Amazing Christmas display with 176 channels and 45,000 lights! The show is so popular that it requires a crew of 3 people to manage the traffic.
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POLITICAL: The true cost of this health care disaster
Monday, November 30, 2009ObamaCare’s Cost Could Top $6 Trillion
Posted by Michael F. Cannon
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When we correct for both gimmicks, counting both on- and off-budget costs over the first 10 years of implementation, the total cost of ObamaCare reaches — I’m so sorry about this — $6.25 trillion. That’s not a precise estimate. It’s just far closer to the truth than President Obama and congressional Democrats want the debate to be.
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Wow!
Are they kidding?
This will break the bank. And, their estimates are “off” by a multiple of 5 to 10,000. Never to the good side. Always to the over-run side.
We can’t afford it!
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JOBFINDING: Etrust Admin in Philly
Monday, November 30, 2009Hello John,
We have an immediate job opening for eTrust Directory Administrator in Philadelphia , PA.
Job Title: eTrust Directory Administrator
Location: Philadelphia , PA
Duration: 6 Months
Rate: DOE
Job Description:
eTrust Expert with strong LDAP background:
· Perform monitoring to trap errors in the environment and duplication within the directory
· Monitor or locate bugs (provisioning or directory application) in the directory environment
· Complete 3rd party patch installations
· Participate in the delivery of necessary 3rd party upgrades
· Deploy schema changes to add attributes within the directory
· Perform test cycles to validate added attributes
· Monitor release cycles for builds
· Write scripts to perform data analysis of the Directory
· Perform daily checks to insure database replication on each Directory Service Agent (DSA) group is functioning within the defined parameters.
· Perform operational checks and daily data analyst verify DSA replication times and replication is working properly
· Analyze the directory logs for any issues
· Build, test, and implement new changes to the directory solutions and services
· Monitor database of customer information stored in the eTrust directory
· Monitor DSA directory service
· Monitor grouping of servers at each datacenter
· Monitor eTrust x500 programming for data reconciliation
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FUN: SnL hit home!
Monday, November 30, 2009Obama has sex with China – chinese president bends over for Obama!
NOT SAFE FOR WORK
But absolutely funny!
The fact that it is right on target makes it sadly funny.
Sound track is LOUD.
And, SnL does mistate the size of the Chinese Debt with is easily 5T$.
Enjoy. I found it to be a hoot.
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WRITING: Seth Went Nuts (An Index Card Novel)
Monday, November 30, 2009Seth Went Nuts (An Index Card Novel)
BEIJING, July 19, 2009 — China’s treasury debt holdings in the U.S. grew by 14.3 billion U.S. dollars in December amidst speculation that it was seeking other options to deploy its nearly $1.95 trillion in foreign exchange reserves.
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Gas = 3 $ / gallon ~=~ 0.0026 oz gold @ 1,150 $ / oz
0.0026 oz * 6,300 $ / oz gold = Gas 16.43 $ / gallon
At 16.43 $ / gallon, the economy stops.
No economy; no debts get “serviced”!
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American debt is unpayable. The Chinese “bought” the UN. A large force of “debt collectors” arrived. To recover their just repayment. The American people were sold out by the political class. Troops were told to stand down. The police as well.
With an interesting consequence.
The rural areas stood up to the “bill collectors”; the inner cities with their own “light infantry” drug gangs didn’t appreciate the “competition”. Motorcycle Outlaws also disagreed; they were just disagreeable with anyone who tried to disarm them.
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The Chinese had two strategies: Kill anyone who speaks Chinese to keep their intentions private. Use the BATF records to pick up the guns but the rurals and the gangs didn’t register
Harvesting was done by taking the suburbanites and impressing them. Cheap tatooing of their zip code on the forearm ensure anyone outside that zip was killed. The old were sent to internment camps. The women were sent to other camps. The men were “harvesting” the suburbs.
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The fat old white guy knew how to keep his mouth shut and his nose clean. When they “asked” who knew Chinese, he “knew” the boot camp answer. “Never volunteer”. He was smart and impressed his captors as a quisling. A quisling with a plan. He was given a team. Seth was a teenager with more size than brains. His brother, Adam, stuck close to him. Never spoke. Had a bald head. The fat old guy smelled a rat, but it was none of his business.
“Harvesting” consisted of his team supervised by a trio of “collectors” breaking into a house and scouring it for everything of value. Everything was set on the lawn for trucks to pick up. At the end of the day, the team was shaken down for contraband. The fat old guy bided his time.
