and enumerated powers of Article I
as a quaint artifact of the 18th century. Now even President Obama and his
staff seem to grasp their constitutional gamble.
Consider a White House
strategy memo that leaked this month, revealing that senior Administration
officials are coordinating with liberal advocacy groups to pressure the
Court. "Frame the Supreme Court oral arguments in terms of real people and
real benefits that would be lost if the law were overturned," the memo
notes, rather than "the individual responsibility piece of the law and the
legal precedence [sic]." Those nonpolitical details are merely what "lawyers
will be talking about."
The White House is even
organizing demonstrations during the proceedings, including a "'prayerful
witness' encircling the Supreme Court." The executive branch is supposed to
speak to the Court through the Solicitor General, not agitprop and crowds in
the streets.
The Supreme Court will not
be ruling about matters of partisan conviction, or the President's
re-election campaign, or even about health care at all. The lawsuit filed by
26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business is about...
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ObamaCare's Flawed Economic
Foundations
by
Prof. Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Vernon L. Smith, for the WSJ
(Mar 20,
2012)
The insurance mandate has
almost nothing to do with remedying costs imposed on the system by those
without coverage.
Washington, DC -- ObamaCare will be argued next week in
the Supreme Court. While the justices will consider the intricacies of
constitutional law, at their heart the arguments in favor of the legislation
have to do with the economics of health care.
Consider the individual
mandate to purchase health insurance. The Obama administration defends the
mandate on the ground that a person's decision to not buy health insurance
affects commerce by materially increasing the costs of others' health
insurance. The government adds that health care is unique and therefore can
be regulated constitutionally in ways other markets cannot.
In reality, the mandate has
almost nothing to do with cost-shifting. The targeted population—the young,
healthy and not poor who choose to forgo coverage—has a minimal role in the
$43 billion of uncompensated health-care costs. In 2008, for example (the
latest figures available), the Department of Health and Human Service's
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey showed that the uncompensated care of the
mandate's targeted population was no more than $12.8 billion—a tiny one-half
of 1% of the nation's $2.4 trillion in overall health-care costs. The
insurance mandate cannot reasonably be justified on the ground that it
remedies costs imposed on the system by the voluntarily uninsured.
The government's other
defense is that the health-care market does not exhibit textbook
competition. No market does. The economic features relied upon by the
government—externalities, imperfect information, geographically distinct
markets, etc.—are characteristic of many markets.
The presence of
externalities and other market imperfections does not justify a departure
from the normal rules of the constitutional road. Health care is typically
consumed locally, and health-insurance markets themselves primarily operate
within the states. The administration's attempt to fashion a singular,
universal solution is not necessary to deal with the variegated issues
arising in these markets. States have taken the lead in past reform efforts.
They should be an integral part of improving the functioning of health-care
and health-insurance markets.
Consider also the health
law's expansion of Medicaid. As Prof. Richard Epstein argued on these pages
("ObamaCare's Phony Medicaid 'Deal,'" May 10, 2010), an expenditure of
federal funds is unconstitutional when it coerces states rather than
encouraging them to participate in a federal policy. And coercion is the
essence of ObamaCare's Medicaid provisions.
ObamaCare transforms
Medicaid from a health-care program for impoverished and special-needs
groups such as the disabled, into a mandatory federal
entitlement—effectively obligatory on both the states and beneficiaries
alike—that reaches even working adults whose incomes fall well above the
poverty level.
The states are in no
realistic position to say no. Consider what would happen if the states...
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The Education Games
(Mar 12,
2012)
Washington, DC -- Welcome to The
Education Games. Like Susanne Collins' new book
The Hunger Games, America is now hosting
The Education Games. How does that
work?
The setting is today, the Greatest Recession
in North America since 1933. Nobody is employed. Nobody is
allowed to trade, except with The District, and everybody is busy blaming
everybody else for their government-created predicament.
Those in charge live in The District of
Columbia, i.e. Washington DC. The District controls everything and
everybody. The District has inflated the paper currency, the dollar,
into oblivion. It's not worth shit. The District has caused a
third of Americans to lose the value of their homes, crashed all aspects of
the economy, and created massive unemployment all across what was once a
prosperous nation called the United States of America.
America is now called The Circus, short for
the old Roman term: Bread and Circuses, which refers to exactly what The
District is now doing to Americans: feeding them a lot of Government
Cookies (the Bread) to keep them fat, dumb, happy and continually slurping
down government-mandated, nationalized, unhealthy health pills.
The purpose of The
Education Games is not to educate but to keep all the unemployed
busy running around in the District's Education Folly Maze, a giant Circus
of pretended education.
Since a third of Americans have no job, and
are not likely to get one since all jobs and the Free Market have been
outlawed by The District, they are paid by The District to Race To The Top.
Race To The Top is President Barack Obama's version of former President
George Bush's Leave No Child Behind. Both federal programs have one
objective: to keep the masses in a perpetual state of re-educating
themselves to earn a different State Work Permit so they can pretend to look
for the same type of job that someone else is busy re-educating themselves
out of -- so that they, too, can pretend to be looking for a different job
that has also been prohibited by The District.
Meanwhile, everybody collects government
unemployment Cookies.
Forever.
Forever because there is no end to
The Education Games. It's a big...
