MONEY: Banking cartel is a bandit that doesn’t move; how stupid are we?

Friday, February 8, 2013

http://lewrockwell.com/orig9/polleit5.1.1.html

Banking and the State

by Thorsten Polleit

 

At other end of the spectrum is the stationary bandit. Like the roving bandit, he also holds the monopoly of coercion over his victims.

However, the stationary bandit has an encompassing interest in society’s welfare. He wishes to keep his victims producing: the more his victims produce, the more there is to take for the stationary bandit.

Sharing in society’s losses, the stationary bandit will make sure that his thievery is limited. The higher the losses in production from thievery are, the lower will be the level of aggression at which the stationary bandit’s take is maximized. The stationary bandit’s time preference will therefore be lower than the time preference of the roving bandit.

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A great discription of the Federal Reserve System, (which isn’t Federal; reserves nothing; and only a ‘system’ as like OPEC for money!), “stationary bandit”!

Argh!

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RANT: BGHO43 & HRC need to be held to account

Thursday, February 7, 2013

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/panetta-obama-absent-night-benghazi_700405.html

Panetta: Obama Absent Night of Benghazi

Source: weeklystandard.com

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified this morning on Capitol Hill that President Barack Obama was absent the night four Americans were murdered in Benghazi on September 11, 2012: Panetta said that Obama left operational details, including knowledge of what resources were available to help the Americans under siege, ‘up to us.’

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Argh!

Was everyone AWOL when the red phone rang?

“Collect call from ‘we re getting our asses kicked’ Lybia. Will you aacept the call?”

Argh!

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GUNS: AK47!

Thursday, February 7, 2013

http://lewrockwell.com/gun-reviews/ar15-or-ak47.html

AR-15 or AK-47?

They’re both fun to shoot, but here are the big differences, says Hickok45

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Best survival shool demo of my life:

Envision OLDER than dirt 4 stripers tells us noobs: “If youre unfortunate enuf to wind up in Re PUB lick of, ‘acquire’ an ak. Here’s why!” He proceeds to drop an AK in mud, stands on it with his foot, while he fires an AR15. Then picks up the AK twirls it once around his head, and fires.

MADE an impression on me.

Screw that. If I was unfortunate enough to hit the meat grinder, I knew what I was doing. (Other than kissing my a double q goodbye!)

Argh!

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GUNS: “Sam Colt made them equal”

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/02/armed-70-year-old-womens-basketball-coach-shoots-attackers-while-walking-two-players-to-their-cars/

CRIME

ARMED 70-YEAR-OLD WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH SHOOTS ATTACKERS WHILE WALKING TWO PLAYERS TO THEIR CARS

Feb. 2, 2013 1:54pm Madeleine Morgenstern

 

A 70-year-old women’s high school basketball coach shot and killed one would-be mugger and injured another while walking two players to their cars Friday night in Detroit, WXYZ-TV reported.

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One less criminal to try again.

Makes it into a real guessing game.

Let’s sprinle more sheepdogs in among the Sheeple.

Pick on the wron Black, Gay, Woman, or fat old white guy injineer? Ooooops, you lose. THanks for playing our game. In your next life, try an honest advocation!

Argh!

 

Seems so OBVIOUS to me!

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POLITICAL: HRC screwed herself!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/02/01/clinton-benghazi-wont-affect-whether-i-run-for-president/

Clinton: Benghazi Won’t Affect Whether I Run For President

February 1, 2013 8:02 AM

 

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is leaving office with a slap at critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. She told The Associated Press that critics of the administration’s handling of the attack don’t live in an “evidence-based world” and their refusal to “accept the facts” is unfortunate and regrettable for the political system.

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“What does it matter?”

I think it does.

I think she took SOS ,aot a spot on the Surpremes, thinking that the she needed “foreign policy” on the old resume for 2016. Instead, she got a “black eye”.

Argh!

Feel sorry for her; she tried.

Best laid plans of mice, men, and women gang aft a glee.

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RANT: Women are undervalued and wasted

Monday, February 4, 2013

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Woman-baseball-star-who-inspired-League-of-The-Own-Geena-Davis-character-dies-020313

Loved the book. Loved the movie. Sad at the story!

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POLITICAL: WH ever heard of the First?

Monday, February 4, 2013

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/02/02/White-House-Warns-Don-t-Photoshop-Obama-Gun-Pic

“This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.”

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I would really laff my butt off if this is photoshopped FROM the WH!

I just doubt is veracity.

Unless someone did some funky stuff, how did the get the plumes?

And, is the Prez a lefty shooter?

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RANT: The four insideous taxes

Sunday, February 3, 2013
‎”“Florida is a state of choice,” said Thalius Hecksher, global development chief for Apex Fund Services, who moved many of his operations to Palm Beach. “It’s organically grown. There’s no need to drag people down here. It’s a zero-income-tax jurisdiction.”” http://buff.ly/WszLB0 Should have done it year ago!!!

‘Wall St.’ flees NY for tax-free Fla.

http://www.nypost.com

The city’s hedge-fund executives are flying south — and it’s not for vacation. An increasing number of financial firms, especially private equity and hedge funds, are fed up with…
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Don’t forget FOUR insidious taxes that you don’t see: (1) the inflation tax — the FED has destroyed 99%of the value of the dollar in the last three or four decades; (2) the gas tax — gets added into every product sold and into every capital good used to make products, or deliver them; (3) the corporate tax — corps don’t pay tax, people do, they just pass it on; and (4) the estate tax — that turns productive assets into legal fees and schemes to avoid it as opposed to capital investment that improves society’s wealth — say goodbye to the family farm or a families’ small business. I’d assert that (a) the true tax rate is incalculable because it’s so well hidden; (B) it crushes the poor and middle class; and (c) some years we pay more than 100% of an annual year’s earnings in taxes! The loss of purchasing power means real savings goes down DESPITE rising account balances!!!!!!!!!

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SERVICE: TWITTER hacked; change passwords

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Dear Twitter User:

As a precautionary security measure, we have reset your Twitter account password. Check your inbox for a separate email from Twitter with instructions on how to reset your password. If you don’t see an email, you can go to this page in our Help Center to request a password reset. More information is below.

We recently detected an attack on our systems in which the attackers may have had access to limited user information – specifically, your username, email address and anencrypted/salted version of your password (not the actual letters and numbers in your password). Further information about the attack can be found in this blog post.

Since your password has been reset, your old password will not work when you try to log into Twitter. We strongly encourage you to take this opportunity to select a strong password – at least 10 (but more is better) characters and a mixture of upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols – that you are not using for any other accounts or sites. Using the same password for multiple online accounts significantly increases your odds of being compromised.

For more information about making your Twitter and other Internet accounts more secure, read our Help Center documentation or the FTC’s guide on passwords.

This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident. The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked. For that reason we felt that it was important to reset your password and publicize this attack while we still gather information. We are also helping government and federal law enforcement in their effort to find and prosecute these attackers to make the Internet safer for all users.

Twitter

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FUN: 2013 Budweiser Super Bowl Ad — The Clydesdales: “Brotherhood”

Saturday, February 2, 2013

http://youtu.be/o2prAccclXs

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I’d call “clyde”?

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