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The General in command of the “collectors” was upset. Casualties were mounting in the rural areas and the cities. He felt that the suburbs were doing something right. Differently from the others. He wanted to see just how they followed up on the BATF forms.
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The team was harvesting the fat old white guys neighborhood. Adam went behind a bush and was slow coming back. One of the collectors went to check. “tā shì gè nǚ hái” The fat old white guy knew they were in trouble. The collector was dragging Adam back to the group with his pants around his ankles. The senior collector grabbed the crotch. The other one was laughing. Seth went nuts. He brained the one guy with a crowbar they used for getting in. Jumped on the senior tearing at his eyes. The guy dragging “Adam” drew a pistol and shot Seth. The team rushed him and stomped him. The fat old guy decided this was his time to go home.
The team followed him.
He quickly paced six steps back from the corner of the patio and four towards the property line. Peeling back the grass, he pulled up on a “lid”. Plastic pipes were stacked on end like straws. Grabing the first one, he pulled the quick tab on the seam. A puff of smoke and the tube was opened. Out slid a rifle. Bolt action. 308. Magazines in a web belt. A 1911. A shotgun. He handed them out with some instructions. Others pulled out other tubes. Monkey see; monkey do.
He went back to the patio. And peeled at the corner. Out came the LAW. A six pack of M72. They had fallen of a supply truck somewhere. He’d saved them just for this reason.
A troop of collectors came to reinforce the revold by a harvesting team. They came with a half-track. The General just happened to be on his ride along. They were expecting rifles and captured weapons. Murphy surprised them. So did the LAW that incinerated the half-track. And, the trucks that supported them.
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The fat old white guy, a wounded Seth, and his sister Adalia hikes out of 08824. Seems like the suburbs were now too no longer safe for “collectors”.
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NEWJERSEY: Unfunded liabilities
Sunday, November 29, 2009http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/11/public_employees_doing_very_we.html
November 28, 2009
Public employees doing very well, thank you
Rick Moran
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Unfunded liabilities from these pension plans is in the trillions of dollars with taxpayers on the hook for the balance. It isn’t just “unsustainable.” It is a catastrophe waiting to happen. The entire system in California and other states could collapse if the stock market tanks again, as much of the pension money is invested in financial instruments – some of them incredibly risky.
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Public pension SHOULD be 403b, 401k, or just plain old IRAs.
Why should the donut eaters ride on the backs of poor taxpayers?
Why should the cost of “public education” drive old people from their homes?
Why in New Jersey am I de facto renting my property from the State?
Argh!
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p.s., Hey NJ State employees: Your union and the politicians are screwing you by having NOT made a pension contribution in decades. Argh!
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RANT: The paranoia in all of us
Sunday, November 29, 2009http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/paranoia-strikes-deep/
Paranoia Strikes Deep
published September 2009
Why people believe in conspiracies
Michael Shermer
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Conspiracies do happen, of course. Abraham Lincoln was the victim of an assassination conspiracy, as was Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand, gunned down by the Serbian secret society called Black Hand. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a Japanese conspiracy (although some conspiracists think Franklin Roosevelt was in on it). Watergate was a conspiracy (that Richard Nixon was in on). How can we tell the difference between information and disinformation? As Kurt Cobain, the rocker star of Nirvana, once growled in his grunge lyrics shortly before his death from a self-inflicted (or was it?) gunshot to the head, “Just because you’re paranoid don’t mean they’re not after you.”
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Argh! “THEY” are out to get us. Violent people want to seize the power of the gooferment to exercise over us. If you don’t think you are “being controlled”, just try doing something the establishment (left or right) doesn’t like!
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INTERESTING: Tiger-gate?
Saturday, November 28, 2009http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/11/alternative_media_scoops_msm_o.html
November 28, 2009
Alternative media scoops MSM on Tiger Woods story
Rick Moran
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So one of the greatest athletes in the world is unable to navigate the treacherous arc of his driveway and has to be rescued by his wife?
Mrs. Woods breaks the rear window of Tiger’s 2009 Escalade to free him and the police arrive to find Tiger “in and out of consciousness” on the ground? All of this most unusual activity takes place at 2:25 a.m. with the same guy who can thread a 1 iron through the fork of a sapling and onto the green suddenly unable to negotiate an Escalade around the same fire hydrant and tree he zips by every time he leaves home.