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The Hunger Games
(Mar 05,
2012)
Washington, DC -- The Hunger Games by Suzanne
Collins. That's the book you want to read today.
Actually,
The Hunger Games book series is a trilogy:
(1) The Hunger Games, (2)
Catching Fire, and (3)
Mockingjay.
Why should you read
The Hunger Games? Because at the
current rate of our approaching economic Depression in America, and if
president Obama and his fascist cronies win the 2012 Elections, we may
all end up as participants in a national fight to the death for what remains of
the food supply in North America.
In Suzanne Collins' 1st book of her
trilogy, North America -- which is now called Panem -- has totally collapsed
into 12 major Districts, ruled by a Capitol Dictator and an army of
Peacekeepers reminiscent of Darth Vader's killer-diller super soldiers who
stop at nothing to keep the people in each District towing the line.
Each District is surrounded by electric barbed-wire fencing and must produce
whatever the Capitol tells it to produce: mining, agriculture, etc. If
you stray outside the fence or don't produce for the Capitol, you are dead
meat. Most Districts are barely subsisting. No food, no
medicine, no nothing but bare living essentials. Residents of the
Capitol live like Kings and Queens.
So what's the plot? Every
year the Capitol holds The Hunger Games. Each District must send two
youths, one boy and one girl, between the ages of 12 and 18, to participate in a
national televised fight to the death in a huge landscaped arena with only
one winner. The winner is allowed to live in comfort for the rest of
his or her life and the winner's District receives extra food on a monthly
basis for a year. Participants in The Hunger Games are chosen by a
lottery, names pulled out of a jar. Good luck.
The Gamekeeper who officially runs the
Hunger Games is a tricky sucker who... More...
Feds Redefine Pizza as a
Vegetable
(Feb 24,
2012)
Washington, DC -- Whoa, jump off your ponies, pull up the
barn floor, shut up and pour yourselves another hot cup of Rocket Java, girl
friends. The federal government wants to redefine a pizza as a
vegetable. Uh-huh. A vegetable.
That reminds me of a satirical article in
The Onion a few years back in which a
vegetarian group redefined cows as plants so the vegans could gobble down
hamburgers and steaks. Chickens became legumes, fish became seaweed,
and so on.
So, what's the beef about today's Department of Education
and US Department of Agriculture wanting to redefine a pizza in our public
schools lunch program as a vegetable? How do the bureaucrats plan to
alter reality for the kids?
Simple. Add more marinara tomato sauce to the
public school pizzas, thus pretending a pizza is actually a tomato, and
redefine a pizza as a vegetable. That way, kids won't get fat.
As an aside, a tomato is not a vegetable; it is a fruit.
So, not only are the USDA and Dept of Education bureaucrats IGNORANT about
the biological category of a tomato, they are now trying to destroy basic
reality (metaphysics and epistemology) of the real world.
As Aristotle taught thousands of years ago, A equals A,
and A cannot also equal B at the same time. That's a given.
Otherwise, nobody could define reality and establish categories of thought
in order to survive in the real world.
Then, with no true categories of thought, nobody could
establish a "self," thus self identity, or self esteem. Nobody could
define what's good or bad for survival of the individual -- or humanity --
in the real world. Nobody could establish a moral right and wrong.
What's good for me, what's bad for me? What's good for my family,
what's good for homo sapiens on planet Earth and in the Universe?
Finally, with no moral philosophy as a guide,...
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2012: The Obama-Romney Presidential
Debates
(Feb 06,
2012)
Washington, DC --
Fast forward to Nov
2012: The Obama-Romney Presidential Debates.
How can GOP candidate
Mitt Romney debate Barack Obama on the issue of universal health care?
Obama will point out that Gov. Romney implemented the president’s same socialized
health care plan, ObamaCare, as Romney Care in Massachusetts.
Gov. Romney will then
try to counter by saying that Romney Care is OK at the state level but not
OK at the national level. It’s OK, says Romney, for the state of
Massachusetts and each of the other 49 states to strip the individual of
their rights to choose any commodity or service pushed by the
government but it’s not OK for the federal government to do the same thing
to all 50 states.
Obama will counter, why
not? Allowing each state to mandate government health care is extremely
inefficient and people moving from one state to another will have to keep
changing to the different health care rules of each state. It’s more
efficient for all 50 states to have one nationalized health care program
instead of having to obtain a new plan every time they move from one state
to another.
Legally, points out
Obama, if it’s constitutional to mandate government health care per state,
it’s OK to... More...
The Federal
Reserve's Covert Bailout of Europe
by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr.
The Wall Street Journal
(Dec
28, 2011)
When is a loan between
central banks not a loan? When it is a dollars-for-euros currency swap.
Dallas, TX -- America's central bank, the Federal
Reserve, is engaged in a bailout of European banks. Surprisingly, its
operation is largely unnoticed here.
The Fed is using what is
termed a "temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangement" with the
European Central Bank (ECB). There are similar arrangements with the central
banks of Canada, England, Switzerland and Japan. Simply put, the Fed trades
or "swaps" dollars for euros. The Fed is compensated by payment of an
interest rate (currently 50 basis points, or one-half of 1%) above the
overnight index swap rate. The ECB, which guarantees to return the dollars
at an exchange rate fixed at the time the original swap is made, then lends
the dollars to European banks of its choosing.
