MEMORIES: Backyard; Ev’s last gift?

Friday, April 1, 2011

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Ev would have been tickled to see this picture. I’d have given anything if she could have seen the twins’ reaction to it. She’d have probably wanted it bigger. :-) You know, nock your socks off bigger. ROFL!

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Update: I’m told that the twins love it. That would make Our Girl happy. All she wanted was for children to be happy and have their wildest dreams. Guess it was her “early poverty” experience speaking.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Justice in the Gooferment’s courts; not bloody likely

Friday, April 1, 2011

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/sc-dc-0330-court-prosecutors-20110329,0,4120668.story

Supreme Court rejects damages for innocent man who spent 14 years on death row
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
March 29, 2011, 3:14 p.m.

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WASHINGTON – A bitterly divided Supreme Court tossed out a jury verdict Tuesday won by a New Orleans man who spent 14 years on Death Row and came within weeks of execution because prosecutors had hidden a blood test and other evidence that would have proven his innocence.

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The essence is that, without a pattern of mistakes, one mistake is OK. IMHO even one mistake is TOO much. Where the death penalty is involved. Where the prosecutors are guilty. Goes back to my oft stated objection to Gooferment, you expect justice from the Gooferment’s courts where the Gooferment is one of the adversaries? It can’t happen.

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MEMORIES: I guess IH sold at least two!

Friday, April 1, 2011

1967-09-XX Sexy IH Scout

April 1, 2011

I went on a long planned trip to Oregon / Reno / LV / AZ shortly after our second date. If the trip had happened before Ev, who knows if I’d have even come home. I loved the West. She teased me about the Scout, saying “it was one of a kind”, and that “You bought the only one.” When we hit the ground in AZ, I found its “sister”. A photo-ed it to prove it. Why she saved this picture, beats me? Maybe it was the rugged outdoors image of Little Johnie Reinke that she found irresistible? Must have meant something for her to save it. Didn’t girls judge boys by the car they drove? Guess this drove her wild! LOL!!

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RANT: The biggest borrowers were foreign banks!

Friday, April 1, 2011

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-01/foreign-banks-tapped-fed-s-lifeline-most-as-bernanke-kept-borrowers-secret.html

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The biggest borrowers from the 97-year-old discount window as the program reached its crisis-era peak were foreign banks, accounting for at least 70 percent of the $110.7 billion borrowed during the week in October 2008 when use of the program surged to a record. The disclosures may stoke a reexamination of the risks posed to U.S. taxpayers by the central bank’s role in global financial markets.

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You HAVE to be kidding me!

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GOLDBUG: Think tangibles; it’s no April Fool’s joke

Friday, April 1, 2011

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=279429#ixzz1HnfX2FgQ

Tangible investments … that lick your hand

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We’ve decided on this radical tactic because money is losing its value at a startling rate. In the last eight months it has lost 14 percent of its value. This “dollar’s road to hell,” in the words of Gonzalo Lira, mean useful things like heifers and canning jars and storable food will only cost more and more as time goes by. So why not purchase them now while we can still afford them?

At this juncture I’ll point out that I’m not a financial adviser. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a housewife on a limited budget. But my husband and I can’t afford to have that limited budget evaporate in value because we naïvely swallowed Ben Bernanke’s lies that our economy is just fine, thank you, and recovery is right around the corner.

We believe foolish people trustingly keep their money in the bank and don’t notice when its purchasing power dwindles (or when their solid dependable bank just … goes away). We believe foolish people think the stock market can never fall to catastrophic lows (again). We believe foolish people think our economy is fundamentally sound despite all evidence to the contrary.

We believe smart people pay off debt and get rid of unneeded luxuries and put their money into things that will provide a useful function in the future. We believe smart people invest their retirement money in physical gold and silver rather than 401(k) plans.

Tangible. Think tangible.

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Gold bullion coins, silver bullion coins, rolls of nickels … … are my preferred investments.

Don’t laugh.

Read about post WW1 Germany, Hungry, Zimbabwe.

It can happen here.

Humor me. Buy a $2 roll of nickels every time you go to the bank and put them out of the way at home. (The Gooferment’s nickel in now worth about 8¢ in metal content alone.)

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POLITICAL: Trump for Prez? I don’t think so

Friday, April 1, 2011

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Newsmax.com, one of America’s leading online news services, is conducting an urgent national online poll about Donald Trump and the possibility he may run for president in 2012.

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Colorful, direct, honest, but a disaster!

Heard him on O’Reilly.

Threaten China with a 25% tariff? I doubt he’s ever heard of Smoot Hawley, but we have.

Victor belongs the spoils, oil? Naked aggression.

Militarize the Mexican border? Why not the Canadian too.

No word on Ending the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”.

No word on ending the AfPak war and the various occupations.

No word on ending Obamacare.

No word on downsizing Gooferment.

No, compare “The Donald” to Ron Paul, I find him sadly wanting.

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