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So, here we have the makings of a great “tin foil hat” item.
What exactly is going on here? And, why are the police and the media treading so softly. Couldn’t be his popular image? Or could it?
The crime to this old Little L Libertarian requires a victim. Any “tin foil hat” conspiracy requires a cover up.
So where is the victim? Sounds like Tiger, the fire hydrant, and the tree.
Where is the conspiracy? Sounds like the wife not admitting the police to interview Tiger is the “smoking gun”.
To misquote Paul Harvey: “Stand by for news”.
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JOBSEARCH: What can we learn from college coaches
Saturday, November 28, 2009http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=abdoqoaxMIls
Notre Dame Football Can End Coaching Arms Race: Scott Soshnick
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Thanks to an indefensible extension awarded by White, the former athletic director, Weis is under contract through 2015. And he’s owed about $18 million. Talk about your buyout bonanzas.
That money could have gone to things like pay for scholarships, professors or infrastructure.
If Notre Dame, where academics actually matter, even for athletes, is about to embark on yet another coaching search, I suggest they proceed with one person in mind: the late National Collegiate Athletic Association President Myles Brand.
It was Brand, the first college president to lead the NCAA, who time and again voiced concern over what he called an arms race for coaching salaries in revenue-generating sports like football and basketball.
Imagine if Notre Dame established at the outset of its search a salary limit of, let’s say, $1 million. Just because you spend more doesn’t mean you’re getting better.
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For my part, the lesson I take away is “You ain’t gonna be around long”.
I’ve learned that lesson. Even if you’re diligent, work hard, keep your nose clean, you’re going to get screwed.
An inept boss, a treacherous one, and even a good one, isn’t enough to save you.
So what is the strategy and tactics that you should adopt to minimize the damage?
Make no mistake, there will be damage!
Strategies:
- Ruthless financial discipline. (Small leaks and big leaks need to be stopped cold.)
- Realistic emergency fund ready. (Double your expected unemployment time.)
- Never ever stop networking. (Remember your new job is to find your next job.)
Tactics:
- Keep helping folks via social networking like LinkedIn and Facebook.
- Seek exposure — blog, speak, coach — inside and out.
- Document your “lessons learned” regardless if you share them or not.
- Continue — or begin — collecting McKay66 sheets on EVERYONE. (JibberJobber anyone?)
Summary:
Thanksgiving is the holiday that focuses on turkeys. This big turkey knows of what he speaks. He’s had his tail feathers plucked numerous times.
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WRITING: Boiling Frogs (An Index Card Novel)
Friday, November 27, 2009Boiling Frogs (An Index Card Novel)
The boiling frog story is generally told in a metaphorical context, with the upshot being that people should make themselves aware of gradual change lest they suffer eventual undesirable consequences. This may be in support of a slippery slope argument. It is also used in business to illustrate the idea that change needs to be gradual to be accepted. The expression “boiling frog syndrome” is sometimes used as shorthand for the metaphor.
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The fat old white man wasn’t that fat, that old, but definitely that white. A decade away from social security, medicare, and a pension. But up close and personal, another pink slip. Last one was four years ago; took a year to find a job at 20% less salary, less benefits, less time off, and a lot less dignity. Each time, he’d take another bad hit. Savings went. Retirement accounts went. Market losses and withdrawals left him with nothing.
He wasn’t stupid. He prepared. He was ready with a basement ‘bomb shelter’; not like in the stories, not like in the press, not like it cost fortunes. He could hold a dozen very good friends. No showers. Water tightly rationed, Food severely limited. Cost was next to nothing. No fancy expensive radiation stuff. A wind up clock and they’d stay “sheltered” for 7 weeks. More than that and they were “cooked” anyway. A wind up alarm clock, a calendar, and a pencil. That was his radiation detector.
If the asteroid hit, if the pandemic hit, or the seas rose / fell, he was screwed.
If he needed a gun when he got out, he had two rifles, two shotguns, and two 1911s. He had about a 1,000 rounds for each. Couldn’t afford the time to practice or the cost. He figured to bluff his way around.
If the grid collapsed, he did have the wind up radio / flashlight that he got with a magazine subscription.
If the infrastructure failed, did have some foods stocked. Maybe two weeks. Maybe four. He wasn’t big on planning; he’d forage from the empty stores like in the stories.