Why are the Fed and the ECB
doing this? The Fed could, after all, lend directly to U.S. branches of
foreign banks. It did a great deal of lending to foreign banks under various
special credit facilities in the aftermath of Lehman's collapse in the fall
of 2008. Or, the ECB could lend euros to banks and they could purchase
dollars in foreign-exchange markets. The world is, after all, awash in
dollars.
The two central banks are
engaging in this roundabout procedure because each needs a fig leaf. The Fed
was embarrassed by the revelations of its prior largess with foreign banks.
It does not want the debt of foreign banks on its books. A currency swap
with the ECB is not technically a loan.
The ECB is entangled in an
even bigger legal and political mess. What the heads of many European
governments want is for the ECB to bail them out. The central bank and some
European governments say that it cannot constitutionally do that. The ECB
would also prefer not to create boatloads of new euros, since it wants to
keep its reputation as an inflation-fighter intact. To mitigate its euro
lending, it borrows dollars to... More...
International News
Forget
Britain's David Cameron Veto, Another Eurozone Crisis is Only Weeks Away
by Jeremy Warner
The Telegraph
(Dec
13, 2011)
Leaders in the European Union will not
take the measures towards fiscal union that would save their ailing
economies.
Mario Draghi, president of
the European Central Bank, remains intransigent. ... What he has agreed to
do is provide unlimited
liquidity to banks, so
that they could in theory buy up sovereign bonds instead. But even if
this were to happen, it couldn’t provide a lasting solution. European banks
are already bust enough; to exaggerate the problem by loading themselves up
with junk sovereign debt is scarcely going to help. As for Germany, hell
will freeze over before it accepts joint liability for periphery debts.
There was no fiscal compact
of any significance agreed last weekend. Nor was there any progress
made in providing a credible backstop. Even with the extra funds which
European leaders are laughably promising via the IMF “back door”
(as if they cannot trust
themselves with their own money),
the financial firewall remains dwarfed by the ever-growing size of the
problem. Italy’s funding needs would gobble up the entire bail-out money
within two years. In any case, the IMF back-door support is already in
trouble. There’s no clarity on where the extra 200 billion euros are going
to come from, with the Bundesbank refusing to cough up unless underwritten
by the German parliament and confusion over whether non-euro countries are
expected to contribute.
If you really want to
understand the bankrupt moral philosophy of altruistic collectivism behind
what is going on in the European Union today -- as well as in the United
States -- I could simply ask you to read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, or see
the movie. That way, you can also "see" what the obvious result will
be. The question, "Who is John Galt?" will soon be answered in Europe
and the US. -- FM Duck
London, England -- You wouldn’t believe it to listen to
the fulminating indignation directed at the UK from across the Channel, but
David Cameron did the eurozone’s political leaders a favour last weekend. By
refusing to sign up, he managed to create a convenient Aunt Sally for
Europeans to throw stones at, and divert attention from the summit’s failure
to come up with anything remotely credible to address either the single
currency’s existential crisis or the gathering economic slump. The latest in
a long line of self-styled “make or break” summits, it was in truth no more
momentous than any of the others.
What was agreed was some minor strengthening of the
Maastricht framework for governing monetary union, though some aspects of
the original “stability and growth pact” have actually been watered down.
The maximum fine that can be imposed for breach of the rules has been
reduced from 0.5 per cent of GDP annually to 0.2 per cent.
In most other respects too, the idea that some kind of
great leap forward in terms of fiscal and political union has occurred is a
nonsense. Consider... More...
National News
How Does
Europe Borrow Dollars from the Fed?
by John Carney
at CNBC
(Dec
11, 2011)
New York, NY -- The Federal Reserve and other banks
announced Wednesdaythat they were engaging in a coordinated action to
provide liquidity to Europe's credit markets.
What
essentially happened is that the Fed cut the interest rate it charges the
European Central Bank to borrow dollars.
The
European Central Bank wants the dollars so it can lend them out to European
banks, which have been having trouble borrowing dollars at affordable rates
due to fears about their financial health.
It’s
worth taking a moment to see what actually happens with these swap
facilities because they can create the illusion we’re sending boatloads of
dollars overseas and the ECB is sending us boatloads full of euros.
Would-be pirates will be disappointed that no currency flotillas cross back
and forth on the Atlantic.
What
really takes place, for the most part, is down on Maiden Lane in Manhattan’s
financial district. That’s where the headquarters of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York is located.
Like
most interbank transfers these days, everything is done electronically.
When
the ECB wants dollars, it gives notice to the New York Fed. The notice
contains how many dollars the ECB wants, when it wants them, what the
exchange rate is at the time, when it will pay back the dollars, and what
the interest rate will be.
Until
today, the interest rate was one percent plus something called the US dollar
Overnight Indexed Swap Rate. Today's announcement cut the spread in half, so
that the ECB now borrows at just half a percent over the OIS. (It’s very
telling that only the ECB has to pay interest. There’s no price for the Fed
getting to hold euros.)
Next—and this is important—nothing happens. Not really, that is.
Nothing moves anywhere. No currency flotillas leave for the high seas.