If the banks collapsed, he had two ounces of silver and ten tenths of gold. That would have to do.
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The Shumer never did hit the fan.
At least not the way the stories predicted it. No dramatic event. No heroic speeches. No groups pulling together. No ravaging gangs of JBTs (Jack Booted Thugs) or MZBs (Mutant Zombie Bikers). Just a more boring life, but still deadly. To life and the spirit. Death of a thousand cuts. More than that. The sure and steady drip drip drip of financial water torture.
The bubble, after the bubble, after the bubble, just keep appearing and popping. Each time, the pop left a residue of poop to be cleaned up. The political powers that were in charge promised that the next law, regulation, or diktat would prevent it from ever ever happening again.
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Interest rates hovered around 17%. The combined federal, state, and city tax rates varied from 80 to 90%. And there were a ton of sin, excise, import, export, and nuisance taxes. Corporate taxes were 65%; any business that could move did.
The world left the dollar for the IMF Special Drawing Rights. The local fiat currency was left to float to its proper worth. The global bankers had nothing intrinsic to hang value on. They mapped an SDR to basket of commodities that traded on the world’s markets. Commodity prices skyrocketed. No surprise there. Oil was priced in SDRs. That completed the dollar’s downfall. With the USA’s dollar collapsing, international trade went elsewhere. The USA borrow and spend was history.
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The fat old white man, as well as all the not so old, never worked professionally again. He did get some work at Target, WalMart, and McDonalds. Each week, the minimum wage would go up and all the employees would be laid off or made part-time.
His best success was as a smuggler. Cigarettes, booze, prescription drugs, silver. You name it he’d smuggle it. He even found a little niche.
He’d read the Stainless Steel Rat as a kid. He tried to think like a roach.
It was a sad life. Shortened by stress, poor food, and gooferment healthcare.
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TSHTF doesn’t have to be a “big event”. You can be “boiled” like that proverbial frog.
No one plans for a non-event.
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RANT: Climate-gate is a fraud
Friday, November 27, 2009http://www.mrc.org/bozellcolumns/columns/2009/20091125064520.aspx
When the Press Favors Secrecy
The New York Times has no trouble reproducing damaging documents not meant for the public eye when the subject is national security — but not when the documents embarrass the “scientific experts” used to scare people about global warming.
By: L. Brent Bozell
November 24, 2009 10:39 ET
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The e-mails prove just how dishonest this left-wing global warming agenda truly is. And now suddenly, the New York Times has found religion, and won’t publish these private e-mails. Environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, who’s more global warming lobbyist than reporter, quoted – sparsely – from the e-mails, but declared he would not post these texts on his “Dot Earth” blog on the Times website: “The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.” That rule didn’t apply to things like the disclosure of the SWIFT global bank monitoring program against terrorists.
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Climate-gate proves that the issue is a fraud and the “scientists” can be trusted.
DIsgraceful! Guess they’l get a Nobel Prize for Science now.
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POLITICAL: Where does the Ponzi scheme end?
Thursday, November 26, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117072
We pay them to lie to us
John Stossel
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Medicare is already $37 trillion in the hole. Yet the Democrats proudly cite Medicare when they demand support for the health-care overhaul. If a business pulled the accounting tricks the politicians get away with, the owners would be in prison.
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Ditto Social Security. If an insurance compnay did such an “insurance policy”, all the exectives would be in the “grey bar hotel”. Like Madoff, they’d be excoriated. Yet our congress critters can do the same thing and we don’t critize them? Sheeple! Wake up!
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QUOTE: Thanksgiving lesson
Thursday, November 26, 2009“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” – Margaret Thatcher
Thanksgiving?
The Pilgrims starved until the dismissed their “commonwealth” of socialism and allowed private enterprise.
If there’s anything to be thankful for, it’s that lesson.
Happy T-day, all.
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RANT: Lost my camera
Wednesday, November 25, 2009Argh!
My own fault. I had it in my left pant’s pocket and it slipped out when I was sitting in a cab.
Argh!
The driver might not even see it. Then when he does, how would he know who’s it was.
I should have remembered the cab number.
I should have taken a receipt.
I should have …
Argh!
I call a few cab companies. Nice people. But good luck.
I was told call the licensing authority; no phone number.
Argh!
Oh well.
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FUN: Leno-ism about make beleive jobs
Wednesday, November 25, 2009“The White House and Senate Democrats are working on a new jobs bill. The White House says this new jobs bill could create twice as many non-existent fake new jobs as the last one.” — Jay Leno 23 Nov 09
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RANT: Yet Another Tin Foil Hat Question
Tuesday, November 24, 2009http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=376
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Initial reports said there were multiple shooters. If that was the case, the scenario is much more plausible. If multiple shooters had opened fire from various vantage points–especially if they had rifles–it would have made unarmed resistance extremely difficult. That scenario would make sense. The “one shooter with two handguns” explanation makes no sense.
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OK, gang, don your tin-foil hats for a moment and consider the question: “Do you really believe the Gooferment’s story? It’s another hard to swallow tale imho.
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POLITICS: the pseudo “drug war”
Monday, November 23, 2009http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s39VUAJE8-A
Buy American Pot: A Special Message From the AMGA, Dedicated to Keeping Pot Illegal & Profits High!
From: ReasonTV | November 19, 2009 | 9,907 views
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We all know that a lot of people are harmed by prohibition, but who benefits? Strangely enough, some of the biggest beneficiaries are the bootleggers. Sure, they take a big risk, but black marketeers don’t have to pay taxes, they’re protected from foreign competition, and they benefit from artificially inflated prices. Talk about protectionism.
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One has to laugh at the pseudo “drug war”. All it does is keep the JBT in power. Kids die from adulterated, impure, or unknown strength products. It transfers American wealth to Columbia Drug Lords and Third World terrorists while making our inner cities a free fire zone from waring gangs. Just like in Prohibition. And, it is easier for children to get than booze. So how about some common sense. Let’s turn the problem over to WalMart, Walgreens, CVS, and 7-11. Now “illegal drugs” will be the cost of aspirin and all the money we are dumping into prisons can go to treatment. You are never going to “prevent” someone from ingesting or inject stuff into themselves. Sohow about we try “freedom”. Could it be ANY worse?
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RANT: The gooferment IS the problem
Sunday, November 22, 2009“Advocates of government control [of health care and insurance] want you to believe that the serious shortcomings of our medical and insurance system are failures of the free market. But that’s John Stosselimpossible because our market is not free. Each state operates a cozy medical and insurance cartel that restricts competition through licensing and keeps prices higher than they would be in a genuine free market. But the planners won’t talk about that. After all, if government is the problem in the first place, how can they justify a government takeover?”
— libertarian journalist John Stossel
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GOLDBUG: Implication in gas
Sunday, November 22, 2009http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100002059/is-6300-fair-value-for-gold/
Is $6,300 fair value for gold?
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Economics Last updated: November 19th, 2009
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He sees an eery similarity between the decision of India’s central bank to buy half the IMF’s entire sale of gold, and the move by France’s central bank to start converting dollars into gold in 1965 — which was, of course, the start of the slippery slope leading to the collapse of Bretton Woods and the closure of the US gold window under Nixon.
In the gold mania that followed, the price rose to levels that matched the US dollar monetary base (it reached 140pc at the peak). If that were to occur today after Ben Bernanke’s go at the printing press, gold would have to reach $6,300 an ounce. The US owns 263m ounces of gold while the Fed’s monetary base is $1.7 trillion. Simple equation.
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Wow!
This portends a very difficult time for the USA.
Gas = 3 $ / gallon ~ 0.0026 oz gold @ 1,150 $ / oz
0.0026 oz * 6,300 $ / oz = Gas 16.43 $ / gallon
At 16.43 $ / gallon, the economy stops. (Pundits have said the stop point is less than $10 / gallon.)
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Driverless cars
Saturday, November 21, 2009http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/19/audi-autonomous-tts-driverless-sports-car/
November 19th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Audi Autonomous TTS – Driverless Sports Car
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It could also help with the more mundane aspects of driving. With the Autonomous TTS, you could let your car go find its own parking space in the garage. “The technology could return time to the cars’ owners by taking care of routine driving chores, such as winding through a parking garage to an assigned spot each morning,” Audi says.
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Neat!
Perfect for Iowa driving.
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RANT: Health Care Vote bribe
Saturday, November 21, 2009http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/the-100-million-health-care-vote.html
The $100 Million Health Care Vote?
November 19, 2009 3:03 PM
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Karl 2 ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports:
What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?
Here’s a case study.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”
I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.
In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)
Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.
How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.
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Argh!
Disgusting. Is anyone going to stop this?