All
that happens is that an account at the NY Fed that the ECB has designated as
its swap account gets credited with the dollars. This account is really just
a line on a spreadsheet in a computer in that Fed building on Maiden Lane.
Crediting the account just means that someone enters numbers into a
spreadsheet.
At the
same time, the ECB enters numbers onto a spreadsheet... More...
Fix Was In:
The Stock Market was Rigged
by John Crudele
at The New York Post
(Dec
08, 2011)
New York, NY -- So, now do you believe me? The stock
market was rigged.
It has been a little lonely
telling this story over the past few years.
But now that another news
organization has finally gotten off its lazy butt, I’ll tell it again: Under
former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, confidential
government information was regularly leaked to select people on Wall Street.
As I’ve explained many times
before, The Post got hold of Paulson’s telephone records back in 2009. And
the phone logs show that Paulson, the former head of Goldman Sachs,
regularly spoke with influential people on Wall Street with whom he
shouldn’t have been communicating. These phone calls could have been — let’s
use the word “enriching” — for the recipients.
Among his regular phone buds
was Lloyd Blankfein, who, for example, spoke six times with
Paulson on Sept. 18, 2008. That was a day of great market turmoil and —
while there is no way of knowing what the two men spoke about — the calls
did coincide with a major turnaround in stock prices.
That was just one example.
There were many recipients
of Paulson’s calls. And the conversations went on for years and were
especially frequent when... More...
European
Ponzi Goes
Full Retard as EFSF Found to Monetize... Itself
by Tyler Durden
at Zero Hedge
(Nov
15, 2011)
Washington, DC -- We have long mocked and ridiculed the
Federal Reserve for being the ultimate Ponzi instrument: after all, why
worry, when your central bank will buy up almost three trillion in US paper
in about 2 years (a very comforting fact for US politicians who never have
to fear that those trillions in new porkbills, pardon fiscal stimulus
programs, may end up without funding).
Well, as it turns out, those wily veteran bankers from
across the Atlantic have just one-upped America yet again.
According to the Telegraph, the abysmal, and barely
successful, 3 EUR billion issuance of EFSF bonds (which was originally
supposed to be 10 EUR billion, on its very very gradual climb to 1 EUR
trillion) had one more very curious feature to it, aside from confirming
that it is Dead On Arrival as expected. It turns out that in addition
to being the most convoluted and complex creation ever conceived by JP
Morgan which is advising Europe on coming up with structured finance
products that are so complex nobody will ask any questions
and will automatically assume someone else has done the
homework, it is also the quintessential Ponzi instrument.
The Telegraph reports that the already reduced 3 EUR
billion "target was only met after the EFSF resorted to buying up
several hundred million euros worth of the bonds." You read that
right: in its first bond issuance since its transformation to the
European Bank/Sovereign Bailout Swiss Army Knife, the EFSF not only failed
to raise a minimum token amount, but also had to...
buy its own bonds.
We can assume that the money the EFSF needed to fund said purchase came from
the money growing tree, as at last check the European Central Bank was still
not funding the EFSF with crisp, new zEURq.PK equivalent binary 1s and 0s.
But at least we all know what happens when the global Ponzi goes full
retard.
More on this surreal story
which will be promptly buried in the barrage of Monday headlines because
an international advisor to Goldman Sachs is now in
charge of Italy.
Sources said the EFSF had
spent more than 100 Million Euros buying... More...
Public
School Teachers Aren't Underpaid
by Andrew G. Biggs & Jason
Richwine
Wall Street Journal
(Nov
09, 2011)
Washington, DC -- A common story line in American
education policy is that public school teachers are underpaid—"desperately
underpaid," according to Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a recent speech.
As former first lady Laura Bush put it: "Salaries are too low. We all know
that. We need to figure out a way to pay teachers more."
Good teachers are crucial to
a strong economy and a healthy civil society, and they should be paid at a
level commensurate with their skills. But the evidence shows that public
school teachers' total compensation amounts to roughly $1.50 for every $1
that their skills could garner in a private sector job.
How could that be? First,
consider salaries. Public school teachers do receive salaries 19.3% lower
than similarly-educated private workers, according to our analysis of Census
Bureau data. However, a majority of public school teachers were education
majors in college, and more than two in three received their highest degree
(typically a master's) in an education-related field. A salary comparison
that controls only for years spent in school makes no distinction between
degrees in education and those in biology, mathematics, history or other
demanding fields.
Education is widely regarded
by researchers and college students alike as one of the easiest fields of
study, and one that features substantially higher average grades than most
other college majors. On objective tests of cognitive ability such as the
SAT, ACT, GRE (Graduate Record Examination) and Armed Forces Qualification
Test, teachers score only around the 40th percentile of college graduates.
If we compare teachers and non-teachers with similar AFQT scores, the
teacher salary penalty disappears.
While salaries are about
even, fringe benefits push teacher compensation well ahead of comparable
employees in the private economy. The trouble is that many of these benefits
are hidden, meaning that lawmakers, taxpayers and even teachers themselves
are sometimes unaware of them.
Data on employee benefits
from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), for example, do not include
retiree health coverage, which for teachers is worth about an additional 10%
of their salaries. Because of differing accounting rules between the public
and private sectors, BLS data also make teachers' defined-benefit pensions
appear only slightly more generous than the typical 401(k) plan found in the
private sector.