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POLITICAL: True opinions?
Friday, November 20, 2009http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111900904_pf.html
White House aides: No Afghan decision before Thanksgiving
By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:17 AM
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Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time), and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cell phones to snap pictures.
“You guys make a pretty good photo op,” the president said.
Standing on a riser wearing a blue suit and red tie, with a cluster of troops and a large American flag behind him, Obama expressed “the gratitude of the American public” and said his meetings in four countries over eight days in Asia will help deliver a “safer more prosperous world for all of us.”
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Well, a typical liberal. He’d telling us what he things of the troops. Argh!
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LIBERTY: Citizens’ Pledge of Mutual Support for the Principles of the Declaration of Independence
Friday, November 20, 2009http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/11/16/pledge_of_allegiance
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. And for the support of these principles, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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RANT: “We” can’t afford the USPS
Thursday, November 19, 2009http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/OMyfED4MxVw/
Government Mail Loses $3.8 Billion
from Cato @ Liberty by Tad DeHaven
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The U.S. Postal Service reported that it lost $3.8 billion last fiscal year and that it expects to lose $7.8 billion this year. The loss occurred despite cost-cutting measures and legislation that allowed the USPS to forgo $4 billion in required payments to pre-fund retiree health benefits.
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SO the USPS “lost” 11.8B$?
So how do we “kill” the USPS?
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RANT: KSM theater for what purpose?
Thursday, November 19, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116268
Is America at war, or not?
Posted: November 16, 2009
6:50 pm Eastern
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Are we at war – or not?
For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a U.S. citizen?
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And does anyone believe that the AG made this decision without consulting the President? If that’s the case, then he should be fired for overstepping. If it’s not the case, then he should be fired for lying and deceiving the People.
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WRITING: NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE (An Index Card Novel)
Wednesday, November 18, 2009NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE (An Index Card Novel)
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In recent history, very few counterinsurgency wars have ended in success. Guerrillas, outgunned by a wealthier invading power, but they do have an advantage. They are fighting on their home turf, which they usually know much better than the invader.
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The old wife died of “systematic malpractice”. Her “quality adjusted life expectancy” didn’t warrant the medicines she used to have. Just one more casualty of the President’s new “health care for everyone”. Everyone as long as you weren’t old and chronically ill.
The fat old white guy decide that was just not right.
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He was a graduate of the finest Ivy League school. He happened to have the right roommate at Harvard. Hence he was the “Healthcare Sub-Czar for the Northeastern Region”. It was the beginning of eliminating the inconvenient States of old. He had a palatial home, a huge corner office, and lackeys galore. All he had to do was balance the income versus the outgo. It was easy. He had a list of services with a running total of cost. He just drew the line and God help those below the “waterline”.
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The fat old white guy read the newspapers. It was not hard to replicate the DC Sniper’s set up. It wasn’t hard to find a home address. It wasn’t hard to find a good place to lie down. It wasn’t hard to sanitize the apparatus. It wasn’t hard to wait for a windless day.
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It was a glorious morning. The Sub-Czar had done such a good job drawing his line that yesterday he was select to be promoted to Czar. He walked out his front door where his chauffeur was patiently waiting. He took a deep breath as was his usual practice.
CRACK!
He wondered where the truck backfire was coming from. He felt a pain. He looked at the shocked driver. His vision blurred.
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The fat old white man walked away.
In a jogging suit, he looked like the typical fat breathless runner trying to catch up with his lost youth. Obviously struggling to catch his breath. If the President could win the Peace Prize, then he should have gotten an Academy Award.
He wondered who was the current sub-Czar in charge of … …
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The Israeli Government of Ariel Sharon is, like its predecessors, committed to the policy of assassinating individuals who it believes pose a threat to its citizens.
In 1976, President Ford issued Executive Order 11905 to clarify U.S. foreign intelligence activities. The order was enacted in response to the post-Watergate revelations that the CIA had staged multiple attempts on the life of Cuban President Fidel Castro.
According to an October 21, 2001, Washington Post article, President Bush in September of last year signed an intelligence “finding” instructing the CIA to engage in “lethal covert operations” to destroy Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda organization.
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The fat old white guy needed no “policy” or “executive order”. No team. No “cheerleaders”. No co-conspirators. No nobody. Just one man truly acting alone. He just evened the score.
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(This is a fictional story. And, not an indication of any type of activity that should be engaged in.)
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