In reality, a teacher who
retired after 30 years of service with an annual salary of $40,000 might
receive guaranteed annual pension benefits of about $20,330. Under a typical
private 401(k) plan, a guaranteed annual benefit might be only around $4,450
(assuming the money is invested in U.S. Treasurys and the employee buys an
annuity).
BLS data on paid leave for
teachers count vacation days only during the school year, omitting summer
and long holiday breaks. A valid pay comparison should include this extra
time off, in which teachers can enjoy longer vacations or earn additional
income.
Properly counted, a typical
public school teacher with a salary of $51,000 would receive another $51,480
in present or future fringe benefits. A worker in private business with the
same salary would receive around $22,185 in fringe benefits.
Finally, despite recent
layoffs, teachers still have greater job security... More...
Hell
Explained by a Chemistry Student
by Your Humble Servant
(Nov
04, 2011)
Phoenix, AZ --
The following is an actual question given on a University of Arizona
chemistry midterm, and an actual answer turned in by a student.
The answer by this student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it
with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the
pleasure of enjoying it as well.
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs
heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas
cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we
need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at
which they are leaving, which is unlikely. I think that we can safely
assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no
souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look
at the different religions that exist in the world today.
Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their
religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these
religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can
project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they
are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law
states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the
same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.
Washington, DC --
Heidi is the proprietor of a
bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are
unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her
bar.
To solve this problem, she
comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now,
but pay later. Heidi keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby
granting the customers loans).
Word gets around about
Heidi's "drink now, pay later" marketing strategy and, as a result,
increasing numbers of customers flood into Heidi's bar. Soon she has the
largest sales volume for any bar in Detroit.
By providing her customers
freedom from immediate payment demands, Heidi gets no resistance when, at
regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer,
the most consumed beverages. Consequently, Heidi's gross sales volume
increases massively.
A young and dynamic
vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts
constitute valuable future assets and increases Heidi's borrowing limit. He
sees no reason for any undue concern because he has the debts of the
unemployed alcoholics as collateral!
At the bank's corporate
headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and
transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS. These "securities" then are
bundled and traded on international securities markets.
Naive investors don't really
understand that the securities being sold... More...
The
European Crisis
by Vedran Vuk
(Sep 15,
2011)
Washington, DC -- In many ways, the European crisis is
more than just a financial event; it's the death of the argument for a
European-style welfare state. This topic hasn't been discussed much in the
media, but as the crisis gets worse, this realization should become more
apparent to others.
From
justifying universal healthcare to unions, to public housing, Europe has
been the poster boy in American politics. "If Europeans can do it, so can
we" has been the rallying motto. Unfortunately for the Left in particular,
this argument is becoming less sensible by the day. With overspending as the
root cause of Europe's troubles, only a fool would suggest the same policies
here.
In the
US, the 2008 crisis has been called the "subprime crisis," and for good
reason. The main problem was injecting too much money into the system and
causing an unsustainable bubble. Unfortunately, many US and international
banks were holding these inflated junk mortgages and toxic assets - hence
our current predicament. If anyone was to blame, it was the world's central
banks - particularly the Federal Reserve.
However,
the current European crisis is much different. The problems of Greece,
Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain are very clear. There are no...
More...
National News
Default
Now, or Suffer a More Expensive Crisis Later
by Rep Ron Paul
(Jul
24, 2011)
Washington, DC -- Debate over the debt ceiling has
reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, with each side trying to outdo the
other in a game of political chicken. If you believe some of the things that
are being written, the world will come to an end if the U.S. defaults on
even the tiniest portion of its debt.
In strict terms, the default
being discussed will occur if the U.S. fails to meet its debt obligations,
through failure to pay either interest or principal due a bondholder.
Proponents of raising the debt ceiling claim that a default on Aug. 2 is
unprecedented and will result in calamity (never mind that this is simply an
arbitrary date, easily changed, marking a congressional recess). My
expectations of such a scenario are more sanguine.
The U.S. government
defaulted at least three times on its obligations during the 20th century.
-- In 1934, the government
banned ownership of gold and eliminated the right to exchange gold
certificates for gold coins. It then immediately revalued gold from $20.67
per troy ounce to $35, thus devaluing the dollar holdings of all Americans
by 40 percent.
-- From 1934 to 1968, the
federal government continued to issue and redeem silver certificates, notes
that circulated as legal tender that could be redeemed for silver coins or
silver bars. In 1968, Congress unilaterally reneged on this obligation, too.
--
From 1934 to 1971, foreign governments were permitted by the U.S. government
to exchange their dollars for gold through the gold window. In 1971,
President Richard Nixon severed this final link between the dollar and gold
by closing the gold window, thus in effect defaulting once again on a debt
obligation of the U.S. government.
Unlimited Spending
No longer constrained by any
sort of commodity backing, the federal government was now free to engage in
almost unlimited fiscal profligacy, the only check on its spending being the
market’s appetite for Treasury debt. Despite the defaults in 1934, 1968 and
1971, world markets have been only too willing to purchase Treasury debt and
thereby fund the government’s deficit spending. If these major defaults
didn’t result in decreased investor appetite for U.S. obligations, I see no
reason why defaulting on a small amount of debt this August would cause any
major changes.
The national debt now stands
at just over $14 trillion, while net total liabilities are estimated at over
$200 trillion. The government is insolvent, as there is no way that this
massive sum of liabilities can ever be paid off. Successive Congresses and
administrations have shown absolutely no restraint when it comes to the
budget process, and the idea that either of the two parties is serious about
getting our fiscal house in order is laughable.
Boom and Bust
The Austrian School’s theory of the business cycle describes how loose
central bank monetary policy causes booms and busts: It drives down interest
rates below the market rate, lowering the cost of borrowing; encourages
malinvestment; and causes economic miscalculation as resources are diverted
from the highest value use as reflected in true consumer preferences. Loose
monetary policy caused the dot-com bubble and the housing bubble, and now is
causing the government debt bubble.
For far too long, the
Federal Reserve’s monetary policy and quantitative easing have kept interest
rates artificially low, enabling the government to drastically increase its
spending by funding its profligacy through new debt whose service costs were
lower than they otherwise would have been.
Neither Republicans nor
Democrats sought to end this gravy train, with one party prioritizing war
spending and the other prioritizing welfare spending, and with both
supporting both types of spending. But now, with the end of the second round
of quantitative easing, the federal funds rate at the zero bound, and the
debt limit maxed out, Congress finds itself in a real quandary.
Hard Decisions
It
isn’t too late to return to fiscal sanity. We could start by canceling out
the debt held by the Federal Reserve, which would clear $1.6 trillion under
the debt ceiling. Or we could cut trillions of dollars in spending by
bringing our troops home from overseas, making gradual reforms to Social
Security and Medicare, and bringing the federal government back within the
limits envisioned by the Constitution. Yet no one is willing to step up to
the plate and make the hard decisions that are necessary. Everyone wants to
kick the can down the road and believe... More...
Fed Reserve Theme Song:
"Money for nothin, and your checks for free"
Click above, Go to Kitco and find out the price of
precious metals and stocks.
The following
history of how many paper dollars it takes to equal one troy oz of gold
clearly shows what the Federal Reserve bankers and US politicians have been
doing to our currency. Feast your eyeballs on the following forty
years of dollar depreciation, inflation, and transference of the fruits of
your labor to those in power:
Date
Gold Price/oz
Aug 1971
$ 35
Aug 1972 $ 38
May 1973 $ 42
Jan 1980 $ 850
Aug 1999 $ 252
Oct 1999 $ 338
Jan 2004 $ 400
Nov 2005 $ 500
Apr 2006 $ 600
May 2006 $ 730
Jun 2006 $ 540
Nov 2007 $ 845
Jan 2008 $ 850
Mar 2008 $ 1,030
Dec 2009 $ 1,200
May 2010 $ 1,230
Jun 2010 $ 1,265
Sep 2010 $ 1,300
Oct 2010 $ 1,360
Nov 2010 $ 1,400
Dec 2010 $ 1,425
Mar 2011 $ 1,447
Apr 2011
$ 1,476
May 2011 $ 1,569
Jul 2011 $ 1,600
Aug 2011 $1,918
Sep 2011 $ 1,700
Oct 2011 $ 1,600
Nov 2011 $ 1,740
Dec 2011 $ 1,635
Jan 2012 $ 1,700
Feb 2012 $ 1,770
Sep 2012 $ 1,690
Nov 2012 $ 1,730
Dec 2012 $ 1,700
Silver:
2010 $18 per troy oz.
2011 $32 per
troy oz.
2012 $38 per
troy oz.
Karl Marx Award
for
Worst Piece of U.S. Legislation Aug 8, 2010
The Dodd-Franks Financial Reform Bill, recently passed by both
houses of Congress and soon to be signed by President Obama, is probably the
worst Bill that has been passed since the original Federal Reserve
Acts. This new law, grants our central bank -- a private corporation
of bankers -- the unconstitutional authority to control EVERY single business in
America, which, in their opinion, needs to be "controlled" for the
betterment of our economy. In addition, the Federal Reserve obtains
the autonomy to NEVER have to undergo a full audit, all of which is in
direct violation of Article 1, Sections 8, 9, and 10 of the U.S.
Constitution.
All this and tons more market interventionism was passed in the Dodd Bill by a majority of
U.S. Congressmen and women who apparently have absolutely no clue whatsoever what real
money is, what collateral means, why we need a 100%, non-fractional reserve gold standard, or anything
else about the nature of money and banking. Under the
guise of correcting the cause
of our current Recession -- which virtually nobody admits was actually CAUSED by the existence of the Federal
Reserve and its illegally obtained monetary manipulation powers -- the Federal Reserve has
now been granted complete control over every aspect of every citizen's life.
He who controls the money supply controls the nation and the Dodd Financial
Reform Bill is the final nail that has
just been driven into the coffin of free market capitalism. The only
hope left is if we can replace the current economic idiots in Congress in
the upcoming 2010 elections with free market oriented Congressmen and women
and repeal the Dodd Financial Reform Bill in its entirety. And then we
need to replace it with Rep Ron Paul's Audit the Fed, and then
End the Fed
Bills. The solution to our national and global market problems is to get rid of
all the interventionist central banking institutions throughout the world, not grant them
more power to screw us over with their Ponzi Scheme monetary policies.
The score to date in the Obama Administration's quest to control all aspects
of your money: state collectivism 1, free market 0. Wake up
Americans. This is not the change you voted for... or is it?
More on this
piece of crap law...
Sat July 17... The worst piece of legislation to become law within
decades just passed both houses of Congress: to wit, the Federal
Reserve Empowerment Act. This Act empowers a private group of central
bankers the right to continue issuing pulp fiction dollars at
hyper-inflationary rates, set interest rates at whatever they want, and
regulate ALL businesses -- not just banks -- which, in their opinion
threatens to "disrupt" whatever they define as "disrupt"
in the market economy.
Think about that for a minute. A group of bankers totally controlling
every aspect of your life. They can shut down your business, not
approve your start up for a business, run you through bureaucratic mazes,
and completely wreck, ruin, or provide special interest money for or against your
business. This new Act, touted by the Obama Administration as a new
Consumer Protection Agency to protect us from what caused our current
Recession, is just another central banking power grab for those
international bankers who are using President Obama while he is using them.
The bankers want monetary and business control; Obama wants socialist
redistributionist control. The new Banking Reform Act gives both of
them what they want. The only problem is: it will destroy the
free market and thus destroy both Obama and the bankers in the long run.
While they are too stupid to understand their suicide mission, we are not
and that is why we must dump both groups. How? First, we must
dump the current crooks in the U.S. Congress in the 2010 elections and elect
fiscal Conservatives and Libertarians. Second, the new U.S. Congress
must then repeal all the crap laws passed by Obama and his Progressive
Communists. Third, we must dump President Obama in the 2012 elections.
Fourth, we must then abolish both the Federal Reserve and then the IRS and
get back to sound money, gold and silver money. We can then allow
private banks to issue gold and silver backed paper and credit and thus
allow the free market to take off again. Finally, we must never allow
central bankers and socialists or any type of state collectivists to take
over our Legislative or Executive branches of government again. Never
again. What a complete waste of time and money -- and loss of lives in
worthless overseas military adventures -- we have expended over the last 100
years, most of it choreographed, including WW II by FDR, by a bunch of
stupid Progressives who understand zilch about the axiomatic primaries of
inherent individual rights, private property rights, basic economics, and
how one must allow the free market to work in order for prices to manifest
themselves in the market or else all market action, calculation, and
forecasts will fail. It is not about good or bad intentions; it is all
about the qualitative theory of price formation and how if you destroy that
mechanism, you will have destroyed the very market mechanism that even
socialists need in order to be successful. Therefore, socialism and
also central banking monetary manipulations, are at face value contradictory
concepts. They are oxymorons... and so are Obama and the central
bankers leading everybody on their financial suicide mission.
Local News
"Medicaid is a Terrific Investment for Idaho," says Idaho
Statesman
Jan
06, 2012
Boise, ID -- In the Idaho Statesman Socialist Editorial Department, the editors applaud
Gov Butch Otter for "maturing." "Maturing" is now the Statesman
editors' new euphemism for "We think the Gov has now converted to our
view of collectivism," more accurately described by
economic "fascism" in which the state manages a pretended free market.
What's the big issue? Gov Otter -- a pretended Libertarian, supposedly
schooled by free market mentor Ralph Smeed -- is making an argument to
establish a state run health insurance exchange for Idaho. Why?
Because Otter wants to receive $20 million from the federal government's
ObamaCare, a nationalized health care abomination now under review -- or
soon to be -- by the US Supreme Court. Listen to how the Idaho
Statesman describes Medicaid: "Medicaid is a
terrific investment for Idaho. For every 30-cents the state puts in,
the feds pony up a 70-cent match." Except for one thing.
From where do the economic-idiots at the Idaho Statesman think the
federal government obtains $20 million to distribute as "free money" to
Idaho? And from where do the economic-idiots at the Idaho Statesman
think the feds obtain the trillions and trillions of dollars that it will
take to fund ObamaCare when it really starts rolling? Do the editors even correlate our current $15
trillion dollar national debt, hyperinflation of our money supply, high
unemployment, housing bubble, and current global recession with the
pulp fiction dollars -- not backed by anything -- that the feds are passing
out to everybody in the nation? And in Federal Reserve "swaps" to the
European Union to try and bail out The Euro? Money does not grow on trees. It is not being
collected by taxes. It is simply being printed up or digitized in
federal computers. Health care is not some commodity whose billions of
market parameters are somehow exempt from the basic laws of economics.
Printing up pulp fiction dollars and distributing them out to all the states
for wonderfully intended "humane" purposes is turning out to be exactly the
opposite: the nation is collapsing under a huge burden of debt and
people are becoming less able to afford or obtain the shrinking commodity we
call medical care. Or even a job. All brought about by the same
type of thinking espoused by the editors at the Idaho Statesman. They
do not understand the nature of money or capital. It
doesn't matter whether you call it socialism, fascism, or any other form of
state collectivism. And when another politician -- in this case, Idaho
Gov Butch Otter -- falls for the Ponzi Scheme of "free money" from the feds, it
is just plain stupid to claim that "he has matured." Otter has not
"matured." He has become blinded by the false light at the end of the
socialist tunnel. A better description is to say that Otter has
"devolved" into the contradiction of altruistic collectivism, which
inherently must fail since it destroys the very pricing mechanism necessary
for any free market to succeed. This is not maturity; this is
childishness.
Idaho
Pub Ed Costs Skyrocket to 122 percent
Thur May
26, 2011
Boise, ID --
Eleven Idaho school districts in 1999 and 2008 show spending per student
increased between 10 and 122 percentage points regardless of whether the
districts lost or gained students. All numbers are from the Idaho State
Department of Education website.
The Twin Falls School
District came in first with an increase in student population of 433
students between 1999 and 2008 and increased spending of nearly $49 million.
Boise’s per-student spending went up by 58% after losing nearly 2000
students. The Bonneville School District in Idaho Falls spent 45% more per
student in 2008 than it did in 1999 while the Idaho Falls School District,
in the same city, raised spending by 22%. It’s almost a relief to see
Pocatello’s increase in per-student spending was a mere 10%; after losing
589 students, spending went up only four million dollars.
Per student spending
in Meridian went up by 32% over the first decade of the new millennium, you
know, from the increased property taxes during the government-created
housing inflation via Fannie and Freddie, fueled by the Federal Reserve.
Now that the housing bubble has popped and everybody is unemployed, why do
the public servants down at local public school 101 think they should still
be collecting the same amount of money from turnips whose blood has already
been totally extracted? Scream all you want, public union teachers,
there is no money left. And the teachers are crying because their
share of paying for their own health insurance might skyrocket -- yes,
skyrocket to the moon -- from a whole $11 per month to $35 per month while
anybody else left working in the private sector is paying for the entire
amount themselves, $300 to $600 a month. Oh boo-hoo, let's all sob for
the poor government public employees union. Actually, they should
start crying for themselves because if New York and California public
employees retirement pension funds are any indication, i.e. they're
bankrupt, the Idaho PERSI funds won't be there either. You guys better
start demanding personal control of your retirement benefits via 401k
accounts or something or you will be working your little asses off for zip,
zero, nothing, nada in retirement bennies at the end of your life sentences.
I mean, like, you know, I'm just saying... wake up, teachers!
Your PERSI accounts are freaking heading toward bankruptcy!
Idaho
Statesman Editors Think We are "Under-Taxed"
Boise, ID -- The editors at the Idaho Statesman's parent company, McClatchy
Newspapers, stupidly claimed last week, "It May Sound Like Heresy, But We're
Under-Taxed." Really? And then they go on to lie with statistics
as if we were all born yesterday. Problem is, the editors at McClatchy
have no idea about what constitutes a tax. When the government is busy
hyper-inflating our paper and digitized money supply, then that is a tax on
the people since it is a clever form of monetary debasement that taxes one's
productivity and value. It's called
taxflation. And during taxflation, the
real value of current and historical taxes are skewed because the nominal
values are devaluing.
It's like saying you're becoming richer in an inflationary economy because
your gross has increased when actually you are losing because all prices
increase too. The entire article is just another example of how the left
Liberal Progressives at the Statesman Newsrag want to snow you into thinking
that your taxes are too low during our current hyper-inflation and
Depression, and preparing you for their next article that says you should be
happy for another government tax increase. Meanwhile, we will surpass
our national debt ceiling on Monday, May 16, as the US Treasury sells
another $72 billion in worthless T-Bills and Bonds to themselves via their
prime gangsta banksta members who will then sell it right back to the
Federal Reserve who created it in the first place. What a ginormous
Ponzi Scheme against the unsuspecting American public. And the Idaho
Statesman Newspaper thinks we are, like, you know, grossly under-taxed?
Is that why grocery prices are skyrocketing and the real unemployment rate
is 15% to 20%? Yeah, and I got a Brooklyn Bridge I can sell to you
next week for really cheap, too. Uh-huh...
Idaho
Statesman Claims “nullification” of Obamacare is “immoral”
Feb
14, 2011
Boise, ID – Whoa, pull up the barn floor, pour yourselves another hot cup of
Rocket Java, and listen up, girl friends. The Idaho Statesman, once again,
bares the teeth of its Progressive state collectivist ideology for all to
see in this Sunday’s Our View Editorial entitled,
“Idaho’s arrogant, foolish gamble.”
In
the Statesman article, the editors argue that the Idaho legislature is
foolish to attempt to pass a bill – a “nullification” bill -- that would
abolish Obama’s national health care system because 223,000 of Idaho’s “most
vulnerable constituents” have a right to it based upon need. In addition,
if “nullification” succeeds, claim the editors, Idaho risks losing out on
another state collectivist program: namely, receiving $1.6 billion in
federal Medicaid money.
What is
the philosophical basis for the Statesman’s argument? Collectivism. More
specifically: altruistic state collectivism based upon relative need. Or,
put another way, the right to receive – i.e., take by force, government
force in this case – the private property of one individual and redistribute
it to another person based on the philosophy of the biggest gang rules, and
the individual does not have an inherent right to his or her own mind or
property if the biggest gang says no.
That is
the shoddy basis upon which all redistributive welfare states justify what
amounts to (1) a repudiation of the concept of inalienable individual rights
and (2) the implementation of a tyranny by the majority.
The
Statesman editors call “nullification” of Obamacare “beyond reckless. It
is immoral,” they claim.
